Snowflake Challenge: Day 7
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toujours_nigelDay 7: Stretch yourself a little and try something new.
One of the suggestions was to make a reclist, which I have never done in all my years in fandom. So, something new it is.
When I started reading fic, some decade and half ago, there were about half-a-dozen writers I found who seemed to know each other, and wrote across fandoms, including fandoms for which I had not only never consumed the canon, but didn't know of the canon's existence at all. But I was a wee and fic-starved Rhea, so I read everything they wrote, and when they moved onto a different canon I read everything there as well. I still do this when I find a new author I trust. I'm still reading fic they write, so these are a few of my all-time faves from my all-time faves, which are very likely to also be fandom classics, because I am a predictable sheep.
Harry Potter
House Proud, one of Astolat's recent Harry Potter fic, and one of my favourite iterations of Draco Malfoy, and one of few fics where I actually ship Drarry.this is a pattern with astolat
Seven Things That Didn't Happen On Valentine's Day At Hogwarts, Or Maybe They Did by Rageprufrock, which is a stunner and early example of the X+1 things genre. I just reread it after five years, and I still love it every bit as much.
Copperbadge's Stealing Harryverse, which consists of 12 stories (including an unfinished PoA and notes towards later books) where Harry is raised by Sirius and Remus. It shot him into BNF-status and cemented my fannish love for Potter when I first found it on FictionAlley.
The Black Knight by Musesfool, in which Sirius becomes Batman. No really.
MCU
4 Minute Window, Cesperanza's lovely, life-affirming series, currently in its fourth year of Steve/Bucky domesticity. I reread the whole thing every few months, and the podfic is its own perfect thing.
Greetings to the New Brunette, where Steve and Bucky get a baby, because Musesfool is nice to us.
Magazineverse, Copperbadge's duology of Peter Parker's longform articles about The Avengers.
Reconstruction, Rageprufrock's stunning w.i.p about Stephanie Barnes, because I adore genderbenders.
Revelations, where Thor dies, Loki and the Avengers travel to Valhalla to retrieve him, and Thor & Loki have a baby, in that order. Astolat brings her terrifying A-game of making readers ship stuff they may not have been shipping.
Merlin
Drastically Redefining Protocol by Rageprufrock is one of many takes in the fandom on the modern royalty trope, and has an Arthur who's... well, he's Arthur, he's a berk and beloved and just absolute sunshine. And Merlin's still magic, and the prettiest princess.
Astolat's The Beltane Cycle is on the other end of things, deeply invested not just in the magic of the show, but the deeper magics into which it rarely ventures.
SGA
Bell Curve by Rageprufrock, a series which starts with Rodney McKay meeting John Sheppard in a strip club, and just really *commits* to the prof/TA thing.
Written by the Victors, which I had actually forgotten was by Cesperanza, is this sprawling stunning history project that is just a masterclass in craft.
Ordinary Life, a Cesperanza and Astolat coproduction where Rodney and John are back on earth and everyone makes the usual assumptions.
Story of a Girl by Seperis, because I'm weak for genderflip stories that take into account the difference it makes even when it may not be supposed to, and also because, well, it's Sep, the story is stunning.
Smallville
Conflicts of Interest is Rageprufrock's stunning portrayal of Lex Luthor as a biological fugitive, whose son is mold (but good mold). Please, please read the series, because it's got one of the best child characters I have ever read, *and* his transition into adolescence is also entirely believable.
Reconciliable Differences also features Lex as a father, but Astolat gives us canonical Kon-El, grown in a lab and not easy being anyone's son, any more than Clark is easy being a father. Also the fic that made me interested in Tim Drake, tbh.
Seperis' Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is a story where Clark decides to give up his powers and become human, and things go from there. Skip the last couple stories if you don't wanna cry. A lot.
Now one of Rageprufrock and Seperis' co-written fic, This, Too, which I absolutely read at a formative and possibly too-young age, because back when I was a wee fanchild, I knew to click the 18+ button and keep my mouth shut.
Supernatural
Down to Agincourt, Seperis' fic set in the post-apocalyptic verse we catch a glimpse of in Season 4... except not really. Just go read: this fic has its own fandom, incredible art and metafic, and the slowest of slow-burn dystopic domesticities.
The Other Side, by Astolat et al, which is a 25 minute SPN fanfilm with genderfuckery. And dragons!
Wayfinding, by Rageprufrock, which is a w.i.p but I do not care, read it anyhow, it has the best genderflipped Dean Winchester I've ever read.
Star Wars
I love all of Musesfool's Star Wars fic, even the ones for which I don't have canon knowledge, but her On the Day series is my current fave.
to the sky without wings, meanwhile, is proof that Leupagus' shipping game has the gravitational pull of a planet, because I'm fairly sure none of us shipped Luke/Poe before she manifested it, and it is now one of my forever OTPs.
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I mean, I love a bunch of fic by these people in other fandoms:copperbadge's White Collar stuff, or rageprufrock's Sherlock fic, and astolat's insane ability to drag us all into fandoms we don't know or like (Transformers, obscure video-games, Game of Thrones). I had forgotten that musesfool had Renault fic, so that's me set for staying up half the night. And I love fic by other people in these fandoms: it feels very strange to not rec dira and dragonlady7 when I read so many of their stories on pretty much a weekly basis, but.
