The moon is so bright.
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firstlightIt's shining through the gap in the curtains as though there's a streetlight outside, though the light isn't close to orange enough.
Sarah (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elyndys) tagged me:
Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fics favorite 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.
In no particular order...
Though this is going to be tricky, not least because I have a bizarre love/hate relationship with a great many of my stories. (...the more I hate them when I'm writing them, the more likely I am to love them with hindsight.)
1. In that light, Moments of Grace (Sanada/Yukimura, Niou/Yukimura, NC-17) probably shouldn't be a surprising choice, given just how much I hated it while writing it. I don't know how well it succeeds as fanfiction, to be honest, but I really pushed my own limits a long long way with this one, and I think in terms of writing it let me explore some new things, so I'm fond of it. Now. At the time I just wanted to murder it in its sleep, the damn thing. It's also an incredibly personal story, but that is another tale.
2. Damage Done (Niou/Yagyuu, Yukimura(/Niou?), PG through to light R by section, AU, angsty as hell), I've been told, seems like a prelude to a much bigger story. This is more or less true, although it's so open-ended that really I have no idea where a longer story might take me, which is probably why I'm afraid to find out. Basically, it would be a much bigger story. And that's pretty much why it doesn't deserve a place as one of the best things I've written. It's just not all there. It's also written in a disjointed way due to the nature of the challenges I was writing it in response to. HOWEVER. I really do have a soft spot for it, mostly because it's about the aftermath more than the event...and because making Niou angst is strangely enjoyable.
3. Redshift (Hakkai/Gojyo reincarnation fic, R) is written pretty damn badly (although not as badly as Gentleman and Trickster (Yagyuu/Niou, PG-13, AU), which falls into the same category in my mind). I'm not going to apologise for it on that front. It's an older story of mine, and it's my first Saiyuki story, and it's the only really substantial story I've written for that fandom to date. At least, the only one available in public. I often think about it and want to work on it and make it coherent and all sorts of things. It will almost certainly never happen. But I think about it enough that it probably has earned its place on this list, because I really wish it could've been something good and it takes up a lot of brain-space.
4. The level on which I am fond of Silver Bullet (Yagyuu/Niou, NC-17) is a sort of nostalgic one, because Parts Of This Story Are True. It reminds me a lot of my time in Japan, and it was written with our experience of Hokkaido fresh in my mind, even though we were there in summer, not winter. And there are trains. Anj used to laugh about my Thing with trains. But yeah, it's a Thing. I'm honestly not fond of the plot of this one, because it's so damn unoriginal, but the bits that are true make me like it anyway. In a weird personal way.
5. Ad Interim//And Moving Onward (Sanada/Yukimura, Yagyuu/Niou, Yagyuu/Niou/Yukimura, NC-17) fits into a similar sort of class to Silver Bullet, actually. The SanaYuki side especially. Nostalgia for Japan. Also, this 'verse seems to be all about the filthy porn and frankly, any shame I should feel about this has been MIA for some time. It's just fun, okay?Look. Sometimes I get my kicks from things other than murdering characters and then making other characters deal with the mess. Honest!
...okay, so mostly that's Tenipuri fic. Because I tend to like my longer stories better than my shorter ones (more to remember them for, I guess), and almost all the longer things I've posted are for Tenipuri. Huh. Also possibly less AU than might be expected of me? Though there's some in there, so no-one has to die of shock.
I'm going to bed now. *g* I am way too sleepy to think of people to tag, but please, I'm always ridiculously curious about what other people make of their own writing. Go forth and tag yourselves.
Sarah (
elyndys) tagged me:Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fics favorite 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.
In no particular order...
Though this is going to be tricky, not least because I have a bizarre love/hate relationship with a great many of my stories. (...the more I hate them when I'm writing them, the more likely I am to love them with hindsight.)
1. In that light, Moments of Grace (Sanada/Yukimura, Niou/Yukimura, NC-17) probably shouldn't be a surprising choice, given just how much I hated it while writing it. I don't know how well it succeeds as fanfiction, to be honest, but I really pushed my own limits a long long way with this one, and I think in terms of writing it let me explore some new things, so I'm fond of it. Now. At the time I just wanted to murder it in its sleep, the damn thing. It's also an incredibly personal story, but that is another tale.
2. Damage Done (Niou/Yagyuu, Yukimura(/Niou?), PG through to light R by section, AU, angsty as hell), I've been told, seems like a prelude to a much bigger story. This is more or less true, although it's so open-ended that really I have no idea where a longer story might take me, which is probably why I'm afraid to find out. Basically, it would be a much bigger story. And that's pretty much why it doesn't deserve a place as one of the best things I've written. It's just not all there. It's also written in a disjointed way due to the nature of the challenges I was writing it in response to. HOWEVER. I really do have a soft spot for it, mostly because it's about the aftermath more than the event...
3. Redshift (Hakkai/Gojyo reincarnation fic, R) is written pretty damn badly (although not as badly as Gentleman and Trickster (Yagyuu/Niou, PG-13, AU), which falls into the same category in my mind). I'm not going to apologise for it on that front. It's an older story of mine, and it's my first Saiyuki story, and it's the only really substantial story I've written for that fandom to date. At least, the only one available in public. I often think about it and want to work on it and make it coherent and all sorts of things. It will almost certainly never happen. But I think about it enough that it probably has earned its place on this list, because I really wish it could've been something good and it takes up a lot of brain-space.
4. The level on which I am fond of Silver Bullet (Yagyuu/Niou, NC-17) is a sort of nostalgic one, because Parts Of This Story Are True. It reminds me a lot of my time in Japan, and it was written with our experience of Hokkaido fresh in my mind, even though we were there in summer, not winter. And there are trains. Anj used to laugh about my Thing with trains. But yeah, it's a Thing. I'm honestly not fond of the plot of this one, because it's so damn unoriginal, but the bits that are true make me like it anyway. In a weird personal way.
5. Ad Interim//And Moving Onward (Sanada/Yukimura, Yagyuu/Niou, Yagyuu/Niou/Yukimura, NC-17) fits into a similar sort of class to Silver Bullet, actually. The SanaYuki side especially. Nostalgia for Japan. Also, this 'verse seems to be all about the filthy porn and frankly, any shame I should feel about this has been MIA for some time. It's just fun, okay?
...okay, so mostly that's Tenipuri fic. Because I tend to like my longer stories better than my shorter ones (more to remember them for, I guess), and almost all the longer things I've posted are for Tenipuri. Huh. Also possibly less AU than might be expected of me? Though there's some in there, so no-one has to die of shock.
I'm going to bed now. *g* I am way too sleepy to think of people to tag, but please, I'm always ridiculously curious about what other people make of their own writing. Go forth and tag yourselves.
