#anyway this is probably the shortest 'fic' i've ever written

[muzzlemouths]

Day 1 — "Best friend"

"Alright, I've got one. How do you make a tissue dance?"

You stifle a snort, smiling ahead of the punchline. "How?"

"You put a little boogie in it!" Sun slaps his knee with a metallic clang that echoes, shoulders bouncing with laughter that mirrors your own. "Get it?"

"Very funny," you answer. "Did you hear about the guy who stole all that soap?"

The kiddie chair groans under his weight as Sun leans closer, his laughter momentarily forgotten. Suddenly he's very, very serious. "I haven't heard a thing," his rays dance a little, shrinking inward. "Did they catch him?"

Humming, your hand digs idly into the tub of pony beads sitting between you, dragging the answer out as long as you can. A theatrically deep sigh escapes you. "I'm afraid not," you tell him. "They say he made a clean getaway."

A smirk slowly creeps onto your face as he twitches in your peripheral vision. The wall clock ticks once. Twice.

"Oh, you sneaky little—" He breaks for laughter, wheezing with an automated grind of rusty levers deep within his chassis that sounds more akin to a deflating balloon. "The set up, the punch line, the drama," his palm lands with a humored thump against the table, bouncing the beads in their tub. "That was a good one. You're going to beat me at my own game, at this rate!"

"Oh, hardly." Your hand swims through the rainbow sea of beads in search of a specific shade of blue. "I'm just repeating what I remember out of my jokes book."

Sun threads a letter bead onto the elastic cord pinched between his thumb and forefinger. "A whole book full of jokes?" His faceplate spins with excitement. "Oh, pinch me! What a thrill!"

"Yeah, it was pretty cool, I guess. The library billed me for its hospital stay, though."

"Hospital—huh?"

"Well I had it so long, I broke the spine," you curb your laughter behind a façade of seriousness, not allowing him enough time to process the first punch line before decking him with the second. "I tried getting an appointment with a good doctor, but they were all booked!"

Sun is doubled over before the last of it is even out of your mouth, having evidently picked up on where the joke was headed, already, and still it has him entirely consumed by glee. He's going to break the kid's table between you if he slams his fist into it any harder.

Having successfully located the correct shade of blue, you slide the last bead to sit beside the rest and finally tie the cord off with a knot, neat and tidy. It's nothing special as far as kandi bracelets go, but you're proud of the effort behind it, regardless. After all, you weren't prepared to do any crafting today in the first place. Sun had asked you to help him sort the new shipment of beads before you went home for the night — one thing led to another and, well, here you are.

"All finished!" Sun quells his laughter enough that he can tie off his own bracelet; a parade of pastels in every color with the letter's "BFF" at the center. It hangs on a single finger, dwarfed by his massive hand, as he offers it to you with a big, cheesy grin. "Well? What d'ya think?"

The bracelet slips over your palm and comes to a rest just below the joint like a slipper made to fit. "BFF?"

"Best friends forever!"

"I love it," you tell him, feeling warmed by the notion. "Want to see mine?"

Too impatient to wait for an answer, you hand over your second bracelet of the night — a string of midnight blue with chunky yellow stars in between — and watch as his eyes light up and his voicebox crackles with a certain gravel that isn't quite his.

"Pretty," he says. Too short of a remark to have come from Sun. He slides it along his own wrist to sit above the yellow bracelet already there.

"Well, I should get home." The miniscule chair topples backwards as you stand, hands bracing against the table. "Sorry I couldn't stay longer tonight. There's a concert opening downtown and I want to get back before the traffic gets too bad."

Sun follows your lead and awkwardly squirms his way out of the kid's chair. "You could always stay the night," he says. The giggle in his voice is the only way to know for sure that he's joking. "Let me walk you out, at least."

These moments are your favorite. When the world is quiet, and you can enjoy each other's company without worrying about what tomorrow brings. It makes every goodbye feel like it will last forever. Who would have known that a friend could ever feel so much like home.

Sun opens the door for you, but stands in its path, shifting the weight between his feet with a metallic ring of his bells and a doting expression like he has a thousand things he wishes to say to you. Ultimately, he settles for something simple, yet no less fond.

"See you in the morning."

