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AO3 Wrapped
Yuletide is done!!! Well, it's sent to betas, and I am sure there's still work to be done on it, but I am pretty happy with what I created and so relieved to have it done.
And now I can actually take a moment to look back on my Year in Fanfiction! It's possible given how inspired I have been lately that I'll write one more thing before the end of the year, but I think it unlikely, so I'm going ahead and doing this.
This was a surprisingly fruitful year for me as a fanfiction writer.
I wrote:
+94,671 words!!!!
+ over 11 fics
+ in 7 different fandoms: [Mystery Fandom for Yuletide], West Side Story (1961), the Benjamin January series, Six of Crows, The Eagle of the Ninth, Spinning Silver, and The Untamed/MDZS.
+ 4 of them were for exchanges! I participated in Chocolate Box, the Hurt Comfort Exchange, the Just Married Exchange, and Yuletide.
+ I wrote the most words and fics for The Untamed/MDZS by far
+ 4 were new-to-me fandoms! ([Myster Fandom], WSS, SoC, and tEotN)
+ The first half of the year was mostly for exchange fics or fics that were written in response to finishing a book
+ The second half of the year was super CQL/MDZS-leaning, with only my Yuletide fic being an outlier.
+ My biggest accomplishment was actually writing the Madam Lan fic and being really happy with it. That one had been on my mind since I first watched the show, and it feels so good to have actually completed it. The fact that I managed a short follow-up surprised me! I really didn't think I'd ever write that one!
+ My second biggest accomplishment was actually writing Jiang Cheng fic, which I never thought I would do. I did, and I feel like I wrote him well.
+ The one that got the most attention from readers was the fic that was ostensibly about a Wangxian arranged marriage but that was really about the Yunmeng siblings breaking out of a cycle of abuse and drawing firm boundaries with their parents (and also about LWJ being super in love with his husband)
+ I am reasonably proud to very proud of all of them! I don't think I wrote any duds this year!
+ All but two were shippy. Of the two that weren't explicitly shippy, one was gen in the truest sense and one could be pre-shippy if you want to read it that way. That latter one and one other were for an OT3 instead of a pairing. (I am very me.) I wrote m/m and f/m but no femslash this year (boo!).
+ Some prevalent themes: solidarity (between women, between siblings), people asserting their own agency, intimate hairbrushing/braiding, hurt/comfort (as per usual), mutual pining (ditto), getting used to marriage (3 whole fics! were about this!), learning by doing more generally, and twu wub.
+ I accomplished my goal of getting The Untamed/MDZS as one of the fandoms that are listed on my AO3 dashboard before you hit the "expand fandoms list" button. Lol! Maybe one day I'll be able to knock Harry Potter down a peg on that list! I'd only have to write four more!
I'm just really happy with my output this year, both qualitatively and quantitatively. I really had no idea I'd write so very many words, and it makes me hopeful that next year I can, you know, write a damn novel.
I do want to focus more on original writing next year (more about that later), but I am sure I'll be writing at least some fic in 2023. I hope I love it as much as I have loved what I wrote this year!
And now I can actually take a moment to look back on my Year in Fanfiction! It's possible given how inspired I have been lately that I'll write one more thing before the end of the year, but I think it unlikely, so I'm going ahead and doing this.
This was a surprisingly fruitful year for me as a fanfiction writer.
I wrote:
+94,671 words!!!!
+ over 11 fics
+ in 7 different fandoms: [Mystery Fandom for Yuletide], West Side Story (1961), the Benjamin January series, Six of Crows, The Eagle of the Ninth, Spinning Silver, and The Untamed/MDZS.
+ 4 of them were for exchanges! I participated in Chocolate Box, the Hurt Comfort Exchange, the Just Married Exchange, and Yuletide.
+ I wrote the most words and fics for The Untamed/MDZS by far
+ 4 were new-to-me fandoms! ([Myster Fandom], WSS, SoC, and tEotN)
+ The first half of the year was mostly for exchange fics or fics that were written in response to finishing a book
+ The second half of the year was super CQL/MDZS-leaning, with only my Yuletide fic being an outlier.
