#he has to reverse ALL the momentum the shield previously had

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2016 AO3 stats:

User Subscriptions: 34

Kudos: 1330

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Bookmarks: 232

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Word Count: 136331

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Works written in 2016 partially or wholly:

While I try to forget I used to be something great (one-shot, Gen-rated) Hive/Ward skyeward AU after 3.10 "The emotions feel so foreign, he has tasted the edge of them briefly in his long lifetime, through many hosts, but never like this. Never this agony that cries for more. This need for destruction that aches in his bones. She is the sun and he wants to burn in her flames. This is what sends men to war, this is what they die for. And this is the piece that has been missing. She is the spark that lights the void within him."

We gotta have it, We have no control (one-shot, Explicit) Season 3 AU. Shameless PWP. "She gets the most absurd urge to laugh at the absolute insanity of their situation. She is trapped, for all intents and purposes surrounded, making out in a closet with the bad boy. It's like some kind of warped secret agent version of Seven Minutes in Heaven."

and the sequel -

Let me see your hand, Show me what you got (one-shot, Explicit) Ward pov. Smut with a tiny bit more plot than the first part. If you squint.

Between the Shadow and the Soul (6 Chapters, Explicit) Season 3a AU/fix-fic. After Malick kidnaps Skye/Daisy in an attempt to use her to open the portal, she is rescued by Ward and a butterfly effect is set in motion. (My first real multichapter fic, I am so proud of this thing. It is and will always be my baby. I think my writing has improved over the year, but I am still so proud that I managed to write this and get it done in the time frame I set myself)

It's our Time to Make a Move (one-shot, Mature) Skyeward no-SHIELD AU. Skye reluctantly gets dragged to her 10 year high school reunion, where her high school crush returns with a vengeance.

I Pick my Poison and it's You (one-shot, Explicit) Has anyone else wondered how on earth they could get it on in those tiny ass closets they call bunks? The answer, it turns out, is not easily. (Season 1 AU smut. The blame for this fic falls entirely on Daisy, who took my complaining about the impracticality of having sex in the pods on the bus and demanded I write a story from it. My first real attempt at comedy-fluff. I'm pretty happy with it.)

tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us (one-shot, Explicit) Hydra!Skye role reversal set during The Well. Written for Skyeward smutfest. Angsty AF.

We Kiss the Dusk Goodnight (one-shot, Explicit) She finds him in Mexico. It's been eight months since she last saw him. “You came,” he repeats, his voice still sounding amazed and a little surprised. “Of course I came,” she says, leaning her forehead against his. “It just took me awhile to find you.” (Smutty one-shot sequel to Between the Shadow and the Soul.)

we drink the fatal drop (then love until we bleed) (one-shot, Explicit) AU during 1x20. Skye and Ward both know there is no happy ending for them, no way this will end in anything but heartbreak. But neither of them can resist the pull of the other, this force drawing them together. (Smut and angst, my specialty apparently)

I'm Just Dying to be the Friction in Your Jeans (3 Chapters, Mature) When Skye's friend's drag her out for a girls night out for a night of exotic entertainment, she is less than enthused. A certain smoldering dancer catches her attention and might just be enough to change her mind though. (Again, never joke about fic ideas to Daisy. She will not let you not write the thing.)

our hearts are too ruthless to break (one-shot, Mature) Skyeward/Nikita AU. (alternatively, evie tries to cram all of Daisy's favorite tropes into one fic for her birthday fic and also aims to make her cry.)

Maybe I'm Too Busy Being Yours To Fall For Somebody New (6 Chapters, Mature) (College AU!) Skye meets Grant Ward during Freshman orientation and it's Loathe At First Sight. He is easily the most irritating and infuriating person she has ever met. But fate (and their friends) seem determined to push the two of them together. Over the next four years their lives become inextricably intertwined, as they are forced to admit that they might actually be friends.

