meme from, like, everybody:

I currently have 75 works at AO3. Pick a number between 1 and 75 and I'll tell you three things I currently like about that story.

eta: so that this entry contains more than a meme - the more I hear about the Amazon Kindle Worlds mess, the more it reminds me of what I've read about the early days of the Pocket Books Star Trek tie-in novels, which I gather fans were initially excited about as a way to professionalize/monetize but later pretty much abandoned once the level of creative bankruptcy necessary for participation became clear. Plus ca change, neh?

meme from ilthit, because I'm trying to freaking finish some of these: The game is to find the word “look” in your current work in progress, and post an excerpt from that section of the manuscript.

( Star Wars )

( more Star Wars )

( Vorkosigan Saga )

( Avengers )

Posting fic! That is a thing that I used to do!

Alive in your blood now (5735 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Helen Natalia Vorkosigan, Aral Alexander Vorkosigan, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan, Harra Csurik, Ivan Vorpatril, Taura Vorkosigan, Helen Vorthys
Summary:

When the role call comes to “Vorkosigan,” Helen Natalia smiles, throws back her head, and casts her vote.

because, y'all, I freaking LOVE chicken shawarma; it is the food of the gods.

Cardamom is the perfect spice
Avengers, Steve/Tony, Clint/Natasha, post-film coda: now with added shawarma!
{movie spoilers, food, first kisses, names, soldier issues}
2536 words, general

at the AO3
( or behind the cut )

I didn't do this last time around, but it looks pretty cool, so: my top ten fics on the AO3, by hitcount.

Loving in the war years, Avengers Movieverse, Steve/Tony powerplay sizekink wallsex, 3316 hits
...good maude, y'all, I guess this is what it feels like to write for a popular fandom?

until you cry: now you must try my greed, Sherlock Holmes rentboy fic, 1296 hits
No surprise there, this is one of the pieces of my own work I'm most pleased with, and it seems to've hit a sweet spot with readers.

Finds but riddling shrift, Tortall, Numair's arrival in Corus, 1087 hits
A yuletide madness fic, which explains the sloppy ending - I like the rest of the fic, but haaaaate the way it sputters out at the end. C'est la vie.

Entreat me with your loveliest lie, Vorkosigan Saga Gregor!angst, 962 hits
Another yuletide piece, albeit one I had longer to work on - I like what this story does, even if I've found myself increasingly disinterested in Gregor/Miles as a ship.

why press a seal on running water, Spirited Away, Chihiro and the dried-up river, 926 hits
Another yuletide, and yay I heart this story! I did a lot of reading-up in order to write it, and actually started to pick up on the Shinto and environmentalist arguments of Miyazaki's oevre, so that was pretty cool :)

gentle heart but not acquainted, Holmes/Watson WAFF, 816 hits
A kinkmeme fill, one that I'm very ambivalent about - the idea of the project never quite came clear.

Pass, repass, glide away, Sherlock/Mycroft crossdressing incest, 653 hits
Parts of this are, I think, the best Holmes I've ever written.

What are you that wanting you I should be kept awake, Tortall, Daine/Numair post-canon, 560 hits
I have nothing but happy about this story; I had a blast writing it, and I think it does all the work I wanted it to do :)

A bed of daysided gold, Star Wars OT Han/Luke/Leia post-canon, 454 hits
The one where I finally figured out how to write Star Wars, after only twenty-odd years of fannishness!

we have laced the world together, Sherwood Smith's Wren books, OT4, 453 hits
This is one of those rare situations where writing a really rare fandom pays off - this is the only Wren fic on the archive, but Sherwood Smith's given the story multiple positive mentions, which, WOOT.

Loving in the war years
Avengers, Steve/Tony + ensemble, sex up against a wall
body dysmorphia, powerplay, size/height kink, first time misunderstandings, old history
summary: For maybe the first time he doesn't feel oversized – or he does, but suddenly something's clicked over and it turns him on, seeing and feeling the mass and strength of his body as he pounds Tony Stark against a wall in a basement.
5555 words, explicit

at the AO3
( or below the cut )

In love we disappear
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Holmes/Watson UST, Irene/Simza, Sherlock & Irene
summary: I'm in ur movie, emphasizin ur hurt/comfort, queering ish up, and unrefridgeratin ur wimminz. Only, more nineteenth-century than that. Holmes, Irene, and Simza, post-Reichenbach.
2412 words, G

( read here, )

or read at the AO3

I spent so much time doing Prydain het this year that Prydain slash was inevitable.

Neglect me, lose me, only give me leave
Chronicles of Prydain, Taran/Fflewddur, Taran Wanderer era
enthusiastic consent, intercrural sex, worship, traces of healing cock
2712 words, explicit

( There is nothing, Fflewddur said, suddenly thick-throated, that you are not worth. )

Luminous firefly lavender
Star Wars OT fusion with Firefly, in the form of a drabble sequence. Gen, Luke&Leia, Han/Luke
racebending, smuggling, meditation, cooking, rebellions, Jedi powers, tech-geeking, hair-braiding, and hot sex in engine rooms
1400 words, G

( Hey, did you know your engine's got a bad motivator? )