Snowflake Challenge, Days 2 and 3
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pensnestI didn't do Day 1 because I really couldn't think of an answer.
Day 2
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.
Bit of a theme here, fanfic about writing, or at least, about some kind of creative, or, um, marginally creative activity. You'll see.
First up, The Importance of Being Edited by shimotsuki. In which Miles Vorkosigan writes fanfic and has a highly competent and detail-oriented beta reader. He also writes reports.
Second up is the story that was my Christmas present in 2017, Pulp Friction, by Chalcopyrite, a popslash story in which Lance is writing, er, Things, and sending his oeuvre for Chris to read. Hilarious and adorable.
I've recced this before (and rhapsodised about it, and even podficced it) but not in a Snowflake context. Anyway, it fits, because Nick has written a book—well, fifteen pages isn't really—anyway, it's absolutely hilarious and everyone should read it. Backstreet Boys, with a generous dollop of Nsync. The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire by Jae.
I have to include this as a bonus: it's not about writing, but acting. Well, voice acting. Well... anyway, the not-Justin-Timberlake members of Nsync are doing something rather dodgy in Chris's basement, under the name of J Randy Woodwater Productions, and it makes me laugh out loud. not the reel nsync by Nopseud.
Day 3
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
The first time I ever heard of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold was waaaaaay back when I used to read alt.callahans, and somebody posted a story about an amorous chihuahua getting it on with a Great Dane. Someone queried: Was the chihuahua's name Miles? and there was such merriment in ensuing comments that it stuck in my mind.
Shortly afterwards I came upon A Civil Campaign and decided to give it a try. As I'm a long-standing Georgette Heyer fan, and this particular piece of space operetta has quite a lot in common with the Heyer romances, I loved it. So I obtained 'Komarr', its predecessor, and then 'Memory' and then 'Mirror Dance', at which point I decided I should stop reading the series backwards, and began at the proper beginning. In truth, though, coming in at 'A Civil Campaign' worked perfectly for me, whereas starting with young Miles having his adventures might not have done.
Anyway. The Vorkosigan books are splendid! I can't really single out one moment that encapsulates *why* I love them so, but they're very definitely worth reading. What is more, fanfic derived from this series has a surprisingly high probability of being good. 'A Deeper Season' is pretty much alternative canon for me, and the story in which Aral and his secretary get together is a *better* explanation than Bujold provides us for the same event.
Day 2
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.
Bit of a theme here, fanfic about writing, or at least, about some kind of creative, or, um, marginally creative activity. You'll see.
First up, The Importance of Being Edited by shimotsuki. In which Miles Vorkosigan writes fanfic and has a highly competent and detail-oriented beta reader. He also writes reports.
Second up is the story that was my Christmas present in 2017, Pulp Friction, by Chalcopyrite, a popslash story in which Lance is writing, er, Things, and sending his oeuvre for Chris to read. Hilarious and adorable.
I've recced this before (and rhapsodised about it, and even podficced it) but not in a Snowflake context. Anyway, it fits, because Nick has written a book—well, fifteen pages isn't really—anyway, it's absolutely hilarious and everyone should read it. Backstreet Boys, with a generous dollop of Nsync. The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire by Jae.
I have to include this as a bonus: it's not about writing, but acting. Well, voice acting. Well... anyway, the not-Justin-Timberlake members of Nsync are doing something rather dodgy in Chris's basement, under the name of J Randy Woodwater Productions, and it makes me laugh out loud. not the reel nsync by Nopseud.
Day 3
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
The first time I ever heard of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold was waaaaaay back when I used to read alt.callahans, and somebody posted a story about an amorous chihuahua getting it on with a Great Dane. Someone queried: Was the chihuahua's name Miles? and there was such merriment in ensuing comments that it stuck in my mind.
Shortly afterwards I came upon A Civil Campaign and decided to give it a try. As I'm a long-standing Georgette Heyer fan, and this particular piece of space operetta has quite a lot in common with the Heyer romances, I loved it. So I obtained 'Komarr', its predecessor, and then 'Memory' and then 'Mirror Dance', at which point I decided I should stop reading the series backwards, and began at the proper beginning. In truth, though, coming in at 'A Civil Campaign' worked perfectly for me, whereas starting with young Miles having his adventures might not have done.
Anyway. The Vorkosigan books are splendid! I can't really single out one moment that encapsulates *why* I love them so, but they're very definitely worth reading. What is more, fanfic derived from this series has a surprisingly high probability of being good. 'A Deeper Season' is pretty much alternative canon for me, and the story in which Aral and his secretary get together is a *better* explanation than Bujold provides us for the same event.
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Date: 2019-01-04 09:38 am (UTC)I love your love for The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire.
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Date: 2019-01-09 12:04 am (UTC)The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real. - but I also love so many little deadly lines.
My rec post contains a link to some great icons with quotations from Bujold.