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top five things you like to fic about/top five elements you like to include in your fics

1. crossovers, which isn't a surprise to anyone here. The thing I love about crossovers is that they open up a wider universe of possibilities. Instead of just the one fandom in which things can happen, suddenly you have an exponentially larger number of possibilities. I love it.

2. family ties. There's an old English saying, you can pick your friends but you can't pick your family. I love writing those relationships about people you really can't get away from :)

3. strong women. Most of my fics star smart/strong women (Anita Blake, Rory Gilmore, Buffy & Dawn & Faith, Ziva from NCIS, etc) because I dig strong women. No apologies :D (I find it hard to think of a fic I've written that's just dudes. Okay, I can think of only two ficlettes)

4. equal relationships. When I'm putting folks together onscreen, I like them to be evenly paired. Not a fan of power differentials. So when I put Anita Blake and Harry Potter together in Inevitable (starting over five years ago now wtf) it seemed natural to me to write them as peers, regardless of the age/experience differential.

5. figuring out backstory. It's the "how they got to where they are" that I like, working it out from the little clues of behaviour. I'm never right, but no one writes to be right.