2013's Self Pimping Rec List!

[capitu]

It's been a few years since marguerite_26 made the Self Pimping Rec List and I've been dying to know what authors & artists consider Fandom New Favourites from their point of view.

So, with marguerite_26's permission I want to invite you to the 2013's Self Pimping Rec List!


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THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR SHYNESS! Tuck it away, pimp yourself, and come to tell us what is your best work, which story/art are you most proud of and which one you consider fan's favourite.

All pairings and genres are welcome!

…What was that? You have other fandoms that you write for? Perfect! Don't let the banner fool you. ALL fandoms are welcome here! Feel free to fill this with all the fandoms you write for!

This is your comment template:
<b>Fandom:</b> <b>Pairing (s):</b> <b>Most Popular:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Personal Favourite:</b> <b>Pairing (s):</b> <b>Warnings:</b>

And Have Fun, fun ~fun! ♥ ♥ ♥


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Comments

[capitu]

It's more than okay! You are invited to spread the word! this list isn't only for my flist or only for my fandom. Everybody is invited to play, so grab your hat & pimp cane and come over! lol

[capitu]

I know i'm going to spend the night looking at all your art is GORGEOUS. How could you ever pick a favourite???

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Ha! Will do! Let's see how many of my beloved authors I can lure over here. :)

And thanks for doing this! It looks like fun.

[bsmog.livejournal.com]

Fandom:Harry Potter
Pairing (s):Harry/Draco (I'm told there are others, I apparently even used to write them, but...hello, rabbit hole)
Most Popular: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost (http://bsmog.livejournal.com/11068.html)
Warnings:Liberal use of personal experience and an overabundance of enthusiasm for mountain-climbing and tents. In real life, the experience was dirtier and was sorely lacking in attractive wizards.
Personal Favourite: This is tough. I loved Not All Those Who Wander because it was set in a place that meant a lot to me, and because it was my first fic in the fandom that has since claimed my heart. So maybe it's a toss-up between that one and Every Fifteen Seconds (http://bsmog.livejournal.com/20192.html).
Pairing (s):Harry/Draco
Warnings:Violence of the good old-fashioned fist-fight kind. And blood, as a result of said fist fights.

[nobunakira.livejournal.com]

Is art allowed? '_'

[khalulu]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): H/D
Most Popular: Probably Beekeeping; it just nudges out Seeing Draco Malfoy in comments in the original English, plus has readers in German translation thanks to phonixfeder. And I think it was memorable for people because of the African setting.
Warnings: none, really
Personal Favourite: I like all of them, but the one that stretched me most was Abraxan Wings, due to subject matter and to trying to jigsaw it around canon and pull through to a believable happy ending. A reader of the German translation who works with people with spinal cord injuries thought it was fairly accurate, which I feel good about.
Pairing (s): still H/D
Warnings: AU where Draco is left without feeling below the waist due to the Sectumsempra curse 6th year, and may never recover that. But he builds a new life for himself.

[dueltastic (from livejournal.com)]

I'm in a bit of a fannish doldrums at the moment, and I probably oughtn't self-pimp while I'm Eeyoring, but I find it hard to resist talking luggage tags. :)

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): McGonagall/Snape
Most Popular: Circumstances of a Small and Accidental Nature
Warnings: Long, and I'm highly embarrassed that I wrote it. (It was kind of on a dare.) Other than that, none.
Personal Favourite: Today, it's a toss-up between Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before and We Change the Nature of Things.
Pairing (s):McGonagall/Snape on the former, Dumbledore/McGonagall/Snape OT3 on the latter
Warnings: None, though both contain some sexual content. They're not my most upbeat stories (because, you know, today I'm Eeyore), but neither are they my bleakest. Pleasantly bittersweet, shall we say.

[felonytexas.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Remus/Sirius
Most Popular: The Opus, Voices Carry and Promises We've Broken
Warnings: Gay Sex. But it's slash, so ya know. There is also swearing, and homophobia in the Opus.

Personal Favourite: The Opus, it was my first attempt at fanfiction of any kind. Written over ten years ago.
Pairing (s): Remus/Sirius
Warnings: Swearing, and Homophobia. And the sex. But you know isn't that why we read slash?

http://archiveofourown.org/users/Rivek/works?fandom_id=136512

Fandom: X-Men First Class
Pairing: Charles/Erik (Cherik)
Most Popular: Set Fire to the Rain
Warnings: Some cursing, but otherwise it's fairly vanilla in terms of explicit content.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/248358

It is to-date my most popular work.

