Year End Fanfic Meme - ASK ME!

[elrhiarhodan]

Taps mic, hears crickets... anybody here? Anybody care?

1. Favorite fic you wrote this year
2. Least favorite fic you wrote this year
3. Favorite line/scene you wrote this year
4. Total number of words you wrote this year
5. Most popular fic this year
6. Least popular fic this year
7. Longest completed fic you wrote this year
8. Shortest completed fic you wrote this year
9. Longest WIP of the year
10. Shortest WIP of the year
11. Fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year
12. Favorite character to write about this year
13. Favorite writing song/artist/album of this year
14. A fic you didn’t expect to write
15. Something you learned this year
16. Fic(s) you completed this year
17. Fics you’ll continue next year
18. Current number of WIPs
19. Any new fics to start next year
20. Number of comments you haven’t read
21. Most memorable comment/review
22. Events you participated in this year
23. Fics you wanted to write but didn’t
24. Favorite fic you read this year
25. A fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read
26. Number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year
27. Favorite fanfic author of the year
28. Longest fic you read this year
29. Shortest fic you read this year
30. Favorite fandom/ship to read fic from this year

*feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Hihihi! #14

[elrhiarhodan]

14. A fic you didn’t expect to write

Ooooh, for 2021? Hmmm. This has been a year of transition between fandoms, changing up processes, finding myself as a writer again.

I am a writer who really has always embraced a lot of words. I like plot. No, I love plot. The more plot, the better. And what I love more than plot is dialogue. And you know what happens when you combine plot and dialogue? LONG STORIES. This year, I got one monster of a story going and while, at one point, I thought it would be done around the 150k mark, I'm thing I'm going to pop my 200k cherry with this one. Which doesn't leave a lot of room for other stories, sadly. But I have managed a few honest to goodness short fics (less than 2k) in fandoms I never expected to write for.

For you, my dearest friend from the very beginning of my time in fandom, I actually wrote Star Trek TOS!!!!! It's a short bit of silliness: Stardate: Ferrari, and while it's under 500 words, it's got dialogue and competence porn and I'm pretty darn proud of it.

For my bestie and dearest enabler, Kyele, I wrote two ficlets for her in her heritage fandom, BBC's Musketeers and they are the best porn I've written in a very long time: Sacrement (this could get me excommunicated if I was Catholic), and The Taste of You Upon My Tongue (You'll never think of hot chocolate the same way again).

[minoanmiss]

AND you wrote me the dance AU of joy!

[elrhiarhodan]

Yes! But that wasn't unexpected... So I didn't include it.

[temve]

Ack, should read other comments before picking. 23 pliz. Thank you!

[elrhiarhodan]

Damn, I just answered that! Pick another?

[elrhiarhodan]

Ah, you did pick another! But I answered this one on on Tumblr, rather exhaustively. Could you pick again????

[temve]

25?

[elrhiarhodan]

Perfect!

1. A fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

Ever Since Happiness Heard Your Name. I love this story so much, it really feeds my soul in so many ways - good versus evil, but the evil is everyday, banal and for that, all the more evil. Characters who could be assholes, who SHOULD be assholes, but aren't assholes. There is so much richness - WritesStuffLee knows this region, she knows the people and climate, and she brings all the love she has for it to the story. Every time I read this (and I just finished a long, slow comfort read), I feel like I'm a better person for knowing this characters. They are both Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and they are not their canon selves, and that is the beauty of the story.

[gracerene]

4 & 19!

[elrhiarhodan]

Hello there! And thank you so much for asking about my fic writing this year.

4 - Total number of words you wrote this year

226k, which is definitely on the low end of the scale for me. It's because I've been focusing on a single long fic, instead of writing lots of shorter things. Most of those words belong to my Din/Luke story, "The Stars Across the Sky Like the Scars Across Your Skin" which is now at 142k.

19. Any new fics to start next year

A lot of ideas. I sketched out a bunck of Qui/Obi fics in a Tumblr post, and I have a bunch of Din/Boba/Luke ideas, plus a lot of timestamps for the Finding the Stars 'verse (to be written when Stars/Scars is done).

So far, there's on deck: 1 - Han/Boba at Harvard Law (They Were Roommates) 2 - Ben Solo & Grogu Djarin are besties, and then A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (The Sweetest Thing Ever) 3 - The Rogue One Stitch 'n' Bitch (Sew it Up, Button Your Lip) 4 - The Book of Boba Fett and Friends (Polycules R Us) 5 - Peli and Jocasta Escape from Bisbee (No Fear, No Hate, No Shame, not a crack tag)