Happy New Year one and all!
This marks the end of my third year posting a short story or chapter a week! This past year was mostly longer fics with a few shorts scattered in between. It’s time again to count down some highlights:
Bertie Solves a Mystery - The year started off strong with what is probably my favorite thing I’ve ever written. Jeeves and Wooster get entangled in a murder mystery and none other than Hercule Poirot comes to investigate (and Wooster learns a bit more about Jeeves’s past along the way).
The Courting of Sherlock Holmes - In between my longer fics, I also posted a little series about the development of Holmes and Watson’s early relationship, of which I think this is my favorite, though I had a little trouble capturing the exact dynamic I had in mind.
Always the World’s Finest - I got back into superheroes and wrote a few short Superman/Batman fics, featuring a bit of fun and a bit of metafictional angst.
The Biology of Vulcans - I’ve slowed down significantly on writing for Star Trek, but I wrote a few shorts here and there, as well as something new: an essay about how the Vulcan mating system may have evolved.
Jeeves and the Great War - I was playing around with the chronology of the Jeeves stories and ended up with Jeeves and Wooster serving in WWI (don’t worry, they live). Angst and recovery, what more could you ask for?
Pursuing our True Selves - I got into Persona 4 a few years back and finally did a character deconstruction/reconstruction of Yosuke Hanamura, where he learns to accept his true self and his feelings for Yu/Souji.
As always there’s much more to come! Things may slow down a little bit because I’ve finally used up most of my backlog (which was up to 6 months at the beginning of this year), but the writing continues! I’ve been working on a Holmes/Watson post-return getting back together fic, which should come out in the next few weeks. I’ve been thinking about finishing up a bunch of short Jeeves and Wooster fics, and I’ve had my multi-crossover dark backstory Sherlock Holmes (etc…) AU, Designation: H, on the brain, so I expect more will come of that (and I am more than open to requests). With Millennium Death Note finished, I’ve been thinking about an even more ambitious Disney crossover that I keep swearing I’ll get back to one of these days… I have also had original fiction on the brain lately, which I expect I will be posting further thoughts about in the near future.
Here’s hoping for a great new year! I’d love to hear what everyone else is most proud of from the past year and what you’ve been thinking about for the next!
