2011 Fanworks in Review
2011: The year Remix Redux and Kink Bingo fired up the creative engine again. Thank goodness for that. It would be wonderful if 2012 continued the momentum.
Previous Roundups
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
Fic/Poetry
February 2
Snippet: Temporarily-in-a-female-body!McKay invites John over to experiment (SGA)
700 words-ish
May 1
Soft Swap (Sink Your Fangs Into It Remix), plus DVD commentary (House/SGA)
5,700 words plus 1,400 for the commentary
May 2
Forty Years and Eight Pounds (The Skin Hunger Variations) (SGA)
2,419 words
August 15
Found Poem: I'll Always Remember / The Time the Aliens Made Us Do It (SGA)
1,600 words
August 17
If You Build It (He Will Come) (SGA)
2,280 words
October 31
Amnesty: All We Have to Fear (House)
1,800 words(ish)
I think "Forty Years and Eight Pounds" was my best story of the year, giving yet more proof that putting a quiet bit of oneself into a character helps the story resonate with people (thanks, perspi, for the lovely story to remix); the found poem was the most creative (thanks again, synn, for the idea); and there's a special place in my heart for sexy little "If You Build It."
Fic goal for 2012: Write more stories. It's still a mystery why I've been so blocked. Nonfiction has been coming easier. (Ha, a pun.)
Meta/Essay
May 31
Force Me, Please: On Noncon and Noncon Play in Fanfic (also on LJ here)
5,300 words
September 8
Thoughts on the use of hands and bodies to hold victims down in my Mary Sue noncon fics
850 words
September 10
Characters who are drawn to danger: Buffy Summers
1,000 words
Really only the consent play essay counts; the other two were written quickly and without as much thought. And I really like that consent play essay. People's comments were amazing. I'm ashamed not to have written back to everyone; there's a goal for 2012, if not before.
Meta goal for 2012: I don't really have one, but if I did, it might be to write more kink essays or fic commentaries (on other people's stories).
Mary Sue
March 16 [locked]
Untitled Karin comfort story
900 words-ish
March 20
Mary Sue noncon, Karin's first time with Makor
4,600 words
June 21
Mary Sue noncon, Karin's nth client
1,625 words
November 6 [locked]
Ten-year-old Vampire Chronicles Mary Sue/Marius snippet in honor of the second Twilight movie
6,500 words
[Plus 9,200 new words as yet unposted]
Have I mentioned lately how gratifying it is to have a like-minded and non-judgmental audience for these, no matter how small?
Vids
February 6
They Want More (Jurassic Park movies)
February 6
Recalled to Life (The Secret Garden)
June 12
Satisfaction (Peanuts)
June 14
Humping Robot vid (Robot Chicken)
July 30
Anything For You (SGA)
September 4
Born Too Late (DS9)
September 5
Let's Get Messy (BtVS, Roar, Sex and Lucia, SGA, True Blood)
September 25
A Girl Like You (SGA)
October-December
~Mystery Festivid~
I guess this was the Year of Vids for me, wow. My favorites are "Recalled to Life" (sweet and heartfelt), "Born Too Late" (am still pleased at having come up with the idea, and it's always like coming home to immerse myself in DS9) and the Humping Robot (heee). Loved "I Want More" at the time, and am still thrilled with the response, but maybe its popularity has made me love some of the others more. Also I tried out a different editing technique with "Let's Get Messy," and while not many people watched it, I think I grew a bit in making it.
Vid goal #1 for 2011 was to "have something shown at a con." Check that column five times for "They Want More" and once for "Recalled to Life." Vid goal for 2012, then, is to have a vid shown at a con that I have submitted for that purpose; the aforementioned were invited. Maybe the angry, political SGA one… maybe something not yet conceived.
Vid goal #2 for 2011 was to "finish the Lightfoot, Dylan, Oliver and femdom vids." I did the latter two ("Anything For You" and "A Girl Like You"); Dylan is the angry one just mentioned; and Lightfoot is waiting for me to learn how to do an effect in AfterEffects for one particular shot. Coming in 2012, with luck.
Recs
Also about 150 recs for Kink Bingo. (Er, more like 200 if you include the ones in the consent play essay.) Normally I wouldn't count them, but I liked a lot of these posts, and most of them include substantive blurbs.
Graphics
December 13
Kinky Icon Set Mini-Bingo (The Vampire Diaries)
Stats
Fics/essays: 9 (+1 amnesty)
Word count: 27,524 (+1,800 amnesty, +9,200 Mary Sue WsIP)
Vids: 7 (not counting the 2 Festivids that were technically finished in 2010)
Minutes vidded: 14.5 (ditto)
Icons: 5
Fandoms: 15 (!)
That's about the same number of fics/essays as in 2010 but 1.5 times as many words; almost twice as many vids but only 1 minute more of footage. Many, many more fandoms than in any other year I've been on LJ, though.
Gen: 8
Slash: 2
Het: 6
Mixed/Other: 6
Overall goal for 2012 beyond what's outlined in the specific categories is… to keep producing stuff. It sounds simple, but sometimes it's really not. The rush of joy and pride from finishing something, and from getting substantive comments on it, is like nothing else. Yet getting there can be torture, gloom, despair, self-loathing, &c &c.
