End of Year Fic Meme
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froggimus_rexSo this is the first time I've ever dones one of these, since it's the time time in a long time I've ever written more than one or two fics in a year. And I wrote a fuckton by my standards, like a whole ten fics if I include my Yuletide 2017 fic (which I am).
Murderbot Makes a Friend (The Murderbot Diaries, gen with velociraptors) (Yuletide 2017)
Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activites (The Old Republic, Darth Arkous/Rian Darok)
Get Out as Early as You Can (Star Wars, Aphra gen)
Strange New Girls (Star Trek: Disco, Star Wars, Michael/Ahsoka)
she was doing good (until the cat got her) (She-Ra, Catra/Adora)
The Days of Honey and Vinegar (Star Wars, OFC/OFC)
Sorrow’s Child Lifts Up Her Hand (She-Ra, technically-gen-but-not-at-all-if-you-picked-up-what-I-was-putting-down)
Thy Latent Talons (She-Ra, gen with potentially shippy reading)
steal it urgent, all for now (don't look back and don't look down) (The Old Republic, Lana/Theron)
Take a Trusting Heart and Bleed It Dry (She-Ra, Scorpiawhump gen)
My Favourite Story This Year?
Probably a toss up between 'steal it urgent' (or as it was called until about five minutes before posting, Shaniko Bad Ideas Bears IV - Plaideweave and Non-Con Haircuts) and 'Sorrow's Child'. They're very different stories, but they're both very much written for me to please me(I mean technically all my She-Ra stuff so far has been for an audience of me, but Sorrow's Child even more so).
My Best Story This Year?
If we're measuring best in terms of audience reaction, then 'until the cat got her' fucking smashed it. It took like six weeks to get the same number of kudos as Spaceman Spiff and the Alien Conspiracy (my other outlier which should not be counted) has gotten in seven years. I don't know if it'll have the legs Spaceman Spiff did, but damn.
The other contender is 'Take a Trusting Heart', which is much more in line with my usual numbers, but the people who are reading it seem to really be...I don't know if enjoying is the right word to use, considering? But it's a very gratifying reaction I'm getting.
Most Surprising Story?
'Strange New Girls'. I'd never even considered the pairing before I got the assignment email, and came out of it with a fairly solid ship...and also started shipping Sabine/Tilly.
Most Disappointing Story?
The ones I didn't finish.
Like, I'm not going to claim I'm the most brilliant flawless writer, or these all turned outt he way I expected, but everything that got posted is something I got to a point I was happy with.
Favourite First Line?
Scorpia is not quite a year by the stars that were and the moons that are and the Fright Zone isn't yet. from 'Take a Trusting Heart'. I don't really tend to do killer stand alone first lines, more scene setting paragraphs or one-two-set-up-punchline type things, but I feel I actually managed to pack a lot into the one sentence here. It sets the scene, starts off the world-building, introduces the major stylistic device for the passage of time, has a certain fairytale/folklore evocation. I like it.
Favourite Last Line?
"Tell me, Darok," he gasped when they broke apart for breath. "How do you feel about piercings?" from 'Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activities', I don't know if I'd say it was the best (going off audience reaction that was probably And maybe, if she scratched and tore and dug at her long enough and hard enough, somewhere under there she'd be able to find Adora again. from 'Thy Latent Talons', lots of people liked that one), but it's funny, and I have no shame in admitting I'll go for the joke if I'm at all able to.
Honourable mention to the end of 'Sorrow's Child', which as a line in and of itself isn't much to write home about but was defintiely the most effective place I could end it in terms of letting the reader fill in the blanks.
Story Most Unappreciated By The Universe?
'Get Out as Early as You Can', which got some nice non-recip comments but wasn't even acknowledged by its recip. Oh, well, I tried my best, not much else can you do.
Most Fun Story?
Tie between 'Murderbot Makes a Friend' and 'Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activites'. They're just fun, silly, playful stories.
Story With The Single Sexiest Moment?
Pretty sure 'until the cat got her' with its thirteen hundred odd words of fingerbanging and awkward feelings wins this.
Story With The Single Sweetest Moment?
Lana fixing Theron's terrible hair choices in 'steal it urgent' did it for me, but I also think tiny Scorpia ended up being ridic adorable in 'Take a Trusting Heart' pre-whumping.
