Fandom Snowflake Challenge

[dragonyphoenix]

Day 14: 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.

So I was going for awesome stories that will never be finished theme, and I actually made it. I found three excellent stories that I'm well over 95% sure will never be added to, but along the way I found two others – I was going to say “finished, sadly” but I'm so not sad that they are finished – that I just had to rec. I am also going for stories that are likely to be unfamiliar to my friends.

The first is Shakatany's In the Light of Two Moons. I don't often read outside of Buffyverse, but this Babylon 5 fanfic is terrific. The Starfire wheel was an ancient portal that brought Neroon to a Shadow prison planet. The Shadows are gone but the prisoners remain, trapped and running low on food. There's another familiar B5 face but I don't want to give the surprise away. The writing is brilliant. It's an extremely engaging story.

Discovering Magic by ArtisticFool is a Harry Potter fanfic. Bill Wesley practices old wizarding magics, ones that are considered dark magic by most of his family. There's a meta fic feel in terms of what is considered acceptable to believe, how things are perceived vs. how they truly are.

Naughty Fae and Salustra's Whitechapel, as a Buffyverse AU, is the only fic in this list my friends are likely to recognize. It's an excellent story and is the third of my unfinished works rec. I'd love it if this story were picked up again. Here's the authors' summary: Twelve months since the last Ripper murder and Whitechapel is once again rocked by the brutal slaying of a prostitute. Has Jack returned?

LNRummi's Geometry of Chance. Ethan finds himself a Slayer. Ethan redemption story. I quite adored it.

And finally, flawedamythyst's Seduction by Aviation series. Cabin Pressure is a BBC radio program. I've never heard it, unfortunately, but I'm told it's fantastic. Anyway, this series is a crossover between Cabin Pressure and the Iron Man movies. Tony Stark and Martin Crieff bond, in a slashy way, over airplanes. It's a delightful series and a tossup really whether I will reread this or Whitechapel first.

And I'm rereading Seduction by Aviation first. Here's a quote from the first story in the series:
Douglas managed to move beyond the shamelessly appalling cheesiness of the message to the meaning behind it. “Wait a minute. Have you just been given permission to 'booty call' Iron Man?” he said, making it clear with the tone of his voice just how he felt about that phrase.

Martin gave another mildly embarrassed half-shrug, but there was a small smile hovering around his lips. That did it, this had to be an alternate universe. They'd get back to London to find that Arthur had managed the Times crossword on his own, and that Carolyn had decided to give them a bonus.

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

This is a fascinating selection. Geometry of Chance is a terrific story. Excellent post!


Gabrielle

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. With the two BtVS Top 5 recs over the last few months, I wanted to rec in some other fandoms, but Geometry of Chance is, I think, something I recently stumbled across and not that well known.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Cool rec list!

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wanted to rec Discovering Magic, which is the idea for an unfinished stories rec list came from.

[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

Damn, you are making my Kindle grow fat =)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well I have a set of really long stories to read so ... same complaint here. ;-)