[simpingandshitposting]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

Two ppl actually tagged me in this so thank you @malewifetouya and @happyely 🖤🖤🖤

Sadly some of my most favorite projects are ones that are still sitting in my drafts unfinished 😭 but out of all the ones I've posted these are the ones I'm most proud of <3

"Come Home" — Deku:

I don't even know if this would be considered a fic?? Cuz honestly this was such a short little thing that I wrote in under like 15 minutes 😭 probably the shortest amount of time it's taken me to ever write literally anything. But it was after I watched S6 E136 and literally that night I had a dream where this whole scene was played out in my head. And it just felt so dramatic in the right ways and just raw emotion that I had to write it down. And it's STILL my most liked post on this entire blog😭 but honestly understandable bc sometimes I go back and read it and I'm just like "damn wait I wrote that????" lmfaoo

"Only for you, Toshi" — Shinsou:

Completely opposite from the last one, this is actually the longest thing I've ever written. (that's posted anyway, there's a few longer still in my drafts) I just feel like Shinsou doesn't get enough love but he definitely deserves it😭❤️ all my friends that read it said they really enjoyed it and I'm just really happy with how it came out after working on it for a couple weeks, and that not touching it for a few months and then coming back to it only to finish it in like 2 days lmao

"Attention" — Dabi:

Now this wouldn't be a post about my fics if I didn't include something for my absolute favorite character in the entire show🖤 this fic was very self indulgent bc I'm such a brat🤭 and I'm convinced that Dabi is the king of brat taming. Fun fact, the outfit I described is something I literally own in my closet 😂

"Secrets" — BakuDeku x reader [UNFINISHED]:

This is a multi-part series I'm co-writing with my bsf @haru-x-ren on a joint account we made. (@bunny-x-haru if you'd like to follow) it's currently still a work in progress with only a few parts released, but it is a continuation of a 2 part fic I wrote when I first started called "You're the Only Thing That Makes Sense" — Bakugo So I do recommend reading this one first before Secrets for context and background info. I feel like you can really see my growth in writing from then to now, cuz that was like literally the second thing I ever posted lol. And Haru was literally my biggest fan bc he's the one that got me into writing fanfic<3 so after he read it, he had this absolutely BRILLIANT idea (spoiler) to take the scene I wrote where bakugo and deku were caught fighting after school hours (similar to that scene from season....2? When Bakugo learned about OFA) and turn it into a BakuDeku love triangle and I was honestly obsessed with the idea

And lastly

"For Your Eyes Only" — Dabi:

Another one for my fav<3 this one was for his birthday and is very nasty🤭 also with a little bit of fluff at the end bc I am indeed a hopeless romantic with no romance🥲 also, the cover photo is most definitely the reaction I was imagining when he walks into the room lmao

Side Note:

I know it's been a while since I've posted any writing and I am so sorry 😭 I guess I've just been in a little bit of a funk when it comes to my creativity lately. I mean I've got plenty, and I do mean PLENTY of ideas written down, but Im having a hard time executing them and turning them into something I can post. But I promise I'll get back to posting as soon as I can and I'm really sorry to everyone who has been waiting for stuff😭 I appreciate your patience❤️

Here's 5 other writers I recommend<3

@cathwritestragediesnotsins @aquadenks @kemakoshume @coffee-colored-hopeless-romantic + any other writers who'd like to make ur own posts<3

[flowerslut]

shamefully despite how easily i am influenced i have not made my way through your ao3 catalogue. where would be a good starting point? (licking kink not required but always appreciated)

wow thanks for giving me an excuse to make a compilation of my (shorter) twilight fics that I want more people to read!!!!! ok ok so all my best favorite ones (minus call of the night. we are pretending call of the night does not exist, okay? dont think about it. dont even look at it) are my mid-length ones. now, first and foremost: I am an angst writer, and boy do I love to whump on alice and jasper, so in no particular order, you should read these fun little jalice fics while you wait for me to update roots over the next few weeks/months

North Star

rated: M words: 20,336 chapters: one-shot summary: "He’s the Eye of the South. The god of war. Master of battle and oracle of death. He’s not just the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen, but he’s a man in love. And combining those two just makes this so much worse. Jasper sees a girl in his head, and he's afraid of what comes next."

