#i also HAVE TO fucking write a legit fic that i can upload to ao3 I know there must be other Pierce fuckers out there 😤

[innocentlittlebunny]

I'll be saving them from now on in docs on God together with your caps because Tumblr put a price on my fucking head 😔 can't feel safe in this bitch of a webworld

this website better not put any bunny drafts in danger omg

[aftonfamilyvalues]

Do you have any silco fic recs that you'd be willing to share? I'm begging for crumbs I feel like I just keep finding bad ones but mayhaps I'm looking in the wrong places 🤲

Drink With Me - you are a bartender, jinx hires you to work for the last drop. part of your duties? bringing silco a bottle of his fav every week. life changing. genuinely, it changed the way i view writing, as silly as that sounds. its a ride, fucked me up but ends so sweetly. i still can not believe you can read this for free. literally revolutionary in the fan fic game. complete. smut.

One More Round - some added pieces for Drink With Me. one shots, chapter rewrites, all that jazz.

Drink With Me: The Virgin AU - not sure if itll be added to One More Round or whatever but I wanted to give it its own spot. a rewrite of the smut in Drink With Me but silco is a virgin. interesting! ongoing. smut.

All That's Left - a talented young scientist who was adopted by singed, you are convinced to join the revolution. there you meet silco, one of the three leaders. the fic does an amazing job at establishing the reader in universe. also the "inaccurate science" and "just making shit up" sounds legit lol. made me fall in love with the young version of silco, it really hits a spot i didnt know existed before. pure love. complete.

Everything Else - bonus content for All That's Left. fun!

Timeless - time travel au. with silco dead and jinx having dragged zaun into an unwinnable war with piltover, life is misery. that is, until you find a hex crystal which throws you back in time almost 2 decades. guided by the ghost of silco, you have a chance to change the fate of zaun and most importantly, the fate of the silco of this universe. the one currently fucking me up! what the fuck is chapter 6?! oh my god! ongoing. tags promise eventual smut.

Bend But Not Break - regency au. youre the zaunite governess for little jinx, a girl living in piltover with her wealthy industrialist father. with odd rules and a shady employer, something strange is going on in this old mansion. just make sure to lock your door at night and do not, i repeat, do not go into the attic.

The Mourning Eclipse - soulmate au. after the death of your mother, you move to zaun and into a supposedly haunted penthouse. not being a believer in the paranormal, you ignore the warnings and make yourself comfortable in your new home... until the ghost attached to the piano and bookshelf that came with the place makes himself known. without any memories of his life, you set out to help the ghostly man figure out why hes still here. ongoing.

Secret Ingredient - baker au. just got around to reading this one finally, as im in currently reading this between putting this list together. like only a few chapters in, but im really loving it already so its going here. i make the rules! ongoing. smut.

The Rest of the Recipe - horray! more content for another lovely fic! dont you just love it when that happens?

Battered and Baked - another baker au, its inspired by Secret Ingredient, actually. a good one for a quick fix of young silco. hes so sweet, maybe sweeter than your honey rolls. ongoing.

Trust - virgin silco? virgin silco. one shot. smut.

Substance - you get drunk one night and accidentally marry one of the sons of zaun. time to get to know your new husband, i suppose. hope nothing bad happens to him! another young silco, hes something special, isnt he? complete but the final part isnt uploaded to ao3 so link to final chapter here. smut.

Come Morning - you find the eye of zaun in a daze wandering around. you take him to your home to rest up and recover. he seems to have taken a liking to you though after that. complete. multiple endings including one with smut and another that will break your heart! take your pick!

What Lurks Below - mermay fic. a strange fish man saves you from a watery grave. you quickly befriend him despite not being able to speak each others languages. maybe more than befriend? the only problem is you could never truly be together... unless? ongoing.

Treat You Right - you admit to sevika that youd fuck the boss. he overhears. also hes a virgin in this one too. lol. one shot. smut.

Look Good - a little game of teasing your boss goes a bit too far. one shot. smut.

Concessions- masquerade, paper faces on parade. youre a royal and as such must be wed soon. but why not have a night of fun beforehand? who knows, perhaps this man will want your hand. one shot. smut

Gala of '81 - another masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you. you fuck a mysterious mask man at, you guessed it, a masquerade. one shot. smut.

Purgatory - more young silco because i apparently just cant get enough. i dont know, take care of him and suck his dick i guess. works for me! one shot. smut.

