December Daily: favorite fic

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marina - Your top three fics you've ever read. Your top three favorite fics you've ever written.

I don't actually think I can narrow down my top three favorite fics. I only have seventeen stories in my AO3 bookmarks, and I do recommend them all, but I wouldn't say they're my top seventeen favorite fics -- some of them are witticisms of the moment, and others are doing things that are unusual in ways that I find inspiring and interesting. Whereas what I mostly read and love and live for are stories that are doing usual things well -- pulling a romance out of canon (often over canon's vociferous objections) and making me feel it amd yearn for it and fall into it when it finally connects with a great sense of relief and joy.

It's a little less difficult for me to pick my own top three fics: Impersonation in Losers fandom, Higher Education in Breakfast Club, and Breaking and Entering in Inception. It's interesting to me that none of them are in fandoms that I've done a lot of work in; sometimes it seems to me that I just have one or two stories to tell, and then I'm done.

(I also really, really like working in a closed-canon fandom, where nothing can come out of nowhere and mess up my hard work while I'm still working on it or screw the canon up so badly that I retroactively lose interest in the entire storyline.)



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