wyntir_knight | Meme ... because I need this today (Reply)

ultharkitty originally posted this meme and I nabbed it from

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The challenge:
What are your five favourite fics that you've written?

Why?

Include links so people can read them.

Make a new post with your answers so more people can see them. Writers are encouraged and expected to be self effacing and down on their work, and self-reccing is something people tend to sideeye. Which is pretty unhelpful - it encourages us to downplay the things that make us smile, and can contribute to some shitty thought processes. Plus, it means we don't end up sharing something that could make someone else smile. Some of the best fics I've read recently have been new links to old work that I've missed or read a while back and forgotten to return to. It's great to rediscover stories, and it's good to celebrate the things that make us happy. So meme?

I tried to limit myself to only five, and couldn't quite manage it. So here are my favourite eight stories (six from Transformers and 2 from TMNT) in no particular order. I think that these are very well written and I enjoyed writing them. And when I go back and read my own works, these are the ones I often come back to:

Transformers Stories

1. Plague of Need - An accident years ago left them bonded to each other in a way that no transformer could possibly understand. They thought the bond was forever and defined who and what they were, but it was so much more than that. Fifteen years later they will be faced with what they have become to themselves and to each other.

I love this one. It's dark and twisted, yes, but I just loved writing the characters and playing with the dynamic of a Stockholm Syndrome/Lima Syndrome relationship. I had intended to write more later, but the bunny got pushed to the wayside by other things.

2. The Ass and the Bee - Sunstreaker learns that one can't underestimate a minibot, especially when that minibot is Bumblebee.

I wrote this because I got tired of the "Bee is a cute and innocent little waif" fics that seemed to be showing up a lot at the time of the writing. Bee is part if Special Ops and (depending on the canon) rose to supreme leader of the Autobots on several occasions. He's not a mech to be messed with and I wanted to show that. I also think I did a pretty good job of writing a combat sequence, so there's that too.

3. Therapy - After the events of Auto-berserk, Red Alert needs more therapy than he's willing to admit, and Smokescreen must employ some unorthodox methods to help the Security Director.

Smokey really is my personal favourite character and I wanted to write him in the therapist position that fanon has him in. I also wanted to deal with the PTSD that Red would be going through after the events of Auto-Berserk. I mean, even if you leave the fanon theories aside, Auto-Berserk would have been traumatic for Red. I think that I did a pretty good job of portraying that PTSD and the therapy (given my very limited knowledge). I'm happy with this one.

4. Conformity - Shockwave contemplates the last pocket of rebellion on Cybertron and the femme who leads it.

5. What Measure? - Optimus Prime is forced to contemplate what makes a mech a mech.

This one ... honestly this one came about because the events with Nightbird bugged me. They introduce this clearly sentient AI and they just jail her and send her back to the humans for lord knows what kind of experimentation. Canon (and fanon) Optimus shouldn't have stood for that. Plus I like to ask the hard questions in my stories.

6. Valentine Singularity - Smokescreen is feeling the strain of his position and his isolation and he hits on the wrong mech.

For the record, this was supposed to be a PWP story. Apparently I have trouble writing those and an angst-fest came about instead. As mentioned above, Smokey is my favourite character and he doesn't get nearly enough love in the fandom - either being relegated to a supporting role or turned into the designated villain of an Autobot-only story. I wanted to write something different. I think I managed it, and I really like the result. I tried to write a sequel (still am) but it just came across as mean-spirited. We'll see if it ends up going anywhere.

TMNT Stories

I don't write a lot of TMNT. I just don't have many bunnies for them (especially since a lot of that fandom scares me just a little). Donnie (like Smokey) is my favourite character and he doesn't get enough love. I wanted to play with the idea of him not being the fighter that his brothers are and not feeling like he fits in their world. ... There is the possibility that I channel my own insecurities through Donnie. Maybe >.>

1. Forced Fit - Donatello is having serious problems with sparing and is ready to throw in the towel until a pep talk from Splinter helps him get through his fears and doubts.

Of all of my TMNT stories (the few that there are), this one is my favourite. I wanted to show Donnie fighting back against the "Yes Sir, No Sir" routine that he seems to fall into, and I think that I managed the characterizations, the interactions, and the story itself really well here.

2. Places - Don considers his brothers and his place among them.

This was originally supposed to be a writing exercise for me, so try and pare my writing down. Each paragraph is exactly 100 words and the story is exactly 500. Seeing as I tend to write epics, this worked out very well, and I love this from a technical standpoint, but I also adore the story. Most of my stories are dark and full of insecurities rather than fluff. What can I say? I like the darkness.