drinkin' fresh mango juuuiiiiiice...
Actually, I'm eating fresh mango, which is even better. Although stickier and more of a threat to the keyboard.
I've been tagged by savoytruffle and kaygrr in the Five Favourite Fics meme: Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
I think most people on my flist have been tagged or done it already, but here goes: virtualpersonal, madame_meretrix, nashmaveric, rowaine, and shinodabear.
1. Dies Irae (S/X, 10000+ words, NC-17)
I love this and was very proud of it because it really pushed me. It's the first multi-chapter I've written (though not the first I started), and the first that made any significant effort at ensemble, which still makes me nervous. I'm not a big fan of vamp!Xander usually, so to write a version that I liked was gratifying, and I even surprised myself by writing some Buffy/Angel which I think worked out pretty well. I get ridiculous delight from the title reference. This also marked a shift for me - before, I wrote mostly Spike or from Spike's perspective. This fic was much more about Xander, even when it was from Spike POV, and since this I'm as likely (possibly more so!) to write from the Xander side of things.
2. Resurgens (S/X, 2000 words, PG-13)
This is almost entirely Spike-centric. It's one of the earliest things I wrote, and came out of nowhere. There are a lot of unanswered questions (both in this world and in the Buffyverse) about what it means to have a soul, whether salvation exists and what it means, and how belief works and influences the world around it, whether or not the object/god/idea believed in is real or not. I really enjoyed exploring those, from Spike's POV, and I threw in several personal things (one of my favourite hymns, and a gorgeous piece of Renaissance polyphony, for instance). I wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in it, and I felt obliged to put a "Religion is discussed" warning on it. People actually seemed to like it, which reassured me that fanfic didn't have to involve porn - I was very new to fandom then, had come via a fanfic site with variable standards, and hadn't clued in to how many broad-ranging, intelligent meta and real world discussions go on around here. So although I love this story on a very personal level, I also like what it did to cement me in LJ/fandom.
3.Aftermath (Xander/Connor, 1000+ words, PG-13)
I didn't start out as a Xander fan. I only really got interested in him through Spike/Xander slash - now I can't imagine fandom/fic without him! *g* This is the only thing I've written yet that has Xander paired with someone other than Spike, but I want to write more Xander/Connor. There are so many parallels and links between them, and I think they make a weird kind of sense together. I also like this piece because it came out in a somewhat different style for me - quieter, more dreamy, skimming over big events and noting a few small ones, less dialogue - and has led to a couple of interesting conversations about whether/how the pairing in a story influences writing style.
4. Fault Lines (Lilah/Dawn, R for language)
This is an odd choice. It's languishing at chapter 1 of an uncertain number, and I have no immediate plans for getting back to it (although I know where it's going). It's f/f, which I don't like to read, and almost certainly won't get graphic. It's not going to win any popularity contests. And yet, I am inordinately fond of it. I enjoyed writing Lilah - it was surprisingly easy to get into her head space - and I think there are some very good bits in it, if I say so as who shouldn't.
5. Wrong (Spike/Faith, 1400 words, NC-17)
Written in a spur-of-the-moment burst of inspiration when entrenous88 requested birthday drabbles for someone I didn't even know at the time, tinpanalley. I don't know why turning somehow equated to birthday in my mind, or why I decided to write het, but I have a soft spot for this fic. I think Spike and vamp!Faith would be a pretty damn awesome team, not to mention hot together.
And since several other people have kinda sorta cheated on the numbers... Honourable Mention goes to my one complete crack posting, Where's My Cow? Inspired by reremouse's Donut Boy series and Terry Pratchett's Thud!, this rewrite of an archetypal kids' book still makes me laugh. I think I did a pretty good job of sending up the Scooby gang.
I've been tagged by savoytruffle and kaygrr in the Five Favourite Fics meme: Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
I think most people on my flist have been tagged or done it already, but here goes: virtualpersonal, madame_meretrix, nashmaveric, rowaine, and shinodabear.
1. Dies Irae (S/X, 10000+ words, NC-17)
I love this and was very proud of it because it really pushed me. It's the first multi-chapter I've written (though not the first I started), and the first that made any significant effort at ensemble, which still makes me nervous. I'm not a big fan of vamp!Xander usually, so to write a version that I liked was gratifying, and I even surprised myself by writing some Buffy/Angel which I think worked out pretty well. I get ridiculous delight from the title reference. This also marked a shift for me - before, I wrote mostly Spike or from Spike's perspective. This fic was much more about Xander, even when it was from Spike POV, and since this I'm as likely (possibly more so!) to write from the Xander side of things.
2. Resurgens (S/X, 2000 words, PG-13)
This is almost entirely Spike-centric. It's one of the earliest things I wrote, and came out of nowhere. There are a lot of unanswered questions (both in this world and in the Buffyverse) about what it means to have a soul, whether salvation exists and what it means, and how belief works and influences the world around it, whether or not the object/god/idea believed in is real or not. I really enjoyed exploring those, from Spike's POV, and I threw in several personal things (one of my favourite hymns, and a gorgeous piece of Renaissance polyphony, for instance). I wasn't sure anyone else would be interested in it, and I felt obliged to put a "Religion is discussed" warning on it. People actually seemed to like it, which reassured me that fanfic didn't have to involve porn - I was very new to fandom then, had come via a fanfic site with variable standards, and hadn't clued in to how many broad-ranging, intelligent meta and real world discussions go on around here. So although I love this story on a very personal level, I also like what it did to cement me in LJ/fandom.
3.Aftermath (Xander/Connor, 1000+ words, PG-13)
I didn't start out as a Xander fan. I only really got interested in him through Spike/Xander slash - now I can't imagine fandom/fic without him! *g* This is the only thing I've written yet that has Xander paired with someone other than Spike, but I want to write more Xander/Connor. There are so many parallels and links between them, and I think they make a weird kind of sense together. I also like this piece because it came out in a somewhat different style for me - quieter, more dreamy, skimming over big events and noting a few small ones, less dialogue - and has led to a couple of interesting conversations about whether/how the pairing in a story influences writing style.
4. Fault Lines (Lilah/Dawn, R for language)
This is an odd choice. It's languishing at chapter 1 of an uncertain number, and I have no immediate plans for getting back to it (although I know where it's going). It's f/f, which I don't like to read, and almost certainly won't get graphic. It's not going to win any popularity contests. And yet, I am inordinately fond of it. I enjoyed writing Lilah - it was surprisingly easy to get into her head space - and I think there are some very good bits in it, if I say so as who shouldn't.
5. Wrong (Spike/Faith, 1400 words, NC-17)
Written in a spur-of-the-moment burst of inspiration when entrenous88 requested birthday drabbles for someone I didn't even know at the time, tinpanalley. I don't know why turning somehow equated to birthday in my mind, or why I decided to write het, but I have a soft spot for this fic. I think Spike and vamp!Faith would be a pretty damn awesome team, not to mention hot together.
And since several other people have kinda sorta cheated on the numbers... Honourable Mention goes to my one complete crack posting, Where's My Cow? Inspired by reremouse's Donut Boy series and Terry Pratchett's Thud!, this rewrite of an archetypal kids' book still makes me laugh. I think I did a pretty good job of sending up the Scooby gang.