#bread bbc

Finally found a copy of Bread Cast on Wogan.

Here are some Bread ASW remixes as a present (just a Martina set basically)

And I might actually attempt to finish a fic

(I’m procrastinating final essays haha)

Here ya go

#44

#589

#647

And a bonus OT3 for old times’ sake

#507 

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

Tagged by @slightlyintimidating yay!

Reconstruction (Starship, TUp)

This fic got a lot more love than I ever imagined. I wrote it in 2011-early 2012 during the height of Starship’s popularity as a Starkid musical. While there were a lot of TUp backstories I decided to go a little different and go forwards, exploring Taz and Up’s relationship after the events in the musical and I got carried away and had so much fun with it...when I’m in love with an OTP, I go all out and I definitely did with this fic. For a while I got a following from it and people recced it to Karri (LTD author) which astounded me because I didn’t think it was that great,  but I had a lot of fun writing it so I’m glad people had so much fun reading it. I also made a lot of Starkid friends. It was a fun time for me, sharing my OTP with a load of people who also shipped it (I guess that was because it was my first real foray into a larger fandom). Looking back, there are a few things I’d change if I gave it a major edit, including some of my less-than-adequate Spanish translations (I since took a class in Spanish so my TUp fics after that were a lot more accurately translated)and a couple of continuity errors but I’m still proud of it. It was the first really long, serious multichap I finished, standing at 26 chapters, which taught me a lot about persevering with a fic.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7311966/1/Reconstruction

At the End of the Day (Bread, Joetina)

It has some things I’d change, but I look back on this as one of my best works. I’d been reading some fics and original works in new styles, and I was inspired to try out a new writing style, straying from the typical third person, past tense and linear narrative I usually stuck with. And I was very happy with the result. I had a lot of fun world-building for not just my favourite couple, but the wider world of Bread, fleshing out the characters and their lives beyond the show, and the more I wrote, the more I was filled with ideas to the point that I wrote several spin-offs in the same universe to continue building on the other characters. I loved writing a fix-it that undid the annoyance of Joey/Roxy’s marriage at the end of the show and put Joetina together, and it was a challenge doing so in a way that was realistic and in-character, but a lot of fun. I started writing it before I’d even finished Money Angel, which I was working on at the time, and completed several whole chapters really quickly. Something I liked about writing it a bit later, setting it in the 90s and early 2000s rather than the 80s of the show, was that, having grown up in the 90s/2000s I could put in references to products etc. much more easily. This fic also had some personal significance for me, as a few issues I explored, particularly with Joey, mirrored some of my own worries.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9053772/1/At-the-end-of-the-day

A Very Umbridge Sequel (A Very Potter Musical/Sequel, Umbridge/Firenze but not pairing-centric) I was coming up to my trial HSC (mock A-levels/ finals? Idk what they call it outside Aus, but the Year 12 final exams to go to uni basically) and in my free time, wanted to write something light-hearted and fun. And I really, REALLY loved Starkid/AVPM, Joe Walker’s portrayal of Umbridge in particular. So I wrote a fic. All about that interpretation of Umbridge. Having centaur babies. Who were mini Umbridges.  I posted little games at the start of each chapter and gave out imaginary prizes (name mentions really) for reviewers who won. It got a following. I disturbed a few people. I had the most fun writing this fic of any fic I have ever written, or any story I will ever write,  because it was so stupid and hilarious. I think I was grinning/laughing to myself the whole way throughout writing it. 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7068391/1/A-Very-Umbridge-Sequel

Partners in Crime (St Trinian’s, Kelly/Flash)

Though I never finished it (and probably won’t due to being busy), I enjoyed writing scenes from lots of different characters’ points of view, getting into their heads and their way of thinking/speaking as they all gave their perspective on the same narrative. It was a really ambitious fic, exploring dark themes, a weird mafia (who in a coincidental bit of foreshadowing for my eventual Bread love were called the Black Jaguar) and an elaborate plot involving a mysterious USB, on top of the Kel/Flash budding romance. But I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. I think I would have finished it, had my St Trinian’s obsession not slid very quickly into my Starkid obsession with little room for segue (this obsession then made way for my 4-year love of Bread. I changed fandoms very quickly that year, then ended up with a long-term one).  No regrets, though. This was a different pairing for me, after 3 years of Gladys/Jeffrey, and writing for a fresh OTP with a very different dynamic was utterly enjoyable. Some great memories of early 2011 for me were sitting up til midnight typing up chapters of this fic (I handwrote nearly everything first) and hitting post.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6698640/1/Partners-in-Crime

Escape from the Fist of Iron (Starship, TUp)

Another fic I’ll likely never finish, but I regret lacking the time/motivation to do so at the time. It was a what-if fic, looking at how the starship rangers’ lives would have gone if they hadn’t won the Robot Wars, and it did quite well, review-wise. I was proud of the writing and the plot I had planned, although I got a bit bored of writing out times and dates, as I usually do when I try to write them into a fic. I feel bad I never finished it, given I had a fair few reviews asking me to do so, but I started it towards the end of my interest in TUp and near the peak of my interest in Bread, so it didn’t stand much of a chance. Still, it was interesting to write and I liked bringing in crossovers from Holy Musical B@man to spice things up a little. 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8288062/1/Escape-from-the-Fist-of-Iron

Do You Still Believe in One Another? (Bread, Jack/Leonora, Joetina and others, not pairing-centric)

It was possibly a tie between this and There’s a World Outside Your Window for my favourite ATEOTD spinoff, but this one wins as I wrote it during a dark time in my life, put a lot of thought into it, and it was a challenge writing a Jack-centric fic when he’s not normally a character I think about a lot, so it brought me out of my Joey comfort zone hehe. I started writing it in 2014, left it for a while, came back to it in 2015 and then didn’t post it because a few future fics had just come out and I was worried it might be a bit too similar. It found its moment, though, when it could reflect the loss of Carla Lane and be a tribute to her, and I’m glad I could end up writing it to show my appreciation for her work. A bit hard for me to read now, given my granny died last year and it’s all about Grandad’s death. I liked the aspects of the ‘verse I introduced into this fic, though, a few more details about Joetina’s marriage, Jackonora’s relationship, Shifty and Joey’s friendship (something I wanted and still want to explore in some more fics) and some sprinklings of other issues in the ‘verse I was going to flesh out later. Of the ATEOTD fics, and my Bread fics in general, it’s one of the ones I’m proudest of.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11979200/1/Do-You-Still-Believe-in-One-Another

I tag:

@emilyweepsforpilfrey : curious to see which of your fics are your fave!

@wufantastiic : I’d love to see which of your awesome works make it on here!

It was from one of those people who goes on fanfiction and doesn’t get how it works/doesn’t know what fanfiction is and just reads random stuff thinking it’s ‘books’.