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From four different fandoms, no less!

Two are unfinished pieces - one for a ToT fill that never came to pass (I'm bad at the quirky-horror-weird stuff), the other that was a long, long ago longfic crossover for SGA and SG1 that never quite came to fruition.

A Statesman For Sale (432 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Humor, Post-Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Pre-Movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Snippets
Series: Part 8 of Unfinished Symphonies
Summary:

Nobody on the Statesman is going to be sold. Not even Loki.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2671 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Teyla Emmagan & Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan & Kanaan
Characters: Teyla Emmagan
Additional Tags: Alternate Alternate Universe, Pegasus Culture, Pegasus Galaxy, Pegasus Ascendant, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued
Series: Part 7 of Unfinished Symphonies
Summary:

Her first thought was that the Hall of Greeting on Earth was a disappointment - none of the wide open space or natural light of the city’s Hall of Greeting; instead she faced an imposing architecture of heavy columns covered in gold and starkly lit by sconce lights in wall niches.

Right now, I'm posting a few things that I started but didn't finish. Mostly because some of them I put a lot of time and energy into and I'd like to see them get a bit of affection. Even if it's only a kudos or two.

And there's the last piece in the 30 Days of OTP, which I'm just trying to work out if I suitably tied everything off. (If you're willing to read it through for me and let me know, I would really appreciate the crit.)

grief has its own timeline (670 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Sam Carter & Cassandra Fraiser
Characters: Sam Carter, Cassandra Fraiser
Additional Tags: Season/Series 07, grief and dealing
Summary:

Grief has its own timeline, Janet said, hugging the child Cassie was all those years ago. You're going to miss your parents and you're going to mourn them. And that's okay - that's necessary and expected and even good for you. And I will be here for you through all of it.

staying in the kitchen (274 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sharma
Additional Tags: kathonyprompt, heat - Freeform
Summary:

Kate turns out to be better versed in matters of the kitchen than her husband.

Does anyone know what the AO3 notification situation is with posting new stories that are already backdated? I think I once knew but have since forgotten.

My story for the auexchange:

if time is all I have (4217 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Steve Rogers as the Winter Soldier
Summary:

Maria knows what that look means. She knows the mindset behind it. She's seen it in the resolve of agents who knew the odds of going in, heard it in field operatives calling for an exit in impossible situations, witnessed it in extraction targets who didn't believe that they'd actually make it out. And sometimes the odds were defied, the impossible happened, and everyone made it out in one piece. Sometimes.

To see that expression in the man they call the Winter Soldier....

I do love my regular readers; I may not be a BNF or someone who writes what the majority of fans enjoy, but the people who enjoy my work enjoy my work and I really love when they enjoy reading what I like writing. (Even when the writing process is a PITA.)

I'll be posting a few fic snippets in the next few days. Things I started writing but haven't really been inspired to finish (alas).

( May/December...or Baby's First Time Travel Moebius )

There’s a lot of bits and pieces I’ve been sitting on for the last couple of months; over the last few weeks I did a push to finish as many things as possible.

the wisdom to know the difference (16562 words) by tielan
Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill & Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Avengers Team, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Pepper Potts, Thor (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Carol Danvers, Okoye (Marvel), Tony Stark, Nebula (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Spoilers, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Fix-It, Endgame Fix-It, Maria Hill is a BAMF, One More Person Could Have Saved The World, Work In Progress
Series: Part 1 of The Wisdom To Know The Difference
Summary:

Maria reached out a hand, and her fingers fluttered through dust and ashes....but the pager remained.

Initially, I was hoping to get the entirety of this story out by the end of May, then I figured I might by the end of June. Ahahaha. Yeah, nope. It’ll probably be August before I get the next chapter done, mostly because so many things to write, not half enough time to write them all...

