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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-05 12:57 pm

[sticky entry] Sticky: Hey, luvs! It's an Overwatch widowtracerly community!

Welcome to what I'm pretty sure is the first Widowmaker/Tracer/Emily community on Dreamwidth! Widowtracer/Tracemaker, Gingerspider, Lemon Tea/Tremily, Widowtracerly all welcome.

JOIN the community to post. SUBSCRIBE to see it on your feed ("Reading page").

Yes, we're tumblr refugees. We are OT3 friendly but it's not required, we are shipwar-hostile - seriously, don't.

FICS:

DO NOT post fics here directly, do post links to your posts on your journal, on AO3, or whatever.

Suggested post format for new fics:
Title: [title]
URL: [url]
Pairing(s): [pairings]
Rating: [rating]
Other notes: [other notes, if any]
Summary: [summary]
You can include whatever else you want but that block is nice to have as a basic set of information.

And, of course, tag your posts with widowtracer/gingerspider/lemon tea/widowtracerly/etc.

ART:

NSFW: Link to your art, rather than posting it here directly.

SFW: Link or post here, either is fine.

META/DISCUSSION/RECOMENDATIONS:

Here's best, but links are good too. And introduce yourself! Because it's a new community and people like that. ^_^

SEE ALSO:

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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-25 10:14 am
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oh ho ho look what has sound now

These have sound now! Click through for audio if you want to hear it. ♥

Briefly, when Ashe came out, there was a whole lot of 'so much for Widowmaker' noise floating around, because Ashe was supposedly so much better. And I just laughed because she's so very easy to headshot, and this clip is a good example, because the “Double Kill” audio notice that begins this clip refers to two kills just before video start, and did include the same Ashe the clip ends with. So really, it's one clip where I kill her twice.

I guess the girlfriend isn't the only one who can rewind time. Big hat; big target. (⌒▽⌒))

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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-20 10:44 am

my co-writer posted a new story

Title: Gay Twist With A Backside Thing by bzarcher
(The title, I note, is made of snowboarding move names)
URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/17070275
Pairing(s): widowtracer
Rating: Mature
Other notes: Mild Hurt/Comfort, Past Emily/Lena, Snowboarding, Skiing, Biathlon, Minor Angst, Mostly Fluff, Making Peace, Making Out, Hot Tub, Implied Sexual Content, Commissioned fic
Summary:

After a tragedy, Overwatch and Talon agree it’s time to negotiate, but Tracer wants to just work on her snowboard tricks and try to relax.

That plan may not work out quite the way she expected, but there’s always something to be said for starting over.
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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-17 10:34 am
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also

Emily playable on PTR when?
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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-17 10:25 am

since this is a small community still

Since this is still a small community and I'm not posting about a new chapter of anything today (sadness) I thought I'd throw in this very efficient bit of Widowmaker play from a couple of months ago. You know, help keep it active.

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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-08 03:50 pm

the first widowtracer fic i wrote, and also the first fiction in ages

Like a lot of fans, I had this idea in school for a while that I wanted to be a writer. So I went at it, took a creative writing course, did well, wrote some things, and started submitting. I got some nice personal rejection letters from actual head editors saying they were very nice stories but not right for them, and even got a story published in a Canadian small-press lit magazine.

But it was always like pulling teeth to get words out, and I never, ever enjoyed the process at all, and eventually figured out I wanted to want to be a writer more than I wanted to be a writer. (Tho' I did end up writing professionally on and off in non-fiction, where the words came far more easily, and for far more money. My top rate of $1.50/word was pretty tasty, and I got it regularly.)

And I didn't even ship Tracer and Widowmaker at first, despite their obvious chemistry in "Alive." But then, about two years ago, I found this fan comic on Tumblr, and had to know how they could get there, and started chewing on it, and then, the following April, I started getting scenes in my head as this started coming out, and I couldn't stop it even if I had wanted to.

on overcoming the fear of spiders
a novella by solarbird

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10670052/chapters/23618382
Pairing(s): Amélie "Widowmaker" Lacroix/Lena "Tracer" Oxton, Angela "Mercy" Ziegler/Fareeha "Pharah" Amari
Rating: Mature
Other notes: Early chapters are not in chronological order. That changes, and it's for an important reason regarding how the world works. Canon-compliant through 2068, after which, well.
Summary: "A single death," the Widowmaker says, "can change everything." But everyone forgets, this saying goes both ways: a single assassination can change everything, certainly, but so can a single unwanted death, an untimely death not prevented.

