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Ep. 76 - #CaptainAmerica (Stucky) - Interview With Fanfiction Writer ZenaidaMacroura

In this episode I get to chat with ZenaidaMacroura about Stucky, their journey writing fanfiction, and their Stucky AU romance fic ‘Monoclon

The latest episode of The FanFic Maverick podcast is out! The show is available through the link above and also on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.

In this episode I get to chat with ZenaidaMacroura about Stucky, their journey writing fanfiction, and their Stucky AU romance fic ‘Monoclonius.’

Thanks for coming on the show, @zenaidamacrouras1!

Keep on rollin’!

Show Notes:

The link to ‘Monoclonius’ is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41100420/chapters/103019883

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Monoclonius by Charles R. Knight. 1897. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 25, No. 2. November/December 1986.

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[zenaidamacrouras1]

Hahahahahaha, look at this fucking gif I made hahahahahaha. When I say write for yourself, I mean it. I like dinosaurs. I like politics. I wrote a DINOSAUR POLITICAL FIC.

A darling hero beta'd this fic for me months after I finished it. I hadn't bothered asking anyone to help me proofread because I figured no one would want to and that no one would read it, and then people read it (blushes) and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed it, and I felt bad for making people read all my typos.

So here is my dino love story, typo free. Here is what I am proud of about this story:

It's the only fic on AO3 with the tag "Stuckysaurus"

It's the only fic on AO3 with the tag "Trilobites have a key part in the plot"

Chapter 11 (Bucky and Sarah's Big Day Out) is perfect to me and I wouldn't change a single word.

It has two optional endings in honor of my favorite childhood movie, Clue, because I was a VERY WEIRD CHILD.

It includes discussion of ocean acidification and algae blooms due to agricultural runoff.

This fic has around 20 sex scenes (including inferred sex scenes) and the most common descriptor it gets is adorable and wholesome. That's me, with the adorable, wholesome smut.

I am actually planning on writing a prequel to this story as part of my Marvel Trumps Hate Auction and I'm QUITE excited about it. It will be a political campaign story featuring Steve Rogers and Valkyrie and they are going to punch neo-nazis and make out in alleys while running Peggy Carter's Senate Campaign. I like what I like.

Monoclonius by Zenaidamacrouras1

Summary:

Steve Rogers is a single dad / environmental lobbyist with a v cute kid who loves dinosaurs and OMG---> who is that v adorable paleontologist with the ocean blue eyes and flowing dark mane of beautiful hairs, Y'ALL!

Will they ever smooch? (They will probably smooch).

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It Came From The Wastebasket #02: What Makes A Monoclonius?

The first fossil remains of Monoclonius crassus were discovered in the Late Cretaceous Judith River fossil beds (~75 million years old) in 1876 in Montana, USA. It was one of the many dinosaur species hurriedly named as part of the Bone Wars, and was described based on a mixture of bones from several different sites.

At first much of this dinosaur's anatomy was poorly understood, and at first it was misidentified as a hadrosaur. The skull remains were fragmentary and ceratopsians hadn't yet been identified as a group, so Monoclonius' horns weren't even recognized as being horns and a piece of the frill was initially misinterpreted as part of a breastbone.

Once the much better-preserved Triceratops was discovered in 1889, and the existence of ceratopsians was recognized, Monoclonius was re-examined and identified as a similar dinosaur – and three more species were quickly described within the genus, also based on very fragmentary fossils.

Then for a while afterwards every ceratopsid fossil that wasn't clearly a Triceratops was then just dumped into Monoclonius, quickly turning the genus into a wastebasket full of dubious indistinct remains.

But then…

Centrosaurus apertus was named in 1904, from the similarly-aged Dinosaur Park Formation in southern Alberta, Canada. It had originally been one of the various species of Monoclonius, but was now claimed to be different enough to deserve its own separate genus name – and this started a decades-long controversy between several paleontologists.

Over the new few decades arguments went back and forth over whether Centrosaurus was actually valid or if it was just a junior synonym of Monoclonius. As more and better ceratopsid fossil material was discovered several other Monoclonius species were eventually split off into their own separate genera, too, creating Styracosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and the somewhat dubious Brachyceratops. But other new species also continued to be lumped into Monoclonius up until 1990, meaning that over its century of existence this wastebasket taxon had at one point or another contained at least 16 different species.

During the 1990s opinion began to turn against Monoclonius, increasingly regarding it as a dubious name. Its original type specimen was a chimera of multiple different individuals (and possibly multiple different species), and it just didn't have any distinct enough anatomical features to distinguish it from other ceratopsids.

Centrosaurus, meanwhile, was further validated by the discovery of huge bonebeds containing thousands of individuals, making it into one of the best-known of all ceratopsians.

Today Monoclonius' name remains attached to a few fossil specimens, but only the ones that are too indistinct to classify as anything else. Some "Monoclonius" have also turned out to actually be juveniles and subadults of other ceratopsians – it seems many young centrosaurines had a Monoclonius-like stage in their growth, before they went on to develop their own species' distinctive horn and frill shapes.

So Monoclonius may never have been a distinct genus at all – it was just a bunch of different ceratopsian teenagers!

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Monoclonius. Zdeněk Burian.

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Dino Riders Monoclonius by Tyco, found in charity shop in June 2022