5 Favorite Fics Meme

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a2zmom tagged me; stoney321 asked.



1. The Confessional (Angel and Faith gen). By far and away, my favorite fic, sometimes my favorite thing I've ever written, EVER. It says deep stuff about the characters. It goes beyond the characters, imo, and says deep stuff about we who experience characters, about humanity, too, imho. Also, I finally managed to merge my poetic style and my more straightforward style, and there's experimentation with POV without being obtrusive.

2. Blood Types (Angel character study). Although I like the piece itself, what I enjoy most about it is the intent with which I wrote it and the reaction I got. Frankly, I wrote it so fandom would notice me, and then fandom did. Fandom was very kind. (So was kita0610 and her super BNF powers ;o)

3. In The Name Of The Father (Wesley character study). Two reasons I love this so much: I wrote it in a night; I didn't need to agonize; I got high on writing it like I hadn't gotten in a while. Second reason is I said exactly everything I wanted to in exactly the way I wanted to. Sometimes I don't feel like writing Wesley ever again, because for me this piece says everything I have to say.

4. Something Good (Sound of Music WIP). I've been ficcing this movie in my head since I was a little kid. To write something that feels true to the canon to me was and is very, very fulfilling. The people I met along the way were just as fulfilling; some of the first friends I had in fandom ever I met through this fic and my time in the SoM fandom.

5. 5 Ways NFA Probably Didn't End (AtS ensemble). I had a lot of trouble choosing #5. Frankly, I don't like to reread this piece. I find it dense and difficult. But I like it because I felt I took a risk, made the effort, and in some ways succeeded. What I love about it was that people often say fandom doesn't appreciate complexity, that attention is not paid to gen, to unusual pairings, to non-porn, to. . . anything like this. I found that isn't true. This piece makes me less afraid to experiment, and that's a thing to love.

eta: I tag my_daroga, redbrickrose, imnotacommittee, and cordelianne.