Sticky Post for the Self-Pimping Rec list

[marguerite_26]

I am a little lame and idealistic. But I hope people will participate in this anyway because I want to read your fics but I want you to make it easy on me.

A Self-Pimping Rec List

bryoneybrynn wrote a post early this week welcoming people to name artists and writers they love who have not ‘made it big’. These are the wonderful people of fandom that toil to create quality fic and art but are not always the first people to get the awards, to get on the top of rec lists, you know who I mean.

These are the people in fandom that need an extra little pat on the back because the HP fandom is huge and many talented people get loved by a devoted few but passed-by by many simply because their name is not recognized.

The comments in that post are an amazing collection of such talent. I have poked around at a few new names and found a few fics lists but frankly it is not easy to figure out where to start. This got me thinking!

I would like to invite any writer or artist (whether they are named in the comments byroney’s post or not) to pimp themselves here.

Ideally I would like to see the following:
- Your username
- 2 fics/works of art (your most popular and your personal favourite)
- Please include proper links, with pairings, ratings and any warnings (summaries if you wish).

I really hope people will not be shy and will add their names so we call discover a few authors/artists that are new to us. I would like to see links from people who have only one or two stories (art) and people who already have quite and archive (even if you are already considered 'well-read' I would love to know which fic is your personal favourite!)

Comments

[romaine24.livejournal.com]

Sorry for coming to the party late. This was really hard to do. The Harry(s) and Draco(s) in my head kept arguing in which ones they thought they were best in. :) All stories listed are NC-17 and please note warnings if you click the links.

I have a major soft spot for Double Edged Sword, as it was my first and most epic in scope, but I think my most popular is Survival of the Species (http://romaine24.livejournal.com/21394.html) on LJ
Survival of the Species (http://www.thehexfiles.net/viewstory.php?sid=9676) on The Hex Files 49k.
I mean what's not to love about a post-epilogue creature!fic that also features dragons?

My most deprived of love, is Vanishing Cabinets (http://romaine24.livejournal.com/56794.html) 18k Summary: Take one Wizarding Family Values politician who has a secret life, and add one Auror who detests discrimination of any type, but becomes a bit obsessed with said politician, and you have enough sparks to ignite a Beltane fire. This was written for hds_beltane.

And my current favourite is Possession of the Heart (http://community.livejournal.com/hp_cross_fest/18806.html) 52k. It proved to me that I could write a long story about another pairing besides h/d and believe in them. It is Harry/Scorpius. Summary: Harry loves his life and would never want it to change. But when violence upsets the very foundations of his world, he finds himself turning to the one person whose heart he's protected from the start.

edit: I'm done now!