The Squee Review
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amoamaI always like looking back over my fannish activities - it's a little joy injection. :D
1. Your main fandom of the year?
Kinda, Connie Britton? I watched all of Friday Night Lights and Nashville this year. Otherwise, Mary Renault and The Bletchley Circle I think.
2. Your favourite film you watched this year?
Pride was the best film, certainly, but I did get really excited for Mockingjay too.
3. Your favourite book read this year?
The Marlowe Papers, Ros Barber. Exquisite poetry, bisexual character, intriguing plot! I adored it. :D
4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
The Mechanisms, High Noon Over Camelot & Ulysses Dies at Dawn. Perhaps needs to be witnessed live but it is so crafty and delightful. Hello, Storytelling Musical Caberet!
5. Your favourite TV show of the year?
The Good Wife. (But I super enjoyed some others: Friday Night Lights. The Borgias. Wings.)
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
I’m on the verge of discovering Check, Please which I’m pretty certain I will love the moment I start reading it. I’ve also read a vast amount more Stucky fic then I would have predicted at the beginning of the year.
7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies was actually a bit of a letdown for the finale it was – I kind of felt it sacrificed the point in order to wallow in what was to come.
Also, Fool’s Assassin, Robin Hobb, while it did end up as tortuously brilliant as always, it was actually a very difficult book to read and didn’t at all give me what I wanted. Although, perhaps I would have been disappointed if it had.
8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Horrifyingly, Taylor Kitsch. Damn that Tim Riggins.
9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Anna Maxwell Martin – in all the things – but most particularly as Elizabeth Bennett in Death Comes to Pemberley. Why can’t there be a full P&P starring her?
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
This was the year of theatre marathons. Billy Elliot followed by Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake was great. Wolf Hall followed by Bring Up the Bodies was devastating and miraculous.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Generation Kill – I didn’t read nearly as much as usual – but happily loved writing for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
yagkyas as much as ever. (I did, however, spend an inordinate amount of time trying to write a GK Persuasion AU but I still haven’t got it right yet.:C)
12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Oh, this is where Check, Please goes!
13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
TV Adaptation of Wolf Hall. Film of Suite Francaise. Good Wife, Nashville, Scandal.
Fic Writing Review 2014
- Total number of fics:
13
- Total number of fandoms:
10.
- Longest overall piece:
Staverton, Hollywood
- Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
More I think, in the end. It was a slow year compared to previous ones but it ended solidly.
- What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Mary/Judas/Jesus – thanks to the rarewomen challenge.
- My favourite story this year (of my own):
Staverton, Hollywood – I loved the chance to write about Bim
- Story most unappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I haven’t felt like any of my stories went unappreciated this year but I guess the Walt/Brad fic will definitely get less hits for not being one of the main pairings and that makes me pout for this lovely pairing.
- Most fun story:
The Some Girls story was the most fun because those girls are the best.
- Most sexy story:
I didn’t write anything explicit this year – how did that happen! The Nashville Deacon/Rayna story was still fairly sexy though and it was Rayna aged 16, *gasp*!
- Story with single sexiest moment:
I’ll go with the kisses in “and happy they whose hearts are set” because I’m just that risqué these days. Yay for Scott/Allison/Isaac threesome though!
- Story with single sweetest moment:
Colin, Dickon and Mary being reunited after WW1 in The Skylark’s Song
- Most unintentionally telling story:
Some Girls, I’d have thought – it’s certainly the closest I got to writing what I know.
- Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Malcolm in Unravelled, The Thick of It. The prompt suggested an approach to Malcolm Tucker’s life I would not usually consider so it was really interesting to give him an alternate backstory.
- Biggest disappointment:
I haven’t written any Wings yet and even if I did I don’t think it would get read. Tiny fandom is tiny! And no Dallas Tinker/Luke Cafferty fic yet. L
- Biggest surprise:
Writing so much gen fic!
- Hardest story to write:
Of Magdala – big themes, classic characters, difficult story.
- Easiest story to write:
Writing the Generation Kill story The Crouched, Parched Heart felt like returning to an old friend.
- This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most:
I almost exclusively wrote women-centric fics this year (excluding yuletide/yagkyas). Two Bletchley Circle fics bookended my writing year really, A Tree Called Life & The Sheltering Tree. I don’t know why they both have tree in the title, lol.
