Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13
Feb. 5th, 2024 01:08 am
Challenge #13
Make a rec list of fanworks!
Hang on. This is going to get long.
( A lot of recs under here! Fandoms: Red, White and Royal Blue, Boyfriend Material and Reservation Dogs )
And one last one without a cut-tag. If any of you know me from by days of Harry Potter, you know of a dear friend I met in that fandom who is an AMAZING writer--
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kaalee. She usually comes out of hiding when she truly and really falls in love with something and then she just... spews all these lovely words and emotions into it. This link will take you to her Heartstopper fics on AO3 and OMG! So great!And speaking of
kaalee ,after I finally finish with Snowflake, remind me to come back here and talk about the BEST trip to NYC EVER!Fandom Snowflake Challenge Eight
Jan. 19th, 2020 02:54 pm
Challenge Eight: Rec Things
Good lord, but I've been slack on reading--really anything--this last year.
But here is a small list of fantastic things I read at this year's Yuletide--a lot of it being RPF which I wasn't specifically seeking out, but there you go.
( Fic Recs Under Here )
Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day Two
Jan. 5th, 2019 12:52 pm
Day 2: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.
I love that I get this opportunity each year to kill two birds with one stone. Reccing things that were written for me--and therefore are weird and need more love--and checking this off my Snowflake list. You see, I've been doing this fest thing for so long, that I've really started asking for some niche type things and am always delighted and shocked that I get them. This year was exceptionally exciting as things that I've given up hope of ever receiving were finally gifted to me.
First my Yuletide gifts. Both super short and just scratching the surface of all the possibilities they present.
( Yuletide, Hoggywarty and Kinky Kristmas were VERY good to me! )
Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 8
Jan. 8th, 2018 09:00 pm
Day 8
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
( Smoke Signals: John Wayne's Teeth )
Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 3
Jan. 4th, 2018 01:02 am
In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.
'Tis the season to be humbled and honored that people wrote amazing things based on my wild rambling prompts and suggestions. I'm always awed when people can decipher my whatnot and make beautiful sense of it. These two were so very perfect:
First from Yuletide:
Balance Point (3352 words) by valderys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Philadelphia Story (1940)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Macaulay Connor/C.K. Dexter Haven, Macaulay Connor/Tracy Lord, C.K. Dexter Haven/Tracy Lord
Characters: Macaulay Connor, C.K. Dexter Haven, Tracy Lord
Additional Tags: Negotiations, Slow Burn
Summary:
TRACY: I have the most wonderful little house in Unionville. It's up on a hill with a view that would knock you silly. I'm never there except in the hunting season, and not much then, and I'd be so happy to know that it was of some real use to someone...
Mike becomes a real author while Dexter and Red figure out if the pieces still fit - or if they ever did.
I love these characters so much and they are played by such amazingly iconic actors (Hepburn, Grant, Stewart) that I would be terrified to get it right. But this author does it so freakin' well. Reminds you the characters have substance with or without the actors saying their words, but still... you can see them there...
Constancy Remus and Minerva Gen REMUS AND MINERVA GEN Shut up and take my money!!! I love them so much and have such a strong and strange headcanon for them that this story fit so amazingly...but it didn't read as Ridiculous-To-Anyone-Not-Me. Everyone will love this soft and beautiful relationship expertly rendered.
This last one wasn't technically a gift for me, but seriously, it's pretty much a gift for anyone who loves well told stories about characters rife with possibility that you wouldn't have thought or imagined if you had the world of time to create it. It's a gift for anyone who's love of books and libraries is only reviled by your love of language and the human condition. ♥
Bibliomancy Irma Pince was called as Librarian to fulfil the vision of the Hogwarts Library. She's spent her life turning that vision into reality with the complicated magic of books. People are no less complicated.
Chocolate Box Recs!
Feb. 19th, 2017 11:24 pmLots and lots of recs!
Most of these are super short--which is one of the things I love about Chocolate Box, all those bite-size morsels of yummy. What people do with characterization and language in so very few words will always awe me and make me giddy. These aren't all the ones worth reading (I still have a lot to read, I was just starting to burn out and that's really not fair to the fics I was reading, so I'm taking a break.) But here's what I've read and loved so far.
( There's a Story for Everyone in Here )
Most of these are super short--which is one of the things I love about Chocolate Box, all those bite-size morsels of yummy. What people do with characterization and language in so very few words will always awe me and make me giddy. These aren't all the ones worth reading (I still have a lot to read, I was just starting to burn out and that's really not fair to the fics I was reading, so I'm taking a break.) But here's what I've read and loved so far.
( There's a Story for Everyone in Here )
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13-15
Jan. 16th, 2016 02:52 am
Day 13
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create.
Yes! This gives me an opportunity to share my lovely good fortune from Day 2's bounty. See, karma, it's a ~thing~. ♥
( Icons, art and a fic rec under here )
Day 14
In your own space, share your love for something fannish: a trope, cliché, kink, motif, theme, format, or fandom.
