not too short for a stormtrooper

I think the lesson of this round up is that, if it weren't for ficathons, I'd have written practically nothing at all. This year I might try for slightly better than nine fics, that's not even one a month and that's pretty disgraceful, considering in 2007 I wrote 48 fics, and in 2006 I wrote 53. And this year there were NO CROSSOVERS, that's terrible! And only one Dune, and one Pretender fic! UGH. Quickly, suggest ideas!

My favourite was probably Unbent By Mirrors, Covering Your Eyes Against the Morning, just because Edmund is always so awesome, and I love the idea of St Lucy the Knife.



Look there are so few I am not even putting them under a cut!


BSG
Footprints on the Other Side, Lee and Kara, prompted by THAT pilots promo picture.

Carnivale
This Distance, the Words Which Pierce Her Skin, for remix. This was Justin and Iris, and they're so creepy!

Dune
This Harbour We Have Never Known, Chani in Paul's absence with an attempt at not-crazy Alia (and bonus Irulan of awesome). for yuletide.

Gossip Girl
A Sphere In Space, Without Markers. Blair and Chuck, having a lot of sex (in the limo) and fighting a lot. YEAH I DON'T KNOW.

Naaaaarnia
Unbent By Mirrors, Covering Your Eyes Against the Morning, Edmund is awesome and Lucy is like the Priestess of Aslan.
A Fragment of Cascade Stars, Caspian learning to love and lead Narnia.
A Harbour We Have Seen Before, Edmund and Susan adventuring to the wilds of deepest darkest Galma. for the narnia exchange.

Pretender
The Distance That Keeps, Jarod is psycho, and the fallout, for CGB on the event of her birthday.

Smallville
The Way of All Dragons (the hungriest friends remix). This was written as part of Px Remix, Chloe and Lex taking over the world as usual.

Signups for rpfremix are open here. I would sort of like to sign up, but I don't have three 500 word fics in any rpf fandom. I've got two in a couple (in Narnia, and in BSG), but not three. So if anyone has any ideas for anything that I can write in the next couple of days, that would be great.

Speaking of, hobviously talks briefly about why she loves RPF. <333

I wanted to say, thank you very much to everyone who said lovely things about me in the love meme. It made me feel all glowy inside. :o)

The Pretender 2001 and Island of the Haunted are available on DVD as of Tuesday. WOO.

I updated unproductive with 12 x Firefly recs (including crossovers) and 6 x spy fandom recs (LFN, Spooks/MI5 and James Bond).

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I wasn't going to do this, but then I found myself reading other people's responses and reading their fic, so I thought, why not? Let me know if you do follow my links, just for my own curiosity.

Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

Cutting it down to just five was very difficult, and I know that five was probably just picked as an arbitrary number but nonetheless I did my very best to stick to it. I decided it would help if I only allowed myself one from each fandom, allowing crossovers to blur the lines.

The Wreck Keeps Running. Miss Parker and Jarod in the fleet, a BSG/Pretender crossover. I will never love another fandom the way I loved BSG, so bright and so fast, but there will always be a distant fondness, reminiscent of the way I feel about Roswell, perhaps. This fic, a combination of my oldest love with one of my newest loves, was self-indulgent but written with love, and the love/hate that Miss Parker and Jarod feel will continue until they're both dead.

A Restaurant with White Tablecloths, Smallville/DCU. This fic, about Chloe and her mission to find her place in the world, is kind of sordid and a little bit skanky and secretly my love letter to Gotham City. This took me months of constant picking and carving, and the end result makes me grin every time I think of it, and contains my favourite opening line (of my own fic) ever: Chloe's house phone rings, and she answers it before she realises she's never had it connected.

Out From Under (天高皇远), HP. Cho Chang, growing up and trying to fit into her own skin. There are no words that I can say to describe what this fic means to me, and every time I read another treatise on how Cho is crap, and every time I see Cho's significance and presence pushed aside like she's nothing, I hate fandom just that little bit more.

Divided, But with Half a Heart, Children of Dune. Because the years will be long, and Leto will miss his sister very much, and the twins are so beautiful and Frank Herbert was so crazy and I will admit it, I arbitrarily picked this one because I see all of my Dune fic as one long, never-ending story, even this one and this one, though they're crossovers.

Joining Hands as Nations, Narnia. Because Susan loves Narnia, no matter what, even though Aslan later keeps her away. I wish we had seen more of Susan, seen what plans Aslan had for her after her family had left the Shadowlands, because how could Aslan have loved her and cared for her and seen into her heart and then thrown her away?

BONUS: Slowly Creeping In, X-Men Movie. I love Kitty in all her incarnations, and though she was a bit too attracted to Bobby in X3 I feel that with this fic, I managed to reconcile who she was in the movie to who I see her as (ie, AWESOME).

That was very difficult.

I would not usually tag anyone, and please, if you want to do this meme, feel free! I certainly was not tagged. But I would like to see what hobviously has to say, and what voleuse has to say, and if she ever comes back to us, I would like to see what stars_like_dust has to say.

I wrote fifty three stories in twenty two fandoms - that's thirteen less stories than 2005, but in more fandoms.


Favourite Fic over all:
Ooh, this was a hard decision, but probably The Wreck Keeps Running, a Pretender/BSG crossover.

Assorted Favourites:
Blood Like Holy Wine (constant in the darkness) - the beauty of infidelicious pilots.
Silence in the Revelation - a Pretender/Dune crossover. Parker and Lyle on Arrakis.
All Messed Up (in a trusted wreck) - PotC, Anamaria and Norrington between CotBP and DMC. I tried so hard to make it conceivable that they knew each other, that they worked together, and I was really pleased with how this worked.
An Upside-Down Vision. Edmund, the Just.
Slowly Creeping In. Kitty Pryde, after X3.

One I'm Really Pleased With:
In Which There Is a Movie, and Friends, because it was Anna/Will written in the style of CS Lewis, and I think I just about managed it, too. I would quote my favourite line, but it is too long, so I shall quote my second favourite instead: At rehearsals, and in costume fittings, and in front of the camera and in the taxi home at night (especially in the taxi home at night, for the darkness masks many sins, which is why you should always be careful at night, and never walk alone in the dark), William wished to push away the soft fabrics at Anna's shoulder.

Most Under-Appreciated:
New Bonhomie. This was a Smallville fic written for tab_a_slot_b, the Smallville het challenge, and not even the person who issued the prompt commented on this fic, which, ARGH.

Most Fun:
The Pilot Bride. Crackfic based on The Princess Bride.


( fifty three pieces in twenty-two fandoms (a list, by text) )

I'm going to talk about Chloe/Lex, and what I've written about them, because there was some discussion of it over here, and people asked, so.

Stuff I have written:

The first piece of Chloe and Lex I wrote was Banking on the (good)Will of Others, for someone random's wishlist. It is not Chloe/Lex, but it shows quite clearly the beginnings of their relationship, and how clearly it is that Lex holds the power but Chloe is not powerless.

Not Consolation but Distraction was a tiny little thing, another piece of speculation about how Lex convinces Chloe to even talk to him, let alone work for him.

I'm obsessed with crossovers, and Almost Free to Come and Go is Chloe and Lex in the Colonies after the Cylons come.

A Firm Grip on Reality was something I wrote because Sloane wanted to know what happened after the S4 finale.

And the thing that I am most proud of writing ever, A Restaurant with White Tablecloths, a Gotham City/Metropolis crossover. I finally finished this just last month, and I love it so much. I am so proud of it. Stupidly proud of it.

This is a list of my very favourite Lex and Chloe fics written by people who are not me.