#bionic battle granny

[zhalfirin]

Bionic Battle Granny - ozhawk

These books were part of the Renegady Publishing Tiny Books Bang 2023 event

The typeset was provided by @claudeng80 The story was written by @ozhawkauthor, check out their work!

Full leather binding with leather onlays in clamshell box. case materials binders board 1,5 (case) different leathers, goatskin, (covering material) heat reactive foil, blue (hot stamped title) blind tooled author name

inner book Munken polar 100gsm (book body) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (endpapers) wibalin (second fly leaf, tipped on the first) button hole silk (endbands)

clamshell box binders board 1 and 1,5 (boxes and case) uncoated blue book cloth (covering material case) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (covering material boxes) heat reactive foil, cream (hot stamped title)

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Detail shots of technical differences on Bionic Battle Granny the book and the clamshell box.

First up the inlay on the clamshell vs the onlay on the book.

The inset leather is (almost) even and level with the covering leather.

The onlay, though buffed and slightly rounded a bit along the edges, still adds visibly on the covering material. (Which is not a flaw! it's just the way onlays work.) The onlays were also part of why I decided to make the clamshell, the edges of the onlay could take damage when shoven between other books and in any case they'd be more susceptible to wear. Another reason was light and dust protection.

(I have no idea how to translate this, perhaps indrawn corners vs. cut corners would work best. Anyhow... )

Another part that differs are the corners. On the book I cut material off, pared the rest thinly and folded a tiny ledge over to cover the corner thoroughly (see the first two pictures). On the clamshell I cut some of the material off as well, but not closer to the corner. The remaining material of the turn-ins got pulled over the corner so there's only intact leather there. The downside of this is, there is too much material and it will set in folds even if spread as evenly as possible over the board. Those folds can be hammered down though and having the turn-ins pared thin helps too.

[claudeng80]

For the fic rec asks! 2, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 14!

🔁 A fic you’ve re-read several times

These days my brain is rotating If The Mind is Willing like a grocery store hot dog. I have had to cut myself off from rereading it for a while after way too many rereads in too short a time. The potential for both extreme cuteness and disaster is off the charts in this Hakuoki modern AU.

😊 A fic that made you smile on a bad day

Bionic Battle Granny always makes me smile. And now it's not just because this is a hoot of a story (Peggy Carter continuing to keep all of SHIELD on their toes into her twilight years) but also I got a gorgeous bound copy of it in an exchange last year and the book makes me smile too.

🥰 A fic that gives you warm fuzzy feelings

what lies beneath (only the truth) is one I always come back to for the warm Obiyuki fuzzies. I will forever be smug about having prompted this one.

👌🏼 A fic someone else recommended to you

Aral Vorkosigan's Dog was part of the Renegade Bindery exchange at the end of last year - someone loved it enough to request it and it sounded intriguing enough that I pulled it up that day. Readers, it was amazing. It's Shards of Honor from Simon Illyan's point of view, and it is seamless.

👽 A fic that isn’t prose (poetry, text fic, etc.)

This probably isn't what the question is asking but it's the closest I have saved - Bakery Enemies. I suspect most people have probably seen this ML comic on Tumblr, but it's complete on AO3 as of just a few days ago.

🤩 A fic that made you SLAM that “subscribe” button

"Begin at the beginning," The King said, - this Twisted Wonderland fic distinguishes itself from the many other plot retellings by giving the Overblot physical consequences. Riddle is blinded by his, and he's the protagonist of the story - navigating through the plot from his point of view and seeing the real dangers to the students is a really unique take.

