Aimmyarrowshigh

aimmyarrowshigh is a prolific fan writer, perhaps best known for her role as a BNF in the Hunger Games fandom. In addition to writing fic, she has also created numerous edits and writes meta. She co-hosted the I Met You On LJ podcast from 2020-2022. She cohosts This Week In Fandom History (2023). 
She has also written or contributed sections to several published books on fannish topics, including The Panem Companion.
==Fanfiction==
===The Hunger Games===
Most of her fics for The Hunger Games were gen or het, and she has written some of the most popular gen fics in the fandom. 
Noteworthy Fics:
* Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants, originally published Jan 2011.
* The Five Words Peeta Only Says at Night, Jan 2011
* Peeta Mellark's Five Favorite Things to Bake, originally posted Jan 2011:
:"Peeta Mellark is ninety-six years old and the most beloved person in the Coal Estate, which was once – a long time ago, now – known as District 12."
:Referenced and linked in "How Sharing Food Brings Fans Together" by Elizabeth Minkel for Atlas Obscura, 2024.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-and-fanfiction
* How Rue Became the Mockingjay, originally published Feb 2011. Currently the most popular of her Hunger Games fanworks on AO3. As of December 2020, the most popular gen fic in The Hunger Games category on AO3 with 3200+ kudos.
* The Funeral Rites of Tributes, April 2011: "How Tributes are dead, but not how they died."
* Upside-Down Cake, Katniss/Peeta, Sept 2011
* Four Times Gale and Katniss Made Love and One Time They Didn't, Sept 2011
===One Direction===
Most of her fics for One Direction were Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, but she states she is not a Larry Stylinson tinhat. She speaks about Larries in Episode #003 of I Met You On LJ and denounces their behavior as a group.
Noteworthy Fics:
* May You Enjoy Your New Life, July 2012. Voted #7 in Top 10 Larry Stylinson Fics As Voted By You! at The Larry Library. Included in coursework on fanfiction taught by Anne Jamison in 2014. Her longest fanfiction at 250,000+ words.
* Landslide, co-written with spibsy for the One Direction Big Bang in 2014. This is her One Direction fic with the most kudos (2382 as of December 2020).
* Genesis, May 2013. A crossover with Union J member George Shelley, taking place during Season 9 of The X Factor and featuring many of its contestants as well as One Direction and Nick Grimshaw. Alpha/Beta/Omega AU. Buzzfeed erroneously listed this fic as mpreg in its article 14 Questions About Mpreg You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask in 2013.
==Edits==
aimmyarrowshigh is a prolific creator of aesthetic edits for a multitude of fandoms. As such, a small sampling is listed below:
====Star Wars====
* , a Brooklyn Nine Nine crossover (2016)
* , an extensive series of icon-sized images showing off the color scheme of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Jan 22, 2018)
* , a Poe/Rey edit, co-created with Draco_sollicitus (Jan 14 2020)
==Communities & Challenges==
aimmyarrowshigh has been a moderator of many communities and challenges since 2002. On her own domains, she ran the Unofficial Dream Street Fan Club and Bubblegum Magazine beginning in 2002. In 2002, she also took over the Illinois street team for former Dream Street member Greg Raposo. She ran his Illinois street team until 2005. In 2008, she started his national street team and ran the New York branch with Lauren & Chrissy. She also ran the official fan club for Matt Ballinger's band Open Till Midnight and did webmastery for the Stealing Jane street team in 2009. 
Starting in 2009, on LiveJournal, she moderated Brit Pack community withoutdrowning and its affiliates within the TNP Network, indpndntpeople and tnpficcontest, as well as garfieldlife, shanndrew, shannonwoodward, and sturridgelife. She also moderated the icon challenge community vintage100x100 and ran the icon blog toreadabook.
