[a year in fic] 2015

Dec 29, 2015 02:04

a meme stolen from the wonderful and illustrious snickfic

Despite everything else that happened this year, my productivity was at an all-time high? I can't even explain it... I mean... I guess I'll just let you read the answers to all the questions. I wrote about 358,590 words as far as my calculations go. 92(ish) stories [[btvs- 36; revo- 14; arrow- 10; tvd- 9]] and we all know I love a good crossover so many of those are probably parcels of each other.

It's been a hell of a writing year. I think what I'm most proud of (for myself) is that I can actually sit down and write something - a one-off or multi-chaptered story - that is between 10-20k without feeling like there is a huge weight on my shoulder. All of my longer pieces are generally between 15-20k and some of them (not all) are one-offs that I either wrote in one sitting or wrote so quickly/in such a way that they were posted as a single piece. Which... after years of tapping out around 3k or at 1500 word chapters, seeing that increase in word count was pretty spectacular.

[fic in review]Leitmotif(s) of the year:
The beginning of the year was mostly femme fic which was lovely. Siblingcest became a standard ~thing? which wasn't entirely unexpected but also new. Last year there were more threesomes compared to this year? the orgyfest in September pumped up Revolution like woah.

Mostly the big thing this year? I finished shit?! Long stuff. Up until this year, my one and only "long" piece was Noona and now I have several 10k+ stories under my belt. Some are unfinished, but just as many ARE.

My best story of this year:
signifying nothing is probably one of the best things that I have ever written. It's long, it's finished, it's ~good, people who read it tend to like it. It's GEN.

What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
#hashtag this was my first story of the year and the one that I still think back on and go hot damn holy jesus i actually WROTE that and it makes me super happy

also give me your heart, call it a pretty story, and I'll wash the blood from your hands is just spectacular. like. i love it so much? I blended literary analysis and historical text into an actual story and somehow created an entire world?! I'm just so damn pleased with it

Okay, NOW your most popular story.
According to ao3, sorry about the blood in my mouth, it isn't all mine a one-shot tommy/thea/oliver piece got over 900 hits.
After that (by hits) it's take back everything you took which is possibly my second favorite Revolution piece that I wrote this year. Which is actually my top in terms of kudos for this year.

Story of mine most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Probably #hashtag this, honestly. Also the Saltzman-sisters fic which no one has read..... Let's be clear: I mostly write crossover lesbian fic which means that I'm pretty much ignored by fandom. Which is fine :)

Story that could have been better?
More like: which story could I have actually Finished? Pomegranates, Badly Done, and if I say yes. They are all decent enough pieces, but they desperately need to be finished. Especially if I say yes. If anyone has read it and can figure out what could/should happen next? That'd be awesome.

Sexiest story?
Probably my Nora-seduces-Bass-for-Miles piece or if I say yes bc the Charlie/Bass/Helen-of-Troy of it all is HOT, honestly.

Hardest story to write:
if I say yes has been terribly difficult.
also some of the exchanges done primarily because I just didn't know WHAT to do?

Easiest story to write?
let's sing a song came out so easy. so, so easy. My first longer(ish) story. and it wasn't a struggle at all.
Also, strangely enough, it takes an eclipse was ~hard but not exactly hard - it was so damn easy it wasn't hard.

Holy crap, that's wrong even for you
The Saltzman sisters adventures. 16k of siblingcest that I trace from childhood to adulthood? what the hell self?

Story I haven't yet written, but intend to:
I need to finish the things that I've half-done this year. Please tell me if there's something that I told you I'd do and never started? I guess?


