2010 in review
December:
Dark Angel - remake your memories, 1,672
White Collar - beg me for it, 3,436
White Collar - guessing games, 2,551
Total: 7,659
November:
NOTHING.
Total :O
October:
White Collar - ties that bind (you to our bed), 886
Total: 886
September:
White Collar - your love has always been (a fever dream), 1,733
KMS - White Collar - you’re a mistake i can’t bear to unmake, 2,298
Total: 4,031
August:
White Collar - Bad Cop, Good Criminal, 4,394
White Collar - Let’s Play Ball, 2,878
White Collar - my blindfold’s on and you’re still beautiful, 1,176
Star Trek - i think i’ll keep you (like a secret), 3,458
Total: 11,906
July:
White Collar - it’ll last longer, 500
White Collar - i’ll give it to you slowly (till you’re just begging me to hold you), 4,579
White Collar - delicate, 5,804
Doctor Who - patient, 1,839
White Collar - be all my sins remembered, 12,977
Sky High - lazy summer days, 2,102
Merlin - liminal (you can wait to be king), 1,387
White Collar - Pitiful, 583
Total: 29,951
June:
Star Trek - in a new light, 4,922
White Collar - had a bad day, 2,896
White Collar - then let fall your horrible pleasure, 7,495
Star Trek - this is not forgiveness, 1,422
White Collar - i trust you (to make my darkest dreams come true), 2,558
Friday Night Lights - i will take you (as you are, over and over again), 2,614
Total: 21,907
May:
White Collar - love is not a battlefield (i am no hercules), 5,189
Merlin - To Command the Sea (the King of Camelot remix), 1,658
White Collar - Broken Road Series, 15,111
Star Trek - Sore, 2,820
White Collar - When You’re Good to Mama (The Grateful Remix), 1,908
Star Trek - One Time Spock Walked In On Bones and Kirk Having Sex, and Five Times He Didn’t, 4,717
Merlin - make room in your history for me, 3,085
White Collar - Phone Sex, 1,561
White Collar - Marking, 1,469
Merlin - With You Always, 1,626
White Collar - the claiming game, 3,707
Total: 42,804
April:
White Collar - Nipples, 570
White Collar - Crime and Punishment, 3,040
White Collar - Dry, 2,029
White Collar - (sexy)Back in the Saddle, 955
White Collar - A Nice Dinner, 1,722
Total: 8,316
March:
White Collar - Prison, 3,456
White Collar - Soaked, 2,673
White Collar - Shelter, 4,671
White Collar - ice ice baby, 3,038
KMS - White Collar - Pleasures I Don’t Comprehend, 5,664
KMS - White Collar - i thought i was someone else (someone good), 1,951
KMS - White Collar - the slow unraveling of me, 5,402
White Collar - Hold It, 855
Total: 27,710
February:
White Collar - Five Things Jones and Cruz Learned About Neal Caffrey, 4,000
White Collar - love you like winter, baby, until you melt, 3,891
White Collar - Nightmares, 3,576
White Collar - lay down your sword and me, 2,193
KMS - White Collar - Playing Pretend, 3,524
Total: 17,184
Different Fandom Totals:
White Collar: Forty fics totaling 138,863 words
Star Trek: Five fics totaling 17,339 words
Merlin: Four fics totaling 7,756
Friday Night Lights: One fic totaling 2,614, 1 fic
Doctor Who: One fic totaling 1,839
Sky High: One fic totaling 2,102, 1 fic
Dark Angel: One fic totaling 1,672
GRAND TOTAL:
FIFTY-THREE STORIES TOTALING 172,185 words
To put this in perspective - my total word count for the last two years? 11,980.
DAMN.
My favorites:
be all my sins remembered - This is the Shakespearean AU that I wrote for elrhiarhodan. It's the longest continuous story I've ever written (the Broken Road and piercing!kink series come close, but they're pretty broken up). I've never worked harder on a story before. I had a ton of fun doing the research for this fic - and while I know that it's rife with inaccuracies, I know that there are little bits of it that wouldn't have happened without the facts I picked up while researching. This is also the only fic where I dealt with infidelity in a serious way. Peter and Neal don't just fall in love, Peter cheats on his wife with Neal. And I think I wrote that well! The other thing I love about this fic is how completely it's in Peter's POV - it's my only fic for which I've ever considered writing a companion piece, because I think it'd be an entirely different story in Neal's POV. All of my other long pieces switch narrators pretty regularly.
love is not a battlefield (i am no hercules) - So before this fic, I'd written a lot of hurt/comfort that was heavy on the hurt with a tacked-on comfort epilogue. I had a sort of block about writing the healing process. I thought it was boring. I tried tackling it with the Broken Road series, but that kind of morphed into a prolonged reveal of more and more pain. ...not exactly what I'd intended to do. I wrote hercules as part of a fundraiser for RAINN, and I thought that that required a more sensitive - and realistic - treatment of PTSD. That's the big motivation behind why I wrote it.
