#gretel the howling commandog

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New fic: Changing of the Guard

Changing of the Guard (3086 words) by gwyneth rhys Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Chester Phillips, Jim Morita Additional Tags: Loss, Grief/Mourning, Canonical Character Death, Gretel the Howling Commandog, Military Animals, World War II, Sadness Series: Part 4 of War Dogs

Summary: Picking up Gretel’s leash, he tried to pull her toward the jeep, but she stood fixed, staring at the plane.

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by gwyneth rhys (gwyneth)

Picking up Gretel’s leash, he tried to pull her toward the jeep, but she stood fixed, staring at the plane.

Words: 3086, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of War Dogs

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Chester Phillips, Jim Morita

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Loss, Grief/Mourning, Canonical Character Death, Gretel the Howling Commandog, Military Animals, World War II, Sadness

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Changing of the Guard

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RTPfQs

by gwyneth rhys (gwyneth)

Picking up Gretel’s leash, he tried to pull her toward the jeep, but she stood fixed, staring at the plane.

Words: 3086, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of War Dogs

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Chester Phillips, Jim Morita

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Loss, Grief/Mourning, Canonical Character Death, Gretel the Howling Commandog, Military Animals, World War II, Sadness

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RTPfQs

[ao3feed-steverogers]

Changing of the Guard

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RTPfQs

by gwyneth rhys (gwyneth)

Picking up Gretel’s leash, he tried to pull her toward the jeep, but she stood fixed, staring at the plane.

Words: 3086, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of War Dogs

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Chester Phillips, Jim Morita

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Loss, Grief/Mourning, Canonical Character Death, Gretel the Howling Commandog, Military Animals, World War II, Sadness

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RTPfQs

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Fic writer interview

Tagged by @sineala so taking a work break to think about something other than how irritated I am at my main client right now.

Name(s): Gwyneth Rhys, just gwyneth (both on AO3, because I’m a dumbass and signed up with gwyneth before realizing all my fic had been posted by my full name) or gwyn (on Dreamwidth, for instance). Here and on Instagram I am teatotally.

Fandom(s): Currently, I’m mostly Captain America/MCU, still. I’ve written some in Schitt’s Creek, most recently, as well as numerous other fandoms, from the Professionals through Buffy through the Fast and the Furious and too many small fandoms to name. I wish I wasn’t still stuck on Stucky, but here we are.

Where you post: At AO3 almost exclusively. I’ve done some commentfic at my dreamwidth account and other dreamwidth accounts, but by and large everything ends up there anyway.

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): That’d be I can’t remember how this started (but I can tell you exactly how it ends), the time loop/Groundhog Day story. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to having a popular story (well, by my low history, anyway).

Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos): That’s an interesting one because going by hits it’s Dark Approach, the first fic I wrote for Steve and Bucky, and it’s only I think by virtue of the fact that it’s been up the longest and was written when we were all in the throes of Cap madness. But if I go by the defined kudos, then it’s Don’t Wait Up for Me, even though that’s got fewer hits. The former never got many kudos, while the latter got more of those but not of other things. I’ve never figured any of this out and I definitely use the term “popular” loosely.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: Man, I have no idea, because I like a lot of them. In Cap fandom, I’m especially fond of some of those mentioned above, but I’d probably pick lucida, obscura at this point because it’s got so many lines I was so proud of per square inch, comparatively. Outside of the fandom, I’d go with The Sun Was the First Star We Knew, which is a reverse-the-apocalypse fic for the movie Sunshine (starring Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy eye fucking each other through the solar system) I wrote for Yuletide last year. I think it’s maybe one of the best things I’ve ever written.

Fic you were nervous to post: I wrote a story in the War Dogs universe, where Bucky and Steve rescue a dog from the Hydra factory during their escape and she becomes a Howling Commandog, that was mirroring my sad mood, called Changing of the Guard. It’s about first Bucky’s “death” and then Steve’s, and how it affected the dog. I knew all the people who’d fallen in love with Gretel the doggo in the other War Dogs stories would be upset because it made her sad, and I avoided doing it for a few years. I mean, there’s a reason it’s one of the least-read stories I have.

How do you choose your titles?: I have multiple methods. I’m not one of those people who only use song lyrics or poems, though I’ve used those many times. I often hear things and make note of a line or phrase, or use common phrases, or sometimes a line from the story itself. One time I completely misheard a lyric in a song I’d heard on the radio, but never could verify what the song was, and what I thought I’d heard, which was hilarious to me.

Do you outline?: God no. I cannot write like that; it made me miserable in fiction writing workshops when the instructors insisted I had to turn in an outline at the beginning of the program. Once I’ve written an outline, I feel like I’ve already written the story, so why bother. It takes all the mystery out of life, to quote Monty Python. I see stories in my mind like movies, so I just make a brain-movie.

In-Progress: I’m trying to get back to writing the Steve/Bucky WIP I was working on before I had to break for Yuletide, Reverie, but I’m having a hard time convincing myself it’s worth the effort.

Coming soon/not yet started: I have a few ideas floating around but nothing concrete. There was this prompt someone gave me a long time ago that I thought could be super fun, but it was too long to tackle as commentfic, where the Avenger is a local indie newspaper and all our heroes have various jobs there. I’d have to do some thinking and planning, because even though I trained as a journalist and have edited magazines and papers, newspapers are a very different thing nowadays, so it’d probably involve going retro and maybe making it a screwball comedy like His Girl Friday or something. I’d also like to write another time loop story for something, but I have many fandoms I could do that for and can’t decide which. Time loops for all, maybe!

Prompts?: I mean, I’m always open to the idea, but usually it’s just people asking “sēquèle?” and that is never my thing.

Upcoming work you’re most excited about: Finishing Reverie. I have some cool stuff written in dribs and drabs in my notes program, but it kind of feels like I’m writing into a black hole, so I haven’t psyched myself up yet.

I’m terrible at tagging because I am always doing these last, but if they haven’t done it themselves already, I’ll go with @what-alchemy , @cacchieressa , and @sdwolfpup