Glory to the Spoons!

Behold: a Meme

2020-06-25T02:55:24Z

Seen around; created by china_shop

Look at the most recent 20 fanwork titles on your AO3 account.

(Also, as an odd note: there have been times when I would have had to go back years for this. Right now, 20 fanworks back takes me to February of this year.)

1. How many are you happy with? 9

2. How many are... not great? 5 (the rest are...serviceable. Not great, but not cringe-worthy either)

3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute? ....all but one

4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning? 1

5. How many are quotes from songs or poems? 4, which is kind of surprising for me

6. How many are other quotes? 0

7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
Probably a tie between Birthday Dinner and A Damn Fine Cup of Coffee, both of which are...well. Self-explanatory.

8. Which best reflects the theme of the story/fanwork?
Jack of Spades. LOOK, it's METAPHORICAL

9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
stand me up at the gates of hell, which I feel is pretty apropos for a post-S3 Billy POV AU.

10. Which is your favourite?
Spinning, Unspun. I don't even know why, really.

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SSR Confidential 2020

2020-06-22T14:26:12Z

SSR Confidential reveals are up!

I haven't really had a chance to read most of the collection, but my gift was lovely!

Backup by WhiteLadyoftheRing
Jack is a terrible spy, by Peggy's standards.

Just absolutely gorgeous OT3 hurt/comfort with the perfect mixture of sweetness and bite. Go give it a read!

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True to form, I wrote OT3 sex pollen get-together fic. XD
Risks and Consequences (Daniel/Jack/Peggy; sex pollen aftermath)
Jack was a man who guarded his heart like a hand of poker.

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Equality Auction

2020-06-20T12:27:54Z

Bidding for the equalityauction is open! I'm offering fic of ~1500 words (more if bidding goes over $25) for any of my usual fandoms, or almost anything else that's on my AO3 page.

You can find my offer here. The rest of the bidding offers are here, and the buy-it-now offers are here.

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Hurt/Comfort Bingo!

2020-06-16T01:23:56Z

I actually remembered to sign up this year! And I'm going to *try* to actually get a bingo this time. A lot of these are things I haven't really written before, so that should be interesting!

( 2020 H/C Bingo )

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glorious_spoon @ 2020-06-05T22:32:00

2020-06-06T02:44:44Z

So, I've been back to work this week. It's a little weird; we're keeping it at a skeleton staff, which means essentially that I'm there in the evenings with one other person in the entire building. Another piece of relevant data: my library is in a converted Victorian mansion, complete with a tower and a maze of a stone basement with three hidden rooms and a couple of doors blocked behind shelving that lead to nowhere in particular.

Basically, it's a little creepy in the evening if there's nobody else around. Or if the only other person around is two floors down and most of the lights in the hallway are out because the circuitry is also ancient and having too many things on at a time will blow the circuit and necessitate me wandering into the depths of the catacombs under the building to reset it if I happen to try to turn my window AC unit on. And there are a lot of strange odds and ends to be found in the attic and the basement and in random little closets and rooms.

All of which is to say that my boss found this fucking gigantic stuffed bear and stuck it in the window outside my office overlooking Main Street, and it has been giving me a heart attack every single time I walk down the hallway and catch sight of it out the corner of my eye. If it's still there on Monday, I'm going to leave it behind his desk for him to find in the morning.

( photographic evidence of the DOOM BEAR )

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Hurt/Comfort Exchange Fics

2020-05-31T16:29:59Z

Hurt/Comfort exchange reveals are up! I.... totally forgot to sign up for this, but I ended up writing a bunch of treat fics and picking up a pinch hit anyway, and it was a lot of fun! And there's a lot of really good fic there so go check it out!

Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2020

My fics:

Agent Carter

Spinning, Unspun [Teen; Daniel/Jack/Peggy; established relationship, aftermath of torture, drugging]

They’d gotten him out. Peggy and Daniel had charged in, guns blazing, and they’d gotten him out. And they were still here; they hadn’t vanished into the fog of a fading nightmare and left him alone.

Iron Fist

Jack of Spades [Teen; Danny & Ward; dream-sharing]

The silence seems to swallow his voice. There’s no answer, and it’s only then that he admits to himself how much he was hoping for one. Of course it wasn’t going to be that easy.

Risk Management [Teen; Danny & Ward; accidental soulbond]

Later, Ward will remember things like risk management and cost-benefit analysis and how generally speaking trusting mysterious old women that he meets in strange pockets of reality has historically not gone that well for him. Right now, though, Danny is dying under his hands and consequences are the last thing on his mind.

stumble in my footsteps [Mature; Danny & Ward; blackmail, rape recovery]

Warning: this fic contains references to rape and incest (not between Danny and Ward)

They’re in Seoul when the video uploads to their shared dropbox.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Unmasked [Teen; Illya/Napoleon; aftermath of torture, shaving, first kiss]

Illya is not dead. All of his injuries will heal. There is no reason for Napoleon to be looking at him with that careful, gentle expression on his face.

