Fanworks meme!

[starlady]

Yoinked from were_duck and longwhitecoats.

Fanworks! I love them! And despite thinking about vids constantly (hello, vidders I've recently subscribed to!) it feels like it's been a dog's age since I've posted anything. (This isn't actually true, but like I said, it feels that way. Particularly for fic.) So:

I currently have 47 works archived at the AO3, including fic and vids. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 47 (the first thing I posted), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it!

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[escritoireazul]

21

[starlady]

This is Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, part of the steampunk AU I was noodling around with. I'm quite pleased with the parts that I did write, though I had much grander plans--anyway, three specific things I still like about it:

1. The scene between Watson and Mary where he patches up her wounds, I think I managed to get at the strength of their relationship nicely.
2. I like the immediacy of the start (I think this fic may have been the one where I invented the In Medias Res tag on the AO3).
3. I like the relationship between the three of them, and how I managed to at least hint at the fact that they each have relationships with each other as well.

[longwhitecoats]

6!

[starlady]

This is Radio Nowhere! Despite being just 439 words long it is very self-indulgent.

1. I like Bruce Springsteen, and I will go to my grave convinced that Steve Rogers would love Bruce Springsteen's music, so the fic makes me happy just on that basis. The title of the song that the fic title comes from is also relevant to the fic: bonus points.
2. I'm from Jersey, and it pained me in my soul that they stuck a sign by the side of the road in Ohio and called it New Jersey in the movie. It's clearly not New Jersey, so the obsessively detailed localisms and allusions about the shortcut from DC to Jersey in this fic (for example, the Georgetown double entendre that relies on knowing DC) are my way of getting back at that, and that makes me happy.
3. There's actually a decent amount of queer history packed into this fic, which I also quite like about it. I'm always happy to strike back at the assumption that queerness was invented in the postwar (or whenever), and I think the bantering nature of the discussion helped make that point. Also that Steve is totally bi and it's a non-issue. And that the end line of the fic ties all that together. Um. Yes. That was probably more like four things.

[were_duck]

15

[starlady]

Yikes, this is Reunion, my still-unfinished "I'm going to fix X-3 and unify XMFC with the MCU" fic. I should go back to this; most of it is actually already written.

1. I fucking love Jubilee, and I like the spin I put on her here. In the epilogue she takes a job at Google and moves to the Bay Area. (Spoilers?)
2. I like that I wrote so many of the sections from the female characters' perspectives. This is actually something I try to do with these sort of big ambitious fics I tend to write, and there are a lot of great female characters in the X-Men to choose from.
3. Even just rereading it now, it's put a smile on my face--this was written in the first flush of fandom love, and re-written when I was still very positive about the MCU, and it's nice to go back to those feelings of uncomplicated affection.

I really should finish the damn thing.

[were_duck]

yessss you should finish it!