BOOM! (writing/fic talk)

[kat_lair]

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Wow Kat, what's that sound? Well, glad you asked. It's the sound of me SMASHING through my 75k getyourwordsout goal! BOOM! We're currently >78k and there's still a day to go.

*smug*

Much of the words came from a) co-writing done with dreamersdare and b) because I churned over 24k for Spooktober fics/ficlets, even if some of that churning happened after Christmas lol. Posting most of them back-to-back was a really interesting experience actually and I have some reflections.

- Firstly, 31 different fandoms achieved. Was it hard? Lol no, I am extremely slutty when it comes to fandoms, so. There were three brand new ones: TXT, The Wheel of Time, and The Lost Boys.

- I looked for prompt lists but in the end didn't find one that I really liked so all the prompts/themes were ones I just associated with Halloween/autumn

- The balance of dark/fluff is probably still weighted toward the latter because of who I am like, as a person, but there was some gristle, gore and character death.

- I lost some subscribers during the month, assuming people who had followed me for a very specific fandom and then were like 'wtf is this?' but fam, you knew I was a snake multifandom slut when you took me in. But also, someone dropped out as an immediate effect of The Lost Boys ficlet which I thought was kind of funny. Assume the underage incest, no matter how vague, was too much. I, however, have also gained some subscribers so the net effect is about the same.

- Most stories were ficlets but quite a few refused to stay short enough to qualify

- Two ended up being additions to existing fics that needed to be changed to series.

- Co-dependent siblingcest is where it's at, four fics were on this theme

- Some fandoms are fucking thirsty: Watcher Entertainment/Buzzfeed Unsolved in specific (the thirst for demon!Shane is real and ongoing I see, and tbh I would expect nothing less from the fandom, carry on) but Hawaii Five-0 and The Witcher fandoms also still there, hoovering up new fic with enthusiasm.


I was always going to do a Spooktober Masterlist for my own amusement. I know I'm about to list all of these for the 2023 Fic Round Up soon (well... Sometime in Jan?) anyway but there everything will be by fandom so let me just induldge my love of lists *pets the list* so, here, Spooktober Fics in posting order (links will take you to AO3 but if you prefer DW for reading, everything is under the spooktober 2023 tag.

1. under his wing (TXT, Choi Soobin/Choi Yeonjun)
2. Reshaped (Supernatural, Dean/Sam)
3. Sweater Weather (Stray Kids, Kim Seungmin/Seo Changbin)
4. Apple (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Gretel/Hansel)
5. wolf at the door (Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius)
6. respect the diabolical (Ghost Files - Watcher Entertainment/Buzzfeed Unsolved, Shane/Ryan)
7. a familiar bond (Panic! at the Disco, Ryan/Spencer)
8. Pumpkin (The Hobbit, Bilbo/Thorin)
9. (softly, softly) from the shadows (The Wheel of Time, Moghedien)
10. Dinner Time (Life of Mars, Gene/Sam)
11. Trick or Treat (Star Trek AOS, Kirk/McCoy)
12. Light of Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tara/Willow)
13. dance me through the curtains (that our kisses have outworn) (Strictly Come Dancing RPF, Craig/Bruno)
14. Crossing (Scrubs, Perry & JD)
15. Remembrance (Robin Hood (BBC 2006), Much/Robin)
16. Graveyard Date (Grimm, Nick/Monroe)
17. Ablaze (My Chemical Romance, Gerard/Mikey)
18. it's not the song, it is the singing (Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny)
19. Halloween Pride (Hustlers, Destiny/Ramona)
20. Necessary Evil (Stargate Atlantis, Carson & Rodney)
21. been saving it all for you ('cause only love can last) (Guardian, Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng)
22. Black Blood (The Witcher, Geralt/Jaskier)
23. Hauntingly (Meet-)Cute (Fall Out Boy, Pete/Patrick)
24. Haze (Primeval, Nick/Stephen)
25. Midnight Premiere (The X-Files, Mulder/Scully)
26. Raven Bell (Lewis, Hathway & Lewis)
27. Senseless (NCIS, Tony/Tim)
28. Candlelit (Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock/John)
29. Tether (MCU, Bruce/Tony)
30. Delayed Reaction (The Lost Boys, Michael/Sam)
31. true colours (shining through) (BTS, Namjoon/Yoongi)

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I have signed up getyourwordsout again because I love their spreadsheets. I've gone for the 150k optimistically even though I've never achieved that. It's good to have goals or something?

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Finally, I wanted to flail about being podficced!!

The lovely pezzax_podfics podficced under his wing (TXT, Choi Soobin/Choi Yeonjun) and turned a tiny ficlet into a full-blown audio drama with music and sound effects and it is so, so extremely cool I absolutely lost mine when listening. Also, please appreciate the cover art! (akdkjsj wings!)

The most awesome pieces0fstars podficced Volcano (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) and holy shit the emotional impact the recording packs... Look, I obviously had a lot of emotions about the concepts which I wrote immediately after the song dropped. But the thing is, I wrote the fic so I knew what was in the fucker and yet, YET, I was absolutely choked up, clutching my heart, because the performance got that exact frayed, desperate edge I tried to convey in words and... Yeah, please listen.

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