For Chocolate Box, I wrote three fics:

For lmizutani:
FANDOM: Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
TITLE: Teach A Girl To Fish And She'll Dream Forever
SUMMARY: Rilla Blythe is the youngest of the Blythe kids, the baby of the family. At least, that’s how Kenneth’s used to thinking of her.
TAGS: Rilla Blythe & Kenneth Ford, Rilla Blythe, Kenneth Ford, friendship, childhood
RATING: G
NOTES: I felt kind of bad about this, because I was assigned to the same recipient as Yuletide, and I'm sure she wanted someone else writing something else. And she got me. :/ It's just a little piece of them developing a childhood friendship - not very deep, but a kind of base on which to build their later relationship.

For millepertuis:
FANDOM: Pacific Rim movies
TITLE: Hypertactile
SUMMARY: Three drifts isn’t enough to scar someone; it shouldn’t have been enough to bond the way they have – or, rather, the way Raleigh has bonded with Mako.
TAGS: Mako/Raleigh, co-sleeping, post-Operation Pitfall
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: A pinch-hit that swung my way, and which I was in an easy position to fulfil. Plus, I have a great fondness for angsting these two out before getting them together.

For Haywire:
FANDOM: Marvel Cinematic Universe
TITLE: Killing Me Softly
SUMMARY: Hangovers were never fun. They were considerably less fun when you’d been pulled up on the carpet of the Director’s office for a 0900 meeting.
TAGS: Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Valkyrie (cameo), Wanda (cameo), Natasha (cameo), Melinda May, Girls' Night Out, Karaoke, Fluff
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: A treat I decided to write pretty much yesterday. It's lighthearted and silly and features the all-female Avengers team I introduced in Monstrous Regiment.

They're okay fics, not my most brilliant work, IMO.

In return I received two gifts: one assignment, one treat a few days after reveals.

My gift:
Light As Air by lillypillylies - a Harry/Luna fic with trio friendship that is delightful and perfectly characterised from Hermione and her persisting questions, to Ron and his blunt affection, to Harry needing to stave off a panic that Luna doesn't actually like him after all.

And a treat:
Between the Music And The Rests by scribblemyname | scribblemyname - a Maria/Steve AU where they're IN SPACE and the Avengers are IN SPACE and I want to read the entire IN SPACE novel that must surely come from this. *hint hint*

I wrote an MCU/daemons AU way back in 2012, and this is the sequel - well, Part 1 of 2.

Daughter Of The Morrigan (4037 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Drama, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Alternate Universe - Daemons, Daemons, Daemon Touching
Series: Part 2 of Maria and the Morrigan
Summary: He’s put his hands on Isthus before under mitigating circumstances. She’s touched Saavi before, also in a crisis. Given her injury, these are certainly mitigating circumstances.

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For a crossovering pinch-hit: Sanctuary / Pride & Prejudice!

A Sanctuary For All (1441 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sanctuary (TV), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caroline Bingley & Helen Magnus
Characters: Caroline Bingley, Helen Magnus
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary: It is a truth almost universally unacknowledged that a single woman in protection of an escaped abnormal must be in want of a sanctuary.

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For trickortreatex, one assignment, one treat, and I wish I'd managed more, but my brain was not co-operating in spite of having all of October off.

The request for this was Orsino/Viola or Antonio with a happy ending, and specified Viola being non-cisgender, or Antonio being non-heterosexual. I do like Orsino/Viola, and wanted to play around a bit more with what Viola might be missing after the end of the play when she's given up being Cesario.

A Desperate State Of Being (2066 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Orsino/Viola | Cesario (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Viola | Cesario (Twelfth Night), Orsino (Twelfth Night)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Married Life, Gender Roles
Summary:
A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

Another one for trickortreatex - this one is the treat, and pretty much spoke to me right from the prompt.

More Than A Man (980 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Okoye
Characters: Okoye (Marvel), Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Friendship
Summary: Perhaps, if Okoye saw the world as others see the world, then her eye might have slid past. But she sees the world as the General of Wakanda, and this woman walked as a Dora Milaje walks: watching the back of her leader.

