#2022 fiction roundup

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2024 Fic Year in Review

My fifth fic year in review! It's always wild to go back and look at how far I've come. As always, feel free to grab this if you want to do your own; I've stitched it together over the years. And thank you to everyone who read my fics this year, whether it was one or all of them.

2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

AO3 Username: chamel My Page: Link Active Fandoms: Red, White & Royal Blue: 14 works Loki: 3 works The Man from UNCLE (2015): 1 work New Fandoms: The Pairing (CMQ novel; 1 work) Total Number Of Completed Works/Word Count This Year: 23 works, 303k words All Time: 135 works, 1.57 million words

Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): This Year: Trying My Patience (Try Pink Carnations) (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 9.4k) All Time: Class(room) Warfare (RWRB, Alex/Henry, T, 7.8k words)

Most Popular Completed Multi-Chapter (by kudos):  This Year: False Dichotomy (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 62k) All Time: Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood  (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 20k words)

Events/Challenges: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Gift Exchange 2024, A Royally Big Bang, Lokius Reverse Bang, idk do what you want exchange

More reflections, stats, and planned fics below the cut!

Additional Random AO3 Stats

By number of fics: 79% one shots, 21% multi-chaps

By word count: 69% multi-chaps (nice), 31% one shots

Ratings by number of fics: 48% E-rated, 26% M-rated, 26% T-rated

Musical artists contributing highest number of titles: spread out this year, but Wilco, Metric & Sufjan Stevens came in with 2 each

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?  I was wrong in my 2024 roundup post—I wrote 25k more words this year despite having 10 fewer fics. Which I did NOT expect. I figured I was trucking along to make my usual ~270k, but I forgot about The Secret Fics lol.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?  I think I have to go with Body and Soul(mate), which I'm just so so proud of. I love how it came out and I think it's really original.

Did you complete your writing goals from last year?  The Goal: My goal is to have a similar mix of fics as least year, and also to write my first collaboration with @cricketnationrise, which will be a long multichap. First part, pretty close. I wrote more multichaps (21% vs 15%) this year, which meant fewer fics in total. Second part, oops. Cricket and I have both been busy, but the hockey fic lives!! We'll get to it eventually!

Do you have any writing goals for the New Year? I can't believe I'm gonna say this but... write more original fiction. See below for more on that. Fanfic wise... finally finish some of the planned stories I've had kicking around for a while.

Did you take any writing risks this year? I submitted a pitch for an anthology, was accepted, and wrote my first original story! I had a lot of fun with it and I think I'll purse more next year. Idk if I'm ready for a whole novel and trying to get (more) published, but we'll see.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Even though it's numbers have come up since publishing, I'm still gonna go with The Impossible Soul, aka my Westworld-esque android/human AU.

Most fun story to write: Probably Body and Soul(mate). Figuring out all the body swaps and soulmate lore was a lot of fun and the whole thing just flowed so well.

Biggest disappointment: Why do I keep this question? I hate complaining publicly. 😂 My biggest disappointment is that I sometimes let fandom drama/trends/popularity make me feel bad. Being mad because a fandom loves X type of fic doesn't help anyone.

Biggest surprise: I'm not sure I really had any big surprises this year. Biggest surprise in my stats was that my percent of explicit works is way up—T used to be my most-used rating. Part of that is publishing fewer one-shots, since those tend to be T for me, whereas a long fic is more likely to be E.

Coming soon/planned for 2024: It's a little depressing how so many of these are the same as last year. Hence the resolution above, I guess.

Kissed Out (RWRB pro-pool players AU)

RWRB 1940s noir AU

RWRB conductor/piano soloist AU

RWRB Jurassic Park AU

RWRB rodeo rider/polo player AU

RWRB hockey AU (with cricket)

A shitload of prompts from my fandom fest

Extremely delinquent MTH fics

TMFU art thief/gallery owner AU

Thanks to folks who tagged me in their year in review posts, including @loki-is-my-kink-awakening, @kiwiana-writes, and @porcelainmortal

[truetalesteam]

True Tales of the Illuminati needs YOUR help to fund a third season!

Big news! We just launched our indiegogo to crowdfund the third season of our show, True Tales of the Illuminati.

True Tales is our full-cast audio comedy about conspiracies gone wrong, where a group of illuminati goons bounce haplessly throughout history snatching defeat from the jaws of other, weirder defeats.

In our first season (which you can listen to here or on your podcatcher of choice) , our gang of Illuminauts failed to keep the pyramids a secret. In the second, they failed to fake the moon landing so hard that they had to actually land on the moon. In the third, Beck and the gang will be going up against their toughest foe yet - the Enlightenment.

That’s right, reason IS the font of goodness, and it’s back to the 18th century to deal with the likes of Denis Diderot, Johanne Weishaupt, and Wolfgang Goethe. Can they match their scintillating wit? Create an objective test of intellectual acumen? Kiss?

We've been acclaimed by the AV Club on their Podmass roundup and made it to the finalists in the 2020 and 2022 Audioverse awards.

