#I don't have an annie tag actually....I wrote a whole fic about her and I don't have an annie tag
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(Love on Display is the series name for ASE and its sequel)
okay so for this commentary i went through my ASE tag to read the asks i'd gotten about it because i can't really remember the whole process, and found this response i'd written:
you know how like when you read or watch something, you kind of look for the character you relate to most? when i was rereading the hunger games last month i was thinking, i don’t relate to a single one of you bitches. and then annie shows up like “nope nope nope i can handle exactly 0% of this bullshit” and i was just, ah there i am
looking back on my mental health issues, the irony is that i was writing about madness in a time i was actually pretty stable, despite the pandemic being in full swing. i remember writing ASE throughout summer, sitting on my grandma's porch swing and admiring her garden, going inside only when it got dark enough for the fireflies to come out. at the time, i was approaching my third year of rejections on the original fiction front; i'd been querying agents for over a year and submitting short stories, and i felt like i wasn't getting anywhere. i was also about to start a phd program, which i was apprehensive about, to say the least. i wish i'd listened to that "i have a bad feeling about this" instinct.
tbosas had just come out (to almost no attention or acclaim; even now with the film coming out in a couple weeks, the gifsets i've been reblogging don't get a lot of traffic and the tag only has 250 fics in it) and so i read it, loved it, and immediately re-read the hunger games with the new lens of snow's origin story.
the hunger games is one of the few things that i think is completely worth the hype. it's a beautifully written series and i really admire it. tbosas i thought was even better, because it felt like suzanne collins had full creative control. it's not easy writing a villain origin story and i think she really managed to thread the needle with coriolanus as a POV character who is really the antagonist of two protagonists whose POVs we don't have access to.
anyway as soon as i finished re-reading the hunger games, i went back to read the one thg fic i'd written after the film series concluded, the baker's son. it wasn't as bad as i remembered it, because 2015-16 were the years i was really starting to figure out how to write, so everything from that time in my memory is hand-wavy at best. but i remember thinking, this could have been really good if i'd just taken my time with it.
back then, i never took my time with anything. i had so many ideas that i had to churn through them in order to get to the next one. when you're just starting out writing, you haven't followed through on enough ideas to know how to sort through them properly and find the ones that have legs. so i was still learning how to control my attention.
and so ASE marked a huge change in the way i viewed my own work and the reception thereof. i was getting nowhere in publishing, i was no longer in one single fandom and so i didn't really have a community, and i finally realized the only guarantee i would ever have is my own joy. that changed everything.
i know i'll always love the hunger games, because i genuinely believe it's good. it's engaging and entertaining and meaningful. before, i'd written for canons i actually didn't like, because communities had formed around them and i was inspired by what i felt was unmet potential in canon. but i know i'll never rewatch supernatural or the 100. in fact i didn't finish either of them. with big fandoms, sure, i get more traffic and comments. but i'd stopped writing for traffic and comments. i wrote ASE because it was fun, and i knew in 10 years i'd read the hunger games again, and i would want my perfect fixit fic. and i would want it to be long, and well thought out, and something i could be proud of.
i've kept that "i'm writing for my 40 year old self" mentality for all my writing. at 40, i want to look back at what i wrote at 30 and know it was time well spent because it made me happy during a hard time in human history. it's a lot easier to make creative decisions when you're writing for an audience of your future self.
with tbosas coming out soon, i'm hoping to finish the coriojanus fic i started in 2020 (i think it's 7k?). and looking back through my ASE tag i also saw how many ideas i had for finnick POV and i could see myself fiddling around with a few of those prompts eventually.
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self love 🤎
Lent From Tomorrow (today was too small for us) - MCU/Captain America, Steve/Bucky, WIP
This is simply the best thing I've ever written, including stuff for my MFA. I think I've finally managed to write A Plot, and it's very exciting for me.
