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wiseheart tagged me with this meme: WRITER'S MEME: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of the top five favourite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
I tend to be very in love with pieces I've recently written or which have recently entered the wild. So I'll sneak in a plug for Torch Song, which you can read in the splendid and necessary Glorifying Terrorism anthology.
But I'm going to pick five fanfics. I also decided to try to represent all three of my main fandoms. I don't like tagging people, but consider yourself tagged if you want to try the meme.
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The Fabric of Our Lives (DS9)
I don't think many people write Garak/Ziyal (apart from the excellent Cardie-ologist). I wanted to convey that exquisite combination of heartache and indefatigability that seems to sum up Garak, and I think I did.
A Kind of Valediction (Tolkien)
My homage to both JRR Tolkien and TS Eliot and as a result of such
The Machine that Changed the World (Tolkien)
Amongst other things, this is a send-up of some of my experiences in the creation of a fanfiction archive, and consequently it makes me laugh out loud.
Flowers of the Forest (Tolkien)
I wrote this after seeing the photographs from Abu Ghraib. I woke up very early one morning with a splitting headache and put it down on paper and then the headache went away, although the taste in my mouth hasn't. I thought people would complain about the tense shifts, but nobody ever has.
Run, Anna, Run (B7)
Hmm, I haven't recced an AU and I love writing AUs. So here's one.
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Damn, just thinking of him getting back to the station and looking around for her while everyone else is celebrating breaks my heart. He never ever gets a break, and he keeps on going.
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And I really liked "Flowers of the Forest." This may be partly because the title made me think of "No Man's Land" (I just got June Tabor's recording of it the other day, actually) and then you quoted it at the end, but mostly I just think it's a good and melancholy (and all too relevant) vignette, and the feel of the prose is very much in keeping with canon.
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Thank you! And I'm very glad you like Flowers of the Forest. I have a recording of No Man's Land which switches between an English singer and a German singer - very moving.
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It's one of those things I've been idly curious about for years.
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The Men They Couldn't Hang... that takes me back. I had a tape of some of their stuff that I'd copied from a cassette I'd borrowed from the library. So they never sold anything to me either.
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