thoughts: okay i lied, they are in a particular order. or at least this one is. this is my favorite twilight fic I've written (I think) and I got dramatic as fuck with it. written for jalice week back in 2021, the prompt was "power/ability swap" and you get exactly that: jasper is the psychic, alice is the empath, everything else is the same... or is it? this is also notably the first fic I ever sent to someone (g, obviously) to look over/give corrections to, so that might be why it has fewer stupid grammatical/sentence structure issues than most of my other stuff (minus roots). content warning for physical abuse, implied sexual assault, and mild sexual content. (also on ff.net)

The Almost Quiet

rated: T words: 10,365 chapters: one-shot summary: "He wants to blame loneliness, but maybe this is what was meant for him all along. A long road that leads to a depressing end. Longing after a girl he doesn’t know whose mind is lost."

thoughts: the last line of this fic is my personal favorite one I've written in recently memory! anyways this is an all-human AU, (sort of). in 1920, alice and jasper meet as humans and jasper's job gets much harder after that. this one is far from the best on this list, but it's entertaining, angsty, and has a satisfying ending imo. content warning for forced institutionalization and ableist language. (also on ff.net)

Déjà-rêvé

rated: T words: 6,551 chapters: one-shot summary: "It's nothing Alice had ever seen. It was no vision, no dream. It was only a possibility that had haunted the back of her mind like a nightmare for as long as she'd known what was out there for her to fear. Jasper had never known about this fear until it became their reality."

thoughts: this is the shortest one on this list, and since you like roots, you'll probably like this. its vaguely similar in that it's a whumpy post-breaking dawn AU, but this is only a snippet of an aftermath in which alice loses her power. wrote it for secret santa 2022 and had a BLAST with it. (if you want more whumpy one-shots my ao3 is chock full of whumptober prompts)

No Friend of Mine

rated: T words: 15,199 chapters: one-shot summary: "He contemplates telling Peter about Alice’s visits, but something holds him back from doing it. Perhaps because it doesn’t feel like Alice whenever she’s lying on his bedroom floor, curled in an old blanket that’s too small for him but perfectly sized for her, utterly still and silent even while awake. A part of him feels like it would be a betrayal to reveal this side of her to someone even as close to him as Peter is. After all, Peter is his friend. And Alice is… well, not."

thoughts: I think this fic is severely underrated, but maybe that's because I literally came up with the concept and wrote it over the course of a day and a half or something insane like that, and I think that for a hastily written secret santa gift from 2020, it holds up sooo well. it's an all-human AU where alice is the weird new girl, and like always, jasper is in way over his head. all the cullens get a role, it has the 'fluffiest' moments, and its faaaantastic. content warning for child abuse.

The Hunted

rated: T words: 26,664 chapters: 11 summary: "It's not so wise if you try to run."

thoughts: this one is the most self-indulgent (with the most questionable characterization tbh) based on g's post from 2019 that says 'twilight, but when bella slips away from jasper and goes to the ballet studio to meet james, he isn’t there. he waited until everyone split up in the airport, and then went for alice instead. in the ensuing chaos, while everyone is freaking out, victoria grabs bella.' this is the only one on the list I might take a look at in the future to rewrite chunks of, but it's great fun your honor. ignore what anyone else tells you about the ending. but make sure to keep this short sequel/epilogue handy, for... reasons. (also on ff.net)

A Loyal Wife

rated: M words: 21,930 chapters: 5 summary: "Alice is only a Lady because she was forced to be one. She much rather preferred being untitled. Just a constant in this strange family of women. Girls both grown and not, betrothed to the man who protects and spoils them. Quickly the newborns realize that Alice is more weapon than wife, and that suits her just fine."

thoughts: last but certainly not least is my attempt at 'jalice enemies-to-lovers' that I wrote over the course of two days while on vacation. this story has everything: southern wars, a marriage cult, weird power dynamics, and [checks notes] trying to seduce your enemy mid-fight. this is another one of my favorites, and maybe the messiest (affectionate) as far as story content goes (of course, minus roots). content warnings for sexual assault/dubious consent.

[compo67]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

How many works do you have on ao3?

266. I know most of that is The Chicago Verse.

What's your total ao3 word count?

Aha! I am at 2,100,134. (I used to write sooo much from 2014-2017.)

What fandoms do you write for?

Just Supernatural and its RPF. I dabbled in the MCU with Spideypool fic, but have since not returned to it, nor do I have plans to.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

They Met at the Photo Op Booth (J2): 2,082

House of Gold (J2): 1,680

Garbage (J2): 1,533

Like a Small Boat (J2): 1,447

Put Your Hands Where Mine Are (Wincest): 1,303

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, very much! Especially if a reader has a question or points out a specific thing they liked in the fic.

