fic year in review meme
i used to post this to my journal instead but since i don’t actually use that journal for anything other than posting fic here, i figured from now on i’ll put the year review meme on the fic comm! so here we are :D i kept forgetting to post this even though i had it all written up last week lol oops
january
24th: time for something real - chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 18651 wc
february
15th: play me a piece of your heart - kris/yixing, pg, 6408 wc
march
6th: take me over - baekhyun/kyungsoo, nc-17, 5871 wc
april
17th: caught in the middle - kyungsoo, chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 2852 wc
28th: only touch your lips to mine - jongdae/yixing, pg, 8021 wc
may
31st: endlessly toward tomorrow - chanyeol/yixing, pg, 42000 wc, written for exorbitantly challenge
june
3rd: 10k of chankai drabbles - chanyeol/jongin, g, ~10000 wc
9th: the right moment - baekhyun/jongdae, pg, 4647 wc
24th: better than this - baekhyun/kyungsoo, nc-17, 2591 wc
24th: just a little bump in the road - jongdae/junmyeon, pg-13, 2039 wc
24th: silver lining - baekhyun/kyungsoo, pg, 3503 wc
24th: test of love - jongdae/luhan, pg, 1816 wc
24th: serendipity - chanyeol/girl!jongin, nc-17, 5503 wc
july
the sad month of nothingness T__T
august
14th: drunk in love - chanyeol/jongin, nc-17, 3385 wc
september
30th: the weight of the world (i’ll lift it for you) - chanyeol/jongin, nc-17, 44007 wc
october
23rd: beginnings - chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 12793 wc, written for kaiyeol exchange
november
THIS WAS THE MONTH I TOOK A MUCH-NEEDED BREAK! \o/
december
1st: follow through - minseok/luhan, pg-13, 13845 wc
30th: until i met you (love was as elusive as mini black holes) - baekhyun/chanyeol, pg-13, 7490 wc, pinch hit for baekhyun exchange
31st: random drabble dump - chanyeol/kai, suho/chen, pg-13, ~6000 wc
total number of fics: 17 yikes (last year it was 32 sobs)
total word count: 201,422 words (last year it was 214,974 sighs)
favorite: i think i’m really quite fond of follow through, because i’d been wanting to write xiuhan for SO LONG and i’m glad i was finally able to do it.
the best: going by comments, i think time for something real and drunk in love were quite popular. personally, i think the best fic i wrote was weight of the world.
most underappreciated by the universe: lol probably the chankai drabbles and serendipity
most fun to write: caught in the middle probably lol bc i enjoyed making kyungsoo’s life hard. the right moment, because baekchen being all leering with each other but also taking care of a kid was so fun :D also i love love loved writing the chantao in weight of the world lol
sexiest: i didn’t really write much porn this year but i think it’s drunk in love even though i didn’t write them having full sex or anything lol
“holy crap that’s wrong even for you”: nothing imo i don’t think i wrote anything too weird
fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: in some ways, endlessly toward tomorrow, because it was the first super long fic i’d written through yixing’s pov. i’d made myself do that as a challenge, because i write from chanyeol’s pov SO MUCH, and yixing is still difficult to write for me. i think trying to really get into his head for that fic was interesting.
hardest to do: endlessly toward tomorrow for the reasons stated above and also for the reasons in the next question. it...was not a fun fic to write. also kris left exo right as i was getting into the fanxing part of that fic, so that was kind of rough. also weight of the world was difficult in a different way; kaiyeol is like second nature to me by now lol but i had so many ideas for that fic and it totally spiraled out of control, lol. i think reigning it in and trying not to get too carried away made it hard to work on.
biggest disappointment: endlessly toward tomorrow definitely. i….i had so many amazing ideas for this, it was a fic i’d always wanted to read (not necessarily write), and i thought it could be so awesome, but i think i got stuck in the vision of what it could be and felt like my writing could never measure up to it, so….i just fell flat i think. honestly, i like to pretend this fic doesn’t exist lol
most telling: i think i finally understand this question! yixing in endlessly toward tomorrow and chanyeol in the weight of the world….those two really came from me and different things i’ve been facing and feeling this past year. chanyeol’s character, especially, it was easy at points to write him, because everything that he was frustrated with and upset about wrt finding a job came from my own feelings on the matter and not knowing what to do and being so lost….it was hard, too, because i didn’t want to bog down the fic too much with this, because i could have gone so much deeper, and sometimes i regret that i didn’t, but overall, i’m okay with how that fic turned out.
