#hilarious that i'm posting this now

[aurevell]

2022 Fic Year in Review

For the first time ever, I tracked my word count in a spreadsheet, which means I get to see the overall patterns in my writing now that the year is over. This includes fun with charts and graphs, as you can see below:

Total words written: 182,526

Worst writing month(s): February-April

I wrote literally 0 words from February 6 to June 1. Ongoing knee pain made 2022 a rough year. The chart above shows my fun little "wow fuck my knees actually" break for physical therapy woes.

Best writing month(s): June-July

Once I committed to AU-gust, I outlined in May and started churning out words in June and July. My June wordcount alone was 53,804, and I at some point wrote 7,522 words in a single day, a harrowing feat I have since blocked from memory.

Total fics published: 37

This includes The Striking Complication, a longfic I finished in early 2022. It also includes 30 fics (~2k-5k each) for AU-gust and several continuations for them, plus two fics for my long-haired Steter collection. In October, I wrote a Stetopher Week sickfic, a werecat Stiles AU and a Sterek horror fic I’ve been wanting to finish forever.

My longest work was The Third Sacrifice at just over 21,000 words. 

My shortest work was We’ll Have Words Tomorrow at 1,145 words.

My most popular work by kudos and hits was When It Counts, because I’m apparently not the only one who’s a sucker for tongue-tied!Peter Hale.

My favorite fics were:

When It Counts (Steter) - Surprise, surprise. Can’t overstate how hard I cackled while writing this.

It May Simply Lie in Wait (Sterek) - Haunted houses are my favorite, and I basically wrote this just for me.

a small span of quiet (Steter) - A super fun miscommunication fic, and I adore established Steter.

The Endgame (Steter) - My favorite of the AU-gust sci-fi fics. I wish I had sequel ideas, because I want to know what comes next.

The Third Sacrifice (Sterek) - Horror, my beloved. This was a very self-indulgent romp through some monster-infested woods.

Stuff I Want to Work on in 2023

My dreaded nogitsune fic. I posted it as a ficlet for AU-gust, but I want to do a full version even though it's fighting tooth and nail. Waiting to see if it'll cooperate or get buried in my fic graveyard.

A mob AU sequel, which I told myself at the start of 2022 I would definitely work on, and yet here we are.

A second (smaller) AU-gust??? I am really considering it. They say the mind forgets trauma, and I’ve already mostly forgotten the seven layers of hell this year’s event put me through. If I did the 2023 challenge, I'd probably tweak the rules for myself.

In Conclusion

Tried some new fandom events. Met some AMAZING tumblr mutuals, followers, and commenters who made me feel much more connected to the fandom. Wrote some fun stuff I never would have imagined without help and inspiration. 2022 was a fun year for writing, and I can't wait for what 2023 brings 🥳

[romantic-killer]

Kazuki: Anzu. I like you

Anzu: ...WAIT

Anzu: DOES THIS MEAN

Anzu: YOU HAVE HONEY NUT FEELIOS. FOR ME???

Kazuki:

Kazuki, trying not to laugh: Anzu please I’m trying to confess be serious for ONE second

[bitternace]

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL!!! /POS. ATTACKING YOU.

Xemnas and Xigbar for 37 if that number hasn't been done? If it has, how about 74?

no puedo pedirle lo eterno a un simple mortal // ay, todo lo que he hecho por ti.

[ID: a mostly black and white drawing with a purple overlay of xigbar and xemnas shown from the hip up on the left side of the image. the background is black and has some diagonal lines with a bit of transparency on the right side. the shadows are harsh, with only a bit of light falling on their faces.

they stand before each other turned to the audience. xigbar, holds the handle and the middle of No Name before him, head tilted down as he looks to the audience. xemnas stands a full head taller behind xigbar, his left hand held some distance below the bladed tip of No Name, his left eye is covered by his fringe.

xemnas visible eye is painted ochre with a white pupil, while xigbar's eye is white and gold. The eyes on no name's handle and the gazing eye on the blade are a vibrant cyan. the caption reads the spanish lyrics "i can't ask a simple mortal for a forever" and "oh, everything i've done for you." /End ID.]

close-up under keep reading.

