fic self rec game, tagged by @wormconnormcdavid! thanks for the tag!
name of the game is to rec 5 fics of my own and then tag other writers.
unfortunately youāve found me at a very āI dislike everything iāve ever writtenā time in my life, but iāll do my best lol. Recently I think Iāve developed quite a lot as both a person and a writer, so I actually really like my current WIPs more than anything Iāve posted so far, which is probably good, but it does mean that I find a lot of my published work on ao3 lacking and clumsy or underdeveloped. ah well. taking it as a positive sign for my own development.
A general rule is that I usually like my most recently published work a lot. And I really do quite like means of definition (hollanov). As short as it is, it was nice to try my hand at untraditional fanwork and poetry again (which I hadnāt done much since the two works in consider the hairpin turn). Itās really good to get the creative juices flowing again.
I really like the fics Iāve written for the SidNate Exchange the past two years, which are come inside, stay awhile and Two-Man Rush. Theyāre sweet and fun and pretty solid for the fact that theyāre so short.
I guess thatās three. I canāt really decide for two more, so Iāll just mention the two āgenresā of fics on my ao3 that I think make for good recs.
I gotta say that I really like the weird and specific kink fics Iāve tried my hand at over the years. Black Sex Latex (latex gloves), But Iām a Cheerleader! (light cbt, femdom in bad drag), Pornstache and the Dogg (sex tapes, voyeurism), camera obscura (mutual noncon, or i guess mutual cnc?), rearrange (intersex alpha breeding cis alpha). Pornstache and the Dogg is maybe my favourite of those, since itās particularly fun. I think theyāre all really enjoyable and hold up really well, and theyāre great fun to write, too (maybe especially when I donāt have the kink Iām writing about). I have two other almost-finished fics in my drafts in this genre (one is medical kink sounding, the other is omorashi) and I should really give them an editing pass and post them, I think.
otherwise a safe bet for me to rec is the trifecta of autobiographically-depressed angst fics iāve written. i wrote nuts and bolts in the months after my father died, the low tide after I went through a bunch of therapy and who can grow me after I reconciled with my sibling after a dogshit reaction to my coming out. (all of those personal experiences mostly inform the emotional core and the vibes of those fics, nothing too close or explicitly pulled from my own experiences, apart from two lines in who can grow me). all three fics are very heavy, but I think they hold up surprisingly well in terms of writing quality and emotional impact.
An honourable mention goes out to oneiromance, whose concept I still chew on, because I think that prophetic soulmate dreams are a really juicy idea for a soulmate concept, even if i canāt meaningfully find an actual plot for it.