Chocolate Box roundup and return to computer-land.

[balsamandash]

I am back from the Week of Exhaustion. Actually, I've been back for two days, but I was in so much pain, and my computer's been questionable, so I haven't really been around. I am on today, though, and I have a couple of readings to get to and a lot of work to do in the next week and all sorts of things I want to do, so we'll see, but hopefully productivity is achievable.

Anyway, Chocolate Box author reveals happened right in the middle of me being offline, so here is the four fics I wrote:

and the sun just goes on rising (3696 words) by apatternedfever
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peggy Carter/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Peggy Carter, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Alternate Universe, Getting to Know Each Other, Aliases, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, although Opponents to Allies to Lovers is more appropriate really, (Natasha is older than in MCU timeline)
Summary:

On a routine SHIELD extraction job, Peggy gets stuck in a time loop with the woman guarding the man she's come for. It turns out there are worse people to be stuck with.

i do my own stunts and my own saving (1683 words) by apatternedfever
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy, Djinni & Genies, Werewolves, Loss of Powers, Mild Angst with a happy ending, Treat
Summary:

Natasha chose Clint; now she's dealing with the aftermath.

sing for the damage we've done (and the worse things that we'll do) (1975 words) by apatternedfever
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wanda Maximoff/Pietro Maximoff/Steve Rogers
Characters: Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Serial Killers, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers, Treat
Summary:

It’s been a process, getting Steve on board, but it’s one that’s worth the wait. She itches to see what he could bring to the fight, to show him what she and Pietro can do -- but he isn’t quite ready yet. Soon, she thinks.

Wanda and Pietro come home unexpectedly early. Steve helps them to settle down.

i will keep tongue-tied (this time) (850 words) by apatternedfever
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James "Rhodey" Rhodes
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Rhodey is tech legacy billionaire building Iron Man, Tony is his lab assistant, (and Pepper is his PA), Pining, One-Sided Relationship, (author intent was pre-relationship but it never gets that far), just so much pining, Treat
Summary:

Tony has a crush on his boss, Rhodey has a new toy to play with, and Pepper's just enjoying the show.

I am -- incredibly nervous about quality all around, because I always am, but I AM proud of myself for getting out a little over 7k of fic. I also still kind of want to play in the three properly AU verses -- there may be other fics if I can get my brain on. (I also kind of want to write things tangentially related to the first, in that they're Peggy/Natasha and in my head, time loop stuff is the backstory, but it would be in no way closely related enough to that time period to matter, so.) And I don't hate my writing in any of them, so -- yeah. Victory, more or less?

I don't think I'm gonna be doing many exchanges, especially not till moving stuff is done in June-or-whatever -- like, I might do Trick or Treat depending on how busy life is by that time of year, but I have no idea what fall is going to look like right now -- but I do have my eye on a couple of current exchanges for possibly writing treats? And on a few ideas I can write outside of exchanges? So.

Basically, I am feeling more hopeful about the actual ability to get writing out than I have in... a while. And there's a lot of shit I have to do so I can't, like, spend all my time writing, but I'm still hopeful, and that's really nice.

Comments

[analise010]

YOU DID IT!!!!! Welcome back to the world, A! I hope you have more time to rest and feel better and do the things that make you happy. :D

[flybirds]

Oooh, fics.

Ooh, fics with interesting summaries.

You're doing awesome, August: just out of hiding, and already having an excited reader (or a bunch of, more like) around. ;) Yays to you.