#end of the year works list

[hearthouses]

top 4 works of 2023

I was tagged by @nameslikeguns and also @preseriesdean was an inspiration, but I modified it to four because I'm not super proud of any of my edits this year and I wasn't able to squeeze out another fic before the end of the year, so we're going with top four! I am also not going to rank them, but list them in chronological order from their posting date.

This year was a better year than the last two in terms of writing output, I had a rough 2021 and posted nothing, and only posted one fic in 2022, so four is a massive improvement, even if it feels miniscule compared of other people's outputs. The Fall was when I was most productive and I am very proud of what I wrote then, exploring concepts I was particularly interested in, even if it's not the most popular and putting myslf out there regardless.

I think I would have continued that streak had I not gotten covid, then 2+ months of complications from covid, but I am trying to drag myself out of that funk. I am hoping to write more in 2024 as I have so many WIPs I want to get to and finish.

Anyway, here's the list:

1. when you're smiling and astride me

This was the first work I posted this year. It felt good to write it, but it also came with some challenges because I wrote it for an exchange and I was very nervous with some of the concepts and how they would go over. But the exchange itself was based on the idea of freeing your id and going wild, so I eventually just went with it and this was the result. I really love exploring Dean's feelings about his body and gender expression, and how Sam helps with it, and my only regret is I wish it was longer.

2. you say, go fast (i say, hold on tight)

This was written in a haze of early Fall because of another exchange that created a level of freedom that unlocked something in my brain that kept me from second guessing myself. It sprang from a concept fanvid and I came up with the idea wholesale from some mental images and let the story happen. I'm very fond of the result, even if it feels saccharine and too sweet and romantic for some. I really love the vibes and the imagery, plus how in love Sam and Dean are.

3. the landscape after cruelty

The process for this fic was grueling. No idea was working the way I wanted, so I needed to come up with a new idea altogether and at times, I almost didn't finish this fic. I have no playlist because I needed quiet to work on this. None of my usual preparations for writing fic worked for this one. The subject matter was daunting and I'm still unsure if I accomplished what I set out to, but I am proud of it. It's not very popular and I wonder if I hit the wrong notes often, but I'm also very protective of it. It's a weird fic that I'm not sure how I feel about the end result 100%, but I had to at least try and explore my feelings around the subject matter.

4. we could live forever in each other’s faces

This fic was written during the height of my illness. It wasn't supposed to be the fic I wrote because I had bigger plans (longer, more complicated fics), so I needed to scale them down to something more managable. How I did that was I chose to write the scenes in a series of drabbles, double drabbles, and triple drabbles, so I could focus on the preciseness of the word count. While this style of writing might feels limiting, it helps me to focus. I really love the dreamy, fairytale-like result of this. I still want to write a longer fic about these themes, but I am glad I wrote this all the same.

[beescake]

found some old tweets frm my private diary acc logging errant thoughts i had while getting into hs

and well. smth abt the progression of it makes me emo. happy new year ig :')

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

[wundrousarts]

Mini Silverborn Countdown

If you’ve been around for a few years, you’ve seen me vaguely mention a “Silverborn Countdown Challenge” several times. It’s been delayed and changed as many times as the book itself, lol.

If anyone wants sort of a low-stakes, very chill and spaced out version of this ye olde never tackled challenge to complete in the next year before Silverborn, I propose what I’m doing:

Every 3 months leading up to the initial release, I am creating one thing based on each of the books.

January — Nevermoor

April — Wundersmith

July — Hollowpox

[bookshelf-in-progress]

June Writing Wishlist

Finish something for each of the unfinished Chesterton Challenge prompts (current plans are for two pieces of flash fiction, a bit of Arateph worldbuilding, and two scenes from Shadowstruck)

Write at least 10,000 words of a single project (or, possibly, divide it up between two shorter retellings)

[bigbrainbiology]

I'm still alive guys work is just ✨busy✨

[notanotherinfjblog]

Productivity

ENTJ: Do you know those moments when you’ve got so much to do that you have no idea where to even start and so you start making a list of things that are too unimportant to waste your time on right now? But at the same time you’re wasting time by not working on the things that actually are important. You’re just making lists of all the tiny aspects of your work that you can throw out just to make yourself feel like you’re doing something.

INFJ: No, I don’t know those moments. I’m less productive, you see. When I’m overwhelmed by all the stuff I have to do, I panic and stare at the wall for three hours.

ENTJ: You’ve been doing that a lot lately, haven’t you?

INFJ: ... yes.

[thompsborn]

tbaf parkner vs wanting to say i love you but not letting themselves say it before they're eighteen bc of their promise to each other vs the relief of finally saying it: two 5+1 fics, one from each pov.

[spaghett-onaplate]

it's literally not a good idea in any way shape or form but I want to get a second job in fast food

[ratwavegamehouse]

Me and Chloe from Biscuit Fund Games have started a podcast. We take two words and figure out how to mash up them as a TTRPG. It's called Game Soup and we heavily overuse laboured kitchen comparisons throughout.

