2013 fic in review
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honey_wheelerLast-year’s fic roundup. For reference, previous round-ups can be found here.
Friday Night Lights
smash your heart into a thousand summers.
It's a stone unturned. A idle thought from a long time ago that she never made good on and that's cropped up at inconvenient times ever since: when she's grocery shopping, sometimes, or writing the rent check, or watching a movie with an actor who has that same swagger and that same line from ribs to hips, a sinuous curve that seems to promise something thrilling and unspeakable.
Julie Taylor/Tim Riggins. 1,108 words. (August 9, 2013)
A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series
break me like a promise.
“Seems we are siblings after all,” Jon had said, his voice forcibly light, as if to make the words a jape.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 5,334 words. (January 24, 2013)
your eyes close with my dreams, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
“You know,” Val says after Jon has crawled up and wedged himself between them, head pillowed on his arms. “It hardly seems fair that Jon spends so much time pleasuring us with his mouth but never receives such pleasure in return.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark/Val. 2,575 words. (January 28, 2013)
the morning of the world.
“You’re wearing my shirt,” Jon says between kisses, hot and needy and messy kisses that have him so hard he can barely think.
Jon Snow/Robb Stark. 1,950 words. (March 3, 2013)
secret virtues.
Sansa does not delude herself into thinking anything in her life is truly private, but oh, how careful she is with Jon, how secret, until the secrecy itself becomes part of the pleasure.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 797 words. (March 10, 2013)
no fear of depths.
“Have you been watching me?” he asked. She swam a bit closer, the bottom rising under her hands and fins as she moved close to the shore, wanting to see his eyes as she answered. Mermaid fic.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 1,627 words. (May 28, 2013)
you were in the darkness too.
What was once to be dreaded is now cause for only anticipation. Nightfall gladdens Sansa’s heart; soon Jon will come to her chamber. Soon he’ll kiss her sweetly, touch her with gently needy hands. And every time, he will ask. Jon always asks.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 957 words. (May 28, 2013)
kiss me a question.
The world splinters into pieces: her cry, followed by a shivering moan. The tightening grip of her fingers in your hair. The sensual writhe of her hips beneath your mouth and the sweet, tangy taste of her spreading over your tongue. The heavy throb of blood and desire in your veins, shouting to you that you’re alive. This you are used to. This you have missed.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 3,313 words. (June 2, 2013)
light me up like a lemon grove, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
Pregnancy leaves Val disgruntled and snappish at times, unused to her body bending to whims other than her own. It has, however, put quite a lot of experimentation into their bedchambers.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark/Val. 2,885 words. (June 9, 2012)
come into my castle, part of home is just another word for you.
Of late she has felt such urges towards Jeyne, such curiosities and desires. She has kissed Jeyne before, touched her in passion before, but always Jon was with them, between them. Now Sansa wonders what it would be to touch Jeyne alone, with Jon only as witness, a bystander rather than what binds them together. She wonders and it makes her ache.
Jeyne Westerling/Sansa Stark (with background Jon Snow/Jeyne Westerling/Sansa Stark). 3,181 words. (June 17, 2013)
a blue million miles.
Perhaps he was only ever meant to love them both.
Gendry Waters/Sansa Stark, Gendry Waters/Arya Stark. 1,302 words. (July 15, 2013)
maybe you are magic.
Long ago, Brienne had thought she loved, she thought she knew devotion, but now it seems only a child’s game – spillikins scattered over the floor, a rag doll worn soft with attention.
Brienne of Tarth/Sansa Stark. 781 words. (July 25, 2013)
whoever treasures freedom, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
She wants to make him grab her and paw at her, wants to make him lose that part of himself that would keep vows to a false ideal.
Jon Snow/Val. 1,548 words. (August 27, 2013)
can you feel my past, can you find my future?.
“Jeyne,” he groans, and her name is a prayer on his lips. He wonders now how he’d gone so long thinking she could be called anything else. She only answers him with another kiss.
Jon Snow/Jeyne Westerling. 2,333 words. (September 6, 2013)
Night's Kingdom.
The end of Jon Snow’s life begins with a rumor.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 5,262 words. (started on September 23, 2013)
Slow Hand, part of The Pointer Project
“Then by all means,” she sighs, stretching into him as he lowers himself atop her, her fingers looped around his wrists. “Hurry up and go slow.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 1,651 words. (November 12, 2013)
Dare Me, part of The Pointer Project
“You love honor as if it’s a woman,” she scoffed at him once, when he tried to rebuff her after laying with her again despite telling himself he wouldn’t.
Jon Snow/Ygritte. 773 words. (December 3, 2012)
the moon licks the salt of your hand.
