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straightforwardly) wrote2017-10-11 12:49 am
straightforwardly) wrote2017-10-11 12:49 am
166 | on gift fics I've received
► Darkest Night fic reveals happened the other day! And by the other day, I mean “about a week ago”, oops. Author reveals are tomorrow, and I’ll probably post about it again then to talk about the fic I wrote / my general experience with the exchange (spoilers: it was positive!), but first, I want to heartily rec my gift!
There’s a lot of excellent fic in the collection (go check it out if you haven’t already!) but this one is easily my favorite. I feel like I won the exchange lottery. ♥
► Speaking of gifts… recently (as in, actually recently, not a week ago), someone cross-posted the fic they wrote for me for the 2015 round of the Pokemon Holiday Exchange to AO3. (Not sure why they put it in the Anonymous Collection—there’s nothing actually wrong with it. I liked it!) Rereading it actually brought back a lot of my old Pokemon main game-fandom feelings in general, and my Dawn feelings in particular. I still do love her an awful lot.
It also inspired me to go back and look at what my sign-up for that year had been, and…I really like a lot of the prompts I left there? Looking at them actually made me feel vaguely inspired. I don’t know for certain if I’ll ever actually go back and write for that fandom again, but I’ve saved them for future reference, just in case.
► And one thing that isn’t directly or indirectly about gift-fics… My older brother’s been playing Freedom Planet lately, and the following exchange happened the other day when I asked about the gender of the character he was playing (paraphrased):
Brother: All of the characters are girls.
Me: !!!!
Brother: Their friendships with one another are really cute, too.
Brother: [gives example]
Brother: AND she [the character he was playing as] does Chun-Li-style kicks.
Me: Are you trying to tempt me into playing this game?
Brother: ....Yes.
I mean. I’m still not jumping to play it, but I’m amused by how well he knows me.
From the Ashes (8046 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lalli Hotakainen & Tuuri Hotakainen
Characters: Lalli Hotakainen, Tuuri Hotakainen
Additional Tags: Faustian Bargain, Resurrection, Comes Back Wrong, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Finnish Mythology & Folklore
Summary: There is a way to return Tuuri. Lalli takes it, even knowing the cost.
There’s a lot of excellent fic in the collection (go check it out if you haven’t already!) but this one is easily my favorite. I feel like I won the exchange lottery. ♥
► Speaking of gifts… recently (as in, actually recently, not a week ago), someone cross-posted the fic they wrote for me for the 2015 round of the Pokemon Holiday Exchange to AO3. (Not sure why they put it in the Anonymous Collection—there’s nothing actually wrong with it. I liked it!) Rereading it actually brought back a lot of my old Pokemon main game-fandom feelings in general, and my Dawn feelings in particular. I still do love her an awful lot.
It also inspired me to go back and look at what my sign-up for that year had been, and…I really like a lot of the prompts I left there? Looking at them actually made me feel vaguely inspired. I don’t know for certain if I’ll ever actually go back and write for that fandom again, but I’ve saved them for future reference, just in case.
► And one thing that isn’t directly or indirectly about gift-fics… My older brother’s been playing Freedom Planet lately, and the following exchange happened the other day when I asked about the gender of the character he was playing (paraphrased):
Brother: All of the characters are girls.
Me: !!!!
Brother: Their friendships with one another are really cute, too.
Brother: [gives example]
Brother: AND she [the character he was playing as] does Chun-Li-style kicks.
Me: Are you trying to tempt me into playing this game?
Brother: ....Yes.
I mean. I’m still not jumping to play it, but I’m amused by how well he knows me.