#cole-mbing out the pest

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Cole-mbing out the Pest, Pt. 1

I am slowly updating old YeeHan fics to reflect the cowboy’s name change. There are lots of reasons to do this -- and lots of reasons not to, this isn’t a judgment of anyone else -- but for me, the biggest one so far has been the sheer catharsis of seeing an abuser’s name be chipped away and replaced. Seeing the updates to the Cole Cassidy character and ship tags every day has felt so healing, and has made fandom feel like a community again in ways I haven’t felt since, well, things were more active here on Tumblr, hah. It’s really lovely!

I’ve got a LOT of cowboy-related fics to get through, so this is going to be a long process. But here are the old fics I have updated so far, as of Oct. 27, 2021:

Mistletoe (Rated G) A short holiday drabble. (Orig. posted Dec. 2017)

Pennant (Rated Teen+) A short Valentine’s Day drabble. (Orig. posted Feb. 2018)

Midway (Rated Teen+) Cassidy & Hanzo go undercover at a fair to track their mark. Obviously they blend in best if everyone thinks they’re a couple. One-shot. (Orig. posted Apr. 2018)

Sweet Affectionate Moments Meme Answers (Rated Teen+) A collection of Tumblr drabbles written for a writing meme. So much fluff. (Orig. completed Apr. 2018)

Days on End (Rated Explicit) Some tender morning smut with feelings. One-shot. (Orig. posted Sep. 2018)

Slippage (Rated Explicit) Cassidy compartmentalizes. Hanzo knows it, because he does the same. Angst + smut with feelings. One-shot. (Orig. posted Sep. 2018)

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Cole-mbing Out the Pest, Pt. 2

Still in the midst of updating old fics to the new Cole Cassidy name, and I’m so excited every time I check his name/ship tags to see other people doing the same. <3 Here’s some more old YeeHan fics I’ve updated so far, as of November 1, 2021:

Our Heads are Just Houses (Rated Mature) Some time ago, Hanzo and Cassidy were taken by Talon. Now they live a pleasantly uneventful life as newlyweds in the suburbs, with no memory of either their previous lives or the things they do in the dark. 5 chapters. (Orig. posted Aug. 2018)

Hiraeth (Rated Teen+) After discovering that the mercenary Reaper is his old commander and mentor, Cole takes some time to get his head on straight. Hanzo refuses to let him do it alone. 2 chapters. (Orig. posted Aug. 2018)

A Better Fate than Roadkill (Rated G) When shelter worker Hanzo takes in a rescued armadillo, he doesn't expect it to be quite so much trouble. Or for it to take such a shine to him. Or for it to maybe, possibly, be more than an ordinary armadillo. 2 chapters. (Orig. posted Oct. 2018)

YeeHan Tumblr Prompts & Drabbles (Rated G - Mature) A collection of short YeeHan (and occasional genfic) drabbles, ficlets and prompt answers imported from Tumblr to AO3. (Last updated Dec. 2018)

Coming Home (Rated Explicit) A PWP inspired by some very suggestive art by bloomingcnidarians. (Orig. posted Dec. 2018)

Other name updates:

Cole-mbing Out the Pest, Pt. 1

This ask, including “On the Shifting Center Line” & “Shift, Refresh”

Halloween/Junkenstein themed fics

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Cole-mbing Out the Pest, Pt. 3

I’m getting so close to being done! It feels so good, even if I’ve left the longfics (and thus the hardest work) for last, lol. Before I get into those longfics, though, here’s some shorter YeeHan fics that have been updated with the new name, as of Nov. 5, 2021: 

“Scalpel or Bullet” series AKA that time I went absolutely feral for Scion Hanzo (Shared in story chronological order, not necessarily order of posting. All rated Explicit):

Scalpel or Bullet - Scion Hanzo first meets Blackwatch Cassidy. (Orig. posted April 2018)

Three Offers - Cassidy tracks Hanzo down again and makes him some offers. (Orig. posted April 2018)

Transient Effects - Several weeks into their arrangement, Shimada suggests something different. Cole's just enough of a thrill-seeker to take him up on it. (Orig. posted Aug. 2019)

Just Deserts - Ten years after the events of "Scalpel or Bullet", "Three Offers", and "Transient Effects", Hanzo and Cassidy both answer the Recall and have to wrestle with some colorful memories. (Orig. posted May 2018)

Buckling Under Pressure (Teen+) Holiday fic! Hanzo thought he found the perfect gift. He thought wrong, and his ensuing descent into madness means Cole's gift might get weird. One-shot. (Orig. posted Jan. 2019)

This Town Ain’t Big Enough (Explicit) Cole and Hanzo have something good going, and Cole likes the direction it seems to be heading. But he would like it a lot more if they could get an ounce of privacy. One-shot. (Orig. posted April 2019)

Only You Can Cool My Desire (Explicit) Tasked with cataloging Overwatch assets, Cole and Hanzo spend the night in one safehouse. This one's supposed to be well-equipped, but it's cold as hell and the tiny space heater just isn't suited to the task. (Orig. posted April 2019)

Let Me Espresso My Feelings (Teen+) YeeHan + Spiderbyte. Cole receives security cam footage he didn't ask for. Hanzo and Widow have terrible taste in coffee. Everyone is a disaster. Humor. One-shot. (Orig. posted May 2019)

This is No Maybe (Mature) A man like Cole doesn’t deserve something like love, but he won’t be the one to end it either. Angst with a happy ending. One-shot. (Orig. posted June 2019)

Other name updates:

Cole-mbing Out the Pest, Pt. 1

Cole-mbing Out the Pest, Pt. 2

This ask, including “On the Shifting Center Line” & “Shift, Refresh”

Halloween/Junkenstein themed fics

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Also, if you happen to be taking the opportunity to read/re-read some of my older stuff and you spot any instances of the old name that I missed or any formatting issues I may have caused in the edits, please feel free to let me know!

I won’t be making substantive edits right now, because if I give in to that urge for one fic, I will give in to the urge for lots of them, and I do not have that kind of time when I’ve got >60 to get through and new fics to work on, lol. But if you see any minor stuff like name change mishaps or formatting issues, I’d love to know!

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@wineanddefensemechanisms replied:

Will you be changing Cole’s alias in TSatS? It was such a perfectly unlikely name!

Thought I’d answer this where others could see it, lol. Yeah! I’m both delighted to have unintentionally predicted half his name and sad that now I have to change that too, which means coming up with another believable-but-slightly-stupid cowboy name reference, lol. TSatS will probably be one of the very last I touch, though, because it’s so long, and because I’m holding out a very tiny hope that we will get a little bit of lore to help me figure out what to do with pre-Recall naming. 

It’s implied in the name change tweet that he’s been running under a pseudonym until Recall. I doubt they’ll dig too deep on it, because they probably don’t want to reference his old name again, but it does mean pre-Recall fics are all in a strange space, where determining what his “real” fake name is vs Cole might be difficult? I’m all for the convention of just ignoring that part and calling him Cole regardless, lol, but I understand wanting to think on it a bit, because I am right there.

Anyway, here’s a list of bad cowboy pseudonyms he won’t be going by in that early part of TSatS: Butch Wayne, Clint Earp, Curly McJunkin, Jebediah Doolin, Bart Maverick, Ike Scurlock, or anything to do with Wild Bill. (I may use Wyatt Walker because it’s funny and when said in the right accent sounds like “White Walker.”)