Fic recs ask meme

[mudaship39]

My original comic Alpha Centurion War: Battle of the Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxy

The big bad of this story is called the Forces of Evil. The Forces of Evil are led by eight villains where one villain is as dangerous as Brainiac, Darkseid, Imperiex Prime, Doomsday, Mongul, Ares, Starro, & Trigon combined. The lieutenants of the Forces of Evil are like Bernadeth, Stompa, Artemiz, Speed Queen, Malice, Vundabar, Bloody Mary, Wunda, & Sweet Leilani of the Female Furies while the generals of the Forces of Evil are like Queen Bee (Zazzala), Granny Goodness, Siren (Hila), Desaad, Mongal, Kalibak, Hercules, & Steppenwolf. The Forces of Evil are aided by their allies who are like the Fearsome Five, Villainy Inc, Legion of Supervillains, Injustice Society, Legion of Doom, Hive, Injustice League, Brotherhood of Evil, Secret Society of Supervillains, & Fatal Five. Millions, billions, & trillions die to defend the star system, galaxy, universe, multiverse, & omniverse from their subjugation. Most stay dead but some come back to life using a special power & they suffer permanent emotional, psionic, & mental damage such as chronic depression anxiety panic attacks & PTSD so there is a realistic cost to even returning to life. There has to be a cost even if a hero does return to life they can't be the same my heroes return to life with bionic limbs or cybernetic eyes to replace body parts they lost when they died so they're disabled and are now bionics or cyborgs. Its what Heroes in Crisis should have been. There is still humor and breaks to let people take a break but things get grim when the stakes get dire. The heroes get chronic depression anxiety panic attacks & PTSD when they witness it, experience it, survive it, & or when they are brought back to life so no ones is unscathed. I use my personal experience in making sure its accurate as someone with depression anxiety panic attacks OCD & PTSD. I want more representation of accurate mental illnesses because its not this romanticized crap bullshit that media show. Its misleading, ableist, & dangerous to romanticize mental illnesses that way. Some heroes even the greatest of them the polyamorous genderfluid pansexual main character became disillusioned when faced with how many lives answered his/their or her/their call and gave their lives. The comic is Alpha Centurion War: The Battle of the Milky Way & Andromeda Galaxy because the fight to defeat these big bads the Forces of Evil literally engulfs the Milky Way & Andromeda Galaxy in intergalactic war. So the cost & the sacrifice is very real because if they lose then the planet, star system, galaxy, universe, multiverse, & omniverse is under the control & dominion of these intergalactic conquerors. The Forces of Evil if u want a full scope of how dangerous it is even without its leaders, generals, lieutenants, allies, & reinforcements imagine if the Sons of Trigon (Trigon’s evil half demon children and Dark Raven’s siblings), Clock King, Overload, Chemo, Plasmus, Cinderblock, Terror Titans, Zookeeper, Puppeteer, Doctor Light (Arthur Light), Two Face (Harvey Dent), Mister Twister, Arsenal (Nicholas Galtry, Titans East, Harvest, Ding Dong Daddy, Captain Calamity, Tartarus, Haze, Dark Nemesis, Hybrid, Behemoth, Ternion Prime (a monstrous fusion of Chemo, Plasmus, Cinderblock, & Overload), Hangmen, Arthur