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[tielan]

Okay, with a completely crappy day up on the books, I strolled into the Maria/STeve tag on AO3...

To discover that Philyra has posted the next piece of her "Get Ready For It" MCU/NHL fusion where Maria is the first woman in the NHL.

The first part was I Came To Win (Pepper's POV), and this one is called I Came To Conquer and is Maria's POV and I am SPINNING LIKE A TOP, peoples!

If you haven't read I Came To Win yet, I highly recommend it - even without the (ice) hockey background it is So Much Fun.

And I'm going to sneak-read about 1500 words of I Came To Conquer over the next couple of hours and so far I am TOTALLY ON BOARD WITH THIS.

Did I mention SPINNING LIKE A DAMN TOP?

(It's coming up to 11am and I've already had three different clients on my plate. I've cancelled a physio appointment, my torn calf is aching after yesterday, and I've rearranged my lunch date with andveryginger to dinner because things are so hectic, so this new installment of the series is sending me OVER THE MOON.)

tl;dr: if you're a fan of the MCU women, and particularly Maria, go and read this. (Hell, go read this if you're a fan of the MCU characters, because they are all awesome: Steve, Bucky, and Sam are a forward line-up in the NHL and sharehouse. Nat defects from the Russian leagues (and she punches out Rumlow: do you really need more?) and Spiderwoman and Captain Marvel are Olympic figure-skaters training the team. Melinda May is their damn COACH.

...that was supposed to be the tl;dr version wasn't it? Oops... I'm just so excited...

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[rmc28]

*bounce*

I subscribed to Philyra on the strength of I Came To Win which was my glorious wonderful MCU Ladies gift earlier this year (still warm and happy thinking about it).

And I was SO excited when I got the notification last night and stayed awake to read it. SO good. And it's only part 1/2 :-) That means there's MORE.

[beatrice_otter]

THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW THIS WAS POSTED.

It was not quite the 100% TOTAL AWESOME that the first one was, but it was close.

It is an annoyance to me that the AO3 software can't figure out that if you subscribe to a work, it should notify you when a sequel to that work is posted. (I suggested this feature to them, we'll see if anything comes of it.)

[tielan]

And it's only part 1/2 :-) That means there's MORE.

YES, EXACTLY.

[tielan]

You're welcome! :)

And, yeah, not quite as awesome (less about the female characters, which was definitely one of the A+ things about the first one) but I'm loving seeing the 'behind the scenes' from Maria's POV and dealing with the guys. And I'm definitely hoping for some good Maria&Natasha interaction upcoming!