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[raspberryhunter]

...why not? I don't have too many, but...

I currently have 28 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 28 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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[shewhostaples]

14?

[raspberryhunter]

#14 is Water Crusade, a Paul/Feyd-Rautha fic I wrote for New Year’s Resolution 2012. I actually mostly wrote this during Yuletide, but ran out of time to polish it during Yuletide itself.

1. I like the way Paul totally doesn’t understand what Feyd-Rautha is telling him about getting perved on at first, but eventually over the years comes to realize what’s going on.

2. I like how Feyd-Rautha gets this tiny moment of redemption while still remaining true to both canon characterization and canon events.

3. Along the same lines — I’d been thinking a lot of Ted Chiang’s time-travel stories while writing this (”Story of Your Life,” “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” both of which I highly recommend, although maybe don’t read them both at the same time, as it’s basically the same story) and the idea of those stories: how events may be fixed (that is, you can't escape fate), but the way we give meaning to those events can make all the difference, especially on the individual level. I am rather pleased with how I transferred those ideas to the universe of Dune, which is all about how the inescapability of fate, but which never makes that connection.

[ollipop]

Dune seems to leave its themes really open, which I've come to like... there is much empty sand on which to write your own meaning. I like this one too, and I like that this is currently at the "halfway mark" on your fics. I think you should run a comment on 1 vs. 14 vs. 28 (which is a different meme, I guess, but would be interesting!).

[raspberryhunter]

Ooh. You might get that :P :)

Ha, empty sand, I see what you did there :) Yes, but at the same time it's got its own agenda, and it never sat well to me that the way to escape fate was... to be bred to be magic so you weren't susceptible to fate. Then again, I think God-Emperor is far weaker than its predecessors...