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2018 Fic Year in Review

Scope note: I am including the WIPs I’ve posted to AO3 this year, and will also include them in future Years in Review for years in which new chapters are posted. Stories posted for Yuletide 2018 are included in this post. In 2018 I posted 13 complete stories and added chapters to two ongoing WIPs, for a total of over 284,000 words of fic posted in four fandoms. That is the fewest different stories I've posted in a complete year of fic-writing, ever, but, uh, one of them was the lion's share of TINSOB, so. I actually wrote just over 211,000 words of fic in 2018 (most of TINSOB was written before this year, but otoh I wrote the remaining TINSOB chapters and most of Slavefic #6 and haven't posted them yet, so.) My worst month was March, when I wrote less than 3,000 words of fic in the entire month (and then I got on some new brain meds) and my best month was October, when I wrote over 30,000 (helloooo Venom fandom!) This year’s titles quoted from The Mountain Goats (3), T. S. Eliot, Alan Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Daft Punk, Dan Fogelberg, and Linkin Park. (Fic list and a bunch of meme questions under the cut)

My best story this year: I mean, it's not technically quite done yet, but, uh, this is probably a slam dunk for There Is No Shortage of Blood. My favorite story this year: oh man, this is hard. "Aide-Memoire" or "The One the Battles Always Choose" probably? Or "The Way We Are Tied In" because I like to suffer? My most popular story this year: There Is No Shortage of Blood is of course running away with hits and comments, even when I isolate the hits and comments received in 2018. Two of my Venom stories actually got more kudos (since October!) than TINSOB received in all of 2018: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" (2,200) and "Aide-Memoire" (2,078). Best hits-to-kudos ratio is my tiny-fandom Yuletide story, "The Giant in the Cavern Brings Copper and Silver and Gold" which has staggeringly received 1 kudos for every 2.73 hits. Most fun story to write: "Between the Motion and the Act" in a completely evil way, or "Work It Harder (Make It Better)". Story with the single sexiest moment: I guess, uh, it depends on how you feel about tentacles? Uh. "Cuir et Peluche" is probably the safe bet here. Story with the single sweetest moment: Aw, man, There Is No Shortage of Blood manages to pull off a lot of sweetness embedded in... everything else. "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" is ridiculously nothing but sweet, as is "Venom Versus Christmas". And... wow, I wrote a lot of sweetness this year, LIKE MAYBE I NEEDED IT?? THANKS, 2018. Story with the single saddest moment: "The Way We Are Tied In" Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Uh... I feel like this should probably be a Venom story?? But I can't really... tell...? My weirdest/kinkiest story as demonstrated by reader response: (I updated last year's spreadsheet for this so now I can compare YEAR ON YEAR, this is GREAT.) "Work It Harder (Make It Better)" won highest percentage of bookmarks kept private on AO3 (38%, less than last year's winner), and also had the largest ratio of kudos to comments (the "I like this but I don't want to talk about it" quotient, with almost 27 kudos per comment). My most startlingly wholesome story as demonstrated by reader response: "The Giant in the Cavern Brings Copper and Silver and Gold" has ZERO private bookmarks as of this writing, and "A Forward Takeoff," strikingly, has only 6% private bookmarks--last year I didn't have a single story with less than 20% private bookmarks. Hardest story to write: Oh, God. All of them, in the first three quarters of the year. Biggest surprise: Monsterfucking! This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates it most: Monsterfucking! Uhhh... man, I don't even know. Finishing things? I finished writing a bunch of things and got very close to finishing one more, and that's the strongest impression I have, but that's not really an in-story theme. Favorite opening line: Eric had certainly never expected to be wolf-bonded. from "A Forward Takeoff." Favorite closing line: From "Between the Motion and the Act": Maybe now we can both get some rest. What fests/exchanges/etc. did you participate in this year?: I wrote "Cuir et Peluche" for my Fandom Loves Puerto Rico auction winner, mara_jade, and I wrote two Yuletide stories--"Venom Versus Christmas" for Okadiah, and "The Giant in the Cavern Brings Copper and Silver and Gold" for donutsweeper.

