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jsevick replied to your photo “We’re married!!!! #batcatwedding2016”

Congratulations!!! I wish you all the happiness in the world! :D

Thank you so much!

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Year in Review Meme (2015)

I was tagged by @jsevick - thanks!

Total number of completed stories: 11 (not counting a WIP)

Total word count: 15,662 published, and then probably another 10,000 or so as of yet unpublished.

Fandoms written in: Arrow, Stargate SG-1

looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

I didn’t actually expect to write any - I’d had a long dryspell wherein I was going back to school, working, and havin’ babies - so I ended up writing much, much more this year than I expected.

what’s your own favorite story of the year?

This is always so tough to answer, because obviously I love them all. ;)

we’re on our way through rugged land is a really short fic, but I loved writing Diggle and Felicity, and so it tends to be a favorite of mine.

The other one would be The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content) just in terms of how fun and easy it was to write (crackfic comes naturally to me, even if it rarely sees the light of day).

did you take any writing risks this year?

I think in just starting to write again after a long hiatus. Writing in another fandom always feels like a risk to me as well, because you never know how well your work will fit into the fandom environment or how it will be received. So you kind of just have to put it out there, and that’s nerve-wracking for me having been in SG1 fandom for so long and feeling comfortable there.

do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year?

Just to keep going, basically. I’ve gotten much better about actually putting down stories that are in my head and sharing them, rather than being timid and keeping them to myself. Also, I obviously want to see Caught A Long Wind finished this year, and if not I want it to be because it’s become this beautiful, fun long fic that’s taken on a life of its own. I’d be okay with that!

best story of the year?

Goodness, I don’t know! I like So It Goes because it’s become a neat little collection of different stories and perspectives, and I can take it anywhere I want to go. It’s freeing to have a collection like this where even the shortest stories can go, and so because of that I sometimes think the quality of those little ones are better. I totally get why story collections have become so popular, and it’s a bandwagon I’m glad I jumped on!

most popular story of the year?

So It Goes has the most hits, but The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content) has the most kudos/hits (due in no small part to andymcnope on AO3, who was the gracious and hilarious author of the story this fic was inspired by).

In terms of reaction both here on Tumblr and AO3, I would say Chips and Dip (With a Side of Sparkle) was the most popular with a readers.

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

I don’t know that I’d say any of my fic is underappreciated, I’ve been very lucky with the readers I have as well as their thoughtful responses to my stories.

If we go by the fewest hits, I guess that would be go lift your sails up (for one last swell) (my one SG1 fic of 2015), but honestly I felt that the fandom really embraced that story. It’s an older fandom with lots of loving fellow fans, and they are enthusiastic about any new work, so I certainly think they appreciated it. :)

most fun story to write

The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content) was a ton of fun to write (and I may have been slightly drunk when I wrote it. Just slightly).

Chips and Dip (With a Side of Sparkle) was also pretty fun to write, just because it was both sweet and silly.

story with the single sexiest moment:

This is tough too, because I really only wrote too smuttyish fics in 2015, and both were kind of angsty and sad.

I would have to say don’t stand a chance (in these four walls) - there’s a moment before Oliver and Felicity’s encounter that sparks the whole thing that I’m fond of as the writer.

most sweet story:

Although Chips and Dip (With a Side of Sparkle) is definitely sweet, i came to win or lose with you is probably my sweetest story - it’s such a lovely, quiet moment between Oliver and Felicity (and then between OTA, which I love and will always be my favorite relationship out of Arrow). (Fun fact: it’s also the first story that I ever wrote entirely on my phone, in bed in the middle of the night!)

”holy crap, thats wrong, even for you!” story:

Haha,  The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content)? It is an Arrow/Hung crossover, which is particularly ridiculous considering I’ve never seen Hung. Eh, I don’t know, I feel like my stories were pretty tame in 2015.

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:

Honestly, I don’t know that I had any that did that? I’ve read works by other authors that have certainly changed the way I see the characters, and I have two in progress works that deal with Felicity’s and Oliver’s families and how that affects their relationship that do that for me, but they’re both unfinished and unpublished right now, so I’m not sure they count.

