I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

FANDOMS WRITTEN IN 2013
Wizards of Waverly Place, DCU, Teen Wolf, Marvel 616, Rookie Blue, Once Upon a Time, The O.C., The Almighty Johnsons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

FIC WRITTEN IN 2013

April
When Life Gives Me Lemons, I Make … Something (Wizards of Waverly Place, Justin/Alex)

May
A Dinosaur, A Giant Penny, And Two Hundred Chocolate Eggs (DCU, Steph, Dick, Damian, Cass)

June
Positive Tension (Teen Wolf, Scott/Danny)
Women In Garbage (Marvel 616, Clint/Kate)
No One Takes Your Freedom (DCU, Donna, Koriand'r)

August
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Marvel 616, Noh-Varr/Kate)

October
Hero For Hire (Marvel 616, Jessica Jones)

November
Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Rookie Bue, Gail/Holly)
Through Smoke (Once Upon a Time, Aurora/Mulan)
Take On Me (The O.C., Ryan/Summer)

December
OMG Dinosaurs! (Wizards of Waverly Place, Justin/Alex)
Let's Get Down To Business (The Almighty Johnsons, Dawn, Anders)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Cop (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake/Amy)

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Without spoiling anything (I'm pretty sure), I was going over my yuletide fic again and realised - sadly, not for the first time - that every single fic I write is exactly the same. Basically:

- Characters banter about stuff.

- Then shenanigans! Hijinks of various and sundry kinds ensue.

- Makeouts.

- Now they're ~sexy bantering.

- End with some sort of indication that the characters are totally going to hook up again.

Ta da, now you're a story! And I mean, it's not like I really care? Because obviously the kind of fic I like to read and/or write, but, you know, it's a tiny bit depressing to realise you can only really do one thing, and you just keep doing it over and over. Also, I cannot end fics to save my life. ENDINGS, WHAT ARE THEY. And writing sexy kissing is hard! I keep coming up with possible lines and then being EW NO THAT'S ACTUALLY GROSS NOT SEXY, and so all my makeout scenes end up being pretty much the same. Oops!

But anyway, I finished editing my yuletide fic! And I picked up a pinch hit, and I'd really like to write some treats but it's like 7pm on Christmas Eve, so probably not. Also, my main fic is super obviously mine, so I probably won't be doing the whole 'guess which yuletide fic I wrote' thing this year, since I'm pretty sure it couldn't be any more obviously written by me if it had my name on it. ANYWAY I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT YULETIDE THOUGH. AND THEN FESTIVIDS IN JANUARY. SO GREAT.

Happy birthday notalwaysweak and earnmysong!

Also, not_primetime reveals are up. I wrote:

No One Takes Your Freedom (1906 words) by amathela
Fandom: DCU - Comicverse, Teen Titans (Comics), Titans (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Koriand'r, Donna Troy
Summary: Donna and Kory bust up an intergalactic slave trading ring. (With a little help from the rest of the Titans. Arguably.)

The fic written for me was In Perfect Light aka. STEPHANIE BROWN AS A BLUE LANTERN aka. possibly the exchange fic most perfectly tailored to my exact tastes I've ever received. STEPHANIE BROWN. BLUE LANTERN.

<3

Happy birthday, the_antichris!

So, that AO3 meme going around:

( Sorted by hit count )

( Sorted by kudos )

So. Avengers, am I right? And yuletide - I'm not surprised that seven out of my ten highest-kudos fics were yuletide fics, since I tend to hang out in small fandoms year-round, so obviously yuletide is going to provide a decent forum for that. (The only small fandom fic not written for yuletide on that list is Wizards of Waverly Place, which, also not surprising.) What was surprising was Team Building 101 - I had no idea it was that popular, but it makes me super happy. Also No Heroics, since Doom is a downright nonexistent fandom outside of yuletide.