A Drought in the Night- vampire silco au! i did mention how much of love vampires right? he just fits so perfectly. very sexy. mmm. anyway, youre tasked with fixing him a drink and bring it to him after the head bartender is out of work. one shot.

A Little Thirsty- a sequel to A Drought in the Night. one shot. smut.

Here - sweet fluffy morning sex. need i say more? one shot. smut.

Tummy - hehe. one shot.

The Kinkman (Read: Very Murderous Crimelord) crack fic. you get a text from a wrong number and decide to fuck with him. one shot.

No Strings- remember that brothel scene? that masked man named pim? well, you get to fuck pim!... wait, i thought this was a silco fic rec? one shot. smut.

[hinagamoizaf]

Odaiba Memorial Day 2021

My first Odaiba Memorial Day while being an active part of the fandom, and it’s high time I write an essay about my crackhead obsession with Yakari.

(*There will be some swearing & f-bombs in this post) As a kid, Yamato was like the ‘blue and cooler Taichi’ to me, like he doesn’t exist without being adjacent to the gogglehead. Also my family didn’t have the full Dark Masters arc in our CD collection, so I literally knew nothing about Yams’ emotional meltdown. But now, I adore this overly sensitive dork, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. Maybe I’m biased in this reading, but I think Yamato has had to push himself to mature faster than his peers; and he’s very much a mini-adult at a young age. For all these grand monster battles, the main cast are still children; among them Yamato is a kid dealing with a lot of unresolved issues but he’s got a lot of heart, he’s passionate about those he holds dear but he just doesn’t know how to process this. Another thing that goes hand-in-hand with Yamato is the fact he’s a musician. Again, I could be reaching way into my ass here; but there’s this mumbo jumbo real life idea of the ‘depressed creative’, and Yamato works his way out of that dangerously romanticised label. The kid’s got a passion for music, he’s literally been playing the harmonica since Takeru was in diapers .Without spoiling DA:LEK, Yamato still holds onto that flame into adulthood but it’s not something he can actively work on; and that takes its toll. I love Yamato because he’s someone who cares so much about those around him and what he does; and he’s just a kid who’ sorting things out and wanting to better himself and well fuck, if that isn’t relateable. Even with the flaws that the Tri films have, I think it’s a natural progression for Yamato’s character journey. I see people saying how ‘they just turned him into a tsundere’ or ‘he’s so snappish now’. But seeing as most of the Tri cast are in High School and general teenagers are assholes to each other, yeah it’s not unreasonable to see why Yamato’s the way he is now. He didn’t lose his touch with the Crest of Friendship; when the literal world is up in flames, there’s still the same loyal and compassionate Yamato who understands the importance of being there for and with his friends. Yamato’s a big mushy boy who has a hard time conveying what he feels and his needs; Hikari isn’t any better and this was how I grew to love the concept of them being together. She’s not the Chosen Child of Light for nothing, Hikari’s symbiotic partnership with Tailmon is a very shoehorned metaphor of being an angel from Heaven and I absolutely eat that shit up. Fans have pointed out Hikari’s so mysterious with her role and powers as late member of the team, the same can be said for her personality. You see Hikari, you think ‘sweet, little girl’ and in part thanks to the 02 dub, she grows into being this sassy brat. 

A brat who has trouble asserting herself and is prone to literally get dragged into an ocean of depression. Like any respectful human, Hikari cares for her friends and family; but a mixture of that and a tendency to devalue herself is Hikari’s fatal flaw. She’s too self-sacrificing to a fault, and this reflects the other extreme end of her crest. In my own overly pretentious words, I think Hikari has self-imposed on herself for ‘being the light of the team’; like she carries herself as a doll whose job is to bring others out of darkness when she’s still stuck in the shadows herself. Hikari doesn’t allow herself to verbalise her wants, let alone her needs because she doesn’t want to inconvenience others; she just goes with the flow and puts on a mask of toxic optimism. 

I am aware this analyse could be me scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it’s how I interpreted Yamato and Hikari’s character; and now I’ll articulate my brain rot  with how the fuck are these two being shipped.  

You have these two people who already have this history and experience of being Chosen Children, but there’s also an underlying sub-connection of them being each other’s brothers’ best friend. As many Yakari fanfics have headcanon, it’s not unreasonable to think that Yamato’s at the Yagamis’ apartment frequently because A) Taichi is his best friend and B) The Ishida apartment is prolly empty ‘cause Hiroaki’s out being a workaholic. The Yagamis become the family that Yamato didn’t have growing up, and they welcome him with open arms. At their apartment, things are warm and rowdy, he doesn’t have to be alone with his thoughts and they treat him as a second son. Listen, I've been a diehard Takari shipper too, but I genuinely think Takeru and Hikari can be platonic soulmates. They know each other like the back of their hand, they’re cosmically entwined and their Digimon are in sync; they’re also legit a pair of best friends too. I know early 2000’s fics depict Yakari as being this big drama; but I have a weak heart and I’m here to say Yakari can be cosy and comforting and they’re just two idiots in love who need to be honest with each other.

