in the ds9 episode “rivals” quark introduces julian as “he’s fast, he’s deadly, he’s julian bashir” and this might be the best joke ever told because deadly? julian bashir??? he would step on an ant and try to reanimate it and probably cry a little as he and kukalaka bury it under one of keiko’s potted plants
Happy New Year, everyone! Unfortunately, I won’t have time until at least this weekend to do the full post of top 20s with links, but I wanted to share some basics now that the survey is done!
I collected 175 surveys
245 authors received at least one “favorite” vote, bringing the total number of authors who have EVER received a vote up to 480.
I am in the early, early stages of (with help) using the survey author data to create a “if you liked this author, you might also like these other authors” database. More on this as it develops.
The top 20 authors list is actually the top 26 authors, thanks to a large-scale tie for 20th. They are, in alphabetical order: 60r3d0m, almaasi, Annie D (scaramouche), anyrei and mugglerock (who are frequent co-authors and will be listed together), bendingsignpost, imogenbynight, jemarial, jhoom, jupiter_james, komodobits, ltleflrt, mishcollin, MittenWraith, NorthernSparrow, pantheon_of_discord, riseofthefallenone, saltnhalo, saltyfeathers, sharkfish, thepinupchemist, unforth, violue, whelvenwings, WinJennster and xylodemon.
1054, yes ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY FOUR, fics got at least one vote for favorite. 594 fics were voted into the collection for the first time. The total number of fics that have now received at least one vote in at least one survey is 1768. These fics are by more than 800 different authors.
The top 20 fics is actually top 23 do to a tie, and they are (in alphabetical order by story name):
Addicted to You by ltleflrt
Angel’s Wild by LimonadeGaby and riseofthefallenone
Cinderwings by bendingsignpost
Cursed or Not by ltleflrt
Flight by NorthernSparrow
Four Letter Word for Intercourse by bendingsignpost
Get a Whiff of This by bendingsignpost
The Graveyard Shift by riseofthefallenone
The Walk by PersephoneShadow
Not Part of the Plan by Annie D (scaramouche)
Into Your Hideaway by thepinupchemist
Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits
Oddly Shaped Empty by jemariel
Out of the Deep by riseofthefallenone
Painted Angels by WinJennster
Protect and Serve by jupiter_james
Riptide by sharkfish
Satin and Sawdust by ltleflrt
A Turn of the Earth by mishcollin
Twist and Shout by gabriel and standbyme
The Dick Pic Verse by dangerousnotbroken
Vagabonds by amarillogrande
You Can Keep Holding On by NorthernSparrow
The Destiel Favs Collection on AO3 is up to 1352 items in the main collection plus 435 bookmarks (bookmarks are of works not hosted on AO3 and of works where the author didn’t accept the invite to the collection).
I have gone through all the works hosted outside of AO3 and improved how they’re tagged in the bookmarks. However, this is a work in progress. If you’ve read any of these works and can suggest additional tags that would be fantastic - view the works here.
Backing up every story that received a vote (including every work in every collection) has resulted in my having a database of 2,980 works, totally 1.43 gigs of fic.
I will shortly be creating a spreadsheet that just lists all the authors and works that have gotten a vote, and the links to find the authors and stories. No vote tallies will be shared, but I thought this might help people, especially since some authors’ works are spread over multiple platforms.
I’m pondering a means of taking rolling submissions of works not already in the collection. I’m open to suggestions.
I have done my damnedest to get a digital copy of every work that received a vote, but I am still missing a few. If you have a copy of one of these please get in touch with me.
I have two one mystery fics that I can’t find at all: Klover Vaseline by @jossujb and Angel’s Diner, which is supposedly by @elizabethrobertajones (I can find zero evidence that such a fic exists?). Help?
my point being: you aren’t seeing the absolutely astonishing amount of things i cannot do, am not able to do (yet), or i actively fail at. you are only seeing the little tiny part of my life where i actually have my shit together. please don’t think i was magically born with the ability to write and make art, i just tried really freaking hard and practised a lot (like a full-time job for 5, nearly 6 years).
but that said
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU
WOW
MUCH COMPLIMENT, VERY A;SDLSADFJG
i love that you enjoy my writing AND my art, this excites me immensely and gives me GREAT HAPPINESS and encouragement to make more art along with my stories <3 <3 <3
(i just can’t bear to see people think i started good and just got better, or that i’m good at everything. i started bad, and then got better. IF I CAN DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT TOO.)
and on that note, the above list is also a list of things I intend to be good at someday, WITH PRACTISE. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ
and also my sister reminded me “it is not a zero sum game”, as in, just because person x has a skill doesn’t mean person y or person z has any less of the same skill, or that their progress doesn’t matter. imo persons x, y and z can all help each other become better together <3
the idea that poor people shouldn’t have anything nice in their lives at all to potentially make them feel a little happy and less stressed about their situation needs to be destroyed. people living in constant financial instability need comfort way more than people who don’t
well ya duh society shames speech patterns associated with young women
“Speech fillers” are just a human’s way of saying “wait a sec I’m thinking”. It means we think more before we speak, always trying to find the right way to say it. Every language has them. And people shouldn’t be annoyed by it, ever.
I never reconized that that look in deans face until now. I mean okay we know he got a broken soul from hell and yes it would match but now when I look at that gif in the middle again and again I’m so sure about the fact that cas is his hunger. You know why? because no one is able to be not hungry, even when you soul is wrecked like a fucking present parcel after christmas. Remember some other things: Dean didn’t wanted to go out for gettin a girl and he didn’t wanted to eat (wich is normally when you’re in love). And now lets have a last look into his face in the middle, his eyes fly over cas’s hands, the way he’s holding the burger and then into his face, he’s looking cas into his eyes like someone wrote “you are” over his face.
Castiel Novak suffers from the aftermath of a loss that traumatically changed his life when he comes in contact with Dean Winchester - an old acquaintance. That moment begins their story; a story built by tragedy, old coffee shops and empty playgrounds, held together by I Love You’s and each other’s warmth during cold nights, and eventually, torn apart by a notebook and a crushed dream for a long lost sister. It’s the story where pushing each other away is harder than facing what it’s really about, where two broken people always find their way back to each other - where two boys belong to each other, like moon and sun.
He shakes his head, as if the thoughts will go away, and caresses the soft paper of his sketchbook. He spots a name scribbled next to the doodle of a pair of eyes he remembers drawing yesterday. There is the name again: Dean.
