Fic Roundup - 2009

[sabinetzin]

Previous years: 2003-2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Firefly: 1 story

The Book of Changes (gen, Inara/Nandi subtext, G, 108 words)
For lovelythings. The first Firefly I've written in a while, but I really like it.

House: 3 stories

The Great Romantics (House/Wilson/Cuddy, PG-13, 384 words)
Early morning make-outs.

No Bicycle (Cameron/Cuddy, PG, 311 words)
For purimgifts. Man, femmeslash is hard.

Performativity (Stacy/House, NC-17, 383 words)
For zulu. Stacy tops. No exceptions.

Gyakuten Saiban: 4 stories

bigger, better (if you could only get there) (Phoenix/Edgeworth, R, 1500 words)
For gyakusai_swap. Probably my favorite GS fic that I've written.

Skating (Phoenix/Edgeworth, PG, 560 words)
For gyakusai_swap. Absolutely unrepentant fluff.

Delicious (Phoenix/Iris/Edgeworth, G, 120 words)
For miss_prince. Very silly.

A Botanist's Guide to Hazakura Temple (Phoenix/Edgeworth, NC-17, 1453 words)
For kink_bingo. Everybody loves toppy Edgeworth.

Cowboy Bebop: 2 stories

Might Have Been (Faye/Julia, R, 409 words)
purimgifts. Guilty pleasure pairing FTMFW.

A Woman Like That (gen, VT, PG-13, 373 words)
For purimgifts. I still really adore this story.

NCIS: 1 story

dye my eyes and call me pretty (McGee/DiNozzo, NC-17, 1228 words)
For kink_bingo. Tony in a dress: what more do you need?

RPF (Ghost Hunters): 1 story

Romantic Voice Phenomena (Steve/Tango, G, 466 words)
Written for carolinecrane for Yuletide Madness 2009, and right after I got through saying I don't read RPF.

Stargate: Atlantis: 57 stories, 2 series

Out Loud (Rodney/Radek, G, 853)
For fluff_friday. Sometimes I like it when Rodney isn't a dick.

The House by the Beach (Rodney/John, Weir/Zelenka, PG, 1771)
I'm still obnoxiously proud of this story.

Thought Processes (John/Ronon, Rodney/Radek, Elizabeth/Teyla, Cadman/Carson/Rodney, PG, 450 words)
All dialogue, all the time.

Comp Time (John/Rodney, PG, 1612 words)
For fluff_friday. Much funnier if you're a civil servant.

Command Performance (Carter/Sheppard/McKay, NC-17, 1030 words, D/s)
For Smut Tuesday. Everything's better with tied-up McKay.

Four Blatant Lies About Atlantis (And One Thing That's Totally True) (McKay/Sheppard, PG-13, 4286 words)
For Whatever reason, probably my most popular story ever.

Press-Ganged (Daniel/John/Rodney, NC-17, 1332 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Pile on the flyboy.

Horticulture (John/OCs, Rodney/a plant, PG-13, 100 words)
A challenge from shadowenmagic. Total crack.

Fight It (John/Rodney, NC-17, 1732 words, consent play)
For Porn Battle VII. Not actually non-con.

All I Wanna Do Is (John/Ronon, Rodney/Teyla, John/Rodney/Ronon, John/Rodney/Ronon/Teyla, NC-17, 2839 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Criminal AU FTW.

The Edge of a Knife (Todd/Teyla, NC-17, 256 words)
For Porn Battle VII. I would like to apologize to... everybody for writing Wraith sex.

Repeat Until Caught (John/Jennifer, John/Rodney UST, NC-17, 500 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Evil John is evil. Commentary available here (friends only).

Time Enough (Radek/Elizabeth, NC-17, 529 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Poor sad Elizabeth. At least she has Zelenka to cheer her up.

Sure Worked for Catwoman (John/Rodney, NC-17, 492 words, dubcon)
For Porn Battle VII. Episode tag for Irresistible (3x03).

