[Meme] AO3 works

[edenfalling]

As seen in many places:

I currently have 66 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recently posted) to 66 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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[edenfalling]

#50 - Postcards from Naxos (You Don't Have To Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here). This is an Inception fic. It is also a remix, for Remix Madness 2011 -- the original fic is With Thanks to Apollo, by Sour_Idealist.

1. Sour_Idealist's story is about Ariadne's little sister getting a glimpse of Ariadne's new criminal life and associates via photos on her smartphone. I managed to work ever single mentioned photo (and a few that were more implied than outright named) into my remix, using them as timestamps to build scenes around. That's a fun structural gimmick that I am still fond of.

2. It's a happy and mostly fluffy gen story about friends and teammates and finding a job you love. There are never enough stories of that type, particularly for female characters. (It's also a story about a female character who has a family whom she loves dearly and doesn't conveniently forget, but she chooses her career instead of putting their desires first, which is another story type I see all too rarely.)

3. For a story written under a ridiculous timecrunch -- I made an outline at work and then went home and wrote 5,000 words in about five hours -- it caries a fairly respectable veneer of realism, though this is due more to me throwing in stuff I already knew than to any real-time research.

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And it passes the bechdal test?
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[edenfalling]

I had to think about that for a moment, but yes, it does. Ariadne has two conversations with her roommate Nina, and while I glossed over the conversation with her sister very quickly (since I didn't want to completely recapitulate Sour_Idealist's story), that does techincally also count. :-)