We've also had the following very kind words said about us:

"True Tales of the Illuminati is the wackiest, most ridiculous fun. Get swept away into a witty, space-time spanning rollercoaster ride of Looney Tunes hijinks and cartoonish comedy. It reminds me of my favourite audio fiction comedies, from Victoriocity and Wooden Overcoats to Oblivity and The Amelia Project. If you want your ears full of laugh out loud audio mayhem, please help bring this project to life!"

Ella Watts, BBC Studios, Doctor Who Redacted

"One of the funniest scripted podcasts out there, with brilliant characters and a wildly imaginative world. We need more!"

Tom Crowley, Wooden Overcoats, Victoriocity, Crowley Time with me, Tom Crowley

"True Tales is a fantastic, hilarious workplace satire, perfect for the post-truth era."

Henry Galley, Less is Morgue co-creator

Pretty good, right? If you're intrigued, if you like the show, if you want to help us make more, please head over to our indiegogo and drop us a few dollars. If you drop us more than a few, we even have rewards, like early access, stickers, pins, and more!

Oh, and did we mention that we're releasing 15-30 minute standalone minisodes as we hit our funding goals? The first one is already out for your enjoyment here, and we’ll be releasing new ones for every $3k raised. If we hit our $9000 goal, we'll drop a minisode by very special guest writer and performer, Tom Crowley! That’s right, the one from the pull quote! Tom’s one of our favorite writers and performers and he’s given us an incredible minisode, so as you can imagine, we really want to share it with you. So help us do just that!

Making this show is a labor of love, but we also need to pay our actors, our sound designer and rent studio space to make this as great as we can. Thank you so much if you decide to be a part of that. If you decide to donate, head on over to truetalesteam.com/crowdfund. We hope to see you there.

Illuminati, Ollominoto, The True Tales Team

[wizardsvslesbians]

You can read all these stories for free on the internet!

Miss Bulletproof Comes Out of Retirement: https://podcastle.org/2022/03/08/podcastle-725-miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/ (or https://giganotosaurus.org/2020/08/01/miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/) 

Selkie Stories are for Losers: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/

Nuca: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/

[marveltrumpshate]

April 2024 MTH fills

The best way to see all the fills that have been shared with us is our monthly roundups tag or our #MTH-fills channel on our Discord, but you can also view them through the following methods:

Our Tumblr tags: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Our AO3 collection (only has works posted to AO3; see "subcollections" for specific auction years)

Completed works tag list

To find specific content, use our completed works tag lists above which includes instructions on how to search for a particular character, gen or romantic relationship, universe, and fanwork type. 

SOLO CHARACTERS

Marc Spector

@newnewyorker93 - Scented beanbag sachet designed with Moon Knight's crescent moon emblem and hieroglyphs for @ruquas

Tony Stark

newnewyorker93 - Scented arc reactor beanbag sachet for llcupp01

Stephen Strange

newnewyorker93 - Scented beanbag sachet designed with Stephen's emblem and Time Stone for llcupp01

GEN/PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS

Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers & Tony Stark & Sam Wilson

swtalmnd/@amysnotdeadyet - "Shaft" (Bucky, Steve, Tony & Sam movie night AU fic) for @saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022)

SHIPS

Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov

George Henry/@dwarvishgeorge - "Honey, Sweetheart, Baby" (NSFW art of MCU Bucky, Clint, and Nat having sex in bed from buckybarnesdeservestobehappy's fic with the same name) for lou2

Bucky Barnes/Jason Todd

@carcrash429 - "don't stop, your bones aren't broken" (Bucky/Jason Todd MCU/DC AU fusion fic where Jason and Bucky get caught up in a mess after aliens invade New York in 2012) for @oper1895 and stillcentre

Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark

swtalmnd/@amysnotdeadyet - "Shaft" (Bucky/Tony movie night AU fic) for @saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022) - "Suction" (Bucky/Tony PWP AU fic) for saganarojanaolt and newtypeshadow (MTH 2022)

Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier

@flightinflame - "The Possibility of Choice" (sunshine Charles/grumpy Erik AU fic where Erik meets Charles who works towards mutant/human coexistence) for E_Greer

Loki/Tony Stark

black_feather_fiction/@black-feather-fiction - "Material Fatigue" (post-2012 Avenger!Loki/Tony hurt/comfort fic where Loki gets cursed) for @lailyn

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

@iam93percentstardust - "Suburban Legends" (Steve/Tony AU fic where they're bitter ex-husbands who get trapped together at a vacation home during a hurricane) for @alwaysabrighterdarkness, @becci-chan, @betheflame, @crownofstardustandbone, @festiveferret, @gottalovev, gryvon, and @nostalgicatsea

[lok-repository]

New Korra picture book

Based on Airspeed's last video, it looks like there will be a new Korra picture book coming in 2027 (!?) that will be along the same vein as the ATLA Heart of Hero picture books that have been coming out. Interestingly, the author for the upcoming Korra picture book seems to be a travel writer so not sure if they have the wrong author listed. Here's some more info from the listing:

On Sale Date: May 4, 2027

ISBN 9780316408110, 0316408115

Hardcover Picture Book | 

40 pages

$18.99 USD, $23.99 CAD

Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Key Selling points:

THRIVING FANBASE: While Avatar has been off the air since 2008, and Korra since 2014, their fandom has continued to thrive—and GROW! This is in part due to the recent roll out of both series on Netflix. LASTING MEDIA ATTENTION: The shows continue to get lots of love in the media with frequent articles and inclusion in roundups:

Avatar ranked in both Vanity Fair’s and IndieWire’s respective 2018 lists of the best animated TV shows of all time

The final scene of Korra ranked in io9’s 2018 list of the “100 Most Important Pop Culture Moments of the Last 10 Years.”