[khalulu]

she was encouraging someone above to send art recs, so I think yes.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Draco/Harry
Most Popular: On One's Knees (http://pir8fancier.livejournal.com/325716.html)
Warnings: Sexual hijinks between consenting adults
Personal Favourite: Dumbledore's Lost Boys (http://pir8fancier.livejournal.com/500602.html)
Pairing (s): Snupin
Warnings: Sexual hijinks between young men of consenting age.

[gracerene]

Flying Colours is one of my favorite Teddy/James! I loved how you incorporated the video inspiration. :)

[nerakrose]

I hope you enjoy them if you decide to take a look ^^

[dracogotgame.livejournal.com]

Ooh fun! I normally haz a shy about this sort of thing but everyone's having a blast, I see :D

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Good question. I think purely measuring by reviews (both on FFNet and LJ) it would be Chasing Draco (http://bottom-draco.livejournal.com/1291585.html)
Warnings: Meh, not really.
Personal Favourite: Harry Potter Totally Sucks (aka Draco Malfoy's Very Drunken Adventure) (http://dracogotgame.livejournal.com/tag/harry%20potter%20totally%20sucks%20verse)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: Dudley/Draco bromance, crack :D

Thanks for doing this, capitu love! So much fun ^_^

[dracogotgame.livejournal.com]

Ohh! I LOVE On One's Knees. It's a gorgeous, brilliantly executed fic. Thanks for writing it :)

[potterotic.livejournal.com]

Lush Life! Home Fries Nazi! Lettered! Let's Pretend the War is Over!
(Sorry, I think everything you write is brilliant.)

[jad.livejournal.com]

Fandom: HP
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: The Heart of the Matter (http://archiveofourown.org/works/493057)
Warnings: it's a WORK IN PROGRESS, but still my most popular... I've no idea why XD
Personal Favourite: Unhook the Stars (http://hp-sexstars.livejournal.com/34407.html)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: ...a lot XD See the splash page!

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Fandom: Merlin
Pairing (s): Merlin/Arthur
Most Popular: Until The World Gives In (http://archiveofourown.org/works/506128)
Warnings: see splash page
Personal Favourite: Fluffy Little Citizens Of Camelot (http://archiveofourown.org/works/157187)
Pairing (s): Merlin/Arthur
Warnings: none; this was just a ton of fun to write, and my first for the fandom

[citiesandsigns.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm such a baby in HP fandom terms that it feels a bit ridiculous to do this, honestly - I only have one fic and a couple of ficlets completed! But I'm apparently coming through anyway. *laugh*

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing (s): Snape/Harry
Most Popular: Hidden Structures (http://archiveofourown.org/works/871125) (1,700 words, R)
Warnings: PWP. Hand kink fic from a kink meme.
Personal Favourite: Under Pressure (http://archiveofourown.org/works/868256/chapters/1666520) (10,000 words, PG-13)
Pairing (s): none - Snape-centric genfic
Warnings: Snape's life is basically awful. More specifically, the warning is that it turns around the end of the first war.


Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra
Pairing (s): Korra/Asami
Most Popular: All Roads (http://archiveofourown.org/works/864324) (11,000 words, PG-13; road-trip fic and visceral reaction to the treatment of Asami in S1)
Warnings: none
Personal Favourite: Legacies (http://archiveofourown.org/works/576952) (9,000 words, PG-13; a fic about very complicated families)
Pairing (s): Toph/Suki/Sokka, Azula/Ty Lee; actually centred on Toph and Lin
Warnings: none


& then there's Sailor Moon fandom, where most popular and my personal favourite happily coincide:

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Pairing (s): Michiru/Haruka, Michiru/Elsa
Most Popular/Personal Favourite: Velvet (http://archiveofourown.org/works/244736) (11,000 words, R; Michiru learns to balance identities)
Warnings: violence

[laurenthemself]

Excuse the long comment, I'm polyfandomous.

Fandom: Harry Potter

Most Popular: Unity
Pairing: Scorpis Malfoy/Albus Potter
Warnings: Bullying, questioning of identity.

Personal Favourite: Substitute (crossover with Discworld)
Pairing: Carrot/Angua, Sybil/Sam
Warnings: Only that it's more Discworld than HP.