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Interdimensional Problems

2020-05-31T02:09:58Z

Title: Interdimensional Problems
Fandoms: Stranger Things & Iron Fist
Pairings: Gen; Robin Buckley & Colleen Wing
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Other Tags: Into A Bar
Summary:
There's no rhyme or reason to the list of names. The only thing any of them have in common is that they all went to school in Hawkins, Indiana during the mid-eighties, when a series of bizarre calamities befell that small town.

The same small town where Danny and Ward vanished three days ago, chasing a story about doors to another dimension.

(Or, Colleen Wing and Robin Buckley meet in a bar to talk about dimensional rifts, and to stage a rescue. Written for the Spring 2020 Into A Bar challenge)

READ ON AO3

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stand me up at the gates of hell

2020-05-29T02:37:56Z

Fandom: Stranger Things
Relationships: Billy & Max; Billy & Steve; weird, ambiguous, possibly one-sided Billy/Steve
Warnings: Canon-typical violence, suicidal thoughts
Other tags: Hurt/comfort, Canon-divergent AU, Painful early-redemption narratives
Length: 4300 words
Summary:
Home, he thinks, and tongues at the loose molar in the back of his mouth. That wasn’t the monster’s doing, or his dad’s. That one was all Steve Harrington, delivering a long-overdue ass-kicking via Cadillac convertible. There’s something kinda poetic about it, really.

Or: Billy lives. That's really just the start of his problems.

READ ON AO3

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glorious_spoon @ 2020-05-28T14:15:00

2020-05-28T18:20:33Z

So, I'm going back to work on Monday. It'll be part-time, at least for now, so we can stagger shifts, and the building will be closed to the public until Phase 4. I also have my own office, so I'm not particularly worried from a contagion standpoint; it's probably safer than grocery shopping at this point.

On the one hand, I'm really suspicious of the timeline of the reopening--cases are still climbing in my county--but on the other hand, holy shit am I ready to go back to work. Or, more accurately, to be able to work somewhere other than a laptop at my kitchen table. I've learned two things about myself in the past three months: (1) I really do not do well without any externally imposed routine and (2) my decision not to be a SAHM was a really fucking solid one.

(I will have to keep doing the bulk of the homeschooling, since my spouse is still working and I'm just going back in the evenings for now, but at least the school year will be over in about 2 weeks. But even just four hours a day out of the house and able to work without being climbed on will make my life easier.)

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glorious_spoon @ 2020-05-19T12:57:00

2020-05-19T16:58:29Z

I got my intoabar prompt:

Robin Buckley walks into a bar and meets... Colleen Wing!

I have no idea what I'm going to do with this yet, but this is the kind of delightful team-up I was hoping for.

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Dear Just Married Writer

2020-05-19T14:26:00Z

Dear Just Married Writer:

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm sure I'll love whatever you write; this letter is just some guidance and prompts, but please feel free to write whatever speaks to you!

( Things I love in general )

( DNW )

( Marvel - TV )

( Agent Carter )

( Stranger Things )

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glorious_spoon @ 2020-04-24T15:27:00

2020-04-24T19:27:53Z

I just got off a work videoconference and my boss is starting to look like a very nerdy mountain man, the children’s librarian has set up the architecture for online Harry Potter school through the end of the year, and I have been introduced to no less than four cats, so wfh librarian-ing is proceeding apace.

(I feel a bit bad that I’m not putting together Many Clever Programs, but as I’m also trying to home-school at the same time, I kinda feel like I should be commended for managing to more or less keep my head above water.)

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Falling [Iron Fist]

2020-04-23T16:49:22Z

Title: Falling
Fandom: Iron Fist
Pairing: Gen; Ward & Harold, Ward & Danny
Warnings: Falling from a height, Canon-typical violence, Unethical experimentation, Referenced child abuse
Other Tags: Superpowers AU, Telekinesis, Hurt/comfort, Rescue
Summary:
“I have given you an incredible gift,” Harold tells him, settling his hand on Ward’s shoulder, fingers digging in deep. “The least you could do is try to appreciate it.”

Or: Ward has telekinetic abilities. It's not really a big deal, until it is.

READ ON AO3

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Flash Fics and WIP Wednesday

2020-04-22T15:10:17Z

Hello all! Poking my head out to say hello, and also because I just did the Flash in the Pan flash-fic exchange and got three amazing fics!

( Flash in the Pan Fics! )

( WIP Wednesday )

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3 Sentence Ficathon Fics

2020-02-05T23:13:11Z

Some Three Sentence Fics for the ficathon going on over at rthstewart's journal here!

