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@lears-daughter
I just saw the Devil Wears Prada musical and I am flabbergasted, absolutely flabbergasted, that Miranda and Andy didn't sing a duet during that last scene. Wasn't that what the whole show was building to???
I am, however, highly amused by the "Everybody wants to be us" baby's onesie being sold at the merchandise stand.
Omg your no more hiding fic!!! So great!!
I just know that rumi talked with mira and zoe about her relationship with celine and they helped her have the confidence to talk to her that way during the last spar.
Amazing! Thank you for writing!!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
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I didn't expect this particular fandom to suck me in, but I'm currently living for all of the angsty fics, so I decided to write my own.
Five times Celine and Rumi spar before the Idol Awards and the only time they spar afterwards.
Did you ever get stage fright?
HACKS 4.04 – I Love LA
The fact that this happened while Deb and Ava were in the midst of their awful feud really speaks to a) how in denial Deborah was in trying to convince herself she hated Ava and b) how absolutely essential Ava is at this stage in Deborah's life.
Murderbot/DWP Fusion Plot Bunny
I'm on the fence about whether to sit down and write this, but I can see it so clearly...
-Andy and Emily are bots--AssistantUnits. Miranda doesn't like calling them that and has thus always defaulted to addressing her assistants as "Emily". Emily is an advanced model, specifically programmed for fashion. Andy is newly assigned, having recently hacked the governor module that forces her to be obedient while she was working at a newspaper.
-At first, Andy resents having to try to fit in at a fashion magazine, something that would have been easy with the governor module but which becomes much harder now that she has free agency and wants to become a writer (creating rather than just assisting).
-Nigel, an augmented human, figures out by Andy's complete cluelessness that something isn't right with her programming. He takes her under his wing to get her up to speed and teach her a bit of fashion sense. Coincidentally, this helps Andy look more like an augmented human and less like a bot. However, her growing confidence and eagerness to experiment with different combinations are not normal reactions from a bot.
-Miranda is dubious about what appears, at first, to be a defective "Emily." Over a short period of time, however, her newest assistant evolves by leaps and bounds--far faster and more skillfully than a normal bot could do. In fact, the New Emily seems to be uncannily good at anticipating Miranda's needs and wants, something that should be impossible for an AssistantUnit. She strongly suspects that Andy is rogue and gives her numerous impossible tests to prove it.
-Emily is so extremely under the thumb of her programming that she does self-destructive things, like failing to properly nourish her organic parts and sacrificing her body to a runaway taxi rather than risk losing the scarves Miranda told her to get. Andy's behavior, so out of character for an AssistantBot, baffles and infuriates her.
-In Paris, when Miranda tells Andy to "do her job" after Stephen files for divorce, it's partly to get rid of Andy; it's also a reminder that she's blowing her cover as a rogue bot by acting too "human" in showing her sympathy.
-Even though she doesn't have to assist due to her free agency, that's still an ingrained part of Andy's psyche, which is why it stings so badly when Miranda doesn't need her help to handle the Irv/Jacqueline situation. Additionally, upon seeing what Miranda does to Nigel, an augmented human and Miranda's closest friend, Andy knows Miranda could never trust or respect a bot like herself. For some reason, that realization is excruciating. Andy has to leave.
-She expects to be immediately hunted down and reprogrammed or melted down; after all, AssistantBots can't just disappear. She's shocked to receive a communication that she's been "purchased" by a private party, and even more surprised to be informed that she has an interview at a newspaper. Arriving at the interview, she passes as an augmented human--and learns that Miranda Priestly has given her a glowing recommendation (by calling her her "greatest disappointment").
-Andy emerges from the interview as a free person. Suddenly, there are endless possibilities available to her. She looks across the street and there's Miranda, watching her with that familiar impassive expression. But Andy, who by all rights should be an impersonal robot, knows what Miranda is thinking. When Miranda disappears into her car, Andy knows she's smiling. And when the car pulls up alongside her and the door opens in invitation, Andy gets in.
Boldness is all! in Murderbot s1
Boldness is all!
heyyy when can we expect a one step at a time update ? ☺️
Hello! Chapter 11 came out this past Friday. I'm not sure when the next chapter will come, but I am plotting it and have pieces of it drafted. Hopefully sooner rather than later, but I do appreciate your patience :)
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Because I never post fics in moderation, here's another!
I got to thinking about the casting of Kenneth Branagh as Miranda's husband in DWP2 and how that movie is going to be a huge disappointment for us Mirandy fans and I decided to write a preemptive fix-it.
