2015 fic round up.
Stealing this from doreyg but condensing it a bit because hell if I remember the answers to some of these questions.
Stats
List of Completed Fics: As if I'm HTMLing all this. Are you crazy? archiveofourown.org/users/likewinning
Total number: 159.
Ship/character breakdown: A WHOLE LOT OF BRUCE/JASON. Jay/Tim. CURVEBALL TIM/ROY RIGHT AROUND SUMMER.
Specifics:
Best/worst title?
Best: little kingdoms in your chest
Worst: i don't knowwww.
Best/worst summary?
Best: In which Tim Drake is the new pastry chef at an upscale restaurant in Gotham, Jason is heartbroken at being replaced, and everyone sleeps with everyone. Or: the one with the restaurant AU. Aka the one that was almost #UGHBRUCE.
Worst: Anything where I was lazy and just pasted a line I didn't like that much??
Best/worst first line?
I literally couldn't tell you a single first line to anything I've ever written.
Best/worst last line(s) ?
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
Um, I don't know if I've ever written that many different stories in a year. Granted, a lot of them were only a couple hundred words, but a lot of them really weren't.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
I guess Hawkeye, only because I don't think I'd started reading it before this year.
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
i go through so many phases that i swear i'm the moon. ridiculous bakery AU, maybe, but I fucking BLED for that one. twenty years later i will still be asking if Jason and Bruce shouldn't have maybe ended up together. #UGHBRUCE
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
tell me we'll never get used to it, which no matter how many times I see that title I never even remember what it IS. APPARENTLY IT'S THE ONE WHERE DICK IS AN UNDERCOVER PROSTITUTE, HOW VAGUELY EMBARRASSING FOR BOTH OF US. I always forget that I'm not the only one that hard up for Dick/Jason.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
counting my cards down to one isn't super underappreciated or whatever, but I worked really hard on that one, too, and it doesn't get QUITE as much attention as some other stuff.
Story that could have been better?
Hoo. So many. Anything involving Dick Grayson, probably.
Sexiest story?
OH JESUS WHO CAN JUDGE THIS FOR THEMSELVES. ASK TERRI.
Saddest story?
Uh, obviously a lot of Bruce/Jason, but I swear to god the Dick/Jason stories from Terri and my mallverse series made more people cry at me than anything else.
Most fun?
ANYTHING from makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky or little beasts. If writing taught me anything this year it's that I actually CAN write things with other people and it can (and in this case always is) be a fucking blast.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Since I'm thinking about mallverse, a little ember burned me down has this bit at the end where Jason and Dick are cleaning up the kitchen and talking some pretty heavy stuff and it's just my FAVORITE thing like I could write them for fucking ever.
Hardest story to write?
Um. I started a follow-up to the bakery AU that never saw the light of day because Terry McGinnis and I are enemies?
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Anything with Jason. He's pretty much the other part of my brain.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Writing Tim/Roy didn't really change how I feel about the two of them individually but it was deeefinitely a turning point in some way.
Most overdue story?
Literally anything Dick/Jason that I wrote. I don't know if I'll ever have written as much of them as I wish I could.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wouldn't call it risks because I do what I want, but some of the verses Terri and I played around with were maybe. Questionable? We did get an awful lot of HOW OLD IS EVERYONE SUPPOSED TO BE? (Also did you know Jason Todd is a mermaid???)
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
MORE DICK GRAYSON.
Stats
List of Completed Fics: As if I'm HTMLing all this. Are you crazy? archiveofourown.org/users/likewinning
Total number: 159.
Ship/character breakdown: A WHOLE LOT OF BRUCE/JASON. Jay/Tim. CURVEBALL TIM/ROY RIGHT AROUND SUMMER.
Specifics:
Best/worst title?
Best: little kingdoms in your chest
Worst: i don't knowwww.
Best/worst summary?
Best: In which Tim Drake is the new pastry chef at an upscale restaurant in Gotham, Jason is heartbroken at being replaced, and everyone sleeps with everyone. Or: the one with the restaurant AU. Aka the one that was almost #UGHBRUCE.
Worst: Anything where I was lazy and just pasted a line I didn't like that much??
Best/worst first line?
I literally couldn't tell you a single first line to anything I've ever written.
Best/worst last line(s) ?
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
Um, I don't know if I've ever written that many different stories in a year. Granted, a lot of them were only a couple hundred words, but a lot of them really weren't.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
I guess Hawkeye, only because I don't think I'd started reading it before this year.
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
i go through so many phases that i swear i'm the moon. ridiculous bakery AU, maybe, but I fucking BLED for that one. twenty years later i will still be asking if Jason and Bruce shouldn't have maybe ended up together. #UGHBRUCE
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
tell me we'll never get used to it, which no matter how many times I see that title I never even remember what it IS. APPARENTLY IT'S THE ONE WHERE DICK IS AN UNDERCOVER PROSTITUTE, HOW VAGUELY EMBARRASSING FOR BOTH OF US. I always forget that I'm not the only one that hard up for Dick/Jason.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
counting my cards down to one isn't super underappreciated or whatever, but I worked really hard on that one, too, and it doesn't get QUITE as much attention as some other stuff.
Story that could have been better?
Hoo. So many. Anything involving Dick Grayson, probably.
Sexiest story?
OH JESUS WHO CAN JUDGE THIS FOR THEMSELVES. ASK TERRI.
Saddest story?
Uh, obviously a lot of Bruce/Jason, but I swear to god the Dick/Jason stories from Terri and my mallverse series made more people cry at me than anything else.
Most fun?
ANYTHING from makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky or little beasts. If writing taught me anything this year it's that I actually CAN write things with other people and it can (and in this case always is) be a fucking blast.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Since I'm thinking about mallverse, a little ember burned me down has this bit at the end where Jason and Dick are cleaning up the kitchen and talking some pretty heavy stuff and it's just my FAVORITE thing like I could write them for fucking ever.
Hardest story to write?
Um. I started a follow-up to the bakery AU that never saw the light of day because Terry McGinnis and I are enemies?
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Anything with Jason. He's pretty much the other part of my brain.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Writing Tim/Roy didn't really change how I feel about the two of them individually but it was deeefinitely a turning point in some way.
Most overdue story?
Literally anything Dick/Jason that I wrote. I don't know if I'll ever have written as much of them as I wish I could.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wouldn't call it risks because I do what I want, but some of the verses Terri and I played around with were maybe. Questionable? We did get an awful lot of HOW OLD IS EVERYONE SUPPOSED TO BE? (Also did you know Jason Todd is a mermaid???)
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
MORE DICK GRAYSON.