Meant to post this a few days ago for Fanworks Day, but...
I've been going through a bunch of my old fics, mostly the Wolf 359 ones, and it's been a great, nostalgic journey (punctuated by occasional "shit, that typo has been there for EIGHT YEARS"). I've written fanfiction for almost 25 years now, starting with truly awful Phantom of the Opera and Harry Potter stuff on ff.net, but it wasn't until about ten years ago that I started really posting stuff. 2015 was a really bad year, salvaged by my discovery of a newish audio drama called Wolf 359, and the podcast fandom here on Tumblr.
A decade on from that discovery, the show still holds a special place in my heart. For the joy of listening to the story unfold, for the characters (especially Eiffel) that are still so important to me, for the community that thrived here and gave me something when I didn't have much else. And for the amount of people it inspired to create - fan fiction, art, original projects, and community endeavors.
Here's my favorite things I wrote for the fandom:
1. Paperclips - It's silly, it's fluffy, it's Eiffel/Minkowski hurt/comfort, it makes me so happy.
2. Fairy Tale - Written during the run of the show before we had much info on Eiffel's backstory, my horrified joy at how close I got still resonates. Plus I like how the framing device intrudes on the story because it's Eiffel and he can't just say things.
3. Praise Unto - This is a weird one, and weirdly one of my favorite things I've ever written. I wrote it for a fandom challenge that involved restrictions like "no Eiffel," "can't be set on the Hephaestus," and "must involve the plant monster." These limitations, obviously, meant I had no choice but to create pseudo-religious plant monster scripture.
4. Blackout: A Choose-Your-Own Adventure Tale - This was such a fun exercise in planning! Trying to come up with multiple story beats that could diverge from the initial starting scene, keeping track of each branch, ensuring it had enough gory death to bear the CYOA name...
5. leave this star-crossed world behind - Lambert feelings. I love my dead sad son.
(Honorable mention goes to when I step out in gonna do you in for the amount of sad bisexual solidarity it seemed to inspire.)
