Story Title: the work we do
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60553906
Summary:
Natasha stares openly, fascinated. It isn't like she'd imagined, seeing them together. She'd been picturing the version of Barnes as she'd known him. And that person is in front of her now, but he's only one piece of the whole. Here, with Steve, he's a three dimensional person come to life, not the flattened copy of a man who she remembered.

(Missing scenes from the Raft rescue.)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Avengers Team Members
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov
When I Started: 2016
How I Lost My Shit: I lost momentum trying to plot out the action, and then new canon kept coming out and jossing me until Endgame sort of killed my desire entirely.
How I Finished My Shit: Set a deadline, rewatched the (good) movies, decided sticking completely to canon was overrated anyway. 

Story Title: the tender things we're working on
Fandom: Marvel
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58741834
Art link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58521109
Summary:

Steve buys a run-down house on a whim; it needs work. Bucky shows up.

Contains: probably inaccurate home remodeling things, lots of painting the walls, Bucky figuring out how to be mostly himself again, Steve deciding to paint a mural on one of the walls (but it's really a metaphor), Steve and Nat crashing some formerly-HYDRA bases and getting into a few scrapes, eventual Steve and Bucky hooking up.

Warnings: Depictions of violence, minor medical things re: Bucky's WS arm
Characters: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Sam Wilson
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
When I Started: May 2023
How I Lost My Shit: I read a bunch of random Steve/Bucky one weekend after rewatching CA:TWS and there were some things where I thought, I like these ideas but I would do things this other way, so I jotted down a few notes here and there, which turned into making an outline for a story where they fixed up a house and hoping that would be enough to satisfy the urge. And then I couldn't stop thinking about it and figured, this is enough of an outline that I could potentially do NaNoWriMo with this. So I wrote 50k… then promptly stopped wanting to look at it.
How I Finished My Shit: When I saw WIP BB was running again I figured it would be a good way to finish up, since having the regular check-ins and a deadline is generally helpful to my writing process! And then it ended up the longest thing I've ever written.

Art Title: Art for Lake (beyond_belief)'s story
Fandom: MCU, Captain America
Link: art on AO3
Warnings: none apply
Notes: this was a fun project!

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Story Title: AOIVEAE
Fandom: Supernatural, Marvel
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15445650
Summary: Loki had always struggled to come to terms with who he was, versus who he was supposed to be.
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Gabriel (Supernatural), Thor (Marvel)
Pairings: None
When I Started: July 2018
How I Lost My Shit: There was no plot to this fic. I went back and edited it several times over the years as I became more experienced, but I had no idea what to add.
How I Finished My Shit: I wanted to complete it so badly that I constructed an entire plot from scratch, in the end. It was half spite-fueled, with regards to the one bookmarker who tagged this fic as 'dead' (happy September Spite Month!), and half hope fueled, by all the kudos I'd still get years later and the one bookmarker who tagged it 'never gonna give you up'.

Story Title: From a to B
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Link: Here @ AO3
Summary: On January 1, 1940 Becca Barnes longs to move out of her parents’ home and in with her older brother and his best friend. On December, 31, 1949, Rebecca Stark is essentially running her husband’s company. Here’s what happened in between.
Warnings: References the perceived deaths of Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger
Characters: Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Howard Stark
Pairings: Rebecca Barnes Proctor/Howard Stark
When I Started: I think 2015
How I Lost My Shit: I moved and didn’t write much for several years.
How I Finished My Shit: I took what was originally one massive monster, and made it a series of smaller, manageable sized fics.

Art Title: Litter Mates
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Link:AO3
Warnings: none
Bragging Rights: Still improving my photoshop skills.

Art Title: Peter Parker's Guide to Romance
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Link:AO3
Warnings:none
Bragging Rights: Still improving my photoshop skills.

Art Title:A Future Golden with Promise
Fandom:MCU, Captain America
Link:AO3
Warnings:none
Bragging Rights: I exercised some newly learned photoshop skills and am really happy with how it turned out.

