2007 in review

[honey_wheeler]

So, it’s late because I was on vacation, but I figure I’d still do my last-year’s-roundup. For reference, the previous year's round-up can be found here.


By Fandom

30 Rock

-- never have i ever. Liz/Floyd. Liz always loses at party games. 170 words. (April 26, 2007)


Arrested Development

-- sibling rivalry. GOB’s never been so jealous in his life. 205 words. For seanarenay’s incest fic challenge. (April 17, 2007)

-- french-as-in-the-language. George-Michael/Maeby. 155 words. (April 26, 2007)


Firefly

-- ruthless. River/Simon. Simon can’t say no to her. 126 words. (April 26, 2007)

-- solace. Mal/Zoe. He can’t take seein’ her all broken up the way she is. Spoilers for Serenity. 149 words. (April 26, 2007)


Freaks and Geeks

-- truth or truth. Kim & Lindsay have a sleepover. 930 words. Written for nothing_hip. (May 10, 2007)


Friday Night Lights

ficlets, drabbles, and/or five things

-- The Great Landry. Landry & Tim. 167 words. (January 25, 2007)

-- Five times Coach ogles Mrs. Coach. 1,208 words. (January 25, 2007)

-- Five times Matt and Julie get caught in a compromising position. 4,250 words. (February 24, 2007)

-- various drabbles, including Smash Gets Lucky, Street Gets Mean, Bo Faces Facts, The Taylors Have Dinner, Smash Has a Crush, Tyra Throws a Bone, Tami Gets Naughty, Jackie Gives In, Tyra Makes Her Move, Girls Night In, and Matt Cleans Up. 100-140 words each. (April 15, 2007)

-- second try. Matt/Julie. 151 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- what happens in mexico. Jason/Tim/Lyla. 521 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- matt needs a mom. 209 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- tim needs counseling. 268 words. (November 24, 2007)


full length fics

-- where your book begins. Tim/Julie. Julie fills in for Landry as Tim’s tutor. Sexy hijinks ensue (barely). 2,190 words. Written for nothing_hip. (April 30, 2007)


Harry Potter

ficlets, drabbles, and/or five things

-- lazy days. Ron/Hermione. That’s what summer’s for. 303 words. (June 30, 2007)

-- intentional heroes. Hermione and Neville and the hero’s journey. 440 words. (July 11, 2007)

-- trevor the toad and the battle for hogwarts. 244 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- now’s the perfect time. Ron/Hermione. 370 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- harry and tonks. 164 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- beg. Ron/Hermione. For femmenerd, written for her request (HP - Ron/Hermione - beg) at technosage’s Porn paragraph-a-thon. 312 words. (December 16, 2007)


full-length fics

-- I just want to feel some sunshine. Ron/Hermione. Ron’s dense, Hermione loses patience. 1,240 words. Written for nothing_hip. (July 12, 2007)

-- common threads. Ensemble, featuring: Tonks; Fleur/Bill; Andromeda; George; Neville, Ginny & Luna; Dean & Seamus. Everyone’s part of the web. Everyone’s picking up the pieces. 6,150 words. (August 19, 2007)

-- the good sleep better. Harry, Ron, and Hermione have some sandwiches and get some sleep after the battle. Originally part of common threads. 1,300 words. (August 22, 2007)

-- and this, my lovely child, is your garden. Bill and Fleur and the evolution of a family. Continuation of common threads. 2,400 words. (September 4, 2007)


Harry Potter RPF

-- the sum of all our parts. Ruper Grint/Katie Lewis. Based on this rumor, and inspired by this fic by femmenerd and this picture of Rupert Grint in his ice cream van. 920 words. (October 21, 2007)

-- I call her red. DanRad/Bonnie Wright. Dan’s smooth moves woo the ladies. Or not. Drunk!fic for captaincatapult. 350 words. (December 11, 2007)


How I Met Your Mother

-- Barney/ Robin at Ted’s wedding. 177 words. (November 24, 2007)


The Office

ficlets, drabbles, and/or five things

-- Five things that made the employees of Dunder-Mifflin think of sex at work. Ensemble. 1,170 words. (January 25, 2007)

-- Five of Andy’s ex-girlfriends. 402 words. (January 26, 2007)

-- Five celebrities Kelly is dying to meet. 328 words. (January 26, 2007)

-- Five times Pam and Karen hang out. 950 words. (January 28, 2007)

-- Five things Stanley would rather be doing than working at Dunder-Mifflin. 346 words. (January 28, 2007)

-- date three and a half. Jim/Pam. 197 words. (August 24, 2007)

