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Who is your 'go to guy'?

Sat, 09/19/2009 - 20:12 — parakletos

    Not a Brit phrase, I know, but in the sense of when you want to sit down and have a good read of a fic you like who do you pick. Mine is currently _kb_ , who is yours?

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    Sat, 09/19/2009 - 21:09 — shadow knight

    There is a some I go to: (In

    There is a some I go to:

    (In no particular order)
    Sovran
    Moshpit
    Viridian
    kb/kb0
    fake a smile
    pseudonym
    Chatmandu

    While I have read and reread many a story it is these authors that I know I've read theirs at least half a dozen times at least; both finished (if they have them) or WIP.

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 01:11 — rbackwards
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    good list -

    Also jbern. Very entertaining.

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 03:07 — Sovran
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    Actually...

    I usually end up with St. Margarets, partially because I don't often want to read something really long when I'm in that kind of mood.

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 03:27 — rachel
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    For me it's

    For me it's

    Sovran
    Moshpit
    Viridian (although waiting for an update is counting the years)

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 12:07 — Chatmandu
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    Go to guy(s)

    Not so much any single guy (bloke?) as a style of plot and character development that resonates with me. Oh yeah, I'm a sucker for a really good romance.
    - St. Margarets is the best romance writer in my opinion. "Six Days" is a classic and I will re-read it just to study the character development over the eponymous time period.
    - Arabella over at sugarquill.net's archives has a series of wonderful Ron/Hermione stories. Her enchanted diary in the "Hermione Queen of Witches" series is where I took the idea for the Corresponding Diaries in The Lost Tower series.
    - Rhetor's stories, despite their apparent atmosphere of despair, have very strong characters who bend (or perhaps are ruthlessly bent) but never break.

    Then there are individual stories by authors that I return to:
    - Parakletos' "And On the Eight Day?" Honestly, who can resist a seductive Slytherin!Ginny? Obviously NOT Harry! =)
    - Sovran's "Seventeen" portrays a Harry/Ginny partnership and trust I find very in character. He also has a thinking/plotting Harry that foreshadows canon Harry's character after the escape from Malfoy Manor.
    - Viridian's "There's Always a Way" for the sheer fun of it.

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 14:43 — memasuzy
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    For me it is: Parakletos (I

    For me it is:
    Parakletos (I know you haven't gotten back to them in a while, but I was really enjoying Twelve Months and Sins of the Father)
    St. Margarets (Anything by her!)
    MyGinevra
    Count Westwest (anxiously awaiting an update on Ginny Duty)

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 18:09 — mmerriam

    Really, and story where

    Really, and story where Harry and Ginny are smart, independent, and taking on the various challenges tossed at them as a team is what I go back to when I want something to read that I know I'll like.

    Sun, 09/20/2009 - 19:50 — parakletos
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    Chatmandu wrote: Then there

    Chatmandu wrote:

    Then there are individual stories by authors that I return to:
    - Parakletos' "And On the Eight Day?" Honestly, who can resist a seductive Slytherin!Ginny? Obviously NOT Harry! =)

    I actually re-read that myself... lol!

    Mon, 09/21/2009 - 02:15 — Jonathan_Avery
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    The First One's I read

    I tend to go back to the first HP fanfiction I read, so Mr. Intel, St. Margarettes, Melindaleo, CreativeQuill, and a few other authors have stories I reread at least once year. There are a few favourite stories I will re-read on occasion as well, but not a particular author.

    -Jonathan

    - “Perhaps, in those days, there were a few among men, a few of clear sight and clean soul, who refused to surrender that word ["I"]. What agony must have been theirs before that which they saw coming and could not stop! Perhaps they cried out in protest