Hall, Hallucinatra, Indigo (Brainiac 8), Shimmer, the Reach (enemies of the Green Lantern Corps, Wildebeest Society, Brainiac, Titans Tomorrow, Copperhead, Dreadbolt, Elephant Man, Enigma (daughter of the Riddler), Harpi, Goldilocks, Duela Dent (Joker’s daughter), Fog, Gemini (daughter of Brotherhood of Evil member Madame Rouge, Mother Mae-Eye, Fisherman, The Insiders, Gorgon, Prometheus, Black Spider, Goth (a rock star/demon who corrupts kid’s souls), King Lycus (son of Ares), Bolt, Headcase, Psimon, the cult the Children of the Sun, Houngan, Eclipso, Mister Atom, Queen Clea, Ibec, Weeper, Shade, King Kull, Professor Menace, Gateway Mastermind, The Weapons Mastermind, Professor Ivo, Saturna, Nowhere, Firebug, Starro (a planet conquering warlord), Heatstroke, Simon Magnus, Kanjar Ro, The Maestro, Spaceman X, Crime Champions, Shark, Headmaster Mind, Super-Duper, Alien-Ator, The Key, Warlock of YS, the Unimaginable, Anti-Matter Man, Royal Flush Gang, Commander Blanx, Aquarius, Jest-Master, Funky Flashman, Starbreaker, Nebula Man, Morgaine le Fey, Libra, Anti-Justice League, The Equalizer, Cary Bates, Kobra, Super Foes, The Construct, Menagerie Man, Asmodel, Magog, Gog, Bedlam, Magedonn, Anathema, Lady Zand, Peraxxus, The Macrolatts, Luck League, Fiend With Five Faces, Siren, Anton Allegro, Garn Daanuth, Maximus Rex, Paragon, Fiatlux, Hellrazer, The Marshal, The Cadre, Gray Man, Manga Khan, Norch Lor, Kraad the Conqueror, Hector Hammond, Matter Master, Doctor Destiny, Amos Fortune, Qwsp, Appelaxians, Demons Three, Sonar, Felix Faux, Zedd Brann, Sayyar, Hyathis, Kite-Man, White Monster, Kardiak, Ultra-Humanite, Funhouse Aliens, Bug, Atlas, Darkseid, the Mechanic, Adonis) with his/her/their own Beast), Double-Double-X, Saico-Tek, Amazo, Imperiex, Gray Lady, Harm, The Veil, H’San Natall, Holocaust, Icicle Senior, Neutron, Felix Faust, Harm, Intergang, Parasite, Wizard, Blackbriar Thorn, Mad Mod, Wontan, Count Vertigo, Atomic Skull, Black Adam, Terror Twins, The Wizard, Per Degaton, Hugo Strange, Clayface, Riddler, Devastation, Andre LeBlanc, Pterodon, Anansi, Hypothetical Army, Void Hound, Eve, Aftermath, Crucifer, Fernus, Red King, Axis Amerika, Lady Zand, Cold Warriors, Calculator, Trickster, Coldsnap, Gamemnae, Anathema, Baron Agua Sin Gaaz, Aryan Nation, Dante, Queen Bee (Zazzala), Icicle Junior, Blockbuster, T.O Morrow, the siblings of robot Red Tornado (Red Torpedo, Red Volcano, & Red Inferno), Brick, Red Panzer (enemy of Wonder Woman), Antithesis, Kitten, Control Freak, Byte, Chun Yull, Angle Man, Bane, Kobra, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Johnny Rancid, Master of Games, Toyman (Winslow Schott), Killer Moth, Touch n’ go, Scirocco, Trigon, Superman Robot, Despero, L-Ron, immortal Vandal Savage, Night, Titans of Myth, Shimmer, Warp, Siren, Katarou, Shrieker, the Joker, Shortcut, Fang, Serpenteen, Kestrel, Wonderdog (thought of to be the lovable pet of the Harris twins but he was actually the monstrous minion of Wondergirl’s nephew Lyctus), Amazo, Kid Crusader, Lady Vic, Disruptor, Church of Blood led by Brother Blood, Lobo, Teekl (the familiar of Klarion the Witch Boy), Match (clone of Superboy), Trident, Superman-Prime (Superboy-Prime), Shaggy Man (General Wade Eiling), Maxwell Lord, Biomax (Jack Spheer), Cyborg Superman (Hank Henshaw), Lord Chaos, Persuader all joined forces with each other.

