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Beautiful diving whale

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Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache

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Love that answer to 14 :D

I'm also going to put your fics on my reading list. Those sound really interesting!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

44 😲 in my main AO3 account. 2 others in my older account = 46!

I didn't realize I had that many things!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

270,883

3. What fandoms do you write for?

All 44 of those works in my main AO3 are MacGyver 2016. One is a crossover with The Rookie. The other two at Star Trek TOS and Star Wars fics.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Table + Flashlight + IEDs

Mac + (Wilderness + Training + Survival) + Jack

Lost Causes

Lake + Stick + Fever

4 Times the LAPD Didn’t Pull Jack Over + 1 Time They Did 

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! I often respond to a chapter's comments when I post the next chapter of a longfic. And sometimes I just space on it and respond a year later when I notice I failed to respond.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh definitely my X-ray + Penny flashfic, Bad Penny. Most of the comments are variations on HOW DARE YOU!!!

There are a couple other flashfics with pretty ambiguous endings, too.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

That's a hard one. Most of my fics have a happy or at least comforty ending. Maybe... uhh.... Electricity + Combustion ? which I literally labeled "whump with a fluffy ending". I also have two Jack Lives fics so that's always a happy situation at the end...

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't. A few weird comments but I mostly scratch my head and ignore them. Anybody who hates on my fics will be getting a very long and nasty reply, followed by their comment being deleted.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope, no smutty fanfics here. I did have a romance I posted for another fandom awhile back (and never finished), and I've written fade-to-black stuff in my orig fic novels.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Just one! My Macgyver 2016+The Rookie cops-vs-spies crossover, in which some LAPD officers keep coming across a black GTO involved in shenangains around LA: 4 Times the LAPD Didn’t Pull Jack Over + 1 Time They Did

It's probably the funniest thing I've ever written, and the ending is one of my very favorites. Also possibly the only gen fic ever posted in The Rookie fandom, although I don't look over there much.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes. Somebody stole all my completed fics from FF.net last year. There was a big Tumblr post about some site full of stolen fics, and sure enough, there mine were. I asked to have them remove, got not reply. I haven't posted anything to FF.net since then.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, but not for a long time. I used to frequently co-write fics in my first fandom.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I'm going to go with Washington State Ferry M/V Wenatchee. Who doesn't love a good ferry boat? It's an irconic style, fun if you're walking on, handy if you need to drive on, saves you hours of driving around Puget Sound by land. Also just a very nice-looking ship.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Ugh, wow. I have a couple dozen things I kinda like but might never finish. My favorite, and least likely because I've made the least progress on it, is a MacGyver fic about Patti having plotted out her revenge better, and tring to fuck over the team by having listed Jack as her replacement... which of course gives him access to high-level secrets like Oversight's identity. Much drama ensues.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Ramping a story up. Characters. Make a story fully story-shaped.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Endings. 😫

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Hmmm I don't think I've ever needed to. Like most things in writing, I'm not against it in theory, but it can be done well or badly.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Anne McCaffrey's Pern, back in the paper fanzine days. Prior to joining AO3 in like 2019, I had 0 fanfics posted on the internet but a few in zines listed on Ebay. 😂

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

This is IMPOSSIBLE to answer. I could answer it differently every day for the next couple weeks. Anything I already mentions plus a couple more!

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Cairo Day | "In Flight"

(@macgyvercairo)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MacGyver (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jack Dalton & Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016) Characters: Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016), Jack Dalton (MacGyver TV 2016), Matilda “Matty” Webber, Russ Taylor, Gwen Hayes, Phoenix Team (MacGyver TV 2016) Additional Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Possibly Pre-Slash, Friendship, Character Study, Cairo Day 2024 Summary:

“This is the file. Everything is in here,“ Patty says. Mac places his fingers on top of the bold „Eyes only,“ idly tracing the letters. His boss lets out a heavy sighs and leans back in the uncomfortable chair in the interrogation room she’s commanded for this off-the-records-talk.

