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1. I came up with an idea for a novel about five weeks ago, and I've been making steady progress on it ever since. I'm really optimistic about it--I think the premise will appeal to agents and publishers, and having read a bunch of similar novels lately, I'm confident that I can execute it to current genre standards. And it's really, really nice to have a big project that I'm legitimately excited about every time I open up my notes.

2. I've been more active on Tumblr since I got into Check Please! fandom, and it's been fun to toss off little not!fics here and there and get a bunch of reactions. I have been essentially without a fandom for a long time--I'm always active in fandom, but there's a difference between that and being in a fandom, and CP has given me that sense of community and squee that I've been missing.

3. I've met a couple people through that fandom who seem really neat. I love hitting it off with fannish folks. :D

4. One of my new CP friends is in that fabulous brand-new-hockey-fan stage where you're constantly discovering awesome things about the sport (the Avery Rule! You Can Play! Dudes punching each other in the face while chatting about their dogs!) and keeps prodding me for explanations of things. It's been incredibly helpful to me emotionally, as Maloney sheds stars left and right in favor of Katamari-ing everybody's draft picks, to remember that there's a lot to love about this sport. Granted, she's a Devils fan, so she'll learn about the heartbreaky side of loving hockey soon enough, but for now she's all eager and happy and it's lovely to see.

5. I met up with a fandom friend I hadn't heard from in a while, and it was really awesome to reconnect. She's dipping her toes in CP fandom too, so I got to yammer excitedly at her about my D/s threesome fic while the other brunching yuppies around us slowly inched away.

6. I've been spending plenty of time with other fannish friends in meatspace, including a fantastic group trip to Vancouver to see the Penguins. Fen are so great. ♥

7. Watching Malkin in warmups made some things click in my brain and all of a sudden I'm totally rocking my outside edges on the rink. I think I'll sign up for a rec league in the fall and start playing for real. I'm so goddamn glad I decided to start skating regularly--it's been the best thing in my life on multiple levels this past ten months.

8. Queer movie night has been going strong since August, and I've found a bunch of amazing new movies in the process of deciding which ones to show. I should do a recs list here for you guys.

9. The boything realized last night that Dileep Rao, the guy who played Yusuf in Inception, plays in his trivia league. Further investigation revealed that the dude actually participated in the trivia set the boything ran. Also, boything beat out Yusuf on the topics of typography and fruit. I am endlessly amused by this.

10. Those dudes Ngozi found on Vine who look like Ransom and Holster. Oh my god, you guys. I watched 476 Vines on Wednesday and laughed until I literally injured my throat. SO GREAT.

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1. “Jeez Louise. Bad Joe, Bad Bob--how many hockey players just stick ‘Bad’ in front of their names and call it a nickname? Y’all quit callin’ me Bitty, you hear, I’m Bad Bittle now.” (Check Please! fic about hockey history)

2. “Sir,” Jake says, offended hand on his heart. “I assure you, I am not and have never been active in sex work. I am active in sex fun. Compensated sex fun.” (Brooklyn Nine-Nine hookerfic)

3. So off he goes to a hot city in a strange country, armed with his hockey gear and a phrasebook from his father that proves entirely useless. He doesn’t need to know how to ask for directions or order coffee. He needs to know how to laugh at people companionably, how to invite himself along when everyone is heading out for drinks, how to keep going after making a mistake instead of freezing up--things he never knew in Russian either. (Junior League fic about Bakin making the NHL)

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I felt like I wasn't producing much fannishly this year... but actually I just wasn't writing much. And, in fact, my two favorites of the fanworks I created this year were not fic. Let's start with those.


The Hammer Is My Enormous Penis (Nathan Fillion, "Enormous Penis" by Da Vinci's Notebook)

This ridiculous vid is one of my favorite things I've ever made. I put about a month of my spare time into it--I calculated at one point that it took at least 50 hours--and I never once lost my enthusiasm for the project. It is about that lovable douchebag with a sharp tongue and a massive ego that is every role in Nathan Fillion's filmography.


Open & Notorious (Welcome to Night Vale)

This audio project was a collaboration with a whole bunch of people. It's based on the intro segments to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, in which various voices have claimed to be the real Joseph Fink; this work consists of a whole bunch of people interrupting and talking over each other and arguing about who is actually the real Joseph Fink. It turned out far better than I ever thought it could, in large part because of the outstanding voice performances delivered by everyone who participated. I did the writing and editing, but the performers were incredibly creative in their deliveries, and several of the lines I wound up including were ad-libbed.



