Pick a number, any number...

[jedibuttercup]

Hm; haven't seen this meme before. Lifted from izhilzha:

I have 656 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 656 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Heh. I've certainly been a busy bee over the last decade, haven't I? This could get interesting.

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[graycardinal]

I'm torn between picking a relatively low (and thereby more recent) number, with the amusing if improbable hope of landing something I prompted, and picking a relatively high number just to see what happens when you look back at the really early stuff.

[pause, think]

Okay, rampant curiosity wins...

542.

[jedibuttercup]

That's... ah, a seven-year-old B:tVS/Bones teenyfic called Man in the Foundation I wrote for maevebran in the August crossover sprint. :-)

Not my best work. But I did sneak in a few things that still please me: (1) Hank never came after Joyce died not because he was a total deadbeat but because he was dead, which sucks for him but might comfort Buffy to know; (2) Buffy being weirded out by Booth's resemblance to Angel instead of glomming onto him; and (3) ... hm, the title? It was Bones-y and also sufficiently punny and double meaning-y, making it appropriate on several levels, something I don't often manage (I really am pretty lackluster at titles overall).

[graycardinal]

[reads]

Nodnodnod; all those are good things, indeed. (And actually -- he said, glancing over pages in the archive -- I'd say you do reasonably well with titles overall. Deity knows I have enough trouble with some of mine....)

[jedibuttercup]

I guess I'm just still stinging over stumbling across a public rec of one of my stories once, that went on about how the story (Love, After, as it happens) was good despite the title, etc., etc. *sheepish*