#five faves

Tagged by: @asiminawrites Thank you so much. 💚

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same!

Tagged by: @cryptidlark

That’s so hard 😂 Are categories of flavours acceptable?

Not in any particular order:

1) bread-y deliciousness with fruit, example- fruit filled pastry, fruit pie, cake with side of fruit or fruit mixed in, fruit flavour doughnuts

2) LEMON- curd, cake, loaf, cookies, etc I love lemon cake so much you don’t even know

3) spice flavours like cinnamon or ginger so like spice cake or cinnamon rolls or molasses spice cookies

4) a good old fashioned cookie, especially with oatmeal in it, like oatmeal raisin, texture: CHEWY

Thanks for the tag, @chriscalledmesweetie​ and @jbaillier​

rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world. 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!

This is difficult. I only finished one fic since May 2019, but created a lot of new art, mostly inspired by @sherlockchallenge​ prompts or mine or other people’s fics. So ... let’s see ...

Putting up Shelves (and its illustrations): 11k words, Rating M, Johnlock

My little lockdown fic about misunderstandings, honest talk, DIY and the literal and figurative meaning of putting up shelves. I really enjoyed writing it and creating the illustrations.

Artwork (and ficlet) created for May 2019’s @sherlockchallenge​: Light

“Reflection”: Art for November 2019’s @sherlockchallenge​: Water

“VE-Day”: A pencil drawing revisiting John and Sherlock from my WW2/Codebreaker AU Enigma and imagining how they might have celebrated the end of the war.

My Tour de France AU Slipstream and its illustrations. The story isn’t finished yet (chapter 15 of 25 is currently being written), but I thoroughly enjoy the process of researching, writing and creating the illustrations (the one featured here is based on my own photograph of an Alpine pass I cycled up in 2012). It feels like a virtual holiday in France, particularly now in these troubled times.

why, hi there! thanks for the ask! you caught me at time where i was dying to procrastinate, so here it is haha! 

1. Harry 

that one’s actually quite easy for me. i just loved him from the start, i think as a kid, you enjoy stories you can identify with and he and i are - for better or for worse - very similar people. there are a lot of things i see in him now that i didn’t as a kid, though, which truly makes him such a fascinating, well-rounded character. he has such a drive, is so resilient, determined - those are qualities that i really admire in him (in people in general) and that i hope i have myself. also, the sass. give me all the ‘you don’t need to call me, sir, professor’-s of the world please. 

2. Hermione 

she is who i would like to be, i think. she’s clever, much less impulsive than i am and so, so brave. i actually think she’s probably the bravest character in the series. she stays. ron leaves, the man she loves, her one leaves and still, she stays. she could have disappeared in the muggle world, but she stays. she’s scared - terrified - but she never gives up. she stays. i love her so much. 

3. Fleur

this may sound like an oddball, but hear me out. i know plenty of people (probably rightfully, i’m not in their shoes) complain about the representation of foreigners in the potter books. eastern europeans are rough and scary, seamus has ‘a proclivity for explosives,’ the only asian is named ‘cho chang,’ etc. but as a french person, i can say this: Fleur is an excellent representation of us. she cares about her looks, is rather unbearable, incredibly judgmental (and god, so are we!) but she’s so badass as well. she stays to fight in a war that’s not even hers and doesn’t ask any questions because that’s what you do. because, i think, she’s been brought up to know that you don’t ever want to find yourself on the wrong side of history. she loves bill no matter the teases, fights for herself, for them and puts a ring on it. i adore her so much i even wrote a fic about her. genuinely, my fave. 

4. Ginny

she’s fab, isn’t she? i saw a post on valentine’s day that was like: if you ever feel embarrassed by a crush, remember that ginny weasley wrote that poem and still married harry. if she can do it, so can you. so can we all. 

5. Sirius

i’m not much of a marauders person (i don’t understand the appeal - they all die in the end!! it’s so tragic!) but i really loved his character. i think a lot of people say he was misguided and a pretty bad father figure to harry, compared to lupin, but i tend to disagree. in book five, if more people had listened to sirius and shared more information with harry about what was going on, sirius probably wouldn’t have died. yes, he was traumatised, yes he was sometimes selfish and saw harry as a reincarnation of james but he spent over a decade behind bars! he never did the growing up the rest of them got to do. yet, in ootop, he was the only one, it seems, who actually realised what a ticking time bomb harry was. he took incredibly good care of him at the end of book 4, supporting him in dumbledore’s office just by being there, by his side. i was devastated when he died (although yes, his death was necessary) and i really love him :). 

@totallysilvergirl tagged me in this and it made me go all kickyfeet. 

rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world. 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’m tagging @breadcrumbsandstars, @godihatethisfreakingcat, @ao3sburbanite@moondawntreader, @laurashapiro-noreally, @walkwithursus, @refraingirl-the-writer, @kanna-ophelia, @holycatsandrabbits, @uniasus, @agnesandcecilia, @melibemusca  -- no pressure, but you’re the people I know on Tumblr who’ve commented, shared with me, delighted me with your work on AO3 (and I’m sure I missed someone, but not with intent).

Here are mine -- the ones where I most feel that I did exactly what I set out to do, starting with one that doesn’t get nearly as many hits as mature/explicit-rated fics.

Catty-Cornered (G)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20543819

Crowley comes home from a day’s tempting to find a stray hanging around his block of flats. One cave-in to its wheedling leads to another, until the only obvious recourse is to seek assistance from the Being Of Love he happens to know, before he becomes an undemonic, blithering idiot. 