Trophic Dynamics (Sheppard/Woolsey, NC-17, 378 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Mmm, John has plans.

But It's the Pelvic Thrust (Radek/Rodney, John/Rodney/Radek, NC-17, 739 words)
For Porn Battle VII. The one where they get unstuck in time.

Narcissus in Bloom (John/John, NC-17, 629 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Clonal narcissism FTW!

Eburnation (John/Rodney, PG, 679 words)
So sad. :( Poor John's inner monologue.

Force of Habit (John+Rodney, John+Ronon, PG, 2000 words)
A set of historical AUs: Mexico in 1590, Mississippi in 1805, Bletchley Park in 1943, Atlantis in 2009.

1978 (John/Rodney, PG, 618 words)
For fluff_friday. More BSG references than you can shake a Cylon at.

Civilized Man (Sheppard/Woolsey, R, 331 words, BDSM)
Things the world does not have enough of: 1) strappado bondage; 2) Sheppard/Woolsey.

Individually Wrapped (Rodney/John preslash, PG, 603 words)
Poor John, flipping his shit yet again.

Get Away (Rodney/Radek, John/Rodney, NC-17, 8287)
For artword, produced in collaboration with antares04a. I'm not sure what to say about this story, because I really don't care for it.

Skin Hunger (Sheppard/McKay, NC-17, 990 words)
For john_farr. And lo, lavvyan and I created a monster.

Out of It (Sheppard/McKay, R, 1742 words)
For john_farr. This is pretty much where shit started to get serious.

Fall (Rodney/Jeannie, R, 994 words)
For john_farr. So very, very sad.

Almost Normal (Lorne/McKay, R, 1682 words)
For john_farr. Lorne is, now and forever, my favorite.

Orange You Glad (John solo, John/Rodney, R, 963 words)
For john_farr (Virgin!John track). Rodney is such a douche in this story, and I kind of love him for it.

Peeled (John/Rodney, NC-17, 656 words)
For john_farr (Virgin!John track). The one where John and Rodney have dangerous amounts of sex.

Because They Have Appeal (Rodney/OCs, John/Rodney, NC-17, 657 words)
For john_farr (Virgin!John track). My favorite part of these stories are the titles.

Thirty Minutes (John/Rodney, NC-17, 700 words)
Shameless porn, written in real time.

One Foot on the Platform and The Other Foot on the Train (Rodney/Lorne/John, NC-17, 251/2000 words, BDSM, double penetration)
For bironic and silverraven11. Totally filthy.

And Don't Trip Over the Furniture (Weir/Zelenka, NC-17, 1594 words)
Schoolgirl Weir: still terrifying, still smokin' hot.

ergo propter hoc (Rodney/John, PG, 600 words)
For mcsmooch. Rodney and his scientific processes.

Not for Lack of Trying (Rodney/John, PG-13, 2250 words)
For mcsmooch. John has all sorts of plans. Unfortunately, they all suck.

Agenda (Rodney/John, NC-17, 1226 words)
Boring meetings --> slutty Rodney.

The Logistics of Spacesuit Make-Outs (Sheppard/Zelenka, G, 396 words)
For non_mcsmooch. This is extremely silly; not as silly as the title, though.

Backfire and Break (Teyla/Ronon/John/Rodney, PG-13/NC-17, 1133/587 words, double penetration, breathplay)
Second part written for kink_bingo. Teyla and John in corsets: what more could you possibly want?

Two Lines, No Waiting (Rodney/John, NC-17, 1182 words)
AMTDI. That's Rodney's story, and he's sticking to it.

We Were Doubly Blessed (Rodney/John, John/Ronon, NC-17, 549 words)
For BJ Friday. Slutty John is something everybody needs more of in their lives.

