Fannish Year in Review 2007
late > never! I love this meme. <3
Stories
The Best You Ever Had (3,203 words)
Entourage
January 11, 2007
The only reason the cops weren't on their asses was Eric started making phone calls about thirty seconds after the first pair of two-man speakers came in the front door and didn't stop for a good two hours into the party.
Home Sweet Home (6,201 words)
Entourage
January 14, 2007
"Hail the conquering hero," was the first thing Ari said, to be fair, "and start working on your speech now; with the buzz you already got on this thing, that fat fuck Harvey will blow everyone in this town to get you that statue. Let's get some beluga."
The Heartbreak Kid (10,122 words)
Entourage
January 19, 2007
Vince wasn't planning on it, that was for sure; it just sort of happened. There was a party, somebody started truth-or-dare, he picked truth, somebody asked, "Have you ever kissed a guy?" and he said no. So far so good, except the cute-but-toasted girl curled up against him started laughing and said, "Come on, not even Eric?"
Road to Shambala (6,218 words)
Supernatural
January 28, 2007
Sam/Dean, futurefic, explicit.
Dean looked over at Sam and said, "Where to, bright eyes?"
Sam hesitated, his fingers tapping on his thigh, and then he said, "You ever been to New Orleans?"
Under Hill (10,120 words)
Supernatural
February 04, 2007
"Can't we just kill a bunch of elves without having to talk about our feelings?" Dean said.
Art: by _audrey (1), by kristina (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Going Down Swinging (1,358 words)
Supernatural
February 06, 2007
For sisabet!
Sam thinks it says something profound and depressing about their lives that this is the most relaxed they've been in months.
Binding (7,222 words)
Supernatural
February 13, 2007
No way had Bobby pulled out some pair of real mystical amulets from nowhere and handed them over like crackerjack prizes.
Miami (3,738 words)
Supernatural
February 16, 2007
Miami was awesome. Miami in spring break season was fucking awesome. Not that Sam appreciated any of that.
Bad Blood (3,887 words)
Supernatural
February 22, 2007
"Fuck me or I'm going to die isn't the world's best pickup line."
"I've heard worse," Dean said.
"You've used worse," Sam said.
Bad Company (1,133 words)
Supernatural
March 03, 2007
(Sequel to Bad Blood) Sam was looking at Dean with a sort of glow of smug happiness. Dean glared out the windshield and refused to look at him.
No Rhyme or Reason (404 words)
Supernatural
March 20, 2007
"Hey," Dean said. "Want to-?"
Battering Ram (5,015 words)
Supernatural
April 15, 2007
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram/On a silver black phantom bike/When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry/And we're all about to see the light
Fidelity (2,310 words)
Supernatural
April 27, 2007
Inspired by meyerlemon's Five Women Who Chose Sam Over Dean. After the wedding.
Raindrops on Roses (3,563 words)
Supernatural
April 30, 2007
"I really don't think we can keep them," Sam said, gently, the little fucker.
Orpheus (383 words)
Supernatural
May 10, 2007
Gen, spoilers for 2x21. Dean breathed through his mouth, kept both hands on the wheel and his eyes on the yellow double line, and drove.
Spoils (1,283 words)
Supernatural
May 11, 2007
Spoilers for 2x21. Envision a soft fluffy bunny gamboling through the woods. of incest. also there might be some gore. okay, it is that bunny from monty python, but it is still GAMBOLING and FLUFFY.
Art: by allysonsedai (1), by antiship (1)
Desired (2,175 words)
Supernatural
May 16, 2007
Sam rubbed his thumb hard over the edge of the smack, scraping a little with his nail, bright and sharp. "Good?"
"Yeah," Dean said, on a hoarse breath. "Yeah." And it was, jesus, so fucking good, like everything; like everything else he'd asked for.
(Seriously, Zombies) (1,491 words)
Supernatural
May 21, 2007
"I hate you," Sam said, coming.
Generosity (1,780 words)
Supernatural
May 24, 2007
John had traded the gun; he'd have traded away more, and he was still feeling the cold dread of the moment when the demon had cocked its head like a pistol and said, "You know, I'm feeling generous today," because if it hadn't taken more, that was only because it figured what was in store was going to be worse.
Back Country Roadmap (3,299 words)
Supernatural
May 26, 2007
Hell, if Sam had earned his happy ending, Dean had earned his too.
