Fanfic writers ...
May. 3rd, 2004 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosConsider this an opportunity to pat yourself on the back. Let's call it free advertisement.
Rec me (and the rest of this friends list) the fanfic you've written that you love the most. It doesn't have to be the best thing you've ever written, or the funniest, or the saddest. Just the one you're proudest of, whether it's as a guilty pleasure or as a show of just how talented you can be. ('Cause I've read your stuff and I know how many of you are really, really good.)
If people could only read one fic that you'd written, which one would you make them read?
(Feel free to pimp this post, too. 'Cause I think it'd be fun to have a nice, long list of stories people would love you to read, as chosen by the authors.)
My choice would be -- An Ordinary Boy ... Buffy/Angel crossover, of a sort.
Summary -- What if the question of Connor and Holtz's disappearance into that portal had ended somewhat differently?
Why I love this story -- 'Cause the twist ... oh, how I wished they'd done something like this on the shows. They couldn't have, of course, not at that point in these shows, but still. Just like it says in the author's note, a co-worker and I started discussing the possibility at work one night, and suddenly realized how incredibly cool it would have been, and frighteningly enough, it could have worked.
Okay, your turn. :)
EDIT: You know what other story I really should have mentioned that I totally forgot to when I first posted this? The Xavier Mansion Diaries. That story was oh so hard to write, but a total blast, too.
Rec me (and the rest of this friends list) the fanfic you've written that you love the most. It doesn't have to be the best thing you've ever written, or the funniest, or the saddest. Just the one you're proudest of, whether it's as a guilty pleasure or as a show of just how talented you can be. ('Cause I've read your stuff and I know how many of you are really, really good.)
If people could only read one fic that you'd written, which one would you make them read?
(Feel free to pimp this post, too. 'Cause I think it'd be fun to have a nice, long list of stories people would love you to read, as chosen by the authors.)
My choice would be -- An Ordinary Boy ... Buffy/Angel crossover, of a sort.
Summary -- What if the question of Connor and Holtz's disappearance into that portal had ended somewhat differently?
Why I love this story -- 'Cause the twist ... oh, how I wished they'd done something like this on the shows. They couldn't have, of course, not at that point in these shows, but still. Just like it says in the author's note, a co-worker and I started discussing the possibility at work one night, and suddenly realized how incredibly cool it would have been, and frighteningly enough, it could have worked.
Okay, your turn. :)
EDIT: You know what other story I really should have mentioned that I totally forgot to when I first posted this? The Xavier Mansion Diaries. That story was oh so hard to write, but a total blast, too.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:03 pm (UTC)The fic I have the most fun type writing is But Then You Showed Up, or 'Let's put Gambit in the x-men movieverse! Whee!' It's WiP right now, and I know that I've written better-quality schtuff than some of the chapters of it, but it holds a special place in my heart.
I'm also rather fond of Mad Dog, a Sirius-centric Azkaben piece, or 'Let's see how insane I can sound!' Really, I just had fun sounding crazy.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:04 pm (UTC)Summary: One of the Caller's victims. Don't answer the phone. Don't take the elevator. Beg for your life.
Why I love this story: Well, I finished it. That's one perk. It took me forever to do so, but I finished it. It's dark, it's twisted and it has a nicely abstract yet gritty sex scene in an unusual venue that I'm quite proud of. Plus it uses the word 'fuck' a lot.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:05 pm (UTC)Summary - Lex staples Clark. No, really.
Why I love this story - It was written on a dare and it's ridiculous and silly, but really surprisingly sexy. Mmm, office supply porn!
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 05:08 pm (UTC)Summary - An attack on the Ministry of Magic seen through the eyes of a random office pleb.
Why I love this story - The first bit of horror I ever did, the first *real* ficlet I ever finished. It just felt... right when I'd done it.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:13 pm (UTC)My choice would be: Silent Desperation, for the JAG fandom.
Summary: "The sun is rising over the nation's capital. A nation with blood on its hands." Mac reflects at the Reflecting Pool.
