It’s come in at 6400 words, though that might change with editing.
It still needs a title though. And I really have no idea. And unlike Bleary, the last line of the first chapter didn’t make me go “oh, there’s the title!”
(and yes, that is really how it happened with Bleary)
I was tagged by @semper-ama. <3<3<3
If I fill this out honestly across multiple sites and accounts, you will all learn a deep dark secret. Not that I write RPF, but that I used to write Twilight fanfic…and that I’m even proud of it. But it will also involve a bunch of fic that none of you will have any interest in…hmmm. Will keep this to AO3 with one exception, then.
1. Your 3 fanfics with the most comments:
Prelude in C (1019)
A Bleary, Hopeful Shade of Blue (420)
Revelations (106)
2. Your 3 fanfics with the most kudos:
A Bleary, Hopeful Shade of Blue (400)
Prelude in C (302)
Revelations (169)
3. Your oldest fanfic: A Twilight fanfic that ended up being in the Prelude ‘verse, but was not a prequel. It was really an experiment to see if I could write even a 3-chapter link up between existing works. The experiment was successful.
4. Your latest fanfic: The Weight of a Gaze
5. Your proudest fanfic: Probably still Prelude in C, though Bleary and Revelations come close.
6. Your longest fanfic: Prelude in C (243,604!)
7. Your 3 fanfics with the most bookmarks:
A Bleary, Hopeful Shade of Blue (66)
Revelations (23)
Assumptions (21)
8. Your top 3 crossover fanfics: I haven’t written any crossovers
9. Your favorite character to write in fanfic: At the moment, Chris and Zach, but I’ve fallen deeply in love with any character whose head I’ve spent time in: Chris, Zach, Jim Kirk, Spock, Carlisle Cullen, Edward, Esme.
10. Bonus Round: A fic you love that isn’t already listed: Pictures with Santa
and Compromised
I’m getting to this late, so I think pretty much everyone has been tagged. If you follow me and you haven’t been tagged already, please consider yourself tagged now.
Praise the muses!
Yay! *o/*
P.S. Can you send some of that muse magic my way? Mine seems to be on an indefinite strike. -_-
I had an alpha chat last night with my new beta, and just explaining things “out loud” help coalesce a lot of things that had been sort of floaty in my mind, and then she helped me think through the timing of some events. So I now have a clear path, which makes things SO much easier.
Praise the muses!
“Let me help you,” Chris said, startling Zach with his closeness. “And do we have the recipe for the seafood lasagna? Because we need it… we definitely need it.”
Zach chuckled. “I’m pretty sure we do. I’ll have to pull it out next time I need you in an agreeable food coma. Speaking of,” he said, looking sideways at Chris as he swayed on his feet, “I’m not sure vertical is a good choice for you at the moment.”
Chris scrubbed his face and looked around the room. “What time is it?”
“Sevenish.”
“So that’s,” he counted under his breath,”three in the morning.”
“Or five in the afternoon.”
“I never had time to acclimate to Pacific Time; I just took a nap there. I should try to stay up a little longer though. Otherwise I’ll never acclimate.”
Zach tilted his head, taking in the dark smudges under Chris’ eyes and the pallor of his skin. “I don’t know. You look like you could sleep ten hours straight. This isn’t a press junket. There’s no reason you need to shift time zones all in one day.”
“Yeah, but it feels like a waste to be in the same house with you and be in different rooms.” And that was nice. Zach clung to the words and let them reassure him.
“I’ll come to bed early. Just, you know, after Nathan’s bedtime.”
Chris chuckled ruefully. “I’m so old.” There was resignation in his voice.
“You’re not,” Zach said, finally turning fully to Chris after drying his hands. He reached out to touch Chris’ hips tentatively, and was relieved when Chris moved forward and relaxed into an embrace. “But you’ve been running ragged, and you need to recharge. So recharge.”
“Okay. I’m not going to be good company anyway. I may as well. Tomorrow I have snowman-building lessons.”
“Maybe. We definitely have to wrap presents. Do you want me to come up and help you find your stuff?”
“S’okay. My toiletries and sleep pants are in my carry-on. Can I unpack the rest tomorrow?”
“Yeah. Just pile the suitcases up in a corner so I don’t trip
on them coming to bed in the dark. And leave my carry-on on top.” He
started to pull away, but Chris squeezed him with a bit more force.
Then he framed Zach’s face with both hands and kissed him. It wasn’t a
passionate kiss — it was practically chaste — but it tasted of comfort
mingled with weariness. Zach just hoped he wasn’t the cause of the
latter.
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Beta reader for Bleary!verse fic. One of my long-term betas has asked
to beg off since this one will start out rather angsty. I’d like to find someone with good grammar skills who knows (and likes) the Bleary!verse and is willing to review a chapter at a time. The first chapter isn’t ready yet, but I wanted to give myself some time to find someone who was really interested.If you are interested, please PM me. If you know of others who might be interested, please reblog.
More of the new thing…
Zach sat down as his mom put a plate at his place and told them both to dig in.
“How is your movie going, dear?” Margo asked Chris, pouring wine for them all.
Chris’ smile lit up, and he finally looked like his old self. “It’s going to be great. We’ve had some technical setbacks with all the rain, but the shoot itself is going really well. My co-star, Gal, is just fantastic. I’m just there to support her and help her character shine.” Zach took a bite and tried to ignore the jealousy blooming in his chest. “She’s going to be such an amazing role model for girls. I’ve been thinking about that a lot, lately, you know? If Nathan had been a girl, whom would we hold up as cool, complex female characters that he — she — could look up to? There are more now than there used to be, but they are still rare. Rey from Star Wars is supposed to be great — Zach, we need to sort out when we can see that — and I really think Wonder Woman is going to contribute to that list. So my job is to show that Steve Trevor can be rescued without it becoming a threat to his masculinity, or something to apologize for, or some sort of joke. He’s a strong man, he supports her, but he’s mortal and has mortal failings and would not make it without her.”
It was the longest speech he’d heard Chris give on his character since he’d left for England. It was comfortably familiar — the sort of conversation that they’d had about characters throughout their friendship. But it also made Zach uncomfortably aware that they hadn’t been talking like that since Chris had left. Probably even before that, actually. Zach hadn’t been asking these very basic questions, and he felt oddly out of step.
“Gal is really fun, too,” Chris continued, souring Zach’s thoughts further. “She keeps the cast laughing.”
“That’s usually your job,” Zach said, his voice sounding strange even to his own ear.
Chris looked at him mid-swallow and gave a small, awkward shrug. “I haven’t needed to as much because she’s already charming everyone into being happy on set.”
Zach looked down at his food, suddenly not as hungry as he had been.
Beta reader for Bleary!verse fic. One of my long-term betas has asked
to beg off since this one will start out rather angsty. I’d like to find someone with good grammar skills who knows (and likes) the Bleary!verse and is willing to review a chapter at a time. The first chapter isn’t ready yet, but I wanted to give myself some time to find someone who was really interested.
If you are interested, please PM me. If you know of others who might be interested, please reblog.
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