WIP Wednesdays
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naushikaskieswideopen is trying to get some progress done on her fic WIPs by doing a new project dubbed WIP Wednesdays (talking about & sharing snippets of WIPs to encourage yourself to get them done!) and in true enabler fashion I am gonna do the same. My current WIPs are vaguely embarrassing tbh since I clearly have some tunnel vision right now when it comes to subject matter. But oh well. These are in reverse chronological order of when I started them.
WIPs:
1. Not Prime Time fic so I can't spill deets
2. MCU/The Americans crossover fic. This one is taking over all my brainspace right now but I've been kind of stymied because I'm waiting for the season finale of The Americans, which is going to determine a major direction the fic takes. WHICH IS TONIGHT. I can't wait to watch ahhhh!
3. Agents of Shield Jemma/Ward hurt/comfort fic. Totally just abandoned this in the middle once Turn, Turn, Turn happened and now if I finish it it would have to be pre-TTT and idk if I have the willpower to place fics in that time period? You know?
4. Agents of Shield time looping fic with Jemma as the time-looper (kinda SG-1 style) cause I love time looping and Jemma. HIJINKS!
5. Agents of Shield Jemma/Ward undercover relationship fic.. same thing as the other one. Ward broke my heart and NOW WHAT DO I DO?? lol.
6. MCU Bruce/Jane fic. I don't have much of a plot but I have a lot of words. This is my longest WIP @ ~4k words
7. MCU Steve/Jane. Almost a crack fic really, lol. I was writing it for trope bingo but that round ended forever ago and I never finished anything for it. But I was writing the trope of 'matchmaker' and the whole plot is that Nick Fury plays matchmaker for Steve and Jane and pairs them up for a date at the White House to meet the President. Yes it's definitely as strange as it sounds..
8. MCU Natasha & Jane road trip bonding fic.
Yeah so. There's some pretty obvious themes here haha. I have my favorites. I won't apologize.
And a snippet.. Snippet from the Steve/Jane fic because I chuckled while re-reading it. YES. I LAUGHED AT MY OWN FIC.
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"I'm sorry - you want me to babysit Captain America?" Jane faced Fury, amused. "Did I hear that right?"
"Less babysit. More... chaperone." Fury half sat on one of the tables in her office. He'd learned long ago that intimidation didn't work on her. More so than that, it tended to backfire considerably. It worked best to be casual with Jane. "He's been with us for nearly a year, but he still hasn't acclimated to modern life very much."
"Poor guy," she said. "I saw that documentary about him on PBS. I don't know how much of it was true, but, I feel bad for him anyway."
"Everyone he knew is dead," Fury said somberly. Or really really old, he appended in his mind, but left that part out. The more Jane felt bad for Steve Rogers, the better.
"The president, though? I'm not very..." Jane waved a hand at herself. She wouldn't describe herself as frumpy, really, but she wouldn't say her look was particularly exciting either. She was wearing jeans and a t-shirt which had some sort of chemical diagram emblazoned on the front of it. Fury guessed it was for something humorous, like caffeine or bacon, but he didn't bother asking.
"Fake it til you make it, Dr Foster. If you need help shopping for something president-worthy to wear, we can figure something out."
"Yeah, that'd be helpful. I don't suppose you have Tim Gunn on the payroll?" Jane chuckled.
"If he's not, we can get him," Fury replied.
"Wait - seriously?"
He didn't reply, but just leveled a stare at her with his good eye.
"I really can't tell when you're joking," she grumbled and pulled out her datebook. "When is it, again?"
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:02 am (UTC)these posts are tourture and also exciting because i WANT FICS NOW.
jane/capppppp
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:09 pm (UTC)Torture is fun :D
Jane/Cap is such an off the wall ship that I feel motivated to finish that fic just for that reason hahaha
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Date: 2014-05-23 07:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-22 09:52 am (UTC)3. Agents of Shield Jemma/Ward hurt/comfort fic. Totally just abandoned this in the middle once Turn, Turn, Turn happened and now if I finish it it would have to be pre-TTT and idk if I have the willpower to place fics in that time period? You know?
Couln't you just set it in an unspecified future after Ward has started atoning and is working with the team again?
(Don't mind me, I just have this craving and the thought of half-written biospecialist h/c fic like, pains me. Um.)
I also hope you'll write that time loop fic. There's way not enough time loop fic in this fandom, considering the whacky canon.
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:13 pm (UTC)That is a possible idea! I'd have to retool the whole fic either way, since I wrote it pretty straight with regards to Ward's character so I'd have to change that whole aspect. But I think about the fic every now and again and I still want to finish it at some point. Atonement fic could work! I'm not sure if Ward can really be fully redeemed but therein lies the possibility for angst. And I so love angst, haha.
You're so right. Time loop fic is totally necessary! :D I'm hoping to kick myself in the butt to finish some of these fics so I'm gonna try!
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Date: 2014-05-22 12:27 pm (UTC)If you write it, I will make crossover icons? :D Like, one icon per 1k? :DD
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:16 pm (UTC)Ooh, crossover icons. BRIBE ACCEPTED. :D
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Date: 2014-05-23 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-22 02:20 pm (UTC)Clearly, the undercover relationship fic just needs to be rewritten account for Ward being an awful, manipulative ass. Like, oh look, here's another way to get Jemma on Team Ward, but maybe actual feelings happen because she's JEMMA. Maybe she can use her vagina for good instead of having one that turns people dead! (If they sleep together, do Sam Winchester and Buffy Summers cancel each other out?)
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:18 pm (UTC)Hahaha perfect. It does pave the way for a lot of anger and hurt feeling and delicious angst.. which is my favorite.
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Date: 2014-05-22 08:26 pm (UTC)I'd say something about your tunnel vision, except that 90% of the WIPs I didn't post are John/Cam, so it would basically be a pot/kettle situation. Plus I sympathize, because I'm still sad at losing May/Ward, but there's just no way to get back there. :(
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Date: 2014-05-22 09:21 pm (UTC)LOL, excellent. High five for tunnel vision.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I still ship Jemma/Ward I suppose because I get total death grip on my ships and will not give them up. But it would be a COMPLETELY different thing. Before I liked them for supportive and equal and loving ship-having, but now it would be something rooted in anger and angst what with all the murder and attempted murder, and would probably never ever end happily. I can totally get myself there to appreciate that but it is still sad to mourn the Ship That Was. I DIDN'T EXPECT TO BE DARK-SHIPPING THEM, sheesh.
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Date: 2014-05-28 07:40 pm (UTC)Undercover relationship fics are always good.
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Date: 2014-05-29 12:37 am (UTC)Ahhh I love undercover relationships.. one of my favorite itch-scratching tropes.