top 5 fics you've written and why! go!
okay, now that i’ve gotten over my anger over tumblr refreshing my long-ass response when i was basically done (I’m actually not over it at all, but it’s fine), here we go. once more, with feeling:
these are in no particular order, because on another day the order could change, or maybe different stories might be here. it’s not my fault: i love everything i’ve shared online.
(also i love you, you’re my fave)
+ stuck in reverse (teen wolf / sterek):
this is by far the longest thing i’ve ever posted online - it’s a full-length novel - and for that reason alone it would be one of my favorites. but i also knew it would be long, and i didn’t let that intimidate me. and i’m pretty proud of myself for that.
i love what i did with this fic: all the relationships i developed, the fun baddie storyline, the way everyone is allowed to grow together over time. i loved giving derek the space and time to start healing, i loved working with the pack dynamics, i loved developing characters that weren’t as developed in the show. i loved that i made so many people fall in love with jackson and stiles as besties, and i found i loved writing peter which surprised me! i wasn’t sure i’d get him right, and i really think i did.
also stilinski family feels. i will always, always love developing their family relationship.
a reader called that fic a love letter to stiles and the people who love him, and i think that’s a pretty fair assessment. stiles has been my favorite character to write ever, the one i think i understand most. he’s deeply important to me.
+ don’t know what i’m supposed to do (haunted by the ghost of you) (teen wolf / sterek):
this may be one of the easiest fics i’ve ever written, which still surprises me a bit. i had this idea originally for a character in another fandom, but it never seemed to work. when i shifted this idea to stiles, everything just…worked. the words started to come. i knew right away talia was going to show up, and i was really excited to see how that would work out.
i loved writing the undercurrent of love that flows throughout this fic. most of the characters are operating through love and i think that’s the most beautiful thing.
i loved creating this subtle ribbon of love for stiles in the background of the story that he was too blind to see, simply because he was so deep in what was going on with his own head.
i’m not typically an oc person, but i loved mine here. harry and cassie and even gerry, who just wanted to be heard. and zeke, of course. i loved that he surprised me. when i started writing the story i didn’t know he’d be as important to the story as he ended up being. he surprised me in the best way. the story doesn’t work without him. and so many people agree. they love zeke. i totally get it. i love him too.
+ counting on (suits / harvey x mike):
this isn’t my most popular suits fic - that’s my soulmate au, i think - but i think it’s my best. this was also one of the easier fics i’ve ever written. once i figured out the tone i wanted - a little sad, a little melancholy, a little hopeful - it was pretty easy to slip into that tone. the words just came.
i think in pictures, so i loved incorporating pictures throughout this story of the people of new york that mike meets, and of the life he lives now. it’s a contrast to the almost ephemeral nature of mike’s job as a fake lawyer - a job that, ultimately, he left an invisible mark on. it’s a job he can never really claim, but he can claim the life he has now. and i loved transitioning mike and harvey away from that life together and toward something that still felt authentic to them.
+ here in the heart (of my sanctuary) (teen wolf / sterek / pre-sterek):
this fic scratched my garden witch/protector of supernatural creatures stiles itch. i love the world i created here and i loved giving derek a place in his pack that felt honest and true to him.
i loved including all the creatures here - mermen and a baby mermaid! nessie! tiny dragons!!! - and it was fun to sort of expand the supernatural world. (and to keep the hale pack alive.)
it’s really a very quiet, soft story where not a lot happens. but it’s the beginning of something you know is going to be beautiful. you can feel that in the moment derek really starts to come into his own in his place in the pack.
one reader said it made them feel seen, and another said it felt like a studio ghibli film, and how could it not be one of my favorites after comments like that?
+ what a big heart i have (better to love you with) (teen wolf / sterek):
i went back and forth over which fic should be #5, and i picked this one because it has mates (which i love), a really good sense of time and place, and some good stiles and jackson brotp, which as we know is one of my favorite things to write.
i love a fic that’s set in a very strict timeline and this one is set in a 24 hour period. it has a very specific vibe too, that i love. while there are big, loud moments, as stiles and derek come together the story gets much closer, more intimate. it’s another fic that builds to the start of something.
i loved writing cora and jackson, and as you know, had a ton of fun with all the halloween costumes. there were a lot of things that were just fun about this story: making cora an artist, jackson as basically an adopted stilinski, the true, genuine love jackson and stiles have for each other, the different world building, writing a derek and stiles who are both so deeply into each other and also so deeply right for and deserving of each other.