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Fanfic Year in Review
I'm being pretty bad at posting on DW, what with life doing its thing and also my inability to talk about myself on the internet outside of a fandom context, but I did want to do a fanfic year in review post because it's been a prolific twelve months for me (despite all expectations) and everyone loves some soft data, right?
(I was going to add links to everything, but then that was a lot of work - all of these are easily findable on my AO3.)
January
Reverberance (24,954 words, The Untamed, MDZS Big Bang)
February
Blue Runs the Water (53,101 words, The Untamed)
March
so I live to know (3009 words, Guardian)
Bambi Eyes (4263 words, Guardian)
Lay to Rest (3645 words, Guardian)
April
Extravagant (5671 words, Guardian)
May
Bear With Me (975 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
Above as Below (11,209 words, Guardian, Guardian 520 Exchange)
Recast (8,057 words, DMBJ/Lost Tomb, collaboration with achray, Fangirlishness, Hils & teyla)
June
Remnant (6615 words, Guardian)
A Distracting Effort (4,461, Lost Tomb Reboot)
July
The Spring of Experience (10,761 words, Guardian)
Unburied (2740 words, Guardian)
August
Sartorial Splendour (6989 words, Guardian)
Settled (1929 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Pingxie Exchange)
September
One for the conspiracy theorists (4638 words, Guardian, Guardian Wishlist)
Flowers Blooming in the Night (2516 words, Guardian, Guardian Wishlist)
The Perils of Accounting (1042 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Guardian Wishlist)
October
Is or Isn't (1498 words, Guardian)
Down is Easy (20,931 words, Lost Tomb Reboot)
Unbearable (1375 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
After the Rains (4887 words, Cloudy Mountain)
November
However deep the Lake (11,081 words, Guardian)
Prompted (3165 words, Guardian, tumblr prompt fills)
December
in your vision (1831 words, Guardian)
irritation as usual (4953 words, Lost Tomb Reboot)
Find Your Bearings (2647 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
Entrapping Time (1434 words, Time Engraver Commercial, Yuletide treat)
Another Stream (1186 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Yuletide treat)
- 211,563 words in total
- December was the most prolific month by number of works
- October was the most prolific by total words written (leaving aside January’s fic, which was mainly written in 2020)
- Guardian was my most prolific fandom, with 18 works since March, followed by Lost Tomb Reboot with 7 since May
- Overall, I wrote in five fandoms, four of which are Zhu Yilong-related (go figure; I might as well call 2021 the Zhu Yilong year)
- Average word count: 7295
- Most popular fanwork: Blue Runs the Water by kudos, which is unsurprising given it’s by far the longest fic and in a far bigger fandom than the others; it’s followed by Extravagant, though, which was my fourth Guardian fic
I’ve got a lot of ideas, but thought I would put down at least the WIPs I’ve already written some words for, that I’m expecting to finish at some point.
Significant amount of words written:
- Hallows zine fic (done, just waiting for the zine to be put together)
- dark energy worldbuilding (done, will post soon)
- Dixing linguistics (done, currently in beta)
- Shen Wei & Li Qian, pre-canon identity reveal (mostly written, but I got distracted)
- Singer HPS AU (the first chapter is written, but this one promises to be long…)
- Accidental Marriage AU (a long first chapter is written, but this one also promises to be long…)
- Lighthouse Keeper (collaboration, timeline tbd)
- Trapped on either side of a barrier fic (this has been languishing since, um, April? Sigh)
Small amount of words written:
- Forest Weilan
- Bear Yashou AU
- Legend of Kunlun & HPS
- YOHE softness
Ideas whose writing is imminent:
- Wu Xie stabbing fic
… I have too many WIPs. Still, where fanfic is concerned, at least, it's been a good year. May 2022 continue that trend.
(I was going to add links to everything, but then that was a lot of work - all of these are easily findable on my AO3.)
