#annerb fic

blood & bone

Summary: 

Zhiji.

It is just a saying, a word with no real spiritual or physical implications. It is not a manifested bond. Merely a description for a way of being, a thing agreed upon between two people. An attachment grown and cultivated and lived, moment by moment, one choice after another.

It is not a real thing, until one impossibility after another forges it as fact.

One of them falls at Nightless City. The other is left to pick up the pieces. 

Relationships: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji & Lan Xichen

Once I sat down and really crunched the numbers (yes, I created a spreadsheet. don't harsh my squee, man, as we used to say in the naughty-aughts, I'm having nostalgic fun here), it's interesting to me that I had 7 prolific years of writing SG-1 fic and 7 prolific years of writing HP fic. For each of those fandoms, I wrote a total of about 750,000 words of fic. Two does not make a trend, but it's interesting! Apparently I have 7 years and 750,000 words in me per each major fandom obsession. (Since I am only on my third fic in The Untamed fandom and it is already over 225,000 words alone, I'm gonna get even less fics completed apparently. lol)

The interesting major difference between my SG-1 days and my HP days was that it might have been the same number of years and words, but for SG-1 those words were spread across 99 fics. In HP, I only wrote 24 fics. So we can see the trend of my fics getting longer and more complicated. (SG-1 fic average length 7700 words, HP fics? 31,000 words.)

Ha! Funny that you would ask. I had a sequel in mind for this fic too. (I pretty much have sequels in mind for almost all my fics. It's what allows me to actually finish anything, tricking myself with the promise of "hey, you could always write a sequel, just finish this for now.") So I actually had this already written out!

Read below the cut for the definitely incomplete scribblings about hinny's date after the skating ring.

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He meets her there and they go to a diner and get hot chocolates.

I have posted chapter 4 of my @mdzsbigbang fic Tether. This is the first chapter with art from the amazing @alightbuthappypen ! Behold the wangxian goodness.

I have posted chapter 8 of my @mdzsbigbang fic Tether. This chapter comes with completely kickass art from the amazing @alightbuthappypen!

So as part of my navel-gazing, I looked back at the fics I wrote for Stargate SG-1, as it was my first true fandom. As I started digging around, trying to figure out just how many stories I'd written, I realized I actually had a lot of SG-1 fics I never transferred over to AO3. I currently have 79 fics up on AO3, but when I went digging back into my old ffnet account, I actually wrote 99 stories total. (Yes, that kind of makes me want to write just one more to make it an even 100. Lol)

The final tally:

Total Stories: 99 Total Words: 782,530 Average fic length: 7900 words

The vast majority of these fics were written between 2007 and 2011. 2008 and 2009 were my most prolific years, with 18 stories per year.

The majority of the fics were one-shots, though I did have some longer multi-chapter fics.

Only two stories were left incomplete (Siren and Human Conditions), though many more had imagined sequels that never got written (String Theory, Hyperion, and Mimesis, chief among them).

Only two out of those fics were explicit and those were written very near the end of of my SG-1 years.

The one other really interesting thing I noticed as I dug back through these fics and my old Livejournal, was just how many of these fics were created as part of a challenge or ficathon or exchange of some kind. I'll talk more about those in a later post, but here's my partial list of all the writing challenges I was a part of during my LiveJournal SG-1 days:

Day of Indulgence

Galentine’s Day

apocalype_kree

sjficathon

SG-1 Comment Fest

Alphabet soup (George Hammond Alphabet Soup Tribute to Don S. Davis)

Lostcityfound “we’ll always have Pegasus” ficathon

Spacepiratefic!

Ucp_ficathon (Unusual Crossover Pairings)

Samcarterfic ficathon

Sjfanfic10

Schmoop_age ficathon

Sd_ficathon

Au100 bingo card challenge

Daniel_vala ficathon

Take back the week ficlet challenge (@holdouttrout)

20 characters writing meme (I wrote seven fics for this! I gave a list of 20 characters, people would pick two characters from the list and then give a small prompt).

Sj_everyday secret santa exchange

Galpalathon

Samjackfriends ficathon

Tealc_ficathon

Sweet Charity Auction

Help Japan Charity Auction

Porn Battle

Awesome Ladies Ficathon

My fave SG-1 fic I wrote, if I had to pick one?