Our next candidate: Aspen!

[icarus]

This is extremely difficult to choose, because cursescar is prolific, varied, and an excellent writer. Okay, once again, vote for your favourite Aspen story, tell us why, and if you want to slam one story over another, put on your boxing gloves and go to hpbnfdm_lives. Write-in votes are accepted, and with Aspen I expect a lot of them.

Confection Carnage
Daisychain!Draco
If That Mockingbird Won't Sing

And the write-ins have begun! *knew this would happen*
You're Sixteen, (You're Beautiful, And You're Mine)
Bittersweet
Just A Boy
Quicksilver
Into The Fire
Close Kept

ETA: Even more write-ins. *Icarus gets out the abacus.* This is fun!

You can still vote, but the results are in!

Other votes -
Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Anna, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.

Comments

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QUICKSILVER.

(this is so weird because i was just last night having a conversation with someone about this fanfic.)

This is the most brilliant H/D aggression fic in the fandom. It is the essential hotness of the pairing compressed into a very intense small space. There is not a word of this fic that is not perfectly chosen, and there is not a move that does not betray emotion. It is the perfect *directed* fic; it uses motion and action to move its plot and betray subtle character nuances and shifts in tension. It feels totally canonical, even though it is completely without setting or backstory. It is the ultimate Harry-and-Draco-locked-in-microcosmic-but-epic-struggle fic that fuels *all* great writing for the H/D pairing. Cassie, I was just telling someone last night, actually, is, I believe, the single best writer of NC-17 fics in the fandom, and I really believe she is at her best in "Quicksilver (http://papermoon.velveteen.net/quicksilver.html)."

AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE SWORDFIGHTING OMG OMG OMG.

This fic was written for weatherby for her birthday, and even though I barely knew either Aspen or Miss Breed when it was written, I have always sort of felt like it was written for me as well, because I love it so much, and I have always always felt that if somebody were to write a fic this good for me for my birthday, I would just curl up and die of sheer happiness and gobsmacked-ness, because I would just feel so completely unworthy of it.

I have always wanted to write an H/D swordfighting fic. This fic is the reason I never have, because I really seriously don't think there would be any way to improve upon what Cassie has already done in it. It is just a perfect fic. I'm fairly sure it was on the list of the top ten greatest one shots in the pairing on my mailing list when we did our look back at all the great fanfics last year. Every time I re-read it it leaves me with so much emotion and so much energy-- and all of Aspen's fics do that, but Quicksilver leaves me fairly tingling with it.

I could just go on and on and on about how much I love this fic, and how much I think everyone else should too.


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VOTE FOR QUICKSILVER (http://papermoon.velveteen.net/quicksilver.html)!!!!! BECAUSE A VOTE FOR QUICKSILVER IS A VOTE FOR FORCED MASTURBATION, BLOODPLAY, AND SHINY PHALLIC SYMBOLS!!!!!!!