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It's been raining constantly since I woke up, heavy rain too. So it's been the perfect weather for some tv watching, meaning I'm all caught up on Legends of Tomorrow. I don't know if many other people actually watch, but that last episode was great. Weird but great, which pretty much sums up the Legends. Next up, Supergirl I think.

I filled all the bird feeders with seed a few days ago, and one of the crows must have been trying to feed on one of them as seed is all over the garden path. Between the places to shelter and the seed the garden has been little bird heaven this afternoon, everywhere I looked there were sparrows and blue tits. Very bedraggled looking ones, too, their feathers all damp and fluffed up.

I read an excellent winterhawk crossed with Queer Eye where Bucky was the hero getting a makeover. The voices of the Fab Five were perfect and I was sad when it was over. From Soldier to Slayer.

A lot of new winterhawk stuff has been posted due to the reverse bang, but man, I wish more people would post full stories. I know I'm being all 'shake my stick and get off my lawn fandom old' but I much prefer to get stories all in one go, especially if they're actually complete.

I was in the greenhouse picking tomatoes earlier, and there's something incredibly soothing being in a greenhouse in the rain. It's a shame we haven't got room for a big greenhouse as I'd love to have a comfy chair in there so I could read with the rain pelting down overhead. Sadly I can barely get myself through the plants so a chair is nothing but a dream.

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It's been raining every afternoon and most evenings for about a week over here and I've been tremendously happy about that. Unlike a lot of ppl who get S.A.D. during fall and winter (when there are fewer daylight hours), I get a version of it during summer (because there's too much sunlight.) Go figure.

That WinterHawk fic sounds quite nifty. It makes me wonder, though, how come the QE-MCU xover fics I've seen or read always have Bucky as the character that gets the makeover. It's never Sam or Steve (I have to admit that, until today, I hadn't come across a Clint/Bucky one, huh.).

Also, yeah, I am NOT down for the whole 'reading WIPs' thing at all. If I'm reading something, it better be completed (or abandoned but marked as such). :P

I can understand that. It's the same with all the extremes I imagine, it can easily become too much. Same as when we got that heat wave a few weeks back, that was too much and only lasted a short time. I couldn't imagine putting up with that for a full summer year after year. So, I'm glad you've had that rain to enjoy.

Well, I was about to answer maybe it's because of the whole out of time thing with Bucky, but in that case, Steve should get the makeovers too. Maybe they think he looks perfect as he is, Sam too. Or that it's just Bucky with his long hair, messy bun, murder glare, dark clothes and plum buying ways that apparently screams out, make me over.

I really don't get if your story is finished completely you'd cut it up into parts and post it weekly. And yeah, I know it'll be to get more comments but I just think, post it all already!

Yeah, it's like, bruh, the sun SHOULD NOT BE SHINING AT 8 P.M. >:(

Right? I mean, I'd say that Sam probably doesn't need much of a makeover (his fashion style is quite contemporary, well-fitting, and overall great color wise.) Steve and Bucky, however, could do with some zhuzhing up.

In part, I'd say that some authors choose to post their fics that way to get more hits and kudos? I have a feeling some of it might also have to do with ppl who read on their phones. Chaptered fic is deffo easier than infinitely scrolling, say, a 50k story

It's not my thing, so I tend to subscribe to fics and quietly wait until their completed. And, every 4-5 months, I do go through my AO3 subscriptions to check for fics that haven't been updated in months or years.

NGL, I do want to try posting a long (20k+) fic in chapter format, just to see if there's any difference in engagement levels. Though, fwiw, I don't write juggernaut ships, so I'm not sure HOW much said engagement levels will be affected. Hmmmm.