The recipe for becoming a good novelist is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook. (Even if it’s not true, it’s a good story.) They only exist in stories.Īnton Chekov, who was a doctor, said, "Medicine is my wife writing is my mistress." Misery drives you to become a great artist, but the art does nothing for your misery, which drives you to drugs, which makes you a lousy artist. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.Ī good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument.and the occasional bar fight. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. Tiny Spy Assassin Steve: The Shorts (Avengers AU)įanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk.TSAS: Steve Rogers Versus The Multiverse.
Part of the Foodieverse series also available at AO3. It's not quite what Minopoke suggested but the whole thing gave me an idea. Starkerized then suggested I don't know who fits the bill for this job but my first thought was FOODIEVERSE. but actually they just really secretly review restaurants. Okay but Michelin inspector AU where they use all the cheesy spy lines and dodgy excuses and their SO is convinced they work for the CIA or something. Many of the company's top executives have never met an inspector inspectors themselves are advised not to disclose their line of work, even to their parents (who might be tempted to boast about it) and, in all the years that it has been putting out the guide, Michelin has refused to allow its inspectors to speak to journalists." "Michelin has gone to extraordinary lengths to maintain the anonymity of its inspectors. Notes: Minopoke on tumblr posted the following: Summary: Steve was not prepared for this at six am on his day off. Warnings: Some era-specific homophobia, nothing significant beyond cultural background noise. Also you guys, the banana cream twinkies are real. I messed around with timing a little and it's probably not 100% historically accurate but also the US never developed a super soldier serum so I'm feeling okay about my inaccuracies. Inspired also by shanology on tumblr, who responded: Headcanon 100% accepted, this was absolutely a thing that Science Nerd Bucky Barnes would have made Steve go check out. and uh since this is technically a fandom blog? Fandom: Whoever cleaned out Steve's apartment definitely found at least one sheet of three increasingly close hugs and then a kiss tucked inside a book hidden under something.
for a lot of people (read: lgbt people) it was the first/only opportunity a lot of them had to have pictures of themselves as a couple, because there was no photographer, so it was a few seconds to be themselves and have PROOF of themselves to hide away for when they needed it. Notes: Inspired by this post by thisisamarvelblogg on Tumblr: i have so many feelings about photo booths. Summary: Seventy years ago, Steve and Bucky had their picture taken.