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[captainswanbigbang]

CSLB Author Spotlight: technicallysizzlingcloud

Today’s featured Captain Swan Little Bang author is @technicallysizzlingcloud!

How long have you been writing for the OUAT fandom? Did you write anything else (original or fan fiction) before joining the OUAT fandom?

...1 year?

What sort of fic do you like to write? What sort of fic do you like to read?

I like to write behind-the-scenes sort of snippets. I like to read pretty much anything.

Besides your Little Bang fic, do you have anything else in the works?

3 part season seven canon divergence.

If this is your first time participating in a Big or Little Bang, what made you decide to sign up? What are you looking forward to?

I am looking forward to sharing the piece and being a part of other author and artists's own contributions.

Featured Fic: Piercings

I'm a sucker for Captain Swan domesticity.

Check out @technicallysizzlingcloud on FFnet!

[spartanguard]

Demonology 101 by @technicallysizzlingcloud

Inspired by this Demon AU:

Person A, sitting in study hall, bored as hell, starts doodling in their new notebook. It isn’t until they draw their sixth pentagram that they remember those things summon demons.

Luckily enough, the demon is really understanding of the mistake! And lonely! And clingy!

[this story is SUPER fun!!!!]

[hook-come-back-to-me]

Hand-tingling season 6 angst.

In the back of her mind, she knows it’s a dream.

But she doesn’t care.

His fingers are interlaced with hers,

and his breath tickles her ear as he leans into her.

“Swan,” his voice is so real that it wakes her.

Her hand is even tingling as though he’d really been there. 

“Killian?” she asks before she can stop herself.

But there’s no reply.

There’s nothing but an empty space in her bed and

her bare ring finger.

-x- 

[snowbellewells]

CS Fic Rec Monday: Author Rec @technicallysizzlingcloud

I have just been crazy about @technicallysizzlingcloud​‘s CS fan fiction for ages!!! She writes with such real, raw openness and honesty and deals with the sorts of issues, trauma, and healing that our beloved pirate and princess never got time to work on the show (at least not that we got to see).  I genuinely can’t tell you how many times I’ve re-read just her “Things Fall Apart (the center cannot hold)” one shot alone!! (The way Emma breaks about something that had to have plagued her, and finally tells Killian, and he helps her with the burden, is so cathartic!)

So, for today’s CS Fic Rec Monday, I thought I would give you some of my other faves of hers as well. (She’s also sariahbradshaw on ff.net, if you have trouble finding any of the fics or their later chapters with the links I’ve given.)

“And Baby Makes Three”  - This two shot is really powerful, and again the angst and the emotion and the way Emma and Killian lean on each other in this really gets me every time I read. Though I should warn you, there is also real pain involved here - and there is a quite sad supporting character death.  Still, it’s truly affecting and well done as well.

“Sleeping Arrangements” - This fic is billed as another two shot, but there are actually four parts to it now that it is completed. It gives us a lovely look at how Emma and Killian have changed each other for the better and made room for one another in their lives. It also gives some wonderful, determined Captain Cobra - and on a rescue operation at that! - before it’s done, and some great alt 6b action (it would have been really interesting to see this played out on the show.)

“Stop All the Clocks” - This one too has a lot of angst and can hurt, but in a good, cathartic way as Captain Swan struggle and heal and find a way to deal with their pasts and fight their demons together. At present, there are four parts of a planned six and I continually check, hoping to see how it all turns out. This took place toward the end of season five. Instead of Killian being sucked into the Land of Untold Stories, they are allowed time to deal with the repercussions of the Underworld.

[themightyrumbeller]

Make love not war. Create positive around you and your loved ones.

[ineffablecolors]

Please one more old hook with the baby? Please, please, please

awww, don’t tempt me! this universe obviously owns my heart right now but I dunno if there’s more worth adding. Then again, they are having a baby..

[unfolded73]

Hey, feel free to tell me to piss off but I'm a nurse and you're description of addiction is freakishly spot on. How did you do that?

First of all, thank you. And sorry, but this got long and personal.

