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agentcarterzine · 4 months

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Zine Submissions Are Open!

We're officially accepting submissions, and will be until January 31st! If you're ready to dive in and get creating, then here's the form! Anyone 16 and older is welcome to participate. We can't wait to see what you do 🩷

If you want a little more information before diving into the deep end, then here's everything you need to know:

This zine is a submissions-based zine, which means we're not doing applications- if you want to be a part of the project, then we're excited to welcome and work with you! What we will need from you in this submission form is three different ideas of the kind of content you want to create for the zine. We'll read each pitch, and on February 6th after the submissions close, we'll let you know which one we want you to move forward with. That way, we'll get a mix of content for characters throughout the Agent Carter fandom. Our mods will be working with creators throughout the creation period, and we're always here if you have questions or need help at any point in the process! We'll also be sending out links to a zine discord once submissions close to make communicating with the contributors and supporting each other easier.

If you have any other questions, you can find our FAQs on our carrd here, and our asks are open, so feel free to reach out!

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captainsophiestark · 1 month

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March Fic Roundup!

Not a lot of time for non-Year of Fic writing this month, but that may be changing in April at some point! Literally can't believe I still haven't fallen behind on my fic a week challenge, everybody keep your fingers crossed for me that I can keep this up lol

March YoF:

Week One: A Much-Needed Vacation (Elijah Mikaelson)

Week Two: Little Moments (Jane Foster)

Week Three: Come Here Often? (Cassian)

Week Four: Flickering Firelight (Luke Castellan)

Week Five: Competitive (Matt Donovan)

Also, it hasn't been posted here, but I finished writing my fic for Do As Peggy Says: An Agent Carter Zine this month! It won't be shared here for a while, but if you want to read it or otherwise check out the project, go over to @agentcarterzine! We'll be posting previews of work in another few weeks and sharing the zine in June, so if you want to read my fic or some other very cool ones, go check it out!

#sophie's fic roundup #sophie's year of fic #agent carter zine #the vampire diaries #the originals #elijah mikaelson #marvel #jane foster #mcu #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #cassian #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #luke castellan #matt donovan

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starlightpeggy · 7 months

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as just a preliminary thing (if i move forward with it a more official interest check will follow), but i want to put together a peggy carter/agent carter zine in 2024! would anyone be interested?

if you're unfamiliar, a zine is a collection of fanfiction and fanart from many different contributors around a specific topic, in the format of a magazine. many times these are sold in either physical or digital format and the proceeds donated to charity, but if i moved forward with the project the zine would be digital only and completely free to download, since it would likely be a smaller project :)

#agent carter #peggy carter #starlightpeggy.txt

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inthecornerstone · 4 months

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Number 6 from Fanfic asks for the new year (Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?)

hi anon thank u for asking!!!

i should but don’t have a List of ideas, so i’m just gonna ramble about some things i’m currently spinning around in my mind.

i just started working on a hannigram actors AU, which is mainly in the plotting stages rn, though i do have about a page written.

also (brainstormed over new year’s with my gf, so technically first on the list) i really want to write a 00Q superhero AU, where Q is a superhero/vigilante with tech-related powers and bond is an MI6 agent tasked with recruiting Q, but instead ends up joining him in his mission.

those are the main things, i’m also working on a couple of fics to pitch for the agent carter zine!

#fanfic asks #ask me!#fanfiction #sae writes #hannigram #00q #agent carter

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ghostofskywalker · 2 months

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i was tagged by @happy-beeeps - thank you!!

Last Song: carolina by taylor swift

Favorite Color: green <3

Last TV show/movie: the x files!!

Currently Watching/Listening: listening to an embarrassing amount of taylor swift, along with a lot of paris paloma! watching mostly dimension 20 atm

Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: i love baking, so sweet <3

Relationship Status: single

Current Obsession: dimension 20!! i'm so obsessed with every campaign i watch

Last Thing I've Googled: "1940s file cabinet" to make agent carter zine graphics lol

i'm kind of tired rn so open tags!!!

#ghostofskywalker.tag #alex 🌲

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redvanillabee · 2 months

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✍, 👀, 😅

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

I haven't asked anyone to beta read for me yet, but I've had fandom friends who offered (thank you @likea-black-widow-baby!) so maybe I should start doing that!

