It's taking me way too long to bankrupt these french fries.
So, a while ago pluvial_poetry did this 'five favorite stories you've done' meme thing, and then she tagged EVERYONE ON HER FLIST. And I don't really love any of my stories (except Desideratum. I love that one.) but I do have favorites and I'm presently bored, so...
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.
1. Desideratum (QAF Gen) -
This was the weirdest, most difficult to classify story I have ever done, in that it had and lacked every pairing simultaneously. It's also my favorite thing I've ever written, because it is the most honest representation I have ever done of my actual views of the characters. I write a lot of Brian POVs, because Brian is my default brainpattern with QAF, but the problem with that is his tendency to be a very unreliable narrator due to his serious denial and emotional hangup issues, ahha. Not that Michael and Justin lacked for them, but having each view to balance the other helped to clarify things, I think.
The other thing I loved, though, is that even though it's the most honest representation of my views I've ever done, there isn't a single character in there that I actually fully agree with.
2. Straight on Till Morning (QAF Gen. Or... Brian/Babylon) -
When I posted this, everyone said OMG THIS IS SO SAD and I thought, 'Interesting! I think this is the happiest ending I have ever written for Brian."
3. Daylight and the Cost of Dawn (Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius) -
This is pretty much the only one of my old HP stories that I don't wince thinking of. Actually, not true, there's also "In the Winter of You're Gone," which I also really loved, but I can't read sex scenes written by me anymore. :D
4. How I Spent My Summer Vacation By James Who Is Brill (And Not Fancying Evans) (Harry Potter, Gen) -
Dude, I don't even know where this came from. But I like it because it's silly, and I rarely write comedy, or uhh anything that isn't inherently dark in one way or another.
5. If I'm to Be Your Camera (QAF, Brian/Michael) -
I love this story partially because there is nothing I love more than Brian/Michael backstory and partially because it's the least sappy shipfic I've ever done, and sap makes me want to die. This really doesn't sound complimentary, HAHAHA! So, what I wanted to do was write a B/M story that demonstrated (my view on) how and why they could, ultimately, choose each other not from lack of options (Ben dead, Justin gone, whatever) but because that's just what they wanted, independent of the presence of others. It's interesting, because I think I got thanked for not killing Ben like five times, haha. And like, I don't actually mind killing characters at all, even ones I like a lot. It's just that with this story, written as it was with a particular motivation in mind, killing him would have defeated the purpose.
Anyway, whether or not I achieved my goal is up to the individual but it went all right for me.
6. Slowly Unstitching (QAF Brian/Justin)
I wrote this right after 507 aired, in response to a trio of prompts, and it is by far my favorite B/J fic that I have ever done even though I have since come to dislike second person hahaha. But yeah, I already knew how the season was going to go, but I wanted to explore, I guess, something smaller and subtler. The title comes from a Terami Hirsch lyric, "slowly unstitching threads that have held us down," because it was just a quieter way of unravelling the masks and misunderstandings and dishonesty between them. And I really wanted it to be about putting them in a situation where they resume their relationship without necessarily any external changes, and without any guarantees necessarily. Partially because I like open endings, and partially because with Brian and Justin, their relationship is so tumultuous that a tied up happy ending wouldn't ring true to me. Like, if I read a B/J fic with a happy ending, I don't want to feel like there's an unspoken "and all their problems were resolved and they never fought again, and they lived happily ever after" at the end. Works for some couples, but not for B/J so much. At least for me.
I'm pretty much too lazy to get links to that stuff.
Dude, this is why I can't do one of those posts with the lists of all the stories you've written. I can't shut up about what-I-was-thinking when I talk about my own work. And also because there's a lot of stuff in my fic writing past that I don't even want to LOOK AT much less advertise or put next to things I don't hate (yet).
Aaaand, music meme thing. raelala gave me an H. Which, you know, mean. Cos I have like 5,000 songs that start with H.
01. How Strong Do You Think I Am? - Alexz Johnson
All naysayers, STFU.
02. How Strange - Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn is my happy place which is pretty interesting since she's scary as hell. But not necessarily in this song.
03. Honey Honey - Feist
Actually I don't know this song very well, but when I started randomly listening to H songs to see which ones I should upload, this one was cool so I chose it.
04. Hiding Place - Maria Solheim
Maria Solheim is someone I juuuuust fell crazy hard in love with a few weeks ago.
05. Happy Flower - Nellie McKay
Just because I love Nellie McKay.
06. Habit - Sarah Slean
Just because I love Sarah Slean?
07. He Woke Me Up Again - Sufjan Stevens
I've been slowly getting more into Sufjan Stevens over the past few months. Um, that's all I have to say.
08. Heavy - Tegan & Sara
I'm starting to think I like really atmospheric songs.
09. History - Thirteen Senses
I have totally run out of things to say, but there's only one more song so I can't stop using italicized notes now.
10. Hope on Fire - Vienna Teng
And now I don't have to anymore!
Bonus - Before Your Time - Sarah Slean. ...because I uploaded it by accident so why not? It's there after all.
Well that was fun. And now it is evident why the fanmixes are so heavily female vocal-based. Because LIKE 95% OF MY COLLECTION CONSISTS OF FEMALE-VOCALISTS, HHAHAHAH. Honestly, if the singer is male without being Bright Eyes, Damien Rice, Radiohead or someone who wishes they were Bright Eyes, Damien Rice or Radiohead, there's a fair bet it came from Lara.
