Fic Roundup: January through June, 2010

[jedibuttercup]

The year is half over; time for a fic roundup? Why not. It'll distract me from wondering what the hell's wrong with my newest fic, at least. =)

So far in 2010, I've posted 58,100 words, slightly above last year's half-year total of 57,162. Overall post size is a bit smaller, mostly due to the drabble runs I did in the first quarter of the year, and fandom diversity is slightly up. Also interesting: last year's fic balance to date was only 35% crossovers, while this year's runs to 80% crossover content, a more typical number for me.

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Breakdown of Fic, by Category and Length:

Book & Movie Fandoms, Non-Crossover Fic:

With These Two Hands - Rivers of War bookfic, 1000 words, Henry Crowell (yuletide)
Dum Spiro, Spero - Dresden Files bookfic, 2200 words, Michael Carpenter

Strange Attractors - Jurassic Park I & III, 1500 words, Alan/Ian (yuletide)
Respecting Tradition - Showdown in Little Tokyo, 2500 words, Murata /& Kenner (yuletide)
Marking Time - Death Race, 1200 words, Jensen/Joe

Destiny By Any Other Name - Prince of Persia, 1000 words, Tamina POV
What Every Man Could Dream Of - Prince of Persia, 1000 words, Dastan POV

TV Fandoms, Non-Crossover Fic:

Weep Not For The Past - BtVS, 1800 words, Buffy & Kennedy (for not_purrrfect)

On the Altar of Science - Eureka, 1000 words, zombiefic (eureka_tag)

Data Quality Management - Leverage, 500 words, Hardison POV (yuletide)

Crossover Fic, 1000 Words or More:

Figures of Myth and Legend - Sanctuary/BtVS, 1400 words, Helen POV (for nothorse)
Big Trouble, Little Slayer - Big Trouble in Little China/BtVS, 1500 words, Jack Burton/Buffy
This Skin That I Live In - AtS/Leverage, 1100 words, Lindsey (for maevebran)
The Heroine and the Half Shell - BtVS/TMNT, 5100 words, Buffy/Rafael
Handle ID Slayer - [Repost/Rework] - BtVS/DOOM, 10000 words, Buffy/Reaper

The Husband of Shau'ri - The Mummy/SG-1, 2200 words, Evie & Daniel (for brendanm720)
A Faithful Narrative - SG-1/Pride & Prejudice, 1700 words, Daniel/Vala (for maevebran)
First Impressions - Firefly/ST:TNG, 2200 words, Wash POV (for wnnb_darklord)
Closing Pandora's Box - Castle/Percy Jackson, 1500 words, Alexis POV (for graycardinal)
To Storm Or Fire - SG-1/Percy Jackson, 2700 words, Daniel & Poseidon (for starshinedown)
The Trust Job - Leverage/SG-1, 1900 words, Nate & Vala (sg_rarepairings)
An Even Exchange of Favors - Human Target/Leverage, 2000 words, Guerrero & Hardison & Eliot

Crossover Drabbles & Tinyfic:

Seeking Justice - BtVS/Firefly, 200 words, Joyce & Mal
Turn of the Wheel - AtS/Firefly, 200 words, Lindsey POV
Fugitive Apprehension - AtS/Eureka, 200 words, Lindsey POV
Just As Fast As She Can, Now - BtVS/Transformers, 200 words, Buffy & Jazz

Half What, Now? - BtVS/Percy Jackson, 8 x 200 words, Dawn-centric

Prelude to Disaster - Die Hard III/Showdown in Little Tokyo, 800 words

Major WIP Series/Entries:

No Place Like Eureka (Dawn in Eureka Season 3; fix-it fic)
Parts: 8 | 9 | Epi

Polaris Wyndham-Price (Wes in the HP-verse, post-series)
Part 4: Making (Re-)Connections (for beatrice_otter)

Buffy Carter (Buffy runs to Colorado Springs after Season 2)
Part 4: Challenging Assumptions (for kerravonsen)

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... And there'll be a lot more coming before year's-end, including at least two Big Bang fic, I hope. =)

Comments

[pronker]

Very impressive --- you've most likely mentioned it before, but is there a reason for the concentration on crossovers?

[jedibuttercup]

It's partly a side-effect of how I got into writing fandom; it was the Buffyverse that snared me first, and in the middle of my first year as a ficwriter I tripped over the Twisting the Hellmouth community, a fairly active fan collective and website whose main purpose is crossing Buffy and Angel characters with those from other shows. I've been pretty involved there ever since.

Partly, though, it's that I can't help but compare and constrast every show and movie I watch with other ones I've seen, and finding the commonalities and patterns between them that point up things about one or both canons that don't often get explored. It's just... fun, for me. It's a rare show or movie or book that gets my imagination fired enough to want to patch or fill or explore that single canon alone.

(Last year Star Trek pretty much ate me alive. But that's a fairly unusual occurrence. Usually these days, I write single-universe stuff for other people's requests, or because something about the canon really bothers me and I have to work it out in prose until I get a better handle on it.)

[pronker]

That's interesting. I've visited TTH a few times and recc'd something from there, so yes, it's quite active and lots of fun, looks like.

finding the commonalities and patterns between them

Do you visit tvtropes.org? The common themes on there have me agog and I've noticed Buffyverse events play a large part in their lists of tropes.

[jedibuttercup]

Considering that the show's been over since-- 2003, I think? Angel was '04? Yeah, it's pretty impressive it's managed to self-perpetuate this long. The quality's started to dift since the canon aged, but there are still a lot of gems being posted, and I'm a Name there at this point (second in # of stories posted, actually). I have a feeling I'll never entirely be able to leave it behind. =)

> Do you visit tvtropes.org?

Only in so much as I'm told I've been cited there, actually. *grin* I looked at a couple of pages, quickly realized what a time-suck it would be if I let myself get involved, and backed away carefully. It's a fascinating project.

Ohhh, yeah, tvtropes.org will suck you in like a Hoover. I visit it regularly.

[pronker]

impressive it's managed to self-perpetuate this long

Hmm, I feel this way about my long-ago favorite TV shows and movies that are regularly written with new fics when I visit crack_van. The things from forty-fifty years ago, like Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Magnificent 7, really blow my mind; when I first got a computer in '05 and discovered that Phantom Menace stories were still being written, I thought that was ancient.

And why should one leave it behind? It's a lovely playground, filled with swings and merry-go-rounds ...