[ozhawkauthor]

Some Self-Recs

It’s fanfic author self-rec time! Recommend 3 of your favourite fics that you’ve written. Then ask at least 3 other writers to do the same! ( ◠‿◠ )~☆

I was tagged by @luna-orlha

Ugh, it’s really difficult to self-rec myself. I guess everyone knows about the Soulmate Shorts and the Birthday fics already, so I’ll concentrate on other things folks might have missed...

Well. I guess I’ll start with my favourite, still IMHO the best thing I’ve ever written...

Bionic Battle Granny

If you haven’t read Bionic Battle Granny yet (and recced it to all your friends) I have no idea why not. I get comments literally every week from people telling me that they just discovered it and they’re crying with laughter.

5 Sweet, 1 Spicy: Jack & Darcy

Written as a Christmas Secret Santa gift for @frogsandcoffee a couple years ago, this is a rarepair story that got a surprising number of hits and kudos. I still really like it, and I know it has a couple of really ardent fans who occasionally beg me for a continuance!

Through A Glass Darkly

This fic is what got me into the Marvel fandom. I woke up one night after a weird dream involving being chased by aliens through air vents accompanied by Hawkeye. (I’m deadly serious here). The dream was really vivid and wouldn’t leave me alone until I started writing. Thus, Through A Glass Darkly was born. I haven’t written a lot of OC/Avenger stories, and I know a lot of people don’t like them, but, I SWEAR, even if you don’t normally like OCs, you should give Jen a try. She’s as un-Mary-Sue as I could make her. Even more than 5 years later, I’m damned proud of this fic.

If you haven’t read any of these, I hope you’ll give them a try and let me know what you think!

I’m tagging @leftennant , @hushinghorizon and @frogsandcoffee , plus anyone else who wants to self-rec their fics!

[wnnbdarklord]

Dear Trick or Treak 2017 creator

Hi there! I’m so glad you’ll be creating something for me. This is my first year participating, but I’m sure everything is going to go great :D

Below, you’ll find a list of my general likes, dislikes and fandom specific prompts. Happy creating!

General Likes: Polyamory, gen, het, slash, femslash, families of choice, competence, BAMF female characters, angst, hurt/comfort, teamfic, pretty much all the tropes especially if there is a twist, worldbuilding, humor, redemption, for want of a nail AUs, time travel, werewolves, crossovers, non fantasy/SF canons encountering the supernatural/aliens, fix it fics, etc.  

Smut is fine, but I’d prefer that the focus is not on that.

General Dislikes: I’m not a great fan of permanent character death, rape, torture porn, underage stuff, infidelity, humiliation, character bashing, ship bashing, no powers AUs, love triangles, fake married/dating, incest, power imbalances in relationships, hate sex, hardcore kinks, necrophilia, PWP, abuse, fusions, zombies, 1st person POV

Crossovers: I love crossovers! Feel free to crossover any fandom here in any combination. I've elaborated more on crossover specific things in my Crossovering letter, so if you're feeling inspired to crossover, feel free to take a look:

http://wnnbdarklord.tumblr.com/post/163153222375/dear-crossovering-2017-creator

Trick likes: To keep with the theme of the exchange, I'd love to get some darker stuff. Spooky stories, mysteries, horror, body horror, WEREWOLVES (all my love if you get some werewolves in there, whether the canon has them or not), creepy mythology and gods, ghosts, monsters, magic, sacrifices, ancient and abandoned places, grim takes on lighthearted canons or alternately grim events that keep the lighthearted tone of the canon, dark consequences to canon events (psychological or otherwise), dragons, sudden disappearance of the supernatural in fantasy/SF canons and the consequences and the reverse in non fantasy/SF canons, immortality, shapeshifting, apocalypses

Trick Do Not Wants: ZOMBIES. I'm pretty mellow about most things, since my dislikes are mostly covered above. But just...no zombies. Ever.

Treat likes: characters getting along and bantering, OT3s, characters not dying when they were supposed to, healing (especially if the canon is a relentless shitshow usually), happy or at least hopeful endings, found family, exploring the world/universe, friendly encounters with the supernatural/aliens, ancient knowledge regained with a good outcome, people working together, pets, sudden appearance of the supernatural in fantasy/SF canons in a good or funny way, magic returning to the world, rebuilding after an apocalypse

Art: I'm pretty sure I'd love any art! I love sketchy styles with maybe just a splash of color to draw the eye. As for subject matter, I'd love to see any scenes from the fandom specific prompts or stuff from my likes. Characters being affectionate, gentle touches, characters as werewolves, characters in fancy dress/costumes, characters doing magic are also all welcome.

