Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13

[aadler]

Taking on the meme/challenge here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13

Make a rec list: any kind of fanwork that strikes your fancy: art, crafts, fic, filk, gifsets, icons, layouts, manifestos, meta, multimedia mixes, picspams, playlists, podfic, vids & whatever else strikes you as having been pretty darn cool. Make the list themed if you like, or the last three things you made heart eyes over. Include fandoms big or small or only you and that one other person. Leave a comment here saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay, then. As has generally been the case, my recs are almost all things I’ve recced before, usually in previous Snowflake Challenge years. Just a fact: I like the things I like. So, as follows —

Old-style Buffyfic: “Not Even Jimmy Olsen”, by blairprovence. This was the first fanfic I read with an original character who wasn’t the center of the story, or even the main driver; she was barely an onlooker, and intensely aware that all the important things were being done by a central group that didn’t include her. It made an impression, and as a result I’ve tried to bring some of the same sensibility to most of my OCs.

Best fanfic overall: No question here, “the Secret Return of Alex Mack”, by Diane Castle. It’s a long one, and understanding the foundation of it requires reading its predecessor story (“the League of Extraordinary Women”). Multi-, multi-, multi-fandom crossovers, literally hundreds of them, but it’s entertaining enough that I’ve read the whole thing at least three times over the years, and it wound up inspiring its own fandom universe on Twisting the Hellmouth, with many different authors making their own contributions.

Silly fic: That would be “Telling Porkies”, by beer_good_foamy, Buffy fandom. It couldn’t get much sillier while remaining a solid story, and it has lots of funny small pieces to it.

Non-fic Buffyfandom work: A few years ago, swallowed_shark started doing movie-style posters for Buffy and Angel episodes here. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any way to see only those posters, but if you go all the way to the bottom of the page, it starts with the first one, and you can work your way up. The other stuff there is mostly Marvel Comics artwork, which also counts as fandom; still, the Buffyverse posters go through “Superstar” (BtVS) and “the Ring” (A:tS).

And, just because I feel like it: “Let’s Stop the Time Warp Again”, by lettered, a lengthy MCU Avengers fic with lots of interesting characterization and some stimulating plot turns.

So there we are.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Okay, I confess, I haven't read these recs but the name, "Blair Provence," sent me right over to Gossamer. Yep, I knew I recognized that author. So thank you. Time well spent. ♥