Snowflake Challenge #8 - Fanwork Recs

[jedibuttercup]

Challenge #8 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t 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 don't tend to keep fic bookmarks anymore, unless they were explicitly written for me. I'm the kind of person who remembers the basic plot of a book for years after reading it, and tends to migrate from fandom to fandom anyway, so I'm never going to revisit most of the fics I've read and loved. I leave kudos and sometimes comments; and if I do end up on a story I've read before, enjoy it again, and discover I've already left kudos, well, bonus! But of course this does mean I have a hard time giving fic recs; I can never remember where I found what.

But I do revisit other sorts of fan creations; so have a few recs for those!

The unofficial Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary. 95% of the Chinese I've ever used in my Firefly fanfics comes from this site. It appears to have been maintained and updated since 2002, at least through 2014, and includes a lot of promotional material and background detail in addition to the actual spoken Chinese in the series and movie.

Similarly, Red Hen Publications: Concerning the Potterverse. I don't agree with every conclusion this essayist comes to, but if you want to know where I got the initial impetus for Back Again, Harry? A good chunk of it came from reading the various analyses on this site, which has also been up since I was just starting out in fic. (I have the link handy because I'm due another reread after Chocolate Box, so I can *crossing fingers* actually get back to work on BAH).

Geocide: How to destroy the Earth, sometimes to cheer me up. Don't ask.

There are also a handful of fanvids I rewatch when I'm in a particular writing mood. They're mostly ancient; I haven't surfed for new ones in years. Let me see if I can track down the most recent links....

Firefly, Mal/River: The Body by obsessive24; also Signal to Noise by thedothatgirl

Harry Potter, Harry: The Boy Was a Puppet by Fabella; Snape: In Exchange for Your Tomorrows by lim

Fast and the Furious, family: good life by cant-fight-the-fanvid; Brian/Dom: MMM Papi by Talitha78; Brian-centric: Glad You Came by lilly_the_kid

Star Trek (2009), Kirk/Spock/Uhura: Apple Candy by Talitha78; All: I'm on a Boat by kiki miserychic; Spock/Kirk: Poker Face by Talitha78; team heist AU: Fortunate Days by Loki; and my fave, that unfortunately seems to be broken everywhere I look, the Kirk-centric Circus by Butterfly. (I was SO in love with this fandom until ID, *sigh*)

... and now that I've been digging into my folders, I'm hungry for vids again; I wouldn't mind a few more recent recs, just about any fandom I'm familiar with, if you have any favorites!

Comments

[james]

MMM Papi was such a wonderful vid. :-) (Pretty sure it was all canon, right??)

[fadedwings]

Cool recs, I'm going to check out some of those vids when I have more time for sure ♥

[spikedluv]

Geocide: How to destroy the Earth, sometimes to cheer me up. Don't ask.

That made me chuckle. (And I bookmarked it. *g*)

I'm gonna check out those TFATF vids when I get home, so thanks for those!

[graycardinal]

For some pure fun in the vid department: Something Good (Will Come From That) is a work of genius that draws on more and more varied Sherlock Holmes source material than you are likely to imagine, and does so to brilliant effect. sanguinity is one of the Holmestice mods and contributors, and also writes Horatio Hornblower fics besides being a demonically talented vidcrafter.

[jedibuttercup]

On a literal level (mmm, had to rewatch again, such a hardship): yep, 100% clips from the first and fourth movies. Including the thrashing around on the floor, and the car porn!

On a meta level: yeah, that too! IMHO, the movies as a whole only make sense if they're at least as much in love with each other (Brian, from the start; Dom from at least mid-movie 4 on) as they are with their respective girlfriends/wives. :)

[jedibuttercup]

:) Enjoy!

[jedibuttercup]

You're welcome; though I'm sure you've probably seen them. Pretty sure I picked them all up from quarter_mile back in the heyday of the Fast Five era!

[beatrice_otter]

Thanks for the recs. AS for other vids, well, here's my Vids tag on pinboard, which has all my favorites: https://pinboard.in/u:Beatrice_Otter/t:Vids/

[jedibuttercup]

Oh, that's lovely! Thank you so much for the rec. :)

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks for the list! I will definitely have to go through and check them out. :)