Fandom specific prompts:

Crimson Peak: I am probably one of the few people requesting this fandom wanting happy, hopeful or silly things and completely disinterested in the fucked up dynamics between Thomas and Lucille.

Anything post canon would be great! What happens to the house? Does Edith get on with her life? Do the other ghosts find peace?

Or maybe an AU where Lucille never left the mental institution? What do the other characters' lives turn out like then?

For something more crack, consider this post: http://romanticdaydreams.tumblr.com/post/129166110088/i-saw-this-on-my-professors-door-and-i-cant-even I'd love crack takes on gothic for this fandom! Maybe Lucille and Thomas try to pull of their scheme again, but things keep comically going wrong?

Frozen: Anything based on this where Anna succeeds and Hans falls in love with her: http://deylandisneydean.tumblr.com/post/80038513436/insuffera6le6itch-deylandisneydean-hans (If you can't see the link, it's basically Anna confessing she wants to kill Elsa to rule Arendelle and Hans going 'That's what I was going to say!') It can be crack or taken more seriously. I've just wanted fic of this ever since I saw that post years ago.

Or perhaps a darker take on the trolls in the movie and their actions regarding Anna. Especially considering that creepy song they sang about her and Kristoff.

Scooby Doo: I'd love to see something with a modern take on the Scooby Gang. What would be different, what the same? OT4 totally welcome!

A crossover with Leverage would be amazing! Or even a fusion where the gang turns to less legal methods after discovering not all their masked criminals are so easy to keep in jail after being arrested, if they even are.

Friends: Murder mystery time! Ross gets gruesomely killed and his ghost is haunting the others. Can they discover who his killer is? Or does Ross' frustration at their inability to solve it make him less of a friendly ghost? Bonus points if it turns out it was just a really unfortunate accident that caused Ross to manifest out of the sheer indignity of having died like that.

Or maybe Phoebe actually does have or get supernatural powers?

Star Trek the Next Generation: I have a hard time shipping anyone in my childhood fandoms and STTNG definitely falls under that. I'd strongly prefer gen and (if you must) very background canon pairings only for this.

Anything where Q plays with the crew would be fun. Perhaps he traps them in a murder mystery game or a haunted mansion. Perhaps he introduces them to the supernatural?

I'd always wanted to see the Enterprise crew in something of an apocalypse scenario. Specifically, I think they would be great at rebuilding after something like that, especially with the philosophic underpinnings of the canon in that humanity constantly strives to better itself. It strikes me as a lovely hopeful thing in such a scenario.

Perhaps something in the far future where the Federation is gone, but records (especially of the Enterprise crew) remain and give hope for a better future?

Gargoyles: Anything to do with the Fae, especially Puck. What made him decide to reveal himself to Xanatos? What was he up to during the exile from Avalon?

The end of the show had the gargoyles reveal themselves to the public. What are the consequences of that? I'd love to see something where the gargoyle population comes back from the brink of extinction in the face of a friendlier human populace.

I also love the show's take on mythology where all things are true. Maybe something with Slavic mythology in that setting? More Norse mythology?

Discworld: Anything with Granny Weatherwax, Death or the Nac Mac Feegles. I love this setting, so pretty much anything will be great.

If you feel like writing a crossover with LOTR, I would love love love any of the prompts from this post: http://berry-muffin.tumblr.com/post/160194985845/thebibliosphere-teapotdragon-zephyrantha

Lord of the Rings: For ultimate spooky, maybe something where Boromir and Faramir end up scouting Mordor or are captured in Minas Morgul? How would they escape, what horrors would they see?

Any scenario where Boromir lives would be great. Or Boromir interacting with the elves, especially once he remembers they actually participated and lived through battles he read about.

