you'll see the sun come shining through

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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?

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[lotesse]

I can't imagine that it won't - attempts to capitalize fandom never seem to.

Three things I like right now about Teethed on a crucifix and cradled underwater:

-the title! It comes from one of my very favoritest Edna St. Vincent Millay poems, and it was great to be able to tie it to one of my stories. I like the way the two things are in opposition but also not.

-it's a sort of story I wish I did more of: a fairly immediate post-ep, directly responsive to the show in a pretty straightforward way. I didn't like that they made the weird girl normal; I HATE stories where (girls especially) have to give up fairyland because real life is somehow better or more important. So I fixed it.

-for some reason, I really like the passage that lists all of Elena's cosmetics. I do that sort of thing kind of a lot, but I really let it go to the max here; I think because it's King Arthur-adjacent, and T.H. White, my first Arthurian, does the medieval listing thing all. the. time. I like that the passage feminizes the trope, though - when White does it he's usually listing armor or falconry gear, whereas I think listing women's tools has the additional impact of drawing attention to the sheer effort that women put into living up to cultural standards of beauty.