Snowflake Challenge, part one

[sophia_sol]

So here's the post I was ACTUALLY planning on posting today!

I'm gonna do that Snowflake challenge, extremely late, BECAUSE I CAN and because it is super awesome.

DAY ONE: "post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created."

The Death of Each Day's Life
Fairy Tales; Sleeping Beauty gennish; ~500 words
"These days she never sleeps."

This is one of the fics that I'm proudest of, even though it's very short. I like what I did with the lyricism of the tone, and I think I did a good job conveying what I intended to convey. And I like the idea.

I Never Said This Job Was Easy
Hark! A Vagrant; Mystery Solving Teens gen; ~1k words
"One person he'll tell he loves, and five he won't."

It was really fun getting into the head of this person who's really very different from me, and finding the ways he shows affection for people in his teenage-boy way. I like the characters and the family I built for him, too -- especially his grandmother. The section with the grandmother is secretly my favourite part of the fic. This is also probably one of my more dialogue-heavy fics, and I'm proud of that too, because writing out realistic-sounding conversations is always a struggle for me.

Podfic of Fiction, by aria
Highlander; Methos/Duncan; ~30 minutes
""Oh God, you found Carolyn's book," Duncan said, sounding at least five hundred times less mortified than Methos had hoped."

I have no intelligent thoughts to say about why I like this particular podfic of mine. All I can say is that I've listened to it probably a billion times and yet only get itches to redo bits of it in a few places.

DAY TWO: "post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create." (with focus on fanworks less likely to be praised)

Three fics that are really creepy. Because fandom tends to like fluff or angst over creepy!

The Sharpest Lives, by kat_lair
bandom; Gerard/Mikey; <500 words
"serial killer AU, dark, implied violence, all around wrongness"

I. Um. Oh gosh. This is not the sort of fic I usually read? I do not like serial killers and I really do not like incest, AND YET. This is sharp and delicious and great.

Peter Gabriel Song Resplendent, by apiphile
Inception; Arthur/Eames; ~4k words
"Written in direct reaction to gits describing a perfectly innocuous fic as "creepy". No, you pack of gibbering jessies, *this* is creepy."

YYYUP. THIS IS REALLY EFFECTIVELY CREEPY.

Et In Arcadia Ego, by apiphile
X-Men: First Class; Charles/Erik; ~6k words
"Everything’s just fine and beautiful between the world’s most lovely mutants. No, really. It is."

Apparently Apiphile's just really good at creepy or something, BECAUSE THIS TOO. It's an amazing slow build of subtle creepy that by the end has you shivering, especially because this is a really plausible interpretation for things could go.

DAYS THREE AND FOUR: Accomplished!

Comments

[sylvaine]

Heh, yeah, apiphile is pretty good at writing creepy/awesome things. She used to write a lot of The Used fic (hence how I know her fic!).

Is that podfic something I can listen to without knowing Highlander?

[sophia_sol]

I actually have not read a lot of fic about The Used; I'm not sure why. Possibly because they're a little farther into the drug-using end of the spectrum than I really enjoy reading about?

And ahahahaaaaa NO the podfic will actually make zero sense without any Highlander knowledge... :P (But if you are interested in listening to a podfic I've done, I did do one bandom one, that hasn't yet made it onto my masterlist: Sweets for the Sweet, by acroamatica, gen fic about JWalk and GWay and cupcakes.)

[sylvaine]

Most of The Used fic that I've read is by apiphile, 7iris, valerie_z and sinsense, and they don't tend to focus much on the drug-using aspect... they are, on the other hand, even filthier (dirty-wise as opposed to sex-wise although come to think of it that too) than the rest of bandom, so if that's not your thing, I'd say stay clear.

*glees* Oh my god that podfic sounds awesome. *downloads*

ETA: Ahahahaaaa hang on. Download link points to Megaupload. Can you upload it somewhere eles? Pretty please?

[sophia_sol]

I have discovered that apparently I find the extremely suspect hygiene practices of boys in bands endearing? At least when I don't have to smell it. :P I will have to check those authors' The Used fic out at some point!

ffs, of COURSE it was megaupload. *hates* Okay, here, try this link to sendspace. I think that should work!

[sylvaine]

Sinsense has also written some wonderful Frank/Gerard fic... also The Good Life, which is one of my favourite fics ever, but I just saw you bookmarked that on pinboard, so I suppose I don't need to rec you that. :P

Thank you! That link worked!

[sophia_sol]

Yeah, Sinsense is indeed awesome! I actually just read The Good Life very recently, after having bounced off it when I tried it a while ago. But on the second try I really enjoyed it! I wouldn't categorize it among my favourites, but I'm certainly very fond of it.