#end of the year wrap up

[red-headed-mrs-den]

AO3 Wrapped (author's edition)

In chronological order, the fics I posted this year are:

Kazekage Revival: Dissolving Blood

Premeditated

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Betting it all for Sweets

Empty Words

Gold and Wind: Echoes of a Forgotten Love

Stats of 2024

Works Published: 6 (one of these is a compilation of 18 stories)

Work Subscriptions: 53

Kudos: 204

Comment Threads: 34

Bookmarks: 50

Hits: 4,116

Word Count: 116,477

Top 3 fics of 2024 by kudos:

Premeditated

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Betting it all for Sweets

Top 3 fics of 2024 by word count:

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Premeditated

Empty Words

Top 3 ships of 2024:

GaaSaku

SasuSaku

Rasa x Karura

Top 5 tags of 2024:

No Beta we die like Neji

Idiots in Love

Gaara is technically a zombie

BAMF Haruno Sakura

Medical Jargon

@tiredfiver look at this tag list.

[backlogbooks]

🎭 for the book asks

I have the perfect one for this!!!

🎭

The Drama Teacher by Koren Zailckas! This is a suspense novel about a woman who was basically raised by a con artist, and grows into one herself--at the start of the story, she's hit hard times and is scheming to survive, and make a good life for her kids. I'm a sucker for a con artist, and this book was great at showing the details of how she got what she wanted. I found the current day most compelling, but there were also interesting chapters exploring her backstory and giving the character real depth.

Thanks for playing!

[linaxart]

2023 TOG fanart wrap up!

[2021 wrap-up] [2022 wrap-up]

That time of the year again! This one was a weird one and I feel like generally I was way behind the numbers I reached previous years but lets see:

This year I drew 62 TOG fanarts out of 96 digital pieces. On closer inspection:

I featured the characters 87 times:

Joe: 34

Nicky: 23

Nile: 11

Andy: 8

Booker: 9

Quỳnh: 7

By ship/grouping:

Joe/Nicky: 14

Family*: 4

Andromache/Quỳnh: 3

Andy/Achilles, Joe/Booker/Nile, Nile/Moose: 1 each

*fanarts where platonic relationships were the focus/the whole gang was featured

Solo character drawings:

Joe: 19

Nicky: 5

Andy: 1

Quỳnh: 3

Booker: 2

Others section:

Originals: 7

Suburra: 5

Diabolik: 4

Grishaverse: 3

Kenzarelli: 1

So, in total it's a little less than last year, and less varied, not surprising given the lack of new material (the sequels WHEN???) and that my inspiration has been on and off this year due to life and again, no new material :(

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who's been interested in my art, who has rebblogged it or left a kind comment, they all mean a lot and feed my wonky inspiration well <3 thank you too to my fellow artists on @theartguard still chugging and drawing and keeping each other inspired and motivated despite it all <3<3<3

[cartoonus-maximus]

And of course, my reading bingo! According to goodreads, I read a total of 48 books: 29 of them were comics, 13 were conventional books, and 6 were audiobooks.

I also started an essay book ("Languages of Truth: Essays 2003 - 2020" by Salman Rushdie), but I haven't finished it yet; I got busy reading two other essay books ("All of the Marvels" and "the Tolkien Reader") and Rushie just fell through the cracks. But I've enjoyed what I've read from the book so far, and I return to it every so often, so I'll finish him eventually.

(Unlike Chekov, who is languishing on my shelf, but let's not talk about it.)

Here's the full list of what I read in 2024, including a few reviews I left on goodreads:

🦸‍♂️ DC Comics:

Batman: A Lot of Li'l Gotham

Batman and Robin, Vol 1: Father and Son

Doom Patrol: the Silver Age, Vol 1

Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol 1: Dark Trinity [review]

Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol 2: Who is Artemis?

Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol 3: Bizarro Reborn [review]

Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol 4: Good Night Gotham [review]

Red Hood: Outlaw, Vol 1: Requiem for an Archer [review]

Red Hood: Outlaw, Vol 2: Prince of Gotham

Red Hood: Outlaw, Vol 3: Generation Outlaw [review]

Red Hood: Outlaw, Vol 4: Unspoken Truths [review]

Robin War (crossover event compilation)

Robins: Being Robin [review]

Teen Titans #4: Robin [review]

🤖 Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex

#1: "Lally's Game" [review]

#2: "HAPPS" [review]

#3: "Somniphobia" [review]

#4: "Submechanophobia" [review]

#5: "The Bobbiedots Conclusion" [review]

#6: "Nexie" [review]

🦸‍♂️ Marvel Comics:

She-Hulk, Vol 1: Jen, Again

She-Hulk, Vol 2: Jen of Hearts

She-Hulk, Vol 3: Girl Can't Help It

Spider-Punk: Battle of the Banned [review]

Thor & Loki: Double Trouble

🧙‍♂️ Tolkien works:

"the Hobbit"

"the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring"

"the Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers"

"the Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King"

"the Tolkien Reader"

📚 Misc. Other Books:

"All of the Marvels: a Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told" by Douglas Wolk

"Fully Known: An Invitation to True Intimacy with God" by Mo Aiken

"Murtagh" by Christopher Paolini

"The Doll People" by Martin, Godwin, and Selznick

"The Elizabethan Zoo: a Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic" by Pliny the Elder and others [review]

"The Lost Apothecary" by Sarah Penner [review]

"The Importance of Being Earnest" playscript by Oscar Wilde

"The Nightward" by R.S.A. Garcia [review]

📚 Misc. Other Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels:

A Man and His Cat, Vol 1 (from Square Enix Manga) [review]

Betty Boop (from Dynamite Entertainment)

Garfield: Pet Force Special #1 (from Boom! Studios)

Garfield, Vol 9: His 9 Lives (from Boom! Studios)

the Hobbit graphic novel adaptation (from Ballantine Books)

Monster High: Howliday Haunt (from IDW) [review]

Monster High Pride 2024 (from IDW) [review]

Wires and Nerve, Vol 1 (from Square Fish)

Wires and Nerve, Vol 2: Gone Rogue (from Square Fish)

Zodiac Starforce Vol 1: By the Power of Astra (from Dark Horse)

[acourtofpaperandink]

2023 End of Year Wrap Up

2023 Review Wrap-up  Top of our TBR: (The books we didn’t get to this year but still really want to.) BookGirl: So I thought I read all of the books on my most anticipated list for 2023 but apparently I missed and totally forgot about Fallen City by Adrienne Young, The Third Daughter by Adrienne Tooley, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang. That said I don’t even remember why they were on…

[jessryno]

2023 End of Year Wrap Up

2023 Review Wrap-up  Top of our TBR: (The books we didn’t get to this year but still really want to.) BookGirl: So I thought I read all of the books on my most anticipated list for 2023 but apparently I missed and totally forgot about Fallen City by Adrienne Young, The Third Daughter by Adrienne Tooley, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang. That said I don’t even remember why they were on…

[crescentfool]

reunion 🌸

[omegaversereloaded]

sorry if this isnt woke but if an ugly ass dude is out here calling women ugly im not gonna say nothing..... mark kern this is about your busted azz

[chinese--satellite]

"we've always been friends, we always will be friends. but friends is a big word."

[soltiana]

a long awaited (???) sequel to this post, stamp but 98-style, eps 8-12

[gunsatthaphan]

happy new year from the gmmtv squad lol ✌🏻🎊🎆

[radiocmyk]

Which song is your #6 or #14 or whatever isn't interesting to me; I wanna hear where in your list the first song from each of your top 5 artists shows up. Or the last one

[backlogbooks]

Wrap up book ask; giving you options: 🪺🪩🪤

ooo i love these!

