2021 Fan Fiction Year-in-Review

[greerwatson]

This has been another depressing year. COVID, of course; but I've also had health problems—nothing serious, but joints can be quite uncomfortable when they decide to be. It's also not been a very productive year, fannishly speaking. Of course, compared with the flurry of ficlets in 2020, this year's output would pretty well have to be fewer in number. However, though most of the stories have been a more typical length, I've definitely not written as many as usual.

On the whole, I'd have to say the highlight of the year has been the gifts I received. Four for Trick or Treat! All of them delightful. Two for Yuletide, including a New Tricks Brian/Esther fic that I've been requesting in various exchanges for quite a while: utterly in character, everyone's voice spot on. Seriously, people have been generous and talented; and I appreciated the lot.

Add in Flo's Christmas visit, and it's fair to say the year did end well. :)

Anyway, here's what I wrote in 2021:

• "The Peanut Butter Gallery" (website, AO3)
  • M*A*S*H (TV), 749 words, 6 February, written for claire_cz in the Chocolate Box gift exchange (chocolateboxcomm)

• "If Well Lived" (website, AO3)
  • DC's Legends of Tomorrow X Crisis on Earth-X mini-series, 5521 words, 17 March, written for rivulet027 in the Worldbuilding gift exchange (worldbuildingex)

• "Stone Cold" (website, AO3)
  • Forever Knight, 3090 words, 15 May, written in the FK Fic Fest challenge (fkficfest)

• "Sunny Days, Sunny Ways" (website, AO3)
  • Forever Knight, 1575 words, 17 July, written for brightknightie in the Everywoman gift exchange (everywoman)

• "A Day in the Life" (website, AO3)
  • Mary Renault's The Charioteer, 1754 words, 25 July, written for fawatson in the Everywoman gift exchange (everywoman)

• "Crabapple Cove" (website, AO3)
  • M*A*S*H (TV), 2998 words, 18 September, written for melacka in the Retro TV gift exchange (retrotvexchange)

• "Zari on Zari" (website, AO3)
  • DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 625 words, 24 October, written for cicerothecat in the Trick or Treat gift exchange (trickortreatex)

• "Grand Old School, Second to None" (website, AO3)
  • Mary Renault's The Charioteer, 3175 words, 18 December, written for deliarium in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)

• "The Mystery of Mantlemass" (website, AO3)
  • Time Team X Barbara Willard's Chronicles of Mantlemass, 7682 words, 25 December, written for pikkugen in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)