The lyf so short

Fanfic writer titles meme, seen all over my flist.

( Under the cut to spare the disinterested )

My snow photos all turned out crappy because I forgot to adjust the camera's sensitivity to light (is that the right word? w/e). So instead of a self-indulgent picspam, have a self-indulgent Ask Meme! Stolen this from independence1776.

1. What made you start writing fanfic?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
5. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What’s your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
10. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You’re applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
15. Question of your choice!

Ask one or several in the comments and I'll answer!

Stealing the idea from independence1776!

From Tumblr user Riftlotor:

Since it's December, I thought I’d make a little end of the year ask meme for fanfic writers and readers! Reblog and ask away. Feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.

1. favorite fic you wrote this year
2. least favorite fic you wrote this year
3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year
4. total number of words you wrote this year
5. most popular fic this year
6. least popular fic this year
7. longest completed fic you wrote this year
8. shortest completed fic you wrote this year
9. longest wip of the year
10. shortest wip of the year
11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year
12. favorite character to write about this year
13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write
15. something you learned this year
16. fic(s) you completed this year
17. fics you’ll continue next year
18. current number of wips
19. any new fics to start next year
20. number of comments you haven’t read
21. most memorable comment/review
22. events you participated in this year
23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t
24. favorite fic you read this year
25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read
26. number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year
27. favorite fanfic author of the year
28. longest fic you read this year
29. shortest fic you read this year
30. favorite fandom to read fic from this year

Like Indy, I only got one ask on Tumblr to this one, so maybe this here is a better place for it. I'll c/p the answers I gave to the one on Tumblr into the first comment, in case anyone's interested!
Questions that are struck out have already been answered.

(I reblogged this on Tumblr a few days ago and only one person asked me anything, so I figured I'd put it here, too. I'm copy/pasting my answer to the already-asked questions in the first comment.)

You know, looking back at the past years' memes, they're always kinda depressing in tone and expressing the hope that the new year is going to be better. Then it's followed by another shit year. 2016 certainly was another shit year. I'm starting to loose hope that things are going to get better with a different number, tbh, but what can you do?

So, as usual, the end-of-year meme. A few days early this time because I guess I just can't wait for the year to be over. (I'm jinxing it, aren't I. JUST KIDDING 2016 YOU HAVE TWO DAYS LEFT TO SHOW WHAT A TOTALLY GREAT YEAR YOU ARE.)

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So that's that. Bye bye 2016, never come back.

I tend to say that I don't care for TV shows, so this is a good way of proving me wrong. Or possibly right, we will see!

Here is how it works:
- Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk * if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order). I have added more than 3 because honestly, there's so much stuff missing from this list it's ridiculous. And not just recent things but old stuff, too! Curse you, Americentrism!

( Loooooong list under the cut, proceed at own risk )

OK. I don't care for TV shows. I mean, I've missed out on most of the stuff that everyone in my generation has seen, caught up a bit when I was a student. These days, I tend to catch a lot more than I ever thought I would, but still not nearly as much as I could. But even I could see how incomplete this list was. I mean, I accept that some things are just more recent than this list is, but how come Sesame Street was missing?!

Because why write entries I should've written weeks ago when I can waste time on a meme?

Name a fandom you know (or you think) I might know, and I will tell you these things.

1. The character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would totally smooch
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

- - -
Actually, there are not many fandoms for which I can answer these questions. While there are a few fandoms and series that I'm at least vaguely familiar with, in most of them I'm not emotionally invested enough to have favourite characters or know about common pairings or so. But hey, we can try!

Done:
- The Lord of the Rings (requested by samtyr)
- The History of Middle-earth (requested by shadowbrides)
- The Silmarillion (requested by elenbarathi)
- Firefly (requested by lainvess)

You gals are almost as predictable as I am. ;)

Don't worry, I'm not going to do it.

However, other people are. And that's perfectly fine.

However, as soon as more than one entry by people going "I'm going to take the 100 Things Challenge" with its huge banner showed up on my flist, I couldn't help but go and check what it was all about, and then shake my head. And then nimielle mentioned that she had a whole rage/ramble boiling inside of her because of it.
That sparked this entry.

The thing is, I like the idea.
I agree with the OP that many LJs have fallen too quiet or turned into little more than Tumblr accounts with better comment functions, and I like the idea that people write proper LJ entries again on a topic of their choice.
So that's cool.

What's not cool:
It doesn't reach the right people.
Don't get me wrong: Those of you who participate in the meme are lovely people, and have chosen interesting topics, and I'm looking forward to reading your entries.
BUT: You haven't abandoned LJ anyway. You're writing entries anyway. Now, you're just going to write a hundred additional entries (or replacement entries? - I hope not!) on the topic of your choice. That is, I repeat, cool.

But I'm sure all of us have people on our f-lists who have fallen into radio silence, or who are only active on [insert other platform of your choice], or who used to write great thoughtful LJ posts and now don't have the time anymore. I'm sure we all have LJ-friends where we think, "DAMN, I wish whoever would write one of his/her brainstorming/art/random/whatever entries again." And it just doesn't happen.
THOSE are the people this meme is predominantly geared towards, as I understand it. Not towards those who write proper LJ entries anyway (just without a connecting topic, or, at any rate, without a previously chosen connecting topic), but towards those who don't - for whatever reason.

Of course, those are also the people who probably won't do the meme. :P

So from where I stand, it's kind of counter-productive. Well, not counter-productive, as it isn't keeping anyone from properly blogging. Just preaching to the choir, I guess.

Of course, I'm lucky. Unlike nimielle, I have no-one on my f-list [yet] who uses this meme to post one-liners (at best with a picture attached) in the name of the "100 Things" thing. The mind boggles. Have these people actually read the explanation that comes with the challenge, or would they have required a Twitter-ese translation to get it?

[/snark]

a.k.a. fannish ramblings, feel free to disregard.

I was planning to put together a little overview of what I did during this year's B2MeM. I probably wouldn't have done it, however, so I'm really glad that aliana1 made a little questionnaire. It's always easier to answer other people's questions.

So here goes...
( ...under the cut for the unconcerned )

And now, it's Back-to-Business month. More or less. I hope it'll still leave me a chance to continue a few of those WiPs - and to read other people's responses, because seriously, SO MUCH POTENTIAL!

Because I'm too lazy to write about our Christmas:

Ye classic retrospective end-of-year meme. Let's hope I remember to change all 2010s to 2011s, etc.

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And here's to the new...

I've seen this one go around; now I've been tagged by rahja. Ok, why not, it's been a while!

The Rules:

1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.
For a given value of "original", I hope.

2. Tag six people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
Yeah, this is the one I'm replacing with "No need for tagging. Whoever wants to can play along."

( On to the meme... )

Wasn't that exciting now! Back to sorting pics.