SOCIAL REACH: The shows have over 6.7M followers across their social channels and almost 800K subscribers on Reddit. Their creators are also avid posters, and they frequently talk about their passion for and continued involvement with the brands. PERFECT TIMING: There will be a new live-action Avatar series likely coming to Netflix in 2022. Also, with 2020 being Avatar’s 15th anniversary and 2022 being Korra’s 10th anniversary, it’s poised to be the “The Decade for Avatar!” PUBLISHING: Avatar has a thriving reader fanbase, too! Dark Horse has been successfully publishing original graphic novels that target teens and adults since 2012 and has no plans to stop—in fact, The Promise, an Avatar graphic novel, recently hit #6 on the NYT list 7 years after its publication! The Kyoshi YA novels, recently published by Abrams, were each instant NYT bestsellers and continue to grab attention. In 2021 the publishing category will continue to expand to include a new Avatar YA series, a new Avatar MG series, and a new three-part Korra graphic novel series. CONSUMER PRODUCTS: Multiple lines of business are planning on ramping up their product, including more presence at mass, expanded collectibles, homeware, and retail initiatives at specialty stores like Box Lunch and FYE. Existing CP includes apparel, a trading card game, video games, LEGO sets, toys and stuffed animals, homewares, additional publishing, and home video that has generated over $18M since 2015 in DVD, Blu-Ray, and Steelbook formats. Avatar is a consistent top 10 item at both Box Lunch and Hot Topic.     DUAL APPEAL: With its eye-catching design and original content, we expect these titles to appeal to existing adult fans who want to collect and share with their children while also providing an entry point.

You can find the whole listing on the Edelweiss website.

[catty-words]

finally back home from my family's and ready to put last year to rest with the

2023 fic writing roundup

Total 2023 Word Count: 95,451 published words, but 116,360 words written for the year   Total 2023 Hits: 25,513 Other 2023 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 1,272; Comment threads: 198; Bookmarks: 252; Subscriptions: 158.

Total 2022 Word Count: 36,969 published words, but 132,549 words logged for the year Total 2022 Hits: 17,797 Other 2022 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 1,910; Comment threads: 111; Bookmarks: 259; Subscriptions: 20.

links and titles to 2023 works

[cw's nancy drew] couldn't help noticing the gold mines glistening in your skin (3,966 words) - a birthday gift for bethany! what if nancy and ace hooked up pre-canon?

[never have i ever] one more last try (4,323 words) - for the girlies* who were/are incensed that the nhie writers had the audacity to make bad benvi sex canon and then UNINTERESTING. *it's me, i'm girlies

[cw's nancy drew] first contact (849 words) - nancy and ace texting can be poetry if you hold my hand and just believe!

[never have i ever] answering machines & how your voice says it’s gonna get back to me someday (3,163 words) - devi and ben's relationship through their first year at university as told by the voicemails they leave each other

[never have i ever] a lie away from getting you into the mood (77,482 words) - i mean. how could i possibly sum this one up? d/b FWB, sure, but also so much more than that. bitty spark 'verse pt 2.

[never have i ever] to nestle deep into the safe-keeping (3,440 words) - in a now time-honored tradition, i wrote rose some smut for her birthday! d/b being soft and in love their first year of university.

[cw's nancy drew] it’ll hurt like a mother when your foot comes out (2,228 words) - drew crew hike to commemorate a real life hike! fun!

Favorite Fic: 'gold mines' is a strong contender, but. you know it's 'lie away'. how could it be anything else? i spent a year and a half writing it and i finished the fuck out of it despite the tornado that stirred up my personal life this year. i don't know that i've ever been prouder of a fic. almost certainly not.

Hardest Fic: also 'a lie away'. the amount of material that i wrote and then scrapped because it wasn't right was A Lot.

Do You Plan to Take Prompts in 2024? haven't done a prompt game in a while! think it might be time to pull out that song lyric one, i've been gifted some exceptional music that way.

that said, though, when i do have all day to sit down and write, i've found myself more interested in chipping away at something longer-form. then again, it's been a while since i exercised the prompt-filling muscle in my writer brain, and i don't want that muscle to lose definition entirely. we'll see, i suppose.

What was the best thing about 2023? I FUCKING FINISHED 'A LIE AWAY' I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT

What was the worst thing about 2022? woof. i sure did split from my partner of a decade. which has actually been incredibly good for me, but living through it was a bit fucky, as you can imagine.

which makes this a great time to nod at 'answering machines' for being perfect creative fun and getting me out of my head during the worst of the breakup. looking at the title alone can make my brain stutter, though, it's a time capsule from such a tumultuous period in my life. probably doesn't help that i used a song from my unofficial breakup album to title the fic. i love you, 'answering machines'. i cannot fathom rereading you at this time.