Tea and Sympathy (Ronon+John, John/Rodney, PG, 1351 words)
Ronon: accidental president of the Atlantis GSA.

panopticon (Caldwell/Weir, R, 547 words, D/s)
For rounds_of_kink. The product of numerous discussions of maledom with my flist, and also of the fact that Weir and Caldwell are clearly fucking.

The Hanging Gardens (Sheppard/Woolsey, canon het pairings, R, 1157 words)
For kink_bingo. Wherein Woolsey is an evil fucker and John is flabberghasted.

Corrected Grain (John/Ronon/Rodney/Teyla, NC-17, 885 words)
For kink_bingo. The one where John wants to do naked stuff. With leather.

Paraphiliac (Rodney/John, R, 792 words, masochism)
For kink_bingo. So very, very sad.

Never Entirely Clear (Ronon/Radek, PG-13, 515 words)
For kink_bingo. Radek is not so soft, but Ronon is so very cool with that.

One Out of Every Twenty (Rodney/John, Caldwell/Weir, R, 987 words, paddling, maledom)
For kink_bingo. This story gives me the giggles.

Culture Thing (John/Ronon, NC-17, 763 words)
For kink_bingo. Sex with your alien boyfriend: how complicated can it be?

The Ethical Life (John/Rodney, Rodney/Keller, NC-17, 5982 words)
For Team War at mcshep_match. Oddly enough, not my first World War II AU, but possibly my favorite.

Atmosphere (John/Rodney, G, 300 words)
For mcsmooch. Coffee and make-outs: what else do you need?

With Style and With Grace (Weir/Heightmeyer, PG, 631 words)
For havocthecat in sg_femslash Mini-Ficathon Round 9. Oh, fpreg. Never change.

Miniwar (John/Rodney, G-R, 1000 words)
For mcshep_match's Drabble Tree Challenge. Ten drabbles.

Everybody Gets One (Rodney/John, PG-13, 200 words)
Just a little double drabble I wrote to kickstart my writing again (which seems to have worked, knock on wood?).

Nice Place To Visit (Rodney/John, Weir/Caldwell, NC-17, 42960 words)
Written for sgabigbang. My sprawling epic about cultural relativity and beating John's ass.

We Are Shaking Shadows (John/Rodney, NC-17, 2608 words, consent play)
Sub!Rodney and Colonel Sadist, apropos of nothing.

Deep Water (John/Rodney, NC-17, 1454 words)
Written for snowglow1275 at sga_santa. One order of painplay, hold the D/s.

You're All I Ever Wanted (But I'm Terrified of You) (Rodney/John, NC-17, 1498 words)
Written for padfootthegrim for sga_santa Madness. Rodney is just the grumpiest little vampire ever, and John thinks it's totally hot, for some inexplicable reason.


The Goddamned Genderswap

Fever High (John/Meredith, NC-17, 2174 words)
Wherein Meredith Rodney McKay is and always has been a woman, and John can't stop thinking about fucking her.

Get Down and Crawl (John/Meredith, R, 1068 words)
Wherein Kolya tortures Meredith, John's kinda not okay with that, and there is no resolution.

Like a Beggar For Its Touch (John/Meredith, NC-17, 2144 words)
Wherein Chaya and John make out, Meredith's kinda not okay with that, but there is a resolution.

Ain't No One Else Around (John/Meredith, NC-17, 759 words)
Wherein John and Meredith get it on.

Seven Hours and Fifteen Days (John/Meredith, PG-13, 624 words)
Wherein John's in jail.


Linguists in Love

OT(P) (John/Rodney, G, 317 words)
The totally self-indulgent AU where John and Rodney are linguists.

A Walk on the Slippery Rocks (John/Rodney, PG-13, 732 words)
For mcsmooch The one where Rodney comes out a little.

Stargate SG-1: 3 stories

Vanilla Almond Swirl (Jack solo, Jack/Daniel, NC-17, 1708 words, spanking)
For antares04a. Daniel accidentally gives Jack a fetish.

