Oh! So Vanilla Ice copied the melody of "Ice Ice Baby" from Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure", did an embarrassingly bad job of defending it, and ended up paying out a chunk of the royalties. It was a whole thing in the mid-naughts.
It is the first WIP WEDNESDAY of 2024 and in preparation for the start of the new year I have something fun for you!!! All of my WIP posts going forward into this next year will be for multichapter works that I have coming out sometime in 2024.
So for today, a current shortlist of multichapter works coming out + some little snippets
Giftmas
12 fics of Giftmas: 9 one shot works left to post that will resume in a “10 days of posting in a row” festivities once I am settled into my new home in a new country after a very abrupt move over the holidays
Looking for Orion
6 CH | art by @okayandre_art
5+1 Alive Arthur fic, five times Henry had important conversations with Arthur while hunting for Orion and one time Alex did. You can read my snippet here.
Olympic Proportions
3 work follow up | art by @noodles_and_tea
follow ups to my fic Because I’m A Scoundrel following the boys on their Olympic journeys to Paris 2024 (in real time) with the qualifying events and the Olympics themselves
Mind Over Matter
14 CH | Canon Divergence
Magical Mindreading AU; when Alex is granted the gift of being able to hear thoughts about him from those he is most compatible with, everything goes… slightly different.
Sweater Weather
9 CH | Letters Focused
Childhood Best Friends to Lovers over the course of their first year in college on opposite coasts as D1 Soccer players (yes it is football I know, apologies, they are playing in the US)
the ties that bond us
10 CH | art by literally almost everyone (not kidding)
Bond/Q actor AU following the boys over the ups and downs of shooting and promoting a new Bond trilogy and the epistolary view from the outside world as they get together!
[Redacted] co write with @celaestis1
15 CH | Dual POV
Strangers to Lovers AU, what happens when you don’t have that DTR, and the hilarious differences in the understanding of “what are we”
Ice Ice Baby
37 CH | Zukka | ATLA | art will be commissioned by @jasminedragonart
Olympic Figure Skating AU that follows the gangs journey over nearly a decade in the limelight. Yes that’s right. A full length ATLA work that has been outlined for 2+ years. I figured it was time. ;)
[redacted] for The Pairing
… yes that’s right I already have an idea for a work 👀 can’t wait to get my hands on the book and languish in it
Thank you to everyone recently for the tags in the end of year games ~ I have just complied them ALL below both as a thank you for tagging me and a tag back + some amazing wonderful people I would like to see how you are doing in this new year <33 (also open tag PLS SHOW ME THE THINGS!!!)
I am in the middle of an abrupt move and have not been as present taking care of those pesky real life things that adults must partake in.
Just hear me out, Ice’s admiral from his aircraft carrier before top gun make him pose for a calendar so they have an excuse to hang up pictures of him in their offices. He’s literally every admiral’s dream pilot, he’s reliable, focused, well-behaved, professional, listens well, follows instructions, literally making admirals swoon well before 1986 rolled around. They want to be able sigh longingly and stare dreamily at pictures of the perfect Naval aviator that is the Iceman.
ALTERNATIVELY
Before the events of Top Gun, Ice lost a bet with his squadron and had to pose for the calendar photo shoot. When he realized it was all a set up it was too late and now on the USS enterprise (before Maverick heads back to TOPGUN) Wolfman and Hollywood get a hold of a copy of the calendar from someone from Ice’s previous aircraft carrier and hangs it up in their ready room and oh my god they’ve never seen Ice so flustered in his life
HONESTLY I just need Slider taking the pictures, showing Ice how to pose and overall just hyping him up telling him how hot he looks because he doesn’t let anyone else in the room and then the boys from top gun somehow getting a hand of the calendar but then all of a sudden they’re begging him to go to the beach to play volleyball but nonono don’t wear your sweatpants, wear these pink time-period accurate short-shorts they so conveniently have in their bag