Also shoutout to everyone who has helped me figure out cultural things like Thanksgiving vs Christmas (which one you need to be home for), word choices, etc.

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

I am writing a fic for Agent Carter Zine @agentcarterzine! I don't want to spoil too much yet, just that it's going to be a feelsy little gen fic :)

I also have a wip I've been sitting on for almost a whole year that further unpacks the timeline kerfuffle created by AOS S7 and I hope that get it done before/around Easter!

😅 What’s a story or scene you’ve created that you’re a smidge embarrassed exists?

I am not really embarrassed with my own writing. There are probably some early Klaine/Daltonfic fics in the depths of my blog that...do not quite live up to my current standards, but they are part of my journey as a writer, you know?

If I have to choose, I guess it's the conversation in I'll Wear That Dress If You Wear the Tie, because those lines are so exceptionally stilted I do cringe a little when I read it oops

Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask

#answers #everyhazyday

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agentcarterbingo · 4 months

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Hi any chances of a 2024 comeback?

hi! i will not be running agent carter bingo again. i'm working on the agent carter zine this year (which is open for signups until january 31st).

if it's the bingo-style event you're looking for, there's a few i think that are open or may be coming soon:

peggy carter bingo posted about potentially hosting another round. i'm not sure about a schedule or anything though

marvel-smash-bingo is open for sign ups, though that seems to be focused more on the mcu characters

the hawkeyes bingo (about clint barton and kate bishop) is open for sign ups until january 31st

black widow bingo has a forever round open for sign ups

#agent carter bingo: asks

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agentcarterzine · 2 months

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The Auerbach Theatrical Agency

Contributor applications have closed and our contributors are hard at work on their submissions, so what better time to introduce them! Without further ado, here are the incredible artists working on the zine with us. Check out our writers here, and stay tuned for individual spotlights coming soon!

@femmeetart @lemonprick @jedimitsopolis @o1ive-tree

#agent carter zine #agent carter #peggy carter #daniel sousa #jack thompson #angie martinelli #dottie underwood #edwin jarvis #fan zine #howard stark #marvel #marvel zine #artists #artist spotlight #zine artist spotlight

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seat-safety-switch · 3 years

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You can’t trust a bookstore. Independent, big chain, used: they’re all in the business of deciding what to sell you, and therefore limiting what you can read. If you want to learn something new and free your mind, come on down to the seminar I’m having this weekend at the conference centre. There’s a modest fee for admission, but rest assured it’s all going to third-world orphans... like the twincharged Toyota Etios that I use on my private rally course.

Back in the 90s, the thing to do was to use the photocopiers at the library to make copies of your ‘zine. Perhaps I should back up a little. Decades ago, folks who were creative but professionally unsatisfied would construct their own ‘zines (short for magazine) about whatever subject they loved. Warhammer, elevator racing, Tetris, masonry, crack cocaine. These would arrive in the form of a crudely-pasted-up pile of papers, and almost immediately get thrown away after reading, but the excitement of the writers and designers were shooting off of every page. Near the end of the decade, this got replaced by blogs, which was a good thing because the librarians were starting to get wise to my trick of using a dime tied to a string to fool the pay copiers.

Distribution of these first couple issues of Bad Cars, Sometimes was poor. Of course, no bookstore would sell my ‘zine. It was too profane, complained one. Contained too much Volvo content for any living human being to enjoy, said another. Me and my one-time dorm roommate wasted several weekends whipping our jalopies up and down the city, looking for a big publisher or a literary agent who would talk to the bookstores for us. Nothing doing, one exasperated literary agent finally explained to us in the parking lot after we boxed her in with our moss-covered, wheezing Pathfinder: your interests are just too niche.

You can understand this. Bookstores need to have a broad cross-section of interest, and they’re paying monthly for each precious square foot of inventory and floor space. It’s more likely that someone will want to buy a cookbook than a half-screeched, half-remembered guide to adjusting a Carter Ball & Ball carburetor from the early 70s. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to provide a venue for my pants-on-head insane content; it was just that they thought it was fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

So that’s why, now that I’ve seized control of the government with a surprisingly trivial set of mechanical sabotages, every single bookstore is now getting a mandatory “free speech” section. It’s free, because it doesn’t cost me any money to put my Little Red Book (automatic transmissions) and Little Grey Book (standard) on store shelves across this great nation.