I imagine their courtship not to be this grand display of fireworks and ‘the chase’, but a very subtle experience with slow burn. For me, Yakari is very much the first blossom of spring. They represent new beginnings and youth, the gentle lull of Mother Nature tending to the earth, something that’s natural but the routine has existed for centuries. Yakari is very much a gentle love, and with everything I’ve said about their characters; these two learn to embrace and nurture the other until they have a whole garden of spring’s blossoms. 

This crackship has the surface-layer appeal of ‘brooding lone wolf’ and ‘sweet angel’, so when you peel the layers to find these two very private characters who just need that one-on-one reassurance/affirmation; this ship is a warm blanket of fluff and yes that’s basically the plot of my fics. It’s the charm of slice-of-life, the endearment of growing and improving yourself with the one you love with the occasional reminder that this is a series founded on puppies evolving into angels. 

I’ve had enough of tragedies and melodramatic love affairs. I write about Yakari because as cliche as this sounds, I want more stories about ‘the light of friendship’. Yes that was a god awful line, but it captures why I have brain rot for this pair. To celebrate my first OMD, I have uploaded a special chapter on my AO3 fic titled ‘Mon ange’; it wouldn’t be August 1st if I didn’t half-hazardly work on this leading up to the big day. It couldn’t fit on Instagram, but this rambling piece is part of a bigger essay on my tumblr, so that’s also up and running. I hold Digimon near and dear to my heart, and I go about sharing that love by gushing about Yakari.

[bughead-fic-request]

I would like to thank @leaalda for making these amazing banners.

This is an effort to spread the word about all fan fiction writers in our little fandom. If you would like to be featured or nominate a writer, please contact me. Please reblog this post if you can and check out some of @justcourbeau work!

1. First things first, if someone wanted to read your stories where can they find them.

AO3 or FanFiction.

2. Tell us a little about yourself.

I’m 26, I live in Vancouver, I’m a technical pattern drafter in the fashion industry. I’ve been reading and writing fanfiction for over a decade, and I’m part of the Harry Potter fandom, too. (My fanfiction account has my HP fics posted, but I haven’t uploaded them to AO3 yet because editing.) Into tiny houses, veganism, singing badly yet incessantly, and making things.

3. What do you never leave home without?

My phone.

4. Are you an early bird or a night owl?

Night owl who prefers to work early and suffers through getting out of bed way before she really wants to.

5. If you could live in any fictional world which one would you choose and why?

Harry Potter, for sure. It’s the universe I spent so much time submerged in, and it feels like home. Runner up is His Dark Materials/The Golden Compass.

6. Who is the most famous person you’ve ever met.

Hugh Jackman, probably.

7. What are some of your favorite movies/TV?

Riverdale, Fringe, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Scrubs, Buffy, The Office, The Killing, Stranger Things, Brooklyn 99, Orange is the New Black, Sense8, Suits, Call the Midwife, Santa Clarita Diet, Downton Abbey. Many.

8. What are some of your favorite bands/musicians?

OK Go, Snow Patrol, Owl City, Andrew Belle, Ed Sheeran.

9. Favorite Books?

HP, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper, All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, we were liars by E. Lockhart, Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

10. Favorite Food?

Right now it’s vegan potato salad holy eff it’s so good.

11. Biggest pet peeve?

The sound of someone chewing a banana, particularly with an open mouth, but just all around stay away from me when eating bananas.

12. What did you want to be when you were little? What do you want to be now?

What I wanted to be: a teacher or an astronaut. What I am: a drafter of clothing at a studio in downtown Vancouver, with the option to teach what I do part time, probably within the next year or two.

13. What are your biggest fears? Do you have any strange fears?

Spiders, man. They are gross af. Also zombies. I have really vivid dreams, and when I have them about zombies I legit wake myself up crying, so. The Fear is real.

14. When you are on your deathbed what would be the one you’d regret not doing?

I would regret not pushing myself to do more things outside my box more often. I’m working on it!

Okay… lets talk about your writing!