On the other hand, I think the list sorted by hit count is probably more representative of my general body of work (it's a lot of Wizards of Waverly Place and Disney RPF, which, yeah). And there are a few fics that show up on both lists, though I think the second list is more heavily populated by fics I posted directly to AO3 when I wrote them, rather than crossposting long after the fact (which is the case with most of my fics); I don't know if that makes much of a difference, but it seems like maybe a little? And if I had to make a top ten list of my own favourite fics, it's probably look a bit like a hybrid of both lists, with a few other/older fics thrown in, so I guess that's not bad.

One last interesting thing: If you sort by comment threads instead, most of the same fics still pop up, but The Déjà Fait Fate Destabilizer (The Middleman, Ensemble) gets in at number six, so I guess Middleman fans just really like talking about it? Small fandoms represent!

Since I wrote pretty much nothing all year (until yuletide, when I wrote ALL THE THINGS), I figured I wouldn't restrict this to just fic, because what would be the point? So, things I made posted in 2012:

FANFICTION
Occupied (Diplomatic Immunity, Ensemble)
Heavily Armoured (DCU, Dick/Steph)
Scavenger Hunting Is Extremely Likely Disastrous (S.H.I.E.L.D) (Avengers, Sif/Darcy)
And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt (New Girl, Nick/Jess)
Advanced Practical Stealth Techniques (or, Things That Weren't In The Course Catalogue) (Princess Protection Program, Carter/Rosie)

VIDS
Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny (The Middleman, Ensemble)

FANMIXES
Past = Prologue (Doom, John/Sam)
Love In The Time Of Zombies (Doom, John/Sam)
Ever After (Doom, John/Sam)
I'm Not Your Boyfriend (The Office, Ryan/Kelly)

PICSPAMS
How To Solve A Fake Love Triangle (With Llamas) (Big Time Rush, Kendall/Jo)
Big Time Bingo (Big Time Rush, Ensemble)
Sometimes I Just Do Stuff (Big Time Rush, Carlos)
I Guess You're Fans Of The Cliché (Big Time Rush, Ensemble)

I have had the hardest time trying to write lately, ugh, I swear I used to be able to do this. (The most I've managed lately was about 800 words for the porn battle, and even then I could only write part of a fic.) But! I am super excited about upcoming writing things! First I got my assignment for rarewomen, which is amazing and so is my recipient, basically my biggest problem there is deciding what [redacted] to write, there are so many great choices and my recipient gave options for basically everything I would want to write BUT I CAN'T WRITE ALL OF THEM I'M PRETTY SURE I HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION.

And then there was fandom_helps. Where I won things! And the person who won me wants me to write PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM, YOU GUYS I TOTALLY GOT THIS. Disney backslide: Totally in progress. And I know I watched it on New Years but OOPS, I THINK IT'S TIME TO REWATCH ALREADY ONLY FOR FIC PURPOSES OBVIOUSLY, UGH MY LIFE IS SO HARD. Maybe this time without the drinking game?

... Oh, who am I kidding, the only thing better than princessing it up is drunk princessing it up, THE REST OF MY DAY IS TOTALLY SORTED.

FANDOMS WRITTEN POSTED IN 2011

Covert Affairs, Everwood, Glee, Legend of the Seeker, Make It or Break It, Parks & Recreation, Rookie Blue, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Stargate Atlantis, The West Wing, and Wizards of Waverly Place.


FICS POSTED IN 2011

January
Team Drama (Make It Or Break It)
She Thinks She's The Dispassionate One (Parks & Recreation)
Sex Is Not The Enemy (But You Still Are) (Legend Of The Seeker)
Conjure Hell Is All I Do (Snow White: A Tale Of Terror)
Amusement Shark Rides (Wizards Of Waverly Place)

February
Set Fire To This Town (The West Wing)

April
Space Invaders (Wizards of Waverly Place)

May
Under Covers (Covert Affairs)
Dictionaries For Dummies (Sexicon Remix) (Glee)

August
Observe And Report (Rookie Blue)
Spies Like Us (Stargate Atlantis)
A Series Of (Un)fortunate Events (Rookie Blue)
For All My Crimes Of Self Defense (Rookie Blue)
31 Flavours (Rookie Blue)
Then All That You Built Will Come Tumbling Down (Rookie Blue)
Things You Can't Learn From Books (Everwood)


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Right now I'm about 4000 words into a Rookie Blue OT3 fic, which at the moment is pretty much entirely composed of Gail and Dov bickering and Chris being adorable and/or vaguely chagrined at them. It's possibly the most pointless thing I've ever written, but at the same time I love it so much.

