2009: year in review

[glass_icarus]

Happy new year, loves! :)

We spent the night at home, my sister and I, with cheap lobster and unopened wine, nearly sleeping through the last few seconds of 2009. (Our parents rang in the new year at Taipei 101, in the company of old and rarely-seen friends- a getaway that they fully deserve, although my dad remains chained to his work and his laptop.) I passed the time watching CSI and NCIS and (ha) The Replacements rather than any of the new year's countdowns, and was quite content with that.

2009 was tough in a lot of ways- fail, more fail, deciding to cut loose from all of my previous life plans, not actually having new ones coalesce- but I feel like I have grown with every challenge, and while I may not have much else to show for this past year I can at least take pride in that. If I feel that my skin is stretched a little thinner, it also encompasses a little more than it did last year. I am no longer afraid to be angry or hurt, I have learned a little better how to protect myself emotionally, and I know now that I can speak up and move beyond other people's incomplete definitions and still take part in so many new and beautiful things. While I can't quite say that all of this was worth it- in the process, dear friends, I met and got to know so many of you, and I feel that somehow the scales are balanced. &hearts

Anyway! Moving right along, here's a fandom/writing retrospective:

Fic

+ Harry Potter:
- every little thing (is gonna be all right), a birthday ficlet for secretsolitaire
- Shrieking Shack, the morning after drabble for secretsolitaire [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- to the waters and the wild, from imochan's Remus/Sirius love post
- love letters to (in) literature, from imochan's Remus/Sirius love post
- pas de deux
- Tesserae (the Missing Pieces Remix)
- summer haze [dogdaysofsummer]
- light dissembles the sky [dogdaysofsummer]
- lord knows it would be the first time [dogdaysofsummer]
- just can't find the words [dogdaysofsummer]
- colder seas behind [dogdaysofsummer]
- the fair in the park by the sea in the dark [dogdaysofsummer]
- yesterday was blue [scarvesnhats]
- then there are blackbirds, written for dreamdustmama at rs_small_gifts
- le ténébreux, written for i_claudia at rs_small_gifts

+ Merlin: (ahaha, oh god, HELLO AGAIN embarrassing first steps! xD Still, full disclosure!)
- so quite new
- vegetable matters and once and future; drabblets
- praeludium; first bit of the (still unfinished) guitar-boy!Merlin AU
- look for me under your boot-soles, written for such_heights
- sans répit, jour et nuit
- the air that inhabits, a ficlet for cherrybina
- have we sojourned here on earth; Morgana/Gwen! I need to write more of them.
- gratuitous armor fitting drabble for slightlytookish [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- untitled Morgana/Gwen drabble for such_heights [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- untitled Merlin/Arthur fluff for leandergasped [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- clearly (not) the brains in this relationship for archaeologist_d [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- 21st century Merlin for tacitus_3 [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- goofballs in love for crooked [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- untitled Merlin & Morgana for ruffwriter [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- that the sweetest leave no trace, Morgana/Gwen for bossymarmalade
- Frank-Starling's Law, Gwen & Morgana for suaine and slightlytookish
- gang aft agley, a camelotsolstice fic for netgirl_y2k

+ Wild Adapter: a small serenity, Kubotoki mpreg for reddwarfer

+ GGKay:
- Kairos (Ysabel), a birthday fic for avendya
- untitled Miranda drabble (Lions of Al-Rassan) for avendya [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- untitled wee!Devin drabble (Tigana) for riverlight [multi-fandom drabble fest]
- light all around them, a NYR 2009 fic for telesilla

+ His Dark Materials: stars, for woldy [multi-fandom drabble fest]

+ Good Omens: ducks and margaritas for vanishing_cake [multi-fandom drabble fest]

+ Antique Bakery: creme de cassis for karanguni [multi-fandom drabble fest]

+ Kyou Kara Maou: resistance is futile for moshesque [multi-fandom drabble fest]

+ Junjou Romantica: house a pump in four chambers, for springkink

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On race

- hearts wide open, like the ocean
- abandoning cartography [remyth]
- personal etymologies; personal mythologies [remyth, locked]
- dragon lady; lady dragon [remyth]
- on language and appropriation: a story told backward
- the sum of our longings is not each other [poem, locked]
- i have no words for this.
- on disney, stereotypes, and storytelling
- people living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones [IBARW]
- open letter to Merlin fandom
- consider the lotus [poem]

Phew. Apparently I wrote a lot more than I thought I did. *g* Icons and more Yuletide recs to come later!

ETA: Yuletide reveals! This year my assigned story was five exercises in aggravation {Junjou Romantica), and I also wrote eating together (Saving Face) for Yuletide Madness. I find it inordinately amusing/amazing that all of the Saving Face fic this year was written either for or by me. &hearts &hearts xD