15. Which is your favorite of the fics you've written for the Bughead fandom?

I love them all for different reason, but the one I’m most proud of stylistically is probably In The First Degree.

16. Which was the hardest to write, in terms of plot?

There’s a particularly intense chapter in Coop de Grâce that took some emotional energy.

17. How do you come up with the ideas for you fic(s)? Do you people watch? Listen to music? Get inspired by TV/movies?

I LOVE tropes. Like, fucking love them. So a lot of my fics start with a trope or two, and then grow from there, however feels right. I do listen to music but it’s never straight up turning a song’s ‘plot’ into a story. It’s more for mood.

18. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?

Ehhhh, tough question. I don’t think there’s anything that I’ve been truly inspired to write that I didn’t end up writing. Life’s too short to be telling yourself you can’t do things.

19. Least favorite plot point/chapter/moment you’ve written?

That would probably be a scene I wrote for a Harry Potter fic, in which someone is caught cheating on someone else, and I just really didn’t like writing it. It was essential to the story but I hated doing that.

20. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment you’ve written?

The last chapter of Coop de Grâce. Those sweet babies made me giddy.

21. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you've written?

I’ve written a lot of words in the last ten plus years so I can’t remember all my favs, but recently, it would be this line: “There was just something about Betty. She was so good and happy, and she nearly shone with the brightness of it, as if burnished from the inside out.” or – not yet published – “There was something around her eyes, something different, something related to the molasses-slow smile spreading over her lips, and it tugged a peculiar feeling to the forefront of his mind.”

22. Favorite character to write?

In HP: probably George. In Riverdale: probably Jughead.

23. Best comment/review you’ve ever received?

So many. Cannot possibly specify. You guys have been so damn kind since I showed up.

24. How do you handle bad reviews or comments?

Firstly, by deciding if the comment was meant to be hurtful, or helpful. If hurtful, disregard. If helpful, consider from the most unbiased point of view I can get to.

25. If you could change anything in any of your stories, what would it be?

Not so much change, but I wish I had taken the time to plan Coop de Grâce a little more. It sort of just came to me and I started writing, not knowing where it was going to end up, really. And I wish now that I had included more stuff. That’s all.

26. What is your favorite story you’ve ever written? Any fandom?

Probably Retribution, for HP.

27. What are you reading right now? Both fan fiction and general fiction?

For fanfiction, it’s always changing. I just made a list of fics and authors I need to check out, and I’m working my way through an inbox full of updates. It’s a disaster right now. As for original fiction, I just started reading The Cirlce. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

28. Do you have an advice for writers that want to get into this fandom but might be scared?

Just do it. Everyone is so nice. We’re really trying to cultivate a supportive community, and I experienced firsthand a few months ago how welcoming most people were, and it continues to blow me away every day.

[kaydeefalls]

top 5/bottom 5 meme

I got tagged in a thing, apparently? I only check tumblr like once or twice a week and it’s sheer luck that I glanced at my dash just as @rozf tagged me, so that means it’s fate or something.

Rules: tag the person who tagged you, always post the rules, answer the questions, and add the date!  

What are your five most popular works? (starting with the most kudos) 

it’s like one of us woke up - the XMFC canon!AU where Erik and Charles DO find Shaw in Russia. I am consistently baffled that this is my most popular fic on AO3 (by a long shot), because it was such a pain in the ass to write, but the Claw, it chooses.

ampersand - Bucky/Steve in WWII, n’awwww.

she’s the one that they call old whatsername - girl!Kirk, and I am SO PLEASED that this is in my top 5 because it just makes me happy. My only foray into Star Trek fandom.

Logical Deduction - Sirius/Remus from back in the day, how the fuck did this little fucker sneak its way up my kudos list, it is clearly the stealth HP fic of doom. This fic is more than ten years old and predated AO3 by a good chunk of change, what the fuck.

The Pond Continuum - Amy/Rory, life after the Doctor, and running pell-mell into a bunch of other companions.

What are your five least popular works? (starting with the least kudos)

Okay, I am cheating the rules a bit and skipping all my ancient LotR RPS fic here, because that fandom was looooong dead by the time AO3 was a thing and I only uploaded them for completion’s sake, and I do not feel the need to revisit them in this meme. I’m also bypassing vids, because vids don’t get love on AO3 and that’s okay, it’s not the platform for them.

(Im)perfect - old school Yuletide fic for The Faculty. That happened.

Staging (Rebel Without a Cause) - House M.D. remix fic.

Twenty Random Facts About Steve and Susan - Coupling UK fic, for Yuletide.

