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Before I forget -- thank you to those of you who sent me New Year's gingerbread men on LJ over the vacation! They are jauntily decorating my profile page.

I'm glad to be home, especially since I had the day off yesterday. Good thing too, travel is exhausting. The plane flight from Austin to Chicago was one of the stranger ones I've had in a while. Nice, but strange.

I attract strange airline companions. Among my encounters have been a one-eyed woman telling me dirty jokes during takeoff, an elderly man telling me I reminded him of himself as "a young buck", a different elderly man accidentally but continually groping me because he kept crackers in his pocket and had issues locating his pocket, a Canadian baseball talent scout who is the first Canadian I had ever met to actually say "eh" as often as Statesiders joke they do, and now a woman flying for the first time at the age of 36 and who clearly had not known what she was letting herself in for.

The best part of this particular flight, however, was the flight attendant. I always sit at the front, on Southwest flights, because I have a lot of leg and there's more leg room. It also means I usually end up spending at least a portion of the flight chatting with the flight attendants. So I'd been joking a bit with the guy manning the front of the cabin, and when we reached altitude, a lot of people took out their phones/tablets/laptops. My phone and netbook were both tucked in the overhead compartment where I couldn't easily get to them, so I was mostly just staring out the window when the flight attendant said, "Being an air steward today is like watching a science fiction film 30 years ago."

"Oh?" I asked.

"Yeah. I look up when we reach altitude, and everyone is staring at tiny electronic devices. It's not bad or anything, it's just like a scene out of 2001 or something. It's even creepier on flights with wifi."

I have to admit I ended up not getting my netbook out for the rest of the flight...

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Sorry about the flood of posts, guys, I just found out Dreamwidth isn't properly crossposting to LJ. Something to do with the client I'm using, I think. I'll get it sorted, but for now enjoy this post that you may have missed! :D

I almost forgot to do my 2012 fanfic recap!

( The fanfic what I wrote last year. )

Inspired Works:

Podfics: This year there were lovely podfics made of Extremely Hot and Currently Female, Epilogue, and Ironsides.

A Partial Dictionary of the 21st Century had three separate filks inspired by it.

Handler was translated into Russian and Chinese.

Wordcounts:

Longest Fic: Victory Bonds, 39,000 words (of pure unadulterated vintage postwar noir.)
Shortest Fic: Handler, 556 words (with Ianto!)

Total Wordcount: About 223,500 words. Down from some years but up from last year, which is heartening. Checking last year's post, it's interesting that I almost always come up with forty thousand words in my "unfinished works" file, too.

I was going to talk about my favourite fic but it was too hard to choose; after all, I write what I love, so they're all my little bb fanfictions. But I think without a doubt the most popular fic I wrote this year was Ironsides, my AU genderflipped Tony Stark story about being a genius, billionaire, society queen, philanthropist, and superhero whilst female. I think its only real competition is Homefront, where Tony is a semi-involuntary support structure for Steve's grieving process. I think it struck a chord with a lot of people because of the subject matter.

In all, a productive year, I think. Perhaps I could hope for a bit more diversity of subject in the coming year, but I've learned that I do better when I don't put quite so many reins on my creative impulse. I guess we'll see in another three hundred and sixty-two days...