as long as we're going down

List of fics (in order of publication--there were a lot this year!):

Wherever You Are [This Gun For Hire; 1,430 words]
Till You’re Walking Beside Me [TGFH; 3,020 words]
Each Cloud Contains [TGFH; 1,564 words]
Forward and Reverse (Part 1) [Hetalia; 7,564 words]
They Say You Love and You Learn [Black Angel; 252 words]
I Try To Pretend, Saying That I Don’t Mind It [Black Angel; 286 words]
I’ve Much To Regret [Black Angel; 1,679 words]
I’m Not Yours Anymore, You’re Mine [TGFH; 1,330 words]
Now You See It, Now You Don’t [TGFH; 358 words]
Catherine and the Pirate (The Reformed Criminal Remix) (Chapter 11) [2,372 words]
When Nothing Daunts You [Black Angel; 318 words]
While I’m In Your Spell [Black Angel; 1,469 words]
’Til Stars of Evening Cease To Burn [Black Angel; 318 words]
But the Tables Have Turned [TGFH; 494 words]
En Passant [The Love Pawn; 1,370 words]
Zugzwang [The Love Pawn; 955 words]
Checkmate [The Love Pawn; 1,207 words]
Clever Crab On This Eastern Seashore [The Love Pawn; 1,521 words]
En Prise [The Love Pawn; 468 words]
A Thief In the Night [Her Friend, the Burglar; 1,632 words]
Madwoman’s Chess [The Love Pawn; 2,163 words]
Black Knights’ Tango [The Love Pawn; 1,852 words]

Also, all the formal reviews I’ve written this year (and previously), can be found on my WordPress.

( Happy 2022 and all that! )

List of fics:

'Cause You're a Criminal (As Long As You're Mine)  (Star Trek: TNG; 3,947 words)
Satisfaction Brought Him Back  (Star Trek: TNG; 510 words)
To Sleep, Perchance  (Star Trek: TNG; 851 words)
Anything You Can Do...  (Star Trek: TNG; 1,375 words)
Consider This the Slip  (Star Trek: TNG; 2,205 words)
Ligaments  (Star Trek: TNG; 1,540 words)
The Devil Is a Gentleman  (Hetalia; 1,530 words)
Don't You Mess Around With Me  (The Tick (2017); 1,486 words)

( Oh, hey, I actually wrote enough this past year to warrant doing one of these again! )

Via osprey_archer:  When you see this, share 3 random lines from 3 WIPs.  (I always like these, and haven't done one in a while, so.)


1.

He'd grown since she'd last seen him, to the point that he now stood eye level with her.  A part of her had to wonder if he might even reach the towering heights his brother had.  It seemed unlikely, but Eries admitted that stranger things had been known to happen.


2.

In the evening, she pulls out his coat, and tries to drag some of his scent from the pockets and seams.  But Frank didn't wear cologne, didn't smoke, and his coat doesn't smell much like anything—not even old blood, which, for a morbid moment, she expects.

Ghosts, they spoke of, that Christmas morning, and he has disappeared so suddenly and so thoroughly from her life, a part of Kate has to wonder if he was ever really there in the first place.


3.

"You can't do that, you know," she says—'chastises' is perhaps more like it.  "You can't kiss a girl like that and then just leave."  Her eyes drop to his mouth, very briefly, her cheeks maybe turn a little pinker, and she demands, "And just where did you learn to kiss like that in the first place?"

What is this I don't even.

EDIT:  Again, why must you guys be so porny?  YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SO PORNY THIS TIME AROUND.  DX

I recently started reading through some old FFVII writings, and while a lot of it is cringe-inducing in its bloatedness (this was before I became the editing whore I currently am), some parts were actually kind of nice, and as this is a writing journal, I figured why the hell not post some passages. (I suspect they'll never see the light of day otherwise, considering they're from abandoned WIPs I don't much like the premises of anymore.) So here are three angsty, drabbly things that I mostly just like for the language and imagery.

( Ghosts. )

( Precious little dirty things. )

( He dreamt. )

The Gender Genie

Ran across this last night.  Reminds me of that text analyzer that told you what famous author you wrote most similarly to.  Except maybe a bit more reliable?  It only counts the number of particular words used, so there's bound to be some not-quite-right analyzation.  (For instance, "said" is one of the so-called masculine words.  But as I often write in present-tense, "said" rarely shows up; it's always "says," which the analyzer doesn't pick up on.)

Still, it might just be coincidence, but I found it interesting that most of the time when I'm writing from a male character's perspective, it reads as being written by a male--or at least a happy, androgynous medium.  Maybe I have a decent male voice, after all?