Unasked (15,618 words)
Supernatural
June 01, 2007
Sam doesn't ask. Inspired by rageprufrock's It Doesn't Mean You Can Explain The Ocean
Art: by antiship (1)
Loud and Clear (1,840 words)
Supernatural
June 03, 2007
It just seemed pretty fucking obvious to Dean: you couldn't get what you really wanted, so you had to take what you could get.
options (617 words)
Supernatural
June 06, 2007
Decisions, decisions.
Aerial (1,380 words)
Supernatural
June 20, 2007
Sam found a way to get rid of them for almost a month at a time, a spell that lasted until the first night of the full moon.
Art: by antiship (1)
More Than Meets The Eye (1,858 words)
Supernatural
July 14, 2007
Dean had them heading towards Golden Valley on I-93 when the semi and the fighter jet went screaming by, blasting at each other with what looked like laserbeams. That was crazy enough, even before both of them smashed into the overpass and stopped long enough to unfold into giant robots. (Crossover with Transformers)
Art: by audrey (1)
The Last Visit (588 words)
Harry Potter
July 21, 2007
It has nothing to ask you. It has only something to say. (Scholomance series, part 5)
Prodigal (13,850 words)
Harry Potter
July 22, 2007
...his greatest terror was that someone would respond to him. (Scholomance series, part 6)
Looking Glass Country (19,093 words)
Smallville
August 21, 2007
Where the grass is greener.
Old Country (40,647 words)
Supernatural
September 13, 2007
Sam and Dean go to Hogwarts. (spoilers for All Hell Breaks Loose, Deathly Hallows)
Art: by leyna55 (1)
Kings and Queens and Jokers, Too (4,436 words)
Supernatural
October 03, 2007
"Yeah, you boys nailed that trickster real good," Bobby said, dry as dust.
Sumer is icumen in (4,794 words)
Supernatural
October 07, 2007
Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cuccu
Winter (1,876 words)
Supernatural
December 01, 2007
The cold open air tasted like snow and freedom, nobody on their backs for the first time in a year and six weeks, or maybe for the first time in twenty-four years.
Leader of the Pack (14,904 words)
Supernatural
December 06, 2007
The hellhounds were milling around her legs, almost high as her waist: pale white hides and red eyes, long red tongues lolling out between their stained teeth, all of them panting like the exhaust of an eighteen-wheeler and staring right at him.
Art: by digitalwave (1), by dun (1), by jessikast (1), by retrofit88 (1)
TMI (4,230 words)
Supernatural
December 10, 2007
"We've got twelve hours of highway to go and I'm bored," Dean said.
Top Billing (5400 words)
Entourage (tv)
Yuletide!
Eric looked at the bill and the neat little line of coke lying on the polished desk. This was clearly the beginning of the end, doing coke with Ari Gold on a Friday night, just so he could get i's dotted and t's crossed. (Eric/Vince)
Punxsutawney (8,968 words)
Supernatural
December 30, 2007
* astolat thinks any plot worth doing is worth doing TWICE
absolutely!
where would fandom be if we only did the good plots once?
215,004 words in 36 stories! \o/ Only four fandoms this year and only two of them new, which is weird for me, except I've been having to deliberately avoid new fannish sources in an effort to get RL work done, so I haven't flitted as much as usual. snif
Vids
Pon de Replay
Posted: 4/1/2007
Song: Pon de Replay by Rihanna
Source: Entourage
XviD (23 MB), imeem
The Adversary
Posted 8/13/2007
Song: The Adversary by Crime and the City Solution
Source: Twin Peaks
XviD (28 MB), imeem
End of the Year meme
My favorite story of this year: I'm torn! It's Old Country tied with Leader of the Pack.
My best story this year: Old Country.
Most fun story: Bad Blood. Bestiality or incest or death! This one just wrote itself.
Hardest story to write: Looking Glass Country. But oh, I am so happy to have finished it. ♥
"Holy crap, that's *wrong*, even for you" story: haha, TMI, clearly.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Back Country Roadmap -- by inclination I saw Sam and not Dean being the initiator of a relationship, so I started trying to write stories where Dean initiated because I like to take my inclinations as challenges to be overcome. This is the one where I did finally convince myself Dean would totally go for it. *g*
Biggest disappointment: I just don't post a story if I'm not happy with it, so the answer to this one is the three dozen unfinished stories still lingering on my hard drive. The biggest disappointment of those is the SGA story I was sad about not finishing from last year... /o\
Biggest surprise: Prodigal, without a doubt. I am still going around in a daze that I finished the damn thing after seven years.
Sexiest story: I like doing this one as a poll -- tell me what you thought, if you are so inclined, and feel free to elaborate in comments. :D I'm keeping it to all-SPN options since I didn't really do enough in any other fandoms this year to be worth voting on, alas.
