Getting Good At This (43k, tomlinshaw). Nick inherits custody of his baby god-daughter, and (predictably) has no idea what he's doing; Louis only means to help out a bit, not fall in love with either of them. (A loosely-adapted Life As We Know It AU)
And This Is How It Starts (8k, niall/nick). To be fair, probably Harry’s no more surprised about the fact that Nick’s fucking Niall Horan than Nick is himself.
Or Somewhere In Between (5k, harry/louis). The baby won't sleep for him, and Louis tries not to take it personally, but he can't help but suspect she hates him, just a little bit. (Follow-up to Crossed the Ocean for a Heart of Gold.)
Gnossienne (11k, harry/louis). Louis sets a challenge for himself; it gets a bit out of hand. Cowritten with Lane!
Portions For Foxes (16k, tomlinshaw). “You know how Tommo is about dares,” Harry says, laughing once, without any humor.
“An idiot,” Nick supplies, feeling a bit dazed. “But he’s always like that, so.”
Or, Louis injures himself, and somehow Nick winds up taking care of him.
The Sound of Your Voice From Far Away (40k, harry/louis). It'd be perfect, he convinces himself. Things with Lou are – well. They're the way they are, and there's no point dwelling on why it's got that way. But he thinks this would help -- not fix them, because they're not broken. They don't need to be put back together, they're just. Out of sync, maybe. It would help. He thinks it would, anyway, if they could just be the two of them again, to be alone together with no outside influences pressing claustrophobically in on them, just for a bit. And driving down an empty highway with nothing else but Louis beside him is the best way to do that that he can imagine.
Or, after the U.S. leg of the Take Me Home tour, Harry and Louis drive from L.A. to NYC. They figure some things out, like how to deal with the distance that's been growing between them.
Young, Dumb, and Full Of (6k, harry/nick). Harry can't be there for Nick's birthday, so he makes up for it in his own way.
Somebody Who Cares That You Get Home Safe (9k, louis/bressie). Louis' bodyguards keep quitting; Niall thinks he knows someone for the job.
A Flexible Metaphor (22k, harry/nick). Nick doesn't mind being on his own; it kind of goes hand in hand with being a vampire. It's only when he has to turn Harry Styles into one too to save him from a sudden and stupid death that things start to get messy.
Lost Coastlines (22k, harry/nick). Nick doesn’t know what you’re meant to do when Harry Styles has suddenly come back from the dead.
It's been a year since Harry and Niall died in a plane crash – only it turns out they didn't, because they've just been rescued from the island they've been stranded on, and Harry is suddenly back in Nick's life, not quite good as new.
Total Word Count:Â 182,663 loooooord
Fandoms Written In: JUST THE ONE
Overall Thoughts:Â did i honest to god write that many words good heavens
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? WAY more than I thought, apparently.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? I was NOT particularly aware that I was gonna do either Nick/Niall or Louis/Bressie until my IDLE DEVIL'S PLAYTHING HANDS were doing it on their own, basically, although I'm not unhappy about it, tbh.
What’s your own favorite story of the year? I think it might be The Sound of Your Voice From Far Away because it was my CHILD!!!! and also I thought it might kill me before ever being finished tbh, so actually publishing it was like sending a cranky teenager off to college and watching them flourish :') I also like how A Flexible Metaphor ended up pretty ok.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? IDK. I think I signed up for more exchanges than I thought which taught me that I CAN write under pressure but I will ALSO spend the whole time whining to people about how I'm going to fail and give up and go start a new life underground.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year? I have a partially-written selkie fic that I think if I abandon Bailey might come punch me, but that's the only one I specifically want to finish. I want to keep trying' to write pairings that seem kinda wacky, and I want to keep finding a balance between LIGHT HEARTED GOOFINESS and MAKING EVERYONE SUFFER.
From my past year of writing, what was…
My best story of this year:Â ??? IDKÂ
My most popular story of this year:Â Gnossienne bc I got to ride Lane's very talented coattails hehe.
Most fun story to write:Â Somebody Who Cares That You Get Home Safe bc I banged it out in ONE DAY and also knew I was gonna surprise Bailey with it >:) Also And This Is How It Starts just bc it was largely silly.Â
Story with the single sexiest moment:Â Not to brag but I DID make Harry very awkwardly kiss Matt Fincham in the Nick/Niall one, soooooo........
Most “holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you” story: There were TIMES when I was like "IS THIS TOO MUCH" while writing Lost Coastlines but then I realized, no, make them cry more, always. Other than that nothing really.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Portions For Foxes maybe because most of my Tomlinshaw thoughts are about them getting together in the first place, and this made me try and think about what it would look like if they were already together and then not together again.
Hardest story to write: The Sound of Your Voice From Far Away because it took OVER A LITERAL YEAR to finish, and felt like it spanned so much that it sometimes felt a little unmanageable, and was also rooted in vaguely canon-ish a) events and b) subtle shifts in relationships that I wanted to do justice to.
Biggest disappointment:Â DROPPED OUTTA BIG BANG LIKE A CHUMP but it's actually okay because I prob woulda lost my dang marbles tryna do it.
Biggest surprise:Â Louis/Bressie I guess?? THAT PEOPLE READ MY GOOFY-ASS JUNK AND SEEMED TO NOT TOTALLY HATE IT?? idk
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