anonymous asked: a series from one of your favourite authors.
i answered: paranormalcy, supernaturally and endlessly by kiersten white.
(Source: katniss-everlarks)
Some cool terms in my fandoms:
- Muggle - ordinary human in Harry Potter.
- Mundane- ordinary human in The Mortal Instruments.
- Mist- covers up the magical things in Percy Jackson series.
- Glamour- covers up the magical things in The Mortal Instruments.
“Glamour” is used in Paranormalcy, too. And in The Curse Workers, magical people “have the heebie-jeebies,” or HBGB. :)
Total Fics Posted:
45, counting each Cinnafic as its own piece; 40 if counting it as a collective.
Total Words Posted:
277,614 (Shit.)
Total Words (of Fic) Written Including Wips:
~340,000
Total Words (of Anything Excluding Blogs) Written:
~500,000 (Semi-productive year, even if I never… finish stuff. Roughly 1400 words/day isn’t too bad, though? Maybe? SOMEDAY I WILL BE A WRITER WITH DISCIPLINE I PROMISE.)
My favorite story this year:
Obviously, The Five Places Cinna Came From, because it is my baby forever and ever I will love it forever and ever and feeeeeeeeeeelings.
BUT! Here are my otherwise top five:
What They Don’t Tell You About History
Five Times Alec Wrestled the Angel
À La Vôtre
Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants
and
The Very Last of Their Kind
Most of those are not ~popular fics or whateverrrr~ but they’re the ones that I most enjoyed writing and the ones that I think turned out best. I’m also fairly pleased with Dark Toast but it’s not actually one of my favorites because I think it feels extra-extra derivative.
Which it is, so.My best story this year:
Easily, easily Cinnafic, although again, I personally kind of feel like What They Don’t Tell You About History is the most ~artistically written. And I loved writing Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants and I’ve been so happy/pleased/amazed/humbled by the attention that it’s gotten. :} And I think my most in-character fic was À La Vôtre.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
(Taking skellerbvvt’s lovely wording from when she did this as a Year End Meme in 2010, but the sentiment is true and also mine):
“I never really feel like any of my fics deserve more feedback then they get. I mean, I’m usually astonished by how much they do get, when the chips are down and the man is getting beat up for his watch.”
In fandoms as supremely talented as THG and PJO, I’m surprised that anyone has ever read any of my fics at all. I mean, I’m NGL, I am a commentwhore because I’m super needy and have no self-esteem, so I’d be happy with moar commentz on errthang, but… getting any at all is more than I ever expected, and I’m just happy every day to have found/joined fandoms that were open to new writers with new and peculiar ideas. ♥_♥ AT EVERYONE.
Sexiest Story:
The Five Worst Ways to Keep the Virgin Part of the Virgin Oracle of Delphi. I fail at writing sex that is actually sexy (because that’s not usually why I’m writing sex? I… should change that?) — although I did like writing St. Clair’s filthy French in ALV. >:-}~
Most fun story:
TINY LITTLE PEETA! BY FAR. This is definitely the most fun of my stories, but I put that almost wholly down to Raife’s flawless illustrations. Mwah!
ALV, Jolly Sailors Bold, and Nico’sFiveSeven Worst Qualities (And Why They Make Percy Love Him More)/TheFiveSeven Virtues of Percy Jackson (And How Nico Corrupts Them All), too. Because ugly hats and pirates and Nico Di Angelo.“Holy crap, that’s *wrong*, even for you” story:
…Um. Cough. Valor, Valeria, Capitol Pastries.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Dis meme’s redundant. Valor, Valeria made me start to like Gale (as a person/character, besides as a narrative device [although he will never be my fave]). The Five Places Cinna Came From changed my perception on my writing, as well as on Panem and the characters. Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants changed… a lot about The Hunger Games for me. Although… if I write a fic and it doesn’t change my feelings on the characters or fandom in some way, then I don’t think I wrote it correctly.
Hardest story to write:
Upside-Down Cake, which I kind of hate because it’s kind of terrible.
