Snagged from starterpack... If anyone has any other end-of-the-year memes, let me know. I love filling those things out.

End of year fic meme (plus a bonus question)

Fics Posted This Year: 35 (1 is currently hidden at AO3 for fandomtrees) Here's my 2025 tag at harpiewriting Which is actually funny because I turned 35 in 2025.

Total word count: 10,357

Fandoms written in: Charmed Reboot, Doc, MCU, SkyMed, Wednesday, X-Men '97, X-Men Movieverse, X-Men Comics, X-Men: Evolution

Fandoms I wouldn't have expected to write this year: Pretty much all of it since it's been a few years since I've written anything but I would say especially the Charmed Reboot, Doc, SkyMed and Wednesday.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?: Since I haven't written this much fic since 2011 (which was my last "high" year with only 29 works, 2016 only had 9 and I haven't actually written a fic in five years back in 2020), yeah I'd say I'd written more fic than I thought I would.

What's your own favourite story of the year?: I think it's a tie between Alpine (MCU, Bucky/Wanda & Billy & Tommy), Kissed by Flames (X-Men: Evolution, Amara/Jean), and Gloves Off (X-Men: Evolution, Rogue/Scott). Alpine because I love writing domestic fluff for Bucky & Wanda, and it was unexpected (as was how much I fell for the ship, although maybe I shouldn't have been surprised since I do love both characters). Kissed by Flames is because I've been wanting to either write a Amara/Jean fic, or read one since one of the last times I rewatched Evolution so to finally make one was amazing. Gloves Off because one my favorite things about Falling Slowly (my Rogue/Scott fic) was the idea that I had that she and Scott would have solo Danger Room sessions and it felt AMAZING writing Rogue/Scott again for the first time in years.

My best story of this year: I have no idea.... maybe one of the above under favorites?

Most popular story of this year: Believe it or not my Wednesday/Tyler drabble I love you has the most kudos (29), my Doc Amy/Jake drabbles Love Token (14 kudos) & Coffee (13 kudos) have the second and third highest kudos.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I have no idea, honestly, I wrote a lot of rare pairings this year and most of my stuff is drabbles so it's kinda understandable for people to pass them by. Plus for my MCU & X-Men related stuff, those are huge fandoms, so they probably just got lost in the shuffle of AO3.

Most fun story to write: Definitely a tie between Alpine (MCU, Bucky/Wanda & Billy & Tommy) and Baking Cookies (MCU, Wanda & Billy & Tommy), I think I enjoyed them because it was just mostly domestic fluff & humor.

Sexiest story/story with the single sexiest moment: I wouldn't say sexist story, but it's what I meant for His Lighter (XMM, Pyro/Jean) and also for Blizzards & Christmas (MCU, Betty/Darcy), both just kinda hint of what was to come.

Hardest story to write: I would say Coffee (Doc, Jake/Amy) mainly because I struggled with trying to find a song of Chappell Roan that I could use for the fic challenge, where I needed to write fic inspired by a song and I wanted to do one by her because at the time I was kinda obsessed-ly playing/listening to her album and didn't want to use another artist - I already knew I wanted to try my hand at Amy/Jake so that part was easy. I just took tiny lines out her "Coffee" songs to influence the drabble. Technically Amy drinks some sort of ice coffee type thing but it's actually important clue for her early in the show for their relationship so I'm actually proud of tying the story to the song.

Did you take any writing risks this year?: Uh, no? Other than actually trying & sitting down to write something? Or I guess I wrote several rare pairings (MCU: Darcy/Jessica, Darcy/Betty, Matt/Jessica, Bucky/Wanda, Bucky/Mel, Bucky/Yelena, Bob/John, Kate/Yelena | X-Men: Kitty/Wanda, Emma/Madelyne, Madelyne/Scott, Jean/Wanda, Jean/Pyro, Tabitha/Scott, Ororo/Scott, Scott/Rogue | Doc: Amy/Jake | SkyMed: Hayley/Wheezer). I think technically my Abigael/Mel (Charmed Reboot) wouldn't be considered a rare pairing, since it's in the top five of the Charmed Reboot fandom, but apparently that ship only has less than 200 works on AO3, and that fandom is fucking small geez. Only my Wednesday/Tyler (Wednesday) drabble would probably be the only non-rare pairing I did this year.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?: Write more. Write more than just drabbles hopefully. Complete a few tables at least. I want to try my hand at more rare pairings that I like and hope people like them too. Maybe join a "Big Bang". I also like to work on the stories listed in the next question.

