#anandabrat

[lilolilyr]

my @b-and-w-holiday-gift-exchange fic for @anandabrat: Helena is a fame-hating bestselling author of a novel that is going to be made into a film, Myka is an up and coming actress... Can they get over their differences and find a way to be together?

14k words, rated T, no warnings

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[ninth-on-eight]

Here is an illustration I made for the Bering And Wells Big Bang for the 13th anniversary, it's a cover art for the amazing story by @anandabrat (beta'd by @madronash) you can read it here : the Remington Standard #2

summary : It’s 1997, and when a quiet teenager in a book shop finds an old typewriter with the previous owner’s name and address inside, she writes a letter. When the previous owner writes back, she takes the 1881 date in stride, and two kids start to fall for each other. This story isn’t an AU so much as an epistolary reboot, letting Helena and Myka flirt, chafe against the people who underestimate them, become adults, and ultimately find a way to the Warehouse (together!) without MacPherson or Paris as catalysts. The only obstacle in their path is time, and we all know that’s no match for Myka Bering or Helena Wells.

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[beringandwells13]

Big Bang Story Teaser #1!

Hey everyone! The Big Bang teams are working hard on their stories and artworks, and this week I'm gonna tease what's coming, with a short summary for every story, one per day!

Coming in on April 17 are @anandabrat (writer), @madronash (beta) and @ninth-on-eight (artist), with this:

It's 1997, and when a quiet teenager in a book shop finds an old typewriter with the previous owner's name and address inside, she writes a letter. When the previous owner writes back, she takes the 1881 date on the letter in stride, and two kids start to fall for each other. This story isn't an AU so much as an epistolary reboot, letting Helena and Myka flirt, chafe against the people who underestimate them, become adults, and ultimately find a way to the Warehouse (together!) without McPherson or Paris as catalysts. The only obstacle in their path is time, and we all know that's no match for Myka Bering or Helena Wells.

Doesn't that sound amazing? Starting us off with a fresh take not just on the story itself but on storytelling in general, with the epistolary format! Don't know about you, but I can't wait!

If you're as excited as I am, please show your love by reblogging this (go wild in the tags too!) - nothing is more motivating and encouraging for a creator than seeing their work get love and attention! So, let's all cheer them on on their home stretch!

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

Put Your Little Hand in Mine

submitted by: anonymous

Put Your Little Hand in Mine (22079 words) by @anandabrat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer Summary: Bing! You know you need more queer sci-fi rom coms in your life.

Please tell us why you like this fic so much!

It's a perfect Groundhog Day artifact caper that gives Myka a new relationship to time and Helena time to heal.

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[purlturtle]

The Leverage Mashup you never knew you wanted

so.

@anandabrat and me were talking today, as you do, about Leverage and Hustle and Jaime Murray, and about putting Jaime into the Leverage crew. And then I thought, why stop at that? Heck, why not have an all-female Leverage crew, with some of our favorite characters? So, we humbly present for your consideration:

Hitter

This was actually the one that took us the longest - but here she is:

angry as hell: ✔ frighteningly competent at all kinds of combat: ✔ militant, violent past: ✔ can be utterly charming one moment and kick your ass the next: ✔ men fear her, women want her: ✔ will protect her family at all cost: ✔ soft, introspective side that she only shows to those she trusts most: ✔

So yeah.

Hitter: Kira Nerys

Hacker

(GIF source)

So, hear me out. In Leverage, Hardison isn't just the hacker, he's the heart of the team. He has the emotional openness and wisdom to keep people honest and allow them to be vulnerable. He creates that atmosphere. Also, while (if we stay with Warehouse characters) Claudia seems a more obvious choice, I do NOT want to whitewash the only character of color on the team. So!

Hacker: Leena

Thief

There is no other. You do not change perfection.

Thief: Parker

Grifter

We did want Jaime Murray on this team, didn't we?

Grifter: Helena "nobody knows what the G stands for (not even she herself)" Wells

Mastermind

Listen, you know that you're gonna get Bering and Wells from me, right? I mean, am I not known for that by now?

Smart, organized, knows everything about everything, plans for every possibility, can be as ruthless and pragmatic as the job demands.

Also, a history of loss, a bad relationship with her father, emotionally closed off, takes forever to let people in and allow herself to embrace the found family that has assembled around her? ✔

Mastermind: Myka Bering

Bonus: Extra Grifter

And, when Helena needs to leave for a bit to find herself, she introduces the team to:

Tara Cole, aka Amanda Martin, aka Myka's ex-wife. (hey, remember when the Leverage crew pulled in Maggie for the Davids Job?)

[anandabrat]

What if Cam wasn’t just trying to be coy when she said she didn’t want to have dinner with Rebecca?

