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“So what is this thing? I assume you're tracking me already, so this is supposed to do, what? Make that easier?”

Coulson was the king of bland, meaningless smiles. Clint had been talked at by a lot of spies and bureaucrats in his day and all of them tried that trick but Coulson was the first one who could really do it without giving anything away. He didn't know what the guy did day to day when he wasn't following him all over the globe but he bet Coulson was damn good at it.

I will never, ever get enough of "Coulson recruiting Clint into SHIELD" fic. It is my very favorite.

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deancasbigbang: It has begun!

(Apologies for the word count posts coming in the future. I flaked on this challenge last year and posting every day keeps me accountable. /o\)

Who has two thumbs and finally managed to get a fic finished and sent off to beta for the first time in months? YO. *dances*

Now to finish the Arrow fic I've been poking at as a palate cleanser and I can dive into spn_j2_bigbang.

WHOOOOOO!

Tomorrow we return to interrupted memage.

*falls into an exhausted heap*

ETA: I forgot how I was going to end this! TELL ME OF YOUR TRIUMPHS, FLIST OF WONDERS! LET US ALL CELEBRATE OUR TRIUMPHANT WEEKENDS! (They don't have to be writing triumphs! You can triumphantly do the dishes!)

Ugh, writing. How do you work?

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! C'mon, people. It is adorable and the first season is streaming on Netflix. Marvel high school AU! Coulson undercover as the school principal (and taking the job really seriously!) Fury being a BAMF superspy! Danny and Luke and Sam and Ava! Fantastic versions of MJ and Harry and Norman and Aunt May! There really is no bad here.

I really love this show and wish everyone else loved it too. I can't wait for S2 to hit netflix so I can marathon it the way I did S1.

( Rest of the days )

This year I wrote and posted (in chronological order by posting date):

( The List! )

Plus two DCSS fics that haven't been revealed yet (guess which!) and the Yuletide fic, also still anon.

Overall Thoughts: I'm kind of pleased there was only one month were I didn't post some kind of fic (March.)

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Okay, I checked the AO3 stats and it's saying I wrote over 300K this year, which has to be a glitch. Right? Lord.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? Obviously I didn't see Avengers coming or Clint/Coulson/Natasha becoming the OT3 Of My Heart.:)

What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest? Man. Um. I was really happy for the excuse to write Dean/Cas/Lisa again, and AUing SPN with Flight Of The Navigator was fun. And writing crossovers is always a blast.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? Don't Ever Look Back was my first ever crack at High School AU and I don't think I messed it up that badly (although apparently AUing the canon plot the way I did is apparently an unusual approach? I don't know.)

My best story of this year: Man. I'm bad at this question. I'm happy with how all the Big Bang fics came out, and I think Temporary Flesh And Bone came out pretty well. And Where Your Love Begins came out almost exactly the way it was in my head and I think the POV and ambiguity worked decently well. And I'm happy with how Contingencies came out, too.

My most popular story of this year: By AO3 hits: Don't Ever Look Back. By AO3 kudos: Guide You Home. By LJ comments: probably Exit Wounds.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I thought What Stays And What Fades Away would have caught fire a little more, but I love secret angels more than most of the fandom. (Still writing more angel!Clint, though.:)

Most fun story to write: Teenage!Dean is actually really fun, so both The Second Hand Unwinds and Don't Ever Look Back were fun. And I love writing Lisa POV. And Nick abusing his staff via memos!

Story with the single sexiest moment: Geez. I dunno. The hooker RP in Let Me Show You How It's Done, maybe.

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Where Your Love Begins. I mean, it's not even close this year.:)

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: I don't know it there's one particular fic. AU is always good for this, because you really have to strip the characters down to core traits to make it work.

Hardest story to write: Oh man, I was typing blood by the end of And A Star To Steer Her By. Sam POV! River! A fusion! Oy. I think it came out pretty well, but that was hard.

Biggest Disappointment: Flaking out of deancasbigbang. Absolutely. And I didn't get the Claire/Ben future fic I'd planned done, mostly because I'm reworking it to be based out of S7 instead of S6. And it really bummed me out to not do the past round of jimmybigbang. And the whole thing with avengers_xbb. Bah.

Biggest Surprise: Oh, Avengers. When I walked out of the movie I figured it would be one of those fandoms where I mostly just read fic but didn't write. Ahahahaha. Ha.

Favorite Opening Line(s): Clint had always figured his going crazy someday was inevitable.

Favorite Closing Line(s): He knows Dean would never hurt him.

Top Scenes from Anywhere You Would Choose to Have Illustrated: All of them. (I can't choose. Art for my stories makes me too squeeful.)

Story I haven't yet written, but intend to: The Exit Wounds sequel (planned for spn_j2_bigbang, since clearly I need a deadline to get anything done. The carpenter!AU I'd wanted to write for deancasbigbang (planned for this year's.) More Jimmy and general Novak awesome. And some more how-Clint-joined-SHIELD fic (I have two outlined out.)