The breakthrough I had with the content of this fic is that it...for some reason, I hadn't ever really united the work that I'm interested in academically with the writing I've been doing. I've done a shit-ton of research into Ancient Greek drama - specifically how it relates to trauma, veterans, and PTSD (if anyone's interested, Johnathon Shay's book Achilles in Vietnam is an amazing introduction into the subject). This is the first fic I wrote that was solidly in my comfort zone as an academic as well as a writer. I'm quite proud of it. :-)
Porn I'm very proud of: the one with all of the buttplugs, the one with the buttplug in the restaurant, the one with the dildo and the DP, the one with the dildo and unconscious sex, the one with the ice dildo, the one with the pervertibles, the one with the strap-ons, and the one with the watersports.
And that's about half of the porn I've written.
\o/
I've read fanfic since I was a wee little girl. I even wrote some Harry Potter fic (of which I am utterly ashamed, and which will hopefully never resurface to haunt me later in my life). White Collar isn't the first show I've wanted to write for, but the White Collar fandom is the first one that's ever drawn me in. And, like elrhiarhodan, I have to credit photoash with being the reason that I started writing and kept writing. Her encouragement and friendship has been such an amazing gift. Her cheerleading is the reason I finished the Broken Road and Piercing series, and continues to keep me coming back to my keyboard. Thank you! elrhiarhodan has been...honestly, I don't even know what to say. Her writing, dedication, intellect, and generosity of spirit inspire me. Thank you for being the wonderful woman that you are.
I really really want to thank all of you individually and publically here, but I know that when I read those lists of other peoples, I generally am just nervous about whether or not I'll be on there - and I don't want to leave off anybody, because that just sucks. So here's what I can say that I want to say to all of you: thank you. You guys (the people I've met in person, the people on my flist, the people who comment, the people who just read, the people who navigated here accidentally and are very very confused) are the the reason I wrote 170k this past year - the reason I returned to writing at all.
This community of people has been welcoming, supportive, and generous. I have comment notifications I got when I posted freak-outs about grad school interviews, the congratulations when I posted (with an embarrasing number of exclamation points) that I'd been accepted, the commiseration when I got overwhelmed, right up to the 'break a leg' notes when my first show had its opening night. You guys were there when my mother had her health scare over the summer, you were there when I was almost too depressed to post anything at all, and you've been there to squee with me when I've been at my highest. I can only hope that I've been able to return some measure of what you guys have given me.
I'm leaving 2010 a happier, more confident person. And a lot of that is because of you guys.
Thank you.
Here's to a 2011 full of fic, friendship, and Neal doing everything Peter tells him to do!
Love,
B
Dark Angel - remake your memories, 1,672
White Collar - beg me for it, 3,436
White Collar - guessing games, 2,551
Total: 7,659
November:
NOTHING.
Total :O
October:
White Collar - ties that bind (you to our bed), 886
Total: 886
September:
White Collar - your love has always been (a fever dream), 1,733
KMS - White Collar - you’re a mistake i can’t bear to unmake, 2,298
Total: 4,031
August:
White Collar - Bad Cop, Good Criminal, 4,394
White Collar - Let’s Play Ball, 2,878
White Collar - my blindfold’s on and you’re still beautiful, 1,176
Star Trek - i think i’ll keep you (like a secret), 3,458
Total: 11,906
July:
White Collar - it’ll last longer, 500
White Collar - i’ll give it to you slowly (till you’re just begging me to hold you), 4,579
White Collar - delicate, 5,804
Doctor Who - patient, 1,839
White Collar - be all my sins remembered, 12,977
Sky High - lazy summer days, 2,102
Merlin - liminal (you can wait to be king), 1,387
White Collar - Pitiful, 583
Total: 29,951
June:
Star Trek - in a new light, 4,922
White Collar - had a bad day, 2,896
White Collar - then let fall your horrible pleasure, 7,495
Star Trek - this is not forgiveness, 1,422
White Collar - i trust you (to make my darkest dreams come true), 2,558
Friday Night Lights - i will take you (as you are, over and over again), 2,614
Total: 21,907
May:
White Collar - love is not a battlefield (i am no hercules), 5,189
Merlin - To Command the Sea (the King of Camelot remix), 1,658
White Collar - Broken Road Series, 15,111
Star Trek - Sore, 2,820
White Collar - When You’re Good to Mama (The Grateful Remix), 1,908
Star Trek - One Time Spock Walked In On Bones and Kirk Having Sex, and Five Times He Didn’t, 4,717
Merlin - make room in your history for me, 3,085
White Collar - Phone Sex, 1,561
White Collar - Marking, 1,469
Merlin - With You Always, 1,626
White Collar - the claiming game, 3,707
Total: 42,804
April:
White Collar - Nipples, 570
White Collar - Crime and Punishment, 3,040
White Collar - Dry, 2,029
White Collar - (sexy)Back in the Saddle, 955
White Collar - A Nice Dinner, 1,722
Total: 8,316
March:
White Collar - Prison, 3,456
White Collar - Soaked, 2,673
White Collar - Shelter, 4,671
White Collar - ice ice baby, 3,038
KMS - White Collar - Pleasures I Don’t Comprehend, 5,664
KMS - White Collar - i thought i was someone else (someone good), 1,951
KMS - White Collar - the slow unraveling of me, 5,402
White Collar - Hold It, 855
Total: 27,710
February:
White Collar - Five Things Jones and Cruz Learned About Neal Caffrey, 4,000
White Collar - love you like winter, baby, until you melt, 3,891
White Collar - Nightmares, 3,576
White Collar - lay down your sword and me, 2,193
KMS - White Collar - Playing Pretend, 3,524
Total: 17,184
Different Fandom Totals:
White Collar: Forty fics totaling 138,863 words
Star Trek: Five fics totaling 17,339 words
Merlin: Four fics totaling 7,756
Friday Night Lights: One fic totaling 2,614, 1 fic
Doctor Who: One fic totaling 1,839
Sky High: One fic totaling 2,102, 1 fic
Dark Angel: One fic totaling 1,672
GRAND TOTAL:
FIFTY-THREE STORIES TOTALING 172,185 words
To put this in perspective - my total word count for the last two years? 11,980.
