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I had a whole ranty post put together regarding certain fanfictional trends and habits that bothered me, but decided I wasn't feeling that negative. Then I had about half of a life update post ready, but then I realized that would take ages. So, instead, a writerly meme, nicked from eponymous_rose, because 'tis easier to talk about writing than to actually write.

Sometimes it's OK to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites 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.



1. Imaginings
Fandom: Doctor Who (New School)
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones
Rating: G/All Ages
Spoilers: “Gridlock”
Words: 533
Summary: The Martha of a few days ago couldn’t have imagined it. Post-ep for “Gridlock”.

I don’t seem to have put this up on Teaspoon yet! Ah, well, allow me to go do that. Anyway, this was the first proper Doctor Who fic I wrote (except for a rather bad one), before I was quite comfortable with the verse, let alone the characters, but it let me ramble on a bit about imagery and imagination and the mind adjusting to its expanded horizons, which is a topic I quite like in relation to the Whoniverse.

2. Concerning Multiverse Theory
Fandom: Doctor Who (Old School)
Characters: Third Doctor, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw (from Inferno)
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Spoilers: Inferno
Words: 1,664
Summary: He indulges, for a moment, in abstraction. Third Doctor/Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw, and the equations of possibility.

It’s the same damn thing as Made Up Your Mind, really – a peek in the Doctor’s head and a vague, nonexplicit sex scene to go with it. And objectively, I think Made Up is better. But this was the first time I’d ever been proactive, ficcishly speaking – the first time I’d wanted something to exist (Three/Section Leader Shaw), saw that it didn’t, and gone out and written it to rectify the omission, rather than wondering why fandom didn’t jump at my every petulant demand. Also, fake math. Lots of fake math. That is secretly the reason I write Three so much, because I could happily tap out technobabble all day.

3. Block Transfer Computations
Fandom: Doctor Who (Old School)
Characters: Fifth Doctor, Adric
Rating: PG/All Ages
Spoilers: Castrovalva
Words: 987
Summary: He hasn't been thinking about what came between before and after. Post-ep for Castrovalva.

Written in an hour(ish), on a challenge, with two characters I’d never written before, and it actually turned out quite well. At least, I think it did. While I quite like Castrovalva, I felt that there was a transition missing between it and Kinda (Four to Doomsday never happened), in which Team TARDIS and Adric adjusted to the new Doctor; it wouldn’t have been as hard for them as it was for, say, Rose, because they hadn’t known Four very long, but the transition would have to be there. Plus, since Adric barely saw the new Doctor before he got kidnapped, he’s got some catching-up to do (and he knew Four the longest of the three of them). Also, more fake math. Yaaay.

4. She Sees Through Shadows
Fandom: CSI: Miami
Characters: Alexx Woods, appearances by Horatio Caine, Eric Delko, Ryan Wolfe, Tim Speedle, Calleigh DuQuesne.
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Spoilers: Up to “Rio” (Season 5)
Words: 1,808 total
Summary: Alexx sees what nobody else can. A series of five Alexx-centric ficlets, all with the theme of shadows and light.

Alexx Woods was one of my favorite characters in CSI: Miami. She was largely in the background, so she didn’t get swallowed up by her own personal drama the way most of the leads did, but in a way she had the most functional relationships with her team. Plus, she talked to the corpses. Her departure was one of the big reasons I quit watching. Yet, for whatever reason – she’s not terribly shippable (even though if she weren’t married I can name about three people I’d ship her with off the top of my head), she’s a background character, she’s not being eaten by wangst all the time – she’s got very little fic. And I thought that was a shame, so I decided to write her for this one fic challenge I signed up for. Because she’s got no fic, I didn’t have to worry about being overdone, so I basically had free reign. And I found her so fascinating while I was writing her, how much she observes and how much she knows and just how much she really was the beating heart of the team.

Damn, now I miss her. :(

5. The Memory Always Lies
Fandom: Doctor Who (Old School)
Characters: Third Doctor, Liz Shaw, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant John Benton, OCs
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Spoilers: Ambassadors of Death in Old Who; “Human Nature”/“The Family of Blood” in New Who.
Words: 2,862
Summary: The Doctor must use the Chameleon Arch to avoid an imminent threat, leaving Liz, Benton, and the Brigadier with a mess and a mystery on their hands.

I know it’s cheating, because I haven’t technically written all of it yet, but it’s my favorite WIP that I’m going to finish, dammit, even if Chapter 2’s been hanging in limbo for months. I’m really proud that I managed to think up a plot for what started out as just an idea blurb, and, since this was my first time writing Three, Liz, the Brig, or Benton, the first chapter was a useful jumping-off point for my later writings.

Going to finish. Yes I am. *squares shoulders*



Off to work now; good night, good night. Big damn RL post maybe happening on the weekend.