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[elementalhero]

I stole  hopexlies' new meme! 

For all the writers out there: go through your writing account (whatever you use)
1. Pick ten of your fav! fictions you've ever written. Name why.
2. List them in order from oldest to newest--10 being oldest, one being newest.
3. Actually read the fic. Have you changed much as a writer? - Explain things you lol'd about and such.
4. Tag three other people to do this meme. 

 

10. Loathing
9. Tastes Great, More Filling
8. auld lang syne
7. Darkness in Zero: The Life and Times of Ansem the Wise
6. guiltybeautylove
5. The Party From Hell
4. Drowning
3. Let It Snow
2. The Smell of Darkness
1. Free Spirit

10: This is probably the best Naruto one-shot I've ever written--but I've only written two, and both in the past two weeks, so...  I'm happy with my characterization of Sai, for the most part, and I love breaking the almost-kiss tension with a genuine hug and display of emotion at the end.  I also like onomatopoeia and using random little Japanese words.

Fav. Quote from this: "Eat some food, put a real shirt on, and stop acting like your rock-hard stupid abs could stop a blade. Because they can’t. /.../"  "Uh...thank you?" Sai asked, poking his abs with a finger. 

XD  PUT THE BOOK DOWN AND EAT A DAMN SANDWICH.  Sakura doesn't want to admit that Sai's abs are bringing sexy back.  :P

9: This is a Bleach one-shot collection, the rule being that some element of filler must be involved in each one-shot.  As of right now, there's only the one, but I hope to fill this out a bit more as the series goes on.  The one-shot in there right now, Play That Funky Music, was perhaps the most fun I have ever had writing fanfiction.  I mean, seriously--I got to do a bunch of melodramatically tongue-in-cheek over-the-top description, use big words, play with Hollow Ichigo, and explode my least favorite Bount's head.  My favorite part was the opening several paragraphs, wherein I introduced the inner world and Hollow Ichigo, all while the narrator got slightly more and more hysterical and flowery in his/her prose as the description went on.

Fav. Quote from this: “And they were dancing! And singing! And movin’ to the groovin’! And just when! It hit me! Somebody turned around and shouted, ‘PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC, WHITE BOY!’” he sings loudly and discordantly, grinning madly and wailing into the microphone like a man possessed. His pallid skin soaks up all present colors, staining him with the eerie, pulsating dance lights from the “ceiling,” and the bloody glow of the sunset outside. His voice is a cacophony of madness—in it, one can hear the screams of the dying, the crackle of consuming fire, and the distorted, twisted laughter of pure killing insanity. It is redolent with lunacy, with warped joy, whose only love is discord, and chaos, and destruction and terror and death and blood and fire and, and...and breaking things.

I loved writing this.  Just that huge buildup in that last sentence, describing all sorts of terrifying things, and just running out of steam at the end and concluding with the anticlimax, "BREAKING THINGS!"  I can almost hear the narrator's voice going higher and higher in pitch as he/she spews this out, cracking on that last phrase so as to sound completely deranged.

8: I wrote this Axel/Kairi for Loren as a Christmas present, and boy... I hate this pairing, and it took me forever, but I DID IT.  I used the song "Another Auld Lang Syne," by Dan Fogelberg, as very direct inspiration, and I threw in a hidden backstory of Axel being in a band and blaming himself for Roxas' death in a car crash driving home from a party, and I mention early that Axel hates Saix, but vaguely reveal that it's because Saix was the drummer that replaced Roxas in the band, and just... I really am proud of this.  I think it's some of my best plotting and structure ever.

Fav. Quote from this: “Get the two percent,” Axel told him sharply. Saïx hated two percent.

Axel tricks Demyx into buying the milk that Saix hates most. Oh, Axel, you sneaky sneak thief.  XD

7: Oh, this is maybe the best thing I've ever embarked on.  A giant, slightly AU telling of Ansem the Wise's history and backstory, from his POV.  Ansem is fun to write with--he's so formal, yet tongue-in-cheek.  My problem is that I'M STUCK ON CHAPTER ONE SOMEONE HELP AIEE~  I posted this prologue in December, after it took me...maybe four months to write.  And now Chapter One just...just can't get written.  I hope I don't end up updating this thing once per year.  D:  That would SUCK.

Fav. Quote from this: “They washed my study walls?” I mock-gasp. I’m notorious for my odd habit of writing important notes on the wall. Melena likes to sneak portraits in to cover them up. “Now I’ll never remember which way the microscope goes...”

XD Ansem made a joke...

6: MEH OTP~  This is a collection of Kairiku oneshots.  I haven't updated in forever, unfortunately... My KH muses have gone on vacation, sad to say.  Still, go visit for the lulz.  I like a lot of the angst, but my favorite of these is probably the "purple boots" one, simply for its crackiness.

Fav. Quote from this:  “About two-thirds of my clothes don’t fit me anymore, seeing as how I’ve grown fifteen inches and gained seven pounds of pure muscle mass,” he added.  “Or maybe you’re just fat,” Kairi suggested facetiously.

Riku could never be fat, Kairi, don't be silly.  Once again, this is from "The Purple Boots."  If you only read one, read that one.  It's awesome.

5: Ah, here we go.  The only multi-chap I've ever finished.  I'm proud of most of the humor, the running gags, and the epilogue especially, wherein I ty up all the loose ends.  I'm not too proud, though, looking back at some of the humor in the "Marluxia" subplot, which involved a gag where Marluxia is mistaken for Riku (don't ask) and "Ansem" (Xehanort's Heartless) is involved with a lot of jokes involving rape/buttrape.  Looking at those, I think that some of them were in poor taste, and could have been worded better, at least so as to be a bit less offensive and sophomoric.  But I suppose that's all just part of the development process.  If I could do this fanfic over again, I think I'd be a bit more tongue-in-cheek with some of the gags, and do more running bits with Demyx and Larxene.

