va'esse deireádh aep eigean, va'esse eigh faidh'ar

✨ holiday love meme 2024 ✨
my thread here

Feels silly to do this during the year I've mostly left fandom but hey ho.

Stolen from everywhere, as per usual. I did one version for my AO3 fics (320, currently) and one for my Dreamwidth ones (229). There's obviously overlap between the two, Dreamwidth is the only place where my post-June 2023 fics live, and AO3 has exchange stuff and generally older stuff. I've also left out umbrella/category tags, stuff like 'Star Wars - All Media Types' since I tag that for discoverability rather than my own organisation.

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I was hoping this would help me decide what to crosspost next (I should probably finish either Overwatch or Killing Eve fics, really) but it did not! I shall end with the question that some versions of this added on:

7. Did any of these answers surprise you reading this?

The meme, as seen everywhere, goes go through your last 5 fics and share the first and last line. No context. As nearly all the last fics I've written are either 250 words for Sapphic Summer, have the first-and-last lines from my five most recently crossposted-to-dreamwidth fics (links go to dreamwidth versions, as usual).

summer was come again

first: Corruption seeps into the Greenwood slowly, and into Thranduil's bones at the same pace.

last: It ought to be enough.

the black heart of magnetic north

first: Summer has come again by the time Dani notices them — grey-blue figures wavering at the edges of the long not-night that spilled in through the barn doors.

last: But she curls into Pelle's side and knows that asleep, awake, she is home, and that is what she can always return to.

bleach the skeletons of kings

first: The courier limped into port nearly six day cycles early, its hull scored with plasma burns and one engine pod trailing unhappily behind.

last: Qi'ra had always been good at improvising.

only the bravest girl

first: Michaela's the last one left in the house — the last one downstairs, the last one that matters — and Annalise waits in the doorway, vodka martini chilly against her fingers.

last: Why Michaela didn't want them to.

the surrender to the power

first: She doesn't bare her neck for anyone — never has, never will, but now, spread out on her bed with her back arched, Vanessa's knee firm between her thighs and her own knife at her throat, Blair thinks she might revisit that.

last: (Tomorrow, Serena will flip her hair, say, nice scarf, B., and it'll be too nice to be true, and Blair, silk raw against scars only she can see, won't say anything at all.)

Truly unbelievable it is this time again already, however! Link me your threads, etc etc.

✨ holiday love meme 2021 ✨
my thread here

As seen everywhere; skipping fics that are either unrevealed or still anon because of exchanges; skipping a handful of fanmixes because [vague handwave] I feel weird about fanmixes on AO3.

Look at the most recent 20 fanwork titles on your AO3 account.

1. How many are you happy with?
2. How many are... not great?
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
6. How many are other quotes?
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story/fanwork?
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
10. Which is your favourite?

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