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[thelinesoflearning]

So apparently there's a WIP meme going around. The problem is, most of my WIPs aren't in progress so much as half-written in my brain and a series of unconnected points of thought in documents if that. So I'm gonna steal it and switch it up a little.

Pick a number and I'll babble a little about the fic I want to write/try to write a little to share (or share what I have if it miraculously exists).

1. Doctor Who: post-S6 probably canon-divergent fic with trans!Rory, an Amy into genderplay, wonky time stuff, the consequences of fucked-up timelines and recalling multiple timelines, a little PTSD, okay maybe a lot of PTSD, and all those good things I wanted more of from canon
2. Hannibal: Hannibal Lecter’s Apocalyptic Cookbook
3. Hunger Games: BDSMverse AU for Cashmere/Gloss (incest)
4. October Daye: The story that takes Luna from getting away from her parents to Shadowed Hills.
5. October Daye: BDSMverse AU, mostly focused on fae teens.
6. MCU: WINTER SOLDIER SPOILERS, HIGHLIGHT TO READ: Howard Stark has been part of Hydra since it began infiltrating SHIELD. Mostly because he just couldn't give enough of a damn to argue, and they assumed it meant he agreed. (This is not an AU, because it's my canon till the movies prove otherwise goddammit.)
7. MCU: WINTER SOLDIER SPOILERS, HIGHLIGHT TO READ: Hopeless and tired, Peggy ends up a member of Hydra. This is much more involved than it sounds. (This is AU, as far as I'm concerned, though I don't plan on directly contradicting canon.)
8. MCU: Clint is bird otherkin.
9. MCU: WINTER SOLDIER SPOILERS, though only barely? HIGHLIGHT TO READ ANYWAY: Sam is bird otherkin and when he found out the program might give him wings, even if it wasn't quite right, he went gimme and didn't let anyone stop him. This should possibly be combined with the above but so far stands separate.
10. White Collar: The one that follows Peter from when he is a tiny thing and talks about growing up, religion and faith, sexuality, the point where you have to make your own decisions, the person you can trust to make those decisions for you anyway when you really can't, the things that hold on after you think you don't believe them anymore, who you are in the dark, and the Great Pumpkin. All those things you don't talk about at the dinner table. Probably divergent from anything revealed after S3.
11. Young Wizards: The one where one of Tom's fans becomes a wizard and there is meta about being fannish and also Tom/Carl.
12. Disney/MCU: Thor rewritten as Frozen, or maybe Frozen rewritten as Thor is more accurate.
13. Disney/MCU : Agent Ariel, codename Hawkeye, is sent to kill the Black Widow. What she finds is not the femme fatale spy she was expected, but a scared and abused girl dressed as a boy just trying to save her family.
14. Hannibal/Incryptid: HANNIBAL 2x5 SPOILERS, HIGHLIGHT JUST IN CASE: Beverly Katz and Abigail Hobbs, the Pretty Little Dead Girl kickass crimesolving ghosts AU. Sparrow Hill Road/Incryptid inspired but no specific spoilers, just set in the same verse.
15. MCU/October Daye: Toby and Tybalt find out the Red Room exists and is experimenting on fae children and take them down. Most of this fic is about Tybalt adopting tiny Cait Sidhe Natasha.

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[magistrate]

Baww, Peter.

...I have a random bisexual Peter headcanon knocking around somewhere, that came out of a thought experiment in queering the White Collar canon without going the Peter/Neal route. (I have a personal-meta post I want to write soemtime about how a lot of my resistance to slash (and het) is that it tends to overwrite relationships I get really invested in as intimate platonic relationships, because intimate platonic relationships ping off my ace aromanticism in ways that ship doesn't. So the slash pairing I tend to be open to tend to be ones where I don't have an investment in the platonic version, for whatever reason.) I'm similarly unsure of how I'd ever make it work.

And ooh, Peter's sense of ethics and morals and the ways in which he judges others and judges himself – all great stuff, really, and so very Peter. And the way he checks his own trajectory against others, and is willing to confide in El. (It's really interesting, comparing him and Neal, because Neal also seems to check his trajectory against Peter's and Elizabeths – call up El and ask her about love, etc. But Peter is in some ways so much more reserved, even if Neal is the one whose entire life is about hiding who he is and all his vulnerable spots.)

You'll have to tell me if you ever start putting this down.

(Also, the Burkes are so much love. ♥)

[thelinesoflearning]

See, I have happily abandoned canon for self-indulgent aus where everyone is in one big happy poly family. (Well. Peter/El/Diana/Jones/Neal/Alex/Mozzie/Sara, with individual relationships going from absolute romantic devotion (Peter/El, Diana/Alex) to absolutely nonsexual and nonromantic siblingthings (Peter/Diana) and gradiants all along the way like vaugely siblinglike but also sexual (Peter/Alex) and nonsexual but romantic and kinky (Diana/Neal, which is a whole other fic of itself I keep meaning to write). Junes and Hughes are off in the background romancing each other and being amused by everyone fumbling around figuring out how the poly thing works.) (Though Peter/Neal does not actually interest me in and of itself. Peter/El/Neal is another story, and adding more people in on that is always good.) And I tend to default that everyone is bi.

(I also tend not to gravitate towards character with a particularly strong religious upbringing though, which may be why the combo of that default and Peter caught my brain hard.)

(And god, I would love to read that meta if you ever wrote it.)

And. I am getting tired but yes, yes, all of this is why I want to write this. Ethics and morality and White Collar really interest me. Everybody's specific shades of gray and variants? Like Peter's proverbial good man and 'earning it' and El's very nonspecific and very open to gray and Diana's very law-aligned morals but also her very personal devotion to Peter and willingness to do things like get drawn in on the musicbox and. this is without even going into the technically morally gray/dark characters and where they draw their lines, because most if not all of them do have lines. (we are not counting, say, Adler. who is fascinating in a totally different way. or Keller.)

One day. I will come back tomorrow and see if I can put something to paper, because I really do want to write this. It is so outside my experience in so many ways (says the wiccan-raised faab who has never had much sexuality angst to speak of) but I get horrifically caught on it. Even now when I've more or less given up on following canon. (I do keep meaning to poke back, I just... kind of lost touch entirely.)

[magistrate]

Haa. My headcanon for White Collar has gone exceptionally screwy with regards to actual canon events. Like, malfunctioning-firework screwy. And I may be getting more variants of White Collar that have a DPR/BTR!Jack Harkness in them than ones that don't. <_< He gets EVERYWHERE.

I managed to wind up with a ABO variant of White Collar where people can shift into different modes in response to various psychological and physiological stressors, and heats just tend to make all the emotions in an equation really intense and unpredictable and not necessarily sexual, and Diana kinda ends up as Neal's alpha when he experiences a traumatic omega swing after a lifetime of being a beta. Because Neal's life can always get more complicated. But yeah, all of Diana's relationships are always so fascinating. I loff her.

Re: everyone's ethics, I love how very Lawful Good Peter is. And I love when the edges of that get poked at, and he has to come to terms with how that's not always the best. (Though I wish we saw more on how Mozzie's chaotic neutral or Neal's wobbly chaotic good is not always the best, either, because it's all so fascinating and they all have so much to learn.)

And now I'm just rambling. And I should probably also sleep.

[magistrate]

OH RANDOMLY while I'm thinking about it, you may want to check out my fanfic journal magibrain, which is where any such meta would probably go? And I feel like I should point you toward frith_in_thorns, who is in White Collar and October Daye and who may interest you.