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Have you ever gone back to an essay or a story or a picture and thought "Yeah; I totally nailed it"? Re-read something and decided that, yes indeed, you got the idea or tone or characterization or line just right?

I propose a meme: What was that thing? Let everyone know.

Mine, at the moment, is the story At A Cost, an FMA fic that came out of me wondering what would happen if the first anime ended with everyone getting exactly what they said they wanted. Roy-centric, though later stories in this arc are mostly Ed pov. And I nailed Roy and Hughes, here. *satisfied smile*

I'm actually going to tweak this a bit.

( First, the ten with the most hits: )

Conclusion: People still like my Roy/Ed romances a whole lot, Holic fluff is always in, and Kuroshitsuji porn is hot.

Now, the ten with the least hits:

Heat Prostration, written for the Gilgamesh anime, it's kind of mind-porn and quite weird..

Blood and Thunder, KHR, one of the most recent I've posted, and focused on Chrome.

Fortune, my Atobe/Yukimura fic, low on hits despite having two comments, a kudo, and a bookmark.

Irregular, Jackal/Marui porn.

Light to Walk By, a Meine Liebe fic, focused on Nicholas.

Hashira, I believe this was my very first PoT fic, exploring the dynamic of Seigaku.

Copper and Candlelight, a Fushigi Yuugi fic, starting off my post-canon arc about Yui and how she might put her life back together after getting the short end of the fairy-tale stick.

Sartorial Splendor, more of the Nicholas fic arc.

Iron and Stone The next installment of the Yui arc.

Fire and Gravel, a fic focused on Fudoumine's Ibu, in which he does /not/ ramble endlessly but is, instead, more than a little dangerous.

Conclusions: Plot-fic about characters who are not wildly popular or central gets very little attention. Even hot porn about an unexpected pairing tends not to get read, no matter how well known you are for writing very hot porn indeed.

Okay, what the heck.

So! Despite not having actually posted any fic this year, I really do have several stories that I'm pecking away at whenever I have a week free of the demon students, and there may even be fic again in the relatively near future. Therefore:

On AO3, I am

Branch. If you want to follow Just The Fic, Ma'am, feel free to subscribe over there!

I am deeply amused by now many answers Em and I have in common.

1. Which is your favorite fic? Ahahaha, yeah right. Actually, a few months ago, I wrote up my favorite for each series I'd written much for, and even that involved a lot of cheating with honorable mentions. It does mean I have a reasonably short list, though! You know, out of four and a half hundred.

( A sample of favorites )

2. Which is your best-received fic? Hmmmm. All my early RoyxEd was very successful because I just hit the wave right then. I think Challenge was the one that was best received for being a good story rather than just catching a pairing wave, though.

3. Which is your worst-received fic? *dryly* Well, there was certainly a resounding silence surrounding Seishin, which was Hawkeye/Roy. I expect this was partially because I was too terrified of the RoyAi shippers to actively pimp it in that corner.

4. Which is your angstiest fic? That... is a good question. I don't do angst too often, and generally it's in the process of making things better. When I do write serious angst it's generally "someone's dead in canon so here's how their best friend/lover grieves". Even that usually has comfort in there somewhere. I think the most unmitigated angst I ever wrote was Nutshell, which is Yukimura-while-paralyzed fic.

5. Which is your funniest fic? Looking at it, I seem to write a lot of my humor as omake--it's kind of the art of the in-joke, based on whatever serious fic comes before. I think, among the stand alones, Population Adjustments is probably a front-runner. Poor Ivan.

6. Smuttiest? *gales of laughter* I'm a smut writer, come on. Let's try the kinkiest thing; I think that would be Tools of Persuasion, the Hibari/Dino I wrote for the last Porn Battle I did.

7. Fluffiest? ...this presents similar difficulties. However, I can say that Comfort Food is the only fic for which I have actually warned for the sheer tooth-rotting density of fluff.

8. Have you ever made someone cry with a fic? Indeed, I have been told I have on more than one fic. Usually but not always the aforementioned "someone is already dead and someone else has to cope" ones.

9. Which fic frustrates you the most? Any fic I'm trying to write at the same time I'm picking up more of a teaching load. Because that makes it hard to nail down the bunnies before they bugger off.

10. Which fic was the most fun to write? They're all fun, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this. *thinks* I did have a very good time with the Translated stories, because I got to show that I was totally right and Tenipuri really is a samurai flick. I think, though, that the ones I giggled through the most would be the two By/Ivan stories. Poor Ivan.

