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So last year my year-end summary was late because I could NOT look at or engage with my 2023 fic. This year it's late because I've been writing so so much lmao. Very different experience.

I posted 160,287 words of fanfic last year, including the longest thing I've ever posted. That's the second highest total ever, eclipsed only by 2020 when I was trapped at home all day every day. AND I didn't post anything until May this year. The total breaks down into 15 stories: 1 story/1,262 words of Doctor Who for Yuletide, 1 very old Great Mouse Detective story (9,682 words), 2 stories/11,211 words of Transformers, 1 Discworld flashfic (1,316 words), 1 Dungeon Meshi fic (2,133), and 9 stories/134,683 words of Naruto. 95,507 words were written with Dez :)

Yearly questions and answers under the cut. Note that a lot of the fics linked are NSFW/adult.

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This is sooo belated. Usually I get the year-end summary out in January, maybe February - in 2016 I got it out in April and looking back this was a big sign of my bad mental health at the time. So, uhh. Hello. It is August. I'm feeling okay, actually! I was just totally unable to engage with most of my 2023 output until now.

I fell out of Transformers fandom really abruptly right at the end of last year and had this weird period of not wanting to engage with it at all - and because I've pretty much only been interested in Transformers and nothing else for a good five years I was like ??? what's going on? Am I having another depressive episode? But I have so much energy for playing music and learning Cantonese and doing fun things... Just not my main source of dopamine...

And then a couple months ago I got into Naruto and the writing energy was like HELLO I'M HERE. And I'm starting to enjoy engaging with Transformers again too :) So that's a story for next January, and in the meantime I'm feeling better able to contemplate this summary thing.

I posted 93,830 words of fanfic last year! Truly a lot of things until I hit that wall in December. This breaks down into 13 stories: 1 story/1,637 words of Yuletide, and 15 stories/92,193 words of Transformers. I also wrote, I have to say, a LOT of porn.

Yearly questions and answers under the cut. Note that as above, a lot of the fics linked are NSFW/adult.

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Astonishingly, getting this one out earlier than last year!

I posted 86,869 words of fanfic last year, which is a little lower than what I normally do... but tbh I had a lot of health problems this year so it's kind of astonishing that I got anything written at all. Victory can be defined in many ways haha.

This breaks down into 17 stories: 1 story/1,588 words of Yuletide, 14 stories/75,882 words of Transformers, and 2 stories/9,399 words of SVSSS. I am still mired within TF fandom, I think because every time I start to run out of ideas for one character, there 1500 other characters in 16 other continuities that I can pick up. Happy to stay on this train a while longer.

Yearly questions and answers under the cut. Note that a lot of the fics linked are NSFW/adult.

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These take... so long to write haha

I posted 120,480 words of fanfic last year! This is substantially less than last year, but it's still the third highest year total. Which I think is impressive, given how completely overwhelmed and exhausted I was for most of the year. 2021 hard.

This breaks down into 21 stories: 1 story/4,125 words of Yuletide and 20 stories/116,355 words of Transformers. I keep expecting myself to fall out of TF a little, but actually I REALLY struggled to focus my brain on anything not robots when I was supposed to be writing Yuletide. I think my tired brain just has no energy to develop new serotonin source haha.

55,537 words were co-written with Dez, and a further 12,353 were written in AUs shared with Dez. It's kind of funny, I felt like we were co-writing less but the three fics we did write together were so chonky that it ended up being nearly half my wordcount.

I do have to say that this was also the year of pwp. Like. 79,342 words of pwp. I just had no ability to plot, only to write horny nonsense. A VERY head empty year.

Yearly questions and answers under the cut. Mildy NSFW/teen rated this time

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I posted 201,624 words of fanfic last year! This is. So much. This is the most I've ever written by far (almost 50,000 more than the previous record in 2019, and almost 100,000 more than the 3rd place finish in 2010). And I didn't post any fic until March. Once I got rolling I posted a lot of long fic, and also when quarantine hit I just started writing and posting a huge amount of porn to cope apparently. I also co-wrote a lot, so if we want to pick it apart some of this is definitely Dez's wordcount... but our process doesn't really allow you to say 'oh this scene is Nev and this scene is Dez' so we'll just have to share.