a thing that i’m surprised at: that i wrote so little fic...the wc was large only because i wrote a lot of long fic, but wow only 17 fics, that’s dismal for me lol
what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you never would have predicted in january?: baekyeol lol
story with single sweetest moment?: weight of the world has a scene in the fourth? part where chanyeol is up late worrying about the future and just generally not knowing what to do with himself, and jongin comes out to talk to him and tell him he’s not alone, and this scene is one of my favorites ;;
the story that made you cry?: pretty sure i cried writing the scene i just mentioned above in weight of the world lol
easiest story to write?: drunk in love? i wrote that in a day lol. the baekyeol was also surprisingly easy, considering i hadn’t written them in years.
most overdue story?: the xiuhan maybe, just because i’d been talking about writing them all fucking year lol. otherwise, weight of the world, because i worked on that for like four months >.<
did you take any writing risks this year? what did you learn from them?: idk what is really considered as a risk hmm i’m not so sure i really had any major risks? endlessly toward tomorrow might be the closest one, but it was more a challenge than a risk...
in regards to writing, what did you learn this year: still i am obsessed with writing kaiyeol lmao XD i really hate writing porn? though i did sort of know that last year too lol but it’s really obvious this year how little i wrote porn. idk honestly, i don’t think i really learned much...oh! maybe that writing minseok isn’t as scary as i thought last year lol. the xiuhan wasn’t all that difficult to write through minseok’s pov which i’m glad about because then i can write so many more minseok fics *__*
do you have any fanfic goals for the new year?: last year, one of my goals was to write xiuhan which i actually managed to do, so yay! \o/ i also said to write kaisoo but that one didn’t work out. so i think i will bring that one into 2015, too. as for other goals, i really want to write xiulay, baekxing, and sudo!!! i’d also like to write something more...difficult? like challenge aus that aren’t just everyday slice-of-lifes. something with maybe supernatural elements or fantasy aus or something like that. i reeeeally tend to stay away from those kinds of fic, so even if i can write one fic like that this year, it would be nice. other than that, i have nothing i can think of hmmm. is there anything you’d like to see me write?? :3
phew that was long~ anyway, happy new year everyone! thank you for reading and commenting and your support for my random writings ;; it really means a lot! hope your holidays were wonderful and full of happy times! \o/
also come talk to me on tumblr or ask.fm! :D :D
january
24th: time for something real - chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 18651 wc
february
15th: play me a piece of your heart - kris/yixing, pg, 6408 wc
march
6th: take me over - baekhyun/kyungsoo, nc-17, 5871 wc
april
17th: caught in the middle - kyungsoo, chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 2852 wc
28th: only touch your lips to mine - jongdae/yixing, pg, 8021 wc
may
31st: endlessly toward tomorrow - chanyeol/yixing, pg, 42000 wc, written for exorbitantly challenge
june
3rd: 10k of chankai drabbles - chanyeol/jongin, g, ~10000 wc
9th: the right moment - baekhyun/jongdae, pg, 4647 wc
24th: better than this - baekhyun/kyungsoo, nc-17, 2591 wc
24th: just a little bump in the road - jongdae/junmyeon, pg-13, 2039 wc
24th: silver lining - baekhyun/kyungsoo, pg, 3503 wc
24th: test of love - jongdae/luhan, pg, 1816 wc
24th: serendipity - chanyeol/girl!jongin, nc-17, 5503 wc
july
the sad month of nothingness T__T
august
14th: drunk in love - chanyeol/jongin, nc-17, 3385 wc
september
30th: the weight of the world (i’ll lift it for you) - chanyeol/jongin, nc-17, 44007 wc
october
23rd: beginnings - chanyeol/jongin, pg-13, 12793 wc, written for kaiyeol exchange
november
THIS WAS THE MONTH I TOOK A MUCH-NEEDED BREAK! \o/
december
1st: follow through - minseok/luhan, pg-13, 13845 wc
30th: until i met you (love was as elusive as mini black holes) - baekhyun/chanyeol, pg-13, 7490 wc, pinch hit for baekhyun exchange
31st: random drabble dump - chanyeol/kai, suho/chen, pg-13, ~6000 wc
total number of fics: 17 yikes (last year it was 32 sobs)
total word count: 201,422 words (last year it was 214,974 sighs)
favorite: i think i’m really quite fond of follow through, because i’d been wanting to write xiuhan for SO LONG and i’m glad i was finally able to do it.
