end of year review fic meme (2015)

Jan 01, 2016 18:35

Total number of completed stories: 25
Total word count: 163,926 (1 wip)

all links are hosted over at ao3 although some were posted on lj originally under various socks.

Chronological breakdown:
january
GOT7, birthday boy (gets double dibs) | nc-17 | ot3 birthday porn for jb; jr/jb/youngjae
iKON, hand over fist | nc-17 | canon + WIN era
donghyuk is a serial hand holder and junhwe doesn't mind; donghyuk/junhwe

february
iKON, blow me gently (cause we sure ain't gonna kiss) | nc-17 | canon + 5 times fic
bobby insists they would get along better if junhwe sucked his dick, junhwe is inclined to disagree if for no other reason than because bobby suggested it first; bobby/junhwe
iKON, Vday Victory | pg-13 | cause maybeeeee junhwe actually has a chance; jinhwan/junhwe
BTS, Red & Black | pg | jungkook has synesthesia and falls in love with activist!namjoon's voice in a dystopian world; gen, for btsx2015

april
GOT7, good luck, do you copy? | nc-17 | interstellar au
space is vast and jb is alone until he thinks he isn't; jr/jb, for olymfics 2015

may
BTS, where songbirds nest | nc-17 | pwp
jimin loves taehyung, stupid animal metaphors and all; vmin

june
BTS, fire sales burning up my heart | pg-13 | 5 times fic
a table, a lamp, and a piece of brick walk into a bar, odds are one of them is taehyung; vmin
♥ BTS, 08. far away you were made in a sea | pg | magical realism
bangtan raise a jungkook from another universe; gen, slight jikook, for btsx mixtape fest!
WINNER, humans of not york | pg-13 | post modeling au
seungyoon is pretentious and jobless and seunghoon might as well be a manic pixie dream boy; 2seung, for winnerx 2015

july
BTS, stitch me a pretty scar | nc-17 | doctor au [kink bingo #1]
jungkook is the worst patient ever, but luckily this isn't grey's anatomy...or is it?; jinkook
BTS, twist and shout | nc-17 | canon, fake pwp [kink bingo #2]
jimin bends and bends, but yoongi never lets him break; yoonmin
GOT7, love today (love love me) | pg-13 | humor+ high school au
the world loves jackson a little too much, but mark is there to kind of save the day, or at least jackson's ass; markson, everyone under the sun/jackson

august,
BTS, game changer | nc-17 | pwp [kink bingo #3]
jungkook won't spit out the water no matter what, the rest of bangtan try to test it, gangbang; everyone/jungkook

september
♥ BTS, fire work | pg-13 | angst + prologue inspired, yoongi loves fire and wonders if he can love jungkook even more; sugakookie
♥ GOT7, we never go (out of style) | nc-17 | celebrity au
jinyoung claims they're never ever getting back together, but jaebum thinks they're past having bad blood; jb/jr
♥ WINNER, headspace for three | pg-13 | space au
seunghoon has a debt to pay and an intergalatic space mission to kill yg seems like a good place to start; seunghoon/mino/jinwoo, for ficmix 2015

october
♥ League RPF, perfect creep score | pg-13 | canon
seungbin isn't jealous, he's not gay either. just petty (and possessive and all kinds of handsy when it comes to hyukkyu); imp/Deft

november
BTS, sucrose | nc-17 | horror/halloween fic [kink bingo #4]
yoongi hunts ghouls and jungkook wants a taste and then a bit more; sugakookie
♥ League RPF, the unviersal language of a heart that beats | nc-17 | canon
martin is smitten with hyukkyu, horribly so, and no number of kilometers or languages between them can change how he feels about it; Deft/Rekkles

december
BTS, sun glitter in his teeth | pg-13 | run mv inspired + 5 times fic- there's happiness and youth and then the inevitable crash; sugakookie
League RPF, somewhere along the middle | pg-13 | college au + 5 times fic
seungbin is a Shitty Roommate, that much will never change but maybe something else has; imp/Deft
♥ League RPF, surface tension | pg-13 | canon
it's not a break up, really. life's like that- inkyu wins some and he loses some and then he drinks it all away and dream of better times, together; dandy/mata
♥ BTS, the neverland problem | nc-17 | peter pan au
jungkook is forever 17, but he's not the one who's stuck, frozen in time; jinkook

