Year-in-Fic meme 2008
WARNING: HERE THAR BE SPOILERS for everything under the sun that I write about. Seriously.


1) Precious Moments, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy, features Dresdlets.
2) Beyond Words, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy, features Dresdlets and Momma Murphy.
3) hurt, Sweeney Todd, drabble, Mrs. Lovett.
4) Narrow Squeak, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy, crack. Became FG canon anyway, apparently.
5) Cautionary Tale, Doctor Who, Ian/Barbara.
6) 50 Sentences on Margaret Anne Dresden, Dresden Files, peripherally Harry/Murphy, features Maggie, Simon, Julia, and briefly Morgan.
7) The Greatest of These, Dresden Files, Maggie/Malcolm.
8) Tactile, Doctor Who, Ian/Barbara.
9) Day One, Dresden Files, features Harry, Murphy, Carmichael and a Whangdoodle.
10) Desperate Measures part one, two, three, and four. Dresden Files, peripherally Harry/Murphy, featuring Morgan, Harry, and my OCs Maggie, Simon and Julia.
11) If There's Going to be Any Hysterics, part 2, Dresden Files/The Mummy crossover, features Jonathan and Evy.
12) Sestina o'Angst, technically Sandman fanfic. In iambic pentameter, yet.
13) Greatest Lie, technically Dresden Files, specifically Fool's Gold. Actually written last year but posted this year. OCs only.
14) Just a Little Bit of Peril? Dresden Files, features Harry, Thomas, Murphy, and some indiscriminate quoting of Monty Python.
15) Consequences, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy.
16) Dreaming, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy but not really.
17) Things Unsaid, the_chestertons ficathon, Doctor Who, Ian/Barbara, features Susan and the Doctor (One).
18) Moose Bites Can Be Pretty Nasty, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy, features Molly.
19) Harry Dresden and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Dresden Files, features Harry and Mouse. Mentions of Thomas.
20) Doctor Air, Doctor Who/Avatar the Last Airbender, Doctor Who as it might have been shown in the Avatarverse. Puck did it. Script format.
21) The Space Between the Seconds, Doctor Who, Ian/Barbara, missing scene.
22) Surprise Attack, Dresden Files, features Harry, Thomas, and the quote wars.
23) Special Discount, Firefly, features Jayne and Kaylee boot-shopping. PUCK DID IT.
24) Listening, Doctor Who, peripherally Ian/Barbara, features the Doctor (Ten) and John Chesterton.
25) The Sound of Silence, SJA ficathon, Sarah Jane Adventures, features Sarah Jane and Maria, and briefly Clyde and Luke.
26) The World's Greatest Criminal Mind, Great Mouse Detective/Pinky and the Brain, features Ratigan and the Brain.
27) Blind Date, Sandman/Discworld, Death/Death. Sort of.
28) It's Always Lightning, Star Wars/Avatar, features Luke and Ozai.
29) The Hell of It, RPF/Torchwood, Oscar Wilde/Captain Jack Harkness.
30) Honor, Mulan/Avatar, Fa Mulan and Zuko.
31) Explosive and Bang, Firefly/Doctor Who, Jayne/Ace.
32) Practicality, Dresden Files/Harry Potter, features Harry and Harry.
33) Ridiculous, Great Mouse Detective/Sherlock Holmes, features Ratigan, Mrs. Hudson and the Great Detective.
34) The Usual, Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/Arthurian Legend, features Dumbledore, Gandalf, and Merlin.
35) You Are Not Alone, Doctor Who/Magic School Bus, TARDIS/MSB. Sort of.
36) I Can't Decide, Doctor Who/Avatar, Harold Saxon/Azula.
37) What Planet Are You From?, Torchwood/Howl's Moving Castle.
38) Ten Times Trouble part one and two, churchontime ficathon, Ian/Barbara plus every character from the Whoniverse that I could squeeze in.
39) Asking for Trouble, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy
40) Four Reasons Long-Distance Relationships Don't Work Out (And One Reason They Definitely Do), Dresden ficathon, Dresden Files, Molly/Carlos with a smattering of other characters. SYKE PRIS.
41) A Modest Proposal, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy.
42) The Dalek Invasion of Discworld, Discworld/Doctor Who.
43) Survival, Dresden Files, Maggie/Lord Raith, contains EXPLICIT RAPE, be aware.
44) A Brother Is Born for Adversity, Vorkosigan Saga, Cordelia/Aral and featuring my semi-OC Benedict Naismith.
45) Lost in Translation, Dresden Files TV, Harry/Murphy and Bob.
46) The Doctor's Angels, Doctor Who, featuring the Brig and Benton.
47) The Policewoman, Dresden Files/Tortall, featuring Harry and Clara Godwin.



