linguamortua

sathinfection made me do it!

January

Cartograph [Mad Max: Fury Road | Furiosa/The Valkyrie]
Rapprochment [RED/Bond crossover | Victoria Winslow/Female M]
Hooked [Overwatch | Junkrat/Roadhog]

February

March

April

Inverse Function [Marvel Cinematic Universe | Steve Rogers/Brock Rumlow]

May

June

July

August

Steal My Heart (Grand Theft Lotho) [Star Wars | Lando Calrissian/Han Solo]

September

October

Beyond Reasonable Doubt [Star Wars | Kylo Ren/Armitage Hux]

Vessel [Venom | Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote]

Elephant and King [A Song of Ice and Fire | Stannis Baratheon]

November

Consume Me [Venom | Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote]

Quench [Call Me By Your Name | Oliver/Elio Perlman]

Kinetic Energy [The Punisher | Frank Castle/Billy Russo]

The Belly of the Beast [Fury | Norman Ellison/Grady Travis]

December

Two Fingers, Neat [The Punisher | Frank Castle/Billy Russo]

The Devil You Know [The Punisher | Frank Castle/Karen Page]


2018 AO3 Stats

User Subscriptions: 427
Kudos: 10058
Comment Threads: 297
Bookmarks: 1914
Subscriptions: 309
Word Count: 40841
Hits: 71750


Overall

An underwhelming spring and summer, finally gaining momentum midway through autumn. The first three fics I posted this year were actually written in 2017, with the Roadrat in particular sitting around as a WIP for a very long time. Everything I wrote until October was for an exchange, and in fact the Han/Lando in August is a) only half finished and b) a defaulted exchange fic. The Kylux in October was a real albatross and was also for an organised event. I really only woke up when I saw CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE VENOM - then November and December were really quite good, from a writing perspective.


Most popular story

Vessel, by an insane stretch. It's probably safe to say nothing I'll ever write in the future will get that kind of attention. As of today it has (goes to check) 9141 kudos.


Story most underappreciated by the universe

The Belly of the Beast, I guess. But it's a non-existent fandom and a very spicy, trashy kind of porn. So I didn't have high hopes.


Most controversial story

I avoided all wank with extreme dexterity this year, although I was anticipating problems with Hooked. Roadrat fandom is obnoxiously fluffy for a pair of actual, canonical murder arsonists. Predicting backlash actually held up the completion of this fic by several months, which is unusual for me.


Hardest story to write?

Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Hated writing it, felt bad for my Big Bang artist having to make art for it, would happily delete it. It needed more research of the kind that I find tedious, so I skimped on that and it's a weak story. The plot could support a good, angsty, romantic novella, but I tapped out at 8k and hit the post button.


Favorite title?

Steal My Heart (Grand Theft Lotho). It's still unfinished, but I started with the title which I thought was perfect for a Han/Lando heist fic. I want to get it completed, if only to do that title justice.


Favorite line/scene?

This is it—this is it!—the brilliant, electric moment when he’s the sole focus of Roadhog’s violent attentions. Any of his attentions are good, and almost always Roadhog’s not hurting him. But the man who was once called Mako Rutledge, in the Before time, is a specialist in violence. Really takes his time over it. A connoisseur. When Roadhog’s hurting you, he’s paying real good attention to you.

I desperately wanted to write something from Junkrat's POV - something that did justice to his weird, twitchy character design and voice acting, but also gave a sense of what an actual man who had endured what he had might be like. He has a bit of a comic relief vibe in the game, too, a kind of levity. The balance was between that levity and the fact that he's, you know a double-amputee explosives expert wandering the post-apocalyptic Australian outback Mad Max-style. Ultimately I was pleased with the whole fic; this little segment in particular rang true to me and, it seemed, the people who read it.


Favorite character to write about this year

I want to say Frank Castle, but honestly I was just thirst-writing a lot of words about Jon Bernthal, okay, just don't look at me.


Looking back, did you write more stories than you thought you would this year, fewer than you thought, or about what you predicted?

I wouldn't say I was optimistic about my likely output this year, but I disappointed even myself until October.


What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted? What fic didn't you expect to write?

I can't say I really expected to write The Belly of the Beast, a 3500-word porn fest set inside a World War Two tank. I would characterise that as 'unexpected', yes. I wrote it in a single day, and posted it without proof-reading. So that was definitely a thing that happened that was not on my 2018 list of goals and resolutions.


Story that could have been better?

Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Grand Theft Lotho (unfinished), Consume Me (unfinished). I mean, all of it, really. But especially those three.


Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

Not really. This was not a year for risks. Talk to me again at the end of 2019, after I completed [TOP SECRET REDACTED PUNISHER FIC]. One notable trend, though, was that I started actively tagging for PTSD in my fics. I think you could go back to the very beginning and tag solidly 75% of my fics with that tag, but now I actually know that I'm doing the thing and may therefore be doing the thing more mindfully and better.


Fics you wanted to write but didn't

My whole WIP list. The second part of Grand Theft Lotho. Anything good?


What's next for 2019

I signed up for getyourwordsout at the 150,000 word level, so I'm pledging to write an average of 411 words a day. I think I'm ready, having dealt with some other areas of my life in 2016 and 2017, to amp up my wordcount again. I want to finish some unfinished things, for sure. I also need to get into the habit of writing ALL of a longer piece before posting it.

Longer fic in general is a goal - I know I can bang out passable 3000-5000 word PWPs but I want to develop my skills in plot. Plus, I'd like to find someone who is a more skilled writer and storycrafter than me to help beta and work on my actual literary skills, as opposed to just coasting on reasonably good prose and porn.