List your ten fics at AO3 that have had the most hits.

I've been doing this meme around this time of year since 2011, mostly as a way of tracking both what I'm writing and what bubbles up. I missed last year (with Ros doing her black belt, the whole year was kind of nuts and I didn't do much posting) but thought I'd jump back in this year. I'm still big into Marvel, and this year is the first time the top ten is all Marvel, all the time.

( This way to the list )

So, I saw Endgame, and was inevitably enraged by the way they sidelined Bucky. (Heck, even the Sweetie, after he saw it, was like, "Wow, they really didn't want Bucky in that movie, did they?").

And I have inevitably written a fixit fic.

Full Circle (1128 words)
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Offscreen James "Bucky" Barnes/Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Post-Endgame, Endgame Fix-It, Time Travel

Summary:
The two of them sit on the bench for the longest time, staring out at the shimmering surface of the lake in front of them, a pregnant silence building between them.

Steve is the one who speaks first.

“I saved him,” he says. “I couldn’t save you, but I saved him.”

A big thank you to halotolerant for providing the title and helping make it better.

It's March Madness, which mean it's the one time of the year I make time to watch some basketball.

I support the Wisconsin Badgers, since that's my grad school alma mater, and also Bucky Badger is the dorkiest/awesome-est mascot out there. Last year, after a couple of years of nearly taking it all, the Badgers didn't make the tournament.

This year they made it, but they just got knocked out in the first round by Oregon, 54 - 72. They were tied at the half, but then Oregon just killed them. (I'm sure the Sweetie was amused listening to me scream at the TV every time Wisconsin had a turnover or missed a three point shot.)

On the one hand, I'm sad my team is out.

On the other, that's a bunch of time I've got back for writing Marvel fic with the other important Bucky in my life!

In two days, my website will be no more.

So, if you haven't yet downloaded any of my vids, they're all up here: http://przed.com/vids/vidfiles/

But that's not totally the end for my vids.

The lovely morgandawn kindly took it upon herself to help me create an account at the Internet Archive, and then went an uploaded nine of my vids. You can find them at https://archive.org/details/@przed.

The vids there are both streamable and downloadable, so that's awesome. And I'll be uploading the rest as I have time.

Thank you Morgan!

Figured I'd give this fanfic showdown meme a shot. It took two runs through to get a list close to my faves. (I used the "I Like Both" and "No Opinion" options the first time through, and Found Families ended up wayyy down the list instead of top 3 like it should be.)

The top 10 here are definitely bulletproof tropes for me, the next 10 or 15 are ones I definitely enjoy, and the bottom 5 I mostly have zero interest in, except that I've found a few Marvel writers who are great enough to tempt me to read the occasional A/B/O fic.

1 Hurt/Comfort
2 Found Families
3 Polyamory
4 Loyalty Kink
5 Friends to Lovers
6 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
7 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
8 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
9 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
10 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
11 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
12 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
13 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
14 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
15 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
16 And They Were Roommates!
17 High School/University AU
18 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
19 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
20 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
21 Pride and Prejudice AU
22 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
23 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
24 Adopting/Raising a Baby
25 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
26 Amnesia Fic
27 Vampires/Werewolves AU
28 Hot Single Parent(s)
29 Daemons
30 Body Swapping
31 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
32 'They All Work In An Office' AU
33 Hogwarts AU
34 Actually Unrequited Pining
35 A/B/O
36 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
37 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)

What with house renovations, hockey tournaments, arctic cold and snowstorms, things have been hectic Chez Zed, and I've barely been on my computer, let alone online. But I have completed fic! And it's a new instalment of Captain America Has a Fella series.

Captain America Says a Goodbye (4929 words)
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Outside POV, Offscreen Canonical Character Death
Summary: When Steve first arrives in her dance studio, she and Peggy are his last surviving ties to the past. He waits nearly a month to tell her about Peggy, but then blurts out "Peggy's still alive," after dinner one Sunday, when Liz is in the kitchen cleaning up the dishes.

"That's wonderful!" Audrey says, but then she notices how tight the corners of his mouth are, notices the shadows in his eyes. "Isn't it?"

"She has Alzheimer's," Steve says, his tone blunt and flat, like it's something he's trained himself to say with absolutely no emotion.

Or how one elderly USO show girl helps two super soldiers deal with an inevitable loss.

A big thanks to halotolerant to taking a look at the story and helping make it better.

Backtracking on the challenge again!

Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it?

My creative processs is...highly variable.

I used to make detailed outlines before I started on the actual writing, and would jump around and write whichever scene I felt like that day. Now, I'm a total pantser. I've usually got a firm idea for kicking off the story, a less firm idea of how it's all going to end, and I discover the rest as I go along.

I'm coming off a year of the high of writing in a new fandom, where the words flow smoothly and I'm finishing stories easily, and am now back to the place where it's all fits and starts and it seems to take forever to finish anything.

One thing that's consistent, though, is what I do when a story isn't cooperating: write dialogue. If I can't get a scene moving and the characters seem recalcitrant, I just let them talk to each other and see what shakes out. (I LOVE writing dialogue. I HATE writing description.)

I got derailed from the challenge on Wednesday by work and having a hockey game right after, so this is me getting back in the groove.

Day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness.

My two acts of kindness were in keeping with the hockey theme.

The first was Freecycling a pair of hockey pants my daughter grew out of this year, and arranging to meet with a woman who wanted them for her son. The hockey pants have a new home, and a little boy has gear. Yay!

The second one was contributing to a Go Fund Me to build a hockey pad for the Rez Girls, a hockey team from the Eabametoong First Nation in Northern Ontario:

https://ca.gofundme.com/rez-girls-on-new-ice

(I found this while reading on the APTN website about yet more colonial nonsense my country is perpetrating in B.C., so was happy to make my own small bit of reparations.)

Am back to work, so starting to fall behind on the challenges...

Day 7

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you.

At first I thought, I don't have time to try something new. But then I thought, let's try a new pairing. So, I gave originalceenote's WinterHawk a try. It is fluffy Barnes/Barton fun!

The Water Cooler is a Neutral Zone (8178 words) by OriginalCeenote
Fandom: Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/James "Bucky" Barnes
Characters: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, James Rhodes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner, Peter Quill, Peter Parker
Additional Tags: Office AU, Workplace Rivalry, Shenanigans, the author is a horrible person, crackfic, No Sex, Enemies to friends with Benefits, winterhawk - Freeform, no powers, silliness, Bad coffee pot etiquette, Clint Barnes is a Human Disaster, Bucky Barnes is Picky About Coffee Creamer, Cubicle Farms, otpprompts, Tumblr Prompt, Wait a minute there’s sex in Chapter Two, Oops
Summary:
“I’m gonna get him good this time,” Clint muttered as he shook glittering confetti over Barnes’ keyboard.

Rogers looked bored from his perch on the edge of Bucky’s desk. “What’d he do this time?”

“He stole all the marshmallows out of my Lucky Charms!”

“Seriously, Barton?”

“Rogers. You don’t mess with a guy’s Lucky Charms. They’re sacred, for fuck’s sake. You should know this.”

And then halotolerant was posting pretty pictures from a slashy Chinese web show, Guardian, that looks fab.

Here are the two actors from the show (who are also Mandopop singers) singing, in Halo's words, a ship manifesto to their characters. (Turn on the subtitles! They're adorable.)


And here's the first episode:


(I've been warned that there's an unhappy ending, but lots of pretty on the way, and the author of the source material wrote a fix-it.)