Snowflake Challenge Day 8

[osprey_archer]

In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created.

I thought I’d do some older fics for this one. Did you know that I’ve been posting on AO3 since 2010? That’s nearly ten years! Of course, I was posting fic on LJ before that - since 2008, I think? Man, I missed the chance to celebrate my tenth ficaversary. Oh well. Without further ado!

This first one is not exactly a fic, although I posted it for Yuletide (in fact this was a classic “sempai notice me!” moment: I admired the author’s fic and hoped that if I left an offering we could become friends. That time it didn’t work out, although sometimes it does.) It’s an f/f selkie story.

Sealskin (1486 words)
Fandom: Fairy tales and related fandoms
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Relationships: girl/selkie
Characters: a human girl and a selkie
Summary: On Michaelmas Catherine first saw the selkie, who stood naked on the black wave-licked rocks at the bottom of the cliffs.

Next: baby’s first OT3 fic! Still probably the best OT3 fic I’ve written, IMO, although admittedly it doesn’t have a whole lot of competition.

Silentium (4101 words)
Fandom: Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Relationships: Esca Mac Cunoval/Marcus Flavius Aquila/Cottia
Characters: Esca Mac Cunoval, Marcus Flavius Aquila, Cottia
Summary: Perhaps this feeling was only a thing of the moment, Esca thought, looking away from the sunlight limning Marcus and Cottia in gold. Tomorrow Cottia might be merely Cottia again, and again it would be only looking at Marcus that made him ache.

And finally, because it just wouldn’t be a good rec list of my fic of one of the pieces wasn’t a perfect sphere of despair, a Les Miserables fic in which Marius dies instead of Eponine and Eponine takes it upon herself to tell Cosette because she’s a Victor Hugo character and therefore loves self-punishment. (I personally would have preferred this - Eponine deserved better from life! - so it’s after the manner of a fix-it.)

Requiem (2475 words)
Fandom: Les Miserables (2012)
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Relationships: none
Warnings: Does it count as Major Character Death if the character dies before the fic starts? IDK.
Characters: Eponine Thenardier and Cosette Fauchelevent
Summary: Eponine trudged through the streets of Paris, the stinging scent of gunpowder still in her nose and blood still streaking her shirt, to tell Cosette that Marius was dead.

Comments

[asakiyume]

My favorite of your Eagle of the Ninth fics--at least of the ones I've read--is the one where Cottia is a fox. But this one is a sweet one too.

[osprey_archer]

I did consider fox!Cottia. (That's the one you drew the picture for! Remember? Marcus holding fox!Cottia.) Sometimes when making fic lists we have to make hard choices!

[asakiyume]

I do remember!

[lucymonster]

Congratulations on your tenth ficaversary! Maybe when you hit your ten years on ao3, you should do a retrospective - words posted year by year, or favourite fics, or something?

Also, solid 'sempai notice me' strategy, lol. Can confirm it sometimes works! :p (Actually I can't remember if I got talking to you by writing you fic first, or if it was long rambly reviews first and fic later. But there was a fic in there somewhere.)

[osprey_archer]

I might! We'll see if I can come up with something good. I sort of feel that Reciprocity looms so large over my fic output that it would make any kind of fic retrospective weirdly lopsided.

I think you started out with reviews and then we became friends when you picked up the "what if during his nervous breakdown Steve came onto Bucky?" ball and running with it. Which was great! I was totally hoping someone would pick up the idea when I tossed it out there.

[littlerhymes]

Sealskin!! I loved that fic. I had no idea who were at the time... I just checked and that was 3 years prior to Frances Ha! <3

[osprey_archer]

It's always kind of fun to discover that someone I've become friends with online wrote such-and-such a fic that I loved way back before I knew them. We were like ships passing in the night!