girlonthelasttrain

Given the way I've used this account so far I'm not sure whether this is the beginning of a tradition or if I will forget by the time next year comes around, but I still wanted to share a few words about my year re: writing fic. I don't usually do writing roundups at all, actually, but I feel like celebrating—returning to something I love doing with an enthusiasm I thought I'd lost warrants it, I think.

The statistics page of AO3 informs me that in 2022 I posted almost three times the word count of my previous most wordy year. It's a complete surprise to me, for most of the year I didn't even open a word document and I genuinely considered myself "over" fic writing (and writing in general). It turns out I just needed the right motivation to get back into it and that motivation was... a single ship, B'Elanna Torres/Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, the only pairing I've posted fic for this year.

It's interesting to look back on these fics to me because before February I'd never completed or posted a 'purely' Voyager fic. Ever since I got into Trek my main writing interests have been DS9 characters and their (f/f) relationships, although I always had a soft spot for B'Elanna/Seven. I simply think bending their canon dynamic slightly more into shipping territory is very fun, and it has proven fun to write too! I went into it with a few ideas about what I wanted to do (mostly give B'Elanna some space, and I hope I managed that) and not do (I have thoughts about what makes Seven attractive, which differ from the show's intent), and apparently these ideas can fit into quite a few different plots!

Anyway, here's the roundup. Wishing everyone happy holidays, hopefully the new year will be a continuation of everything that was good about 2022!

Reset (~9k words, Rated M)

A misunderstanding between Seven and B'Elanna spirals out of control.

I wrote this earlier this year for the

rarefemslashexchange 2021, the first B'Elanna/Seven fic I ever completed. It's also possibly the "most realistic" among my B7 fic. In it, I've tried to flesh out the kind of misunderstanding that could arise between Seven and B'Elanna if they started secretly hooking up, from Seven's (unreliable) POV.

Let's go back, let's go back and start again (WIP, Rated T)

A shipwide emergency turns out to be a lot more complicated to solve than B'Elanna is prepared for.

My attempt at writing a groundhog day-style time loop! I started writing this for a dear friend (whose favorite trope is time loops) and I plan to finish it soon. Featuring B'Elanna and Harry being very good friends, Seven making questionable choices and B'Elanna having to confront some of the decisions she had to take as Chief Engineer of Voyager over the years.

Projecting (~11k words, Rated T)

A dare turns into something more.

Over the years I've seen many headcanons about B'Elanna enjoying outdoorsy activities like rock climbing so I thought, why not make it the subject of a fic? So I ended up watching lots of youtube videos about bouldering (and bothering friends who go bouldering regularly) for this fic, which I wrote for the

femslashex 2022. In it, B'Elanna gets roped into trying a holodeck program with Seven, and what happens next is... pretty much the 'annoyances to lovers' trope.

Doing The Unstuck (~4.6k words, Rated E)