Alan always tried too hard to be gentle, which made everything worse.

[lilian_cho]

Nick set his teeth.

"Am I hurting you?"

"No," Nick said. "That was the stupid birds."

1. Please vote for summerpornathon's Challenge 1. Non-participants can vote too.
[Direct link to the poll]

My fav. pieces:
5) Arthur wingfic captivity, 11) Merlin wingfic battle aftermath,
13) Cupid, female Merlin, 19) Reincarnation fic, bodyswap, 20) Steampunk future,

Comments

[merkuria]

The number of fics almost defeated me! Never thought that would happen. But I did vote, and 43 was one of my chosen 3 - it was so lovely and original.

[lilian_cho]

IK,R?

Did you actually read everything? *applauds*

There are way more people this year too, so there's 40% more fics, I think. *squints*

[merkuria]

I did give every fic a try, though I admit I didn't finish quite a few, they were just not my cup of tea. Having read a zillion fics already, I find that the author has to really work some magic with an old trope to evoke more than a yawn from me *cough derivative genderswap cough*

Blase, that's me :D

[lilian_cho]

I skimmed some of them ^^;; (Well, I skim at least half of the fanfic I read)

Tropes: love 'em, hate 'em.
I never did understand people's aversion to wingfic, but I guess they just read too many mediocre-to-bad wingfics.