tell me about your underappreciated fanwork

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lettered recently talked about under-loved fic/art - fic or art that maybe got some attention or maybe didn't, but either way didn't get as much attention as the creator thought they deserved. In the comments, she and I had the following conversation:

SNICK: I have this abiding conviction that my fic couldn't possibly be "worth" as much as stuff that lots of people read and comment on.

LETTERED: I think a lot of us feel that way. Almost everything I wrote last year was gen, and while it got a lot of appreciation, it didn't get nearly the response shippy fic in the same fandom is getting. And I'm afraid that's the reason I'm in such a slump right now. Which is ridiculous, but I'm having trouble getting over it.

This makes me horribly sad, because a number of my Very Most Favoritest Authors also suffer from chronic under-appreciation, IMO, apparently due to being just a little bit too far out of the fannish zeitgeist. The fandom would be much the poorer without them; I can only be grateful that even without getting the love I consider their due, they keep plugging along, telling the stories I want so much to read.

All of which is wordy prelude to me nabbing lettered's meme (loosely paraphrased): Link me to a fic/art/whatever that you're proud of, tell me why it's awesome, and feel free to gripe a little about why you think it didn't get more attention. And/or, do the same for some piece of fic/art by someone else that you think should get more love.

I can't promise I'll look at the work you're talking about, because I might not have time or it might not be in my fandom, but it's nice to vent sometimes, and also perhaps someone else who wanders in will be interested!

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[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

LOL this is making me think about certain fics and how the very same fic (tweaked a little bit) with a different pairing could get a hundred times for of a response. I wrote a Cindy/Sandy college AU randomly that I love, but if I had made it J2 it would probably be one of my more popular one-shots lol

I get it, obviously. I have my preferred pairings and tropes as well.

Speaking of, what is your fic that you find underappreciated?

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree with you, being a primarily gen writer (and no RPF to speak of.) But I'm trying to expand my reading horizons a little this year, to include stuff I wouldn't normally consider--for your very reasons!

'Worth' is a tricky thing. How many people put their stamp of approval on that 50 Shades drivel? THOUSANDS. Is it good. Not even close. (All this based on the two paragraphs I did read.)

All we can do is the best we can do, and try to figure out what works and why, then decide if that's something worth repeating. I can never guess which one of my stories/pictures will fly and which won't. Ever. I just do what makes me happy and let that be that, but it's always rewarding to have others appreciate the work.

So now I'm gonna read me some Sam/Tamara because that is one I missed!

From my own stash, the fic that I worked bloody hard on and has gotten tepid attention is last year's Gen Big Bang In the Blood Red Dust, but I totally understand why. To begin with, it's long. And it's gen and it's set in the Wild West and involves werewolves. All these things are potential stumbling blocks. (And the end was a tad abrupt, due to my poor time management.)

Of my shorter fics, Rabbits Scream will always hold a huge spot on my heart, a spot apparently not shared by other readers. ;) But there again, I GET IT. It's graphic and harsh and so not cute. But I had to go to some pretty tough places to write it, and for that? I will always love that damned fic.

Interestingly, the audiences at LJ, AO3 and ff.net all favor very different things. Generally speaking, ff.net prefers schmoop, LJ the thinky stuff, and AO3 likes anything potentially racy.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

I think you've read all my under-appreciated stuff. Woe. (And it's really the 'starting out in a new fandom' thing in my case, though I still wish more people had read Dovetail Shuffle. AO3 suggests it's less read than anything else of mine in RPS. Evidently poly stuff, even with promise of Jared/Jensen just doesn't cut it. But I had *so* much fun writing it - one of those fics that just flows from your fingertips and begs to be shared.)

[ghostyouknow27.livejournal.com]

You already know mine! But Die Hard the Hunter. (Granted, I haven't looked it over since posting, so I have a higher opinion than I might otherwise. Sooner or later I become embarrassed about awkward sentences in my fic and want comments but also for no one to ever read my stuff again, because brains are fun and contradictory like that).

I think I'll always say DHTH simply because it was my most ambitious finished fic to date, the one that I spent the most time on, and also one on which I really wanted feedback on (especially for things like my Sam). But as far as the zeitgeist goes, I probably couldn't have picked a worse story to write. I do wonder if it kind of broke me on long, ambitious, plotty adventure fic (my absolute favorite at the time I wrote it), since all of my writing since has been, erm, on a much smaller scale.

[a-fast-machine.livejournal.com]

This is the one thing that frustrates me about SPN fandom so much. There's so much gold lurking under the surface, but it's nearly impossible to find because fandom as a whole seems to collectively go for only a handful of different kinds of fic.

Honestly I wish my fics in SPN fandom were better appreciated in general, and I think maybe if they were posted now they would be, seeing that I've made a bit of a name for myself. I'm equally proud of this is the way you left me and it's not the fall because I feel like they reflect two sides of the same coin, and I worked really hard to try and figure out Cas's state of mind at the end of S6, but I think so many people were angry with his storyline that they had no interest in explanations. I actually got some good comments on it's not the fall, but nothing compared to what other fics in the fandom were getting with just a dash of Dean/Cas thrown in.

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