meridian_rose

A Convenient Warlock (16996 words) by meridian_rose
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Constantine/Sara Lance, Sara Lance & Ray Palmer
Characters: Sara Lance, John Constantine, Ray Palmer
Additional Tags: Snarky Leonard Snart, Minor Nora Darhk/Ray Palmer, Minor Gideon/Gary Green, Alternate Universe - Western, based on a romance novel summary, Marriage of Convenience, Weird West, Magic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, John Constantine Whump, Canon Bisexual Character, Community: unconventionalcourtship
Summary:

Sara Lance is determined to make a success out of her mother's New Mexico vineyard. But the bank won't lend the money Sara so desperately needs until she has a husband. Sara discovers John Constantine, descendant of an ancient warlock king, and the only eligible man in town, collapsed in a local bar. He grudgingly agrees to a paper marriage - if he's paid a hefty fee. They marry, and Sara is left wondering what she's got herself into. But when the gambling warlock turns gentleman her feelings begin to change.
(For Unconventional Courtship, based on the summary 'A Convenient Gentleman')

Or, in the Wild Weird West, rancher Sara Lance enters into a temporary marriage of convenience with infamous warlock John Constantine but when she starts to feel she doesn't want it to end she discovers she may not have a choice.

My entry for the unconventionalcourtship challenge
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47620018/chapters/120021601

So I was going to come back and Do More Dreamwidth/LJ and that didn't really happen. I did today read back as far as LJ and then DW will let me. I've written and posted more fic for the 100 fandoms challenge.

I have over the last couple of months tried to tackle my AO3 stuff. To sort and backup my bookmarks and Marked For Later lists. The backup took longer than expected (found a script that downloads info but only 1 page at a time, then had to merge each of those spreadsheets into One Spreadsheet To Rule Them All). Around 900 bookmarks including private ones!
Then I've tried to weed out my Marked For Later list, removing some fics I'll probably never read now for various reasons, downloading some to read on my ereader because they are too long for me to enjoy sitting at the pc, and reading others to then comment/kudos/bookmark/mark as read. I had about a billion or it seems and I've still got between 160 and 170 left to go. The problem being some of these are long, 10k or 50k or longer than a published novel or a whole series of published novels, which is why they ended up on the 'later' list in the first place. And then there's the struggle not to add (too many) more fics to that list, as I've read more fic again recently.

I'm mostly content with where I'm at with dabbling in fandom. There might be exchanges/challenges I want to go back to but I'm not pushing myself. I'm not so happy my original fic blogs are languishing but I do have original fic content I've worked on the last 2 years (1 incomplete in script format, 1 incomplete but I did win NaNo with it novel). I don't want to restart the fic blogging if I can't keep it up regularly.

I'm not who I was a few years back and the things I read, write, think, believe, do, continue to change and to surprise me. I think about trying to explain them here and I'm not sure I can or want to. There are parts of me that are immutable however. It's complicated and that's okay.