Someone To Watch Over Me (M) 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21973822

Crowley flatters himself that he’s always the one to pull a feckless angel out of trouble. It’s a little less one-sided than that. (This is the first of a two-fics series and the second is E-rated with an archive warning for rape/non-con/dubcon, but all past, implied and not graphic.)

Immigrant Blues  (T for language, canon typical violence)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21973822 

First person original character POV. Those ten million battle-ready demons Beelzebub mentions at the airfield? Some of them end up with an assignment as Armageddon looms. Car chases, ineptitude, slapstick  The Pratchettiest fic I’ve ever written.

You get lots of false alarms in this kind of business, like the mortal millennium (or as we called it, One Thousand A.I., After Interference). It was gonna be the big friggin’ End Of The World, and then what? Bupkiss. Except we had to crank up the Damnation Department because so many of the mortals decided that if the world was ending they were going out with a bang. Never saw so much gluttony, lust and greed, even with loads of us clocking out early. I remember the whole Carnal Sins staff playing cock-shies in the hall with the admin people from Cupidity. Miss those old-fashioned games sometimes. 

Friends With Benefits (E)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21682849/chapters/51712543

Despite the E rating, it’s largely not a smutfic; it’s a love/redemption story about denial, compartmentalizing, unthinking acceptance of Heavenly propaganda and the flight from messy emotions. The Aziraphale here fulfilled my prediction that readers would be lining up to bitch-slap him by the end of the third chapter. Inspired by a piece of fanart by @tabbystardust.

Aloft (E)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21069857

Crowley being a little shit, which is how I love best to write him -- finding a succession of ways to get his angel flustered and excited, starting on the roof.

Up here there were buffeting little gusts, and Aziraphale, out of practice, flew choppily until sense memory reminded him how to correct. By that time Crowley had pulled away in front of him, begun to double back; he swooped low, then climbed to hover in front of the angel, grinning hugely in the faint light of Aziraphale’s wings. “Brilliant, right? Let’s go scare some pilots.”

“Crowley – "

“Where did you think the gremlin stories came from?”

Thank you @loveismyrevolution​  and @simplyclockwork​ and @bluebellofbakerstreet​ for tagging me for this game. I feel absolutely foolish taking part because I’m a novice fic writer who’s only posted five (plus one 221b), so my “five faves” are pretty obvious. But I’ll show iron discipline and stick to two.

rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world. 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!

1. Drawn to Stars

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20951528/chapters/49813043

I’ve published thousands of pages in my day job, but this fic is hands down my favorite thing I’ve ever written. And every time someone gives it love I get so ridiculously excited, it’s embarrassing.

When John tells Sherlock that romantic entanglement “would complete him as a human being,” Sherlock tries to fall in love with the first presentable man who offers him his heart. Before John knows it, Sherlock’s off to Italy with the gorgeous and oh-so-sexy Roberto Zanardi, and John is devastated. Angst with a happy ending.

art by Sherlgrey; cover by Rimedio

2. Dance With Me

This one is so, so different: 11 chapters of fluff and an epilogue of pure smut. This is a universe without Mary.

Sherlock rescues Sally Donovan and in turn she helps him in an elaborate plan to get John to quit faffing about and get on with Johnlock. Don’t read this one unless you like music, dancing, romance, and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duets. Art by @khorazir​ and @bluebellofbakerstreet​ and @anotherwellkeptsecret​!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21938776/chapters/52360051

Tagging @mydogwatson​ @hubblegleeflower​ @copperplatebeech​ @annecumberbatch​ @ulspi​ @iamjohnlocked4life​ and @may-shepard​, all of whom I’m sure have already done this, plus some for whom it should be hardest to choose only five faves: @silentauroriamthereal​ @jbaillier​ @7-percent​

I was tagged by @lavenderandvanilla​ to list my five favourites of my fics. It’s like being asked to choose a favourite child... :o But here we go: 1. Kiss or Kill. The one where it all began. Faeriecat’s first production - so many tears, so many laughs, so many heartbreaks.

Faerie and I were both traumatized by the Reichenbach Fall, and this fic is us carefully trying to glue our hearts back together, and the boys’ in the process.

First book of the Symbiotic Criminal Psychopaths series. 

2. St Jimmy. All started when I went to a country with monitored internet where porn and homosexuality are illegal. So we wrote a story of a confused priest and a suicidal sniper (heavily influenced by Fleabag), only to descend into an orgy of porn, violence, and homosexuality when I was back on safe ground. And this fic rapidly became one of my favourites. Dark, twisted, and beautiful.

3. Dark Fool. One that doesn’t get a lot of love - possibly because fairytales and Mormor don’t seem like a likely combination. But this is one of the old faerie tales, full of Unseelie Folk, sex, and murder. And everyone’s favourite Faerie Cat called Keith.

4. Moriamur. The WIPs are always filling my heart, and this one is scrumptious: Seb’s been wooing Death all his life - so what does he do when Death kisses him?  A crossover with Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, it’s gritty, gothic, and gorgeous.

5. In Tent to Murder. This one is hilarious and heartbreaking. I love rereading it as Jim Moriarty going camping is the height of hilarity, and sweet sweet murderers reluctantly falling in love is balm for my soul. Also, I’m particularly proud of the title, because I love a bad pun.