writing woes

[tielan]

I guess the people looking for Endgame fixits are moving further afield. I got nine kudos on the other side of infinity yesterday...

Cynical T: Unless it was a guest kudosing at every chapter.
Hopeful T: But then there would have been 26 kudos!
Cynical T: Maybe they were taking it slow.
Hopeful T: *stuffs cynical T in a bag and sews it shut* SHUSH YOU.

--

The sequel to the wisdom to know the difference is not going well. I'd hoped to be finished by now. Instead, I'm stuck on the damned intimacy scene.

“Will we have to worry about spillover from any of the falling empires?”

“Not according to Carol. We got a reputation in going after Thanos, so most people aren’t willing to try it.”

Steve grimaces. “The problem isn’t usually most people, the problem is the one or two who want to try themselves out against your reputation...”

“Well, most of us are still here, even if there aren’t so many of us in the game. anymore” Nat points out, leaning back in her chair and putting her feet up on the desk. “And there’s Carol.”

“Yes,” Steve echoes, “There’s Carol.”

It’s not that the guys don’t like Carol – Thor, in particular, thinks she’s great. But Steve and Rhodey are accustomed to Natasha’s more subtle, self-effacing style of competence, and Carol's in-your-face feminism straight out of the 90s is disconcerting.

Maria finds it disconcerting, too, but she also enjoys watching the guys squirm, just a little.

--

The urban fantasy is going. Not sure it's going somewhere, but it's going...