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I'm not going to get into the snowflake challenge in a real way, but day one was self-recs and day 2 was other recs.
Self recs: in which I am a bastard.
I have a habit of writing myself into stories as an anti-Mary Sue. In other words, any version of me that shows up in a story is usually a complete bastard. This is not far off the mark.
Rhyme or Reason: It's old, and has some flaws, but I was going for an atmospheric style. It's plot-driven, but also written as a love letter description of parts of Boston to someone who hates me now, with reason. John Constantine, Hellblazer (comic version) teams up with an annoying Chaos magician from the Zelazney Amber universe to prank the vampire Lestat. There are three stories in that series. It continues with Sense or Season (Constantine, my annoying avatar and the Marquis de Carabas from Gaiman's Neverwhere, and a visit to the MIT museum) and ends with Truth or Treason, (with Methos and the glass flowers from the Harvard Museum of Natural History; disturbing violence described in dialog).
Presence: A novel-length work set in a slightly AU Star Trek universe. It was written during the runs of Voyager and Deep Space 9. The AU part of it is that Voyager returned to the alpha quadrant during the Dominion War, and that war is still going on. Chakotay/Paris, but it's been described as a Paris and 7 of 9 buddy pic. It is about identity, like most of my writing. I still like this story, although there are a number of Fails (disability and race) in it. But the injury is necessary to the plot, and I wrote it about 15 years ago and know better now. I show up as a duplicitous Betazoid from Section 31.
Do No Harm: I wish I'd titled it differently, but it was a pinch-hit for SGA Santa one year. Explores the morality and reality of creating the virus that converted the Wraith to human. I show up as an arrogant asshole scientist.
Other recs:
A Lesson in Evil by sgamadison. Fantastic crossover between SGA and Sherlock Holmes. Great Watson voice, and skates easily between movie version and the original Conan Doyle. PG John/Rodney.
Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: You've read it. Read it again. Synecdochic.
Silent Companions: This is a Star Trek story by whitecrow, and you may have never read it, but you should. McCoy voice, somewhere in the movies (not the reboot). "It's enough to drive a man to drink."
Self recs: in which I am a bastard.
I have a habit of writing myself into stories as an anti-Mary Sue. In other words, any version of me that shows up in a story is usually a complete bastard. This is not far off the mark.
Rhyme or Reason: It's old, and has some flaws, but I was going for an atmospheric style. It's plot-driven, but also written as a love letter description of parts of Boston to someone who hates me now, with reason. John Constantine, Hellblazer (comic version) teams up with an annoying Chaos magician from the Zelazney Amber universe to prank the vampire Lestat. There are three stories in that series. It continues with Sense or Season (Constantine, my annoying avatar and the Marquis de Carabas from Gaiman's Neverwhere, and a visit to the MIT museum) and ends with Truth or Treason, (with Methos and the glass flowers from the Harvard Museum of Natural History; disturbing violence described in dialog).
Presence: A novel-length work set in a slightly AU Star Trek universe. It was written during the runs of Voyager and Deep Space 9. The AU part of it is that Voyager returned to the alpha quadrant during the Dominion War, and that war is still going on. Chakotay/Paris, but it's been described as a Paris and 7 of 9 buddy pic. It is about identity, like most of my writing. I still like this story, although there are a number of Fails (disability and race) in it. But the injury is necessary to the plot, and I wrote it about 15 years ago and know better now. I show up as a duplicitous Betazoid from Section 31.
Do No Harm: I wish I'd titled it differently, but it was a pinch-hit for SGA Santa one year. Explores the morality and reality of creating the virus that converted the Wraith to human. I show up as an arrogant asshole scientist.
Other recs:
A Lesson in Evil by sgamadison. Fantastic crossover between SGA and Sherlock Holmes. Great Watson voice, and skates easily between movie version and the original Conan Doyle. PG John/Rodney.
Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: You've read it. Read it again. Synecdochic.
Silent Companions: This is a Star Trek story by whitecrow, and you may have never read it, but you should. McCoy voice, somewhere in the movies (not the reboot). "It's enough to drive a man to drink."