Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5

[axael]

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 9th

❄ Challenge #5 on snowflake_challenge.

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Wishlist!

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

• So, I'm doing the little challenge for myself of attempting to read a book a week. Who knows if I will actually manage this, but I think I read maybe four or five books last year and three of them were in the same series, so literally anything will be an improvement on that, lol. To that end: scifi and fantasy book recommendations. Please rec to me your favorite books of the last...five years or so? I enjoy found family and books where the author clearly loves all the characters but that doesn't mean the characters can stand to be in the same room as one another. I also would love any recs for novels translated into English that you found particularly compelling. (Also preferably scifi/fantasy. :)) I developed a fondness for translated-from-Chinese ones, but I haven't poked around anything recently.
  
  
• Hi! Yes! Please rec me fanfiction. I will read any length, and my primary reading fandoms are: Star Wars, SVSSS, BBC Merlin, MDZS, Batfam, Teen Wolf, Stargate, Leverage, The Sentinel, ATLA, Murderbot, Witcher, Game of Thrones, and Fandom-inspired Original Works. I love outsider PoV and Original Characters, and longfic that is...internally consistent enough that I don't necessarily need to know canon. I adore fusions and crossovers and crack treated seriously. (May I direct your attention to my favorite Yuri on Ice+FMA fusion, seated alongside my beloved Dresden Files+Welcome to Nightvale Time Travel Epic.) Also, if you have any time travel fics, I would adore them. I have eaten through a huge chunk of the Star Wars and MDZS ones but I keep finding more and I love them immensely. I will at least attempt a canon I am canonblind for.
  
  
• I would love it if you dropped me your Ao3 or other fic site so I can poke around and maybe chat about your fanfiction that you're writing? Mine is desiderii as an example of what I write/enjoy, though since I mostly write longfic and everything that's up is old and getting older, I'm not asking for comments (lol). Just. Share with me what you do! If you write fic, what's your current fandom and what's your favorite fandom you've written for?

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Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

Okay, I'm just now getting a bit into sci-fi (and a little bit of fantasy) so I'm sure what I'll rec, you've already read, buttttttt... you did ask. I was going to rec Murderbots, but I'm sure you've read that as you're looking for fic for it in your next wish, so I'll move on:

Fantasy
Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chanderasekera
Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

Sci-Fi
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
And my favorite of all time that I'm just re-reading for the 100th time right now:
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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[axael]

Ooh, thank you for the recs. I've only read the 'Long Way to a Small Angry Planet,' which was a delight. I haven't read any of the others, though 'This is How You Lose The Time War' is at the top of my list to read next. :D

Poking your list--do you do a lot of yuletide/small fandom fests? And I honestly love how many crossovers and polyam you've got in there. Do you have a favorite crossover you've done? Or a favorite fic that you've written?