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!

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PIMPING BECAUSE THIS IS AWESOME

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User marguerite_26 referenced to your post from PIMPING BECAUSE THIS IS AWESOME (http://marguerite-26.livejournal.com/773093.html) saying: [...] [...]

[tryslora]

Are we allowed to do it per fandom? Like, since I write primarily for HP and TW, could I do two separate responses, one for each fandom? (Yes, this is me being both shy and not shy...)

[capitu]

Yeah, per fandom would be great!

One response for each fandom. :D

And if you have more than one favourite story/fan favourite, that's awesome, too!

[eidheann_writes]

O.O

Oh I can't wait to see what people do!

[capitu]

Me too! XD

I'm hoping you'll fill it, too. Obviously. *pokes* <3 Don't make me beg. ^^

Re: *waves*

[capitu]

Hiiiii! :D

I LOVE The Business of Shagging Harry! Pensieve!Porn, ftw! And only Draco would have thought of doing that. <3

Ohh, Nancy Boys sounds like fun! :D Ohhhf course, with Brian Molko. And I love that icon.

[eidheann_writes]

Fandom: Harry Potter (H/D)
Most Popular: A Year on the Wizarding Convention Circuit
Warnings: mpreg, NC-17 rating
Personal Favourite: A Dream of Waking
Warnings: infidelity, mpreg, NC-17 rating

(though according to AO3, Dream of Waking is almost caught up. it's very close)

[capitu]

I loved A Dream of Waking more than I can possibly say. The FEELS!

And A Year on the Wizarding Convention Circuit was for me like your intro card, you know? The first story by you I read. Always a favourite.

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[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User oakstone730 referenced to your post from No title (http://oakstone730.livejournal.com/25465.html) saying: [...] Capitu is hosting a Self Pimping fest - head on over and rec yourself! [...]

Can't wait to see what everyone else recs - here is mine.

[oakstone730.livejournal.com]

Fandom: HP

Most Popular: Twist of Fate (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7429542/1/Twist-of-Fate)

Warnings: Angst, Book-length H/D, starts during 4th year ends post-DH, pretty tight to canon except definitely EWE

Personal Favourite: Last Dance (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8884136/1/The-Last-Dance) (Cedric/Charlie, canon-ish, during Tri-Wizard)

Warning: Angst, Major Character Death

Totally pimping now - Twist is only four reviews from 600 on FF which is totally amazing to me. Never thought that it would get such a strong following. It is not perfect (SPaG warning!)- only during the last few chapters did I find a beta.

Re: Can't wait to see what everyone else recs - here is mine.

[capitu]

I loved Twist so much! It was my comfort read, amazingly enough because it's pretty angsty, but it felt so, so familiar. All the characters and see them grow, you know? I think it's the start that made it so, because it works canon so well from the beginning. <3

I need to get my hands on ALL your Cedric!fic. You write Cedric beautifully.

[mab.livejournal.com]

What a brilliant idea! I'm tracking this to read all the wonderful self-recs!

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Let Me Be Your Voice (http://archiveofourown.org/works/639579)
Warnings: Suggestions of past abuse including rape (non-explicit) and featuring school tie bondage, drinking games, and the unconventional use of a Snitch.
Personal Favourite: Where Your Treasure Lies (http://archiveofourown.org/works/753424)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: Death!fic with a happy ending, mentions of suicide. I’ve taken liberties with canon ages for Scorpius and Teddy. Adapted from What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson (1998 movie rather than the book)

[capitu]

I love these two fics SO MUCH. <3

eidheann_writes and I cried like babies reading it. Man!

Just getting actually writing things but here is mine

[nathalieweasley.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Two Green-Eyed Monsters (http://archiveofourown.org/works/878819)
Warnings: underage sex, accidental voyeurism
Personal Favourite: Être aimé en dépit de soi-même (http://archiveofourown.org/works/864566)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: mild language

Re: Just getting actually writing things but here is mine

[capitu]

Ohhhh! These two! *loves*

Draco + eyeliner = HOT!

DRARRYISGREEN

[drarryisgreen]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (S): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Ordinary Life Shackled Me (Rated: R)
Warnings: Mpreg, Angst, Lack of Smut
Personal Favourite: YourS Until Midnight (Rated: PG-13)
Pairing (S): Harry/Draco
Warnings: Fluff, All About Tea

Re: DRARRYISGREEN

[capitu]

Most Popular: Ordinary Life Shackled Me

Everybody should read this fic!!!!!!! <3

Oshdlskfj!! And I haven't read your personal favourite. What! *bookmarks* I can't wait to read it.