I’ve had a few friends struggle with alcoholism, so some of what I wrote came from that. But alcohol abuse is a spectrum, right? Not a black-or-white thing. And I’ve known and do know many people who may not classify as alcoholics, even high-functioning alcoholics, but who use alcohol in a variety of unhealthy ways, myself included. 

*sigh* Yeah, myself included.

So sometimes I just took my own experiences and just turned them up to 11 for this fic. I’ve never carried booze around in my pocket or had a drink at work or drunk anywhere near Killian-quantities of alcohol. But have I relied on drinking in social situations to overcome my introversion? Do I sometimes let one drink turn into many because I lose the ability to judge when I’ve had enough, only to be filled with regret later? Have I enabled and been enabled by my spouse? Yes and yes and yes. Not that often, but boy, writing this got me thinking about myself in some hard ways.

The weirdest thing about writing this fic is that it made me think about drinking a lot. And I don’t mean think about it in a negative way, which is what you would expect. I mean I would be sitting here writing and it made me crave a drink, which I found terribly worrisome, to be honest. And then the most disturbing experience I had writing this fic was putting the Milah flashback down on the screen, because that’s me. I wrote that whole scene by just remembering the way I feel after getting completely hammered, and turning that into Milah, albeit from Killian’s POV. I’ve never articulated any of that before. It’s not flattering.

So it was good for me and hard, and I’ll hopefully be a little healthier because of all this self-reflection. It also seems to have drained me of all of my writing mojo for the moment, but I suppose that’s temporary. (Right? Please say it’s temporary.)

[phiralovesloki]

Soulmarked. The stupid hook tattoo at the end always gets me.

AHHH I’m so glad! I had to do a lot of editing to kind of be like ... “Okay, does it feel realistic that she doesn’t see it until he shows it to her??” Because damn, did I want the reveal to go the way it did. It was so important to me that she NOT know first, because I wanted him to recognize her mark even with the tattoo over it.

[acrobat-elle]

technicallysizzlingcloud reblogged your post:Harbor In the Tempest (1/5)

Me: I will never read an incomplete story.Me: (Five minutes after acrobatelle posts this) goddammit.

Hahaha. Thanks for taking the chance! Like I said in the notes, the first 3 chapters are already done and I’m 1k into the 4th, so I think you’re safe with this one :).

[captainswanbigbang]

CSBB Author Spotlight: technicallysizzlingcloud

Today’s Captain Swan Big Bang Spotlight features @technicallysizzlingcloud!

What is your writing process like?

Vomit words onto 50 pages with Merlot in hand...edit and condense to 25 pages the next day without wine. Wait a week and reread to see if it's decent or actual garbage. Replace superfluous adjective. Add bad pun. Post.

What do you think your greatest strength is as a writer?

Listening to how others tell a story.

What’s a particular trope or kind of story you’ve wanted to try, but haven’t gotten to yet?

Real world AU or non-canon relations. My imagination seems not to stretch that far.

Who is your favorite OUAT character to write?

Ruby: She's a bad-ass she-wolf who is loyal to a fault and looks fantastic in cardinal red.

If you are new to the Captain Swan Big Bang, what made you decide to sign up? What are you looking forward to?

I loved almost every piece that came out of the last BB and thought it would be fun to participate and see what I could concoct.

Favorite Fics:

Stop All the Clocks (FFnet)

It's kinda an imaginary gap between returning from the Underworld to Hyde because I have issues with the fact that Swan and Hook were just peachy after being Dark Ones and screwing each other over.

Piercing (Tumblr)

I love writing domestic snippets. This would be my favourite piece, but I posted it at 1 a.m. and just said, "fuck it" to editing, so there are all these little errors that drive me up a wall. Other than that, it's cute.

Newton’s Third Law (Tumblr)

I love the idea of Killian in an aquarium and being a total dork about it. 

Check out technicallysizzlingcloud on FFnet

[unfolded73]

I don't think it has a name, but Henry + CS pregnancy. Like, everything you write with Henry is my favourite though.

Wow, thanks! This was in answer to a prompt, so yeah, I didn’t title it. I seem to be giving Henry a string of girlfriends in these future flash-forward fics. Whatever happened to poor Natalie?