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh gosh, let's see. Probably "It Takes a lot of Water." Or maybe "The Shortest Distance." There's not really a "happy" ending in either of those fics. They're hopeful endings, but come at a large cost.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'd say that's either Punzel or They Met at the Photo Op Booth. Both have such sweet, hopeful, joyous endings.

Do you get hate on fics?

I think it's happened less than five times since I've been writing for fandom. A couple (a few?) of people left rude comments on Back Pocket 1 because of how I chose to portray Jensen in that fic (he is close to 400 lbs in that verse). One person left hate on Model of the Solar System. I think someone sometime recently? (maybe?) left something negative on a TCV fic. So no, it generally doesn't happen to me, but when it does, man, I remember it.

Do you write smut?

Yep! I used to post a lot on the spnkinkmeme back in the day, probably around 2015. It was such a great time in fandom. Anyway, yes, certainly, absolutely.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I do not. Except this one time. Yes, I wrote a Harry Potter/SPN crossover fic. But nothing ever came of it. I'm not even going to link it, I don't even remember the title.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of. Readers do let me know when they've seen my fic somewhere it shouldn't be (like on Goodreads).

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! It floors me every time I get a request to do that! :)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yep.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

Oh, how do I choose between J2 and Wincest??? Ugh. I guess. Well. Considering... oh, hell. I don't have to choose. :P

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Oh, goodness. Well, I make it a goal of mine to not abandon fics. Unfortunately, it just happens sometimes. There's Letter to Follow, which has only been available on Patreon since I started writing it back in 2019/2020. It's my time traveling J2 fic. I remember writing for it during the very first few weeks of covid. I learned so much physics for that fic. But alas, I needed/wanted to move on so I left it where it is. I hope I can return to it one day.

What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and setting the scene. :)

What are your writing weaknesses?

Plot. That goddamn plot. (And pacing at the end of a fic.)

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Love it. Love a challenge. Love how it works into the story.

First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter, back when I was 14 or 15 years old.

Favorite fic you've written?

Ahh how do I choose?! I can't. I have such a fondness for them all. <3

[nativestarwrites]

Hi! I'm comin' through, dishing out ao3 wrapped questions like candy from parade floats. How about:

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

15.What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

10. What work was the quickest to write?

Yes I could go back and put those questions in numerical order buuuuttt I'm going to just be lazy and leave them. If someone already asked one of these, please substitute in another question of your choice!

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)? I think its a draw between two. Buried in Broken Dreams because I think I really nailed the plot and emotions with that one, and I absolutely love some of the dialogue in that one. And also, All of Your Pieces because before this year my longest fic was about 8k and although this is still a wip I have 21k written out of what will probably be around 30k. But the reason I'm proud is less word count and more what I've learned through it about structuring a longer story, creating OCs and fixing plot issues. The fact that I will have a readable fic of that length posted soon is something I'm very proud of.

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you? A lot! Technically I have about 90+ wips in my folder... I'm not sure I'll get anything else posted this year, it'd be nice to get the first chapter of my garden fic out but if there's one thing I've learnt this year it's that I tend to overestimate how ready I am to start posting multi-chapter wips!

The ones I'm hopefully going to finish/update soon in the new year are 'Garden fic', 'Nefarious Project II', 'Ever Since You've Been Gone' , 'All of your Pieces' and 'The Magical Place'.

10. What work was the quickest to write? The quickest were probably the flashfics I wrote earlier in the year so thanks for organising that Rosie! I think A Deep Breath might have been the quickest, its the shortest anyway, so I'm going with that!

Thanks for the questions!

[undeniablyares]

This was a fun little post that was going on around Twitter that I wanted to share here for those that follow me here. ✨

1. Accidentally Demonic. It is hands down my favorite fic of mine to read and write, and I only have 3 chapters out currently. Just based on the overall tone, what I've done so far, and what's to come based on my chapter maps/planning, I think it will be one of my best works ever. Y'all are really in for it.

