Year End Memes~

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FANDOM QUESTIONS

Your main fandom of the year?Probably Hannibal? Yeah, I'm gonna go with Hannibal. Once I watch Orphan Black, that too.
Your favorite film you watched this year? Evil Dead (2013)
Your favorite book read this year? 
Traditional Media: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
YA: Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Kids: Animorphs
Graphic Novel: Stumptown by Greg Rucka, art by Matthew Southworth
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?Metric's "Synthetica", Rilo Kiley's "More Adventurous"
Your favorite tv show of the year? Hannibal
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?Orphan Black and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?Parks & Rec wins again. Also: super hero movies.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? N/A?
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Alana Bloom, Alison Hendrix, Britta Perry, Johanna Mason, Virginia Johnson, Rosa Diaz
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Possibly the "Game of Thrones" season finale.
The most missed of your old fandoms?The Inside, always. Missed so hard I dabbled: Sarah Waters books, Animorphs
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? N/A at this point; just gotta finish the ones I'm in the middle of!
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year? more Hannibal, more Orphan Black… I WAS GONNA SAY THE NEW X-MEN BUT FUCK EVERYTHING


 LIFE QUESTIONS


1. What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before? Lived with a couple, was in poly relationships, finished my thesis, visited my sister in the hospital
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? N/A, the only one I'm going to do is a reading goal.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Gal at work, derby folks.
. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. Which countries did you visit? Still haven't left the country. Visited Minneapolis.
6. What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013? Last year's answer STILL applies (Lizzy Caplan and Rashida Jones in the same thing) but I'd enjoy bonus GOOD HEALTH.
7. What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? CON, handing my finished thesis to my counselor, hearing my sister was hospitalized 

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Finished my damn thesis!
9. What was your biggest failure? No failures. I think I did pretty awesome at everything, given circumstances!
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing more than usual
11. What was the best thing you bought? Vacation. New laptop. Fleece-lined leggings.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? MINE.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? America.
14. Where did most of your money go? Bills.
15. What were you really, really, really excited about? Television
16. What song will always remind you of 2013? BLURRED LINES UGH
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) Happier or sadder? Happier, for the most part!
b) Bigger or smaller? Smaller.
c) Richer or poorer? Slightly richer than this time last year?
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Been the recipient of a magical genie who granted lots and lots of money with no catch. (<-- last year's answer still applies!)
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Being anxious.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Work, then dinner and gifts with sibs and mom on Christmas Eve, gifts and dinner with dad on Christmas proper, then to bed early for work the next day. (<-- creepily keeping last year's answer)
21. What was your favorite month of 2013? May and June were pretty rad.
22. Did you fall in love in 2013? I met someone who I love, yes.
23. What was your favorite TV program? Hannibal, Orphan Black, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
24. How did you see in the New Year? Slept.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I suppose there is one more in the 'I feel iffy about this human' pile.
26. What was the best book you read? Probably Stumptown. I freaking love Stumptown.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Katie Costello, possibly?
28. What did you want and get? An incredible therapist.
29. What did you want and not get? Money. Money. Money.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Favorite: Evil Dead. Best: Spring Breakers or Stoker or Gravity.
31. What did you do on your birthday?I don't remember. Regular stuff?
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? MORE FEMSLASH.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012? Uniform drab vs. Soft, comfortable, and safe.(<--- not much has changed)
34. What kept you sane? You people.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Rashida Jones rescinds her title. Claire McCaskill, perhaps?
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Everything.
37. Who did you miss? Wiscon folks.
38. Who was the best new person you met? My therapist, I guess.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013. Full consent is amazing. Boundaries are also amazing!
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "I woke like this"