Stranger Things, any, ten years later

Teen Wolf, Peter Hale, knitting

The Witcher, Triss/Yennefer, "but I say [the fairest thing] is what one loves"

Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, the magic goes away

The Witcher, any, tarot.

The Witcher; Geralt/any; love me, love my horse

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Christmas Fic!

2019-12-26T01:57:29Z

Merry Christmas!

I've been on a bit of a fandom hiatus for the past month, but these are some Christmas/holiday ficlets I've written in various fandoms over the years, because why not:

Safe House [Agent Carter; Teen; Daniel/Jack/Peggy; Hurt/comfort, Canadian shack]
Peggy, Jack, and Daniel spend Christmas holed up in a safe house.

Warm and Bright [Agent Carter; Teen; Daniel/Jack/Peggy; Hurt/comfort, sickness]
Christmas in LA is soggy and Peggy has the flu, but the company couldn't be better.

Fire Escape [Captain America; General; Sam/Steve; Fluff]
It's past midnight when Sam wakes to an empty bed and a soft clattering noise coming from the kitchen.

Solstice [Star Trek TOS; General; Kirk/Spock; Fluff, Pre-relationship]
In which the logic of Christmas lights is discussed.

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glorious_spoon @ 2019-12-19T22:14:00

2019-12-20T03:18:14Z

I was planning on making red velvet cupcakes tomorrow to take down to Spouse's family this weekend, but now Thing 2 has fever and a runny nose (he's being remarkably cheerful about it all so far, at least) and I don't know if we're going after all.

I may still make cupcakes, since I kinda promised Thing 1 we would, but then I need to figure out what I'm going to do with a full giant batch of red velvet cupcakes. I wish I had friends who lived closer. Maybe I'll inflict them on my neighbors.

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WIP Wednesday

2019-12-19T03:03:43Z

I haven't been writing much recently, and everything I have written has been either exchange fic or original stuff (I still have half a dozen prompts on Tumblr that I PROMISE I will get to....... eventually).

I always seem to burn out this time of year, both in terms of energy for writing and in terms of actually liking anything I've written, especially since I've been bouncing between three original projects and not really accomplishing all that much on any of them. And working on original novels always feels kind of like a pointless energy sink, because I don't know if they'll ever find an audience other than me.

ANYWAY.

This one in particular is something I've been messing around with on and off for a while, and right now it's one major scene edit from a coherent second draft.

( Monster hunters for hire and nefarious schemes! )

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Chicken Squash Soup

2019-12-03T00:32:47Z

I had a GIANT butternut squash in my fridge that was starting to get some suspicious-looking spots on it, so I threw it in a slow cooker along with a bunch of other stuff I had on hand and it actually came out really good. I'm writing the recipe down in case I want to try it again.

( SO. Chicken squash slow-cooker soup, lazy-ish style: )

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glorious_spoon @ 2019-11-30T19:04:00

2019-12-01T00:09:00Z

Two prompt ficlets from this week!

Cooking for Beginners
Stranger Things; Steve & Dustin, Thanksgiving, Humor
"Are you sure it's supposed to smell like that?" Dustin asked.

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Navigation Lessons
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Finn/Poe/Rey pre-relationship, Character Study
The thing that Rey never realized about deep space hauls until she was in the middle of one is that—well, they’re boring.

*

I have half a dozen more to write for a variety of fandoms, and I'm excited, especially since I've been writing almost exclusively in a single fandom for most of the year. It'll be fun to branch out!

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With Loves Like These

2019-11-23T03:10:53Z

So, I don't usually post my Shadowhunters fic over here, because I don't think anybody who follows me here really reads that fandom?

But I'm really proud of how this one came out, and at any rate it's a spy AU that doesn't really require any knowledge of canon to read, so I'm gonna do it anyway.

( Read more... )

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The Future of Another Timeline

2019-11-22T20:41:06Z

Has anyone else read The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz? I feel the need to burble wildly about feminism and time travel and how brilliantly they sew together this immensely complex narrative of shifting timelines. I feel like time travel is such a crapshoot to write, especially if you don't go with the simple predestination paradox, and they do it SO well.

Anyway. Everyone should read this book, because it was amazing.

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Back from the dead! WIP Wednesday!

2019-11-21T01:58:51Z

Okay, I think I'm going to start trying to post here a little more regularly again; I've been hanging out on Twitter quite a bit, but some of the fandom drama is really starting to get to me. AND ANYWAY, I've been doing NaNoWriMo, although I tapped out at 20,000 words because I really need to figure out where the hell I'm going with this book before I go even more off the rails than I already have.

So, this is not that book. This is from last year's NaNo fic, which I am trying to edit into some semblance of coherence so I can put it up on Amazon or something. Featuring werewolf siblings and fraught family dynamics:

The front door banged shut behind them. Darren sank down into a kitchen chair, then dropped his face into his palms. He was still sitting like that when Jamie crashed through the back door in a gust of cold wind and bad temper.