2. Accidentally an Oiran is my most popular fic. The sheer amount of support, engagement, and interest will forever be mind-boggling to me. It was my first long fic, my first Akaren story I started, it brought me out of my shell and introduced me to all you amazing people within the KNY fandom. It will always hold a special place in my heart, and I'm forever grateful for all of you that enjoy it. 🔥❄️

3. Breathe. It's weird, sad af, and wildly out of character, but I think we need more Senjuro-centered fics. I adore character studies, and a badass, dark version of Senjuro is just so fucking cool. I also think it's the most mature thing I've written as I try to characterize a tough, clever, slayer Senjuro who is fueled by grief and spite. I'm dying to get back to it so I can keep the plot going.

4. I am such a sap for the childhood friends to lovers trope in romance/erotica. I'm also into that weird, one-sided pining where the other is an idiot and doesn't realize their friend has always been in love with them until much later, then falls for the friend and it becomes mutual pining until one nuts up and finally confesses. Confusing slow burns have me in a chokehold. 😅🥲

5. Soulmates alternate universes are probably my least favorite trope to read or write. This likely stems from my own spiritual beliefs and ideas about the universe, more than anything else. Not bashing the idea at all, as it's adorably romantic, it's just not my favorite. Reincarnation alternate universe ideas are different, though. I'll fuck with a reincarnation au anytime. 😅

6. I have a longer fic idea that I want to do with either a slayer Akaza or Hakuji and Pillar Kyo, where Kyo gets turned into a demon at the beginning and Akaza/Hakuji has to fight to try and find a cure for him, or like a Tokyo Ghoul sort of scenario that rewrites Mugen Train to have Kyo survive from a makeshift transfusion of Akaza's blood and becoming a half-demon from it. (I really love demon Kyo ideas 🫣)

7. Accidentally an Oiran is my longest fanfic currently, but not my longest work ever. I write original fiction that's longer that is dark fantasy/horror and erotica with LGBTQ+ characters that I am currently editing and hoping to actually publish one day.

8. Snake Eyes, the Akaren Week mythology prompt, is currently my shortest fic.

9. My list of collaborations that I inwardly pine for consists of working with some of my favorite Akaren writers, but I'm far too nervous to ever initiate anything with anyone else. My faves are GremlinCat, Blueberrybagel, saigne, OllieWritesAll, GodlessOx, and BTS2016dia on AO3. I can dream, anyway. 😅🫣 That being said, all Akaren is good Akaren. I am always down to collab with anyone about anything Akaren at any time. This also goes for artists that are interested in me writing stories to go along with their art or comics. My DMs are literally always open to anyone. 😌

10. My most used tags are Kyojurou lives, porn with plot/feelings, and anal. I am a predictable man with fine tastes. 😂

11. My AO3 account is linked at the bottom. The update schedule is going to be, for the very near future: Ch. 3 of Bad Pillar, the Wet and Messy | Massages | Body Worship Akaren Kinktober prompt, Dubiously Married Part 3, and chapters 3 for Accidentally Human and Accidentally Reborn. The 2023 update schedule will likely consist of more with the Accidentally Routes, the longer modern au BDSM Akaren fic I'm planning, and the Demon Rehab fic. Stay tuned, friends. Trying to feed y'all well. 😌

https://archiveofourown.org/users/UndeniablyAres/works

[veterveter]

2022 Writers' Review

I was tagged by @lavandulacosmos - thank you most kindly!!! 🥺💕

1. What is your AO3 account?

Call me by my name - it's veterveter

2. How many words did you write total in 2022?

Ao3 says 58,634, and I wanna say Google Docs has maybe 25k more. I didn't actually write that much stuff that I didn't end up publishing, this time. Also, I didn't write almost anything for the first half of the year - I almost thought I was cured of my hyperfixation, had other things in my life, and then??? Idk, I was hit by the idea of romanticising summer in a fic format, and it was all downhill from there again.

3. How many fics did you publish in 2022? How many multichapters vs oneshots?

6, and they were all one-shots, because if I write something chaptered again... yell at me, for I'll probably never finish it.

4. What was your longest fic? Your shortest?

controtempo was the longest at 14,600 words, realistically I could've probably written more of it if it weren't for working on a deadline etc. But I think it's a pretty good version of itself, not to mention that there's sometimes a certain sense of artistry in having to cut these things a little short. Stops one from meandering too much. Anyway, a fire in the flask was the shortest, at 4,441.

5. What was your most popular fic? Your least popular fic?

swimming with the sharks (until we drown) and a fire in a flask, respectively. Both deserved, I think.

