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

[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!

[axael]

Oooh, intriguing. A murder mystery across time. How fascinating.

Oh! I've heard of Bernice! I had totally forgotten about Big Finish. I will definitely have to check it out, since I went through a major Doctor Who phase and really loved all the companions and auxiliary characters.

I'm actually...not that familiar with Hornblower, actually. Ooh. I'll have to go check it out!

Ty ty for the recs. :)

[dasmims]

I finished Bodies and I really liked the end! I hope you enjoy it too.

If you are interested in Hornblower: Here is the Wikipedia article with all the books and adaptations listed if you are interested. Here you can find a playlist of the mini series on youtube. And here are the books on the internet archive. There is actually one very good, but abandoned time travel fic/crossover fic with Forever for Hornblower. There is also a tiny connection to Doctor Who in the mini series, if you watch it, maybe you can figure it out.

[axael]

Oh, awesome! I actually started the Hornblower fic you linked and waded a good ways in before I realized I should probably investigate canon before I read the rest. The writing was really good! I had no idea what was going on, lol. Thank you for all the new links. I'm very intrigued.

I'm always a little sad about awesome-but-abandoned WIPs. Because they're still awesome to read, even if they never have a resolution. I'll take a peek. :)

[dasmims]

Oh I imagine that would be hard, reading it without any context at all. But I'm glad you like it. The show can help a lot with catching up with the canon and it isn't terribly long, but there are a few characters that never appear in the show, only in the books, in this fic. You should be able to figure them out through context though.

I'm glad you think it's interesting even though it was a little confusing.

The crossover fic might be even more confusing if you know neither Hornblower nor Forever. If you have questions just message me.