I'll admit, I burned out on the 'extended universes' of Star Wars back in the late 90s. Too many book series, some with excellent worldbuilding but a lot of them not about characters that I wanted to read about.

It's also...a lot? A lot of a lot? All from Disney? Bread and circuses? And I wonder how much of this is taking advantage of a sort of a ' ( Read more... )

I'm reasonably certain that 80% of people reading this were innit for the fandom and, well, I'm not doing fandom or shows or movies so much lately.

I have not even looked at the trailer for Cats. And given how everyone's responding, I don't think I will. I loved the poems, I loved the musical, but...that was a long time ago ( Read more... )

TITLE: Something Left To Lose
SUMMARY: Five times Rocket tried to steal from Bucky (and the one time it was a promise).
RATING: Pretty Funny
TAGS: Bucky & Rocket, Bucky, Rocket, Developing Friendships, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Infinifty War, Bucky Barnes Survives Infinity war
NOTES: This really works for me in characterisation and tone, plus ( Read more... )

And the archive is open!

My assignment was for
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And on a slightly more cheerful note, I found an amazing fic written by fickery which was just posted today.

fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Arrow (TV, 2012)
title: Who Run The Worldsummary: Lyla Michaels and Maria Hill meet for drinks to bond over the pressures of running a black-ops government agency and being awesome badasses ( Read more... )

It's kind of nice to feel like writing again. Although I feel like I should apologise to my MCU Ladies recip; the story is not what I'd like it to have been, but I had zero writing mojo through February.

( Civil War: one almost think it should be called Sharon Carter War )

Is there any point in signing up for avengersfest when all I really want is Maria Hill or Maria/Steve, and so far about 10 people have signed up and Maria is either "will not write" or one of the "oh, I suppose you can write her if you really really absolutely must" listings or unmentioned in their sign-up ( Read more... )

The movies have set up a very careful yet distinct Maria->Steve dynamic. Logically that should be used in some way or another - good old Chekov's Gun.

( me and the dead horse I'm riding )

new ficlet: The Tools To HandCivil War, the way it won't play out. Because Maria Hill. (*grumbles ( Read more... )

fandom: MCU
title: The Odd Couple
summary: He's fast and she's weird.
relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers; lots of friendships.
characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Rhodey Rhodes, Wanda Maxmimoff, Vision, Natasha Romanoff
rating: PG-13
notes: And all five chapters are done and dusted. This ending is what happens when Maria Hill ( Read more... )