Zaniida



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  1. Summary

    Every year, the same sort of prompt: Go forth and make something fannish in a creative medium you're not familiar with or not yet skilled at.

    Each year, I try to meet that challenge myself, delving into some new form of fannish creativity. I've made fan art and podfics, script readings and acted scenes, bead art and Sims characters, a comics page (still hope to add more to that one), logic puzzles and a crossword puzzle, and even a Meta essay on the character arcs of the Avengers. Probably more. Maybe someday I'll finally make that opera.

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    Random nonsense and nonce comedies. Anything I do for April Fools will more than likely end up here, but there may be a few other oddities that happen along the way. You might note that my April Fools fics always have a tell in the A + F titles ^_^

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    Some emotions are easy to describe, and sometimes easy to dismiss.

    Others are difficult to put into words, and a person going through such emotions might not even understand themselves why they're reacting the way they are. Why they feel this way. And difficult emotions, especially ones that are hard to put into words, might equally be dismissed as imaginary or pointless. Come back when you can use human language to describe what you're going through.

    But exploring these emotions at length can be quite interesting. And this collection highlights some of the pieces I've done with the most work detailing such nigh-ineffable qualities of the human experience.

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    These fics deal with mature content, and I don't mean "oh hey teh sexy." I mean topics like rape and serious consent issues, torture and abuse, body modification, and panic attacks.

    If you are not prepared to read serious material with a ramped-up dramatic tone, you should probably steer clear of this series.

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  1. Rec 18

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    The thing is: Hobbes would go, if they told him to.

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    01 May 2025

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    Someone turned a fic into a work of art using typography. Fascinating. I should like to see more.

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    This is a timeline for anyone focusing on Steve, Bucky, and the Howling Commandos specifically within the MCU canon.

    March 10, 1917 - James Buchanan Barnes is born, and we were all officially fucked.

    July 4, 1918 - Steven Grant Rogers is born, and somewhere in Brooklyn Bucky's mother wept . . .

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    29 Apr 2025

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    Useful rundown of the timeline for Steve and Bucky, including speculation on some of the details.

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    Written for this prompt, whose premise is probably the darker flipside of in the day's.

    In the 70 years Steve's been in the ice, there have been some amazing leaps in submissives' rights - a collared sub is no longer classed as the property of their Dominant, uncollared subs aren't expected to quietly put up with unwanted attention from Doms, [...]

    After Clint back chats Steve a little too much, Steve forcibly puts Clint down into subspace, tell him that'll he'll damn well listen to what Steve says, tells him that if he's going to be on the team then he'll be on there under Steve's conditions, which includes one of the new high-tech StarkIndustry collars that can't be removed without a specific code - one that Steve's not telling Clint

    Things got better during the seventy years Steve was frozen, but Steve, man out of time, stayed the same.

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    22 Oct 2024

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    Steve sees Clint mouthing off a lot and being reckless in the field, learns he's a sub, and concludes that he needs to be brought under control via forced subdrop and a collar he can't take off. That was just normal in the 40's.

    Clint does not respond well to this, but he's also too conflicted and compromised to tell anyone, and the rest of the team is oblivious for too damn long. But eventually they figure it out, and read Steve the riot act, and put him through sensitivity classes, and get Clint back into Coulson's care like he's supposed to be.

    One of those deeply uncomfortable (and suspenseful) fics that is well worth reading.

  4. Rec 10

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    Some think it strange, that Cassandra, as a Lady, is waited on by a manservant and not a lady’s maid.

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    24 Aug 2024

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    Desmond winds up becoming Cassandra's manservant, and he understands her better than many others could.

    Lots of subtext. Moderately negative toward Percy (with good reason).

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    During their travels in the Feywild, even Garmelie’s assistance can’t stop Vox Machina from wandering into trouble. It is, after all, what they do best. This time, however, they may have run into something more powerful than even they can face down – in the form of a Wild Hunt, eager for sport and thirsty for blood.

    This does not go well for Vox Machina, generally. It goes even worse for Percy, specifically.

    Alone, cut off from his party, and being hunted by creatures more dangerous even than the Chroma Conclave, it will take everything Percy has just to survive.

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    06 Aug 2024

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    In the Feywild, the team runs afoul of the Wild Hunt -- and Percy winds up alone and on the run, pushing himself to the limit (and past many limits he thought he had) to survive what by all rights should be a death sentence. Intense and gripping.