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Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 13th

❄ Challenge #7 on [community profile] snowflake_challenge.

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
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Re: Wish Granted!

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2025-01-20 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
>> !!!! What excellent recs! Thank you! <<

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.

>> I'd vaguely heard of River of Teeth, <<

It was the description that sold me on it -- here's a terrible idea that is obviously terrible that these people did, followed by the obviously bad consequences.

>> but I hadn't heard of either of the other books until you mentioned them. Which is wild because I've read almost everything Anne Bishop wrote before about 2019. I shall put them on my to-read list. :D <<

I like a lot of Anne Bishop's work, although the later Black Jewels stuff isn't near as good as the earlier. Most of the Others novels have been excellent.

>> Also, these links to your writing/other's fanworks/new original media that I've not heard of before are all fantastic. Every one of them is so interestingly unique, even being wrapped around the same central concept. o_O

Well, the stuff in the bookstories is very samey this point. I also like looking on Kickstarter. I'm still waiting on my copy of the Dalit science fiction anthology.

>> I'm fascinated by the Bear Tunnels' time-refugees.
Gosh, these are all very cool!

Thank you so much. I'm going to be enjoying your recs for quite some time. :) :)

I love turning people on to fun new things. If you decide that you like my writing, you can ask for more in any relevant prompt call. Next up will be February 4 with a theme of "I believe in dragons, good men, and other fantasy creatures."
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Re: Wish Granted!

[personal profile] axael 2025-01-23 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yah, for Bishop's Black Jewels stuff, I read the summaries of the latter three and went, "Ah, the character work in this has...drifted from my interests," and didn't pick them up. I was especially obsessed with the earlier books, so that was disappointing, tbh. The series has a couple of narrative elements that I really haven't been able to find just about anywhere else. I only nibbled at the first of the Others books, though, so I might delve back into them. I really do quite like dark fantasy.

Well, the stuff in the bookstories is very samey this point. I also like looking on Kickstarter. I'm still waiting on my copy of the Dalit science fiction anthology.

True, true. I know the USian publishers/distributors play it weirdly safe in their hunt for bestsellers, imho. My one friend reads ARCs and she's always telling me about these weird microgenres that she keeps running across, where there will be four or five books of an Incredibly Specific premise all coming out within an year or two of each other. I'm intrigued by hunting Kickstarter, though. I clean forgot that people published books/anthologies through it, even though I have absolutely backed a couple.

I will keep an eye out for your prompt calls! That's such an intriguing February theme. :)
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