first! fic! gaaaaaame!
I was tagged by at least @kiwiana-writes and @clottedcreamfudge and so here we are. I'm gonna type carefully as I've just done my nails and the topcoat isn't quite dry yet. For those wondering: Sour Note, Mint Mojito, Peridon't Bother Me, Teal No Lies, and Stop Buggin'.
Rules: list your first fics in every fandom and how you feel about them.
These are all going to be from my AO3. I have written a lot before on ff.net but I was fourteen and into songfics so we're not going to approach THAT.
Red White & Royal Blue: Red, White & Royal Ballet (Alex/Henry, T, 12,836 words)
Genuinely feel like this one had quite an original premise, and I'm never going to stop the AU-only allegations. Alex is a ballet dancer, Henry is a choreographer. Heavily influenced by watching a lot of behind-the-scenes Royal Ballet stuff on YouTube and from a fic @clottedcreamfudge found ages ago, a P&P AU fic where Lizzy was a dancer and the Royal Ballet had to play the role of some blocker to the Lizzy/Darcy romance. I remain very fond of it! You can definitely tell I'm not a dancer, though.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour: The Nights We Almost Met (Frank/Sadie, T, 7,590 words)
My enduring memory of this is seeing the tiny fandom for Beyond Belief on Twitter get excited whenever I posted a new chapter. It made me very happy. This was more of a what-if fic, but I love these guys and if the formatting is a bit pants or the chapters entirely too short, well, at least I got the voices for Frank and Sadie down. (fun fact: the sweetheart table at our wedding was the Frank and Sadie table)
Tamora Pierce: Alien Magic (Gen, crossover between the Emelan and Tortall universes, G, still unfinished but currently 12,223 words)
Hey guys do you wanna hear a joke This fic has been in progress for THIRTEEN YEARS and I've still not finished it I began it with a vague 'oh, that'd be cool' and didn't have an ending, and man, is it clear now. I was pushed to update it a few times - once when someone left a really long comment on it, once when I reread all the Pierce books last year - but someone left a snarky comment on the latest chapter and all my creative happiness abruptly dried up. I think I have the plans for the last two chapters SOMEWHERE...
Angels Unlimited/Agent Angel: A Glorious White House by the Sea (T, Mel/Brice, 7,849 words)
I love this fucking book series so much. Mel is my blorbo. She's my ult. This is what happens when you kill a character on the second page of the first book of her ten-book series. I'm not even religious. GOD. Anyway. In this fic, Mel comes back from a mission slightly changed and Brice wants to see how much. I have a LOT of fic for AU, one of which inspired @clottedcreamfudge's marvellous RWRB fic That Old Black Magic, most of which will never be put online unless you're Josefin and get the link to the googledoc. Also, fun fact, I once emailed the author and she emailed back and she said if this series were for older readers Mel/Brice WOULD BE CANON. I'm never going to be normal about these books.
Teen Wolf: Stringbean (G, Stiles/Derek, 2,548 words)
Genuinely terrible. Who's Derek? He's not Derek from the show, he's softened, fanon Derek. What is Stiles doing? Nothing his canon self would be up to! Still, this is a sweet little meet-you-again-cute, it's just I wrote it for the two figures of Guys Who WIll Be In Love rather than actual characters.
Look, has anyone else not done the tag game that wants to? Please consider doing so! It's mostly fun and only a little bit mortifying.
