Fic Year in Review - 2014
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jedibuttercupWell. 2014 wasn't brighter than 2013. For obvious reasons. I pretty much wrote nothing until April, and my output was pretty uneven after that. I think I still did OK under the circumstances, though; only about fifteen thousand words less than last year, overall. And I did update a very old WIP. As in, previously last updated in 2006. So, some progress?
Moving onward!
(FYI, I still count Yuletide stories with the year following, in which the reveals happen; so this year's count includes the Yule 2013 stories and not the Yule 2014 ones.)
Of the 143,700 words I wrote this year, 70,500 of them were non-crossover. Percentage-wise, that's 49% or so of content; slightly lower than last year's high of 52%. And the posts were, on average, 2436 words, the highest of any writing year I've reviewed.
For comparison purposes, here are the previous years' totals:
2002, 2003, and 2004 between them totaled about 196,000 words, or an average of 65,000 words a year, most of it composed of My First Fanfic Epic set in the Buffy/Angel universe.
like there's no tomorrow - Pacific Rim, 1800 words, Wei triplets (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
not_primetime)
Tempered in the Fire of Your Eyes - Snow White & the Huntsman, 1200 words, Huntsman/Snow/William (yuletide)
The Eye in Team - Avengers (MCU), 1000 words, Fury & Coulson (for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pronker)
Balancing Accounts - Drive Angry, 500 words, John/Piper-ish
This Changes Everything - Fast & Furious 6, 1300 words, Mia/Hobbs/Brian
In Learning, Teach; In Teaching, Learn - Sleepy Hollow, 2000 words, Abby & Ichabod (yuletide)
We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet - Sleepy Hollow, 3000 words, Abby & Ichabod (yuletide)
Waiting for the Dawn - Falling Skies, 43,500 words, Mason/Pope
Raise Our Flags, Don Our Clothes - Falling Skies, 500 words, Tom-centric
k is for kismet (having perhaps the better claim) - SG-1, 1200 words, Cam & Bryce
Brought Me to You - Person of Interest/Avengers (MCU), 2100 words, Reese/Carter (fornevrafire)
imagine the delinquency - Sleepy Hollow/Guardians of the Galaxy, 1800 words, Abby & Rocket (forintoabar)
Jorōgumo - MCU/Grimm, 1300 words, Natasha & Nick Burkhardt (forpprfaith)
they call her a liar / they call her a killer - SG-1/MCU, 1700 words, Vala & Natasha (forthady)
Playing for Blood - POI/Riddick fusion, 1600 words, Reese & Riddick (forxlade)
Solving For Imaginary Numbers - POI/Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2000 words (formilady78)
Someone With the Skills to Intervene: Part 3 - Person of Interest/Dresden Files, 1500 words
it all has to end sometime - Pacific Rim/Riddick fusion, 2000 words, Riddick/Boss Johns (forhiddencait)
three to make ready - Leverage/Pacific Rim, 1600 words, Parker+Eliot+Hardison (foredenfalling)
And I Heard Her Saying, Come and See - Firefly/Sleepy Hollow, 2600 words, River/Mal & Abby & Ichabod (forvialethe)
There Your Treasure Lies - Firefly/Riddick, 1800 words, River/Riddick (forhiddencait)
Night of the Living Frustration - Dresden Files/Grimm, 6500 words, Harry & Nick Burkhardt (forsulien)
Not Flesh and Blood, But the Heart - Castle/PJO, 2500 words, Alexis & Rachel & Kate (forgraycardinal)
Per Aspera Ad Futurum - Dresden Files/Star Trek, 2000 words, Harry & Enterprise Crew (forjilltanith)
And To You Your Wassail, Too - B:tVS/Avengers (MCU), 3000 words, Buffy & Team (foravamclean)
The Future's Open Wide - B:tVS/Avengers (MCU), 1700 words, Buffy & Tony & Clint (forpolgara_5)
Intergalactic Priority Mail - B:tVS/Guardians of the Galaxy, 9000 words
shut down the city lights - A:tS/Thor (MCU), 2000 words, Illyria-centric (forteaandhoney)
Roadtrips Are The Worst - B:tVS/SG-1, 500 words, Dawn/Clone!Jack
Like a House On Fire - B:tVS/SG-1, 1100 words, Vala & Xander
Nowhere To Go But Up - B:tVS/SG-1, 1500 words, Buffy/Cam & Kendra
Sallying Forth - A:tS/SG-1, 1300 words, Wes-centric
There Are Two of Them - B:tVS/SG-1, 500 words, Anya & Vala
This Is Where Your Book Begins - B:tVS/SG-1, 2700 words, Tara/Willow (forkerravonsen)
Checking for Light Leaks - B:tVS/Eureka, 850 words, Buffy & Paul Sueños
Just Another Monday - A:tS/Eureka, 900 words, Jo & Wes
