#a year in review lmao

[raayllum]

1 - favorite fic you wrote this year. 3 - favorite line/scene you wrote this year. 12 - favorite character to write about this year. 14 - a fic you didn’t expect to write. 21 - most memorable comment/review. And 24 - favorite fic you read this year.

I have no precision on fandom or fic... You are free to choose which fandom. Thus, you may make us discover other universes.

1) favourite fic you wrote this year

Looked through and discovered that I wrote 20 fics this year, which is wild, even if the majority are oneshots so... certainly have my pick an picks for various reasons!

These are the ones, probably:

This Fall Might Just Kill Me is 10.2k of Callum trying and failing to get purified, post-S4, and was one of my favourites and one I return to pretty often for a personal re-read. Very Callum/Rayla centric, some magic worldbuilding, and lots of devotion. Oneshot

Twice as Many Stars is 8.7k of Sir Sparklepuff is an existential horror story, the fic, featuring more religious trauma allegory than expected. Also a oneshot

Teach Me How to Name the Bigger Light a fanon s6 currently of 5 out of roughly 26-30ish chapters, and at 41k and counting. Main characters are Callum, Ezran, Rayla, and Claudia in about that order. It's a lot of fun, and a lot of angst

3) favourite line/scene this year

"If it's not you, it's not anyone" has one of my favourite love / Rayllum confessions I've ever written. I also loved this line from a (now non canon) fic regarding Kpp'Ar's feelings on Callum/people "There are many ways to mend broken things, if you can". I deeply enjoyed Callum threatening Nyx over Rayla's safety in this pre-S5 fic and this piece of description as well: "Callum knelt down in front of her, her cheeks heating as he reached up and pried the shawl away again, looking at the way the scar crept over her shoulder like dark ivy" + this Rayllum passage from "this fall just might kill me" (edit in the link):

“It’s because if I die,” he said, squeezing her hands. “I want you to be the last thing I ever see. And you are good enough, Rayla. You are . I don’t care if you destroy me. I don't care if we make each other better or worse or both. I love you. I’ll fall for you every time. I’ll choose to, I’ll choose you, every time.” 

I also really enjoyed writing Callum and Lujanne in "older but just never wiser" because it was interesting to revisit their dynamic now that well, Callum is older, powerful, and much more jaded/angry.

Drabbles wise this Rayllum one has one of my favourite metaphoric uses I've ever been able to pull off and I always love 1) writing messy Ezran and 2) Ezran being a little done with his brother's less than favourable methods, so this one for Ezran's "underhanded" comment for sure

But if I had to pick a singular exchange fic wise, it is of course the end of the Callum and Ezran fight from Ch4 of fanon s6, because it was a line that hurt me so much I was sad the rest of the day, and I also thought of it before writing a decent chunk of the boys' argument, so making sure it felt earned and hit the way I wanted to was very fun if also angsty. I apologize in advance lmao:

Only this time Callum scoffed, peeling away, his green eyes glinting. “Yeah, right.”  “I am your king and I forbid you—” “You don’t get to forbid me from doing anything because guess what?” A manic gleam overtook his brother’s face. “I don’t fucking care what you think, nevermind what you fucking decree. I’m freeing Runaan, and that’s final.”  “Then you can do it without my help,” Ezran said with a ragged breath. “Because I am not giving you my seal.”  Callum stared at him with cold eyes. “Dad would be so disappointed in you.” But this time Ezran was ready for the blow, as he said, “Well at least I called him Dad."

A shameless plug OG fantasy world wise was definitely this lines from my sequel WIP. You can learn more about it/the fantasy world here <3

The Alpha of the Crescents may have worn her old friend’s face and mannerisms, but the girls they’d both been were long dead, just like their families.  It was time to finish the job and bury them.

as well as

“Good. Vita willing I won’t live to see your next lives.” “Because seeing you again has been so pleasant,” Jamie muttered.

from book one

12) favourite character to write about this year

Given my above answers it's clearly been Callum, but Ezran has probably been my standout in "teach me how to name the bigger light," easy, even if I think Rayla's POV is going to sneak up on me more and more as the fic goes on, especially once we reach the chapters at the Starscraper. I've also written a somewhat decent amount of Kpp'Ar POV this year, I loved writing Claudia in "twice as many stars" in particular. Everyone? Can I say everyone?

But if I had to pick, Callum. (Non fic wise it's all the OG chosen one kiddos running around, I love 'em.)

14) a fic you didn't expect to write

Many days of angry muttering and half concocted plot points predated "teach me how to name the bigger light" and I am still slightly internally salty about it. However, it does feel good to have one last fanon season foray, especially since it's been four years since the last one, and I've been having a fucking blast, lemme tell you.

