FIC YEAR IN REVIEW - 2024

[jedibuttercup]

Well, I did sign up for getyourwordsout again last year, and I did complete three Triple Crown stories (if not all three challenges). But motivation was lacking. It's been awhile now since I had a really prolific year. Here's crossing my fingers for 2025.

I only wrote one crossover, and only one not really for an exchange; two were slash, three were gen, five were poly, six were het, and the plots included a lot of canon divergences, fix-its, road trips, and other tropey indulgences. I did do a couple of new things, though: a tiny attempt at an in-universe document, and a fic with sibling incest. Feels a bit weird to still have frontiers yet to cross, what, twenty-three years after I first started posting fic? I guess I am a Fandom Old these days! *cracking knuckles*

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2024 Fanfiction Stats

(As a reminder, I always count Yuletide stories with the year following, in which the reveals happen; so 2024's count includes the Yule 2023 stories and not the Yule 2024 ones.)

Number of works posted: 16
Total words posted: 73,200

(For perspective: last year's numbers were 27 and 97,000. In 2011, my best year? 137 and 272,200.)

Most popular stories of 2024:
I With Thee Have Fixed My Lot - Ready or Not (2019), Daniel/Grace
The Completion of Their Happiness - Mansfield Park, Henry/Fanny

Least popular stories of 2024:
and all manner of thing shall be well - The Last Witch Hunter (2015), Chloe/Kaulder
Memento Mori - Mission Impossible series, Brandt/Ethan/Ilsa

For once, there's no FFFX story in the top two; though one is still a romantic-focused longfic in a genre fandom, and the other's a popular non-canon pairing for a historical romance book. No surprises there. I only had one story under 100 hits this year, though, which was a surprise, though not the fact that it was for the movie Vin Diesel based on his Dungeons & Dragons character. :) And the other lowest story was an M/M/F poly fic taking Mi:7 into account, and I have a feeling a lot of fans are waiting for Mi:8 to read fix-its.

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Movie Non-Crossovers

At the Lowest Point - Mission: Impossible, Ethan/Nyah, 10,600 words (fffx)
I With Thee Have Fixed My Lot - Ready or Not (2019), Daniel/Grace, 14,800 words (iddyiddybangbang)
Memento Mori - Mission: Impossible, Brant/Ethan/Ilsa, 10,600 words (fffx)

and all manner of thing shall be well - The Last Witch Hunter (2015), Chloe/Kaulder, 900 words (seasonsofdrabbles)
Pax Iohannis - John Wick, Mr. Nobody/John Wick, 2,900 words (rarepairexchange)
Pest Control Officer Jones, Reporting - Alien, Ripley & Jonesy, 5,100 words (fandom5k)
Si Vis Pacem - Terminator: Genisys, Sarah/Kyle, 1,800 words (candyheartsex)
Smashing Day for the Start of Another Adventure - The Mummy, Rick/Evy/Ardeth, 1,200 words (trickortreatex)
When It's Worth It - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Arthur & The Mage, 1,600 words (yuletide)

TV Non-Crossovers

Lessons In Acceptance - Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, 11,400 words (ficinabox)

Bridgeport Brewing Company Handbook Fragment - Leverage, Eliot & Hardison & Parker, 200 words (ficinabox)
I'm Sorry, What Did You Say Again? - Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, 300 words (seasonsofdrabbles)

Book Non-Crossovers

Anything So Very Fine - Mansfield Park, Henry/Rushworth, 3200 words (yuletide)
The Completion of Their Happiness - Mansfield Park, Henry/Fanny, 1600 words (yuletide)

Strange Things Did Happen Here - Hunger Games, Katniss/Haymitch, 2,200 words (trickortreatex)

Crossovers

For Slayers They Shall Be - B:tVS/Boondock Saints, Buffy/Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus, 4,800 words (ships_crossing)

Comments

[jedibuttercup]

I guess the numbers are all relative! I'm glad you're enjoying some of what I did write.

I did a lot of watching myself instead of being more productive ... those numbers are about to go up in a minute. But, you know. RL. You have to be kind to yourself sometimes. :)

[pronker]

We deserve kindness! I'm playing on the Snowflake Challenge this month. No stress, ahhhhh ...