Ninja Prowess - B:tVS/Eureka, 1650 words, Jack & Buffy
Five More Slayers Who Were Never Called - B:tVS/various [F&F; Leverage; Eureka; Dresden Files; Transformers], 500 words
More Things in Heaven and Earth - B:tVS/Star Trek: TOS, 800 words, Spike-centric
Out of Phase - B:tVS/Person of Interest, 2700 words, Reese & Oz (forfaithburke)
Slayer of Interest: Part 2 - B:tVS/Person of Interest, 1800 words, Reese & Summers (forkerrykhat)
What Do You Mean, Oops? - B:tVS/Independence Day, 2100 words, Buffy & Giles
The Shovel Talk Job - B:tVS/Leverage, 600 words, Buffy/Eliot & Nate Ford
Sometimes It's the Simple Things - B:tVS/Firefly, 500 words, Buffy/Jayne & Inara
a storm with silken reins - B:tVS/Grimm, 2500 words, Buffy/Nick/Renard (forxgirl2222)
Where We Will, We'll Roam - B:tVS/Pirates of the Caribbean, 2200 words, Buffy/Jack Sparrow & Will Turner
Your Back to Mine - B:tVS/Dresden Files, 2000 words, Harry/Buffy (fordraconin)
Never Look Back (B:tVS/A:tS, S6/S3 AU, 12th in the Lesser Men series)
20: Bridging the Gap
21: Contingency Planning
22: Self-Rescuing Damsels
23: The Penny Drops
24: ᚾ Marks the Spot
1. Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
A lot less. I'd intended to get a lot more done after the stressful year that was 2013, only to run headlong into more grief and stress. On the other hand, I managed to keep almost even with 2013, so go me?
2. What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Apart from requests, and even within some of those, I wrote a lot of. How should I put this? Comfort fandoms and/or comfort tropes this year. Because it was easiest to sit down and actually get words out that way.
But I would still call that Mason/Pope epic that burned its way out of me a surprise: Waiting for the Dawn, an unexpected 43,500 word AU beast for Falling Skies fandom. It was the first thing that actually got me thinking about things that irritated me in a show, and muttering to myself in the shower about alternate plotlines, in a very very long time, so I took off the usual governors and wrote until it burned itself out. I'm not sure I would have produced it under any other circumstances.
3. Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
See above: no real risks. Sticking close to things I wanted to write, or that I knew other people wanted to read, this year.
Oh! Except that I got assigned the Wei Triplets in Pacific Rim fandom, in Not Prime Time. Characters from a culture very much not my own, with backgrounds unfamiliar to me even with that hurdle, and only two minutes of screen time to draw from? PROBLEMATIC. But I did some research, took a deep breath... and it worked out very well. Even if my recipient never did comment themselves.
4. Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
WRITE MORE THAN THIS YEAR. Full stop. And my usual "finish the WIPs and challenge lists!" things. (One of these years, I'll actually do it, and then what will I stress over?)
5. my favorite story (of mine) this year:
Probably Intergalactic Priority Mail. I started it on my roadtrip during Buffy Crossover Month after watching Guardians of the Galaxy on my dad's birthday, and had a blast with it. It was uplifting at a difficult time for me.
6. my best story this year:
Oh goodness. Best? That's hard to judge this year. I did more id-writing than usual, and emotional reactions color a lot of it, looking back.
I'd probably say the aforementioned Wei Triplets fic (question #3) or maybe We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet, my Abby and Ichabod Get Snowed In fic. I spent a lot of effort getting that one exactly right in tone and content, even though my funny five times one (on the Man Out of Time theme) in the same fandom gets more attention.
7. the story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know. It seems like almost everything I wrote got a decent kudos and comment count this year; only two were under 200 hits on AO3, even. You'd think I'm finally Making It as a fic author. *grin* I guess maybe I'd say this year's behemoth, Waiting for the Dawn; purely because while it's collected enough hits and kudos and so on that I know it wasn't a flop, there's still a serious dearth of comments, and I really wanted to know what people actually thought beyond just "thumbs up" after the weeks I spent obsessing over it.
