2023 Closing Words

[hwarium]

What happens now? prompting is closed comments, fills and remixes remain open (forever) masterlist and notion are up to date, admins clock out Closing Words Greetings, my dear 17hols associates. We have reached the end of another cycle, another character arc. It may be winter or summer where you are but it is indeed an end of a season and we have very many matters to celebrate. We have (pew pew pew) written 150 fills and 12 remixes!! 59 works totalling 133k words was posted to the Ao3 collection this round, including 2 fics over 10k!! woah woah!! For a 3-year-old fest geared towards flash fic, 4 of the 10 longest fills were written in the last 2 months *____* We also got our first podfic and finally got the elusive, mythical, remix of a remix, THREE TIMES. We do have an upset on the popularity charts. The best boys for 2021 and 2022 have been sniped by Yoon Jeonghan (52 fills, over 1/3 of all entries) - I extend my thanks to Saint Laurent and Jeonghan's hairstylist. Closely behind are Mingyu (49 fills) and Wonwoo (47 fills). I also want to shout out 4th place this year -- Seokmin and Seungcheol tied on 31 fills each. Hooray! (I'm also obligated to announce we have 22 gyuhan fills this year. I'm looking at the 2 people who wrote 6/7 gyuhan fills each. Yes, you. Are you friends? You should be.) Lastly, a special congratulations to: arundels, who wrote our longest fill Final Lap clocking in at 12k words; deadwine, who remixed 4 works; and our marathon writers and fest heavyweights, soupblog (14 fills), arundels (7 fills) and thembocollector (6 fills) (a mod will reach out to you shortly). Before you go, check out our masterlist and hall of fame and remember that fills and comments are always welcome. Thank you for joining us for the beginning of 2023, we hope you have a great year and see you in the fandom! From the mods from hyojungss: thank you to everyone for their enthusiastic participation this year as always, and making it a joy to be a part of this event! ❤️ from deadwine: thank you for another round of communal madness! promising to keep myself away from masterlist updates for at least 4 months! from hwarium: Every year I thank pb and risa and this year my gratitude is multiplied infinitely ♡ Without you this fest would look like my kitchen sink. For the public record, I'm very happy about the gyuhans and the remix of remixes. I can die in peace now ♡ Also!! Sharing the ao3 top ships vs 17hols top ships for your amusement: Seventeen Holidays fin