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Creator reveals have happened for [community profile] battleshipex! Meaning this year’s round is officially over, though I still have like five things on my WIPs list that I’d still like to write as late treats. (Or. Four as late treats—the last is a concept that I came up with for gameplay reasons, but never had an actual recip for, so I’m probably going to post that one outside of the collection once/if I write it.) Now that it’s over, I want to share what I made! And, to steal an idea from [personal profile] shadaras, I’m going to also look at some more precise stats for what I made as well.

In total, I wrote 12 works for a total of 18K. This is very close to being double my previous Battleship best! For reference, in 2022 I wrote 9.4K across 9 fics, while in 2023 I wrote 8K across 7 fics.

Another note: an unofficial stretch goal I set for myself before the game began was to post at least one thing for each phase of the game. I was actually pretty sure that I would fail at this, particularly since I was very bad at the boss battles last year, but wanted something to strive for—instead, I actually managed to post not just one, but at least two things for each phase! Honestly, I’m a little bit impressed with myself for both of those things, especially considering that I’d usually consider myself a slower writer. I was not joking when I said that I lost my chill this year! And had the best of times doing so. ♥

Here are the fics I wrote, organized by which phase of the game I’d posted them for: beneath the cut )

Of those, my personal favorite is the river drowns itself (SVSSS), but I’m also particularly fond of every monstrous hungry part of you (SVSSS), that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain (SVSSS), and strawberry blossoms (Stardew Valley)!

Now, more stats! Again, this section is inspired by [personal profile] shadaras’ wrap-up. beneath the cut )
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Dropping by with a lot of recs for Battleship 2024! I had so much fun this year—I was on Team Crystal, and it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had with Battleship, which is saying something, considering that it’s been my favorite fandom event since I first joined in back in 2022!

(…I also sacrificed far more sleep to the game than I ever have before;;; The number of nights with <5 hours of sleep were… not nonzero. But each and every one of them was absolutely worth it <3)

We’re still in the anon period currently—it’s a two week anon period rather than the usual one, which I was grateful for, because with a collection of over 2000 works*, including four million words of fic, over 300 pieces of art, and nearly 200 podfics, I definitely needed that time to make my way through it!

(*More than Yuletide! Created in a barely-longer-than-two-weeks period! We truly all lost our collective minds/chill this year, and it was great <3)

I “only” read about 200K of those words, according to my reading & media tracking spreadsheet, but it still took some days to get through it all, haha. And who knows how much art I looked at…

But there truly were so many amazing gems in the collection. For the sake of making this long list somewhat comprehensible, I’m going to be splitting this up into several sections: my gifts, then my personal top three works (both fic and art) that made me absolutely lose my mind in the best way, then the rest of my fic recs, and finally the rest of my art recs, all organized alphabetically by fandom.

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First off, my gifts! more beneath the cut )


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Next up, my top favorites. This is not to say that I didn’t love and adore the other things I’m reccing below as well, but these three things truly made me lose my mind. So much (internal) screaming and (external) flailing and oh my god, I can’t believe these were created in this short period of time??? also beneath the cut )


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Now, for the other fic recs! In alphabetical order by fandom. I originally wanted to make a short comment about each piece like I did with the art recs below, but I’ve run out of steam, so please just have a simple list instead.beneath the cut )

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Finally, the remaining art recs, including some I was very tempted to include in the top recs section, before I decided that I would restrict that section to only three works.

This is unfortunately incomplete (and heavily weighted towards OW), in that I foolishly didn’t think to save links to the artworks I looked at when I first started making my way through the collection, and now feel rather ;;;;; at the thought of digging through my history to find them. But even with those restrictions, I found a lot to recommend!
also beneath the cut )
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► The prompt for Day Ten of this year’s [profile] fandom_snowflake is to make a list of five things. Within like five seconds I went from “having no ideas as to what I can make a list about” to “having too many ideas”. Then I almost went into overkill mode (aka: making five different lists of five things each), but was saved by the fact that I couldn’t settle on which of my list ideas should be the “fifth thing”.

