Lizardbeth's Tale

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to Lizardbeth's Wrap-up of 2018, now that it's 2019!

First, the one I can reveal:

Four Seasons of Change, MCU,Teen, Loki/Sif. Written for the Mischief and Mistletoe Exchange 2018!

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My two big WIPs of 2018 which aren't finished yet, but they'll continue to post in 2019):

The Ice Demon and the Red Skull, MCU, Teen, gen (Loki, Natasha, Cap mostly, but everyone appears)
Ragdoll, MCU, Teen, Gen (Loki, Thor, Frigga, Odin)

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The rest of the MCU short fics:

The Ice Demon and Halloween, short ID'verse fluff of Loki with the Barton kids.

Nevermore Home, postTDW AU when Loki wanders back to Asgard to mourn Frigga

Alone Here in the Shadows (WIP), Infinity War "fix-it", Loki lives, Thor dies.

A Lesson for the Learned, Asgardia-verse, Loki teaches Strange a lesson.

Cut and Reweave, IW-AU, Loki decides to go back in time to change everything.

After an Ending (Loki/Sif) - Asgardia-verse, Loki and Sif come to a new understanding in the wake of their losses.

Declaration (Loki/Steve) - post-IW-AU ficlet, Loki remembers dying.

The Last Contract (deleted scene)- what it says on the tin. An old version of the end of Last Contract.

A Thorn Saves the Rose - Loki escapes his cell in TDW and goes to save Frigga.

Afterglow (Loki/Sigyn) - Storm-verse, in the future, she wants to see his true self again.

Lantern Light - As Odin, Loki needs some advice from the only one who can give it to him.

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I also unexpectedly fell into Reylo Star Wars fandom, but I have only one to link right now.

To Heal, Future fic, Ben wants to make amends with something else he hurt.

I also have a story in the After the Blazing Fire Dies Charity Anthology which is still exclusive to those who donated, but I'll link when I can post.

And a second in the holiday ficathon which is still anon. Soo. that'll be a post on its own, too.

Dear Mischiefmaker!


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Last week we went to NYC for a short vacation. We stayed just off Times Square, saw the main sights - well, mostly we saw big buildings because that's the boy's interest. So I went to the top of both the One World Trade center and the Empire State Building. Spent more money at the Disney store on Times Square getting dumb t-shirts, and a Black WIdow POTATO HEAD, because I collect Black Widow toys and that's the most dumb, amazing Black Widow thing I've ever seen. like, there is no where else to go after you get a Potato Head, right?   (ah, remember when Darth Tater was the first combo potato head? How far we've come). There was also a Hawkeye one which I didn't get because it was hideous, but kinda warms the Clintasha part of my heart that they came out at the same time.

Anyway, so New York. Not counting changing planes, I've never actually been there before, and neither had the kiddo, so that was fun. I don't think he's in a hurry to go back, so I suspect the NYC schools aren't going to be on his college list, but that's okay. We met an old friend of my husband's, who now lives in CT (he was one of our groomsmen at the wedding), and had dinner with him, his wife, and their daughter who's a clerk for the Circuit Court of Appeals there, which you may not know about law, but that is pretty impressive. she's going to have pretty much her choice of jobs afterward.

School starts for the boy next week. We got the word that he's going to be taking what's practically his own math class- he's a seventh grader, but they're designing a class for him and one other (girl) to use the curriculum of the eighth grade algebra class, and then just fill in what they don't already have, since they're both advanced. Part of this is, we know, because two of kiddo's close friends (also math brains) left our school to go elsewhere, so I suspect the school realized it might be getting a reputation of not being able or willing to offer more challenge to kids who need it. So I'm glad about this change, since I think he'll do well in it. And well, this is the world we live in, being a bit advanced now will look good on his high school applications or getting into the science magnet high school. 

So that's the news for now! ;) 

moving is a pain in the ass, in case you didn't know that already through some miracle. ;) 

But we have a new place signed and ready and movers set for the 21, though move-in is officially the 14th, so we get the keys and can start transporting some things we don't want/need the movers to take (it's not far). So, for ex, we have to move the fish ourselves, so I'm going to transfer them each to their own bucket to hang out  while I drain the tank and we take it (and them) to the new place. Luckily it won't be so long it'll have to start the tank from scratch, but it'll be good to drain the water and clean it thoroughly. poor babies will be so freaked out at first (then they forget, luckily, because they're  fish)  

We also now have a big trash bin for....  *deep breath* the garage. That's going to take the longest. my husband has a room full of comics going back to the SEVENTIES (which is going in storage not the bin, I should clarify) and plenty of other assorted STUFF, including baby stuff that's now twelve years old. There's ... a lot to go through. But storage, new place, donation, or trash - those are the only choices at this point - no more "let me put that aside and figure it out later" not-choosing. Which of course is overall a good thing, to make all these choices and really cull out what we actually want and need, versus stuff we just have, but it's daunting to think about actually doing.

