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my fic year in review (2018)
Jan. 3rd, 2019 11:40 amI 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)
Numberless the ways, and imperceptible. (Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli, 14 Feb 2018)
From Sweet Fellowship Comes Nectar (Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli, 09 May 2018)
Where are we now? (Sherlock, gen, 29 Jul 2018)
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)