Why I love this story: I think this is the best character piece I've ever written. It's subtle, but I think it captures Mac's feelings after killing her terrorist stalker quite well.
Must go pimp this post now. *grin*
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:16 pm (UTC)summary: a car crash.
why i like it: it's one of those stories that just sort of wrote itself, yanno? i had an idea and it wouldn't stop until it came out entirely. i think i got into an interesting emotional place. :)
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:25 pm (UTC)Really, it's a tie between The Dangers of Becoming Someone Else (Dom/Viggo), and Angel of the Silences (Viggo/Elijah).
I like the first one, because...well, it felt right, y'know? My life's been weird, and recently I realized that I'm not really the me that I was before...and it didn't really bother me. And it bothered me that it didn't really bother me (so, the solution, of course, is to write slashfic about it. When in doubt, slash).
And the second one was just...weird. And I'm weird. So...yeah. Me and explanations are not on good terms :)
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:27 pm (UTC)Dangerous (http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=363), a fic set immediately after the S7 episode, "Get it Done", when she tells him that she needs him "dangerous".
Why I love it? Cause it's disturbing, violent, and very close to my fantasy ending for the show. I'm pretty proud of the writing, as well.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:31 pm (UTC)Summary: Charles Xavier lights three candles every Sunday morning.
Why I love this story: This is more or less everything I ever wanted to say about Charles in a couple of thousand words. I think it also deals well with the fallout from X2 that the movie had to skip over, and with the ensemble X-Men cast.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:33 pm (UTC)For WIPs, I have to list two: the "Fractured Knight" series, a Forever Knight AU where Natalie was a vampire when she and Nick first met, and the Watcher series, a Richie-centric (kinda) Highlander:TS story that will fit into the canon HLverse. (One story up so far: "This Humble Path Alone", where Richie recovers from his first fight as an Immortal.)
--LJ
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:40 pm (UTC)Summary: Ricky still wonders sometimes if he deserves this.
Why I Love This Story: It's one of those fandoms nobody knows they've heard of, specifically the movie My Bodyguard. The movie's cheesy and fluffy and slashy in that early 80s way, and this fic takes all the little emotional threads from the film and ties them together into an ending that stems naturally from the friendship on the screen. At least I hope it does. It's a sentimental favorite because I've loved this movie since I was a wee eight-year-old girl and it first came out.
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Date: 2004-05-03 06:15 pm (UTC)Summary -- Uh. Kyle and Cartman hang out. And stuff.
I'm not so good with the summaries.
Why I love this story -- Because I managed to use "pigwipe" in a line of dialogue. Because I can find angst in pretty much anything. Because I convinced myself, which is really what I was going for.
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Date: 2004-05-03 06:20 pm (UTC)Which i just realized I haven't updated in fifteen trillion years. God.
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Date: 2004-05-03 06:25 pm (UTC)Summary: Severus has a craving. Unfortunately for him, so does Gilderoy.
I love this story because it is funny, light and still has teh hawtness. It was also a quick write, I just sat down and it exploded across my keyboard.
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Date: 2004-05-03 06:35 pm (UTC)Summary -- JC follows a boy home.
Why I love this story -- My favorite stories seem to pour out of my head without too much of a fight. This one fell out in a roll. I still like it even years later.
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Date: 2004-05-03 06:50 pm (UTC)Summary: After the battle with Apocalypse, things should settle down and let Scott and Jean concentrate on falling in love, but something Sinister is brewing...
Why I chose this one: It's My first longer fiction, and the one I am most proud of, written over the course of two weeks, less than three weeks after I started writing. It made me feel like I really was meant to write.
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Date: 2004-05-03 07:10 pm (UTC)My choice would be: Lines of Descenet, a Harry Potter Marauders Era story
Summary: Twenty years of the relationshp between Remus Lupin and the werewolf who bit him.
Why I love this story: Because I think I created a believeable HP original character in Elizabeth, and I think that the Remus ages believably from six to twenty-six. He also gets to jump and blush an alarming shade of purple while having "the talk" about lycanthropic sex.