21) most memorable comment/review

This is hard because I do cherish every review and kind word I get (as well as anyone who leaves notes in their bookmarks) but there are some standouts. Basically anything from twice as many stars is fair game as well as this review on fanon s6, cause I'm gonna go the typical write route and say the long bois make my day / when readers catch onto the smaller details, that's absolutely my favourite:

@inamindfarfaraway <3 hope you've enjoyed the most recent chapter!

24) favourite fic you read this year

Have already done some TDP fic recs here so I'm gonna focus on what's in my bookmarks for now! I mostly read LOZ or SOC fics when I'm not making my way through TDP backlog, but this one for Six of Crows centreing on Inej and Kaz called High Wire Act stood out to me and I'm really enjoying "for the children we couldn't be" for TDP because it's trio centric and the exact kind of time travel fuckery I like to read.

This is tricky, though, cause I find most often the favourite things I participate in is like, the stuff I write because it's what I want to read and most tailored to my specific tastes? I also just don't read as much fic as I could / have in the past and it's hard to pick Just One Fic, y'know? So cop out answer, maybe, but this is the one!

#thanks for asking #forbidden op lore #a year in review lmao #perlelas #my fic #dragons rambles

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Goncharov coming third in tumblr's top 100 movies of 2023 is so damn funny. Imagine being a film studio exec who spent millions making some of the other 97 movies listed below it only to be beaten by a film that cost exactly zero dollars to make and doesn't exist

#goncharov #tumblr #goncharov 1973 #year in review #movies #film #not that studio execs care what movies people are talking about on the unprofitable website but still lmao

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #kingdom hearts #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #finally starting kingdom hearts 3 after 5 and a half years :) #(as long as I've run this blog wow!) #(3 of those were playing through all the other kingdom hearts games when they came out for switch) #I'm having a lot of fun! #I intentionally avoided most of the reviews and playthroughs and stuff #lmao I was looking at my other kirbs tagged 'kingdom hearts' #and this is the third february in a row I've drawn a keyblade kirb to celebrate major gameplay progress #but I guess that means it only took me 2 years to play through all the preceding games.

[oflights]

2023 fic review!

ahhh thanks for tagging me, @citrusses and @oknowkiss! i'm going to tag @teledild0nix @elskanellis @arminaa8 @thecouchsofa @stationintern and anyone else who'd like to do this!!

my 2023 AO3 stats are...alarming lol. AO3 counts Close Behind as a 2023 fic because i finished posting it in 2023, but i really wrote it all in 2022. so if we discount that (which was 134k) i still wrote...over 330k words of fanfiction. 🆗🆒

do i have regrets? no. should i have regrets? maybe??? in any case, 2023 was the year i really started using tumblr for fandom again (thanks, elon!) and i made so many wonderful friends who were so supportive and inspiring! that word count is all your fault, basically.

here's the (all drarry) damage:

January

Close Behind (134k words, M)

To rescue Draco from the Underworld, Harry has to look forward. Unfortunately, Draco has to look back.

February

find a new place to be from (47k words, E)

Something is wrong with Malfoy Manor, and it’s driven Draco into the Muggle world. Thankfully, Harry is now on the case. A story about houses that haunt you and homes built for two.

April

along each garden wall (61k words, E)

Draco has to have a baby (or have one on the way) at the time of his fast-approaching 35th birthday, or he's going to lose his home to his vile cousin. Harry offers to help, but their complex past—even beyond Hogwarts—prompts Draco to set out on a long journey of friendship, kittens, gardens, motorbike rides, and more.

May

the first in line (29k words, E)

Harry finds out he's a Veela. That's not so bad, and then he finds out his allure only works on his enemies. Even that's not so bad, since his safe, boring, post-war life means he doesn't have very many enemies these days. And then Draco Malfoy lands a hot air balloon in his front garden, intent on courting him.

June

please come to boston, Byzantine, and go to it laughing

(tumblr prompt fics! i was not good at this lol)

August

Cool About It (16k words, M, for @hp-bodiceripper)

Harry is so excited for his first date with Draco. But what follows isn't so much a date as it is an all-night odyssey including a malevolent lift, a Gringotts heist, a Sleeping Curse, a trip to the kebab shop, a lack of dancing, a Muggle drug, a rooftop pool party, a black eye and, eventually, a sunrise over a Quidditch stadium.

October

if the bees know (19k words, T, for @hd-fan-fair)

Scorpius' playground is haunted, Harry specializes in helping ghosts pass on, and Draco just wants his son to be safe.

December

The Star Splitter (WIP, 119k words so far, E)

On a routine time travel assignment to the past, Draco stumbles upon 7-year-old Harry Potter and witnesses his neglect and mistreatment by the Dursleys. In the moment, there is only one solution, even if it goes against all his training as a Time Agent: he has to bring Harry back to the future with him. In which Draco burns his life down for the sake of his former school rival.

