This year, my Inceptiversary round-up theme is Post-Apocalypse AU. As far as AUs go, these aren't super common, but there are several that I thought were brilliantly done both the setting and the characterization. One of the things I love about fanfiction is that we can take characters, drop them into different circumstances and watch them react. ( Read more... )

I just spent a long time writing a piece for the Mass Effect Big Bang 2015 with art created by the lovely calypsotea (the links are below). The total word count was ~32,000 words. It's the longest thing I've finished and whew it was a ton of work. It was loads and loads of fun, though, I learned a lot and I'd like to talk about the process, at the risk of ( Read more... )