End of Year Fanfic Meme

My fics from 2022 are listed in my previous post. I've been so glad to receive a couple of kind responses both on LJ and here: heartwarming congratulations on what can look like an impressive collection. (For quite a while I haven't felt like sharing anything about my headaches and heartaches – at least not anything beyond writing struggles – on these journals, but I trust you understand that behind these little works, there's a little, old and rather lonely person, whom your words make happier.) Here are my answers to too many meme questions.

This year I wrote:
31 100 words of fiction: 32 stories, including drabbles. (Around 4 450 of those words have been submitted to fests in which they will be revealed as mine only in January and February.)

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
My writing had already got less and less every year since 2020 (after I'd written 121 500 words in 2019, when I returned from an eight-year hiatus). A year ago I had no goals. I just hoped I'd continue to write because I needed it as a source of joy. I was happily surprised that according to AO3 my word count for the year had become clearly over 40K. But now that I take out those fest fics which I'd included in my end of 2021 report even though they were still anonymous/not even posted yet at the journal fests, I'm startled to see that I've written barely half of the number of words I wrote in 2021. The number of fics is not fewer but actually four more than in 2021, and that's definitely a better achievement than I could have ever predicted. I made no fanart.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Argus Filch (in Being Not Normal) and Cuthbert Binns (in A Different Truth) are characters I had never thought I'd write! Petunia Evans (in Some Hopes), too.

( This year's theme and so on )