It's twenty years since Andy Sachs left Miranda Priestly in Paris. Andy is still stubborn and driven. Miranda is still a force of nature. They're both married. They're both the top of their fields (though Emily is giving Miranda a run for the money). It's really a shame the two of them can't seem to get along. My idea for how the sequel should go. (Unlikely.)
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It's the Fourth of July, which means it's a great day for a new chapter of One Step at a Time! I know, I know, I am the worst about updating. Enjoy some fluff and some plot!
There's a Mirandy fic to be written here, surely.
mirandy on my mind, im still a sucker for andy with pixie cuts post film and coordinated gala dresses.
(last one is andy coming with miranda to paris but the jet lag got to her)
bonus andy:
Lovely.
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I'm working on the next chapter of One Step at a Time (you know, my semi-yearly update), but this plot bunny demanded to be written.
Title: Damn You, Deborah Vance
Summary: Miranda and Andrea’s secret relationship is going just fine, thank you very much, until Deborah Vance has the audacity to come out on live television. The Devil Wears Prada/Hacks crossover no one asked for.
Word Count: 10,167
Notes: Post-canon for DWP with established Miranda/Andrea. Starts with 4x09 for Hacks and follows canon until it goes past the season finale.
For those who rely on AI to do their research/thinking for them, remember that there's no substitute for an actual brain. (To be clear--in Rizzoli and Isles, Jane does NOT conceive a child with her own brother...)
HACKS (2021— ) Season 4, Episode 2
This interaction was so horrifying that I had to pause the show and write a fic about it.
Inaugural Hacks Fandom Gift Exchange!
Hello, hello! This year, we are launching a winter gift exchange for Hacks! Styled like other major femslash gift exchanges, you will sign up with 2 prompts, which will be assigned to another participant, and you will in turn receive the prompts of another participant. These prompts will be shared individually in early November, and you will have until December 20th to create and post a fan work (fic, art, gif sets, manips/edits, fanvid) for one of those prompts!
I’ve posted an FAQ below, and you can sign up to participate at the following link: https://forms.gle/RG6uofVYvV9HvNyQ7
This is the sign-up form for the first ever Hacks fandom gift exchange! Signing up commits you to participating as both a creator and a gift
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Event FAQ:
Can I sign up if I don’t write fic?
This event is for all kinds of fan creators! The form will give you an opportunity to check off what kinds of work you are interested in making (fic, art, gif sets, and/or vids). While we will be using a sorting mechanism, we’ll add tags to prompts to help ensure folks signing up to create vids or gif sets won’t be given someone whose prompts are nearly impossible to fill in that medium.
Can I sign up and drop out later?
Please don’t! For this kind of event, drop outs pose a big problem! Rather than having a simple theme day where anyone can post, a gift exchange means your prompts have been assigned to someone else (who will gift you a creative work), and you have gotten another participants’ prompts. Making sure that no one is left without a gift on reveal day means that someone will have to race around to fill your prompts at the last minute.
So should I just not participate if I don’t know if I’ll have the time?
One thing you can offer to do if you’re one of those people who loves the adrenaline rush of a looming deadline is to let me know that you *might* be interested in being a pinch hitter in case we do have drop outs or situations where life happens. This doesn’t obligate you, but it lets me know that I can reach out near the deadline to check in and see if you’re up for it!
Can I use AI to help create my gift work?
No. While other fan events may have different rules, for this event we ask that you not use AI at any stage in creation (idea generation, drafting fic, creating art, editing, etc.). These kinds of events are designed to foster community; we put time, energy, and real creative labor into making something to gift to another, and there is far more value in something with a couple tiny quirks or typos of handmade art than there is in the cold sterility of AI-generated outputs. Generative AI is, per the admissions of its own creators, possible only because of the non-consensual theft of vast troves of creative labor via large scale data scraping. These workers have been neither paid nor credited, but their labor is lining the pockets of corporate billionaires who continue to decimate the environment in an era of worsening climate catastrophe while exploiting invisibilized, barely paid workers in the Global South. Anyone found to be using AI will not have their work posted in the collection and will be barred from participation in future fan events.
Oh no, a new fandom
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Last time, she did it for Ava. This time, she does it for herself.
A Deborah Vance introspection one-shot, because these characters and all their angst are now living rent-free in my brain.
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When it rains, it pours. Here's another Miranda/Andy one-shot that was supposed to be a little plot bunny and turned into a 20K-word behemoth. Enjoy!
After walking away from her job in Paris, Andy Sachs finds herself blacklisted from the entire journalism industry. According to a vengeful Miranda Priestly, the only way Andy will ever get a job with a newspaper is if she comes back to Runway and serves out her two weeks’ notice. A lot can happen in two weeks. This is not based on the movie of the same name, though the initial premise is similar.