Any last thoughts for 2023? i am content. the year was good to me, all things considered.

Goals for 2024

fuck around with devi the vampire slayer

original fiction???

fall head over heels for another show

continue writing devi/ben even if the audience for it dissipates entirely

[jariten]

2022 YEAR ROUNDUP: FAVORITE ANTHOLOGIES I READ IN 2022

Separating the long form and short form manga I read this year.   Some one-shot anthologies I read this year that I won’t forget are:

サバの夏が来た (Sava no Natsu ga Kita) by Yumiko Oshima [Hakusensha, bunko ver]

キャンディとチョコボンボン (Candy to Choco Bonbon) by Chiki Ooya [Shogakukan, bunko ver]

青い春 (Blue Spring) by Taiyo Matsumoto [Shogakukan, bunko ver]

SFマンガ傑作選 (SF Manga Kessakusen) edited by Kenta Fukui [Tokyo Sogensha, bunko ver]

天使も夢みるローソク夜 (Tenshi mo Yumemiru Rosokuya) by A-ko Mutsu [Shueisha, bunko ver]

鬼子母神 (Kishimojin) by Ryoko Yamagishi [Bunshun, bunko ver]

I want to jump straight to my personal highlight: Kenta Fukui has amazing taste because this is one of the greatest best-of anthologies I’ve read. With a special highlight on what he calls the golden era of Science Fiction manga, the 1970′s, this selection is a perfectly even mix of male and female artists of the time who made important contributions to the Sci-fi genre. There’s too many to list here as I find them all to be very noteworthy so please take a look at its anilist page for the full details. 

Speaking of the 1970′s I was able to make even more time for some of the women who got their start during that era. Such as A-ko Mutsu, who immediately captured me with “Tenshi mo Yumemiru Rosokuya”. By far her most memorable stories and a perfect introduction to the fantasy-like world she creates in all of her manga from the 70´s-80´s.  Similarly I got to dive even deeper into the world of Yumiko Oshima and it was her autobiographical work in the Sava series that truly cemented her perspective and worldview to me. In a world full of manga about nothing, the  stories that in all honesty portrayed a luxuriously quiet and uneventful life deeply moved me. Chika Ooya made the switch to the more lucrative career as an illustrator early in her career, but the manga she made before leaving the manga artist life behind is so good varied and this bunko selection really captured that range. With everything from screwball comedy to drama to surreal experiments. On the opposite ends are the unnerving and grotesque stories of Ryoko Yamagishi. This newest best-of compilation themed around toxic mothers includes some of her well known stories like Yasha Gozen, Blue Roses, and Cosmos.

Blue Spring I was able to squeeze in at the end of the year and I already love this rough (in every sense) early years Matsumoto. Truly hope Viz decides to give this one a rerelease.

[golmac]

Time for a New Pinned Post

Hi, I'm Drew Cook. I'm probably best known for my long-form criticism of 1980s text adventure games by a company called Infocom. They made thirty-five games in total, and are probably best-known for the Zork trilogy of games. My interests as a critic are mostly cultural and historical. For instance, I choose to look at Zork through a post-colonial lens.

My work has been featured at Critical Distance many times, including their "2022 Year in Videogame Blogging" roundup.

When I stick to my posting schedule (every two weeks), I get around five hundred unique visitors a month. That's pretty large for such a niche topic. Reactions to the site have made me very happy. It's called Gold Machine. Come pay me a visit!

I have also collaborated with Callie Smith on a few podcast episodes about Infocom games. It's called Gold Microphone. Unfortunately, we haven't had time to update it in a long, long while. We still want to get back to it. Last time I checked, it was on all major podcasting platforms.

I also write parser interactive fiction. My first game, Repeat the Ending, is a work of speculative metafiction about grief, mental illness, and the second law of thermodynamics. I tried to resist the tendency of parser games to be about things, focusing instead on narrative, psychological portraiture, and lots and lots of paratext. In fact, one of its themes is concerned with the limitations of parser-based narratives. It's been well-received so far, and earned ribbons for Best in Show, Best Art, and Best Writing in Spring Thing 2023. You can check it out here (linked below) and read some nifty extras, including the source code. Note the "play online" button at top right, and don't forget to save your game!

Feel free to ask me anything about game criticism, RTE, or even my work in progress. Or something else, it's cool.

I'm considered disabled due to the severity and prognosis of my mental illness. I'm not going anywhere with that; I'm just saying.

If you enjoy any of my projects, including my recently started posts about Inform 7 for beginners, consider telling your friends about it/them, or even rating Repeat the Ending at IFDB if you felt it was worthwhile. I do all of this for free, and always will, so knowing people find value in my work is what motivates me.

[zerolostwalks]

2023 Fic Round Up

Summary:

Number of Fics: 81 New Fics; 3 Prompt Collections, 2 Continued Fics,

Most of the writing done this year was prompt fills (71 stand alone prompt fics).

Also have the We Run Together series on tumblr that I have yet to transfer to AO3.

