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This was my second year participating in ficinabox, which happens to mark my one-year anniversary in exchanges. This round, I was successful in swaps and got to have fun creating for different assignments. I ended up writing 72k in total (which is only a testament to how much fun I had creating for this exchange) and explored a lot of the collection (I'm not too sure how many comments I left, but I think I broke my own record). FIAB is one of my favourite exchanges for how it encourages me to be creative and how I get to selfishly enjoy everyone else's creativity.

Without further ado, the good stuff:

I created for The Boys, Enola Holmes, MCU, Six of Crows, and What If…?.

My recs include A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Song of Ice and Fire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Emperor's New Groove, Harry Potter, Marvel 616, MCU, Murdle, Original Work, One Piece, Oxford Time Travel Universe, Star Wars, and Taylor Swift music video.

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( What I wrote. )

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You can check out the collection, which has over 800 works. ficinabox has different mediums, so not everything is a story! There are over 300 fandoms to explore and many, many great pieces to discover. If you do find something you enjoy, please consider leaving the creator a kudos and comment!

Dear trickortreatex creator,

I'm buries and finnicks.

I've written this letter as my sign-up is tl;dr! This letter will give you tl;dr level of detail regarding my likes, dislikes, and prompts. I've included prompts to help you have an idea of what I like, but please take what you like from this and don't feel like you have to take my prompts at face value. As long as it doesn't hit a DNW, I'm going to enjoy it!

I've included horror and Halloween likes in this letter. I've opted into tricks and treats, fic and art.

If you find one section smaller than the others, please don't think I want it any less! Sometimes, I have a lot to say, and other times I (thankfully) say it concisely. Some of the sections have been built over time (particularly with prompts).

If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them via the mods. I welcome treats (art and/or fic). :)

Thank you for creating for me! ♥

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So, I've been wanting to post a little more about fandom and things I've been reading/watching and figured I might post about this every Monday.

I've had a portion of this post drafted for a few weeks now and figured it was about time to just throw it into the wind.

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I finished Ed Brubaker's The Winter Soldier: The Complete Collection.

I've been waiting for this comic to arrive for over four months (thanks to COVID) and I was not disappointed when I cracked it open and read it. It's crazy to think that this is the comic that inspired Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (Let's not get into how poorly Marvel Studios treats the Marvel comic book writers and artists.)

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I hope to read more Marvel Comics. (Does anyone have good recs for Bucky, Natasha, Yelena, Peter, Wanda and Elektra?) This was a lot of fun to see how characters who may never interact in the MCU interact in Marvel 616. (This is Marvel 616, right? Someone teach me! I tried to Google and it was hella confusing.)

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I also finished watching Raising Dion. This is a fun superhero show that's apparently based on comics. It's about a regular woman who is the mother of a superpowered son and has to help him navigate his powers and his grief for his late father.

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I would recommend this show if you like superpowers in modern society and characters having real problems. It definitely doesn't have alien showdowns (yet).

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For Friday night movie night, we ended up watching The Mighty Ducks which was such a great nostalgic choice. I remember this franchise made me want to play hockey (this is not a career that even took off for me) and ice skate (something I very rarely do). While some of it is unbelievable (surely, hockey is a non-contact sport?), I really loved it. (The romance between Gordon and Charlie's mum was shoehorned in and so bad.)

QUACK QUACK QUACK.

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I ended up watching Turning Red and… I don't think I have words to say how good this movie is, so I will do very brief dot points in a non-spoilery context.

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It disappoints me that some people have slammed this movie for its period talk and exploration of growing up, but I can safely say (with a lot of disappointment) that racism and misogyny have dictated a lot of those opinions. This is one of Disney's best movies.