I did a few other audio projects, though I still don't really identify as a podficcer. Only one of these is standard podfic:


Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine (Calvin and Hobbes), written by Starlingthefool

I recorded this because I had massive NRE stars in my eyes and the object of my affections had said in passing that she'd been meaning to read this but would rather listen to a podfic. I'd read and loved it, so I just went ahead and did it.


Selected excerpts from @NightValeRadio (Welcome to Night Vale)

Dating a podficcer may, in retrospect, have had a significant effect on my audio output this year. This one was a Valentine's Day present; it's a whole bunch of tweets from the official Night Vale Twitter account, which does really fabulous creepy microfiction.


The Gifts of the Giving Tree (The Giving Tree), written by Mallory Ortberg

I love this piece so fucking much. I hear podficcers talk about reading a fic and just needing to record it right now--that was me reading this. The text (a dark retelling of a children's book) was published at The Toast, but it totally counts as fanfic.


Too Much Woman (Assassin's Creed), co-created with originally

I wrote this monologue for originally to perform and we released it audio-only. It's from the POV of the playable female character that got cut from Assassin's Creed: Unity.



I've done a few more vids this year. I'm still on a pretty steep learning curve there, which is nice because I can see myself improving, but also frustrating because I'm not as good at it as I want to be. None of these are exactly what I was going for, and all of them could have benefited from the same time commitment as the Nathan Fillion one linked above, but sadly there are not enough hours in my life to do that with every vid. Still, I've had a lot of fun making these, and I can clearly see areas in need of improvement that I know how to improve upon in the future, which is heartening.


Moves Like Jagr (Jaromir Jagr, "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5)

Jagr. Jagger. It had to be done.


(The Edmonton Oilers are) Still Alive (Oilers, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton/GLaDOS)

A birthday present for an Oilers fan friend of mine. The poor guy. You can probably get the gist of this if you're not familiar with Oilers history, but, well, it's geared toward someone who's spent their whole life facepalming over this team.


A Fine-Looking High Horse (Super, "Take Me To Church" by Hozier)

This one is intentionally designed to be easily comprehensible by people who haven't seen Super; I actually wasn't sure if V had when I made it for them, but I knew they would appreciate Ellen Page and obsessive wannabe superheroes. Warning: contains graphic violence.


The Very Root (Mushishi, "Science/Visions" by Chvrches)

I think this is watchable if you don't know the canon, though the message about humanity's destructive interactions with nature might not come across as clearly if you're not familiar. The art in this anime is just fucking beautiful, though, and I crammed a lot of it in here, so check it out if you like things that are pretty. Warning: a bit of body horror.



And I did write some fic!


Fuck-You Money (Teen Wolf, Derek/Stiles)

Kidfic. Yep. This happened because I was having a lot of personal finance feelings and I wanted to write fic about them, though I think I managed to keep most of the boring stuff out of it (aside from the detailed blog submission, which you can totally skim). Also, I always want the world to contain more fic about two people who both openly want to bang but can't for really good, sensible reasons, and kids who hate each other fit that bill.


With Grace (WTNV, Tamika & Josie)

I just really liked the idea that "Old Woman Josie" isn't actually that old, she's just considered old because the average longevity of a Night Vale resident is so ridiculously low.


Beat All (Teen Wolf, Erica & Allison & Lydia, sorta Erica/Stiles)

Girls-in-a-band AU. I will never get enough of Erica learning to be badass for herself instead of getting a magic badass werewolf bite.


Positive Feedback (Check Please!, Jack/Bitty)

Praise kink. Pretty much PWP.


100px To The Right (Check Please!, Johnson)

Give me an inch of meta and I will take 500 miles.



I also co-created (with torra) a panel at Bitchin' Party that wound up being very much a transformative work; it follows the format of an episode of the podcast, and I think it turned out fairly well. At some point an edit of the audio is going to be posted online, but it hasn't happened yet.

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List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.


Mind Fuck by Manna Francis (available for free online here)
This is my favorite book, and has been since I discovered it in my mid-teens. It's a murder mystery set in a futuristic dystopia; it has accurate science and gorgeous thoughtful worldbuilding and hot gay BDSM porn that fits into the story beautifully and several of my favorite characters of all time and a plot that has me forgetting to breathe during the climax every time even though I've read it over and over. See that link up there to the full text? You have no excuse not to go read this right fucking now. There's a whole series of which this is the first installment, and I reread all of it every year or two.