8. most overrated story, in my opinion:
I can't even answer that question this year. I was surprised how fast some of them took off, but those were mostly crosses into the MCU, which is explanation enough for comparatively unusual levels of attention.
The rest, I didn't feel capable of judging my own quality given the givens, so I've been grateful for every rec and kudo.
9. most fun story:
WHEE. How to pick? There's always The Future's Open Wide, a Buffy & Clint & Tony bantery meetup post-Cap 2; imagine the delinquency, an Abbie meets Rocket Raccoon fic post-GOTG; or how about Ninja Prowess, the Buffy baffles Jack Carter in Eureka one? And who can forget More Things in Heaven and Earth, with Spike on the Enterprise? Or three to make ready, wherein Parker and Eliot join the jaeger program?
Like I said, I wrote a lot of what I consider to be comfort fic this year. :)
10. story with the sexiest moment:
Uhhh. Did I even write any quote-unquote sexy moments this year? Well, kisses and intense emotional stuff, but that's about all.
Throw a dart at Tempered in the Fire of Your Eyes? Snow/William/Huntsman being cute, in Snow White & The Huntsman fandom.
11. story with the sweetest moment:
I almost said the Abby & Ichabod snowed in story again; but then I remembered: This Is Where Your Book Begins, the conclusion to the story where Tara Maclay is still alive via Stargate shenanigans. Tie between her reuniting with Buffy, and her reuniting with Willow.
12. most friendshippy story:
Lots of friendships in my stories this year, but I wrote one specifically for a friendship little featured in fandom: k is for kismet (having perhaps the better claim), an SG-1 story about Cameron Mitchell and Bryce Ferguson.
13. Holy crap, that's wrong even for you!
Hm. I made Natasha a wesen this year; and turned the Riddick characters into Pacific Rim jaeger jockeys; broke up a fandom canon het pairing in favor of making two smart characters avoid carrying the idiot ball for awhile; wrote at least three fics featuring M/M/F threesomes; and brought Firefly, Sleepy Hollow, and the Mummy all together in one tale. But none of those are particularly weird, for me.
... I guess I'll go with the Riddick/Boss Johns jaeger jockey one (it all has to end sometime), then? Purely on the basis of this two word, no-punctuation comment, found tagged on a bookmark for it on AO3: "Holy shit"
I cannot even tell you how tickled I was when I found that. :)
14. the story that made me cry:
Can't think of one off the top of my head. I mostly avoided things that would make me cry this year.
... Oh wait, no, I did write one that choked me up; the Finch POV Chapter of Someone With The Skills to Intervene. Yeah. I've had that backstory in my head since the start, and it hurts, but it also makes so much sense as a way to link the canons, so. Going to have to make sure to write the happier ending, one of these days.
15. story that shifted my own perception of the characters:
The Eye In Team, the Fury & Coulson one. In order to write the fic, I first had to figure out what things actually might look like from Fury's POV. I like him better now than I did before.
16. most unintentionally telling story:
I usually put the stories I wrote because of issues I had with canon rather than 'wow, there's a story hook I want to grab hold of' in this category.
This year, there were two: another one of those 500-word gut reaction fics for Falling Skies (Raise Our Flags, Don Our Clothes) and a B:tVS/Independence Day fic taking a slightly less friendly than usual look at a Giles who's basically Buffy's Watcher in name only and still espousing some actually canonical Watcher-y ideas (What Do You Mean, Oops?)
17. hardest story to write:
In terms of, required the most research? The Wei triplets fic: like there's no tomorrow.
In terms of, wore me to the frickin' bone writing it? Waiting for the Dawn.
18. worst story:
I wrote several <1000 word Buffy crossovers this year that aren't actually, objectively, bad; they're warm little drabbly things. But they kind of exist just to exist? They don't really have much of a plot. Not going to reproduce all the links here.
19. biggest surprise:
That people are still reading, and following, Never Look Back! I expected it to be an utter slog to the end, and was cheered by the response to the five chapters I managed to put up after an eight-year gap. Here's hoping I can finish the last seven chapters plus epilogue this year, so I can move on tobackagainharry, which I know more people are waiting for.
20. story I wish I'd finished:
Oh, I'm not going there again. Let's just say all my WIPs, and leave it at that.
Past analysis posts: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010| 2009 | 2008 | 2007: Part I & Part II | 2006
Moving onward!
2014 Fanfiction Totals
(FYI, I still count Yuletide stories with the year following, in which the reveals happen; so this year's count includes the Yule 2013 stories and not the Yule 2014 ones.)
