EXCHANGE INTERFACE

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.

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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.

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

Okay, so I did some rejigging of the way I'm posting the story which is probably going to play merry hell with my subscribers' inboxes. (Sorry.)

Each chapter is a scene change, and there are several scenes in a single story section. I'll be posting the story in sections at a time, though, so there'll be multiple chapters posted every few days.

The posting scenes as chapters is mostly because an entire segment is 12K easy and not everyone has time to read that all at once, but 2K a day might be doable, perhaps?

Entire Work
Part 2

…okay, do I insert a joke about Thor and Valkyrie protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe in other side of infinity: Yes/No?

(Don’t have time to make a poll, I’m typing this up in a document, and then posting it from office.)

Six lines of a current WIP.

Hill! Get your ass moving; I was old when you were born and I'm still more lively!

With all due respect, sir, fuck off.

When that had been? Maybe half a year after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. London, jetlag, she'd been on the move for nearly thirty-six hours – since California in fact – and Fury hit a nerve when he demanded she be bright eyed and bushy-tailed at 0600 hours. She'd responded with profanity and he'd just laughed.

Maybe things had changed before then. But that was the moment when she realised things were different.

Sometimes I think that dodging spoilers in this story is like trying to dodge raindrops.

This morning, the Nick Fury muse hits me sideways with the scene I'm presently writing between him, Maria, Wanda, Jane and a Wakandan Dora Milaje. I wrote 400 words in about 20 minutes.

Of course this happens a dozen hours before I'm somehow retconned for character in Captain Marvel which I am seeing at 5pm today at the local Big Cinema Complex (they had the best times, in spite of the small Indy Cinema being half the price; if I go a second or third time, it'll definitely be there).

Also: MY BETA REALLY LIKES THE STORY. AND ASKED THE QUESTIONS I WAS GOING TO ANSWER IN THE SECTION I'M WRITING. Hopefully this doesn't mean it's obvious what's going to happen at the end of this chapter. Or what has to happen to get to the final showdown.

I just want a few days of uninterrupted writing time, dammit! I think I'm free on Saturday, anyway. (My schedule says I'm free on Saturday.)

Also: ( MY CAPTAIN MARVEL JACKET FROM HER UNIVERSE )

As previously predicted, the mission Takes the Other Side of Infinity to just over 40K.

Should only be another 15K-20K to the end. *exhales*

Now I just need to not get tangled up in everything. Also, the lines of events need to be well laid out. And probably a few hanging sentences need completing.

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It's been kind of quiet this morning. Not much happening, although I've picked up a couple of tickets - not many. And really easy ones. I did one manual upload (they really should automate that, I'm kind of surprised that they haven't). One of the issues here is that many of the users have a history and if you don't know the history then the request may not make sense. Oh, and there's a whole series of requests to unlock Purchase Orders/Invoices/Work Orders that have been locked. For some reason or another.

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The cleanse is going pretty well. I had a slice of raisin toast yesterday (no butter) and the gluten seemed fine. However, there was also a morning tea for a couple of guys who'd worked for the company for 40+ years (one joined when he was 16) and so I figured I'd risk a piece of cake.

Within 30 minutes I had a headache and was feeling sleepy. So, uh, it could have been the chocolate, the sugar, the cream, or any additives that went into the cake. But it probably wasn't the gluten. Yay?

Today is back to a regular cleanse day, and tomorrow is…dairy I think. I shall have milk tea in the morning (still no coffee), and maybe take some cheese snacks to work. It would be nice to have a dairy dessert after dinner, but I don't know if I'll have the space.

If I had a playlist that I wanted to give out at the same time as a story, what would be the best way to do it?

As in, seriously, my notes have: "Waking up - Louder Than Words", "Sam - Caderka fight: Forge - Infinity War" "Maria - do you remember: End of the Line - Cap 2". It gives me good mood for what I'm writing.

Would you listen to a playlist while reading the story?