Does it count if my own writing drives me nuts with finding minor things and my utter inability to get any meaningful amount of progress on it in the past few years?
The original Undocumented Features fics probably belong on this list, actually, given the level of in-joke references, and the fact that they're less Self Insertion and more inserting favorite characters and plot elements in the putatively real world.
Even more than that... Twisted Path. All of the criteria, basically, but also one of the first long fics I read. The Just Won't Die series is, if anything, worse about them, yet also strangely enjoyable. Between the three of these, the shape of Bubblegum Disaster suddenly becomes much less ... original isn't quite the word, because it does have a different general take on blending stuff with BGC than I've ever seen, but... Well, like Winnie the Pooh once said, a thing that seems quite thingish when you think it is sudenly less so when you try to explain.
I'm going to count CarrotGlace's Ranma/Sailor Moon SI too, though I can't quite recall the name - Gaijin? - it just kind of spiraled into insanity as things happened for no appearent reason beyond that the author thinks they're cool (which is kind of a given if someone wants to write a story, but usually there's a justification given IN THE STORY for why people are suddenly gaining superpowers or whatever...)
Herbert Heinlein did and even more so John Ringo does tend to write ranty stuff. Being processed through professional editing for publication seems to blunt the worst of it, but still, their politics are very clear. (And would probably be opposed enough to take issue with being mentioned in the same sentence in that manner, but meh.) Heinlein also tended to get racy enough to fall into the 'guilty pleasure' category, and several times a book by him will be going strong and going strong and suddenly it's like he realises he's getting close to his max word count, says "Oh crap! I gotta wrap this up!" and tacks on a final chapter, then an epilogue to bundle up the plot threads he didn't have time to properly tie off, which would put the old goat here all on its own.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
The original Undocumented Features fics probably belong on this list, actually, given the level of in-joke references, and the fact that they're less Self Insertion and more inserting favorite characters and plot elements in the putatively real world.
Even more than that... Twisted Path. All of the criteria, basically, but also one of the first long fics I read. The Just Won't Die series is, if anything, worse about them, yet also strangely enjoyable. Between the three of these, the shape of Bubblegum Disaster suddenly becomes much less ... original isn't quite the word, because it does have a different general take on blending stuff with BGC than I've ever seen, but... Well, like Winnie the Pooh once said, a thing that seems quite thingish when you think it is sudenly less so when you try to explain.
I'm going to count CarrotGlace's Ranma/Sailor Moon SI too, though I can't quite recall the name - Gaijin? - it just kind of spiraled into insanity as things happened for no appearent reason beyond that the author thinks they're cool (which is kind of a given if someone wants to write a story, but usually there's a justification given IN THE STORY for why people are suddenly gaining superpowers or whatever...)
Herbert Heinlein did and even more so John Ringo does tend to write ranty stuff. Being processed through professional editing for publication seems to blunt the worst of it, but still, their politics are very clear. (And would probably be opposed enough to take issue with being mentioned in the same sentence in that manner, but meh.) Heinlein also tended to get racy enough to fall into the 'guilty pleasure' category, and several times a book by him will be going strong and going strong and suddenly it's like he realises he's getting close to his max word count, says "Oh crap! I gotta wrap this up!" and tacks on a final chapter, then an epilogue to bundle up the plot threads he didn't have time to properly tie off, which would put the old goat here all on its own.
- CD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows