fandom meme... 2!

[redthedragon]

redoing this end-of-year wrap meme from last year :D
this took so so so so long because i wrote so many stories this summer. respect me

January:
The Stunticons and their Garden (Transformers G1) (6203 words)
there is someone in the archive (not the one you're thinking) (The Magnus Archives) (7396 words)
fix your face or you will never fit in (Transformers G1) (217 words)
Best Laid Plans (Transformers G1) (563 words)
Watch the Stars Fall Down (Transformers G1) (1051 words)

February:
Power Games (Transformers G1) (3086 words)

March:
blue rukaan showdown (Fields of Valhalla ARPG) (3748 words)
Learning Experience (Fields of Valhalla ARPG) (3121 words)

April:
...didn't XD

May:
"Actually, it's—" (Transformers G1) (1615 words)
between a vortex and a hard place (Transformers G1) (846 words)
momentum (Transformers IDW 2005) (454 words)
And Rising Like Morning (Transformers G1) (100 words)
I still feel cold (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Your Crown of Broken Bones (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Take Me Back to When You Didn't Lie To Me (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Following Snakes (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Won't End Quietly (Transformers G1) (100 words)
My heart starts to pound; it's beating aloud (Transformers G1) (400 words)
Terrified (as I'm lost in the crowd) (Transformers G1) (200 words)
i realize we're never making a sound (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Serving the Sun (Transformers IDW 2005) (200 words)
King (Transformers G1) (100 words)
and rising like morning, I still feel cold (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Your Crown (Transformers IDW 2005) (300 words)
Of Broken Bones (Take Me Back) (Transformers IDW 2005) (300 words)
To When? (Transformers G1) (300 words)
You Didn't Lie To Me (Transformers G1) (200 words)
Following (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Snakes (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
won't end (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Quietly; nobody listen to the lie (you've got to listen to me now) (Transformers IDW 2005) (200 words)
You Got To Cut The Head Off The Snake (Transformers SG) (100 words)
I am Trying to Save the Unlucky One (Transformers IDW 2005) (200 words)
that it sees as prey (from dying away) (Transformers G1) (400 words)
so cut cut cut (the head of the snake) (Transformers G1) (400 words)
I am Trying to Save (Transformers IDW 2005) (300 words)
The Unlucky One (Transformers G1) (100 words)
That It Sees (Transformers G1) (1800 words)
as prey (Transformers G1) (100 words)
from dying away (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Cut! Cut! Cut! (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
take me (Transformers G1) (300 words)
Back To When You Didn't (Transformers G1) (200 words)
lie to me (Transformers IDW 2005) (100 words)
Following Snakes Won't End Quietly (Transformers G1) (200 words)
So Let Go // Following (Transformers G1) (100 words)
snakes won't (Transformers IDW 2005) (199 words)
End Quietly (Transformers G1) (300 words)
New Purpose, New Goals (Crossover - Transformers G1/Licanius Trilogy) (1037 words)
From Your Perspective (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Choking (but not in the sexy way) (Transformers G1) (851 words)
A Moderate View of the "Autobot" and "Decepticon" Factions (Transformers IDW 2005) (1457 words)

June:
And No One Cared (Transformers: Prime) (637 words)
Please refrain from discussing theology in this server. (Transformers IDW 2005) (5665 words)
Transmissions from Cybertron (Transformers G1) (51253 words)
gender jokes at the polycule orgy (Transformers G1) (585 words)

July:
fire-bright inspiration (Transformers IDW 2005) (320 words)
Drawing Up Plans (Transformers G1) (430 words)
BRO FIX YOUR MIC (Transformers IDW 2005) (1384 words)
Runtime (Doctor Who 2005) (7878 words)
Robbery and Rocket Science (Transformers G1) (802 words)
what do you do in the house of flies? (Transformers G1) (4473 words)
Optics (Transformers G1) (888 words)
pretty little glass squares (Transformers G1) (4787 words)
remember the name (Transformers IDW 2005) (300 words)
cleaning up the broken pieces (Transformers G1) (949 words)