Hardest Story to Write?
'steal it urgent' took the longest from go to woe, but 'The Days of Honey and Vinegar' was like pulling teeth. The POV character completely flipped around. It went from angsty porn with identity issues, to drunken talking about feelings. The side characters kept threatening to take over the story to the point one of them got banished off-screen (of course, I probably should have seen that coming considering that character's description was 'dashing semi-retired space pirate more extra than Hondo Ohnaka, played by Lee Lin Chin'), I'm not sure my tendency to write around things and let the reader fill in the rest really works that great with OCs, but in the end my recip liked it, so it was all worth it.
Easiest Story to Write?
'Thy Latent Talons', hands down. Dashed off in about an hour for a FFA '100 words of' thread, couple of rounds of editing/tweaking after sleeping on it. Probably would've been harder if I'd tried to get it all the way down to a proper drabble, but I'm happy with it.
Story I Haven't Written, But Intend To?
I've honestly got a lot of ideas knocking around the old noggin. Maybe the bb!Lana/OFC one very obliquely referred to in 'steal it urgent'?
Most Unintentionally Telling Story?
...idk?
Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions of the Characters?
If OCs count for this, then 'The Days of Honey and Vinegar', because I started out with two very different mains than I ended up with.
Most "Holy Crap, That's Wrong Even For You" Story?
Yeah, it's either 'Sorrow's Child' or 'Take a Trusting Heart', there is some horrorfic shit being implied in those two.
This Year's Theme And The Story That Demonstrates It Most?
Taking the WIPS into consideration as well...
Wallsex. Lots of shoving people against walls. Wallsex and betrayal. So 'until the cat got her'?
Looking Back, Did You Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, or About What You'd Predicted?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
More. Definitely more.
What Pairing/Genre/Fandom Did You Write That You Would Never Have Predicted in January 2018?
She-Ra.
Did You Take Any Writing Risks This Year?
...idk?
Do You Have Any fanfic Goals For The New Year?
Try to actually get more stuff actually written down? I don't think I'll be able to keep up this past two months momentum, but it'd be nice to finish things more regularly. Maybe try for a long-fic, I've got a bunch of AUs that'd need a lot more words than my usual to do justice to them.
Murderbot Makes a Friend (The Murderbot Diaries, gen with velociraptors) (Yuletide 2017)
Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activites (The Old Republic, Darth Arkous/Rian Darok)
Get Out as Early as You Can (Star Wars, Aphra gen)
Strange New Girls (Star Trek: Disco, Star Wars, Michael/Ahsoka)
she was doing good (until the cat got her) (She-Ra, Catra/Adora)
The Days of Honey and Vinegar (Star Wars, OFC/OFC)
Sorrow’s Child Lifts Up Her Hand (She-Ra, technically-gen-but-not-at-all-if-you-picked-up-what-I-was-putting-down)
Thy Latent Talons (She-Ra, gen with potentially shippy reading)
steal it urgent, all for now (don't look back and don't look down) (The Old Republic, Lana/Theron)
Take a Trusting Heart and Bleed It Dry (She-Ra, Scorpia
My Favourite Story This Year?
Probably a toss up between 'steal it urgent' (or as it was called until about five minutes before posting, Shaniko Bad Ideas Bears IV - Plaideweave and Non-Con Haircuts) and 'Sorrow's Child'. They're very different stories, but they're both very much written for me to please me(I mean technically all my She-Ra stuff so far has been for an audience of me, but Sorrow's Child even more so).
My Best Story This Year?
If we're measuring best in terms of audience reaction, then 'until the cat got her' fucking smashed it. It took like six weeks to get the same number of kudos as Spaceman Spiff and the Alien Conspiracy (my other outlier which should not be counted) has gotten in seven years. I don't know if it'll have the legs Spaceman Spiff did, but damn.
The other contender is 'Take a Trusting Heart', which is much more in line with my usual numbers, but the people who are reading it seem to really be...I don't know if enjoying is the right word to use, considering? But it's a very gratifying reaction I'm getting.
Most Surprising Story?
'Strange New Girls'. I'd never even considered the pairing before I got the assignment email, and came out of it with a fairly solid ship...and also started shipping Sabine/Tilly.