[thedreamerstoryteller]

Chu Wanning says Xia Sini is his son.

Mo Ran:

Also Mo Ran when Chu Wanning answers his teasing questions, obviously lying, about the Shiniang, how they met and why he does not want to acknowledge the child:

Mo Ran can be dumb but not for what concerns his Shizun. 😆

[tio-trile]

Did you hate the season 2 finale? Are you still looking forward for season 3 because of it or are you turned off of looking forward for any tv show good omens from now on?

What season 2 finale? Good Omens has never been adapted into a TV show. I love the book tho!

[somegrumpynerd]

Started reading The Bad Wingmen by @topazshadowwolf and @paddie-ut and it utterly possessed me for a few days so I needed to draw some of my favourite bits

[drbtinglecannon]

Hi-Fi Rush really said "let's make a rhythm game that's made with such love and passion for music, has good characterization and growth, the humor and character designs are fun, the enemy battles are creative, the main villain is defeated through the power of friendship, and it contains tons of bonus content with no microtransactions, all for half the cost of an AAA game" and it fucking slapped

[bittersweetresilience]

it feels cosmically unfair that i think about writing all the time want to write all the time and sit down to write all the time and i come up with two sentences at best. there should be some reward system i think

[gummy-axolotl]

oh no he's hot

@an-albino-pinetree @the-circus-ctrl-key

[coquelicoq]

god i had THE BEST TIME AT THE DENTIST TODAY and i feel completely unhinnnnngèd for saying that bc i never in a million years thought the dentist could be FUN but the hygienist was french and switched to french as soon as i mentioned that i had taken french and i understood almost everything he said to me and it felt so good!!! i never understand french!! things are paying off!!!! also i do super recommend this method of conversing in a language you are not super confident in, like it's not just a coincidence i had such a good time doing this at the dentist specifically, it was good precisely because there was very little pressure on me to talk and i could mostly just make yes/no/questioning noises and any time i wanted to say a sentence i could take my time with it because there were literally instruments in my mouth??? absolutely no pressure for me to say something just to say something it was heaven oh my god. i take back every joke i've ever made about dentist office conversational logistics. IDEAL MODE.

[yuseirra]

I JUST HAD TO PAUSE, AND COME POST THIS HERE

I WAS FEELING SO SORRY FOR THIS KID AND THEN LEARNED HIS PET HAMSTER'S NAME IS HAMBURGER

you can't do this to me game I was feeling sad and then I just burst out laughing

[melodiclune]

Dear Nami,

I receive your document amidst great workloads, and yet it brings with it pleasant feels of camaraderie. I would be honoured to join your family. I will refrain from posting my witty quips within the official letter, but they shall be enclosed in the tags.

Thank you for the kind, lovely invitation. I do hope you and the family are well.

[zhongrin]

me, posting oc content for a day and watching the followers numbers go shwoop 📉 like ebg period: 👁️

me, planning my 8k milestone event: .... man, yall are gonna hate this lol

[hotasfahrenheit]

sorry not sorry but anyone that is watching 1000 Years Old and thinks it's a bad show clearly doesn't understand how deeply hilarious it is and how perfectly it's knocking physical comedy out of the goddamn park, this show is an absolute gem and i love it so SO much.

[fiepige]

Since we're approaching the holiday season I have a very important question:

If Hobie was to wear a santa hat as Spider-Punk would he wear it like this:

or like this?

Or maybe even like this?

[yardsards]

i think i rambled about it in the tags of a different post but. god. the way the hand of guidance was written just fucking Killed Me (in a good writing way). everything about the way she spoke to devo set off such alarm bells in my mind. and that part where she's basically like "you have to forgive me for all the ways i abused you... for your own good :)))" was just. yeah. it's really like that.

a while ago i saw some complaints that were like "griffin and travis seem to have really conflicting ideas as writers of what the benevolent parish is like, and that disconnect makes it sound like devo as a character is angry for literally no reason". and like. wow. you have straightup fallen for a fictional character's gaslighting attempts. the hand of guidance was doing some blatant textbook manipulation right there and you fell for it and went "wow. she is so nice."