FIC QUESTIONSFic written in 2013
There are few enough that I'll link them individually here
not without reason, not for a girl (Community, Britta & Shirley, 500 words)
my old heart (The Duchess, Bess/Georgiana, 104 words)
brave smile and a great heart (Parks & Recreation, Ann/Leslie, 3953 words, for WhatBecomesOfYou in galentinesday 2013)
Alarm Clock (Homestuck, Nepeta/Roxy, 242 words, for gloss)
Buffaloed (Go On, Anne, 73 words)
to live doesn't mean you're alive (Spring Breakers, Brit/Candy, 184 words, for majesdane)
hands, holding other hands (Community, Britta/Annie, Britta/Troy, 437 words, for sibiu)
we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held to a course (The X-Files, Scully/Samantha Mulder/Reyes, 2450 words, for ellydash in rarewomen 2013)
that black forest and the fire in earnest (The Awakening 2011, Florence, 2187 words, for Swords_and_Parasols in rarewomen 2013)
did it free the feeling in your spine? (Sucker Punch, Sweet Pea & Rocket, 200 words, for Morbane as a bonus gift in rarewomen 2013)
only makes me stronger yet (Runaways, Karolina/Xavin, 100 words, for amathela as a bonus gift in rarewomen 2013)
a breath, a finger grip on a cliffside (Game of Thrones, Cersei/Jaime/Brienne, 188 words)
Took some words and built a wall (Community/Parks & Recreation, Britta/Ann, 479 words, for gloss for her birthday)
as far as I can tell (Community/Mad Men, Britta & Lane, 633 words, for A Ficathon Walks Into a Bar 2013)
two bodies converging if the wind is right-- (Fairy Tales/Beauty and the Beast, 1724 words, for a_la_grecque in Not Prime Time 2013)
something different (The Office, Karen/Pam, 183 words)
I fold in half so easily (Hannibal, Alana/Hannibal, 1488 words, for TaffySinclair in Rare Pair Fest 2013)
A warm breath on the back of your neck and a warm belly pressed against yours (Hannibal, Alana/Will/Hannibal, 1559 words, for bookwrrm in Rare Pair Fest 2013)
time to join the marching line (Orphan Black, Mrs. S, 159 words, for chaila)
tell your mother that you'll come home soon (Evil Dead 2013, Mia, 157 words)
I heard the wind inside me crying (Orphan Black, Alison/Sarah, 2086 words, for teaboytoaliens for Femslash Exchange 2013)
we're better (you know we're better together) (The Heat, Sarah/Shannon, 1711 words, for marginalia for Femslash Exchange 2013)
somewhere in the middle (The Avengers, Tony/Bruce, 212 words, for mage_girl for xir birthday)
snow, like a blanket: break my silence, Elementary, Joan/Irene, 121 words, for PersephonesKeeper); I think I feel fine (Orphan Black, Alison/Beth, 150 words, for chaila)
~fic~ (fandom, pairing, words, for person in yuletide 2013)
lagniappe (Hannibal, Alana/Hannibal, 17830 words (so far), co-written with mage_girl)

That makes:
-- 19 fandoms (plus one unrevealed)
-- 28 stories, one co-written and in progress.
-- 22970 solo words and 40800 words total (plus however the fuck many words in my thesis)
-- 11 new-to-me fandoms
-- 7 ficathons/exchanges
-- 16 femslash fics, 6 gen fics, 5 het fics, 1 slash fic, and 3 that included poly


Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
About what I predicted, though it feels like less. It's almost on-par with last year 2010, and actually I have a higher word count.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Alana/Hannibal, and so much of it! Also, I was pretty against watching Orphan Black, so that.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
brave smile and a great heart is probably the most impressive to me, in terms of what I set out to do and what I accomplished. I worked fucking HARD on that story. Also, I'm truly impressed by what mage_girl and I have done with lagniappe.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I like taking pinch hits for exchanges I believe in. I write more/better when I am writing for someone else/for a deadline. I CAN set a profic goal and attain it!!!
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Edit my thesis and present it. (Note: 'two bodies converging...' is included!)
From my past year of writing, what was ...
My best story
see: anything I wrote for an exchange. and a breath, a finger grip...
My most popular
lagniappe, by virtue of being hugely long and in a huge fandom; two bodies converging… and we are the half-destroyed instruments… got some really excellent recs
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion
Evil Dead is a super small fandom in the first place, so tell your mother… because yeah.
Most fun story to write
Alarm Clock because cat puns
Sexiest story
A warm breath on the back of your neck… is the porniest, but I'll go with a breath, a finger grip because its one that I still re-read and think, holy mackerel. How did you do that?
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story
Definitely lagniappe. We're editing chapter 12 right now, and the cannibalism is impressive.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters
None
Hardest story to write
Oh jeez, what *wasn't* hard to write this year? Self-doubt and real life were kicking me in the pants at every turn. Probably my biggest 'block' was over I heard the wind inside me crying. mage_girl will tell you, I was hung UP on that shit.
Biggest disappointment
I'm particularly disappointed by my old heart. It just… it's lifeless.
Most unintentionally telling story
My yuletide fic. For so many reasons.