Writer's meme! It finally caught me.

[flonnebonne]

Oh dear, I've been tagged by usagivindaloo  to do that writer's meme that's been floating around.

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.

Go Fish (Hikaru no Go)

My first HnG fic, and probably the one that rings truest to my feelings for the canon, even if the writing itself is a bit clumsy. I use some very fishy imagery, yuck yuck yuck and I have no idea how many times I've made that joke. But I'm still proud of it (The fic, not the joke. The joke is shameful). Ooh, ooh! Here's another bad joke: this fic contains a horribly conceited conceit. 'Kay shutting up now. Which is a joke as well, because my middle name is Kay! .........yeah, now I'm really shutting up.


Hikaru's Game (Hikaru no Go / Ender's Game)

I wrote this fic fast. Usually writing is a painful process for me (in fact my brain is cramping this very moment YEEARRGGGHH!!!), but once in a while the words will just spill out of me like warm...soy milk, or something. </inappropriate analogy> Speaking of inappropriate analogies, it's quite possible that all the connections I attempt to make in this fic between igo and the Battle School are really ridiculous (star points = Battle Room stars OMG), but I like them anyway. Plus it was just really fun to try to imitate Orson Scott Card's writing style. Action scenes! Zippy dialogue! Gays in the military! Wait.


The Unconventional Tale of Aragorn and Arwen (Lord of the Rings)

Ah, nostalgia. Totally wrote this story in by the seat of my pants, mainly as a means of procrastination during university, but I had tons of fun with it. Arwen's a shrew, Aragorn's a wimp (but a manly one!), the governance of Gondor is a farce, and somehwere in this mess there's True Wuv, maybe. It kind of even has *gasp* a plot! I have really got to finish this story one of these days and edit the earlier chapters to make them suck less.

Random stupid quote from the fic:

"Oh yeah, you and what army?"

Eomer gestured at their army.

Aragorn sighed.


Basketball for Dummies (Slam Dunk)

I love SD, and I think it really showed in this fic. Like "Go Fish," this story really captures what the canon means to me. In a way, the unnamed, original, POV character is me--someone who enjoys watching these boys play the game they love, and who comes to love it through them. I didn't plan the story to be a self-insert, but it kind of is one. In a very Shounen Jump kind of way. Notably, this fic is one of the only times I managed to mix comedy and introspection, yay! (SD brings that out in me) Oh, and I LOVED writing the actual basketball scenes.

God, I used the word "love" way too many times in the above paragraph. But that's okay because SD = love.


Gundam Fling (Gundam Wing)

Jesus Christ. He has nothing to do with this fic. Toastyfrog's infamous Evangelion Thumbnail Theater is what inspired it, I believe. Anyway, yeah, GW was a pretty crappy series, but I was bored enough that I watched most of it (dubbed on TV, no less). Thereafter I killed distilled the plot into a snappy, snarky, script-format story of less than 1,500 words. I think I captured the spirit of the canon and the fanon fairly terribly well. Also wrote a sequel that I don't like quite as much: Endless Schmaltz.


Runners-up: Memoirs of a Go Player (HnG) and They Came, They Saw, and They Drank a Heckuva Lot (HP), even if the latter is fairly pointless and weird as heck.

Fics I HATE: By Moonlight (RK) and Adrift (FF6), which are both quite old. It's a shame these fics suck, since I love Rurouni Kenshin and Final Fantasy 6 so very very much. It's just that I can't for the life of me write good fic for them.

Tagging...buh, who hasn't done this meme yet? Let's see....harumi, fyredancer, kitsune_jade, bittersplendor, readerofasaph. My bad if any of you have already done it.