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For yuletide I got A REALLY GREAT FIC! :D

It's really cute civilian/superhero femslash.

hear me calling (3335 words) by driedflowers
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Powerless (TV 2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beatriz da Costa/Emily Locke
Characters: Emily Locke, Beatriz da Costa, Teddy (Powerless), Jackie (Powerless), Ron (Powerless)
Additional Tags: 5 Times, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Five times Emily used the green button, and one time she didn’t.

I fucking love it. It considerably brightened my yuletide. I broke the ao3 comment character count limit, hahaha.


My assignment was Ashes to Ashes, a post-Agent of Asgard fic with multiverse shenanigans. It needed a better title, but alas.

Alas as well, I had meant to write several treats (including funnily enough one each for Killjoys (comic) and Killjoys (TV) which made me wonder how many homonyms were in the tagset) but none of them quite coalesced into anything that fit the recips' requests and my shoulder hurt too much to do much writing :(

I wrote five fics this yuletide. I wanted to write more, but December snuck up on me.

Thicker than Water (1526 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batgirl (Comics)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Alternate Universe - Vampire Slayer
Summary:

Steph's day goes from bad to worse.

My assignment. L helped me brainstorm the fuck out of this. I do regret that I didn't write more of it.

Most Merciful and Stern (1029 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Emerald City (TV 2016)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dorothy Gale (Emerald City), Mistress West
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Dorothy tamed the tempest. Her new Cardinal sisters come to visit.

I watched Emerald City at random a month or so back and it's SO PRETTY. And I like the characters very much. (Further review to come, probably.)

her blessing on my brow (1324 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient History RPF
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Hannibal Barca
Additional Tags: Alternate History
Summary:

Hannibal went to Iberia.

To the surprise of nobody, I wrote about Hannibal (and Scipio) this yuletide. L had to hear me complain about running out of names for Hannibal's females relatives, lmao. The recip of this fic ended up being my author! My approach for research notes is NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS (I just figure anyone clicking on Ancient History RPF knows what they're getting into), but I drew most of the names from here. In my notes, this fic was apparently going to be "AFTERLIFE EAGLE HEIST" which ???

Left Turn at Albuquerque (1020 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Campaign (Podcast)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lyntel'luroon/Avaa Arek
Characters: Lyntel'luroon (Star Wars: Campaign Podcast), Aava Arek
Summary:

Lyn's mission goes off plan.

The recip mentionned shipping Lyn with everyone and Avaa with everyone and so, Lyn/Avaa!

First Impressions (375 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shannara Chronicles (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Eretria (Shannara), Lyria (Shannara)
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Pre-Season/Series 02
Summary:

Eretria runs.

Short fic set after season 1. Eretria and Lyria's first meeting.

I am trying so hard to finish ALL OF THESE YULETIDE TREATS. I can totally finish a treat a day, right?

Thank you for writing for me! I'm sure whatever you write me will be wonderful.

Feel free to poke around this journal or my Ao3 account (username: sevenofspade ) if you want to. My letters tag is here.

I have six Do Not Wants: allegory/metaphor of real world politics, incest, rape, child abuse, character death and dysphoria. When these are canon, please don't focus on them. I would also prefer not to have to deal with people losing things important to them and toxic living arrangements, be that family or roomates. Thank you.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things I do want. Here’s a partial list. (I obviously don’t expect you to stick all of these in one story, that would be impossible.)

( General likes )

Feel free to take prompts in whichever direction you like! And if none of my prompts work for you, then write whatever you want -- I'll be happy with anything.

[Prompts to be expanded as soon as I can.]
[EDIT OCTOBER 15: Prompts added. Sorry for the delay.]


Campaign (Podcast) (Bacta (Star Wars: Campaign Podcast), Lyntel'luroon (Campaign), Tamlin Jorun)

Short version: Teenage clone dad, action archeologist aunt, Force sensitive five year old who is also a noir PI. Gen adventures!

Long version:
The canon: This is a podcast set in the Star Wars universe, about five years after Revenge of the Sith. It's actual play, meaning that you listen to a bunch of people play the Star Wars RPG. Each episode is about an hour. The story follows the crew of the Mynock as they flee the Empire and attempt to raise a Force-sensitive five year old. It's free online here.

The prompts: I love everything about these three. Tamlin narrating à la noir movie outloud is AMAZING and I wish it showed up more. More archeology adventures funtimes with Lyn! With her teaching Tamlin maths, why not teach him archeology as well? And you know Bacta is going to need to teach the kid how to use a lightsaber. How did Bacta end up in that prison in the prologue? I would love to hear about the three of them working on an episode of their podcast.