Art Title:When the Pool Closes
Fandom:MCU, Captain America
Link:AO3
Warnings:none in the art; fic has semi-public sex
Bragging Rights: I exercised some newly learned photoshop skills and am really happy with how it turned out.

Art Title: Moodboard for "Vinlander"
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe/Vikings
Link: fic over here
Warnings: None
Bragging Rights:

This was actually the 2nd piece of art I made for the fic. There's not a lot of general Viking stock images out there that look likely to be accurate and I did first try to do a photomanip using a Vikings TV show screencap but that was a little above my current skill level trying to change the blonde canon character into Darcy. Anyhow, I ended up reusing a crop of it as part of this moodboard with the flower crown. I aimed for a meld of relevant Vikings screencaps and other stock photos to get the similar feel to what is mentioned in the chapter for the wedding prep.

Art Title: Art for "Lies Sweeter Than Any Wine"

Fandom: Thor Movies

Link: AO3

Warnings: N/A

Bragging Rights: My first attempt at making a space nebula/portal and I quite like how it turned out. In the distance you can see a Chitauri ship coming through the opening, they are the threat that Thor and Loki have to contend with in this story.

Art Title: Art for "hey now, you're an all star (get your game on, go play)"

Fandom: Captain America (Movies)

Link: AO3

Warnings: N/A

Bragging Rights: This is a Hockey AU, the strips of colour are supposed be reminiscent of hockey tape. I emphasized the colours of green, sliver and black because those are the colours of the Dallas Stars, the team Steve and Bucky are supposed to be playing for. Plus, lots of hockey imagery, and an image of a diner, because it's a frequent setting in the story.

Art Title: Moodboards for the Bucky/Reader fic "hold onto me (this is our playlist)"
Fandom: MCU
Link: Fanfic here, art here
Warnings: Food, blood and injury in the first moodboard. Food and alcohol in the 2nd moodboard.

Bragging Rights: Most of the challenge for these was how to convey the relationship and its progression without being able to represent the reader, but also it's hard to find good pictures for Bucky with the right hair length and the cap that don't come from canon. I decided the first couple of meetings were a good choice to cover in the first moodboard since it's so significant. The fic scene of their first meeting had Bucky with a bloody nose, which isn't in the film, and I was quite happy with my manip to add that in there. For the 2nd moodboard I decided to cover a lot of the travels that happen across chapters 10 and 11 with not only snaps from the different places but drawing out the route roughly on an older style map.

Series Title: Meeting Halfway

Fandom: MCU

Summary: After the reconfiguration of the universe, Maria Hill and Steve Rogers are negotiating the redevelopment of their relationship; but it turns out their universe may not be the only one at stake.

Links:
1. Suited For Birthdays
2. A Ridiculous Jurisdiction

Warnings: None

Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, assorted Avengers

Pairings: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers

When I Started: I started writing the 30 Days of OTP series back in 2012. Got ten fics up the first year, six fics the second, three the third, then pretty much eked out one or two stories a year for the next five years before starting to get things together in 2020.

How I Lost My Shit: The canon went sideways in various manners around 2015 and a lot of the people I was hanging out with left fandom, I found it harder to write the stories, and didn't quite know where things were heading in the story series.

How I Finished My Shit: Signed up, read a few summaries, realised where I could take this that could have An Ending (Mostly Happy), and determined I was going to finish this shit in 2022.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity wipbigbang!

Story Title: Scrappy Boys

Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41754351

Summary: Steve Rogers finds a strange android in a scrap heap. Badly damaged in body and memory, and with a build that's illegal, Steve can't leave him behind to be trashed. Taking him home, he helps repair BuCK1, Bucky, and the two of them try to find out what happened to him, and how they can help each other...

