For the fic ask: 3, 21, 23, and 24 please 😊
3) favorite line/scene you wrote this year
Ay, I’ve spent too long thinking about this already. I’m going to go with the teahouse scene from Ch. 3 of Ghost. There was a lot of thought that went into dreaming up the place, but after that point, the scene unfolded itself for me in a really satisfying way. There’s a lot of important opening threads there and a lot of writing I’m pleased with.
21) most memorable comment/review
I cannot say enough nice things about this crew of people who show up to comment on Ghost - the level of engagement, particularly relative to the modest hit count, is incredible (there are more comment threads on Ghost than on Hatari now, with 1/6 the hits). There’s so many that I’ve come back to and made me smile. So it’s kind of a toss up, but I came back around to this one from AliFyre, because of the way it addresses the resonance of the setting in highly specific ways:
Yeah from my point of view, you’re really nailing the setting aspect of it in a way I rarely see. Many fics treat the places they’re set as an afterthought, and I don’t know, maybe because I can think “oh! I’ve been there! I know some of the history of that areas! ” for some of the parts of the city you mention, I find myself very sucked into the time and place you have established. I find myself frustrated that a lot that fics are “set in New York” just because they want a big American city and don’t actually treat New York for what it is, so this is super refreshing.While it may not be a story _about_ the importance of queer spaces, as a queer person I can say I think that most any queer person would find that scene resonating because we all know how important those spaces are. For me, much like the treatment of the city, scenes like that, as well as the scene in the bathroom, are just so resonant with the queer experience that it makes the whole fic seem that much more real. I also think it does set a strong foundation for readers to be invested in these two for when the plot thickens and conflict comes their way.
23) fics you wanted to write but didn’t
Things that exist as notes or incompletes: Pre-Ghost adventures of Lilia/Minako in Imperial SPB, part 2 of Yurimetal, a very silly fic about Otabek becoming friends with Bjork, the rest of the Room at the Table one-shots.
And one of these days I’m going to write that Sense8/Brat crossover fic ;)ETA: how did I forget about the sun/mun/capheus/zakia foursome I've been threatening since s2 dropped?!?
24) favorite fic you read this year
sooo many thiiiings. I’m having trouble nailing one down, but it’s probably a weird YOI AU. Limiting it to completed works, here’s a short list of ones that stuck with me:
The Invisible Ones ( @worldofcopperwings ) - Scandinavian folklore/urban fantasy AU
No Storm Can Venture There ( @spelon-berry ) - Pacific Rim AU
Love In Exile ( @martymusesloveinexile ) - Russo-Japanese War Era AU
Lucky Seven ( @onotherflights ) Punk Band AU
AUs aside, @kiazareni ‘s Watch the Young Hearts Fade is probably up there too, along with vivavoce’s it’s the life we’re living now ETA: Shit, @boxwineconfession‘s Heart Break Beat was also this year. That’s definitely up there, too. In an oblique way, Ghost may not have happened if it weren’t for that one, because it got me thinking about gritty, working class Otayuri. So there’s that.