the best: going by comments, i think time for something real and drunk in love were quite popular. personally, i think the best fic i wrote was weight of the world.
most underappreciated by the universe: lol probably the chankai drabbles and serendipity
most fun to write: caught in the middle probably lol bc i enjoyed making kyungsoo’s life hard. the right moment, because baekchen being all leering with each other but also taking care of a kid was so fun :D also i love love loved writing the chantao in weight of the world lol
sexiest: i didn’t really write much porn this year but i think it’s drunk in love even though i didn’t write them having full sex or anything lol
“holy crap that’s wrong even for you”: nothing imo i don’t think i wrote anything too weird
fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: in some ways, endlessly toward tomorrow, because it was the first super long fic i’d written through yixing’s pov. i’d made myself do that as a challenge, because i write from chanyeol’s pov SO MUCH, and yixing is still difficult to write for me. i think trying to really get into his head for that fic was interesting.
hardest to do: endlessly toward tomorrow for the reasons stated above and also for the reasons in the next question. it...was not a fun fic to write. also kris left exo right as i was getting into the fanxing part of that fic, so that was kind of rough. also weight of the world was difficult in a different way; kaiyeol is like second nature to me by now lol but i had so many ideas for that fic and it totally spiraled out of control, lol. i think reigning it in and trying not to get too carried away made it hard to work on.
biggest disappointment: endlessly toward tomorrow definitely. i….i had so many amazing ideas for this, it was a fic i’d always wanted to read (not necessarily write), and i thought it could be so awesome, but i think i got stuck in the vision of what it could be and felt like my writing could never measure up to it, so….i just fell flat i think. honestly, i like to pretend this fic doesn’t exist lol
most telling: i think i finally understand this question! yixing in endlessly toward tomorrow and chanyeol in the weight of the world….those two really came from me and different things i’ve been facing and feeling this past year. chanyeol’s character, especially, it was easy at points to write him, because everything that he was frustrated with and upset about wrt finding a job came from my own feelings on the matter and not knowing what to do and being so lost….it was hard, too, because i didn’t want to bog down the fic too much with this, because i could have gone so much deeper, and sometimes i regret that i didn’t, but overall, i’m okay with how that fic turned out.
a thing that i’m surprised at: that i wrote so little fic...the wc was large only because i wrote a lot of long fic, but wow only 17 fics, that’s dismal for me lol
what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you never would have predicted in january?: baekyeol lol
story with single sweetest moment?: weight of the world has a scene in the fourth? part where chanyeol is up late worrying about the future and just generally not knowing what to do with himself, and jongin comes out to talk to him and tell him he’s not alone, and this scene is one of my favorites ;;
the story that made you cry?: pretty sure i cried writing the scene i just mentioned above in weight of the world lol
easiest story to write?: drunk in love? i wrote that in a day lol. the baekyeol was also surprisingly easy, considering i hadn’t written them in years.
most overdue story?: the xiuhan maybe, just because i’d been talking about writing them all fucking year lol. otherwise, weight of the world, because i worked on that for like four months >.<
did you take any writing risks this year? what did you learn from them?: idk what is really considered as a risk hmm i’m not so sure i really had any major risks? endlessly toward tomorrow might be the closest one, but it was more a challenge than a risk...
in regards to writing, what did you learn this year: still i am obsessed with writing kaiyeol lmao XD i really hate writing porn? though i did sort of know that last year too lol but it’s really obvious this year how little i wrote porn. idk honestly, i don’t think i really learned much...oh! maybe that writing minseok isn’t as scary as i thought last year lol. the xiuhan wasn’t all that difficult to write through minseok’s pov which i’m glad about because then i can write so many more minseok fics *__*
do you have any fanfic goals for the new year?: last year, one of my goals was to write xiuhan which i actually managed to do, so yay! \o/ i also said to write kaisoo but that one didn’t work out. so i think i will bring that one into 2015, too. as for other goals, i really want to write xiulay, baekxing, and sudo!!! i’d also like to write something more...difficult? like challenge aus that aren’t just everyday slice-of-lifes. something with maybe supernatural elements or fantasy aus or something like that. i reeeeally tend to stay away from those kinds of fic, so even if i can write one fic like that this year, it would be nice. other than that, i have nothing i can think of hmmm. is there anything you’d like to see me write?? :3
phew that was long~ anyway, happy new year everyone! thank you for reading and commenting and your support for my random writings ;; it really means a lot! hope your holidays were wonderful and full of happy times! \o/
also come talk to me on tumblr or ask.fm! :D :D