Desert Island Fics

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Creator:
Series Begun:
1995-11-18
Series Updated:
2013-06-07
Description:

Because there are so many stories here, I sometimes get asked which I think people should read if they only want to read one in a specific fandom, or which stories are my personal favorites regardless of fandom. Here is a modified version of a meme from LiveJournal: "If you had to delete all but ten of your stories, which would you keep, and why?"

Notes:

It was incredibly tough for me to pick ten stories as favorites, which surprised me because I really don't like a lot of stuff I've written. Then again, I had more than two decades of near-constant fannish participation to cull. I stuck to stories I wrote entirely by myself because otherwise I'd have picked all stories I wrote with other people, both for sentimental reasons and because I think I'm a better writer when I'm collaborating. I also decided that I should limit myself to one per fandom. Please note that these are not necessarily the best stories -- in several fandoms, those are also collaborations -- but the ones that I couldn't bear to give up.

Every one of these is a love story, though some are entirely PG-rated, one is unrequited (and unrequitable), and one reads like a catalogue of kink until the end. These are all fandoms that fully occupied my mind; I skipped over quick obsessions like Equilibrium which were really satellites to a different fandom. Of necessity, I left out one of my biggest fandoms, but in honesty I must note that the original version of "Buoyancy" may be my favorite thing I ever wrote, even if that is staying locked in the vault and isn't quite the same with these characters.

If you want just one Avengers story, since that fandom came much later to me than the meme, it's "Semantics" (Tony/Bruce).

Stats:
Words:
57,943
Works:
10
Complete:
Yes
Bookmarks:
4

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