Next up on the Dueling Fics... Isis!

[icarus]

Carefully visualised and crafted, yet somehow flip, isiscolo is renowned (infamous?) for her squidfic. This has been a particularly difficult choice (solved a la pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey) as her work is too uniformly excellent to find any standouts.

Alllright. The voting is hereby closed. The results are here.

Ouroborus
Dark Creatures
Oral Sex
Letter Perfect

And the write-ins (already):
Briar Nose
In Want Of A Wife
An Ass Of Himself
The First Piece Of Silver
Before the Cock Crow
Between Friends
What Fools These Mortals Be
Scars
Salvation

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Carefully visualised and crafted, yet somehow flip, <lj site="livejournal.com" user="isiscolo"> is renowned (infamous?) for her squidfic. This has been a particularly difficult choice (solved a la pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey) as her work is too uniformly excellent to find any standouts.

<font color=red>Alllright. The voting is hereby closed. <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/150115.html">The results are here</a>.</font>

<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/ouroboros.htm">Ouroborus</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/darkcreatures.htm">Dark Creatures</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/oral.htm">Oral Sex</a>
<a href="http://www.riddikulus.org/authors/isiscolo/LP.html">Letter Perfect</a>

And the write-ins (already):
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/briarnose.htm">Briar Nose</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/wife.htm">In Want Of A Wife</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/donkey.htm">An Ass Of Himself</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/silver.htm">The First Piece Of Silver</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/cockcrow.htm">Before the Cock Crow</a>
<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/isiscolo/117506.html">Between Friends</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/nope.htm">What Fools These Mortals Be</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/scars.htm">Scars</a>
<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/sal1.htm">Salvation</a>
<a href="<a href="http://isis.arithmancy.net/">Severus Looks In the Mirror</a>

ETA: I'm beginning to think our fics are dueling with shotguns.

And while you're at it, you can <strike>give her lots of work to do</strike> ask for <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/isiscolo/117475.html">commentary</a>.

Oh. Right. The Rules.

Vote for your favourite. No slamming one fic over another. Write-ins are encouraged (but that's all <lj site="livejournal.com" user="amanuensis1">'s fault). 'The Management,' by the way, refers to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="tinderblast">, co-creator of this little game.

<small>The Fine Print:
Previous votes are <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/147803.html">Aja</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/145343.html">McTabby</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/146490.html">Um, Icarus *eheh*</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/141515.html">Anna</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/143813.html">Minx</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/138566.html">Maya</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/139634.html">Amanuensis</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/136182.html">Rushlight</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/137941.html">Sushi</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/136182.html">Aspen</a>, <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/133683.html">Cybele</a>, and <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/132721.html">Cassandra Claire</a>. Void where prohibited.</small>

Comments

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

hahahah! Briar Nose. totally my fave. Woo!

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Dark Creatures. It just blows me away every time I read it. Snape is so perfect, manipulative, but still socially awkward.

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Ouroborus. Because it's the new kind of incest. ~_^

[paraphobic.livejournal.com]

Oral Sex, because the drunken conversations between Snape and Black makes me laugh every time.

[cursive.livejournal.com]

I want to write in "In Want of a Wife". But I want to vote for "Oral Sex". Can I do both?

[arachnethe2.livejournal.com]

I would like to write-in An Ass of Himself and in Need For a Wife those (I'm convinced) deserve to be mentioned as well.

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

I want to write in the 'First Piece of Silver'--but I also want to have 'In Want of a Wife'! Aargh! If I have to choose, absolutely have to, I'd take 'First Piece of Silver' instead. One of my favorite takes on Peter EVER, and the first story in which I read him as a sympathetic character.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sure! Split vote?

[cursive.livejournal.com]

I suppose I can't expect to be allowed 2 votes when everyone else gets one. So, yeah, split mine. Thanks!

[thisveryinstant.livejournal.com]

What paraphobic said. Oral Sex is on my all-time favorites list. Oh, the snark!

*resolves to vote in these things more often*

[malecrit.livejournal.com]

I'd like to write in "Before the Cock Crow"... even though I still need to leave feedback on it. (Sorry 'bout that, Isis!)

[bookwoman84.livejournal.com]

I vote Dark Creatures. I've only just read it, but it's truly amazing.

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

What Fools These Mortals Be, all the way.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I'm going for The First Piece of Silver. It's just gorgeous, and one of the most criminally underrated of Isis' work.

[celestialseason.livejournal.com]

'In Want of a Wife'

Fun premise
hot sex
Sev/Draco - I love them!

[merrycontrary.livejournal.com]

If this had been a few days ago, I would have been terribly torn. Mostly between Salvation and Before the Cock Crow.
But today, I'll have to vote for Between Friends (http://www.livejournal.com/users/isiscolo/117506.html).

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

Before The Cock Crow. Just brilliant.

[pogrebin.livejournal.com]

Ouroboros! Incest, time-turners-- absolutely delicious!

[nataliadarimini.livejournal.com]

In Want Of A Wife!

[gelitripling.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between Dark Creatures and What Fools These Mortals Be. It is hard to top Snape spurting come all over James' face, for sure, and all the great interactions in that fic. But I think I have to vote for Dark Creatures for how complicated and well drawn Snape is.

[slytherkins.livejournal.com]

Dark Creatures *melts*

[dementordelta.livejournal.com]

Briar Nose--a perfect response to the challenge, and dang funny title, and just sums up Isis's appeal for me!

[everythingisaid.livejournal.com]

A write-in for Scars (http://isis.arithmancy.net/scars.htm). I love Briar Rose just as much, but there are so few RL/HP fics in the world and this is one of the best, so it has to get my vote.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha! I get to make more trouble! Isis gets me just as much with her shortest pieces as her longest, and I still think my favorite story of hers is all one hundred words of Severus Looks In the Mirror. It was the first story of hers I put on my rec list, and that's even before brevisse did her fabulous illustrated version of it. In-character little-boy desires, adult regrets, anguish, and even slash in 100 fall-on-the-floor words of gorgeous structure and style.

(And if I could pick two, I'd be following it with my second favorite, The Final Kiss-off, another 100-word story, which still makes me giggle so much I nearly hemorrhage.)

[thetreacletart.livejournal.com]

Oral Sex. Simply genius.