Theme: Love Live Fic Fills, First Years Ships Edition
Title:Maki and Hanayo Experimental Kissing Creator(s):kiyala Rating: G Major Tags: none Why is this work awesome?: What I love about this fic is that while Hanayo is the narrator, she becomes this intimate mouthpiece for a character piece on Maki. I love seeing Maki through Hanayo's eyes, for her strengths as well as her weaknesses, and how those weaknesses are something Hanayo feels is entirely justified, in balancing the best parts of Maki. It's really gentle and sweet, with the kissing something the girls come to naturally, and is definitely the more enjoyable for that.
Title:Rin and Hanayo Have A Sleepover Creator(s):jeilovesyou Rating: T Major Tags: none Why is this work awesome?: This fic is just so much softness, depicting these two girls fumbling through their fondness for each other when Hanayo asks Rin, and only Rin, to sleep over with her. I personally really like that Maki is in the picture even when she's absent because she is very important to both her friends, and I love how overwhelmed Hanayo is by her feelings for Rin, it really endears me to her as the narrator. Plus there's the bit about Hanayo's mix tape for Rin, to round out the cuteness with something sweet and meaningful.
Title:Maki Graduates with Rin and Hanayo Creator(s):rebuilt_from_love Rating: G Major Tags: angst, anxiety Why is this work awesome?: This story does a great job capturing a feeling that's all too relateable to too many people — the uncertainty of moving forward after school, of dealing with change and beginning a new stage in one's life. Maki is the one struggling with going off to a university far away from her friends, but Rin and Hanayo are there to give her support. It really fits the tone of Love Live itself, a canon which is very about the nine members of mu's supporting and encouraging each other in their dreams.
FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA
Title: Maki and Hanayo Experimental Kissing
Creator(s):
Rating: G
Major Tags: none
Why is this work awesome?: What I love about this fic is that while Hanayo is the narrator, she becomes this intimate mouthpiece for a character piece on Maki. I love seeing Maki through Hanayo's eyes, for her strengths as well as her weaknesses, and how those weaknesses are something Hanayo feels is entirely justified, in balancing the best parts of Maki. It's really gentle and sweet, with the kissing something the girls come to naturally, and is definitely the more enjoyable for that.
Title: Rin and Hanayo Have A Sleepover
Creator(s):
Rating: T
Major Tags: none
Why is this work awesome?: This fic is just so much softness, depicting these two girls fumbling through their fondness for each other when Hanayo asks Rin, and only Rin, to sleep over with her. I personally really like that Maki is in the picture even when she's absent because she is very important to both her friends, and I love how overwhelmed Hanayo is by her feelings for Rin, it really endears me to her as the narrator. Plus there's the bit about Hanayo's mix tape for Rin, to round out the cuteness with something sweet and meaningful.
Title: Maki Graduates with Rin and Hanayo
Creator(s):
Rating: G
Major Tags: angst, anxiety
Why is this work awesome?: This story does a great job capturing a feeling that's all too relateable to too many people — the uncertainty of moving forward after school, of dealing with change and beginning a new stage in one's life. Maki is the one struggling with going off to a university far away from her friends, but Rin and Hanayo are there to give her support. It really fits the tone of Love Live itself, a canon which is very about the nine members of mu's supporting and encouraging each other in their dreams.