[fyeahcompetentwomen]

Galadriel vs. Nomi Marks

Remember: don't vote on "who would win in a fight", but on "who, when given a task that fits her skillset and talents, would do that task better: more comprehensively, faster, with more pizzazz, with less collateral, etc."

Endorsements! "What is she good at?"

Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings: Ancient elf, knows pretty much everything about the world, magic and she's also competent in battle

Nomi Marks, Sense8: Nomi is a top tier hacker, but as a sensate is also capable of asking her fellow cluster members for their help using their skills at any time, then employing them in her own body in real time. (Are they her skills? That depends on how you define consciousness... Certainly the cluster often acts as one being.) If you consider these as part of Nomi's competency, whether they are strictly hers or not, then she is also a skilled actor, kickboxer and brawler, musician, chemist, bus driver and mechanic, and bartender. Oh and she can speak like eight languages. (thank you tumblr user @anandabrat)

[lavendelhummel]

I was tagged by @onaperduamedee to do this game, thank you for that!! I obviously am not good at short questions-short answers but I will do my best ;)

Last song: I started my top100 of 2023 list from Spotify while dying my hair earlier, so there was a good mix. The last one I consciously remember was Ne m’applle pas, by Coeur de Pirate. (ah, looking for that link, I saw that there was Requiem on Water (yes, from the twilight soundtrack) Talking to the Moon, Greensleeves, Bobby, and currently River from the Sky, playing in between)

Currently watching: Star Trek Voyager! I enjoy it so much! It’s fun and I like the characters so much! I like how they care for each other and that the relationsips are so various and most of them not romantically but non the less important. They seem so real. And I enjoy the fact that it’s episodic plots and a lot slower than newer series a lot at the moment. I was overwhelmed with the fast paced dramatic stories and got stressed out by things I actually like. Voyager is calmer and let’s me actually relax, so that’s great.

Three ships: Siuaraine (Wheel of Time), Bering and Wells (Warehouse 13), and… those are the two I am hung up about. Oh, I also wrote fic for Marla/Fran from I care a lot. But not currently. I am currently positively surprised by liking a hetero ship for the first time in years, Tom/B’Elanna from Voyager, it’s cool to see that when the characters are well done, I can also like them even though they are not gay. But keeping it with wlw and also WoT, I am still sailing my little Berelain/Annoura (WoT) ship all by myself.

But yeah, I’ll leave it at those two, there is no third invading my thoughts as much as them.

Favorite color: used to be blue, but I discovered that I like red. Also yellow! Maybe that. But seriously I love colours in general, the more colourful the better, I am not choosing.

Currently consuming: The weekend. Or, ehm the plant hair-dye on my head?

First ship: ouufff, first fic I read was about was Amelia/Owen from Grey’s Anatomy. Well. Made me question a few things about myself because *I liked her so much*.

Relationship status: Very single in my little bubble, and trying not to feel bitter about my well of loneliness (ha, what a great lesbian pun I got in here 😅).

Last movie: But I am a cheerleader with @lilolilyr! I fell asleep… sorry. But we watched D.E.B.s right before, I was awake, and it was great.

Currently working on: Trying to combine two intense work things with also taking time off, to feel less burned-out while doing all of this. It’s a challenge, because time happens so fast, and it makes me feel guilty, but I am trying. Also working on being okay with that, the taking time to chill, not succeeding at things, working on being more okay with myself, less mean, which is even harder. But I try. Fandomwise, still the washing machine/mermaid AU for Bering and Wells and also still Chapter 8 of Yellow for Siuraine (both of which I thought would be long finished my now). I want to finish those so I can start other fun ideas that are cluttering my head/notebook!

The rules said to tag 9 people to get to know better, so let’s see: I am tagging @anandabrat @akittennameddaisy @incompletesong @viharistenno @woodytwig @wibblywobblyida @hecatesbroom @cozcat @masterpieceofunderstatement no pressure to answer these of course, do it if you like to and if not, just don’t ;)!

Thank you for the tag @onaperduamedee!

[starshipblueberry]

As spooky season approaches/ is already here if you are an eager beaver, I want to put out into the tumblr verse a story that @anandabrat and I wrote last year. Tis my only foray into Warehouse 13 fanfic, and is pretty fun if I do say so myself.

