#lys talks

i wanted to let y’all know what it was about! so basically, it’s more or less a fix it one shot. castiel comes back (bc fuck that shit you guys), dean and cas have a movie night and they watch… brokeback mountain 🙈 for any minors that may or may not be here, there’s no smut, just feelings that spiral from them watching the movie.

Tgged by @potentiality-26!

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1. How many words have you written this year?

33,656 words. That's pretty okay, I think!

2. How many works did you publish this year?

7 fics of varying length, all for Kingsman (Hartwin).

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

That would be Twinjet. It took a fairly large amount of research and quite a bit of time, and I'm glad I wrote it! (It does also have an upcoming companion piece...)

4. What work of yours has the most hits?

Ain't That Pretty. It's praise kink and mirror sex, so...happy days? :)

5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Both Twinjet and Call Me Darling count as these, I think. Twinjet was a pleasant surprise because I didn't expect others to be interested in a commercial pilot AU, and Call Me Darling was unexpectedly more popular despite being relatively well-trodden ground in the Hartwin fanfiction corpus.

6. Favorite title you used?

I got a real kick out of Gentle on Hands, Tough on Grease. For a fic charting the story of Hartwin by the contents of Harry's kitchen sink. Hehe.

7. If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

Remarkably, no song lyric titles this year! I must have used them all up in 2024.

8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Hartwin, Hartwin, Hartwin.

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

Still Hartwin.

10. What work was the quickest to write?

Christmas Present, short little Christmas flash fic.

11. What work took you the longest to write?

I'm actually going to say Chapter 16 of shadows, shadows. I've taken some time to rework the outline and character maps and disparate scenes that I already have, and so this chapter really was a year in the making. I'm still working on it!

The longest time needed for a 2025 original piece is the aforementioned Twinjet, which also has the unfair advantage of being twice as long as the next contender.

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

14 WIPs. Only one of them is not Hartwin, and that's a Pacific Rim AU for Red, White, and Royal Blue that I started in 2023. Really should get back to it.

13. What’s your longest work of the year?

Twinjet at 12,186 words.

14. What’s your shortest work of the year?

Christmas Present at a tiny, tiny 428 words.

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

...everything... Specifically, the Twinjet companion piece, which I'm hoping will be up and ready by the middle of the year.

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Getting Together. I like writing confessions and Big Damn Kisses, what can I say?

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

Harry and Eggsy aside, that would be Percival in Call Me Darling. Sneaky gremlin causing problems on purpose without getting caught.

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

Eggsy Unwin in shadows, shadows. It's been an adventure trying to work out how someone both incredibly avoidant and incredibly in love would resolve their emotional issues.

19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

I might want to return to FirstPrince in Red, White, and Royal Blue.

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

Gentle on Hands, Tough on Grease.

21. How many kudos in total did you get this year?

851. <3

22. Which work has the most comments?

Twinjet at 15 comment threads.

23. Did you do any collaborative works this year?

Nope, but maybe next year!

24. Did you write any gifts this year?

Nope. I should do that more often.

25. Did you receive any gifts this year?

Yes!! @theinsouciantgentleman's lovely I Hear You Call My Name (and it Feels Like Home), and @potentiality-26's Inevitability and On Professionalism.

26. What’s your most common category?

M/M, to nobody's surprise.

27. What do you listen to while writing?

Really depends on the mood. I have a tendency to swing wildly between genres on any given day, but I suppose most of it would have been pop music.

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

Gonna pimp out certified abduction victim a little, since I wrote it for @mannersmakethzine! Do check it out, alongside the excellent work done by everyone else.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

From Gentle on Hands, Tough on Grease:

He spends the night there, wakes to find himself the sole occupant still, and repeats the cycle morning after morning after morning. Five months pass since the end of the world, and the world keeps ending. Eggsy spends more time on jets and in hotel rooms than he does on English soil. The world keeps spinning, and with it the storms of human ambition and criminal intent keep raging. Kingsman keeps it at bay, and Eggsy keeps it together.

Mostly.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

How much smut I ended up writing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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