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How many fics did you write this year?

Four from scratch:

"Essays on Excrement," 5,500 words on the history of sanitation in Harry Potter's Wizarding Britain, to explain why wizards decided to shit on the floor like dogs, and why they decided to stop.

"Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Magica (1985)," a collection of eight (at the moment) Britannica-esque articles for Harry Potter, including the true history of Macbeth, King of the Scots, and an awful disease called Tuberculitis.

"Kitchen Curses," a 200-word Harry Potter/Gordon Ramsay shitpost.

"The Nightmare Before Easter," roughly 200 words on a direct-to-video The Nightmare Before Christmas sequel that doesn't exist.

I posted three additional chapters for Tomorrow, the Flood, the latest in my ongoing Gryffindor!Voldemort AU.

I also continued work on a Secret Non-Fanfiction Project, which is probably around 40,000 words long but still not at the point where I can start posting.

I also assisted, to one degree or another, with various works from The Gods Have Horns, but @shadow-wasser is responsible for the lion's share.

How many words did you write this year?

31,953 words, not counting rewrites (if I work on a 1,000 word story, completely discard 300 words, then end the night with 1,100 words, then I log 100 words for the day's writing).

Did you try anything new this year? (new fandom? new pairing? new language?)

The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Did you participate in any fests/events during the year?

No, mostly because I forgot about the Worldbuilding Exchange.

Which is the funniest fic you have written this year?

Based on reader response, definitely "Essays on Excrement."

Which is the angstiest fic you have written this year?

Probably one or more of this year's chapters in "Tomorrow, the Flood."

Which is the steamiest fic you have written this year?

"The Nightmare Before Easter," I guess. But it's not actually steamy.

Which is your most valuable writing lesson learned this year?

Write badly. You can always fix it in post.

What do you look forward to writing next year?

I miiight work on a Voldemort/Tonks riff on PKD's Through a Scanner Darkly in order to get some practice for the story that's coming after "Tomorrow, the Flood."

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Utilitarian choices are, at best, usually not interesting to me, unless the price being paid is personal in some way. Trolley dilemmas between one stranger and five other strangers have an obvious solution and it's hard to get bad dreams about that,¹ but if it's five strangers and one BFF, well, the answer is still obvious.

Alternately, somebody who rejects the obvious utilitarian choice and does not manage to save the day regardless. Like, imagine a season 3 of Legend of Korra where, having sacrificed the world in order to save one kid in the season 2 finale, the subsequent plotline is all about the fucked up world that Korra indirectly made by letting the spirit of darkness and chaos get their ten thousand years in the sun.

i've drawn her before but i was not satisfied with her design... now i mostly am. also she was very fun to draw

serendipitous

encyclopedist

supercession

cataclysmic

sublime

I'm unsure. Sadly, we struggle to communicate anything more abstract than "Don't eat that" and "But I want to eat it."

In the corner there, you can see our copy of How to Speak "Dog". It hasn't helped much in this regard.

mine's prolly win > orio > b, but tbh b would be favorite if they weren't joined at the hip to A