2. Could Use A Guy Like Me - Stranger Things, Steve/Joyce, 10k
I really like the way I built character for Joyce in this, and for Steve, too, but Joyce is a lesser-explored character in canon, I think, because she's Just The Mom in a lot of her canon characterization. Which was the whole inspiration for this (the two Moms of the group, hah), really. And I like the voice that I was able to write this in? I'm just proud of it.
3. A Constraint That Makes It Possible to Fly - Star Wars, gen/all/any, 6k
I should get back to adding to this every once in a while, tbh, because I do love this fic. It's a Wings!AU where the size of someone's wings shows their sensitivity to the Force, and how that would change things in canon -- like, everyone can see that pregnant Padme is hella Force sensitive when she wasn't before; Rey and Finn have massive wings growing up and don't know why, etc. A lot of the drabbles in this nonlinear story are some of my all-time favorites. The Leia+Vader section is my favorite SW thing that I've solo-written.
4. The Five Places Cinna Came From - The Hunger Games, Cinna/Finnick, Finnick/Annie, Katniss/Peeta, Cinna/OFC, 60kish I think?
The fact that I wrote this 13 years ago and still reread it and like it means that I'm pretty proud of it. I feel like the idea was creative and I'm proud that I followed through on it and actually wrote all five, for once (hah). The only one that I think reads weak is District 5, but that makes sense since it's the District in this fic that doesn't have much, if any, canon information to build it out. It's dark as hell, but I do love this series.
5. Not in the Answer But the Question - MCU/Captain America, Steve/Bucky, 28k
Firstly, I'm proud that I pushed through some major writer's block to finish this after struggling on it for a really long part of the writing process. Something about the voice just wasn't gelling for me for MONTHS, but I actually went back and rewrote and was able to make it something that I think turned out well. I wish that I'd had more time to flesh out the last quarter, but overall, I think I did pretty well by this premise.
ALT. In Screaming Color - Star Wars, Poe/Rey, WIP/Hiatus
I really want to finish this fic someday, because I do love what's posted, and more than that, I love the 3/4 of the fic that's written but not posted yet because it's missing its connective tissue. I just need to get back on the Star Wars horse at some point. At some point.
And I tag @fille-lioncelle @glamorouspixels @morethanonepage @dracosollicitus and @voylitscope!
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2022 year in review
thank you for the tag @seek--rest
Number of stories posted to AO3:
22
2. Word count this year:
64,281 (this doesn't include things I didn't publish, and this doesn't include things I wrote in private rps with friends, so I have no idea what the actual word count is, that's just what AO3 told me from what I've posted lol, but I would imagine with all that put together it might be close to 100k)
3. Fandoms I wrote for:
taking the list from AO3 (in alphabetical order):
Captain America/Avengers (movies)
Daredevil (comics/TV)
Goncharov (1973)
Guardians of the Galaxy (comics/movies)
Jessica Jones (TV)
Moon Knight (TV)
Nova (comics)
Peacemaker (2022)
Scarlet Witch (comics)
She-Hulk (TV)
The Boys (TV/2019)
X-Men (comics)
4. Pairings:
ok so the list of all the pairings that got stuff posted to AO3:
Adrian Chase/Christopher Smith (Peacemaker)
Jean Grey/Wanda Maximoff (Marvel unless otherwise noted)
Gamora/Peter Quill
Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff
Gamora/Richard Rider
Matt Murdock/Marc Spector
Matt Murdock/Jennifer Walters
Matt Murdock/Peter Quill
Jessica Jones/Matt Murdock
Matt Murdock/Elektra Natchios
Queen Maeve/Starlight (Annie January) (The Boys)
Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson
Matt Murdock/Richard Rider
Katya/Sofia (Goncharov lol)
Wanda Maximoff/Matt Murdock/Richard Rider
5. Stories with the most:
Kudos: this might be all i ever wanted (all i ever wanted to happen to me) — got right in at the She-Hulk finale hype so I think that helped to boost it
Bookmarks: same as above; people were really loving that one at the time it dropped!