The Jewels of the Sea - LotR 4th-age hobbit fic, which I legit wrote for my final paper for a college course on Tolkien and got an A+ on. NERD PRIDE.

Rough Sketch - fic for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Yuletide, obvs.

Are you surprised? Why?

Not at all about the least popular. Really ancient Yuletide fics, mostly, and all long pre-AO3. I’m super pleased that my top 5 fics represent 5 different fandoms, because yay multifannishness! I still don’t know how that Remus/Sirius fucker snuck up there. GO HOME SIRIUS YOU’RE DRUNK.

I am a little surprised that the fic I’m most “known” for (Boden’s Mate) didn’t crack the top five. (It’s #7 by kudos.) Not because I think that one’s so much better than anything else, just because at the time it felt like it got a lot more attention than anything else I’d written.

There are a lot more XMFC in the top 15.

Optional: If you want to calculate this, what are your works’ average number of notes?

Uh...I’m gonna go with no, thanks. I’m not doing the math. I have 177 works on AO3.

Today’s date, so you can see how your results might change if you do this again in a year.

August 1, 2017.

Tag six people to do this next!

No legit just do it if you want to, you can claim I tagged you, go with my blessing.

[clairelutra]

a year in review ♥

meme stolen from @isadorator!!! (also she stored all of her fic there and i stg as soon as i can rest i’m diving in ITADAKIMASU ♥)

January

puppeteer chapter 6 (aka that threesome one)

river flows in you

ladrien --- marichat-style

secret valentine --- the introduction

of all the things to start the year with //faceinhands

i think this was the ‘this is really fun but oh my god so exhausting and I HAVE STANDARDS TO LIVE UP TO NOW HE L P’ stage right here, feat. me losing my computer to hardware failure and continuing to attempt writing anyway :’D

(my biggest memory of this time is that i was writing an akumized!marinette fic in a private mobile browser window with gmail, of all places, and accidentally x’d out of the tab and lost like 5 hours of work :’D //never recovered from that whoops ;;;)

February

secret valentine!!!!

aka the month of proving that:

green smoothies really work for brainfuel

i am actually capable of (at least short-term) consistency

ladrien is Some Good Shit

spite really is the best motivator :’D

basically, i started following the ladrien tag and at least once a week someone would come up with a new meta about why Marichat Is Better Than Ladrien (often featuring, Ladrien Is Unhealthy and/or Ladrien Would Crash And Burn Fast, And Here Is Why), and do you know

as a ladrien shipper

how infuriating that was

the last straw was someone insisting that you really just couldn’t slowburn ladrien

and like

bitch?

p l e a s e.

(i fooled you all by acting sweet; this is who i really am :’D)

(i am absolutely the kind of person who would write the longest fic i’ve ever completed simply to slowburn it because someone said that it couldn’t be done :’DDDDDDD)

(fuck you, person whom i can no longer remember. i showed you.

...with this fic that you will never care to read, because i wrote it about your notp long after you’d voiced your thoughts about said notp :’D)

(#hallielogic)

March

no room for jesus

fun with friends and.... that’s about it

(o hai there, impending existential crisis >.>;;;;

it was a month of panic attacks and essays that were probably a lot less shit than my english professor wanted to tell me and do you know how hard that was for someone as anxiety-ridden and a-type as i am

do you)

April

ladrien --- wrong number

ladrien --- swim

ladrien --- hug

fake married au

boku no hero acadamia au

aka, the month where i found out how spiritbreaking it is to:

start to consistently fail to please not one, but two people you admire greatly

one of whom is your teacher and in charge of your grades

whose job it is to judge your writing

which is your Thing

who doesn’t like you, but is too pleasant to let it on to your face

while you’re dealing with abruptly losing the sympathy and patience of the one person you go to for emotional support (explanation: my mom went on hormone treatment and it fucked with her mood b a d)

while dealing with watching both of your parents’ heath deteriorate fast

april was h e l l  o n  e a r t h

fake married au was an emotional crutch that sort of kept me back from the brink, honestly :’D (look! see! i’m not a waste of existence! people like this thing i made!! see!!!)

(orz)

major, major s/o to @peridipshit and giselle (no tumblr that i know of ;;; ) for counseling me through more than one lunch-table breakdown :’D;;;

(now excuse me while i go find a paper bag ;;; )

May

aka the month of ‘i am too mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted to do jack shit, someone please put me out of my misery’

also the month bang bang on tumblr hit 1k notes!