Fic-writing goals for 2013: Post at least one fic each month. Write every day. Don't drop out of any challenges. *fist bump*

I was lurking in the 2012 Yuletide collection to see what fandoms are listed and found out there's a to-be-revealed Dark Avengers fic. I didn't even know that was eligible again this year! Super excited. (Even if by law of averages it will probably be about Daken and not Bob or Norman. I miss that book.) I'm in the middle of writing my DCSS fic right now but I have my Yuletide story plotted out and I've been collecting letters for possible treats.

How is everyone doing? Making good progress? Like your assignment? Find any particularly juicy treat possibilities?

(I'm kicking myself over not thinking to ask for Gargoyles, btw. What a fool I am!)

There are eleven separate scenes in this outline.

Also, there is an outline.

COMMENT!FIC, HOW DO YOU WORK?!?!?!?

Oh yay, now I only need a Maria Hill icon to complete the Agents of SHIELD set (of the major players, anyway, and I'd rather have comics!Hill icon anyway - not that I don't like movie Maria, but comics Maria, especially Director Hill version, is a boss.)

Anyway, this weekend was a giant lost cause writing wise; I didn't make my word count nor did I finish anything. Ugh. Ugh. Must do better tonight because the DCBB pressure. The pressure!

Also, someone needs to write a story where Nat and Clint infiltrate Comic-Con to score those vintage cards for Coulson. It could be a multi-year quest! His birthday's right around con time (July 8th, I believe) so his birthday gift each year could be new cards for his set (Clint would secretly plant them in his locker to avoid fraternization rumors, at least at first, and then it would just become a thing.)

(BTW, fandom, I love you but we need to have a discussion about Natasha's name and how yes, Coulson calls her Tasha but Clint calls her Nat. He calls her Nat all the time! If everyone's calling her Tasha it only makes me lose track of who's talking, especially when I'm trying to speed read fic on my phone during breaks at work. Think of me and my addled brain, gentle fandom! (And on a purely shipping perspective, that the two men in her life call her by the two separate sides of her name is part of what makes me so gooey about the three of them.))

Speaking of things that should be written, has anyone written the AU where in the hiatus before White Collar S4 Coulson recruits Neal for SHIELD? (possibly because Peter calls in a favor, because you know they were both classmates at Quantico before Fury waltzed in and seduced him away.)

Yes, fandom. Do these things. *nods*

I'm terrible at making icons. If it needs more technical prowess than cropping and throwing on a filter it's completely beyond me, so if any of you wonderful people can tell me where I might beg or borrow icons of the following I would be ridiculously grateful:

1) Jaqen H'ghar

Not that I don't love my Dany icon, but a man should have an icon, shouldn't he?

2) A solid Clint/Coulson/Natasha icon. (not necessarily shippy, but definitely all three of them together.)

They are the OT3 of my heart, you guys. It's been forever since a ship ran me over like this (believe it or not, Dean/Cas was a much slower burn.) And not to say I don't love Clint/Coulson on its own, because I do very very much (and Clint/Nat, too!) but the three of them together just sings. Clint and Nat need each other because they see the darkness in each other and understand it, and they need Phil because he sees the darkness in them, doesn't understand it, and loves them anyway. The three of them together just make me all kinds of the happy.

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Let's visit the WiP list (ie, fics I am currently writing/plotting/have open files for)

1) On The Head Of A Pin AU where Anna's just a little too late and things spiral down from there. (this is my dc_dystopia fic.)

2) Jimmy and Jo in the afterlife dealing with the Fates. (my gen mini bang fic)

3) AU fic where Dean is a carpenter making a special order for a very demanding client. (my deancasbigbang. I've rambled about this one before.)

4) Someone slips up and SHIELD Internal Affairs hears whispers that Coulson is sleeping with his agents, forcing Clint and Nat to figure out what to do.

spn_j2_bigbang progress:



Wrote over 9K today. New one day all-time total. Still have more left. Why did I do this to myself? Why?

Seemingly now only type in fragments. Must investigate further.

Who am I? Who are you? Where is this? What is that beautiful house? Where does that highway lead to?

spn_j2_bigbang progress:



So. That happened. Just so my current level of tired can be understood right now, when I opened the file up this morning the word count was 13390. There were words today, is what I'm saying. Lots of angsty, teenage words.

This means I am now officially over the spn_j2_bigbang minimum word count, even if I'm not at the whole "story must have a beginning, middle and end" requirement yet. But I'm at the point where I'm beginning to think such a thing may be possible! This is a very big improvement over a few days ago.

Also, Dean is a horrible boyfriend who stomped all over poor Cas' angsty teenage heart. *nods*

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sncross_bigbang art claims were today and my story got picked! EEEEEE! There are more stories than artists so I'm just pretty princess twirling that I'm already claimed and don't have to sit and wait through the next round of dodgeball, you know?

(And one of the other sncross_bigbang stories is a Walking Dead crossover, set 2014!verse, with Claire as a main character. Paired with Daryl. I know, right? I could not have been happier when that one got claimed because I want to read it right now.)

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Hey, you know what's a surefire way to jolt yourself wide awake if you're feeling drowsy? Your cat absolutely freaking out because there's a moth in the house. Thanks, Lexi!