2022 Roundup

(Tumblr disliked my original draft so I had to significantly cut down the information in the list)

Prompt Collections:

Chemicals React (Chapters 57-68)

Round Robin (6+ Sentence Fics) (Chapters 11-29)

3 Sentence Fics (Chapters 18-29)

January

Deep in My Bones (G, Julie & Carrie, Julie/Reggie, Part 1: 2023 Prompts)

Furby (G, Alex/Luke/Reggie/Willie/Bobby, Part 2: 2023 Prompts)

The Stage is Set (G, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Part 3: 2023 Prompts

You are Not Alone (G, Alex & Reggie, Part 4: 2023 Prompts)

Still Come Back to You (G, The Greater Polyphantoms Polycule, Part 5: 2023 Prompts, Part 7: Kiss Kiss)

Clocks Move Forward (G, Trevor-centric, Part 6: 2023 Prompts)

Stranger Than Fiction (G, Julie & Alex & Reggie, Part 7: 2023 Prompts)

Glitter on the Highway (T, Reggie/Flynn, Part 8: 2023 Prompts)

February

To Follow Where You Are (T, Reggie/Carrie, Part 9: 2023 Prompts)

Not All Treasure’s Gold (M, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Part 10 2023 Prompts)

Cold as Ice (G, Reggie/Willie, Part 11 2023 Prompts)

Want This to Last (G, The Greater Polyphantoms Polycule, Part 12: 2023 Prompts, Part 10: Kiss Kiss)

Like Never Before (G, Reggie/Luke, Part 13: 2023 Prompts)

With a Taste of Your Lips (G, Alex/Willie, Part 14: 2023 Prompts)

Keeping a Moment (T, Alex/Luke/Willie, Part 15: 2023 Prompts)

Leave All This to Yesterday (G, Julie & Reggie, Part 16: 2023 Prompts)

Let the Rain Pour (G, Julie/Reggie/Flynn, Part 17: 2023 Prompts, First Published: February 2023, Completed April 2023)

So Close And Still So Far (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 18: 2023 Prompts)

March

Dream to Me (G, Reggie/Will Byers, Part 19: 2023 Prompts, Stranger Things Crossover)

A Hold of Me (T, Julie/Reggie, Julie & Alex & Luke & Reggie & WIllie & Bobby, First Published: March 2023, Completed: March 2023)

Kiss it Better (G, Alex & Reggie, Part 20: 2023 Prompts)

Come Up for Coffee? (T, Alex/Willie, Part 21: 2023 Prompts)

So I Don’t Lose You (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 22: 2023 Prompts)

But I'm Livin' (T, Julie & Alex & Reggie & Luke, Part 23: 2023 Prompts)

So I Whisper Now In Your Ear (T, Julie & Alex & Luke & Reggie, First Published: July 2022; Chapter 7 published: March 2023)

Here With You (T, Julie/Reggie, Reggie/Luke, Part 3: Hanging by a Moment)

The Devil Searching For Redemption (T, Julie & Alex & Reggie & Luke, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Part 24: 2023 Prompts, Part 1: Devil Searching for Redemption)

April

I Could Be The Monster (M, Julie & Alex & Reggie & Luke, Part 2: Devil Searching for Redemption)

A Lovely Night (G, Julie/Reggie, First Published: October 2022 Completed: November 2023)

Getting Carried Away (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 25: 2023 Prompts)

Do You Want? (T, Alex/Luke, Part 26: 2023 Prompts)

I'm Here I Promise (G, Ray & Luke, Part 27: 2023 Prompts)

He Once Was a True Love of Mine (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 28: 2023 Prompts)

Someone You'd Call Your Enemy (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 29: 2023 Prompts)

May

A Feeling Running Through Our Veins (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 30: 2023 Prompts)

Someday I'll Wish Upon a Star (G, Julie & Alex & Reggie & Luke, Part 31: 2023 Prompts)

A Line Without a Hook (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 32: 2023 Prompts)

I Would Waste My Time (T, Julie/Reggie, Part 33: 2023 Prompts, Part 3: Feats of Crimson)

June

Pain Relief (G, Reggie/Luke, Part 34: 2023 Prompts)

We'll Make Sure You're Okay. (G, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Part 35: 2023 Prompts)

Over and Out (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 36: 2023 Prompts)

Cherry Blossom Kiss (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 37: 2023 Prompts)

Miss You (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 38: 2023 Prompts)

A Matter of Time (T, Julie/Reggie, First Published: June 2023, Completed: October 2023)

Competitive Baking (G, Rose-centric, Part 39: 2023 Prompts)

You Got the Keys (G, Julie & Reggie, Part 40: 2023 Prompts)

Jump Then Fall (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 41: 2023 Prompts)

Glasses (G, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Julie/Reggie/Flynn, Prompt 42: 2023 Prompts)

PokéPlush (G, The Greater Polyphantoms Polycule, Part 43: 2023 Prompts, Part 6: Kiss Kiss)

Maybe I'm Your Love (G, The Greater Polyphantoms Polycule, Part 44: 2023 Prompts, Part 11: Kiss Kiss)

July

Always Find My Way To You (T, Julie/Reggie, Part 45: 2023 Prompts)