Warnings: Past Torture, Some violence and vague injury description, ableism

Characters: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Skye/Daisy Johnson, Natasha Romanov, Alexander Pierce

Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes

When I Started: July 2017

How I Lost My Shit: I don’t even know, man. I started this five years ago, and while I had a lot of the key scenes early on, I must have ended up distracted by other projects. Then the pandemic hit, and I was working basically all the way through it. It just sat there, lingering, me adding scenes and sentences to it every now and then, for five whole freaking years.

How I Finished My Shit: I saw the WIP Big Bang come around for this year, flipped through my files of unfinished stories, and was bound and determined to get this one banged out. And then I did!!!!

Art Title: Art For "Not a Moment too Soon"
Fandom: Agents of SHIELD
Link: AO3
Warnings: None for the art; Major Character Death for the fic.
Bragging Rights: I loved the fic so much! It was so well-written and each story was magnificent. I had a hard time finding food pictures, but I think it all turned out well in the end.



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Art Title: Art for Sentry by Jilly James
Fandom: MCU
Link: Art Post on WordPress
Warnings: None for the art
Bragging Rights: I really enjoyed doing art for this story. I was a fan of it when it was first started for another challenge, and loved doing the art. It was a pleasure to work with Jilly and I love the images and coloring that I used.

Story Title: Sentry
Fandom: MCU with a bit of NCIS
Link: on my site
Summary: When Steve Rogers disappeared into the ice, Peggy Carter considered it her duty to stand watch over the daughter Steve never knew he had. She watched from a distance, ensuring Steve’s legacy was safe, extending her watch to Steve’s grandson. As her mental faculties declined, she charged the only person she truly trusted, Phil Coulson, to continue her vigil. Project codename: Sentry. When Tony DiNozzo vanishes off the streets of DC, Phil forces Fury to take him to see Steve Rogers so they can enlist the aid of the Avengers in finding Steve’s grandson.
Warnings: Explicit Sex, Canon-level Violence, Kidnapping, Torture and Graphic Violence, Medical Experimentation, Mentions of Hate Crime/Hate Speech (because Hydra), perceived character bashing
Characters: Tony Stark, Tony DiNozzo, Steve Rogers, Thor, Bucky Barnes, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Melinda May
Pairings: Tony DiNozz/Thor, Tony Stark/Steve Rogers (pre Winter Soldier movie)
When I Started: November 2018
How I Lost My Shit: I had a missing scene in the penultimate chapter that I was struggling with and then I made a misstep that was resulting in rising action in the last chapter. Either that or an emotional cliffhanger that was no-one's friend.
How I Finished My Shit: I had to rearrange the penultimate chapter to deal with my angst over that missing scene, and I had to backtrack my poor plot choices in the last chapter, even though I was really butthurt about it.

Thanks to my artist, AngelicInsanity for the great work on this story. So much art! Also, appreciation to the mods for being flexible and giving me a new posting date when eye issues were getting in the way of me posting on my original date.

Story Title: Defining Moment
Fandom: MCU
Link: on my site
Summary: After Ultron, Tony Stark says, “No.”
Warnings: Canon-typical violence, Mild discussions of: murder, torture, mind rape, and hate crimes, perceived character bashing
Characters: Tony Stark, Vision, James Rhodes, the Ancient One
Pairings: None
When I Started: July 2019
How I Lost My Shit: This was part of a challenge to rewrite the end of a movie, but I struggled with basically rewriting the falling action. I wrote a little over half of this at that time and then stalled out.
How I Finished My Shit: I had to reframe the story in my mind and not try to slot it so cleanly into the space that the end of the movie took up in order to get it done. Thanks to my artist, SpencnerTibbsLuvr, for being so patient with me. Of the 3 projects I worked on for this challenge, this one wound up being the least timely and the most troublesome.

Posting as proxy for SpencnerTibbsLuvr

Art Title: Defining Moment by Jilly James
Fandom: MCU
Link: on Jilly's site
Warnings: none for art
Bragging Rights: I always enjoy getting a chance to do art in fandoms I don't write in. I feel like it stretches my creativity. It was a pleasure doing art for this fic.

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