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jbbuckybarnes · 5 years

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Request Guidelines / Commission Guidelines

I wanna start by saying that I'd appreciate a coffee or more on Ko-Fi for any of my work. Free work is still work and getting an extra few bucks a month really helps me out a lot. Sometimes 1k words take me an hour and sometimes they take me 5 hours. Knowing my time is appreciated is a great motivation. All the things on here are for PERSONAL USE ONLY, if you want to use anything I make commercially please write me a message and I'll be happy to work it out with you.

I'm writing for...

Bucky Barnes

Steve Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

Sam Wilson

Buckynat/WinterWidow (MCU)

Romanogers (MCU)

Wanda Maximoff

Tony Stark

Carol Danvers

Peter Parker

OCCASIONALLY:

Agents of Shield (S1)

Peggy Carter

Steggy

Sharon Carter/Agent 13

Sambucky (MCU)

Staron (MCU)

Hope

Samtasha (MCU)

Gamora

Loki

Thor

Shuri

T'Challa

(Ask me for other characters and ships tho)

Types of writing

Drabbles / Prompt-based (free)

One Shots (free & selective; paid if you have a timeframe)

Three Shots (paid)

Series (paid & selective) -CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE-

Types of designing

Yes, I can do simple or complicated design work for your MCU fanfic works, RP's & similar things, personal use only. Some free, some commissioned.

Custom Moodboards (free, but selective)

Header & Icon pack (simple - free, complicated - 2-4 Ko-Fi’s)

Fake Social Media Profiles (2 characters for free | more: 1-3 Ko-Fi’s)

Simple PSD Template (free, downloadable by everyone)

Custom PSD Template (paid, exclusively for you, price based on difficulty)

Custom Digital Zine (paid, price based on length)

Playlists based on writing or character (only free if you're an active follower, otherwise based on the length of your writing)

How to ask

Mention a character, a prompt/AU and/or an idea of what needs to be included & send it to me over my ask box in the case of writing (unless it’s longer than a one shot OR you need it quick). Send me a message with your vision for anything else [Longer Writing Projects, Templates, Moodboards, Zines]. I'll let you know if I have time for it. If you want any of the paid options please send me a message so we can work out the details.

IMPORTANT

If it is something I don't have time for, feel not inspired for or just don't feel comfortable doing, I'll decline and in the best case recommend someone else. This might especially be the case with smut requests or super-specific requests for longer projects. Yay: •Fluff •Mild Angst [isolated, anxious, sick, stressed, etc.] •Smut [most kinks, excluding m/m smut cause I'm not good at it] •Specific ethnicity/gender/sexuality requests [I might be bad at writing male, trans and aro/ace characters since...well, I'm a pansexual cis woman] •Pinpoints of what needs to be included •Examples (for Templates) Nay: •Illegal Acts [non-con, inc*st, p*dophilia, etc.] •Certain Kinks [most dub-con, intense BDSM, etc.] •Gore [Fight scenes are fine!] •Abusive Relationships / Intense Angst [i.e. revenge, self h*rm, repeated self-loathing, su*cide, etc.] •Copying off another design (for Templates) •Asking for something FREE and then not even reblogging it (Happens too much, sadly)

***Request Masterlist***

COMMISSIONS & PAID REQUESTS

Prices for Commissions

Three Shots/Mini-Series: 3-6k words. Based on your rough description. Mostly based on AU & Quote prompts. Message me with your idea and I'll tell you if I can do it. $40 Base price

+$5 With Moodboard

+$5 With Playlist Series: (currently closed due to editing my own series) Since I plan my characters out deeply the base price could be higher if you have something very special in mind. Ask me first. $70 Base price (4-5 chapters / 6-12k words)

+$10 for extra chapters

+$10 for character overview graphics PSD Templates: If you want a template that is specific and you don't want it to be accessed by anyone but you...or you just want a very complicated Template, you'll have to invest a bit. I also make designs for Canva (Photoshop Alternative) but since not everything is possible on that platform you'll have to write me a message about it either way. Template requests going beyond a simple >A minimalistic Playlist< or a >Character Overview Sheet< have to land in my inbox, not my ask box. $25 base price

+$10 if intermediate

+$20 if complicated Other services: Anything in the designing list from above that isn't mentioned here is fairly affordable. Just ask me per private message and I'll let you know if it's 5 bucks or 15 bucks. If you want any of the free things in a set time frame I’d like a tip on Ko-Fi for it.

