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I was tagged by @witchhuntress ! I know you said I could do any fandoms but I decided it would be very fun to stick to only Ghost Hunt. I haven't written for Ghost Hunt since 2021 but I still think about it. And I had 31 fanfics to pick from (not including the couple fics that are multi one shots LOL) I decided to do them justice, and re-read a bunch of them, which was much more enjoyable than I expected. (But ugh. I still found some typos.) Also, I will keep this T rated!
Okay! I will start with a very light hearted one:
Lin’s List
A list of 25 things for Lin to refrain from - and keep Oliver from doing - during their stay in Japan. As suggested by Madoka Mori.
This was written in 2012. I recall it being inspired by a friend’s list style fic. It was such a fun feat to summarize the entire series in a 25 point list.
Knock Three Times
Sixteen-year-old Ayako is invited to a test of courage. Hunting for Hanako-san will be child’s play, right?
I really enjoyed learning about Japanese folklore and getting into a younger Ayako’s head for this fic.
Same Old Lang Syne
Should old acquaintances be forgotten, and never brought to mind?
This story is based after a song by John Fogelberg by the same name. This is one of those types of fics that has sooo much research in it to make it flow properly. Sometimes I think a fic based after a song will be easy: the plot is already there! But no. I wanted to keep the essence of the song strong, but I also wanted it not to stick out so bad when it was based after an American song set on Christmas Eve, but the fic was in Japan. I was quite happy with it in the end.
And it hurt so many readers.
The Last of the Real Ones
Being determined to expose them all as frauds might mean losing a piece of himself along the way.
I don’t say this very often, because I mainly write one shots and am happy to do so, but this one was really was only going to be a one shot. And I realized how it definitely needed at least a little more, so I left it for dead for years. I was very glad I did eventually finish it.
Ever After, Fiftieth oneshot of Wishing Well
Each story contains a question, but does it have an answer? Here they are collected together, like coins tossed in a wishing well.
The one shot collection of Wishing Well was written from 2011-2014. Fun fact, it was originally a 100 prompt list, but by number 50, I just knew it was time to let it go and work on other things. I had wanted the last one shot to be perfectly epic and I think I achieved that. >:)
...If you want to find the rest of my fics, I am RaisedonRadio on AO3 and on FF.net.
Tagging! @writercorianarose @azdesertwillow @daevolloqui @inky-starlight, and any other ghost hunt fans lurking out there.
Hi, I’m RaisedonRadio & FortressofmyPast on AO3 and FF.net.
I have been doing these posts FOR TEN YEARS.
Check out my past year-end posts: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
Total Word Counts:
11,123 words in published fanfictions
Total Number Of Completed Works: 4
Total Number of WIPS worked on this year: I have no idea. It feels like just 1
How Many WIPs do you still have: 19 fanfiction ones
Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?
Less, I really had hoped I would keep up my momentum this year.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
Haha, NOPE. Played it very safe lol
Biggest Surprise:
I did publish four fics! I am still proud of that.
Biggest Disappointment:
Well let’s just copy and paste from last year: “Definitely wish I can kept writing consistently.”
Do you have any writing goals for the new year?
Write a little more often.
Fandoms I’ve written in this year:
They were both Kdramas: Alchemy of Souls and Backstreet Rookie.
Your most popular story of the year?
Don’t Love You Yet (but probably will) for Alchemy of Souls. 823 hits and 48 kudos.
The story that was easiest/or most fun to write:
Poison on the Inside was fun, as in, it was extremely, indulgently angsty.
Hardest story to write:
Probably that one still stuck in WIP limbo. I started it, started over from the other character’s point of view, decided I liked the original better…then left it to rot. Or ferment?
Your sweetest story:
Probably Lucky Star. Just a moment captured of a couple spending time together.
Your saddest scene:
Hmm, not sure? Poison on the Inside was angsty, not really sad though.
The sexiest moment you’ve written this year?
Two out of the four this year were smut: I feel like I captured the spirit of the couple in Lucky Star very well. ;)
Your favorite tag: (whether you use it the most or just something witty/perfect for the story)
A toss up between: “they can’t just drop a Oh she might be pregnant without me wanting to write a fic about it”
Or
“Is it canon compliant that this character is a bad father: I will make a fic about it and let you decide”
Most unintentionally telling story: (have you accidentally or purposefully exposed a detail about yourself?)
Yeah—no. Nothing comes to mind. :D
Which of your fics are named after/heavily inspired by music?
It wouldn’t be on brand for RaisedonRadio to not name (checks notes) all four of her fics this year after songs. This year it was an even split of song titles and lyrics.
My favorite part of fandom this year:
I love all the interactions I get with readers, from hits to kudos to comments. I had some comments on old fics this year too which is always very cool.
SPR takes on a case that has a short timetable and a lot of specifics. The kind of specifics that send Ayako & Bou-san to a romantic villa 1,200 miles from Tokyo to investigate a spirit plaguing vacationing couples. The real question for SPR isn't if Ayako and Bou-san can survive the haunting, but if can they survive each other?
