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

[hamsterwoman]

You're most welcome!

because I have always enjoyed novellas, but I hadn't realized that more were starting to find their way to readers.

SFF novellas are having a HUGE renaissance, I think! (to the point where I think some things are getting published as novellas that may have been better off being something else, either shorter or longer...) But, yeah, Tor.com/Reactor has been publishing a lot, and I think other publishers are starting to do so as well. (The frustrating thing to me about novellas is that often they're priced similarly to full-length novels, and, like, even if I'm really fond of an author, I'm not going to pay $10 for a 100 page book...)

plus I have several Tchaikovsky books on my list to read, too, but novel-length.

I have started and run out of steam on several Tchaikovsky novels -- I was enjoying them, they were just quite long! -- but Elder Race is my favorite of his things I've come across, by quite a margin.