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2020 Fic Year In Review
Jan. 4th, 2021 05:27 pmWhat's this, a post? From me? Yeah. It's Year in Review time. I probably will stay pretty inactive over here, simply due to putting my energy elsewhere, but hey.
2020 Fic Review
General Fic Stats: 38 fics and one stand-alone art piece (assuming I counted correctly, plus five collaborations where I did art and am listed as a co-creator), for a total of 130,962 words. 16,804 hits and 1512 kudos shared among them.
Favorite Fic: Under His Skin (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, T)
Ooh gosh, that's a difficult one, so many to choose from. I think I've got to nominate "Under His Skin" because it was very silly, fun to write, and really pushed me into meeting more people in the Kylux fandom.
Funniest Fic: Slenderman Eggs and Ham (Slenderman computer games, Green Eggs and Ham... fandom?, Slenderman/Reader, T)
Does this one really count? I posted it in 2020, but I originally wrote it back in 2012. It certainly is silly.
Cutest Fic: Licensed to... Something (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, T)
I didn't really write a lot of stuff that could count as "cute" in 2020? I think this is the closest y'all are getting. Fluffy license plate thievery.
Kinkiest Fic: If It’s Possible to Die of Embarrassment, At Least You’re Already in the ER Waiting Room (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
Hhhh, I don't know. I'm nominating this one simply for the tag "improper use of peanut butter" (offscreen).
Saddest Fic: All the Lives We Leave Behind (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Logan Lucky, Hux/Clyde Logan, E)
A rather rare adjacents pair, this one ended up kinda depressing, but very in character.
Most Popular Fic: High Tide, Night Sky (MCU, Steve/Bucky, E)
I'm judging popularity by kudos here (but it also has the most hits of the fics I wrote this year). The fic at the top of my stats list for 2020 is way more popular, in both hits and kudos, but I'm only listed as co-creator as the bang artist, for that one.
Least Popular Fic: When the Flood Calls (MCU, Howard Stark/Hank Pym, M)
Counting by kudos, this was not a very popular fic, but eh. Rarepair.
Most Cringe-Worthy Fic: Content warning! Dead Dove! Making Amends to the Dead (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
Cringeworthy because, holy Dead Dove, Batman! Read and heed the tags! Not cringeworthy as I cringe at my writing ability, but the subject matter is... not nice.
Most Challenging Fic: Certain as the Sun (MCU, Sam/Steve, T)
Pretty much anything longer than 10k or with more than two, maybe three characters is Challenging, for me. I am not naturally a longfic writer and wrangling too many characters at once is Hard. I can do it, but it involves a lot of wailing and scrolling back and forth hoping I didn't introduce giant plot holes or stuff like that.
Honorable Mention: We're Shadows in the Rain (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
My first Star Wars fic to cross 1000 hits. This one was just over-all a good experience. Also, weird Force tentacles.
General Reflections: This was a year in flux. As the year began, I was still thoroughly ensconced in the MCU. Maybe feeling a little thin, but over-all fine. I had a couple bangs I was in, the Kink Bingo, I was branching out, trying new pairings. I was also kind of lying to myself that "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" and I wasn't drifting, no sir. I needed a change in scenery. The change came in July, when I wrote my first Star Wars fic. Maybe it was just something about 2020 that made me go "fuck it, we're shipping evil now." And thus began my descent into Kylux. And I rather like it here. As the unofficial (?) shipper "motto" goes, "Weird ship, weird people." Yes. Of my 39 works in 2020, 19 are Marvel, 19 are at least partially Star Wars, and 1 is Slenderman. According to my 2019 Year in Review DW post, I had more fics and more words written, but a lot fewer hits and kudos, but it's been A Year. And I'm also pretty happy in my little villainship corner, so whatevs, they're just numbers.
2020 Fic Review
General Fic Stats: 38 fics and one stand-alone art piece (assuming I counted correctly, plus five collaborations where I did art and am listed as a co-creator), for a total of 130,962 words. 16,804 hits and 1512 kudos shared among them.
Favorite Fic: Under His Skin (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, T)
Ooh gosh, that's a difficult one, so many to choose from. I think I've got to nominate "Under His Skin" because it was very silly, fun to write, and really pushed me into meeting more people in the Kylux fandom.
Funniest Fic: Slenderman Eggs and Ham (Slenderman computer games, Green Eggs and Ham... fandom?, Slenderman/Reader, T)
Does this one really count? I posted it in 2020, but I originally wrote it back in 2012. It certainly is silly.
Cutest Fic: Licensed to... Something (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, T)
I didn't really write a lot of stuff that could count as "cute" in 2020? I think this is the closest y'all are getting. Fluffy license plate thievery.
Kinkiest Fic: If It’s Possible to Die of Embarrassment, At Least You’re Already in the ER Waiting Room (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
Hhhh, I don't know. I'm nominating this one simply for the tag "improper use of peanut butter" (offscreen).
Saddest Fic: All the Lives We Leave Behind (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Logan Lucky, Hux/Clyde Logan, E)
A rather rare adjacents pair, this one ended up kinda depressing, but very in character.
Most Popular Fic: High Tide, Night Sky (MCU, Steve/Bucky, E)
I'm judging popularity by kudos here (but it also has the most hits of the fics I wrote this year). The fic at the top of my stats list for 2020 is way more popular, in both hits and kudos, but I'm only listed as co-creator as the bang artist, for that one.
Least Popular Fic: When the Flood Calls (MCU, Howard Stark/Hank Pym, M)
Counting by kudos, this was not a very popular fic, but eh. Rarepair.
Most Cringe-Worthy Fic: Content warning! Dead Dove! Making Amends to the Dead (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
Cringeworthy because, holy Dead Dove, Batman! Read and heed the tags! Not cringeworthy as I cringe at my writing ability, but the subject matter is... not nice.
Most Challenging Fic: Certain as the Sun (MCU, Sam/Steve, T)
Pretty much anything longer than 10k or with more than two, maybe three characters is Challenging, for me. I am not naturally a longfic writer and wrangling too many characters at once is Hard. I can do it, but it involves a lot of wailing and scrolling back and forth hoping I didn't introduce giant plot holes or stuff like that.
Honorable Mention: We're Shadows in the Rain (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Kylo/Hux, E)
My first Star Wars fic to cross 1000 hits. This one was just over-all a good experience. Also, weird Force tentacles.
General Reflections: This was a year in flux. As the year began, I was still thoroughly ensconced in the MCU. Maybe feeling a little thin, but over-all fine. I had a couple bangs I was in, the Kink Bingo, I was branching out, trying new pairings. I was also kind of lying to myself that "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" and I wasn't drifting, no sir. I needed a change in scenery. The change came in July, when I wrote my first Star Wars fic. Maybe it was just something about 2020 that made me go "fuck it, we're shipping evil now." And thus began my descent into Kylux. And I rather like it here. As the unofficial (?) shipper "motto" goes, "Weird ship, weird people." Yes. Of my 39 works in 2020, 19 are Marvel, 19 are at least partially Star Wars, and 1 is Slenderman. According to my 2019 Year in Review DW post, I had more fics and more words written, but a lot fewer hits and kudos, but it's been A Year. And I'm also pretty happy in my little villainship corner, so whatevs, they're just numbers.
