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Tec ([personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales) wrote in [community profile] heavyartillery2020-04-02 10:53 am
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WIP Thursday [2020-04-02]

Since I totally forgot about WIP Wednesday—because what even is linear time at this point, am I right?—it's time for
WIP Thursday!



Bring us your snippets, bring us your dialogue, bring us your awkwardly worded and your perfect imagery!
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muccamukk: Eddie and Andy standing in a bombed out airstrip sharing a look. (TP: Ruins)

Andy/Eddie Amnesia

[personal profile] muccamukk 2020-04-02 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Working on a fic where Andy survives the war, but his head injury combines with general trauma to make him forget the war years.
"Have you heard from any of them?" Everett asked, pushing past Andy's silent awkwardness.

"From who?"

"Your company."

Andy flushed, realising that he'd utterly misunderstood Everett's earlier comment, not known a military term that should have been as familiar as breathing. "No," he said, then hesitated. That wasn't true. Andy sighed and pulled the blanket around himself even though he was already too warm. "I had a stack of letters waiting for me when I got home, all with Marine Corps postmarks, but..." Andy stopped. He didn't know how to say it felt like reading a stranger's mail. He hadn't recognised a single name, and they'd all known a different man.

"I'm sure you'll feel up to it soon," Everett said, but his smile was disappointed. He knew as well as Andy did that Andy had let his boys down.

I'm not really sure how to deal with the letters though. I don't want to include entire letters, but a lot of Andy's understanding of the situation is going to depend on them, so, there should be some of the letters?
thrillingdetectivetales: Close-up of a hockey player wearing the Arizona Coyotes [NHL] red sweater. (Coyotes)

[personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales 2020-04-02 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
So the hockey fic has more than doubled in size since last time I mentioned it, which I'm pretty proud of considering that it's a format I've never done before. I'm currently working on a transcript from a fictional episode of Hockey Central, which is a radio show/podcast I listen to almost on the daily, wherein the hosts discuss the video of Eddie Jones being outed and I thought, what's better to pique everyone's interest in this already incredibly niche fanfic than a look at some characters you (probably) don't know talking about the impact of a player coming out in a sport you (probably) don't care about? ;P

STEWART: - but the thing that's kind of jarring me, on this one, is - it's the suddenness of it. The disrespect for a player's personal privacy. I mean, we're all used to the - the celebrity of hockey, right?

MAREK: [behind] Sure, sure.

STEWART: There's a certain amount of that that comes with being an elite athlete on the pro circuit, a certain amount of fame. You're in the public eye, y'know? And you expect a certain amount of scrutiny, from fans, or from the press. But I think in this case, it's a situation where that celebrity had the potential to backfire in a big way and it kind of did. I mean, you gotta be a little pissed off on Jones's behalf, y'know? Whether he - however he identifies, whether he's gay or bisexual or whether it was some big misunderstanding or whatever the case may be, it's frustrating to see some of these media outlets latch onto the whole situation as some big scandal when it's not really anybody's business. 

MAREK: See, Stewie, that raises the question for me—when a player's public conduct has an impact on the overall well-being of the team, does it become anybody's business?

STEWART: Well -

MAREK: When a player is reported for making inappropriate advances or when a player engages in conduct unbecoming as a figurehead for the team they represent, those kinds of incidents get reported and they become everybody's business.

STEWART: Right.

MAREK: Or so Twitter would lead me to believe.

BURKE: Oh yeah, everyone on Twitter's an expert. Doctor, lawyer, professor, you name it.

MAREK: Now, I'll grant you, this is kind of a different situation –

STEWART: [top] This is a completely different situation! This isn't a player assaulting a cabbie over some loose change or a - a player consistently showing up in the tabloids being tossed out of bars. I haven't seen the video myself, but from what I gather, Jones wasn't doing anything different than any other guy out celebrating a win with his buddies might've been doing if he ran across someone he liked. It's the fact that it's another man in the video that's drawing everyone's attention and that's, y'know, that's a problem. Especially in our community, that's a problem.
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