Snowflake Challenge - Day 3
Day 3
In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'll stick to written works simply to cut the number I'd like to mention down (although I did all different recs several years ago in the 30 days of fandom meme). Have 6 recs on me...
BS at Blandings by T Verano (The Sentinel-P G Wodehouse)... yes, I bubbled and burbled about it when it first came out, and yes, I could be biased because she wrote it for meeeeeeeeeee :) nevertheless, I have to rec it, because it is hysterically funny, pitch-perfect for both canons, and as warm and sunny and lovely as Blandings in the summertime...
A Drop of Black Ink by the_master_of_escapism (Merlin); a fairly recent Merlin AU (the first in a series, the second story is also up and the third is being posted in parts). It's a police procedural-Arthur/Merlin story set in modern-with-magic Britain and yes, it works and yes, it is a reincarnation story (I have found I do love reincarnation stories in this fandom). Lovely characterisation (most of the important canon characters appear, though in different roles), lots of plot, lots of twists and shadows I adore her Merlin to bits.
The Art of the Deal by littera_abactor - (Stargate SG1)... the humour is based on brilliant wordplay, so how could I resist it? Dialogue to die for (the first time I read it I nearly did), with one of SF fandoms' most sendupable clichés sent up gleefully, and oh Daniel I is just so hysterically... him.
I really tried to write this Blakes 7 story but... by Chris Blenkarn.(Blakes 7, of course)... not fanfic but about fanfic, and oh god the fellow feeling has not changed in all the years since I first saved it. For those of you who write, even if you don't know B7, I just know what she's going through trying to write the damn story will resonate, and for those who do the sly references to all too many fanfic clichés are brilliant (Chris always was one of the fandoms best comic writers :)
Matter, Form, and Privation by Domenika Marzione.(Stargate Atlantis)... I have always said that the Stargate writers were terrific at thinking up nightmare-fuel alien menaces, but crap at following through on the worst implications of what they thought up. Luckily there are fanfic writers ready and willing to explore the blacker-than-black possibilities canon skates over... and this story is just such a blacker-than-black one, a relentless look at what a galaxy dominated by Wraith actually means. A really good original character, a brilliant ethical problem, and no easy answers...
Fellow Travelers by J Brooks (Magnificent 7)... I have a thing for kidfic, okay? And this - an AU set in 1857 before the American Civil war - is one of the best, with lots of action, humor and tragedy and great writing. The Seven have different roles but are still totally themselves, especially the kid in question, little Ezra who is brilliantly done, adorable, exasperating and even at seven years old a conman down to his tiny fingertips...