Stories I haven't yet written, but intend to:

I want to write the next part of first words spoken (can open a heart), my Supergirl (TV series) Kara Danvers/Maxwell Lord Season 1 Soulmates rewrite AU fic series. I keep putting it off and it's apparently already been five years since the last one. I don't know what it is about the next few episodes/back half of Season 1 to write about.

I also want to work on the sequel to Falling Slowly. It's only been 15 years (oh god that makes me weird and utterly sad). I don't what it is about Seasons 3 & 4 of XME that just kinda stops me from writing for it. Same thing seems to be happening with me for my Kara/Maxwell Season 1 Soulmates rewrite AU.

Like I said above, I'd love to work on more rarer pairings in my fandoms but I also want to work in a few fandoms I haven't touched yet (besides reading fics or reblogging gifs on tumblr).

Stories I have started writing, but never finished:

I would love to work on my WIP Hearts and Souls fic (only the cover art was ever posted). I think I might just need Heart and Souls (1993 film) refresh watch and I could probably finish it. I have over 16k words written for it so far.

My Big Wolf on Campus fic "Wolf Pups" which is a Becky/Tommy fic no one asked for but me. It has over 6k words so far and probably about halfway done? Maybe? I don't know, haven't read it in awhile.

I might have a few other WIP fics that are on my computer that I'd like to finish or that I completely forgot about. I think I just always gets stuck at the re-reading & editing stage for those.

I will probably do this again, but with my dreamwidth fic community harpiewriting which I feel like would have a better fandom/character/pairing representation. Since I only use fandom/character/pairings tags there, I can't say for sure the "additional tags" situation would be different, especially since we (or I at least) definitely didn't start using tags the AO3 way until sometime after joining AO3. Numbers would be skewed higher for ratings, but General Audiences would still be the top rating at least. And now I'm limited to 1000 tags so we'll see (I'm at 932!). 



Edit 11/3/2025: The below stats are using my fic communityharpiewriting - [TAGS page]



Honestly I think the Twilight and Heroes fandoms being so close surprised me. It's been ages since I looked at those works or hell even watched the fandoms (or read in the case of Twilight).  The Top 3 Pairings option also surprised me. This is mainly due to the Chloe/AC (Smallville) ship.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
Looks like that is only 3 missing out of 160 works listed at AO3... but according to my fic community harpiewriting I really have 654 (sometimes I group my drabbles together at AO3 plus I think of a lot of the older stuff isn't there). Still not shabby at all I think. Can't believe I don't have E or X (I apparently never made the X- pun/titles like The Gifted did their episodes and various comics have done). Q is a little more easier to understand for why I'm missing it not a lot of words are coming to my head with that letter, other than maybe question - LOL.

I also feel like I should get more creative with my titles I think... 

EDIT 11/15/25: Added Q! and E!

Meme came from like LJ 2008 era by revivingophelia so I don't know if this list is accurate anymore but whatever.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.




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Did I read most of the above for school? Yes, yes I did... except for Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code & Jane Austen stuff, that was for pleasure. But technically I've read more than 6, but just barely - yay me?

Snagged from shadowkat. Unlike the MCU one, both of these franchise lists are going to be quite... slim. For me anyway.

( star wars... )

My brother probably saw more of Star Wars stuff than I have honestly. 

( star trek... )

I may or may not have watched all of TNG, DSN, and Enterprise, I'm not quite sure. My dad was the one that had anything Star Trek on while I was growing up in the 90s, so the only Captains I connect with is Janeway and Picard so I know I watched a decent amount of TNG. The other captains? Not so much - I know I've seen at least some/most of their episodes but I haven't revisited them to see what I do/do not remember. I was late getting into Picard, Discovery, Prodigy, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds but I ended up really enjoying them especially Strange New Worlds.

Snagged this from shadowkat who snagged this from colls. Filling this out for Fannish 50.

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Questions are from kitarella_imagines. Figured this would be great for the Fannish 50.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

145 works (I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check out harpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

154,381 words. (Again I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check out harpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

So many.... the ones with the most works are Smallville, X-Men, Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Supernatural, Wizards of Waverly Place, and the Arrowverse.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

• Daughter of Iron Man (MCU, Darcy Lewis centric) - 1176 kudos
• not so simple (broken smile) (MCU, Darcy/Bucky) - 354 kudos
• Alternate Slice Girl (Supernatural, Dean & Emma) - 246 kudos
• so I'll kiss you like I'm gonna lose you (Arrowverse, Sara/Leonard) - 230 kudos
• scent temptation (Arrowverse, Sara/Leonard) - 192 kudos

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Meme provided by journalmemes. So that community required people to comment with the questions they want answered, but I just want to answer them.

