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Wisely or unwisely, I have decided to do my own AO3 Wrapped-of-sorts for the fics I posted on Ao3 in 2025.

(This was done by setting the date updated range to 2025 and also going to the 2025 Stats page.)

In total, I posted 57 fanworks in 2025, including 2 of which were just artwork collections/not fanfiction.

• 55 Oz fanworks
• 2 成化十四年/The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fanworks
• 484,509 words posted

Top 5 Relationship tags of 2025:

• Miguel/Chico (39)
• Miguel & Chico (7)
• Miguel/Alonzo (4)
• Enrique/Alonzo (2)
• Alonzo/Jaime (2)

Top 5 Character tags:

• Miguel Alvarez (45)
• Chico Guerra (43)
• Alonzo Torquemada (11)
• Tobias Beecher (10)
• Ryan O’Reily (9)

Top 5 Additional Tags

• Post-Canon (24)
• Character Study (13)
• Established Relationship (10)
• Canon-Typical Violence (9)
• Angst, Internalized Homophobia, and Canon Divergence (8) 

2025 in Ratings:

• General Audiences (19)
• Teen and Up (16)
• Explicit (15)
• Mature (7)

2025 in Categories

• M/M (45)
• Gen (16)
• F/M (2)
• F/F (1)

Top 5 By Word Count:

1. Silver Moon's Sparkling (114,001 words)
2. Death Wish (73,936 words)
3. A Hierarchy of Misery ch1-9 (67,895 words)
4. In the Course of Destiny ch.5 & 6 (47,577 words)
5. Imperative (15,833 words)

(Because It’s Funnier) Bottom 5 By Kudos:

1. In Perpetuity (2)
2. Lonely Wind (3)
3. Roaming (3)
4. The You You Are (3)
5. The We We Are (3)

Bottom 5 By Hits:

1. overwhelming heartbreak (14)
2. only healthy people (16)
3. In Perpetuity (21)
4. Setting Sun (23)
5. disappear from sight (24) 

 

( Full 2025 Oz fic list )
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Final Thoughts:

I was a bit surprised that Beecher and Ryan made it into the top 5 characters I wrote this year. I guess it had to be somebody, although I don't really consider myself a writer for either. Between the two of them, I definitely have given Beecher more screen time this year, particularly in Death Wish with the recurring cafeteria B/K background drama, lol. I guess Ryan just snuck into the 9 fics as well.

Hm... managed to write one F/F (ish) fic this year? Hopefully we get that number up next year, although I'm not holding my breath. I don't care for writing any of the hacks, really, which really limits the options for Oz lesbians, lol. There's always M/C genderbend, I suppose...

My "Top 5 Additional Tags" sort of made me laugh in the realisation of how unvaried I am in tagging my fics. I really just add the same old, same old. At one point earlier in the year (maybe last year?I forget), I tried tagging sexual acts that appeared in the fics, too, but I sensed that that actually turned readers off from reading the fics, and I find it a bit of an odd practice to begin with, anyway. Makes more sense for larger fandoms, where I've seen it done, but I guess over-tagging has always seemed somewhat pointless to me and the small fandoms I tend to write for because the options are so limited, LOL. Kind of related, I hope nobody of my like 3 readers is getting too excited for the M/M/M tag on Misery, because it's really not going to amount to much at all, jsyk. Floptina Threesome, found dead in the water. Don't even think about it. It's more like a Beware Of Dog sign on the fic right now at this point.

I really hope I finish Misery in 2026, or at least get close.

I'd like to write more Alonzo/Jaime or Alonzo/Enrique in 2026, too. Perhaps even Alonzo/Ryan, to contribute to 9cbff's fun? I find I struggle a bit to write the POV of someone taking a genuine romantic or sexual interest in Ryan, no shade to Dean Winters—call me stubborn and unimaginative, I guess—so that would be an interesting challenge outside of making it a crack fic. 

Speaking of crack, though... I had a lot of fun writing Anything For A Friend, Bells Are Ringing, and In Flagrante Delicto so writing more lighthearted fics is definitely a goal for next year. I also liked featuring more of the Oz ensemble in various fics this year, so that's another path I'd like to explore. Working on my most recent Dress Factory contribution also reminded me that I want to work more Poet and Jia Kenmin into my fics. Separately and together as a sort of random duo match-up I've had in my mind since writing them together in In Perpetuity this year. Another Jia Kenmin & Cyril fic would be fun, too. Maybe one that's more involved, since all the things I've written with Jia Kenmin so far are quite short... We'll see!

Additionally, I'd like to write more for Kareem, although I find his voice/POV difficult to capture. I think it'd be fun to explore more Kareem & Omar—always a duo I think is underrated. 

WIPs I'd like to work on more/Finish in 2026:

• A Hierarchy of Misery (partially posted already)
• Crash
• The Midnight Sun AU
• HE GOT BICURIOUS IN THE TIME LOOP!!! (T_T) 
• Desire Path (Delusional)
• Hotel Artemis AU (Delusional but not quite as much)
• fight (I just need to lock in with this one—it's entirely feasible)
• Bodyswap AU (please please pleaase)