Comment threads: whatever happens (happens to the both of us) — my first Peacemaker fic, and I think the timing of this hit when a lot of people were finishing up the show, but I'm really flattered and honored!
Word count: ghost behind my eyes
6. Work I'm most proud of (and why): I'm going to cheat and pick a few:
ghost behind my eyes — at 10,143 words, it remains my longest self-contained one shot, and I'm really proud of the character work I did here. Christopher Smith and his character development are really important to me, and here's to hoping that will continue in Peacemaker season 2!
standing at a broken altar (asking if we feel relief) — represented a whole new creative venture for me, featuring characters I (at least at the time) had never written into fic before, and I'm someone who's... honestly pretty lapsed, religion-wise, and writing this made me think about faith, how it's questioned, tested, and found again, in a way I haven't in a while. That's a theme I'd like to explore more in future writing — and I'm planning to do more of this through Matt.
almost paradise — the story that's been a long time coming for me. Gamora is literally one of my favorite characters of all time, and to say I... did not handle Infinity War well is putting it very, very mildly; that movie came out not that extremely long after a big personal loss in my real life, so losing a character that dear to me at that time was something I took really hard. This is the first time I've actually acknowledged her death in a piece of writing, and I'm proud of myself that I did.
7. Work I'm least proud of (and why): none of them? I don't usually post something unless I feel pretty good about it.
8. Share or describe a favorite review you received:
cannot express how much this comment made my year. yes, I do. when women.
9. A time when writing was really, really hard: Honestly, my biggest challenge surrounding writing is just... working around my own chronic illness (which involves episodic fatigue) and mental health struggles. For one of those reasons or both at the same time, there were periods of the year that made writing more difficult than others. I'm working on incorporating smaller, more manageable writing goals during those periods so that I can still keep working without exhausting myself.
10. A scene or character you wrote that surprised you: I wasn't expecting Matt Murdock Slut Era to extend for as long as it did, and yet here we are.
11. A favorite excerpt of your writing: from almost paradise:
What he deserves, he thinks, is to be left here, alone with ghosts because that’s all he’s fit to provide company for — maybe until he becomes one himself. Because, yeah, if Ego had been telling the truth, for all his words had been worth, with the destruction of his planet, Peter can do that now. That might actually be better for everyone involved, because all he does, clearly, is pull people into a total shitstorm or get them killed. Sometimes both.
But people don’t ever really get what they deserve, do they? His mom, the kindest person the universe would probably ever know, hadn’t deserved to die from a tumor in her brain, put there by an evil man she’d chosen to give her huge heart to.
And he doesn’t deserve a hand reaching toward him, pulling him up from the floor.
12: How did you grow as a writer this year: My writing got a lot smuttier LMAO But it also just... reflected a "fuck it, we ball" type of attitude that I'd been slowly embracing. Inventing ships, writing whatever the fuck I want. I've grown a lot, and I feel really liberated.
13. How do you hope to grow next year: I hope to continue just... following my bliss. I've come a really long way in not caring as much about an invisible audience and just writing whatever I want, and I aim to keep doing that. I aim to keep believing in myself in that way and going the distance with my screwball ideas.
14. Who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc etc): Would like to thank the discographies of Massive Attack, CHVRCHES, and Taylor Swift for fueling my writing. Also anyone when I said "I'm gonna put these blorbos together" who said "do it".
15. Anything from your real life show up in your writing this year: I mentioned it before, but almost paradise was written during a depressive episode and I've joked it was me flinging out all my unresolved grief issues onto the page instead of going to therapy in December (using, you know, one beloved character of mine grieving another beloved character's death as a proxy), so. yes.
16. Any new wisdom you can share with other writers: Don't write to cater to an audience; write to cater to yourself. If you love what you do, readers can see that love, and they'll believe in it, too. Readers are really good at telling what is and isn't genuine, so the best thing to do is just... be yourself.