I really feel like this year was about me getting comfortable enough with the characters to portray them in a way that made sense for me, so maybe this next year I can start playing with their motivations and characterizations a little more.

most unintentionally telling story:

Again, to be quite honest, I don’t know that I had any this year that were telling about me as a person or an author. When you’re still new to a fandom and trying to break in, I think writers tend to write stories that are a little more surface level (although not always - I’ve read some authors who were just naturally very expressive and brave in how they included themselves in stories), and then you get more in-depth with time and comfort. My goal for this year, if I had one, was to entertain readers and just write stories that I enjoyed, and not so much to reveal myself or send a message.

hardest story to write:

Absolutely Caught a Long Wind. Because I want for it to work so badly, and I have a very specific vision for the way I want to do it, writing this one goes very, very slowly for me. I spend a lot of time editing what I’ve already written and second-guessing my choices for it, and sometimes every sentence feels like a victory. The period when the story needed to be published turned out to be pretty tough too (the holidays, the fact that we’re understaffed at work so my hours went crazy even while working through the holidays, two young children plus a pregnancy), so this has by far been the most challenging story I’ve undertaken in a good long while. (This seems silly, but I really have to thank @curvy-tam here while I’m talking about the story, because I’m pretty sure that without her there would be no story to post.)

biggest disappointment:

I’m going to echo @jsevick here and say myself - writing can be really, really difficult for me, a lot of the time although the stories are fully formed in my head, getting them down on paper just seems like an excruciating process. Often what comes out doesn’t always seem as good as what was in my head, and I have a hard time not comparing my work to other writers that I admire. So I’d have to say that I’m my biggest disappointment 

biggest surprise:

Like I said earlier (and others said) just that I wrote at all, and that I’ve been able to keep writing (for the most part). Although that people liked that weird Arrow/Hung crossover was pretty damn surprising, too. XD

Tagging fellow authors (as always, only if you feel up to it): @nandamai, @holdouttrout, @splash-the-cat, @tielan, @kavileighanna, @allofthefeelings, @ellie5192, @literarymagpie (if you haven’t already done it?).

And anyone else who wants to - I'd love to read your fanfiction year in review!

[feilcityqueen]

"And if there’s one thing he loves about Felicity Smoak, it’s that fear has never stopped her. She leaps from rooftops and stays beneath crumbling concrete and plunges a needle into the neck of the man with a sword to her throat to save the world… They fell in love on the battlefield—it means he fell in love with a soldier. What she told him tonight, that marriage was fighting together, only made him love her more." Hold Me Closer by jsevick

[dettiot]

Hi! (Congrats on your Nano word count--that's AWESOME!!) I just *loved* your "It Runs in the Family" fic, and I was wondering if you had any more headcanons for that universe? Either dealing with new stuff in the MCU, or Felicity's childhood with Tony and Pepper, or Oliver interacting with any more of the Avengers? Big or little headcanons; just something to answer if it's fun for you! :)

Oh, thank you so much!  I had a lot of fun writing It Runs in the Family, as well as a lot of hard work, since I was writing a lot of action in this fic.  But I really enjoyed getting to explore the differences in philosophies between Marvel heroes and DC heroes.

That was part of the reason in the big final fight, Tony doesn’t have his Iron Man suit and he’s doing all this as Felicity’s dad, not Iron Man.  I wanted Tony and Oliver to be on a more level playing field, united in their love for Felicity.  

That was another reason that other Marvel characters didn’t show up--I wanted the focus to stay on Tony & Pepper and their relationship with Felicity.  But if I had brought in another character, it would have been Steve Rogers.  He’s totally Felicity’s favorite honorary uncle--although I feel like Clint Barton would start lording it over everyone that he must be Felicity’s favorite, because look at who Felicity fell in love with--not that superguy from Metropolis, but an archer.  

(Clint really is a walking human disaster.  Everyone quickly put him in his place over that belief.)

Ask me anything!

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jsevick replied to your post:Questions Meme

This is making me want to catch up on Sleepy Hollow–and I really need to watch Buffy one of these days. :) Great answers!!

I don’t know how far you got with Sleepy Hollow; I’d abandon S2 entirely and just skip to S3. It’s early days yet, but I’m definitely pretending S2 doesn’t exist. 

And you MUST watch Buffy! It’s the best show ever. 

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jsevick replied to your post:why isn’t Rurouni Kenshin available for streaming...

It is on hulu (with ads tho) :)

of course hulu has it out of all the legitimate streaming websites

(thank you though that's good to know for future reference when I'm super desperate!)