[Meme] AO3 fics at random

[edenfalling]

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]

Comments

[edenfalling]

I think the Narutostuck ficlets should be readable even without any knowledge of Homestuck. Just think of all the characters as OCs, and be aware that the majority of them are from a non-human species.

I also don't think the ficlets spoil Homestuck itself, since the situations are so wildly different. Obviously there are thematic similarities, and I kept as many elements of the characters' backstories as seemed plausible, but if you try to reconstruct Homestuck from Narutostuck, I don't think you'll get very far. *wry*

I am glad to hear that the podfic is good! (I have never listened to it myself, partly because I have trouble with podfics in general but mostly because listening to my own words read aloud makes me combust in embarrassment.)

[jjhunter]

There's something about listening to Sasuke's internal monologue which makes it even more hilarious. He takes himself So Very Seriously, and mothlight is wonderfully deadpan in their delivery.

(I love podfics, and I still have trouble listening to someone else's podfic of my work. luzula arranged one of my poems to music once and recorded it as song, and I discovered that it is actually possible to full-body flush with embarrassed delight, which I always thought was some purple prose figure of speech. And then I had to listen to it another twenty times in a row, because wow.

(I dunno, it's kind of like getting surprise!cake based on a recipe you made up off the top of your head and posted online? There's the reaction to omg, someone made me a cake, I am not worthy, and then you can't not have lots of opinions about the cake, because you made up the recipe, and you have to let go of the self-conscious desire to want to fiddle with the wording and just enjoy the cake as is. It's like a practice of humility that also makes you float several feet off the ground: logistically challenging, intensely rewarding.)