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! Spread the self-love 💞
So...I'm a couple of months late to this party! Apologies. And I apparently have 105 works now, so this is hard. I'm going to take The Long Dark out of the running. It's too big in my brain to be fair to any other work.
the sky hasn't always been blue (SGA, TeylaBeth, Teen)
You can safely put the whole series in this rec. It wasn't my first Teylabeth Fic, but writing it was a good time for me and I think it shows. Elizabeth is an interesting POV for me to write, but also a really vulnerable one because she makes me feel exposed. Still. There's some real moments in there, but you'd never know which ones.
ask me (ST:V, B7, Teen)
This one was an exchange gift, and I did not think I was going to pull it off, or that the recipient was going to like it. I think it works because I kept referring back to canon dialogue between the two to capture and maintain the fiction between them, but also because I wrote it from the POV of B'Elanna, who gave me a chance to oscillate between stoicism and fury. Keeping Seven in character in the Voyager timeline and having her show interest was a challenge.
Crimson and Clover (SGA & SG1, Teyla/Vala, Teen)
Another exchange gift, and a VERY rare pair. (Seriously, there are only 5 works total on AO3, I hope someone writes another one!) I had not considered them before the match was sent out. Something just clicked in place for this, despite zero interactions in canon, and I feel like it's one of the most honest things I've ever written.
red pens and other moments (SGA, MCShep, M)
Drabbles are HARD. This was written for Domaystic 2023, I decided to do a McShep narrative of domestic moments to carry the story of their relationship and it gives me feels every time I reread.
Cut from the Same Cloth (Ent, Hayes/Reed, E)
If you look up Hayes/Reed in the Enterprise fandom, many of the fics come from the same scene where they are fighting in the gym. There was something about the way the actors played it that screamed repressed queers in the military (which, since McShep is my first written fanfic, will be no surprise to anyone). This is probably not a particularly good one, but, woah, I just sat down one day and my hands kind of wrote it directly from my subconscious. I was never going to share it. And then I did.
