fanfiction for the end of the world

[mickeym]

If you were going to be stuck on a desert island, or shipped off to the moon, or the world was ending around you...what ten pieces of fanfiction would be your "must-have's"? (Links to said stories are welcome and appreciated *g*) There is no limit on size/number of chapters, so long as it's considered *one story*.

Mine are (and this is no particular order, just the ten I wouldn't want to be without):

1. The Killing Moon, by poisontaster (SPN a/u)
2. The Dallas Deception, by aynslee (CWRPS a/u)
3. Something Borrowed Something Blue, by belyste (CWRPS a/u)
4. Human Behavior, by visionshadows (Popslash a/u)
5. Chimera, by jaguarcaine (Dark Angel)
6. Rite of Passage, by Rushlight (HP)
7. Rubber Ducky, You're The One, by impertinence (SPN)
8. The Road Goes Ever On, by thehighwaywoman (SPN a/u)
9. The Book of Secrets, by rhyssj (Popslash a/u)
10. Dark Passage, by Elizabeth Kent (A-team)

Okay. That took me 45 minutes -- it's not easy, narrowing down 12 years of fandom participation and reading into ten stories *g* And there were so, so, SO many left off that are favorites of mine...except, if I knew I was only going to have 10 stories, ever? I'm going to go for length, along with everything else. I think the shortest one of these listed is like, 22,000 words. (I also apparently have a thing for a/us. Who'd'a thunk?)

Anyway! Lets all get stranded somewhere together and pool our resources. So--what are your favorites?

Comments

[wendy.livejournal.com]

Easy!

Chicagoland by phaballa.

thenyxie's homework verse.

Enough by without_me and topaz119.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's like, only three! Gimme seven more! You gotta pull your weight in this end-of-the-world fiction pooling thing ;)

*sneaks in a snug*

[wendy.livejournal.com]

Be glad you got three. :)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Hmph. *pouts*

:)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

*snickers* what does it mean if you would be on that list twice? *g*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

That you like my stuff? And I write long stories? (Sometimes? *g*)

C'mon, gimme a list, chick.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

I'm shutting down shortly, so the rest of the list will have to wait for tomorrow. :D

[girlmostlikely.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, this is a really good question! I'm gonna have to think about this and get back to you. *nods*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Don't forget *g* And y'know, you can post it in your journal, if you'd rather. Or here. Whichever :)

[girlmostlikely.livejournal.com]

I didn't forget! See, I am a GOOD GIRL. *g*

Okay, here we go:

- Battering Ram, by Astolat
- Unasked, by Astolat
- The Green River County Detention Centre (Being Wrong is a Bitch), by Causeways
- Carry Me Over the Sky, by Killabeez
- People Livin in Competition, by Ladyjaida
- Life As We Know It, by Sevenfists
- Moderation Itself, by Sevenfists
- The World's a Small Child in the Dark, by Stele3
- I Can't Wait to Fall in Love With You, by TrafficWest
- Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean (verse), by Vinylroad

Oh! I am too lazy to link to all of these, but they can be found via [my delicious (http://delicious.com/tvm)], by author.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you are tricksy. Tricksy, I say.

1. And in the Morning (http://hafital.slashcity.net/hlander/morning.html) by hafital (Duncan/Methos)
2. This November Life (http://dontyouwaitup.livejournal.com/184912.html) by dontyouwaitup (Sam/Dean)
3. Woven (http://gekizetsu.net/sn/opendoors.html) by gekizetsu (SPN gen)
4. Hunger of Old Mouths (http://www.snowflake.stardock.info/bigbang/hunger.htm) by plutogirl10 (Sam/Dean)
5. Life As We Know It (http://sevenfists.livejournal.com/113120.html) by sevenfists (Sam/Dean)
6. Cirque de Celine (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=big_pink&keyword=Cirque+de+C%C3%A9line&filter=all) by big_pink SPN, Dean/OFC
7. The Bark of Dante (http://seacouver.slashcity.net/taz/dante.html) by tazlet (Duncan/Methos)
8. In Each Heart, Hope (http://soulcake.skeeter63.org/hearthope.html) by Dasha (Highlander, poly)
9. Holy Ground (http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/Under/Holy1.htm) by macgeorge1 (Duncan/Methos)
10. With the Spring (http://www.wf.net/~gofboats/Spring.htm) by Saraid (Duncan/Connor)

I think there might have been more SPN stories on here? But right now I'm having emotional issues. So, Highlander sounds like a safer bet.

