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So I finally had time to go through all my backups, and I think I now have a complete Scrivener file with all of my fanfic wips from the past 20 years, including the ones that for the past five years I thought were lost on a dead hard drive but it turns out I'd been smart and burned a CD!

The Scrivener file has over 500,000 words. There are 222 stories in 47 fandoms, plus 32 distinct crossovers. There are only 9 where I have absolutely no idea what I was going with the thing! (Including one where my only hint is the filename "fpscnsw", so that's... helpful, past me.) There are plenty of others where I don't really know what happens *next*, but I think for most of them that was always the case, which is why they're still WIPs.

Anyway, call it 209 months since I started seriously writing fanfic, that averages about 2400 words a month in WIPs alone over the whole period, and almost the same per story, which isn't great but is a lot better than I would have guessed! (And just over one new WIP a month, which could be... better.)

Anyway, so I have indexed them by Simple Trope, and made a poll. I will use the results of this poll to determine which one(s) I should work on, and either post here as definitely absolutely never to be finished, or actually finish.

Have fun with the poll!

Or, if you want to comment with one of the poll entries, I will give you a long excuse as to why I never finished it. :P

Poll #23786 WIPs list

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Which WIP is which?

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a/b/o
4 (11.4%)

accidental marriage
14 (40.0%)

addiction
0 (0.0%)

Aladdin AU
4 (11.4%)

aliens make them have sex
9 (25.7%)

aliens make them not have sex
17 (48.6%)

allegory
2 (5.7%)

altermate pov
3 (8.6%)

angel/demon AU
5 (14.3%)

animal yransformation
4 (11.4%)

apocalypse
2 (5.7%)

aquarium AU
7 (20.0%)

archaeology
16 (45.7%)

Arthurian AU
11 (31.4%)

artificial intelligence
9 (25.7%)

babyfic
3 (8.6%)

baseball
2 (5.7%)

blowjobs under desks
3 (8.6%)

boarding school AU
2 (5.7%)

bro sex
6 (17.1%)

buddy cop
3 (8.6%)

Byzantium
11 (31.4%)

Canadian shack
6 (17.1%)

car-shipping
3 (8.6%)

Casablanca AU
4 (11.4%)

casefile
7 (20.0%)

castaways
5 (14.3%)

character survives AU
12 (34.3%)

chastity kink
7 (20.0%)

chess
3 (8.6%)

child soldiers
8 (22.9%)

Childe Ballads AU
7 (20.0%)

christmas
3 (8.6%)

Cinderella AU
2 (5.7%)

clothes porn
6 (17.1%)

coffeeshop AU (canon setting)
8 (22.9%)

coffeeshop AU (modern-day)
1 (2.9%)

college AU (in space)
12 (34.3%)

college AU (modern day)
1 (2.9%)

coming out
6 (17.1%)

consent
7 (20.0%)

country house
4 (11.4%)

crossroads deal AU
4 (11.4%)

cyberpunk au
3 (8.6%)

D/s
6 (17.1%)

dance
5 (14.3%)

darkfic
2 (5.7%)

Demon AU
3 (8.6%)

Different first meeting
8 (22.9%)

dragon au
10 (28.6%)

Easter
3 (8.6%)

elementals
8 (22.9%)

elopement
4 (11.4%)

epistolary
15 (42.9%)

Evacuation
2 (5.7%)

Fair Maid of the West AU
0 (0.0%)

fake dating
5 (14.3%)

family secrets
5 (14.3%)

feminism kink
9 (25.7%)

fixit
8 (22.9%)

Flying Aces AU
3 (8.6%)

forced obedience
9 (25.7%)

found family
16 (45.7%)

fuck or die
6 (17.1%)

genderfluid
9 (25.7%)

genderswap
9 (25.7%)

ghosts
6 (17.1%)

glasses kink
9 (25.7%)

Greek love
5 (14.3%)

hacking
2 (5.7%)

