fanwork round-up 2019

LIST OF FANWORKS

NSFW is denoted with an asterisk. All Good Omens is Aziraphale/Crowley unless noted. 

the last witness before the wave hits (Good Omens, gen)
can you feel my heart beat fast (I want it to last, need you by my side) (Good Omens)
*well you laughed baby it's okay (it's buzzcut season anyway) (Good Omens)
take care to leave a trace (KOTOR 2; Jedi Exile/everybody, Jedi Exile/Visas Marr)
of some other man's belief (Good Omens, gen)
I've got this feeling, so appealing, for us to get together and sing (Good Omens, gen)
[archive-locked work] (RPF)
I knew that sullen hall (Good Omens/Dragon Age: Inquisition crossover)
*we gladiate but I guess we're really fighting ourselves (The Last Jedi; Finn/Poe/Rey/Rose)
healing spirit (Good Omens)
[archive-locked work] (RPF)
better than anything else that I've tried (Good Omens)
gotta blame it on the goose (Good Omens/Untitled Goose Game crossover)
*don't know you super well but you might be the same as me (Good Omens)
sleeping at last (Good Omens)
*don't need a crown to know that I'm a queen (Good Omens)
*just let me try (and I will be good to you) - an Anthonavery RPF (Slow Show)
*I can make you boil up baby, let it simmer (Slow Show)
an instrument of thy vision (Rise of Skywalker; Finn)
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I also did two challenges this year: Ineffable Fictober and Drabbletober.

TOTAL WORD COUNT

 

62423!!!

By fandom:
Good Omens: 36697
Star Wars: 7421
RPF: 5808
KOTOR 2: 2505
Dragon Age: Inquisition: 1105
Everything else (Critical Role, MCU, Hannibal, Mass Effect): 8887
 

OVERALL THOUGHTS

 

Oh god it was so good to get my words back, and not only that, surpass my word count for my previous best year. The past two years have been super fucking bad for writing, and to be able to write with ease and joy againi feels like a marvelous gift, and I am grateful.

 

And copypasta from last year, because it seems worth repeating: If, despite everything, you were able to produce work this year, congratulations. And if you couldn't, that's okay too. Next year will hopefully be better.

 

PERSONAL BEST/FAVORITE

I really do feel like I leveled up as a writer this year. The words were good and they came easily. I branched out a lot this year: RPF, really strange metafic, things that should be fic but the thing it's fic of doesn't actually exist. I had a lot of fun writing all of it.

 

MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED (IMO)

 

I feel like everything was appreciated the right amount. I would have loved more people to have seen I knew that sullen hall, but niche crossovers are hard to attract attention.
 

MOST POPULAR

well you laughed baby it's okay, aka the hair-pulling fic. People really seemed to like it an almost disproportionate amount to its length and quality. Maybe it was exactly what fandom wanted at the time. Also somebody tried to plagiarize it so I guess that must mean they liked it a lot. :P

 

STORY WITH THE SEXIEST MOMENT

Don't need a crown to know that I'm a queen. I like stories where characters know they're a snack and aren't afraid to show it off.
 

MOST FUN STORY TO WRITE

 

Gotta blame it on the goose, for sure. It's so silly.
 

STORY THAT SHIFTED MY OWN PERCEPTION OF A CHARACTER

 

I knew that sullen hall. I never spent a whole lot of time with Blackwall, so it was interesting to get into his head for a bit. And in the course of writing the story, I had to think about things that he and Aziraphale would have in common, and it was useful character work for both of them.
 

HARDEST

 

Of some other man's belief was a strange, recalcitrant story where I never really knew where I was going with it. All I know is it wanted to be written very very badly. 

 

BIGGEST SURPRISE/S

 

The fake RPF I did for the Slow Show universe. The everything I wrote in the Slow Show universe. But it was great fun, and the Warlock Party House is a wonderful group of people.

 

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT 

 

I wanted to get out a vid this year, but I don't think that's going to happen.

 

MOST UNINTENTIONALLY TELLING STORY

 

Like I say every year, all my shit is out in the open. 

 

FAVOURITE LINES/SCENES
 

Occasionally, as she is drifting off, she feels something shift in her awareness of him, like the brush of a hand on a curtain.(from we gladiate but I guess we're really fighting ourselves)

“Jesus fucking christ, angel. You can’t just say things like that.”

“Leave that poor boy out of this. Now tell me, do you like the red or the black better?” (from Ineffable Fictober prompt "anything you like")

He reached up to grab the other man’s hand, lacing their fingers together and squeezing. Come for me, he tried to communicate with his touch. Flood me with your release. (from just let me try. I was writing it intentionally badly but sometimes I'm not sure people got that 😆)

 

LINES/SCENES YOU’D CHANGE 

 

I try not to think about it because then I'll want to change them and then I'll never stop fiddling.

 

TOP FIVE SCENES YOU WISH WOULD BE ILLUSTRATED

The alley scene in can you feel my heart beat fast
Nanny, Warlock, and Aziraphale at the concert in I've got this feeling
Crowley tending Aziraphale's hands in healing spirit
This chapter (wings) from Ineffable Fictober
Crowley chasing after the goose

 

2020 WRITING AMBITIONS

As always, a look at last year's:
 

(Creative) Survival is still a laudable ambition. I will endeavor to produce as much as I can creatively, and hopefully exceed this year's incredibly pathetic word count. I haven't made a vid in a while, and I have a new NLE (VEGAS Pro 15) to take for a spin. Art is also part of resistance, and integrating it more into my life will be good. 

I think I did pretty well with the first two. Didn't make a vid, but I'm starting on one now. Good Omens was more important to me this year than I realized. Coming off Endgame, I needed something to feel excited about, and Good Omens is a very enthusiastic fandom. It also got me through the lead-up and release of Rise of Skywalker. 

For a while I was deeply suspicious a shoe was going to drop re: how much fun I was having in GO fandom because it felt too easy. People weren't wanking the day away (or I could avoid those that were) and they were so happy to love on the characters. And then I realized no, that's actually how it should feel to be in a fandom community. 

So I guess that's one of the things I'm going to do next year: prioritize joy, especially when it comes to fandom. I've never been exactly bad at writing whatever the fuck I want, but that is something I should continue to do. 

I would like to write something long with at least a modicum of plot. I am bad at both of these things, and it would be nice to prove to myself I can if I wanted to. 

I am going to try and make two vids next year and see if I can learn Vegas 15 and maybe another NLE. I also want to get a captioning/transcription guide up for fans who want to make their vids more accessible, as somebody asked about it.