I have a total inexplicable soft spot for Boromir/Arwen, so something with them would also be great!

Ages ago, I read a fic where elves returned to Earth during the present day. I'd love such a scenario where the magic also returns and so does the memory of starlight in Men.  

Marvel Cinematic Universe: I'm sure my fic and tumblr make it fairly obvious Loki is my favorite character. That said, I am also fond of the other Thor characters, the GOTG crew and the Iron Man crew.

Unlikely team ups would be great, especially between characters that have never interacted before. Characters forced to work together to survive or just stuck together snarking at one another.

Something with Loki's shapeshifting or children would be amazing, especially translated for the MCU setting. Genderfluid Loki is a big plus!

Involuntary werewolf Loki for extra angst to go with his jotun heritage? Yes please!

Maybe the world ends once Thanos gets his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet, but Tony and Loki somehow manage to travel back in time to prepare?

Instead of Thanos and the Chitauri, perhaps the GOTG crew finds Loki? Or the Ravagers?

The Defenders: Anything where Jessica and Matt interact! I loved them in the show. Extra super bonus points for Foggy as well.

Foggy representing Jessica would be great.

Colleen, Misty and Claire mutual admiration society! Maybe the two of them help Misty adjust to her new bionic arm?

Also dragons! Maybe some dragons survived somewhere? How did they even get to Earth? How did the people in Kun Lun discover that their bones can bring back the dead/heal people? I want all the dragon stuff.

[zhalfirin]

Clamshell box for my second bind of Bionic Battle Granny by Ozhawk

Materials used

greyboard 1,5 and 1mm (base construction) goat skin leather (covering material and decoration) marbled paper by renato crepaldi (box sidewalls elephant hide paper (box bottoms and inside spine) coloured foil (hot stamped text)

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WIP Bionic Battle Granny leather work

This was a first for me. I tried for leather inlays/leather mosaic. The goal is to have no visible transition between the leathers except for the colours. As you can see that did not work out, but I learned a lot on both cases.

This is how I got the design from paper to leather.

I picked a picture from the show that felt iconic and recognisable to me.

Then I outlined the shapes I wanted to use and widened the design with another picture that fit the vibe

I traced the shape to a transparent paper and taped it in place over the leather

and used some transfer paper to get the design on the leather backside (I even thought of flipping my transparent paper so the final design would be the right side.

Then it was only repeat and repeat for all the other colours needed.

Finally after cutting the designs and smoothing the edges I got to paste everything to the case.

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Leather inset/inlay on my clamshell box for Bionic Battle Granny

This was another design I hade in mind for that bind so I used it on the clamshell. (Process and problems I ran into below the break)

I have no clear instruction on how to do a leather inlay or mosaic so I pretty much went with what felt like the thing to do. For this I pared both, the covering leather and the inset to the same thickness. I dressed the case of the clamshell and let it dry completely. With that step on the way I had time to prepare my inlay. I printed the design I had in mind. When I was still considering to print this I set the silhouette with the first note of the author instead of the title. Given that I have neither a font small enough nor the necessary amount of letters all at once and I really did not feel like setting world for word and, if necessary, letting the letters cool to keep working I switched to the title instead.

Now the difficult part was, that I wanted tos tick to the colour scheme and have a multicoloured print. To get that look I cut out a narrow line inside the print. Just enough to see where the colours needed to go, arranged all my differently coloured foils with a lot of tape and went on tooling more or less blindly and cut out the silhouette being very careful to have the colours still where I wanted them to go.

That done I realised... I forgot to upscale the size from the actual book to the cover of the clamshell and now Peggy looked very forlorn on that too large cover.

Given that the title was not as crisp as I would have wanted it to be, I tried for another two times to get it better. (I did not, each new attempt was actually worse XD) But a fellow binder on the @renegadepublishing discord server, suggested a speech bubble to fill up the empty space which turned out to be a great idea. So I went with that and added the authors name there.