Hamlet AU
3 (8.6%)

het romance
1 (2.9%)

hiding a body
3 (8.6%)

high school sweethearts
1 (2.9%)

Hogwarts AU
3 (8.6%)

holodeck
4 (11.4%)

hometown boyfriend
2 (5.7%)

honeytrap AU
6 (17.1%)

hurt/comfort
6 (17.1%)

identity porn
13 (37.1%)

it was all a dream
1 (2.9%)

kidfic
5 (14.3%)

kittenfic
11 (31.4%)

linguistics
18 (51.4%)

long-lost parent
5 (14.3%)

long-lost sibling
6 (17.1%)

LoTR AU
6 (17.1%)

love notes
4 (11.4%)

Lovecraft AU
4 (11.4%)

mad science
8 (22.9%)

magic powers AU
7 (20.0%)

magical healing cock
8 (22.9%)

medieval AU
10 (28.6%)

megacrossover
7 (20.0%)

Mentorship (1)
6 (17.1%)

Mentorship (2)
7 (20.0%)

Mentorship (3)
6 (17.1%)

mind-altering drugs
3 (8.6%)

modern AU
2 (5.7%)

mpreg (1)
8 (22.9%)

mpreg (2)
7 (20.0%)

mpreg (3)
7 (20.0%)

music
5 (14.3%)

mythology
9 (25.7%)

names
9 (25.7%)

nanny AU
0 (0.0%)

Neuromancer AU
2 (5.7%)

ninja AU
5 (14.3%)

noir AU
4 (11.4%)

ofc (1)
5 (14.3%)

ofc (2)
6 (17.1%)

ofc (3)
5 (14.3%)

ofc (4)
6 (17.1%)

ofc (5)
7 (20.0%)

old flames meet again
2 (5.7%)

one-night stand
3 (8.6%)

open relationships
5 (14.3%)

Ordeal AU
4 (11.4%)

organized crime AU
6 (17.1%)

orgasm control
11 (31.4%)

orgy fic
4 (11.4%)

OT3
14 (40.0%)

paintball
1 (2.9%)

period kink
4 (11.4%)

Pern AU
6 (17.1%)

phone sex
4 (11.4%)

pigtails in the inkwell
1 (2.9%)

pirate AU
10 (28.6%)

politics AU
5 (14.3%)

poly wedding
9 (25.7%)

pon farr
10 (28.6%)

possession
5 (14.3%)

post-canon
9 (25.7%)

post-not-quite-apocalypse
11 (31.4%)

post-post-apocalypse
14 (40.0%)

post-redemption
12 (34.3%)

Prairie Home Companion AU
7 (20.0%)

prison au
3 (8.6%)

Problem of Susan
15 (42.9%)

protest
2 (5.7%)

pseudo-incest
3 (8.6%)

pulp sf
6 (17.1%)

quarantined together
10 (28.6%)

queer history
17 (48.6%)

quest of the holy grail
9 (25.7%)

readerfic
0 (0.0%)

redemption
9 (25.7%)

reincarnation
5 (14.3%)

revolution
9 (25.7%)

riddle-games
6 (17.1%)

road trip
6 (17.1%)

role reversal
5 (14.3%)

roommates
3 (8.6%)

royal courtship
10 (28.6%)

secret agents
8 (22.9%)

secret dating
5 (14.3%)

secret engagement
6 (17.1%)

secret marriage
11 (31.4%)

sedoretu AU (1)
15 (42.9%)

sedoretu AU (2)
14 (40.0%)

sensory deprivation
3 (8.6%)

serial killer AU
0 (0.0%)

sex club
4 (11.4%)

sexswap (1)
6 (17.1%)

sexswap (2)
6 (17.1%)

shifters
4 (11.4%)

size kink
2 (5.7%)

