2012 fic roundup + year-end writing meme!
1. Your main fandom of the year?
MCU, BABY.
2. Your favorite film watched this year?
I didn't watch Thor until this year, so, Thor. These stupid Norse gods and their faces, I can't.
3. Your favorite book read this year?
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde, a wonderful rec from
onomatopoetry.
4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
I have listened to Some Nights an embarrassing number of times, but I really think Gotye's Making Mirrors is my favorite album for the year. What an incredibly versatile work it is.
5. Your favorite TV show of the year?
Doctor Who!
6. Your favorite online fandom community of the year?
I'm deeply saddened to say that I've moved over to Tumblr, but I've moved over to Tumblr. :/ I'm thefangirlhood if you're looking.
7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
COMICS COMICS COMICS COMICS CAPTAIN MARVEL HAWKGUY OMGGGGGGGGGG
8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Well, I would say Coulson dying, but COULSON LIVES. HE LIVES, so, idk. Fandom hasn't really disappointed me this year.
9. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Coulson!
10. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif.
11. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
COULSON LIVES. FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY THAT TIME THAT STAN LEE SHOWED UP AT THE D*C PHOTOSHOOT. GOD IDEK.
12. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Not missing anything overly much right now.
13. The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?
dashakay bet me a sushi dinner that I wouldn't write anything for Elementary, which I started watching last week. I swear to god that Marvel has eaten my entire brain, but WE SHALL SEE.
14. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
IM3 AND THOR 2 OH GOD OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
2012 Fic Roundup! :D
payment in kind. PLEASE MIND THE WARNINGS.
of all the gin joints in all the world, River/Eleven, River & Nine
Avengers
change places, Thor/Jane, PG-13.
combat baby (come back baby), Clint/Coulson, R
half-Windsor; whole heart, Clint/Coulson
just in case, Clint/Coulson, R
Magic: the Gathering, gen for now, college AU.
one hundred thousand years of solitude, Sif/Loki
Portland Cello Concerto No. 1, in C-Minor, Clint/Coulson
raiders of the lost leather pants, Clint/Coulson, R
some mad hope, Sif/Loki, Clint/Coulson, Sam/Steve, Tony/Pepper, PG-13
thanks for the memories, Clint/Coulson, R
The Stark Guide (tm) to Mission Reports, co-authored with
sabinetzin.
Ororoverse (Clint and Phil, adorably married SHIELDHUSBANDS, adopt Ororo)
a.family man
b. home improvement
c. to school, me hearties
Thor
ain't too proud to beg, Sif/Loki, R.
family matters, Sif/Loki, G.
let's play a love game, Sif/Loki, R.
mother knows best, brodinsonsssssss <3, gen, G.
visible cities, Milo, gen, G.
two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl (the anatomy of apocalypse. remix), CJ/Sam, post-apoca, R.
sweet dreams & flying machines, Cabin Pressure/Doctor Who.
River/Doctor Oneshots
rule the world with love: nine Sif/Loki ficlets
MCU AU Oneshots
I also did manage to finish one fanvid, Avengers gen team!vid, to Kanye West's "Amazing."
Let's see. Last year, according to my roundup, I posted approximately 90k in fic. This year, my published stories totaled up to about 123k. Nice!
Now here, another meme.
( 2011's roundup)
( 2010's roundup)
( 2009's roundup)
My favorite story this year (of my own): some mad hope. I have said it before and I will say it again: if I leave this fandom having done just one thing well, I want it to be that I wrote a crazy, bitter, resentful, confused, nuanced Loki who is manifestly not a good dude, and I think (I hope?) that came through in this story. It also became, as it spun along to its dizzy end, a story of all my team!feels, and it sets up for three long projects I'll be writing in 2013: an epic Sam/Steve story o'feels, the Darkest Timeline, and a story with nothing but kickass ladies (to be written with
shadowen :D :D :D). Plus Sif got some really good burns in on Loki in this story, Frigga got to be a badass, and as usual, I utterly cannot with Thor, ever, at all, in any way.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, maybe. Remix isn't a high-comment thing, I know, but I was damn proud of that piece and it creeped me out to write it, so, idk. I'm kind of a bitter old queen about my stories? The person I remixed was really super awesome about it, so that part was good.
Most fun story: The Stark Guide (tm) to Mission Reports, co-authored with
sabinetzin. We had no idea that other people would think it was as hilarious as it was to us? But apparently they did. I think I hurt myself laughing about it while we were sending drafts back and forth.
Sexiest story: ain't too proud to beg. I didn't write a lot of sexy stuff this year, it was mostly a year for long plotty bullshit and kidfic.
Hardest story to write: some mad hope. I laughed, I cried, I shouted at my screen, I bemoaned my terrible decision to ever write 32k of actual plot instead of fucking.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?: About what I predicted, I think. What's surprising is how I wrote it-- last year I published 90k, all in installments of 2-5k at the most, but this year I wrote longer, plottier pieces. So in list form by titles, it looks like I wrote less, but actually, I published about 20k more than I did last year, at least in fanfic. Adding in original work (but not stuff for work), all told I wrote about 140k in 2012.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?:
I finally buckled down and decided to actually finish a novel. Eek.
Do you have any goals for the New Year?:
Finish my book! Write all the sequels to some mad hope! Write the awful precanon tragedy of Sif and Loki! Finish Slytherin Field Trip! Write more Who fic in general! Avoid writing the Hogwarts AU!
Happy New Year! :D Now to try and finish this Doctor Who story. :D