Amélie Lacroix, the head of Talon, has been shaping history with the tools she knows best, tracing the strands of past and probability around her, perfecting where to prune the tree of the world with the precision of perfect, single shots, and perfect, clean kills.

What if that's not enough?

Lena Oxton, test pilot, has been presumed dead since her Slipstream vehicle exploded ten thousand metres over Greece, one day in 2068. Now, it is 2073, and there is a broken strand in the web of the world, one which should not be broken, and no assassination - no additional death, no matter how elegant - can fix it. The spider must learn to use other tools, instead.
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Seaborn on the job

hello! i mostly go by Seaborn online. i'm not quite used to dreamwidth yet so i'm testing the waters and all.

i'm responsible for fics memoire de la veuve, moon charms, and the raptor's grip, and i drew that comic where widowmaker belts out a parody of adele on hollywood, to reaper's disdain and sombra's immense glee.

u can find my fics on ao3 at https://archiveofourown.org/users/ccauchemar/works
my tumblr is http://voidsarcade.tumblr.com
my discord is available on request!
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[personal profile] bzarcher2018-12-07 07:03 am

A few fics

Hello!

I write...uh...a lot of WidowTracer / Lemon Tea / Lemon Tea Maker stuff so here's a few I thought I would share!

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Title: Holiday Garage
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13137357/chapters/30050577
Pairing(s): WidowTracer
Rating: Teen
Other notes: It's a lesbian Hallmark movie. As a fic.
Summary: When Amélie Lacroix broke down in the middle of nowhere, all she wanted was a chance to get her car fixed and go home.

But it's Christmas Eve, and maybe things aren't going to work out just the way she'd expected.

On the other hand, they might also work out better than she ever could have hoped.

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Title: Temporal Mechanic
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9081802/chapters/20651095
Pairing: Lemon Tea
Rating: Mature
Other Notes: My take on how Lena and Emily's relationship may have started and how they met.
Summary: The newest test pilot assigned to RAF Evaluation Squadron 41 managed to get off on exactly the wrong foot with her new Crew Chief, but they worked things out eventually. But can their relationship survive a secret project, Overwatch, and Time?

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Title: Sing For Me
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10380540
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Lemon Tea, WidowTracer, GingerSpider, Lemon Tea Maker, background Anahardt, Pharmercy, and others.
Other Notes: Everyone is a Werewolf and probably gay.
Summary: One year ago, Lena Oxton was bitten by a dog, and her entire life changed on the next full moon.

Now, she's about to learn that contrary to what she believed, she is not alone...

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Title: Mixology
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8257129/chapters/18919603
Pairings: WidowTracer, Reaper76, Background Relationships
Rating: Teen
Other Notes: Part of a Fine Dining AU I wrote
Summary: Amélie Lacroix has been splitting her time working the bar at Overwatch and catering gigs with Blackwatch since her divorce. She hadn't even considered dating again before a prank after hours went a little too far. But is she really ready to trust someone like that again?
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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-06 11:15 am

sometimes i think she gets contemplative and morose

Sometimes I think canon-Widowmaker gets kind of depressively contemplative about what she's been made into/what she's become, and I'll just wait like this, somewhere out of the way, before a game starts, because I will RP anything, and I mean anything. Just her, alone, looking at her own caricature.

One time an Orisa found me when I was doing this and asked if I needed a hug. I said "Thank you."

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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-05 07:16 pm
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Helpful posts on uploading media

Getting images and gifs and video onto Dreamwidth is kind of obscure. It's not actually hard, it's just kind of hidden. Here are some posts which will hopefully help with that!

How to upload pics to Dreamwidth
How to embed gfycat
How to embed YouTube
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[personal profile] solarbird2018-12-05 02:45 pm

introduction: i write a lot, here's a list

Hi! Widowmaker main, Tracer co-main, Pharah co-main, learning Brigitte and I'm not a bad D.va in a pinch. I write a lot of Widowtracer and Gingerspider (co-created the ship name) and OT3 the lot of 'em. I've also written some Pharmercy, though it tends to be highly-visible background in other stories, and even some Moicy.

I've got a big summary of my writing over here on AO3, but I'm mostly into splitoff-from-canon AUs. Sometimes they split off really early (the slipstream incident is the split point for on overcoming the fear of spiders, for example), and sometimes they're as canon-compliant as I can make them as of the time I start writing.

I post my fic updates on my own journal, of course, but I'll post them here too.

I'm solarbird on tumblr (still), solarbirdy on ps4, and solarbirdz on battle.net. And I guess that's it. Hi!