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jlhTwo, two, two memes in one!
First, frommahoni, top 10 fics (of mine) on AO3, by hit count:
I feel like this is more a function of what fandoms are popular with AO3 readers, like White Collar which because it's heavily on AO3 gets classified as a large fandom for Yuletide purposes, or the two Yuletide fics written after they moved posting to AO3 so that was the only place folks could read them for the first week, or Kradam, which is anastolat fave, or the Jim/Bones stuff in about the order I might have predicted though The Sun Rising doing so well is nice. Why the Ryan/Esposito is so high I'm not sure, other than the way people poke around AO3 for rarer pairings. But the big sort-of-surprise is All Over Me--surprise because it's pure Rymon all the way down, but only sort of because it's the first time fic.
By the way, the fic of mine with the most favorites on delicious, by far, is Leave No Man Behind, the Barney/Robin fic I wrote for Yuletide back in 2007 before Barney/Robin was even really a thing, when there were like, seven fics in the fandom or something.
(list of questions can be found at day one)
one | two | three | four | five | six
7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Writing Ron definitely made me like him more. I think that if I met him he'd be someone I liked but would never seek out or be close to, and coming off GoF I really wasn't sure that he'd been a good friend for Harry. (I know that others see that situation as being the reverse and that's fine! I'm not interested in debating my feelings about Harry Potter canon; that subject is closed.) But writing him in EWFS made me figure out what I did like about him and gave me an affection for him and his situation that I brought with me back to canon.
I think I'm still trying to work my way around Spock. Not that I dislike him, but it's hard for me to find a way into him or in some ways Nyota.
As for reading other people's fics, probably? But I suck at remembering specific examples. I don't know that I have super fixed ideas about characters coming out of canon--they're more like electron clouds, where they have a general area but could be anyplace within that area. I think that's just what people are like. If a story is well written I'll go with it, most of the time. This is why I make such a bad canon-whore. I'm far too flexible.
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mahoni, top 10 fics (of mine) on AO3, by hit count:- To Match Her Eyes. White Collar: Peter/Elizabeth/Neal, NC-17, 1200 words. The one where El peggs Neal.
- Ten Short Stories About Kevin and Javier. Castle: Ryan/Esposito, R, 1000 words. A drabble series where each roughly correlates with one of the ten first season episodes.
- Keep Your Enemies Closer. Adam/Kris, Ryan/Simon, PG-13, 47,000 words total. The 90s AU.
- Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe. Jim/Bones, Spock/Uhura, NC-17, 65,000 words. The Hollywood AU written for the STBB.
- Caviar Sandwiches and Beer. The Philadelphia Story: Dexter/Tracy, Mike/Liz, PG, 3000 words. Wartime epistolary fic written for Yuletide.
- When The Game Ends, We'll Sing Again. Jim/Bones, Spock/Uhura, R, 20,000 words. The Harvard AU.
- Ancient Artifacts and Modern Rituals. Community: Gen, PG, 1000 words. The one where the gang go to New York City for spring break, written for Yuletide.
- Who Would, Would You? Jim/Bones, NC-17, 3000 words. MonsterCock!Bones, written for the kink meme.
- The Sun Rising. Jim/Bones, PG, 3400 words. The one where Bones is Jim's secret admirer, and it's really fluffy and there's a proposal at the end, written for a flashfic challenge on J&B.
- All Over Me. Ryan/Simon, Season 1, NC-17, 3000 words. The first-time fic.
I feel like this is more a function of what fandoms are popular with AO3 readers, like White Collar which because it's heavily on AO3 gets classified as a large fandom for Yuletide purposes, or the two Yuletide fics written after they moved posting to AO3 so that was the only place folks could read them for the first week, or Kradam, which is an
astolat fave, or the Jim/Bones stuff in about the order I might have predicted though The Sun Rising doing so well is nice. Why the Ryan/Esposito is so high I'm not sure, other than the way people poke around AO3 for rarer pairings. But the big sort-of-surprise is All Over Me--surprise because it's pure Rymon all the way down, but only sort of because it's the first time fic.By the way, the fic of mine with the most favorites on delicious, by far, is Leave No Man Behind, the Barney/Robin fic I wrote for Yuletide back in 2007 before Barney/Robin was even really a thing, when there were like, seven fics in the fandom or something.
(list of questions can be found at day one)
one | two | three | four | five | six
7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Writing Ron definitely made me like him more. I think that if I met him he'd be someone I liked but would never seek out or be close to, and coming off GoF I really wasn't sure that he'd been a good friend for Harry. (I know that others see that situation as being the reverse and that's fine! I'm not interested in debating my feelings about Harry Potter canon; that subject is closed.) But writing him in EWFS made me figure out what I did like about him and gave me an affection for him and his situation that I brought with me back to canon.
I think I'm still trying to work my way around Spock. Not that I dislike him, but it's hard for me to find a way into him or in some ways Nyota.
As for reading other people's fics, probably? But I suck at remembering specific examples. I don't know that I have super fixed ideas about characters coming out of canon--they're more like electron clouds, where they have a general area but could be anyplace within that area. I think that's just what people are like. If a story is well written I'll go with it, most of the time. This is why I make such a bad canon-whore. I'm far too flexible.