At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Ugh, this book. This BOOK. I'll be satisfied with my life if I ever write anything that wrings someone's heart out the way this book wrings mine every damn time. It's about queer dudes in 1915 Ireland, and the writing is just... god, how do I rec this? Okay, let me just give you a few quotes:

Her hat was hopelessly démodé but the fashion was too ridiculous: she refused to wear flower-pots, and would have nothing to do with feathery things she had not shot herself.

In due course the pimpled skin and sinewy limbs were restored to their clothy dignity, and the talk too put on its collar and tie.

"I felt I might belong. I might, God help me, be"--irrational, irrepressible, irresponsible, iron-brained, irascible, irksome, entirely irresistible--"might be Irish," he said.

The girls were all sleeping still on their shakedown in the corner. Like the leaves of a cabbage they lay, each leaf enfolding the next one down. Eleven, nine, seven, five: the same face told in tripping years.

"Now, this fellow here, he fucked me last night. Isn't he the handsome rake? Yes, he fucked me something divine, then after he fetched up my arse, he turned me over and brought me off in his mouth. Glorious, constable, words cannot describe, you'd want to try it yourself. Or perhaps you have? In the meantime, you'll be so good as to lend me your bike for I find we're running late for the revolution."


The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek (available for free online here)
A queer fantasy allegory about white people and Native Americans, a large chunk of which is set in a prison made out of a mountain. Ava and I first read it together when I was maybe 14, and I reread it approximately annually until she died; I'm not sure I've read it since then. My tastes have certainly become more discerning in the last seven years, but I've definitely reread and continued to adore other pieces by Jesse Hajicek more recently, so my memory of it as oh god amazing is probably trustworthy.


The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
I am constantly bewildered by how many ostensible Pratchett fans have never heard of this book; I consider it his best work by far. It's one of those rare books that you can read and enjoy as a kid, and think you understand every word, and then reread when you grow up and realize what it was actually about. I buy a copy of it whenever I'm in need of a gift for a kid in the 6-to-11 age range, and I still reread it for pleasure myself.


Holes by Louis Sachar
This book is kind of like what would happen if the Welcome to Night Vale folks decided they would rather make a bit more sense. It's weird, but all the weirdness works together to form a coherent, incredibly well-crafted story. And the characters! Sachar has this gift for concise characterization that just blows me away. There's a movie adaptation, and I did not expect to love the movie, but it's actually great too.


Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
I got into Harry Potter after the second book came out, so this was the first one I got to be all excited about. I think in retrospect it's my favorite of the series. I love Hermione and the Time-Turner, and I love the moment when Lupin and Sirius hug, and... well, to be honest, I think it's the last book that was properly edited before J.K. Rowling became a big enough deal to call some shots she should not have been allowed to call.


The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, written by Susan Wojciechowski and illustrated by P.J. Lynch
My favorite Christmas book ever, about a gruff woodcarver and a little kid who wants to learn to carve. The story is effective in its simplicity, and the illustrations are just beautiful. My family reads it aloud every Christmas Eve.


A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
I'll just give the first line of this one, because I think you can get a pretty good indication of whether you're interested in reading the book from it: I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.


Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Man, this book shaped so much of my worldview during my adolescence. (The movie is AWFUL, because half the book's appeal is the writing style and the other half is a gimmick that doesn't fucking work in visual form. God I wish that movie had never been made.) Then one day I reread it and kind of squinted and went, "But... that doesn't actually... hm." And then it was not my worldview anymore. But the nostalgia value is high nonetheless, and the book is still very well-crafted. I like Palahniuk's minimalist style--it was a big influence on my early writing, and I think it crept into a lot of my Killjoys fic.


Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Not gonna bother reccing this because you've read it. Pretty sure I don't know anyone who hasn't.

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I'm just gonna nab questions I think are interesting from other people who are doing the December meme. If there's anything in particular you want me to talk about, feel free to drop your own prompts, but I make no promises. I'll answer the fannish ones here and the non-fannish ones on jedusor.

First up, I'mma talk about my first fandom. By my own standards for fandom, Pokemon was probably my first, but in the transformative sense that most of the people reading this interpret the term "fandom" to mean...

Harry Potter, y'all.

I grew up with Harry. I was nine when I found the series, and I turned seventeen a week before the last book came out. I was such a hipster about all the merchandising--I think there was a time in my early teens when I wouldn't even associate with people who said they liked the movies but hadn't bothered reading the books.

