A hasty fandom recap!
Best fics I read in 2023:
Life and What Comes After by @kingofattolia (This changed my brain chemistry.)
Hope Sent A-Quiver by OrionLady (This was such a delight to read and so hopeful.)
Krayt's Oath by @kraytwriter (A literal gift from God, can't wait to see how it ends.)
Best fics I wrote in 2023:
After All (The reception to this was astonishing.)
When You Love a Wild One (Best characterization+worldbuilding I think I've ever done.)
The Light in Our Eyes (The happy ending I needed with a ton of mush.)
Star Wars (There was really nothing else major.)
Anakin Skywalker (My brother, my friend, I love him, he's me, that's the thing.)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (He's my other brother, I love him, he's such a lesson in patience.)
Captain Rex (I wanna marry him.)
Top fandom books I read in 2023:
Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover
MedStar duology by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover
(Hope you don't mind that I post and tag? If you want me to change it to just a link then drop me the original post.)
There are way more that make me feral, but the first inspired a fic, the second makes me crazy, and the third is on my desktop and I sometimes sit and stare at it for unknown amounts of time.
Top lines/paragraphs I wrote in 2023:
From a yet unpublished fic...
But then Love spoke.
From The Light in Our Eyes...
“You never cease to amaze me, Anakin Skywalker.” He pressed an impulsive kiss into Anakin’s dirty hair, smelling of sulphur and bacta, ozone mixed with something musky and alive. “You are so brave.” And then he was crying himself. “I am so proud of you.”
They found him exactly 13 days, 8 hours, and 55 minutes from the moment Qui-Gon felt his son vanish in the Force. They found him on Coruscant, beneath the Memorial District, on Level 674, according to the numbers spray-painted on the ferrocrete wall at the Portal docking bay. They found him in a back room of an abandoned shoe shop, alone, in the dark.
They found him.
They found him, that was what truly mattered.