[gothprentiss]

tagged by @benantis -- thanx babe!

put all of your music on shuffle and list the first ten songs that pop up. Tag however many people you want, to keep it going, if you want to, of course

the notorious b.i.g. - warning elvis presley - there goes my everything new order - truth (cargo demo) busta rhymes - give em what they askin for wormrot - power and terror maximator echo & the bunnymen - no dark things angelcorpse - when abyss winds return jpegmafia - drake era haken - lovebite conception - parallel minds (live)

no pressure tags (i like to see your music taste / i have no idea what you listen to and i think it'll be fun / i like to bother you): @cargopantsprentiss (xoxo), @grandhike, @explosionshark, @38across, @strangesmallbard, @scorpsik, @anandabrat, @purlturtle

[lilolilyr]

I was tagged by @die-schwanenkoenigin to post my last sentence from a fic wip, thanks for the tag! Btw I also still have several drafts of Avorah fics open that I told you about, where I got inspired to write more for that fic after you went through the ones I already have on Ao3 :D I'll for sure post at least some of them eventualllyyy, I just keep getting distracted adsfg

Anyway! For now a the last sentence from the Warehouse 13 fic I'm writing on, inspired by being in Hamburg with @toboldlynerd for the weekend, sorry that it's not one of your fandoms! <3 it's a Myka x Helena fic but also features Claudia a lot, and her quote is the last sentence I have written: 'Sure, I guess, I mean I don't even hate the opera or anything, just don't think we need to sit in some stuffy old building to listen to music while we could be exploring a whole different country!'

Also tagging, if you want to do it, @purlturtle @anandabrat @guardianrock @xvnot15 @lavendelhummel and anyone else who sees this :)

[mfangeleeta]

Last Call for Vodka

Sorry for the late update for the Bering and Wells gift exchange! I hope you like it @anandabrat!

Find the rest of my madness here: Last Call for Vodka  

The Cat Network

When he was little, he overheard his mom and Auntie Smarty talking about extra lives. He knew that he only had nine so what were they talking about?

By the time he remembered to ask, he and his cousins were running the streets of Marrakesh. No time for discussion about the existential crisis they all went through at some point.

They had food to hunt and humans to avoid. No times to sort out their lives, past or future.

He didn’t think about it much until he met the human time traveler during his time as a mouser in the Warehouse. Not the famous one who wrote books with her brother, she would come later, but the one who met the people from the future.

Technically she didn’t travel through herself but the impression she got was a good one. His species and his family were still around. Even if they had those extra lives his aunties had warned about.

From what he, well now she, could remember is that humans moving through time could be real. And at this Warehouse, someone was actually trying to make it happen. Her(his) family had somehow been coopeted to be a part of this totally human system, which was better that the streets, of collecting objects that meant something to them. Or could be dangerous. These Agents, as they called themselves, would take care of the family line. No tossing in the river. No bait for dog fights. Consistent food, a comfortable bed, and a head scratch or two. Not a bad life.

But this time traveler was in trouble. She knew the grief of lost young and even though this human didn’t want to talk about it, a mother knew. This human was doing too much and it was dangerous for all of them. But grief had made many an agent crazy. And as she died during an experiment gone wrong all she could do was forgive and hope for another life to see what happened next.

Dickens remembered it all. Marrakesh. His Auntie Smarty. The Warehouses. His painful death along with a human or two.  He and his family had been through a lot since the Caretaker of Warehouse 3 had scooped up an ancestor or two as a pet. He didn’t need a magical item to know that humans were fickle and volatile creatures. And that this century had been one of the worst.

A distant memory told him that his human Emily, really wasn’t her true self. A past self-remembered this woman and time travel not ending well for anyone. But the Warehouse wants what it wants. so here his was. She was nice and he could tell that she did care for him, but there was so much turmoil it was hard. Humans never did get the reincarnation thing like cats did so he could sympathize. She did do a good job of keeping the box clean and the water bowl full.

Dickens actually enjoyed his foster after Emily left. He met up with his cousins Buddy and Petey who were a hoot in their squabbing ways. It had been some time since he’d seen his liter mates and the jovial senior boys made his time entertaining. He could sense though that his time traveler was drifting and that she would need help finding her way home.

His cousins were well versed in the network and had helped their owner in several occasions. They were ready to help unrequited love see a happy ending. And it took all of his skills and their network to make it happen. Burr and Hamilton first got a lead on his former owner. Tinsel was able to find her love. Goal Kitty tracked down the time traveler when she was using a fake name in California and dating the wrong person. Frank and his brother Stein were able to get the intel to get them both together in the same city, with Potato making sure they met up with a wobbly assist from Phin.

And Fishtopeher, the genius that he was, helped them make the final connection.

Dickens curled up on the comfy reading chair to keep an eye of his humans, Myka and Helena. He’d put a lot of work, and lives, into making sure they found each other. A soul mate is nothing to snooze at.  His aunties had said that if his family or the cat network make the extraordinary happen that they might get a reprieve but he had grown to love the Warehouse and it’s ways.

He was down for another life or two.

