Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Days 1 & 2
Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.
FYI, all of these stories contain potentially triggery shit (especially the last one, which is trigger central because it's mirror!verse). The bold/italicized/underlined links go to masterlists here on LJ (except the third one, of course, since I haven't posted TIK here), which will give you a list of applicable warnings each.
Only Moreso (Ao3): Tony Stark's decades-long struggle with Bipolar II
I think it's one of my best. It was really hard to write at times, particularly Mania and Depression, and kind of fucked me up for a while. But it struck a chord in apparently a lot other people, especially my co-sufferers, which made me super proud. What writer doesn't want that, you know?
Interations (Ao3): There are many iterations of what happened after the Narada and the Jellyfish were sucked into that black hole.
It's not finished, but I've really enjoyed writing this because I enjoy breaking hearts. And this one will, when I finish it (I will, before the next movie comes out; I'll have to!).
This is Kurys (Ao3 only): In the afterworld, Severus Snape must make his peace with those he fought in life.
I just had an inordinate amount of fun writing this (Snape and Sirius!angst and all) and it needs moar love.
Wedding of the Crocodile and the Raven (Ao3): Almost everyone had a few close allies because they were necessary to
survive, but not many had someone like Bones. He was more than an ally. He was Hephaestion to Jim's Alexander.
Incomplete but an enormous amount of fun to write (I like writing dark!fic, okay?). Also, the mirror!verse in general needs more love.
Day 2: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Drop a link to your post in the comments. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.
And Invasive Alien Parasite Makes Three by savoytruffle (ST:AOS, K/M)
The funniest mpreg I've ever read (although, granted, I don't read a whole lot of it). Also, this is mirror!verse savoytruffle still manages to keep them deliciously dark while making them utterly hilarious. Seriously. I love this fic.
Cowboys Lost At Sea by ayalesca: Jim and McCoy are trapped, together and alone, in a strange world made up of their memories and desires. In a world where almost anything they want comes into existence, there is no hiding from their desires, each other, or themselves.
Scenery porn, wonderfully surreal, the emotions are pitch-fucking-perfect, and there's hot sex.
How the Dementors Came to Being by catsintheattic: She was a young Veela who only wanted to be beautiful. When her body failed her, she started looking for inner beauty. Alas, her own soul wasn’t enough to make up for what she couldn’t achieve. (HP, gen)
I read this years ago and it still gives me the chills.
America's Golden Boy Retriever by amuly: The Avengers wake up one morning to find they all have ears and tails. Some of the animals that are a part of them are obvious, but some of them are more... odd. Much to Tony's infinite amusement, of course. (MCU, S/T)
This is...tail!fic, or whatever it's called, but it's completely and utterly fucking hilarious.
Your Fixed Point by quigonejinn: Think of it this way: identity is not a fixed point. Change eye color or cut off a finger, and only the strictest interpreter would say that a different identity, a different person, results. How much can you change about Tony Stark and still have Tony Stark? (MCU, rule63!Tony, iirc gen-ish)
The fic that got me into genderbending. Utterly fucking amazing. Tony is painful and jagged and perfect.
Loki and Toni’s Excellent Adventure in World Saving by pprfaith and reena_jenkins: In which Loki and Toni try to save the world, Steve is obnoxious, Clint has no patience for artsy movies and there are cupcakes. And issues. (MCU, rule63!Tony, Tony/Lady!Loki, C/N/C, unrequited S/T)
All the sharp angles of both characters in tact, still charming as hell.
a girl worth fighting for by beardsley: Darcy vs inexplicable courting rituals of Asgard. (MCU, Darcy/Sif)
Completely and utterly hilarious. Also made me fall in love with that pairing, which is apparently pretty rare since I can NEVER find it.
A Quiet Assignment by inlittlestars (silvernatasha): Steve had been promised a quiet assignment in New Mexico to give him
breathing room and a chance to acclimatise to the twenty-first century. The greeting he received from Dr Foster's assistant, however, was anything but calm. She was no demure dame. (MCU, S/D)
This is was actually a fill for a prompt of mine, and it is everything I wanted. Curvy!Darcy and happy sex.
Dirty Little Prince (Grind Grind Grind) by theorytale: Loki. Masturbating... sort of. In a room full of bemused Avengers. (MCU, gen)
Hilarious and dirty in the sense that it is Loki jerking off, even though you never see anything that, on a human, is genitals.
Like Pale Fire by Lirance: “Godric walked across and Salazar pulled him down, and they moved like pale fire.” Harry finds it’s all too easy to slip, and the past is bleaker than he believed. (HP, Salazar!Harry/Godric)
Bleak and achey and fucking beautifully written.
Circular Reasoning by Swimdraconian: Torn from a hellish future, Harry awakens in his teenage body with a hefty debt on his soul. Juggling his violent past, Sidhe politics, and a questionable sanity, he fights to stay ahead of enemy intrigue. Desperation is the new anthem of violence. (HP, gen)
Dark and beautifully written.
Paninaro '95 by Harmonic Friction: "Passion, love, sex, money, violence, religion, justice, death. If Dudley starts crying again, Piers might cry too, because that’s like, so opposite of how the world is supposed to go.' (HP, Dudley/Piers)
Just...surprisingly lovely. Two awkward boys, falling in love and not real sure what to do about it. I ship the hell out of these two and this was the fic that set it sail for me.
Recall Alice When She Was Just Small by Harmonic Friction: "Dudley Dursley: champion boxer, crass chav, cannibal?, bad boyfriend, good son, annoying cousin, best friend. It's hard to keep all the identities straight." (HP, gen-ish)
Really awesome character study of Dudely.
Dirty Magic by cupid-painted-blind: "Sirius picked a bad night to run away from home. [He’s got a horrible, deep, sinking feeling that he’s just like the rest of his family. They’re all a bit insane, and he feels insane right now.] (HP, gen)
Sirius feels. Including the link to the author's FFN page because everything they write in the HP fandom is fucking gold.
Stasis by cupid-painted-blind: "There is no villain. There is no hero. There is only redemption and damnation, success and failure. Regulus Black, and growing up in all the wrong ways." (HP, gen)
Same as above. Gold. Agonizing gold.