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So, the Self-Reccing Meme is going around. As quoted by

igrockspock:

Post, in your journal, a rec list singling out the best of your own fics. Tell people why you are especially proud of those particular fics, and of course provide links to them. Yes, that's right, this step involves self-promotion. How else are people supposed to find your fics? List as many or as few as you feel appropriate to represent your body of writing.

Also include a paragraph about the types of fics you most enjoy reading or are most interested in reading in the immediate future -- favorite tropes, pairings, fandoms, whatever. If you're particularly lazy, link to that Dear Writer post you did for whatever holiday exchange comes to mind.

Reply to other rec posts (like for example the one you are reading now) by reccing a fic of your own that might fit the original poster's tastes, or that you'd just really like them to read, because maybe they don't know they'd like it.

Black Holes and Revelations. I worked hard on this story, because it was my intro to the fandom, and I'm still pleased with it. The remnants of my math research from NUMB3RS fandom show in it, as do my efforts at the Mathematician, who is about as well as I've ever done at depicting a non-human sentience.
Chasing Starlight. Because this story did everything I wanted it to do: it told of two moments in the lives of one pair of helmsmen and lovers aboard this starship. Plus, I finally figured out Hikaru Sulu for myself while writing it; he's never been more clearly himself in my writing than he is here.
Save The Last Dance This is really here for sentimental reasons more than anything else. I love the progression I managed to depict underneath the guise of a smorgasboard of porn.
No Set Gauge This is one of the best things I've ever written. I really wanted to depict women facing danger, neither elide nor overstate the sexual component of that danger, and show them rescuing themselves and each other. I deliberately made the female characters in this story endure the most and do the most, not because men aren't capable (ha) but because we are absolutely as capable. Plus, what Uhura did for Gaila in it is one of the most wrenchingly awesome things I've ever written anyone doing. I wrote that scene while crying, I've never reread it dry-eyed, and everything I thought of made it to the page. I'm proud of No Set Gauge.
Comparative Physiology is one of the funniest things I've ever written. I'm very pleased with the tone I set; I tried hard to convey that no one was being traumatized, but not by trivializing the potential for trauma, and I think I succeeded. It's a merengue of a story -- I worked hard to create a sweet frothy result, and when I was done my arm was tired. But people found it tasty.
Our Place Among The Infinities is a love letter. To the Kirk/McCoy subfandom, to what I personally see in the pairing, to the Enterprise, to Reboot Jim Kirk who redeemed the whole concept of Captain Kirk for me (okay, George helped too). I think I really conveyed both the mental and physical experiences I intended to depict in it.
Come Fly With Me is another story I worked especially hard on, so it would be anywhere near worthy of its recipient; I'd wanted to write it for a long time and to write something for her for a long time. I think a lot about privilege, from both directions, and this story is about people connecting across barriers of privilege as much as it's about anything. Also, Gaila is vv hot and Pike deserves hot cute people on his lap.
A Star Quaking is, excepting yesterday's story (whose ranking I haven't settled out yet), my favorite of my Mirrorverse stories. I had a whole shape of Jim and Leah's relationship in my head that I finally unveiled there, without anyone else interfering. Also, I love the Rand I wrote.
Light, Inaccessible Another story that just plain did exactly what I wanted it to do. I can't think of more to say than that.

And a honorable mention: I left "Conspire to Ignite" off here because I so munged the Russian in it (I suspect I helped inspire a couple of min-rants I subsequently read about pathetic fannish Russian) but I do love what I said in it about nonmonogamy, sex, and guys.

Some time ago, before Reboot came out, I said that I wanted a fandom set in a SF&F universe, something where some of the ordinary rules of space, time, and matter didn't apply. I love Star Trek for being that fandom for me right now, so I really love stories that actually highlight the spacefaring, science fiction side of the setting.

I feel weird attempting to summarize what I like: I like so many things, and what I write and what I get the chance to read are both incomplete reflections of what I'd ideally like to read. (I like stories in the 5-15 K word range far more than is apparent, because I rarely get time to read them in full.) I could more easily list what I don't but that list is full of truisms (character-bashing) and rules with exceptions (K/S except for Spock!Prime, genderswap, threesomes of any sort, if Uhura actually gets to be awesome, pre-Academy meetings, AUs...) and would just plain be negative. Then there are the rules that contradict themselves (I love, hate, and/or fear non-con and dub-con fics, depending entirely on the author's skill at writing the story. Two stories about the same characters and basic plot outline can cause exactly opposite reactions in me based entirely on how the subject matter is handled.)

So, um. If it has cheerful nonmonogamy, unremarked-upon bisexuality, major roles for female characters (including romance, as long as the characters are people dealing with a part of life and not simply remoras trying to attach to someone) and/or science fiction aspects, I may well like it.

And on Monday -- some of my pre-Star Trek favorites (once I can winnow the list a bit)!