+ My biggest accomplishment was actually writing the Madam Lan fic and being really happy with it. That one had been on my mind since I first watched the show, and it feels so good to have actually completed it. The fact that I managed a short follow-up surprised me! I really didn't think I'd ever write that one!
+ My second biggest accomplishment was actually writing Jiang Cheng fic, which I never thought I would do. I did, and I feel like I wrote him well.
+ The one that got the most attention from readers was the fic that was ostensibly about a Wangxian arranged marriage but that was really about the Yunmeng siblings breaking out of a cycle of abuse and drawing firm boundaries with their parents (and also about LWJ being super in love with his husband)
+ I am reasonably proud to very proud of all of them! I don't think I wrote any duds this year!
+ All but two were shippy. Of the two that weren't explicitly shippy, one was gen in the truest sense and one could be pre-shippy if you want to read it that way. That latter one and one other were for an OT3 instead of a pairing. (I am very me.) I wrote m/m and f/m but no femslash this year (boo!).
+ Some prevalent themes: solidarity (between women, between siblings), people asserting their own agency, intimate hairbrushing/braiding, hurt/comfort (as per usual), mutual pining (ditto), getting used to marriage (3 whole fics! were about this!), learning by doing more generally, and twu wub.
+ I accomplished my goal of getting The Untamed/MDZS as one of the fandoms that are listed on my AO3 dashboard before you hit the "expand fandoms list" button. Lol! Maybe one day I'll be able to knock Harry Potter down a peg on that list! I'd only have to write four more!
I'm just really happy with my output this year, both qualitatively and quantitatively. I really had no idea I'd write so very many words, and it makes me hopeful that next year I can, you know, write a damn novel.
I do want to focus more on original writing next year (more about that later), but I am sure I'll be writing at least some fic in 2023. I hope I love it as much as I have loved what I wrote this year!
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For me this is hopeless, both because I have written too much HP and because I jump around to too many other fandoms. But you can do it! I believe in you!
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For me this is hopeless, both because I have written too much HP and because I jump around to too many other fandoms. But you can do it! I believe in you!
Little did we know what a stain that would be!
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Yeah, my top fandoms on AO3 also do not reflect my recent fannish activity. But I've written for soooooo many fandoms over the years, mostly just one or two stories.
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Hahaha, one of my top AO3 fic fandoms is the BBC show Merlin and I have wandered SO far from Merlin (it wasn't nice enough to Gwen and Morgana in the final seasons!!! It's dead to me!!!!!!!) and I always feel so weird when I see the top of my AO3 page for that reason. Maybe we've all got our one fandom in the top 5 where we're just like ???? about it now.
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I have wandered SO far from Merlin (it wasn't nice enough to Gwen and Morgana in the final seasons!!! It's dead to me!!!!!!!) and I always feel so weird when I see the top of my AO3 page for that reason. Maybe we've all got our one fandom in the top 5 where we're just like ???? about it now.
That's so funny! But yes, I bet we all do! Those of us who have been around a while, at least.
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Wanting to knock HP down off your immediately visible menu is a mood. I've been wanting to try to knock off the MCU for years now, but I'm too dang multifannish.
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Wanting to knock HP down off your immediately visible menu is a mood.
I really wasn't even that into HP fandom--I mean, it wasn't one of my Big Fandoms. But it was just so active and there were so many different characters to explore that somehow I ended up writing quite a bit of it, especially shorter fics.
I've been wanting to try to knock off the MCU for years now, but I'm too dang multifannish.
Oh, gosh, it's so hard when you're multifannish! I am the same way! I keep writing more and more, but it's all over the place!
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I’m especially happy for your that you a) wrote the Madame Lan fic, and b) wrote Jiang Cheng as a new character and are pleased with it!
Perhaps I'll do my own retrospective though it isn't all that exciting! XD
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I think reflecting on what you've written is always a good thing, even if it's not that exciting! I've certainly had years that were very unexciting...