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Post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.
Wow. This is pretty tricky. I've written a lot of fanfic across a fair few fandoms and I even still like most of it.
So, I'll rec three fics - Stargate Atlantis, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Stargate Atlantis
title: Bargains Untenable
summary: Her last sight of them was of Torren's eyes filling with tears again as John walked to the door with resolute steps.
notes: This is a Teyla-centric fic that circles around the concept of her Wraithgene and the value of Torran to Michael. It's not one of my more popular SGA fics, because a) Teyla, b) John/Teyla; however it was written towards the end of my SGA run, and by this stage I was comfortable with the nuances of the characters, who they were, what they were doing, as well as the way I tell stories.
Plus I love the sacrifice stories - particularly when the sacrifice is willingly made by a woman - a choice with all the agency that she has available to her. (Limited agency and women; it's a thing for me - not the superpowers, not the white males who can do anything, but the women who have limited choices and still manage to make the best of a bad situation. Our society and storytelling traditions don't respect women's choices at all; to me fiction with femmeprotags who have limited choices and are still depicted as strong for their choice is a way of bringing respect back into the equation.)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
title: Between Destiny And Love
summary: Maria Hill meets Clint Barton on her first mission as a full-fledged SHIELD agent, reared, geared, and ready to rumble. He walks with a swagger as most male operatives do, and she prepares to be paternalised as most female operatives are. Sometimes love is complicated.
notes: So, this story is Maria Hill/Clint Barton and Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, and Clint Barton/Laura Barton, and canon-compliant up to Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and a subverted soulmates AU. Still with me? It's actually a story about the people we are, about the things we can have and the compromises we make when we can't, and how destiny is not the same as love. I'd say that, out of all the fics I've yet written, this story is my id speaking.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
title: Gain And Loss
summary: Freedom can be wonderful or terrifying. Sometimes it's both.
notes: I debated whether to rec this one or my Mad Max: Fury Road fic from Yuletide, but I landed on this one because I think I got Rey just right. (Not that I didn't get Furiosa right, but the fic, while good, isn't quite what I wanted it to be.) I have a head full of Star Wars fic bunnies right now, but this one was born of a friend's idea of five of Rey's 'First Times' (smut unnecessary). And when I think that there's a whole universe out there, plus the Force, plus sudden family-connection-integration, then it's surely got to be one part amazing and ninety-nine parts terrifying for Rey.
Wow. This is pretty tricky. I've written a lot of fanfic across a fair few fandoms and I even still like most of it.
So, I'll rec three fics - Stargate Atlantis, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Stargate Atlantis
title: Bargains Untenable
summary: Her last sight of them was of Torren's eyes filling with tears again as John walked to the door with resolute steps.
notes: This is a Teyla-centric fic that circles around the concept of her Wraithgene and the value of Torran to Michael. It's not one of my more popular SGA fics, because a) Teyla, b) John/Teyla; however it was written towards the end of my SGA run, and by this stage I was comfortable with the nuances of the characters, who they were, what they were doing, as well as the way I tell stories.
Plus I love the sacrifice stories - particularly when the sacrifice is willingly made by a woman - a choice with all the agency that she has available to her. (Limited agency and women; it's a thing for me - not the superpowers, not the white males who can do anything, but the women who have limited choices and still manage to make the best of a bad situation. Our society and storytelling traditions don't respect women's choices at all; to me fiction with femmeprotags who have limited choices and are still depicted as strong for their choice is a way of bringing respect back into the equation.)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
title: Between Destiny And Love
summary: Maria Hill meets Clint Barton on her first mission as a full-fledged SHIELD agent, reared, geared, and ready to rumble. He walks with a swagger as most male operatives do, and she prepares to be paternalised as most female operatives are. Sometimes love is complicated.
notes: So, this story is Maria Hill/Clint Barton and Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, and Clint Barton/Laura Barton, and canon-compliant up to Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and a subverted soulmates AU. Still with me? It's actually a story about the people we are, about the things we can have and the compromises we make when we can't, and how destiny is not the same as love. I'd say that, out of all the fics I've yet written, this story is my id speaking.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
title: Gain And Loss
summary: Freedom can be wonderful or terrifying. Sometimes it's both.
notes: I debated whether to rec this one or my Mad Max: Fury Road fic from Yuletide, but I landed on this one because I think I got Rey just right. (Not that I didn't get Furiosa right, but the fic, while good, isn't quite what I wanted it to be.) I have a head full of Star Wars fic bunnies right now, but this one was born of a friend's idea of five of Rey's 'First Times' (smut unnecessary). And when I think that there's a whole universe out there, plus the Force, plus sudden family-connection-integration, then it's surely got to be one part amazing and ninety-nine parts terrifying for Rey.