snowflake challenge #8

[tabacoychanel]

Challenge #8: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Better late than never right?

[asoiaf] The Matter of Soulmates by sunkelles (3.7k, Sansa Stark/Daenerys Targaryen) this is neither the pairing nor the trope (soulmarks) that i gravitate to but damn if i my heart wasn't in my throat waiting for Dany the Conqueror to liberate Sansa from her chains

[asoiaf] The Crowned Dragon by SomeKindofUnicorn (23k, Arthur Dayne/Lyanna Stark) a LyannaLives!AU whose central conceit isn't "they run away to Essos" or even "Arthur raises Jon as his own" because ofc he does, it's how they adopt Viserys & Daenerys?? I did not expect to get emotional over a Viserys redemption arc

[asoiaf] Ten Thousand Ships by crossingwinter (41k) how Nymeria of Ny Sar came to Dorne--this same plot bunny struck me ages ago but after this fic nailed the concept i'm all set, this is perf

[brooklyn 99] Farm-to-Table, Non-GMO, Responsibly Sourced by impertinence (5k, Rosa Diaz/Amy Santiago) this casefic & this unlikely pairing had me cracking a rib from laughing so hard

[macbeth] Favor for Ruin by scioscribe (8k, Macbeth/Lady Macbeth) "To reclaim humanity's sovereign hold on the Earth, the Three Witches enlist Macbeth to kill Duncan, the alien king of Scotland" -- this is the weirdest, coolest thing i read last yuletide and i STILL haven't been able to stop thinking about it a whole yuletide later, goddamn

[sense and sensibility] I Have Not Wanted Syllables by Maidenjedi (3k, Elinor Dashwood/Colonel Brandon) noncanon ships make some noise i guess is the theme of this reclist


This fanvid featuring the most iconic films of the 2010's deadass took my breath away... and I don't even watch a lot of films, or follow the film industry. probably could not identify 60% of the clips. But you have to respect the ambition of a vidder who sets their sights on a project of this scope:

"Decade in Review: The 2010’s in Film" (Watch on Vimeo)

In the vein of decade-in-review retrospectives I still cannot believe a bona fide journalist actually wrote An oral history of the Folgers incest commercial -- I'm still thinking about that tweet "If you told me, ten years ago when both James Cameron’s Avatar and the Folgers Incest Commercial came out, that one of them would go onto become a pop culture phenomenon and the other would be completely forgotten, I would hit you when I found out which one was which" LMAO

Comments

[spikedluv]

What a nice variety of recs! I don't watch b99 (though I do love the GIFsets I've come across on Tumblr), but I'm gonna give that fic a try based on your comments. And I'm going to watch that vid when I get home (stupid earphones not plugging in properly *stomps foot*). Thanks for these!

[tabacoychanel]

yeah b99 is such a gif-able show. and you are most welcome

[fadedwings]

Ooo! I'm going to check out that B99 fic for sure!

[tabacoychanel]

you will not regret your decision!

[hamsterwoman]

I had a lot of fun reading the B99 fic (I'm not really *in* the fandom, but I've watched enough random episodes on planes to a) get a sense of the characters and be able to enjoy them in fic and b) really, really like Rosa, so I read B99 fic occasionally), and the decade of movies vid was really impressive! (I kept wondering if the "I am Iron Man" Endgame moment was going to appear at some point, and of course. OF COURSE.

[tabacoychanel]

and of course. OF COURSE
HEE i'm glad you enjoyed both the fic and the vid

i was thinking about your 4 doorways to storytelling and b99 is 100% character. in fact, character all the way, which makes it easy to dip in and out of the canon. well i guess you could make an argument for "worldbuilding" as a distant second?

btw apropos of our conversation about book alignment charts if you ever feel like not lugging a tome of a Cyteen around i can send you my electronic copy if you like

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, it was definitely character for me. Which, a plot-of-the-week show can be either character or plot... or, I guess, Language, in the sense of dialogue. And there's a bit of that for me here -- lots of cool quotes, some of which I hear before I even watched the show, as with Firefly, and in fact it was the quotes that got me interested in checking it out in the first place. But I actually don't remember any of the episode plots at all, so it's clearly not that for B99 XD

if you ever feel like not lugging a tome of a Cyteen around i can send you my electronic copy if you like

You know, sure! If you don't mind, I'll happily take that as "backup" :) (For one thing, this seems like the kind of book that probably rewards highlighting...)

Sync read post is finally up! (and I hope you're OK with other people joining if they want to -- I always do that with sync reads I "host", because the more the merrier I find :)