Self Rec Challenge
“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.”
Tagged by @distracteddream!
1.) Psychopomp (Space Australians)
For a really new fandom (micro-fandom, maybe, only time will tell). I really like this work, and it was fun to write something for a fandom that’s still so new there’s very few canonical characters.
2) Justified King (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
One thing I’ve found intriguing is standing at the end of canon and writing about its very beginnings. Hindsight almost always brings up new points of view, and it’s 20/20 in a way that reveals more crucial nuances than writing events as they happen. Yugi is, as always, one of my favourite characters to write because of that - and I love the unique speculation of knowing the ending and figuring out what happened to get to that ending.
3.) My Name (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
A self-prompted work. Though it’s short (meant more for the tumblr medium on which I originally wrote it than AO3), I liked the subversive nature of it - which character am I writing, really? It’s a challenge to the fandom, as most of my works are, about what truly defines a character, and where the edges blur.
4.) Baku-Ra (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
It’s such a silly title - and punny, an entertaining combination. The work, however, is not so silly, even if it gets a little tongue-in-cheek at times. In this one I dabbled some more in Slice of Life themes with the little details, and attempted to use it as both backdrop and a means to spur the plot on. The results were admittedly a bit mixed, but it’s a topic I had been wanting to write for a while.
5.) Riddling for Mettle (The Hobbit)
What if what if what if. It’s a common theme for me to puzzle over, and a hallmark in the fanfiction genre at large. I picked this one over Primroses because- well, why didn’t Bilbo do this? The gaining of the One Ring is such a momentous occasion that it hangs on a knife-edge balance. Literally anything could have happened, and it made me wonder why Tolkien wrote it the way he did. Certainly Bilbo could have gotten the Ring one way or another, but what are the other ways? As it is, I also enjoyed the opportunity to explore the social dynamics of the Company, and how Bilbo in particular fits into it.
Tagging: @lightshesaid, @amberstarfight, @kitashvi, aaand... I suppose whomever else wants to do it?