To bring the cut on the cover I traced it carefully with the pointed side of my leather bonefolder (which is just a regular, but tiny bonefolder) and cut the the leather inside out with a scalpel before pasting in the silhouette.

I had to re-adjust a bit and cut away some more of the dark leather as well as I ended up with small gaps, but I'm pretty pleased how it turned out (considering I had no idea how to do this 'properly'). Fortunately for me, the white leather does not reveal the gaps too much, but if I had to do it again and the inlay had a different colour I'd probably colour the cut out (after peeling of the leather there) in either the colour of the base leather or the inlay leather to avoid white flashing in the gaps.

Below is one of the fucked up larger versions (left) and the one I ended up doing (right). Here they are not cut out or pasted in, but just put on top of the case to check the look (the finished version has a somehow weirdly angled leg, but it's done now. Nothing to do about that)

and here a detailed shot of the gaps and the leg

[ozhawkauthor]

G, I, S, T!

G:Care to share a favorite crack fic?

You know it has to be Bionic Battle Granny, of the stuff I’ve written. Of other folks’ writing, there are quite a few, but That One Time Clint Barton Got Busted Out of a High-Security Prison (Again) by Ambrosia has to be one of the best. 

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Yes, I have a guilty pleasure in reading Hydra Trash Party stuff. I don’t make a secret of the fact that I sometimes enjoy that stuff when I’m in a dark mood, but I don’t reblog it onto my wall because I’m aware that the vast majority of my readers aren’t into it.

S: Any fandom tropes you can't resist?

Answered this one, trying to think of another. Badass ladies being badass without necessarily needing a love interest?

T: Any fandom tropes you can't stand?

Already answered that one too, trying to think of another... oh, yes, I loathe it when Pepper gets totally erased in order to ship Tony with someone else. Christ, is it really THAT hard to pair her with Bruce or Sam or Rhodey? Ditto Jane when writing Thor with someone else, the main part of the reason why I can’t stand Thor/Darcy because almost every Thor/Darcy fic seems to pretend like Jane never existed. You can not like Thor/Jane, that’s perfectly fine, but don’t just erase her from existence. That’s shitty.

[ozhawkauthor]

Hi Oz! Hope you're having a wonderful 2017 so far! For the end of the year fic writer asks, 5,7,9,10?

5. Which of your fics do you wish was more successful?

This is going to sound really odd because it IS really successful, but I’m going to say Bionic Battle Granny. That fic... I believe in that story so hard. I know the Soulmate Shorts are my fandom legacy, but I want BBG to be CANON harder than I’ve ever wanted anything in this fandom. I want that fic to be so big that people at Marvel become aware of it and decide to make a series of Agent Carter one-shots featuring Aged Peggy.

Basically, if you love Peggy, tell everyone about BBG. 

7. What’s your favourite piece of description or narration?

... Out of the 642084 words Ao3 tells me have been published under my name in 2016 (yes, some of them were co-authored). Are you serious?

Plus, narration isn’t really my strong point... oh well. I found a bit I liked. This is from Winter’s Hostage, an Angie/Bucky soulmate fic I wrote for the Pod-Together 2016 Challenge. It was narrated into a podfic by the amazing litra, the only one of my fics so far to be turned into a podfic.

“A huge figure all in black suddenly loomed out of the clouds of dust, a tall, solidly-built man with dark brown hair and a mask covering the lower half of his face. Piercing blue eyes swept over Angie only briefly before the man strode towards the bar, raising the gun in his hand.

He’s here to kill Howard, Angie realised, and ran forward instinctively, catching up with the man just as he rounded the bar and brought the gun to bear on Howard’s unconscious body.

Grabbing a miraculously unbroken bottle from the bar, Angie brought it down hard across the back of the man’s head.He didn’t so much as flinch. He did turn to look at her, though the expression she could see above his mask was utterly incurious.

