The drifters who've gone under time

AND THEN I started noticing as I was proofreading that someone had messed with my copyedits on the stories that were included in this issue that I did edit. I couldn't believe I kept missing the same issue over and over, so I checked my edited files, and the appositive commas were in there. I'm beyond furious. At least I finished the whole book, and now I can wait for them to send me the pages I was forced to edit in proof.

Anyway. I meant to answer the meme questions from the other day and this is the first chance I've had. I got my Yuletide story posted 24 hours ahead of time, but I knew I'd have to edit it more in the meantime after posting. I have never done this. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable. But life is a bitch lately, so I had to. Thank you guys for asking!

dorinda asked for number 3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

I ended up liking so many things in lucida, obscura that it really surprised me, but I especially liked this one because of how Bucky's been thinking that maybe what's happening to him in the story is madness, that it's basically him slowly losing his mind instead of something really happening because of the experimentation:

Bucky struggled to look Steve in the eye: it threw him back to seeing Steve that first time in the factory, tall and strong and just familiar enough that he thought it was a dying dream. It was possible all of this was some dying dream, his own Owl Creek Bridge.

kore asked for 23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

I'm still thinking of this really sad story that belongs to the War Dogs series, and I didn't write it last year even though it was what I thought about most, and didn't this year either. I think a few people would be really mad at me if I did. It's not that there's anything that's noncanonically sad happening, in that I'm like killing off a character who isn't in the films or torturing someone , but it's just a very sad story idea and I'm sad most of the time anyways, so it's what I want to do. Maybe 2019 will be the year. I also didn't write a time loop Kings fic I was thinking about (or Political Animals, I hadn't decided).

minim_caliber asked for 15. something you learned this year

I've been puzzling this one a lot and I'm not sure I can pinpoint anything that would answer this. I mean, I learned a lot of things about just general lifestuff, but for fic, I'm not sure. I'm always doing research especially about WWII stuff, so I'm sure I picked something cool up, but for the life of me I don't know what that was. 2018 feels like it's been about ten years long, and stuff I might have learned in the early part of the year has vanished. I know I did a lot of research for the Balck Panther related stuff, but can't think of anything specific off the top of my head.

ratcreature asked for 28. longest fic you read this year

I went hunting through my bookmarks because I wanted to see what the word counts were for my history, and when I hit this I laughed: Thrust Issues, sineala's Steve/Tony fic where Steve is...uh...extremely well endowed and Tony volunteers to take one for the team to help him with his less than stellar sexual experience. It's 132,000k of porny goodness with lots of feels, so, you know, it'd be pretty hard to beat that word count.

winter_soldier asked for 24. favorite fic you read this year

I'm kind of afraid to answer this because I still have SO MANY fics on my reading list, not to mention that Yuletide is coming up and sometimes my favorite shows up in that. Honestly, I'm so incredibly far behind that it's embarrassing, I haven't read any of this year's Cap RBB stuff nor the Cap BB. I didn't even start on last year's Cap RBB stuff till this year, so I might answer this with Gardens of Asgard, which hit my sex pollen, Steve and Bucky in Asgard, Sam and Thor are good bros spot very well indeed.