(It's actually a tie between this and The Ascension of the Queen, a Star Wars AU co-written with
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Date: 2004-05-03 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 07:20 pm (UTC)My choice would be -- An Eye for Trouble (http://www.ltljverse.com/stories/eye.htm)
Summary -- It's a Hercules story, and has sweaty men rolling around in the sand and a cyclops.
Why I love this story -- As a kid I always loved those Ray Harryhausen adventure movies (Sinbad and Jason of the Argonauts, etc) and I wanted to put Hercules and Iolaus into one.
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Date: 2004-05-03 08:13 pm (UTC)Summary: After Tara's death and Willow's subsequent rampage, a broken Willow says the one phrase that changes everything and the gang are then forced to confront a new Big Bad.
Why I love this story: Reset is my very first fic...but it gets better as the series goes on. *g* I originally started the fic because I didn't like where the end of season 6 was going, so I created my own. The story is canon all the way up to Grave, but then goes AU. I'm proud of the fact that I was able to write a series that had plot and more than 10 pages. I haven't been able to write something so epic since. Maybe that's a good thing.
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Date: 2004-05-03 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 08:32 pm (UTC)Summary: Hermione Granger, out of Hogwarts, is captured while on a secret mission. Can she escape?
Why I like it:
I didn't know I could write a Hermione quite that dark quite that well. Plus, the punch line still gets me.
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Date: 2004-05-03 08:43 pm (UTC)Summary: Clayton Webb has a visitor who's got some plans within plans for him.
Why I love this story: Because it still stuns me when I reread it, three and a half years after I posted it, and because it's lured a lot of people into my Eclipse universe, and most of them have never seen JAG. Since I work at writing fanfiction that works without having seen the show or movie, I treasure this indicator that, in this instance, I did what I set out to do.
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Date: 2004-05-03 08:56 pm (UTC)Sonnet for Haldir - yeah, I suck at names, too.
Summary- My response to Haldir's death scene in the movie version of TTT.
Why I love this
storypoem- My fics all suck - I never share them - because I'm terrible with word efficiency, which is why I write sonnets a lot. This is one of my first, and I think it's one of my best.no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 10:18 pm (UTC)Summary -- Scott fails to deal. Faith fails to make a connection.
Why I love this story -- Because I honestly think it's the best thing I ever wrote. And, as it should have, it pulled in both the worst and the best reviews I've ever had.
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Date: 2004-05-03 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 10:26 pm (UTC)Read it,
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Date: 2004-05-03 11:21 pm (UTC)The Woods Decay (Jesus/Judas)
This was long before "The Passion..." too, so I guess that makes me one of those dorks who
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Date: 2004-05-03 11:35 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/claireweasley/51059.html
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Date: 2004-05-04 05:57 am (UTC)Title: Journeys
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Bill/Lupin
Warning: The cookie was written long before JKR's interview saying that Charlie is 2 years older than Percy and Bill is 2 years older than Charlie. So Bill's age is closer to 30 than to 24, though it's never explicitly stated, and I just can't bring myself to change that. Call it AU if you must, but there it is. Oh, also, I’ve never been to or researched Egypt, so it might just be shit. Bear with me.
Written for: my own personal amusement/lust/whatever. It’s my first “real” NC-17 slash, so opinions are (very) welcome.
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:00 am (UTC)Summary: Being a teacher at Xavier's School for the Gifted has never been easy. Scott hopes he's doing it right.
Why I love this story: Because it was neat getting to play with the parallels between Scott's years as a student and his present job as a teacher, and because this is a lot of what I think about why Scott is the person he is. (And also because writing Magneto as one of Scott's teachers was just so much fun.)
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:32 am (UTC)Summary: Scott's a teacher. Gambit likes Scott a lot. Scott feels like Humbert before things even get going. He wants this not to end horribly.