June

no room for the devil

hope we don’t get caught kiss

pillow fight!

pillow fight! the second

a time travel snippet

July

get lucky

a bunch of 3 sentence/short fic aus that i’m not gonna link bc #lazy

aka the ‘well i’m not in that hellish situation anymore so i should be able to just bounce right back, right?’ stage followed by the ‘okay okay that didn’t work; let’s start smaller‘ stage

i still plan to finish get lucky someday --- maybe we’ll see how alive i am after spring semester :’D

August

more short au fics

scary sabine au

unnamed ladynoir flirting

abo au

sidekick au piece

genderbent au

pictured: me, pumping my fists and going ‘okay, okay, okayokayokay i can do this’

September

somebody loves you

mlnsfweek (unfinished, dang it)

ladynoir --- reunion

everybody talks

getting better, getting better

everything’s still pretty disconnected and i still couldn’t bring myself to commit to anything that’d take longer than a day, but... improvement (9′-’)9

October

beauxbatons au

enemies phineas and ferb au

stop desire

more break-taking /o/

getting used to writing on my phone to fill the long hours of boredom that had taken my schedule by storm \o\

(also, unseen, i joined the remix challenge and loved and hated it :’D

also also started being almost kindasorta able to take concrit again (after the hell of march/april), and so started working with mirth again for the first time in months ;; ♥ \o/!!)

November

yuri on ice fics~~

soulmate au

make ‘em blush

exorcist au

self-indulgent marichat/ladynoir

yet another enemies au

mari-the-oblivious-lesbian genderbent au

genderbent crack smut

d a n . Adrien ur bobbie s

two important things happened at once in this month:

1) f i n a l l y got a medication that seemed to agree with me??? after literal years of testing???? everything is brighter now holy shit???????

2) rp!!! with!!!!!! mirth!!!!!!!! :DDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

which of the above is to thank for my astonishingly good mood??? i have literally no idea

aaaalso i got to remix bully’s fic in the remix challenge and that was great and fun as heck????? holy shit :D

lowkey dipped into another fandom there for a lil bit, but got too frustrated with the source material and dropped it ;;;

tl;dr: all in all, november was pretty great

December

marichat kissing lessons

do it 2 me

high-class callgirl au

cap-inspired crack

cru-inspired adrinette fluff-crack

moooore enemies au

shake up christmas

gods and godesses au

not pictured: like, almost 20k of rp goodness :D

medication and rp continue to do the trick, i start back in on things i haven’t touched in ages (’i want the k’ memes and get lucky, specifically), and the aus keep coming

signed up for waaaay too much towards the end there and spent like a week on too much stress and f a r too much caffeine, but actually feel well enough these days to start seeking help when i need it?? amazing

idk, mild caffeine od aside, the year ended on a high note

Total Year’s Output: ao3 tells me that it’s 93,383 words, but that not including a bunch of stuff i never bothered to upload there, and/or are still in wip form

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted?

mmmmh, a little less? i was pulling a steady 10k a month towards the end of 2k15, which is when i started writing for real, but understandable, considering the whole mid-year mental breakdown and subsequent recovery :’D

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2016?

aus of any sort! like actual legit ‘let’s fuck shit up’ aus :D i’ve always wanted to, but always thought my tastes ran just too weird to pull any off in any readable, enjoyable format? the exorcist au and the gods and goddesses au are pretty good examples of the aus i come up with when left to my own devices, except that those are on the tame end of ‘weird’ for me :’D

also i’ve relaxed my rigid stance on ‘love square o n l y’ and dipped my toes into poly ships and things like adrialya, which i probably never would’ve done before :’D

What’s your favourite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.

HOT MESS

HOT MESS IS MY MOST-ADORED CHILD

i’m still not 100% sure why, except that it’s got all my favorite lines and all my happy excitement and, looking back at it, it’s not phenomenal, b u t

it’s just??? got so much that i l o v e tied up in it

most of my favorite lines and really good memories and a dynamic i love and just.

it makes me so happy to have written it >/////< ♥

in things that i still love upon rereading, secret valentine is pretty up there tbh. somehow in all my stress to get it out and get it out good i... actually managed to hit a pretty sweet dynamic? idk i reread scenes from it sometimes and i still like it ♥

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?

i wanna see where i can go, if anywhere, with get lucky. i wanna see if i can finish it. i wanna know where it goes, goddamnit.

i also want to beat this year’s wordcount, if i can.

and, if i’m well enough in november, maybe take a shot at nanowrimo? //fingers crossed ♥

i’m looking forward to it ♥