The wordcount breaks down into 26 stories: 5 stories/8,084 words of Yuletide and 23 stories/196,682 words of Transformers (those numbers overlap a bit - it's 98% Transformers fic this year). 105,452 words were in the Banners AU (52%), and 97,078 words were co-written with Dez (48%). We started co-writing in 2019 but MAN did that take off this year.

Incidentally, this was also the year of becoming better at twitter and discord and becoming friends with more people through fandom and fic! There were literally YEARS after Doctor Who fandom where I barely talked to fandom people besides posting fic and running away, and now I have people to talk about ideas and characters and watch things with again :)) It hasn't all been easy and drama-free, but it's been really nice to have so much online interaction in a year where real person interaction has been really limited.

Yearly questions and answers under the cut:

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I posted 155,218 words of fanfic last year! This is the most I've ever written, even I were to try some complicated math to eliminate part of the co-authored fic - second place goes to my very first fic writing year of 2010 (109,900 words), so this is one hell of a way to close out a decade. The count breaks down into 28 stories: 11 stories/11,549 words of Yuletide and 17 stories/143,669 words of Transformers, and then further into 42,022 words of fencing au, 60,201 words of Decepticon Rung, and 41,446 words of miscellaneous TF stuff.

I am second-year tenure track faculty. I bought a house this year. I started dating. I'm still fencing/competing/refereeing. I have to take care of my cats!! Where did I find the ENERGY for this?

I mean, the main answer is that writing fic is fun and I enjoy it, haha. Transformers continues to be endlessly inspiring. And also, I made friends with Dez (Desdemonakaylose/sauntervaguelydownward) this year! Ever since LJ and its communities evaporated, I've really struggled to connect with people online - I never really got tumblr. But I get Discord okay, and I'm starting to get Twitter, I think! Becoming good friends with Dez led to becoming friends with some of her friends, and also encouraged me to reach out to more fan people in general. I feel more connected to TF fandom than I have to any fandom since Doctor Who - so it makes sense that I'm reaching and exceeding the productivity of my Who era.

Also, I mean. About 65,000 words of my count was written either with Dez or in Dez's AU. And that's not even counting all the fic I've brainstormed in chat. There are SO many ideas in chat.

Yearly questions and answers under the cut:

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I wrote and posted 107,653 words of fanfic last year: 9 stories for myself (approx. 90,500 words), and 11 for Yuletide (approx 17,000 words). This is very very close to the most fic I've ever written in one year, beaten only by 109,900 words in 2010 (when I started writing fic for the first time). I was pretty sure I wasn't going to write anything since I also had to finish a thesis and start a new faculty position this year, but, uh. Apparently this fanfic stuff is fun, or something. Also I wrote almost 83,000 words of Transformers fic, so there's the heady rush of 80s cartoon robots to thank for a lot of this.

I've mentioned this a couple times, but large chunks of 2015 and 2016 were really taken up by stressful work and people who were making me unhappy. Most of my free time was spent watching mindless TV and trying to chill out. 2018 was also taken up by stressful work, but this time I had lots of people around who were making me very happy. World of difference for my free time and creative output :)

Yearly questions and answers under the cut:

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For the first time in 3 years, I'm posting my year-end summary on time!

I wrote and posted 71,007 words of fanfic last year: 6 stories for myself, and 11 for Yuletide. This is the most since 2014 and also very close to the 2014 total so, like, look at that! Turns out that I can actually write if I'm not completely miserable with stress. Big chunks of 2015 and 2016 were taken up with some exhausting stuff that really triggered my anxiety, and I've been feeling better every month that I got away from that. Hooray!

Yearly questions and answers under the cut:

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I know it's April. But it is time! Time for me to remember...Yuletide, haha. But I did manage to write fic for Yuletide, if nothing else, and I like continuity and talking about myself. So:

I wrote and posted 15,373 words of fanfic last year: 11 stories, all of which were for Yuletide. This is part of why I've been kind of slow on putting this together. Not only do I not have much time to write fic, let alone write about fic, but 2016 was also a very stressful year for a lot of reasons and I reacted partially by not writing. This is my lowest wordcount by a huge margin - last year I thought it was weird that I'd only made it to 50k, and 2010-2013 I was putting up 100k of fic every single year. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep while I was in college? Or I had fewer responsibilities??

Yearly questions under the cut!

