In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I decided to talk a little about my writing goals for this year. They are two-fold: on the one hand, there's my original writing. On the other, the fics I want to write for the fandoms that have me in their clutches.
For my
original writing, the goals are largely tied to
my author's newsletter. I want to maintain it; to use it to discuse writing, as a craft, with fellow authors and enthusiasts; and to push myself to share complete short stories with an audience, as I build on larger ones.
As of now, I'm focusing in one of my smaller passion projects: a story I called
"Underground Elysium" that's meant to reach only novelette/novella length. It's political/speculative adult fantasy, told in third person omniscient, that takes a harebrained idea (about a vampire running a protection racket during a zombie outbreak) that arose in a discussion of tumblr and I chose to take seriously to its last consequences. The zombies are really just the backdrop for the story of Lucretia, a visionary and tyrannical vampire that built an underground society in which vampiresses reigned, and humans had to choose between staying on the surface and facing its dangers, or resigning themselves to a life of safety and servitude under them.
Later this month I intend to post a "chapter", telling the backstory of the two most important characters: the Imperatrix Lucretia, of course, and Dana. The later is younger vampiress who once violated the most crucial rule of the new realm, and was punished for it; long years later, she has raised in the ranks, and intends to come against Lucretia in the next election. The story I plan to share will tell what it was that Dana did, that Lucretia did in retaliation, and thus the seeds she planted for their later confrontation.
As for my
fanfiction WIPs, I only just posted
a list on tumblr yesterday (where I more than welcome questions about them!). I'll try to be both be briefer and more comprehensive here.
First, the vast majority (all but two, really) are focused on DC, especially the comics. The exceptions are
a fun Desperate Housewives/Supernatural case-fic crossover I've written on and off for a while (all based on a dream I had where Tom Scavo was brutally killed by some monster and the late-seasons spn team came to infiltrate the suburbs and investigate LOL), and a eerier TVD fic telling t
he quieter horror that I think Elena and Damon's marriage would inevitably be (especially in an universe where Damon put his money where his mouth was re: alienating others, and he killed Jeremy instead of Tyler).
The others, as I said, are all about detective comics comics 😔 (and more likely than not, about Jason Todd. He's featured in all of these, at the very least).
- THE GIGANTIC PROJECTS.
- Young Justice: FÉNIX. In which I do what I've wanted to for years and write THEE yj!Jason-centric fic that's been so clear in my head. Featuring a lot of Jason & Damian, Jason & Bats reuniting, and tons of secret identity shenanigans.
- Jason Survives ADITF. Also came up with this one before the fauximile, and it doesn't follow that. It'll focus on Jason's recovery and asks questions about what his survival would have changed in Batman comics as a whole, going forward.
- Journalist!Dick. Prompted by a tumblr post discusing how he could've gotten inspired to be an investigative journalist (thanks to Clark & Lois!). It takes things from Nightwing & Batman comics, and from the UTRH animated film, twisting some things around (for example, in this world Batman never took another sidekick after Jason's death, so Cass, Steph, and Tim's stories go differently).
- "MID-LENGTH", whatever that ends up meaning.
- Convergence & Incorporated. Takes the end of the new earth timeline and puts Jason & Bruce on a difference direction, taking inspiration from Convergence: Batman and Robin, the basic premise of Batman Incorporated, and explores how Bruce killing Darkseid could've affected things.
- Amnesiac Jason. Circa new-earth, before Damian entered the picture. Jason faced something that broke his psyche and, while it was getting fixed, Bruce took creative licenses. Now Jason lives a "normal" life, starting college, working... but something is clearly WRONG. I swear I came up with this story before Gotham War xD, but there were some eerie parallels that jumpted at me as I read lol.
- Batwoman / Robin: 20. AU of Batwoman's third season. Upon the realisation that a lot of what instantly appealed to me about batwoman!Ryan is similar to what appeals to me about robin!Jason, I decided to sit down and write about it. And I took advantage of it to tackle some changes I really didn't like in s3.