Cleverman (Alinta West, Latani (Cleverman) )

Short version: Teen girls on the run for the dad of one of them. I ship them. Please let them be happy.

Long version:
The canon: Cleverman is an Australian TV show. It currenly has two seasons of 6 episodes each, with episodes being around 50 minutes. The story is set in an alternatr Australia, in which the Hairy people became known sometime back. This has caused racial tensions and the creation of a Zone by the Australian government to park Hairy people in and genetic screening. Also, there are ghosts and superpowers!

The prompts: I'd love futurefic where everything is okay and they're happy, either because the government got its shit together ethics-wise or because the two of them made it out somewhere. Maybe an AU in which things never went wrong. Angst related to the fact that Alinta's dad is the one hunting Latani's people would be great or about how Alinta sacrificed her freedom for Latani.


Locke & Key (Any of: Jackie Veda, Kinsey Locke, Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio )

Short version: Two teens and the eldritch horror one of them dated. Worldbuilding.

Long version:
The canon: This is a finished horror comic. It has 37 issues, collected in 6 tpbs. Following the brutal murder of the father, the family moves back to his childhood home, Keyhouse, in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. To say more would spoil it. It goes through a bunch of different kinds of horror as it makes it way through the intricate plot.

The prompts: I would love worldbuilding fic and if you have to go canon-divergent AU or future!fic or past!fic (is that a thing? It should be a thing) to do it, then go right ahead. I would love fic that explore more mundane uses for the Keys or explains what this-or-that Key that never got used in canon does. Or make up an entirely new one! Or write about the Lovecraft psychiatrist (because SO MUCH THERAPY is needed, by pretty much everyone at every point) that somehow everyone tells the truth to and so has to deal with Lovecraftian terrors on their couch. An AU in which they use the Keys to be superheroes!


Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds (Victor von Doom | God-Emperor Doom, Valeria Richards | Head of the Foundation)

Short version: A mad scientist who became a god and his daughter who is a science genius. SCIENCE! Worldbuilding.

Long version:
The canon: The nine issues miniseries from 2015 about the time the entire Marvel multiverse got destroyed and Doctor Doom made himself a god by saving what he could and turning into a patchwork universe, Battleworld.

The prompts: Anything expanding on Doom and Valeria and/or God Emperor and Head of the Foundation would be great. I also like Susan and Strange a lot, so you're welcome to include them. And of course worldbuilding would be AMAZING. There are hints Valeria knows something's off even before the ship crashes. Maybe she confronts Doom over it and things go differently? Future fic in which Battleworld remained and Doom gives Valeria the God Emperor/Ruler of Battleworld mantle.


Punic Wars RPF (Hannibal Barca (Punic Wars RPF), Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Maior (Punic Wars RPF) )

Short version: Ancient Mediterranean generals! I ship them. Please let them be happy.

Long version:
The canon: The Second Punic War is a war that is full to the brim with feats of badassery (the Crossing of the Alps, Cannae, the fall of Carthago Nova) and things ridiculous, yet epic (Archimedes' death lasers). There's a movie starring Alexander Siddig as Hannibal for the war itself and Extra Credit: Extra History: The Punic Wars for the war and some more context, both before and after. Polybius can be found on Project Gutenberg, Perseus and Wikisource, as can Livy.

The prompts: An AU in which they're somehow on the same side (whichever). The Pun-ic War (I LIKE PUNS OK). IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE AU. Hannibal wins AU. He's a Carthaginian general sworn never to be a friend to Rome, he's a Roman general trying to avenge his father's death by Carthaginians, TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME. I ship them, but you can totally go gen or with other ships instead, idc. Hannibal/Maharbal? Yes. Aemilia/Scipio? Also there. Ditto Aemilia/Scipio/Hannibal.



Unbelievable Gwenpool (Gwen Poole (Unbelievable Gwenpool) )

Short version: Girl transported to her favourite fictional universe who became a superhero! I ship her with Sarah (Terrible Eye). Friendship fic.

Long version:
The canon: A mostly self-contained Marvel comic about a girl from a world much like outs who got transported into her comics. She models herself after the most popular character, Deadpool -- the only way not to die is to set herself up as a main character, because everyone else is just cannon fodder, right? And then she makes friends with a bunch of misfits.

The prompts: Team fic! Friendship fic! Mostly here for friendships and shenanigans, honestly. If I ship Gwen with anyone, it's with Sarah, but friendship between them is also supercool! Maybe bonding with Vincent the Doombot? What about exploring one of the weird holidays in that one issue? What about Gwen's early days? How did she meet Ronnie? Futurefic! Maybe they save the world!


