Album Meme
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selenak
"If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?"
1. The popular, catchy one: Hope, Possibly, post-film "Love, Actually" Sarah/Karl fix-it fic, because they needed it, damn it. People seem to like it.
2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time: Hard to answer because I tend to write either minor pairing fic or gen, and I therefore don't expect that many hits (plus I still get remarkably regular hits on really old fic). I've gone for early-ish (guys, how does early-ish involve going back 15 years?!), and not that many hits on AO3. Never Underestimate Michael Cole, because it is small and early and makes me happy.
3. The "experimental" one, written when you were possibly on some substance: I bring you Encounter at a Strange Border which features John Mitchell from Being Human meeting himself from the pilot. I was always fascinated by the differences between them, given they're theoretically the same character (they're not, they're really not, in interesting ways) and well yes, crossing over with an alternate version of yourself from a pilot where almost everyone got re-cast ... it's a bit odd.
4. The slushy one: The slushiest thing I have ever written isn't presently available (Don't Ask For The Moon, which is sugar-sweet La Résistance fic. It is over the top and gushy and I love it, but I am not convinced it is good. I am, to an extent, convinced it's not good. I mean, I love it, but that's because it's fic for a pairing where I am somehow in a fandom of maybe 3 so you literally have to write it yourself), but Paris, Manchester is also gushy La Res fic, and is on AO3, and is probably good.
5. The brash, loud one, mid album: We Need A Better Plan B, Guardians of the Galaxy ensemble fic. Because I think they'd enjoy being described as brash and loud, and there is a nice bit of staccato in the little dialogue present in it.
6. The one born of your depressive introspection: I don't really do depressive introspection, or at the very least I avoid it where possible. Probably the closest would be All These Places I Remember, where there's bits in there that are my experiences, under a lot of wrestling set dressing.
7. The bitter one about your ex/former manager/cat: Committed to Paper", or Red's thesis angst - the fic, given to Charles Xavier. He has more to be angsty about. (I really hate that I did guess what Trask would do with Xavier's thesis. I don't like knowing how evil scientists think.)
8. The one only you like, you insular weirdo: I am not the only person who liked it, but I love Father and Son, even though it wasn't a big splash. The other option for this would have been The Resurrection Men except I wasn't expecting much feedback because it's short gen fic about NPCs in a game that was a legendary failure, and the feedback I got was some of the nicest I ever received.
9. The genre-hopping crossover hit: I know it's not what crossover means here, but I am still working on my first actual crossover (I don't count Doctor Who and Torchwood mixes as crossovers, ditto MCU into each other, or X-versions). The nearest might be Man, Indivisible which is sort of intra-Bat cross over.
10. The one where you tried to be "modern": I really don't write "modern". I still have to convince myself that the present tense isn't a sin against man and God. (There is something funny about my father having been a fan of modern novels, like had Pychon books sort of modern, and me really not liking that sort of thing at all.) In Defence of the the Pupils maybe, Hogwarts castle as the main character, genius loci, sapience induced by proximity to magic?
Or To Touch The Stars, which to me isn't, but there is a sort of shared pattern of beginnings and mixed eras of Star Trek.
11. The anthemic final track: One For All and All For One, because it's all about the reboot Enterprise crew coming together to save the day.
selenak"If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?"
1. The popular, catchy one: Hope, Possibly, post-film "Love, Actually" Sarah/Karl fix-it fic, because they needed it, damn it. People seem to like it.
2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time: Hard to answer because I tend to write either minor pairing fic or gen, and I therefore don't expect that many hits (plus I still get remarkably regular hits on really old fic). I've gone for early-ish (guys, how does early-ish involve going back 15 years?!), and not that many hits on AO3. Never Underestimate Michael Cole, because it is small and early and makes me happy.
3. The "experimental" one, written when you were possibly on some substance: I bring you Encounter at a Strange Border which features John Mitchell from Being Human meeting himself from the pilot. I was always fascinated by the differences between them, given they're theoretically the same character (they're not, they're really not, in interesting ways) and well yes, crossing over with an alternate version of yourself from a pilot where almost everyone got re-cast ... it's a bit odd.
4. The slushy one: The slushiest thing I have ever written isn't presently available (Don't Ask For The Moon, which is sugar-sweet La Résistance fic. It is over the top and gushy and I love it, but I am not convinced it is good. I am, to an extent, convinced it's not good. I mean, I love it, but that's because it's fic for a pairing where I am somehow in a fandom of maybe 3 so you literally have to write it yourself), but Paris, Manchester is also gushy La Res fic, and is on AO3, and is probably good.
5. The brash, loud one, mid album: We Need A Better Plan B, Guardians of the Galaxy ensemble fic. Because I think they'd enjoy being described as brash and loud, and there is a nice bit of staccato in the little dialogue present in it.
6. The one born of your depressive introspection: I don't really do depressive introspection, or at the very least I avoid it where possible. Probably the closest would be All These Places I Remember, where there's bits in there that are my experiences, under a lot of wrestling set dressing.
7. The bitter one about your ex/former manager/cat: Committed to Paper", or Red's thesis angst - the fic, given to Charles Xavier. He has more to be angsty about. (I really hate that I did guess what Trask would do with Xavier's thesis. I don't like knowing how evil scientists think.)
8. The one only you like, you insular weirdo: I am not the only person who liked it, but I love Father and Son, even though it wasn't a big splash. The other option for this would have been The Resurrection Men except I wasn't expecting much feedback because it's short gen fic about NPCs in a game that was a legendary failure, and the feedback I got was some of the nicest I ever received.
9. The genre-hopping crossover hit: I know it's not what crossover means here, but I am still working on my first actual crossover (I don't count Doctor Who and Torchwood mixes as crossovers, ditto MCU into each other, or X-versions). The nearest might be Man, Indivisible which is sort of intra-Bat cross over.
10. The one where you tried to be "modern": I really don't write "modern". I still have to convince myself that the present tense isn't a sin against man and God. (There is something funny about my father having been a fan of modern novels, like had Pychon books sort of modern, and me really not liking that sort of thing at all.) In Defence of the the Pupils maybe, Hogwarts castle as the main character, genius loci, sapience induced by proximity to magic?
Or To Touch The Stars, which to me isn't, but there is a sort of shared pattern of beginnings and mixed eras of Star Trek.
11. The anthemic final track: One For All and All For One, because it's all about the reboot Enterprise crew coming together to save the day.