[hollys_tree]

I haven't written much, but I have written some things. ;) *shamelessly mixes with all the great authors*


Fandom: HP Nextgen

Pairing: James/Scorpius
Most Popular: Part of Me (AO3);
Warnings: not really, but it has some Veela elements and I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea. :)

Personal Favourite: Flying Colours (AO3);
Pairing (s): Teddy/James
Warnings: none

[capitu]

Ohhh! :D Yay! New fics to read. I've come to realise I LOVE Teddy/James and all sorts of Scorpius slash. :D

[notearchiver.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Most Popular: Cabled Socks and Cognac (http://notearchiver.livejournal.com/16410.html)
Pairing: Albus Dumbledore/Horace Slughorn
Warnings: none
Personal Favourite: The Spitefulness of Wands (http://notearchiver.livejournal.com/23283.html)
Pairing: Garrick Ollivander/Severus Snape pre-slash
Warnings: none

[eidheann_writes]

I really did love Spitefulness. I need to dig through your masterlist, gah.

*to-do list of doom*

[sksdwrld.livejournal.com]

Fandom:Harry Potter
Pairing (s): mostlly Harry/Draco but plenty of other slash pairings and some het.
Most Popular: playing with fire: http://archiveofourown.org/works/561248
Warnings: slavery, D/s, bdsm
Personal Favourite: Blackhearts Series: http://archiveofourown.org/works/776155
Pairing (s):Harry/Draco
Warnings:rough sex

Shyly peeking from under the rock...

[dragontara]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Malfoy's Bitch
Warnings: creature, alpha/omega, knotting, dub-con, NC-17
Personal Favourite: argh! I can't decide! I have a soft spot for both, Claimed and Run With Me
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: both are creature fics with bonding, NC-17, Claimed is a veela fic and Run With Me is a werewolf/animagus fic

Re: Shyly peeking from under the rock...

[capitu]

I love your creature fics so much! And I think Run With me is both our favourites. :D

[who_la_hoop]

This was HARD. I may have got a little carried away :D

Author: who_la_hoop
AO3 Masterlist: Here

Fandom: Harry Potter
Most Popular:
Harry/Draco: 101 Ways to Heal Your Wizarding Woes (Or, an Unfortunate Incident with a Traffic Cone and a Policeman’s Helmet). (Warnings: Rated NC17, explicit but fairly vanilla first-time sex)
Harry/Snape: The Sleeping Prince. (Warnings: Rated Teen for swearing and innuendo)
Albus Severus/Scorpius: The Unicorn Incident. (Warnings: NC17, swearing, explicit sex, underage (boys aged seventeen))
Personal Favourite: The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift
Pairing (s): *cough* Diverse combinations of Albus Severus/Scorpius/Harry/Draco
Warnings:An excess of deliciously explicit sodomy; a thrilling lack of monogamy; vice between father and son (but only in company); boys who are not yet men by the rigorous standards of the USA (Al and Scorpius are 17); the shocking sight of a boy in a frilly skirt; taking the Lord’s name in vain and other language most foul; and – worst of all – four men showing a disturbing lack of shame about the filthy, filthy acts that they commit. :D

[eidheann_writes]

I wish I could be HALF as funny as your warnings/tags for Devil Child... and the way you make Scorpius both absolutely horrible but so damned *likeable*..

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

Fandom:Harry Potter
Pairing (s):Severus/Sirius
Most Popular: Sirius & Severus (http://archiveofourown.org/works/552003/chapters/983515) (yeah, I'm not big on titles)
Warnings: Angst, character death, AU, violence, disturbing themes, explicit sex, anal sex, oral sex, mild medical kink, frottage, explicit language, rimming, masturbation, humor, hurt/comfort, romance, action/adventure, sometimes wonky art, and a 200+ page graphic novel.

