2016 in fic
I started tracking this last year, and thought it would be fun to do it again!
New Fics = 17 Total Words Posted = 85,549
My favorite story this year: Charles Xavier's Baby - Inspired by Bridget Jones’s Baby, this fic was just so much FUN to write (which you’d think would be the case with all fanfic but alas no lol). There is nothing I don’t love about this cracky premise, with Charles being exceptionally put out (and not at all mushy sentimental - much) about getting knocked up due to secondary mutation by not one but TWO baby daddies! It makes me laugh just thinking about all the wacky shenanigans still to be written :D
My best story this year: Seducing Charles - I will continue to say til I’m blue in the face (ha) that Apocalypse seducing Charles to his side would have made for a much more interesting movie out of XMA. Alas, we will have to see this scenario played out in fanfic (sigh). This particular story was written months before XMA came out, and I really love how it came together - morphing from a fic about Charles reliving his painful memories in a dream, to the reveal that Apocalypse is masquerading as Erik in his mind to try and seduce him with what he wants most in all the world...
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Burn It To Ashes (Front Window Remix) - I think sometimes remixed fics are hard to get into, especially if they recreate only a short scene from/based on the original fic. That said, I wish more people would have read this one, because it’s based on Widge’s AMAZING Front Window, and also, has Gerec’s first attempt at Charles/Raven - which I love love love to READ, especially in this context which is ‘us against the world based on an incredibly messed up shared childhood’.
“Holy crap, that’s *wrong*, even for you” story: Tribute to the Horde - It’s a bunch of people gangbanging Charles. In public. ‘Nuff said.
Hardest story to write:
Gods or Mortals - Hardest, because of how much back story and how many notes I have for this story, and trying to weave all the pieces together in an interesting and coherent way. Everybody has that one story that they think defines them yeah? (Or not maybe that’s just me lol). Anyway, this is it for me. Some day, years from now when I’m old and (very) grey and my fic writing days are far behind me I want to look back at GoM and say ‘yeah I’m glad I wrote that’.
Biggest surprise:
A Hell of Our Own Making - I did not expect to love ‘Welcome to the Punch’ quite so much when I finally saw it, nor did I think I would ever feel the burning need to write Lewinsky/Sternwood fic yet here we are lol!
Goals for next year/final thoughts:
85k is a lot for me, so while I’m pleased to have gotten this much written it’s also a little intimidating too? I mean, the target supposedly for an average published novel is between 80-90k and that means I’ll have to drastically reduce how much fanfic I write in 2017 if I want to make a dent in my original fiction. So there’s that.
BUT! I’m super happy that I FINALLY finished My Name is Max - the VERY FIRST FIC I STARTED FOR THIS FANDOM - so many years later lol.
And finally last but not least - I’m going to try hard to finish my WIPs, and not let plot bunnies distract me into starting 100 new fics :D :D :D