WED: Rec-your-fic post!

[cornerofmadness]

I decided to borrow this from zwei_hexen almost word for word! I thought it was fun and heck if you're willing to share I'm always willing to nose into some fanfic, might even find me a new fandom. You never know!

Do you have a fandom obsession you’ve been writing in for weeks? Are you one of the few and proud in a tiny fandom? Do your stories need more love?

In an effort to make our little WED community even more enjoyable and to encourage and support each other’s writing, we would like to invite you to recommend your fiction in the comments to this post. We thought it might be a nice tradition to begin: A safe and simple place for us to share links to our own works at the end of each WED month. (Naturally, continuing the tradition is up to individual hosts, so if you don’t want to do such a post, please don’t feel like you must. We’re just trying to share the love! J)

A few simple considerations:

Age restrictions and content warnings: Please keep in mind this journal is public and has no content warning. For your convenience, we've put in an age restriction to this post only, so you can also post headers and summaries to higher rated stories. However, please put in warnings if what you share might contain possible triggers, and put any mature and/or NSFW content (images, text examples etc.) behind a text link only, to keep this journal a safe place to visit for everybody.

Comment size, images and headers: As cuts don't work on comments, please crop/downsize images to 600 pix max for the longest side and limit text samples to about 20 lines. If you post an AO3 header with a wall of tags, please limit them to about 4 lines here and indicate that there are more.

Fandom names: name your fandom in the subject line of the comment with your rec, and also to make different comments if you're reccing different fandoms.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here or to drop a note to me

I'm looking forward to seeing what you’ve been working on!

Comments

Avengers fic

[sierranovembr]

I'm chugging slowly along on my Tony/Bucky Sentinel/Guide fic like the little engine that could. Lots of tromping through the woods in the middle of the winter so far. And killing Hydra agents. Chapter 4 is new this month.

Re: Avengers fic

[cornerofmadness]

Sounds like fun. Thanks for sharing!

Prodigal Son

[cornerofmadness]

Both of mine are Prodigal Son including Come Undone which has been part of WED since mid-November and is now done topping out at a few words shy of 66K. I swear I didn't intend to write a novel...

Come Undone

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Category: F/M
Characters: Malcolm Bright Gil Arroyo JT Tarmel Dani Powell Edrisa Tanaka Eve Blanchard Martin Whitly Jessica Whitly Ainsley Whitly
Additional Tags: Whumptober 2019Eve taking advantage of Malcolm Whump Psychological Torture Torture Kidnapping Malcolm Bright Needs a Hug Canon Divergence

And one I wrote this weekend based on last week's episode where bad things happen to Gil. It was meant to be funny. Instead I give you angst Fear, Loss and Bourbon

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen

[badly_knitted]

*wibbles nervously* I'm going to put my magnum opus out there in case anyone wants to read it:

Title: Through Time And Space - Chapters 1-26
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OCs
Rating: PG-13 for some swearing.
Word Count: Over 80k
Spoilers: CoE, House of the Dead
Summary: The House of the Dead is destroyed, the Rift closed, but what has bcome of Ianto? CoE fix-it.

Master post: https://badly-knitted.dreamwidth.org/1040780.html

Or on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2289713/chapters/5034173

[cornerofmadness]

Oh cool. I'll need to check it out (will take me forever mind you)

[badly_knitted]

It took me forever to write, so that's fitting, lol!

I know how hard it is to find time to read anything. *looks at long list of fics to read*

[cornerofmadness]

ANd I struggle to read on line without headaches so I go slow

[badly_knitted]

That's a very literal headache. I've had to dim my screen so that it doesn't affect me as much but I still get a lot of headaches when I'm on my computer.

[cornerofmadness]

same here. I'm not a huge ereader fan either

[badly_knitted]

Has to be real books for me, with physical pages to turn. ereaders are useful for some people but nothing will replace books.

[cornerofmadness]

I have to do both but I much prefer paper

[badly_knitted]

I do have an ereader, I just never use it.

[cornerofmadness]

I use it when I'm out

[badly_knitted]

I seldom go anywhere but I usually take a book with me.

[cornerofmadness]

I used to but I have found it's easier on me carrying the ereader and leaving the physical book in the car (mostly because my vision is failing me and I can blow up the print on the ereader

[badly_knitted]

I've never managed to set my ereader so I can read it comfortably. The text is either too small or I can only see part of a page =/

[cornerofmadness]

I'm fine with part of a page since there is no real pages to begin with. It's better for me than eye fatiguing headache inducing readers which have been SO disappointing (more so, the fact that my optician was like so what? when I mentioned it)

[badly_knitted]

I wouldn't mind if the darn thing would scroll so I could see the rest, but I'm so useless with tech that I've never managed to get it readable o_O

[cornerofmadness]

ah that's never been a problem on mine

[badly_knitted]

Mine's not one of the big brands, so I guess you get what you pay for. *shrugs*

[cornerofmadness]

to be honest mine's not even an ereader, it's just a tablet with a kindle app on it. I will say some DO image better than others on it. The last one from netgalley was a nightmare to read

[badly_knitted]

I thin I'd probably be better off with PDF files on a tablet.

