Roundup: FicInABox 2022

ficinabox is a large exchange (800 works in 300 fandoms this year) that challenges you to write 10K words (or the equivalent in other media), but the words/other can be broken up into multiple works. Many different media types are explicitly included and can be requested via tags — for example "Reddit: In-Universe r/AmITheAsshole Post," "Knitting Chart," "Illustrated Text - Bestiary."

There's also a swap option. Once you receive your assignment, you can trade some of it in for another assignment. For example you can trade in 5K words of your assignment for 5K words of one or more other assignments.

This is my third year participating. In previous years I wrote a single 10K work, but this year I swapped 7K of my assignment for three other assignments. That was a bit of a mistake, because writing four 2K-3K assignments is more effort for me than one 10K assignment. I finished three and defaulted on one.

FicInABox is one of the exchanges that you need to complete to qualify for the Triple Crown prize (for completing three 10K exchanges). Once I'd written the three works and the medical issue that had gotten in the way of my completing all four fics was behind me, I realized that I needed to write only 300 more words to get to 10K and be in the running for Triple Crown. So I wrote a fourth fic, a late treat.

I received two wonderful gifts — both among my all-time favorites. FicInABox has been really good to me that way; I've received all-time favorite gifts every year.

I wrote Loki TV (Loki/Mobius); Our Flag Means Death (Lucius/Izzy) (in which I used one of the special written medium options: List of Things [Character] Is Not Allowed To Do); Bridgerton TV (Benedict Bridgerton/Henry Graville); and an original work, sex-magic-themed.

I received an Agatha Christie Miss Marple/Poirot crossover fic, and a fic based on Devil in a Blue Dress (1995 movie based on Walter Mosley's first Easy Rawlins novel).

What I wrote:
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What I received:
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