Disclaimer/Note:

And last of all: I don't wanna hear anything about this being unfair. If fanart artists can charge $50+ for a character drawing, I can do the same for writing you multiple pages of character growth and story. Same goes for the Templates, this is my free time and if you think artists of all kinds should be able to make a living you should be supporting them. ALSO: Requests for free stuff can take multiple weeks if not months sometimes, especially if I don’t usually write a character.

For the broke peepz: PLEASE don't worry if you can't afford something on this list. I will do giveaways from time to time where you'll be able to get a 'three shot' or a custom 'PSD Template'. I know how it is when you can't pay for custom work from an artist. Very active and frequently commenting/reblogging readers definitely will have priority in my challenges and One Shot Waiting List.

#mod post #request guidelines #requests #request

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starlightpeggy · 7 months

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I know you were talking about an Agent Carter Zine? I'm definitely interested, did you ever make a decision?

hi! i do plan on moving forward with it, and i'm happy that many people seem to be interested :)

i would love to have started with an official interest check in november and move forward from there, but that makes it so some big zine responsibilities (like contributor applications) will start right around the end of december, and i know a lot of people are busy around then (myself included), so the more comprehensive interest check (where you'll be able to rec artists, give specific suggestions, and answer a few questions i have) will take place through most of december (since that form will take like 2 minutes to fill out)

#starlightpeggy.ask

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quietya · 7 years

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September 2017’s #quietYA Picks

Hi all! So, YA Interrobang is on hiatus for the rest of the year and I already had a lot of obligations, so I kept forgetting to put this together for y’all without someone giving me a deadline. But I didn’t want to miss out on highlighting these books since September was a HUGE month for new releases (and so is October - that list will be coming out later this week) and I want to make sure y’all didn’t miss some epicness.

The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

Release date: September 1

When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she’s caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall—but even to the balloon makers, Ellie’s time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything—including her only way home—to stop the process.

Glow by Megan E. Bryant

Release date: September 1

When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she wants to learn more about the artist. In her search, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls, young women who used radioactive paint to make the world's first glow-in-the-dark products—and ultimately became radioactive themselves. As Julie’s obsession with the paintings mounts, truths about the Radium Girls—and her own complicated relationships—are revealed. But will she uncover the truth about the luminous paintings before putting herself and everyone she loves at risk?

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough

Release date: September 5

Discover the incredible true story behind the Tony Award-winning musical – Hamilton’s early years in the Caribbean; his involvement in the Revolutionary War; and his groundbreaking role in government, which still shapes American government today. Easy to follow, this gripping account of a founding father and American icon features illustrations, maps, timelines, infographics, and additional information ranging from Hamilton's own writings to facts about fashion, music, etiquette and custom of the times, including best historical insults and the etiquette of duels.

She, Myself, and I by Emma Young

Release date: September 5

Rosa—an eighteen-year-old from London—is quadriplegic. Her doting (if a bit stifling) parents and charming older brother are her entire world. But Rosa yearns for more; so when a doctor from Boston chooses her to be a candidate for a risky experimental surgery, she and her family move to Massachusetts in search of a miracle. Sylvia—a girl from a small town in New England—is brain-dead. Her parents have donated Sylvia’s body to Rosa’s cause. Rosa wakes up from surgery as the first successful brain transplant survivor—by all accounts, a medical anomaly. She should be ecstatic, but she can’t help wondering with increasing obsession who Sylvia was and what her life was like. Rosa’s fascination with her new body and her desire to understand Sylvia prompt a road trip based on discovery and a surprising new romance. But will Rosa be able to solve the dilemma of her identity? Who is she, in another girl’s body?

All About Mia by Lisa Williamson

Release date: September 12

"That girl is such a mess." "Why can't she be like her sisters?" Blah, blah, blah. That's all Mia Campbell-Richardson ever hears. From her parents, her teachers, and her never-do-wrong older sister, Grace. So what if she parties too hard and studies too little? Who cares if she tends to end up with the wrong guys or says the wrong things at the wrong times? She's still a good friend (except when she isn't). And she still knows the way things should go (except when they don't). When Grace comes home with shocking news, Mia hopes that it's finally Grace's turn to get into trouble. But instead it's Mia whose life spirals out of control.