Most Disappointing Story?
The ones I didn't finish.
Like, I'm not going to claim I'm the most brilliant flawless writer, or these all turned outt he way I expected, but everything that got posted is something I got to a point I was happy with.
Favourite First Line?
Scorpia is not quite a year by the stars that were and the moons that are and the Fright Zone isn't yet. from 'Take a Trusting Heart'. I don't really tend to do killer stand alone first lines, more scene setting paragraphs or one-two-set-up-punchline type things, but I feel I actually managed to pack a lot into the one sentence here. It sets the scene, starts off the world-building, introduces the major stylistic device for the passage of time, has a certain fairytale/folklore evocation. I like it.
Favourite Last Line?
"Tell me, Darok," he gasped when they broke apart for breath. "How do you feel about piercings?" from 'Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activities', I don't know if I'd say it was the best (going off audience reaction that was probably And maybe, if she scratched and tore and dug at her long enough and hard enough, somewhere under there she'd be able to find Adora again. from 'Thy Latent Talons', lots of people liked that one), but it's funny, and I have no shame in admitting I'll go for the joke if I'm at all able to.
Honourable mention to the end of 'Sorrow's Child', which as a line in and of itself isn't much to write home about but was defintiely the most effective place I could end it in terms of letting the reader fill in the blanks.
Story Most Unappreciated By The Universe?
'Get Out as Early as You Can', which got some nice non-recip comments but wasn't even acknowledged by its recip. Oh, well, I tried my best, not much else can you do.
Most Fun Story?
Tie between 'Murderbot Makes a Friend' and 'Trustfalls and Other Bonding Activites'. They're just fun, silly, playful stories.
Story With The Single Sexiest Moment?
Pretty sure 'until the cat got her' with its thirteen hundred odd words of fingerbanging and awkward feelings wins this.
Story With The Single Sweetest Moment?
Lana fixing Theron's terrible hair choices in 'steal it urgent' did it for me, but I also think tiny Scorpia ended up being ridic adorable in 'Take a Trusting Heart' pre-whumping.
Hardest Story to Write?
'steal it urgent' took the longest from go to woe, but 'The Days of Honey and Vinegar' was like pulling teeth. The POV character completely flipped around. It went from angsty porn with identity issues, to drunken talking about feelings. The side characters kept threatening to take over the story to the point one of them got banished off-screen (of course, I probably should have seen that coming considering that character's description was 'dashing semi-retired space pirate more extra than Hondo Ohnaka, played by Lee Lin Chin'), I'm not sure my tendency to write around things and let the reader fill in the rest really works that great with OCs, but in the end my recip liked it, so it was all worth it.
Easiest Story to Write?
'Thy Latent Talons', hands down. Dashed off in about an hour for a FFA '100 words of' thread, couple of rounds of editing/tweaking after sleeping on it. Probably would've been harder if I'd tried to get it all the way down to a proper drabble, but I'm happy with it.
Story I Haven't Written, But Intend To?
I've honestly got a lot of ideas knocking around the old noggin. Maybe the bb!Lana/OFC one very obliquely referred to in 'steal it urgent'?
Most Unintentionally Telling Story?
...idk?
Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions of the Characters?
If OCs count for this, then 'The Days of Honey and Vinegar', because I started out with two very different mains than I ended up with.
Most "Holy Crap, That's Wrong Even For You" Story?
Yeah, it's either 'Sorrow's Child' or 'Take a Trusting Heart', there is some horrorfic shit being implied in those two.
This Year's Theme And The Story That Demonstrates It Most?
Taking the WIPS into consideration as well...
Wallsex. Lots of shoving people against walls. Wallsex and betrayal. So 'until the cat got her'?
Looking Back, Did You Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, or About What You'd Predicted?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
More. Definitely more.
What Pairing/Genre/Fandom Did You Write That You Would Never Have Predicted in January 2018?
She-Ra.
Did You Take Any Writing Risks This Year?
...idk?
Do You Have Any fanfic Goals For The New Year?
Try to actually get more stuff actually written down? I don't think I'll be able to keep up this past two months momentum, but it'd be nice to finish things more regularly. Maybe try for a long-fic, I've got a bunch of AUs that'd need a lot more words than my usual to do justice to them.
