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2006 fic review meme!
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cereta. I've often thought that the more unhappy I am, the less I update my journal and write fic. 2006 was a pretty sucky year, hence not much fic but I went ahead and did this fic meme anyway. Results are tucked neatly away under a cut to keep them from clogging up your flist. ♥
The List:
I'm only putting up my finished works, no WIPs. And all my drabbles are linked in their original posts instead of separately.
As for drabbles, I did an icon meme, a song lyric meme, drabbles over IM and this userpic meme.
Call it the year of lots of fandoms and crossovers and RP-fic.
My favorite story of this year:
Hm. Tough one, since I wasn't actually all that happy with anything I wrote (they all had things I thought I could improve) but I actually really liked burn you just like teenage love. It's fun to reread, and that's really one of my main criteria for my own fics -- how well they stand up to repeated reading.
My best story this year:
Little Children. It really captured the mood that I was going for perfectly, and I like the way that I set everything up and had it segue. It's one of those fics that I actually think translated to text as well as it did in my head.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
So Shall You Reap. I know most of the watchers on the journal don't read it for HP fic and that genfic without popular pairings doesn't really work for most of the watchers, but I honestly think that I did a good job of writing out what the characters were like in a complex, multi-layered story and I'm surprised that not many people commented on it.
Most beloved by readers:
Possibly When Duellists Ruled The World or Little Children. I think those got the overwhelmingly positive feedback though the second one had a better chance since I x-posted a link over at the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lower_tadfield comm.
Most fun story:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rasputin and Bartok. Bartok. How can any story with him not be fun?
Most sexy story:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Mai and Ryuuji. It had a thousand words of sex in it, c'mon, what more do you want?
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Fairy Tale of Troubled Dragons: Schadenfreude Remix. If I could rewrite it, I'd break up the chunky paragraphs so that the descriptions get highlighted better -- I was trying to stick to Neko's outline but the problem is that I ended up burying some of my favorite bits in the middle of thick paragraphs. And in case you're wondering, the moment in question is:
When Seto’s feeling masochistic, he kisses the bruises with his eyes open and looks up to Ryuuji’s laughing green eyes, so pretty and wickedly amused. Ryuuji knows what Seto’s doing and strokes his fingers through Seto’s hair, speaking lowly of Malik and dirty alleyways and needing hits – he displays the fresh marks on the inside of his arm, demands that Seto kiss those as well, pins Seto to the bed and forces Seto to listen while Ryuuji explains, painfully sweetly, exactly how it feels to have someone say your money isn’t good enough for them and what they want is to fuck your pretty mouth instead. And then he tells Seto what it feels like to need the next dose so badly that you just go along with it, sucking off a near-stranger in an alley, all for the sake of a few moments of bliss. Ryuuji wants to know how far he can push it, and it turns out that the breaking point is when he speculates out loud about how desperate Mokuba might have gotten, and if he ever had to do that – it’s at that point that Seto just pushes Ryuuji off him and goes over to the door. He picks up an empty needle and tilts in Ryuuji’s direction, mock-toasting all the dark-haired boys with more beauty than brains.
I seriously, seriously love twisted, self-hating sex where it's not "I hate you so I'll fuck you" but "I hate myself so I'll fuck you". Especially if both characters are acting like that and lashing out at each other.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Ax/Tobias. Because they're technically uncle/nephew and they're different species and Rachel/Tobias is totally my canon OTP.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
So Shall You Reap. I hadn't ever really thought too much about the characters before, and I'd definitely never mused much over Helga so it was surprising to see how this managed to center around all four of them and have so much of how Helga thought. I just really liked the way that this story sliced through all four of them cleanly.
Hardest story to write:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rogue and Gambit. Because I'd never written for Marvel before and really doubted that I knew the characters well enough to write.
Easiest story to write:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Marik and Yami at DU. 4K+ of solid torture and mindfuckery, c'mon. The problem was getting all of it written down in a way that more or less flowed.
Biggest Disappointment:
When Duellists Ruled The World. It's such a good, solid idea that I hate that I couldn't write it better.