DAMN.
My favorites:
be all my sins remembered - This is the Shakespearean AU that I wrote for elrhiarhodan. It's the longest continuous story I've ever written (the Broken Road and piercing!kink series come close, but they're pretty broken up). I've never worked harder on a story before. I had a ton of fun doing the research for this fic - and while I know that it's rife with inaccuracies, I know that there are little bits of it that wouldn't have happened without the facts I picked up while researching. This is also the only fic where I dealt with infidelity in a serious way. Peter and Neal don't just fall in love, Peter cheats on his wife with Neal. And I think I wrote that well! The other thing I love about this fic is how completely it's in Peter's POV - it's my only fic for which I've ever considered writing a companion piece, because I think it'd be an entirely different story in Neal's POV. All of my other long pieces switch narrators pretty regularly.
love is not a battlefield (i am no hercules) - So before this fic, I'd written a lot of hurt/comfort that was heavy on the hurt with a tacked-on comfort epilogue. I had a sort of block about writing the healing process. I thought it was boring. I tried tackling it with the Broken Road series, but that kind of morphed into a prolonged reveal of more and more pain. ...not exactly what I'd intended to do. I wrote hercules as part of a fundraiser for RAINN, and I thought that that required a more sensitive - and realistic - treatment of PTSD. That's the big motivation behind why I wrote it.
The breakthrough I had with the content of this fic is that it...for some reason, I hadn't ever really united the work that I'm interested in academically with the writing I've been doing. I've done a shit-ton of research into Ancient Greek drama - specifically how it relates to trauma, veterans, and PTSD (if anyone's interested, Johnathon Shay's book Achilles in Vietnam is an amazing introduction into the subject). This is the first fic I wrote that was solidly in my comfort zone as an academic as well as a writer. I'm quite proud of it. :-)
Porn I'm very proud of: the one with all of the buttplugs, the one with the buttplug in the restaurant, the one with the dildo and the DP, the one with the dildo and unconscious sex, the one with the ice dildo, the one with the pervertibles, the one with the strap-ons, and the one with the watersports.
And that's about half of the porn I've written.
\o/
I've read fanfic since I was a wee little girl. I even wrote some Harry Potter fic (of which I am utterly ashamed, and which will hopefully never resurface to haunt me later in my life). White Collar isn't the first show I've wanted to write for, but the White Collar fandom is the first one that's ever drawn me in. And, like elrhiarhodan, I have to credit photoash with being the reason that I started writing and kept writing. Her encouragement and friendship has been such an amazing gift. Her cheerleading is the reason I finished the Broken Road and Piercing series, and continues to keep me coming back to my keyboard. Thank you! elrhiarhodan has been...honestly, I don't even know what to say. Her writing, dedication, intellect, and generosity of spirit inspire me. Thank you for being the wonderful woman that you are.
I really really want to thank all of you individually and publically here, but I know that when I read those lists of other peoples, I generally am just nervous about whether or not I'll be on there - and I don't want to leave off anybody, because that just sucks. So here's what I can say that I want to say to all of you: thank you. You guys (the people I've met in person, the people on my flist, the people who comment, the people who just read, the people who navigated here accidentally and are very very confused) are the the reason I wrote 170k this past year - the reason I returned to writing at all.
This community of people has been welcoming, supportive, and generous. I have comment notifications I got when I posted freak-outs about grad school interviews, the congratulations when I posted (with an embarrasing number of exclamation points) that I'd been accepted, the commiseration when I got overwhelmed, right up to the 'break a leg' notes when my first show had its opening night. You guys were there when my mother had her health scare over the summer, you were there when I was almost too depressed to post anything at all, and you've been there to squee with me when I've been at my highest. I can only hope that I've been able to return some measure of what you guys have given me.
I'm leaving 2010 a happier, more confident person. And a lot of that is because of you guys.
Thank you.
Here's to a 2011 full of fic, friendship, and Neal doing everything Peter tells him to do!
Love,
B