#oflights #drarry fic #year in review #drarry #fic year in review #tag game #will add my erised fic in here when it's revealed 👀 #but anyway. i posted fic in 8/12 months so that's. casual #right #it's fine #everything is fine!!! #lmao #also as a reminder that's the painting draco cries over in pepper spray fic!!! #important

[wormholy]

I don’t do these year in review things much, but, there was at least a lot of improvement in my willingness to put my whole [redacted] into things and commit to things I didn’t do much before (group pics, interacting with objects, stronger shading and rendering) Hopefully this year i will continue to improve!

#my art #artist year in review #won’t let me do more than 10 so forgive I didn’t skip a couple months lmao

[morrigan-sims]

Year In Review - 2023

Thanks for sticking with me through this year. I can't wait to see what next year brings for me!

January / February / March April / May / June July / August / September October / November / December

Honorable Mentions:

One / Two / Three Four / Five / Six Seven / Eight

#ts4 #the sims 4 #my year in review #I posted four whole story posts this year!!! I'm trying to be proud of myself for that. #as you can see this year was the year that DnD took over my life. #from critical role fan sims to the dnd cas challenge and then Rook taking over my brain. #I also feel like I improved a lot with my edits. #specifically the two tarot card edits are amazing. some of my best work to date. #and I feel like my cinematography with Nora's story posts was a step up from where it was before. #apparently black red and green were the colors of the year lmao. #I'm glad I made at least 4 really intensive edits to put on here. #and also glad that I posted 4 story poses this year. #that's almost nothing compared to last year but it's still progress!

[wikiangela]

✨ Fic Writing Review 2023 ✨

Words and Fics

192,761 words published to ao3

2 fandoms (911 and MCU - mcu was like one fic tho lol)

Most recent drop: I wanna spend my forever like that (911, 8.6k, G)

Longest fic: For a holiday (and forevermore) (911, 95k, M)

Top Fics by Kudos

For a holiday (and forevermore) (95k, M)

I can't love you any more (than I do now) (2.6k, G)

I'd marry you with paper rings (3.4k, G)

me, you, our kid and a dog (4.7k, G)

me and you only equals love (6.6k, E)

My fandom fic events in 2023

I don't think I took part in any this year :( maybe next year haha

Upcoming Events and Projects for 2024

well, right now I'm working on a few wips im hoping to get done in the next few weeks/months (depending on time and inspiration lol):

the alive shannon fic - this is my main focus and i hope to maybe finish it sometime next year but who knows hah (I barely started, it's gonna be a while)

buddie coffee shop au - ive been working on this for so long and it's lowkey on hold now but istg i'll finish this

buddie cheating fic

the natalia fic

married buddie smut

another smut I haven't mentioned yet but it's waiting until i finish married buddie smut

bi eddie fic

and probably some more oneshots lol

but tbh, we'll see where the next year takes me, I can't plan too much bc it never works out haha

rules & tags below the cut

tagged by @exhuastedpigeon @underwater-ninja-13 @hippolotamus @jesuisici33 @jamespearce9-1-1 @theotherbuckley @steadfastsaturnsrings @rainbow-nerdss <333

Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass but don’t feel like you have to do this either.

no pressure tagging: @malewifediaz @thewolvesof1998 @eddiebabygirldiaz @honestlydarkprincess @spotsandsocks @loserdiaz @lover-of-mine @disasterbuckdiaz @monsterrae1 @jeeyuns @housewifebuck @giddyupbuck @hoodie-buck @spagheddiediaz @daffi-990 and whoever else wants to <3

#tbf mcu was one fic from january lmao - after that 911 wholly consumed me haha #this year was basically exclusively buddie #i've been writing buddie since march 2021 but october 2022 they *really* took over and i can't write anything else haha #fic writing review 2023 #my fics #wikiangela writes #buddie fics #buddie #tag games

[antarctic-empires]

Okay not that I actually, like, care about DNF but this is fucking hilarious to me

#this is from the tumblr year in review page on ships #it dropped so hard LMAO

[smallsimmer]

My Favorite Posts Each Month of 2023

I really did not post all that much this year, but here are the things I liked that I posted each month 💖

January

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October

November

December

#the year of Marc truly #imma say this is my year in review #under the cut cause I hate scrolling past long posts myself and I know 90% of my followers don't gaf about this LMAO

[cosmikmerlin]

We got merthur on the 29th place in Tumblr's Year In Review AND on the trending page because we all started collectively screaming about it?

EXCELLENT WORK EVERYONE

#WHAT A DAY #we are doing amazing lmao #bbc merlin #merlin #a year in review #tumblr's year in review #merthur #merlin x arthur #tumblr 2022

[raayllum]

22 and 28 for the fic ask meme please?

