mfl challenge go!

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Finally getting started on the Marked for Later read-or-delete challenge that I set myself during Snowflake! Gonna share what I do end up reading here just to keep myself on track, and in case anyone's interested to check these fics out too.

By some quirk of the random number deities I ended up getting mostly fics from fandoms I've since fallen out of on my AO3 homepage list today, so I cleared those and refreshed until I found three reasonable-length fics to read:

Lady Lazarus #1 (2387 words) by Netgirl_y2k
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Root | Samantha Groves/Sameen Shaw
Characters: Sameen Shaw, Root | Samantha Groves
Additional Tags: brief appearances by the rest of Team Machine, Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Street Level Superheroes, Femslashex Treat
Summary:

Cole had coined the name of Project Lazarus, and, like, the third commenter on that video of Shaw resurrecting on a New York street had come up with the Lady Lazarus moniker, which annoyingly enough had stuck.

Shaw was pretty sure that Root had given herself her own supervillain name.

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No Place Like (3724 words) by Xparrot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos/Cecil Palmer
Characters: Carlos (Welcome to Night Vale), Cecil Palmer
Additional Tags: Moving In Together, Fluff, sap, apparently in Night Vale sap comes with a chance of burning alive, Post-Live Show: Condos
Summary:

When Cecil said, "I've heard many couples find it romantic--it's a fun bonding experience!" Carlos considered the Night Vale definitions of 'romantic', 'fun' and 'bonding', then took out another life insurance policy.

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Housewarming, Night Vale-style.

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Make It Last All Year (4012 words) by counterheist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Sara Crispino, Phichit Chulanont, Katsuki Yuuri's Family, Makkachin (Yuri!!! on Ice)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Office, Katsuki Yuuri's Terrible Self-Doubt, Synergizing, Family Feels
Series: Part 3 of cubicle gods
Summary:

“I’m synergizing,” Viktor explains gleefully one day when Celestino walks by Yuuri’s cubicle to see Viktor carefully kneading Yuuri’s shoulders. Yuuri’s eyes are closed, and if Viktor wasn't sure he’d fallen asleep before he is now. He doesn't stop pressing his thumbs into Yuuri’s tense muscles.

Celestino keeps walking.

A third fic about cubicles, and how the people who work in them don’t do much work in them.

Comments

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I appreciate a selection of reasonable length fic! I feel like if I do mark something as for later it's because it's very long and I have no idea of if I'll ever get to it. But these are much more approachable! And I'm feeling the wtnv nostalgia. (Though I know it's still going, I just dropped out a few years ago and never caught back up)

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I feel like if I do mark something as for later it's because it's very long and I have no idea of if I'll ever get to it.

I've definitely got a fair few of these in my list too! Though my preference naturally runs towards shorter fics (unless I really like the premise) so that's convenient length-wise. Not that it stops me from marking for later anyway if I'm not in the mood to read the thing right then.

And the wtnv nostalgia is real! I'm only more caught-up by however-many-episodes I get through when I get hit with it (which happens about once a year?)

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When you do listen to WTNV at this point do you just start at the most recent one or?

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I employ the, uh, highly scientific method of going back a couple episodes until I find a sufficiently intriguing episode title/description and start from there XD

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Honestly that seems like a very valid method! Maybe I'll try that next time I'm feeling nostalgic.