Snowflake Challenge Day 8 - Celebrate a Win

[tielan]

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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My benchmark is that in the last year, I hit 900 works on AO3 either writing or adding to 25 stories that I already had, in at least eight different fandoms!

From an AU of Avengers Endgame:

Lost and Found (2707 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, Thor (cameo), Natasha Romanov (cameo), Okoye (Marvel), Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), 30 days of OTP
Series: Part 25 of Meeting Halfway
Summary:

As it starts to sink in that they've won the Battle of Wakanda, an odd thought pings against Steve's brain: Tony has a daughter.

To a fandom that I've never written for before:

a higher love (1172 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Guild Hunter - Nalini Singh
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aodhan/Illium (Guild Hunter)
Characters: Aodhan (Guild Hunter), Illium (Guild Hunter), Elena Deveraux, Raphael (Guild Hunter)
Summary:

Forever is now.

And on the way I passed through the MCU, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Pacific Rim, Batman, and Justice League!

It feel like I took a lot longer to go from 800 fics to 900 than it took to go from 700 to 800, so I'm considering this a winning marker.

Comments

[wearing_tearing]

Congrats on hitting 900 works! I can't imagine having written so many works like that, it's amazing. Also! I loved loved loved your Guild Hunter Yule fic <3

[tielan]

Also! I loved loved loved your Guild Hunter Yule fic <3

Aw, thank you! It's always a little terrifying writing in a new fandom, and doubly so when it's pairing as long-awaited as Illium/Aodhan!

[fairyniamh]

Congratulations! Those are very admirable accomplishments.

[tielan]

Thank you!

[spikedluv]

That's a stunning number of fic! Congrats!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[kingstoken]

Wow 900 fics! Congrats!

[tielan]

Thank you very much!

[vriddy]

Such an awesome achievement, congratulations!!

[tielan]

It's a little boggling! Thank you!

[senmut]

YAY!!! WELL DONE!!!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

I love the "at least 8" thing. I could never figure out how to count Marvel fandoms, either.

[tielan]

It all gets a bit fuzzy numbers around the edges in fandom...

[flo_nelja]

900 fics, yaaaaay!

[tielan]

Thanks!

[themightyflynn]

Wow, 900 is amazing! Well Done!

[tielan]

It's definitely A Thing! Thank you!

[queenbookwench]

Wow, that’s impressive!

[tielan]

I'm a bit shocked. I hadn't actually noticed, just kept writing and posting through the year. So seeing it was a 'blink-blink' moment for sure!

[svgurl]

900 fics! Congrats! That's really amazing. :D

[peaked]

Damn, 900 fics! Congratulations!

[beatrice_otter]

Congratulations! I feel like we've been writing fanfic for about the same amount of time, and I have 226 fics on AO3. Your output is amazing.

Congratulations!

[lytwriter]

That is a fantastic achievement. I am both amazed and unsurprised. You're a very creative person and a skilled writer, and I'm honored to know you.

It takes a lot of courage to put the stuff that comes from one's own head out there in the wild, and you do it regularly, and it's all quality stuff.

Congratulations.