(I did not like the movies. I have never liked the movies. I don't think I've even seen the fifth one or the last one, but I'm not certain, because that is how little I cared about them while I was watching them.)

Here's how into these books I was: at a sleepover when I was eleven, I had a friend open the first book to random pages and read me the first half of a sentence to see if I could finish it. I could. Always. I went to a midnight book release party as the Grey Lady before we knew the Grey Lady was important. I got my grubby mitts on a PDF of the seventh book two days before it came out, and sat in the living room clutching my laptop and sobbing over Dobby while my family side-eyed me.

And I wrote fic. Like many of us, I wrote fic before I realized fic was a thing. I produced a little one-page newspaper when I was eleven, wherein I wrote movie reviews and editorials and a one-panel cartoon, and I did a serial genderswap AU about "Carrie Potter" and her adventures at Hogwarts. I think my earliest memories of using the internet involve very serious debates about the books on some message board now long-lost to memory. I think that was where I first found a link to ff.net, where I hung out until metaphortunate pointed me toward Rhysenn's fic, which led me to LJ.

I was never very social in Harry Potter fandom. I wasn't a good enough writer to draw any attention, and fandom wasn't really set up for making friends back then. I was in HP fandom because I loved the canon, because I loved the characters and the world and the possibilities, because I was confident (in a wholehearted, carefree, fuck-the-haters way I almost wish I could reclaim) that I could use the platform to produce things that were worthwhile.

Eventually I grew up, and was disappointed by some of the books, and realized that J.K. Rowling was not a goddess, and let go of my singleminded devotion to the series. But Harry Potter fandom taught me so many things about the internet, about relationships, about life, about sex, about writing, about love. There's a secret place in my heart where none of the books after Goblet of Fire have been published yet, where I'm ten years old and Sirius is alive and Harry hasn't hit his capslock phase, where there's almost half the series left to go and it's going to be so amazing, I bet Sirius is really Harry's dad, oh my god did you notice "Erised" is "desire" backwards, holy crap that's incredible, oh man oh man I can't wait for book five...

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I did this top ten most-hit fics on AO3 meme when it was going around a year ago, and I just saw someone do it again after also having done it a year ago just to see how things had changed. And I checked my most-hit fics on AO3 again, and they're, you know, mostly the same. Some hockey fic pushed out some bandom fic, and I wrote a Teen Wolf fic, which obviously got hits. Eh. I don't think it's worth posting again.

But this meme keeps making me think of the way hockey announcers always holler about NINE MISSED SHOTS SO FAR FOR THE CANUCKS THIS GAME!! and shit like that without putting it in context. You don't need to grasp the intricacies of statistical analysis to understand that there's a big difference between nine missed shots on twelve attempts and nine missed shots on thirty-seven attempts, right? Absolute numbers don't tell the whole story.

So, because I'm the sort of person who's completely willing to devote an hour of my time to crunching numbers on the off chance that it might turn up some nifty results, I tallied the kudos/hits percentages of every one of my fics on AO3; that is, how many of the people who clicked on the fic ended up leaving kudos? This is one heuristic I use in deciding whether to click through to a fic myself--if it has 3 kudos on 900 hits, it's probably not going to be a great fic.

And holy SHIT was I surprised at my results. My most popular fics by absolute measures (hits and kudos individually) were scattered willy-nilly through the distribution. The bottom was mostly populated by my early bandom fic (whether because I was a shitty writer when I started out in bandom or because bandom took a while to warm up to the concept of kudos, I don't know for sure) and my top ten were, well:

1. Take Care (Teen Wolf), with 15.38%. JESUS CHRIST, TWOOF FANDOM. Sherlock fandom may bring the hits like no other, but you people follow through.

2. Ode to Badfic (meta poetry), with 12.01%. I guess tagging a work "iambic trimeter" and "poor life choices" effectively self-selects clickthroughs to people who will be likely to appreciate what lies within.

3. The Boards' Prayer (meta, um, prayer), with 11.23%. Yeah, I dunno about this one.

4. Unintended (Danger Days), with 10.88%. This is weirdly gratifying. I wrote this because I loved the idea, even though I knew no fic tagged "Party Poison/OFC" was going to get much attention, and sure enough it has under 200 hits... but hey, the people who bothered to give it a chance liked it.

