Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7

[axael]

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 13th

❄ Challenge #7 on snowflake_challenge.

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Wishlist!

I had to go look at other people's wishlists to see what kind of thing people were asking for, because I've not done one of these casual fandom wishlists before. Only exchanges, lol, which are very different. So!

• Music recommendations, and a reason why you're recommending it. And what I mean is...
  • Your favorite song!
  • The new song you just heard on the radio that you had to go look up immediately.
  • A song that makes you think of a particular character, and who that character is.
  • A song that would TOTALLY be the theme song of your life.
  • The 14th random song in your library.
  • A song in a genre you literally never listen to, except for this one.
  • The song that flings you back to middle school/hs/a different period of your life.
  • Any other song that you think would be awesome for me to know about...
  • Basically, The Algorithm can only introduce me to so much new music at a time, and Boil The Frog is finicky. I love hearing about why a song is significant, too. That's the best part (beyond introducing me to new music.)
• Scifi and Fantasy book recs! I have finished roughly zero published books since 2020 and I'm woefully behind in knowing what's out there. What's something you read recently and loved? (Fic and translated cnovels have been my go-tos for a bit.) I'm currently reading Translation State, but that's all I've got, lol. I am up to date on Martha Wells, Anne Leckie, and Jason Pargin and that's...basically it, so even if it's literally everywhere and how could I have missed it--? I probably missed it. :D
• TIME TRAVEL RECS!!! What books or movies or TV shows have you watched that feature Time Travel that you would rec? I've...watched a bunch of stuff, but I'm always hunting more.
• Fic recs for your favorite fics in small fandoms. I eat through a LOT of fic, but small fandoms don't often get recs, and they contain some of my absolute favorite fics that I never would have been able to find except through a rec.
• Lastly, a VERY pie-in-the-sky request: doodles/fanworks of any of my fics. XD

Comments

[captaincassidy]

I started listening to Derik Fein because of his song “Don’t Matter,” and really ejoyed Spencer Sutherland’s single “Drama.” Highly recommend the second!

For sci-fi books, the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky was recommended to me by a friend, and it looks absolutely fascinating. For something I’ve read proper, the The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen is one of my all-time favorite series. I can’t recommend the last book, as it was written 20 years later, but books 1-3 are brilliant. :)

[axael]

Ooh, I hadn't heard either Don't Matter OR Drama. Don't Matter has some nice clear vocals, and seems like a great characters song. And wow. Drama sounds deliciously Queen-like. This is very fun. This is exactly the kind of song that I want to put on all sorts of playlists.

Children of Time sounds...very familiar. It's...oh! The Elevated spiders book! Yes! I think I can borrow that one from the boyo. And gosh, The Pit Dragon Chronicles is a blast from the past. I remember reading those way, way back in the day. I don't think it occurred to me that I could read them again, now that I'm older. I've reread some other books that made major impacts on me growing up, but all I remember is that this one did, and not why. Thank you so much for the rec for it. I'm absolutely going to have to go track that series down.

[captaincassidy]

I’m so glad you like them! I was super impressed with both. Drama’s got a firm place on one of my main OC playlists, and Don’t Matter has a few spots on my themed playlists as well.

Awesome! The Pit Dragon Chronicles is one of my favorite series of all time, I really aughta re-read it again as well. It’s so… charming? Unique? Although I’ll personally be skipping book 4, if I do get around to re-reading it. XD

Glad my recs were appealing!