This fic is written in honor of my dear friend’s ( @radiowrites ) birthday! My goal was to write her dream fic, which incidentally is almost identical to what my own dream fic would be #goodtaste
In which Lin is already so done, and their first case hasn’t even started
By @radiowrites
Prompt by @eyeliner-vampire: What did Naru see when he touched the desk in the very first episode?
It was early, just before dawn. Lin and Oliver had intended on doing a quick glance around the school they had been hired to investigate, but the principal had caught them. Lin envisioned the principal had been watching from his office window for their arrival. They weren’t handling the building currently in use, but rather the old building partially in the demolition process that was just across the way. And now they had not even crossed the threshold thanks to the principal.
Oliver stood with his arms crossed, an occasional nod of his head as the principal rambled on about the horrors of the old school building. Oliver was not actually listening. Lin knew Oliver had already read all the supposed ghost stories the principal was reiterating, and had made his initial judgements about them.
“Sir,” Oliver interrupted, “My associate will take down the rest of your story, if you give him a moment to get ready.”
Lin’s lips thinned as Oliver waved him over. Martin had given the boy far too much power. And it was too late to do anything about it. The changeover from student/teacher to boss/employee was not going smoothly.
And now Oliver was walking through the door to explore, leaving Lin to babysit.
Lin hated babysitting. Unfortunately, it was literally what Martin had hired him to do for this trip.
“We’ll do a preliminary search this morning,” Lin said to the principal. If you ever give me the chance to do my job. “And we’ll leave cameras to officially start tomorrow.”
The principal seemed sated as he made his farewells. Or he just had actual duties to attend to at the school across the way.
Lin’s shiki had not alerted him to any other presences. The building shifted and moaned, but what did they expect when they had already torn down half of it?
Oliver had all but disappeared, with the clear goal of just losing Lin for the time being. The tension between them had no intention of easing. Oliver didn’t like the bodyguard stance Lin had taken, claiming Lin was in his way. The strain had heightened yesterday with a disagreement whether they should hire any outside help. Oliver was vehemently against it. And Lin was vehemently against being the office’s secretary. It was already bad enough.
The stairs creaked as he went up them, and Lin paused at the landing, listening, waiting for any footfalls to echo unnaturally. Once, in a definitely haunted house, the stairs had creaked each step after his own, as someone—or something—had followed him up. Nothing of that sort happened here.
Lin found Oliver in one of the classrooms on the second floor, drifting his fingers over an abandoned desk in the far corner. Oliver’s eyes were closed as he melded with any memories left on the old wood, smoothed down by many hands over the years.
“Anything?” Lin asked him.
Oliver shook his head. “Just normal things. Children talking. Learning. Leaving.”
“Don’t push yourself too hard. There’s clearly nothing here,” Lin said. “And you’re not a medium.”
Oliver leveled a look at him.
Maybe Lin could have phrased that better.
Oliver added, “There’s not a lot left to sift through. Unless I start going for the exterior walls.” He pressed a palm into the wall next to him for emphasis.
The wall yielded under the pressure.
A premonition of having to tell Luella that he had let her remaining son fall out of a two-story building was a bone-chilling concept, even for Lin. He dove for Oliver just as Oliver stumbled back into him.
Oliver pulled away and straightened up, dusting off his clothes. “Just structural failure,” he said. “Insect damage, most likely.”
“Let’s go. We’ll set up the equipment tomorrow.”
“No,” Oliver said. “We need to leave at least one camera.”
“There’s nothing here, you said as much yourself.”
“I want the evidence of such.”
Oliver watched Lin set up the camera in the front entryway. If he had any problems with the location, he didn’t voice it.
“We’ll walk the perimeter,” Oliver said, “Then we can go.”
The boy had no idea how obnoxious he sounded. Or worse, he did.
They rounded the last corner of the building in time to see a girl in a school uniform loitering by the front door. Maybe she was a ghost, but that seemed unlikely as she pulled open the door and slipped inside.
Lin bit back a curse as he hurried past Oliver to the still open door.
“Who’s there?” he said, voice echoing, startling the girl examining the camera. She lurched back, clearly having not anticipated someone showing up so soon.
“I’m sorry,” she said, “I’ll leave now—”
The bookshelf she had bumped swayed and started to tip toward her.
“Help!” she gasped.
Lin found himself diving for the second time today, shoving her aside as he took the brunt of the bookshelf to his shoulder. He fell to the floor, and felt his ankle roll beneath him.
Oliver’s silhouette darkened the doorway. “What’s going on here?”
“I’m so sorry,” the girl started again, “I guess he startled me and it fell, it was an accident—”
“You’re bleeding,” Oliver said to Lin. “Can you stand?”
Lin’s hand touched the cut on his temple. He didn’t even know how that happened. “Yeah.”
“Here, let me help—” the girl started.
Lin cut her off. “No thanks. You’ve done enough.”