-- first (and last) sentences. Oscar & Kevin; Jim/Pam; Kelly & Oscar; Jim/Karen. 120-350 words. (September 2, 2007)

-- Mark/vodka OTP. Jim’s roommate self-medicates. 172 words. (November 24, 2007)


full-length fics

-- we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet. Pam/Karen (Ka-Pam!). Sequel to auld lang syne. Pam and Karen teach Jim a lesson or two. 3,000 words. (February 4, 2007)

-- lincoln park after dark. Pam & Kelly. Pam and Kelly hit the road. Part of the Kelly/OPI OTP trilogy, along with Blushingham Palace by kyrafic and Melon of Troy by agate. 2,040 words. (February 19, 2007)

-- Warning : May Cause Dizziness. Jim/Pam. Set after Boys & Girls and Valentine’s Day. 5,440 words. Written for warning_labels. (April 10, 2007)

-- it was cool, but it was all pretend. Ryan/Jonathan Halpert. Ryan figures he’d know if he were gay. 1,260 words. Written for nothing_hip. (February 4, 2007)

-- long division. Kelly/Toby. Talkin’ to you, girl, is like long division. 3,340 words. (April 20, 2007)

-- two of a kind. Ryan/Jan. Ryan and Jan smoke pot and talk about their feelings (not really). 990 words. Written for nothing_hip. (April 24, 2007)

-- you who are my home. Ryan/Karen. Ryan and Karen and videogames and happy ever after. 5,440 words. Written for nothing_hip. (May 15, 2007)

-- Jim Likes Pam! Jim/Pam. Part of the Papersellers Club series, an AU crossover with The Babysitters Club. Pam has a crush…on a boy paper seller! 4,300 words. (May 29, 2007)

-- Angela and the Inappropriate Advance. Angela/Dwight. Part of the Papersellers Club series, an AU crossover with The Babysitters Club. She can run the PSC, but can she handle the Destructivators? 5,070 words. (June 6, 2007)

-- ’til you get home. Jim/Dudes. The guys really go for Jim Halpert. 1,060 words. Written for nothing_hip. (June 30, 2007)

-- Katy the Hussy. Katy/Roy. Part of the Papersellers Club series, an AU crossover with The Babysitters Club. Who needs paper selling when there are boys around? 6,400 words. (July 3, 2007)

-- Kelly and the Unsuitable Boy. Kelly/Ryan. Part of the Papersellers Club series, an AU crossover with The Babysitters Club. Kelly might give up the PSC…and it’s all Ryan’s fault! 9,980 words. (October 29, 2007)

-- How Ryan Howard Got a Crush, Got Protective, and Got Kind of Depressed. Ryan/Kelly, Pam/OMC, Pam/Jim, Ryan/Pam. This is a (sanctioned) remix of How Pam Beesly Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life by annakovsky (which provides a line or two of dialogue and the character of Zach), written from Ryan’s POV. 4,280 words. (November 11, 2007)

-- brief interviews with hideous men. Jim/Pam. Jim’s not as perfect as he seems. 1,250 words. (November 11, 2007)


Office RPF

-- all keeps adding up. Jenna Fischer/BJ Novak. BJ swears off drinking after the Golden Globes. Inspired by this picture and the story about BJ having Jenna do drinking research for The Dundies (found on her blog). 840 words. Written for nothing_hip. (May 27, 2007)

-- john and jenna get stoned. John Krasinski & Jenna Fischer. 200 words. (August 24, 2007)

-- method acting. Jenna Fischer/John Krasinski. Diet Coke friends don’t really ask each other that sort of thing. 254 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- come on, light the candle in this poor heart of mine. Jenna Fischer/David Denman. Everyone thinks it’s John. 2,130 words. (December 22, 2007)


Sports Night

-- one time casey was positive dan was sleeping with steve nash. 212 words. (November 24, 2007)


Miscellaneous

That Thing You Do
-- Five times Lenny Haise got married. 680 words. Written for nothing_hip and jesshelga. (April 18, 2007)


Empire Records
-- Mark/vodka OTP, take two. 228 words. (November 24, 2007)

-- Gina & Debra, a year later. 452 words. (November 24, 2007)


The Station Agent
-- if I were cheddar cheese & prime minister of pakistan. Joe/Olivia. 306 words, 172 words. (April 26, 2007)


Peanuts
-- für lucy. Schroeder/Lucy. 135 words. (April 26, 2007)


New Kids on the Block
-- tank in fish heaven. Funeral for a goldfish. 385 words. (April 26, 2007)


PC/Mac commercials
-- pc>mac. 109 words. (April 26, 2007)


Zoolander
-- different for models. Derek/Hansel. 284 words. (April 26, 2007)


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-- the life and times of veruca salt in 200 words or less. 196 words. (April 26, 2007)


By event
1 for warning_labels
9 for nothing_hip
4 Papersellers Club installments

Overall: 75 fics/ficlets, 19 fandoms, and 91,200 words, give or take.


