meme: AO3 fics

[seldear]

Snurched from aurora_novarum but seen elsewhere since then.

I have 482 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 482 (the oldest and most venerable), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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[cailetr.livejournal.com]

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[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Marching To The Beat Of A Tony Stark Drum (http://archiveofourown.org/works/557088) - Avengers, Maria Hill, Nick Fury, humour

Very short, very funny.

I like this idea because one can totally see Tony Stark doing this after he's co-opted the helicarrier systems.

I like the way I did it, because I wanted the actual music to be the punchline at the end; we know the situation but we have to wait until the 'reveal' before we understand why it's so funny.

And I like that it's got over 1000 hits on AO3, and nearly 10% of the readers liked it enough to leave kudos. :)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

"I have 482 works..." O.M.G...

How about 327?

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think quite a few of my SG1 fics have never been put up on AO3. I'm sure I've written more than the 41 SG1 fics that AO3 says I have...

Feeling The Forest (http://archiveofourown.org/works/166129) - Stargate Atlantis, Teyla-centric, based during the episode 'the Return'.

This is an interesting one, exploring something that wasn't even touched on by anyone else in fandom (so far as I knew). Everyone concentrated on how bad Rodney and John must feel at being cut off from their hopes and dreams, and I don't think more than a half-dozen people gave a thought to what it might feel like to have the hope of freedom from a predator held before you for two years before being snatched away - and by people who you believed would return and make everything better, no less!

I like the way I depicted Teyla's depression - the weight of everything upon her.

I like the language of it - simple and yet poignant and painful. I kept the language simple and stark to frame Teyla's state of mind.

And I liked the relationships in it - the assumptions made by the Athosians, the state of the Athosian relationship with the Genii - particularly after the Genii were discovered to be what they were, Teyla's friendship with Ronon, and her relationship with the Athosians as her own culture, her own family of birth and responsibility.