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Last year's meme is here: http://roseveare.dreamwidth.org/37961.html

I'll do this about the stories that got posted in 2014, some of which were written in 2013. There are several stories that I wrote in 2014 that are as-yet-unposted but I'll leave those for the future so people will have some idea what I'm talking about.

Total Stories: 21
Total Het Stories: 2
Total Slash Stories: 6
Total Femslash Stories: 0 (2 if you count the polyamory fics with a f/f component)
Total Three or Moresome Stories: 6
Total Gen Stories: 7
Total Fandoms Written In: 2 (Haven, 3x3 Eyes)
Total Word Count: 279,000... at least, that's what a quick count gets. Idk if it's right, that sounds like a lot.

( fics posted this year )

I wrote/posted a ridiculous amount this year. And okay, that is going to change next year. I am going to get out more. ;)

Favorite story of my own: Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld is hands-down my evil baby of this year. Just being able to go all the places with that which I wanted to go, and take Nathan and Mara to other worlds, and address all the tangle of darkness lying between them, and make it epic and operatic and... SFX heavy in ways that could never work on the screen.

My best story of the year: I am gonna go for Redemption of Killers and Rogues because I think it does something and fulfils something and goes a place where fiction frequently fails to go. And after vaguing it up completely I will say that there's a message in media that we need to say Fuck You to more often, and that's this idea of a woman who is "damaged goods" in some way - which is itself an artificial definition decided by others - having no path but to die karmically or die in the twist of redemption. Screw that. Redeeming is about living and meaning and intending and doing. And that's the rage this fic was trying to capture. Reserve is my most popular by kudos, The Naked Truth by hits. The hits to kudos ratio of Redemption and a few others is far better though.

My story most underappreciated by the universe: Eeeeh, nothing did badly. I would have liked if Eurydice got more attention because it feels like people have been asking me to write Audrey/Nathan for an age. Then again, probably those requests weren't anticipating the William element, and anyway, the reason I don't generally write Audrey/Nathan is because I think it's a foregone conclusion that people won't like my approach to it. I think there are levels of obsession and need and manipulation in there, which isn't to say that it can't work as a pairing for me, but if you want fluff ... no.

It's something of a puzzle to me why The Great Looney Tunes Caper didn't fare better, not that it did horribly, but it's OT3 and just my general impression is that that is more popular. Perhaps it's the ugliness and out-thereness of the Duke and Nathan characature versions in the cartoon world. Which I guess is hard to romanticise and sexy. Hong Kong Monster Tales on account of 3x3 Eyes has no fandom. ;_;

My most fun story: Tie between The Great Looney Tunes Caper and The Naked Truth? OMG, but then there was Cape Haven this year, as well, wasn't there? I had so much fun with the superhero AU. And the Yuletide treat I wrote in one day. (Reserve is also pretty funny. So five out-and-out comedy/parody stories this year. That's a lot for me.) Actually I think I'll go for Looney Tunes on this one because the cartoons came hand in hand with that fic, and I'm still having huge fun with those months later, and the cartoons would never have happened at all without this story.

My sexiest story: Squared. Ahahahaha. All the people signed up for Troublesfest and I ended up being the one to write explicit foursome porn. Which kind of amuses me when I think about it. I'd never written a foursome, never thought about how one would write or negotiate a foursome. I just dove in, into the porn as well as everything else. I didn't have time to think. It was a pinch hit. I just wrote.

Story with single sexiest moment: I like the Duke/Nathan relationship in Risen. There's a moment when they're kissing in public, when Duke grabs Nathan on the front of the car and pulls him in... there are a few moments in that fic.

Story with single sweetest moment: Perhaps not what this question's anticipating, but I like the moment in Nathan Wuornos' Winter Vacation when the old vagrant saves Nathan's life then reveals he wouldn't share with him the waste turkey. There's the moment in Ghost Town where Evi's just gone and Duke and Nathan are reunited after spending the whole story apart. Squared has a few moments between Jen and Nathan that I like: Duke trying to persuade Jen that Nathan's a pudding.

Most unintentionally *telling* story: I have no freakin' clue. I'd guess that if you take Redemption of Killers and Rogues and Nathan Wuornos' Winter Vacation and maybe The Naked Truth and Breathe there are things - smaller things, not the most dramatic things in the case of the first two - about me, my experience of the world, and my beliefs that you can divine from those stories, each in vastly different ways.

Holy crap that’s *wrong*: Now I have to weigh up the comparative levels of wrongness of Eurydice, Redemption and Risen, and they all have pretty big stakes in this area. Risen horrified my betas, so maybe that one. It has that element of partner-inflicted dubious consent which I would guess is a hard one to take on. But then Redemption starts with a brutal rape scene and Eurydice is all about compromised consent on multiple levels.

Most disappointing story: Uhm... I have no real feelings for Reserve, which isn't to say that it's done disappointingly, it's actually more because it's done really well... but it kind of makes me squint and go "really? for serious?" every time it gets more kudos because it's such a disposable little crackfic and yet it's one of my most popular fics. And I think that's a sad statement on fandom, in a way. I guess it's cheerful and that's the divide from the longer stuff like Risen and Pinocchio is Bleeding that are also explicit slash and had so much more effort put in them. What's with people not liking my depressing messed-up fics? *blink*

Hardest to write: Euridyce's Adventures in the Underworld was the slog from hell. I badly wanted to write it, but it resisted all the way.

Easiest to write: Redemption of Killers and Rogues wrote itself in three days, Risen in about... either seven or eleven, I can't remember now. Whether you could say that was easy I am not sure, because they wrung me out emotionally pretty thoroughly. Particularly Redemption. I have two less demanding one-day stories, in Squared and Four TImes Duke or Nathan Got Caught in the Crossfire, so it might be more accurate to say one of those in terms of "easy", but they didn't sing like the other two.

