Let's talk favourites

[andrew_in_drag]

So I have internet to scrounge off (the benefit of living in teeny-tiny close-together english houses is that your neighbours have their wifi all up in yo grill) and I paid the bill today, yesss!

So we should be reconnected in a matter of business days yada yada yada.

In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk favourites. My favourites, your favourites, everybody's favourites. (I can feel the Americans are melting at all these extraneous u's right here.)

If you got the time, kings and queens, I want to know all about your favourite oneshot, and your favourite chaptered fic. If you're a writer as well, I wanna know all about your favourite oneshot and chaptered fic from your writing inventory. What did you like about it? Don't be afraid to blow your own horn. Or anybody else's horn!

For me, my favourite oneshot is Casual Picture by sciencesaves. So now maybe she'll get embarrassed because I'm dragging things up from four years ago (sorry, and hi!).
This is purely the piece that speaks the most to me. It has an atmosphere that makes it come alive, and I just love it. It sounds like pointless sentimentality, but this feels like more than fanfiction to me. Like she started with a photograph and ended up somewhere totally magical.

Favourite chaptered fic: this is a hard one! Probably A Dirty Carnival, by minka_g, which sadly I can't link to because plagiarism has led her to f-lock. It was this fic which inspired me to write something yakuza-based, which led to Protect Me, which led to House of Cards! Honorable mentions also go out to all the oldies-but-still-goodies by bishonendreams, because even if she's humbly saying "they're just fanfics!" I'm saying that I read them when I was, oooh, fifteen? - and they were the first indication I got that fanfiction could be more than pretty boys being put in poses; it could be realistic, too. It was the first fic I read where I felt like even if it wasn't the Dir en boys, I would still be emotionally involved.

And finally, what's the thing you most love about fanfictions? I want to push myself to be better, so this is really pretty interesting to me.

Comments

[lady-sb.livejournal.com]

I think of Aoi and Uruha fics, life_giver Snowed In remains one of my favourite fics of all time (http://life-giver.livejournal.com/28698.html#cutid1). I always find it interesting that its my favourite because there isn't "sex" per se in it. Its basically very long foreplay, but I adore it.

She in general is a good author, but I find she isn't very consistent in updating and her tendency to go into reams and reams of unnecessary purple prose and overwrought angst makes my eyes cross >_< . However, for me Snowed In is just damn near perfect.

Another writer who I literally stopped and dropped everything to read was stupeur story Fugue in the Key of Regret is AMAZING, and its with a pairing that not many read TatsurouxMiya from MUCC.

In terms of Kaoru and Toshiya, I love yours ^^ A Momentary Lapse of Reason stuck enough with me that I still remembered it when you started posting again.

I also love novelcuisine Undone, starring Ni~ya and Sakito from Nightmare.

In terms of my own, for Aoi and Uruha, I wrote a series of snapshots in Memories that I enjoyed, and most people seem to love my kitten fic of them Home lol

For Kaoru and Toshiya, its Unwritten, but I also like my Sadie fics as well. However, my fave oneshot is also a MUCC story, As Time Goes By, based on one of my fave movies of all time, Casablanca.

[andrew-in-drag.livejournal.com]

Thanks for a good answer! As well as giving me lots of things to think about, you've also given me some new things to check out and read ;) I've never heard of a lot of these writers. Seems my few years out of the loop didn't do me many favours!

I'm also very flattered that you rate my KxT so highly! Based on that, I'm glad that I decided to give On a Highway the same treatment I gave A Momentary Lapse of Reason...I have a lot of fic requests and ideas stacked up but OAH was never intended to be that long, so I guess that one could be next. I'm really excited about it :)

And let's not forget that AMLOR was your fault entirely, haha! Without you I'd have forgotten I ever began it.

So thanks for a lovely detailed answer. I'm off to read and write!