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eee #️⃣🕰🃏 for Willthan slowburn pleeeasseee

#️⃣What's the most oddly specific AO3 tag you could use for this story?

My first thought was "William Brandt is a little bitch," but honestly I feel like that's a tag that could be used in a lot of fics. So more specific would be "Ethan Hunt's voyeuristic tendencies" or "when you'd rather be a total sex pervert than address your feelings in any reasonable manner." Or maybe "William Brandt has the highest body count in the IMF...in bed." Slut!Will my beloved.

🕰️What's the timeline of the story?

The timeline starts in the nebulous area fandom has established between "Ghost Protocol" and "Rogue Nation," where most Ethan, Will, Jane and Benji mission fics are set. It briefly touches on RN and some bad feelings from that, then has a scene between RN and "Fallout," and the body of it all takes places after FO - which was the last movie when I started writing this back in 2021 (hahahaaaaaaaah). Since I hated DR beyond time, I saw no reason to add it/involve it in any way, so now it's a canon-divergent story. And Ilsa is still alive (and will remain that way).

🃏Wildcard: Answer the question you wish someone would ask you, or share a background detail, or a snippet or line!

I guess the question I wish someone would ask is "Do you want to talk about Hollis "Hal" Watney?" And the answer is yes, I do, but I recognize she's an OC and technically one of the villains of the situation, so not a lot of people would necessarily want to engage with her.

But I love her. Which is honestly strange for me, because I make OCs extremely rarely and even rarer still is me feeling like I haven't just xeroxed too much of myself onto them in some way. I'm really proud of Hal, though. She's named after my fascination with the name "Hollis," and Mark Watney from "The Martian," one of my favorite movies. I didn't even go in intending for her to be nicknamed "Hal," it just kind of happened and worked out great since she loves malicious computers. I like that she's more than a little crazy but she's also incredibly intelligent, forward, and willing to get her hands dirty. She kind of ended up writing herself that way, which was a lot of fun.

She was a great way to indulge my fixation with Prague's "Astronomical Clock," too, which was a lot of fun:

Hal's faceclaim is Amy Adams, who I've adored on since "Junebug" and "Catch Me If You Can."

Maybe that's where I got into trouble, because I ended up liking Hal and her interactions with Will SO MUCH that she's come very close to becoming Ms. Steal-yo-fic-and-yo-man.

Let's be honest, though, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner are amazing in "Arrival" and just beautiful together; I can only blame myself.

@genfilst drew me fanart of her, and honestly it's one of the most amazing things I've ever gotten, because before she did it, no one (not even me) had ever drawn Hal, or even loved her enough to try. I'm so grateful for that. Whatever happens with her and Will in the end of the story, I really love what I was able to do with her and what she's brought to the story (even if she's Ethan's least favorite person in it).

And if I ever finish this damn thing, I want to get a necklace that matches Hal's. :)

Thank you so much always for indulging me!!

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🔥 ooo Willthan College AU please 👀

This idea is based on an rp my partner and I did, which was us playing with the questions "what if they'd met when they were young, would they have gotten along?"

I grew up and still live in Ethan's hometown of Madison, WI (although I agree with @vcollies that his farm was in Middleton). Both my parents worked at UW-Madison, and I had (and still have) friends who went there. Ethan's Wisconsin heritage is deeply important to me, and I have this fantasy of writing something about it, the rare occasion where I actually know what I'm talking about.

There's also this:

This is from the first MI movie, and I do not give a good goddamn if they changed it three films later, McQ they can pry drama student Ethan out of my dry, crinkled hands. I'll never let go.

One of my most precious headcanons is that Will is a shy, self-contained, studious person... and also the campus slut. So throw that against overdramatic young Ethan who probably needs to run 10 laps around his dorm every night to fall asleep, my god, do you see the situations they could be put in?

The first situation would be Ethan waking up in Will's bed after a one night stand, and being like "Oh, wow, uh, that was weird, not gay, bye!" and Will being like "....you're welcome for the prostate orgasm, bye" and both of them deciding they'll probably never see each other again. Spoiler alert: now that they know the other exists, they will not be able to stop seeing each other, even if they wanted to.

It's supposed to be lighter and sillier than some of my other fics, but since even my attempt at simple smut turned into "character abandoned by god" fic, I'm not allowed to play with it until I actually finish something.

