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sleep, breathe, live (Niou/Yagyuu, PG13) by
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schweinstyThe images that came to mind when reading this were just beautiful.
Niou's Cursed Dick (Niou/Yagyuu, NC17) by
justsonyaCrack alert! Crack alert!
Better than the Real Thing (Yagyuu/Niou, G) by
emmayoriNiou is just perfect in this. PERFECT.
A Change of Perception (Sanada/Yanagi, NC17) by
crystalusagiSanaYana! SanaYana! Awwww-inducing SanaYana!
The Beautiful Letdown (Yagyuu/Niou, NC17) by
illuminationsFuture fic. D1 angst. And it hurts so good.
Sought and Found (Niou/Yagyuu, Yukimura/Niou, Sanada/Yukimura/Yanagi, R) by
vacivityRikkai AU with good, solid, confident writing. Great style. There totally needs to be more to it.
Moments of Grace (Sanada/Yukimura, Niou/Yukimura, NC17) by
giving_groundIMO the best of Liz's fic I've read. Future fic about lives that are imperfect, because that is what life is like most of the time.
There are fics with pairings I don't like and therefore didn't read, so I can't rec any of those. Go to
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rikkai_exchange and explore for yourself!As for me, I wrote Perfidia (Yagyuu/Niou, NC17), which is an AU story based very very loosely on the book/film Lust, Caution. I wrote this in.... 3? 4 weeks? It all just went boom boom boom, the writing was almost non-stop. There was going to be a little bit of SanaNiou in it, but that didn't happen. There was going to be another theme in it, of strength vs weakness (Sanada and Niou were going to have a rather messed-up conversation in which Sanada's encouragement becomes an unbearable pressure to Niou, that the words "be strong", said by someone who doesn't understand what weakness feels like, can crush someone who is already weak.), but somehow that didn't make it into the story. Ah, I'll find a way to write that into another story somehow.
Writing it wasn't difficult, it was really fun! But it's the time spent afterwards, fiddling and fiddling and fiddling with it endlessly... that was rather nightmare-ish. In the end I just told Liz to please take it, I couldn't bear to look at it anymore. And until the recipient replied and said she liked it (she was away for the weekend), I just kept going "I hate this fic I hate this fic I hate this fic". But I don't hate it, really. I re-read it now and think it's kind of cool. So, yeah.
By the way, did anyone notice that I started replying to comment even before the reveal? That was to bump up the comment count so that anyone else looking at the comm would think "Oh! That got loads of comment! It must be good, I'll read it now!" *evil snicker*
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There were so many good fics and art this time around, though a different mix from last time. I especially loved Perfidia. How could I not love something that well-written and with Tony Leung mentioned in the notes? XD
Every time she angsts like it's the end of the world, but Liz's writing just keeps getting better and better ^__^
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...hush about my angst. It's. Um. A part of my creative process? :| *flails at the compliments wtf*
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There are! I almost want to tell Liz to do a 3rd round................. >_>
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I know. She's so annoying! :P I just don't know what she's angsting about!
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*laugh*
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Seriously though, I don't think there would've been that many Rikkai fics in that amount of time if there hadn't been the exchange. Me, I wouldn't have written mine (or not have written it for a long long time) if it wasn't for the exchange.
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Do you really want to deal with that much more Liz-whining? XD
...and and and I angst because I can never tell if stuff is working or not while I'm writing it! The fear of getting to the end of a 15k fic and then discovering that it's crap is significant. >_>
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I suppose because it's an exchange there's a lot more pressure. But in general, I mean, really - Just Tarundoru It!
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Mm. The exchange thing was the reason there was SO much stress on this one. But also the reason I pushed myself so hard to make it work. Swings and roundabouts. I probably would never have written it without.
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...i'm so stupid for not being too much of a fan of AU fics, that i realize that by missing that i actually missed about a quarter of my life @___@... that fic of yours really cheered me up this day... so now, GO READ MY COMMENT AT YOUR FIC POST, GIRL ^____^ (*checking out that song now too~~~*)
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Oh, you're missing out loads if you don't read AUs! There are lots of good stuff around that are AU stories. :D
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