Definitely fallen in too deep

Another year started, holidays are over and it's time to get back to regular business.

For me that means the holiday fic Half Agony, Half Hope is now all posted, fairly stress free process this year. I'll be back again next year, most likely anyway, and we'll see if I'll land on another AU. It's funny, because I tend to go with canon compliant or at least diverging from it, I've only written four AUs, but three of them have been for the holidays. No clue what the next one would be, I don't have that many AU hankerings, maybe something mythology related. We'll have to see what inspires me sometime next summer.

Recently I've been mostly editing, but I did start my new story this week. About three quarters of the first chapter is written, and I'll continue with it next week as well. I actually don't know how many chapters there will be, I didn't feel like making an outline yet, so I have a rough shape in my head that I'm working toward, but not a scene list or anything like that. It' won't be short, but not super long either, I'd currently say definitely less than ten chapters. It's canon compliant, set after Black Panther ending and overlapping with Infinity War. I'm hoping to get it done fairly rapidly, just to get into writing groove again after the editing heavy period I just had. Roughly the theme of it is that even when someone is the most important person to you, it doesn't mean being with them is always easy, and now they're trying to work their way through some of those difficulties.

Spring is on the way, and with it comes both literal and figurative clarity.

Read it here on AO3.

Slowly and steadily Bucky and Steve get closer to each other.

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Bucky is determined to be stupid, and he knows it too.

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Very happy New Year to all of you! If you want some laughs today, you can partake in our New Year's tradition and watch Dinner for One. They air it on Finnish TV every New Year's Eve, and we used to watch it while waiting for fireworks when I was a kid. The jokes get a few more layers as one grows up:D

Bucky goes to another party, and it's no less confusing than the previous one.

Read it here on AO3.

Bucky tries in several ways to process meeting Steve again, some of them less advisable than others.

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In this one Bucky reconnects with some old friends.

Read it here on AO3.

You guessed it, another busy week, but at least there are now some free days. I still need to wrap the Christmas presents today, but at least there aren't that many, so I'm not going to be up too late.

This week I finished and posted The Open Road Still Softly Calls. It's the future fic set in space I talked about. I was extremely delighted to find that there already was a canonical tag "IN SPACE!" on AO3. My space nerd brain was very delighted about this story.

I also continued editing the steampunk fic that I'll start posting on the 25th. It'll probably occupy most of my next week's writing time, considering the daily posting. I'm a little bit ahead, though, so I'm not too pressed with it.

Other than the editing, I'll be looking over my idea list and see what catches my attention for the next story to write.

It's certainly been a week around fandom, as a result of which I've revived this DW blog, and mean to actually post things here rather than just have it as a placeholder. It's still a bit under construction and probably will be for a while, considering how busy I'm likely to be over the next couple of weeks, but I'll get there. I'm going to keep my tumblr blog too, and some stuff (like these weekly writing recaps) will be posted on both blogs. I'm thinking of making this a bit more expansive when it comes to content, the tumblr is pretty much all MCU, but I'm thinking of writing here about other stuff, like the books I've read etc.

Getting to what I've written this week, looking back it feels like I was surprisingly productive, considering significant amount of time went into all the hassle. I'm hoping to get two more fics out this year, one is definitely happening and the second one is more a case of we'll have to see.

The one definitely happening is the traditional twelve parter that'll be posted over the holidays, starting on the 25th. This year I tackled the steampunk AU that I've been idly considering for a while but never wrote until now. It's in a good place now, the first draft is written and I have all the notes for the things that need fixing as well, so I can dive into editing starting next week. I'm pretty happy with how it looks so far, and the length at 35k is very reasonable. It'll go up a bit, there are a few things I need to add.

As a side note, I've a few steampunk influences, but the one on top of my head while writing was Sydney Padua's delightful The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage, very much recommended.

The other fic that I hope to post on the weekend before Christmas is only just begun, but on the other hand it's not going to be long either so I'm still very optimistic I'll get it done. It has two working titles in my head, Nomad and the White Wolf, or alternately Christmas on the Ice Moon. My inner space nerd was fully in charge of choosing the setting :D I'll keep working on it over next week, and by Sunday I should know whether it'll be posted this year or not.