lettered | my fanfic year in review

stultiloquentia does this cool thing annually, where she posts her favorite lines from fics over the past year. I don't keep track of lines--I hardly even keep track of fics--but it made me think about what I like about certain lines, and my own fic.

I wanted to do a review of what I wrote (fanfic-wise) in 2011 anyway--to be honest, mostly because everyone else was--so here's a review and then a list of what I wrote, with some of the lines of my own stuff that I liked best.

Year in review

Favorite fic I wrote this year: The Chuck Writes Story
Least favorite: 5 Ways Draco Malfoy Tops

Fic I worked the hardest on this year: The Chuck Writes Story
Fic I worked the least on: Out In The Open

Most challenging fic to write this year: Let's Get Biblical, 5 Ways Draco Malfoy Tops, my hd_holidays fic
Easiest fic to write: Sex, Lies, and Veritaserum

Fic I think the most people saw this year: ...um...
Fic I think the least people saw: Let's Get Biblical

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List of fics I wrote:

January
The Chicks'll Cream (LJ | DW | AO3) - Fandom: Grease, Grease 2 | Pairings: Danny Zuko/Johnny Nogerelli, other canon pairings | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 10K

You were allowed to laugh in montages, Johnny learned, as long as you made no sound.

"Because I’m a mental case, and apparently want you to treat me like utter shite! Of course you want to talk to me about it.” Draco was really agitated. “I should want to talk about it. Instead I’m getting so side-tracked by the thought of being dishware that I don’t want to have to even think."

Trying to get Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy together is like trying to get toothpaste back into the tube: it doesn’t fit and it’s messy when you try.

May
No Other Superstar (DW | AO3) - Fandom: Harry Potter | Pairing: Harry/Draco | Rating: NC-17 | Length: 20K

"No, Harry, nothing to worry about,” Malfoy soothed. “I’ll just work on this project in my spare time from now on. There’s no reason this office would want to preserve your life; Robards is right."

“Sweetheart,” Harry said, and swept aside Draco’s hair, and kissed his brow.

July
IDK, My BFF Hermione? (LJ | AO3) - Fandom: Harry Potter | Pairing: Harry/Draco | Rating: NC-17 | Length: 20K

The problem was everyone was just acting so out of character.

He places the point upon your chest, for though he could not kill for a kingdom, he would at your behest.

(You're Just) Too Good To Be True (LJ | DW) - Fandom: Supernatural | Gen: Sam, Dean | Rating: G | Length: .5K

When he used to pray, Castiel didn't close his eyes.

September
Let's Get Biblical (LJ | DW) - Fandom: Supernatural | Gen: Sam, Dean, Lucifer | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 3K

(Forgive me, Father.)

“I have sinned,” says Satan with a grin. “It has been two hundred thousand years since homo sapiens.”

(My last confession.)

Before and After Stanford (LJ | DW) - Fandom: Supernatural | Gen: Sam, Dean | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 5K

“Dean. I want to listen to Metallica.”

“Shut up, bitch. I’m listening to Ira Glass.”

Same As The Old Boss (LJ | DW) - Fandom: Supernatural RPF | RPF: Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, various writers, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 3K

“Here’s the thing with Supernatural,” said Sera. “You don’t know because you’re new. But here’s the thing: a point is best made subtly. But if you can’t make it subtly, you might as well beat it over the head until it bleeds. Then at least everyone will be amused.”

October
The Chuck Writes Story (An Unauthorized Fandom Biography) (LJ | DW) _ Fandom: Supernatural | Gen: Becky, Chuck | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 30K

It’s just that this whole LJ thing was sort of addictive and he couldn’t seem to stop refreshing his user page, and if they liked Carver Edlund so much, why wouldn’t they like his sock? Because if they didn’t . . . was it really the writing they loved, or was it the marketing, (the covers with their shirts ripped off, the models, the hair)—or was there actually some other Supernatural? Was there some amorphous, non-text, non-content driven Supernatural, a zeitgeist!Supernatural, some über Supernatural, a Supernatural that was his Supernatural and yet his no longer—now part of the collective mind, now part of the cultural maelström, or other words with umlauts, some Supernatural that belonged to the world and to the fans and no longer to the mind of the creator? A meta!SPN? Was it that Supernatural that they really loved—or was it Carver Edlund?

Chuck refreshed his user page again.

November
They Don't Tell Us Anything (LJ) - Fandom: Supernatural RPF | Gen: Sera Gamble, various writers, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, the Impala, and Sam's hair | Rating: PG-13 | Length: 7K

“That’s all very well for you!” The Impala sounded nearly hysterical. “Your part didn’t just get cut!”

"I'm never going to get cut,” said Sam’s hair.

December

The collar of his old navy greatcoat was turned up, and there was snow caught in his hair. Two spots high on his cheeks were almost red from cold, and for a second Harry forgot that Malfoy wasn’t the only person in the room.

Sick of Shadows (LJ | DW) - Fandom: North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell | Pairing: Margaret Hale/John Thornton | Rating: NC-17 | Length: 100K

"This is for you to see how I am accepting of capitalism. I have no particular interest in Mr Smith at all."

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I can't believe that I've read like nothing of yours last year. But then I was largely absent. Period. Sorry. I will need to amend that post-haste because some of those lines are striking, if not down right gorgeous. I especially liked:

(Forgive me, Father.)

“I have sinned,” says Satan with a grin. “It has been two hundred thousand years since homo sapiens.”

(My last confession.)

The collar of his old navy greatcoat was turned up, and there was snow caught in his hair. Two spots high on his cheeks were almost red from cold, and for a second Harry forgot that Malfoy wasn’t the only person in the room.

“Here’s the thing with Supernatural,” said Sera. “You don’t know because you’re new. But here’s the thing: a point is best made subtly. But if you can’t make it subtly, you might as well beat it over the head until it bleeds. Then at least everyone will be amused.”

Don't be sorry! I don't think I wrote in any fandoms you're actually in! I miss you. How are you doing?

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