Slytherin au
3 (8.6%)

snuff
2 (5.7%)

social media fic
3 (8.6%)

soulmark AU
6 (17.1%)

squirrelfic
5 (14.3%)

stable time loop
11 (31.4%)

Star Trek AU
9 (25.7%)

Star Wars AU
10 (28.6%)

steampunk AU
4 (11.4%)

Study in Emerald AU
4 (11.4%)

superhero AU
5 (14.3%)

superhero not-AU
8 (22.9%)

suspended animation
2 (5.7%)

teacher/student
3 (8.6%)

Temeraire AU
5 (14.3%)

tentacles
9 (25.7%)

they make aliens have sex
15 (42.9%)

time travel
11 (31.4%)

transfic
9 (25.7%)

trapped in a simulation (1)
4 (11.4%)

trapped in a simulation (2)
4 (11.4%)

Trapped in a video game (3)
5 (14.3%)

treasure hunt
5 (14.3%)

triangulation
3 (8.6%)

unexpected offspring
8 (22.9%)

unresolved incestual tension
6 (17.1%)

unstuck in time
8 (22.9%)

untitled goose game fusion
8 (22.9%)

vampire AU
4 (11.4%)

Very Secret Diary
0 (0.0%)

virginity
5 (14.3%)

War with the Newts AU
3 (8.6%)

wedding fic
4 (11.4%)

werewolves (not AU)
3 (8.6%)

werewolves AU
4 (11.4%)

Wolfbrother AU (1)
3 (8.6%)

Wolfbrother AU (2)
5 (14.3%)

Wolfbrother AU (3)
3 (8.6%)

Wolfbrother AU (4)
5 (14.3%)

Wolfbrother AU (5)
4 (11.4%)

Wolfbrother AU (6)
4 (11.4%)

Young Wizards fusion
7 (20.0%)

Of course, that only includes the ones that made it to files on my computer - ones I only ever wrote into DW entries or comment threads or on paper or only talked about a lot and never put words down aren't counted....

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okay, tell me your excuse for the problem of susan fic!

Honestly, the issue with that one is that I'm... not really a big fan of Narnia? Like, there are parts of it I love a lot, and parts that are an indelible part of my internal mythology, and I read a lot of fanfic, but Mr. Clive Staples and I have Disagreements far beyond just Susan, going way back to my first read of LWW.

Which that WIP was actually set up really well to address a lot of the issues I had with Narnia, but when I started it I hadn't really thought through that I didn't actually want to give the amount time and energy to Narnia canon that it would take to do a good job of it.

So it's a really good start to a fic! And if I ever do, for some reason, decide it's time for a Narnia close read, I may work on it some more.

I'm more likely though to finish the one, that isn't on this list because it exist solely as one typewritten sheet, where it's the Baudelaires instead of the Pevensies that find the wardrobe, which would address some of the same frustrations but probably not have to address Narnia canon specifics as closely.

(Though this reminds me, there's a Inklings fic that should be on this list but isn't, I wonder where the file for that is.)

That's an extremely valid excuse, yeah, Clive Staples and me have a number of disagreements also, and I can understand not wanting to do a full close reread of canon. I bet it would be a great fic if you ever did feel up for it! But I can understand not.

I'm a little surprised there's not a Kesh AU, but perhaps that's the post-post-apocalypse. Or you didn't yet start it.

Not all the crossovers and fusions are marked as such, if there's a more general trope that fit well - there's two Sedoretu AU, a LHoD crossover, and an Earthsea fic on there, though, I don't know how much more you expect from me! :P

I never put pen to paper on any Kesh fic except the one I finished for yuletide, though, I think I wanted to finish the LHoD one first.