Of the 143,700 words I wrote this year, 70,500 of them were non-crossover. Percentage-wise, that's 49% or so of content; slightly lower than last year's high of 52%. And the posts were, on average, 2436 words, the highest of any writing year I've reviewed.
For comparison purposes, here are the previous years' totals:
| 2013 - 158,850 (82,100 non-cross) 2012 - 215,450 (88,100 non-cross) 2011 - 272,200 (72,500 non-cross) 2010 - 207,200 (91,500 non-cross) 2009 - 189,412 (97,800 non-cross) |
2008 - 45,058 (25,758 non-cross) 2007 - 141,018 (24,300 non-cross) 2006 - 163,612 (26,136 non-cross) 2005 - 47,878 (All crossovers) |
2002, 2003, and 2004 between them totaled about 196,000 words, or an average of 65,000 words a year, most of it composed of My First Fanfic Epic set in the Buffy/Angel universe.
Breakdown of Fic, by Category and Length:
Book and Movie Fandoms, Non-Crossover Fic:
like there's no tomorrow - Pacific Rim, 1800 words, Wei triplets (
not_primetime)Tempered in the Fire of Your Eyes - Snow White & the Huntsman, 1200 words, Huntsman/Snow/William (
yuletide)The Eye in Team - Avengers (MCU), 1000 words, Fury & Coulson (for
pronker)Balancing Accounts - Drive Angry, 500 words, John/Piper-ish
This Changes Everything - Fast & Furious 6, 1300 words, Mia/Hobbs/Brian
TV Fandoms, Non-Crossover Fic:
In Learning, Teach; In Teaching, Learn - Sleepy Hollow, 2000 words, Abby & Ichabod (
yuletide)We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet - Sleepy Hollow, 3000 words, Abby & Ichabod (
yuletide)Waiting for the Dawn - Falling Skies, 43,500 words, Mason/Pope
Raise Our Flags, Don Our Clothes - Falling Skies, 500 words, Tom-centric
k is for kismet (having perhaps the better claim) - SG-1, 1200 words, Cam & Bryce
Non-BtVS Crossover Fic:
Brought Me to You - Person of Interest/Avengers (MCU), 2100 words, Reese/Carter (for
nevrafire)imagine the delinquency - Sleepy Hollow/Guardians of the Galaxy, 1800 words, Abby & Rocket (for
intoabar)Jorōgumo - MCU/Grimm, 1300 words, Natasha & Nick Burkhardt (for
pprfaith)they call her a liar / they call her a killer - SG-1/MCU, 1700 words, Vala & Natasha (for
thady)Playing for Blood - POI/Riddick fusion, 1600 words, Reese & Riddick (for
xlade)Solving For Imaginary Numbers - POI/Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2000 words (for
milady78)Someone With the Skills to Intervene: Part 3 - Person of Interest/Dresden Files, 1500 words
it all has to end sometime - Pacific Rim/Riddick fusion, 2000 words, Riddick/Boss Johns (for
hiddencait)three to make ready - Leverage/Pacific Rim, 1600 words, Parker+Eliot+Hardison (for
edenfalling)And I Heard Her Saying, Come and See - Firefly/Sleepy Hollow, 2600 words, River/Mal & Abby & Ichabod (for
vialethe)There Your Treasure Lies - Firefly/Riddick, 1800 words, River/Riddick (for
hiddencait)Night of the Living Frustration - Dresden Files/Grimm, 6500 words, Harry & Nick Burkhardt (for
sulien)Not Flesh and Blood, But the Heart - Castle/PJO, 2500 words, Alexis & Rachel & Kate (for
graycardinal)Per Aspera Ad Futurum - Dresden Files/Star Trek, 2000 words, Harry & Enterprise Crew (for
jilltanith)Buffyverse Crossover Fic:
And To You Your Wassail, Too - B:tVS/Avengers (MCU), 3000 words, Buffy & Team (for
avamclean)The Future's Open Wide - B:tVS/Avengers (MCU), 1700 words, Buffy & Tony & Clint (for
polgara_5)Intergalactic Priority Mail - B:tVS/Guardians of the Galaxy, 9000 words
shut down the city lights - A:tS/Thor (MCU), 2000 words, Illyria-centric (for
teaandhoney)Roadtrips Are The Worst - B:tVS/SG-1, 500 words, Dawn/Clone!Jack
Like a House On Fire - B:tVS/SG-1, 1100 words, Vala & Xander
Nowhere To Go But Up - B:tVS/SG-1, 1500 words, Buffy/Cam & Kendra
Sallying Forth - A:tS/SG-1, 1300 words, Wes-centric
There Are Two of Them - B:tVS/SG-1, 500 words, Anya & Vala
This Is Where Your Book Begins - B:tVS/SG-1, 2700 words, Tara/Willow (for
kerravonsen)Checking for Light Leaks - B:tVS/Eureka, 850 words, Buffy & Paul Sueños
Just Another Monday - A:tS/Eureka, 900 words, Jo & Wes
Ninja Prowess - B:tVS/Eureka, 1650 words, Jack & Buffy
Five More Slayers Who Were Never Called - B:tVS/various [F&F; Leverage; Eureka; Dresden Files; Transformers], 500 words