🪺

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy! One of my favorite takes on vampires--I loved the lore and the way the main characters being Jewish affected the ways they interacted with the vampires. Also, I'm a big fan of motherhood horror, especially new motherhood, and this was a great book for that! The other big thing I remember is how it managed to feel so current day New York while preserving the foreboding feeling of going to Dracula's castle. Highly recommend!

🪩

Your Favorite Band is Killing Me by Steven Hyden! This was a nonfiction book about music rivalries, and I found it both interesting as someone who doesnt always keep up with pop culture, and so funny. My only storygraph entry for this one was "i find the author's writing style so charming", which i stand by. Especially since i cheated and went to find this excerpt on my blog:

🪤

I'm cheating and doing two books for this because i have two different interpretations of the trap 😂

first is Tusks of Extinction by Ray Naylor! @libraryspectre first alerted me to the existence of this book by posting about the bonkers blurb/synopsis, screenshotted below

that bonkers premise was the cheese luring me in to reading the book, and i'm glad it did! It was a surprisingly sincere book, and I was especially compelled by the descriptions of mammoth memories, and the exploration of poachers vs conservation. Weird little book that i'll probably read again!

The second book is Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon, which is a very creepy folk horror novel. For this one, the cheese is a nice old house in the countryside where Life Goes Slower (and creepier but shh dont worry about that), and the mouse is poor Ned, who believes Things Are Turning Around! Dont worry at all about the goings on in town, or the promises of the harvest home festival. Dont worry about the grave outside the cemetery, or the way people curse its owner's name. Dont worry about the woods, and what could go down there. Everything is probably gonna turn out great!

Love the creeping dread with this one, and the reveal at the end truly took me out.

Thanks for playing!! This was really fun ☺️

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Izutsumi character study

[cartoonus-maximus]

Filled out my bingo cards for "stuff I watched in 2024."

My criteria for TV shows to include were shows that I intentionally watched (so nothing that happened to be playing in the same room as me unless I became invested in it) and shows that I watched 3 or more episodes of. The only shows that deviated from these rules were shows like "Dragonhalf" and "Killer Cakes," which only had 2 episodes; however they do count for these purposes because I watched the entire (very short) series.

My criteria for movies to include were films that I intentionally watched (again, nothing that just happened to be playing nearby) and films that I saw all or most of.

📺 TV Shows I watched (at least partially) in 2024:

"6teen"

"Batman: the animated series"

"Batman: the Caped Crusader" (started, didn't finish)

"Be Cool, Scooby-Doo"

"Being Human" the American version (watched most of Season 1 but gave up on it)

"Bewitched"

"Cromartie High School"

"Dr. Pimple Popper" (my current favorite reality show)

"Dragonhalf"

"Frasier" (rewatching random episodes)

"Free! Iwatobi Swim Club," "Eternal Summer," and "Dive to the Future" (I watched all three seasons and had a blast! I never saw the third season before, so that was exciting)

"Gravity Falls"

"Justice League Action"

"Killer Cakes"

"Magnum, P.I." the reboot

"Murder, She Wrote"

"Mutant X" (started, didn't finish)

"Psych"

"Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

"Sonic Boom"

"The Edge of Sleep" the Amazon version

"The Feed" (which I started and want to finish)

"The Legend of Vox Machina" (made it through Season 2, have not started Season 3)

"Tokyo Vampire Hotel" (I watched this whole thing... and I couldn't tell you a goddamn thing about it, tbh)

"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"

📺 Movies I watched in 2024:

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Mendelson and Melendez Productions, 1965

"It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" Mendelson and Melendez Productions, 1992

"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" Mendelson and Melendez Productions, 1973

"Asteroid City" Universal Pictures, 2023 (which I watched multiple times this year, and has become a new comfort movie)