Poll Sexiest story
Stories
The Best You Ever Had (3,203 words)
Entourage
January 11, 2007
The only reason the cops weren't on their asses was Eric started making phone calls about thirty seconds after the first pair of two-man speakers came in the front door and didn't stop for a good two hours into the party.
Home Sweet Home (6,201 words)
Entourage
January 14, 2007
"Hail the conquering hero," was the first thing Ari said, to be fair, "and start working on your speech now; with the buzz you already got on this thing, that fat fuck Harvey will blow everyone in this town to get you that statue. Let's get some beluga."
The Heartbreak Kid (10,122 words)
Entourage
January 19, 2007
Vince wasn't planning on it, that was for sure; it just sort of happened. There was a party, somebody started truth-or-dare, he picked truth, somebody asked, "Have you ever kissed a guy?" and he said no. So far so good, except the cute-but-toasted girl curled up against him started laughing and said, "Come on, not even Eric?"
Road to Shambala (6,218 words)
Supernatural
January 28, 2007
Sam/Dean, futurefic, explicit.
Dean looked over at Sam and said, "Where to, bright eyes?"
Sam hesitated, his fingers tapping on his thigh, and then he said, "You ever been to New Orleans?"
Under Hill (10,120 words)
Supernatural
February 04, 2007
"Can't we just kill a bunch of elves without having to talk about our feelings?" Dean said.
Art: by _audrey (1), by kristina (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Going Down Swinging (1,358 words)
Supernatural
February 06, 2007
For sisabet!
Sam thinks it says something profound and depressing about their lives that this is the most relaxed they've been in months.
Binding (7,222 words)
Supernatural
February 13, 2007
No way had Bobby pulled out some pair of real mystical amulets from nowhere and handed them over like crackerjack prizes.
Miami (3,738 words)
Supernatural
February 16, 2007
Miami was awesome. Miami in spring break season was fucking awesome. Not that Sam appreciated any of that.
Bad Blood (3,887 words)
Supernatural
February 22, 2007
"Fuck me or I'm going to die isn't the world's best pickup line."
"I've heard worse," Dean said.
"You've used worse," Sam said.
Bad Company (1,133 words)
Supernatural
March 03, 2007
(Sequel to Bad Blood) Sam was looking at Dean with a sort of glow of smug happiness. Dean glared out the windshield and refused to look at him.
No Rhyme or Reason (404 words)
Supernatural
March 20, 2007
"Hey," Dean said. "Want to-?"
Battering Ram (5,015 words)
Supernatural
April 15, 2007
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram/On a silver black phantom bike/When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry/And we're all about to see the light
Fidelity (2,310 words)
Supernatural
April 27, 2007
Inspired by meyerlemon's Five Women Who Chose Sam Over Dean. After the wedding.
Raindrops on Roses (3,563 words)
Supernatural
April 30, 2007
"I really don't think we can keep them," Sam said, gently, the little fucker.
Orpheus (383 words)
Supernatural
May 10, 2007
Gen, spoilers for 2x21. Dean breathed through his mouth, kept both hands on the wheel and his eyes on the yellow double line, and drove.
Spoils (1,283 words)
Supernatural
May 11, 2007
Spoilers for 2x21. Envision a soft fluffy bunny gamboling through the woods. of incest. also there might be some gore. okay, it is that bunny from monty python, but it is still GAMBOLING and FLUFFY.
Art: by allysonsedai (1), by antiship (1)
Desired (2,175 words)
Supernatural
May 16, 2007
Sam rubbed his thumb hard over the edge of the smack, scraping a little with his nail, bright and sharp. "Good?"
"Yeah," Dean said, on a hoarse breath. "Yeah." And it was, jesus, so fucking good, like everything; like everything else he'd asked for.
(Seriously, Zombies) (1,491 words)
Supernatural
May 21, 2007
"I hate you," Sam said, coming.
Generosity (1,780 words)
Supernatural
May 24, 2007
John had traded the gun; he'd have traded away more, and he was still feeling the cold dread of the moment when the demon had cocked its head like a pistol and said, "You know, I'm feeling generous today," because if it hadn't taken more, that was only because it figured what was in store was going to be worse.
Back Country Roadmap (3,299 words)
Supernatural
May 26, 2007
Hell, if Sam had earned his happy ending, Dean had earned his too.
Unasked (15,618 words)
Supernatural
June 01, 2007
Sam doesn't ask. Inspired by rageprufrock's It Doesn't Mean You Can Explain The Ocean
Art: by antiship (1)
Loud and Clear (1,840 words)
Supernatural
June 03, 2007
It just seemed pretty fucking obvious to Dean: you couldn't get what you really wanted, so you had to take what you could get.
options (617 words)
Supernatural
June 06, 2007
Decisions, decisions.
