Jan. 8th, 2019

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Day 8: In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created.

*rubs hands together* Oh, I love prompts like these. They give me an excuse to pointedly ignore the long ramble I could go on about my love/hate relationship with my works and consciously thinking of other human beings actually reading them, and just go ahead and rec some stuff of mine I enjoyed writing/think turned out well. I'm afraid there's not much for variety as I'm a bit of a monogamist when it comes to writing; I tend to write for the one fandom for a year or more and then move on wholly to something else. The most I've managed is writing for two separate fandoms at the same time, which truly was an achievement for me pff.

Anyway! I'll go over what I consider the highlights from the past few years. (ღゝ◡╹)ノ

Fairy Tail: a fondly remembered time, and a fandom I could easily see myself returning to. I dabbled in fic for ft for a few of my teenage years. Generally, I'm fond of all the fics I wrote back then haha, they all have a similar... flashfictiony imagery-filled feeling. I love them.
  • carbon copy princess: has a very soft spot in my heart since it spawned a dear friendship and an absurd series of rareship shortfic (the absurd part being that it existed at all).
  • quiet moments of the castle: fantasy world fairy tale romance that I will never tire of. I  think it's just so cuuuute.
  • no, c'est la vie, maybe something's wrong with me: canon-compliant scene snippets. This is the sort of stuff I loved writing, finding meaning in minor characters' actions, fleshing out backstories left to our imagination.
  • not the end of the line: perhaps my favourite fic from back then! the first sign of my obsession with writing about prejudice, man-made villains, and classism. 
  • the worst thing about you: I think the prettiest thing I've written. I'm in love with imagery about the ocean, and the metaphor I used here is very personal and still gets me. ; u ;
  • ab aeterno: god, all my writing from back then was so personal! that's probably why I love it so much though. This is a reincarnation story that spoke of my own heart, and I'm... enamoured with the ideas in it. I hope to write about something like this again.

Haikyuu!!: I didn't publish the vast majority of what I wrote for hq, but I did hash out some stories I remember fondly.
  • yellow white red (camellia/gardenia): my first hq fic, and a fluffy sappy romantic mess of one. Writing the confession scene was so satisfying.
  • owl be there for you: I think it was writing this story that cemented my love for gen so deeply. I think it's funny and I like how it reflects hq canon.
  • eye of the beholder: in a weird sense this was my goodbye to hq. I'm sure nobody else can tell that from the surface, but it has the adventureand tongue-in-cheek humour and friendship that I love about the series and what I aimed to find in my writing for it.

Boku no Hero Academia: I would consider this a much newer fandom for me. I've been interested for a bit more than a year, and writing for near half of one.
  • I only have the one fic to really recommend so far, being cicadas. It represents a few firsts for me: first attempt at pwp (22k... probably failed), first attempt at todobaku (can't see how one can fail at that), first time posting publicly in years (terrifying!!!!!).


Generally, the stuff of mine I enjoy reading the most is definitely my earlier work, specifically my ft fic. Funny how stuff works out that way. My style did a sort of flip on it's head in the past couple years somehow, where when I used to write short targeted stories, my fic nowadays is long and sprawling and complex, with simpler writing and much longer plots.

But more than that, I think I truly wrote for the love of writing, for the love of the characters I was giving words, for the stories I was almost uncovering in a way. That excitement and joy and self-satisfaction and, if I'm forthright about it, honesty, is something I want to recapture as I write moving forward. I want to write from the heart as I did when I was younger.

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