“Close that,” Darren said without looking up.

“Fuck you,” she snapped, kicking it shut with a bang that made the windows rattle. Outside, the Fisks’ truck was starting up with an uneven rumble, Helen’s little car already puttering down the snowy driveway. “Did you know about this?”

“What the hell do you think?” Darren asked. On some level, he wished he had the energy to snap at her, to give her the fight she was so clearly spoiling for, but he couldn’t. “No. I didn’t know. I found out today, same as you.”

“This never would have happened when Mom and Dad were alive.”

“I know,” Darren said, and oh, there was the anger, welling up the back of his throat and sharpening his teeth, twisting his voice into a lower register. “You think I don’t know that?”

“But we’re just going to stay here, aren’t we? Simon said his dad asked if we wanted to go with them, and you said no.”

“This is our home—”

“But everybody else is gone. Mom and Dad are gone, and everybody else is leaving, and you’re the one always lecturing me about being careful, but you’re staying here, and you’re making me stay here too, and there are hunters in the woods and you don’t even care as long as you get to stay the alpha!”

Her voice had been rising on every word. There was fur spreading out from the her temples, the bridge of her nose flattening, her green eyes turning wolf-yellow.

“Calm down,” Darren said. He realized almost the instant the words were out of his mouth that it had been exactly the wrong thing to say.

“Calm down?” Jamie snapped through sharpening teeth, her voice thick and mangled. “Calm down?”

“Look, could you just—”

“No,” she snarled. “I’m going for a run. I’ll be back when I don’t feel like ripping your throat out. It might be a while.”

Before he could respond, she shifted entirely, falling on all fours as a lean black wolf, fur still puffed in anger, her clothes pooling around her until she wriggled out of them. It was an undignified process that would have been comical in any other circumstances; there was a reason most wolves stripped before they shifted.

He couldn’t bring himself to laugh, though. “Just be careful, okay? Please?”

The wolf lifted her lip at him, then stalked across the kitchen, nosed the door open, and vanished out into the cold.

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glorious_spoon @ 2019-05-08T22:42:00

2019-05-09T02:45:38Z

so, a funny thing happened to my spouse the other day. funny like i laughed until i cried when i heard about it, but also funny like jesus fucking christ our social norms are all kinds of fucked up.

so.

the backstory on this is that he is the primary caregiver for our kids. there are a lot of reasons for this, but it essentially boils down to the fact that he is a patient and organized and nurturing human and i am an adhd disaster, and also that i have a good job that i like and he would just as soon launch his boss into the heart of the sun, so basically i work full time and he works 20-25 hours a week and does all of the daycare/school pick-up and drop-off stuff, the homework retrieval, the playdate organizing, et cetera. it’s a nice arrangement that works well for our family, but it is apparently COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE socially, as we found out the other day when the mother of one of my 5yo’s friends awkwardly asked him if he could forward their texts arranging playdates to her husband because said husband thought the two of them were maybe having an affair. entirely on the evidence that these playdates were being set up via him, the primary caregiver who regularly checks his text messages, and not via me, the aforementioned adhd disaster who (a) works full-time, including multiple evenings per week and (b) frequently forgets her phone in strange locations and doesn’t answer text messages in any case generally

because, see, i am the wife. and therefore it is My Job to deal with any and all kid-related things, and the only reason my spouse could possibly be taking an active interest in his own children is if he had some kind of ulterior motive, like having sex with the mother of one of his kid's friends in between chasing around four hyperactive children under the age of 7.

and like, it is actually pretty funny on some level, but it’s also kind of straight-up infuriating, especially since this isn’t actually the first time this kind of thing has happened with us, just the most blatant

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Weekly Fic Roundup

2019-03-29T17:24:01Z

So, I wrote a whole pile of fic this week, mostly for Tumblr prompts, and rather than make separate posts for all of it, I'm gonna be lazy and just dump it all here!

Agent Carter
Isolation Room
Peggy and Jack are both in an isolation room after being exposed to a drug on a mission; Daniel is pretty sure he doesn't get paid enough to deal with this.

Shadowhunters
something real that's out of touch
Magnus is perched on the foot of the bed when Alec slips in the door, barefoot and wearing one of Alec’s shirts. (3x14 episode tag)

Backyard Wildlife
Whatever Magnus is trying to lure out from under the hydrangea bushes is definitely not a stray cat.

Pretty Face and Electric Soul (WIP)
“You love a mortal, Magnus. How much longer do you think he has left? A few years, if that? What do you think you’ll do when he’s gone?”
(Major character death)

The Wonder of It All
“What’s the point of being a warlock if I can’t look after gorgeous exhausted men I find collapsed in my bed?”

Stranger Things
John Connor Ain't Got Nothing on This
“You’re going to die,” Dustin said, sounding more judgmental than worried.

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