Odd & True by Cat Winters

Release date: September 12

Trudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters’ search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.

Water in May by Ismee Amiel Williams

Release date: September 12

Fifteen-year-old Mari Pujols believes that the baby she’s carrying will finally mean she’ll have a family member who will love her deeply and won’t ever leave her—not like her mama, who took off when she was eight; or her papi, who’s in jail; or her abuela, who wants as little to do with her as possible. But when doctors discover a potentially fatal heart defect in the fetus, Mari faces choices she never could have imagined. Surrounded by her loyal girl crew, her off-and-on boyfriend, and a dedicated doctor, Mari navigates a decision that could emotionally cripple the bravest of women. But both Mari and the broken-hearted baby inside her are fighters; and it doesn’t take long to discover that this sick baby has the strength to heal an entire family.

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

Release date: September 12

Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity--award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Release date: September 19

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv’s mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.

Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones

Release date: September 19

The year is 1818, the city is London, and our heroine, 16-year-old Annis Whitworth, has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy. Annis always suspected that her father was a spy, so following in his footsteps to unmask his killer makes perfect sense. Alas, it does not make sense to England’s current spymasters—not even when Annis reveals that she has the rare magical ability to sew glamours: garments that can disguise the wearer completely. Well, if the spies are too pigheaded to take on a young woman of quality, then Annis will take them on. She’ll follow the clues her father left behind and discover what befell him. She’ll prove she can sew an impenetrable disguise. She’ll earn a living without stooping to become a—shudder—governess. It can’t be any harder than navigating the London social season, can it?

Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George

Release date: September 19

After she gets kicked out of boarding school, seventeen-year-old Beatrice goes to her uncle’s estate on Long Island. But Hey Nonny Nonny is more than just a rundown old mansion. Beatrice’s cousin, Hero, runs a struggling speakeasy out of the basement—one that might not survive the summer. Along with Prince, a poor young man determined to prove his worth; his brother John, a dark and dangerous agent of the local mob; Benedick, a handsome trust-fund kid trying to become a writer; and Maggie, a beautiful and talented singer; Beatrice and Hero throw all their efforts into planning a massive party to save the speakeasy. Despite all their worries, the summer is beautiful, love is in the air, and Beatrice and Benedick are caught up in a romantic battle of wits that their friends might be quietly orchestrating in the background.

The Victoria in My Head by Janelle Milanes

Release date: September 19

Victoria Cruz inhabits two worlds: In one, she is a rock star, thrashing the stage with her husky voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other, currently serving as her reality, Victoria is a shy teenager with overprotective Cuban parents, who sleepwalks through her life at the prestigious Evanston Academy. Unable to overcome the whole paralyzing-stage-fright thing, Victoria settles for living inside her fantasies, where nothing can go wrong and everything is set to her expertly crafted music playlists. But after a chance encounter with an unattainably gorgeous boy named Strand, whose band seeks a lead singer, Victoria is tempted to turn her fevered daydreams into reality. To do that, she must confront her insecurities and break away from the treadmill that is her life. Suddenly, Victoria is faced with the choice of staying on the path she’s always known and straying off-course to find love, adventure, and danger.

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck

Release date: September 26

Fifteen-year-old Matt Wainwright is in turmoil. He can’t tell his lifelong best friend, Tabby, how he really feels about her; his promising basketball skills are being overshadowed by his attitude on the court, and the only place he feels normal is in English class, where he can express his inner thoughts in quirky poems and essays. Matt is desperately hoping that Tabby will reciprocate his feelings; but then Tabby starts dating Liam Branson, senior basketball star and all-around great guy. Losing Tabby to Branson is bad enough; but, as Matt soon discovers, he’s close to losing everything that matters most to him.

Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Release date: September 26

Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. But then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to be brave.

#quietya #this is your mod speaking #book lists #wndb #mogai

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lauramkaye · 7 years

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Fic: Storage War

Based on a prompt by @kat-har. Archive post will follow shortly!

“You really don’t have to do this,” Phil said, hovering in the doorway.

