I saw @oh-nostalgiaa do this and thought I would take the excuse, lol!
Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 favorite works you’ve created this past year (fics, art, edits, etc!) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world in 2017. Tag as many writers/artists/etc as you want (fan or original!) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works.
I wrote tons of things in 2017, and I feel surprisingly warm towards many of them, so here are just a few that I liked, not sure if they’re actually my five very favorite, but definitely five things I loved.
1. This Is the Road to Ruin (We Started at the End) Clearly I was going to list this fic. 50k of darkjedistormpilot (Finn/Poe/Rey/Kylo Ren) First Order AU, it’s the longest fic I’ve ever written and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written, too. It’s complicated and messy and emotional and actually has plot! (Still sad my artist flaked on me and didn’t make me art, aw.)
2. Broken Glass This was Rey/Poe/Kylo Ren I wrote as a treat in an exchange because the prompt felt like it was aimed specifically at me, lol, and I HAD to write it, and I liked how it turned out. I was experimenting a bit with the style of it and it resulted in a sort of dreamy feel that I think fits the tone.
3. Sharpens Me Like a Knife The Kylo Ren / Ben Organa-Solo backstory I always wanted to write, featuring Ben sabotaging his own life and tragically doomed Ben/Poe. It doesn’t quite fit with TLJ but I still like it anyway.
4. A Part of the Main This is smut I’m genuinely pleased with, which I don’t say often, because while I frequently have the need to write smutty scenes and feel like they add something to the relationships I’m portraying, I struggle with them. But while this fic was a nightmare to write I’m just really, really happy with the fact that it’s emotionally fulfilling and sexy. Cassian/Shara/Kes, a ship I did not know I needed until I got this exchange assignment.
Okay, for this last one I’m cheating. I considered some of the damerey or stormpilot or jedistormpilot but then I remembered these two trope-y as hell fics I wrote for exchanges and couldn’t pick between them so you get 5a and 5b.
5a. Only Fools Fall This one’s darkpilot/benpoe bodyguard AU, with Poe as Prince Ben of New Alderaan’s reluctant bodyguard. I love the sort of what might have been canon AU scenarios, such as Prince Ben and Queen Leia, so this was fun, plus, you know, Poe and Ben being equally displeased with the arrangement and slowly breaking each other’s walls down. And lots of tropes. And Poe being terrible at relationships.
5b. Fake It And this one is Poe/Luke arranged marriage. 15k of pining and misunderstandings, basically, with Poe and Luke getting married in a post-war publicity stunt, essentially, with Poe hopelessly in love with Luke and thinking Luke will never care the way Poe wants him to. It is trope-y as fuck, if that’s your thing, and also has a fair amount of focus on Poe’s friendships and relationships with his father and with Leia.
Tagging everyone, tbh! Share what you’re proud of!