Half of her may not be his sister, but half is, and at the moment, Jon is feeling things entirely unbrotherly in nature towards all of her, things that make him want to walk right into that water and replace her hand with his own, to feel for himself all the ways that she’s different and lovely and perfect.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 2,191 words. (started December 10, 2013)
half a kingdom and a princess
“Guess you’re stuck with me, old girl.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 2,022 words. (December 31, 2013)
summer in winter
Salt sweat on his lips, his skin prickling tight and hot, blood rushing thin in his ears. And Ygritte. Ygritte at his side, hotter than sweat and sun, hotter than Jon’s dreams.
Jon Snow/Ygritte. 712 words. (December 31, 2013)
A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series ficlets and drabbles
wages of sin, part of once upon a time.
Sandor Clegane. 319 words. (July 3, 2013)
sailor take warning, part of once upon a time.
Balon Greyjoy. 521 words. (July 3, 2013)
til human voices wake us, part of once upon a time.
Melara Hetherspoon. 470 words. (December 22, 2013)
what my mother sees, part of once upon a time.
Joanna Lannister. 336 words. (December 22, 2013)
Total: 24 fics/ficlets, 2 fandoms, and 43,948 words (a staggering dip from 218,416 words last year).
My favorite story this year (my own): Probably break me like a promise. I liked exploring the dirtybadwrong incest side of Jon/Sansa as a pairing. And I love ruthless Sansa. And I adore the two people I wrote the fic for,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lit_chick08 and jal80. I also have a soft spot for the moon licks the salt of your hand.
My best story this year: Hm. Maybe a blue million miles, which was prompted by people being utter jerks in the comments of someone else’s Gendry/Sansa that had elements of Arya/Gendry as well, most of whom absurdly complained that the pairing they don’t like should not have been tagged, or the pairing they DO like should not have been tagged because there wasn’t enough of it, or that it was a severe breach of etiquette to tag both. So I wrote one that actually HAD both. I seem to work best when motivated by spite.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I hate this stupid question. Why I haven’t taken it out yet, I don’t know. And now I say this every year.
Most fun story: The Pointer Project, because I get to listen to awesome Pointer Sisters songs while plotting out various ladies for Jon Snow to love down.
Sexiest story: the moon licks the salt of your hand? Particularly with where I want to take it in future chapters (shut up, that counts).
Hardest story to write: None of them were really difficult. I was mostly self-indulgent this year.
Most unintentionally telling story: I don’t think anything was.
Most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon-moment: Jon Snow being super into ladies? Or possibly in the future, Sansa Stark gelding the next dude who assaults her? (Fingers crossed!)
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2010: Mermaid fic, I suppose? Which follows last year’s wingfic, I guess. Next up, mpreg!
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? Not really.
Friday Night Lights
smash your heart into a thousand summers.
It's a stone unturned. A idle thought from a long time ago that she never made good on and that's cropped up at inconvenient times ever since: when she's grocery shopping, sometimes, or writing the rent check, or watching a movie with an actor who has that same swagger and that same line from ribs to hips, a sinuous curve that seems to promise something thrilling and unspeakable.
Julie Taylor/Tim Riggins. 1,108 words. (August 9, 2013)
A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series
break me like a promise.
“Seems we are siblings after all,” Jon had said, his voice forcibly light, as if to make the words a jape.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 5,334 words. (January 24, 2013)
your eyes close with my dreams, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
“You know,” Val says after Jon has crawled up and wedged himself between them, head pillowed on his arms. “It hardly seems fair that Jon spends so much time pleasuring us with his mouth but never receives such pleasure in return.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark/Val. 2,575 words. (January 28, 2013)
the morning of the world.
“You’re wearing my shirt,” Jon says between kisses, hot and needy and messy kisses that have him so hard he can barely think.
Jon Snow/Robb Stark. 1,950 words. (March 3, 2013)
secret virtues.
Sansa does not delude herself into thinking anything in her life is truly private, but oh, how careful she is with Jon, how secret, until the secrecy itself becomes part of the pleasure.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 797 words. (March 10, 2013)
no fear of depths.
“Have you been watching me?” he asked. She swam a bit closer, the bottom rising under her hands and fins as she moved close to the shore, wanting to see his eyes as she answered. Mermaid fic.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 1,627 words. (May 28, 2013)
you were in the darkness too.
What was once to be dreaded is now cause for only anticipation. Nightfall gladdens Sansa’s heart; soon Jon will come to her chamber. Soon he’ll kiss her sweetly, touch her with gently needy hands. And every time, he will ask. Jon always asks.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 957 words. (May 28, 2013)
kiss me a question.
The world splinters into pieces: her cry, followed by a shivering moan. The tightening grip of her fingers in your hair. The sensual writhe of her hips beneath your mouth and the sweet, tangy taste of her spreading over your tongue. The heavy throb of blood and desire in your veins, shouting to you that you’re alive. This you are used to. This you have missed.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 3,313 words. (June 2, 2013)
light me up like a lemon grove, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
Pregnancy leaves Val disgruntled and snappish at times, unused to her body bending to whims other than her own. It has, however, put quite a lot of experimentation into their bedchambers.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark/Val. 2,885 words. (June 9, 2012)
come into my castle, part of home is just another word for you.