“It’s really fine, babe,” Clint said, pulling out another box and coughing at the cloud of dust that billowed off it.

“I promise I didn’t ask you here intending to pawn off all the work. Maybe you could take a break until I—”

“Phil. It’s fine. It might just as well have been me getting called in.” Clint smiled at him, hoping it was reassuring. “I came to help, I’m gonna help.” He waved a hand at the storage unit, piled high with the detritus of Phil’s childhood and teenage years. “Unless you’ve changed your mind about just throwing it all in a U-Haul and driving it to New York—”

“Ugh,” Phil said. “No. We’d end up storing it for another decade before we found the time to deal with it.”

“Then let me help you,” Clint said. Reaching out, he snagged Phil’s hand and pressed a kiss to his knuckles, scraped a little from where he’d barked his hand on the wall trying to get the rusted padlock open. “That’s what marriage is all about, right? For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, for clearing out thirty-year-old storage units…”

Phil chuckled, turning his hand to cup Clint’s cheek. “I don’t remember that part in the vows.”

“It was right before the part about worshipping each other with our bodies,” Clint said.

“Ah, my favorite part.” Phil bent to kiss him, quick and soft. “I’ll be as fast as I can.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Clint said. “I’ll have fun. Maybe if I’m lucky there’ll be baby pictures.”

Phil rolled his eyes. “More likely to be awkward, pimply middle-school pictures.”

“I bet you were adorable. Go, help catch the bad guys while I work on sorting the greatest fashion hits of the early 80s.” He reached into a nearby box and pulled out a “Frankie Says Relax” t-shirt. “I think I might take this one home.” Phil laughed. “Just remember the size of our apartment when you’re deciding what you want to keep,” he said. “I’ll see you for dinner.”

“Sure thing.”

Clint smiled to himself as he watched Phil leave, then settled in to continue working through the massive pile of stuff. Phil had ignored the storage unit containing the contents of his mom’s house for decades; he’d still be ignoring it, if the facility wasn’t closing down, slated to give way to a new block of hipster lofts or something. So Clint, being a good partner, had taken some leave time and joined Phil in Wisconsin to deal with it.

They’d already worked through the furniture, picking out a few pieces to keep and donating the rest along with most of Phil’s mom’s clothes and personal items. What was left was mostly all Phil’s things. Honestly, Clint was kind of looking forward to going through them; he’d never known Phil as a kid, and there was something precious about seeing his carefully packed boxes of comics, the handmade quilt in red, white, and blue stars, the worn and ragged ear of a much-loved stuffed bear.

Clint had prioritized the things it would be easy to sort: outdated clothes that wouldn’t fit them, furnishings that had seen better days, an ancient cracked clock radio. The comics were easy, too, in the other direction; Clint wasn’t sure if Phil would want to keep or sell them, but he knew Phil would want to go over the collection in more detail.

He set aside a box of 8-tracks, humming Devo to himself, opened a box labeled “notebooks” in neat block print, and stuttered to a halt, blinking rapidly.

The box did contain a number of three-ring binders and spiral notebooks, but that wasn’t all; right on the top was some sort of comb-bound, copy-shop booklet which bore on the cover an overblown illustration of Captain America. Cap was tied to a post, his uniform shirt ripped to highlight his bulging muscles, and a masked Hydra goon was threatening him with a gun while cowering away from Peggy Carter, who was wearing a military uniform and brandishing a laser gun that Clint was pretty sure wasn’t historically accurate. Above Cap’s head, a hand-lettered title proclaimed the publication to be called “Rule Britannia.”

“Oh my god,” Clint said, and dove into the box with glee.

Some time later, he’d examined a remarkable number of Captain America fanzines. The earlier ones were general-purpose, with articles about Project Rebirth and the European Theater and, in one case, a painfully adorable letter from a fourteen-year-old Phil about the importance of the Howling Commandoes and Peggy Carter to the success of the SSR during the war. Later on, though, the general zines gave way to more focused ones, and Clint had to hold back his joyful giggles by main force. He’d found baby Phil’s stash of secret erotic Captain America fanfiction.

Best. Day. Ever.

