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necessarian) wrote2017-01-01 08:59 pm
necessarian) wrote2017-01-01 08:59 pm
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❄️ snowflake challenge day 1: three self-recs ❄️
there's no set theme for this, but i've decided to go for personal favourites of mine that i feel are underappreciated in some way. i have elected to rec fics from before this year, since i just covered all my faves in my 2016 summary. these are all haikyuu!! fics. i hope you find something here to interest you!
❄️ Coincidence ❄️
summary: oikawa and suga keep meeting, by chance, and take to each other instantly. but the course of true love never did run smooth, and sometimes anxiety gets in the way. featuring scallions, selfies, and a convenience store that acts as matchmaker.
this is only the third haikyuu!! fic i ever wrote, but nonetheless i'm fiercely proud of it. i had just discovered the joy of rarepairs, and oisuga was (and remains) my poison. so when i signed up to the very first hq hols exchange, i said i'd write oisuga on a total whim. am i ever glad i did! i was hit with a really inspiring prompt and it led me into a beautiful spiral of obsession, of late nights and emotional outbursts that made this fic what it is. this really is a self-rec because there is so much of me in this fic. it marks the moment i went from an okay writer to a good one, in my opinion. i love it so much and compared to some of my later oisuga fics it's much lesser known, mainly because oisuga was still tiny when i wrote this. if you want to go back to the early days of oisuga, this is the fic for you!
❄️ Mutually Assured Distraction ❄️
summary: there's a bit of rivalry beetween konoha and akaashi that has nothing to do with volleyball. they both like bokuto, and a miscommunication ends with both of them scoring a date with him. at the same time.
this was for haikyuu!! rarepair week in 2015. i was determined to write something each day because i'm such a rarepair evangelist but i was struggling a bit with ideas. i'd been interested in konoaka for a while after seeing some cute fanart and i kind of went with it because i wasn't writing anything else featuring the tokyo teams. i had basically no plan when i started other than "romantic rivals end up getting together with each other." and then in like the space of an afternoon, i'd written the entire thing. this fic was so much fun to write. it's a total farce and unashamedly silly in parts, which i think is what makes it so great. you can tell when a writer really loved what they were writing. however it's such a micropair that it's not as big as some of my other hq stuff. a diamond in the rough!
❄️ imperfect, tense ❄️
summary: it takes a lot to fall for someone, more still for that feeling to grow. in spring, hitoka falls for kiyoko as the blossoms grow on the trees. by winter, their love is in full bloom.
i couldn't do a self-rec post without this fic. it was written for 2015's hq winter hols and i think i really pushed myself with it, to write something a little different to my usual. so there's a lot of lovely language and nature metaphor in here, but i managed to pull it off. despite my love for the ship i hadn't written kiyoyachi before, and i think because of the differences in their experiences so far it's a ship that has to be handled with some delicacy. i know why it's underappreciated, it's because it's a fic about female characters, which doesn't do well in the hq fandom. but, that's an occupational hazard. i think some of my best writing is in this fic, and i love the whole mood of it, the hesitancy but the passion, the force of feeling overcoming all the natural nerves. if any of this interests you, please give it a try!
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