#gundam wing fic search

[findthatgwfic]

Hi! Am looking for an old fanfiction where Duo was a vampire and worked as a night DJ (or something similar) and he hired Wufei (but I can't remember for what). Eventually, Duo found a way to become human again and he went for it despite the fact that he would go blind (he had retinitis pigmentosa I think), because he wanted to live a human lifespan with Wufei. Hoping someone knows what I'm talking about! 🤞🤞

I'm sorry I don't know this one. Hopefully someone else will recognize it.

[claraxbarton]

Get to Know Me

Tagged by @dwisp

List 3 ships I like: cross-fandom trash that I am: McMattDrai, Winterhawk, Jay/Slade

First ship ever: oh wow, so I am old as DIRT. Gundam Wing, 3x5 was like... the first ship I wrote for?? DON'T SEARCH, you won't find the fic.

Last Song I heard: October Passed Me By (by Girl in Red) from a new playlist I'm still trying to settle into.

Favorite Childhood Book: the real answer? Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Huh, you might say, that collection of short stories is dare I say, E rated. You're right. My grandmother gave it to me and then she died so... I read the shit out of that. Uh, the less wildly inappropriate answer that STILL explains a lot about me? The Little Prince by by Saint-Exupery. No, I didn't read it in French until high school torture french.

Currently Reading Now: hrpf like... that's it. But for my real life? A lot of textile history books.

Currently Watching: hockey. I'm not good at watching tv shows because I hate literally everything (I also hate hockey but I love it too). I recently tried that TERRIBLE Apple TV adaptation of The Buccaneers and like. Holy FUCK. Costumes are revolting, production design is garbage, anachronistic social behavior is rampant, but the soundtrack is full of bangers and some of the (certainly not from Edith herself) dialogue is pretty cute.

Currently Consuming: Diet Dr Pepper #2

Currently Craving: a good excuse to get out of going out to dinner with a friend from grad school tomorrow night.

Tagging: @schildmehdchen @deformed-globule @bibliofran @carcrash429 @fannyyann @coggedcorset @jules-in-deep @keyshui @mollynoble

[moriavis]

Answer the Questions and Tag 5 Fanfic Authors

I was tagged in this by @incorrectcoldflashblog on May 6th. /o\

1. How did you get into writing fanfiction?

I'm absolutely about to age myself, but I had watched Gundam Wing and went searching for fic, only to find nothing written for the pairing I wanted. So I thought: Fine, guess I'll do it myself.

2. How many fandoms have you written in?

IDK, 16? I think?

3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction?

I released my first fic in August of 2002. So 22 years now?

4. Do you read or write more fanfiction?

I definitely read more fic than I write.

5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer?

Uhhhh. I think I've definitely improved my use of body language in stories. I've noticed a tendency to rely more on body language now than what the characters are actually thinking, and I can't decide if I like that development or not.

6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

What haven't I researched at this point? I've researched the grotesque things, like murder and cannibalism, and I've also researched pirates and the Golden Age of Islam, which which was happening at the same time as Europe's Dark Ages. I've also read an incredible amount about poisons and diseases.

7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?

My favorite comments are when people pick up on foreshadowing and clues for something I have planned in a later chapter--especially if they're following along with each chapter and updating their guesses! It's for real the best thing about releasing long fic.

8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about?

I genuinely have no idea. I don't think I've ever written anything particularly fringe? Correct me if I'm wrong and you know better@

9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write?

Long fic, for sure. If I start a story and I don't know how long it's going to be, I can handle it. If I start a project and know intrinsically that it's going to take a long time to finish? I get overwhelmed by how much work I have to do and start avoiding it. (Shout out to Resonance!)

10. What is the easiest type?

Prompts that involve a single scene or a single moment. That way I can create all the backstory in my head and I don't have to write it all down. LOL

11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?

I do my fastest writing on my laptop, but the screen hurts my eyes and my cats always get curious about what I'm doing and knock things over. If I'm trying to get something down on a page, I'll grab one of my notebooks and handwrite. Doesn't give me a headache and I can at least get a basic idea down.

12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?

I don't think there's anything I've been too nervous to write. Resonance definitely intimidates me, but that's the only one.

13. What made you choose your username?

When I was a teenager, I was naming a character for a story... I think the name I chose was Autumn? And my mom was like: Why don't you name her something cooler, like Moriavis?

Which I loved. It was a long time before I realized I had basically named the character (and myself, once I got a livejournal) Dead Bird in Latin.

Tagging: @scheherezhad @saekhwa @kisahawklin @qlala @sproutwings

[tunglo]

7, 3, 2, 1 and 9 for the fandom asks please (:

Character in my fandoms that I think I’m most like.

I'm not sure I want to be like any of my fave characters to be honest, they're all very messed up people!