( 40 questions for shippers.... )

atlantablack had this on their journal.... and I haven't filled one of these out in ages so I figured why not, also figured I could join in on the goals_on_dw's Fannish 50 (or at least try to)


( 20 fanfic reading questions.... )

Rules:

• Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
• Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.

Please note: Originally posted on LJ back in 2009, I have since updated it, both with shows I've seen since and new shows that should be included. Feel free to take and add to it as well.




( i clearly watch TOO much TV.... )

PS: I've also added other shows that I think should have been in it.

So as I was reposting my posts from LJ flareonfury blog, I found this one, and I noticed I could tick a few more movies off this list so I figured why not add a newly updated one?

Stolen from scoob2222 at LJ originally. See the Original Post at LJ here or the Dreamwidth copy here. Originally I got 87, so I managed to see 10 films in addition on this list. I doubt I'll watch any more on this list, but who knows?

Mark the ones you've seen. There are 169 movies on this list. Put your score in header and repost:

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IF YOU’VE BEEN TAGGED, YOU MUST WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN LJ AND REPLACE ANY QUESTION THAT YOU DISLIKE WITH A NEW QUESTION. TAG ELEVEN PEOPLE. DON’T REFUSE TO DO THAT. DON’T TAG WHO TAGGED YOU.

I was tagged by dhfreak

I tag anyone on my friends list or anyone who sees this and wants to do it.

( questions and answers.... )

Saw this on scifichick774 journal and I had to do it.

So, flareonfury, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 7% unique (blame, for example, your interest in shawn/topanga), 75% peculiar, 17% interesting, 0% normal and 1% herdlike. When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is overcomplicated.

Your overall weirdness is: 96

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 97% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Yay? I guess... I love how it says I'm 0% normal and unique because of my love for Shawn/Topanga (and those not familiar with those names, they are from Boy Meets World and is an unconventional pairing --> see icon).

taken from bringthefate

Give me a pairing and I'll [try & remember the answer] tell you:

1. When I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

Pairings are located HERE.

Got tagged...

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I need music to sleep... doesn't matter the genre.
2. By either 5 minutes to 20 minutes into any movie, show, or book, I usuaully have a OTP. And its usually the non-canon ones of course... or they haven't even met yet. LMAO.
3. I have no idea what I want to do in a few years...
4. The only bone I've broken in my body, is my finger tip which I'm told is healed up. Although there is something wrong with my hip... I believe the REALLY CUTE physical therapy person said that my Iliac crest was knocked out of place or something along those lines which causes the pain I've been having for the last two weeks through my left leg/hip and lower back. Causes my left leg to be shorter/longer at certain times. It can supposedly be fixed by doing some exercises 3 times a day. We'll see, I guess.
5. Its very rare if I ship a character with just one other character.
6. I'm kinda anti-social in real life... Never really hung out with people day-to-day for years before coming to college so its really weird now.
7. I'm like an owl.... I like sleeping during the day and being awake at night.

dhfreak chosenfire28 babydracky
bringthefate
maiel_alcinoe electricmonk333 revivingophelia

Because I'm bored waiting for Smallville's new episode.... I'll get around to finally doing this meme.

List fifteen fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same.

01. Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
02. Oliver Queen (Smallville)
03. Seeley Booth (Bones)
04. Cappie (Greek)
05. Spike (BTVS)
06. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
07. Cyclops (X-men)
08. Tony DiNozzo (NCIS)
09. Michael Guarin (Roswell)
10. Eric Northman (True Blood)
11. Will Lennox (Transformers)
12. Peter Bishop (Fringe)
13. Robert Chase (House MD)
14. Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
15. Rick Castle (Castle)
16. Damon (Vampire Diaries)
17. Richard (Legend of the Seeker)
18. Johnny Storm (Fantastic 4)

Plus a bunch of others, lmao.

Anyone who wants to do this, go ahead.

Rules: - Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. - Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.

( i clearly watch TOO much TV.... )( i clearly watch TOO much TV.... )

PS: I've also added other shows that I think should have been in it.