[capitu]

*dies*

This is officially the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

[vaysh]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Most Popular: That would be Blood Squib (NC-17, 12050 words)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: mpreg, suicide attempt, blood magic
Personal Favourite: Tough one. The Cross of St. Peter certainly is my preferred H/D head canon (NC-17, 6800)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: PWP

[lordhellebore]

I love "The Cross of St. Peter"! *squishes fic and re-reads*

[lordes.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Most Popular: The Child in Me (http://dawnlett.livejournal.com/205716.html)
Pairing (s): Harry Potter / Draco Malfoy
Warnings: Very minor character death, mentions of sex toys
Personal Favourite: A Living Memory (http://dawnlett.livejournal.com/194439.html)
Pairing (s): Harry Potter / Viktor Krum
Warnings: Violence, very minor character death, book I is not in chronological order

[capitu]

Oh my gosh. The Child in Me does things to my heart.

Bow ties are cool. And he was crying for his childhood, not just the toys.

*rushes to read it again*


Oh god! A Living Memory is 41k! *dies* I can't wait to get my hands on that.

[lordhellebore]

Wow, this is HARD! Especially picking my personal favourite! It changes almost weekly xD

Fandom: Harry Potter
Most Popular: A Different Fate [PG, 6.5k]
Characters/Pairing: Harry, Dudley, Petunia/Remus
Content: mild violence, disability

Personal Favourite: All That Remains [R, 21k]
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Content: Dub-con, character death

[capitu]

I haven't read any Petunia fics before. Sounds intriguing.

All That Remains will forever be one of my favourites. It's one of those stories I can't get enough of. It was one of those fics that marked me, you know? I love it.

[tryslora]

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Zeroing In
Warnings: genderswap

Even before I checked my hits on AO3, I was pretty sure I'd list this as the fan favorite because it was my first fic (non-gaming related) posted, and it still gets kudos randomly now. It's also one of my personal favorites, honestly. I have one HP fic on AO3 with more hits, and that's because it got hit by spam and I have no idea how many of the hits are real.

Pairing (s): Scorpius/Albus
Most Popular: An Awful Mess
Warnings: mpreg, teen pregnancy

By kudos, this is my second most popular, and considering it has half the hits of the first but still has more kudos than everything else, I think it kind of counts.

For personal HP favorites, I have too many to count probably, so here are a few (in addition to Zeroing In).

Bent (an NC-17 severely AU story of Draco's son and Neville's son and their seven years at Hogwarts)
No Matter Where You Go (There You Are) (Neville/Draco if you squint, a character journey for Draco really)
The Right Kind of Sinner (JamesSirius/Scorpius, NC-17, mpreg (MY FIRST))
For Your and Your Denial (Marcus/Oliver, mpreg, because it's MARCUS)
Hello, Goodbye (Harry/Neville, miscarriage/mourning, because it was hard as hell to write and I loved how it worked in the end)
Scars of Pleasure, Scars of Pain (Draco/Lavender, because it's not a normal pairing and I had a blast writing it)
Minesweeper (Harry/Draco, because it's the closest thing to crack I've written)
Do This In Remembrance (Draco/AlbusSeverus, cannibalism, because this made me work for it and I love how it came out)

And I'm stopping there, because there are others, but I'm weird and I actually like a LOT of what I write after I write it. But those are probably my top favorites, except for the ones I forgot to include. They are the ones I have this ridiculous weird fondness for that's hard to explain.

[capitu]

Zeroing In was the first story by you that I read. It blew me away! I remembered following the link from hd_complete, I think, and I wanted to read everything by you. :D One of my favourite genderswap fics.

Another one I loved was a Marcus/Percy fic I read. For hp_sexstars, I believe. Damn, that was another fic that left me speechless.

You write so many pairings! I love, love, love that about you.

[tryslora]

Fandom: Teen Wolf (just in case anyone cares *grins*)

I'm listing two most popular because one is purely by number of hits, and the other is the one that doesn't have inflated hits due to being a WiP.

Most Popular: Haven't Forgotten My Way Home
Pairing (s): Derek/Stiles
Warnings: WiP, future fic, kid fic (not mpreg)

I love this story, I'm excited to finish it in the next few months. It's my most popular by hits purely because it gets a few more kudos every time I post a chapter, I think.

Most Popular #2: Find Me, Touch Me, Feel Me
Pairing (s): Derek/Stiles
Warnings: nc-17, crossdressing, a/b/o, bonding, knotting

If I could bottle whatever the hell I did for this fic, I would, because this one has double the hits of the next one in my list, and I seriously don't know what I did differently. I love the story, but it has a popularity I never expected.