Peggy hadn’t taught her for nothing. Still holding the broken end of the bottle in her hand, Angie jabbed it at the assassin’s face. He parried it with contemptuous ease, a powerful grip locking around her wrist to hold her still as the gun swung up to point at her face.

Angie was so shocked to realise that the fingers wrapped around her wrist were metal that she froze, just staring into the bright blue eyes that were all she could see above the mask.” 

9. If you could go back and change something about one of the fics you wrote this year, what would it be?

Nup. I don’t look back at my writing with regrets. Forward, only forward.

10. What, if anything, are you going to try to do differently in your writing in the new year?

Write every day. I’m set up WordKeeperAlpha to help me keep track, set up a bunch of goals for different things I want to work on. And I’m taking part in the 365k365day challenge. It’s a lot of words but I believe in myself :)

[ozhawkauthor]

Yeah... I had some issues with Civil War. So here. Have a cracky BBG chapter to fix things! With Deadpool!

[ozhawkauthor]

So I caught up with eps 5 and 6 of Agent Carter S2 last night. (7 tonight).

And what I want to know is, why hasn’t this scene been all over my dash?

Peggy Carter IN THE AIR VENTS.

Because now I have headcanons about air vent infiltration being a Required Subject at SHIELD Academy. Clint took to it like a duck to water and became Peggy’s star pupil :D

I also have Bionic Battle Granny headcanons coming on. Once her ankle, knee and hip joints have been replaced Peggy discovers that dropping through air vents feet first onto enemies with a battle cry is by far the easiest way to dispatch them. The first time a SHIELD agent witnesses the little white-haired old lady dropping down like this with a pistol in either hand blazing away, it’s Melinda May. Then and there, she decides that she wants to be Peggy Carter when she grows up.

[ozhawkauthor]

800 followers!

Still no idea why you’re all here, but I love you all SO MUCH.

SO MUCH that I have decided to release the PREVIOUSLY EXCLUSIVE bonus chapter for Bionic Battle Granny that I wrote for the Fandom For Rainne fundraiser :)

So here it is; Peggy Carter meets Darcy Lewis and decides she rather likes her - and decides that she’s getting a bit old for the spying game and she’s going to take up a new career...

Peggy And Darcy Raise Hell

[ozhawkauthor]

"You, sir, have a lot of explaining to do."

“Peggy made me do it.”

“That is not a valid excuse for every mad scheme that pops into your head, Barton!” 

Maria Hill actually had a forehead vein that pulsed when she got angry as well, Clint discovered with fascination. He watched it avidly.

“It wasn’t my mad scheme,” he protested. “I was just gonna kill her, except she nearly killed me instead, and then Peggy hit her with a bin lid and made me bring her back!”

He suddenly had the unnerving feeling that there was a hole burning in the side of his neck. Turning his head, he found Natasha staring at him, her green eyes glittering. “Barton, you promised not to tell anyone about the bin lid.”

“Oh, shit.” 

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OKAY, AUTHOR FRIENDS: Time to answer this question. I don’t care if you’ve written 2 or 200 fics–answer! What is your favorite fic you’ve written, and what is your least favorite? WHY?

I was tagged by @dresupi for this one.

My favourite fic I’ve written... this is a close call, but I’m going to go for Bionic Battle Granny. It’s the only one of my own fics that I re-read on a regular basis just to give myself a good laugh. I can be pretty damn funny sometimes if I do say so myself XD. The first three chapters - the main story - were written in a single 24-hour period after Aged Battleaxe Peggy Carter invaded my brain and refused to leave me alone.

My least favourite fic I’ve written... hmmm. Probably The Wrong Three Words? A cutesy Clintasha that is pretty OOC for both of them in my opinion. Nonetheless I don’t delete my work because you never know if that fic is one person’s equivalent to comfort food when they’re down ;)

I’m gonna tag... @ladywinterlight, @strunmahmah, @amusewithaview, @suzukiblu and anyone else who’d like to have a go at this!