Thank you so much for writing for me!

(Comments welcome.)

Having emerged from the thing, the other thing and the third thing, I have had time to look at my yuletide fics. THEY ARE THE GREATEST.

Posted in in alphabetical order, because that conveniently groups them by fandom.

Second Chance (1003 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient History RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Scipio Africanus/Hannibal Barca
Characters: Scipio Africanus, Hannibal Barca
Additional Tags: Poetry
Summary: As old men, Scipio and Hannibal have an opportunity they longed for at Ephesus.

SOMEBPDY WROTE ME HANNIBAL/SCIPIO IN MOTHERFUCKING IAMBIC PENTAMETER.

What the hell. What the hell, y'all. I am absolutely delighted.

It rhymes! It's in imabic pentameter! (Also, as far as I'm concerned, anyone who can figure out how the whole stress thing works in English is a genius. It's fucking witchcraft, is what is is.)

Survivors (2126 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Valeria Richards, Victor von Doom, Stephen Strange, Franklin Richards, Susan Storm (Fantastic Four)
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

The final stage in the construction of Castle Doom: the addition of Galactus.

Someone wrote me Secret Wars fic! It gives excellent Valeria, Valeria & Doom, Valeria & Strange and Valeria & the Foundation -- and somehow the author managed to reach into my mind and figure out that I really like both Galactus and Franklin & Galactus and used that expertly.

Trust in God (And Keep Your Powder Dry) (2640 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Secret Wars (Hickman/Ribić 2015 mini-series)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Stephen Strange, Victor von Doom, Valeria Richards
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Stephen knows he's in no position to question Doom's decisions... but sometimes he really questions Doom's decisions.

I got another Secret Wars fic! It gives great Stephen Strange (his arc is AMAZING), Strange & Doom, Strange & Valeria and Valeria & Doom.


THEY ARE ALL THE BEST FIC


(For the curious, I wrote 6 fics, all in the main collection. There's a fic in it for anyone who guesses right what I wrote.)

Thank you for writing for me! I'm sure whatever you write me will be wonderful.

Feel free to poke around this journal or my Ao3 account (username: sevenofspade) if you want to. My letters tag is here.

I have five Do Not Wants: incest, rape, child abuse, character death and dysphoria. When these are canon, please don't focus on them. I would also prefer not to have to deal with people losing things important to them and toxic living arrangements, be that family or roomates. Thank you.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things I do want. Here’s a partial list. (I obviously don’t expect you to stick all of these in one story, that would be impossible.)

( General likes )

Feel free to take prompts in whichever direction you like! And if none of my prompts work for you, then write whatever you want -- I'll be happy with anything. Crossovers between any of my requested fandoms are welcome.


EDIT OCTOBER 12 FOR MORE PROMPTS (Specifically, I've added "Extra prompts" and "Crossover prompts" paragraphs to every requests.)


7 Wonders (Board Game) (Any of: Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Pyramids of Giza, Temple of Artemis in Ephesus)

( 7Wonders )


Gwen Variants (Marvel Variant Covers) (Gwen Stacy | Gwen of Thunder (Thors #1 Gwen Variant Cover) )

( Gwen Variant Covers )


Le Déchronologue - Stéphane Beauverger (Any of: Brieuc, Henri Villon, Sévère)

( Le D�chronologue )


Punic Wars RPF (Hannibal Barca, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Maior)

( Punic Wars RPF )


Secret Wars (Hickman/Ribić 2015 mini-series) (God Emperor Doom: Ruler of Battleworld, Valeria: Head of the Foundation)

( Secret Wars )


Yoko Tsuno (Comics) (Khany)

( Yoko Tsuno )


Thank you so much for writing for me!

(Comments welcome.)

I got two fics for everywoman !

Dearest Friend (582 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yoko Tsuno (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Khany/Yoko Tsuno
Characters: Khany, Yoko Tsuno
Additional Tags: Fairy Tales, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings
Summary:

Yoko visits Khâny on Vinéa.

SOMEONE WROTE ME YOKO/KHÄNY OMG DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN SHIPPING YOKO/KHÄNY? FOREVER

(And Khany's family situation is forever hilarious: her dad's an AI, her mom's younger than she is and her twin sister, Poky, is about one-fifth her age.)