Fav. Quote from this: “My loyal guardian!” Ansem called out, expelling a mouthful of half-chewed hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, and blue moons. “Help me out here. I need an eight-letter word for ‘absence of light.’”

Ansem’s Guardian (whom I shall call Bob from now on, because that was his name) thought for a moment. Was his master feeling well? The answer was not only obvious; it was his master’s favorite word. Maybe this was a test. “Ah...’darkness,’ milord?” Bob ventured cautiously.

“ABSOLUTELY NOT, YOU MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR A SOUL-STEALING DEMON!” Ansem exploded. Bob cringed. Ansem took a deep breath and explained, “Obviously, my well-meaning but sadly mistaken friend, they want us to think the answer is darkness. The true answer clearly must be...pancakes.” He filled pancakes into his crossword, spelling it with two k’s.

Xehanort's Heartless was eating Lucky Charms because they're FRUITY.  LIKE HIM. Naruto Abridged needs to stop taking over my brain.  Also, he can't spell.  He's a bit OOC throughout, but at least it was consistent and (IMO) humorous.

4: This is a golden oldie.  At the time, I thought it was the best thing I'd ever written.  I was freshly into Stephen King, so a lot of the cutting between and parenthetical stuff clearly comes from that influence.  I used a lot of quotes from the Bible and some apocryphal stuff, notably the famous prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.  If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."  This was only my second foray into second-person POV, and all things considered, I don't think I killed it that badly.  This was a one-shot depicting what I thought it must have felt like when Riku's body was taken over by Xehanort's Heartless.  A bit melodramatic, but I actually like what I did with stream-of-consciousness.  The end was a bit abrupt, though--I had no idea how to conclude it.

Fav. Quote from this: (—and screaming blinding panic overcomes you, but no adrenaline is coursing through you to show this because it is there and it won’t let it, and your breathing is smooth and fine and easy and not shaking and ragged and gasping like it should be because you want to scream until you bleed inside, but it is in control and not you, so the sheer animal terror has nowhere to go, and it stays where you are, wherever you are and shakes your consciousness like a rag doll, until you can’t take it and you can’t scream to let it out—)

(I didn't italicize because I wanted to show what I did with formatting.) This is some of the best s-o-c I've ever done--just looking back and reading it makes my heart go a little faster.  If this one-shot did anything for me, it helped me with my stream-of-consciousness to the MAX.

3: My other Christmas-themed oneshot in the KH fandom.  This little baby actually got written right on Christmas Eve--looking back and reading it gives me the warm fuzzies as I remember.  :D  It's not very deep, but it's cute and dorky, and I love it.

Fav. Quote from this: After Kairi’s adopted parents, the mayor and his wife, had walked in on the three of them while Sora and Riku were competing in a “how-many-marshmallows-can-I-stuff-in-my-mouth-at-once?” contest, there was a unanimous decision to move the Christmas festivities to Riku’s house.

Seriously, can't you just see those two cramming stuff into their mouths furiously, their faces turning red, and both silently vowing, "I WILL WIN," while Kairi just watches, trying not to laugh?  I can.

2: This is crack.  I only put it here because the ending was the funniest thing I think I've ever done.  Sora asks Riku what darkness smells like, and after several brain-twisting metaphors and chorus-related jokes, Kairi answers the question for them.  I'm proud of the dialogue in this one-shot; I feel like I managed to capture the spirit of teen conversation while not being completely shallow with it.

Fav. Quote from this: Kairi sat down next to Sora. “Not much to report. My stomach’s been bugging me; must be something I ate. Oh, and Mr. Jameson, the chorus director, wanted me to let Riku know that if he doesn’t join before Districts, we’ll sacrifice our leading soprano to the Chorus Gods by the light of a full moon to find a new baritone after Johnny Pearson ate that poisonous spider. And the leading soprano is me. So he’d better think long and hard about his decision,” Kairi warned, leaning down close to Riku to see if he’d been listening.

XD  A fun feature in this oneshot is my theory that Riku now has a six-octave range, because of the crazy stuff his voice had to endure when his body changed into Ansem's, so he's been constantly harassed by the chorus director to join.  This was around the time I got into high school chorus, so it's probably why.  Also, just the aside with Johnny Pearson eating the poisonous spider was just a fun sentence to write.

1: Ah, here we go.  I consider this to be my first serious fanfiction.  Danny Phantom, my first real fandom, was a great fandom.  Over half the fics out there were quality and interesting, and the authors were friendly, and the readers left nice long reviews.  I still miss them in my heart.  Re-reading this, I'm actually pleasantly surprised at the quality of the later chapters--the detail and description is almost better than my current stuff.  The dialogue and characterization was a bit spotty, and the angst was overdone, but the action was surprisingly good, as well as the variety of sentence structure.  I feel bad that I never finished this--I had originally planned for this and four other long fics as sequels/companions, revolving around Danny, his evil future self (redeemed, but not lamely redeemed), his dead sister, Jazz, Sam, and Calysto, the Guardian of Chaos (an OC).  I even made up a background for Freakshow (this was pre-Reality Trip).  God, the time and brain cells I devoted to this, only never to finish.  I...I'm guilty.

Fav. Quote from this: Oh, no.  I can't pick.  Seriously.

I...I miss how good this show was...

Comments

[hopexlies.livejournal.com]

OMFG YOU DID MY MEME.


OMFG YOU DON'T LIKE KAIXEL .

my otp oh well, you like kairiku so its okay~

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Um...I sorry? D: I've just never really liked Kaixel, probably because I was too busy worshipping Kairiku wiht all my heart and soul (KEEP THE OLD-SCHOOL LOVE ALIVE~).