What A Time (T, Reggie/Carrie, Part 46: 2023 Prompts)

Would You? (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 47: 2023 Prompts)

Only Thing To Say (G, The Greater Polyphantoms Polycule, Part 48: 2023 Prompts, Part 1: Kiss Kiss)

August

fearless // good night (G, Julie/Reggie)

September

A Damn Cold Night (G, Julie & Reggie, Part 2: I'm With You)

Take Me by the Hand (M, Julie & Reggie, Part 3: I'm With You)

Misspeak (G, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Part 49: 2023 Prompts)

'Til We're All Alone (T, Julie/Reggie, Part 50: 2023 Prompts)

Unexpected (G, Julie & Willie, Part 51: 2023 Prompts)

Cygne Noir (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 52: 2023 Prompts)

A Beauteous Flower (G, Julie/Reggie/Kayla, Part 53: 2023 Prompts)

Keep Asking Why (T, Bobby-centric, Part 54: 2023 Prompts)

Happily Ever After...So Far (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 55: 2023 Prompts)

October

Missing You (G, Julie/Reggie)

Complete Now (G, Julie/Reggie/Luke)

Rained In (G, Julie/Reggie/Kayla, Part 56: 2023 Prompts)

There For You Till the Very End (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 57: 2023 Prompts)

Dream Ripped at the Seam (M, Julie/Reggie/Luke, Julie & Alex & Reggie & Luke, Part 3: Devil Searching for Redemption)

(All I Really Want is) Something Beautiful to Say (G, Julie & Alex, Part 58: 2023 Prompts)

Come Take Me Home? (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 59: 2023 Prompts, Part 4: I'm With You)

Homework and Teddy Bear (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 60: 2023 Prompts)

November

Until the dice roll five or eight (G, Julie & Reggie & Luke, Part 61: 2023 Prompts)

A Needed Hug (G, Ray & Reggie, Part 62: 2023 Prompts)

Dangerous Hands (T, Julie/Reggie, Part 63: 2023 Prompts)

Long to Hold You Tight (G, Reggie/Luke, Part 64: 2023 Prompts)

Connections (G, Luke & Carrie, Part 65: 2023 Prompts)

"That's My Side." (T, Julie/Reggie, Part 66: 2023 Prompts)

Caramel Macchiato (G, Flynn/Carrie, Part 67: 2023 Prompts)

December

Save Me From Tears (G, Reggie/Carrie, Part 68: 2023 Prompts)

Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love (G, Reggie/Luke, Part 69: 2023 Prompts)

'Cause you asked for it (G, Julie/Reggie, Part 70: 2023 Prompts)

Photos or It Isn't Real (G, Flynn/Carrie, Part 71: 2023)

[fuckruarychallenge]

Fuckruary 2023 Stories

Welcome to the Fuckruary 2023 Lucifer fanfiction roundup!

This post compiles all of the adult stories published between the 1st and 28th of February in alphabetical order. 19 authors wrote and posted 231,000 words on AO3, and 4 artists shared 9 art pieces!

Show these creators some love through sharing/RTing this post and their works, commenting, bookmarking, and/or kudosing!

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FICS

As Certain Dark Things Are to Be Loved by matchstick_dolly

Better Than Fiction by morningstars_x

Bringing Up Baphomet by MoanDiary

Burning Edges and Scars and Stars by LucisAdvocate

Date Night: The Penthouse by Kat_d86

Devious Dance (Devil Devil) by cjdecker

Evidently Slippery by devil_boy

The Exchange by Allicat9

Halcyon by owlish_peacock

Hot Neon Night by MRHSfan

i feel you in my brain (i can feel you well) by SomeTing

If the Shoe Fits by matchstick_dolly

i've no language left to say it (but all i do is quake to her) by SomeTing

Love Me Tender by back2writing

May I Have Another? by back2writing

Need by cjdecker

Oh Baby! by devil_boy

One Night Only by MoanDiary

Our Mojo...And a Bit More by MRHSfan

Prima Nocta by Allicat9

A Proper Lady by back2writing

A Proper Lady (D/s version) by back2writing

Rebound to You by matchstick_dolly

A Reminder by tellemonstar

Someone Stepped Inside Your Soul by TheWillowBends

the smutty miscreant's Fuckruary 2023 siren!Chloe series

Songs of Innocence and Experience by rellyjean

Sweeter than macarons by back2writing

Take My Breath Away by devil_boy

Those Who Favor Fire by matchstick_dolly

The Ties That Bind by MoanDiary

Trope Springs Eternal by MoanDiary

Twin Kink by Mary_S7100

Upsy-Daisy by back2writing

With the Fume of Sighs by owlish_peacock

The Work of Our Hands by awinedarksea

Worshipping by tellemonstar

Worshipping Temptation by VioletArroyo

ART

Calia Lynn: Fanart for the smutty miscreant's siren!Chloe series

MrMidnight: "Our Mojo" Cosplay

SomeTing: Chloe from Hot Tub High School

VochtXenia: Feb 5, Feb 8, Feb 11, Feb 13, Feb 14, Feb 15

Don't forget previous Fuckruary events!

