259 is What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed), aka the 2010 Naruto remix that got completely and utterly out of hand. (In a good way! But still. That was a crazy two weeks.)
1. I still secretly think of this story as the one where the people of Konoha redeem Sasuke through the power of Stockholm syndrome. I am aware that this is inappropriate. It makes me laugh anyway. (Occasionally I regret not calling the story "It Takes a Village" because I cannot think of a more on-the-nose title and the cheesiness would have been terrible and glorious.) More seriously, the story is all about emotional bonds and the reconstruction thereof, and I think I pulled that aspect off very well.
2. I loved getting to play around with world-building and chakra techniques and stuff. I am still very proud of the chakra-infused ink that the Academy teachers use to make sure their students can't mess with their grade books, and how it doubles as a method to let Sasuke read his students' homework. (And then the way he uses it later on to mark where to hit the mountain in order to drop a couple tons of rock on some invaders.) I also very much enjoyed all the stuff about Sasuke's blindness-compensation jutsu, and Sakura's eye exam.
3. ...I'm only allowed three things? Eesh, this is hard! But I guess for today, I will say that my third thing is Sasuke as a teacher, which is not an idea I would ever have though of on my own, but which I loved getting to play with while remixing megyal's work. I think the incongruity was good for Sasuke -- pushing him out of his comfort zone meant he was forced to reevaluate both himself and his surroundings -- and also it ties in very nicely with both the emotional bonds and the new hope/new start aspects of the story.
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144 is Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity, which is backstory for the 'present day' of my other Narutostuck fics. Basically it's the story of how Rose and Dave came to be born, and a window into what life was like under the old regime before the start of the revolution. (Narutostuck is a Homestuck/Naruto fusion AU, btw.)
1. I think I translated Roxy and Dirk into the Naruto setting pretty well. (Note that these versions are kind of halfway between their alpha kid and beta guardian selves, though in Dirk's case he is much closer to his kid self since he's not being balefully influenced by a possessed juju.)
2. I like that the story is absolutely about love, and equally absolutely NOT about romance.
3. I am very proud of Roxy's practicality and competence -- the way she picks this option to get Dirk out of a tight spot because she already tried the others and they only worked for a little while -- and the way she's determined to make a better world for the children she wants so badly.
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1. I still secretly think of this story as the one where the people of Konoha redeem Sasuke through the power of Stockholm syndrome. I am aware that this is inappropriate. It makes me laugh anyway. (Occasionally I regret not calling the story "It Takes a Village" because I cannot think of a more on-the-nose title and the cheesiness would have been terrible and glorious.) More seriously, the story is all about emotional bonds and the reconstruction thereof, and I think I pulled that aspect off very well.
2. I loved getting to play around with world-building and chakra techniques and stuff. I am still very proud of the chakra-infused ink that the Academy teachers use to make sure their students can't mess with their grade books, and how it doubles as a method to let Sasuke read his students' homework. (And then the way he uses it later on to mark where to hit the mountain in order to drop a couple tons of rock on some invaders.) I also very much enjoyed all the stuff about Sasuke's blindness-compensation jutsu, and Sakura's eye exam.
3. ...I'm only allowed three things? Eesh, this is hard! But I guess for today, I will say that my third thing is Sasuke as a teacher, which is not an idea I would ever have though of on my own, but which I loved getting to play with while remixing megyal's work. I think the incongruity was good for Sasuke -- pushing him out of his comfort zone meant he was forced to reevaluate both himself and his surroundings -- and also it ties in very nicely with both the emotional bonds and the new hope/new start aspects of the story.
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144 is Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity, which is backstory for the 'present day' of my other Narutostuck fics. Basically it's the story of how Rose and Dave came to be born, and a window into what life was like under the old regime before the start of the revolution. (Narutostuck is a Homestuck/Naruto fusion AU, btw.)
1. I think I translated Roxy and Dirk into the Naruto setting pretty well. (Note that these versions are kind of halfway between their alpha kid and beta guardian selves, though in Dirk's case he is much closer to his kid self since he's not being balefully influenced by a possessed juju.)
2. I like that the story is absolutely about love, and equally absolutely NOT about romance.
3. I am very proud of Roxy's practicality and competence -- the way she picks this option to get Dirk out of a tight spot because she already tried the others and they only worked for a little while -- and the way she's determined to make a better world for the children she wants so badly.