6. What fic didn’t perform as well as you thought it would?

Eh, no such thing this time! They got what they deserved.

7. What fic performed way better than you thought it would?

swimming with the sharks (until we drown) - I've come around to thinking it's pretty good, but I had such stress about whether anyone would like it when I posted it, so. Stepping out of one's comfort zone is very difficult.

8. What was your favorite fic you wrote from 2022?

controtempo!! That was a labour of love, it was my preferred storytelling style and obviously there's something special about writing for a dear friend, so. But I'll give an honorary mention to the only thing that's ever stopping me is me - as previously mentioned, it dragged me back to the whole writing thing, and I'll admit it's been nice. And for artistic merit, I'd say a form of divine drunkenness. There was something quite poetic about it, to me, and I think it was... It was kinda cool.

9. What was your favorite fic that somebody else wrote in 2022?

That would be what we do in the dark by @sorrydearie. I don't suppose I've anything to say about it that I haven't already said in several different fonts formats and mediums, but I really love that one. 🔪

10. Tag your friends to do this year-end fic review as well!

I've seen this doing the rounds for a while now but if you wanna do it, consider yourself tagged! ❤️

[liesonthefloordramatically]

(sorry this is on anon but i'm shy :'))

Literally every time I find an amazing JJBA fic and scroll down to leave an extremely long gushy comment, I find that you've done the same. Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that we must have the exact same taste in extremely niche gen trauma fics. I've already made my way through your entire list of fics (which are all terrific of course) and I was wondering if you possibly had any recs?

Anon, this is the funniest thing in the world; I am SO tickled that you and I are apparently hopping through the same extremely niche gen trauma fic circles.

Okay! Extremely niche gen trauma fic (below a cut because this is absurdly long and in no particular order):

Come Together (post-VA, Giorno-centric)

on your way (post-VA, Mista & Trish)

here comes the first step (post-SO, Jotaro & Jolyne)

Eleuseos (pre-SDC, Kakyoin's mom-centric, JUST TRUST ME ON THIS ONE)

running with the wolves (post-VA, Trish-centric)

I Don't Live Today (VA, Fugo-centric, this fic messed me up in the best way)

a dagger for impetuousness (VA, Fugo & Bruno)

circle of life (SO, Emporio & Anasui, this is not strictly speaking trauma fic except in the ways it is)

undertow (post-VA, Giorno-centric)

Space Boy's Dream (SO, Rykiel-centric, AGAIN JUST TRUST ME ON THIS ONE)

Your Ghost (post-SDC, Holly-centric)

the sun is the same (in a relative way) (post-SDC, Jotaro & Polnareff)

lion's share (post-VA, Trish-centric)

queen of swords (BT, the Lisa Lisa character study you never knew you wanted)

no shade in the shadow of the cross (post-SBR/JJL, Johnny & Lucy Steel)

Fluency: Revised Edition (post-SO, Jolyne-centric)

Untitled (1980-2014) (SDC to SO, Jotaro-centric)

no time for fairy tales (DIU, Yukako-centric, yelling about this fic 24/7)

Some bonus fics that aren't quite genfic but are still worth the read:

New York and London, 1880-2010 (Speedwagon-centric, this fic genuinely made me cry in the best way and I think about it constantly and it's a huge shame that it doesn't have a bigger readership)

from yesterday comes tomorrow (post-SDC, Jotaro & Polnareff)

here, again (also post-SDC, Jotaro & Polnareff)

what is living is burning (post-SDC, Jotaro/Kakyoin, there's a scene in this that is seared into my brain forever)--actually just read all of desertmint's fics, you can thank me later

mix of gen and not (but all trauma all the way down), but Broodthaers's fics are generally super interesting (VA and post-VA, mostly)

dialect (VA, Fugo/Mista/Giorno)--myrkks's fics are generally very good

a soft place to fall (VA, Trish-centric)--another one where I rec everything the author has written

this love ain't made for the faint of heart (post-SDC, Holly-centric)--but also you should just read librisdedita's fics! for that good open-wound trauma mood!

House of Four Doors (post-VA, Bruno/Abbacchio, two mentally ill people falling in love :') )--obviously you should be reading kawauso if you aren't already

The Shortest Route Was a Detour (SBR, Johnny/Gyro, I am SUCH a sucker for interactive fiction)

tidal volume (JJL, Josefumi-centric)

Eventuality (BT, Joseph/Caesar...sort of, ITERATIVE STORYTELLING!!!!! *rattles the table vigorously*)

Anyway, that's probably enough to get you started, haha.