If The Fates Allow (2 Chapters, Mature) Stuck at the airport on December 23rd due to a snowstorm that has grounded all flights, Skye just wants to get home to celebrate Christmas with her friends. Becoming nemeses with the very attractive but utterly irritating guy sitting next to her was not in her plan. But fate has a funny way of bringing two people together when they least expect it.

Favorite Fic: I think I have to go with College AU (aka Maybe I'm Too Busy Being Yours To Fall For Somebody New), I started writing it back in May and then my enthusiasm dwindled until Daisy came along and kicked my ass until I finished it and I am so forever grateful to her for it. The fic is a tropey cliched mess and I do not care. I had so much fun writing it, and the comments I got on it are my favorite from any of my stories.

Hardest Fic: I think it was probably 'we drink the fatal drop (then love until we bleed)'. I had a really hard time getting the tone right. I knew from the start I needed the story to be from Ward's pov, but then I struggled with my fear of it seeming like Skye was coerced at all without having any way of seeing her thought process. I got so frustrated I nearly quit writing it at least three times, but I had amazingly supportive friends who helped me through it and now it is one of my favorite stories I've written, so I suppose the struggle was worth it.

Do You Plan to Take Prompts in 2017? I'm not great with prompts, I never have been. That said, I would like to be better. I make no promises though.

What was the best thing about 2016? While I technically wrote my first Skyeward fic in the final week of 2015, I'm gonna say that my getting back into writing again for the first time in years. And challenging so many of my previously held ideas about my own boundaries. I wrote a fic that was three times longer than anything I had ever written in the past. I wrote shameless smut. I wrote complete AUs. I wrote fluffy fun cotton candy fics. 

What was the worst thing about 2016? Losing my momentum in the second half of the year.

Any last thoughts for 2016? I am so glad I finally started writing again, and I am so grateful for all of the amazing feedback that inspires me to keep doing it. (And I am so incredibly grateful for @stargazerdaisy for inspiring and demanding and cajoling and encouraging me all the time, I swear I would have only posted like 3 rambling and semi-incoherent fics, riddled with run-on sentences and over abuse of commas, without her)

Goals for 2017: Alias AU! After talking about it for almost an entire year now.

#fic meme #my fic

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Everything That’s Happened To R. Kelly Since Lifetime Aired Its ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Documentary

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In the weeks since Surviving R. Kelly aired on Lifetime, it seems the R&B singer’s fortunes have shifted pretty significantly. Initially, it looked like things would work out for Kelly as they always had. After the first night aired, streams of his albums and songs spiked significantly, leading some to question whether Surviving R. Kelly had accomplished the goal of muting the long-tenured singer, whose hits included “I Believe I Can Fly” from the Space Jam soundtrack and popular collaborations with other stars from Jay-Z to Lady Gaga. Then, gradually but steadily, things began to change.

While his star had already dimmed somewhat in recent years, the renewed focus on his alleged abuses has caused many of those who previously associated with Kelly or capitalized on his successes to reexamine their relationships with him. His collaborators, his label, his management, and his PR representation have all cut ties, and more women have spoken out against him with new allegations. The momentum to #MuteRKelly has picked up enough steam that the singer has no longer been able to avoid repercussions for his alleged predatory behavior. Here’s a timeline of everything that’s changed for him since Surviving R. Kelly aired.

Radio Backlash

Although the response to the series was initially beneficial for Kelly, with a streaming increase of 116% in the days after it began airing, an industry-wide correction followed. Two radio stations in Dallas were the first to announce they’d no longer play Kelly’s hits, while stations in Atlanta and other major markets followed suit (stations in New York and Los Angeles had already banned the singer’s music before the documentary aired).

Criminal Investigation

Days after Surving R. Kelly concluded its run, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Georgia, where Kelly currently resides part-time and is accused of keeping women in a “sex cult,” opened an official criminal investigation into the singer’s activities. While police had made informal “wellness checks” on one of the women after her parents accused Kelly of holding her against her will, forward progress on the investigation had stalled out, because the women under his alleged control are all of consenting age.