Overall Thoughts:
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? wayyyyyyy more, like maybe 100k more than i thought i would write at the start of 2015. i think this year was really liberating in terms of me writing whatever the heck i wanted to without really think about why or being bogged down with all the fandom stress.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? never in a million years did i expect to fall for ESPORTS RPF OF ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD. like what????? but it's just so fulfilling and funny all the time, i talked to a fandom friend about how i think league rpf has made me laugh and smile more than i had all year and it really brought back why i loved fandom?? not to say that kpop is bad, but at times it's saddled with a lot more fandom baggage than it really needs to be and people are too busy fighting over dumb things than actually enjoy the group they stan. that goes for ficdom as well, there's been a couple of plagiarism incidents this year (none of which that directly involve me) that really made me really wary as well. having a new fandom that's very small is incredibly refreshing and part of it feels like entrepeneurship, like building your own start up from the ground up which makes everything incredibly rewarding. idk i'm just having so much fun all the time and it's really made the end of my 2015 year really great <3

What's your own favorite story of the year? it's really hard to pin point one story that i really loved, but essentially i write two kinds of fics: 1) the ones that take me a really long time to write/plot/concentrate on (the neverland problem, the universal language of a heart that beats, etc) 2) the ones that are finished in one sitting way late into the morning past 4 or 5 am (08. far away you were born in a sea, fire work, surface tension), and i've learned that type 2 fics tend to be my favorite after i've finished them. I ALSO REALIZED THAT I LOVE 5 TIMES FIC so much that i wrote 4, 5 times fics this past year. (i was just one short of making a compilation of 5 times i wrote 5 times fic)

Did you take any writing risks this year? among strong candidates this year such as: furniture fic, underaged gangbang, and cannibalism, i'd have to give it to my southern fauxcest fic: the neverland problem, because i've actually done two of the three first listed back in 2014 as well, ha ha ha. i think for me it was a writing risk because i took it very seriously and it's really quite a personal story to me in terms of the setting and a lot of the details that are written about in the fic. of course no one i know has become immortal and i definitely haven't had any fauxest relationships in my life, but over time i realized (and this is going to sound like such bullshit, but) that jungkook and jin are really just representations of everyone. we all have that version of ourselves stuck in neverland that can't go with our older selves no matter how hard we try and inevitably those two people will just drift farther and farther. it sounds depressing, but those rare moments where we get to be children again, where we reconcile with our younger selves and our dreams, are when the sparks of magic happen.

great, i've just made a fauxcest fic effectively self-cest...THAT'S MY WRITING RISK OF THE YEAR, YEP...moving along-

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year? I WANNA WRITE MORE LEAGUE FIC. ALSO MORE JINKOOK!!!! there's basically no league rpf fic (a grand total of 17 fics in the ao3 tag), but there's so many interesting storylines, characters, and possibilites to explore, so i'm really excited to expand and delve deeper into all of that. Jan 14th, my body is so ready!!!

From my past year of writing, what was...
My best story of this year: By virtue of the fic that i worked on for the longest, ever, i think the neverland problem really highlights some of my writing strengths and weaknesses. it's only been a few days since i finished it, but i've gotten quite a few comments from people telling me that they don't read jinkook, or they haven't read fic in a while, but it made them cry??? idk, it's a really unspeakable feeling when you make your readers feel so much emotion and it's a really rewarding experience to get all that feedback T___________T

My most popular story of this year: game changer, you are all going to hell, you're welcome.
runner up: burst, bloom, bleed- which is still a wip and all hype

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: by nature of being a small fandom, anything i've written for league rpf. outside of that i really loved my fic for ficmix, headspace for three. remixing the original was a lot of fun and there's a lot hidden in there that probably only the original author and i understand which i'm more than fine with.