[beringandwells13]

Big Bang Story Teaser #2!

(Teaser for story #1)

Today I'm gonna tease you with the story that'll go up on April 20th, by @madronash (writer), @rinari7 (beta), @anandabrat (helper/second beta), and @elle-arts (artist)! Here's what they've cooked up for us:

The Hanged Man: Myka and Claudia set off for Cornwall to investigate some mysterious disappearances, Helena's orb in tow. When Helena finds a wicked pack of cards, she and Myka don't expect to get sucked into another world… a world created by another woman unappreciated in her time, and designed to challenge their assumptions about their own. This story uses the multi-layered symbolism of Tarot and combines it with a sharp critique of how symbols are created, who they’re for, and how to embrace them without becoming lost in the process. Follow Helena and Myka as they traverse a strange landscape, discover each other anew, encounter familiar characters in ways they’ve never seen before, and ultimately carve their way towards a future together.

Listen, I have no idea about the whole concept of Tarot, but I'm excited to read this and not just enjoy an awesome Bering and Wells story but learn something in the process!

If you're as excited as I am, please show your love by reblogging this (go wild in the tags too!) - nothing is more motivating and encouraging for a creator than seeing their work get love and attention! So, let's all cheer them on on their home stretch!

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

Chapters: 46/46 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells Additional Tags: Canon Divergence, Time Travel, so many artifacts, Epistolary, Bering and Wells Big Bang 2023, beringandwells13 Series: Part 1 of The Remington Standard #2 Summary:

It's 1997, and when a quiet teenager in a book shop finds an old typewriter with the previous owner's name and address inside, she writes a letter. When the previous owner writes back, she takes the 1881 date in stride, and two kids start to fall for each other. This story isn't an AU so much as an epistolary reboot, letting Helena and Myka flirt, chafe against the people who underestimate them, become adults, and ultimately find a way to the Warehouse (together!) without MacPherson or Paris as catalysts. The only obstacle in their path is time, and we all know that's no match for Myka Bering or Helena Wells.

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In a slight deviation of our regular routine, today and in the upcoming months, on every first weekend of the month I’m gonna link to the fics of this year’s (and very first ever!) Bering and Wells Big Bang! I know it can be daunting to have so many long fics posted all in a row, so I’m gonna put them up over here as a reminder.

This one is the very first one, by @anandabrat !

[purlturtle]

Wasn't tagged outright but @lilolilyr said "anyone who sees this", so I'm gonna!

15 Questions for 15 Friends

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?

Nope my parents just liked the name. Also no middle name either.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?

Today! 😅 I cry really easily though.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?

Nope. Always wanted to when I was younger, but now with my mental health rollercoaster, I'm glad I don't have any!

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?

Rowing! Big fan! All through secondary school. Now only on a machine though.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?

Never.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?

Their vibe.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOR?

Chocolate!

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?

Happy all the way. I don't do scary at all well!

ANY TALENTS?

I am fantastic at parallel parking (and my mundane superpower is to always find a spot)!

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?

Middle of Germany

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?

Reading, writing, knitting, boardgames, puzzles - all very grandma stuff 🧑🏼‍🦳🧑🏼‍🦳😂😂

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?

Here's a beautiful pic my wife took of our cat Lyra!

HOW TALL ARE YOU?

179 shiny toll centimeters! (5'10 ½")

FAVOURITE SUBJECT?

History and, later, Latin

DREAM JOB?

Universal Basic Income/not having to work at all. 😅

Tagging: @anandabrat @galactic-pirates @elsiebrayisgay @edenfenixblogs @ninjaminion @tulipsandsake @fvandomtrvsh @incomprehensiblelentils @hernymills @jesstrel @julieverne @kloperslegend @kla1991 @lonely-night @performativezippers and everyone who sees this and wants a go!

Here's a blank version for easy copying:

15 Questions for 15 Friends ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? DO YOU HAVE KIDS? WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED? DO YOU USE SARCASM? WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOR? SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? ANY TALENTS? WHERE WERE YOU BORN? WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? HOW TALL ARE YOU? FAVOURITE SUBJECT? DREAM JOB?

[anandabrat]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Claudia Donovan, Steve Jinks Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Post-Canon, Humor, poking holes in tiny moments of canon is my favorite sport, Bering and Wells Holiday Gift Exchange 2024 Summary:

Post series, Myka contends with a problem that really shouldn't be such a big deal, in the scheme of things.

Written for @lady-adventuress for the Bering and Wells gift exchange 2024. Hope it pleases you even if I took exactly zero of your fantastic prompts because I had an idea that wouldn't quite let me go...

Yay! Y’all this is like my favorite day, so many stories and so much fandom love. Thanks for hanging out with me for another year everyone!