P.S. Jordan, you have corrupted me for I went out and bought Project Runway S2. \m/
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.
1. Desideratum (QAF Gen) -
This was the weirdest, most difficult to classify story I have ever done, in that it had and lacked every pairing simultaneously. It's also my favorite thing I've ever written, because it is the most honest representation I have ever done of my actual views of the characters. I write a lot of Brian POVs, because Brian is my default brainpattern with QAF, but the problem with that is his tendency to be a very unreliable narrator due to his serious denial and emotional hangup issues, ahha. Not that Michael and Justin lacked for them, but having each view to balance the other helped to clarify things, I think.
The other thing I loved, though, is that even though it's the most honest representation of my views I've ever done, there isn't a single character in there that I actually fully agree with.
2. Straight on Till Morning (QAF Gen. Or... Brian/Babylon) -
When I posted this, everyone said OMG THIS IS SO SAD and I thought, 'Interesting! I think this is the happiest ending I have ever written for Brian."
3. Daylight and the Cost of Dawn (Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius) -
This is pretty much the only one of my old HP stories that I don't wince thinking of. Actually, not true, there's also "In the Winter of You're Gone," which I also really loved, but I can't read sex scenes written by me anymore. :D
4. How I Spent My Summer Vacation By James Who Is Brill (And Not Fancying Evans) (Harry Potter, Gen) -
Dude, I don't even know where this came from. But I like it because it's silly, and I rarely write comedy, or uhh anything that isn't inherently dark in one way or another.
5. If I'm to Be Your Camera (QAF, Brian/Michael) -
I love this story partially because there is nothing I love more than Brian/Michael backstory and partially because it's the least sappy shipfic I've ever done, and sap makes me want to die. This really doesn't sound complimentary, HAHAHA! So, what I wanted to do was write a B/M story that demonstrated (my view on) how and why they could, ultimately, choose each other not from lack of options (Ben dead, Justin gone, whatever) but because that's just what they wanted, independent of the presence of others. It's interesting, because I think I got thanked for not killing Ben like five times, haha. And like, I don't actually mind killing characters at all, even ones I like a lot. It's just that with this story, written as it was with a particular motivation in mind, killing him would have defeated the purpose.
Anyway, whether or not I achieved my goal is up to the individual but it went all right for me.
6. Slowly Unstitching (QAF Brian/Justin)
I wrote this right after 507 aired, in response to a trio of prompts, and it is by far my favorite B/J fic that I have ever done even though I have since come to dislike second person hahaha. But yeah, I already knew how the season was going to go, but I wanted to explore, I guess, something smaller and subtler. The title comes from a Terami Hirsch lyric, "slowly unstitching threads that have held us down," because it was just a quieter way of unravelling the masks and misunderstandings and dishonesty between them. And I really wanted it to be about putting them in a situation where they resume their relationship without necessarily any external changes, and without any guarantees necessarily. Partially because I like open endings, and partially because with Brian and Justin, their relationship is so tumultuous that a tied up happy ending wouldn't ring true to me. Like, if I read a B/J fic with a happy ending, I don't want to feel like there's an unspoken "and all their problems were resolved and they never fought again, and they lived happily ever after" at the end. Works for some couples, but not for B/J so much. At least for me.
I'm pretty much too lazy to get links to that stuff.
Dude, this is why I can't do one of those posts with the lists of all the stories you've written. I can't shut up about what-I-was-thinking when I talk about my own work. And also because there's a lot of stuff in my fic writing past that I don't even want to LOOK AT much less advertise or put next to things I don't hate (yet).
Aaaand, music meme thing. raelala gave me an H. Which, you know, mean. Cos I have like 5,000 songs that start with H.
01. How Strong Do You Think I Am? - Alexz Johnson
All naysayers, STFU.
02. How Strange - Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn is my happy place which is pretty interesting since she's scary as hell. But not necessarily in this song.
03. Honey Honey - Feist
Actually I don't know this song very well, but when I started randomly listening to H songs to see which ones I should upload, this one was cool so I chose it.
04. Hiding Place - Maria Solheim
Maria Solheim is someone I juuuuust fell crazy hard in love with a few weeks ago.
05. Happy Flower - Nellie McKay
Just because I love Nellie McKay.
06. Habit - Sarah Slean
Just because I love Sarah Slean?
07. He Woke Me Up Again - Sufjan Stevens
I've been slowly getting more into Sufjan Stevens over the past few months. Um, that's all I have to say.
08. Heavy - Tegan & Sara
I'm starting to think I like really atmospheric songs.
09. History - Thirteen Senses
I have totally run out of things to say, but there's only one more song so I can't stop using italicized notes now.
10. Hope on Fire - Vienna Teng
And now I don't have to anymore!
Bonus - Before Your Time - Sarah Slean. ...because I uploaded it by accident so why not? It's there after all.
Well that was fun. And now it is evident why the fanmixes are so heavily female vocal-based. Because LIKE 95% OF MY COLLECTION CONSISTS OF FEMALE-VOCALISTS, HHAHAHAH. Honestly, if the singer is male without being Bright Eyes, Damien Rice, Radiohead or someone who wishes they were Bright Eyes, Damien Rice or Radiohead, there's a fair bet it came from Lara.
P.S. Jordan, you have corrupted me for I went out and bought Project Runway S2. \m/