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flicked off [personal profile] gwyn but also seen elsewhere, List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos. I'm starting with 2009, because I don't think fanfic I wrote before that is on the Archive.

2009: Dāshrathi; Ramayana: gen. I don't think kudos were a thing yet, and also I suspect these particular kudos drifted in relatively recently. Everything else I wrote that year was for a Bollywood film, had a readership of two, and had originally been posted here or on LJ.
2010: The Mating of Sharks; Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy/Blaize Zabini. (Close runners-up: Moses Among the Bulrushes; also Harry Potter and racebent. to race Thanatos; Alexander trilogy; deathfic)
2011: Vistas of Sun and Smoke; Alexander trilogy: gen and the beginning of my obsession with Hephaistion's family. (Close runners-up: The Son of Monoetius; The Iliad; a death-wail for Patroclus. Nathbati; The Mahabharata and the beginning of my love for writing AU in the epic; the name itself is flicked from the Bengali drama about Draupadi: Nathbati Anathbat [husbanded husbandless].)
2012: Noone here to save; Captain America: Steve/Bucky with Bucky alive post-train. Thoroughly unsurprising, is what I'm saying.
2013: Food of Love; Harry Potter: Marauder-era fic of Sirius/Remus getting together. Possibly my favourite and definitely the lightest and funniest thing I've ever written with these two.
2014: Not a House or Even a Tent; The Charioteer; wedding-night fic for Ralph/Laurie. Shmoopy sentimental sex. Has a lot of kudos for such a small fandom, I must say. (Definitely not the best TC fic I wrote that year, which is almost certainly The Thousandth Man; ofc I wrote a lot of TC fic that year so YMMV clearly.)
2015: Sex while Parents; Pride (2014): has very little sex in it considering the title, but a whole spiel about suddenly landing as unofficial foster-parents while queer and in your late-thirties or older. I love it to bits, so this ranking makes me very happy.
2016: and in the mirror; Harry Potter: gen. Remus and his third-year Slytherin class v. Boggarts. I... think this might have been recced recently because it's got a fair trickle of kudos in the last month or so.
2017: a soft epilogue; Harry Potter: Remus/Sirius post-canon. The only thing I wrote in 2017.
2018: grow; Greek mythology: porny. Look there's a reason this got written December 2018 and is somehow the most kudosed fic for the year, and the reason is Persephone pegging Hades. The internet is for porn, etc.
2019: I'm still writing and plan to do a lot of it in the last quarter of the year, but as of right now the MCU fic is winning because well, MCU.
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[personal profile] moetushie gave me three random things to talk about, and you too can have random this by commenting on her post or this one.

1. Seed: I tried growing basil and mint from seed last year, and absolutely failed with the mint. The basil was coming along nicely (both sweet and holy) but then a dog ate some and I got furious and uh, I smashed the rest. 

2. Chariot: I am still mad at translations which use car instead (car-warrior, etc). I am *also* fascinated by the attachments on the wheels, but that might be down to watching/reading Ben-Hur at a formative age.

3. Phone: I keep refusing to upgrade, much to my family's collective horror, but I don't really *need* something 4g or super-fast, so eh. Long as it supports Instagram and a food-delivery service or two, I'm okay.
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to go with the previous. Rules: list the last lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.

agyana: “No,” Vasusena agreed, smiling, light limning his grey hair. “Only Kama’s arrows for you tonight.”

pravilabhate: The whispers thronging the hall stifle and still, and Dushala’s grip on his hand grows painful, and finally Krishna rises, and raises Bhanumati to her feet, and puts his lotus-pink palm on her forehead, and says, “Tathastu.”

life, the one you get: “Nat,” he says, every time. “That’d take years.”

sukhin: “No,” Sita says decidedly, “for you were a blessing to your parents, and I to mine.”

yashashvini: “I am your Queen, and you will remember it. I have been your Queen for twenty years, and I will always be your Queen.”

saputra: “I will undertake motherhood,” he tells her, smiling lest the tears come, “if only you will stand as his father instead.”

yukta: This morning he is in her arms again, his mouth twitching into a smile as he wakes.

mugdhakriti: “I am a rakshashi," she laughs. "You humans are delicious to us.”

dvitiya: “I was fearless once," Madri tells her. "I was foolish.”

kuhaka: “I am now,” he says. “But when your father was young as your eldest nephew, I was Princess Amba of Kashi.”