17. Any projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year: I have an existing WIP to finish, and a few more ideas in the can! Featuring: more Vigilmaker, more self-indulgent blorbo ships I invented (featuring either Matt Murdock or Rich Rider or both likely), and GOTG Vol 3 about to wreck my life, so of course I would imagine a good bulk of my writing this year will be related to it. This is all I'll say.
18. Tag some writers whose answers you’d like to read:
(no obligation!) @paperprinc3 @literatigeek @sgtjamesrogers @mari--lace @quillsmora
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2- Orange Crush
15- TLOU au
9- Tits Out for Annie Oakley
Also 9- Red&White&Blue&Gold
11- You're covered in sun
Sorry it's so many lol. But I neeeeeed it.
Okay lets gooooooo
2: What scene did you first put down?
I wrote this linearly so I started at the beginning, but I had the whole idea at once so I knew at all times what I was writing towards, right down to the spaghetti.
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
I learned that it takes a lot longer to describe a facial expression in writing than it takes to have one. This is the first wholesale AU I've ever worked on. Just in general, though, adapting an episode of TV to a story meant to be read. And in doing that with an extremely well structured episode of television I think I learned about story structure and pacing, although im not sure WHAT i learned because it still feels largely like vibes. Also that its okay to write the hard thing! In one of the first posts I made about maybe writing this one of the tags suggested I was going to change the ending. But once I started writing it it was very clear that changing the ending would weaken it, so I wrote it and it was sad and I was afraid everybody would hate me but only a few people did lol. Also the Robin POV sequel was structurally complex in a different way that was a challenge to write but I think ultimately it worked out okay.
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
For Tits Out: Not exactly. I never really had a handle on this one at any point so I never really knew what it was going to be besides smutty? I think my original intention was for it to be moodier, less silly. I don't know. Like I was sort of invisioning it as like a smuttier version of Exile, and it has SOME of that but also feels kind of the opposite too in certain ways. I dont know! I thought of the title the morning I posted it lying in bed trying to think of song lyrics that fit and none of them tit so I just started thinking stupid things and this is where we ended up!
For Red&White: The last chapter I originally envisioned as them actually getting to a hotel room and Nancy actually doing the tie pulling thing from her end monologue but I couldnt figure out how to get them there and keep the mood consistent with the rest of the fic. Like I had the class reunion AT the hotel at first because I was like okay they can just catch an elevator but like... it just didnt really work like that. And then i realized that this was a story about banter from the beginning so the answer was not to force action but just to make the action banter? If that makes sense. (I do have a google doc somewhere with the beginnings of an alt ending in the hotel room though that i almost wrote for femslash week smut day)
11: What do you like best about this fic?
The atmosphere. I described the hell out of that old people house. I feel like I absolutely nailed the sense of place in that one. And also how well that atmosphere works with the ending, that kinda hazy dreamlike feeling. And then also that nobody guessed the ending! As far as I know. Maybe somebody guessed it and decided not to brag about it. Guess we'll never know.
(questions if you want to ask me anything)
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Fandom: Community (TV)
Relationships: Annie Edison & Abed Nadir, Annie Edison & Jeff Winger, Troy Barnes & Annie Edison, Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Abed Nadir/Rich Stephenson (as plot device), this is ensemble gen at core though
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Comedy, Classic school dance hijinks
Summary:
ABED, continuing: I’m bisexual. I know it’s usually more typical on a sitcom to keep any possible deviations from heterosexuality confined to ambiguous jokes in order not to alienate a mainstream audience but most people already find me pretty off-putting, so. Rich and I are going to do Pride and Prejudice at the dance.
At the other end of the table, ANNIE suddenly gets up and silently leaves the room. TROY looks at ABED once, then runs after her.
Long, awkward silence.
PIERCE, having wrestled a long scroll out of his binder: Hey, they’re going to miss my speech for Ay-bed being gay!