[cornerofmadness]

I guess that would depend on the tablet, mine hates them and loses its place which drives me nuts but I'm sure this is the sort of thing that varies from tablet to tablet

[badly_knitted]

Maybe I'd just be better off sticking with paper books, lol!

[cornerofmadness]

snort. they are the easiest

[badly_knitted]

Especially for a tech dunce like me.

[ysilme]

Oh dear, totally not! PDFs are the worst for digital reading, and get even worse on an e-reader. ;o)
Sorry for butting in here. I'm a huge e-reader fan myself, because of my vision problems; I wouldn't be able to rad much at all any more if I wasn't using one. Reading on a computer is no alternative for me for various reasons, so I'd also not be able to read any fanfic. I also love printed books as such, and even acquire new ones in certain editions for the haptic pleasure of it. But for proper reading it needs to be digital, or I'd have to limit myself to half an hour to an hour max a day, but sitting upright at full brightness which then causes its own sets of problems.

But I'm sure your problems with your device don't need to be like this; it sounds really odd that you should have the problems you mentioned, no matter the brand and its options. I'd be very happy to help you figuring it out where the problem is and how to take care of it.
I suppose it's very likely an issue of converting what you want to read to a format suitable for your reader. It's easy to do that with free software, and I'm confindent I can help you getting this to work without too much hassle. ♥

[badly_knitted]

Thanks for the offer, if I ever dig it out again I might take you up on it, but at the moment I have so many paper books I want to read there's no point me getting stuff for my ereader. I don't have enough reading time for the books on my shelves. My eyesight isn't the best, but I can still read fanfic on my computer, and books in bed, so I'm managing okay. I might get back to you at a later date if I decide I want to load fanfic on my ereader, but first I'd have to dig it out and find out what make it is, and I'm not sure where it ended up. Probably buried under craft stuff somewhere... I'm not a tidy person, lol

Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video) [a five-minute Yuletide fandom]

[alexseanchai]

speak truth to knowledge by equivalence relation (1656 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caged Cyborg & Hooded Cyborg
Characters: Caged Cyborg (Ready For It), Hooded Cyborg (Ready For It), Original Trans Female Character, Original Male Character
Additional Tags: Dialogue-Only, Artificial Intelligence, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Identity Issues, Queer Themes, Podfic Welcome
Summary:

severalty: the sole ownership of property by someone

cage:
• to confine in a barred enclosure; to put into and keep in something that hinders freedom
• to restrict someone's movement or creativity

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hood:
• a covering for the head attached to a larger garment
• an enclosure that protects something, especially from above

forethought:
• thinking beforehand or in advance, planning; prior or previous consideration; premeditation
• provident care; prudence

Re: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video) [a five-minute Yuletide fandom]

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

Fic: The Odyssey of a hero (MCU) (Marvel Big Bang)

[alexcat]

Title: The Odyssey of a Hero
Author name: alexcat
Beta name: Larry
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Fandom/Universe: MCU
Rating: Explicit (NC-17) for sex scenes.
Word count: 10,648
Warnings: Steve has PTSD
Summary: Steve and Natasha fall in love just before the world breaks.

Fanworker name: Caiti
Rating of fanwork: Gen
Link to accompanying fanwork master post: art

Re: Fic: The Odyssey of a hero (MCU) (Marvel Big Bang)

[cornerofmadness]

Oh very nice! Thanks

Tolkien

[ysilme]

The thing I wrestled with lately:

Title: The Image in the Mirror
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel, Celebrían, various OCs
Rating: Teen
Content: het, late 2nd Age, Fall of Ost-in-Edhil, Lothlórien/Lindórinand, genderqueer character, genderfluid character, genderqueer Galadriel, refugees, travelling,
Words: ~5000
Notes: Written for hauntedpoem for My Slashy Valentine 2020
Summary: When Ost-in-Edhil falls, Galadriel flees with her daughter to the safety of Lindórinand, while Celeborn has to follow his duty and safeguard the flight of the last refugees from the city. Between the worry about his fate, the loss of their city, and an uncertain future, Galadriel rediscovers a part of herself she had ignored for far too long, and finds freedom again.

Re: Tolkien

[cornerofmadness]

Oh very cool, thanks