Marie of Romania (Jack/Daniel, Jack/Sam/Daniel, R, 735 words)
Sometimes I get bitchy at fandom and write thinly veiled screeds about my raeg.

Dark Horse (The Mona Lisa Overdub) (gen, with Sam/team undertones, PG, 1053 words)
Remix of Paper Cup by seimaisin. Sort of weird and pretty.

Star Trek (2009): 3 stories

Home Training (McCoy/Chekov, R, 1368 words)
Originally written for the Star Trek Kink Meme. A meditation on McCoy and his extreme Southerninity.

Opening Act (McCoy/Chekov, NC-17, 488 words)
Originally written for the Star Trek Kink Meme. Blatant and unrepentant fingering porn.

Alternate Routes (McCoy/Chekova + Sulu, NC-17, genderswap, D/s, 1392 words)
Originally written for the Star Trek Kink Meme. Sulu is a dirty dirty voyeur.

The Dresden Files: 1 story

The Want of a Nail (Harry/Murphy, Harry/Molly, Harry/Thomas, R, 1531 words)
For rounds_of_kink. Oh, Harry Dresden. You do try. Just, y'know. Sometimes poorly.

Crossovers: 11 stories

First Monday/Stargate: Atlantis

In Chambers (John Sheppard/Julian Lodge, Rodney solo, one-sided Rodney/John, NC-17, 1300 words)
Fantasy voyeurism = win.

House MD/Stargate: Atlantis

The Same Release (Lisa Cuddy/Elizabeth Weir, NC-17, 2213 words, D/s)
For Smut Tuesday. So the OTP.

Iron Man Movieverse/Stargate: Atlantis

you will be my one last chance (John Sheppard/Tony Stark, NC-17, 877 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Tony gives John a job. Among other things.

Stargate SG-1/Stargate: Atlantis

The LSA Does Not Approve (Teyla Emmagan/Daniel Jackson, R, 658 words)
For Porn Battle VII. Doing your informants? Not actually in the LSA Ethics Statement.

I have known the eyes already (Carter/alternate!Rodney, NC-17, 805 words)
Missing scene for The Road Not Taken (SG-1 10x13). Carter/sadder-and-wiser!McKay is kind of my favorite pairing.

And Keys Cut While You Wait (John/Daniel, NC-17, 1483 words, slavefic)
For kink_bingo. John is Daniel's calculator and pro-bono fuck-buddy.

Public Timeline (Weir/Caldwell, Lorne/Zelenka, one-sided McKay/Carter, O'Neill/Carter, Vala/Daniel, John/Rodney, PG-13, 2000 words)
Co-written with arymabeth. The Twitterfic that took over the internets.

Star Trek (2009)/Stargate: Atlantis

Takes One To Know One (Jim Kirk/John Sheppard, NC-17, 634 words)
Just a little plotless smut. Brilliantly remixed as Congrats, You've Met Your Match (The Space Captain Remix) by roga.

The Big Bang Theory/Stargate: Atlantis

The Anonymity Caveat (Sheldon Cooper/Rodney McKay, NC-17, 352 words)
For Porn Battle VII. My second attempt at this pairing. Don't act like it's not the OTP.

Battlestar Galactica/Stargate: SG-1

rise or fall (Kara Thrace/Sam Carter, NC-17, 573 words)
For kink_bingo. This is such an odd little story, but I think I like it anyway.

Battlestar Galactica/Stargate: Atlantis

But I Have To Charge (John Sheppard/Lee Adama, NC-17, 400 words)
Written for bsg_pornbattle. Oh Lee. He is adorabLee confused.




87 stories

150547 words

53 slash stories
8 straight het stories
6 genderswapped het stories
7 MMF/MMMF stories
5 femmeslash stories
10 mixed het/slash stories
5 gen/friendship/preslash stories

47 pairings

9 threesomes
1 foursome

7 G-rated stories
13 PG-rated stories
10 PG-13 stories
17 R-rated stories
47 NC-17 stories


My favourite story this year (of my own): Nice Place To Visit, obviously. It's my baby. I also have a soft spot in my heart for Individually Wrapped.