2. What character archetype am I attracted to?

I'm usually attracted to writing the failing caregiver. They want to help, to do good, are great at self-sacrifice... but it never feels like enough. They invariably end up tragic and lonely, or losing it completely.

3. First ever ship and why.

I first came across fic at 11 or 12 while searching for song lyrics and found a Gundam Wing Heero/Duo songfic. I was so excited that it existed - then immediately preferred the (at least then, no idea what it's like now) very rarely written Wufei/Quatre... Other early stuff I remember reading was Tom Paris/Harry Kim, Gohan/Future Trunks, Sam/Frodo, and Holmes/Watson.

I can never forgive Sherlock for what it did to my ability to find romance fic featuring repressed Victorian gentlemen. Seriously though, I spent a lot of time in my early teens reading absolutely everything on Sacrilege! There's one story I still think of often even now - Watson's war wound was somewhere rather, er, intimate, but Holmes offers to show him how he could still enjoy sex. Which, yeah, is the set up of a million and one fics. But! Though Holmes loves Watson ardently, Watson can't love him back. Even after all the intimacy, trust, etc. It broke my heart. It still breaks my heart. It's probably a big part of the reason why I so love the format of Character A pines for Character B - gets Character B - realises that it's only for a limited time - pines for Character B for the rest of their life, but now it's worse cos they know how good it could be and their relationship with B is strained and awkward. <3333

7. Top 3 Favourite books.

I don't really read a lot of fiction these days, other than fanfic or official tie-ins. It just seems like so much investment to discover a whole new world, characters, etc. I read a few non-fiction books a week though, and always have some research projects on the go. So, yeah, my top fiction books are all childhood faves:

The Mennyms - Sylvia Waugh

Children of Winter - Berlie Doherty

Jane Austen (I couldn't pick a title, so just all of them.)

9. Character death you still haven’t moved on yet?

I was very sad about Darth Maul's death but Star Wars fixed it for me...

[gundam-wing-archivist]

I got this in my email

Subject: ficsearch

Message: Hi, I've been looking for a fic where I can remeber neither author nor title and I was hoping that you could help me. In this fic Duo has wings and heero is forced to rip them out (I don't remember why). Later or before Duo is kept prisoner in a dungeon and the prince of the castle wants to try Duos blood, but dies because the blood is poisonous (maybe that's a totally different fic?!). And still later, Heero takes Duo somewhere where Relena and Co live, where Duo has to endure them mobbing him, because of his wingless state...for reasons I can't remember the wings grow back and he and Heero live happily ever after. If that sounds in anyway familiar please please please contact me.

[vegalume]

Vegalume, I was wondering if you recognized a couple gw fics that i can't find. Ive been trying to remember enough details to google but it's been too long. One was a counting crows songfic (lyrics: i am folded and unfolded and unfolding, i am fine) and i think was 2x3 or 1x2x3? It was very emotional. The other was a preventer undercover fic, 1x2 in a fighting ring and Heero coming in. I know he ends up fighting a kid to the death and zechs was the bad guy. Do either of those sound familiar?

I’m sorry, I haven’t read many 2x3 stories, however the other one sounds really familiar but I just can’t put my finger on it.

I’ll think on it and see if it comes to me.

Maybe someone else reading this will recognize them.

[lucy-hp]

So I am once again in search of good fics to read.

What would you recommend? (at least 10k words)

Tarlos

Buddie

McDanno

It can be any genre as long as it's a happy ending (no mpreg).

I'm open to other ships / shows. (more than what I put in the tags)

[youremarvelous]

nothing puts how glorious ao3 is into perspective like trying to read fanfic from old fandoms and having to navigate angelfire websites with autoplay songs, tiny fonts, and bright, busy backgrounds that render the text completely unreadable

[meggie-stardust]

12, 33, and 50 for the writer asks :)

ooh thanks, friend!

12. How do you deal with self-doubts?

I don't know! If you have any suggestions, I'll take them! But actually, when it comes to posting fic, I kind of remind myself that my fic won't be the worst thing out there (I've already written the worst things I'll ever write and some of them you can still find if you search hard enough), and it won't be the best either, so really what can I lose by posting? As long as one person likes it, I'm happy.

33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing?

Usually. Sometimes, I just need something familiar and not distracting (this usually ends up being the Labyrinth soundtrack, or recently The Mountain Goats' Jordan Lake Sessions). Sometimes I need a very specific playlist to get in the right mood, and vibe of the story.

50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

I used to have so many more weird story ideas in the earlier tumblr days when we would do things like 3 sentence fic prompts. (In fact, I have a collection of them on AO3). But outside of that... For @mpanighetti's birthday last year, I almost wrote him a epistolary Gundam Wing fic that was just letters between school administrators where Heero was enrolling. Like this idea cracked me up, and then I was like, this is a such a niche joke, I should just tell him and not write it all out.

