where there's smoke there's--

But first: I was going to republish a meta I did that I wrote out of spite. I really wanted to write a Michael/Fiona ship manifesto for Het Reccers, but at the time, I couldn’t claim them because someone else had claimed them at the comm (the policy was first come, first serve with couples, and I had the misfortune of being out the day signups started, missing out on them by mere hours). I received anonymous advice to write the manifesto anyway, and so I did. I originally published this manifesto for HC Bingo. Looking at it now, I feel part of it was boring because it extensively recapped Michael and Fiona’s relationship, and part of it was cringeworthy because I feel the manifesto attacked shippers “not doing it right” for dumb reasons. tl;dr I felt that manifesto was not worth saving or updating, and I decided to delete the manifesto. (It’s not the one I would write for Het Reccers.)

That said, I wrote the following as a follow-up to that manifesto. It’s about one episode of Burn Notice and a ship analysis.

Analyzing the "Reckoning" (1931 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen
Characters: Fiona Glenanne, Michael Westen
Additional Tags: Meta, Canon-Typical Violence, Ship Manifesto, Nonfiction, Season/Series 07
Summary: An essay on the final episode of Burn Notice, "Reckoning," and some of the events leading up to that episode.

Here is a meta that was originally written for kink_bingo. It’s not a particularly kinky essay, so I don’t regret taking the essay out of that comm. I did add thoughts I didn’t initially add to this essay, as well as photo captions.

Blair Waldorf's Costumes in "The Last Days of Disco Stick" (1227 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gossip Girl (TV 2007)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Blair Waldorf
Additional Tags: Picspam, Meta, Meta Essay, Movie Reference, Fairy Tale Elements, Costumes, Mentions of Lady Gaga, Snow White Elements
Summary: A look at Blair’s two outfits in that episode.

I might regret pushing this so soon after importing this from Het Reccers @ LJ, but I didn’t see anything wrong with this meta, aside from removing one fic rec.

Trigger Happy Lovers: A Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen Ship Manifesto (1506 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen
Additional Tags: Ship Manifesto, Fic Recs, Cross-Posted on LiveJournal, Meta

...Photobucket


So I saved some photos on Photobucket that were affected by them emailing about “your pictures are taking up too much bandwidth,” with the intention of adding the photos back in, specifically, a Parker/Hardison manifesto I wrote years ago. But I can’t edit my old posts to add the rehosted photos, since submissions are closed at the community I first posted it at and I can’t edit the crosspost on the DW equivalent. So I guess I’ll post the broken photos here.

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I didn’t realize, or forgot, this was linked to @metanews, and I was close to deleting this essay? Anyway, here’s an updated version, without the original lengthy author’s note and some other references removed, below.

Analyzing the "Reckoning" (1931 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen
Characters: Fiona Glenanne, Michael Westen
Additional Tags: Meta, Canon-Typical Violence, Ship Manifesto, Nonfiction, Season/Series 07
Summary: An essay on the final episode of Burn Notice, "Reckoning," and some of the events leading up to that episode.