End of Year Fic Roundup Meme
A perfect excuse for navel-gazing!
Hee! I saw this on various journals last year. Finally, this year, when I have actually written stuff, I can do it. Excitement! To all you fic writers on my F-list: please to be following my example, I want to be all meta about fic and writing and ooh and aah over your stuff. Yis.
So, it turns out I posted 14 fanfics in 2006. More than I thought. (I say posted because I started more fics than I finished and have several in WIP-status. Also, there’s at least one story in the list that was started in 2005…)
Alphabetised by fandom (with short quotes, because I felt like it.
Five Things That Make Sam Tyler Want To Stay (Gen, PG)
The smell of cigarette smoke and booze is so strong he can taste it, the press and heat of bodies making his skin tingle. Sam wants to spread his arms wide open, like a butterfly pinned down mid-flight, unable to do anything but accept the impossible.
To Have and To Hold Down (Chris/Ray with implied Chris/Sam and Gene/Sam, NC-17)
Ray’s hands were digging into the vulnerable skin of his back and Chris imagined bruises that would bloom there tomorrow, black and purple flowers of lust.
Was Blind But Now I See (Gene/Sam pre-slash, PG-13) – written for the first Life on Mars Ficathon
Sam was sitting, head thrown back, on the battered sofa in his boss’ office and counting the ceiling tiles. He was up to two-hundred-and-sixty-four and Gene had yet to stop laughing.
Robin Hood
if you are the rhyme and i the refrain (Much/Robin, NC-17)
It’s too soon and it hurts.
But that’s good, that’s fine, it’s what they need. Because Robin wakes up each morning expecting pain, and so does Much, so isn’t it better that it comes like this, from someone you love?
Scrubs Check-up (JD/Cox pre-slash, PG-13) – written for Five Things JD Doesn't Like About Dr. Cox (no he doesn't, no of course not, why would you say that?) (JD/Cox pre-slash, PG) Stargate Atlantis Atlantis Santa (McKay/Zelenka, PG) – written for Five Things Carson and Rodney Share (and never thought they would) (McKay/Beckett, PG-13) Five Ways Radek and Elizabeth Got John Into Bed (Sheppard/Weir/Zelenka, NC-17) Points of Origin (mostly Gen with hints of McKay/Beckett, R) Simple Pleasures (McKay/Beckett, PG) – written for Time to Sleep (McKay/Beckett, PG-13) Transitional Period (Stackhouse/Markham, PG-13) – written for Supernatural Every Line is the Second Last (Dean/Sam, R) Story most underappreciated by the universe: Transitional Period. I have already discussed the whys and hows of this in the Unloved Fic Promo Party so those interested can check my post about it there (the first comment). Most fun story: To write (and hopefully to read). Oh the Scrubs fics, no contest. Can’t really pick one over the other, but for some reason I find it incredibly easy to write JD’s voice. And there’s something very liberating to have a legitimate reason to write in first person. Compared to SGA and SPN, writing Scrubs is like a holiday. Fluffiest story: Atlantis Santa, no doubt there. I wanted to write some unapologetic Christmas fluff and that I did. May cause cavities Most angsty story: I’m going to say Every Line is the Second Last. While Points of Origin was rather angsty, it at least had a hopeful ending. This? Not so much. Most sexy story: To Have and To Hold Down - that is, if you by sexy you mean porny. Uh. There’s lots of graphic sex and I’ve been told it actually manages to be hot so… Story with the single sexiest moment: if you are the rhyme and i the refrain. The part where Robin realises what Much is going to do, and lets him. And the following kiss. Hardest story to write: Five Things That Make Sam Tyler Want To Stay totally kicked my ass five ways to Sunday. I have no idea why…Partly perhaps because I’m not yet comfortable with Sam Tyler’s character voice. And partly because it was Gen, so the love/lust motivation was out of the picture and that is somewhat unfamiliar territory for me.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
sitcomathon
“What? No chick-flick moment? I’m disappointed Wilma, I really am. Aren’t you going to tell me ‘it wasn’t my fault’ over and over until I break down and cry on your scrawny shoulder?”
We were squaring off like two cheerleaders before state finals, but there was no doubt who’d win this round. Turk may have bigger pom-poms but my splits were to die for, smooth and sweet like vanilla milkshake.sga_santa
This was great. He couldn't believe his luck. He'd expected someone difficult to figure out, someone he didn't know or like but this... Radek read the name on the paper again. This was... what was that idiom again? Slice of pie.
How ironic that this kiss should make him as dizzy as all the others before it.
The hands coming to rest on his shoulders are hesitant, but less so than he expected.
Rodney never thought he would love so many people.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
notmcshep AU challenge
‘Delicious’ was a woefully inadequate word for describing the food at McKay’s.
In the delicate web of time and quiet stretching between them, questions and answers tangle together, easy to see.sgarareathon
Pulling Adam into a fierce embrace, he threw his head back and laughed and laughed, tears close but not falling.
For it was a joyous, unbound thing – love in transition.
Dean’s never been the one to draw the lines, so it makes a weird kind of sense that he’s not the one crossing them either.
Some of these questions would be best answered by readers. If any of you who have randomly staggered to my LJ suddenly decide that you have nothing better to do, I would certainly be interested in your opinions about what was my best/worst/funniest/sexiest/etc. story. As always, don’t be afraid to drop some concrit my way.
Best story this year: Points of Origin. (Every Line is the Second Last coming in a narrow second). You know when you post something you think is good and then a few months later you go and re-read it and realise that it really wasn't anything special. Well. A year later, and I still like the story.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Erm. I don’t think I’ve done anything really scandalous. Every Line is the Second Last included incest. To Have and To Hold Down had some pretty graphic BDSM sex and an unpopular pairing. In a more general fannish note I could talk about Robin Hood and tree!porn, which was one of those ‘ooops, I started what now?’ things.
Biggest Disappointment: Simple Pleasures. I know, weird right? The story was well received and I quite liked the idea and premise. It’s just that the actual execution… I felt bored when I was writing it and reading it now doesn’t make me like it any more. That fic just doesn’t seem to have any spirit in it, and to me it feels very blah.
Biggest Surprise: Every Line is the Second Last was a surprise in three ways: 1) Supernatural totally and utterly broke my incest squick and made me want to read and write lyrical prose about two brothers getting it on. Which, you know, a bit of a surprise to yours truly. 2) It was my first story in the SPN fandom, that is massive and populated by some amazingly talented writers. Therefore I was very surprised at how well it was received. 3) It was never supposed to be my first story in the fandom. The plot completely ploughed me over and dragged me away from another (as yet unfinished and unpublished) SPN story.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: This is a bit of an evil question. Points of Origin was, in many ways, a very personal story to write. Every Line is the Second Last possibly revealed that there are even less lines (in writing) that I won’t cross than I thought. Hands up who was surprised.
Next week: Fic plans for this year. Will take form as one of those WIP-memes where you post a paragraph of all your WIPs in an effort to encourage your F-list to kick you on the backside about finishing at least some of them. AKA more navel-gazing. Look, bellybutton fluff!
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