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I’ll still be answering the asks I got for the meme I posted, but this is my annual systematic year in review post over at Dreamwidth, for anyone who’s interested. :)

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2017 fic year in review

...on January 7 because that is how things are going this week/month/year/etc. Scope note: I am including the WIPs I've posted to AO3 this year, and will also include them in future Years in Review for years in which new chapters are posted. In 2017 I posted 16 complete stories (including completion of one WIP begun in 2016), added chapters to one existing WIP and put it on hiatus, and began posting of one new WIP, for a total of almost 243,000 words of fic posted in ... just two fandoms, the fewest in any complete year of fic-posting since I started writing and posting fic. 18 stories is also tied for fewest stories in a year. 2017, man. This year's titles quoted from The Mountain Goats (3), Vienna Teng, Jet, Alan Jackson, The Avengers, T. S. Eliot, Dan Fogelberg, Dashboard Confessional, and Elsie Carlisle.

(Fic list and a bunch of meme questions under the cut)

My best story this year: probably "Treasured" or "Ring the Bell Backward." Or "The Sacrifice Play"? Um. Hm. My favorite story this year: "Two Young, Savage Things" or "Five Times Jack and Bitty Slept Together..." My most popular story this year: "Treasured" got the most kudos, while (mainly due to WIP structure, I think) "There Is No Shortage of Blood" won on hits and comments. Best hits-to-kudos ratio was "Love Excels," which got a kudo for ever 4.43 hits. Most fun story to write: "Many Hands Make Light Work," probably, sailing into a kinkmeme in a fandom I'd never written for to write something deeply weird. :D Story with the single sexiest moment: "Come on and Get Your Kicks" Story with the single sweetest moment: "Born in the Blood," all that wedding-dancing/baby-cuddling. Story with the single saddest moment: "Ring the Bell Backward" Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: ...Probably the cannibalism, right? "Things We'd Held in Secret" My weirdest/kinkiest story as demonstrated by reader response: (I made an entire spreadsheet with six different columns of formulas just to be able to quantify this, you guys.) "It's Alright (To Be Little Bitty)" won highest percentage of bookmarks kept private on AO3 (41%), and "Sleepy" won for the widest disparity between rate of kudos (9.17 hits per kudo, a bit better than my average in MCU stories) and rate of comments (257 hits per comment, right about 2.5 times average for my MCU stories), and was runner up on private bookmarks at 36%. (Weirdly, "A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar," in which there is no kink but Jack Zimmmermann has a really ugly back tattoo, has almost exactly the same response profile as "Sleepy," a PWP focusing on a relatively rare kink.) Hardest story to write: Well, I eventually gave up on writing "Born in the Blood" for the foreseeable future, so. Probably that one? Although things have been more difficult than normal overall this year, so it's hard to tell. Biggest surprise: I really did not mean to get into Check Please! fandom?? And I especially really did not anticipate getting into Check Please! fandom by writing weirdly chaste a/b/o gangbang that doesn't even have my OTP getting naked together. This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates it most: I wrote a lot of stories about my faves being sheltered, protected, and cared for this year--by their partners, by friends, by strangers. "There Is No Shortage of Blood" is probably the apex of that, in a weird way. Favorite opening line: Steve caught up with him for the last time at the Grand Canyon. from "There Is No Shortage of Blood" which I have been seeing every time I opened the story file since 2014 and still rather love? Favorite closing line: From "Ring the Bell Backward": "I told you," Bucky said, grinning. Steve was here, safe and sound, and Bucky had so much to show him, so much to tell. "We came to the future." What fests/exchanges/etc. did you participate in this year? I contributed a story to a printed zine/anthology for the first time ("Ring the Bell Backward" for Not Without You), participated in the SamSteve Gift Exchange ("Holding Fast," written for hakubo), wrote a pinch hit for Smut Swap ("Come on and Get Your Kicks" for SilverShepard), posted one auction story ("Things We'd Held in Secret" for fluffydeath in the Fandom Trumps Hate fundraiser), participated in the Captain America Reverse Big Bang ("Treasured" for sealcat's art), filled a kinkmeme prompt ("Many Hands Make Light Work"), wrote three Kinktober stories ("Sleepy," "Support Your Back," and "Come Along There Soldier (Put Away Your Gun)") and took part in the Swawesome Santa exchange ("Love Excels," written for nevermindedanyway). ...I think I posted all of 3 or 4 stories that weren't continuations of series or responding to prompts, in all of 2017. And one of those I started writing in 2014. So... that's... a thing.

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