Surprisingly, Phil’s interest seemed pretty evenly split between seeing Cap with Peggy Carter and seeing him with Bucky Barnes. Clint would have predicted Carter all the way, based on Phil's deeply nerdy obsession with her (and it was deeply, deeply nerdy, like, topic-of-his-graduate-thesis nerdy), but apparently Phil's appreciation for a smart-mouthed sniper was of longer duration than Clint had previously realized.

Tempted though he was, Clint didn’t take the time to read the stories; there just wasn’t time. He contented himself with thumbing through the zines, looking for bookmarks, stray notes, or other signs that might show him which ones had been Phil’s favorites. Unfortunately, Phil seemed to have been just as meticulous then as he was now, and the zines were in remarkable condition for their age. Clint set the last of them aside in a pile and picked up one of the spiral notebooks.

It had Cap’s shield on it, of course, and was well used, the corners worn and the spiral starting to work its way out of the top. Clint smiled, flipping open the cover. He felt a pang at the sight of younger Phil’s handwriting, recognizably similar to the way he wrote now, but more cautious, the letters formed deliberately as though Phil had been trying hard to keep it neat. Then he stopped looking at the page and started reading it, and he had to stop and clutch it to his chest in delight.

Phil hadn’t just read Captain America fanfiction. He had written it.

Clint sat his ass down on the dusty concrete floor of the storage unit and started perusing his treasure.

Honestly, if Clint had ever considered the question he would have said that baby Phil’s stories would feature a thinly-disguised version of himself. Fictional Phil might be a previously unknown Howling Commando, or maybe some other kind of ally—a soldier, or part of the French Resistance, or a British spy—who came through in a tight spot to save Cap’s life and/or mission. (Which wasn’t really that far-fetched; it was pretty much the same kind of thing that adult Phil did for his agents now.) Possibly the stories might have ended with Cap showing his appreciation by inviting fictional Phil to bed, or at least with a manly embrace of gratitude. After all, wasn’t that was what teenage stories were for? Trying on scenarios, writing about the life you wish you had. Clint hadn’t been much for writing as a kid, but he’d sure as hell spun up enough daydreams, trying to fall asleep when it seemed like every inch of his body hurt. Daydream Clint was the star of the circus. Daydream Clint had a family who loved him. Daydream Clint had money, had a home, was the best archer in the world.

Daydream Clint had lived a life pretty much like the one Clint had now, actually, if you swapped out the circus for SHIELD. Clint kind of wished he could go back in time and tell his skinny, scared teenage self the good news. Stick with it, kid, things will turn out great for you one day.

Anyway, Clint wanted to know what Daydream Phil was like. Phil, being Phil, had helpfully dated each of his notebooks, so Clint piled them up in order, grabbed the earliest one, and started reading.

An hour later, he set the next-to-last notebook down, rubbing at his eyes. For all that Phil’s zine collection ran to happy romantic endings, the stuff Phil had actually written was pretty much the opposite. Clint knew—he’d known for years—that Phil’d had trouble as a kid, trying to reconcile his bisexuality with his dream of going into the Army. But Clint had never expected to see all of young Phil’s confusion and anger and hurt and fear projected onto stories about his boyhood hero.

The Steve Rogers in Phil’s stories was pained and unsure, in love with Bucky and Peggy both and struggling to find a resolution that didn’t hurt either of them. The plots were pretty clichéd, and the prose was a bit overblown, but the emotions came through clearly. Steve Rogers, as Phil had seen him, felt like he had no good choices, torn between Peggy, Bucky, and his moral obligation to fight Hydra. If he went with Bucky, he lost Peggy and neglected his duty; if he went with Peggy, he lost Bucky, and felt guilty for allowing society to dictate who he loved. Just because he loved a woman, that didn’t mean he wanted his choice of partner forced by anything but himself. Clint wondered why it had never occurred to Phil to put Captain America in a fictional ménage-à-trois. It would present a neat solution to the whole love triangle issue, at any rate. Although he supposed it was probably a lot harder to think outside that particular box in the days before the internet. Who was supposed to be the role model, Three’s Company? Ugh.