Biggest surprise:
KIERSTEN WHITE COMMENTING ON The Very Last of Their Kind. RAINBOWBARFING FOREVER.
But also, that anyone would read my fics at all, in fandoms as huge and talented and awesomesauce as THG and PJO and TMI. It honestly surprises me every day. I’m also surprised by how much angst and hurt/comfort and disturbing content I’ve written into things, because I kind of think of myself as being a solely fluff writer.
I also reallllllly love crossovers! I hated them before this year, but I think I was just looking at the wrong writers in the wrong fandoms. :)
A story I want remembered:
Mostly, I write fic it brings me joy. I would love it, though, if the movie!canon/movie!fandom for THG and TMI doesn’t end up forcing all pre-film fic into laughed-at obscurity, and if I had to choose only one fic to survive that transition, it’d be — you guessed it — Cinnafic, just because I did work SO hard on it and I love the multiple headcanons that I made up for it, and I just never want it to be laughed at. Well, I mean. I never want to be laughed at in general. But. You know what I mean. I’m okay-ier with people laughing at the other stuff, I guess.
Resolutions for 2012
1.) Finish all help_japan, Prompt Meme, and fandom_flood_ap fics. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE… PAAAAAAAAAAALM.
2.) Survive #1. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE… PAAAAAAAAAAALM.
DUDE, I HAVE ENTERED EVERY SINGLE CONTEST/GIVEAWAY/WHATEVER THAT KIERSTEN HAS DONE AND ZILCH, SO, CLEARLY I DO NOT HAVE MAGIC EVIE/LEND POWERS. T________________T my creys forever
Nnnnnnn, Red Glove is so good though! I love Cassel! And Lila! And cursework!
Um, I’m trying to think what I’ve even read lately and enjoyed. You hated The Infernal Devices, y/n?
Ummm… ::wanders to bookshelf::
Unearthly, by Cynthia Hand. Or The Caster Chronicles. Or ANYTHING by e.lockhart OMG YOU MUST READ HER.
IDK, I haven’t been as thrilled with some of what I’ve picked up lately. I need to go to the bookstore next week.
Ummmm… have you read The Curse Workers yet (White Cat and Red Glove; Black Heart comes out in April)? FABUFUCKINGLOUS. Best premise I’ve read in AGES *AND* it actually delivers on execution (unlike some other series with great premises but lame execution). I also like Matched and Crossed, although Crossed is better than Matched but it won’t make sense unless you read Matched first; I also feel like you might like Percy Jackson/The Heroes of Olympus/The Kane Chronicles? But The Curse Workers is my biggest rec.
But you read the sequel to Paranormalcy, right?
I know the last one didn’t actually come out this year, but I read it this year, so I counted it.
Close runners up:
Some of those are just perennial favorites, but I DID read them this year, so. RUNNERS-UP, lol.
Evie (Paranormalcy)
(Source: quotes-we-love)
* Assoc. with the Parisian Paranormal Containment Agency of the Society of Terces (Shhh)
(Source: inadrianivashkovspants)
Love YA lit? Love writing fic? Love writing fic for YA lit and wondering why there doesn’t seem to be very much for most books?
- You MAY claim more than one table at a time.
- You MAY do crossovers, fusions, and AU fic! If you intend to write crossovers and/or fusions, claim the table for the MAIN WORK (so, for example, if you want to write 100 godly-parent-fusion fics, your claim would be “Percy Jackson,” unless all 100 fics would star characters from Anna and the French Kiss or something. SOME ASPECT of all 100 fics must be constant for the book/table you choose!)
- Fics can be ANY LENGTH. You may write 3-sentence fics, drabbles, one-shots, six-word-ficfests, whatever. The whole point is just to encourage more YA lit fic! :)
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- …If I think of more rules I will add them?
So far, there are just the first few tables up, but I will be adding my usual amount of ALL THE YA BOOKS. :P Join and/or Watch the comm on LJ for updates, and make sure to suggest any book(s) that you may think I’ll miss or that you want to see sooner!
(Besides The Panem Companion, which I am in equal parts excited about and made ill thinking about, LOL.)
I know I’m missing some. Grargh.