Biggest Surprise:
I wrote sex scenes. Het and>/i> slash. What next, femmeslash?!
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
I don't think anything really gives away a lot about me? Though reading Fairy Tale of Troubled Dragon: Schadenfreude Remix is a pretty good way to tell what exactly makes me happy in fic, since it hits most of my buttons dead-on.
*goes back to writing paper now*
cereta. I've often thought that the more unhappy I am, the less I update my journal and write fic. 2006 was a pretty sucky year, hence not much fic but I went ahead and did this fic meme anyway. Results are tucked neatly away under a cut to keep them from clogging up your flist. ♥The List:
I'm only putting up my finished works, no WIPs. And all my drabbles are linked in their original posts instead of separately.
- Second Chances. Seto/Ryuuji, darkish fic where Seto kidnaps Ryuuji for his own good. Seto is decidedly not completely sane but that's okay, neither is Ryuuji. YGO.
- So Shall You Reap. Sort of gen Founders fic. Sal and Godric are both crushing on Rowena, but it's more about how they interact as kids and grow up together than the romance angle. HP.
- 1sentence psychoshipping claim. Exactly what the link text says. YGO.
- Little Children. The Four Horsepeople are paired with their replacements. Mostly a look at how the Them could have grown up, and what exactly it means to have defeated the Horsepeople of the Apocalypse. Good Omens fandom.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rasputin and Bartok. Uh. They're actually slashed just a wee bit together, but I had to make Bartok human for it. Anastasia fandom.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Ax and Tobias. Ax/Tobias. Post-series. My favorite guilty pairing. Animorphs fandom.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Seto’s Credit Card, Ryuuji, Mai and Shopping Sprees.. Fun, fluffy, light friendship het. YGO.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Seto and Noa at DU.. Seto/Noa, first actual incest-y fic I wrote if you don't count Ax/Tobias as incest. YGO, and domino_uni-verse.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rogue and Gambit. Het, AU, X-Men comics if Magneto won.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Stephen and Sarah. Het, crossover, hogwarts_hocus-verse. Labyrinth/Master & Commander.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Ryuuji and Terry. Slash, AU, YGO + Batman Beyond.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Seto at DU. Kind of goes with the Seto/Noa story. Incest-y again, slash, YGO and domino_uni-verse.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Noa at DU. See above.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Mai and Ryuuji.. Explicit het sex. My first time writing explicit sex at all, in fact, and it was het. Mai and Ryuuji are friends, and that's the best thing to be, besides them. YGO.
- Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Marik and Yami at DU. Marik/Yami undertones, incredibly disturbing and twisted with graphic gore. YGO, domino_uni-verse.
- Fairy Tale of Troubled Dragons: Schadenfreude Remix. This is actually a remixed version of Neko's fic, and is Ryuuji/Seto, Ryuuji/Mai, junkie!fic, dark and basically hits a ton of my buttons. YGO.
- When Duellists Ruled The World. Genfic, looks at the lack of police/government in canon. Darkish. YGO.
- To End All Misery. Short genfic. Yami no Yuugi's crazy but well-intentioned. YGO.
- Living Dreams. Jason, Steph. Genfic, AU. DC.
- Cloaked Like Karma. Jason, Steph. Sometimes, you can right wrongs without violence. Genfic, AU. DC.
- burn you just like teenage love. Terry/Ryuuji, crossover, slash. First explicit bit of gay sex that I wrote. Batman Beyond/YGO.
- Non-Abstract Love. River/Stephen, het, hogwarts_hocus-verse. Crossover of Master & Commander/Firefly.
- Have Yourself A Merry Wii Christmas. Ax, Tobias, Marco. Genfic, mostly humor, very bad Wii jokes. Animorphs fandom.
- Red's Not Just For Romance. Misty genfic. Introspective, splashed with a little het for flavoring. Ash/Misty. Pokemon.
- Shopping For The Family. Itachi genfic, has Sasuke as well. Somewhat creepy. Naruto.
- Something Like A Fairy Tale. Ryuuji/Sarah, crossover, het, AU. YGO/Labyrinth.
