a year end meme

[marmolita]

 Posted this on Tumblr but it seems like the kind of thing to do here too.  Original list comes from here.  Ask away!

1. favorite fic you wrote this year
2. least favorite fic you wrote this year
3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year
4. total number of words you wrote this year
5. most popular fic this year
6. least popular fic this year
7. longest completed fic you wrote this year
8. shortest completed fic you wrote this year
9. longest wip of the year
10. shortest wip of the year
11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year
12. favorite character to write about this year
13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write
15. something you learned this year
16. fic(s) you completed this year
17. fics you’ll continue next year
18. current number of wips
19. any new fics to start next year
20. number of comments you haven’t read
21. most memorable comment/review
22. events you participated in this year
23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t
24. favorite fic you read this year
25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read
26. number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year
27. favorite fanfic author of the year
28. longest fic you read this year
29. shortest fic you read this year
30. favorite fandom to read fic from this year

*feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.

Comments

[squeemu]

3, 13, and 19! and 21, if you have one

Um, also #31, because this should be a question and is not: Fic you are most proud of writing from this year?

[marmolita]

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

Oh man this is tough! I wrote SO MUCH this year. I went poking around trying to find a particular bit that I like a lot, and what I came up with was this part of The Chancellor's Lapdog:

Ravus forces a smile and nod at the man. It's the first time anyone's said anything about him all night that wasn't just a veiled insult. "Indeed," Ardyn says, waving a hand toward Ravus. "Ravus Nox Fleuret, former Prince of Tenebrae. Oh, but you've met before, haven't you? When you killed his mother."

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

THE EPISODE IGNIS SOUNDTRACK

19. any new fics to start next year

Answered this one on tumblr but yeah, I'd like to finish the Ardyn/Ravus werewolf AU, and I'd like to finish the Ravus/Loqi omegaverse PWP, but mostly I want to take what I wrote for kinktober and clean up and post separately the parts of it that belong in my different AUs. More specifically, I want to take the Niflheim-wins-slavery AU and flesh it out into a real full story!

21. most memorable comment/review

I feel like there were some really good ones but my mind is blanking? I definitely had a few comments where people told me they reread my fic multiple times and that's always great to hear. Digging in my chat history for comments I brought up to tell other people about, I found this one that someone else on one of my SGA fics this year (even though the fic is older): "I honestly don't think I've read such a compelling version of Elizabeth's voice—maybe ever, and I say this as someone who's read maybe 1000+ SGA fics. It's just perfect, I can hear Torri H. saying every line. Lovely work—"

31. fic you are most proud of writing from this year

Belonging, for sure. I can't believe I managed to write that long of a fic and have it have an actual sort of plot and be coherent and post it on schedule and everything!

obviously I'm gonna do this here where I never go instead of on Tumblr where I am always

[mushydesserts]

23 bruh

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[mushydesserts]

shit someone beat me to it DO IT AGAIN TUMBLR DOESN'T EXIST HERE

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[marmolita]

23. fics you wanted to write but didn't

YEAH SO on tumblr I mentioned the girl!Noctis/Ravus arranged marriage epic but here I'm gonna talk about a different couple which are:
1) The Ardyn/Noct ritual sex arranged marriage AU! I actually started this one and was gonna write it with dustofwarfare but it didn't actually happen. The idea was that Noct is the king of light, which means he has to be ritually married to the immortal accursed, in order to ensure peace and daylight and keep the daemons away. Ardyn lives in a cave and hasn't been seen in centuries. Noct is brought up from birth to marry the accursed and trained in like, how to please his husband so that he can make sure to satisfy him so he won't come send the daemons and kill everyone.

Mostly it was an excuse to have a ceremonial wedding where Noct has to fast and then drink sex pollen and get carried in a parade down to a cave where he has to spend seven days and nights getting his brains fucked out by Ardyn and then they find out whether he succeeded at satisfying Ardyn or whether Ardyn killed him.

2) The Insomnia U college AU actual fic that I wanted that started the whole thing, which was Noct and Prompto moving in together into the third bedroom in Gladio and Ignis's apartment, and then slowly falling in love in a very adorable and sweet way. Instead I managed to write about Noct and Loqi getting it on after a party in a fuckbuddy relationship and about Noct catching Prompto jerking off with a bad dragon dildo. /shrug

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[mushydesserts]

spend seven days and nights getting his brains fucked out by Ardyn and then they find out whether he succeeded at satisfying Ardyn or whether Ardyn killed him

dksfjsah i'm losing it

it sounds super fucked-up and fascinating but somehow all I can think about is daemons manifesting as a sign of marital discord. like every myth about how this grouchy god living in a cave steals a glorious maiden and falls in love with her and then every time she gets pissed off at him the sky turns dark for Ten Years and there are Daemons because he's sulking

Insomnia U

is that what started this?? i have to admit i have been baffled but. just never questioned it

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[marmolita]

Dusty had put in a bunch of ideas about how like, every x many years when things get shitty Lucis sends an imposter fake king/queen of light in hopes that they can make ardyn happy but then he just kills them and leaves their bodies outside the cave???

Also there was an idea that the king of light is destined to take the place of the accursed, and like, Ardyn became the accursed and has been waiting all this time and--

WAIT I REMEMBER

It was also a soulmate AU

Noct and Ardyn were soulmates that's the whole thing it was such a mess of everything.

And actually now that I think about it not quite, I think Dusty and I were talking about a college AU and she started writing that one where Ardyn is the philosophy professor and Ravus is his PhD student and we spun it out from there?

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[mushydesserts]

imposter fake king/queen of light in hopes that they can make ardyn happy but then he just kills them and leaves their bodies outside the cave

please tell me it's the bodies Ardyn strung up in the throne room in the game

thereby allowing for the progressively less-tragic virgin sacrifices of Luna, Nyx, Regis, and Iedolas Aldercapt

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[mushydesserts]

i want to say i also have a more valuable remark to contribute but i've forgotten it

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[marmolita]

well I HAD NOT THOUGHT OF THAT but man yeah that could definitely be a thing! except I think we had Luna as the priestess who presides over the ceremony to ask the gods' blessing for the wedding? idk it involved Noctis having ritual virginity but otherwise being super carefully trained in all sorts of sex acts, with just the one technical virginity requirement

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[mushydesserts]

okay but is Ardyn also a virgin or has he been slutting around in his cave for centuries

who has more experience here

who is more impressed

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[marmolita]

oh my god that is an excellent question, I asked dustofwarfare and she said "the answer is slutting around in his cave OBVS"

but also Ardyn was trained up as a perfect slutty sex sacrifice too when he was young CLEARLY

[nicosilang]

15 and 25!

[marmolita]

15. something you learned this year

I learned that I can write long fic!! Last year I wrote my first 20k word fic and I thought it was a fluke, but this year I wrote my first 50k word fic. I also made friends with a professional author who made me realize that I might actually be able to write a novel some day (even if it never got published).

25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

okay so when I answered this same question on Tumblr I recommended of all the comrades that ‘ere I’ve had by @dustofwarfare-blog, which is a sad and sweet story set after the end of final fantasy xv in which the guys work on building Noctis's tomb, and I absolutely think that everyone who is into FFXV should read it.

But if I'm going to recommend a fic that people who aren't in the fandom should read, it's going to be one of ohmyfae's AUs. The question is, which one? They're all great! But I think maybe I'm gonna go for All that Remains because it's a great fic and I think it's self contained enough that you don't need to know the canon at all to enjoy it.