[gwlemonyshenanigans]

Spotlight Friday

How are we enjoying the event folks? :D

It’s another friday, so time to put another creators in the spotlight:

Bobo-is-tha-bomb

Where can we find you? (Ao3, FFN, Tumblr, etc?)

AO3, FFN, Tumblr, Ghosts of the Vanguard

Who is your favorite character?

Heero

Which is your favorite Gundam?

Wing Zero Custom

What is your favorite episode or scene from Gundam Wing? (Show, movie, or manga)

It’s definitely the scene where Heero wakes up after self detonating. The first time I seriously thought he died, so I was so happy to see him wake up!

What got you into the Gundam Wing fandom?

In the literal sense: my cousin. She would print fanfics for me to read, back in the day when I didn’t have a computer at home. When I finally got a computer I was able to search for fanfics myself and from there on things turned into what I do today.

Which type of fandom media do you prefer to contribute? And to consume? (art, fics, metas, etc.)

Fics are like 90% of what I contribute. I ocassionally draw, and I cosplay, and of course I build Gunpla.

What is your favorite trope?

It’s probably overused, but I love enemies to lovers and those slow burn romances. The latter one always has me on the edge of my seat.

Shamelessly plug the work you are most proud of and the reason why!

Last year my answer was my story Every Moment. Right now I’m saying it’s Masters of Destiny. It’s not finished yet, but I’m proud of what I’ve written so far. Before this I never wrote a multi-part/chapter story for Quatre. I was a little scared to write for him as I never had a ‘phase’ for him like I had for the other pilots. I was afraid I’d do it wrong, but so far the comments I’ve gotten on it are super positive!

[thewillingpersephone]

Searching for #13x11 fanfiction in 2021

Results from different search strategies within the gundam wing/AC category of the major fanfic archives (as accessed 06/06/2021):

AO3

Treize Khushrenada/Lady Une [relationship]: 68

Treize Khushrenada AND Lady Une [as characters]: 172

Fanfiction.net

Treize K. AND Lady Une [as characters]: 60

use of the "pairing" option gives only 7 hits that, even for 13x11, is a sorry underestimation

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Comment

As the two archives do not fully overlap, I discovered it can be useful to have a tool like the Fanfiction.Net Downloader in order to download and trasform fanfiction.net stories into a format that can be easily printed or read offline. It works with multichapters fics, too.

However, many 13x11 stories are still hosted on LJ and even in the archived form of the old geocities shrines.

To search for LJ 13x11 stories is sort of a nightmare but can be rewarding. Without LJ, I would never had access to the whole of the Numbers Universe or the three sets of 50 sentences for an implied 03x11x13 version of a story arc posted to fanfiction.net. I'm sure there are other good stories to rediscover out there.

Through oocities you can access a list by author of 13x11 fanfiction as archived in 2009 (feeling like an archeologist...). Incredibly, some links still work. 6x9 is also included.

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A musing about 13x11 stories

They're few and I'm in the habit of reading all I can grab (also because I'm probably an obsessive-compulsive person). Of course, there is the good, the meh, and the not-good. Of course, I particularly enjoy well-written stories (as a non-native English speaker, poor grammar and poor ortography sorely test my translation skills). But I respect all the stories I find, because I like to believe that any of them was actually a love letter to the same characters I love. And, to me, it was a valuable life lesson to realize that the inspiration for some of my favoured 13x11 headcanon, the one that cheers me up in rainy days, actually came from stories I would have summarily labelled as meh or not-good.

[findthatgwfic]

I am looking for a fic that was post war. The pilots were gathering for a party with Relena and company. Duo was en route but was waylaid by (space) port authority. They were prejudiced because he was coming from L2 (I forget where the gathering was but it was somewhere “fancy”) Duo bides his time and asks for the guards to call Relena/et all to verify who he was and that he was shops to be there. Long story short Relena/Une? Comes to the holding facility and hints at who Duo is (Gundam pilot).

Also, if you know of any other fics like this where outsiders make observations of their prowess or learn of their past roles during the war would be greatly appreciated. I am a sucker for such “reveals”. Or anything where they are bad asses in public(some one threatens them or others and they take them out).

Or any Preventer or “mission” fics. (The arrangement and Freeport by maldorer etc).

Thank you!

P.S. Can be general or pairing. Preferred pairings are 1x2x5 and any permutation there if or 1x2x3x4x5 (so hard to find!)

I don't remember reading this one. Hopefully someone else will be able to find it for you.

[crystallized-iron]

Tagged by @hellfre - thank you!

20 questions, writer’s edition!

How many works do you have on AO3?

97 apparently :)

What’s your total AO3 word count?

319,418 words posted on AO3. Gosh, that’s so many!

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

MCU, X-Men movies, and a few for MacGyver (2016).