Also, while we're here, can we please talk about the promo for the next episode? ( Spoilers under the cut )

Okay, so, I actually do remember saying I wasn't going to up and vanish again this year. But! Technically I haven't been gone, just not posting a lot, I'm still up to date on my friends list etc. So, since I haven't been active enough to post one of these in a while, here's a roundup of everything I've been up to since January (hint: not a lot).


Under Covers (Covert Affairs - Annie, Auggie - PG - 3058 words) Auggie's sick (but not if you ask him). Annie's playing nurse (but not if you ask her).

Dictionaries For Dummies (Sexicon Remix) (Glee - Brittany/Santana - R - 1341 words) Four words Brittany doesn't know (and one she kind of does).

Set Fire To This Town (The West Wing - Josh/Donna - NC-17 - 4657 words) What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? Spoilers up to episode 6:15 - Freedonia.

Space Invaders (Wizards of Waverly Place - Justin/Alex - PG-13 - 16,945 words) Justin was right. (Of course.) Which sucks for Alex. Especially since it means aliens are now on their way to Earth, and, oh yeah, they want to destroy the world. So, someone should probably stop them? Spoilers up to episode 4:1 - Alex Tells The World.


... and a vid:

Don't Stop Movin' (Primeval, Ensemble) Team ARC = awesome. (Mostly.)


Firstly: OMG West Wing fic. No, I'm not going through a fannish resurgence, just posting fic I wrote ... three or so years ago? I have no idea why I didn't post it at the time, but oh well, it's done now. (I actually have more of these somewhere, I think, but since they're just comment fics I'll probably leave them.)

Secondly: Accomplishments, yay! For a while there I legit wasn't sure I'd actually finish my apocabigbang fic (the horrors!), but I pulled through. Note to self: procrastination does not work on big bangs. I also managed to get my helpbrazil2011 fic done, which is of the good; I actually had a bit of a mixed experience with charity auctions this time around, since my qldfloodauction bidder never got back to me, nor did one of the people whose fic I won, but I guess that kind of thing happens. The fic I did end up getting, however, was fantastic - lotus0kid wrote me Better Off Ted fic, and you should totally read it if you're into that kind of thing (aka. the kind of thing that is amazing).

And I wrote a pinch hit for remix, which was fun, since I talked myself out of actually signing up this time around (disappointing, but realistically a very good idea). I'm totally doing apocalyptothon, though.

Thirdly: I signed up for femslash11! Which should be okay, since I have holidays coming up in a few weeks, and I really love this ficathon. Also, if there's anybody out there who shares my fandoms (*cough* Sonny With a Chance) and wanted to maybe sign up too, that would be okay. Or whatever.

So, remember back when I said I wasn't going to disappear for months at a time again? Yeah, that didn't work out so much. And I can't promise it won't happen again, but I'm going to make an effort to at least keep up with my friends list (I managed to get up to ?skip=1000 before LJ wouldn't let me go back any further, and there were still unread posts before that). Basically, I miss fandom like crazy. But, stuff I have been doing lately:

+ Grad school. This is, like, 95% of my life lately. Ugh.

+ Volunteer jobs (x2). Super fun, but between these and school and having an actual social life, I really haven't had time for anything else.

+ Trying to finish existing fic commitments. My apocabigbang fic is finished and sent in and ready to post (yay!); helpbrazil2011 not so much, but I'm working on it. Ugh, major guilt.

+ Watching Victorious. Guys, I think Beck/Jade is my new OTP, they are so amazing. If anybody out there actually watches this, come squee with me.

That's about it. Yeah, my life is super boring. But now I'm (finally!) on break, so I have about a week to get things done before I'm swamped again. I can do this! Right?