Abed takes Rich to a school dance, and Annie and Jeff freak out. Featuring date sabotage and counter-sabotage, more than one coming out, and the themes of Pride and Prejudice. [Fake episode-style script fic.]
Well, I’ve descended into Community fixation so I wrote a fic about it! It’s about being gay.
#community fic#nbc community#trobed#lesbiannie#community#sounding writes fic#we have this#I don't have an annie tag actually....I wrote a whole fic about her and I don't have an annie tag#likes liking things#troy soldier#shoutout to bbc pride and prejudice for being one of the few things I've ever seen-
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I saw your tags on the post about fic recs where you said some of your favorite fics don't have many kudos, so I gotta ask--would you mind making some Jeff/Annie recs? :)
(I found the original ask! It was hiding way back in my drafts.😊)
Communication in Romantic Verse (1,848 words) by @wordybee is one of my all-time favorite fics (S2/3-ish + Jeff + Annie + poetry = Annie being utterly confident and Jeff being completely flustered? YES PLEASE) and it doesn’t have nearly as many kudos as it deserves. Everything Deb writes is fantastic and I rec all her stories, but this one is definitely my fave.
this beast that you’re after (1,530 words) by @catty-words (cori_the_bloody on AO3) is actually one chapter of a collection of JA one-shots, an episode tag for G.I. Jeff. I love it so freaking much that I’ve left sixteen comments on it over the years. Here is part of one of those comments: You know how there are those fics that you just LOVE and they don’t have very many kudos or comments, and you think, ‘why is everyone sleeping on this fic, it’s AMAZING and everyone in this fandom should know it by heart?’ This is like the prototypical everyone-should-appreciate-this-more fic for me.
You Got Growin’ Up To Do (25,942 words) by @hello-wright-or-wrong (wright-or-wrong on FF.net, wright_or_wrong on AO3) - I think this is the only Community fic that Jennifer hasn’t put on AO3 yet, which means it’s a little lesser-known than her other fics, I think. But it’s delightful and features one of my all-time favorite Annie characterizations, and some excellent Annie-and-Britta friendship and Annie-and-Troy friendship.
Sebastian (1,266 words) by @celerylapel - This is a short, sweet, fluffy post-S6 fic about Jeff and Annie’s future family. It’s the kind of fic that makes me want to hug myself, that I read when I’m feeling low and need a burst of happiness. (Bless you for writing it, Liza!)
community 7x06: introduction to extraterrestrial relations by @dollsome-does-tumblr: My favorite episode of Community that wasn’t actually an episode of Community. And my favorite fic that isn’t exactly a fic. :)
turn the world upside down (3,809 words) by @stopthenrewind: I guess this one does have quite a few kudos but it’s an older fic so I don’t know if it gets as much love, but it’s beautifully written and I just like it a lot. (And here’s a J/A fic rec list Jamey wrote a while back, if you haven’t seen that yet.)
I Thought I Could Fly Alone (I Can't Even Get Off the Ground) (2,360 words) by @itsactuallycorrine: This is really a Frankie-centric fic with some background J/A, but IT’S SO GOOD AND SO BEAUTIFULLY CHARACTERIZED, it makes me cry and miss Greendale so much every time I read it.
I will add here that ALL of Corrine’s Community fic is really excellent. I particularly love the fic about Troy writing stories about his Greendale friends while he’s sailing around the world because he misses them so much: (When I'm Not With You) I Just Don't Know What to Do (3,822 words). BUCKETS OF HAPPY TEARS, and also sad tears because I miss Troy Barnes.
Thanks for getting involved in our love life (that was super cool and mature of you) (1,374 words) by @catty-words: READ IT NOW. It’s a hilarious, cracky 6.13 fix-it. :D
Everybody Knows (109,439 words) by @jeffwik: I mentioned Jeff’s fic to you before, but I will specifically rec this one because it’s such an interesting Jeff-centric take on what happens immediately after Annie goes to DC. When he learns Annie won’t be returning to Greendale in the fall after all, Jeff takes dramatic steps in an attempt to move on. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work.)