- Outlaws vs. Justice League. If you haven't read the "Red Hood: Outlaws" webtoon, the premise is that Jason, Artemis, and Bizarro are made the new JL for a provation period... and then it's revealed they'd been put in a simulation without their consent (a simulation where they showed more compassion to some of the "criminals" they meant to hunt than the JL did). Then the webtoon did nothing with that, which really disappointed me. So I ran with it instead.
- Gotham War: everything gets worse. Exactly that xD. I took what happened to Jason in GW seriously and poured more angst over it. What if he got hurt in some incurable way that meant he'd need to change his life going forward? What if he couldn't bring himself to save the child in Catwoman #57? What if the Joker did something much worse to "cure" him? And so on and so forth.
- Jason's Journals. AU of War Games. Steph survives and is recovering in the Manor. There, she finds some old journals, written by the mysterious second Robin... and she, Tim, and Cass start to unravel the stories they'd been told about Jason vs. what he wrote himself. Just in time for the Red Hood to come into town.
- One thousand and one nights. Thanks to Batman: The Cult, Jason must know how to deprogram someone. In The Man Who Stopped Laughing, he discovers that Joker goes around brainwashing people into Joker-lites. Do the math.
- DC vs. Vampires, re-imagined. I read the first volume of that story and I was... disappointed. I decided to do my own spin on it: more character focused, less about the JL/saving the world~~ shenanigans. And obviously, Jason lives xD (well. Technically).
- Time Travel: Robin Jason. You know all those AUs where robin!Jason suddenly appears on the present, and everyone has to deal with all the angst that brings? I want to do my own take on that. Lots of Jason & Jason bonding.
- Prison Break: Robins. Jason is facing the death penalty (for something he 100% did, lbr). Dick can't take it and puts himself in the same prison.
- Cass & Jason: street kids. Cass makes it to Gotham a bit earlier, wandering the city, homeless. Just around the time a catatonic Jason is around, sharing his food with other homeless people. And just in time for her to intervene when people try to take Jason away.
- ONE-SHOTS!!!!!!1 (likely not *truly* short ones smh).
- Immortal Jason. It's basically canon that new earth!Jason came back from things that should have killed him with no explanation. So what if he can resurrect, over and over? This is about each of the Bats finding out about it.
- Gotham: Bruce plots a murder. Future fic set on the Fox show. How that Bruce would react to Valeska killing Jason. The title sounds tongue-in-cheek but this is very angsty I swear.
- Rogue Green Lantern Jason. Someone on reddit joked about how, if Jason "overcame great fear" during Gotham War, he could get a ring. I don't think he'd join the Corps, but he would also not renounce to such power coming at a time of such vulnerability either.
- Jason's rules. Jason takes a victim's death really hard and reevaluates. Set on some amalgam of the main continuity, post-Alfred's death.
- Jason + Joker's Last Laugh. Jason finds out about what happened in that arc (Dick beating the Joker to death, Bruce resucitating him). It only makes things worse.
- Jason & Eddie: Orpheus and Eurydice. Jason finds out that Kid/Red Devil, his only peer from back in the day, got his soul sent to Hell.
- Kidnapping WIP. Also inspired by a weird dream. Bruce manages to snatch Jason at the end of UTRH, takes him to the Manor to heal, and decides to try a little Stockholm syndrome. I also came up with this one before Gotham War xD
- 5 times Dick and Zatanna fooled around on his birthday, and one time they didn't. What it says. I consider it part of the same continuity as my longer Young Justice WIP.
- Caretaker Red Hood. I read that at least in some comics it's been said that Jason (and Bruce, but that's less relevant) is 0-. I engineered a situation where the (still masked) Red Hood had to give a blood transfusion on the field to Bruce, and to take care of his injuries.
I've definitely talked your ear off enough, so I'll leave it there ^-^
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