The last notebook was all one, long story, and it was the most heartbreaking of all. In it, Cap was pining for his two loves as per Phil’s usual, but every other chapter was a short story where Steve imagined what would happen in a different scenario. Clint read a description of Steve and Bucky leaving the Army to live together, their happiness soured by Steve’s guilt over leaving the war. He read an account of Steve marrying Peggy and Bucky marrying someone named Lorraine. The two men set up housekeeping next door to one another, named their children after each other, while Steve tried to use his real happiness to bury the part of himself that never stopped wanting Bucky. There was a chapter where—finally—Phil had considered the possibility of polyamory, and Steve daydreamed about a life where they all got a house together, where Steve had a wife and a husband both, but even in that fantasy world they spent their time hiding, from the Army or the press or the neighbors, sending Bucky on false dates to try to keep their secret. Not one of the scenarios had a happy ending, all of them going back to the same place: Cap, alone and hopeless and pretending everything was fine. The story ended as Cap was piloting the crashing plane, giving himself one final dream as the water rose up around him. He dreamed of Bucky being found, alive after all, and he and Peggy comforting each other. They’d be perfect for each other, Steve thought, brilliant and beautiful together, and they would have amazing children with dark wavy hair and maybe they’d name the first boy Steve.

Clint read the final lines of the story, his chest aching.

It was for the best, Steve thought, taking one last gasping breath before the water closed over his head. They both deserved the best. They both deserved a happy ending.

Clint closed the notebook and took a deep, shaky breath. He was not going to cry over ancient Captain America fanfiction, he wasn’t.

He might possibly be going to cry a little over the writer, though. Thinking of Phil reading all those happily-ever-afters but never able to bring himself to write one of his own…

“Clint? How’s it going in here?”

Clint turned around sharply as Phil came around the corner. Shit, how long had he been reading?

“What’s wrong?” Phil asked, his smile falling away as he saw Clint’s face. “What—oh.” He looked at the pile of zines and notebooks scattered around Clint, the tips of his ears going red. “Oh god, I thought I threw those away.”

Clint dropped the notebook and scrambled to his feet, crossing the cramped space in a few strides and wrapping his arms around Phil, holding him tight. After a moment, he felt Phil’s arms come up around him, as well, and Phil patted Clint’s shoulder tentatively.

“Are you okay?” Phil asked quietly, brushing a kiss over Clint’s ear.

Clint sniffled. “I’m fine, I just—Phil. The happiest ending you could think of was Steve dying so that Peggy and Bucky could marry each other? I feel like I need to go back in time and make sure Teenage You is okay.”

Phil was quiet, his arms tightening around Clint. “Oh,” he said, softly. “Yeah. I was… things were tough, when I was writing those.”

“I could tell. When I found the box, I thought it was going to be cute, you know? Funny.” Clint nestled his head into the crook of Phil’s neck, taking comfort in the familiar bergamot and sandalwood scent of his aftershave. “I thought I’d get to tease you a little, maybe. I never thought you’d be into writing tragedies.”

“I was a melodramatic kid,” Phil said. “I had a girlfriend, and I loved her, but I also had a wicked crush on a guy I was on swim team with, plus I wanted to go into the Army… I felt like every choice I had was wrong somehow, like no matter what I did I’d end up unhappy.” He stroked his hand down Clint’s spine, heavy and reassuring. “If I’d known then how my life would turn out, those stories would have probably been really different.”

“Yeah?” Clint made himself pull back enough to see Phil’s face.

“Absolutely,” Phil said, and pressed a tender, lingering kiss to Clint’s mouth.

“All I would have needed to see is you.”

“That you ended up with a husband?”

“That I ended up with a happy ending,” Phil said, and Clint had to kiss him again until they were both breathless.

They ended up taking the box back to New York, where it found a new home in the back of a closet. The story kept nagging at Clint, at odd moments here and there, until finally he scrawled a new chapter in the back of a steno pad, an epilogue where Steve woke up in a hospital, the war won, and Bucky and Peggy both there to welcome him, holding hands with him and with each other. He felt kind of silly about it, but also like he owed Phil’s long-ago self some kind of resolution.

When he opened the box to stick the steno pad in, he pulled up short at the sight of something bright blue. He picked it up; it was a sheet of blue cardstock, and mounted in the middle of it was one of the photos from Clint and Phil’s wedding. They were dancing, looking into each others’ eyes. They looked devoted and intent, blissfully in love.

At the bottom of the page, there was a message in Phil’s neat, blocky handwriting.

And they lived happily ever after.

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agentcarterzine · 4 days

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