*shrug enoji* A lot of these are ficlets, so the last lines are either cryptic or ominous or in some other way twisting out of the path set by the rest of the story.
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flicked off [personal profile] musesfool. Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.

agyana: “I thought you would be furious,” Yudhishtira said after everything was over, and only the bruises remained to remind Arjuna of his great feats.

pravilabhate: They meet again in Hastinapuri’s palace, its bright halls now a haven for ghosts, and Dushala screams at him for clinging to life when their brothers are dead.

life, the one you get: The first thing Peggy Carter does when she meets Steve Rogers for the second time is point a gun at him, her hand steady, the Walther PPK unwavering.

sukhin: Sita is ten when first she meets Shanta, once Princess of Ayodhya and Anga.

yashashvini: “Queen Kaushalya’s son will be Crown Prince,” Manthara says when she dances in, exultant. “Not yours at all.”

saputra: He holds Srutakarma in his arms the first time and realises he has no notion of how to be a father.

yukta: So they go, back to Nisadh after everything, Nala godlike in his divine raiment and Damayanti lovelier with the turning of years.

mugdhakriti: Hidimbi is not young when she meets Bhima, not by human standards, nor by those of her own long-lived folk.

dvitiya: She thinks better of Madri, once her anger abates.

kuhaka: When he is four and his sister one and all the brothers it is unsafe to remember in his waking hours ranged between five and twenty, a mendicant comes to Gandhar from the fertile plains of the Ganga, a woman a handful of years younger than his father, and “wary as a goat,” says Vrihadvala, and shrugs when Suka hushes him.


The only pattern I can see is that most of these stories begin after something significant has happened in the larger narrative, and the first line is a retrospect/summation. idk, I'm bad at spotting patterns.

AO3 Meme

Mar. 11th, 2019 06:42 pm
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flicked off [personal profile] lilliburlero.

Rules: Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!

now under a cut )
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 from [personal profile] moetushie 

A Mythology Kink Meme. There's nothing Hindu up there yet, but it's certainly allowed.

I did a Hades/Persephone fill there, and a couple (MCU, and Greek Myth) over at the Three Sentence Ficathon

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 I am super overwhelmed with stuff rn, but I'd love to do fic/meta/answers/photosets in December. Please pick a day and leave a question/prompt.


1. [personal profile] avani008: December Daily: the best and worst adaptions between different forms of media (book -> movie, TV show -> movie, film -> book, etc) in your opinion?
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6. [personal profile] moetushie: Bengali food.
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10. [personal profile] avani008: Something about Satyavati
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13. [tumblr.com profile] ararine: Duryodhana and Karna swapping places
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16. [personal profile] selenak: favourite mothers (with or without their spawn having issues about them). Historical fiction, mythology, current day tv series, anything counts.
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22. [personal profile] avani008: Something about Kunti and Yuyutsu
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28. [personal profile] allegoriesinmediasres: Draupadi time-travelling to stop Karna from being abandoned.
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Pick any story I've written, or, in the case of my longer, chaptered works, any chapter from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic is available here; meme stolen variously

a meme

May. 24th, 2016 11:34 pm
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Nicked off [personal profile] lilliburlero in an attempt to bring about some blog activity

Ask me a question about one of my fics or series. It can be absolutely anything in any project and I will tell you the honest-to-goodness answer (even on the progress/plans for next chapters of current series). You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.
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Give me a fandom/pairing (moresomes or gen if you'd rather) and a number. I'll tell you all about how it would go/write you a snippet/a bit of both!

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

Fandoms: usual suspects
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Ask away!

1. Describe yourself how you would describe a character you’re introducing.
2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?
3. What is your absolute favorite kind of fic to write?
4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
6. First fic/pairing you wrote for? (If no pairing, describe the plot)
7. Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.
8. Why do you choose to write?
9. Do you ever have plans to write anything other than fic?
10. What inspires you the most?
11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?
12. A fic you wish you had written better, and why?
13. Favorite fic from another author?
14. Your favorite side pairings to put in?
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
16. Do you have structured ideas of how your story is supposed to go, or do you make it up as you write?
17. Would you describe yourself as a fast writer?
18. How old were you when you started writing?
19. Why did you start writing?
20. Four sentences from your work that you’re proud of.
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Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writers to continue the challenge.

Did this on tumblr as well, with my other WiP, but this might suit this crowd rather better. The TC/Wimsey crossover that has been languishing for a good few months:

“She’s very sweet. Kind to everyone, as long as she gets her own way, and from what I’ve seen has a tendency to exile people from her affections when that for whatever reason doesn’t happen. I’m afraid I can’t tell you if her habits are otherwise normal, too small a sample size.” He gave her an agreeable little nod, and fished a little notebook and pencil out from a pocket and bent to it.
The trouble with the type was they so often had a grievance, against themselves or the world or some section of it that to them represented a spurning authority. If they’d known about themselves for a while, and Lanyon certainly looked the sort, it was usually their mothers, or all women, or at least all women of a certain type. She ought not have asked: now she would go in nursing a positive bias about the woman simply because Lanyon put her off.

