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Fic Bookclub: Irreparable by aslightstep CH1-10
HEY EVERYONE @sabrecmc gave me the go ahead to start this so this will the the test subject of sorts so see if it'll take off! this top part in italics is me explaining what this is all gonna be abt
basically i think it would be cool to have a fic book club idea where we can talk specifically abt our fav fic, or discussing ongoing wips and ~speculate~ over fics like we do with ongoing tv series eps and such! im thinking we have a unified template to post, so ppl can find things easier?
so to start off, each new text post has to be formatted like the title above: Fic Bookclub: {insert title} by {insert author} {CH # or DONE for complete works}
in the body copy, you always link to the latest chapter of the work (maybe make it nice and big so ppl cant miss that link) and if theres any authors notes for the chapter you wanna add on you can also copy that over. any comments the poster of the FicBC wants to make, make it in the comments section, so we dont set up a system where everyone is responding to one person and rather encourges more of an open discussion format anyone can join.
make sure to Tag the post with the "Fic Bookclub" and "Fic Discussion Thread" below, try to make sure no one else has already made a thread... I'm thinking for ongoing WIPs, whoever posts first is in charge of making a disucssion thread, unless they pass off/ask someone else in the prev chapter post to do the thing for whatever reason?
also if you make the thread, you need to make a comment abt the fic/chapter after posting, so we dont have 10000 posts of these threads and no one excited enough to participate. as for the authors, i think it would be polite to let them know a thread thing exists, and if they want to they're welcome to chime in and respond, but i feel like actual author Q&A and direct feedback and compliments belong on the comments section on Ao3, so the author can savor them. this is moreso a space for us fans to talk abt the work to other fans enjoying the fic. Again u can make posts for completed fics, but i think this could be cool for the WIPs, it could keep the energy levels up for the dedicated authors, and among us fans desperately waiting for that precious update.
let me know what yall think of this system, lmk if u have suggestions, and feel free to talk abt irreparable so far, since this is the handful of fics im following on a chapter by chapter basis
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CH 10
A/N: "Forewarning: In this chapter Tony is going to think things about Bucky Barnes that are Not Nice and will probably rub you the wrong way. He also comes dangerously close to depersonalizing Bucky because it makes it easier for himself. It's not healthy."
Irreparable One Shot series
Retrievable - CH 4
A/N: "I know NOTHING about MIT, if you have gone there I greatly apologize.
Also, Rhodey is only a year and change older than Tony, but I posit that he might have been in MIT a bit longer since Tony apparently finished in like two years. So Rhodey goes in at sixteen and graduates at eighteen/nineteen.
This is far more of a one-shot than an add-on, but further delves into what Rhodey meant by his quote in chapter nine."




This has to be my favorite fic post-cw! I left the movies so mad and in need of a tony-centric fic and this one is perfect in every way.
i agree!! this fic is what the mcu wishes it could be lol
OK SO as usual my poor ass has been crying about ironpanther i have been badgering poor author to make this fic endgame ironpanther jUST BECAUSE IM SO THIRSTY (tho lbr steveotny owns my soul so im not complaining if it does end up stevtony....i trust she'll make it believable)
(tbh i woudlnt mind a gen ending at all either)
anyways since this is abt the Work So Far, man i love this fic. mcu will never be as good as this mainly bc they make action movies with big explosions, while this fic actually gives us solid writing and development and realistic dealings of a world not dealt in black and whites
man ch 10....tony thinking those Bad Thoughts abt bucky but like. its #relatable, its only human to feel irrational emotions at ppl sometimes u know logically dont deserve it (ive felt this before)
tony being a dad tho!!!!! tony telling donnie hes proud of him, offering the olive branch to peter , TONY DEFENDING BUCKY IN FRONT OF THE UN
im super excited for the next chapter, i know aslightstep wrote her way out of a plot hole so im !!!!!!!!
