I saw this meme a while back, and never had any time to do anything with it. The object is to pick five stories you've written that you are most proud of, not necessarily those that got the most attention.
Some of my best writing, IMO, is stuff that I've done with writing partners in
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lotr_dreams. However, those aren't fics without the context of the game.
In no particular order:
A New Life: This is in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom, but neither Xander nor Spike are supernatural creatures. It's set in an ordinary neighborhood, and it has ordinary, everyday problems. It's about the choices and compromises that grown ups have to make, despite what they may wish to do. I have a hard time saying why I'm proud of it, perhaps because the subject matter hits close to some of the things I've had to do in my life, the choices I've made in my own life. Although, none of the decisions I've made are the same as the ones Xander makes, but they've cost me the same amount of emotional agonizing.
World Enough and Time: A mashup of two of my fandoms . . . Lord of the Rings and SG1. I like this one because the narrative isn't linear, which the inspiration for that narrative form came from the SG1 episode "Forever and a Day." When Boromir dies, Aragorn has two different visions . . . one what could have been and the other what will actually be. One of my favorite things was to speculate what Aragorn and Boromir would have done if Boromir had survived, and this fic does that, but at the same time doesn't change canon. (It was hard to pick from my LOTR fics).
Backwards: I was tempted to name this fic "Drawkcab" but I managed to avoid it. The fandom is Lord of the Rings Real Person Slash. This is one of my fairy tales that was sort of made up out of bits of other stories. Viggo lives backwards due to a curse from fate and he keeps running into Sean as his life unwinds. Once again, this story made my brain contort as I tried to get the math right. What age would each man be as their paths intersected? How old would Viggo appear at each encounter? That drove me crazy. This story is ultimately about a man who learns to let go of selfishness and arrogance. I'm proud of it because it caused me a great deal of difficulties making sure that plot holes were plugged due to Viggo living backwards, but I think I solved them all in a reasonable manner.
Stealing Home: OMG, the fic that grew like a fungus and spread all over my life. It's my longest save for one (and that one was a series of 50 prompts, so that fic was really 50 ficlets strung together in a rough narrative) at 62,000 words. This story is in the Supernatural fandom, but it's completely AU. The reasons why I'm proud of this one include that I managed to write that much in two and a half months, and that I wrote some interesting and amusing OCs, but mostly, because it started out as a simple boy-meets-boy romance set against a backdrop of minor league baseball, but it mutated into something so much more. I kept a tight POV on the protagonist, Dean Winchester, so the story turned into a fic about his emotional growth, not just his pursuit of Sam. (who's not his brother in my fic). The OCs were lots of fun to write and I think they helped the story come alive. With fanfiction, the temptation is to use characters from the fandom as a short cut. You don't have to do much character development when people already know the characters. In this case, I invented almost entirely new characters for the supporting players, and it was much harder to do. The other challenge was to keep Dean and Sam in character, because although this story was AU, it was still meant to be fanfiction, not original fiction. It was a major undertaking in a fandom where I'm a fairly new writer.
Those were fairly easy picks, but the last one caused me a bit of debate.
Sex Pollen Is a Myth: I finally settled on this one for my last choice. I like this one because it takes a common trope in the Stargate fandom, sex pollen, and pokes fun at the cliche. It's Lorne and Parrish, and those two seem to be my muses in SGA. Funny how one five-minute scene can cement a character's place in fanon. But that possessive jacket-tug by Lorne, dragging Parrish out of danger during "Runner" just sends my slash senses tingling every time. So I love this pairing. This story has sex and humor and one very sneaky Major Lorne. It makes me grin.
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