Tagging [personal profile] naraht[personal profile] lilliburlero[personal profile] moetushie[personal profile] legionseagle[personal profile] fawatson[personal profile] greerwatson & [personal profile] avanti_90 

A Meme

Sep. 18th, 2015 03:00 pm
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Borrowed from [personal profile] legionseagle and [personal profile] lilliburlero

You give me a fannish character I'm reasonably familiar with, and for that person I will give you a hangup. You know: a sexual dysfunction, an unexpected inhibition or aversion, some perfectly ordinary thing he/she simply cannot handle.
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  1. Service top. And how. Works amazingly with Alec and Bunny, not really beyond a point with Laurie.
  2. Has a slow refractory period, and in fact a slow rate of arousal. (This is what inspired the list)
  3. Will ask for your consent non-verbally, verbally, and then at several points during.
  4. Gets bored and occasionally breaks to chat in between acts, often while his partner is gasping on the verge, if feeling particularly cruel or tarty.
  5. Is competent but unsophisticated when left to himself, but on the whole prefers not to be.
  6. Is prone to masturbation in a clinical sort of way and rare bouts of self-abuse. Yes the two are distinct. Only one involves thinking of other people.
  7. Kinks hard on domesticity, which has an oddly carnivalesque, or masque-like appeal for him. At some point plays house with Alec very happily.
  8. Quite kinky in general, in sufficiently-knowing hands. Bunny, therefore. Some others. Not in fact Alec beyond rare bouts of knife or needle-play, in large part because of the domesticity kink.
  9. Likes both middle-aged posh men, and rough trade. Consciously avoids both especially due to having been the one and on his way to being the other.
  10. Is a masochist. Though this feels rather like MR's head-canon, really.
Wanna know about anyone else? Ask.

Meme

Jun. 14th, 2015 09:39 am
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via [personal profile] lilliburlero

I currently have 194 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 194 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I like about it.

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I'm six stories away from hitting 200 on AO3, so I'm taking requests for five of them. The 200th goes to [personal profile] filia_noctis, obviously.

So. Prompts, people? Anything goes, will be at least 1000 words, you know my fandoms.

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let's write. Give me a
  • fandom
  • character/pairing (andOR/)
  • prompt (a line, a word, a situation, an AU)
and I will write at least 500 words of fic.

Meme

May. 24th, 2015 10:43 am
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via [personal profile] moetushie

Give me one of my own stories, and a time at some point after the end of the story or before the story started, and I'll write you at least 100 words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story begins or ten years in the future.

All stories here
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Fell out of bed and hurt my back this morning, but since that resulted in fic-writing after months I've no complaints. In fact, to keep it going, please prompt me for trope AUs? Coffee-shop, grad student, body-swap, you know the sort of thing. Realism is not on the table.

Fandoms are Harry Potter, The Charioteer, Alexander Trilogy, Mahabharata, and whatever bits and pieces you know I'm familiar with. I am currently addicted to The Musketeers, which is pretty and deadly and in which everyone is mutually shippable, and Penny Dreadful, where S02E01 had Vanessa pelting down the stairs to hug Sir Malcolm to the great joy of my cynical heart. So if you follow those, feel free to have at it.
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The first line meme is doing the rounds. I have eight things this year till now, so here we go. Far too much Charioteer. *g*
  1. The party was dreary like all of Charles’.

  2. It wasn’t entirely fair to say that it was a sudden flare of passion.

  3. “So you see,” Ralph was saying, with an air of having satisfactorily explained absolutely everything, “there really was nothing else that could be done.”

  4. Kay woke up with murder on her mind.

  5. Just look out for him till I get back, Alec had said.

  6. When Sandy had received an invitation to study with Dr. Richard Russell, which he suspected his Father had been at great pains to obtain for him, since drinking and bathing in sea-water was rapidly becoming the fashion among the beau monde and their emulators among the mercantile class and country gentlemen alike, it had been all he could do to prevent his mother and sisters from accompanying him, even in the depths of winter.

  7. On an auspicious day did my father Hiranyavarman the King of Dasharna, give me over in marriage to the Prince of Panchal, Shikhandi the Peacock of Kampilya, the son of his cousin Drupad.

  8. They’ve got children.


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