Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

In the past week, I have accomplished at least 85% of the things I was supposed to, and for the first time in a year and a half actually finished a thing that I started writing. (This thing I started and finished in an afternoon. The last thing, I started and finished in the middle of the night. I think the moral of this story is if I have the urge to write, I need to actually do it, right then.)


only light can do that. only love can do that. (1652 words) by healingmirth
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shameless (US)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich
Characters: Ian Gallagher, Mickey Milkovich
Additional Tags: Gallavich Advent Calendar, Winter, substandard housing, Canon-Typical Homophobic Language, canon-typical references to violence
Summary:

Red and blue lights flashed through the windows and off the ceiling, and Mickey closed his eyes, drew in a slow breath through his nose and let it out. When he opened his eyes again, the lights were still there.

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(I have spent 3? maybe 4? weeks total in Chicago in my whole life, and the most enduring memory I have from any of that time is that the cop cars look like taxis and the taxis look like cop cars. AND YET I managed to screw up the color of cop cars' lights for this and not notice until many hours later, by which point I just decided to roll with it. I have made AUs of stupider things. Shameless has 100% messed up stupider things.)

Yuletide fic! I wrote three things!

I'd written three stories once before, when I wrote two stories for my recipient and then a treat for Elyn in one of those fandoms, but that was waaaaay back in 2009.

(  Breakfast Club, Breakfast Club, Vikings )

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I threw a lot of words at a lot of things that I didn't post this year - a story or two for SS*BB; the aforementioned abandoned Yuletide fic attempts; an American Idiot fork-in-the-road AU that I don't think there's anyone left in the fandom to read; a few Arthur/Eames story ideas. I'm not sure that it was more unpublished words than any other year, but it was spread across fewer files. I didn't have a fandom that lead to thirty different plot bunnies.

AO3 word count for the year: 10244

Two (of three) ficlets for AELDWS, an attempt at stop-drop-howl that stopped and dropped before the porn, and three yuletide fics. Not my lowest count year - that was 2011, which was a giant pile of work-related stress.

I now have 74 works on AO3, and I think #75 is going to be the scenes from the proto-Smokin' Aces fic that I am still so excited that someone else wrote. *\o/* ponderosa *\o/*

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snowflake_challenge Day 1:

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

( Justified, Teen Wolf, American Idiot )

This past week's AELDWS drabble, which was unsuccessful both in the sense that I'm not satisfied with it, and also that it got me voted off the island.

Also, I would like to say that I hate that summary, and feel in my soul that it should say "that Arthur had been promised" except the had not/had been in a single sentence of summary also felt clumsy. FML.

Title: ask a librarian
Summary: this had not turned out to be the thrilling adventure in library science that Arthur was promised

( the story, such as it is )

And now, because it's my blog and I can do what I want, a dvd commentary or whatever of all the things I was trying to do in 350-450 words. Mostly what I failed to do. And a bit of My Thoughts on Yaoi the care and feeding of competitive fic writing.

( Too many things, natch. )

Despite my best efforts, my first swing at stop_drop_howl stopped and dropped decidedly short of porn when I realized that I didn't actually want to write Derek hooking up with Stiles of Right Now, but I had set the story very much Right Now, argh. Better luck next time.

to shake the devils from my mind (1907 words) by healingmirth
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski
Summary:

"You look tired," Derek says. Stiles smells like pure human exhaustion, like chemical stimulants and sweat. Derek's long past expecting him to be still, but Stiles's fidgets seem muffled, and he's blinking too often and rubbing at his temple with two fingers on his right hand. His left is clenched into a fist, but Derek can't see any reason for it. It makes him want to settle Stiles, to draw the tension out of his body, to hold his hands until they remember how they used to behave.

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And now that that's over with, I'm going to finish up the things for Saturday's super sekrit character list meme over yonder, so there's still plenty of time to drop off a scenario.

the end of missing someone (16470 words) by healingmirth
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards
Characters: Jeff Carter, Mike Richards
Additional Tags: Los Angeles Kings
Summary:

He doesn't e-mail Mike his flight information because Mike hadn't asked, but when he checks in he snaps a picture of the boarding passes and sends it off with just four words: california here I come.

It's locked to the archive because Reasons. But apparently I'm willing to admit to having written it in an unlocked post, so. Take from that what you will.

I will spare you most of the blah-de-blah, but I had no idea it was possible for me to spend so much time writing so many words in which so little happens, when I legit thought I was going to write some fluff and move on. Or sixteen thousand words of extraordinarily quiet pining. You know, whichever.