Most fun story to write: LOVE TODAY, LOVE LOVE ME was hilarious probably only to me because it was such self-indulgent crack where I wrote without censoring myself. my first fics were actually crack fics on a long forgotten sock and this felt like revisiting an old style? idk it was just really fun to write and got7 are such a funny, obnoxious group that lend themselves to so many in-jokes that i couldn't resist taking jabs at <3

Story with the single sexiest moment: stitch me a pretty scar is filled with underlying sexual tension and the one moment where seokjin is changing jungkook's bandages but accidently brushes against his chest made me squirm while writing it. so yeah, there's that

Most "holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: [intentionally left blank]

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: i've talked about this before with r and e, but writing for bts has grown my writing a lot this year. for each character when i write from a certain pov i really try to portray what they would notice in a scene and for jungkook in particular he's always highlighted his sense of smell. soon i found myself sitting down in front of my word doc and actually thinking: "what would i smell in this scene, what would catch my attention", and it was really interesting to have a character retroactively affect my writing like that! like even if i didn't directly write down what he was 'smelling' at a certain point in time, i would keep that detail in mind throughout each scene. as as a result i began to pay a lot more attention to what's implied in a scene rather than just out right stated which imo has improved my storytelling ability a lot. so i guess there's not 1 single story that shifted my own perception, but rather all my bts fics?

Hardest story to write: by the third chapter, the neverland problem felt like pulling teeth and i knew i had to get it finished before 2015 ended or else it would never be finished. since i had been working on the fic since march of 2015 (march to december), in my mind i had already completed the fic so many times with various endings that it seemed almost impossible to rewind it all and find one true ending to take. thank you everyone who held my hand through it all T___________T
runner up: my fic for winnerx, idk why it was so hard, but it was

Biggest disappointment: i left jjp mr and mrs smith au to drown, i'm sorry

Biggest surprise: that bighit ships sugakookie more than i do. jk, but actually.

Most unintentionally telling story: see southern fauxcest above
runner up: surface tension, between writing that and we never go (out of style), i've come to realize that undefined relationships are my pick of poison. there's nothing worse or better than the slow burn of miscommunication and never knowing what could have been. angst for dayssss

Highlights + Wrap-up:

Favourite Opening Lines (3):
1. “You know they said you were the youngest, not the stupidest,” Seokjin says with a sigh as a familiar mess of dark hair peeks in through the curtains. [x]
2. Hyukkyu comes home to a stack of dishes in the sink, the refrigerator door left open and the culprit himself passed out on the couch. [x]
3. Jackson’s nursing a hangover the size of his ego, when the sunlight blinds him at an angle from above the gate. [x]

Favourite Closing Lines (4):
1. Spattered across the line of the horizon are stars and the enviable stretch of darkness beyond that. Jaebum leans back, fingers coated with dust, and lets the sound of the engine thrusters fill his ears. [x]
2. Three- Sehyung’s arms wrapping around him in a tight hold as he lifted Inkyu up, and Inkyu sagging into his hold, completely weightless on top of the world. [x]
3. “Are you fucking kidding me?” Jimin whines, helpless laughter squeezed out of him as the beanbag crumples down to fit into all the spaces around him like a cozy, resigned hug. [x]
4. Instead he watches Jungkook suck in a small breath and then quietly, blow out the flame to leave them at the mercy of the darkness. [x]

Favorite 5 Line(s) from Anywhere:
1. Yoongi buries his other hand into the bone dry, stiff locks of Jungkook’s hair and squeezes his eyes shut so he doesn’t have to imagine himself doing terrible, terrible things. Jungkook’s hand comes up to cup his face and Yoongi presses a kiss against his wrist.
He knows. [x]

2. He wonders if the Jungkook of this world partakes in the kissing and if there is one person in particular Jungkook looks forward to kissing the most. [x]

3. (His arm shakes a little when he brings the phone up, level to Inkyu’s sleeping form. His mind is still slow, too slow to process why he feels the need to capture this moment and burn it into his mind forever. The flash goes off against the dimness of the room and the light catches Inkyu's bare back. Sehyung doesn't dare touch him, not like this.
Instead, he presses his thumb against the phone screen, across the white of Inkyu’s back and lingers.) [x]

4. He remembers now. It goes like this:
A hungover human, a blue-necked Imdo boy, and a semi-headless, two-headed alien walk into an Empire summit.
He pauses, mind throbbing in confusion as the memory clears. It wasn’t a joke he learned at the academy. He’d learned it from Minho.
And then about 3 hours later they did it. [x]

5. Hyukkyu’s not dumb.
He and Seungbin are never going to have that kind of relationship. The kind where there’s morning cuddling, neck touching and bare feet under blankets, but then Hyukkyu turns his cheek over and sees Seungbin looking at him with this stupidly fond look and just the idea of it makes Hyukkyu’s whole body warm. [x]

Fic-writing goals for 2016:

write less stuff that doesn't make me smile. write more stuff that does.

!meme

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