Oliver supported Lin—to the best of his shorter stature—and asked the girl where the nearest hospital was. The relaxed tone to Oliver’s voice was natural, not forced, and it only took Lin a moment as to why.
Oliver had successfully gotten Lin out of his way for the time being.
The next day, Lin asked Oliver to repeat what he had said.
“I hired her,” Oliver repeated. “Or blackmailed her, however you want to take it.”
“Why?”
“You wanted a secretary, correct? Isn’t that an acceptable reason?”
Lin could only glare from the bed of the hotel room. “You mean you intend on keeping her on after this case as well?”
Oliver paused. “That would depend on her performance during this case, of course.”
Lin raised an eyebrow. Of course. Whatever the reason that Oliver had decided the girl was an acceptable potential employee—and there was clearly a reason, there always was with Oliver—Lin wasn’t going to argue. He had gotten his way, for once.
Fanfiction Questions Themed Around Time || Ask me some!
March: Do you listen to music whilst writing?
Answered over here but in short, always~
Ancient: The first fic you ever posted online?
Oof, that’s- I don’t really want to think about it tbh. I was like 12 and it was an oc insert fic for Ouran that I was writing over on wattpad. As cringey as the fic was (say what you will about cringe culture but facts are facts- it was horribly written) it did help me find myself in a lot of ways and it brought out my love of writing so I am thankful to them. You can no longer find it, along with most of my older works.
If anyone is interested in my old school fics though the Original The Cases of London still exists. (I would never rec it, and technically it’s actually the 2nd version since the current version is the 3rd re-write but still!) Along with a couple of things that I should probably actually maybe take down like my random word one-shots or anything else from 2014 (wherein I was 13 for almost its entirety and again - I would never ever rec those fics).
Hi, I’m RaisedonRadio & FortressofmyPast on AO3 and FF.net. This is an on-going tradition since 2015. Check out my past year-end posts: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
Tagging a few people, and if you come across my little post and want to do your own year in review, feel free to tag me!
Total Word Counts:
18,968 in published fanfics
16,540 Camp Nano April
7,909 Nanowrimo
Total Number Of Completed Works: 5
Total Number of WIPS worked on this year: 8, I think
How Many WIPs do you still have: 23 (wait…that’s the same as last year…such a classic example of the plot bunnies multiplying as fast one can write them)
Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?
Less. I started off with a bang, and fizzled out. And I didn’t finish Nanowrimo, I just didn’t have the drive for it with all stuff happening with them this year. (I should have chosen a new tracking system ahead of time!)
Did you take any writing risks this year?
I’d say no, I played it really safe. But I did write a couple of fanfics for a series when it wasn’t finished yet. I normally would wait so my fics can be overly canon-compliant, which is something I have really loosened up on in the past few years.
Biggest Surprise:
The huge reception I got from the My Demon and Sweet Home fics. Wow! I was almost spoiled by the outpouring of kudos!
Biggest Disappointment:
Definitely wish I had kept writing consistently.
Do you have any writing goals for the new year?
Be more consistent in writing. Even if I can’t manage daily, maybe even weekly, instead of dropping everything for months.
Fanfiction Questions! (if you don’t write fanfiction feel free to skip or rework the questions for your original works.)
Fandoms I’ve written in this year:
They were all Kdramas: My Demon, Destined With You, Sweet Home, Sound of Magic
Your most popular story of the year?
That would be “I Burn For You”, with 328 kudos, 14 comments, and 6,958 hits. I was floored by the turnout it received.
The story that was easiest/or most fun to write:
If I go by the amount of drafts I have, it was “Alone”, with three.
Hardest story to write:
There were seven drafts for “Long Story Short”. ^^;;
Your sweetest story:
“Safe And Sound” came out kinda of sickly-sweet. XD
Your saddest scene:
I don’t think I wrote anything too sad this year, just a little angst in “Long Story Short” and “Alone”.
The sexiest moment you’ve written this year?
4 out of my 5 fanfics were, once again, E rated. I apologize to any readers who miss my T rated fics. XD
Your favorite tag: (whether you use it the most or just something witty/perfect for the story)
I finally used a ‘wrote this instead of sleeping’ variation (it was me editing at 2 in the morning)
Most unintentionally telling story: (have you accidentally or purposefully exposed a detail about yourself?)
Surprisingly nothing comes to mind this year! (But I’m sure there are bits and pieces of me throughout)
Are any of your fics named after/heavily inspired by music?
All of them were named after songs or lyrics, yet again. I wouldn’t be RaisedonRadio if I came up with original titles -_-;; And since one of the fics was from a musical, I included a little playlist of the songs I had on repeat when writing it. :D
What’s your own favorite story of the year?
Hmm, that’s tough, I was pretty pleased with most of them this year…but I’ll go with “I Burn For You”.
My favorite part of fandom this year:
I love writing for active fandoms, and yet I also love writing for super quiet fandoms. I did both this year!