My favorite story this year (my own): This is a tie. I really, very much love and this, my lovely child, is your garden. The language and the feel of it came out exactly how I wanted them. My other favorite is you who are my home. I love the slow build of it and how natural it seemed for Ryan and Karen to find each other and have that be exactly what they needed. And, amazingly for me, both stories were fairly angst-free and had happy endings. I’m growing as a person! I also have quite a fondness for where your book begins. Oh, Tim/Julie. I really love their dynamic. It took me a little while to hit on the right poem, but I think “My Papa’s Waltz” was perfect.

My best story this year: Geez, I don’t know. Probably common threads.

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I think come on, light the candle in this poor heart of mine deserved a little more love. And the drop-off in comments between Jim Likes Pam! and each successive PSC fic makes me kind of sad. But I guess it’s understandable, due to the pairings.

Most fun story: Any of the Papersellers Club fics – Jim Likes Pam!, Angela and the Inappropriate Advance, Katy the Hussy, and Kelly and the Unsuitable Boy. Each of them was fun in a different way, though I think I liked writing Katy’s adolescent bitchiness the most. Plus I got to use the word “culottes” in a fic, which has long been a goal of mine. I would have liked to get Karen’s done by the end of the year, but alas. It was not to be. She’ll be this year, along with Jim Halpert: Boy Paper Seller! and the Papersellers Club Super Special #1: The PSC at Camp Hammermill.

Sexiest story: we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet. Everybody loves Ka-PAM! And the periodic table. Hot. Also, where your book begins, mainly due to the pansexually voracious presence of Tim Riggins.

Hardest story to write: The ones where I had to fit into an existing framework – How Ryan Howard Got a Crush, Got Protective, and Got Kind of Depressed and Warning : May Cause Dizziness were tough. warning_labels overall is getting super difficult to write while still keeping it in the original Season 2 context. Kelly and the Unsuitable Boy was also hard, since I was trying to incorporate the most recent Office episodes, the previous PSC installments, and the actual Babysitters Club. Lotta layers there.

Most unintentionally telling story: long division. And apparently it’s telling for a lot of people. Who knew pinata-related depression was so prevalent among Office fic readers?

Most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon-moment: This is more of an almost fanon-turned-canon moment, but in tim needs counseling, Tim fantasizes about Tami taking him home and taking him in, and the original plan was to make that a full-length fic where she did just that, which would lead to Tim Riggins disrupting life at the Taylor household, wreaking sexy havoc and leaving young Julie quivering in his wake. Which…is close to what happened, I’d say.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2007: New Kids on the Block goldfish funeral fic comes to mind.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I wrote RPF, specifically for Harry Potter fandom which, I’ll admit, seemed risky. And I learned that not very many people on my flist read HP RPF.

Comments

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, you are prolific. This is interesting to read and impressive!

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

I think it's a little misleading, since a lot of those were drabbles and ficlets. Because I sure don't FEEL like I wrote ten more things than last year, even though that's what it says. M-maybe this is why I don't have my license yet?

[miss-bennie.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I would just like to state for the record that you were the one who knew the name of the chimp-looking-one's dead goldfish.

Also, crap, I missed like, 3 of your fics from over holiday time. I am the worst person I know. I have some reading to do.

JAMES

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

A fact you EXPLOITED RUTHLESSLY.

Oh man, I am the LAST person who would hold that against you, since I still have fics from, like, two years ago that I keep meaning to read. ::wrests "worst person" title away from you::

Re: JAMES

[miss-bennie.livejournal.com]

I was merely highly suggestive. Besides, who wasn't deeply touched by the funeral?

Haha, we can share the title. Also, I got another new icon! I-it's starting to become a distraction. I'll pretend it's so I can share pretty pictures with you while you toil away at work.

McAVOY

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

It did rival Princess Diana's for poignancy.

I made my journal title a James quote! WE HAVE A SICKNESS. (don't just pretend, you should totally send me pretty pictures)

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

*MEMORIES*

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

Hee, it's your one-stop shop!

[9t9.livejournal.com]

Hi-I love your writing, esp your HP fic, do you mind if I friend?

[honey-wheeler.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And not at all, friend away.