the perennial year-in-fic meme

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Stories this year:
written in salt (Thoroughbreds (Movie)) Amanda/Lily
white chocolate space egg (Hockey RPF) Jamie/Tyler
take your time on me (Hockey RPF) Barkov/Huberdeau
Pregame Routine (Hockey RPF) Holtby/Wilson
two sticks of butter, softened (Ant-Man) Scott/Jimmy
sunrise, sunburn, sunset (Hockey RPF) Jamie/Tyler
born and raised in an earthquake state (Star Wars universe) Han Solo, background Lando/Bodhi
Catbird (Hockey RPF) Panthers gen
Yuletide Assignment
Yuletide Treat

…2k19 goal, stop doing no-caps titles.


My Favorite Story This Year?
I’m pretty affectionate about all of them. I obviously was not in a very fannish place this year, so writing fic at all had to come from a place of yeah, I like this idea.

My Best Story This Year?
I have no idea!

Most Surprising Story?
The Yuletide treat, I definitely would not have predicted that.

Most Disappointing Story?
Earthquake State; I worked hard on it and liked it a lot and it was politely ignored. Ah well.

Favourite First Line?
“For the first time in quite a while, Scott had a non-catastrophic problem.”

Favourite Last Line?
“They could buy some ‘phib jizz with the right DNA online.”

Story Most Unappreciated By The Universe?
See above re Earthquake State

Most Fun Story?
Two Sticks of Butter, I think. Ant-Man is always fun.

Story With The Single Sexiest Moment?
Probably the Yuletide fic, I guess? Unless Tyler fucking Jamie’s egg sacs does it for you. (I don’t judge!)

Story With The Single Sweetest Moment?
Barky and Huby tending to Aaron in Catbird.

Hardest Story to Write?
Earthquake State. MONTHS. Ugh.

Easiest Story to Write?
Catbird. Like an hour.

Story I Haven't Written, But Intend To?
I still want to write the Science Pollen fic. /o/ \o\

Most Unintentionally Telling Story?
Catbird, probably.

Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions of the Characters?
Yuletide story, actually. That won’t make sense to anyone outside of my head.

Most "Holy Crap, That's Wrong Even For You" Story?
…Tyler fucking Jamie’s egg sacs?

This Year's Theme And The Story That Demonstrates It Most?
My theme is ALWAYS lonely, alienated, kinda sad people finding each other and making it better. I don’t want to talk about it!!!!

Looking Back, Did You Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, or About What You'd Predicted?
Less and I’m bummed about it. It was mostly because I was working on original stuff, though, so that’s kinda cool too.

What Pairing/Genre/Fandom Did You Write That You Would Never Have Predicted in January 2018?
Xeno. Who knew. Also the fandom of my Yuletide treat.

Did You Take Any Writing Risks This Year?
XENO.

Do You Have Any fanfic Goals For The New Year?
Write more than 10 next year! Whoo!

Comments

[la_dissonance]

I really liked Tyler fucking Jamie's egg sacs!!! Also that theme can accurately describe 95% of all the fic I read, it's just really good for reasons that we do not have to ever get into :D :D

[clachnaben]

I've reread the tyler/jamie xeno a bunch of times, I love Tyler's voice in it, it's so funny and sweet, and dumb all at once, I think it's great.

also all lower case titles are totally okay i have decided to just fully lean into them

[snickfic]

lonely, alienated, kinda sad people finding each other and making it better.

What an excellent theme, though. :')

I really liked Catbird. <3

[seascribble]

YAY, XENO. Tyler fucking Jamie's egg sacks is very sexy.

[romantical]

The Star Wars fic was GREAT and people should read it lots.

[tattered_errata]

This theme has followed me around for a long time, it's probably not going anywhere anytime soon! But we shan't talk about it!!!

[tattered_errata]

Sometimes lower case just expresses what you mean!

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<3333 thank you!

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moo moo moo touch hish shacsh

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<333333

[siegeofangels]

Look it was extremely romantic egg-sac fucking

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VERY romantic