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Listen, I know this post is an entire two months late. It's a metaphor for life, or something. It's definitely a metaphor for my complete inability to balance fencing, work, and the internet. The internet's been getting the shaft, lately.

I'm still planning to do a life update post! But for now: what did I write for fanfic in 2015?

I wrote and posted 56,115 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 16 stories. New record for low word and fic count, and once again I managed 11 stories for Yuletide, so only 5 non-Yuletide stories. The wordcount breakdown is pretty wacky, though: 25,000 words of non-Yuletide fic, 5,000 words of Yuletide treats, and 26,000 words of a Tim-Lincecum-is-a-witch. I wrote more of Just Like Ice on the Dune than I did of anything before Yuletide started. No wonder it nearly murdered me.

The lesson here is: when I'm trying to do too much at once and fencing is stressing me out and I'm supposed to be writing a dissertation and also teaching a class, I don't get much fiction written. This is super sad but not really surprising at all. My downtime ends up being a lot of TV or hanging out with friends just because I need to turn my brain off. Every once in a while I resolve to finish one of my wips, get 300 words in, get exhausted, decide I need to sleep instead. How did I use to do this? Did I use to sleep more?? At least I know I can write, because I wrote a bunch over the summer and then when tricked into it by Yuletide.

Anyway, yearly questions under the cut! Gotta figure out how to answer all of these questions with only 16 fics!

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It's time! It's time again!

Actually it was time almost two weeks ago, but I was busy. So.

This past year was my fifth putting stories up on the internet. Actually, if we exclude a terrible 200-word Torchwood fic I wrote in 2009, the 25th of January is my fanfic birthday and it will be turning five! If we include the drabble (it's about Jack outliving everyone because I figured that's where Torchwood was heading after the show killed a bunch of people off, you can read it if that's really what you want to do with your life), my fanfic turns six today. This is weird.

Anyway, I wrote and posted 78,294 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 18 stories. This is lowest story and wordcount I've ever had, and the majority of my fic was for Yuletide - 11 stories out of the 18. (Although it's important to note that only 16,314 words were for Yuletide. Most of the non-Yuletide fic was kind of long.)

Looking back, my annual numbers document the slide of Doctor Who fic from completely dominating my wordcount, to being roughly half of my wordcount, to being a slice, and now Who is represented by either a single fic (my Who remix story) or two if you think a silly Five(ish) Doctors fic counts as Who-fic and not some kind of RPF parody. I actually became very solidly multi-fannish this year, which was fun but a little lonesome, haha. Technically I didn't write more than one fic in any fandom, although Marvel and Doctor Who could be given two each - but they draw from completely different canons in both cases, so I think it's fair to say that this was a one-and-done year. That is a fun kind of accomplishment, but I do miss the long-term interactions that I get from sticking with a fandom for even a couple months. I kind of got that with baseball on tumblr, at least.

Okay, now questions! I went on for longer than usual this year, partly because I let myself rant about Hornblower. I have some that I answer every year and a couple new ones that I stole from aralias' year in review post. New questions (mostly) first.

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Four years of putting stories on the internet! Woooooo.

I wrote and posted 102,839 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 31 stories (including a zine fic that isn't posted elsewhere yet). This is the second highest wordcount I've ever had (more than 2011 and 2012, less than 2010). Interestingly, my total wordcount for this year roughly equals my Doctor Who wordcount from 2010. This year I only wrote 28,238 words of Who fic, and almost all of it was for challenges or exchanges.

I'll do a proper idfic update soon, but I'd like to point out that my idfic bingo accounted for almost half of my overall wordcount (50,134 words). So I'm counting that a success. This year I wrote a bunch of things that I was the main and maybe sole audience for, and I really enjoyed it. Also this year I kept breaking my computer and then using a lot of paper to frantically scribble fic out longhand, so that is something to remember whenever I feel like I have nothing to say or that writing is a chore.

Here are those questions that I do every year for the requisite omphaloskepsis:

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Going to be gone all day tomorrow and probably a lot of Sunday, so getting this out now. It's the annual year-end fanfic summary type thing!

