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

[andrew-in-drag.livejournal.com]

Massive comments are altogether the best kinds of comments. But only when they praise me unduly

Thanks for a big, big, big interesting answer! I'm a little sorry you feel that way about writing in English though - honestly, when I first met you I never assumed that English wasn't your first language. I thought you were American or something. And then it turned out you were from France!

Which is quite a Romeo and Juliet twist to our friendship ;D

I do love minka_g's fiction. Her characters are alive to the fingertips, but I am SO SAD that she never added me back! So I can't reread A Dirty Carnival. That fic is long as all hell (bible long made me laugh) but I really, really loved it; although maybe she peeked in my journal and saw I was writing something yakuza-based and thought she smelled some kind of conspiracy. Or maybe not everybody is as paranoid as me; who knows?

So thank you thank you thank you! I have a long evening of reading and writing ahead of me.

God, I'm looking forward to it ;)