Our next victim - er - candidate: Sushi!

[icarus]

Let move along to another prolific author, the only one on the list who's collected works will probably include a 12-volume set on the same story (wink): wikdsushi.

Remember that amanuensis1 did open that pandora's box of write-in votes, which I will add as I notice them. The fics I select for the vote are arbitrary, but if you want to beat up one story in favour of another, remember to take it outside.. to hpbnfdm_lives where that sort of thing is encouraged. Besides. wikdsushi will attack you with Teefs.

Civil War
In Academia
The Beast
The Last Dance (Drama section)
The Consequences Of A Weary Mind (Humour section)

Note: These links will all take you to the same place.

The write-ins have already begun:
Fire Burn and Cauldron Double
Shedding Skin
Two
Welcome to my Nightmare
Flight

(Snickering still: I have whiplash from Sushi's nomination.)
ETA: Oh. Right. Don't forget to tell us why you're voting for whichever fic.
ETA2: Ha. And I thought this wouldn't have as many write-ins.
ETA3: I thought you should know that the steamcleaner infomercial I'm watching says - "not all steam is created equal."
I think that needs more of a sense of authority. Ah. I know --
"Confucius say, not all steam created equal."

The votes are in, and the results are (drumroll please) Here!

Other votes are Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Anna, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.

Comments

[little-needle.livejournal.com]

In Academia! An author called Lyle (Playing Bastard) made me read this ages ago and I haven't looked back since.

[exbentley]

Write-in: Fire Burn and Cauldron Double. *tries not to fangirl*

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I have to cast my vote here, too. I just ADORE teenage Snape. So much so that he inspired the naming of my new, sleek black car, Sevvie.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

A Wizard Song!

Oh. Wait...

(I can dream, can't I? :P)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*does doubletake*

LOLOLOLOLOLOheeheeheeoh yeah, sure, no sweathahahahahahahahah lOOLLOLOLOL!

Icarus

[ygrane.livejournal.com]

In Academia

I love Severus Ajit.
^_^

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

The Beast! Clever and original.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Write-in!

Here Comes the Snake (http://www.societyhappens.com/sushi/fiction/myfic.html#snake) and Shedding Skin (http://www.societyhappens.com/sushi/fiction/my/hp/skin.html). I kind of consider them one fic, but if you're going to make me pick, I'll go with Shedding Skin.

It's just...gah. I'm not a huge Snape/Draco fan, but that made me think I was. And I've read both over and over again.

[paraphobic.livejournal.com]

In Academia for the epic length stories but Two is her best short story, in my oh so humble opinion. :)

[everythingisaid.livejournal.com]

Oh, tough, tough!

It's hard to pick between all of Sushi's fics, especially Civil War and The Last Dance.

I'm going to do another write-in, Two. Even though it's short, it's got all of my favorite things: SS/HP, RL/HP, and a love triangle. And, oh, how very angsty!

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

oooh this is a toughy. Civil War is fucking EPIC. But Last Dance affected me so deeply that I thought I would have to throw myself out a window.

And there was nowhere near enough shagging in "Last Battlefield...." but still...

yup, I gotta go for "Civil War".

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

I know. I wanted more shagging too. Stupid Aurors. *mutters*

[nufaciel.livejournal.com]

*whines* I gotta pick one?

I love the epics...in fact, I adore all of her stories, I really do, but the one I always come back to is Consequences of a Weary Mind. I even have that on printed out, and I take that one with me whenever I go somewhere. I usually pull it out when I'm having a sad moment, of which I had a lot recently, and it never failed to cheer me up. *snickers*

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

I really need to write the sequel to that someday. (Trelawney's sherry would come in handy, come to think.) Might take a while, but...

Now I don't know what to say. I'm glad it's helped you so much. =) It never occured to me that it might be good for more than the odd laugh. Thank you. =) **hugs**

[turtlespeaks.livejournal.com]

Bah I have to do a double vote (if I can) I can't choose between In Academia and Civil War!!

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

The Beast - it's the piece that suckered me into this fandom properly (or stopped me lurking anyway). It's clever and original, and heart stopping from beginning to end.

[celestialseason.livejournal.com]

It's so hard to choose, but Civil War is one of my all time fav fics so it gets my vote.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I vote The Last Dance, emphatically and with many exclaimation marks (!!!!!!!!!!), for the w00bie crying factor. TLD reduces me to a quivering sobbing wreak of misery and despair for a week, and I'm just sick enough to appreciate that.

That, and I can't hear Unchained Melody without tearing up anymore. What're you DOING to me, Sushi?! :)

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

*mutters to self whilst scribbling in notebook* Subject shows lingering signs of distress... Implement second phase... Purchase portable speakers... *looks up*whips notebook behind back*

Um, nothing! Not doing anything! Honest! *looks innocent*

[snapetoy.livejournal.com]

Oh god that's hard. In Academia, because Severus Ajit is perfect and the story and the writing, gah. What do you mean that's not coherent?

But... The Last Dance. Which kills me every single time. I've read it twice. I can't hear Unchained Melody at all without tearing up. This is the angstiest angst fic ever written from start to finish, there's no joy, no possibility of hope, just death and death and grief all the way. With sex.

