Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 12

[aadler]

 
Continuing the meme/challenge begun here and kept up to date here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 12
In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you think would make a good intro into XYZ fandom. Rec a fandom overview, an introductory picspam, stories that define and shape the fandom. Leave a comment on this post saying you did it, and include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Sorry, gonna pass on this one. I’m fine with recommending things I like, but I wouldn’t even know the criteria for deciding whether something was a good intro.

Twelfth day, and the first I’ve skipped, but some things are simply outside my range.

Comments

[frogfarm]

Obviously it depends a great deal on who you're trying to introduce. Nathan Fillion commented once along the lines that fanfic was just an excuse to bump uglies, and as a result I'm even more rabid that he needs to read "Big Damn Zombies, Sir" because I'm completely convinced he would immediately fall in love and convince Adam and the rest to perform it onstage. Or at the very least, revise his opinion of fanfic.

[aadler]

I’m not sure his opinion of fanfic itself is all that wrong. We get into the habit of following favorite writers, and the recommendations of people whose taste we’ve learned to trust, and it becomes easy to forget just how God-awful so much fanfic is, maybe most fanfic or even nearly all fanfic. Even people with genuine talent get caught up in stroking their own preferences — or those of like-minded souls — which results in the proliferation of ‘category’ fanfic of the type I decried/derided on Day 11.

There’s really good work out there, and I spend a substantial quantity of my time trying to find more. There’s also a horrendous amount of crap, and more every day.

That said, I think it’s altogether possible that Fillion would get a kick out of the story you cited.