(so for this - where it says 'this year', I'm meaning '2025, and I'm doing all of the questions just for what I posted in 2025, rather than all time)
How many words have you written this year? I have written 159,573 words in 2025, which is absolutely fucking insane to me. It's also the second year running that I've hit my GYWO goal and I'm honestly completely blown away!
How many works did you publish this year? 59, which... have I mentioned just seems batshit? 3 Stargate SG-1 and 56 tennis RPF
What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)? There's a handful of them, and I can't pick.
It’ll leave you breathless or with a nasty scar which was some Jannik hurt/comfort that started with him collapsing and coughing up blood on Wimbledon Centre Court.
Surface Tension which is a kind of gothic horror series revolving around the use of magic in the tennis world. It mostly centres on one of Jannik's coaches, and how the spells he casts interact with different surfaces, all of which have their own unique magical properties.
The Courage of my Convictions which is an basically a queer second-chance age gap small town/coffee shop forbidden romance between an injured tennis player with his tail between his legs, and an ex-tennis player who became a priest (instead of, as per the real world, where he became a coach. I may have a thing for coach/player LOL)
What work of yours has the most hits? With 2809 hits, it was
In The Heat Of Your Electric Touch A Sincaraz pwp with some somnophilia and praise kink.
What work of yours got more feedback than you expected? Probably
You had to fight to have the upper hand which was a Darren/Jannik (age gap, coach/player) power play BDSM fic. It's a little over 10k, involves discovery of a kink, a lot of 'we shouldn't be doing this', getting into Jannik's head as he tries to figure out WTF he's feeling. I did not expect
anyone to even read this so I was fucking delighted that people did. And apparently liked it.
Favourite title you used Ooh that's a tough one. So nearly all my titles are Taylor Swift lyrics, and it's kind of become a fun game for me to now to try to find the lyric that fits. I've got some fic titles that wouldn't look out of place as a Fall Out Boy song title ;) But I don't know if I have a specific favourite
If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most? See above
Pairing you wrote the most for this year? This I did not expect actually - I wrote 13 Darren/Jannik
Favourite pairing you wrote for this year? Oooh honestly, I'm really taken with my Team Sinner polycule fic, with the varying combinations of Darren/Jannik/Simone
What work was the quickest to write? I think it was probably
Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you - that was written in an afternoon, and is based on a super cute fanart that someone posted
What work took you the longest to write? Of the
completed fics,
You had to fight to have the upper hand. It took about 4-5 months, but the editing was the longest bit - I'd written myself around in circles a little bit and had to unpick it
Of the WIPs?
The Courage of my Convictions which I started in March and I'm 9 chapters/17k into so far and still going
How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year? That's never worth asking. Never. I don't want to know.
175, give or takeWhat’s your longest work of the year? Currently at 17,455 words is
The Courage of my ConvictionsWhat’s your shortest work of the year? At just 427 words, its
hear my voice in the dark which is just some Sincaraz fluff
What WIP are you taking into next year with you? I have 6 work in progress that I'm actively working on
The Courage of my ConvictionsDancing is a Dangerous Game or... the one where Simone is Immortal, Highlander style
I Had the Time of My Life Fighting Dragons With You which is Sincaraz as feuding booktubers
Surface TensionWolf-Tethered a Darren/Simone shifter AU
You wouldn’t take my word for it if you knew who was talking a Darren/mystery online Dom fic, mostly done in chatroom log style
What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag? Established Relationship with 21 fics
Your favourite character to write this year? Not to be incredibly cliché, but probably Jannik
The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year? Carlos. Every time I think I've got a handle on him, we learn something new about him which just completely changes how I look at him.
What’s one pairing you want to explore next year? There is a lovely... something... going on between Priscilla Hon, Karolina Muchova and Amanda Anisimova which absolutely intrigues me and Bob! is pondering in the background
Which work of yours have you reread the most? Honestly, most of the Darren/Jannik stuff because they're my 🧡 and until like November no-one else had written any!
How many kudos in total did you get this year? 2,939 and that just feels fucking fantastic, not gonna lie. OMG!
Which work has the most comments? My... uhh... omegaverse crackfic written in the style of a serious anthropological paper
A Field Guide to the Sinner Pack Did you do any collaborative works this year? No, I'm very much a solo llama when it comes to writing
Did you write any gifts this year? Nope, not this year
Did you receive any gifts this year? Nope. I didn't take part in any of the exchanges that happened
What’s your most common category? We're all utterly shocked that it was m/m I'm sure
What do you listen to while writing? Anything, everything and nothing, and also all the things. Plus Bob!. And tennis. Generally not nothing. Just whatever's on at the point when I start writing.
Favourite work you wrote this year? I... don't know that I can pick? Probably Surface Tension or The Courage of my Convictions
Favourite line/passage you wrote this year? Oooh there's a lot of lines about the magical properties of the surfaces in the various Surface Tension fics but there's this one passage from Dancing Is A Dangerous Game which I so fucking love:
Jannik takes another breath, unsteady. “How old is he?”
A floorboard creaks, then a voice answers from the doorway.
“Three hundred and forty-six,” Simone says, his tone bone-dry.
Silence.
Jannik blinks.
“Years,” Simone clarifies, as if that helps. “Give or take a few birthdays. I’ve stopped counting.”
Biggest surprise while writing this year? That as much as I really fucking love getting comments and hits and kudos, and we always say that we write for ourselves... this year I've discovered that no, I do actually mean it. I could easily have sat here and cranked out Sincaraz PWP after Sincaraz PWP for the love, but I've settled down and written plotty AU fic that not many people are reading - specifically the magic series sadly - but I'm still going because I've got this story I want to tell and I'm really enjoying writing it
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