[Meme] Self-rec: Five Favorite Fics

thatgirlnevershutsup asked: Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (◠‿◠✿). Do multiple fandoms if you want!

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Five favorite fics that I myself wrote? Okay. The first three are easy:

1. The Way of the Apartment Manager (Naruto): Ayakawa Yukiko retired from being a ninja, and she's come to terms with that. Then the Third Hokage summons her for an assignment that will change her life. AU story, set six years pre-manga.

2. Knives (Harry Potter): Beware, you who fight evil, lest you fall into darkness. Beware, you who invite the abyss into your heart. Ginny. Lucius. Harry. Guard your soul.

3. Out of Season (Chronicles of Narnia): In the fourteenth year of Rishti Tisroc's reign, a demon in the shape of a beaver is captured and brought to Tashbaan. Shezan Tolkheera, high priestess of the goddess Achadith, is given the responsibility of guarding the demon until its sacrifice at the Spring Festival. Complications ensue.

The next two I am essentially picking out of a hat. I mean, the number of stories in the hat is a lot smaller than the total number of stories I've ever written! But once you pass my big three, what you get depends entirely on my mood and what comes to mind first on any given day. Today, those stories are:

4. Untimely Ripped (Homestuck): Most spellbooks are bullshit. Everyone knows this. But they're made of words and you need words to fill the hole in the center of your mind, so you flick through this one at the same mechanical pace you read a cheesy romance yesterday and plan to read a stupidly anachronistic spy thriller tomorrow. The clock on the living room wall ticks rhythmically above your head. Outside, light November rain mists down on the fallen leaves and dormant grass. Damara's cat watches you disdainfully from the mantel. You turn another page.

And then a spell title jumps out at you: 'For the Restoration of Life After Untimely Death'.

5. The Vastness of the Sky (Chronicles of Narnia): Digory Kirke invites Polly Plummer to watch the 1912 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race with him, hoping to catch up with his oldest friend. But lives once touched by magic never return altogether to normal, and when both crews sink in adverse weather, Digory and Polly stumble into a strange new world in search of a missing rower.

Ask me again tomorrow and you will probably get a different answer. :)