August:
Worth Something (Transformers IDW 2005) (999 words)
fracture lines and broken glass (Transformers G1) (3652 words)
katjaana vs winter (Fields of Valhalla ARPG) (1074 words)
Productive Bellyaching (Fields of Valhalla ARPG) (1004 words)
"By Will of Primus", digitized (Transformers IDW 2005) (1884 words)
Under The Skin (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) (1966 words)
watch your step (Transformers: Prime) (200 words)
impotent threats (Transformers G1) (100 words)
way above me, find you there (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Same Old Story (Transformers G1) (200 words)
I swear this time I'm getting back to good (Transformers IDW 2005) (200 words)
Negotiate This (Transformers G1) (300 words)
The Joy of Consumption (Transformers Beast Wars) (200 words)
Stop Moving (Transformers G1) (200 words)
I told you to hold still (Transformers G1) (400 words)
Old Traditions and New Experiences (Transformers IDW 2005) (400 words)
Great. (Transformers G1) (100 words)
just another lab accident (Transformers G1) (1074 words)
Quick Tour (Transformers: Earth Wars) (111 words)
Deterrent (Transformers: Voice of Stanix note: other fanfiction continuity) (200 words)
go on, Doctor, smile (Transformers IDW 2005) (400 words)
"I'm gonna die if- " (Transformers G1) (355 words)
you've got to be kidding (Transformers Bayverse) (100 words)
Favorite (Transformers Shattered Glass) (300 words)
stop going off into trouble (Transformers G1) (100 words)
Sharing Stuff (Sharing Snuff) (Transformers G1) (200 words)
sit and stay (Transformers G1) (200 words)
HURRY UP (Transformers: Prime) (347 words)
"That's hot." (Transformers G1) (3203 words)
Oops, I Keyed an Autobot (Transformers G1) (3205 words)
"You really wanna know where I'm from?" (Transformers G1) (2348 words)
some speedy pilot sharpshooter, or something (Transformers G1) (1805 words)
the mortifying ordeal.... (Transformers G1) (50 words)
in from the cold (Transformers G1) (468 words)
Gratifying (Transformers G1) (848 words)

September:
Dedication (Transformers G1) (7086 words)
Sledgehammer (Transformers G1) (791 words)
"Daddy big dick is in the house!" (Transformers G1) (1445 words)
i need to be the hottest person in this 7-11 (Transformers G1) (10419 words)
Soundwave Says: Fuck Off (Transformers G1) (4308 words)

October:
get a handle (Transformers G1) (999 words)
"in a bit" (Transformers G1) (618 words)
Berry Revenge (Fields of Valhalla ARPG) (5018 words)
screw you (Transformers G1) (922 words)

November:
told you to trust me (Transformers G1) (960 words)
Reading Night (Transformers G1) (2975 words)
Sweet, Sweet Revenge (Transformers G1) (329 words)
Rex vs the Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave (Crossover - Original Work/Hellraiser 1987) (4481 words)
unanchored (Transformers G1) (200 words)
time to go (Goncharov) (125 words)
pun in, ten dead (Transformers G1) (1233 words)
Chomp. (Transformers G1) (5000 words)
stupid prizes for stupid games (Transformers G1) (1234 words)

December:
"Motormaster, has, hah, f-f-fuck." (Transformers G1) (1241 words)
lazy afternoon shenanigans (Transformers G1) (404 words)
chatterbox (Transformers G1) (200 words)
whatever Motormaster apparently expects (Transformers G1) (100 words)
gambling and fires and lights and killing people and fuel purity (Transformers G1) (3589 words)

This year I wrote and posted:
133 fics over 15 fandoms.
Total wordcount: 206854 words

Overall Thoughts:

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
AHAHAHAHAAAAA so much more fic than i expected. By like. several miles. i wrote 100+ fics this year and while some were very short it still adds up to 200k+ words too. I have a spreadsheet; this has been my most productive (ficwise) year ever. The wordcount trend is 'normal' but the fic number count isn't, and i spent a lot more time writing this year than I did in earlier ones. Like- in 2020-2021 i was not in college. In 2021-2022 I was. I expected to write less fic. Instead.... idk. Number Go Up took hold of me lmfao. I got my most substantial writing done either in May (finishing a series for the lolz) or August (became incredibly competitive over someone else's fic number count and decided i had to do that too), so it was a lot of thinking about numbers rather than thinking about fic. The slight uptick in november is also that- that's when i realized i was nearly at 200000 words for the year and that the fic i planned to post to hit that wasn't going to be done by the end of 2022.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Probably TF:P Wheeljack/Vortex, but honestly I didn't do much by way of shipfic this year compared to everything else- a lot of established relationship or obvious pairings. Maybe Redshift/Astrotrain because I didn't expect to write them kissing or holding hands or w/e but that's more because I didn't expect to resurrect Redshift this year or for anyone to like him lmao.


This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most:
Thinking really hard about worldbuilding, I think. And like the power of friendship. And the power of thinking about ideology weird. Actually, no, that's what it is, it's about people weirding ideology and ideology weirding people.

What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
wailing and sobbing, how am i supposed to be expected to PICK lmao. This year I wrote a metric fuckton of really self-indulgent fics. i guess at the MOMENT gambling and lighting fires and killing people and fuel purity... but that's just because it's the funniest thing i wrote recently and ive been rereading it because it's there. I think in terms of highest reread value go on, Doctor, smile or Chomp.; Chomp. was really good and gave me like ten new headcanons actually lets go with that one.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
oh hell yeah. I learned that people really like it when you emulate the essay-writing style and write fake essays in character. It's great. I also learned that I like making zines, but not that much.

My best story of this year:
vague gesture. I didn't write "good stories" this year, I wrote fun stories. Maybe By Will of Primus.

My most popular story of this year:
Transmissions from Cybertron, no question.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I actually don't feel like any of my stuff got shafted this year. Like. Genuinely cannot think of anything for this one.