"Batman Forever" Warner Bros., 1995

"Batman & Robin" Warner Bros., 1997

"Big Top Scooby-Doo" Warner Bros., 2012

"Bottoms" MGM, 2023

"Coraline" Laika, 2009

"Crimson Peak" Legendary Pictures, 2015

"Dave Made a Maze" Dave Made An LLC, 2017

"Donnie Darko" Flower Films, 2001

"Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults" Magnetfilm, 2020

"Five Nights at Freddy's" Blumhouse Productions, 2023

"I Love You, Phillip Morris" EuropaCorp, 2009

"Le Voyage Dans La Lune / A Trip To The Moon" Georges Méliès, 1902

"Lisa Frankenstein" MXN Entertainment, 2024

"Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland" Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1989

"Mermaids" Orion Pictures, 1990

"Red, White, & Royal Blue" Amazon Studios, 2023

"Snow White" Golan-Globus Productions, 1987

"Sonic the Hedgehog" Paramount Pictures, 2020

"Sonic the Hedgehog 2" Original Film, 2022

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" Nickelodeon Movies, 2023

"The Flash" Warner Bros., 2023

"The Green Knight" A24, 2021

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2012

"The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug" (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2013

"The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies" (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2014

"The Last Unicorn" Rankin/Bass Productions, 1982

"The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring" (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2001

"The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers" (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2002

"The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King (extended edition) New Line Cinema, 2003

[ellecdc]

Okay Elle you don’t just get to be an incorrigible sweetheart to everyone and not get the same question in return!

Now that year is coming to a close and we’ve been graced with so many of your amazing works (not to mention your presence on this site) I must know...if you were to do a 12 fics for 12 months wrap up of your own blog, what would be your 12 most memorable fics of the year? What are you most proud of, and/or what do you keep coming back to? I’m so excited to know what your favs are (and if they overlap with my favs of yours haha) :)

aaaah hmmm.... ok let's see..... (this might be difficult because my blog is only a year old so that is ALL of my fics lol), in no particular order:

"I'm too much" "You're perfect" (Sirius x potter!reader hurt/comfort) -> I love some good hurt comfort and I liked the way I characterized reader and how sweet/soft Sirius was <3

the ruined apothecary (Remus runs into feisty!reader post Hogwarts) -> I liked Remus' characterization and think reader was so fun in this

morose manatees (James is told to leave barty x potter!reader alone) -> reader is me, I am reader, and Barty was such a good boy <3

Two Steps Forward (poly!marauders x fem!reader struggling with mental health) -> probably one of my favourite hurt/comfort's I've ever written, perhaps on of my all time favourite fics of mine*

Sirius' Admirer (poly!wolfstar x shy!reader feat. possessive Remus) -> I found this fic so funny for no good reason, I love shy!reader too because I don't find any of the boys (save potentially Remus) being shy so she's fun to throw into the mix

cancelled plans (spoiler alert, poly!moonwater x fem!reader love them) -> this fic surprised me, it was a short little blurb and I didn't expect to like it as much as I do

Evan's little freak (reader has a mentyB, poly!rosekiller try to navigate it) -> idek what to say about this one; probably the first time I wrote for Evan and felt good/confident in his characterization

not so surprising after all (remus x reader, S!WML epilogue) -> writing this and reading this filled me with so much peace and joy; my love for it really is indescribable. also a contender for one of my favourite fics I've ever written*

Go See Your Lover Boys (poly!moonchaser following a full moon) -> Sirius was so fucking funny in this I actually laugh out loud when I reread it, and moonchaser being so soft just aifhweifa

Our Keeper (poly!jegulus x fem!reader who plays keeper for slytherin) -> more hurt comfort, jegulus being each other's yin and yang idk, just hits right

All this over a hug? (poly!wolfstar x Potter!sister who feels touch starved) -> again, always love potter!sister, loved her internal dialogue, loved the boys, and part two was sooooo fun too

"still?" "always." (Finnick reunites with hijacked!reader in District 13) -> one of my all time favourite tropes, I love high stakes hurt comfort, and felt really good about this fic <3