This reclist is the fannish gestalt which I grew up reading, and I'm trying to use Snowflake to also talk about my fannish self.
One of the suggestions was to make a reclist, which I have never done in all my years in fandom. So, something new it is.
When I started reading fic, some decade and half ago, there were about half-a-dozen writers I found who seemed to know each other, and wrote across fandoms, including fandoms for which I had not only never consumed the canon, but didn't know of the canon's existence at all. But I was a wee and fic-starved Rhea, so I read everything they wrote, and when they moved onto a different canon I read everything there as well. I still do this when I find a new author I trust. I'm still reading fic they write, so these are a few of my all-time faves from my all-time faves, which are very likely to also be fandom classics, because I am a predictable sheep.
Harry Potter
House Proud, one of Astolat's recent Harry Potter fic, and one of my favourite iterations of Draco Malfoy, and one of few fics where I actually ship Drarry.
Seven Things That Didn't Happen On Valentine's Day At Hogwarts, Or Maybe They Did by Rageprufrock, which is a stunner and early example of the X+1 things genre. I just reread it after five years, and I still love it every bit as much.
Copperbadge's Stealing Harryverse, which consists of 12 stories (including an unfinished PoA and notes towards later books) where Harry is raised by Sirius and Remus. It shot him into BNF-status and cemented my fannish love for Potter when I first found it on FictionAlley.
The Black Knight by Musesfool, in which Sirius becomes Batman. No really.
MCU
4 Minute Window, Cesperanza's lovely, life-affirming series, currently in its fourth year of Steve/Bucky domesticity. I reread the whole thing every few months, and the podfic is its own perfect thing.
Greetings to the New Brunette, where Steve and Bucky get a baby, because Musesfool is nice to us.
Magazineverse, Copperbadge's duology of Peter Parker's longform articles about The Avengers.
Reconstruction, Rageprufrock's stunning w.i.p about Stephanie Barnes, because I adore genderbenders.
Revelations, where Thor dies, Loki and the Avengers travel to Valhalla to retrieve him, and Thor & Loki have a baby, in that order. Astolat brings her terrifying A-game of making readers ship stuff they may not have been shipping.
Merlin
Drastically Redefining Protocol by Rageprufrock is one of many takes in the fandom on the modern royalty trope, and has an Arthur who's... well, he's Arthur, he's a berk and beloved and just absolute sunshine. And Merlin's still magic, and the prettiest princess.
Astolat's The Beltane Cycle is on the other end of things, deeply invested not just in the magic of the show, but the deeper magics into which it rarely ventures.
SGA
Bell Curve by Rageprufrock, a series which starts with Rodney McKay meeting John Sheppard in a strip club, and just really *commits* to the prof/TA thing.
Written by the Victors, which I had actually forgotten was by Cesperanza, is this sprawling stunning history project that is just a masterclass in craft.
Ordinary Life, a Cesperanza and Astolat coproduction where Rodney and John are back on earth and everyone makes the usual assumptions.
Story of a Girl by Seperis, because I'm weak for genderflip stories that take into account the difference it makes even when it may not be supposed to, and also because, well, it's Sep, the story is stunning.
Smallville
Conflicts of Interest is Rageprufrock's stunning portrayal of Lex Luthor as a biological fugitive, whose son is mold (but good mold). Please, please read the series, because it's got one of the best child characters I have ever read, *and* his transition into adolescence is also entirely believable.
Reconciliable Differences also features Lex as a father, but Astolat gives us canonical Kon-El, grown in a lab and not easy being anyone's son, any more than Clark is easy being a father. Also the fic that made me interested in Tim Drake, tbh.
Seperis' Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is a story where Clark decides to give up his powers and become human, and things go from there. Skip the last couple stories if you don't wanna cry. A lot.
Now one of Rageprufrock and Seperis' co-written fic, This, Too, which I absolutely read at a formative and possibly too-young age, because back when I was a wee fanchild, I knew to click the 18+ button and keep my mouth shut.
Supernatural
Down to Agincourt, Seperis' fic set in the post-apocalyptic verse we catch a glimpse of in Season 4... except not really. Just go read: this fic has its own fandom, incredible art and metafic, and the slowest of slow-burn dystopic domesticities.
The Other Side, by Astolat et al, which is a 25 minute SPN fanfilm with genderfuckery. And dragons!
Wayfinding, by Rageprufrock, which is a w.i.p but I do not care, read it anyhow, it has the best genderflipped Dean Winchester I've ever read.
Star Wars
I love all of Musesfool's Star Wars fic, even the ones for which I don't have canon knowledge, but her On the Day series is my current fave.
to the sky without wings, meanwhile, is proof that Leupagus' shipping game has the gravitational pull of a planet, because I'm fairly sure none of us shipped Luke/Poe before she manifested it, and it is now one of my forever OTPs.
_____________
I mean, I love a bunch of fic by these people in other fandoms:
copperbadge's White Collar stuff, or rageprufrock's Sherlock fic, and astolat's insane ability to drag us all into fandoms we don't know or like (Transformers, obscure video-games, Game of Thrones). I had forgotten that musesfool had Renault fic, so that's me set for staying up half the night. And I love fic by other people in these fandoms: it feels very strange to not rec dira and dragonlady7 when I read so many of their stories on pretty much a weekly basis, but.This reclist is the fannish gestalt which I grew up reading, and I'm trying to use Snowflake to also talk about my fannish self.
