magibrain

Can I just suggest that, the next time you find yourself planning a fic which covers Neal's entire life from circa age seven to the end of season 4 episode 02 in a series of vignettes as a prompt fill, that you rethink that impulse?

I'm just saying.

Assorted Statistics:

Card: http://magibrain.dreamwidth.org/520305.html

Words written: 36,000

Stories started: 12

Stories finished: 4

Potential bingos: 2! One of them is a weird parallel-diagonals bingo and everything.

Most stories written on a single planned bingo: Uhhhhh.... tied at 1.

Most ~~organs~~ titles harvested from a single poem: 3, but justified as the fics are all thematically related.

Stealth Xanatos award: The Diana-and-Kate team, surprisingly.

Stealth angst award: Neal, you're not nearly as stealthy as you think you are.

Best snark: "Diana," Peter said, pleasantly. "I hope you're not flirting with my wife."

Diana laughed. "Christie would kill me."

"That's good," Peter said. "Because I'm not sure I could take you in a fight."

Best snark via narration: It was, Neal thought, the angriest drinking of a fruit drink that he'd ever witnessed.

Best looking at life, looking at choices: So far, the people who have taken more-than-casual interests in [Kate's] life have been Ponzi schemers with anger issues, emotionally intemperate bond forgers, dirty FBI agents, the occasional mob contact, a gentleman fence, a rough and occasionally murderous jack-of-all-crimes, and the one normal one of the lot, who went to Chicago, who she let get away. (Don't get her wrong. She loves Hale like an uncle and Neal like – well, Neal – but there's something to be said in the pattern, there, and she's pretty sure it's not anything good.)

Best unintentional reciprocity: I now have a fic in which Diana secretly provides emotional support to Elizabeth, and a fic in which Elizabeth secretly provides emotional support to Diana. I didn't actually plan this, but I find that I'm quite happy with it.

Most dubious fiction-generation process: I seem to be writing a fic whose entire reason for being is so that I can rehash a conversation from The West Wing, with June standing in for C.J. Craig and Neal standing in for Abby Bartlett. Except that I'm pretty sure in this one, June wins.

Number of times Neal's brow is mopped: Oh, at least once.

Number of times Neal's brow is mopped by someone who hasn't just abducted him and locked him in a warehouse: ...Neal kinda hates his life. A little.