Fic recs (I have a whole doc- many of these are simply on my to-read list lol) (these are all on ao3):
We'll meet again soon by chiangyorange
Like Father Like Son by eternalglitch
I may be invisible, but I still look good by Dandy
TMNT: Mystic Forest AU by AmevelloBlue and IbbyWondrous
The Dawning of the Hour by Faiakishi
Brother Dearest by Wardenov
The Neon Void by sugarpastels
and slightly shameful self advertisting:
Saviors of the Yokai by MostlyVoid_PartiallyStars (<- me)
BOOM even more added to the list!! ty ty, and ty for self advertising!
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Iskars said “chaotic” and we agreed ✧˖°. Rooting-out-the-stakes year~
Who would have thought I finished it this time before the year’s end..!
I wasn’t sure how to title the 2022 summary, a lot of things happened (and keep happening) that have me both in a state of wonder and stress (and excitement and fear- it’s all over the place). In the end I feel this is the best way to label it, as it was my major highlight.
I honestly thought there is no way I can fill this year’s summary but gave it a shot regardless. Super surprised there were works I wanted to include but didn’t..! My priority was to highlight the works that were the most emotionally-charged with memories of each month. (I think it’s the same pattern I followed last year :3)
::Quick Summary!
January: Loads of zine work, making merch for the first time★ || February: zine work vol.2 || March, April: Merch design vol.2 || May: Commissions, hand/shoulder therapy, healing time..~ || June: taking it easy, healing vol.2 + konvid || July, August, September: Pulling the weeds out {thank you♥} || October: Mostly traditional, somewhere in the sea... || November: learning & applying new things, heavy admin, kickstarter, back to physio (lol) || December: heavy-lifting in kickstarter & wind down with warmups, akiangel brainrot & doing stretches~
::Highlights: merch making⭐, perseverance🌱💧, be snail🐌🍀
Thank you for an amazing learning year..!
Wishing you all the best for the coming one ♥✨💓
Fun facts:
in my illustration folder I only have 1 (one) illustration finished for 2022. New record?!
Starting in August I got heavy into visual-key (thanks catten~) and it was the only genre I listened to (thank you for the suggestions sush TT w TT♥♥♥) until November..!
At the time (Aug) I was also listening to “Time management for mortals” by Oliver Burkeman and I HIGHLY reccommend it. (I still haven’t finished it entirely, I take my time to listen to each episode and take notes as I go, but it’s really, really good...)
October was heavily traditional sketchbook filled but I happened to draw 3 times digitally so I combined those instead for the art summary. Figures intruding everywhere..!!
I re-read CSM in October because I saw an Akiangel zine and I thought “I want in..!”. I didn’t know this ship was a thing! It’s been doing some serious heavy-lifting for my mood the last couple months. I am obsessed.
I said I’ll take a sabbatical from zines in 2023 to work on my own. I lied. I AM A CLOWN.*
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2022 End of Year Fic Review
I was tagged by @ulfrsmal (ty for the tag and the sweet mention!) and, uhm, I got a little wordy in this one. Please do click the readmore if you want some fic recs! 😘
1. What is your AO3 account?
captainkilly is my main account that features all my fics, but all my Vikings fics in particular can be found under the pseud underragingwaves
2. How many words did you write total in 2022?
197,158 words, not including the fics that were Tumblr-only.
3. How many fics did you publish in 2022? How many multichapters vs oneshots?
12 fics in total, of which 3 were multichapters. (I am counting the one fic I began publishing in 2021 and updated in 2022 among these as well.)
4. What was your longest fic? Your shortest fic?
The longest one that I updated in 2022 is homeland, heartland (which sits at a comfortable 63k and counting), but I didn’t begin publishing that in 2022. The longest fic that I published entirely in 2022 is The Ascendancy Seat, which clocks in at 60k.
My shortest fic is leavetaking, which lands around 2k.
5. What was your most popular fic? Your least popular fic?
If we’re counting homeland, heartland, then that’s the most popular one in hits/kudos/bookmarks by far. Secondmost popular in terms of hits is the Ivar-centric massive undertaking The Ascendancy Seat, but in terms of kudos/bookmarks the honor goes to another Ivar-centric fic called ouroboros.