(Also totally respect the anon--I am also painfully shy and VERY bad at initiating conversations--but I promise I am very friendly if you ever want to talk off anon!)

[eileeny]

1 and 12 and 23 and 25! 🥰💖

@hersilentlanguage thanks for asking!

fav fic written this year:

love's not a feeling (it's a choice)

it's not my longest fic (might be my shortest, actually), and stats-wise it's also not the best, but I love the concept of it more than I probably should. very proud of it.

fav character to write about this year:

probably jay. why? no clue. just. the depth. the breadth. the whole 'I look like muscle but I'm so much more than that and it's okay if no one sees it because that's to my advantage' thing. the 'I've been programmed to steal anything valuable my entire childhood' thing. the family dynamics (including the lack of a mom). the loyalty. the flirting. just. all of it.

fics you wanted to write but didn't:

listen I have so many ideas... but I think the one I want to write the most is this university/reincarnation au (because, as a certified overachiever, I can never be satisfied with just one trope) where they're all reborn and they somehow end up at the same university.

evie and jay both remember everything, and both are there on scholarships - evie's is academic, jay's is athletic (it's a fairly prestigious school). they 'meet' at orientation for the scholarship students and find each other pretty much immediately.

carlos only remembers fragments, and he has none of the context. his parents can afford to send him to the university, and he likes the challenge of the classes, so his decision is made as soon as the admissions letter is sent out.

mal doesn't have any memories. all she has are habits that won't be broken, even across lifetimes, and impressions of others who should be watching her back but aren't there. her mom is a fancy politician who makes her choose a nice school so she just picks the least pretentious one.

in a massive coincidence, uma (who does, in fact, remember, and knows exactly who evie and jay are, too) is her roommate. all she really wants is to find harry and gil, because if the core four have all been reincarnated, then why not her crew too?

anyways this has gotten far longer than I intended but now that I think about it this would be really fun to write so! that's probably happening at some point.

a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read:

hm. I've read a lot of stuff this year, but I think one everyone should read is you find yourself down the hall again (the lights gone dim) by @itsalwaysforyou (I think)

the entire fic is amazing. I've always thought Coach was one of the few (responsible, mature, stable) adults in the entire franchise on either side of the barrier, and he's obviously such an important influence on Jay after he comes to Auradon. and the writing style. it's very much a character study on Jay, in some of the most poetic prose I have ever had the pleasure of reading, and I am here for it.

thanks for asking! took me a solid two days to answer because I had so much to say oops

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17, 28 and 29 for the fic ask!

17. fics you’ll continue next year

definitely the sylvix dreamscape fic, the wenzhou modern au, the matchablossom fic, and the wenzhou post-canon fic! i'd also like to finally update my two incomplete klance multichap fics if possible, i feel so bad that i haven't updated either of those in like 3 years 😖but ha, we'll see

28. longest fic you read this year

"wherever you stray, i follow" by @parchmints (ace attorney / klapollo / 58k)

this fic is so brilliant and gorgeous i don't have the words.... jessie always blows me away with her work and this au truly illustrates what an amazing writer she is! it's the longest fic i read this year and also just one of my fave fics ever, it's so beautifully written and romantic and has such intricate world-building as well. cannot recommend it enough 😤💕

29. shortest fic you read this year

"it'll rain today" by mayflymusic (sk8 the infinity / renga / 1.7k)

i'm not sure this is the shortest fic i've read this year but just skimming through the first few pages of my bookmarks it was the shortest one i noticed at first glance (but i probably forgot to bookmark a lot of short fics tbh 😭) anyway! this one was so so cute and i still think about it often, it's a cute little au where reki & langa meet at a bus stop. i loved it so much!! 🥺

fanfic end of the year asks

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It's New Year's Eve? Stats time.

Probably won't post anything today. Mostly because I have nothing finished ready for posting and I'm about to do some maths instead of write.

