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My hands have been feeling better these past three days, but I'm still worried about how they'll feel when I sit down in front of that laptop again tomorrow. Or even after I'm done getting this thing posted up everywhere, though at least it was nearly done already.

Title: The StarkPhone
Fandom: Guardians of the Galaxy
Characters: Peter Quill
Disclaimer: Now Disney owns them.
Warning: References to canonical character deaths
Note: Immediately post-"Endgame."

( Put you on repeat, play you everywhere I go )

Title: Habeas for Superheroes
Part: 9: Other Attacks
Fandom: Daredevil/Avengers
Characters: Matt/Foggy, Marci, Karen, Ellison
Disclaimer: Now Disney owns them.
Warning: References to violence and murder
Note: Third installment in my Femme!Foggy series.

( It was late in the day, when she was reading her way through the indictment against Steve and noting all the mentions of Bucky Barnes by name, that it first occurred to Foggy to wonder why he hadn’t been charged with the others. )

I suppose it was too much to hope for that the best of Marvel's TV shows would escape the massacre. Still, read Joe Pokaski's comments on Cloak and Dagger's cancellation was pretty heartbreaking. All so the people whose Avengers movies haven't been half as good lately can control everything, replacing perfectly good shows with ones that won't find it easy to match them, especially with a possible abuser as lead for one of them. (I don't think they'll replace Renner. It isn't the early days of the MCU anymore, and they probably won't think it worth it.) I'm still worried they'll replace the TV characters and erase Marvel TV from its own universe completely. (They cannot be planning to bring Matt and Jessica into the MCU right now, no matter what the rumors claim. They cannot be planning to do anything with Matt for another year, or with Jessica for another year and a half.) In which case, as someone who's been attached to the TV shows way more than the movies, I'm running low on reasons not to walk away from the franchise in protest.
Especially since I may have finally found something new to obsess over in Critical Role. Though even there, I miss all the puzzle-solving and such of Relics and Rarities, the future for which is also now making me wary. But they do have a great sense of adventuring as well as humour, and even scenes where the characters talk things out with each other. I've now moved forward and am watching the new episodes as they hit YouTube, though it still hasn't been easy avoiding spoilers.

We're getting the carpet replaced in the library backrooms this week, and yesterday, they started slightly ahead of schedule, driving us all out and into the main library in the afternoon. It was a good thing we're closed on Mondays. On my way out, I finally got the message sent around noon of my would-be date for the night cancelling on me. Which left me honestly relieved; it wasn't a date I had been looking forward to that much. It was only when sitting in an Italian restaurant in Old Town later (didn't care for their pasta, sadly) that I found out my acting boss had been replaced by another acting boss for the second time in recent years. I'll worry about him if he's still around once the all the new carpet's down.
Then I got home, and was finally able to fix the cover art on my latest podfic, so I can finally post it:

Title: Nemesis
Author: Sholio
Original Fic: Here
Fandom: Iron Fist
Characters: Colleen/Danny, Misty, Ward
Music: "Long Way Round" by Eagle-Eye Cherry
Disclaimer: Universe owned by Marvel & Disney. Original fic by Sholio. Music isn't mine either.
Warning: Vague talk of sex and violence
Notes: Still getting the hang of how people so this soundwise and musicwise...

I now have four episodes of Jessica Jones to go, but I've reached a point where I don't want to watch anymore, because it's getting too painful. It's always been a series that's hit home harder than most Marvel screen adaptations have. I was hoping to write fic in response while I was in New York, but I don't know if it'll leave me with the heart for that. (Especially when you know the Snap must have happened not too long after it.)
This has been a stressful week in general. It says a lot, I fear, that I didn't even have much of an emotional reaction to the news that my acting boss is going to be replaced by another acting boss. At least now I'm getting a general idea of my weekend schedule.
I'm also close to done with the first season of Relics and Rarities. The fifth episode was another thing that packed a punch, even if things were more or less fixed at the opening of the final episode. (That must have been a long week for those who watched it when it aired.) It's kind of stunning, that we experience these characters only as talking players and a few sketches, and yet it's so easy to get invested in them.

I think the traffic's getting worse. Metro's blue line shuttle is now trying to get to King Street by going up Duke Street, which I suppose they thought would be quicker. But at 5, when all the streets of Old Town are clogged, I honestly think it takes longer!
At least I had time to watch the Jessica Jones trailer. I wonder if it'll finally hit me when I'm done watching that the Marvel Netflix universe will be gone for at least two years and probably longer, very possible forever. (I suspect if Hulu does do any revivals, they'll do so in 2023, just to avoid that inconvenient period of time when half the characters are supposed to be dead.) But even the buildup isn't the same, when the other Defenders' twitter accounts are no longer active, so we no longer have their takes on the trailers. (Jessica's unimpressed sentiments was one of the best things to happen before Daredevil's third season.)

I fancied when I came home today I would have a post to make about it. But honestly, I don't know what to make of it yet, so that is all I will say right now.
Meanwhile, I did do some writing this week, and discovered in the process that I had finished the next part of this some time ago without realizing I had done so. So I'll be posting that instead.

Title: Habeas for Superheroes
Part: 8: The Counterattack
Fandom: Daredevil/Avengers
Characters: Matt/Foggy, Marci, Jennifer Walters, Karen, Malcolm Ducasse, Jessica Jones
Disclaimer: Now Disney owns them.
Warning: Ross on TV again
Note: Third installment in my Femme!Foggy series.

( First message: They’re filing charges against Scott Lang’s girlfriend and her father just for inventing technology? Surely even the Accords can’t be used to call someone guilty by association. Second message: Another announcement from Ross tomorrow. )

But so far Cloak and Dagger's second season is as good as the first and maybe even better. It's even got a serious chance of undisputedly making itself Marvel's best TV series yet. After last night's episode, part of me is a little sorry I abandoned my original idea of giving Adina Johnson the penultimate fic in this series in favor of giving it to Mina Hess, but on the other hand, I don't think I could've written her half as well as the show did!
Besides, it did mean I got to write this instead:

( Mina Hess, Eleven Months Later )

I went for a walk in DC today. Too much of it left me feeling sad. So I came home and finished this:

( Stacey Yorkes, Nine Months Later )

Well, except I really did most of the Carol ficlet last week, but I'm posting two this week.

( Leslie Dean, Seven Months Later )