THAT IS SUCH A HARD QUESTION. Um. Certain types of prose, either the very dry & funny like the best specimens in SPN and SGA slash fandom, or the insanely cleverly beautiful like pogrebin's HP fic (and yours!). Good snark. Love stories that are unconventionally played out, uniquely described, but emotionally powerful. Use of my favourite words! ('Solipsism' wins me every time.) Erudite works that educate you or that assume a shared education and build on references to it. Stories that layer their themes and parallels and then draw everything together perfectly at the end. Perfect opening and closing lines. Absolutely original metaphors that make you gasp yes, it's just like that.
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