5. Killjoy!Amanda Palmer drabble (Amanda Palmer, Danger Days), with 10.74%. I have no idea on this one either. I was on the fence about even bothering to post it to AO3 in the first place, since there's so little there.

6. dammit, put the condom on the banana (hockey RPF), with 9.58%. I'm amused about this one. Apparently hockey fandom likes crack. :P

7. Subjunctive Go (Hikaru no Go), with 9.23%. Really, legitimately surprised about this one.

8. I Only Have Teeth For You (hockey RPF), with 9.15%. See, this is the sort of fic I would have expected this little experiment to turn up, because I thought there might be a correlation between kudos/hits percentage and absolute numbers of kudos. But given that Highly Sticked and Bye Bye Blackhawk, my other two well-received Tazer/Kaner fics, both placed solidly in the middle of the pack by this measure... I have no clue.

9. why we write the stories (bandom, meta), with 8.59%. Interesting that this one is in the top ten. Maybe because it challenges fanon narratives and makes people think?

10. 'Splosions (bandom), with 8.49%. And the one actual straight-up bandom fic in the top ten by this measure is... the one where Dallon fanboys Gerard's comics work and then Gerard draws internal organs on him and then they bang. Whaaaaaat.

So this is not what I expected! It brings up a lot of questions, and I am currently actively preventing myself from conducting further analyses, because I have shit to do and there is very little point to this. But it's interesting to me, and I had fun with it!

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From greedy_dancer, the first lines of the last 21 fics I've posted (excluding poetry and meta):


1. Three days before Patrick leaves for Switzerland, he pauses their game and says to Tazer, "Hey, we're not exclusive, right?"

2. The Nuge won't tell Nail what he's in for.

3. "You're not going to cry, are you?"

4. Ryan looks like a dream: a little undefined around the edges, a little too perfect to be real.

5. In his entire life before becoming an international rock star, Brendon attended a grand total of one concert.

6. Carts comes out to Mike over the phone after two miserable months in Columbus.

7. "I'm just saying," a snub-nosed teenager is telling his friend as they climb up the bleachers over Patrick's head. "If you have to risk playing a sport, it's better to lose it and go furry with a net on a stick than with two six-inch sharpened blades of steel."

8. Patrick shuffles into the classroom twelve minutes late, tosses his backpack on the swivel chair behind the desk, and says, "Okay, kids, shut the hell up."

9. Derek doesn't even notice it becoming a running joke until it already is one.

10. Patrick's not out of control.

11. "I've got it," says Henrik, and slips the bill out from under Claude's reaching hand.

12. cmon u know u want to spend the rest of ur career lookin at crosbys ass, Zach texts, then looks up. "Sorry, what was that?"

13. Sometimes Brendon gets jostled out of himself and wobbles there like a jar lid wedged into its threads the wrong way, just barely not fitting.

14. Ryan has been approached by a lot of fans in public.

15. Patrick is actually rooting against the Blackhawks the day he wins the contest, which makes it kind of embarrassing when the jumbotron shows him going nuts about it in his Sabres jersey.

16. "Yes, Kaner," Sharpy's saying as Jonny sits down next to them with a beer. "It would indeed be gay to measure your teammates' dicks to find out whose is biggest."

17. The kid is unplanned, but then so is everything in the zones.

18. When Matt suggests to Ryan that "Somebody That I Used To Know" might work for Glee, he doesn't actually mean as a duet by estranged siblings.

19. Frank Iero's first word was "annihilate."

20. Gerard would be killing twice as many dracs right now if his fucking spacebar would quit sticking.

21. "It doesn't get better."


That's 10 hockey fics, 5 bandom fics, a Teen Wolf fic, an explicitly non-bandom Killjoys fic, a tiny ficlet for an Oscar-bait movie with zero fandom presence, a hockey/Teen Wolf crossover, a hockey/bandom crossover, and a Glee RPF fic. More variety than I expected, to be honest; it feels like I've been writing nothing but hockey fic for the last year or so.

ETA: I just noticed that there are mentions in five of these first lines of four different characters named Ryan from three different fandoms. What is it with me and Ryans?

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Everyone's doing this meme, and while I usually try to restrict my activity on this journal to actual fandom stuff, it occurs to me that that means some of you might not know the basics. So:

FIRST NAME: Julia.

AGE: 22.

LOCATION: Seattle, Washington.