As for drabbles, I did an icon meme, a song lyric meme, drabbles over IM and this userpic meme.
Call it the year of lots of fandoms and crossovers and RP-fic.
My favorite story of this year:
Hm. Tough one, since I wasn't actually all that happy with anything I wrote (they all had things I thought I could improve) but I actually really liked burn you just like teenage love. It's fun to reread, and that's really one of my main criteria for my own fics -- how well they stand up to repeated reading.
My best story this year:
Little Children. It really captured the mood that I was going for perfectly, and I like the way that I set everything up and had it segue. It's one of those fics that I actually think translated to text as well as it did in my head.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
So Shall You Reap. I know most of the watchers on the journal don't read it for HP fic and that genfic without popular pairings doesn't really work for most of the watchers, but I honestly think that I did a good job of writing out what the characters were like in a complex, multi-layered story and I'm surprised that not many people commented on it.
Most beloved by readers:
Possibly When Duellists Ruled The World or Little Children. I think those got the overwhelmingly positive feedback though the second one had a better chance since I x-posted a link over at the
lower_tadfield comm.Most fun story:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rasputin and Bartok. Bartok. How can any story with him not be fun?
Most sexy story:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Mai and Ryuuji. It had a thousand words of sex in it, c'mon, what more do you want?
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Fairy Tale of Troubled Dragons: Schadenfreude Remix. If I could rewrite it, I'd break up the chunky paragraphs so that the descriptions get highlighted better -- I was trying to stick to Neko's outline but the problem is that I ended up burying some of my favorite bits in the middle of thick paragraphs. And in case you're wondering, the moment in question is:
When Seto’s feeling masochistic, he kisses the bruises with his eyes open and looks up to Ryuuji’s laughing green eyes, so pretty and wickedly amused. Ryuuji knows what Seto’s doing and strokes his fingers through Seto’s hair, speaking lowly of Malik and dirty alleyways and needing hits – he displays the fresh marks on the inside of his arm, demands that Seto kiss those as well, pins Seto to the bed and forces Seto to listen while Ryuuji explains, painfully sweetly, exactly how it feels to have someone say your money isn’t good enough for them and what they want is to fuck your pretty mouth instead. And then he tells Seto what it feels like to need the next dose so badly that you just go along with it, sucking off a near-stranger in an alley, all for the sake of a few moments of bliss. Ryuuji wants to know how far he can push it, and it turns out that the breaking point is when he speculates out loud about how desperate Mokuba might have gotten, and if he ever had to do that – it’s at that point that Seto just pushes Ryuuji off him and goes over to the door. He picks up an empty needle and tilts in Ryuuji’s direction, mock-toasting all the dark-haired boys with more beauty than brains.
I seriously, seriously love twisted, self-hating sex where it's not "I hate you so I'll fuck you" but "I hate myself so I'll fuck you". Especially if both characters are acting like that and lashing out at each other.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Ax/Tobias. Because they're technically uncle/nephew and they're different species and Rachel/Tobias is totally my canon OTP.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
So Shall You Reap. I hadn't ever really thought too much about the characters before, and I'd definitely never mused much over Helga so it was surprising to see how this managed to center around all four of them and have so much of how Helga thought. I just really liked the way that this story sliced through all four of them cleanly.
Hardest story to write:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Rogue and Gambit. Because I'd never written for Marvel before and really doubted that I knew the characters well enough to write.
Easiest story to write:
Twenty Random Facts You May or May Not Know About Marik and Yami at DU. 4K+ of solid torture and mindfuckery, c'mon. The problem was getting all of it written down in a way that more or less flowed.
Biggest Disappointment:
When Duellists Ruled The World. It's such a good, solid idea that I hate that I couldn't write it better.
Biggest Surprise:
I wrote sex scenes. Het and>/i> slash. What next, femmeslash?!
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
I don't think anything really gives away a lot about me? Though reading Fairy Tale of Troubled Dragon: Schadenfreude Remix is a pretty good way to tell what exactly makes me happy in fic, since it hits most of my buttons dead-on.
*goes back to writing paper now*
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