I was going to say I'll have a bash at this, but the difficulty is that so many of the things I think of turns into "wait, I got into this before 2010". So, uh, I guess we'll make it in the last 15 years or so or something instead, for me.
1. Warchild Series – Karin Lowachee. My absolute favourite series of books. From a writing standpoint, I love Karin's little terms of phrase, I enjoy the story, I like how psychologically messed up many of our protagonists are (for different reasons). I love the "mosaic narrative" as the author has called it before - it's a continuing storyline, but each book shifts viewpoints. Getting outsider views on previous protagonists is the best. The author now has a Patreon and is writing 2 more stories set in the universe (one book from the POV of a previous protagonist, and another from the POV of the brother of a different previous protagonist), but I can't afford the Patreon so I'm twiddling my fingers until they're published and then I will be happy! Definitely one of the authors who has most influenced my writing style, too. I wrote about Warchild as part of my dissertation at university, and Karin offered me an email interview (I was active on her forums and mentioned I was going to write about it), which helped me greatly and I put in as an appendix. That’s always really cool.
2. Damnation Memoriae Series – Laura Giebfried. I'm putting this one down because it absolutely consumed me when I was reading it a few years ago, which really surprised me. I've never wanted an alternate ending for something so much in my life, haha. It's frequently a frustrating read (the relationship, in the non-romantic sense, between the protagonist and his uncle drives me crazy - communicate!! A lot of things would be solved if either of you could communicate!!), but not in a terrible sense. I'm sure some people might dislike some of the aspects of mental health it explores (it's not always aware of how it sounds, I think), but I think some other aspects are done rather well on that subject.
3. Danny Phantom Series - This might actually be stretching my 15 year goal -cough- but this is the most consumed I've been with a series in terms of getting really into the fandom and fic writing, so I have to put it down - an indicator of a sustained interest early on for me is how much fanfic I wrote. Also quite important as I don't typically like American cartoons, and I'm pretty sure I was in an PSSH, I AM BETTER THAN CARTOONS phase when I watched this, and still enjoyed it. So that's saying something.
4. Heavy Rain - Another one we'll go on from the sheer amount of fanfic I wrote/ideas I still have written in books. I still have a multi page chart I wrote down listing all the chapters in order, their times, a brief summary of what happened in it and which of the main characters were present to help me keep it all straight for writing fanfic. Heavy Rain isn't a perfect game. Nobody has to say that. But it has some interesting concepts, even if it doesn't necessarily hit them all, and it tries some unusual things. It's also the fandom where I produced what I think is my favourite piece of my own writing, in Cycles (https://archiveofourown.org/works/404665) - big spoilers if you don't know the game!
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I was going to say I'll have a bash at this, but the difficulty is that so many of the things I think of turns into "wait, I got into this before 2010". So, uh, I guess we'll make it in the last 15 years or so or something instead, for me.
1. Warchild Series – Karin Lowachee. My absolute favourite series of books. From a writing standpoint, I love Karin's little terms of phrase, I enjoy the story, I like how psychologically messed up many of our protagonists are (for different reasons). I love the "mosaic narrative" as the author has called it before - it's a continuing storyline, but each book shifts viewpoints. Getting outsider views on previous protagonists is the best. The author now has a Patreon and is writing 2 more stories set in the universe (one book from the POV of a previous protagonist, and another from the POV of the brother of a different previous protagonist), but I can't afford the Patreon so I'm twiddling my fingers until they're published and then I will be happy! Definitely one of the authors who has most influenced my writing style, too. I wrote about Warchild as part of my dissertation at university, and Karin offered me an email interview (I was active on her forums and mentioned I was going to write about it), which helped me greatly and I put in as an appendix. That’s always really cool.
2. Damnation Memoriae Series – Laura Giebfried. I'm putting this one down because it absolutely consumed me when I was reading it a few years ago, which really surprised me. I've never wanted an alternate ending for something so much in my life, haha. It's frequently a frustrating read (the relationship, in the non-romantic sense, between the protagonist and his uncle drives me crazy - communicate!! A lot of things would be solved if either of you could communicate!!), but not in a terrible sense. I'm sure some people might dislike some of the aspects of mental health it explores (it's not always aware of how it sounds, I think), but I think some other aspects are done rather well on that subject.
3. Danny Phantom Series - This might actually be stretching my 15 year goal -cough- but this is the most consumed I've been with a series in terms of getting really into the fandom and fic writing, so I have to put it down - an indicator of a sustained interest early on for me is how much fanfic I wrote. Also quite important as I don't typically like American cartoons, and I'm pretty sure I was in an PSSH, I AM BETTER THAN CARTOONS phase when I watched this, and still enjoyed it. So that's saying something.
4. Heavy Rain - Another one we'll go on from the sheer amount of fanfic I wrote/ideas I still have written in books. I still have a multi page chart I wrote down listing all the chapters in order, their times, a brief summary of what happened in it and which of the main characters were present to help me keep it all straight for writing fanfic. Heavy Rain isn't a perfect game. Nobody has to say that. But it has some interesting concepts, even if it doesn't necessarily hit them all, and it tries some unusual things. It's also the fandom where I produced what I think is my favourite piece of my own writing, in Cycles (https://archiveofourown.org/works/404665) - big spoilers if you don't know the game!