Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)

How current is "current"? Given how little work I've done on the goal I mentioned in the Challenge #2 post, that one doesn't qualify as anything but wishful thinking! Yet, anyway.

Last year, though, I did get another installment done for the Depths of Cold series I started back in 2019. It's based on what backstory we have on the version of Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) that appeared in the Arrowverse, specifically in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Most fic about his childhood dwells hard on the abuse he suffered at his father's hands. However, it seemed to me that anyone who got half-starved and beat up as much as he does in fic would hardly grow up to look like Wentworth Miller, the actor who played him. I wanted to write something more nuanced.

There are at least a couple more installments to go; but I got Part 6 up last year. "Cold Storage" actually is about Len's meeting Mick Rory (Heat Wave) in Juvie; but, after all, that's part of the backstory too.

Was it really February when I last posted? I know I've been doing so less and less (and never as often as some), but still! I've certainly done quite a bit of writing since then. Just not here.

That post was a round up of last year's fic. I said then:

I honestly feel that in some ways my biggest accomplishment has been finally putting Filezilla on the old laptop I've been using. I have thus been able to upload to my website. As I suspect pretty well everyone who reads my fic does so on AO3, this probably seems trivial. However, I do like designing pages for the stories I write; and it has been frustrating having them waiting around on the computer with no way to put them up.

Now, I used to regularly write here about the new pages I'd made for my website. It's well over eighteen months since my old PC broke and I started using my mother's laptop; and—despite the delay in getting Filezilla on it—it has, at this point, been quite a few months since I started to upload new pages again. Looking back, I see that my 2017 Yuletide stories were the last fic whose webpages I wrote about here. It's long past high time that I got caught up!

When I take a look at my 2018 year-in-review, the list is headed by my first Legends of Tomorrow ficlet. Given that I watched and loved most of the CW Arrowverse shows from the first episode of Arrow, it's surprising that it took me so long to get the urge to write fic for them. The commonality of themes and textures I've used in their webpages makes it sensible to deal with them all together.

Anyway, that's as good a place as any to start.

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