Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let's spread the self-love 💗
Thanks for the ask, Enchi!
The Cross, The Crescent, and The Star (A Discovery of Witches + Kingdom of Heaven, 2019)
Everyone comes to Jerusalem asking for something - forgiveness, glory, fame. Most questions go to God, but some come to the King, who wields a different kind of power. Baldwin the Fourth has a new chess partner, asking for land for a new monastery, and not all the members of his court are happy about it.
This was one of the first longer-format things I wrote after some time away from fandom; I like it because I set out to tell the whole story in six chapters and did. I also got to use one of my favorite original characters in a different context, which was fun to revisit and explore.
A Goddess’s Lament (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 2014) After many years of silence, Amphitrite, the wife of Poseidon, recounts her life and how she came to be the figure she is in song and story, and how she met Percy before events in The Last Olympian. Bookverse.
There is a kind of sick, sad joy in coming into a fandom for a younger demographic than you and blowing the present state of fic out of the water, and I’m still so glad I did it. This is one of the most-reviewed things I’ve ever written, but I would love it endlessly anyway.
A Rose Among the Briars (Lord of the Rings, 2009-2015) Pressured by his father into a marriage of convenience, Boromir of Gondor is forced to reconsider his views on married life and women in general while his intended tries to come to terms with her own dilemmas.
This isn’t the best thing I’ve ever written, but it’s the story that taught me a lot on how to be a better writer. I wrote the first version in my middle school fandom salad days, and came back to it three years later during late high school. It took me six years to finish, including a year and a half when I wrote practically nothing. I love this story like it is my firstborn child and I will never stop talking about it.
The Darkening Sky (2020 - present) “Some will say that it is a sad state of affairs when a country asks its women to go to war. But there is nothing sad about patriotism, and from coast to coast, America’s women have answered the call in record-breaking numbers, happy and willing to serve in all branches of the service.”
It’s summer of 1942. America’s at war, and all kinds of opportunities are opening up for women - including, if the recruiting posters are to be believed, as co-ed additions to an entirely new unit of parachute infantry. Will they have what it takes?
If Rose is my firstborn, this fic is my secondborn triplets and I also love them desperately.
The Dark of the Lake (Dunkirk, 2018)
I will always be sad that more people didn’t read my Dunkirk fic, and I always kick these up when I’m asked to recommend stuff that I enjoy because I LOVED these pieces and I wish the fandom at the time had been more welcoming of OCs as a concept. There was a show on Netflix called Churchill’s Spies about the formation of the SOE and I used that, and my love for Collins, to come up with a new character that I always wish I’d done more with. Air.
Tagging @broadwaybaggins, @shoshiwrites, @ewanmitchellcrumbs, @emilykaldwen, @nightswatchyaoi, @nejires-hado, and anyone else who wants to toot thier own horn a little.
