meme meme

[raven]

I echo all those people who have said this sounds like a good meme to do when you're having a bad day. (Seriously. About the only cheerful thing about my professional life at the moment is that I'm running a complex, adjudicated first registration - which is currently out of my practice area, but was given to me because, "Well, because... you're you.")

Anyway, meme. I currently have 148 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 148 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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[thingswithwings]

100!

[raven]

oooh, this is a Doctor Who/HP crossover, Shelter From The Storm, now thoroughly jossed but never mind. I still like the basic idea of this story very much - the Doctor (Ten, at that point) hangs out with Remus Lupin at several points in his timeline, and all they do is hang out, because their storylines can't intersect and leave everything else unchanged. And I love that I remember so clearly where and when I wrote this, suitably for a story that really is all about time and place: I was eighteen, just as Remus is as the story ends, gavagai and I had been up until around 2am and I went home fully meaning to go to bed, and I was sitting at my desk in my tiny little attic across the road from Ashmolean and when I looked up it was dawn.

I also love this exchange:

"I wish you could, too. But it's my fight."

"Maybe it's mine as well," says the Doctor hopefully. "These Death Eaters of yours – do any of them have funny-coloured eyes? Triangular heads? Large gaping sphincters in unhygienic places?"

Remus laughs, and the sound is a sudden silver bubble. "They're not aliens, Doctor." He pauses. "It would be easier if they were."

"Yes." The Doctor nods. "Yes, it would be."

[thingswithwings]

That is indeed a lovely exchange!

[happydork]

33

Also, <3

[raven]

Ahhh. This is the story I wrote for Remix 2008, Ways of Not Speaking (the Poetry in Motion Remix). Oddly, what I like about this story is that it's not at all a story I would write - the ur-story I write over and over again is indisputably a story about human kindness, because I have a slight tendency to idealise human nature and also I'm a closet romantic, and in this story no one is kind to anyone. Everyone is hurt and broken and lashing out. But - it was a remix. And the original author clearly had a very different way of thinking from me, and I adapted accordingly.

All of that said! The original story has since vanished, so it's now my story in a way it wasn't before, and also two separate people identified me during the anon period from this first line:

The thing about Dylan fucking Thomas is that he’s fucking dead, isn’t he?

...so. :P

[musesfool]

55

[raven]

This is an SG-1 episode tag to "Moebius" called years afterwards, which... I have very little recollection of writing? Re-reading it, I don't remember the details, but I like the last line, He is home now - because if there were ever a character who was always going home, and failing, it was Daniel Jackson. (There he is in my icon, doing the same thing!)

[surexit]

Number 140!

[soupytwist]

Ooh...83?

[raven]

This is The Wolf at the Door, one of my very, very old HP stories - I think I wrote this one aged about sixteen. What I still like about this one is that I think it did a decent job at characterising Remus Lupin as he would have been if he hadn't been a werewolf. These two lines:

Remus follows the pointing finger, peering into the fading light until he recognises the dark-haired, slouching figure. "An unexpected dip in the lake for dear Snivellus, do you reckon?" James asks, readying his wand as he speaks.

Calmly, Remus takes it out of his hand and holds it at arm's length. "Don't even think about it."

-got it for me - this Remus was confident enough to deal with James.

[raven]

Eee, this is A Formal Dance in the Bowling Alley, a Star Trek story I wrote in 2009 shortly after the last movie came out. I love the title of this one - an actual line of dialogue from TOS, seriously - and also, bizarrely, this short mostly-dialogue story is the most-read thing I've ever written. On LJ, it had something ridiculous like 400 comments. I was, and still am, baffled, but still pleased. :)

[surexit]

Adorable fic! :D:D:D

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I hope your day gets better!

76?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is an interesting one! It's an HP story I wrote for Remix 2010, black dog (clear, acoustic, live through this) (http://archiveofourown.org/works/86749). The original story was a non-magical AU story involving Sirius and Remus at a club in the seventies. What I liked about it is the remix kept the non-magical AU aspect but gave them the same story into adulthood - long prison sentence, betrayal, the works - but in retrospect, I think my recipient wasn't that keen. I mean, she wrote this cute little glitter-and-rock-'n'-roll PWP and I made it into a 6000w angstfest. But I still do like it. :)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I fail at numbers, I meant to ask about this one (http://archiveofourown.org/works/78406).

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

147.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Um. Ah. a regular romantic comedy (http://archiveofourown.org/works/31992), Deep Space Nine. (I would like it on the record this isn't the second story I ever wrote or anything - I must've put the old ones on the AO3 in a kind of haphazard way.) The story behind this is jacinthsong asking me to write a story entitled "om nom Rom com" about Rom and Leeta. I wrote her the story into a comment box, and then bottled out and changed the title. But I like it anyway! I think it's not that bad for something I wrote as an extended gag gift. :)

[tau_sigma]

59! Wait, was I supposed to just pick a number, or actually go and see what it is? If the latter, I will do so when not falling over with tiredness.

I hope professional life gets better. *hugs* Will you be appearing over the weekend at all? If not, we should meet sometime, yes?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Not sure, but I think not - I'd love to see y'all, but am not very good at leaving the house other than for work at the moment, you know? But we should definitely meet soon, I haven't seen you in far too long!

I think 59 will do. Let's see: that would be Coming Into Being (http://archiveofourown.org/works/136636), an SG-1 story in which Our Heroes are turned into children for, well, reasons,, and, erk. Okay. What I like about this story is that there are still a few - a very few! - things I like about it, despite the fact I wrote it when I was fourteen (owwwww). I like that it's a story engaging with a typical fanfic cliche that begins "It was a dark and stormy night". I like that it's fun and not angsty. I think. Ack.