I wrote and posted 97,802 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 29 stories (including all drabbles and commentfic except for those not!fic prompts and the handwritten meme). All but five stories were written for prompts - but the unprompted stories made up over half of the wordcount, so that's practically all of the long ones. This was the year that I wrote ridiculously long stories that no one especially wanted except me, including the Clint/Natasha/Bruce epic with extended Dr. Doom interlude, the Moran/Moriarty based around a behaviorist experiment, and the fluffy consent-heavy Teen Wolf heat fic. It was awesome!

Out of the prompted stories, 5 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, 3 were for other exchanges, 2 were for the best_enemies anonmeme, and 3 were for other anonmemes. I've now officially caught up on deanoning and kind of stalled out on anonmemes in general, which is kind of sad. (And I'm still not counting my radiosonic script, since that isn't out for consumption yet. Someday it will vastly inflate my wordcount for one of these posts and I will rejoice.)

All told, it's about 220 words more and 6 stories less than last year. The story count is down because of my dry spell with anonmemes - the word count stayed about constant because I was writing some seriously long fic this year. I've felt like the ideas I've been getting have generally been mid to longfic recently, though I did write some shorter fic for Yuletide. Hm. Finally, my Doctor Who word count continued to drop, as it has every year - this year I wrote 31,479 words for Who and 66,323 for other fandoms. Almost all of my Who fic happened because of fests like remix, Gallifreyathon, and the femslash exchange. It does feel like lot of my ideas are happening in other canons. Maybe I'll return to Who fic next year - I'm planning to participate in all the same exchanges, so.

Last year I answered some meme-type questions, so I'll do them again this year:

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So, this was my second year posting fanfiction on the internet! This year was a good year - I wrote a lot of fic that is pretty okay, and I got way more involved in the people side of fandom, possibly. I joined rewatches, and chatted with people, and met people who I had only known on the internet! And then I rediscovered that a lot of my stress-related social anxiety is focused on non-face-to-face interactions, particularly interacting with people via the internet. And then I got way less involved. So. A year of self-rediscovery, haha!

The (now-annual) numbers:

I wrote and posted 97,582 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 35 stories (which includes commentfic and everything). Out of that, all but one or two were written for prompts. I'd feel iffy about that, but this was also the year where I used prompts more as jumping-off points, rather than looking for closely defined prompts. It seemed to work pretty well!

Out of the prompted stories, 1 was for an asexuality prompt, 4 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, 4 were for other exchanges, 11 were for the best_enemies anonmeme, and 2 were for other anonmemes. (I've owned up to all but 2 anonymous fics - I should write more, I'm catching up.)

All told, it's about 12,000 words less and 13 stories less than last year. Mostly the lower story count comes from a severe shortage of commentfic/drabbles. I should get back on those, I like them. The lower word count, I'm not sure about, but it's not like a huge drop or anything. I also had a pretty even split between Doctor Who and other fandoms, this year: I wrote 53,655 words for Who and 43,927 for other fandoms. Less mono-fannishness was something I aimed for last year, but I didn't think about it when it was happening. I think I just got more confident about writing in other sources.

Last year this was all I did, but I saw aralias and tweedymcgee with this fanfic meme, and thought "why yes, I do like typing out long commentaries that I can read next January, I should do that."

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So, this was my first year posting fanfiction on the internet. Barring a slightly-bizarre drabble I wrote for a friend, my first fic was posted on January 25th 2010.

Which is weird. I've spent a lot of this year writing and thinking about fic, and it's only if I think about it that I realize I haven't been doing it very long at all.

Some numbers:

I wrote approximately 109,900 words of fanfiction this year. Out of that, 102,700 was Doctor Who fic.
This breaks down into 48 stories (which includes commentfic and everything). Out of that, 36 were written for prompts, leaving only 12 that I just wrote.
Out of the prompted stories, 2 were for the asexuality meme, 12 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, and 11 were for the best_enemies anonmeme. (I've only owned up to 7 of the anonmeme fics, incidentally.)

So, apparently I like writing for prompts, and am pretty mono-fannish. Hm. This may change - I still love Doctor Who, but my reading's always varied a lot, and yuletide showed me that I'm perfectly capable of writing for other fandoms. I'd say watch this space for The Thick of It and Horatio Hornblower fic. Also my epic Caprica continuation that, no, probably will only exist in my head. And possibly more webcomic fandom stuff.

That said, I spent the first two days of the new year writing a response to a prompt on the best_enemies anonmeme. Whoops.

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