The current AO3 meme

[out_there]

Via wintercreek:

I currently have 241 works archived on my AO3 account. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 241 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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[catwalksalone]

123!

[out_there]

123 is actually Puddlejumper Paranoia, a 225 word SGA drabble that barely counts as a story. However, three things I like about it are:

1. Despite it's shortness, it still makes me giggle. I fully believe John Sheppard is exactly the type of overgrown manchild who would totally have a favourite puddlejumper.

2. I like the opening line ("Can you smell something?"). I like opening with dialogue, finding something interesting to draw a reader in quickly.

3. I like the characterisation of Rodney here. Impatient and a little cranky, but also quite aware of John's quirks and motivations. (i.e. shiny new weapons, random dislike of a certain puddlejumper.) I like that the dialogue sounds like Rodney (at least to me).

[catwalksalone]

I love when you reread something and the humour has totally stood the test of time.

Oh, John, perhaps you should check Rodney's socks before blaming the puddlejumper for the cheese smell. :D

[mossybomb]

123 please! I love this meme, authors all over my dwlist are doing it.

[out_there]

My answers to 123 are actually above (I had a feeling that number seemed familiar), so do you want to pick another?

[mossybomb]

whooooops sorry.

138?

[out_there]

This is such a fun meme. It's great to have an excuse to go back and remember things that you loved about your stuff.

138 is King of the Geeks, a short McShep SGA drabble.

Three things I like:

1. "As in," Zelenka gave a small smile, "the power behind the throne."

I love Zelenka in this. He's quiet and background, but snarky and fun, and he gets the last line. I like the feel of it, of Zelenka and McKay having spent hours working in the lab and having geeky conversations about scifi novels.

2. "Like the science team would ever acknowledge a power structure as fundamentally backwards and nepotistic as a monarchy."

I like the feeling of the science team as a team. In the show, a lot of it is McKay with background geeks but it's nice to think of separate people that make up that team, personalities that you get on with better than others, how they all work together (if not perfectly).

3. Geeks in their natural habitat. It was the best free entertainment Atlantis had to offer.

I like the fondness from John's POV. That he doesn't count himself as a geek -- even though the maths ability clearly could align him in that group -- but he's fond and amused by them. They're still his people, even if they're not the same as him.

(Heh. A lot of what I like is that SGA is different personalities and groups, but they work together and feel like a team.)

[mossybomb]

Grand Vizier Zelenka! God Emperor Rodney! Geeks and their empires, I love it. :)