HAPPY NEW YEAR here's what I did in the last gasps of 2023

[crantz]

Hallo hallo, it's my fic round up since my last post and there's only been two fics since then but I'm pretty pleased with them! They're both near the same word count and together come just short of 6000 words!

I've added commentary and regrets (although to be clear the regrets about paths I couldn't take, not about the stories themselves. I like what I wrote and I'm glad I wrote it)


All Soul's Night (3038 words) by Rosencrantz
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cold Case (US TV 2003)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s
Characters: Lilly Rush, Scotty Valens
Additional Tags: ghost story, i acknowledge the damn end of episode ghosts at great length, Drug Use, Murder, Mystery, Religious Fanaticism, Case Fic, Canon Typical Evidence Collection, Trick or Treat: Trick, Homophobia, Child Murder, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Canon typical levels of all of the above
Summary:

Solve the case. See the ghost. Give it a nod. Music starts. Credits roll.

Except this time the ghost doesn't go away.

Commentary: I watched a LOT of Cold Case during a personal offline crisis this past year and as a result spent a lot of time going 'hey, people are actually SEEING the ghosts at the end of these episodes' and go to the one where a ghost threw a football to a living guy and then I just waited for my chance to write a Halloween story.

Regrets: I was too worn out from everything to also write a bunch of short pokemon horror stories even though a ton of good ghost pokes were nominated this year.


Tintin and the Tomb (2891 words) by Rosencrantz
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tintin (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tchang Tchong-Jen | Chang Chong-Chen/Tintin
Characters: Tchang Tchong-Jen | Chang Chong-Chen, Milou | Snowy, Tintin (Tintin), Nestor (Tintin), Archibald Haddock
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Injury Recovery, Future Fic, Tchang became a reporter
Summary:

Tchang and Tintin meet up while chasing their respective stories.

Commentary: This was one that I kept plugging at way after what I thought was the final version was in. I was having a hard time with school (I ended up getting straight As!) and it took up a lot of my mental energy. But thanks to my betas*, two friends**, and my sister*** I was able to make this into a fic I was really proud of. Also there is a *lot* of extremely innuendo phrases in Tintin in Tibet, posted here:




Regrets: I had another fic for Yuletide for someone else that had to be abandoned in the end because I just didn't have the bandwith to do two. Hopefully next year I can juggle more plates.

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So basically I hope 2024 is a lot more fictionally fruitful for me - I need to get back on my webcomic too, I want to post more non-exchange stuff, etc - but that will rely on outside factors giving me the mental resources. I'm very glad I was able to meet my commitments this year but next year I want to surpass just that level.

I'm also grateful that I keep getting assignments I'm really excited about!

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* me: 'HEY HOW FAST CAN YOU DO AN IN-DEPTH BETA WITH NO WARNING' them: 'let's ROCK AND ROLL'
** 'Tell me everything you know about King Arthur's Tomb' and 'Is there anything this ending could use to be less 'story's over, go home now'?'
*** 'Your Haddock seems... very peaceful. You should change that' (and I did, reader, I did)

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