Has anyone else read The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz? I feel the need to burble wildly about feminism and time travel and how brilliantly they sew together this immensely complex narrative of shifting timelines. I feel like time travel is such a crapshoot to write, especially if you don't go with the simple predestination paradox ( Read more... )

Okay, I think I'm going to start trying to post here a little more regularly again; I've been hanging out on Twitter quite a bit, but some of the fandom drama is really starting to get to me. AND ANYWAY, I've been doing NaNoWriMo, although I tapped out at 20,000 words because I really need to figure out where the hell I'm going with this book ( Read more... )

so, a funny thing happened to my spouse the other day. funny like i laughed until i cried when i heard about it, but also funny like jesus fucking christ our social norms are all kinds of fucked up.

so.

the backstory on this is that he is the primary caregiver for our kids. there are a lot of reasons for this, but it essentially boils down to the ( Read more... )

So, I wrote a whole pile of fic this week, mostly for Tumblr prompts, and rather than make separate posts for all of it, I'm gonna be lazy and just dump it all here!

Agent Carter
Isolation Room
Peggy and Jack are both in an isolation room after being exposed to a drug on a mission; Daniel is pretty sure he doesn't get paid enough to deal with this.

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Okay, so I haven't done this before, but I have approximately 500 fanworks bookmarked, and I figured I should share the love. And this seemed like a good opportunity. SO: here are fifteen recs for various fandoms for the Round 9 March Amnesty Challenge for 
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Title: the sky might catch on fire
Link: On AO3 | On fan_flashworks
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Pairings: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Other tags: Wingfic, Magical accidents, Established relationship
Summary: This was not how Magnus had planned to spend his morning.

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( “So,” Magnus said, after several seconds of standing in the doorway, barefoot in a silk bathrobe and gaping like an idiot. “When you said you just grew wings, you were being entirely literal.” )

 In unrelated news, I started watching The Umbrella Academy last night and I have SO MANY FEELINGS about this show. Time travel! Family dysfunction! Every single one of these characters is a hot mess and I love them!

Title: all the broken hearts still beat
Link: On AO3
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Pairing: Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane
Warnings: None
Rating: Teen
Other Tags: Outsider POV, Established relationship, Pride, Future fic
Summary: Weird shit tended to happen at Pandemonium.

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( Really, Shawn should have just gone back home after the parade ended. )

Stolen from 
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Title: Cat Eyes
Link: On AO3
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None; mild spoilers for 3x12
Other tags: Porn with feelings, Angst and humor, Missing scene
Summary: Once upon a time, he’d have wreathed the room in blue flame for this, peeled both their clothes away with a thought, but now he’s needy and ( Read more... )