Still Not a Year in Review Or My Yuletide Recs

[harborshore]

Snowflake Challenge Days 2, 3 and 4

Day 2: Recs for fanworks you haven't created

This one is hard, because I read very fast and I read a lot, so narrowing down my stories-I-liked of the last week is difficult, let alone trying to pull from a wider pool. But. From my favorite tag at pinboard, these are some stories I love very much and that mean the world to me:

1. Trigger Discipline XMFC, Raven gen. Because Raven deserves a story in which she doesn't leave her brother to die on a beach (as if she would, ever), and this is a very good one.

2. Perdition Downton Abbey, Thomas/OMC. Because Thomas ought to have a boyfriend, and this story deals with him so sweetly but so fairly that I had my heart in my throat the whole time. It doesn't pull any punches, either, when it comes to being queer at that time, but there's no unhappy ending. For once.

3. New Beautiful Things Come XMFC, Charles/Erik. Because I reread this story when I want a story that deals with disability well and with queerness in a fucking stunning way and does justice to social activism and art and ordinary people trying to love each other and live well. And Raven, oh Raven.

4. The War is Over series XMFC, implied past Charles/Erik, Alex/Darwin. This was written for me, and it's--well. Post-movie, slowly putting themselves back together, an AU in the fact that Darwin's alive but the beach happened, and it's perfect. And you should read it just for the moment when Rogue, very young and with a very dangerous mutation, meets Darwin, who can survive that too.

Day 3: Introduce yourself/talk to someone new

You're just going to have to trust me that I'm working on this.

Day 4: A list of fanworks you'd want to exist/receive/etc

1. I want more Leverage OT3 fic. Because there is badly any, and it ought to exist.

2. I really adore fanmixes. And fanart, obviously, but that seems so big it's hard to ask for (and I got the best fanart EVER from absenteye once). And podfic, but you know what? Someone just podficced one of my stories, my Brendon/Peter Parker ficlet, and that's getting a SEPARATE REC, but I am beyond thrilled.

3. More Raven stories. More stories where Natasha is treated fairly and like a person with characteristics that don't get attributed to her because she's a girl (there are some! There are some glorious stories, but I want there to be more.). More stories where h/c means being there for someone until they can stand on their own, not fixing the other person.

Comments

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Hey, I want to do a Natasha fic for one of the days for 14v, but I'm having a hard time in general right now and part of that is causing me to have a hard time brainstorming simple ideas. Is there something you've really wanted to see, re: Natasha? Like, a theme or something that you'd like to see played around with?

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're having a hard time, dear ♥

I don't know, mostly the comment above is in reaction to fics where she's very blatantly the "girl" as opposed to a character in her own right (unlike the movie, where she's very much a person, not an archetype). Two things I love about her: the way she immediately tells both Clint and Selvig that it's not their fault when they wake up from being brainwashed, and the way she came through all that she's been through determined to live and love, despite it all (that's from the end of the comic miniseries, highly recommended). Oh! And the way she uses truth as a weapon.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I shall chew these things over, especially that last, since it comes right after you talking about how she tells Clint and Selvig the truth as she knows it and uses it as a balm, which is an interesting contrast. Thanks, love.

[sunsetmog.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Perdition rec, bb! <33

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Oh my god it's so amazing. And a major, major comfort fic, which is why it's among the four above.