my fic year in review (2018)

Originally posted on my tumblr.
 
I haven’t done one of these in ages. All right.

Number of works posted: 14. Two of these were worldbuilding appendices, and another was a podfic of one of my stories, read by people not-me. So let’s call it 11.

Fandoms: Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes-Star Trek AOS fusion, Lord of the Rings, Thor: Ragnarok, Harry Potter.

Words: 68681, again not counting the appendices. Of the 11 stories, 5 of them are over 8k words. That’s a little weird for me, because I used to write almost exclusively short fiction (sub-2k, usually sub-1k). 

Most comments: Numberless the ways, and imperceptible. Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli. 

Most kudos: same as above! Next-most is on From Sweet Fellowship Comes Nectar, also Legolas/Gimli. It’s a pairing without a ton of writers but with a lot of delightful readers.

Most hits: The two above. Third-place was an infinite series of accidents, the first story in a post-S4 Sherlock series that by itself was nearly 40% of my word-output for the year. 

New territory: Almost everything I wrote this year dealt with gender issues or the asexual/aromantic spectrum, explicitly. Aside from The Silent Man (Thor: Ragnarok, Dec 2017), I’m not sure I ever dealt with these explicitly until 2018, although a queerplatonic relationship is central to all the stories in A Non-Linear Gothic Drama Hypercycle (Sherlock), the first story of which dates to 2010.

List of stories & my fav tags from them: 

(if there are no tags listed it’s because the story has boring tags!)

Ship's-night, residential deck, third corridor (Thor: Ragnarok, gen, 25 Jan 2018)

• author plays fast and loose with Norse mythology
• author plays fast and loose with Marvel canon
• i'm not interested in being polite or heterosexual
• Loki's A+ Parenting

Flaming Aground (I've Said Too Much) (Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny, 25 Jan 2018)

• Sexual Roleplay

Numberless the ways, and imperceptible. (Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli, 14 Feb 2018)

• reverse pining

From Sweet Fellowship Comes Nectar (Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli, 09 May 2018) 

• nonstandard pronouns
• elladan and elrohir think they're funny
• non-human reproductive biology

Where are we now? (Sherlock, gen, 29 Jul 2018)

• moral particularism
• get out of my house you reptile
• you should have stayed away from sherlock holmes

an infinite series of accidents (Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 26 Sep 2018) 

• sherlock has the emotional range of a teaspoon
• emotional context
• john needs therapy
• Asexual Sherlock Holmes/Heterosexual John Watson

With Careful Hands (Sherlock Holmes-Star Trek AOS fusion, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 20 Oct 2018)

the other side of an invisible wall (14-15 October, 2025) (Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 17 Nov 2018)

saturday morning, playground, coffee (22 June, 2024) (Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 20 Nov 2018)

we're not free (2015) (Sherlock, Mary Morstan/John Watson, 24 Nov 2018)

that cell collided with this one (Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, 07 Dec 2018)

• John Goes To Therapy