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Continuing the experiment to try to just get out and face the internet:

You know what I need in my life?

Step One: Mashup of The Script's Hall of Fame and AWOL Nation's Kill Your Heroes.

Step Two: An Avengers vid set to this mashup. Team, heavy on Hulk and Tony with the faceplate up, using a lot of footage of the post-attack idolatry for the Hall of Fame parts, and Tony and his Dad, Hulk and Bruce, Fury, and Steve looking pissed off for the Kill Your Heroes parts. And Clint and Natasha just because if anyone had to kill their heroes to get where they are, it's them. We just didn't get a movie about it.

Make it so, fandom. Make it so.

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I...continue to fail horribly at fandom. Maybe baby steps?

Is anyone playing Marvel War of Heroes? (Admittedly not a super-useful link.) I am smittywing! If anyone wants to be teammates, drop me a line with your username and I'll invite you or invite me...I pretty much okay everyone. If you aren't playing and want to, let me know and I can get you an access code that'll give you a free Jean Grey card. In case you want to play as a busty redhead instead of Wolverine.

For a while there, my two highest ranking cards were War Machine and Maria Hill and I was all, "...Rhodey/Maria? That is oddly appealing, Y/Y?"

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Sooooo...I'm going to pretend I haven't failed out of fandom twice in the last couple years and just jump right in.

In honor of the Atari Flashback, which I am absolutely sure my dad needs for Christmas, actually showing up in mainstream Black Friday ads, and this morning spent reading old WsIP with reccea, I declare Fandom Flashback drabbles - prompt an ex-fandom of mine with a prompt or pairing or scene I left out of something, and I will write you a few lines.

Bonus points for things I fangirled when I was 13 and totally forgot I told you I wrote.

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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, I did manage to survive another year and since it's my birthday, I'm forgiving myself for being a slacker and trying to start posting again.

I am gainfully employed! I was hired as the office manager of the new office of this law firm which, at first, I thought involved loading paper in the copier and I wasn't too thrilled about, but apparently I'm like, everything - HR, Finance, IT some days, paralegal, etc. They sent out a bunch of people from "The Mothership" as we call the largest office and I've been hosting them and hiring people and assuaging attorney egos and all kinds of stuff. It's kind of fun, but I don't get much sleep. Or time for anything else.

That said, ZOMG Avengers. Everything I wanted and more. And DKR. Phenomenal. Way to work in random storylines, Nolan. We'll chat later.

In the meantime, everyone doing okay?

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Man, I haven't done one of these forever. I will try to be comprehensive without being boring.

Me
Dying of the plague. I am on my second week of dying from what is probably just some little cold virus but managed to knock me on my ass for something like five days last week. I took two days off from work and I don't get paid if I don't go to work.

Work
Job is still through the temp agency. There is talk of making me full-time with a significant raise but no one has officially said anything to me so I am sitting here being patient. The job they're most likely to offer me is going to be pretty administrative, though. Which isn't bad in abstract, but I sense that once they start cycling in 25-year-old law school grads, I'm going to get bitter and resentful. But for now I'm just going with the tides.

Also, I am currently Pepper Potts. Except my boss isn't a genius billionaire philanthropist superhero. He's just a lawyer with a lot of big ideas and no concept of other people's time, logistics, pre-planning, or rules. Which I guess does make him a little like Tony Stark. But he's halfway across the country today which gives me a modicum of breathing room. If he can remember which plane to get on tonight.

Technology
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Television
Just in sum, I have been catching up on How I Met Your Mother but am not yet current. I am still in the middle of season 3 of Fringe. I have forgotten to watch H50, NCIS:Gay, and the return of Burn Notice, but somehow I have not dropped New Girl or Glee yet. (Why, self, WHY?) Castle still entertains and I am enjoying Once Upon a Time and, of all things, Hart of Dixie and Pan Am. Other than that, WHEN is Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes coming back? I need my tiny adorable animated heroes.

Writing
*cough* Did I mention my S key was broken? And that I was sick? Yeah, I know, that's no excuse. The next part of Not Your Mother's Alma Mater is really not all that far off from being done. I just need to go make some decisions and actually get home from work and sit down and say, "I'm going to do this now." Which I'm really going to do someday. Soon. I promise.

So what's the state of ya'll?

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Title: Sense Memory (fic)
Recipient's name: kimberlite
The prompt or prompts used: 2) Cam or John helping the other after a flashback/nightmare
Rating: NC-17
Notes: Pinch hit for kimberlite
- sorry it wasn’t up faster! Many thanks to reccea for looking at it when it was just a structure and raisintorte
for the beating. :)

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So, um, I made reccea do this challenge yesterday and then decided I was too tired and had to go to sleep before I could do it myself. So, before she hunts me down...



Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Drop a link to your post in the comments.

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This year has both flown and dragged, been awesome and awful, and made me (personally) both better and worse. But it's being kicked out the door on an hourly basis around the world and I'm not sad to see it go.

I was unemployed for most of it (except for the three temp jobs, the current of which has the potential to turn into a real one in a few months) and I went to at least 15 interviews (maybe more?) and wrote at least 70 individualized cover letters. (This is not the number of jobs I applied to since a whole mess of them required some online application process without cover letters and at least two of the interviews came through personal reference.)

Also my dad was in a car accident and had to get surgery to replace a disk in his spine. But he's better now.

BUT.