More Things in Heaven and Earth - B:tVS/Star Trek: TOS, 800 words, Spike-centric
Out of Phase - B:tVS/Person of Interest, 2700 words, Reese & Oz (for
faithburke)Slayer of Interest: Part 2 - B:tVS/Person of Interest, 1800 words, Reese & Summers (for
kerrykhat)What Do You Mean, Oops? - B:tVS/Independence Day, 2100 words, Buffy & Giles
The Shovel Talk Job - B:tVS/Leverage, 600 words, Buffy/Eliot & Nate Ford
Sometimes It's the Simple Things - B:tVS/Firefly, 500 words, Buffy/Jayne & Inara
a storm with silken reins - B:tVS/Grimm, 2500 words, Buffy/Nick/Renard (for
xgirl2222)Where We Will, We'll Roam - B:tVS/Pirates of the Caribbean, 2200 words, Buffy/Jack Sparrow & Will Turner
Your Back to Mine - B:tVS/Dresden Files, 2000 words, Harry/Buffy (for
draconin)Epic WIP Series/Entries
Never Look Back (B:tVS/A:tS, S6/S3 AU, 12th in the Lesser Men series)
20: Bridging the Gap
21: Contingency Planning
22: Self-Rescuing Damsels
23: The Penny Drops
24: ᚾ Marks the Spot
The Year In Review
1. Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
A lot less. I'd intended to get a lot more done after the stressful year that was 2013, only to run headlong into more grief and stress. On the other hand, I managed to keep almost even with 2013, so go me?
2. What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Apart from requests, and even within some of those, I wrote a lot of. How should I put this? Comfort fandoms and/or comfort tropes this year. Because it was easiest to sit down and actually get words out that way.
But I would still call that Mason/Pope epic that burned its way out of me a surprise: Waiting for the Dawn, an unexpected 43,500 word AU beast for Falling Skies fandom. It was the first thing that actually got me thinking about things that irritated me in a show, and muttering to myself in the shower about alternate plotlines, in a very very long time, so I took off the usual governors and wrote until it burned itself out. I'm not sure I would have produced it under any other circumstances.
3. Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
See above: no real risks. Sticking close to things I wanted to write, or that I knew other people wanted to read, this year.
Oh! Except that I got assigned the Wei Triplets in Pacific Rim fandom, in Not Prime Time. Characters from a culture very much not my own, with backgrounds unfamiliar to me even with that hurdle, and only two minutes of screen time to draw from? PROBLEMATIC. But I did some research, took a deep breath... and it worked out very well. Even if my recipient never did comment themselves.
4. Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
WRITE MORE THAN THIS YEAR. Full stop. And my usual "finish the WIPs and challenge lists!" things. (One of these years, I'll actually do it, and then what will I stress over?)
5. my favorite story (of mine) this year:
Probably Intergalactic Priority Mail. I started it on my roadtrip during Buffy Crossover Month after watching Guardians of the Galaxy on my dad's birthday, and had a blast with it. It was uplifting at a difficult time for me.
6. my best story this year:
Oh goodness. Best? That's hard to judge this year. I did more id-writing than usual, and emotional reactions color a lot of it, looking back.
I'd probably say the aforementioned Wei Triplets fic (question #3) or maybe We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet, my Abby and Ichabod Get Snowed In fic. I spent a lot of effort getting that one exactly right in tone and content, even though my funny five times one (on the Man Out of Time theme) in the same fandom gets more attention.
7. the story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't know. It seems like almost everything I wrote got a decent kudos and comment count this year; only two were under 200 hits on AO3, even. You'd think I'm finally Making It as a fic author. *grin* I guess maybe I'd say this year's behemoth, Waiting for the Dawn; purely because while it's collected enough hits and kudos and so on that I know it wasn't a flop, there's still a serious dearth of comments, and I really wanted to know what people actually thought beyond just "thumbs up" after the weeks I spent obsessing over it.
