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5. Favorite tropes? Absolute jams? Are they consistent from fandom to fandom?
I already answered this question but I will again say.... the seemingly unrequited mutual pining, and this time when both of them have had feelings for the other alll this time but just couldn’t say it before. I love the Hints that the affection might be requited, especially if we have a fic from the pov of one person and we switch to the other and it’s like “he loved him all this time but he did not want to ruin what they have” and then you go back to the fic and see all those hints again and are like “oh it’s obvious they both love each other”. I probably mentioned it but I will mention it again since it is my fave thing ever.
6. Things you like in fic but not in life?
smexy times, when trauma is healed just by the sole fact of the otp getting together, whump/hurt comfort (as if gentle touches could cure trauma like this is the shittiest take and I know it is problematic but I still like it in fic) characters getting injured and then cured miraculuously, sitting on the shitty plastic chairs for days waiting for your s/o to wake up, and my fave thing to read about but what really sux to go through irl is crushing on your friends unrequitedly. Like I love reading about the angst and the pain but going through any of the above? Nah.
7. Things you like in life but not in fic?
I am mostly okay with sitting and waiting for the feelings to go away, and I really don’t like it in fics because like.... I’m reading a story for them to get together not to suffer. But this is a difficult question that’s hard to answer tbh.
8. Favorite fics you go back to?
Physically I have not actually read them since the first time because I’ve been cursed (or gifted depending on how you look at it) with the “You read a thing closely and remember it very well” memory (or because it’s my fave fics and I have commented on them I’ve read them multiple times before posting a comment so I don’t forget what happens and since I did that in school I kinda memorized them, this is why some of them will only have scenes while others will be reread entirely). Also my quota for “maybe I’ll reread this” is when I forget entirely what happens in them and that is not the case.
I mentioned all the st fics yesteday so I’ll skip them for this question you can read abt them in this answer
Ok, so here we go in no particular order (most of these are lawyers with one exception)
Means to an End - and I guess it’s the description of the environments that really get me in this fic, also it’s a great au including all the other characters and amazing play on the aa4 happenings while also including aai. I just *chefs kiss* love it. Catch me in the mystique enviroments and the suburban very ordinary place when Miles finds out wtf is going on.
A Turnabout Toast a classic that I have to reread at least every two years because I love it. The descriptions yes but also the teamwork they have the fact that Miles has friends also and the romance is good but there are also other things happening there. It just makes me feel, especially in rainy summery days because that’s when I first read it in 2015 and almost slammed my phone on the wall reading in the middle of the night, it’s that kinda fic.
Rozbite szkło - I've read this fic a lot. I've read it when I first got into aa. I've read it after I played all the games to understand it post dd, I've later came back to it after playing investigations and was like AAAAAAAAahh they did THAT. Whenever I wanted a good narumitsu fic I returned to it. It's since deleted and was in polish anyway so it would be wierd to put it in my top narumitsu fics ever but it is. The number one. Always the number one there’s never any fic else like it. And it might seem like I’m promoting fics in polish and I am biased and yes maybe I am. But in the free time catch me staring at the lawyers in their studio apartment debating the morality of the prosecutors. Catch me in the ruined courtroom where the sun shines between them as they share a first kiss. I adore this fic and came back to it many times, probably the most because it was short but it had so much to give. Always when I felt dissapointed after something ooc I returned to it, and maybe as with all these fics that I’m bringing from my memory it’s less than I make it to be but we will never know. I also adore how the glass (the title could be translated to broken glass) metaphors or just objects are present in every scene present in this fic. I just love it very much or at least what I memorized during the many times I’ve reread it and this is why i can’t bring myself to delete the bookmark of it on ao3 even if it says deleted work.
These children are not objections but I’ll raise them - and also the prequel and whatever organicgold writes. I adore this fic for giving the characters justice and also for narumitsu being off screen but still together. She writes the best fics honestly.
Looming Truths and particularly chapter 34. Out of context it might seem like nothing, and honestly I’d love someday to do a reread of this fic but it’s long so I just read my fave scenes again and think about it. It’s really great and sometimes I’ll be hearing the steel samurai jazz cover, and think about this fic and how it literally saved my life back then.
Beyond it’s my fave rh fic, and for the others I’d need to get into the swimming anime mode to go back to them but this is something else. Really shows how like... readers and authors can impact each other even if this is a romance I really liked it.
Ghosts that we Knew - practically i havent read this since February 2017, but mentally? Catch me sitting on shitty plastic chairs in the empty corridors waiting for afternoon classes almost throwing my phone on the floor by the imagery and the entire concept of this fic. Catch me writing a review in my text message drafts and being like !!!!!!!!!!! Catch me in the eerie imagery of Kurain and of roadtrips and “I have a Wright to get back to” and not sob (I am still having tears in my eyes while I write this, so no I do not come back to it because I know this fic so well. Also I reread very often the fics of this author so if you want some devastating narumitsu.... check her out.)
Il suo nido - Greatest love confession ever written in fanfiction...... abroad trips...... Klavier Gavin finding a family..... Phoenix and Miles reconciling after the 7yr gap.... absolute banger that is “never enough”. The metaphor of trains made me think of this fic everytime I was in a train in the past year. Also have I mentioned the found family? I think about this fic like once a week, despite having read it last in 2018 or something but I love it.
Diamonds and Rust - whenever it’s winter I either think of “Thorugh time and space” or this fic. This is the ultimate ult (unresolved love tension) and reading this fic at least once a year makes me want to write 1000 fics where they do confess love to each other. It’s good but also the epitome of bittersweetness. I adore it and going back to it when I don’t remember much about it and be slain again by the ult.
Things like the truth - I adore altairattorney’s fics. I find her perspective on characters very unique and very IC. Honestly here I could link all of them because they are all my fave but this one is what has slain me first time, and was like “oh gosh she gets this”. I sometimes mutter the “were are you running off to now” and think of this fic a lot. In the same way windswept is good as well I just. Love her fics and return to them every year only to be slain again like the first time. Unlike others (but also because they’re hella long) I can still feel like I’m reading it for the first time, so this is kinda opposite of what I like abt rozbite szkło, it’s that no matter how much times I reread it the same words still slay me. It would be true for most fics I mentioned here.
Thank you for sending me questions it was really fun to answer them :D
