[Meme] AO3 fics at random
Aug. 14th, 2015 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Oh hey, looks like this one is going around again. :-)
I currently have 387 works archived on AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 387 (the first thing I posted*), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it!
*Technically this is not true, because backdating, but it is the oldest work which is the relevant point.
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#187: "Blueprints" [Inception]
#259 and #144: "What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed)" [Naruto] and "Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity" [Homestuck/Naruto fusion]
#227 and #27: "Bluebell" [fairy-tale retelling] and "Mycophilia" [Homestuck]
#167: "Dreams From My Mother" [Black Jewels]
#184: "Lives by Mending" [Darkangel Trilogy]
#66: "Small Favors" [Naruto, specifically the 'Apartment Manager' AU]
#221: "Everything Ends" [Doctor Who with elements from Ender's Game]
#198: "Sparkly Rainbow Blood" [Homestuck]
I currently have 387 works archived on AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 387 (the first thing I posted*), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it!
*Technically this is not true, because backdating, but it is the oldest work which is the relevant point.
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#187: "Blueprints" [Inception]
#259 and #144: "What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed)" [Naruto] and "Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity" [Homestuck/Naruto fusion]
#227 and #27: "Bluebell" [fairy-tale retelling] and "Mycophilia" [Homestuck]
#167: "Dreams From My Mother" [Black Jewels]
#184: "Lives by Mending" [Darkangel Trilogy]
#66: "Small Favors" [Naruto, specifically the 'Apartment Manager' AU]
#221: "Everything Ends" [Doctor Who with elements from Ender's Game]
#198: "Sparkly Rainbow Blood" [Homestuck]
a Tumblr response, crossposted for archiving purposes
Date: 2015-08-15 12:31 am (UTC)-----
That would be Blueprints, aka my eight-months-belated fic for Femgenficathon 2011. It's speculative backstory for Ariadne from Inception.
1. I like that I did manage to finish the blasted thing, because it was an idea I very much wanted to see in words and at times I despaired over how hard that was to make happen (particularly considering how short the fic is).
2. I think the central metaphor works pretty well. :-)
3. The first Inception fic I ever wrote was a remix of Sour_Idealist's With Thanks to Apollo, in which Ariadne grew up with her mother, step-father, and younger half-sister. I found that headcanon immensely pleasing (though I couldn't tell you exactly why), but it would have been weird to just steal those particular characters wholesale, so I had to come up with my own variation on that basic scenario. "Blueprints" is where I finally fulfilled that goal. (I also worked in a nod to Ellen Page being Canadian, plus a move to NYC that sets up Ariadne to attend Cornell later on. That ties in to another backstory fic that is still languishing, unfinished, on my computer, in which Ariadne participates in Dragon Day. Someday I really ought to get back to that...)