So 2020 ........... was a year.
But I wrote fanfiction, so why not talk about-
My 2020 Fanfiction Year In Review
Looking at my Ao3 stats, I posted 22 total fics comprising 242k words. Which is a lot, holy shit.
My ironstrange (and a couple of pristine) fics included:
Begin Again (4507 words; Teen and Up)
So what if we grow old together? (1239 words; Mature)
Don’t Lift The Veil (1689 words; Teen and Up)
Celebration (1086 words; Explicit)
Who Would Ever Dare To Love A Dragon? (6466 words; Mature)
Alone and Together (1541 words; Teen and Up)
Of All The Stars Most Beautiful (8567 words; Explicit) (pristine)
How Can I Repay You? (1335 words; Explicit)
Happy Birthday Mr. Stark (2073 words; Explicit)
The Dragon Prince (12032 words; Explicit)
Seduce Me (2047 words; Explicit) (pristine)
A Strange Wedding (13444 words; Mature) (ironstrange and johnlock crossover)
A Strange Love (5221 words; Mature) (this one is mostly jonlock but in the same series as ASW, so I’m putting it here because fuck you)
Welcome Home (1074 words; Mature)
Beg (2310 words; Explicit)
Loud (5045 words; Explicit)
From the Top: Phase Two (11348 words; Teen and Up)
Synergy (24105 words; Explicit)
being known is being loved (2203 words; Teen and Up)
For a total of 107,332 words. So while I didn’t really have a lot of longer ironstrange fics this year, I still had a lot of fun in this fandom and wrote a lot!
2020 was also a fun year for me because I started to write kind of longer fics for other fandoms, and 3 that weren’t MCU or ironstrange crossovers:
Stay A Thousand Years (48071; Mature) - This was my first ever and quite possibly only ever Doctor Who fic that I wrote because my favorite character, the bitch, the legend, the king/queen/nonbinary ruler, the Master came back and I needed to get out all my Doctor/Master feels.
Somebody To Die For (40271 words, incomplete; Mature) - This is a weird one for me because I didn’t want to leave it off the list, but I’ve taken a break from writing it for the time being because I was getting kind of stressed writing it and it wasn’t really making me happy, not to mention I had gone back to class so I didn’t need two big stresses on top of 2020 existing. I do plan to come back to this (maybe when I’m done with my current WIP), so it’s not abandoned, but I’ll get back to it when I think I can write it well and not stress myself out over it.
The Place Between Rage and Serenity is Northeast of Madagascar (46666 words, current Work In Progress; Mature) - This is the fic I’ve been working on now and also the first one where I ever adopted a posting schedule and actually waited to have a few chapters already written before I started posting it. I’m really glad I did because this new method has been much better for managing my stress and letting me balance my favorite hobby and going to college. If you’re having a problem where you’ve slowed down on updating a fic when you started out doing a chapter every 1, 2, 3 days and now you’re stressed and taking forever, I would recommend trying a structured schedule. I currently have about 70k words written (though unedited) and I plan for it to be over 100k (maybe even around 150k or more), and I’m still really excited about this one. I will be taking this one into the New Year (I’m also STRONGLY considering changing the title because it’s so unwieldy, but that’s another thing.)
And that was my 2020 in fanfiction! This year contributed to just over a third of my fanfiction output from 5 years now on ao3! Huh, I wonder what could have happened this year that had me writing more because I was stuck inside and had nothing else to do, that’s so weird-
If anyone else wants to do this, please do and tag me (and feel free to use my header if you want; or don’t, I won’t mind either way)! If looking at your stats makes you stressed and you don’t want to think about it or you don’t have any energy, then don’t! I just wanted to end the year with a bit of fun and positivity about what I actually managed to get done this year. Happy New Year, and let’s get the torches and pitchforks to chase 2020 right on out of here