On February 7th, my nephew was born. And he's adorable and brilliant and his face lights up when he looks at me, and he's the best thing that's happened to my family in years.

Also, I took the bar again, which sucked mightily, but this time I passed, which was wonderful and now I'm licensed to practice law in the state of Maryland. (And I still owe everyone comments. Oops.)

I watched movies and just endless tv and read a lot of books. I might even have been more social this year than in past ones. I mostly wrote Avengers fic (Clint/Darcy) but I did finally finish Acute Angles (Criminal Minds) and I just scribbled this down for avengerkink the other day. It's brief because I wanted it posted before it could get away from me, but I am having thoughts about expanding it when I have time.

Title: Russian Winter
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: The Avengers (movieverse)
Pairing:: Clint/Natasha
Prompt: Untrack This
While on a mission in (suitably snowy mountain range of author's choice), Clint and Natasha get trapped in a cave by an avalanche. Cue them "sharing body heat" to stay warm while waiting for an evac from SHIELD.

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I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year's Eve and that all of your 2012s are more wonderful than you imagined. See you on the flipside.

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...Which will probably wreak havoc when the actual one gets around to cross-posting, but whatever.

A number of things (conversations, continued unemployment, helping a friend move) has gently nudged me in the direction of, "Wow, I have a lot of stuff and I probably wouldn't miss a lot of it if it went away." Plus maybe I could make some Christmas money off it. So to that end, I piled up a bunch of trade paperbacks I got at some point and haven't looked at in five years if at all and figured I'd see if anyone here wanted them for cheap before I took them to a used bookstore or anything.

They're all in great shape and have been sitting on bookshelves their whole lives so let's say $5 plus whatever shipping (I think it's $4.95 for a Priority mail flate rate envelope or I can send them media mail or whatever you want) via PayPal. (My username at Gmail.) Just leave a comment with your address and how you want them shipped. There may be a second round at some point but this seemed like an alarmingly large pile so that should be a good start.

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I keep poking at AO3 in hopes of 2 Broke Girls fic, and when Reccea went to post Versus the Metaphorical Goatee we looked for 2BG comms and came up completely empty. So, in grand fannish tradition, we made our own.

2brokegirlsfic on LJ and 2brokegirlsandfic on DW. So you can get Max and Caroline wherever you read your flist. So please, join up and post! We're totally in need of fic, icons, fanart, discussion, cupcake recipes, whatever you've got.

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1) reccea

2) reccea's new fic, Versus the Metaphorical Goatee. It's a 2 Broke Girls/Avengers Movieverse crossover and it plays with the fact that Kat Dennings plays both Darcy Lewis in Thor and Max Black in 2 Broke Girls. It ships Max/Caroline, Darcy/Hawkeye, and implies a bit of Steve/Tony.

a) It's currently a WIP because I happen to know that reccea can be fabulously motivated by guilt and I refuse to let this stay hidden in the shared GoogleDocs archive. :)

b) You really don't need to watch 2 Broke Girls to love this. Here's what you need to know: Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline work in a diner. Despite the fact that Max grew up poor and Caroline grew up rich until her father's fortune was revealed to be a Bernie Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme, and they say terrible things to each other a lot, they clearly think each other is fabulous and they are going to save up $250,000 to start a cupcake business, because Max makes delicious cupcakes and Caroline went to Wharton Business School. This is going about as well as you might think. (They have about $600 so far.) Han, Oleg, and Earl also work at the diner.

There you go. Now read! You will laugh! You will cry! You will want to get your boobs signed by Iron Man!

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Ya'll, thank you so much for your good bar wishes! I will answer everyone individually when I get time to catch my breath but I am so so touched at how many of ya'll have been cheering for me!

I had SOCIAL EVENTS this past weekend, a phone interview on Monday night, a spurt of frantic reference-collecting on Tuesday, and today, TODAY, I worked six hours at a temp job, went to a job interview, went to an interview for the character and fitness section of the bar, came home and called my grandparents and then my mother, wrote two thank you notes, two reference requests, and a scheduling note, and I'm pretty sure my outfit for tomorrow is going to be "quirky" at best because I really need to do laundry. Weekend, where art thou?

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I passed the bar exam. Two years later and on the third try but I have the letter telling me I was successful and that there are still a few hoops to jump through before they swear me in, but I PASSED THE BAR EXAM.

I just wanted to let everyone know because I have been pathetically unsocialable the last few months and I'm not even sure I realized how much until just now. Also, I want to say massive heartfelt thank yous to everyone who quizzed me on notecards, held my hand, requested law-related drabbles, cheered for law-related drabbles, extended sympathy, offered hugs, or just said hi in the meantime. You guys all rock.

Thank you. This was not something I did alone.

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Title: Not Your Mother's Alma Mater
Author: smittywing/Smitty
Pairing: Darcy Lewis/Clint Barton (Hawkeye) (and minor secondary pairings)
Rating: PG-13 for this part, probably R or NC-17 overall. I hope.
Wordcount: ~2795 for this part
Spoilers/Warning: For the end of the movie, I guess? Also WIP and all that carries with it.

Notes: reccea and her mad beta skills rock my world. All remaining mistakes are mine. Thank you all for your patience! I took the bar and am still waiting on results but the associated angst has delayed writing. Also my incredibly sketchy science. Abundant apologies to anyone who actually knows science and is intellectually offended by the liberties I took. (Which were a lot.)

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

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