User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 24/@comment-1874924-20180725074639

I must confess I haven't read all that many long fics, partly because I've always been a very slow reader and partly because, other things being equal, a competition story with an OC cast is less likely to interest me than one with a canon cast, and OC competition stories have reigned supreme here since the Sprink/Nalyd days. It also takes me a long time to compose reviews, for various reasons. That said, considering stories both here and on fanfiction.net ...

Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment is undoubtedly my favorite. Lilac did such a good job with the character development and the "color" scenes that I didn't have to consult the character pages nearly as often to keep the characters straight as I did with most of the other OC competition stories I've read.

Rhonda, you know I love your stories. All in all, I have to give Total Drama Genesis the edge over its predecessor simply because TDG reflects years of extra education and experience as a writer, although Total Drama What The Heck? has a more distinctive style, featuring a Fourth Wall roughly as porous as the U.S.-Mexico border and some of the most over-the-top comedy on the wiki.

Among noncompetition stories, which have always been in short supply here on the wiki, Life After Lies--one of the wiki's "Golden Age" classics, is probably my favorite, although the first half doesn't hold a candle to the second half. There are other substantial noncomps I liked well, but LAL has the advantage of actually having been finished. (By me, and thereby hangs a tale.)

Over on fanfiction.net, two stories stand out in my memory: Candy For Your Thoughts? is a remake of TDWT from the kiss scene onward, with Cody/Courtney as the main pairing; and "Ella's Myth" is a "fractured fairy tale" one-shot where Ella is living in a trailer, married to the casually abusive Scott, and utterly miserable.