22. events you participated in this year

This past year I mostly participated in fandom events I run, largely the Rayllum Bad Vibes Rodeo in July in preparation for S5, the second Ezran Appreciation Week in March (which I still need to finish things for, whoops), and most notably Snake Boi Callum Week (which I got at least half finished, thank God) back in November. I enjoyed all of them (the piece I wrote for Bad Vibes Rodeo is one of my favourite Rayllum pieces ever, metaphor wise, and I want to dig deeper into Ezran's timeskip period soon) but Snake Boi Callum was probably my favourite to run and to participate in as a reader and a writer. The fandom really knocked it out of the park and it was so fun to come together to celebrate the 'darker' side of our boi. We will definitely have to have another one someday

28. longest fic you read this year

Don't read nearly as much fic as I should but I am going to skim my bookmarks, which is mostly Six of Crows fic ranging from 8-20k tbh. But TDP wise, I have been meaning to settle down and reread @tenspontaneite's "Peace is a Journey" from start to current finish since it's been a while for those early chapters, and that fic is already 386k+ and not even half over. Every single word is more than worth it <3

send me a fanfic end of year ask! :)

#thanks for asking #tallysgreatestfan #dragons rambles #a year in review lmao

[saybiwithme]

Fic writing 2023 review!

Tagged by @monsterrae1 & @hippolotamus ❤️

Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass but don’t feel like you have to do this either.

Words and Fics

17,242 words written on A03

1 Fandom (911)

Most Recent drop: dancing over the silence

Longest fic: dancing over the silence

Top fics by Kudos

emerald star in the sky

bated breath

dancing over the silence

My fandom fic events in 2023

None

Upcoming Events and Projects for 2024

Let’s just hope I can get them done lmao but finishing the surprise party fic, getting vampire buck prequel done for @santadiazz, getting hannigram out for @honestlydarkprincess, getting the Reid/ethan fic out for @wheelsupin-five

Tagging: @loserdiaz, @rogerzsteven, @prettyboybuckley, @eddiebabygirldiaz, @buddierights, @spotsandsocks, @spookylostboy, @disasterbuckdiaz, @loveofastarvingdog, @your-catfish-friend, @jesuisici33 & @callmenewbie

#me actually doing it this year because last year I wrote one fic lmao #fic writing review #surprise party fic is definitely most of my word count

[ziskandra]

Called it

#meredith stannard #knight commander meredith #da absolution spoilers #da absolution #dragon age absolution #i still cannot beliehe this is happening the same year DA becomes my main fandom again #and that I picked exactly the right character to be enamoured with LMAO #WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN #according to my tumblr review I tagged over 500 posts with meredith stannard and she manifested in the bowels of kirkwall #WILD!!!!!!

[glassedplanets]

blorbeauxes wrapped 2023

#my art #rvb tag #bleach tag #one piece tag #lmao what a year it's been...... literally never did i think that This would be the year i read one piece #or the year i would write a sequel to p vs np 🧍‍♂️ #tomorrow i'll do a proper year in review post!

[stabbingandorbeingstabbed]

had to leave work early bc i was having trouble breathing again and also i just didn't wanna be there BUT when i got home i had a perfume sample for a full sized bottle im considering purchasing and also a full bottle of a budget knockoff of ANOTHER expensive fragrance ive been wondering about AND a free lip liner and balm AND a job application in my inbox that just needs to be submitted so they can officially make me an offer AND the full bottle of champagne i bought last night to help me motivate myself to get some shit done around the house. so everything is basically coming up millhouse ☺️

#both fragrances are supposed to smell like wood fire bc my dumb ass got that stupid feu de bois candle like 6 years ago and like #can't get over how good it smells but that's NOT one of the scents diptyque made into a perfume 😤😤😤 #so i have the dossier dupe of replicas by the fireplace and a 2ml sample of an indie fragrance called a city on fire #they both smell really good but the dossier one does lean a little heavy on vanilla which like. what for lmao #the free lip liner is in exchange for a review but like hey. free makeup #full-size !! from urban decay !! for free !!

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

My MH comic came in and I just finished reading it!

I was definitely expecting an actual mini comic and not just a sneak peak of the one coming up…

But I did like it!

It was definitely free comic book day material and not really worth the 9 dollars I spent but I liked it a lot and I loved the little hints for the upcoming comics!

The little bios are so cute and I loved the little diary entries!

And the art?? Omg I love the art style so much! 😭

#that’s it #not really a review cause there wasn’t really much to review lmao #but it was cute and I’m def gonna buy the comics that are coming out this year #I’m so excited for those omg #monster high #I don’t regret buying it cause I can put it on my doll shelf and have it as part of my collection #so not really a loss at all #just bummed I couldn’t get it for free lmao