Why I love this story: Te and I wrote piles of fic, but this is (I think) the best one. It has adults who have sticky problems and kids who think they're cuter than they are, and it suggests some of the problems that are almost inevitably going to come up if you take enough troubled teenagers and throw them together with adults who weren't trained to be emotional counsellors.
Also? It has moral depth! I was very proud of us! And it actually goes somewhere, rather than being porn for its own sake.
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:44 am (UTC)Summary: What if Cordy-beast wasn't Cordy's body, but something posing as it? And the real Cordelia was required for a kamikaze mission?
Why I love this story: It was the first time that I felt like I really nailed Lindsey's characterization down-the good, the bad, the bad that really wants to be good, and everything else in between. Add to that that I wrote it right as I was undergoing a mental revolution into a writing style that I'm fairly proud of at this point, and I love it. I love how fractured Cordelia is and how the smallest details are the most effective.
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:52 am (UTC)I'm gonna have to go with From the grey twilight, b/c it's the first story I actually planned out and edited over and over and over again until I was happy. Also, I just love the subject.
Lord of the Rings, (book'verse) - One more ghost joins Aragorn on the Paths of the Dead, and it's a familiar face.
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Date: 2004-05-04 09:09 am (UTC)My choice -- A Fool for Lesser Things for CSI
Summary -- Sara finds the greatest miracle of all, right where she least expected it.
Why I love this story -- First of all, because it's unusual - at least, I've never come across any other Sara/Lockwood fic on the internet. (For those of you who don't know Lockwood, he's the one in the icon < points to icon > ) At 92,000 plus words, it's easily the longest thing I've ever written, and it spans most of season three, starting at Let the Seller Beware going right up to the season finale. And despite the writers' best attempts, I'm also proud to say that I managed to write the whole thing only deviating from what was shown on the screen in one instance (and I
wouldn't have even done that,except I kinda had to). And it made people cry, which I meant it to do, so that's also a good thing.
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Date: 2004-05-04 11:30 am (UTC)Summary: 13 linked drabbles show Anya and Xander's path to the altar. Written for duckytears, who asked for "a discussion about them wanting to get married. Post-Gift." Spoilers through Chosen
I think this is a nice blend of poignance and humor -- much like the relationship -- and I love the way I wrote Anya.
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Date: 2004-05-04 02:21 pm (UTC)Dumbledore and Alan Greenspan (Chair of the US Federal Reserve, a major economic policymaking body) retire and assume each other's current positions. The world reacts...
Why I like it: First, the topic is TOTALLY random. I was trying to picture Greenspan during a discussion, and all I could get was Dumbledore. Second, it's written as the NY Times coverage of the announcement, not a common format, and not really one I was expecting to write in either. The combination means the humor is quite dry, somewhat more sophisticated than most of the "humor" fics out there. The reviews to the board were fairly good, so I've worked on a couple sequel scenes on and off.
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Date: 2004-05-04 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-04 03:55 pm (UTC)Summary: Clark loves the Fourth of July. Baby!Clark fic.
Why I Recommend It: Because it does exactly what I wanted it to do--it's pure sugary-sweet fluff fic, and it doesn't apologize for that. Clark and company are 5 years old, there are fireworks and picnic baskets, and it'll probably induce an "aww" or two by the end. It's cute, gosh darn it!
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Date: 2004-05-05 02:15 am (UTC)I choose-- We Love the Subs -- Lotrips-ish -- Elijah and Dom sitting around watching the Quiznos ad with the spongemonkeys.
I love this story because it was so easy for me to write. I saw the commercial for the first time and thought that they would be totally the kind of people to be amused by it. Not that they've eaten my brain or anything...I'm normal, I swear...
Short, silly, fun to write. Is there more to love?
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Date: 2004-05-31 05:11 am (UTC)This has been sitting in my inbox for ages now, but I just wanted to say thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed Ten Thousand Candles, especially since I think it's the best thing I've ever written.
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Date: 2004-05-31 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-31 05:38 am (UTC)Awwww, thank you. I think it's got more feedback than anything else, too, but I never, ever get tired of hearing that *g*.