A separate, informal investigation was launched in Illinois’ Cook County, where Kelly spends the rest of his time as a resident of Chicago. State Attorney Kim Foxx urged any victims to come forward, noting that her office was contacted by two families since the documentary aired. The police also investigated his music studio and issued Kelly a citation for illegally using the building as a residence.

Former Collaborators Speak Out

Lady Gaga, who was criticized for working with Kelly on the song “Do What U Want” in 2013, reversed course after Surviving R. Kelly, apologizing for their prior collaboration and having the song pulled from streaming services. Other artists, including Celine Dion and Chance The Rapper, followed up. They pulled their own R. Kelly collabs from streaming platforms, all citing the information they’d learned from the documentary.

Even Post Malone supported the decision, telling TMZ that while he didn’t feel entitled to pass judgment, he agreed that pulling the songs was “essentially the right thing to do.”

R. Kelly Loses Support

Generally, in cases of extreme public scrutiny, an artists’ closest companions and business partners rally around them, shielding them from criticism and continuing to profit from their association. However, in the case of Surviving R. Kelly, even the singer’s daughter has turned on him, calling him a “monster” and reiterating that she does not have a relationship with him on Instagram. Ex-girlfriend Halle Calhoun also accused the singer of fresh abuse as recently as 2017 when he allegedly threw her into a wall, which corroborates stories told by his ex-wife, Andrea, who revealed the extent of his abuse last year.

Meanwhile, one of R. Kelly’s managers, Henry James Mason, was arrested on terroristic threat charges after threatening the family of one of R. Kelly’s alleged victims. While Kelly might have appreciated the enthusiasm before, with the tide turning, he probably would rather have a manager than an overzealous, self-appointed PR bodyguard at the moment.

RCA/Sony Drops R Kelly

Plane Flies Over Sony Music’s Offices Calling for Label to Drop R. Kelly https://t.co/MIISTbNtdk pic.twitter.com/2Uora0cW7O

— Variety_Music (@Variety_Music) January 11, 2019

Social media awareness campaigns are a great way to get attention in the modern, hyper-connected age, but sometimes, the old ways work best. Karin Roland, the chief campaigns officer of women’s rights advocacy group UltraViolet, commissioned an airplane banner reading “Drop Sexual Predator R. Kelly” to fly over Sony Music’s Culver City offices on January 11. Sony is the parent label to RCA Records, where R. Kelly was signed — until a week later when RCA and Sony reportedly cut ties with the singer, deleting his artist page from RCA’s website. Kelly had signed to RCA in 2012 — well after the initial details of his old child pornography case had been common knowledge — but doesn’t have a label home as of now.

Spotify Rolls Out Its New Solution

Although probably not related directly to the documentary about Kelly’s misdeeds, the timing on this announcement is remarkable, especially since the company had previously taken stands against the singer. After receiving a backlash from artists and fans for its policy of removing ethically questionable artists from promoted playlists, Spotify announced that its new, slightly more elegant solution to the issue would soon debut.

The company plans to allow users to mute specific artists so listeners won’t be subjected to questionable artists. Spotify toyed with the idea of adding this function in 2017 but decided not to at the time. Now, though, whether inspired by Surviving R. Kelly or not, the streaming giant will allow music fans to literally #MuteRKelly.

Surving R. Kelly didn’t state a specific, desired outcome when it aired. The producers say they simply wanted to spread awareness of R. Kelly’s alleged offenses. However, the ideal real world outcome is obvious: To confront R. Kelly with repercussions for his actions, whether slowing up his checks or curtailing the access and cachet that allowed him to avoid them for so long. Of course, it’s not just about R. Kelly; there are predators and abusers in practically every industry. The real goal should be preventing them from even having the opportunities to victimize women in the first place — making sure that there are consequences is just one part of that.

source https://uproxx.com/hiphop/surviving-r-kelly-timeline-documentary-backlash-investigation/

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