- Anything else:
Still really enjoying fanmixing.
1. Your main fandom of the year?
Kinda, Connie Britton? I watched all of Friday Night Lights and Nashville this year. Otherwise, Mary Renault and The Bletchley Circle I think.
2. Your favourite film you watched this year?
Pride was the best film, certainly, but I did get really excited for Mockingjay too.
3. Your favourite book read this year?
The Marlowe Papers, Ros Barber. Exquisite poetry, bisexual character, intriguing plot! I adored it. :D
4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
The Mechanisms, High Noon Over Camelot & Ulysses Dies at Dawn. Perhaps needs to be witnessed live but it is so crafty and delightful. Hello, Storytelling Musical Caberet!
5. Your favourite TV show of the year?
The Good Wife. (But I super enjoyed some others: Friday Night Lights. The Borgias. Wings.)
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
I’m on the verge of discovering Check, Please which I’m pretty certain I will love the moment I start reading it. I’ve also read a vast amount more Stucky fic then I would have predicted at the beginning of the year.
7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies was actually a bit of a letdown for the finale it was – I kind of felt it sacrificed the point in order to wallow in what was to come.
Also, Fool’s Assassin, Robin Hobb, while it did end up as tortuously brilliant as always, it was actually a very difficult book to read and didn’t at all give me what I wanted. Although, perhaps I would have been disappointed if it had.
8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Horrifyingly, Taylor Kitsch. Damn that Tim Riggins.
9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Anna Maxwell Martin – in all the things – but most particularly as Elizabeth Bennett in Death Comes to Pemberley. Why can’t there be a full P&P starring her?
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
This was the year of theatre marathons. Billy Elliot followed by Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake was great. Wolf Hall followed by Bring Up the Bodies was devastating and miraculous.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Generation Kill – I didn’t read nearly as much as usual – but happily loved writing for
yagkyas as much as ever. (I did, however, spend an inordinate amount of time trying to write a GK Persuasion AU but I still haven’t got it right yet.:C)12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Oh, this is where Check, Please goes!
13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
TV Adaptation of Wolf Hall. Film of Suite Francaise. Good Wife, Nashville, Scandal.
Fic Writing Review 2014
- Total number of fics:
13
- Total number of fandoms:
10.
- Longest overall piece:
Staverton, Hollywood
- Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
More I think, in the end. It was a slow year compared to previous ones but it ended solidly.
- What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Mary/Judas/Jesus – thanks to the rarewomen challenge.
- My favourite story this year (of my own):
Staverton, Hollywood – I loved the chance to write about Bim
- Story most unappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I haven’t felt like any of my stories went unappreciated this year but I guess the Walt/Brad fic will definitely get less hits for not being one of the main pairings and that makes me pout for this lovely pairing.
- Most fun story:
The Some Girls story was the most fun because those girls are the best.
- Most sexy story:
I didn’t write anything explicit this year – how did that happen! The Nashville Deacon/Rayna story was still fairly sexy though and it was Rayna aged 16, *gasp*!
- Story with single sexiest moment:
I’ll go with the kisses in “and happy they whose hearts are set” because I’m just that risqué these days. Yay for Scott/Allison/Isaac threesome though!
- Story with single sweetest moment:
Colin, Dickon and Mary being reunited after WW1 in The Skylark’s Song
- Most unintentionally telling story:
Some Girls, I’d have thought – it’s certainly the closest I got to writing what I know.
- Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Malcolm in Unravelled, The Thick of It. The prompt suggested an approach to Malcolm Tucker’s life I would not usually consider so it was really interesting to give him an alternate backstory.
- Biggest disappointment:
I haven’t written any Wings yet and even if I did I don’t think it would get read. Tiny fandom is tiny! And no Dallas Tinker/Luke Cafferty fic yet. L
- Biggest surprise:
Writing so much gen fic!
- Hardest story to write:
Of Magdala – big themes, classic characters, difficult story.
- Easiest story to write:
Writing the Generation Kill story The Crouched, Parched Heart felt like returning to an old friend.
- This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most:
I almost exclusively wrote women-centric fics this year (excluding yuletide/yagkyas). Two Bletchley Circle fics bookended my writing year really, A Tree Called Life & The Sheltering Tree. I don’t know why they both have tree in the title, lol.
- Anything else:
Still really enjoying fanmixing.
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