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The year in fic: 2013
30 Dec 2013 22:47For the first time since 2004, this list contains no SGA:
In the Land That Our Grandchildren Knew:
1 - Fair Fare: Steve and Bucky, summer of ‘39. (Steve POV)
2 - In Miniature: Being Steve Rogers’s best friend is good training for ambulance work. (Bucky POV)
3 - Antediluvian: Bucky and Steve haven’t done anything apart in fifteen years, but war changes everything. (Bucky POV)
4 - La Caduta: Bucky’s war, from captivity to Commando, and the most unlikely reunion of all. (Bucky POV)
BOHICA: Clint Barton, in transition.
Rock of Gibraltar: Pepper’s reasons for cleaning up Tony’s messes are different now, professionally and personally, but some of them go back longer than she does and none of them loom larger than the ghost of Howard Stark.
Freezer Burn: The adventures of Steve Rogers, defrosted soldier, who is missing time but not really all that lost. He’s got a surprisingly broad knowledge of lettuces, a working grasp of modern technology, and may or may not be using both to mess with his teammates and save the world.
Archival: Unlike everyone else at SHIELD, Natasha can trace her surprise to the fact that she knows exactly what the Winter Soldier looks like, but she’s never heard of James Barnes.
Freezer Burn post-credits scene: Steve reacts as well as can be expected to finding out about the Winter Soldier. Which is to say not well at all.
Thaw: The Winter Soldier was the dog that ate the good guys’ homework during the Cold War, a convenient bogeyman to explain failure, and Clint Barton was pretty sure those tall tales died with the fall of the Wall. But reality is stranger than fiction, something Clint really shouldn’t be as surprised by as he is at this stage of his career, and now there are ghosts to chase once more.
Revenant: Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
All told, about 450k words in a fandom I had never written in before with a half-dozen narrators I'd never tried before. And I think I pulled it off. :) It was also my first personal experience with how different fandoms flourish on different platforms. My top five stories on AO3 are all from this list; Freezer Burn alone probably has more hits than the 79 SGA stories I have up there combined, but I got more comments for it on Tumblr than I did here. Not a complaint, just an acceptance of the 'different platforms' thing. Most of you are here from SGA or something else that doesn't involve Captain America. 'Sokay.
Anyway, by all conceivable metrics, I deem 2013 a good year for fannish productivity. I got myself a new fandom where the canon doesn't frustrate the hell out of me, I wrote a lot, I got a little attention for that writing, and I'm grateful for all of it. Ever onward.
In the Land That Our Grandchildren Knew:
1 - Fair Fare: Steve and Bucky, summer of ‘39. (Steve POV)
2 - In Miniature: Being Steve Rogers’s best friend is good training for ambulance work. (Bucky POV)
3 - Antediluvian: Bucky and Steve haven’t done anything apart in fifteen years, but war changes everything. (Bucky POV)
4 - La Caduta: Bucky’s war, from captivity to Commando, and the most unlikely reunion of all. (Bucky POV)
BOHICA: Clint Barton, in transition.
Rock of Gibraltar: Pepper’s reasons for cleaning up Tony’s messes are different now, professionally and personally, but some of them go back longer than she does and none of them loom larger than the ghost of Howard Stark.
Freezer Burn: The adventures of Steve Rogers, defrosted soldier, who is missing time but not really all that lost. He’s got a surprisingly broad knowledge of lettuces, a working grasp of modern technology, and may or may not be using both to mess with his teammates and save the world.
Archival: Unlike everyone else at SHIELD, Natasha can trace her surprise to the fact that she knows exactly what the Winter Soldier looks like, but she’s never heard of James Barnes.
Freezer Burn post-credits scene: Steve reacts as well as can be expected to finding out about the Winter Soldier. Which is to say not well at all.
Thaw: The Winter Soldier was the dog that ate the good guys’ homework during the Cold War, a convenient bogeyman to explain failure, and Clint Barton was pretty sure those tall tales died with the fall of the Wall. But reality is stranger than fiction, something Clint really shouldn’t be as surprised by as he is at this stage of his career, and now there are ghosts to chase once more.
Revenant: Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
All told, about 450k words in a fandom I had never written in before with a half-dozen narrators I'd never tried before. And I think I pulled it off. :) It was also my first personal experience with how different fandoms flourish on different platforms. My top five stories on AO3 are all from this list; Freezer Burn alone probably has more hits than the 79 SGA stories I have up there combined, but I got more comments for it on Tumblr than I did here. Not a complaint, just an acceptance of the 'different platforms' thing. Most of you are here from SGA or something else that doesn't involve Captain America. 'Sokay.
Anyway, by all conceivable metrics, I deem 2013 a good year for fannish productivity. I got myself a new fandom where the canon doesn't frustrate the hell out of me, I wrote a lot, I got a little attention for that writing, and I'm grateful for all of it. Ever onward.