11. Who is your favorite OC you've ever created? Hmmm. That might just be Arariel, for the River arc. Not least because I had people asking me where in canon they could find her, since they seemed to have missed her the first time around.

12. Are you better at oneshot or multipart? I think that would probably be multi-part, if only because that's how I usually frame my stories.

13. What character do you think you're the best at portraying? I like to think I'm good at all of them, since characterization is one of the things I pay very close attention to. *considers* I think I especially captured the voice of Kirihara. And Hughes. And Gokudera. And Hibari. And Atobe. *grins* Definitely Atobe.

14. What character is the most difficult to portray? I... don't generally have difficulty with character portrayal. If I do, then that's not a series I'm usually writing in.

15. Tag five other authors! No. Though these are fun to read.

A recent comment got me looking back over my fic, and I decided to see if I could pick a favorite fic per significant series, that I have written. Kind of auto-recommendations. I managed without cheating, but there are definitely honorable mentions, too!

Angel Sanctuary This has to be Six, the Lucifer/Michael that just needed to be written.

Bleach Ice is Also Great and Would Suffice, a Rukia and Byakuya story in the aftermath of the Soul Society arc.

Card Captor Sakura New Year in Winter; it was a moment I wanted to write for a long time, Yue's response to his capture, and turned into the start of an arc because I couldn't just leave the poor woobie there.

Eyeshield 21 Souvenirs, a little Hiruma snapshot of sorts, very stylized. Hiruma seems to bring that out in me. Honorable mention to "Size Matters" the crack crossover with GWing.

Final Fantasy VII Has to be Where Seduction Serves, which is a Sephiroth/Cloud AU of the Northern Crater scene, and came out just as scary as it was supposed to. But I also have a mighty love for "Hearts and Flowers", which is my version of Zack and Aerith meeting, written pre-Crisis, and is perfect fluff.

Fullmetal Alchemist Oh, wow, where to start? Honorable mentions: "Snapshots" for angst. "Detour" for... um, well, more angst, but in a hopeful sort of way? "Hageshii" for Lust/Greed tastiness, which is its own category of awesome. "In Silence" for contrariness, because it's screaming Roy+Ed, when I was known for RoyxEd. But I think, if I had to pick just one, it would be Long Enough, which is Scar--post Lior.

Fushigi Yuugi Copper and Candlelight, which is the start of giving Yui less of a cop-out ending.

Getbackers A Theme in Pentatonic, because I mean, come on, it's the harem porn that is just begging to happen.

Gundam Wing Breadcrumb Trail, because the thought of Relena as a pilot makes me warm and fuzzy.

Katekyou Hitman Reborn I love the AU Xanxus arcs, and I love the Yamamoto/Gokudera arc really, really a lot, but I think my one favorite story just has to be Withdrawal. *snickering*

Loveless Ride Your Wild Horses, because the poor slobs deserve a happy ending, by damn.

Meine Liebe Light to Walk By, because I <3 Nicholas and the way he relates to Lui.

Monochrome Factor Unbound would probably be the one. Shirogane hair-porn, what could be better?

Petshop of Horrors Wild, which is a crossover with PoT. *evil grin* Honorable mention to "North of the Sun, Over the Moon", because as soon as I met Lau I wanted to write what would happen if he and Leon ever met.

Prince of Tennis Oh god. Challenge and Translated probably tie for my very most favorite arcs. "305 the Way it Should Have Been" definitely gets an honorable mention, as does "Time-lapse". But the single favorite, I think, may be Six Examples, which is Rikkai and revelation, and that line of tennis=sex that makes people write pairings for this series with such wild abandon.

Saiunkoku Monogatari Pollen for Dreams actually ties for first with "Finding Home", but the latter is part of an arc and kind of needs to be read as part of it, which I think edges the first into the lead for this purpose. Honorable mentions for "Deeper Than Love", because the world needs more Seiran+Ryuuki, and "A Brighter Shade of Red", because it's an FY crossover and Shuurei/Yui and what could be better?

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Probably Wind is on the Face of the Water, because while all KuroFai fang-fic is good, this one has Tomoyo being awesome to boot.

Xxxholic Abiding, without question.

Yami no Matsuei Polarization, because I actually found a way to make logical sense of Watari's drive to perfect the sex-change potion. *smirks*

Yuugi-ou Kiss for a Lifetime, because Anzu is way too good for any of the boys.

Gacked from

dancing_serpent.

Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written that you're proud of, any fandom, any genre, here on my IJ.
Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

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