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superacheThere's a podcast that I occasionally listen to titled "10 Songs That Made Me."
The premise is simple. Musicians, artists, and other figures in the cultural zeitgeist explain the 10 songs that made them the artist and the person they are today. Some of these mark meaningful moments in their lives, were particularly impactful, or inspired their work today.
This is a list of the 10 fics, presented without ranking, explanation, or fluff, that did the same for me.
The premise is simple. Musicians, artists, and other figures in the cultural zeitgeist explain the 10 songs that made them the artist and the person they are today. Some of these mark meaningful moments in their lives, were particularly impactful, or inspired their work today.
This is a list of the 10 fics, presented without ranking, explanation, or fluff, that did the same for me.
weight of heaven by hwarium
- Seventeen, Seungcheol/Jeonghan
In a world where the words people say about you appear on your skin, celebrities don't have it easy.
There are, of course, so many more works I could name that made me the fic writer (and reader) that I am. Hopefully you enjoyed getting to know more about me through these ten.
Do you have 10 fics that made you? Send them to me via retrospring, or even use my post to make your own! I'd love to read them :)
There’s a picture of this moment, Jaejoong’s frame lit by stadium lights, his back a dictionary in love. It made the newspapers and Jeonghan had cut it out, left it pressed in his exercise book. He didn’t know how to sing or dance, but at that moment, he had wanted, wanted.
if i'm good will you come back by peggy_hamilton
if i'm good will you come back by peggy_hamilton
- The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier
Geralt promises himself that this time he won't fall in love with him. This time he will walk away and let him live his life in peace. This time he won’t die because of him. easy by tentigers
love, in fire and blood by cicer
certainties by the undiagnosable
Absolute Zero by jitterati
- Attack on Titan, Levi/Erwin Smith
Erwin believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Levi had climbed that wall.
- BTS, Namjoon/Seokjin
Suddenly feeling like he has to prove himself to this boy who looks years too young for the look in his eyes, Jin cocks his head and says, “You don’t know me.”
“Oh, but I will,” Namjoon says.
love, in fire and blood by cicer
- The Untamed/MDZS, Lan Wangji/Wei Ying
"You want Wen Ruohan dead," the Patriarch continued idly. "You want his corpse puppets eliminated. You want his halls burned to the ground and his soldiers disemboweled and begging for mercy. Have I about covered it?"
He gave another knife-edged smile.
"But what will you give me in return?"
"We would be willing to offer quite a bit in return for Wen Ruohan's defeat," Lan Xichen admitted. "But I'm afraid we don't know what an immortal such as yourself desires. Please advise us."
The Patriarch waved at hand at the front of the tent. "I want Second Young Master Lan."
(In which the Sunshot Campaign ends through an arranged marriage to the Yiling Patriarch, and Lan Wangji suffers the mortifying ordeal of falling in love with his own husband.)
Lacuna by firebranded
Lacuna by firebranded
- BTS, Taehyung/Jimin
The hardest lesson, Jimin now knows, is the one that does not let itself be learned.
(Or: Jimin is a magician who does not quite work right. Taehyung is on a quest for revenge. Somehow, they may be able to help each other.)
certainties by the undiagnosable
- BTS, Taehyung/Jimin
“I want to get married,” Taehyung says.
Which is just-
It’s just-
Jimin blinks.
- Captain America, Bucky/Steve
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” Peggy says, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
Absolute Zero by jitterati
- 2ha, Chu Wanning/Mo Ran
Pathologically solitary academic Chu Wanning left behind a life of research to enlist with the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps Jaeger team when giant monsters began to emerge from the Pacific ocean, eager to leave his personal entanglements behind him and join humanity's collective battle against the threat of extinction.
His goal is to build an artificial intelligence that will allow a pilot to operate a Jaeger mech solo - eliminating the need for pilot compatibility and the mortifying ordeal of being totally known by another person, a "neurological handshake" known colloquially as the drift.
He didn't expect his former students to follow him all the way to front line of the war against the kaiju.
There are, of course, so many more works I could name that made me the fic writer (and reader) that I am. Hopefully you enjoyed getting to know more about me through these ten.
Do you have 10 fics that made you? Send them to me via retrospring, or even use my post to make your own! I'd love to read them :)
