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In 2023, as in 2022, I had three goals: sign up for getyourwordsout again, complete the Triple Crown, and clear off some more of those old request lists and WIPs.

Well, I sort of succeeded? Even if my wordcount went down by quite a bit. There were a few reasons for that, including RL busy-ness and Twisting the Hellmouth deciding to move the August crossover challenge off Livejournal to an inconvenient message board; but also, several of my exchange recipients did not respond to the fic I had written for them. (I love all the rest of you who read and comment, but when I'm writing for somebody specific, getting radio silence from them, for whatever reason, always lets the air out of my balloon a little). I did, however, fill a twelve-year-old prompt off a request list, and revisit some old series that had been languishing for awhile. Still no BAH update; but that thing's kind of a white whale at this point, I'm going to have to clear months off my writing schedule when I finally gird myself to tackle it, I think.

Goals for 2024: Once again, I'm going to sign up for getyourwordsout, complete the exchange Triple Crown, and maybe avoid signing up for quite so many littler exchanges in order to clear time for those lingering WIPs!

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2023 Fanfiction Stats

(As a reminder, I always count Yuletide stories with the year following, in which the reveals happen; so 2023's count includes the Yule 2022 stories and not the Yule 2023 ones.)

Number of works posted: 27
Total words posted: 97,000

(For perspective: last year's numbers were 42 and 132,000. In 2011, my best year? 137 and 272,200.)

Most popular stories of 2023:
Skirmish; A Parley Sounded - Fast & Furious, Letty-centric
Impulse and Opportunity - Sense and Sensibility, Elinor/Brandon

Least popular stories of 2023:
Riding Into the Sunset - Bloodshot (2020), Ray/KT/Wigans
Second Date Blues - Escape Plan (2013), Ray/Emil

For the third year running, my FFFX story made the top two, as a romantic-focused longfic in a nostalgic genre fandom; and the other was part of a Fast & Furious AU. No surprise there. :) The lowest two, with fifty-ish hits and fewer than 10 kudos each, are for non-het pairings in less popular action movies, also not a surprise.

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Movie Non-Crossovers

The Answer Is In Front of You - Escape Plan 2, Ray/Emil, 6,200 words (rarepairexchange)
Second Date Blues - Escape Plan, Ray/Emil, 6,000 words (ficinabox)
Mutually Assured Absurdity - Expendables 3, Lee/Barney, 6,100 words (ficinabox)
Now That's Out the Way - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Arthur/Bill, 11,400 words (highadrenalineexchange)

Can't Blame Gravity - Fast & Furious movies, Brian/Dom, 400 words (candyheartsex)
Repeating the Miracle - Fast & Furious movies, Brian/Dom, 10,200 words (iddyiddybangbang)
Skirmish; A Parley Sounded Part 2 - Fast & Furious movies, Letty/Dom & Brian/Vince, 5,800 words

Riding Into the Sunset - Bloodshot (2020), Ray/KT/Wigans, 1,400 words (launchtheship)
Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore - Glass Onion, Peg/Whiskey, 1,700 words (trickortreatex)
It Was a Really Good Line - Knight and Day, June/Roy, 1,800 words (yuletide)
Once A Pirate Lord, Always a Pirate Lord - Pirates of the Caribbean, pre-J/W/E, 3,800 words (everywoman)

Sieving the Chaff - Dredd, Dredd & Anderson, 2,400 words (yuletide)
Choosing Joy - Ever After, Danielle & Jacqueline, 1,500 words (yuletide)
Check and Balance - John Wick, John & Ares, 1,100 words (yuletide)
The Key to a Happy Life - Jurassic World, Claire-centric, 6,000 words (fandom5k)
Back Into the Water - The Meg, Jonas & Mac, 1,500 words (yuletide)
At Least Once More, Miss Swan - Pirates of the Caribbean, Will-centric, 1,400 words
For Want of a Droid - Rogue One, Jyn-centric, 300 words (seasonsofdrabbles)

TV Non-Crossovers

There Are Always Flowers - Firefly, Mal/Inara & River, 1,400 words

The Only One Bed Job - Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, 1,200 words (trickortreatex)

Book Non-Crossovers

An Unceasing and Reasonable Wonder - Sense and Sensibility, Elinor/Edward, 300 words (seasonsofdrabbles)
Impulse and Opportunity - Sense and Sensibility, Elinor/Brandon, 10,700 words (fffx)

Crossovers

The Stardust Job - Leverage/Rogue One, Team-centric, 2,100 words (candyheartsex)

for it is in giving that we receive - B:tVS/Firefly, Buffy & Book, 4,100 words (intoabar)
Turn Your Sail Toward Home - B:tVS/Pirates of the Caribbean, Buffy/Jack Sparrow, 3,000 words

That Dark Abyss - Firefly/Pirates of the Caribbean, Mal-centric, 1,200 words
Welcome to Fhloston, Paradise Not Guaranteed - Pirates of the Caribbean/Fifth Element, Korben/Leeloo, 4,000 words