ETA: Dammit, I forgot Changed Utterly (http://users.erols.com/darkpanther/) by Parda. (HL gen)

Also, there were a few stories that might have made it on here except that they are part of a series and I need the whole thing, like the As Time Goes By series (HL).

Your game is hard. :(

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

You can share my SPN stories, and I'll share your Highlander stories. And yeah, it's hard. I could easily do ten in Highlander, Popslash, XFiles, Supernatural, and CWRPS.

I don't know that there'd be any gen on any of my lists, though *g*

*snugs you*

Email! Soon!

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

OMG HOW TO CHOOSE. *deep breath* OK... (no particular order)

1. Unasked (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/supernatural/Unasked.html), by astolat
2. Waiting for My Real Life to Begin (http://sneaky-sena.livejournal.com/8103.html) (and sequel, Wayfaring Sons (http://sneaky-sena.livejournal.com/15488.html)), by sneaky_sena
3. Room and Board (http://wordsmiths.net/Maygra/roomandboard.html), by maygra
4. That Way (http://teland.com/that.html), by thete1
5. Breviary (http://www.unfitforsociety.net/musesfool/breviary.htm), by musesfool
6. Deemed Salvageable (http://hansbekhart.livejournal.com/186054.html), by hansbekhart
7. A Bedtime Story (http://community.livejournal.com/spnflashfic/43621.html), by uschickens
8. Drawing Constellations (http://mijmeraar.livejournal.com/67007.html), by mijmeraar
9. Unlocked (http://gekizetsu.net/sn/unlocked.html), by eighth_horizon
10. Bellum Omnia Contra Omnes (http://vaingirlfic.livejournal.com/35510.html), by ninhursag

And then I'd hide On the Subject of Evil Plans and the Overtaking of the World (http://lalejandra.livejournal.com/37381.html) (lalejandra) in my bra and hope that customs didn't catch me. :P

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. I recognize most of the authors, but not the stories. What fandoms are they?

Um. Wouldn't sticking the story in your bra make it kind of...lumpy? Or something? (And wouldn't that be UNCOMFORTABLE?? Meep.)

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

Let's see...

1. SPN, Sam/Dean
2. J2 AU
3. SPN, Sam/Dean
4. Angel, Wes/Gunn
5. HP, a variety of pairings
6. SPN, Sam/Dean
7. SPN/Sandman crossover, Sam/Dean
8. J2 AU
9. SPN, Sam/Dean
10. SPN, Sam/Jess (with implied Sam/Dean)

Hidden in my lumpy bra: HP, Draco/Hermione. :P

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

I (heart) Dark Passage, but I have an affection for angst and recovery.

I have Rhiannon Shaw's HL series loaded on my handheld; even though I was involved with beta-reading several of them, I still like them. http://rhi.moonlit-eyrie.com

I also like Speranza's work, both as Speranza and Francesca; it would be hard to pick just one of her stories since she's written so many.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was certain someone would mock me for the A-Team story; instead, I find two of you commenting on how you love it. Rock on, I say.

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

I had difficulty coming up with 10 because I didn't want to leave fics off the list. So I just did first 5 that came to memory that I knew I'd want forever. I can't decide on the last 5 fics.

Reconcilable Differences (http://intimations.org/fanfic/smallville/Reconcilable_Differences.html) by astolat (Smallville/DCU)

Shadows Fade (http://aukestrel.com/fic/shadowsfade.html) by kelliem and aukestrel (Tales of the City/Hard Core Logo)

A Brokedown Melody (http://www.onesafebet.org/fiction/?p=315) by flyingtapes (bandom, Panic at the Disco)

Forever, Now (http://passe-simple.livejournal.com/tag/forever+now) harriet_vane (bandom, My Chemical Romance)

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedoms_just_another_word.html) by synecdochic (Stargate Atlantis)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I know it's hard to choose just ten, isn't it? It's like...but what about this? Or this? Or that one? WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THEM?? *g*

[poisontaster]

At this point, I've read a lot of fanfic (though a LOT less than some) and a lot of it just blends together in my mind. These are the stories I come back to over and over, that blew my mind in some way about what fandom and fanfic is and could be.