Least popular fic is the aforementioned leavetaking, but that is because I only recently uploaded it to AO3 and now backdated it to reflect its original publication date. I think it’s one of those hidden gem fics, haha, because I loved writing this as a missing scene and it allowed me to work with Ragnar instead of the usual suspects.
6. What fic didn’t perform as well as you thought it would?
Honestly, I don’t think I publish anything and expect it to ‘perform’ in any way? I am used to people finding my fics and faceplanting in them whenever, which means that some of my fics initially don’t do so well in terms of hits/kudos but eventually grow into crowd pleasers. I can never predict which one will take off months from now, lol. That said, I think I wanted more people to give the reverie protocol a chance – I know it’s not an AU that immediately incites folks to read it, but I just love the way this one sang on the page for me personally.
7. What fic performed way better than you thought it would?
ouroboros. It is not at all my fave of the fics I’ve written, and I raise my eyebrow at its popularity even though I know that its premise (Ivar-centric smutty stuff) is this fandom’s form of catnip. I have a hard time writing something that is outright smut – it’s a journey for me that I experimented more with in 2022 – and while I’m making the best sort of googly eyes at the OC I wrote for this fic (Malika my beloved) I really do not think it is my best and I’m still surprised when people pick that one over some of my better works.
8. What was your favorite fic you wrote from 2022?
I’m actually going to name 3 fics for various reasons, haha.
First up is The Juniper Tree, in a hands-down-no-contest sort of way. That fic was a work of love for me and returned a sense of stillness and certainty to my writing process that I hadn’t felt in a long time. It is one of those fics I can say ‘wrote itself’, and I love it unbelievably much. Y’all know I love Ubbe best of all and getting to write this whole multichapter from his POV was just… yeah, I had a good cry about this one by the time I completed it. A really special writing experience that I think is my best work to date.
Secondly, The Warlord’s Wake was probably the most… cathartic to write. I had played with this post-series idea for a good long while until I finally started this fic, and it gave me the closure that I think I honestly needed in terms of where Hvitserk’s story ended in the series. I really wanted to write a fic in which Hvitserk had used his position in Alfred’s court to play a very long game that would eventually return him to his feral pagan bastard ways. It was a good thing for me to get to express this, especially because I have seen a fair few fics and opinions in this fandom regarding Hvitserk’s conversion to Christianity (and the Christian-centric narrative some people choose to uphold) that make me feel supremely salty and quite upset.
Last, I’m going to go ahead and name The Maker’s Path. This is the lone fic I wrote for a different fandom, namely Dune, and I got so horribly creative with the prompt I wrote it for that I just need to squee about it some more. I always thought Dune would be impossible to write for (like Black Sails, it’s one of those things that’s just perfect to me the way it is) but I found a little neat corner somewhere in the book’s folds and movie’s visuals that allowed me to put this fic to the page. Getting to work with a Sardaukar character as well as a Fremen character was a cool exercise that only got more pleasing when I managed to include my own favorite character (Alia) toward the end.
9. What was your favorite fic that somebody else wrote in 2022?
Gonna be that person and name 5 for funsies!
Greedy Gods, by @vikingstrash (stellar Aslaug-centric work, I always love how Yume writes Aslaug and this was a lovely ‘missing piece’ of canon to me)
Gatekeeper, by @ritual-unions (I still don’t know how I survived this one and when I say it lives rentfree in my brain y’all had better believe it)
Gnothi Sauthon, by @bouncehousedemons (you know it’s good when I make hearteyes at a reader pairing, okay? this is just comfort food)
Reactions Of Your Kind, by @ulfrsmal (Ubbe/Hvitty goodness that essentially catapulted a friendship – I’m very fond of this one, and it’s a definite pick-me-up)
This lovely Freydis & Liv prompt fill by @mercurygray (it’s in my head a lot, as it has perfectly captured the dynamics between the Valhalla characters and I love the ‘outsider’ POV of Harald in this piece)
10. Tag your friends to do this year-end fic review as well!
@vikingstrash, @mercurygray, @pomprincesse, if y’all have done this I apologize for tagging ya. Also tagging anyone who writes fic in our lil fandom and wants to do an end of year close-out! 😊
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