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rosa_acicularis) wrote2008-10-27 06:06 pm
rosa_acicularis) wrote2008-10-27 06:06 pm
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five favorite fics meme, fraught with Faustian foibles and fermenting French flapjacks.
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earlgreytea68, that minx.
Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites 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. Then tag five other people to do the same.
1. Breeding
Talk about the story I never thought I'd write. Someone asked me for baby fic, and this is what my brain spat out in response. My love for this story is predicated on my love for the villain - a giant, somewhat flamboyant praying mantis. He totally steals the show, and my heart.
2. A Little Healthy Competition
On one level, this is a story about the Doctor and Mickey being silly boys. On another, it's a look at the parallels and contrasts we find in Rose's two lives - her normal, human life with Mickey, and her life of alien adventure with the Doctor. For every solid, human fact or memory Mickey can claim, the Doctor counters with something exotic. Mickey knew her as a child, as a teenager; the Doctor has seen her grow beyond that. Mickey has dated her, slept with her; the Doctor has seen her face death - her own death, and the deaths of others. Mickey wins in the end, wins with a fact at once completely mundane and inherent to who she is - her name.
Also, there is a joke about baby high-fives.
3. Incurable
I'm not going to lie - I love this fic. I write the fics I write for all sorts of reasons, but this one I wrote purely because it was the sort of story I wanted to read. It was born of an extremely complex fic challenge/dare/exchange witheponymous_rose that involved Dorothy Parker, time traveling robots, and the eventual destruction of the universe. Luckily we both survived intact, and this fic fulfilled my end of the bargain.
4. Good Night
Oh, much love for the crazy fic. I'm fond of all the Amor Mundi series (except for Of Monsters, which at the moment I hate with the fiery passion of a thousand crazy suns) because it's pretty fucked up and that's a lot of fun to write. It isn't a pleasant story, but it was a deeply valuable learning experience, and features so many characters that I love and don't have many opportunities to write - Jack, Martha, Reinette, John Smith. Nine. And there was the thematic puzzle to play with, which I maybe indulged a bit too heavily, but once again - learning experience. And even with all its failings, I'm still pretty pleased with the end result. Now, if I could just make it to the end of its sequel...
5. The Boy Who Killed Time (The Last Love Song Remix)
It's probably the most successful fan fic I've written. And by success I don't mean fandom response (The Rather Odd Couple or But Broken Lights probably wins in that regard) but rather the extent to which the final product resembles earlier ambitions. This was a remix ofnetgirl_y2k's The Boy Who Killed Time, and my first attempt at really writing a story that wasn't my story - though I suppose all fan fic fits that description to a certain degree. I think the story works as well as it does because I kept so closely to the original fic, and because I'd spent about a year falling desperately in love with Classic Who and this was my first opportunity to express that love in fic. I wanted so badly to write characters like Jamie and Leela and Romana, but until the remix I simply hadn't had any ideas.
And so I think Last Love Song must be my favorite fan fic I've written, because it's the only one that comes close to expressing what I love most about the show - the weight of its long history, and the way it can be beautiful and terrible all at once.
earlgreytea68, that minx.Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites 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. Then tag five other people to do the same.
1. Breeding
Talk about the story I never thought I'd write. Someone asked me for baby fic, and this is what my brain spat out in response. My love for this story is predicated on my love for the villain - a giant, somewhat flamboyant praying mantis. He totally steals the show, and my heart.
2. A Little Healthy Competition
On one level, this is a story about the Doctor and Mickey being silly boys. On another, it's a look at the parallels and contrasts we find in Rose's two lives - her normal, human life with Mickey, and her life of alien adventure with the Doctor. For every solid, human fact or memory Mickey can claim, the Doctor counters with something exotic. Mickey knew her as a child, as a teenager; the Doctor has seen her grow beyond that. Mickey has dated her, slept with her; the Doctor has seen her face death - her own death, and the deaths of others. Mickey wins in the end, wins with a fact at once completely mundane and inherent to who she is - her name.
Also, there is a joke about baby high-fives.
3. Incurable
I'm not going to lie - I love this fic. I write the fics I write for all sorts of reasons, but this one I wrote purely because it was the sort of story I wanted to read. It was born of an extremely complex fic challenge/dare/exchange with
eponymous_rose that involved Dorothy Parker, time traveling robots, and the eventual destruction of the universe. Luckily we both survived intact, and this fic fulfilled my end of the bargain. 4. Good Night
Oh, much love for the crazy fic. I'm fond of all the Amor Mundi series (except for Of Monsters, which at the moment I hate with the fiery passion of a thousand crazy suns) because it's pretty fucked up and that's a lot of fun to write. It isn't a pleasant story, but it was a deeply valuable learning experience, and features so many characters that I love and don't have many opportunities to write - Jack, Martha, Reinette, John Smith. Nine. And there was the thematic puzzle to play with, which I maybe indulged a bit too heavily, but once again - learning experience. And even with all its failings, I'm still pretty pleased with the end result. Now, if I could just make it to the end of its sequel...
5. The Boy Who Killed Time (The Last Love Song Remix)
It's probably the most successful fan fic I've written. And by success I don't mean fandom response (The Rather Odd Couple or But Broken Lights probably wins in that regard) but rather the extent to which the final product resembles earlier ambitions. This was a remix of
netgirl_y2k's The Boy Who Killed Time, and my first attempt at really writing a story that wasn't my story - though I suppose all fan fic fits that description to a certain degree. I think the story works as well as it does because I kept so closely to the original fic, and because I'd spent about a year falling desperately in love with Classic Who and this was my first opportunity to express that love in fic. I wanted so badly to write characters like Jamie and Leela and Romana, but until the remix I simply hadn't had any ideas. And so I think Last Love Song must be my favorite fan fic I've written, because it's the only one that comes close to expressing what I love most about the show - the weight of its long history, and the way it can be beautiful and terrible all at once.