We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far

The threesentenceficathon is now closed for prompts, but remains open for fills forever. Here’s some more of mine, in all different fandoms; I will eventually post the last bunch of them once I’m sure there’s not going to be any more.

( The Old Guard )

( Our Flag Means Death )

( Snow White (Disney) )

( Marvel Comics )

( This Is How You Lose the Time War (El-Mohtar & Gladstone) )

( Batman Comics )

( Goodbye Earl - The Chicks )

( Original D&D-ish fantasy )

Ficlets so far for Whumptober 2021 and Comfortween Rerun. AO3 versions have generally been slightly edited.

1st: Every Claim You Stake
Wandavision, Agatha Harkness & Wanda Maximoff, warnings for lots of Wandavision spoilers and the kind of themes you’d expect if you’ve watched Wandavision. On Tumblr | On AO3

3rd: slut pride
Definitely not actually whump. Clint/Natasha/Bucky, about as E-rated as you can get in less than 60 words. On Tumblr

5th: Trading In
Now with actual whump! Clint & Natasha, pre-canon, broken nose and first aid. On Tumblr | On AO3

11th: (not) Waving
Clint/Bucky, nightmares, warnings for drowning, torture, and standard Winter Soldier backstory, but everyone’s safe now. On Tumblr | On AO3

17th: Don't Move
The Old Guard, Andy/Quynh, graphic depictions of severe injury, canon typical character death. On Tumblr | On AO3

So I have realized, or remembered, that the reason it's hard for me to write longform these days is because of my living situation, which means it is not my fault and I don't need to feel guilty about it (\o/) but also that there's not much I can do under the circumstances to fix it (/o\). A while ago Gretchen McCulloch talked about how when everyone started working from home there were lots of articles on how to adjust for people who were used to working in offices, but not many for people who were used to working in coffeeshops. There were even fewer for people who were used to writing on the subway. It is warming up really quickly here, though, so it's theoretically possible I could start writing outside soon.

Anyway. Here is a twitter thread of my recentish femslash, idea from doctornerdington.

And here are my Three Sentence Fics up to today.

( Greek Mythology (2) )

( Narnia (3) )

( Marvel )

( The Old Guard )

( The Enchanted Forest Chronicles )

Taking a break from scrolling through to post about Three Sentence Ficathon!

I am having so much fun again. (Possibly I should be thinking about microcontrollers instead, but whatever.) Fun is what I need in writing right now, and I hoped this would help, and it really really has.

So actually the first of these is not for this Three Sentence Ficathon, it's for the one at be_compromised which started Friday and is still open if you want MCU specifically and Clint&/Natasha more specifically.

( MCU )

And for rthstewart's, from the last couple days:

( The Old Guard (2) )

( Calvin and Hobbes )

( Harry Potter )

( Narnia )

All of that was just yesterday. Today so far:

( Original Horror )

( Much Ado About Nothing )

( Greek Myth )

( The Addams Family crossover )

So much fun.

A lot of these are drabbles or longer and will go up on AO3 eventually.

Hi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!

I am requesting fic for Agent Carter and Original Works, and fic or art for Alternate Universe Works and The Old Guard (2020). You may ignore my fic/art and trick/treat preferences for extra gifts.

A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, adventure, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, passionate platonic friendships, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, secret identities, historical clothes, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these.

I am happy with absolutely any fic rating or length. I don't mind seasonal works, I like fall, but it's not a requirement. For Tricks, I prefer angst and the supernatural rather than actively-trying-to-freak/gross-you-out horror.

Dislikes: I do not want child- or pregnancy-focused fic, or fic focused on high school. I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture (note a couple specific fandom exceptions to this last below).

Agent Carter
( Agent Carter )

Alternate Universe Works
Characters:
( Kate Bishop replaces Clint Barton (AU-MCU) )
( Winter Soldier Peggy Carter (AU-MCU) )

The Old Guard
( The Old Guard )

Original Works
( Original Works )

( Battle of the Bands )

Okay, so I have two Old Guard ficlets up on AO3 now. And thinking about another one is making me wonder about Andromache's past, so here is some wild timeline speculation.

This is not about Amazon culture, sorry. The Greek idea of Amazons is partially based on the fact that their contemporaries in Scythia (north of the Black Sea) did in fact have female warriors (lots of kurgans contemporary with classical Athens have female burials with weapons), and partially the standard misogynist ideas that strong women hate men and besides no normal man would want to live with them anyway, and partially about how imaginary societies that are the opposite of your own are fascinating.

But the comic apparently (I have not finished reading them yet) says she's over 6000 years old.* In which case she would not techinically be a Scythian, though she may have hung out with them for a while. If she's 6000 years old I don't know why she's calling herself Andromache and not, I don't know, WiHrogʷʰen. She's definitely not Greek.

However, AFAICT, while individual cultures moved around and changed, basically the Eurasian steppe was pretty consistently inhabited by various nomadic pastoralists from the domestication of the horse (c. 3500 BCE) until about ... now. They're still there. So she could very easily have spent thousands of years just riding horses and fighting and drinking koumiss.

And honestly I bet Andy spends a lot of time wishing she'd never left. ( Wild Timeline Speculation )

I have just remembered that I could put this up on AO3; but then I would have to figure out how footnote anchors work and I think I'm too tired for that right now. [Next day: Here it is.]

...If I actually write a fic it will almost definitely be shorter than this. *facepalms*

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