“Do not, and I repeat, do not leave this room while you read this file. Once you’re finished, leave this room and look the door with the code I had you memorise.”

Mac’s life has been controlled by shadowy outside forces since he was a child. When his past collides with his presence, Mac needs to decide whether keeping his secrets is worth the price of his and, by extension, Jack’s future as well.

@macgyvercairo

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There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

maintaining friendships

keeping up with my hygiene

managing bills

making money

remembering my basic needs

sleeping regularly

outputting creatively

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MacGyver (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jack Dalton & Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016) Characters: Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016), Jack Dalton (MacGyver TV 2016), Matilda "Matty" Webber, Russ Taylor, Gwen Hayes, Phoenix Team (MacGyver TV 2016) Additional Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Possibly Pre-Slash, Friendship, Character Study, Cairo Day 2024 Summary:

"This is the file. Everything is in here,“ Patty says. Mac places his fingers on top of the bold „Eyes only,“ idly tracing the letters. His boss lets out a heavy sighs and leans back in the uncomfortable chair in the interrogation room she’s commanded for this off-the-records-talk.

“Do not, and I repeat, do not leave this room while you read this file. Once you’re finished, leave this room and look the door with the code I had you memorise.”

Mac's life has been controlled by shadowy outside forces since he was a child. When his past collides with his presence, Mac needs to decide whether keeping his secrets is worth the price of his and, by extension, Jack's future as well.

@macgyvercairo

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Current status: let me apologise for the 7000 words of emotional pain I'm about to inflict upon you tomorrow...

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It begins! Use the tag #Cairo Day 2024 and @ us in your posts so we can easily find and reblog them.

Written Prompts: Collapse Eclipse Visual Prompt: Two medics loading a patient on a gurney into the back of an ambulance

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Alright. Posting this to motivate myself to at least finish this during April. There's a prompt that has gripped me and refuses to let go.

"Listen to me," Jack begins what might be the most important conversation of his life. "If you tell me to go, that you never want to see me again..."

Mac flinches back. "Jack-"

But Jack doubles down, tightening his grip and tilting Mac's head until he looks directly into Jack's eyes.

"I'm gonna make sure you reach a safe place and then you're never going to see this old face ever again."

Yeah, it's angsty. I promise a happy end but if you read "although the wind" and thought that one was dark, well, this one might actually be worse, sorry

Hey, all! This is a hype post. Cairo Week is on its way! This is a chance to share a snippet of your projects in a reblog, cheer each other on in the comments, commiserate in the tags. We are so excited to see what you've got cooking!!!

And remember, if life is getting in the way of deadlines or your muse is taking a vacation, the deadlines are really more of guidelines, anyway. We will always take late submissions.

Happy creating, y'all! 💛

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Reblog for more votes !

Gays were complaining about not have an option over 55, so here you go.

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Life update: handed in my master thesis. If I didn't have classes to teach, I'd sleep for a week...

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MacGyver (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Angus MacGyver & Jill Morgan (MacGyver TV 2016), Jack Dalton & Jill Morgan (MacGyver TV 2016), Jill Morgan/determination Characters: Jill Morgan (MacGyver TV 2016), Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016), Jack Dalton (MacGyver TV 2016), Matilda "Matty" Webber Additional Tags: Jill Morgan (MacGyver TV 2016) Lives, and fixes shit, Possibly Pre-Slash, of the Mac/Jack variety, Can be read as gen, pre Jill Morgan/Desiree Nguyen though, Character Study, Jill Morgan deserves better, season three fix it Summary:

Jill finishes college in record time and is still pondering two separate job offers from equally prestigious tech firms, when her dorm room is invaded by a woman she does not yet know is going to be her future boss. Their first meeting is less than auspicious:

“Ms Morgan. My name is Matilda Webber and I’m here with a job offer.”

Jill stares at her, incredulous. “Should I call the police?”

Needless to say, she doesn’t take the job.

The world through the eyes of Jill Morgan, scientist extraordinaire, who is the only person working at the Phoenix in possession of a braincell apparently.

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maybe. maybe love is stored in the online friend

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