[Meme] AO3 fics at random

[edenfalling]

Oh hey, looks like this one is going around again. :-)

I currently have 387 works archived on AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 387 (the first thing I posted*), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it!

*Technically this is not true, because backdating, but it is the oldest work which is the relevant point.

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[rosaxx50]

Hm, how about 167?

[edenfalling]

#167 is Dreams From My Mother, which is both backstory for and a character study of Wilhelmina Benedict from the Black Jewels series. (Trigger warnings for, uh... pretty much everything?)

Things I like about this story:

1. I love Wilhelmina. I love her so much. She gets sidelined in canon, which both is and isn't fair -- she's not the main character, and she's not remotely in the right emotional place for a love story during the main trilogy, but I think Bishop could easily have written a short story about her adventures post-Queen of the Darkness and am still disappointed that she didn't. So I was very pleased to write a fic that is all about Wilhelmina and why she's amazing

[rosaxx50]

I'm not overly familiar with this series - read the first book some time this year, but never continued - But yes to all you say. Especially re: Wihelmina and Daemon. And yes, Daemon resents Wihelmina, but it's not her fault, and like you said, she was a victim too in that terrible household.

[edenfalling]

The Black Jewels series is not, objectively speaking, what I would call great literature... but it hits a LOT of my id buttons so I am willing to forgive Bishop quite a lot of flaws. I have no idea how the books would strike somebody who doesn't have those particular id hotspots. Probably somewhere between boring and OMGWTFBBQ???, because truly, there is a lot of WTF going on. *sigh*

The Angelline/Benedict household was a gigantic clusterfuck of wrongness on so many different levels, it is amazing anyone got out alive, to say nothing of getting out relatively functional.

[hungrytiger11]

184

[edenfalling]

#184 is Lives by Mending, which is a tiny Darkangel Trilogy ficlet.

This is actually slightly weird, because that fic shouldn't be at that position. I edited the file a year or two ago to backdate it to 2010, but while the backdating shows up correctly when you open the fic itself, all lists still act as though it's dated 2012, which is when I posted it to AO3. Apparently AO3 does not cope well with retroactive backdating. *sigh*

Anyway!

1. I like the idea of Aeriel being proactive about Oceanus and its mysteries, instead of just ignoring the planet as a hopeless loss the way Ravenna did.

2. Aeriel and Erin holding hands! <3

3. I am not much use at descriptive imagery, generally speaking, but Darkangel fanfiction gives me an excuse to try. Here, that manifests in the focus on Oceanus's clouds (its abundant water being something the moon notably lacks), and on the warmth of Erin's body (which is a contrast, I suppose, to Aeriel's view of herself as a construct).

[chaos_harmony]

Oooh, #66? :-)

[edenfalling]

#66 is Small Favors, which is a tiny "Apartment Manager" sidefic