Of late she has felt such urges towards Jeyne, such curiosities and desires. She has kissed Jeyne before, touched her in passion before, but always Jon was with them, between them. Now Sansa wonders what it would be to touch Jeyne alone, with Jon only as witness, a bystander rather than what binds them together. She wonders and it makes her ache.
Jeyne Westerling/Sansa Stark (with background Jon Snow/Jeyne Westerling/Sansa Stark). 3,181 words. (June 17, 2013)
a blue million miles.
Perhaps he was only ever meant to love them both.
Gendry Waters/Sansa Stark, Gendry Waters/Arya Stark. 1,302 words. (July 15, 2013)
maybe you are magic.
Long ago, Brienne had thought she loved, she thought she knew devotion, but now it seems only a child’s game – spillikins scattered over the floor, a rag doll worn soft with attention.
Brienne of Tarth/Sansa Stark. 781 words. (July 25, 2013)
whoever treasures freedom, part of The Continuing Adventure of the Threesome in the North.
She wants to make him grab her and paw at her, wants to make him lose that part of himself that would keep vows to a false ideal.
Jon Snow/Val. 1,548 words. (August 27, 2013)
can you feel my past, can you find my future?.
“Jeyne,” he groans, and her name is a prayer on his lips. He wonders now how he’d gone so long thinking she could be called anything else. She only answers him with another kiss.
Jon Snow/Jeyne Westerling. 2,333 words. (September 6, 2013)
Night's Kingdom.
The end of Jon Snow’s life begins with a rumor.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 5,262 words. (started on September 23, 2013)
Slow Hand, part of The Pointer Project
“Then by all means,” she sighs, stretching into him as he lowers himself atop her, her fingers looped around his wrists. “Hurry up and go slow.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 1,651 words. (November 12, 2013)
Dare Me, part of The Pointer Project
“You love honor as if it’s a woman,” she scoffed at him once, when he tried to rebuff her after laying with her again despite telling himself he wouldn’t.
Jon Snow/Ygritte. 773 words. (December 3, 2012)
the moon licks the salt of your hand.
Half of her may not be his sister, but half is, and at the moment, Jon is feeling things entirely unbrotherly in nature towards all of her, things that make him want to walk right into that water and replace her hand with his own, to feel for himself all the ways that she’s different and lovely and perfect.
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 2,191 words. (started December 10, 2013)
half a kingdom and a princess
“Guess you’re stuck with me, old girl.”
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. 2,022 words. (December 31, 2013)
summer in winter
Salt sweat on his lips, his skin prickling tight and hot, blood rushing thin in his ears. And Ygritte. Ygritte at his side, hotter than sweat and sun, hotter than Jon’s dreams.
Jon Snow/Ygritte. 712 words. (December 31, 2013)
A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series ficlets and drabbles
wages of sin, part of once upon a time.
Sandor Clegane. 319 words. (July 3, 2013)
sailor take warning, part of once upon a time.
Balon Greyjoy. 521 words. (July 3, 2013)
til human voices wake us, part of once upon a time.
Melara Hetherspoon. 470 words. (December 22, 2013)
what my mother sees, part of once upon a time.
Joanna Lannister. 336 words. (December 22, 2013)
Total: 24 fics/ficlets, 2 fandoms, and 43,948 words (a staggering dip from 218,416 words last year).
My favorite story this year (my own): Probably break me like a promise. I liked exploring the dirtybadwrong incest side of Jon/Sansa as a pairing. And I love ruthless Sansa. And I adore the two people I wrote the fic for,
lit_chick08 and jal80. I also have a soft spot for the moon licks the salt of your hand. My best story this year: Hm. Maybe a blue million miles, which was prompted by people being utter jerks in the comments of someone else’s Gendry/Sansa that had elements of Arya/Gendry as well, most of whom absurdly complained that the pairing they don’t like should not have been tagged, or the pairing they DO like should not have been tagged because there wasn’t enough of it, or that it was a severe breach of etiquette to tag both. So I wrote one that actually HAD both. I seem to work best when motivated by spite.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I hate this stupid question. Why I haven’t taken it out yet, I don’t know. And now I say this every year.
Most fun story: The Pointer Project, because I get to listen to awesome Pointer Sisters songs while plotting out various ladies for Jon Snow to love down.
Sexiest story: the moon licks the salt of your hand? Particularly with where I want to take it in future chapters (shut up, that counts).
Hardest story to write: None of them were really difficult. I was mostly self-indulgent this year.
Most unintentionally telling story: I don’t think anything was.
Most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon-moment: Jon Snow being super into ladies? Or possibly in the future, Sansa Stark gelding the next dude who assaults her? (Fingers crossed!)
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2010: Mermaid fic, I suppose? Which follows last year’s wingfic, I guess. Next up, mpreg!
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? Not really.
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Date: 2014-01-01 07:31 pm (UTC)