My best story this year: The Ethical Life. It has a few problems, and I took ENORMOUS historical liberties, but it's just super solid and well paced, and I really was able to capture the sense of place and time that I was going for.

Most successful fic: Using comments, it's kind of hard to say, because the SGA fandom suffered a noticeable commenting drop-off over the course of the year, but, Four Blatant Lies About Atlantis (And One Thing That's Totally True) is still the winner. I really have no idea why. Also way up there: Public Timeline. Clearly, silly humor is the way to go.

If the success of a story is determined by how many recs it got, Home Training is the clear winner, with Tea and Sympathy and The Ethical Life right behind it. I should also throw the fics I wrote for john_farr in there too, because of the enormous response they generated.

Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I want to say Nice Place To Visit, but I've come to the realization that absolutely no amount of comments would have been enough. Like, the whole fandom could've showed up at my doorstep and gone "TRULY, THIS IS THE NEW WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS" and I still would've gotten emo and sad about it, because it was just where I was mentally when it came out.

Most fun story: But It's the Pelvic Thrust was a whole hell of a lot of fun to write, as was The Want of a Nail, which was just fun as hell despite being in first person, which I usually dislike. Public Timeline was also great, because it was just me and arymabeth messing around on AIM, which is always the best.

Most sexy story: Probably Agenda, though Civilized Man has a whole lot going for it as well.

Story with single sexiest moment: Hmmph. I have been puzzling over this question. But I think I have to go with this bit from Civilized Man:

As it stands, though, it's just enough to compel him to bend downwards, his spine arching beautifully. He just makes such a gorgeous picture- his face flushed and glistening with sweat, his cock achingly hard against his stomach, the smooth, long lines of his muscles in full display- all of it backlit by the sunset outside the window.

But mostly because I have such a huge thing for strappado bondage.

Most unintentionally *telling* story: Uh, maybe Narcissus in Bloom, actually? Because I'd completely do my clone.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: The Book of Changes. It was a story that lived in my head for a really long time, and it changed the way I thought about Inara. She sort of gets a bad rap because she makes everything look so easy, y'know? When nothing really has been for her.

Hardest story to write: Writing Nice Place To Visit, of course, was an immense labour. And the thing about it was not that it was hard to write- because I wrote the majority of it quite quickly, because the story was always complete in my head- but that it made everything else hard to write. For a while there, writing anything was a massive hassle, and it didn't help that I suddenly developed crazy anxiety issues out of nowhere that were (are) the worst over fanfic.

So the drama.

Worst story: Get Away. It's the Madame Bovary.

Easiest story to write: Public Timeline, because we really did just write it apropos of nothing at like four in the morning.

Story I’d like to revise: I don't really like to revise stories? Actually, that's a lie- I constantly revise them in lots of little ways, but I do it silently.

Story I didn’t write but will at some point, I swear: God, there are SO MANY. I HAVE MANY MANY FOLDERS FULL. IT DOES NOT EVEN BEAR DISCUSSING.

Final thoughts: Well, I'm pleased! Despite having a long dry spell and many other pitfalls along the way, I think I made a pretty good showing. I didn't make my 100 story goal, but I did almost triple my projected word count, so I got that going for me, which is nice. I wrote a lot more porn than in previous years, including kinkier (read: hotter) stuff. I also finished my longest fic ever! Which more than doubled the word count of my previous longest fic ever! Overall, I'm quite proud of what I produced this year (which is good, because I'll be, er, in the jungle for a lot of 2010). Now, if I could only finish the fifty-odd things I started and left hanging...

Comments

[ex_bel786]

Good showing indeed! I'm glad you posted this list; it's fun to go back and re-read some of my favorites. :)