She also moderated and maintained many communities on LiveJournal for YA lit books beginning in 2011. These included the contest community bookcrushathon in 2011, the drabble challenge community yalit100, fanfiction archive yalitfics and communities for the following fandoms:
*adressedinblood (Anna Dressed in Blood)
*amelianotebooks (Amelia's Notebook)
*anna_etienne (Anna and the French Kiss series)
*ash_kaisa (Ash & Huntress)
*avalonhigh (Avalon High)
*candorflorida (Candor)
*carolynmackler (Carolyn Mackler books)
*casselsharpe (The Curse Workers)
*castlebunnicula (Bunnicula)
*chemicalgardens (The Chemical Gardens)
*dearmissperumal (The Mysterious Benedict Society)
*deliriumfans (Delirium)
*elockhartfans (e.lockhart books)
*generationdeadz (Generation Dead) 
*likeneworleans (The Kane Chronicles)
*londoninstitute (The Infernal Devices)
*maureenjbookfan (Maureen Johnson books)
*megcabotfans (Meg Cabot books)
*mrsjeepers (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids)
*ohincorrigibles (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place)
*paranormalcyfan (Paranormalcy)
*pleasant_co (American Girl)
*pseudonymousbks (Pseudonymous Bosch)
*rawther_eloise (Eloise)
*schooloffear (School of Fear)
*shipbuiltonlies (Across the Universe by Beth Revis)
*sillingtonsouls (The View from Saturday)
*skarychilldrin (The Skary Chilldrin)
*sunsettowers (The Westing Game)
*thediviners (The Diviners)
*thegrimgrotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
*unearthlyangels (Unearthly by Cynthia Hand)
In 2010, she joined the moderation team for fuckyeahUKboys on Tumblr. 
In 2012, aimmyarrowshigh moderated the Union J fanfiction community unionj_fanworks on LiveJournal.
In 2020, she began the The Old Guard Big Bang and served as one of its four moderators. She and draco_sollicitus also began and moderated Damerey Daily 2020, a Poe Dameron/Rey daily prompt blog.
In 2022, she began and ran the Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo.
In 2024, she was made a co-moderator of the Stucky Bingo.
== Example Art Gallery ==
File:To the skywithout wings cover art.png|alt= 	illustration of two starfighters flying into a blue sky with a red sun, text reads leupagus, to the sky without wings, Poe dreams of a blue-green tree|Cover for To the sky without wings (Star Wars) (2022)
File:4 minute window fic cover.jpg|Cover art for 4 Minute Window (MCU) (2022)
==Pro Books & Articles==
* The Panem Companion, an unofficial-guide that features an etymology of names in Panem, as well as a map. Published December 2012
* Successful Women of Fandom: Editors, Ambition, and Breaking the Ideal. Archived Link. HP Alliance. 8 March 2012.
* Contributed an essay to Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy
* Contributed an essay to Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, 2013
* Interviewed in Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games by Nicola Balkind
* One Bare Shoulder: The Effect of Dream Street on the Sexual Identity of the Teenipopper
* Interviewed in How Sharing Recipes Brings Fans Together on Atlas Obscura by Elizabeth Minkel. 8 August 2024.
==Speaker==
* Victory Tour Keynote, 2013
* Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World Panelist at San Diego Comic Con 2013
* The Fireside Chat Episode 001 guest
* Antisemitism in Fandom on Shit Larries Say guest
* 156. Exactly 100 Words on I Ship It Podcast (Drabbles)
* 161. You Stole From Me on I Ship It Podcast (Oscar Isaac, Moon Knight, Poe Dameron)
* 167. Hellcheer on I Ship It Podcast (Stranger Things, Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson)
* 169. We Need to Talk About Kevin on I Ship It Podcast (MCU Thunderbolts, Captain America)
* #CaptainAmerica (Stucky) - Interview with Fanfiction Writer Aimmyarrowshigh on The FanFic Maverick
* FFM Meets This Week In Fandom History on The FanFic Maverick
* S2E43: V. Arrow Loves Fandom History! on I Love This Thing So Fricking Much
==References==
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