Fandom: The Big Bang Theory

Most Popular: the road ahead is clear again
Pairings: #1 pairing is Penny/career. Hints of Penny/Raj and Penny/Sheldon; offscreen Leonard/Priya; present but not exactly impacting the story is Howard/Bernadette.
Warnings: None.

Personal Favourite: aaaah gods I don't know. the world is gonna bend
Pairings: Raj/Stuart, Raj/Howard.
Warnings: Homophobia, transphobia, body dysphoria, related triggers. NB: in this fic Raj is a trans woman, hence the warnings.

Fandom: Red Dwarf

Most Popular: Quick Fix
Pairing: Lister/Rimmer.
Warnings: PWP, angst.

Personal Favourite: Advent Calendar
Pairing: Rimmer/Lister
Warnings: Schmoop.

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Snape/Harry
Most Popular: Far and away my most popular fic. Lily watching from the afterlife and getting an eyeful. Deathly Hallows fix-it. The White Road (http://archiveofourown.org/works/19113)
Warnings: Voyeurism, accidental incestuous overtones, a bloody moment
Personal Favourite: This is disconcerting, because while I have favorite moments in each fic, nothing I've written satisfies me enough to qualify as the favorite. So I guess I'd go with my first fanfic, first Snape/Harry, opportunity for my first sex scene. The fic has died a quiet death on AO3, but I still love bits and pieces of it. When the Rose and the Fire Are One (http://archiveofourown.org/works/56799/chapters/75236)
Pairing (s): Snape/Harry
Warnings: Sex magic, dubious consent, rimming, secondary character death, minor violence

[lettered.livejournal.com]

I always loved it so much when marguerite_26 would do these! I don't think I ever participated; I never felt like I had any popular fics! I guess I feel like I do now ;o)

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: definitely The Boy Who Only Lived Twice (http://archiveofourown.org/works/330906)
Warnings: sex? spies? idk
Personal Favourite: by far The Pure and Simple Truth (http://archiveofourown.org/works/392764)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: none; it's mostly gen

[aasaylva.livejournal.com]

Room serviced, Room serviced, Room serviced!!!!!

And the Your move series in Pirates' fandom...

[crystalusagi.livejournal.com]

Fandom:Harry Potter
Pairing (s):Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Most Popular: Asphodel Dreams (http://archiveofourown.org/works/502468). **editedit** Or possibly Madness (http://archiveofourown.org/works/942694), which has less kudos on AO3 but has only been around for a little bit. I feel like it's likely to surpass Asphodel Dreams if more people do read it, even though it's loads shorter and is about drug addiction.
Warnings: NC-17; drug addiction, for "Madness".
Personal Favourite: Declarations (http://archiveofourown.org/works/874855), actually a sequel to the above, but I wrote it in Snape's POV almost a year after, and I think it's a more well-written fic, even if it's loads shorter.
Pairing (s):Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Warnings:Smuttiness? XD

[omi-ohmy.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Coffee, Cakes and Doorknob Snakes (http://hd-holidays.livejournal.com/251908.html) This one has the most recs and hits. I do like this fic, and it is close contender for personal favourite (I LOVED writing it). *bucks trend*.
Warnings: Lol, none really. It is NC-17 though.
Personal Favourite: The Silence of Dreams (http://omi-ohmy.livejournal.com/6706.html). I think I like my little one-shots best. I tend to write them all in one rush, and they are usually prompted by a feeling, a word, an image - in this case a dream of being hugged by my grandmother who died nearly twenty years ago. I do love writing long and plotty fics, but these little heart-felt stories are always closest to my heart. Plus, despite enjoying writing fluff I do also love a bit more angst.
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: None, really.

[who_la_hoop]

Awwww. *pets*

*snogs*

:D

[omi-ohmy.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Merlin
Pairing (s): Merlin/Arthur
Most Popular AND personal favourite: And No Birds Sing (http://omi-ohmy.livejournal.com/18942.htm) OK, so this is a bit of a cheat as I've only written one fic for the Merlin fandom, but it's probably my favourite fic now. It's like one of those angsty little one-shots I love so much, except that it's 35k long. But as it is super angsty, and also the furthest I've ever travelled from a HEA, I'm not actually sure if anyone will read it.
Warnings: Sads. Lots and lots of sads. Canon character death (off-screen/implied). Oh yes, and it does veer into NC-17 territory (just).