So I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with ficathons. I usually need some sort of prompt to get me off my ass, and I always get really excited and then...my prompts never get written, or the stuff I wrote never gets commented on by the person for whom I wrote it, and so I swear to just take my toys and go eat worms. But I have recently entered two ficathons and (though my contributions have not always been commented upon by their recipients--ahem?!), I have received some lovely fic in exchange. To wit:
for
Remix--
The Other Side of This Life (The Grass is Always Greener Remix) is like my SPN Sam/Jess
drabble
'the birthday of my life' drabble, but backwards and longer! by mimi (agent_orange)
for
apocalyptothon --
krilymcc wrote me
Conversations with Dead People (Veronica Mars), as a pinch-hit, no less, in a fandom no one ever writes any more and
schizoauthoress wrote
Tasted of Desire (Firefly/Serenity), which takes my love of secondary and obscure characters to an extreme.
I'm a little ambivalent about my own entries in these challenges--
Civil Defense and
Backstory, Or how Danny Concannon Covered 5 Stories that Never Happened were ok, but not great--so I made out like a bandit!