Aerial (1,380 words)
Supernatural
June 20, 2007
Sam found a way to get rid of them for almost a month at a time, a spell that lasted until the first night of the full moon.
Art: by antiship (1)
More Than Meets The Eye (1,858 words)
Supernatural
July 14, 2007
Dean had them heading towards Golden Valley on I-93 when the semi and the fighter jet went screaming by, blasting at each other with what looked like laserbeams. That was crazy enough, even before both of them smashed into the overpass and stopped long enough to unfold into giant robots. (Crossover with Transformers)
Art: by audrey (1)
The Last Visit (588 words)
Harry Potter
July 21, 2007
It has nothing to ask you. It has only something to say. (Scholomance series, part 5)
Prodigal (13,850 words)
Harry Potter
July 22, 2007
...his greatest terror was that someone would respond to him. (Scholomance series, part 6)
Looking Glass Country (19,093 words)
Smallville
August 21, 2007
Where the grass is greener.
Old Country (40,647 words)
Supernatural
September 13, 2007
Sam and Dean go to Hogwarts. (spoilers for All Hell Breaks Loose, Deathly Hallows)
Art: by leyna55 (1)
Kings and Queens and Jokers, Too (4,436 words)
Supernatural
October 03, 2007
"Yeah, you boys nailed that trickster real good," Bobby said, dry as dust.
Sumer is icumen in (4,794 words)
Supernatural
October 07, 2007
Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cuccu
Winter (1,876 words)
Supernatural
December 01, 2007
The cold open air tasted like snow and freedom, nobody on their backs for the first time in a year and six weeks, or maybe for the first time in twenty-four years.
Leader of the Pack (14,904 words)
Supernatural
December 06, 2007
The hellhounds were milling around her legs, almost high as her waist: pale white hides and red eyes, long red tongues lolling out between their stained teeth, all of them panting like the exhaust of an eighteen-wheeler and staring right at him.
Art: by digitalwave (1), by dun (1), by jessikast (1), by retrofit88 (1)
TMI (4,230 words)
Supernatural
December 10, 2007
"We've got twelve hours of highway to go and I'm bored," Dean said.
Top Billing (5400 words)
Entourage (tv)
Yuletide!
Eric looked at the bill and the neat little line of coke lying on the polished desk. This was clearly the beginning of the end, doing coke with Ari Gold on a Friday night, just so he could get i's dotted and t's crossed. (Eric/Vince)
Punxsutawney (8,968 words)
Supernatural
December 30, 2007
* astolat thinks any plot worth doing is worth doing TWICE
absolutely!
where would fandom be if we only did the good plots once?
215,004 words in 36 stories! \o/ Only four fandoms this year and only two of them new, which is weird for me, except I've been having to deliberately avoid new fannish sources in an effort to get RL work done, so I haven't flitted as much as usual. snif
Vids
Pon de Replay
Posted: 4/1/2007
Song: Pon de Replay by Rihanna
Source: Entourage
XviD (23 MB), imeem
The Adversary
Posted 8/13/2007
Song: The Adversary by Crime and the City Solution
Source: Twin Peaks
XviD (28 MB), imeem
End of the Year meme
My favorite story of this year: I'm torn! It's Old Country tied with Leader of the Pack.
My best story this year: Old Country.
Most fun story: Bad Blood. Bestiality or incest or death! This one just wrote itself.
Hardest story to write: Looking Glass Country. But oh, I am so happy to have finished it. ♥
"Holy crap, that's *wrong*, even for you" story: haha, TMI, clearly.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Back Country Roadmap -- by inclination I saw Sam and not Dean being the initiator of a relationship, so I started trying to write stories where Dean initiated because I like to take my inclinations as challenges to be overcome. This is the one where I did finally convince myself Dean would totally go for it. *g*
Biggest disappointment: I just don't post a story if I'm not happy with it, so the answer to this one is the three dozen unfinished stories still lingering on my hard drive. The biggest disappointment of those is the SGA story I was sad about not finishing from last year... /o\
Biggest surprise: Prodigal, without a doubt. I am still going around in a daze that I finished the damn thing after seven years.
Sexiest story: I like doing this one as a poll -- tell me what you thought, if you are so inclined, and feel free to elaborate in comments. :D I'm keeping it to all-SPN options since I didn't really do enough in any other fandoms this year to be worth voting on, alas.
Poll Sexiest story