[Fandom in review]Fandom in review -
(I'm taking Star Wars out of the equation for this meme bc it's just not fair?)
1. Your main fandom of the year: btvs and revolution, in terms of wordcount
2. Your favourite film this year: Laggies; Jupiter Ascending; UNCLE; The Pirates
3. Your favourite book of the year: Psy-Changeling series
4. Your favourite song or album of the year: Hamilton
5. Your favourite tv show of the year: I'm deeply devoted to HTGAWM
6. Your favourite LJ community of this year: multi_genfic was such a joy. just a fucking JOY. I love it. also femslash_minis and femslashbb, which I can't wait to get back to in 2016
7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year: Revolution. New fandom, new writing, new friends.
8. Your biggest disappointment of the year: the 100 s2 :) which I refuse to watch, lol
9. Your TV boyfriend of the year: Tim Riggins ala Friday Night Lights and Bellamy Blake, obvs. AND Oliver in HTGAWM.
9a. Your Movie boyfriend of the year: Jonny Lee Miller in Emma. Max.
10. Your TV girlfriend of the year: ANNALISE KEATING. everyone in Quantico! Rachel and Julia in unREAL. all the ladies in Mr Robot. Jessica Jones. Raven Reyes. Charlie Matheson. I mean... Ladies?
10a. Your Movie girlfriend of the year: Megan ala Laggies. JUPITER.
11. Your biggest squee moment of the year: There's so many good things that happened this year? I can't pick one moment?! Probably for me personally it was discovering Annalise Keating in HTGAWM. WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME?!?!
12. Your most missed old fandom: kpop. I'm not in it at all this year. I'm sorry except I'm not?
13. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but you want to: ... I haven't ~written anything in Star Wars yet and maybe? or Hamilton?
14. Your biggest anticipation of the New Year: seeing what the Star Wars fandom does? seeing what/if anything can top a year with Jupiter, Mad Max, UNCLE, and Star Wars all happening in the same 12 months?


The fic:
(femme in italics; gen in bold)

January
#hashtag this | btvs | dawn/spike | 2,297
like a mirror painted black | roswell | maria/michael(/liz) | 500
sorry not sorry | tvd | caroline/enzo | 500
i know you are but what am i | arrow | thea | 650
just wait a little while longer | lost girl | kenzi/dyson | 500
the scarecrow asked for a brain and so he got a broken heart | pretty little liars | spencer/mona | 300
i think i dropped my superhero mask down a stormdrain | vm | veronica(/logan/weevil/lilly) | 903
i'd howl to the moon if i thought you'd hear me | btvs | dawn, buffy, (joyce) | 1,338
noona verse: epilogue | noona 'verse | 1,260
undercover agent style | btvs | cleveland 'verse | 2,000
the kids are alright | btvs | tara/buffy, dawn | 3,000
but i'm just the donut guy | noona 'verse | hoya/jia, sungjong/minha | 3,600 (begun in Jan, finished in Nov)
adulthood is sometimes when megan is megan in flesh and bone | Laggies | Megan, Annika, Craig, Misty | 1,500
feng shui | btvs | tara/buffy, dawn, joyce | 2,700

February
someone to be quiet with | btvs | cleveland 'verse | 2,300
your fingers are my compass, they always point to my heart | btvs | buffy/nikki | 4,000
yeah? write me a new one | btvs/labyrinth | dawn/sarah | 3,999 (unfinished)
some springrolls with those nachos | btvs | willow(/tara) | 3,300
no hunting at work | btvs | cordy/willow | 1,500 | fem-minis
pretty silver lines | btvs/dw/tvd | dawn/caroline/amy | 1,100
dreams dreams shattered dreams | btvs/ats | drusilla/illyria | 850
let's sing a song of all the mistakes we should have made | victorious | tory/cat | 18,005

March
your cards are just a mirror, you're reading them wrong | btvs | willow/jenny | 2,266 | fem-minis
this damn one starbucks town | btvs | jenny/joyce | 1,100 | fem-minis
no lies, no apologies | btvs | buffy/tara | 2,000
postcards postmarked | btvs | dawn, buffy | 1,800
gather your peace together like fine, woven threads | harry potter | ginny/cho | 3,000
shopping? for weapons, right? | btvs | buffy/faith | 1,600
sweetness and compromises | arrow | laurel/felicity | 500
there are no secrets between bedfellows | pretty little liars | hanna/mona | 1,200
destiny came a calling | tw/btvs/tmi | clary, dawn, allison, lydia | 3,000
copper and axinite | teen wolf/btvs/tmi | allison/lydia | 19,165

April
practicing revenge | btvs | cordy/kendra | 540 | fem-minis
a girl isn't a mirror | community | abed/annie | 640
like a chain around my neck, keeping me afloat | potc | elizabeth/jack | 1,000
blame it on me | arrow/btvs | thea/dawn | 780
you and me and my ghost makes three | the mummy | evelyn/rick | 1,200
see anything you like? | btvs | dawn/janice | 1,000
what they learn | btvs | buffy/tara + dawn | 1,000
our best kept secret | hp | blaise/ginny/draco | 2,000
catch your teeth upon my wounds and make me bleed | vm/gg | jenny/weevil/veronica/logan(/lilly) | 700
chasing us down the old highway | tvd | bonnie/elena/caroline | 1,000 (fembb-monthly)