Thank you for asking about it, though, it's one of my favorite things to think about while I fall asleep. <3

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Oh my gosh, I want all the WIPs…sooo have an: A

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and for any of them! And ignore the terrible formatting on my phone ffs

Oh it's so exciting to get this from you! Knowing you're interested... aahhh, I'm all a-flutter.

I'm going to try to choose parts from the fics that haven't yet made it to AO3, so...

A, "Too Busy...":

 Asking Ethan why only yields a shrug and “I thought it would be nice,” before he’s out of the car and heading for the sand.

L, Unnamed Ethan Vs Cats fic:

Listening to the TV on low, the soft sound of typing, the warmth of Will’s body (and again his precious scent, the very definition of “home”)… Ethan hasn’t allowed himself to consciously miss these things, because to miss them too much in the field runs the risk of making a mistake and missing them forever.

O, "I Want Something..."

Oh.

Oh Ethan feels disgusting.

That last one feels kind of like a cop-out, being so short, but it fit with the letters!

This was fun, thank you so much! <3

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W.

You can do it!

I managed to write 348 words for "I Want Something That I Want," although it's still an uphill battle. I've asked @genfilst and @coffeeandbowtieswrites for help and have been pondering their responses, so I think I can maybe possibly almost be okay after I get past this one section... but I need this part to make sense and feel reasonable and damn are we fighting that out.

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Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: William Brandt/Ethan Hunt, William Brandt/OFC, William Brandt & Ethan Hunt, William Brandt & Benji Dunn, William Brandt & Jane Carter, William Brandt & Ilsa Faust Characters: William Brandt, Ethan Hunt, Jane Carter (Mission: Impossible), Benji Dunn, Ilsa Faust, Other "Mission: Impossible" characters in passing, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Light the fuse to a slow burn, Emotional Hurt, Emotional Baggage, Angst, Canon-Compliant to a point, Post-Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Character Study, Mission Fic, Pining, Explicit Sexual Content, Vaginal Sex, Anal Sex, Unreliable Narrator, William Brandt is kind of a little bitch, Excessive use of falling imagery, Bad Decisions (TM) Summary:

It’s old news, but shortly after the car crash that brought Ethan Hunt back into his life and immediately sent Will’s future hurtling into a river of dangerous possibilities, Will jumped for him twice. Or fell. He’s not sure. He’s never been sure, and maybe he doesn’t even know the difference between the two anymore.

He wonders if Ethan does.

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I’ve never linked this on here before, but it’s something I’ve been working on for a long time, and I’m happy to be posting chapter 5 after a considerable delay. Thanks to @missionbrandt for all her invaluable help <3 

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Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: William Brandt/Ethan Hunt

CHAPTER SEVEN

He clenches his teeth and sits back. What to make of any of this, a three-way standoff of what his ears heard versus what his mind understood versus what his heart wanted —and wants. As usual, it’s all an incomprehensible mess where nothing and nobody wins.

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Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible Rating: Explicit Relationships: William Brandt/Ethan Hunt

CHAPTER SIX

Will flails backwards in shock, railing jamming harshly into his lower back. They stare at each other, both breathing heavily, Ethan with his longer hair stuck to his forehead with sweat, until it’s been long enough that the doors start to close again. Ethan’s hand shoots out, stopping them successfully this time even as Will mashes the button, willing to crush Ethan’s wrist if necessary. But alas, the doors bounce back.

“Will, we need to talk.”

Oh for absolute fuck’s sake.

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#3 and #16 for the MI writer ask game!

Yaaay exciting, thank you for asking!

3- What are some of your favorite tropes to write?

I'm a sucker for "idiots in love." Are two people super into each other but they both think the other person wouldn't want them? Hell yeah. You throw some slow burn into that, I'm all in. I tried my hand at "there was only one bed" in my current fic and that was very rewarding, I'd do that again. I also really love domestic bullshit, like where they have pets or cook together or just exist in a world where they're not running around trying to save it and can just be together, be people who happen to also be super spies with lots of baggage. I love writing dialogue, so scenes where people are just hanging out together is a lot of fun for me.

I very much have a thing for soulmate/soulmark fics, but I haven't tried my hand at that yet. Fake dating/married also sounds like it might be a good time.

16- Share the most recently written two sentences of your current WIP.

Well uhh... hopefully none of the three people who read the fic are looking at this post, because it's kind of a spoiler, but since you asked...

 But with Ethan’s breathing evening out against his back, Will lets himself set it aside and sleep. 

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This is what Will dreams about:

-For once, absolutely nothing, and that’s just fine.  

Thank you again! <3