My Body the Hand Grenade (2402 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wanda Maximoff/Natasha Romanov, Pietro Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff
Characters: Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanov, Pietro Maximoff
Additional Tags: Post-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie), Spy lessons, Flashbacks, Natasha Romanoff is a great role model, Wanda Maximoff for all the awards
Summary:

SUMMARY: We are weapons of mass destruction.
AUTHOR’S NOTES: Written for sevenofspade for Every Woman 2016. Set between Age of Ultron and Civil War. Title from the Hole album of the same name.

SOMEONE ELSE WROTE ME WANDA FINDING HERSELF (with a side order of Wanda/Natasha)

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I'm watching Fort Boyard.

Like every time I want worldbuilding. It is such a fascinating thing to contemplate worldbuilding for, though! I think I liked it a bit better when there was less worldbuilding on the show, just "here are some immortal tiger headed people with really weird challenges WHO NEVER SPEAK" and what not. (Oh, hey, I could nominate it for yuletide. Note to self: nominate Maîtres des ténèbres, Félindra, Blanche and Rouge in "Fort Boyard" for yuletide.)

Also, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the idea for the show got pitched. "Let's refurbish a 19th century sea prison by turning each cell into a gameshow challenge, have candidates collect actual gold coins and do acrobatics in mid-air over live tigers. The tigers are not negotiable."

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I edited the post I made about my Great Britain trip this August. (Short version: car no, England yes, still looking for recs.) Basically, I am learning that I know fuck-all about planning month-long trips on my own*. It's starting to take some sort of reasonable form? Maybe? Sort of?

Anyway. Anyone in Great Britain during august want to have a meet-up?


* Look, I can barely manage to motivate myself to go to the Louvre tomorrow, because I haveto go before the crowds and that means waking up early. I want to see the exhibit, but I don't wanna wake up, I am so tired lately. (I'm doing some stuff that takes a lot of time -- I get home ~9PM if I'm lucky --  plus there are emotional upheavals, it's fun times.) I don't wanna anwser that PM even though I should, I don't wanna go the Louvre even though I know I'll love it, I just wanna sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep forever but I cannot. :(

No, seriously, I have. Every time I think it can't get any more awesome, it does.

First there was me managing to write 8 fics, despite everything (including the one I wrote on the plane): 1 assignment, 6 full-length treats and 1 madness treat. (Speaking of which, I will write a fic for anyone who guesses right about which fic(s) I wrote.)

Then there were my yuletide gifts, of which I got A LOT. (Presented here in alphabetical order/grouped by fandom.)

In "Carthaginian mythology" alone, I got three (3!) and to think this was the fandom I thought was the least likely to be written. I got basically every single permuation of the Dido + Tanith relationship possible. I got a fic where Tanith was waiting for Dido to arrive, I got a fic where Tanith followed Dido to Carthage and I got Dido/Tanith femslash. YES.

The foundations of Carthage (1731 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dido | Elissa (Carthaginian Mythology), Tanith (Carthaginian Mythology)
Additional Tags: Rituals, Sacred Marriage, Rain
Summary: When Dido's ship scraped the sand at her new city, She was there, waiting for them. When the rains were needed, She came at Dido's asking, giving the gift of life to the new city, the City that belonged to Tanith.

TANITH/DIDO FEMSLASH. It's so great.

The Scent of the Sea (2059 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Leaving is only hard if you have nowhere to go: Elissa knows her destiny is waiting beyond the walls of Tyre, she just has to go out and seek it.

It's got Elissa and Hanna and I love love the relationship between them as painted here and the ending is PERFECT. PERFECT, I SAY.

The Tanith Cycle (4287 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tanith/Ba'al, Dido/Sychaeus
Characters: Tanith, Ba'al, Dido, Sychaeus, Anna, Mot, El
Additional Tags: Ugaritic Mythology, Middle East Mythology, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2015, Decapitation, Dehanding, Wading in Blood, Death, Over the top revenge, Misses Clause Challenge, Female POV, Female Friendship, Female Character of Color
Summary: A god could not be respected if she did not have a palace. Tanith was done sitting at the edge of El's table waiting for respect.
If Dido promised her a palace, then Tanith would go with her and do all that was in her power to help her.

I really love the relationship between Tanith and Dido in this one, Tanith's hunger for war against Dido's measured peace and the trust between the two. It's also fix-it fic! (And the Tanith/Ba'al relationship is really sweet.)


Y'all should go and read all my Carthaginian mythology fics because they're all awesome! But you should also read my Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers) fics too, because they are ALSO awesome. I got notifs for two (2!) such fics in the main collection. I got Gwen!Hawkeye with MJ!Black Widow and I got Sorcerer Supreme Gwen Stacy on Battleworld.