If you've missed their works, you can always find them on AO3 under the following tags:

Fuckruary 2022

Fuckruary 2021

Fuckruary 2020

[squidpro-quo]

Reading Challenge 2023 roundup

Still failing to finish this challenge, but at least I tried it again this year! There were rather a lot of prompts that I didn't feel like finding a book for anyway.

A book by a first time author: Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson

A book with mythical creatures: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

A book about a forbidden romance: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

A celebrity memoir: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy*

A book with a color in the title: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*

A romance with a fat lead: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

A book about or set in Hollywood: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

A book published in spring 2023: The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

A modern retelling of a classic: Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura*

A book with a song lyric as its title: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A book where the main character's is in the title: Circe by Madeline Miller

A book with a love triangle: The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge (ace-spec character 2022): The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin

A book set in the decade you were born: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

A book with a queer lead: Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

A book with a map: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

A book with a rabbit on the cover: The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

A book with just text on the cover: The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

The shortest book (by pages( on your TBR list): Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

A #Booktok recommendation: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

A book your friend recommended: All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

A book that's on a celebrity book-club list: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

A book about a family: The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

A historical-fiction book: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A book you read more than 10 years ago: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Advanced

A book with a pet character: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by Ursula Vernon

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Tonight, (November 20), I'm at the Simsbury, CT Public Library at 7PM presenting my new novel The Lost Cause, a preapocalyptic tale of hope in the climate emergency.

#15yrsago Free to Be… You and Me: the 35 Anniversary Edition: the book every kid needs https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/20/free-to-be-you-and-me-the-35-anniversary-edition-the-book-every-kid-needs/

#15yrsago Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read https://web.archive.org/web/20081127101442/http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf

#10yrsago Data visualization shows US isolation in pushing for brutal Trans-Pacific Partnership https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/

#5yrsago Copyright and the “male gaze”: a feminist critique of copyright law https://web.archive.org/web/20181106072516/http://harvardjlg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HLG204_2018.pdf

#5yrsago Leaks reveal the health care industry’s playbook for smearing and spinning Medicare for All out of existence by 2020 https://theintercept.com/2018/11/20/medicare-for-all-healthcare-industry/

#5yrsago “The End of Trust” – EFF/McSweeney’s collaboration on privacy and surveillance – is in stores and free to download now! https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

#5yrsago On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/

#5yrsago Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-troops-border-caravan-stunt

#5yrsago Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists https://www.wired.com/story/rural-america-diy-internet-spirit-reboot/

#5yrsago Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD’s new less-lethal weapons https://www.wired.com/story/ingredients-powering-defense-department-new-nonlethal-weapons/

#5yrsago Portrait of a fake news troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

#5yrsago This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government https://web.archive.org/web/20181120113921/https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/19/democratic-ag-midterm-climate-change/

#1yrago Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/

[vanehernandezblog]

Project 6 - Artist Research

Artist/Project 1: Stranger Things Pop-ups and Marketing Activations.

Stranger Things has become one of the most successful TV shows at the moment. Everyone talks about it and every time a new season comes out there's just so much hype around the releases. A huge part of creating this hype is thanks to the powerful advertising campaigns behind every release and the Stranger Things World in general; I think that their activation campaigns are quite known around the world by now, and they are amazing. These activations work so well because they let the audience be a physical part of the fictional world and immerse into it, this creates a bigger impact on them and makes the experience memorable. They have created a huge variety of immersive experiences and ads (experiential marketing strategies) and pop-up stores all around the world. It's fascinating what they have achieved with the Stranger Things Brand, and their success keeps on getting bigger and bigger.

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References

Stranger Things The Experience - London (no date) Available at: https://strangerthings-experience.com/london/#info [Accessed: 7 November 2023]

Kimp (2022) '5 Lessons From Netflix's Stranger Things Marketing' [Online] 29 June 2022. Available at: https://www.kimp.io/stranger-things-marketing/ [Accessed: 7 November 2023]

Yuma, J., Turchiano D. (2021) 'Netflix Launches First-Ever 'Stranger Things' Pop Up Stores (TV News Roundup)', Variety, 3 November 2021. Available at: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/netflix-launches-first-ever-stranger-things-pop-up-stores-tv-news-roundup-1235103968/ [Accessed: 7 November 2023]

Stranger Things Experience (2020) Stranger Things Experience @strangerthings.experience Instagram. 23 July 2023. Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLCEC-rTMl/?img_index=1 [Accessed: 7 November 2023]

[marveltrumpshate]

April 2023 MTH fills

Wow, can you believe it’s been half a year since the auction ended? We love all the works that have come in so far and are looking forward to more fills over the next six months.

The best way to see all the fills that have been shared with us is our monthly roundups tag or our #MTH-fills channel on our Discord, but you can also view them through the following methods:

Our Tumblr tags: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Our AO3 collections: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (only has works posted to AO3)

Completed works tag list

To find specific content, use our completed works tag lists above which includes instructions on how to search for a particular character, gen or romantic relationship, universe, and fanwork type. 