So many choices. But, let's talk about fanvids.
( Vids for ALL THE FANDOMS under here )
Day 15
In your own space, talk about what you're taking away from this challenge. Did you learn something? Did you interact with new people? Or did you try out different fandoms or formats or relationships? What's changed between Day 1 and Day 15 of this challenge?
It's said, that it takes 3 weeks to turn a behavior into a habit, so this was a great start to make a few things habits. The habit to be here and participate in fandom in many different ways, the habit to think about things in new ways, to reach out to new people and the habit to not take things to overly serious all the time. To take time to concentrate on the positive, to tell people that you love them while you still can and to cherish the little things.
I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOO MUCH!
♥
Seasonal Traditions that Must be Honored
Oct. 2nd, 2015 09:30 pm
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capituThere are things that happen every year that I forget about until they are upon us and then I scramble to make them work. Things like Fandom Snowflake Challenge and Rectober, that I love the idea of and try and participate, but don't get done half the things I wanted.
Then there are things that have become habit and have helped me mark time in fandom for so long that I start gearing up for months (and sometimes up to almost a year before) like Yuletide.
This year is no different. It is October 2nd and I am just now reminded that Rectober is a thing that exists in the world and that it is an awesome thing that I totally want to do.
This time, unlike other times, I actually have the time and ability to really do it right. I even have built in things happening that will help me organize themes.
Week One: Random Fandom
As Yuletide noms are upon us and I am once again getting that Yuletide frenzy that washes over me from the moment noms open, I will devote the first weeks recs to stories that were written for the fest. I have a lot of things bookmarked to read from the years I've participated that I will devour this week. Also, I'll probably rec things that I already have, if there things that even now I go back and revisit. Chances are the people who visit my journal now aren't the same that were here last time. The ones who are will forgive me this, yes?
Week Two: White Collar
Columbus Day weekend I will be at the White Collar Meet Up here in the D.C. area hanging out with other fans, writers and artists and we will be writing and squeeing like mad, and I will be reading ALL THE FIC! I'm super excited about this! I will be back at the end of the week with recs of the best of what I read.
Week Three: Harry Potter
By the end of the month I will be (hopefully) done with my HoggyWarty Thinger Bobber fest fic and will be ready to read all the HP fics I've missed, or (lets be honest) go back and re-read some of my very favorites. And so I will be back here giving you a (hopefully) huge list of HP stories of many pairings and genres that you should probably just take my word for and read. ♥
Week Four: MishMash
Because, lets be honest, the chances that I make it to the fourth week are extremely slim, but on the occasion that I do, I'll keep it open to what I rec... what I read and fall in love with. Maybe some Sherlock, maybe some Doctor Who... who knows.
This shall be fun, yes?
Who else is doing this? Anyone?
Man, it's been a looooong time since I've done this!
But, it's also been a long time since I've been in a fest, and I like to read stories in fests that I've participated in. Of course though, I do have delicate sensibilities about some things, but I do like to push some other limits.
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hp_crossgenfest and it's a bit of a strange one, ngl... or maybe it's just an indication of where the fandom is right now. It is nice to see Harry get so very much love though. I've never seen a fest filled with multi-generational pairings that had Harry in such the epicenter. There was Harry with pretty much all of his children in some way or the other, if that's your thing. There's Harry with Voldemort, which I haven't gathered the nerve to read yet. Then there were these ones that I did gather enough nerve for. I'm usually really delicate about Harry pairings and all of these are pairings that I would have never considered reading before, but all of them, I'm glad I took the risk and encourage you to as well.
( Recs Under Here )
That's it for now. The fest runs for a little longer and I've just discovered that there is now another Remus story! This one with Ron--HOLY SHIT! And also, holy shit, turns out, this is the first story in the entire run of this fest to include Ron. WHATTTTT?!?!?!?!
Gotta go!
Please do check out these stories though! And if you love them, love the author who wrote them. ♥
But, it's also been a long time since I've been in a fest, and I like to read stories in fests that I've participated in. Of course though, I do have delicate sensibilities about some things, but I do like to push some other limits.
So, the fest is
hp_crossgenfest and it's a bit of a strange one, ngl... or maybe it's just an indication of where the fandom is right now. It is nice to see Harry get so very much love though. I've never seen a fest filled with multi-generational pairings that had Harry in such the epicenter. There was Harry with pretty much all of his children in some way or the other, if that's your thing. There's Harry with Voldemort, which I haven't gathered the nerve to read yet. Then there were these ones that I did gather enough nerve for. I'm usually really delicate about Harry pairings and all of these are pairings that I would have never considered reading before, but all of them, I'm glad I took the risk and encourage you to as well.( Recs Under Here )
That's it for now. The fest runs for a little longer and I've just discovered that there is now another Remus story! This one with Ron--HOLY SHIT! And also, holy shit, turns out, this is the first story in the entire run of this fest to include Ron. WHATTTTT?!?!?!?!
Gotta go!
Please do check out these stories though! And if you love them, love the author who wrote them. ♥