 Since we're getting out house ready to sell, today was the day the realtor was here to take pictures for the site. And since I've seen the Terrible Real Estate blog, I didn't want to appear on there, so we had to declutter and clean. I had someone who was supposed to come in to help, to do the cleaning part while I finished up boxing the excess crap and moving it to the garage.  Aaaaand... my helper was sick and didn't show.  :( 

Tuesday we have what's called 'the broker caravan" where other agents come visit the house as it officially goes ON SALE. and then... omg, nothing but showings and open houses and packing and... I just want to lie down and curl up in a ball just thinking about it. *whimper* 

I mean, yes, I want to get out of this house, but omg, all the OTHER STUFF. Moving in college was hard enough,and I/we have ever so much more STUFF now. 

Meanwhile my mom has pneumonia or something else going on with her lungs that's been lingering for more than a month, and that of course is worrying in a person hr age, so hopefully we can get that cleared up. always something, right? 

Star Wars Rebels ficlet


( loss of home )

Holiday Exchange fics reveal!

• Magic's Path, Valdemar. Vanyel/Tylendel. Teen. A small change to a pivotal event in Magic's Pawn (for Yuletide)


• Creature of the Deep, MCU/Thor, Sif/Loki. Mature. Medieval/Merpeople AU. Sif has heard stories of the monsters in the water all her life. He's nothing like she expected.

Other stories of 2015:

MCU related: long fics.

• Comes the Hurricane, gen, ensemble. Book IV of Understanding the Storm. The Avengers have to ally with Loki, but he's got some problems of his own.


• The Ice Demon and the Spider. Gen. Both Thor and Loki get banished to Earth; Loki to Arendelle where protecting it from SHIELD results in a road trip with Natasha and the return of old enemies.


• The Last Contract, Loki/Sif. Modern AU. Sif is an assassin sent after Prince Loki of Jotunheim. it doesn't go as planned.

MCU - short fics, all gen

• Tales of the Storm: Poison at the Feast. Loki and Thor as kidlets.


• Fallen on Snow. Thor dies on Jotunheim. Loki takes it really badly. (WIP)


• First Steps. Baby Loki learns to walk


• Another Kind of Abyss. In his cell, Loki has no use for reality


• Darker Places. If Thor fell into the Bifrost with Loki and they both ended up in Thanos' clutches.

MCU, Sif/Loki, prompt fills

• Frost Blossom. Epilogue to A Crocus in the Snow.


• Best of Bad Choices. pre-canon.  Pretend relationship.


• Through the Front Door, Modern AU, established relationship. Sometimes he forgets important things. Like pants.


• Off the Record. Modern AU. Politician assistants.


• A Secret Between the Seats and the Sheets. Modern AU. Secrets are revealed.


• Drastic Measures..  Future fic. Sif has had it with his focus on his studies.


• The Vampire Lobster. Pale-skinned musicians shouldn't go to the beach.


• Holiday Sexting. Mature. what it says on the tin.


• Would Have. T. Regret is a sad thing.

Other fandoms:

• The Truth in Visions. Star Wars: Rebels.


• The Fire Within. Star Wars Rebels.


• Away from the Shadows. Arrow.


• The Frog Hunter. V (2009).

Fic Writing Meme answers:

:( Answers under the cut )
Writing Goals of 2016:

1. I signed up for getyourwordsout pleding 200K, so that's one concrete goal for the whole year.
2. Finish Last Contract and work on Fallen on Snow, since both those are hanging, unfairly.
3. Looking at the list, it's pretty clear that I was kind of writing... the same things? So I think I need to mix things up some more, be more experimental, more pairings, more fandoms, more other different words. Or something.
4. and to go wtih three, I should finish something original. The other thing that appears a lot above is AU - some of it very AU - pieces that could go to orginal without much effort. But I think fanfic is more social/interactive, so it's hard for me to transition to being more on my own with the writing. 

Title: The Ice Demon and the Spider at  AO3
Characters: Loki, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, etc
Fandom/Universe: MCU (Canon Divergent AU)
Rating: R
Word count: 60K
Warnings: one chapter of torture including sexual assault
Summary: When Loki and Thor's recklessness gets them exiled to Midgard, Loki finds himself back in Arendelle. But his arrival has attracted attention of a foreign military, something called SHIELD, and this time he vows to protect this kingdom from the invaders. Meanwhile Thor finds out the truth of what happened nearly seventy years ago, just as an old evil rouses and threatens the same again.

Note: Sequel to The Ice Demon and the Hydra but set in the ''modern" era, almost seventy years after 'Hydra'. Minor crossover with Frozen, though you certainly know enough by living on planet Earth to read this without having seen it.


Fanworker name: enkanowen
Rating of fanwork: G
Link to accompanying fanwork master post:   HERE

 From the WayBack WIP file -- I was poking around and I found this fic I wrote for the "new" V series. And though I planned long ago to write more on it, I think it's complete enough to stand on its own. I can't imagine there are many people interested, but a few is better than the no one currently enjoying it on my hard drive... 


The Frog Hunter 

Lisa and John May

Lisa's cell isn't as empty as she'd thought. 

Teen (references to past torture and implied past rape), but mostly it's about family