Better From A Distance (1008 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spider-Gwen (Comics), Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gwen Stacy/Mary Jane Watson
Characters: Gwen Stacy | Hawkeye (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary: "A bow and arrow," the Infamous Black Widow says, "I didn't realize we'd traveled back in time to the era of the caveman."
"Paleolithic," Gwen corrects instinctively. “I looked it up.”

MJ!Black Widow and Hawkeye!Gwen: superheroes by night! In a band, presumably also by night!

See the Blazing Skies Before Us (2049 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Gwen Stacy | Dr Gwenge (Secret Wars #3 Gwen Variant Cover), Victor von Doom
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, LUDICROUS HOLIDAY NONSENSE
Summary: One night in the depths of winter, meditating atop the ramparts of Castle Doom, the Sorceress Supreme senses an intruder. She attempts countermeasures.

This is Sorcerer Supreme Gwen Stacy as God-Emperor Doom's right hand! And I would read entire comic runs of this, no lie. I love love the narration in the style of Jack Kirby.


I was so happy about all these fics, but then Madness opened and I got another fic!

#It'sRainingGwen (666 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), Spider-Gwen (Comics), Marvel (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwen Stacy
Additional Tags: Unconventional Format
Summary:

12:41 PM ET
“I don’t know why this is happening. I promise I’m trying to fix it.”
— Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Cyclops. Other Gwens have echoed this sentiment, including Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Black Widow and Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Wolverine.

The New York Times liveblogs the #Gwenpocalypse.

THE TITLE IS A PUN and the whole fic is basically delightful.

You'd think my yuletide couldn't get anymore awesome, because it's not like I was going to get more fic, was it? But WRONG! I did get more fic! (It was gifted to dhampyresa on ao3 instead of sevenofspade which is why I found it late.)

The Uncanny X-Gwen (7163 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwen Stacy, Gwen Stacy | Gwen Storm (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenclops (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwencrawler (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenolossus (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Dagwen (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Scott Summers, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Ororo Munroe, Piotr Rasputin, Kurt Wagner
Additional Tags: Mutant Powers, Multiple Selves
Summary: Gwen Stacy is on a high school trip to Oscorp's science division when she unexpectedly acquires superpowers. Not spider powers, but the X-Men's mutant powers. All of them. Now, if only she can pull herself together...

IT'S 7K OF SUPERPOWERED GWEN AND IT'S AMAZING.

So that's my yuletide. I got seven (7!) fics and I wrote eight (and all of them have been well-received so far), so yes, I have won yuletide, because not only did I get SO MANY FICS, all the fics I got are amazing.

Please refer to the dreamwidth version of this entry. The crosspost was malfunctionning.

I wrote 750+ words in under an hour today. (I had one more hour to write, but given that that would have been the output for the total time, I ended up misreading my watch and leaving early. I was put out when I found out, let me tell you.)


I'm getting back into being able to draw. Not just put pencil to paper, but actually do things with poses and draping and composition and all those. I still have a long way to go, but I'll keep going. I'll get there eventually, or I won't. The journey is its own reward.


My Yuletide noms are Ancient Carthaginian History and Mythology RPF (Dido | Elissa (Queen of Carthage), Hannibal Barca, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Tanith), Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers) (Gwen Stacy | Dr Gwenge (Secret Wars #3 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwen of Thunder (Thors #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gweneto (Magneto #19 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenverine (Old Man Logan #2 Gwen Variant Cover)) and 신의 | Faith | The Great Doctor (Choi Young, Hwasuin, Jang Bin, Yoo Eun Soo).

I feel like that needs some explanation. Not the first one (yeah, nobody's surprised by that one) or even the last one (I need to tell y'all about this show, I swear), but the middle one.

Back in June, Marvel did a set of variant covers featuring Gwen Stacy as various Marvel supers. I'm going to post the ones I nommed, both as covers and in a textless version. (I am so excited to get to read/write in this fandom!)

( 8 images under the cut )
(I find the differences between the lettered and textless versions really interesting from an artistic standpoint.)


The first book of short stories I remember reading is Garth Nix's Across the Wall. I had skipped the opening novella, already having read it as a standalone book, so to me that book is just "other stories", not "a tale of the Abhorsen and". In that book, there's a bit of introduction to every short story -- why it was written, how it got published, etc... I've missed those introductions in every single short story anthlogy I've read since them (I'm reading one right now).


There are people I'm missing right now who I'm missing so hard it can feel it in my bones.


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