2009 fic/vid roundup

Despite school in the first half and new jobs in the second, 2009 was a good year for fannish creativity. I wrote 50% more stories and three times as many words as last year. I started vidding, and made a House vid that lived up to what I'd envisioned years ago. I uploaded a batch of stories to the Archive of Our Own, participated in my first mcsmooch, tried out anthropomorfic and some new kinks, and took the plunge and posted a few of my (formerly) private Mary Sue vignettes. I got peripherally involved in kink politics, one result of which was to, with a few exceptions, begin using "contains" in headers instead of "warning." I once again did best with 'fests that offered deadlines and prompt selections.

I also seem to have written almost no gen this year. Although I can think of a few reasons this happened, it is not cool. Need to finish some works in progress on that front.
2008 | 2007 | 2006
And now, without further ado, the final roundup, with mini-DVD commentaries, in chronological order by fandom:

Fics
( House )

( House/SGA crossovers )

( SGA )

( Anthropomorphic )

( DS9 OCs )

Vids
( House, SGA, The Professional )

Stats:

• Fics: 18
• Word Count: 36,365 (plus WsIP)
• Vids: 4
• Minutes: 8.5 (plus WsIP)
• Slash: 9
• Het: 8
• Gen: 3
• Threesome/moresome: 2
• Mixed/Other: 5
• Meta-type: 2
• Poems: 1
• Fandoms: 5

Goals for 2010:

• Work to reincorporate some of the careful styling and attention to story and characterization that I had when I first started posting stories. I haven't written anything as crafted as "Dissonance" or as meaningful to the characters as "A Helping Hand" or "Untouchable" in a while.


• Finish writing WsIP: dancing (in progress for 1 year), MRI (2 years), secret House crossover (3 years)


• Vids to make/finish: Team Oliver!, Pegasus Dylan, John/Ronon silly dance song, McShep (?) Auden


• Work with synn on a design for my subdomain now that there are enough stories to warrant breaking up the index page

A different kind of Festival of Lights

I haven't mentioned here yet that there's a Mormon temple nearby. When I get on the Beltway going west and turn the first corner, it appears above the trees like Cinderella's castle. It's hard to describe how unreal it looks: like a matte painting in a movie, flat and oddly lit, golden-tipped towers glinting in the sun. It is, however, quite real, as I confirmed last night when the Laundrys and I went to see the forest of holiday lights set up out front.

Teaser:




( Lights, temple, sunset. )