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 💞
From newest to oldest, and unfortunately leaving out many stories I adore but that aren't as sophisticated writing-wise because I've grown as a writer since then.
like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
Stranger Things | Robin Buckley/Chrissy Cunningham/Nancy Wheeler | 87k
In 1993, Nancy falls asleep on Barb's grave and wakes up in 1985. From there, she finds herself completely unstuck in time.
It's also a love story.
Novel-length time travel fic about grief, recursive, Sisyphean vibes, also I think the longest fic I've written in any fandom.
In Her Hips, There's Revolution
Stranger Things | Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler | 70.5K
Finally, she's able to get the number in right. The ring is sharp against her ear. Pick the fuck up, she thinks, and someone must be listening, because the ringing stops
"All right, Harrington, what's on this week's nightmare menu? And don't tell me the one about drowning in your pool again, man, we all know that's rich kid--"
"It's Nancy."
A long pause, then a laugh. "Wheeler? To what do I owe this late-night honor?"
"I, um." Nancy's tongue feels stuck to the roof of her mouth, like bare skin on upholstery. "I was wondering if you've got a couch I can crash on?"
This fic exists because I read a punk!Steve fic and in it Nancy was not into the punk scene and I was like. But what if she was, though. Riot grrl Nancy? Riot grrl Nancy. Complete with Ronance and Nancy and Eddie as best friends. Described by readers as "Jane Austen with more alleyway head." One of my only fics to get an & pairing and not just a / pairing, because the friendship really is that central.
objects in the mirror (are closer than they appear)
Stranger Things | Joyce Byers/Karen Wheeler | 5.3K
"Which do you think you're having?" she asks, pushing herself back to the land of the ordinary.
"Lonnie wants a boy," Joyce says.
"Your husband?"
Joyce snorts. "If you can call him that."
There's something nice about how that sounds, like the idea that just because you said your vows in front of God and your whole family doesn't mean you have to call the man your husband. Karen smiles.
"You know what?" she says. "Give me a cigarette after all."
The smile Joyce gives her back is like a secret between friends. "My kind of girl," she says, fishing into her purse, and when Karen takes the cigarette between her lips, Joyce lights it for her.
This fic was for Women's Wrongs day of Stranger Things Femslash week, and I was so proud of the strange fucked-up short story vibes I managed to get here. Joyce and Karen spousal murder 5ever.
pretty girls with bloodstained teeth
The Magicians | Margo Hanson/Alice Quinn | 4k
“You’re angry,” Alice says. Margo opens her eye to see that the smile on Alice’s face matches the one in her voice. “And you’re right to be.”
“If I’m angry, it’s because there’s a monster who seems to show up everywhere I go.”
Alice lifts a finger and runs it along Margo’s cheek, leaving a trail of ice crystals down its path. “Oh, Margo,” she says, sugar in her voice. “You’ve never been as good a liar as you think you are.”
This was my OG monster!girls story, based on the idea that Alice stays a niffin and seduces Margo to the dark side. It was so fun to write that it actual inspired the original novel I wrote and currently have on submission.
Chimera
The Magicians | Alice Quinn Character Study | 1k
She is part girl, part monster, and moving forward is a statistical improbability.
In defense of one of my favorite unlikeable female characters.