Here This Whole Time (119,884 words) also by @jeffwik: This is a fantastic Season 4 AU. It’s JA-centric, but it’s really about the whole study group, and it reads like episodes of the show. Seriously, it’s like the S4 of Community we should have gotten but didn’t. The second half of the story (it was originally published in two parts) is more JA- and Annie-centric than the first half. Really, all of the Community fic Jeff has written is fantastic, and I recommend it.
Advanced Studies in Meteorological Encapsulation (10,682 words) by cgkm2099z on AO3: This post-S4 AU in which Jeff’s business does not fail is overall an entertaining, well-told story. (There are one or two bits that I’m not 100% on board with but the rest of it is great.)
Autonomic Cardiac Responses to Aural Stimuli (2,024 words) by @pepperf: I actually prompted this one! I was driving down the road one day singing along with an 80s power ballad playing on the radio, when it occurred to me that Jeff Winger is the same age as me, and he would have the same adolescent, first-love associations with songs like Extreme’s “More Than Words” or Bon Jovi’s “I’ll Be There For You.” The idea of Jeff Winger hearing a cheesy power ballad and immediately, against his will, thinking of Annie Edison just made me laugh SO MUCH, so of course I shared that idea with Pepper and this fic was the result. :D (The record will show that I love everything Pepper writes, but this is her Community fic with the least kudos so I’m reccing it, and telling you to read everything else she’s written.)
I hope this list includes at least a few fics you haven’t read yet! And of course you can always look through my Community fic rec and JA fic rec tags. (There’s definitely some overlap between those tags, but not entirely.)
Happy reading!
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I couldn’t have phrased it better than, “an incredibly complex character who wants to save the world that condemned her”, god, saying it like that really reminds me why I love her character. Going against all expectations and helping the people she was literally bred to hate? Excellent I’ll take 100.
Also, people that make fun of her nose and say it’s a beak or a “bird nose” can fight me. Long noses and big noses are *so* attractive to me. And Annie’s beautiful blue eyes, rock hard abs, and constant irritated expression are all my type. Long story short I love her.
i knowww she's got every reason to want to burn the world down but for some reason there's this spark of goodness in her that refuses to die. and falling in love with an island devil on her mission to kill them?? chefs kiss chefs kiss. all she's ever wanted is to go home and have a family and a peaceful life. i. will. give. it. to. her.
heard that sister! (i'm just assuming - can i ask your pronouns and if it's okay to call you gendered nicknames?) you're so right though, don't even get me started on her body though i would immediately nosebleed and have an aneurysm if i saw her named
> I get the whole “writing for characters you think are cool but aren’t attracted to” thing. I wrote a Jean x reader at one point and I really liked it despite feeling nothing for the horse-faced man. I’ll read them tonight if I have time! <
> I read the tags and I think it’s really cool you went to a renaissance faire! I’ve always thought they were awesome but I’ve never been able to go to one. <
heh i'm glad it makes sense! i just think smut is really fun to write, usually more than sfw stuff is for me. if i'm only gonna write a one-shot, most of what i'm doing is exploring the character. smut is easier and more fun, mostly more fun. if i wrote about every romantic gesture i thought of then i'd have nothing left to write about.
exactly! jean's a badass and i bet your fic is great but i look at the man and i feel nothing. coochie as dry as a desert. i want to be his best friend i actually literally JUST wrote a scene where he and Connie come to visit in the road not taken
if you ever do get the chance to go to one, it's worth it! i try to go every year and it was closed because covid last year
> Have a nice Monday, <
> Pink Anon <
happy tuesday, i hope you're doing well!
#formatting is soooo cute#i want them to be visually different than the responses i write to j anon so u guys feel special#because i love yall soooo much you are everyhting in my heart#pink anon#tsuki answers#annie-isms
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