May
being a story of gravy boats and break-ups and hope, maybe | F.R.I.E.N.D.S. | 6,800
we are merlyns | arrow | thea/tommy | 4,000
someday i'll be a real girl | hp | ginny/harry | ~500
you are all the weapons you need, i am everything else that you didn't peter pan/wendy/susan pevensie | 1,500
just flip the switch and watch| arrow | thea/tommy | 1,383
sorry about the blood in your mouth, it isn't all mine | arrow | thea/oliver/tommy | 1,000
my sister is a bartender | arrow | thea/tommy | 1,414
you can't be her everyone, hey let's be a family arrow | thea/tommy/oliver | 2,058
patented disaster | roswell | michael/liz | 1,381
tease (v) to pull apart or separate the adhering fibers of; shred. | arrow | thea/tommy | 2,700
a better way | tvd | katherine, caroline | 1,591
let me pencil you in | btvs | buffy/willow | 1,700 | fem-minis

June
signifying nothing | btvs | dawn | 30,960
i dare you to bet me | btvs | cordy/dawn/faith | 1,200 | fem-minis
why am i alive? | arrow | laurel | 1,030

July
pomegranates | btvs/tvd | dawn/elena | 14,000 (unfinished)
something real | revolution | nora/miles/bass | 6,797

August
all the small defeats a day demands | btvs | buffy/faith | 1,700 | fem-minis
queens and their mirrors | btvs/tvd/gossip girl | blair, jenny, elena, dawn | 1,600
this mortal heart | btvs/tvd/tmi | elena/dawn | 2,300
badly done, Dawn, badly done | btvs/tvd/austen | elena/dawn | 10,782 (unfinished)
so you created a game and you called it seduction, now let's break all the rules | hp | blaise/pansy | 2,196
you want to name it what? | the 100 | bellamy/raven | 1,454
life for life. death for death. you for me. | roswell | michael/ava | 1,208
when i lean in, will you push me away? | the 100 | bellamy/raven | 2,327
ashes to ashes and dust to dust | btvs | buffy/darla | 800 | fem-minis

September
did cain have a sister? did she love her mother? (we are not a fairy tale, we are something so much more) | revolution | rachel/priscilla/nano | 4,690
the sun, the moon, the stars all revolving around my earth | revolution | charlie/nora | 1,171
what more is there? (a lovesong for all the girls that never needed one | revolution/the 100 | charlie/raven | 1,600
your memory lying next to mine | christian mythology | jesus/judas | 724
there's always a choice; you are mine | revolution | charlie/bass(/duncan) | 3,911
breaking into dust | revolution | charlie/jason | 1,277
give me your heart, call it a pretty story, and I'll wash the blood from your hands | revolution | charlie/bass/miles | 7,355
and the truth shall set you free | vm | veronica, logan, lilly | 1,678

October
raise a glass | btvs | harmony, sheila, brian | 844
sure? let's go on a quest | revolution | charlie/bass | 5,598
kiss me like i'm the best mistake you'll never remember | revolution | charlie/nora | 675
carve me out, make me a home to lay all your things inside, call me whole, then leave | revolution | nora(/miles/rachel); charlie/bass(/mia) | 11,860
i don't want to break everything you made, i just want to take back everything you took | revolution | charlie/bass | 10,013
okay, cards on the table? i may have lied | revolution/btvs | dawn; charlie/bass | 9,029

November
in this world i can see you | kpop | ~500
if i say yes, will you beg please please please ('cause baby when you beg i'm yours) | revolution/history | charlie(/bass); helen of troy; alexander/hephaestion; judas iscariot | 48,111 (unfinished)
your needs and my needs they line up like the sun and the moon; it takes an eclipse baby | the 100 | bellamy/raven | 3,104
every group of friends has a mom; if you don't know who it is then it's probably you | tw/hp | kira; the mccall pack | 3,149

December
ichor and fire | revolution | charlie/bass | 515
your gravity helps me float baby | the 100 | bellamy/raven | 3,955
art made me this way | gilmore girls/btvs | jess/dawn/rory/paris | 5,793
you're looking for the creator, but the monster is all that's left | gg/tvd/btvs | elena/dawn(/blair) | 16,133
unrevealed yuletide 3845w
unrevealed yuletide treat 1369w

For the record:
2012: 54,267
2013: 89,601
2014: 119,024
2015: 358,590

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