Milestone: 100 fics on AO3

[starfishstar]

I realized only recently that I was fast approaching a pretty cool milestone: 100 fics completed and posted to AO3!

Publicly, it looks like I only have 95 works, but that's because there are quite a few things for fests, which I've already posted but aren't yet revealed. So my actual count as of this morning was 99...and just now I posted the rest of my Yuletide fics, so now it's 102. :-)

It feels appropriate that fic no. 100 (which I can't tell you about, because it's still anonymous for a fest, aaaah) is the first in a brand-new fandom for me.

I can't help thinking about how when I started on this whole wild fandom ride, I only wrote Harry Potter, and only utterly canon-compliant fics. But then I cautiously ventured into a couple of other fandoms, and then I discovered the joys of AUs and fusions, and now I seem to be writing new and obscure fandoms left and right!

It's satisfying. :-)


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Meanwhile, holmestice (one of my favorite things) is running along full throttle, but my life has been such a mess this month that I hadn't even had a chance to start reading anything, before suddenly all the works were already posted. So now I'm in a mad dash to read as many as I can, both because I feel I owe that to my fellow participants...and because I want in on the epic guessing game we play at the end, about who created what!

(I did, of course, immediately read my own gift: a lovely, heartwarming fix-it fic for My Dearly Beloved Detective: re-write the future / start from scratch.)


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And I know I keep saying this, but wow, how did I not discover until now that Yuletide is the most fun? As an excited first-timer, I definitely went way overboard, writing not just my official gift, but a bunch of treats in different fandoms.

And there are THREE "Mystery Work" Yuletide gifts already waiting for me on AO3, and we haven't even reached the deadline yet, THREE YULETIDE FICS for me, how can I keep from all-caps excited screaming!

Comments

[nerakrose]

Congrats on that milestone! a 100 works is nothing to scoff at :D

i have two mystery yuletide gifts waiting for me and i'm pretty hyped about it :D this is only my second year doing yuletide but it's so much fun!

[starfishstar]

Thank you! And yayyyyy I hope you get wonderful Yuletide gifts!

[trobadora]

Congrats on 100 fics! And I'm so happy you're having a great first Yuletide. :D

(I haven't found the time to read Holmestice yet either ... Hopefully I'll get to it before Christmas.)

[starfishstar]

Thank you! And my gratitude once again for being one of the people who helped nudge me into Yuletide. :-)

[sanguinity]

Congrats on 100 fics! And I'm glad you're having a good time with Yuletide! I've done it a couple of times with mixed results, but I always have a look through the offerings, because there are always some knockout pieces in the collection.

[starfishstar]

Hm, now I'm curious what was mixed about your Yuletide experience – but probably I shouldn't ask, and should just preserve my Stupidly Excited state. :-)

BTW, I nominated 221B Baker Towers for Yuletide, too (being Very Determined Everywhere), and not just I but also a second person requested it, so, maybe something will come of that!

[sanguinity]

Oh, nothing terribly dire. I was very new to fandom, and pretty much only wrote gen. I did not realize that I'd probably get assigned a porn prompt, which I totally did. And yes, optional details are optional, but I did rather feel like I had showed up to a party with a rotten fish for a hostess present. Flipside, though, I got some really cool stories. So, you know, mixed experience.

And yay, maybe some more Baker Towers! (We had two Baker Tower stories in Holmestice, eeee!)

[starfishstar]

Oh, yes, that makes sense. You know, I did think about that, because I am also a pretty gen writer (or at least, very much not a porn writer), and for a lot of people that's the default assumption, that you're requesting specific pairings, for purposes of smut. And with Yuletide matching being so character-driven, that probably also lends itself inevitably to thinking in terms of pairings, too.

I got SO lucky this time, matched on someone I actually share two fandoms with, two things I totally love and that are full of wide-open options to play with. But, yeah, I don't know what I'd do if I matched with someone who wanted Explicit Fic Only. Huh.

(I know, such a wealth of 221BBT, eeeeeee!)

[gracerene]

Congrats on the milestone! That's awesome!

[starfishstar]

Yay, thank you!

[scfrankles]

Many congratulations on that milestone, and on branching out ^____^

I've only got one Yuletide fic waiting for me but I'm pretty excited about that one - looking at the list of fandoms, it must be a Dear Ladies fic ^__^ That would have been my number one choice - at last someone has taken pity on me. I'm especially grateful to my writer because they're a pinch-hitter - my requests went to the pinch hit list right at the very beginning.

Unfortunately I never got round to having a go at treats - I'm still working on my assignment fic ^__^ It's just the last bit of editing though, now it's on AO3.

[starfishstar]

Thank you! And ooooh, you finally got your Dear Ladies fic! I'm so happy for you! I hope you love the fic and your whole Yuletide experience is great. :-)