Fic Written
January
Reverberance (24,954 words, The Untamed, MDZS Big Bang)
February
Blue Runs the Water (53,101 words, The Untamed)
March
so I live to know (3009 words, Guardian)
Bambi Eyes (4263 words, Guardian)
Lay to Rest (3645 words, Guardian)
April
Extravagant (5671 words, Guardian)
May
Bear With Me (975 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
Above as Below (11,209 words, Guardian, Guardian 520 Exchange)
Recast (8,057 words, DMBJ/Lost Tomb, collaboration with achray, Fangirlishness, Hils & teyla)
June
Remnant (6615 words, Guardian)
A Distracting Effort (4,461, Lost Tomb Reboot)
July
The Spring of Experience (10,761 words, Guardian)
Unburied (2740 words, Guardian)
August
Sartorial Splendour (6989 words, Guardian)
Settled (1929 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Pingxie Exchange)
September
One for the conspiracy theorists (4638 words, Guardian, Guardian Wishlist)
Flowers Blooming in the Night (2516 words, Guardian, Guardian Wishlist)
The Perils of Accounting (1042 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Guardian Wishlist)
October
Is or Isn't (1498 words, Guardian)
Down is Easy (20,931 words, Lost Tomb Reboot)
Unbearable (1375 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
After the Rains (4887 words, Cloudy Mountain)
November
However deep the Lake (11,081 words, Guardian)
Prompted (3165 words, Guardian, tumblr prompt fills)
December
in your vision (1831 words, Guardian)
irritation as usual (4953 words, Lost Tomb Reboot)
Find Your Bearings (2647 words, Guardian, no end to the bears series)
Entrapping Time (1434 words, Time Engraver Commercial, Yuletide treat)
Another Stream (1186 words, Lost Tomb Reboot, Yuletide treat)
In Summary
- 211,563 words in total
- December was the most prolific month by number of works
- October was the most prolific by total words written (leaving aside January’s fic, which was mainly written in 2020)
- Guardian was my most prolific fandom, with 18 works since March, followed by Lost Tomb Reboot with 7 since May
- Overall, I wrote in five fandoms, four of which are Zhu Yilong-related (go figure; I might as well call 2021 the Zhu Yilong year)
- Average word count: 7295
- Most popular fanwork: Blue Runs the Water by kudos, which is unsurprising given it’s by far the longest fic and in a far bigger fandom than the others; it’s followed by Extravagant, though, which was my fourth Guardian fic
In the pipeline for 2022
I’ve got a lot of ideas, but thought I would put down at least the WIPs I’ve already written some words for, that I’m expecting to finish at some point.
Significant amount of words written:
- Hallows zine fic (done, just waiting for the zine to be put together)
- dark energy worldbuilding (done, will post soon)
- Dixing linguistics (done, currently in beta)
- Shen Wei & Li Qian, pre-canon identity reveal (mostly written, but I got distracted)
- Singer HPS AU (the first chapter is written, but this one promises to be long…)
- Accidental Marriage AU (a long first chapter is written, but this one also promises to be long…)
- Lighthouse Keeper (collaboration, timeline tbd)
- Trapped on either side of a barrier fic (this has been languishing since, um, April? Sigh)
Small amount of words written:
- Forest Weilan
- Bear Yashou AU
- Legend of Kunlun & HPS
- YOHE softness
Ideas whose writing is imminent:
- Wu Xie stabbing fic
… I have too many WIPs. Still, where fanfic is concerned, at least, it's been a good year. May 2022 continue that trend.
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Future Science will call this the Zhu Yilong effect, I'm sure. Before Guardian, I hadn't posted anything on the AO3 since 2014...
It's awesome that you've been so productive, and your WIPs sound so tasty, too!
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Well, I for one am grateful to him for dragging you back into it then!
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Let's not even get started on how obsessed I am with the damn ponytail (to the point of seriously considering watching a show I have zero interest in just because he has that hair in it *facepalm*). I never used to get this distracted by hair, I swear!