OCCUPATION: Neurophysiology researcher, currently studying sweet taste in humans. I've had this job for two and a half years, four if you count my last year and a half of college when I volunteered for the lab doing basically the same work I get paid to do now. My grant funding is running out soon, though, so I'm looking for something else, hopefully more on the cognitive/behavioral side of neuroscience. I don't particularly love receptor modulation.

PARTNER: I've been with projectyl since I was seventeen, and we've been living together since 2009. I have a few other label-avoidant Regular Things scattered around the country, too, but Mike is the only one I consider a partner right now.

KIDS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their parents need them kept alive for a few hours, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.

BROTHERS/SISTERS: Three brothers: one a couple years older than me who's studying astrophysics, one a few years younger who wants to be a French translator, and an eight-year-old whose career plans probably involve video games.

PETS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their owners need them kept alive for a few days, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.

PARENTS: My mom and stepdad live in Chicago (and are currently having a ball trolling me about the complete lack of shits they give about the Hawks' undefeated performance this season). My stepdad is a biological research professor. Mom has worn many a hat in her life, including programming, massage therapy, newspaper editorship, bridal hair design, and sex toy retail, but right now she's staying home with the little guy. My dad lives in California, I think. We don't talk.

3-5 BIGGEST THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE:

1. Hockey. This game has taken over my life to the extent that my friends (in at least two different social circles, without knowing about each other) have taken to yelling the word "HOCKEY!" when they need to get my attention or want to distract me from something. It works.

2. Fandom. I have an amazing online support network that's always there to squee with me, listen to me whine, kick my ass into being productive, help me become a better writer and editor, and teach me new things every day. You guys are the best.

3. Puzzles. A huge chunk of my friends are from various puzzle organizations and events, and Japanese-style logic puzzles are right up there with tropefic on my list of comfort activities when I've had a hard day.

4. Brains. I study them for work, of course, but I think about them all the time. They're just really cool and weird and surprising and capable and always relevant to absolutely everything. I'm incredibly glad I've taken the time to learn how they work, because my whole outlook on the world completely changed when I did.

5. Cooking. I am vegan and I enjoy debunking people's misconceptions about the capacity of vegan food to be fucking awesome. Would you like some pasta with sweet-and-spicy peanut sauce? I have leftovers from dinner.

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I did this meme last year, and now I am doing it again! Feel free to gank if you like--I'm always interested in hearing what people have to say about their fic.

Fics I wrote this year:
Incubus? You Hardly Know Us! (bandom, Frank/Mikey and Frank/Jamia)
Two Industrial Loads On Hot (bandom, Frank/Gerard)
Psychophysical Examinations of Perceptual Effects of Differential Somatic Stimulation (or: Fuck Off And Leave My Bloody Balls Alone, Would You, Sherlock?) (Sherlock, Sherlock/John)
The White Parade (bandom, Pete/Mikey)
sing it for the n00bs (bandom, Frank/Gerard)
A Man, A Plan, A Cataclysm: Cold-Blooded War (bandom, Frank/Mikey)
Hat-Switching (Glee RPF, Matt Bomer/Darren Criss)
Squeaking Through The Five-Hole (hockey RPF, Mike Smith/Corey Crawford)
Unintended (Killjoys, gen)
Highly Sticked (hockey RPF, Kaner/Tazer)
Bye Bye Blackhawk (hockey RPF, Kaner/Tazer)
Two-On-One (bandom/hockey RPF, RyRo/Richie/Carts)
Definition (bandom, Brendon/Dallon nonsexual kink)
Land of the Free (hockey RPF, Zach Parise/Ryan Suter)
Scoring Off The Crossbar (hockey RPF, Lundqvist/Giroux/BizNasty)
go all out (hockey RPF, Kaner-centric gen)
Ode to Badfic (meta, Your Favorite Character/The Character Your Favorite Character Belongs With)
Take Care (Teen Wolf, Stiles/Derek)
How To Grow The Perfect Playoff Beard In One Simple Chomp (Teen Wolf/hockey RPF, Kaner/Derek)
dammit, put the condom on the banana (hockey RPF, Kaner-centric gen)
Dominating In The Playoffs (hockey RPF, Richie/Carts)
Knowing Me, Knowing You (bandom, Brendon/Ryan and Brendon/Spencer)

Total number of fics: 22
Total wordcount: 101,551

My favorite story of mine this year: "The White Parade." I love the serial-assisted-suicide concept, and I'm really happy with how the fic turned out.