This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates that: Polyamory. Nudity. Crack. Cartoons. Compromised consent. There's nothing that unifies it all, but I did write 4 different polyamory character sets in 6 different fics when I haven't really written a lot of that before, I guess the poly wins out as the major new theme of the year.

What story do you want to have written: The one I'm writing right now, because it's due for a fic exchange and OMG *flail*. Other than that, Sea Change IV and the ending to the 100+k Nano novel.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year? Finish the Nano 2013 novel. Dammit.

I want to say something about Winter's Flotsam because it hasn't caught a mention here but I really like that fic, like the idea of someone becoming confident in sex as an escape from the real world and salve against suicide. Like the idea of Dwight/Nathan in general and would really like to write more of that. And also I want to mention Twisted, which is Sea Change III and resisted the writing process hard and got so damn dark, but I'm proud of it, for not going to obvious places.

EDIT: Missed one. I posted Hong Kong Monster Tales in April, even though it was written a few years ago now. So that makes it two fandoms.

Exchange fic #1 is in beta and is TOP SECRET.

Exchange fic #2 is written and now typed in draft and is TOP SECRET.

Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld is in beta and I'm hoping to post it later this week.

I desperately need to get back to Risen (Unbreakable #2) and fix the stuff that needs fixing, since this one has already been beta'd and therefore could theoretically be posted at any time, as soon as I wrap my head around this.

27 Years Bad Luck is 36,000 words of a dubcon mess. It's an OT3 fic set after the Magic Hour two parter where evil duplicates of Duke and Nathan make everything very uncomfortable for the main trio. Dwight's a main character in this, too. It has been in beta for a year. This does not look set to change in the next month, because I'm finishing off too many things that need to be out on a deadline.

Shattered (Unbreakable #3) is not typed but getting that done is looking to be my project for the upcoming week. It's not going to hit before the new season starts, because FREAKIN' LONG, but I'd like it to not be delayed by too much. [EDIT: did I ever mention I finished this one and it comes in at about 63k?]

I don't know when Pirate Trouble will land. I love it to bits but what anyone else will think of it I have no idea. It's pretty much noncon kink that messes with masochist!Nathan.

I want to save Nathan Wuornos' Winter Vacation to post at Christmas, but I'm a little afraid that everyone will have forgotten about the season 4 circumstances, then, by the time it lands.

Haven: A Toy Story (second half of Pinocchio is Bleeding) isn't finished, what's written so far isn't typed, and I still need to get back to this.

Nexus (Jess Minion/Nathan) is indefinitely in edit because it needs a lot of work and there's no push for timeframe, since no-one will read this one anyway.

There's an untitled Superhero AU thing... It's first person POV Nathan and more-or-less gen with the 6 person team of Nathan, Audrey, Duke, Jordan, Dwight, Jennifer. Also probably indefinitely in edit as there's no push for timeframe here and the prose will definitely need some sorting out.

Nano 2013 novel needs an ending writing. And I still really need to do that.

I have another Jordan, Nathan and Dwight gen called Monsters' Ball that I started writing, but IDK what will happen to this now. I still want to write more with that early s4 Troubles Team B, though.

Freaks & Wonders is another FMA gen fic about pre-canon Ed and Al investigating alchemical shenanigans at a circus, and at some point, I need to edit and post this, too.

As always, there are 3x3 Eyes fics, and there are Jake 2.0 fics. There's even a Dark Angel fic. Although some of this stuff is so old by now I don't know if I'll ever post it.

Part 1 of the Duke/Nathan WIP is going to be about 30,000 words. I'm on about 25,000 now and there's still the wrappup and the smut at the end to write. I don't know how the hell it got this long, because it doesn't really feel like I've done more than pick at it in 500 words bites, except for the smut in the middle which I wrote in one session, heh. I think there will be some trimming involved in the editing process. It has been kind of hard feeling like I'm selling this idea in the telling, because it's a bit wacky and out-there, so the journey might have been a bit more meandering than usual.

I was going to have Part 1 and Part 2 be the same fic, but if it's going to be this long I might have to think about it being a series. (I always get the feeling nobody reads the novel-length stuff...) A series of two.

I need to think of a title that uses 'Pinocchio' in it somewhere.

It's another Duke POV, fwiw, like Body Parts and Silencer. But this one is NC17 slash. Setting the balance for Unbreakable and sequels being entirely Nathan POV, probably. My brain does things like that. Also IDK why has Duke so far got all the gens? And all the kinda weird, funny, wtf ones, for that matter. Maybe it's something about his POV.

I have to decide whether to break and write something else when I've finished Part 1 or to dive straight into Part 2. The danger there is that Part 2 might never get written. On the other hand, if I get very frustrated with it by trying to carry on after the 30k slog through Part 1, it also might never get written. Plus it'd give Part 1 time to get typed and to simmer.

Question is what I could tackle in the meantime. Sea Change IV (pirates???)? Something Jordan (may still be too soon: just wrote three four counting the little one)? Something else? Sometime want to tackle Audrey/Duke/Nathan properly again. OR I COULD ALWAYS FINISH THE DAMN NOVEL AND/OR THE JESS MINION THING DAMMIT.

I kinda want Wade/Jordan/Nathan. It popped into my head today. It would not be a nice fic. OMG brain, why?

If I never write Part 2, Part 1 would still be a complete story. People might not necessarily find it a comfortable or happy story, but it'd still have a distinct ending.

Meanwhile in not-fanfic-blather: Watching season 4 of Boston Legal. Alan and Denny! ♥ And I am reading the new Simon Green Hawk & Fisher novel. And I might watch some more Walking Dead season 1 tonight because zombies and gore kinda encapsulates my feelings about Feb 14th.