According to ao3, I posted the first chapter of Freezer Burn five years ago today. It was my first MCU story and a sort-of return to comics(-ish) fic after the better part of a decade away. Which means that (a) yes, I am a fannish dinosaur and (b) I didn’t name the story after the working title of CA:tWS; they named the working title after my story.
I started FB with only a vague idea of where I was going – and then had to abandon that vague idea once Marvel announced that Captain America 2 would be a Winter Soldier movie because at that point the story was MCU-compliant and I utterly refuse to create fanon where canon is imminent. (Or, why I wrote a POV character for almost five years in SGA without using his first name because he didn’t have one.) So I didn’t know who the bad guy was until about halfway through – about 100k words in is not a recommended point to pause and figure out what the heck you’re doing, for the record. Which is why there are enough red herrings to stock a fish counter and a few too many lovingly detailed meals before I get around to advancing the plot where it’s actually going.
The story turned out okay, I think, and then became a series with both official sequels and unofficial connected parts as I worked out characters (or, why the master list for the series is different from the series page at ao3). I got over my canon compliancy fetish and the end result is that the story is MCU through a very thick 616/Brubaker filter. I officially closed the files sometime after Revenant, but then I kept adding to it, so it’s sort of a zombie now. But I’m not even considering trying to write Codename: Pandora until I get the albatross of a stalled wip off of my neck.
Anyway, it’s been five years since I dipped my toe into that pond and I’m celebrating. 🙂
Freezer Burn is one of my favorite MCU/616 stories and a regular reread. If you haven’t read it yet, please do for a Steve Rogers that is an unabashed foodie, a Clint that is no one’s fool, a Natasha with her own agenda and a Bucky that shows up when he’s damn well ready.
And to @laporcupina – thank you. I followed you over from SGA and have never regretted it.
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