1) We're In This Together, Dresden Files, Harry/Murphy.
2) Point of No Return, Dresden Files, Margaret Gwendolyn LeFay(/Malcolm Dresden).
3) In Your Keeping, Doctor Who, Ian/Barbara.
4) Shiptease!, Avatar crack, Everybody/Everybody.
5) An Unearthly Man, Doctor Who, the Doctor.
6) falling is like this, Vorkosigan saga, Aral/Cordelia.
7) There's Nothing You and I Won't Do, Vorkosigan saga, Aral/Cordelia



My favorite story this year (of my own):
I'm in love with Ten Times Trouble. It's easily the longest fic I've written, and I think it's funny, thought-provoking and occasionally poignant. I loves it muchly. Esp. Ten walking in on Ian and Barbara, undercover Six, and Jack flirting with a lot of people. But I'm also very fond of A Brother Is Born For Adversity, because it's my first Vorkosigan fanfic and because...well, I have a brother. I was always very sad that we never got to see much of Cordelia's brother. Because brothers and sisters interact v. amusingly.

My best story this year:
Desperate Measures, I think. Hard and hurting and oddly funny sometimes.

Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Survival. I think it's a good (if wrong) story, but the only one who read it was Pris and a couple of people from dresdenfic. DDD:

Most overrated story, in my opinion:
Ridiculous. The Sherlock Holmes fandom seems to have embraced it as their long-lost child, which I don't get, because it is weird. And slightly wrong. Just... well, ridiculous.

Most fun story:
Practicality! THEY NEVER EXPECT THE BAZOOKAS!

Most sexy story:
I didn't actually write any sexy stories this year. I wrote stories with sex in them (Dreaming and Surivial) but in one case it was really surreal, dreamy sex and in the other it was outright rape. Nothing was really meant to be sexy.

Story with the single sexiest moment:
See above. Though Dreaming, maybe, could count as sexy.

Most unintentionally telling story:
Practicality. *cough* I may have shown a little dislike for Harry Potter there. A bit.

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for me" story:
Survival. Outright rape, trauma, threatening of children, definitely wrong.

Story that shifted my own perception of the characters:
I Can't Decide. I was sympathizing with Azula and the Master while they were plotting to kill the Doctor. Wow.

Hardest story to write:
Leaving last year's answer because it's still appropriate.
Kyrie Eleison. It's still not finished, and it's been hard going all the way. I'm having to make up these characters as I go, but I can't contradict known canon, of which there is very little and widely scattered. I'm also trying to write an extended love story, which is difficult for me, and resisting the urge to keep everyone alive at the end, which would definitely contradict canon. Add to this an outline that's sketchy at best, and you can see how this would be very difficult. I adore this story, though, so have no fear, it will be finished.

Worst story:
Blaaaaag It's Always Lightning. That was just stupid.

Easiest story to write:
Space Between the Seconds.

Story I'd like to revise (but probably won't):
There's a few things in A Brother Is Born For Adversity that I'd like to fix, but I think I'm going to chalk them up to "writing to my older brother reversion" and let them go. There's two more parts to that story anyway.

Story I wish I'd finished:
Kyrie, again. It's closer to finished! I'm stuck at this cursed Plot Necessary Sex Scene.

Story I didn't write but swear I will, someday:
Something with Aral/Cordelia, Miles, and pure fluff.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Less, actually. My fic production really trailed off towards the end of the year.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2007?
I never expected to get into the Vorkosigan fandom. Then I did, and bam.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Mostly, this year I extended risks that I took last year. I think the biggest one was The Dalek Invasion of Discworld. I imitated Pratchett's style as closely as possible and tried to keep the spirit of both fandoms; I'm not entirely sure I succeeded. But I jumped into some new fandoms (Vorkisverse ho!) and wrote some new stuff, wrote some drabbles and one-shots and overall did very well, I think.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Well, get more published, maybe finally finish Kyrie, all that jazz.