Nominations + Meme

[beer_good_foamy]

I got a couple more nominations at rwsawards! Canaries In A Coalmine is nominated for best 1,000--10,000-word fic, and The Brian Situation for best comedy. Thanks a lot!

Also, here's an AO3 meme stolen from frogfarm:

My AO3 page

Most comments on a story (not counting my replies)
Surprise surprise (or maybe not), it's Welcome to the Slaughterhouse (BtVS/Texas Chainsaw Massacre crossover). My favourite comment on this is over at the Pit Of Voles, where someone told me "You should be arrested for dellusional sickness of the mind. Killing is ok, and torture is fine, but this was morbidly sadistic, you shouldn't be allowd to ever touch a writting untensil or computer ever again." I'm still not sure what a writting untensil is so I couldn't say if I've touched one since, but for the sake of this reviewer I hope I haven't.

Most kudos
The three fics of mine with the most kudos are all in fandoms I only occasionally dabble in. I wonder if this is what it feels like to be one of those artists who only have top 10 hits when they do a duet with someone else. Seriously, I'm very happy with these three.
Don't Rock the Moat (Agent Carter)
Radio Silence (Welcome to Night Vale/BtVS crossover)
Ms Summers Goes To Washington (West Wing/BtVS crossover)

The Buffyverse fic with the most kudos is, somewhat surprisingly to me at least, a fluffy little Faith/Buffy fic: If The Dead Rise (Or Not)

Earliest (oldest)
The first one I posted to AO3 according to their stats is Shooting Star (Willow/Kennedy, Willow/Tara, post-series). One of my favourite things I've written, as it happens, though I still occasionally get the itch to rewrite some of it.

I think it may also be the oldest fic I've put up on AO3. I honestly don't recall the order of some early fics; the first chapters of Dawn of the Dead and The Singular of "Apocalypses" may predate it by a few weeks.

Latest
Talking to Plants (BtVS, Willow/Tara fluff) and Avalanche (Game of Thrones, very unfluffy white walker apocalypse) both went up during January. I'm really happy with both, for very different reasons.

Proudest
I'm pretty happy with most of the fics I put up on AO3 (there's a reason some of my old LJ and Pit fics never got cross-posted). But let's take my three personal favs right now:

The Queen, The Soldier (BtVS, OC Slayer-centric). I've written a few historical OC Slayers that I like (One, But A Lion is another), but I'm really happy with how mythpunky this one got, the character has stayed with me, and the cameo by the canon gang at the end really ties it up nicely.

Dawn of the Dead (BtVS) I will never not love this fic, even though there's one or two things I'd probably do differently today. Vamp!Dawn laying waste to season 6 was just too much fun to write.

And speaking of OCs, I can't really not pick Mission Accomplished (BtVS, Giles-centric). I still wonder about Forsythe sometimes.

Longest
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse got quite long by my standards, almost 20,000 words including the alternate ending. I really couldn't stop writing that one once I realised just how nasty I could make it. Good thing I got it out of my system, I guess.

Elves, Gremlins and Eskimoes (AtS/Simpsons crossover) and Atonement's a Bitch (AtS/BtVs, Faith's POV on s7) also crack the 10,000 mark, and probably with much more grace.

Most bookmarks
Again, Radio Silence, Don't Rock the Moat and Ms Summers Goes To Washington, though in a slightly different order.

Comments

[shapinglight]

Dawn of the Dead is one of my favourite fics in the whole universe ever.

Just thought you should know that.

[frogfarm]

I concur with this assessment most heartily.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Why thank you kindly, ma'm. *tips hat*

[frogfarm]

I wonder if this is what it feels like to be one of those artists who only have top 10 hits when they do a duet with someone else.

You, me and Jessica Jones, pal. Of course, if I wanted to be popular, I'd apparently be writing Steve/Tony. Or Clint/Phil. Or...

Slaughterhouse: Unlike Ichi the Killer, one day I will read this again. (One wonders if your above quoted reviewer ever saw the original canon.)

Mission Accomplished: Possibly your finest non-comedy hour. Standing fucking ovation and a forty-two gun salute.

I might be starting to have Tara/Illyria notions. Will keep you in the loop.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Of course, if I wanted to be popular, I'd apparently be writing Steve/Tony. Or Clint/Phil. Or...

That does seem to be what the kids go for these days. I am halfway tempted to do to most of the MCU leads what I used to do to Angel (http://beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com/tag/messwithangel), but apart from that... I'm happy to stay obscure.

(One wonders if your above quoted reviewer ever saw the original canon.)

Probably not. I bet they saw the remake, though.

I might be starting to have Tara/Illyria notions. Will keep you in the loop.

Yay!

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

I just read Ms. Summers Goes To Washingon, and it was brilliant. I especially liked the circles and arrows.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot! I'm really happy with that fic. Plus I always like it when I can sneak in little references like that one. :)