#will I finally figure out how to write mamma mia but make it patrochilles?!??!?!!!

[baejax-the-great]

Fic Wrap Up Meme 2022

Tagged by @swaps55. Man, I debated doing one of these, but it's nice to look back on the year. I pivoted majorly fandomwise and feel a little bad for leaving friends behind, but Mass Effect is one I know I'll always come back to.

Words Published: 282,655

Fandoms: Dragon Age, Hades Game, Mass Effect, The Song of Achilles, and The Iliad

3 Fanfics with the most kudos in 2022:

even if it's a lie

Void

Relinquish

(All ThanZag, hah. The only fic that breaks these 3 for other stats is Sunset in Your Veins, which has 3rd most comment threads.)

Favorite opening line from a fic in 2022:

He is eighteen, freshly home from his first and last Olympics, and he steps out of the taxi to find the front lawn of his house littered with black garbage bags, little cards affixed to them on which Patroclus’s name is neatly printed. x.

Favorite ending line from a fic in 2022:

If Zagreus is willing to die to steal a few minutes of Thanatos’s attention, Thanatos is willing to put his duty to the side for a few moments more to watch for the sunrise. x.

Fic I'm most proud of from 2022:

Void. It was one of those fics where I felt like I was possessed while writing. I wrote fast and compulsively, hah, and I really liked how it turned out. (But I think if I do a good job with the ending of All That Glitters, it might be the fic I'm most proud of in 2023. I really love some of the sections in that fic and it's been really fun and challenging to tackle so much time in just small snippets.)

Longest fic in 2022:

even if it's a lie clocks in as the winner at just under 85k words. Most of my longfics are 50k or below, but I think modern AUs get me a little wordier (I thought Gold would be 10-15k and ATG would be shorter than Gold, and I was very wrong on both counts).

New Things I Tried in 2023:

For some reason, I started writing in the present tense this year, and now I can't stop. I broke my previous record for number of POVs in a fic with around 15 in Void. And I think ATG is my most ambitious in terms of how much time is covered-- it spans over 20 years, and it's been a fun challenge to show them changing, growing, and fucking up over two decades.

Goals for 2023:

I have a couple fics that got put on the backburner for most of 2022 for a number of reasons, and I'd like to sit down and finish them. Now that my love of Thanzag has settled into something less all-consuming, I think I can actually turn my attention to other beloved ships (thinking particularly of Overboard and the dozen Shakarian WIPs I have).

Tagging: @johaerys-writes @juliafied @gloriesunsung @nicolasadrabbles @annalyia @thehawkewithgoldeneyes

#it's so funny to think of next year and have no idea what I'll write #like I know I'll finish sunset and ATG and probably before the end of February for both #and then what? #what idiotic obsession will take me then? #will I finally return to my abandoned children? #or will there be something new? #will I finally figure out how to write mamma mia but make it patrochilles?!??!?!!! #I was thinking of making a new pinned post to rec fics from 2022 since I have so many new patrochilles and hades people #but meh whatever just gonna do this instead #sorry the end of hte year is for being self involved and reflecting on stuff #also i cannot believe how many words that is #there's also 35k more unpublished words of ajax fic ahaha #getting more and more doubtful that will ever see the light of day