(...and actually there's another LHoD I could swear I started waaay back in the day that's not on here either, I wonder where that one went. Or maybe I only wrote it in my head.)

mpreg (1) as an item made me laugh SO hard

LOOK, okay, look,

There's actually at least one more mpreg-ish story on there but I hid it under a different trope. :P

I would like to know more about this Lovecraft AU. 👀 Also any one of the three (3) mpreg fics. :D

That was for a small remix challenge so long ago that I don't even remember where it was being run, for a fandom nobody cares about anymore, and I'm pretty sure the person I was remixing has left fandom and taken their fic with them, and I'm not sure it would make sense out of context even if I felt okay about posting without the original. Which is a shame, because it only needs another thousand or so more words and it was fun!

mpreg (2) and (3) are both fics I posted the set-up for pretending they were finished. (3) I have about half of a chapter two done and would like to keep going but voices in that fandom are hard and I would need to do heavy canon review first. (1) and (2) both got so heavily messed up by canon I will probably never get any farther, sadly.

My favorite part of mpreg is figuring out a creative way to make the pregnancy plausible, and once I've done that I always seem to lose steam...

I enjoy that aspect of mpreg, too! You wrote a Deadpool mpreg fic a while back, yeah? Woe for 1 and 2. :(

And awww, that's a real shame about the Lovecraft AU. I always more of those.

Yeah, that's three! I have hopes for that one. There is still more about how the pregnancy is actually working to get out, plus I now actually have access to some Cable/Deadpool comics, so maybe I will keep motivation up if I get around to canon review.

There's another Lovecraft AU on there under another name that is maybe more likely to happen!

I want to know about coffeeshop AU (canon setting)

I started that one in someone's comment thread, and notfic'd a whole outline! It is a coffeeshop IN SPACE! It is super fun but it's for a canon I was only marginally in even when I first wrote it, and I would need to get way deep in that part of canon again to feel like I could write more. ('I would have to do so much canon review' is going to be a refrain here, I'm afraid.)

I have gone back to that comment thread to reread that not!fic many times. It is my favorite coffeeshop AU ever, and I would definitely read more if you ever wanted to write more.

Wait this is online? Can I have a link?

The notfic is here: https://thefourthvine.dreamwidth.org/147264.html?thread=8173632#cmt8173632

And then the only fully written scene is here: http://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/136181.html?thread=727029#cmt727029

I honestly did not expect so much enthusiasm for that one but people *still* remember it!

It's not so much that I don't want to do the canon review for that one - TOS will always be fandom of my heart - as that there would just be so much canon to review, especially since there's at least a couple dozen of the novels that I consider basic canon too, but also the timeline around the movies makes no sense so I'd have to figure out how to finagle that too, and, well, there's so many other canons to review too.

That's so good! Thank you!

I enjoyed this immensely.

I love the idea of coffee shop AUs with no setting changes. It sounds super fun! But maybe for this idea outlining it is enough? It doesn't sound like something you really want to invest the time to do canon review.

I love canon-setting coffeeshop AUs so much and will keep advocating for them whenever I can! Most canon settings ought to have coffeehouses or equivalent, at least back to the 17th century in Europe and earlier in other places, and there's no good reason for a most SF or fantasy settings not to. Why move them to modern-day when you can have coffeeshops IN SPACE instead?

I don't know that I've read any canon-setting coffeeshop AUs, but it does seem like perfect blend of worldbuilding and coziness.

This has got me wondering mightily what became of the fic from

mctabby's "Blame Someone Else" Harry Potter exchange, which is how we first met online, if I'm remembering this at all correctly. I have dim recollections of it being *checks notes* McGonagall/Snape f?preg possibly involving McGonagall's animagus form (hence my fatal attraction to the "kittenfic" tickybox), and you possibly posted some of it, but not all of it.

And let's be honest, I would still read it.

Note that I have no memory of how the exchange or matching worked, but I definitely read the Prydain Chronicles for it!

That is in fact the one! I have no idea if I ever actually posted any of it, and I'm kind of afraid to look back that far in my journal. I must have posted some if it was for an exchange? But I didn't really get very far based on the outline in the file. I didn't even remember that was what it was for! I still remember your fic for me for Prydain though - it was great.

