navel-gazing fanfic meme
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I'm baking hamentaschen because it's almost Purim (which, as a non-practicing Jew, mostly means that it's an excellent excuse to bake hamentaschen), but I always forget that the dough needs to sit in the fridge for an hour before baking, so! To fill the time, here's a meme taken from musesfool.
It makes me feel very self-conscious to post a fic meme when it's been years since I've written anything more than Yuletide, but I'm trying my best to get into the habit of writing again (I have a WIP that is now actively in progress! I've written like 4k words so far! Baby steps!), so a little navel-gazing might not be a bad thing, if just for my own brain.
"If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?" meme.
1. The popular, catchy one: Logical Deduction (HP, Sirius/Remus) - It cracks me up that this has stealthily crept up to be my second most popular fic on AO3 (by kudos). It's such a silly, fluffy thing -- and more than ten years old! Definitely not what I'd consider my best writing, not by a long shot. But I guess that silliness is what made it catchy.
2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time: how the west was won (XMFC, Angel) - Fandom has become much more interested in stories about women in the past few years, it seems. And that's only for the good. (Angel was never a popular character in XMFC anyway, so I doubt this ever would have found much of an audience.)
3. The "experimental" one, written when you were possibly on some substance: 9 Strangely Arousing Things In Doctor Who (Cracked: After Hours) - In fairness, I was just doing my best to recreate the style of the webseries, which definitely involved some questionable substances. It still makes me giggle, though.
4. The slushy one: Celestial Navigation (XMFC, Charles/Erik) - Baby!Storm makes it snow so that Charles and Erik can have a silly snowball fight and then kiss. LITERAL SLUSH.
5. The brash, loud one, mid album: she's the one that they call old whatsername (Star Trek reboot, girl!Kirk/Spock) - and not just because of the Green Day title. I mean, it's Captain Kirk. The genderswap doesn't exactly quiet her down.
6. The one born of your depressive introspection: leave your life open (you don't have to hide) (MCU, Steve/Bucky) - Accurate description, and I'm sorry. I'm still not sure that I ever should have posted this fic.
7. The bitter one about your ex/former manager/cat: Kübler-Ross's Fifth (Torchwood, Tosh & Ianto) - More grief than bitterness, I think, but there was some bitterness in this particular grief. This was my goodbye to Torchwood as a fandom, some time after I'd already "broken up" with it. I'm oddly fond of this quiet little story, though.
8. The one only you like, you insular weirdo: tell them I ain't coming back (XMFC/Firefly, Darwin/Alex) - I love my weird little Firefly fusion 'verse. I will never not love it. I may even finish the series someday, and only like five other people will ever read it, and I don't even care.
9. The genre-hopping crossover hit: Boden's Mate (XMFC/Inception, Charles/Erik) - The crossover that DID get super popular, super fast.
10. The one where you tried to be "modern": Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart (Inception, Arthur/Eames) - IDK if it quite fits the category, but it was a weird one -- intentionally so, because of the disorienting quality of dreamsharing. So I guess that counts?
11. The anthemic final track: The Rose of Jericho (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto) - Well, it was certainly my anthemic final track for Torchwood (and the Whoniverse at large) in a lot of ways. And I'm still really proud of it. So while it feels less relevant than some of my more recent work, I think this fits.
musesfool.It makes me feel very self-conscious to post a fic meme when it's been years since I've written anything more than Yuletide, but I'm trying my best to get into the habit of writing again (I have a WIP that is now actively in progress! I've written like 4k words so far! Baby steps!), so a little navel-gazing might not be a bad thing, if just for my own brain.
"If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?" meme.
1. The popular, catchy one: Logical Deduction (HP, Sirius/Remus) - It cracks me up that this has stealthily crept up to be my second most popular fic on AO3 (by kudos). It's such a silly, fluffy thing -- and more than ten years old! Definitely not what I'd consider my best writing, not by a long shot. But I guess that silliness is what made it catchy.
2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time: how the west was won (XMFC, Angel) - Fandom has become much more interested in stories about women in the past few years, it seems. And that's only for the good. (Angel was never a popular character in XMFC anyway, so I doubt this ever would have found much of an audience.)
3. The "experimental" one, written when you were possibly on some substance: 9 Strangely Arousing Things In Doctor Who (Cracked: After Hours) - In fairness, I was just doing my best to recreate the style of the webseries, which definitely involved some questionable substances. It still makes me giggle, though.
4. The slushy one: Celestial Navigation (XMFC, Charles/Erik) - Baby!Storm makes it snow so that Charles and Erik can have a silly snowball fight and then kiss. LITERAL SLUSH.
5. The brash, loud one, mid album: she's the one that they call old whatsername (Star Trek reboot, girl!Kirk/Spock) - and not just because of the Green Day title. I mean, it's Captain Kirk. The genderswap doesn't exactly quiet her down.
6. The one born of your depressive introspection: leave your life open (you don't have to hide) (MCU, Steve/Bucky) - Accurate description, and I'm sorry. I'm still not sure that I ever should have posted this fic.
7. The bitter one about your ex/former manager/cat: Kübler-Ross's Fifth (Torchwood, Tosh & Ianto) - More grief than bitterness, I think, but there was some bitterness in this particular grief. This was my goodbye to Torchwood as a fandom, some time after I'd already "broken up" with it. I'm oddly fond of this quiet little story, though.
8. The one only you like, you insular weirdo: tell them I ain't coming back (XMFC/Firefly, Darwin/Alex) - I love my weird little Firefly fusion 'verse. I will never not love it. I may even finish the series someday, and only like five other people will ever read it, and I don't even care.
9. The genre-hopping crossover hit: Boden's Mate (XMFC/Inception, Charles/Erik) - The crossover that DID get super popular, super fast.
10. The one where you tried to be "modern": Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart (Inception, Arthur/Eames) - IDK if it quite fits the category, but it was a weird one -- intentionally so, because of the disorienting quality of dreamsharing. So I guess that counts?
11. The anthemic final track: The Rose of Jericho (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto) - Well, it was certainly my anthemic final track for Torchwood (and the Whoniverse at large) in a lot of ways. And I'm still really proud of it. So while it feels less relevant than some of my more recent work, I think this fits.