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Well, let’s see.

Should We Go? (pre Bucky/Winter / Tony) Prompt: an avenger unintentionally tells “winter” that tony doesn’t want him around any more

Comfort (pre Bucky/Tony) It's a cold night in the tower and Bucky starts feeling bad memories creeping up on him, so he goes searching for comfort.

Nightmares Brought Me Here (pre Bucky/Tony) Tony is still suffering from past events. Still shaken from a nightmare, he ends up in Barnes' room.

Sir’s Gift (Bucky/Tony) Learning that it is Christmas time, DUM-E realizes he must come up with a new gift for Sir. At first he decides he will build something again, until someone comes to the lab...

Sparring (pre Bucky/Tony) Prompt: Tony realising he likes sassy, leggy and man bun…but only on Bucky.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes I do! I try to respond to every comment I receive, but I’ve been late the last several times, and I fail a lot when it comes to commenting on fics myself...

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Um... Probably No More Chances.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Maybe Night Sky? To be honest I’m not sure but this one isn’t so sad.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I do! Um... They’re not posted yet (nor edited enough for posting). A few different collabs I’m actively writing with @ria-grey :D

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I think so? I can’t remember which one. And it was... confusing. I remember that much.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Kind of ish. Majority of my smut writing is done in collabs.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I think I was once notified of one on one of those sites we were warned about for like a couple weeks and then it sort of disappeared?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes. One of my own, and one that’s a collab with @ladydarkphoenix-blog

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I think we know the answer to this one by now. Yes.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Apparently winteriron by the answers above lol. But currently it’s a long list of names. Should I?

Alex Summers/Angus “Mac” MacGyver (MacGyver 2016)/Jack Dalton (MacGyver 2016)/Murdoc (MacGyver 2016)/Tony Stark/Steve Rogers/Charles Xavier/Erik Lensherr/Hank McCoy/Logan Howlett/Peter Rasputin

It’ll make more sense once the stories (this is currently a two part monster of a story) are edited and posted.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Zombies vs vampires vs humans...

What are your writing strengths?

Gosh, I don’t even know anymore.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Productivity. Description? Repetition?

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Unless I made it up, I don’t usually add any.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

As in posted? Um... -thinks back to ff.net days- ... Fruits Basket? Gundam Wing? I’m pretty sure it’s one of those two.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

So far, it’d have to be The Gifted. I know I haven’t updated in a long time. Be patient with me still. Been dealing with a lot.

tagging: whoever wants to do it!

[mijlen]

Anyone else old enough to remember all the intricate nomenclature that used to go into fanfic ship “tags”? I’m astral projecting back to 2001 to even think about this shit. People nowadays like to clown on the terms “lemon” and “lime” but I assure you, that was not where it ended. If you tagged a fic with Name1/Name2, that meant it was a romantic but not hardcore fic about that pairing. If you tagged it Name2xName1, that WAS hardcore fic, and it almost always meant that Name2 was topping. Old fanfic nomenclature was weird about that, yeah, but it’s FASCINATING in retrospect. 

Don’t even get me started on Gundam Wing fic, where you had to know the discrete number assigned to each character so you could parse what “4x3 with light 2/1″ meant while you were searching up fic. SHIT WAS WILD. 

It makes me recall how in the mid 00′s I would get so thrown off that portmonteau ship names rose in prominence. Honestly, I think Harry Potter had a lot to do with this shift in mores. All the other fandoms I came up in were pretty uniformly by the book with the lemon/lime, /, x, “who tops?” ruleset, but after the HP nation attacked everything changed because they were the first fandom that rose to a peak of significance via the internet alone. 

Anyway, I’m not going to get into that. I’m old, things are better now in many ways and off the shits in others. 

[mercy-misrule]

a thing i have been complaining about since i was like 10 years old and first read fanfiction

but man

i really hate reading stuff where the author clearly doesn’t like a character and they choose to show this by having every other character hate them

man, if you don’t like a character, don’t write them! maybe they went on a  holiday! marry them off somewhere or idk just don’t write a story where they are integral to the plot

i hate it most of all when the author’s fave character is also my own. because its shitty reading about the character you like suddenly being a hateful dickhead to someone pivotal in their story.

but like. christ. you know what, at least in the year 2000 people had the courtesy to label their fics as “Relena-bashing” so i knew i could avoid them in my endless search for gundam wing fic that wasn’t a highschool au

[nautiscarader]

Is there any pairing that you like that you have not written about, or mentioned?

I don’t think I have mentioned Lina Inverse/ Gourry Gabriev from Slayers anime. This was one of the first couples I shipped hard and searched for them on-line. Same for Heero and Relena from Gundam wing. 

I definitely remember these “shrines” to OTPs people were hosting on their Angelfire or Geocities pages with fics and fanart...