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[v-a-l]

Do you have any favourite Sirius centric fanfic recs?

Literally everything ever by this author: https://m.fanfiction.net/u/22909/Robin4?cid=224&s=0&a=s

These fics are old so you may prefer to download their epubs with your fanfic downloader of choice. If you’d enjoy a four volumed marathon run of Sirius Black being an absolute badass and fighting Voldemort, I’d direct you to the Unbroken Universe which is an AU based on the premise that Sirius and Peter did not switch secret keepers. The writing is amazing, the action is phenomenal and Peter has a redemptive arc that frequently brings me to my knees.

This is with the caveat that Sirius does have an OC love interest in this. This tends to put a lot of people off in my experience but is pretty undeserved. The OC is hardly ever in the story [perhaps with like 5-10k words in this huge four volume bible] and the focus of the story remains the relationship between the Marauders. If you’d still prefer to avoid it the author has other stories as well.

But this unequivocally remains my favourite Sirius centric universe. Sirius is brilliant, passionate and deliciously complex in the way only he manages to be. I’d deeply recommend you atleast give it a shot.

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[magnus-sm-writes]

Magnus' March Wrap-Up

Yeehaw my gremlins! It’s once again time for a monthly wrap-up. Since March is my favorite month (because of my birthday), I have been in a rather peppy mood, remaining optimistic. 

I did a week of posts about my writing journey for my golden birthday celebration. This month was full of retrospection and nostalgia because of that. Dreamland by Glass Animals is one of my favorite albums of all time, so you can definitely tell that nostalgia is one of my primary emotions. Fantastic album! Very emotional! Makes me nostalgic for someone else’s childhood. Big success.

What Is My Word Count? 

My word count is currently 22909! That means I wrote around 739 words a day. 

Overall, I am a bit upset with how low my word count is. Compared to the fact I’ve written nearly every day, I feel that it should be higher, but I am not including the research proposal I’ve written for work (2,000) and other project-related writing. This is in an effort to keep my work and personal lives somewhat separate. 

I don’t count what I’ve written for work when I’m calculating my overall word count, but I am counting it towards days written, because I’m tracking two different things. With word count, I’m trying to keep track of my personal projects. When it comes to writing overall, I’m tracking the days I don’t write and trying to find out why. 

When it comes to my March word count, I really shouldn’t be so bummed. I’ve written a lot of poetry this month. Most of it is by hand. I don’t count handwritten things until I type them. Then I double the count, because I re-typed it. I feel this does a lot for my accuracy, as when it comes to handwriting, I can squish together my words. (I write in cursive—it can be hard to count when I get really excited about what I’m writing! The more energetic I am, the more likely my words are to mash together.)

What Have I Written?

I’m actually going to start with poetry this month! I wrote 12 poems this month, which is actually the same amount I wrote in February. My goal was to write 3. I’m satisfied with quadrupling that amount.

When it comes to my poems, they’re about 50 to 200 words long. The recorded word count of my March poetry is 754. Not bad!

I wrote a lot about being trans this month. When it comes around my birthday, I can get pretty reflective. (See my Writing Journey posts.) I also wrote about hauntings, ghosts, and dead princesses. And kittens! My pretty typical haunts, if I’m being honest.

Looking at my novel work, I wrote about the same sort of topics. 

At the beginning of the month, I spent some time writing for Tsarevna of the Horned Crown. I was getting a little burnt out on Hamish, so I took a break from gothic horror to write fantasy. As you do.

Most of my Tsarevna work took place in the middle of the series, so I can’t say much about it. All I can really say is: I love Katya and Bronomir so much. They’re such a power couple.

After that, I spent a few days writing for Cybergrunge. My husband was reading a lot of cyberpunk work at the time, and we talked a lot about what he loved about the genre. I also was interested in submitting to Orange Peel literary magazine’s science fiction theme. I didn’t end up finishing the short story and sent in some hivemind poetry instead.

I wrote a tiny bit of my rewrite of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. The scenes I wrote for A Measure are a dangerous balance of comedy and seriousness, much like the play itself. What I love most about A Measure is that the main characters are painfully aware of how serious their situations are, and the side characters have no clue and are just out here living their hilariously zany lives. Honestly, most of Shakespeare’s comedy comes from the side characters’ wonderful antics, and the main characters are having active panic attacks about their lives being ruined.

