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

Wish Granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> 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? <<

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.
Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.
This was a terrible plan.

A Terrible Fall of Angels (A Zaniel Havelock Novel) Hardcover – Big Book, August 17, 2021 by Laurell K. Hamilton
Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s a cop who is still working on the side of angels. But where there are angels, there are also demons.

Crowbones
(World of the Others, The) Hardcover – March 8, 2022
by Anne Bishop (Author)
Deep in the territory controlled by the Others—shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings—Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering of friends and guests for Trickster Night, at first everything is going well between the humans and the Others.


>>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.<<

One of the most memorable nonsequential novels I've ever read is Imzadi.

If you love time travel, I highly recommend the card game Chrononauts. The cards create a timeline and you play a time traveler. There are multiple ways to win and one for everyone to lose, so try not to blow up the universe.

I also enjoy writing time travel.

"Uptime Girl" is about a television show called "Stitchin' Time."

The Bear Tunnels is essentially a fixit for America's messed-up history.

Tripping into the Future uses time travel as a weapon.

The Time Towers posits time travel as a game of Jenga.

[mxcatmoon]

Hi! Here from Snowflake.

A song I've been listening to a lot lately is Jonathan Roy's "Keeping Me Alive." It's about breaking chains that tie us down. The song can be interpreted in many ways. I tend to see it as a Good Omens Crowley song, as him breaking his chains to hell. All of Roy's songs are great; I love the emotion he pours into his singing. The link is to the video, but he's also on Spotify.

For time-travel shows, Quantum Leap is great. I haven't watched the reboot, so I'm speaking of the old show from 1989. Sam travels in time to help people who are in need, becoming the person he 'leaps into' in the eyes of all around him, and trying to figure out what he needs to do to help. It's a feel-good show.

[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. :)

[dray]

Regarding scifi and fantasy, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao was quite good and I feel it falls into the same grouping as your mentions. (I need to check out Jason Pargin if they're in the same boat as Wells and Leckie!)

For time travel, there's always This is How You Lose the Time War. There's a pretty wild podcast (if you can handle how the protagonist is a petty shit in the beginning) called Woe.Begone; spoilers in that it eventually deals with time travel by about the 10th or 20th episode. (Content warning: there's gore, death, and other awful things that people do with the mechanics of time travel!)

[dasmims]

Time Travel Recs: I'm currently watching Bodies on Netflix and while I'm very confused, I'm also fascinated, it's a murder mystery, but the body turns up in four different times at once - Victorian England, WWII, 2023, and 2050s. There is a great audio drama by Big Finish, it should be on spotify, called Bernice Summerfield, that's set more or less in the Doctor Who universe, that also has time travel, but it's not the main focus.

Small Fandom Recs: I don't know if you know Hornblower (great books, great show) but the fandom has some pretty great fic writers. I can recommend basically everything by Sanguinity, including the Sherlock Holmes fics. But I'd especially recommend Hornblower's Lost Honour

I hope you like some of the above!

[rogueslayer452]

(Here via snowflake_challenge)

My favorite song at the moment is "Unintentional Big Dream" by Liu Yuning, from the cdrama Fangs of Fortune soundtrack. Liu Yuning does a lot of music for various cdramas (and has even acted in some of them), and this track is quite different from his usual style and sound he does for the majority of them.

My fourteenth random song: "Watch Me" by Joanna Pacitti

A song that takes me back to middle school: "Just Go" by Staind

A song I think you should know about: "Howling" by XG. I've fallen in love with XG since I discovered them last year, and this was among their most recent releases and it's so good. XG is an all-Japanese global girl group that sings entirely in English (and does promotions in South Korea, while also traveling globally for tours), their concept is of an alien wolf pack and their sound is very much a mixture of rnb/rap/hip-hop/pop that is reminiscent of 90s/early 00s music scene (example: "Left Right").

For scifi book recs, I absolutely love Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles. It's dense, weird, and continues to get weirder with each installment of his six book series. The Southern Reach trilogy (well, now series since there is a fourth book out) by Jeff VanderMeer is such a wonderfully crafted story. And while I haven't dived into the books just yet, The Expanse books by James S.A. Corey is something I tend to recommend simply because I know it's going to be good based from the television show, which the authors also had a hand in helping create.

For fiction featuring time travel, there is a lot that seems to qualify for me in some ways, particularly that of cdramas/cnovels/Asian media in general (it's quite a common trope, whether it's time travel or transmigration of sorts). Guardian is one that I found to be quite well-done, while in the novel it is quite different the drama had to change things due to censorship reasons, however they managed to do it very well, imho. The time travel, or time loop, aspect just fits so perfectly and adds so much emotional layers, on top of everything else.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is one that I go back to a lot when it comes to time travel, because obviously it is of the Terminator franchise so it's a given, but the way it is done in the show is magnificent. They utilized the concept of different timelines, of both going back and going forward in time, for different reasons.