*whines*
I need to cast a split vote:
1/2 vote to In Academia
1/2 vote to The Last Dance

[darth-stitch.livejournal.com]

Telanu snagged me with the Tea Series but Sushi's The Last Dance hammered the last nail in my Snarry coffin.

I DIED over that fic, okay? Died and now haunt LJ as one of the Undead. So that gets my first vote.

Civil War comes second as the sense of humor there kinda warped me into the Blue Alien Genetic Experiment (with vampire traits!) that I am today. Mweh!

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

CW: Mutating Fangirls Since 2002.

[sinick.livejournal.com]

Severage-A-Trois, here.

I absolutely CANNOT decide between:

Civil War. This isn't just fanfic, it's an entire canon in itself. An achievement unrivalled in scope and depth.
The Last Dance. This ripped my cynical heart out and crushed it. But there's not an ounce of sap or OOCness in it.
In Academia. The story that made me believe in Voldemort as a lover, and that shows a nasty Snape who dies unredeemed, and yet remains a sympathetic character.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hmm. We are assuming that Icarus has some math skills....

Icarus

[femmequixotic]

Ack. Choices, choices. *waffles*ponders*waffles some more*

Hmm. Civil War is one of my favourite HP novels of all time and has the sentimental pull as being THE fanfic that shoved me wide-eyed in the world of HP slash (and Snape/Harry). The Last Dance tore me up when I read it...I still get choked up just thinking about it. Two...devastated me. I've only been able to read it once because it was so real and so utterly, beautifully painful. The Last Battlefield--oh God. When I beta'd it, I swear I went through a box of Kleenex every other chapter. The Consequences of a Weary Mind...cracks me up every time. I also adore Welcome to My Nightmare and Harry Potter and the Mai Tai of Doom.

*looks at list* Gee. Think I'm a Sushi fan? *snerk*

But I absolutely have to cast my vote for The Beast on the merit of it being the most original, most in-character AU fic I have ever read. I love Snape in this fic; Harry-Voldemort is chilling; the elves are fabulous. And I even like the bittersweet epilogue. It's just right for that story.

So there we go. The Beast.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

*mumbles*shuffles feet*HUGS*

You do understand I'm going to attempt to make you beta the Trilogy, don't you?

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Talk about head explosions!

Ok, I like pretty much everything up there 'cause I pretty much worship wikdsushi, but I'm gonna go with...

The Last Dance

b/c it's sweet and funny and sexy and all kinds of sad, and just...perfect.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can count my vote because I haven't read half the fics listed. I can't read them - they're deathfics and from I understand I would be suicidal if I attempted them. Of the ones I have read (and adore), I want to say I love CW for the sheer length of it. I am a greedy, greedy, gluttonous reader. I don't care how perfect a story is as is, I want MORE. I don't want another story - I want more of THAT story that I just finished reading. And so, Sushi is my kind of writer.

The Beast, though, gets my vote. Original, pulls you in like you're there. Wonderful characters. Did I mention original? Severus/horse - and it works!!! : / Only Sushi.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Oh...God. Which...one...

So hard to choose....

That's like someone putting a box of Godiva in front of you and saying, "Go on, pick your favorite." HOW? THEY'RE ALL GOOD.

Um...

I think I'm going to go with In Academia. In quality I cannot tell them apart, but I'm a bit more fond of cowboy-hat!Snape than skunk-haired!Snape, you see.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

*puts a cowboy hat on CW-verse Sev, just to see what happens*

[aralondwen.livejournal.com]

They´re all great, but I have to vote for In Academia. It has to be one of the best characterizations of Snape ever done.

[nataliadarimini.livejournal.com]

It has, has, *has* to be Civil War.

Why?

GuineaPig!Harry.

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

I saw GuineaPig!Harry at PetsMart the other day. Seriously. He was (mostly) black, with a little spiky tuft of hair on top of his head, and a white stripe running down the middle of his face. You have no idea how hard it was not to come home with a pair of pigs that night, especially since there was a grumpy-looking solid black one in the next tank. Someday. *sighs* (And then let's just hope Baby doesn't decide she wants a big mouthful of Severus.)

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

In Academia, hands down. The characterization of Snape is absolutely my ideal, the action is well paced and flows well, and the conceptualisation of the relationship between Voldemort and Snape is so heartwrenching. Er, cause I'm sick like that and all.

[randomxinsanity.livejournal.com]

Oh, GAAAH! Pick one wikdushi fic? *And I have to mention that I find it funny that she's pimping her own fic deathmatch* That's simply not possible. Civil War was the first novel-length Snape/Harry I ever read...and it still sucks out my soul on occasion. But if I simply must choose one fic, I'll have to go with Welcome to my Nightmare...because it's the soul reason that I became addicted to Alice Cooper and subsequently found common ground with my brother-in-law. So yes, Sushi's Welcome to my Nightmare, it brings families closer together. =D

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

That is truly the first time I've ever heard of that effect. Cool! =)

Eh, I just really like the idea of the Sevs duking it out again. *grin* With the Harries on the sidelines, dressed like cheerleaders (including IA Harry, who is just sitting on the bench, glaring at nothing). Of course, the Sevs are dressed like cheerleaders as well. But that's 'cause I'm evil. *eg*