It’s very clear that I took inspiration on how to write characters from Shakespeare.

The second half of the month has been mostly poetry and my top-secret work project. (I am not kidding, we are keeping a somewhat tight lid on this project.)

Most of these poems are somewhat dark or darkly funny. “Rot”, “I will never have a baby”, and “Body as a Living Room” are all about my dysfunctional genetics/body issues. “Lost Princesses” and “Naïve Queen” are about Princess Anastasia and Marie Antoinette, respectively, and I got pretty damn sad writing both of them. “Spooky Boy” is about a cat. That’s it. His name is Spooky and I love him. 

I’m closing out the month with Greenest. Currently I’m sort of rewriting my fertility festival piece from last year to canonize it. But I’m writing it from Valor’s point of view this time to make it Sad. Valor is very Sad in the early Greenest books. If you know, you know. 

Sometimes I get excited about writing various holidays and whatnot for Uuve. Mostly because I’ve never worldbuilt before Uuve and it is so much fun to look at real cultural holidays and just combine them. I love celebrating stuff! Now I get to write all about people celebrating stuff, and it’s like a miniature celebration for me. 

Submissions

I actually have done a couple submissions this month! Only one submission was hivemind poetry. The rest were about atomic bombs and nuclear waste, because my father and I got into an argument about them and I used my rage to spend $10 submitting them. 

I wrote the poems last year, when I was obsessed with the Chernobyl tragedy (still am, thinking about getting a tattoo about it) and crying about it every day. Which was very stressful for my husband. When it comes to my special interests, I am incredibly emotional. 

(Fun fact! I didn’t watch Oppenheimer because I knew I would bawl about the damage atomic bombs have done, both in war and in testing.)

The radioactive poems went entirely to magazines with environmental themes coming up. Fingers crossed that I get some good news soon, because I am tired of my publishing drought. And I want to spite my father. (Aries man versus Aries man.)

What Have I Read?

In this aspect, I am quite proud of myself. I have spent quite a bit of time on Libby this March! Most of what I’ve read has been audiobooks, save for “Survivor’s Ball” by Kelly Link, which I read virtually on Libby.

I re-listened to the abridged version of World War Z by Max Brooks for some zombie content, and… yikes, the book's representation of Israel is really Zionist. It’s more than a “yikes” on that front, honestly. I totally forgot about that part of the book until I got to it, and then I was super uncomfortable with that representation.

Narcas by Deborah Bonello was the beginning of my nonfiction kick. It’s about female kingpins (queenpins, if you will) of Latin American cartels, and how they rarely get the coverage that their male counterparts receive. It was a fascinating analysis (and, for me, an introduction to) las narcas of cartels, from Griselda Blanco, known as the “Queen of Cocaine” and “La Madrina” (who recently got a Netflix miniseries, Griselda, which I am fiending to watch this weekend) to Marixa Lemus Pérez (“La Patrona” or “The El Chapo of Guatemala”). It was fascinating. 

Next was Confident Women by Tori Telfer. I read a review that said the book was sold as a “girl power” narrative, which was interesting to me, as I felt that it was only a representation of an underrepresented group: that of female criminals. Why would it be a girl power narrative when the point is only to highlight people who have done something terrible to other people? I don’t know.

That was my little piece on a review that annoyed me. When it comes to the book itself, I enjoyed it. I love learning about con people and what they have done throughout the centuries. There are so many wild, wacky things that these historical women did to trick people out of their money, most of which I didn’t know about. (Other than the diamond necklace, which I knew a little about, in the most surface-level way.) I listened to the entire audiobook in one day, because I just couldn’t put it down.

Then was Goldenrod by Maggie Smith. It was an hour long audiobook, but I just struggled to get in a poetry mood. Once I did start listening, though, I rather enjoyed myself. My favorite poem was “Junk Trees”. It was about the Bradford pear tree, which is a plague in Ohio. I loved her take on the “cum tree”, as we called it on my university’s campus. I loved Smith’s imagery, though I wasn’t a huge fan of her reading of some of the poems. I’m not a huge fan of poems where the poet takes a long pause for each line break, which I noticed she did in a few of them. Not to rag on her; it’s just not my thing.