There: 2012: Here's to less self-loathing.
Previous Roundups
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
Fic/Poetry
February 2
Snippet: Temporarily-in-a-female-body!McKay invites John over to experiment (SGA)
700 words-ish
May 1
Soft Swap (Sink Your Fangs Into It Remix), plus DVD commentary (House/SGA)
5,700 words plus 1,400 for the commentary
May 2
Forty Years and Eight Pounds (The Skin Hunger Variations) (SGA)
2,419 words
August 15
Found Poem: I'll Always Remember / The Time the Aliens Made Us Do It (SGA)
1,600 words
August 17
If You Build It (He Will Come) (SGA)
2,280 words
October 31
Amnesty: All We Have to Fear (House)
1,800 words(ish)
I think "Forty Years and Eight Pounds" was my best story of the year, giving yet more proof that putting a quiet bit of oneself into a character helps the story resonate with people (thanks, perspi, for the lovely story to remix); the found poem was the most creative (thanks again, synn, for the idea); and there's a special place in my heart for sexy little "If You Build It."
Fic goal for 2012: Write more stories. It's still a mystery why I've been so blocked. Nonfiction has been coming easier. (Ha, a pun.)
Meta/Essay
May 31
Force Me, Please: On Noncon and Noncon Play in Fanfic (also on LJ here)
5,300 words
September 8
Thoughts on the use of hands and bodies to hold victims down in my Mary Sue noncon fics
850 words
September 10
Characters who are drawn to danger: Buffy Summers
1,000 words
Really only the consent play essay counts; the other two were written quickly and without as much thought. And I really like that consent play essay. People's comments were amazing. I'm ashamed not to have written back to everyone; there's a goal for 2012, if not before.
Meta goal for 2012: I don't really have one, but if I did, it might be to write more kink essays or fic commentaries (on other people's stories).
Mary Sue
March 16 [locked]
Untitled Karin comfort story
900 words-ish
March 20
Mary Sue noncon, Karin's first time with Makor
4,600 words
June 21
Mary Sue noncon, Karin's nth client
1,625 words
November 6 [locked]
Ten-year-old Vampire Chronicles Mary Sue/Marius snippet in honor of the second Twilight movie
6,500 words
[Plus 9,200 new words as yet unposted]
Have I mentioned lately how gratifying it is to have a like-minded and non-judgmental audience for these, no matter how small?
Vids
February 6
They Want More (Jurassic Park movies)
February 6
Recalled to Life (The Secret Garden)
June 12
Satisfaction (Peanuts)
June 14
Humping Robot vid (Robot Chicken)
July 30
Anything For You (SGA)
September 4
Born Too Late (DS9)
September 5
Let's Get Messy (BtVS, Roar, Sex and Lucia, SGA, True Blood)
September 25
A Girl Like You (SGA)
October-December
~Mystery Festivid~
I guess this was the Year of Vids for me, wow. My favorites are "Recalled to Life" (sweet and heartfelt), "Born Too Late" (am still pleased at having come up with the idea, and it's always like coming home to immerse myself in DS9) and the Humping Robot (heee). Loved "I Want More" at the time, and am still thrilled with the response, but maybe its popularity has made me love some of the others more. Also I tried out a different editing technique with "Let's Get Messy," and while not many people watched it, I think I grew a bit in making it.
Vid goal #1 for 2011 was to "have something shown at a con." Check that column five times for "They Want More" and once for "Recalled to Life." Vid goal for 2012, then, is to have a vid shown at a con that I have submitted for that purpose; the aforementioned were invited. Maybe the angry, political SGA one… maybe something not yet conceived.
Vid goal #2 for 2011 was to "finish the Lightfoot, Dylan, Oliver and femdom vids." I did the latter two ("Anything For You" and "A Girl Like You"); Dylan is the angry one just mentioned; and Lightfoot is waiting for me to learn how to do an effect in AfterEffects for one particular shot. Coming in 2012, with luck.
Recs
Also about 150 recs for Kink Bingo. (Er, more like 200 if you include the ones in the consent play essay.) Normally I wouldn't count them, but I liked a lot of these posts, and most of them include substantive blurbs.
Graphics
December 13
Kinky Icon Set Mini-Bingo (The Vampire Diaries)
Stats
Fics/essays: 9 (+1 amnesty)
Word count: 27,524 (+1,800 amnesty, +9,200 Mary Sue WsIP)
Vids: 7 (not counting the 2 Festivids that were technically finished in 2010)
Minutes vidded: 14.5 (ditto)
Icons: 5
Fandoms: 15 (!)
That's about the same number of fics/essays as in 2010 but 1.5 times as many words; almost twice as many vids but only 1 minute more of footage. Many, many more fandoms than in any other year I've been on LJ, though.
Gen: 8
Slash: 2
Het: 6
Mixed/Other: 6
Overall goal for 2012 beyond what's outlined in the specific categories is… to keep producing stuff. It sounds simple, but sometimes it's really not. The rush of joy and pride from finishing something, and from getting substantive comments on it, is like nothing else. Yet getting there can be torture, gloom, despair, self-loathing, &c &c.
There: 2012: Here's to less self-loathing.