The first two episodes are out now where we invent Frogtographer, Flirting with Danger, Skyward Shell, Jury of Our Peers, and Projector: 24 Frames a Second.

Also gradually filtering out to all pod streams.

[lovecanbesostrange]

Honest question, I'm drawing a blank right now which is frustrating: Did Rogue ever go through the ressurrection protocols on Krakoa?

She started the era in a quick coma/stasis during Excalibur times, and ended it in Uncanny Avengers by enjoying a nuclear blast up close with Deadpool's healing factor. But did she ever die and went through the egg and all?

Because the thing I kept wondering about over this era is, what about the stored memories still inside of her? Does Cerebro keep a full scan of her? Like full-full, all of it?? Rogue got a power cleanse like two times (or counting the Savage Land next to X-Treme and Messiah Complex it would be three). Purging personas and powers and memories and all. Plus of course expelling Wonder Man from her body, while keeping his powers.

But after Age of X she opted to not have the offered memory wipe. As Legacy she promised to keep the memories of the dead inside and she said she wanted to keep that promise. Would Cerebro have all that on back-up and put that back in? How much storage space did she take up even? Wolverine or Mystique already use a lot with their long life-span, but Rogue carries multiples inside. I know a lot is subconscious. Still. This is a thing I kept wondering about and I don't think I ever got an answer. Not like we ever got an answer what happened to her power upgrade between M&MX and HoXPoX.

I like when all those personas and extra brain patterns, while not hindering Rogue - because they aren't as strong and stubborn as Carol's - overload her brainpatter in a way that telepaths have a hard time reading her. It's always nice when it's remembered, because it doesn't interfere with plot convenience. (Another fun thing to do in the Green Lagoon, have telepaths have a contest of reading Rogue's mind; Jean is not allowed to play, because this is where her Omega status comes through; Betsy doesn't want to, because as her designated work-wife she already knows too much.)

Of course it would be funny as hell to find out that in the gap before Krakoa she did die, was ressurected in a first wave and made adjustments to be a flying brick on her own. It was clear she missed flying when not able to and what if she hasn't been running on Wonder Man's steam all this time, but they forgot to mention it? In any case, was she ever purged of extra memories through resurrection or not?

[blissfali]

hey guys. wasnt able to be on tumblr because ivr been busy building this he-man castle grayskull mega construct (knock off lego) set for the past 36 hours. doesnt it look awesome

[kimtaegis]

man I’m so bummed out about barely having a day on the weekend anymore to gif/create :/

[milimeters-morales]

so who missed me 🥺🤔🤭

(the crowd remains silent. not hearing a response, i awaken and look around to see that there is no crowd at all, and that i am stranded and alone a desert. The sands stretch endlessly, and the sun beats down on my skin, equally unknowing and indifferent to the agony it causes. A lone tumbleweed passes by. The wind whispers in my ear, so quiet im not sure if it’s real, “you’re mid…”)

[isfjmel-phleg]

Top Fifteen Comicsposting Analyses of 2023, based entirely on personal preference (in no order)

I may not have written anything productive last year, but I did do a lot of analysis and had fun with it.

This was going to be a Top Ten, but it was hard enough to narrow them down this far.

Role of narration in the YJ boys' solos and Grant's and Ray's

Kon's first case of first-person narration, during a depressive episode

Clark's complicated relationship with Kon

Kon has only one piercing (and wouldn't have any more)

Secret's isolation from the rest of the team

Whom each member of YJ is closest to

Thad is uncomfortable with physical affection

Where the Mercury Falling arc fits into the Young Justice timeline

Characters' first lines: Young Justice original six, the Robins, others from or connected to YJ

The narrative's treatment of Grant's CSA vs. Kon's

Match and why we respond to him differently than to Thad

Grant and Jesse's conversation: "Just because something has a crack in it doesn't mean you throw it away"

Grant's "Emerson System" as a trauma response

Grant's relationship with the parents he never got to meet

Crash course in YJ (and adjacent) kids

[olde-scratch]

saiki k tokyo ghoul au bc of that one post comparing nishiki and kuniharu by @herdecisions (i havent read tg in years idc if i get anything wrong)

- possibility of kuniharu and nishiki being the same person OR twin brothers

- if theyre the same person kurumi is the gf whatever her name was, if theyre not then theyre not (idc if she died canonically she can be alive if i wantbyer to be)

- kuniharu is a ghoul and kurumi is human but threatening as fuck (kuniharu is either a weak bitch ghoul or hes soft for her)

- kuusuke was born a one eye. saiki was too but that pales in comparison to the fact that hes still psychic (dont ask why hes psychic its saiki ofc hes psychic)

- the govnt baby kusuo destroyed was the ccg, but he mightve given his family a different last name before that as witness protection, or after to avoid the govnt coming after them

- the grandparents are human bc theyre on kurumis side, know but dont care abt kuniharu being a ghoul (well grandpa does but he doesnt like kuniharu anyways)

- kusuo probably ended the stigma around ghouls and developed safe alternatives for them to eat OR he made it so ghouls can just eat normal food

- angstier idea is that he didnt and his familys still in hiding, but tbh anything to make his life easier yk