Meme: In the years when Agatha ruled ...

I was tagged by chrisleeoctaves.

Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

The Presence of Departed Acts - Angel. This was hard to write and I hated it for a long time, but was also very pleased with it. I know that doesn't make any sense, but it took so much out of me that at the end I could appreciate the result but had zero perspective on the quality. I still loved it, though. I loved the images and the rhythm of the language. I also really, really loved that I worked this through to the end.

When in Dreams I See Her - Angel. It was so easy to write and, again, I loved the language and the rhythm of it. More than anything I loved that it wasn't initially about Angel. It was about those mermaids. I still adore those mermaids and that opening line is possibly one of my favorite opening sentences of anything that I've ever written, ever.

eyes like the summer, all beauty and truth - Firefly, Mal/River. When I wrote this, I was in the midst of a huge hankering for Mal/River fic, but I didn't think that I could write it myself. Coming up with this was hard, but when it came together, I think, it really came together. I love everything about it -- how it's so dark and how River is so crazy, Eden March as grubby and blubbering as he is.

The Habit of Transferred Affections - End of the Affair, Henry and Bendrix. That type writer. I love the type writer and the way that, I feel, it works. Perhaps oddly, it was originally meant to be slash and never quite made it. It didn't need it. I think that the story is intimate in many ways.

If You Would be True, Love - Roswell, Max/Liz. Language, language and that opening paragraph. It's another piece with a rhythm that I'm very proud of. It's got quite a few flaws, especially towards the end, but I'm still completely in love with it. I took the risk of dirtying up Max and Liz and ended up falling a little bit more in love with them.

and just because ...

A Tale of Heaven - BtVS, Buffy. I think that I shall always be in love with the poetry of this.