Listen, I'm ride or die SteveTony, but I honestly love this story so much (it's also one of the few that make... actual political sense after CA:CW, which so many stories lack)
Dad!Tony is the best and KAMALA IS A LIGHT IN MY LIFE, and honestly it's one of my favorite WIP's post CA:CW.
tony refusing to acknowledge how Dad he is when hes being the Dadest of Dads makes me so happy
and yes!!! actual nuanced political and international exploration like, aslightstep did what mcu Promised which is a more "realstic" world
and weaving kamala into the story like that i screamed MY CHILD!!! WITH MY OTHER CHILD!!!! NO MAGICAL EVERYONE IS HAPPY AND GETS ALONG no, its messy and emotional KAMALA MAD AT TONY FOR BREAKING UP THE TEAM (IN HER MIDN) AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Same, I'm so bad at multishipping I'm definitely rooting for a Steve/Tony endgame, especially since I think aslightep would be able to pull it off believably, but Irreparable is so much more than a shipping fic that a non-Steve/Tony endgame wouldn't diminish my love for the fic (which I can't say about many fics tbh). She just writes the characters and their relationships so well - one of my favourite bits is when the others find out what was on the videotape and how they reacted to Steve, I read that bit over and over again. And Kamala is the light of my life <3 I haven't had time to catch up on the last few chapters but I'll do that asap, loving this bookclub idea (also excited for a thread on the Carter Cousins Chronicles :D)
FGOD YEA S she just. writes all of them so well, and she deals with steve as this horrible trumatized stubborn late 20s? early 30s? guy who has depression and ptsd and a whole heck of power not some Bastion of Righteousness i love steve as a realistic human with issues and flaws, not some guy magically born with the power to be always right
and do u wanna make the cousin carter chronicles thread? infact it would help me out a lot if you could ahah...
I like it's hard for some people to acknowledge that Steve is dealing with depression and ptsd in MCU but like it's pretty obvious, and fics dealing with that are so rich because like you said, they're not just painting Steve as the one who is always Righteous and Good.
Sure, I don't mind making the thread for Carter Cousin Chronicles :) Would you like me to copy&paste your notes into the body text as well, or just the link to the last chapter and the A/Ns? I think for the CCC, since it's a series, I can include the links to the last chapter of all the different parts? (smoke and mirrors, SNAFU, and the drabbles series)
hmm maybe just the parts i bolded in italics at the top as a small reminders tool?
and yea go ahead! thats a good idea for fic series, since smoke and mirrors is done, maybe you could format it like
Fic Bookclub: Cousin Carter Chronicles by Riverlander974 (SNAFU CH1) ?
since A little song and dance are shorts, you can probably add that in the body copy under the CH1 link w/ title and latest chapter link? (in fact im gonna do that for irreparable add the bonus story Retrivable in the body copy lol)
ok updated my post (damn i hate that this site isnt html) i think we dont think we need to add in a title/ch notice for any of those one shot series fics in the main title headof the txt post...? idk what do u think?
For the CCC one-shot series, I can just include the link to the newest chapter and use the main fic title? (is that what you were referring to?)
oh i was refering to the title of the post so what i had in mind was something like
Fic Bookclub: Cousin Carter Chronicles by Riverlander974 (SNAFU CH1)
(^title of the overall text post)
(v body of the text post)
CH 1 (< this would link to SNAFU ch1)
Cousin Carter One Shot series
A Little Song and Dance - CH 2 (<this links to ch 2 of a lil song & dance)
does this make sense? or is it still kidna convoluted....
Yup, that makes sense, and under CH 1 and the A/N, it could be:
Smoke and Mirrors
CH 11
does this work?
do u think we need to link to smoke and mirrors, since its already done and SNAFU is the direct ongoing sequel? (wait actually it might not be a bad idea to link to smoke and mirrors and mark it DONE in the bodycopy ... so ppl will be reminded thats the part 1)
I'll put it below SNAFU and the drabble series and mark it done?
oh yea good idea :]
just made the post, hopefully the formatting's ok :) thanks for the help!! :D
thank you for making the post and listening to my bumbling explanations lol im gonna pop over to yell about that series ^u^