I kind of lost a lot of enthusiasm for most of my Snape ships after book 6 went all friendzone though. Alas.

I feel like I just went into an id candy store and spent all my money. :D :D :D

*waves pom-poms of encouragement*

ETA: and now I'm imagining mashups of some of these being fics with *multiple* of these tropes applicable.

Edited 2020-04-08 02:10 (UTC)

I mean, some of them are! I tried to avoid duplicates except when it was funny, so many of them have elements of others too.

So, what's your excuse for your favorite of the wolfbrother stories?

I wanted to write more of the Holmes one - at least Reichenbach - SO BAD but then BBC Sherlock fandom happened and I decided to stay well the hell out of anything even slightly related.

It's probably been long enough now that the scorched ground has started to green over again and it would be safe to start, but then I'd have to get back into Holmes canon which I haven't dipped into since the Before Benedict Crumblebumble times.

That is a perfectly cromulent reason to stay away from anything Holmes. It's a pity, that's all.

It really is. Maybe I'll finally watch the second RDJ movie sometime, and get inspired again. Or try Elementary.

Hurray for backups!

I really regret not having a CD burner on my new laptop now! They just plain last. (Not forever, but a heck of a lot longer than hard drives or the cloud.) First thing I'm going to buy when I can go to the electronics store again.

I have everything backed up to solid state memory now, which will hopefully endure at least a little better than my luck with external sata drives.

Interested in maaaaaaany things, but especially baseball and chess?

Oh jeez, the chess one consists of one scene of Narcissa Malfoy teaching bb!Ron how to play wizard chess at a party, a title that makes it clear that this started out as ""Hallelujah" songfic, and once I re-read the Hallelujah lyrics with that in mind, the sudden recollection that it was going to be a Narcissa Malfoy/Molly Weasley fic, because I shipped WEIRD PAIRINGS in HP Fandom. I am not sure I remember where it was going enough to write more, but frankly the Narcissa/Molly 'ship just got more and more interesting as the later books came out, and with the lyrics and chess games as a framework to build on maybe I still could...

The baseball one is mostly about how people's loyalties to their teams affect their relationships, and also because every year I go to one or two minor league games (hopefully that will happen this year!) and spend the whole time daydreaming about fic, and then go look for some on AO3 and not find much. (Why isn't there more baseball fic out there, really? Both AUs and going to games. There's a fair amount of original M/M romance with baseball players, it ought to happen.) (I also have an epic Black Socks AU I dream about when I go to the games, but I have not written so much as a single word of it. I drew fanart, though.)

Edited 2020-04-08 03:23 (UTC)

Nice! My, uh, juvenilia probably features more "and then they were at a baseball game *shrug*" but I can't really recommend it.

The squirrelfic?

It's pre-canon origin story fic that needed a lot of OCs and OCs are hard. :( And now I have forgotten how it was supposed to end.

...if this is the Les Mis one, and it's pre-canon, is it the origin story for the squirrels? Because WOULD READ if you ever decide to write it.

(If it is not the Les Mis one then I really want to know where else you have written squirrelfic.)

I think my favourite item, taken in isolation, is "they make aliens have sex".

Are "cyberpunk au" and "Neuromancer au" two different wips?

They are! They actually both do the thing of taking urban-fantasy-ish canons and mixing that with cyberpunk, but the one is definitely an AU of Neuromancer specifically, borrowing the plot and stuff, whereas the other one is set in an extrapolated cyberpunk future of the original canon and has its own worldbuilding and plot.

Me, from the beginning to the end of that list: "I don't know what this is, but I'm clicking."

Just think about how I feel, looking at the files!

Twenty years of WIPs is way too ambitious for me! I salute your courage.

Wow, that is an excellent list :D

I would love to know more about car-shipping... ;) And what's your canon coffeeshop and non-AU werewolves?

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