Now all of the submissions have been posted and we've all had some time to digest them, I did a little bit of analysis on our lovely @fivela-secret-santa24 submissions
We had 13 fics as part of the submissions, with the rest being either video edits or art work. So many talented people who took part! We also had a bilingual fic with Fancy Nancy being available in both English and Spanish - incredible work from both the writer and the person who helped them translate.
So what was the breakdown?
Overall (and there are still some WIPs so this is going to climb) there was a colossal total of 89158 words across all the fics.
There is one very heavy lifter in there, with Loyalty making up over 25k of those words... and still going!
For one shots, the longest work was Ties That Bind at 8460
The average word count for multichapter works was 11k, with one shots coming in at around 4.2k.
There was a spread across all the ratings, but with a definite trend towards the spicier end of the spectrum.
Explicit - 5/13
Mature - 4/13
Teen and general rated fics tied at 2 a piece.
The most popular setting was in a normal universe/timeline (6/13), but we did have some people getting creative including:
Movie AUs:
Love Unexpectedly (T)
The Commission:
Ties That Bind (E)
Wherever You Will Go (E)
And of course the Subway and Strawberry House:
The Edge of Us (E)
Strawbella Forever (M)
Christmas Presents (G)
Not always! While this was a secret santa, not every fic included Christmas themes, but we had a few!
We also had some Christmas Parties:
I Can See You as A Secret Mission (M)
Wherever You Will Go (E)
The Trail of Christmas Ghouls (E)
Some gift giving stories:
Secret Santa (T)
Christmas Presents (G)
Christmas, ahem, activities
Ties That Bind (E)
A lovely little surprise was how many fics included Nancy and Jerome as part of their plot. Mostof these were set in the 'normal' world playing around the edges of canon except for Strawbella which is a collection of subway timeline oneshots. The Nancy/Jerome fics are all M/E rated...
I Can See You as A Secret Mission (M)
Fancy Nancy (M)
Strawbella Forever (M)
Can We Simply Starve This Sin (E)
The Trail of Christmas Ghouls (E)
Two of the artworks were inspired by the fics of the giftee, so I have linked the art and the fic that inspired it!
In the swimming pool inspired by @just-b-wilde's Survival. This was also gifted to b-wilde :)
Fanart for Resosnant Dissonance, inspired by @okay-letsbestill's Resonant Dissonance
Then we also had a lovely edit, True Love Story
Golden Cage (G) is a short fic and then a beautiful video edit to go with it!
It was such a joy being involved in this as a writer, but also as a giftee and trying to figure out which geniuses were behind each of the works. There are polls still running to make your best guesses, but some of them still have me scratching my head!
Thanks to everyone who was involved, and a special mention to @monfivela for being our Mrs Klaus behind the scenes and sorting all the pairings and background admin!
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