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~~Apocalypse Round 3~~ 2022: Fic Year in Review

bless up to noctis for the template

The Stats:

☆ Total Word Count: roughly 33k words between two ao3 accounts and five scarygirlynight entries
☆ Total Fics Written: 19
☆ Fandoms Written In: twice, loona, enhypen, stayc
☆ Pairings Written For: quite a variety, but most dominantly heechuu (OF COURSE)

Chronological list (or chronological number of words!):
had a huge break where i was suffering from the post-rona, but we're good!
☆ january: SUNLIGHT CREW. my child.
☆ february to may: ya girl was out of it
☆ june: HEECHUU 2nd pov sax fic. opened my floodgates
☆ july: datzu reincarnation au this made me feel like a WRITER again
☆ august: empty zone
☆ september: ficmixes AND my kim lip x jihyo fic
☆ october: five heechuu ficlets coming right up!
☆ november: the long-awaited (by me) shortcake update
☆ december: mcdonalds update

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✿ Overall Thoughts ✿

🖨 Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? If you predicted anything.
a lot less than i thought i would, because of the *rona*. but from my goals last year, i was able to update the shortcake chapter AND update my mcdonalds au (also made a dw table of contents klfjladfkjd)

🖨 What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted at the start of the year? Did you get into a new pairing/genre/fandom?
STAYC!!! did not anticipate the chokehold that sieun would have on me. also yoon/seeun has such good vibes

🖨 What’s your own favourite story of the year?
SUNLIGHT CREW I WILL NOT SHUT UP

🖨 Do you have a story from previous years you now feel is underappreciated? Better than you remembered it to be?
surprisingly, circles still comes up in conversation. i also used to feel bad about World's Finest First Date, but now i keep coming back to it for a good laugh. was also surprised with the traction that heejin is a nature scientist but this isn't a science story got

🖨 Did you take any writing risks this year?
writing while onsite at my cubicle? hell yeah HAHAHA i think my biggest risk was writing, period. this year was a lot of things to me, so getting fics out is already huge

🖨 Biggest source of inspiration this year?
this year was inspired by a lot of media! mythology, tv, movies, all kinds of themes and aesthetics. nothing too specific, but i have them all stored up in my head

🖨 Is there a character you've really enjoyed writing this year?
kim lip for sure

🍃 Do you have any general writing goals for the new year?
really want to try morning pages (750 stream-of-consciousness words a day) and to read more books about writing!!!

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✿ From my past year of writing, what was… ✿

❄ My best story (or scene!) of this year:
SUNLIGHT CREW

❄ My most popular story of this year:
you're my beginning, you know?

❄ Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
don't go, you're so saxy

❄ Longest story of the year:
technically shortcake

❄ Shortest story of the year:
on ao3? sweet nothing

❄ Most fun story to write:
Mission: Get Her Number!

❄ Story that needed the most research:
a place for it to happen

🔥 Story with the single sexiest moment:
didn't write a lot of sexy so morning after has to do

🍩 Story with the single cutest/sweetest moment:
also Mission: Get Her Number!

😶 Most “holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you” story:
still night

❄ Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
you are my beginning, you know?

❄ Hardest story to write:
shortcake karaoke update

❄ Biggest disappointment:
i'm not gonna say it

❄ Biggest surprise:
easy

❄ Most unintentionally telling story:
apart

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✿ Favourite Opening Lines: ✿
Now, immortality isn’t what most mortals think it to be. This is one of Dahyun’s most dominant thoughts as she, a speck of flour, dissolves in warm water.

It's the first time in years that they spend their birthdays apart.

Now the rumor that the highschool's local sunshine Kim Jiwoo was dating freshman Jeon Heejin were dating wasn't unbelievable, but Ha Sooyoung couldn't really believe it.

✿ Favourite Closing Lines: ✿
Heejin, timezones away, smiles as if she's there with her. "Goodnight."

Her human heart thunders in her chest, fate unfolding in her outstretched hand.

And Heejin doesn't have to say anything else--Jiwoo understands. So she lets Heejin close her eyes along with her own, and nobody gets to see the kiss.

✿ Favourite lines from anywhere: ✿
The thrill of what comes next, the improvisation that makes the music feel so alive—this is what you've been missing since you started paying taxes!
Not the dream, but a memory: the skin of her fingers soaked and bleeding, a death-grip on the hull of a capsized boat.
Heejin with Hyunjin. Yerim and Hyeju. Haseul pulling the four of them close, Sooyoung casting herself over all of them.
Lifetime, because it’s as breathtaking as it is long, and Jihyo’s entourage is already panicking by the time they break the kiss.

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✿ Looking back at 2022: ✿
it could have gone a lot worse, but it could have been better. anyway, 6/10

✿ Fic-writing goals for 2023: ✿
*ehem*