Total Stories Written: 67 (/211- 31.7%; 6 more than last year)

Total Words Written: 116,967 (/916,044- 12.7%; about half the words and less than half the percentage of last year, but last year I published Beans which is still the longest thing I've ever written so that probably did it)

Average words per story [mean; rounded to nearest full digit]: 1, 746 (4, 341- 40%; writing mostly short fic has shrunk my average words per story from last year but I have enjoyed writing some short fic)

Shortest story: Desperation (75 words)

Longest story: Sweet Defiance (25,699 words)

Most common:

Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014); 29 works tagged- 43%, much less than last year where almost everything was that Flash, though the next biggest is The Flash Comics so it's still very much predominantly all DC and mostly FlashFam

Pairing: Barry Allen/Hal Jordan/Iris West; 8 works total

Category: Gen; 32 works total - 47.8% (adding this this year so I don't have last years written down to compare it but I do feel like I have written a lot more gen fic this year than before and it being at nearly 50% gen would suggest that's the case. Gen is now my highest tagged category on AO3 and I'm quite pleased with that) (Edit, I've gone back to double check and last year gen was also my largest category at 17 works but that was only 27% so it was a larger proportion this year)

From the past year, what was:

Most challenging to write: I had a few prompts in the Flufftober event I got a litle stumped for ideas on, but Morning Off is probably up there as one of them

Most under-appreciated: Possibly Inappropriate Workplace Conversations, if only because I was thinking of it as just a tiny thing to fill a prompt, written on the day it was due because it was another where I had no ideas and did feel like it was more of a "better something tiny than nothing at all" type fic but out of curioisty I sorted by kudos and it is the fic that's recieved the most this year so clearly it was worth more than just a short tiny thing so there was at least something to fill the prompt

Most fun to write: I've had a lot of fun writing a lot of different things this year so this one is really hard to answer this year, you could pick almost anything, but Double Back would have to be up there somewhere

Biggest disappointment: I think the biggest diappointment might actually be the fic I didn't write, I did want to do Writer's Month again and it looked like they had some fun prompts (some did jump out) but life got in the way and I didn't manage, but I did take part in a couple of other new events (the DC Poly Week and Flufftober), and Flufftober was also a month long so maybe that makes up for it

Favourite opening lines: "Falling in love with a renegade was a bad idea. Eddie had known that from the beginning. But logic hadn’t met Iris West.", Sweet Defiance, this is another one where there a few answers I could give (and actually right until I wrote that line the answer probably would have been The Annual West-Allen Pumpkin Carving Competition) but Sweet Defiance could so easily be and so narrowly was the answer to most fun to write it deserves an answer down here somewhere

Favourite closing lines: "Dawn and Don exchanged a look before turning to face the Flash, the young version of their father standing there, arms folded and tapping his foot waiting for either his answer or a fight, and Dawn voiced what they were both thinking. “Well, shit.”", Trouble with Time Travel, this one I just thought would be a funny last line to end it with

Other favourite lines: “Fifty years,” Moonshine said. “Did you ever think we’d still be together in fifty years?”

“I didn’t know anything back then,” Hardwon said. “But I know I belong wherever you are.", Over Shoulders, I didn't expect to write Naddpod fic, but it happened anyway, and I did like how this turned out

Goals from last year:

- Potentially pass a million words on AO3 either this year or next year- I'm halfway there so do seem to be on track for that

- Finish either The Questing Flower or the Wally Fic, or at least come up with a title for the Wally Fic- neither are done yet but The Questing Flower has been coming along (I have a proper written out plan now) and I have a tentative title for the Wally Fic

- (From 2019) learn to spell epilogue- that didn't come up with a red line so maybe I finally did it? It still looks wrong though but I don't know if it looks wrong in an it's spelt wrong way or a seen it written a lot so now it doesn't look like a word anymore way

Goals for next year:

- Since I'm only halfway through the goals from last year, those I'll try and do this year

- I would like to finish the Tess Lives AU, I have one more fic (that would have been done by now if I hadn't gotten distracted by Sweet Defiance, but I also loved writing that fic so that's not a regret) and an epilogue which is already half written

- I also only have one more planned fic for Flash & Hawkgirl so hopefully I can get that done at some point too

- And I would like to keep up gen fic being one of my most common categories, I'm not going to stop writing romance but I have really enjoyed writing friends and family focused fics instead this year. The Questing Flower is a gen fic so there will be at least one assuming I can finish it, and actually the Wally Fic is also mostly gen with only a couple of background relationships that aren't the focus, but a few more could be fun