Fandom Snowflake challenge, day 2
Jan. 3rd, 2012 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitThe Day 2 challenge is:
The Beauty That Remains (The Hero Remix) by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
randomalia (Horatio Hornblower bookverse). This gen story focuses on Hornblower's friend Bush, who canonically lost a leg in action; as a result the Navy retired him from the sea and put him in charge of a naval supply yard at Sheerness. (Eventually he went back to sea, with . . . mixed results.) Bush here is lonely, melancholy, not having an easy time coming to terms with the loss of the only life he's ever known, and the story does a great job of conveying deep emotion with subtlety.
Elementary my dear captain, by Puffintalk (Tintin). This is a charming piece of Tintin-and-Haddock fanart (worksafe and not noticeably shippy) that pastiches a famous Sherlock Holmes illustration. I especially like the use of monochrome and shadow.
This Sweet and Bitter Orange Mood, by Tevere (Inspector Chen series by Liz Williams; not rated, features an implied m/f/m relationship). I'm cheating a little, because I've recced this before (it was a Yuletide story), but I still think it's awesome and the fandom, about a police inspector dealing with occult mischief in Singapore 3, where Chinese gods and demons take an all-too-active part in human affairs, is pretty obscure. Here's what I said last time: "This exquisitely detailed, subtly developed story focuses on Inari, Inspector Chen's wife (and a demon) as she comes to terms with her own heritage and living on earth among humans. The characterization of this story has the depth and complexity that the canon unfortunately never quite achieves, and the relationship between Inari, Chen Wei, and Zhu Irzh builds plausibly but boldly on canon."
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.My bookmarking habits have never been good, and since Delicious went all weird it's even harder for me to keep track of stuff. But I've tried. Mostly I focused on the "small fandoms" aspect of the challenge, with the additional element of only including creators who are not personally known to me, i.e. are not on my LJ f-list or my DW circle.
The Beauty That Remains (The Hero Remix) by
randomalia (Horatio Hornblower bookverse). This gen story focuses on Hornblower's friend Bush, who canonically lost a leg in action; as a result the Navy retired him from the sea and put him in charge of a naval supply yard at Sheerness. (Eventually he went back to sea, with . . . mixed results.) Bush here is lonely, melancholy, not having an easy time coming to terms with the loss of the only life he's ever known, and the story does a great job of conveying deep emotion with subtlety.Elementary my dear captain, by Puffintalk (Tintin). This is a charming piece of Tintin-and-Haddock fanart (worksafe and not noticeably shippy) that pastiches a famous Sherlock Holmes illustration. I especially like the use of monochrome and shadow.
This Sweet and Bitter Orange Mood, by Tevere (Inspector Chen series by Liz Williams; not rated, features an implied m/f/m relationship). I'm cheating a little, because I've recced this before (it was a Yuletide story), but I still think it's awesome and the fandom, about a police inspector dealing with occult mischief in Singapore 3, where Chinese gods and demons take an all-too-active part in human affairs, is pretty obscure. Here's what I said last time: "This exquisitely detailed, subtly developed story focuses on Inari, Inspector Chen's wife (and a demon) as she comes to terms with her own heritage and living on earth among humans. The characterization of this story has the depth and complexity that the canon unfortunately never quite achieves, and the relationship between Inari, Chen Wei, and Zhu Irzh builds plausibly but boldly on canon."