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Another one in the Steve/Maria Meeting Halfway series that I started back in 2012, and which was supposed to run for 30 days. HAH.

Sway With Me (451 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Series: Part 21 of Meeting Halfway
Summary: They don't say much while dancing.

My auexchange fic which was not all I'd hoped it would be, and not even what I started writing (which was a much more Angry Goose focused story in the current continuity), but seems to have been well-taken: even before reveals, it had a good load of kudos and plenty of comments.

FANDOM: MCU/Black Panther
TITLE: First Touch Of Hands
SUMMARY: A meeting in a marketplace. A wild goose attack. And hands touching hands...
PAIRING: Bucky/Shuri
RATING: PG
NOTES: I went for all the AUs in this one - Alternate History, Angry Goose AU, Soulmates AU, Soulmarks AU... And there was going to be a second part from Shuri's POV (featuring the cool-eyed cousin, N'Jadaka, and his Opinions of the Roanoaki) but yeah, it's still mostly in my head.

fandom: MCU
title: Past The Radar
summary: In hindsight, Maria probably should have realised she was in deep trouble right about then
tags: Maria/Steve, Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Developing Relationship
notes: I have so many snippets that will never be finished, so I'm posting them here and there where I can work them into something that has a reasonable beginning, middle, and end. (And ngl the kudos and comments are balm.) Anyway, long ago, back in the dark teatime of the fandom soul after TWS, a few people actually asked for Maria/Steve fics in exchanges. I always took note of their prompts, even if I didn't always manage to write for them.

Starting to dump my old MCU/Avengers fics. A handful of people are still reading.

title: Still Terrifying
summary: They agreed to terrify each other. Maybe just not quite this way.
rating: PG13
tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
notes: Was a snippet from a sequel to A Woman Of Edges; never got finished.

title: One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor
summary: Orcs might be preferable. But one does not question Natasha Romanoff when she has taken it into her head to go on a road trip.
rating: PG13
tags: Maria Hill & Pepper Potts & Natasha Romanoff
notes: Was going to be a girls' road trip through the midwest, post-Avengers movie. Never got beyond this first snippet.

There'll be many more snippets if I can dig them out and get them to a decent place.

My gifts for chocolateboxcomm:

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Title: Tell Me How To Walk Next To Her
Summary: It's not easy being friends with Buffy. But then, it's not exactly easy being Faith's friend either.
Tags: Faith Lehane & Buffy Summers, Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane, Women Being Awesome, Female Friendship, Female Protagonist, Female-Centric, Complicated Relationships
Notes: I asked for something about the two women relating to each other after the series - grown up, with their history, and all the jagged edges - and I got it! It's not a comfortable story, but it feels true to the characters and the history they've been through.

Fandom: MCU
Title: How Two Hands Touch
Summary: It takes them a while.
Tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Avengers Team (MCU), Friends to Lovers, Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie) Compliant
Notes: A slow-burn fic (and I'd have loved to see the 100K version, but this is chocolate box, after all) about how timing makes such a difference in a relationship. Basically, Steve has issues, and he kind of has to work through them before he's okay to make a move.


Fandom: DCCU
Title: To Mourn
Summary: Following Clark's funeral, Lois realizes she isn't ready to go back to Metropolis, not yet. While at the Kent Farm, she gets a visitor: Diana, the woman who had fought alongside Clark at the very end. She comes to offer her condolences, and Lois finds a friend whose own experience is not that different from her own.
Tags: Lois Lane, Diana (Wonder Woman), Martha Kent, Wakes & Funerals, Loss, Paris (City), Smallville (Town)
Notes: A post-BvS piece that depicts a friendship between the two women, particularly in light of Diana's loss of Steve nearly 100 years previously. I, uh, I like how they end up in Paris at the end. :D

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I did three fics myself, and while they're not very well-received, the recipients have been enthusiastic about them, so I'll take it as a success!