laurelin_kit | Fanfic Author Appreciation Week: Day 1

Fanfic Author Appreciation Week
March 6 through March 13
Post to your LJ each day at least one of your
favorite fanfic authors
and why you love them, their work, and why they
need more appreciation

I'm going to start with

beckyincharge.

Becky and I started writing together in ninth grade. Her writing was already incredible. We threw notebooks across our English and History classes and passed them in the halls. One of these fics (cowritten with

lindi_of_rohan and

sangre_fria with guest writing by

renethetoaster and a guest character of

avelena's) is now in the slow, arduous process of being turning into an original series of novels.

Becky's stories are, many times, dark. And yet, she can write the simplest, funniest things.

Almost all her work is archived here. The cowritten stuff with me is in a box in my closet, in notebooks. Some will be hidden forever out of shame, and some will surface later after revision.

She has stories archived from the following fandoms: Phantom of the Opera, Red Dwarf, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Young Guns, Gundam Wing, and, oh, look! Dragonball Z!

Magic Dust (of the Infamous) remains one of my favorite fics of all time. God, do I love this. It just fits in seamlessly with the characters and the original characters – oh, gasp, horror, get over it – are perfect compliments to the YG-verse. This is a sort of AU of the YG fic we wrote together that's in my closet.

Where the Whirlwinds Sleep makes me cry, the entire way through. The end.

The Jack Sparrow in her PotC fics is dead on. She has his dark side, his wild side and his womanizing side all rolled into the correct Sparrow-shaped package. I think hers was one of the first 'Jack/You' fics, and the ending is a slap in the face to anyone who misinterpreted her intentions in writing it.

Her Phantom of the Opera fanfiction takes my breath away. She knows the characters inside and out. She doesn't shy away from the darker aspects. She isn't afraid to write the cold-blooded murder. She doesn't sugar-coat it. She doesn't toss Raoul to the side like a two-bit villain or an undeserving, undeveloped fop. Her characters stay true to canon. She can break them, destroy them, and you still know who it is. They're recognizable. It's beautiful.

Becky is underappreciated because she needs to get her butt out there and advertise. :p Kidding. Becky's fics need more appreciation from people who can appreciate them, as elitist as that sounds. It takes more than the rabid E/C phangirl to see past "OMG ERIK AND CHRISTINE SHOULD BE 2GETHA ALWAYZ" and look at the characters she's working with, developing, layering, and see the art that her stories are. This girl is an amazing writer. Soon, the whole fandom world and the whole publishing world will realize this and pay her insane amounts of money – publishing world, anyway, fandom will give her porn.

So, yeah.

beckyincharge. The reason I write as well as I do: to try and keep up.