My best story: I think probably "sing it for the n00bs." It wasn't as popular as the Sherlock one or the pack-mom-Stiles one in absolute numbers, but the comments I got on it were definitely more substantive, and it has a stupid number of kudos given the context of the kudoing habits of the fandom (I think it's something like the fifth most-kudoed bandom fic on AO3 right now).

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: "Definition," maybe? It's short and not about sex, so it didn't get a whole ton of attention, but it helped me articulate some things about nonsexual kink that I hadn't been able to put into words in the abstract.

Most fun story: I think "Highly Sticked" was the most fun to write. Hee hee hee, penises.

Most sexy story: Of course this depends on personal taste, but given my penchant for reluctance and yielding to temptation, I'm gonna say "Hat-Switching."

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: "How To Grow The Perfect Playoff Beard In One Simple Chomp." While I was writing that, I don't think I ever managed to get through a thousand words without saying to someone, "I can't believe I'm writing Patrick Kane/Derek Hale. What. What even am I."

Story with single sexiest moment: People seemed to like the bit in "Bye Bye Blackhawk" when Tazer finally starts throwing Kaner around.

Story with single sweetest moment: I'm gonna say "Incubus? You Hardly Know Us!" because I just really like Jamia expressing her love and support through buttfucking. (Whaaat, sweet isn't really my thing.)

Most unintentionally *telling* story: "Psychophysical Examinations" was certainly telling, in that it is impossible to read that fic without coming away shaking your head about how hilariously science-nerdy the author is.

Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: "Take Care" settled a few things about my TW personal fanon that had been bothering me about the generally accepted fanon.

Biggest disappointment: The reaction "A Man, A Plan, A Cataclysm: Cold-Blooded War" got from the person whose art prompted it. That situation made me step away from gift fic challenges, probably for good.

Biggest surprise: The amazing podfic of "sing it for the n00bs" that podcath made. I had no idea that was in the works, and it was just totally fucking jaw-dropping to get a related-work notification from AO3 and realize that someone had put so much work into my fic.

Hardest story to write: "Knowing Me, Knowing You." Dear god in hell.

Easiest story to write: "Unintended" and "go all out" were both the kind of story that randomly started knocking on the inside of my skull and just needed to be let out.

This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most: This year's theme, in my fandom life as well as in everything I did, was hockey. I think "Land of the Free" demonstrates that most, in that it was supposed to be about Zach Parise and Ryan Suter being buddyfucking bros and ended up basically just being one long love letter to NHL free agency, with a brief interlude for phone sex. Because okay, sex, whatever, but hockey.

Amount of fic that lurks, unposted, on your hard drive and why: 21,167 words of fic, 7,872 words of notes. Because sometimes things aren't done yet.

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Psychophysical Examinations of Perceptual Effects of Differential Somatic Stimulation (or: Fuck Off And Leave My Bloody Balls Alone, Would You, Sherlock?): 5904 hits. Sherlock fandom is... really big. o.o

Sex Scenes Your New Boyfriend's Too Vanilla To Read About: 2834 hits. Most of those were probably people doing a search for a tag, scrolling down, and going "WHOA, THAT IS A LOT OF KINKY TAGS. What the crap IS this?"

sing it for the n00bs: 1647 hits. I believe this is the most hits of any RBB fic posted on AO3, which is incomprehensible to me because RBB had some seriously amazing fics.

Sugar Daddy (We're Goin' Down): 734 hits. Fake boyfriends + high school AU + age difference = clickthroughs.

Two Industrial Loads On Hot: 630 hits. No idea why this one is up there on hit count.

This Anus Scene, It's An Arms Race: 605 hits. Porn studio AU, not surprising people would be interested.

Thank You For The Music: 564 hits. Slave AU--another trope that tends to attract people.

GSA (Stands For Get Some Ass): 518 hits. High school douchebag fic--again, a popular trope.

Most Likely To Succeed: 466 hits. I cannot react to this fic's relative popularity with anything but endless lol. Gerard/Spencer, people. Gerard. Slash. SPENCER. XD

Testosterone Girls & Harlequin Boys: 461 hits. I'm actually surprised to see this in the top ten--it didn't feel like it got much of a reaction at the time, and one of the main pairings is f/f, which is never much good for hit counts. But prisonfic, which. Trope.

Upshot: to get more hits on AO3, I should be writing more tropefic, massively kinky fic, and Sherlock. Well, uh, I'm pretty sure I'll never stop writing kink!

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