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Here's that AO3 meme that's going around:

I currently have 38 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recently posted) to 38 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

I know, it's hardly that many stories, but pick a number.

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15!

15! 15 is All Different, All the Same, which was a commentfic I wrote for this prompt: Peter and Caspian, music, a happy Marshwiggle.

Things I like:

1) I love Peter/Caspian, so I liked slipping in hints of it in this story.
2) I like the description of Caspian's coronation and how it contrasts with the Pevensies.
3) The dancing, happy, drunk Marshwiggles. :D

I kind of hate the title though. And I wrote a larger story around this scene, and ended up cutting pretty much all of it, heh.

I like the Marshwiggles showing an unexpected side, too! *g*

22, please and I'm still taking questions on this meme. Its so interesting to go back and look at what I've written.

22! 22 is Sing Down the Stars and is probably my favorite of all my fics!

I wrote this for the Narnia Fic Exchange, for Elizabeth Culmer, who wanted a story about Rilian having to prove himself after returning to Narnia in The Silver Chair. I wanted to write about Rilian, who was such a minor character in SC, more of a quest object and a legend than an actual, fleshed-out character.

Things I like:

1) How Rilian thinks of his life as a story (I was playing off canon there) and how this recurs throughout the fic.
2) Rilian as his mother's son, and how he is a child of the stars, and how this is equally as important as being the son of a Narnian king.
3) The ending. :D

I like so much of this story, I could talk about it forever! :D I'm glad you picked it.

7! 7 is Turning From the Past, which a post-Narnia, post-LB, Susan story.

I like all the different lives fanfic gives Susan post-LB, so this was my take on one of them.

Things I like:
1) This line: She can't add another betrayal to what she feels is already too long a list.
2) The OC, Jeffrey. I like that he was a friend of Peter's, so there's a bit of history there, and I like that it gives a glimpse of Peter's life in England, as well as Susan's.
3) I like how Susan's grief came out. I wasn't sure it sounded right at the time, but looking back, I think it's pretty good.

I hate the title, though, I'm awful at titles. :D

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4! 4 is Sometimes the Clothes Do Not Make the Man which is a Narnia story I wrote for Starbrow, who requested Lucy/Aravis, and crossdressing.

Things I like:
1) It was the first time I've written Aravis, and I like the way she came out.
2) It was my first time writing femslash, and I think I did okay (although I can see things I'd improve on now that I'm looking, heh).
3) I like that Aravis was the one calling the shots, not Lucy, despite the fact that Lucy is a queen, and older than Aravis.

I'm not entirely sure I succeeded with this story, but it was fun trying. :D

13, please

13! 13 is Where There's No Snow (the Baby You Can Sleep While I Drive Remix). This is a remix of Vialethe's Where's There's No Snow that I wrote for the last Remix.

It's a Narnia fic, and Vialethe's story is an AU where Edmund survived the train crash at the end of The Last Battle and ended up traveling the world with Susan, as they mourned what they lost. My remix flips the story and writes it from Peter's POV, after he's died.

Things I like:
1) How the story came out as a lighter mirror to the original, even though the train crash and the deaths are still there.
2) The concept of the Real Worlds, and how Peter and Lucy follow Edmund and Susan all over the world, but see such different things.
3) The scene on the beach with Peter and Lucy, which parallels the original, yet changes the tone.

I like a lot of this story, so I'm glad you picked it! I really liked playing with the idea of Real Worlds, and how there were still stories to tell, and adventures to be had, even after Peter and Lucy were dead.

28!

28! 28 is A Game of You which is a Westing Game fic that I wrote one year for Yuletide.

Things I like:
1) How the story turned out, overall. The prompt was just "Turtle/Theo" with no other details and no letter, so I was kind of freaking out at first, but in the end, I didn't have to worry about hitting any other notes, and I think I wrote the best Turtle/Theo story I could.
2) The letters. I had a lot of fun writing them, and thinking about Turtle's voice, and how her life would be at each letter.
3) The end. The email was fun. And of course Turtle won.

I also liked that I got to write a fic from that book, that I had loved almost all my life.

That is an awesome Turtle/Theo story!

...I should go reread The Westing Game. I encountered it because it was assigned to my class in middle school, and I have always wished I'd managed to find it on my own first without the bother of essays and canned analysis questions, argh, because I love it fiercely and didn't want to listen to other people pick it apart and/or miss the point.

35! 35 is Build Her World which is a double-drabble about Galadriel, written for the Back to Middle Earth Month challenge.

Things I like:
1) That it was cowritten. Even for such a short piece, it was a collaboration.
2) I like that it's exactly 200 words. I like the challenge of writing a drabble, or in this case, a double-drabble, of getting the story into exactly the amount of words, no more, no less.
3) Galadriel! I had never written about her before, and I liked trying to get into her head.

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