My personal favorites in TW tend towards the dark ones, and one of my series which I kind of love rolling around in.

fingerprint bruises painted on skin (Stiles/Jackson/Lydia in various combinations, abuse, non-con, 2nd person POV, I just... this fic wrote itself for me)
Cut My Feelings to the Bone (Derek/Jackson, D/s, mild dub-con, this was my first Halemore and it's still one of my favorites)
Eat the Terror, Lick the Spark (Derek/Stiles, major character death... fandom doesn't like it when I kill Stiles, but I loved this story and still do, even if it ripped my heart out to write it)
I'm Not Going To Let You Go Down (With the Ship) (Derek/Stiles, human AU fusion with Deadliest Catch, this was a huge flop as far as fandom is concerned, but I fell in love with it while writing and am still so glad I was able to write it)
All Our Yesterdays (Stiles/Jackson, divorce and angst, this is my favorite series to write, and I love working through the magic and past mistakes and wrestling with all the feelings involved)

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I love self pimping day. :D All these new fics to check out!

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: Not sure, but I think it might be Silver Buttons and Shiny Boots (http://melusinahp.livejournal.com/778253.html)
Warnings: none
Personal Favourite: It changes, but maybe Love Is... (http://melusinahp.livejournal.com/841408.html)
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: dub/coerced-consent, pre-story character death

[birdsofshore]

Silver Buttons and Shiny Boots. *happy sigh* What a fic that is.

[indyonblue.livejournal.com]

What an awesome idea! I'd join in but only have two fics to my name lol, maybe in a few years time.

On the bright side though, getting a whole load of new recs in my spreadsheet (yes, I am that boring :D)

[capitu]

Hey, hey, hey! You can still list those two! :D

[nerakrose]

i've never heard of this kind of thing before (if i have, i've forgotten all about it). it sounds awesome. :)

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Teddy/James
Most Popular: I think Here Now, Gone Yesterday (or Back to the Future) (AO3) ~21k
Warnings: None (has Remus/Sirius on the side)
Personal Favourite: Both the above and Fragments of a Life (AO3) ~5k
Pairing (s): Teddy/James
Warnings: Heavily features James/OC but endgame is Teddy/James


Pairing (s): Remus/Sirius
Most Popular: Probably the House of Love series, consisting of the prequel House of Cards and then House of Love. ~86k in total. (not recommended to read this on ao3 due to formatting issues.)
Warnings: none really, but there are lots of OCs in sexy situations with our boys
Personal Favourite: without a doubt Indiana Lupin ~67k
Pairing (s): Remus/Sirius
Warnings: none


Fandom: Avengers and related
Most Popular: Definitely How to become a Superhero and gain a family (minus the picket fence) (AO3). This one crossed the 10k hits mark on ao3 a few weeks ago, which no other fics of mine have done. ~7-8k
Pairing (s): Tony/Steve & Tony & Bruce Wayne
Warnings: none
Personal Favourite: He Eats Snow For Breakfast ~25k
Pairing (s): genfic but somewhat Loki-centric, with Natasha/Pepper prominently, Phil/Clint background and pre-romance/slash Tony/Steve.
Warnings: severe injuries at the beginning of the fic (blood) and mentions of torture


These are the ones of mine I can think of off the top of my head. :)

[capitu]

I love Teddy/James. It's one of my fave next gen pairings. And this sounds so so good!

[birdsofshore]

This is fun! I thought it was going to be embarrassing, but once you see everyone else doing it...

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Most Popular: I don't really know. How do you measure popularity? (don't get me started on AO3 stats, fgs...) but maybe The Twelve Days of Draco, which is a ridiculous romp.
Warnings: None

Or (I'm going to ignore the fact that it's cheating to have two!) some people were quite excitable about A Princely Scent
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Warnings: Various kinks

Personal Favourite: I really like the above fics, but my current favourite is probably Hungry which is an 8th year forced proximity fic
Pairing (s): Harry/Draco
Warnings: None

[capitu]

LOL!

No, we won't wax poetic about AO3 today. XD I don't know, I guess it's some sort of common knowledge about which fics are most liked? Maybe most talked about, commented and recced about?

(and I was just about to poke you for your fill!)

eidheann_writes and I often talk about your fics (we're big fans for Birds). We were amazed by what you did with A Princely Scent AND Unknown Pleasures. We just had a conversations about how spanking is not a huge kink for me, and the very next day you posted that fic and man, I ATE MY WORDS. I kid you not. :D I loved it so much.

Hungry was one of my favourites of the smoochfest. That got post it while I was away and I was so jealous of all the people who got to read it before me. I swear! I'm weird like that. :D