My least favorite story this year:
because it still landed in here, there is someone in the archive (not the one you're thinking); fucking hate that story. it was like i was possessed and i couldnt not write it and five thousand words in i couldnt bring myself not to post it for the spicy wordcount or whatever, but i just kind of hate that i wrote and posted a hatefic. i dont want anyone to read it and i dont like that it's there. but whatever, i already posted it, it'll live there now. if i cared enough to take it down i already would've.

Most fun story to write:
If the Stunticons are in the story then it was that one. These motherfuckers were so fun to write that I literally can't pick one because at all turns I literally just have a fucking blast writing them. They are so easy. You don't have to shake them down for plot, they are each individually plot generators that bump into each other and drop spare plot on the floor for you to pick up and I also love tormenting them a lot. So, like [dramatically gestures at the ao3] one of like 50 minimum, i can't pick

Story with the sweetest moment:
probably in from the cold. idk. I really don't do a lot of sweet. Maybe stop going off into danger??

Story with the single sexiest moment:
wailing sobbing gnashing my teeth etc because the really sexy one that im working on isnt DONE because its so sexy i literally cant finish it, i have to take cold showers in between every six sentences. so i cant point at that one. of what's finished.... probably the power-switch in go on, Doctor, smile. Nothing like a sudden shift in power dynamics to get my gears turning haha

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
probably go on, Doctor, smile just for the inclusion of the word 'cunt' lmao. Or Bug Time for the inclusion of dick grubs as kink. But neither are that out of vein for me.
Maybe Dedication for starting with Pharma POV and then changing POV after killing Pharma by application of Tarn in front of his own kid. but that's also really not out of vein for me.
????maybe in from the cold??? for implied underage? I guess that's the one that's most unusual for me. Someone had gotten into an argument with me (fun) and wouldnt shut up about how i obviously "wanted to write about kids fucking dogs" (??) so i wrote "a kid" fucking "a dog" (neither actual kid nor actual dog were involved). I don't think it counts because it's actually more consensual and less power-dynamically skeevy than almost anything else ive written this entire year though.
I have no idea how to answer this. I set out on purpose to write more fucked up smut and add at least 20 new fics to the rape/noncon warning tag on my list and i did [checks spreadsheet] 14 oh. hm. still

Most overdue:
It's not really overdue but some speedy pilot sharpshooter or something is a result of me telling my friend id write a story about one of their maligned and underappreciated favorites. And then i not only didnt finish it but i also took like three years to do it. Most frustrating part of that is that I literally like that character a lot, I'm just slow to action on these things.
Or perhaps the Vortex/Optimus Prime one I started in LAST DECEMBER. that one's not posted anywhere though.

Most eye roll-worthy title:
take a look at the titles and tell me there are any of them that aren't eyeroll-worthy. i absolutely cannot pick one, there is not a single title that isn't a top contender for THIS spot.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
go ahead and play pin the tail on the stunticon fic. yes it is all of them. im not kidding

Hardest story to write:
none of the ones that were hard to write got posted :,) well, except Runtime. I guess Runtime.

Biggest Disappointment:
Runtime. Didn't feel like it was engaging enough. Timeloops and alternate-retellings-of-the-same are hard for me, as a person who does not have the patience to read the same thing twice in the same breath. Apparently everyone else liked this one a lot but for me I thought it was boring and sucked, so that was disappointing to me.

Biggest Surprise:
Transmissions from Cybertron! It got a ton of attention and feedback even though I like, specially engineered it to get basically none of those things. small cast of d-listers with an oc lead.... and yet. I'm still surprised.

Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
what do you do in the house of flies? on account of i wrote it while having an Episode and gave Vortex literally the exact same Episode down to some very personal bits that I wasn't thinking too hard about, and then was like sitting there rereading it a couple days later while fidgeting with the bandages on the back of my hand reading the bits where he was like cutting his wrist apart out of boredom like "aha uh hm. i should probably redact this." and then i Didn't. It's fine. The parts people are going to read into aren't the parts that were actually real, and no one was really looking anyway.

Favorite opening line:
Wildrider didn’t think anything of it until Drag Strip hit him in the head and he spat out half of his tongue.
So much is going on in this one already. It's great. It's not even that long.

Favorite closing line:
“Weird,” Jazz said. “I don’t even think this was meant to be an attack. Maybe this was their idea of wishing us a merry Christmas, or something.”
Funny because it's a stupid joke. Hanukah and Christmas ended on the same night this year, so the Autobots think they're doing "this" (blowing up a part of the Ark) for krimmus reasons, while actually this was how the Stunticons intended to celebrate xanike. I love stupid jokes and I love nonsense<3

In conclusion:
Good year. Bountiful harvest. Eat up.

Fic-writing goals for 2023:
Wrap some of the ongoing fics up. Finish Transmissions (which is still fighting me). So on and so forth. May 2023 be the year of "finishing those fics that have been languishing unfinished since 2018" :D

Comments

[yvannairie]

I wish I had more to say other than "congratulations on your Number Go Up, holy shit Red" :'D

[redthedragon]

Thank you :D I am very proud of my Number Go Up :D