So now, I’m simply sharing the only one which I actually got around to writing during this whole progress, namely, a list of five exchanges that had a particular importance to me of some kind at one point in my life or another.

Or, in other words, it’s basically an abbreviated history of me + multifandom exchanges in the form of a five things list. beneath the cut )

► In other news… Femslash February prompts! I can’t remember quite where I came across this (the EAD discord, maybe?), but someone somewhere shared this bingo card mixing the “dark” and “light” prompts. Original tumblr post here. and the image beneath the cut )

Idk if I’ll end up writing anything for it, but the prompts (and especially the prompt combos) are quite good. It doesn’t even need to clash with my “finish WIPs” goal for the year, since I do have a few beloved f/f WIPs that would match up with some of the prompts…
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Reading: Plenty! More than anything else, tbh. I’m participating in the Autumn Equinox of the Orilium Readathon, and having a delightful time of it. I only have two books left to read for my main calling, but am also eyeing some of the side quests. We’ll see!
Listening: Fic Clique, mostly.
Playing: Most recently, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, which I beat (what I have osmosis-ed is only the first ending) at the end of June, but which I’ve been picking up sporadically ever since with the vague intention of 100%-ing it one day. It’s genuinely one of my all-time favorite games at this point. Otherwise, I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a new visual novel after I finish this post, so maybe that.
Watching: Last weekend, I finished Till the End of the Moon, which sparked the first true fannish passion I’ve felt in almost two years. So that was exciting! Considering a rewatch, but am also considering checking out some of the other cdramas on my to-watch list.
Writing: Nothing, though I am pleased with my output for this year’s round of Battleship.

on twitter )

Though in the interest of not fading away like a fannish ghost, I am going to make an effort to have a little bit more of a presence online again. I have a lot less free time than I used to, but I feel like a goal of “at the bare minimum, some kind of fannish monthly round-up post on dw” could be achievable if I prioritize it? We’ll see.

► Have some scattered fic recs from the last two months of fic reading. (For context, I literally went to a spreadsheet I’ve been keeping as of a couple of years ago, and pulled out links from the fics I remembered liking from my July and August reads. Some were from WIP updates; quite a few were from Battleship.)

various fandoms, beneath the cut )

► On that note, I did participate in Battleship this year, and got four genuinely excellent gifts: two for Naruto, and two for Stardew Valley. I feel like both fandom pairs had fics that paralleled one another in some way. One of my Naruto gifts tackles a classic time travel concept that never gets old no matter how many takes on it I read, while the other has an approach that felt so fresh and new that I was breathless while reading it. For Stardew Valley, I got one fic for each of my Abigail ships, one featuring a sweet established relationship while the other features an imo fantastic depiction of a first love and the thrill of realizing your feelings are returned for the first time. It just all felt very balanced and satisfying to me!

   Seven New Ways (Naruto, Izuna & Sakura, 6.2K)
—That you can eat your young.

Or: the deathless healer in her house on the Crossroads is a mystery that Izuna desperately wants to uncover.

   Twice (Naruto, Kisame & Sakura, 4.7K)
Sakura’s in the past, at least a decade before she’s supposed to even be born, with the strength to level mountains but not the strength to return home.

Meanwhile, Kisame’s pretty sure he’s never met someone who’s as intriguing a mix of truth and lies as the pink haired women named simply Sakura.

   A Life of Rock 'n' Roll (Stardew Valley, Abigail/Sebastian, 3.6K)
When Sebastian and Abigail joined Sam's rock band, they hadn't intended for it to involve so many literal rocks.

   Brave New Girl (Stardew Valley, Abigail/Haley, <1K)
Abigail and Haley decide to take a romantic weekend getaway and do things both of them like.

Of course, the two of them like very different things.
I think I’ll wrap things up here, for now.

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