Chimera by jaguarcaine (Dark Angel, Alec/Ames)

Filthy Mind by rivkat (SPN, Sam/Dean)

Conflicts of Interest by rageprufrock (Smallville, Clark/Lex)

Alpha Centauri by hth_the_first (SGA, Ronon/Rodney/John)

The Hollow by idyll (Angel, Gunn/Lindsey)

Deathknell by beanside & nilchance (RPF, Jared/Jeff, Jensen AU)

The Miseducation of Severus Snape by hb_princess (HP, Snape/a Whole buncha people)

Book of Secrets by Rhys (Popslash, JC/Chris, AU)

MPREG by Rhys (Popslash, Chris/Lance, mpreg)

Dirigo by cesperanza (Dead Zone, Johnny/Walt/Sarah)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I love that we have some overlap *g* Great minds and all of that.

I (re-re-re-re-re-ad infinitum)read "The Killing Moon" today. C/p'd it into a word document and read in between bits of filing. 142 pages. *headdesk* I might possibly have not gotten as much filing done as I could've/should've/would've. Heh.

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the meme - check out mine on my lj. :-)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU for playing :) And man, see, I made it too hard. I need to expand it to "even dozen" (or a baker's dozen! That'd be better!) because I left out The Promise. And a couple others. *sigh*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Dark Passage. I haven't read that in forever.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Time to read it again... :) Oh! And did you ever read PT's "The Killing Moon"? It's Mpreg, and features a cameo with Chris! I think you'd like it.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I did read it again, and enjoyed every word. I may also have gone to nose around the A Slash archive, because I'm easy like that.

And did you ever read PT's "The Killing Moon

The title is ringing bells but I can't remember for sure. My time in the A slash fandom was well before popslash so Chris wouldn't have even registered with me. Man, can you imagine?

I'd love a link if you don't mind :)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Oh, no no-- The Killing Moon is an SPN story. :) Sorta-kinda post-apocalyptic (a/u and jossed to hell and back when S2 started) in that a plague of presumed demonic origins has killed all the women, and in their place made it so some men are "breeders" -- uterus and all. And poisontaster incorporates what rhyssj did in her story MPREG, and brings Chris in near the end, briefly.

The link is up in the original post, #1 :)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Man, my reading comprehension skills suck!

Still, it sounds like my kind of thing, so I'm checking it out anyway. While still blaming you for the A Slash ;)

[nu-breed.livejournal.com]

This was SO FREAKING HARD.

I'm interested that I have more J2 AU's than SPN fics. I think that may be that there are more J2 fics that are comfortfic for me, and the SPN stuff I tend to not read over and over as much because my tastes are geared towards angst and it wrecks me ;)

have you seen him whom my soul loves (http://veronamay.livejournal.com/624424.html) by veronamay (J2 AU)
Lightverse (http://poisontaster.livejournal.com/142712.html#cutid5) by poisontaster (SPN)
Five Districts, Five Drugs (http://rei-c.livejournal.com/tag/5d5d) by rei_c (SPN AU)
The Homework 'verse (http://thenyxie.livejournal.com/481145.html) by thenyxie (J2 AU)
Honey Flower, Apple and Lime (http://veronamay.livejournal.com/561965.html) by veronamay (J2 AU)
Exact Change (http://dontyouwaitup.livejournal.com/135353.html) by dontyouwaitup (SPN)
There's a Piece of a Puzzle Known As Life (http://keepaofthecheez.livejournal.com/403249.html) by keepaofthecheez (J2 AU)
Mr Right Next Door (http://causeways.livejournal.com/69941.html) by causeways (J2 AU)
You're the Whip In My Valise (http://memphis86.livejournal.com/25093.html) by memphis86(J2 AU)
Blue Dog On a Yellow Couch (http://cathybites.livejournal.com/464296.html) by cathybites (J2 AU)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Good choices, all :) And you have some of my favorites on your list...so we're covered *g* Lots of good fic all around, yes? :)

And yeah. Super hard. I said to Gillian up above, I should've made it an even dozen, or a baker's dozen. Oi.

[nopseud]

I would definitely include Absinthe Makes..., just so I could read it and remember how much fun we had writing it together :-)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I thought about putting that on my list...then didn't just because I'm always uncomfortable with the whole self-pimping thing. Or whatever that would be. But yes. I'm declaring this should be a baker's dozen instead of ten, and Absinthe makes the list *g*

*smooch*

[visionshadows.livejournal.com]

*squeak*

I made your list? Thank you!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

You made my list LAST time I did one of these *g* Same story, even. :) But I can't remember *when* it was last going around, so I can't find it.

[visionshadows.livejournal.com]

Aww. *smishes*