WIPs (or lack thereof)

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i keep a running list of fic ideas and WIPs over here but there are a couple of things i just want to put on the record:

• i am currently writing an entire phd thesis, to be submitted in the next few months. as soon as that's accepted you will all have to call me dr. renaissance, but until then fic is very much riding in the backseat.
• that said, i can't stop writing otherwise i will go properly insane, so i will probably keep posting fic that is short and ridiculous
• right now my #1 fic priority is the wolfstar big bang; i've cut down on fests to the point that i'll basically only take part in two r/s fests that are dear to my heart (wolfstar big bang and the tantalising r/s games reboot somewhere down the line) and yuletide. i had to pull out of small gifts in december so might give that a miss this year, since it clashes with yuletide :-(
• i'm also diving headfirst into the magicians fandom - took me long enough. read the books in 2014 and to this day the magician king remains one of the only books i've shed irl tears over. actually what happened is i bawled like a baby over certain events near the end of the book. i full on sobbed. i started watching the show when it first aired but i was so furious about certain decisions in s1 regarding julia's narrative that i ragequit. then sometime last year i heard about 3x05 and i was like huh maybe i should give this another go. well lads suffice to say 3x05 was not quite what i expected it to be from what tumblr was saying, but by then i was already deeply invested in several other storylines (surprisingly - julia), and i caught up just in time to watch 4x08 as it aired. look, it's not great television. (except for jason ralph's frankly exceptional acting, and the harriet scenes in six short stories or whatever. that was fucking incredible. have i mentioned i love harriet?) but it's doing what lev grossman was too cowardly to do in his brideshead revisited magic AU fanfiction: letting charles acknowledge that he's fully in love with sebastian. so this is my hole and i live here now. apart from anything else, i missed the joy of coming up with canon div and speculative canon on the fly, as a show airs!!
• soooo most of my short shit will probably be magicians fic. up next: "Two-Body Problem (With Irregularities)" - part canon div, part memory spell romcom, part exploration of eliot's fatal flaw being that he sleeps with other people's boyfriends. (i mean, did you expect me to miss (a) nigel the bastard son of a british lord - literally tailored exactly to all my favourite archetypes; (b) brian "i have a girlfriend" uhhh okay brian well now i have to write a fic about infidelity, oh look, eliot is RIGHT THERE)
• i have a couple key WIPs that people are invested in, so the priority list for those is as follows: (1) turn "long for this world" into a one-shot, sorry for attempting to make it chaptered and then not updating for months on end, my bad; (2) part 2 of the hufflepuff draco chronicles, entitled "Enemies of the Heir," wherein 12 year old draco learns some important lessons on his journey to becoming a class traitor
• then the ones that nobody is invested in but me: (3) "A Colder War," my r/s canon div monster which is actually significantly less monstrous now that i've tightened up the plot, roughly 30% disaster teen marauders, 30% remus and sirius deal with their issues by hatefucking while there's a war on, 40% remus raises harry; (4) an as-yet-untitled secret history cold war spy AU, set during the space race and, for the most part, in monte carlo - which could be described as "AU where henry knows they put a man on the moon" (this one is genfic but i'm thinking richard might, like, make out with all of them, just for the hell of it)
• it's just... going to take me some time to get around to all of this, alongside doing the whole original fiction thing... so until i have the time to devote to my WIPs etc, you may see a lot of short and sweet magicians nonsense... thanks for sticking around :')