SOLO CHARACTERS

MARC SPECTOR

Kerr Avonsen/@kerravonsen - Moon Knight fingerless gloves for @yersifanel

GEN/PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS

KOBIK & STEVE ROGERS

Embroidery by Rebecca/@embroid-away - Needlepoint watercolor mixed media embroidery of 616 Kobik and Steve telling Bucky they’re going to him from Secret Empire #10 (2017) (MTH 2021)

MATT MURDOCK & PETER PARKER

@not-madder-red - “For the Interim” (MCU Matt & Peter meet-ugly fic) for @spagbol99

PETER PARKER & TONY STARK

geeky/@geeky-writes - “Project: Pathfinder” (MCU fic where Peter tries to fill Steve’s shoes as an unofficial Avenger when Steve goes missing and Steve tries to make his way home) for @spagbol99​

SHIPS

BUCKY BARNES/CLINT BARTON/NATASHA ROMANOV

Nix - Art of 1872 Clint sitting on a bed, being held and kissed by Bucky and Natasha for lou2 (also on AO3)

BUCKY BARNES/HELMUT ZEMO

finiorian - Art of Bucky and Zemo holding hands in front of a fire on a night with a full moon for @ruquas

BUCKY BARNES/NATASHA ROMANOV

Eustacia Vye/@eustaciavye28 - “Heart Full of Bullets” (MCU Bucky/Nat TVA fix-it fic featuring Kate and Yelena’s friendship) for @drivingyelenabelova

CLINT BARTON/PHIL COULSON

ArielT and NickiB - “Second Time Around” (Clint/Coulson post-breakup undercover mission fic) for @winter-angst

CLINT BARTON/PHIL COULSON/NATASHA ROMANOV

Ravin/@shadowravin - Podfic of “Food Is Love - Chapter 3: Natasha Makes Tacos for Dinner," a domestic post-TWS Clint/Coulson/Natasha fic where Natasha cooks dinner and Clint helps for E_Greer

LINCOLN CAMPBELL/DAISY JOHNSON

CorinaLannister - “practice does indeed not make perfect" (Lincoln/Daisy undercover mission at a BDSM club fic) for @cassandrasfisher (MTH 2020)

LOKI/THOR

black_feather_fiction/@black-feather-fiction - “Your eternal sunshine versus my spotless mind” (MCU Loki/Thor amnesia fic) for Mech

STEVE ROGERS/TONY STARK

@artgroves - Art of 616 Tony tying Steve's bowtie as they get ready for a formal event for @nostalgicatsea, @betheflame, @captainneverever, @hundredthousands-art, @ishipallthings, @jules-of-the-crown, @magicasen, @massivespacewren, @sabrecmc, @sineala, and @t0nystark1er

geeky/@geeky-writes - “Project: Pathfinder” (MCU Steve/Tony fic where Peter tries to fill Steve’s shoes as an unofficial Avenger when Steve goes missing and Steve tries to make his way home) for @spagbol99

@gyrhs - “Alpine Glow” (Noir Steve and Tony having an intimate moment camping in the Swiss Alps during WWII) for @magicasen and @nostalgicatsea (also on AO3)

@onlymorelove - Podfic of “Breakwater," a post-TWS canon divergent Steve/Tony hurt/comfort fic where Steve drowns in the Potomac and comes back as a changed man for @becci-chan​

STEVEN GRANT/MARC SPECTOR

finiorian - Art of Steven solving a Rubik’s Cube while lying down on Marc’s lap for a1668320

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023 - June

"Isaias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Look, I don't know.

"A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road" by Iguanadon't (2016)

June was so long ago now.

Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

So much has happened.

"Wolf in sheep's clothing" dir. Yea An (2023)

So much avarice...

"War of Colors" dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

And indulgence.

"Double King" dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

I said so much about these things.

"How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended" dir. HISHE (2016) 

I don't think we need to tread over this ground again.

The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Not this time, anyway.

The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

We can wonder about space.

Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Like the real possibility that someone out there is wondering if you exist.

We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Whether they are alone in the universe, outside of their own sphere.

The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

What might you be like?

The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Are you like them?

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Do you have the same concerns that they do?

The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Do you share the same parts?

The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

They might be out there.

Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Or caves.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Think about caves.

Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Some are here and gone so quickly that they'll never be discovered.

A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Whole other caves are so ancient that they must contain some unknowable horror.

The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Maybe more than one.

No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

I'm sorry I go to horror, I've just run into a few stories like that.

Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Ancient parasites, aliens, some shape in the darkness you don't want to see.

The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Not my thing to go into caves, personally.

Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Or space for that matter.

Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Or the ocean, stay outta that place.

God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

It's beautiful but it's not beauty we're meant to see.

1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Kind of a faith situation, I guess.

The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Have faith that it's beautiful in the pitch black.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

We're coming to the end here.

The Simpsons - "My Mother the Car Jacker" (2003)

Time has escaped me once again.

The Simpsons - "The President Wore Pearls" (2003)

Flown away like a little bird that shouldn't have been caged in the first place.

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates - "The Coldest Cut of All" (1990)

But inevitably, another little bird comes along, and I need to try and get a handle on it once again.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 1 (2022)

See you for the next flight.

Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Love,

[sergey-tihon]

F# Weekly #26, 2023 – fsharpConf 2023 videos are now live

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