8. most overrated story, in my opinion:
I can't even answer that question this year. I was surprised how fast some of them took off, but those were mostly crosses into the MCU, which is explanation enough for comparatively unusual levels of attention.
The rest, I didn't feel capable of judging my own quality given the givens, so I've been grateful for every rec and kudo.
9. most fun story:
WHEE. How to pick? There's always The Future's Open Wide, a Buffy & Clint & Tony bantery meetup post-Cap 2; imagine the delinquency, an Abbie meets Rocket Raccoon fic post-GOTG; or how about Ninja Prowess, the Buffy baffles Jack Carter in Eureka one? And who can forget More Things in Heaven and Earth, with Spike on the Enterprise? Or three to make ready, wherein Parker and Eliot join the jaeger program?
Like I said, I wrote a lot of what I consider to be comfort fic this year. :)
10. story with the sexiest moment:
Uhhh. Did I even write any quote-unquote sexy moments this year? Well, kisses and intense emotional stuff, but that's about all.
Throw a dart at Tempered in the Fire of Your Eyes? Snow/William/Huntsman being cute, in Snow White & The Huntsman fandom.
11. story with the sweetest moment:
I almost said the Abby & Ichabod snowed in story again; but then I remembered: This Is Where Your Book Begins, the conclusion to the story where Tara Maclay is still alive via Stargate shenanigans. Tie between her reuniting with Buffy, and her reuniting with Willow.
12. most friendshippy story:
Lots of friendships in my stories this year, but I wrote one specifically for a friendship little featured in fandom: k is for kismet (having perhaps the better claim), an SG-1 story about Cameron Mitchell and Bryce Ferguson.
13. Holy crap, that's wrong even for you!
Hm. I made Natasha a wesen this year; and turned the Riddick characters into Pacific Rim jaeger jockeys; broke up a fandom canon het pairing in favor of making two smart characters avoid carrying the idiot ball for awhile; wrote at least three fics featuring M/M/F threesomes; and brought Firefly, Sleepy Hollow, and the Mummy all together in one tale. But none of those are particularly weird, for me.
... I guess I'll go with the Riddick/Boss Johns jaeger jockey one (it all has to end sometime), then? Purely on the basis of this two word, no-punctuation comment, found tagged on a bookmark for it on AO3: "Holy shit"
I cannot even tell you how tickled I was when I found that. :)
14. the story that made me cry:
Can't think of one off the top of my head. I mostly avoided things that would make me cry this year.
... Oh wait, no, I did write one that choked me up; the Finch POV Chapter of Someone With The Skills to Intervene. Yeah. I've had that backstory in my head since the start, and it hurts, but it also makes so much sense as a way to link the canons, so. Going to have to make sure to write the happier ending, one of these days.
15. story that shifted my own perception of the characters:
The Eye In Team, the Fury & Coulson one. In order to write the fic, I first had to figure out what things actually might look like from Fury's POV. I like him better now than I did before.
16. most unintentionally telling story:
I usually put the stories I wrote because of issues I had with canon rather than 'wow, there's a story hook I want to grab hold of' in this category.
This year, there were two: another one of those 500-word gut reaction fics for Falling Skies (Raise Our Flags, Don Our Clothes) and a B:tVS/Independence Day fic taking a slightly less friendly than usual look at a Giles who's basically Buffy's Watcher in name only and still espousing some actually canonical Watcher-y ideas (What Do You Mean, Oops?)
17. hardest story to write:
In terms of, required the most research? The Wei triplets fic: like there's no tomorrow.
In terms of, wore me to the frickin' bone writing it? Waiting for the Dawn.
18. worst story:
I wrote several <1000 word Buffy crossovers this year that aren't actually, objectively, bad; they're warm little drabbly things. But they kind of exist just to exist? They don't really have much of a plot. Not going to reproduce all the links here.
19. biggest surprise:
That people are still reading, and following, Never Look Back! I expected it to be an utter slog to the end, and was cheered by the response to the five chapters I managed to put up after an eight-year gap. Here's hoping I can finish the last seven chapters plus epilogue this year, so I can move on to
backagainharry, which I know more people are waiting for.20. story I wish I'd finished:
Oh, I'm not going there again. Let's just say all my WIPs, and leave it at that.
Past analysis posts: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010| 2009 | 2008 | 2007: Part I & Part II | 2006