Then was “Survivor’s Ball” by Kelly Link. As I’ve said nonstop on my Instagram (magnus-sm.writes, shameless plug), I am obsessed with Kelly Link stories. Magic for Beginners is the only audiobook I’ve bought with my own money. I listen to it on a nearly monthly basis. 

“Survivor’s Ball” was recommended to me by my friend and former professor Jennifer after I got my 1847 tattoo (the year the Donner party survivors were rescued). She said that, if I loved what I called “historical cannibalism events”, I might enjoy it. And I did! Sort of. In the way that Kelly Link stories go, it takes more than one reading to fall in love with. I love peeling back the layers of a Link story. The more you read it, the more you understand it. 

I might use it as quasi-inspiration for some poems and short stories of my own. Cannibalism is one of my special interests, after all.

My final book was also by Tori Telfer: Lady Killers. I enjoyed her writing style so much with Confident Women that I just had to listen to this second book. Old-timey serial killers interest me more than modern ones, and listening to tales of the most violent, evil women of history was deeply fascinating. I think it will help with my fantasy worldbuilding (writing Katya’s mother, specifically). It was a pretty fun read! I didn’t know of many of these women, so I learnt quite a bit about them. 

March Goals

When it came to my March goals, I was satisfied with the amount I achieved. This is because I purposefully set realistic goals instead of being far too optimistic.

The goals I met were:

Submit 2 things for publication

Continue Hamish re-write 

Write in a cafe 2 times

Maintain submission journal

Maintain word count journal

Make monthly write-up

Finish 2 audiobooks

Write 3 poems

The goals I did not meet were:

Finish 1 short story

Go to the library 2 times

Read 10 pages a day

Post to Instagram 4 times a week

Read more poetry

Clearly, it is easy for me to do organizational/tracking things, and not so easy for me to post regularly to social media.

April Goals

For April, I want to continue my pattern of “achievable goals”. It’s important to me to be able to meet most of my goals instead of shooting for the stars. 

So, my realistic April goals are:

Submit 3 things for publication

Go to the library 2 times

Finish 4 audiobooks

Finish 3 poems

Read 10 pages a day

Post to Instagram 4 times a week

Write in a cafe 2 times

Maintain a submission journal

Maintain a word count journal

Make monthly wrap-up

Continue writing novels

Write 500 words a day

Most of these are building on the goals I met last month. When it comes to writing 500 words a day, I think that it’s a relatively easy goal to meet. Normally, I shoot for 1000 a day, but 500 is far easier to meet than that. If it’s the end of the day and I haven’t written anything, trying to go for 500 is less difficult than 1000. 

#wrap up #march wrap up #writing wrap up

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The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art Size: 13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.2 x 50.8 cm) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on paper

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The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art Size: 13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.2 x 50.8 cm) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/22909

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[aic-asian]

Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)", Kawase Hasui, 1920, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Clarence Buckingham Collection Size: 24.1 x 35.7 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.) Medium: Color woodblock print; oban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/22909/

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by rachelsdl

“Steve, what are you doing?”

“I’m sorry,” Steve sighs. He runs a hand through his beautiful blonde hair, but he doesn’t stop what he’s doing. The panic falls deep into Bucky’s stomach. “I meant to be gone by the time you got back.”

“Where are you going?”

“Nat’s, maybe, I think.”

**

Bucky's the singer in a band and comes home to his boyfriend of four years leaving him. Bucky's years in a band where he's been heavily closeted puts a wedge in their relationship and they'll have to figure out how to mend what's been broken. It's not easy, or fast, but they'll make it work. They have to because Bucky's never known a life without Steve Rogers by his side.

Words: 22909, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Ex Lovers to Lovers, i guess, natasha is mentioned - Freeform, Panic Attacks, Anxiety, in the first bit of it, Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship, Bucky is in a band with bruce peter and clint, references to forced closeting, Angst with a Happy Ending

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