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Fic Year in Review 2011

  • Jan. 2nd, 2012 at 8:38 AM
toomuchplor: (student pres arthur)
It has been a fairly productive year in terms of writing. [personal profile] lately and I did some math the other day and my (posted) wordcount for the year is over 200K, with about another 50K lurking in the unposted land. No wonder I've got nothing done in the rest of my life.

2003: 9 stories. The Year of Discovering Fandom.
2004: 40 stories. The Year of First Fandom Love.
2005: 17 stories. The Year of First Fandom Disenchantment.
2006: 18 stories. The Year of Second Fandom Love and First Fandom Farewell.
2007: 19 stories. The Year of 'Yep, This Is All the Time I Have For This.'
2008: 8 stories. The Year I Drifted Away.
2009: 8 stories. The Year I Was Gone A Lot.
2010: 14 stories. The Year I Came Back, Yaye!
2011: 28 stories. The Year I Wrote A Whole Fucking Fuckton.

All told: 161 stories over 9 years of fandom.

The List:

1. Team Cocoa - SGA - The (only) gen one.
2. John Sheppard is Not a Canadian - SGA - The last SGA one (this year, or maybe ever, who knows.)
3. Dirty Word Scrabble - Glee - Wait, I wrote Glee?
4. Under the Steinway - Inception - Look! It's an adorable little one-off comment fic! HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY GO WRONG? :DDD
5. Fever Pitch - Inception - Well, just one more in the 'verse.
6. What Need - Inception - A third, to give them a sort of happy ending and tie things up.
7. Ach, des Knaben Augen - Inception - OH FFFFF.
8. Reach Out (and Touch Someone) - Inception - This is still a terrible title.
9. In Duty Homeward Shall We Fly - Inception/3rd Rock from the Sun - The one where I make 3rd Rock into srs bsns, wtf.
10. Between the Notes - Inception - The one where the Steinway!verse gets a whole extended cast.
11. First, Do No Harm - Inception - The one titled 'Arthur loses his ass virginity' for weeks on my hard drive.
12. Er, der Herrlichste von Allen - Inception - The one titled 'Bottom Eames' for weeks on my hard drive.
13. Whither Thou Goest - Inception - The one where I make everyone depressed.
14. Irresistible You - Inception - The one where Arthur and Eames lose their damage deposit.
15. Soft the Drowsy Hours - Inception - The one where I couldn't sleep so I took it out on Arthur.
16. Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry - Inception - The high school AU where it's only technically about Arthur and Eames rather than Joe and Tom.
17. The Sweetest Downfall - Inception - The one where Eames has a thing for Arthur's hair.
18. Long Way Around - Smallville - Wait, I wrote Smallville?
19. Je te veux - Inception - The one where they're in Paris and Eames is sort of Madeline. Or maybe Arthur is. We're not sure.
20. Unkissed - Inception/TDKR RPF - The one that's shamelessly about making Tom and Joe make out a lot.
21. You Yes You - Inception/TDKR RPF - The one where I still have more making out to write.
22. Cheeky Bugger - Inception/TDKR RPF - The one where Joe is awkward with kids and Tom is (as ever) adorable.
23. An die ferne Geliebte - Inception - The one where Eames is travelling and thinking of Arthur.
24. Where You At - Inception - The one where they go to Fogo Island together.
25. Lullabies for Little Criminals' Daughters - Inception - Does what it says on the label. No, really.
26. No Soul to Sell - Inception - Underage mpreg, except not, really.
27. You Can Be As Loud As the Hell You Want - Inception - Eames blushes; Arthur likes it.
28. The Gentleman of the Lamp - Inception - Arthur's concussed and Eames has gentle fingers.

The rambly thinky part:

My favorite: Okay, Ach des Knaben Augen has to win this category this year. It's probably the most real thing I've written in a lot of ways, and I have been so delighted by the way this universe took over everything ever in my brain. I also have a sort of embarrassingly overwhelming fondness for the podfic of this story by [personal profile] pennyplainknits and [personal profile] xenakis. I honestly listen to it every time I fly, and I've flown a lot this year. (Also, Eames singing Erlkönig wakes me up every. single. time.)  It's probably weird to listen to podfic of your own story, but I'm also a composer IRL and it strikes me as being similar in a way.  When you write/compose something, there is a very enticing remixing aspect in hearing someone perform your music/fic differently (and often better) than how you envisioned it.

My best: I'm going to pick Whither Thou Goest for this one.  This has always been a poignant part of that 'verse's story in my head, even before it was ever written. It's also, in a way, closest to my head canon for Arthur and Eames in general -- precariously on the brink of a happily ever after that is (for now) just out of reach.

Most fun story: Definitely Je te veux, mostly because it was a collaboration with Xen and Penny, and it was so much fun to write a fic in this storybook way from Eames' unique POV.

Sexiest story: Oh, probably The Sweetest Downfall.  I think this story is about 1/3 porn by weight. \o/

Story with single sexiest moment: Unkissed, which is a long-ass fic (and still in beta), but I am fond of the bit where Tom wakes up all snuggled into Joe's back and they sort of almost accidentally have frottage sex before they remember that Tom can't, and they shouldn't, and it's weird that it's sexy to me even though it's utterly unconsummated, but there it is.

Hardest story to write: No Soul to Sell, because I don't write age difference kink and I don't (generally) write mpreg and I don't write plotty canon-based fic and this one was ALL THREE WHAT FUN.  It's a weird, angular fic in my mind, like a least-loved child, but it's still mine.

Most unintentionally telling story: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry, because I was clearly writing RPF with fictional names and some vague allusions to Inception canon as lip-service to it being fictional. OH PLOR, THERE WAS NO AVOIDING THAT 40K RPF FIC COMING DOWN THE LINE, NICE TRY THOUGH.

Next Year, I Will...

1) Finish Steinway!verse. YES, REALLY.

2) Write in another fandom or two.

3) Write some original fiction. No, I mean it this time.

4) Upload (the rest of) my fic to AO3.

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Comments

lately: (sex with eames)
[personal profile] lately wrote:
Jan. 2nd, 2012 06:19 pm (UTC)
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

\o\ /o/ \o\ /o/
toomuchplor: (Default)
[personal profile] toomuchplor wrote:
Jan. 9th, 2012 03:55 pm (UTC)
Look how much you beta'd, man. LOOK.
xenakis: (rach3)
[personal profile] xenakis wrote:
Jan. 2nd, 2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
YOU'RE CRAZY AND I LOVE YOOOOOOUUUUU!!!!!!

<3 <3 <3
toomuchplor: (Default)
[personal profile] toomuchplor wrote:
Jan. 9th, 2012 03:55 pm (UTC)
<3 <3 <3

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