pink bows and the apocalypse

this year i went a bit crazy for yuletide. i wrote 6 fics, four of which were over 1,000. what freaks me out is the wordcount, which is over 17,000.

the bulk of that is made up of my assigned fic All My Wires Without Traces, for shusu. it is 10,007 words of fic about Submachine, a series of online escape games. This fic was weird for me, mostly because it was almost too easy. I kept making up complications for myself. (i was 100% certain that shu would leave a comment telling me she knew i was the author and ruining secrecy and therefore.) but that did not happen! i got the prompt in my inbox and immediately wrote a 1200 word! outline which i pretty much stuck to.

This is a fic i wrote for the ending. i like the second half a lot more than the first, as i wrote it chronologically and i kept adding new ideas in as i went along, which led to a full day edit/rewrite session to make sure things would actually make sense. i am proud of this fic. i like the job i did with the world building, and creating characters who worked within the universe. (in case anyone was wondering, the protagonist is based on kara (from the escape game Covert Front), kima (from 'The Wire'), and rihanna. this fic actually kind of gave me the idea that maybe someday i could write orginal stuff. (that day, however, is not today.)

As i mentioned, i was paranoid that shu would figure out i wrote her fic, especially as we had discussed the premise of my fic before. so, i decided i needed to write a cover up fic. originally i was going to write shu a second fic for 'mack the knife' but then hit on the idea of writing a fic based on 'the wire' and titling it from a kanye west song. (my passions, let me show them to you.) well, i didn't end up using a kanye lyric, but i did co-currently write a 'wire' fic.

It's Just the Way the Game is Played is the treat i wrote for elynross. it is probably the best piece of fanfiction i have ever written. (i know that sounds a bit conceited, but i know it is not the best fic in the world, but in terms of my writing... it is way ahead.) i was rewatching season 4 when i got to the second to last ep. Bodie is talking to McNulty and he uses a chess metaphor. i heard that and started planning out the fic. i didn't get everything into the fic i wanted (there is a scene of bodie teaching the corner kids chess that might someday actually get written.) and the whole last section came out of nowhere. but i think it works. i used themes, motifs and basically, this is probably the only fic i have ever written that i would read and love. this was my most popular fic of the year.

Those That Be Not What They Seem was a pinch hit for linaerys this was probably my most disappointing fic. i grabbed this pinch hit because the recipient left awesome prompts. unfortunately, i decided to merge the prompts into what i called in chat 'my crazy crossover.' because yes. this fic is an othello/leverage crossover that includes a rather odd attempt at iambic pentameter.

i also picked up a second pinch hit for anotherusedpage, for which i wrote Today's Just a Day Like the Day That He Started which is also for 'the wire.' i like this fic. i wrote it because lester was a character who i never really connected with during the series. this was my way of trying to figure out how he ticked.

then come the madness treats! both of these were written on the 24th.

Why Does the Hippo Dance? was a #yuletide - rpf fic for dehaunea. (yes, hi, i am crazy) i wrote it to sound like a children's book. i have been trying to illustrate it, but i fear that project is doomed due to my ineptitude. this is meta on several levels, not the least that i actually wrote this in the chat window.

last, but not least, there is The West Side Way, another fic for 'the wire' fandom. it was a treat for thedreamygirl for gen fic about herc and carver. i can't help it! i love that fucking show! anyway, this was written last minute, actually on my iphone in the car. even so, it was lots of fun to write, mostly because while bodie is awesome, carver is totally my actual favorite (shhhhh).