Snowflake Challenge #6, and a smidgen of schadenfreude

[pensnest]

So, if you enjoy a little schadenfreude,
this twitter thread is hilarious. There is another, filmed by the guy next standing to the guy who did the first one, with commentary and gleeful song, here, but I like the comments on the first thread. The star of the show is whining about being called a terrorist and not being allowed to get on a plane. It does rather look as though he was at the Capitol last Wednesday.

I like the utter indifference of those sitting around in the airport.

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Back to my usual.

Challenge #6

In your own space, 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.

I'm picking recs from smaller canons (with one exception), and which have such awesomely authentic voices that I loved them at once.

Rivers of Ankh-Morpork by melannen
Peter Grant gets into Ankh-Morpork and is delighted. Seriously, it's like Pterry was having a bit of fun on his day off. Absolutely delightful story.

That Greek Thing by Luthien.
I've been listening to a bunch of Georgette Heyer novels over the last few weeks—not, as it happens, Friday's Child, but plenty enough to recognise that the tone of this story is spot-on. The comic sidekick friends in Heyer stories are the ones who annoyed me back when I was a teenager and reading for the romance, but nowadays fill me with love and a desire to see them happy and taken just a little bit seriously. This story does just that.

Still in a Heyerish vein, but an entirely frivolous one, The Birds and the Bees by Lbilover is like a delicious fairy cake, or possibly a Chantilly Basket. Lord Legerwood is not certain whether his heir is, hmm, au fait with certain marital necessities.

Moving away, far, far away, from Georgette Heyer's world, Sprezzatura by Queue takes 'Much Ado About Nothing' and extrapolates a perfect Beatrice. Wow. This one. It's in iambic pentameter: voice-wise, I wouldn't call it Shakespearian, but it is as clever, as stuffed with meaning and innuendo and truth. It's Beatrice the modern woman, Beatrice confronted with the news that Benedick will soon be present, Beatrice deciding what she wants. It's really, really good.

Once upon a time, American Idol was a fandom of very respectable size. Physics Makes Us All Its Bitches by cjmarlowe. Well, it's probably not fair to talk about the authentic 'voice' for RPF, so I'll just say that this author knows how to write. This is Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Brad Bell, and bodyswap. I'm very partial to a good bodyswap story. This is a good bodyswap story.

Comments

[corvidology]

Yes, thank you, I do enjoy a little schadenfreude when it's well deserved and I particularly love that he's whining like a baby as we all know he thought he was a 'big man' in the Capitol building.

[pensnest]

Oh yes.

I think there's a link - or maybe a TikTok - in the comments showing a white man underneath three cops, who is bleating that "You're treating me like I'm ******* black!"

[gillo]

Wow, some of these recs look amazing. Thanks for participating!

[pensnest]

I think you'll enjoy them!

[frausorge]

Those regency stories sound lovely - I'll have to check them out. Thanks for sharing the recs!

[pensnest]

Enjoy! Do you read Georgette Heyer?

[frausorge]

I actually haven't much! But I've read a certain amount of Heyer-inspired fic - you know how it goes.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm super intrigued by the discworld/rivers of london one. it sounds like it would be fun, and i'm not just saying that because i really like peter grant.

(and as for the twitter thread, dude deserved that. you wanna fly home? maybe don't storm the capitol with violent intent. and come on, accept the consequences of your actions like an adult. don't whine like a toddler.)

[pensnest]

I haven't explored the Rivers of London series very far (yet), so I'm mostly all about the Discworld side - but it all makes so much *sense*!

[luthien]

Heh. I was going: "OMG Discworld/Rivers of London CROSSOVER!" and then I saw the second rec - so thank you very much for both, for different reasons. ;)

[pensnest]

Heh. *grins*

[luthien]

PS. That wouldn't by any chance be the Blue Mountains in your header pic, would it? I used to live there and that scene looks awfully familiar.

[pensnest]

I actually don't know - I'm using a DW theme (A Brighter View, apparently) and not something of my own. But what an astonishingly beautiful place that is! I had a day trip into the Blue Mountains a few years back while on holiday visiting my father-in-law; four of us went for a lovely walk following a set trail (we drove up and parked the hired car), and found some signs saying 'to the falls'. We found a very pretty ten-foot drop and assumed that was it - until we went a little further and the ground DISAPPEARED. The view was ***stunning***, and the waterfall was so high we couldn't see the bottom. Absolutely incredible place.

[luthien]

It's a beautiful place, with very dramatic scenery. There are several waterfalls that come to mind from your description - possibly Bridal Veil Falls near Govetts Leap lookout.

A couple of years ago, a longtime American fandom friend came to visit me, and we went up to the Mountains for the day. I took her to Echo Point at Katoomba, where the Three Sisters are, and all I told her in advance was that there was a lookout there that we should check out.

She was pretty gobsmacked. *g*

And as for your header, I think it has to be the Mountains with that combo of cliffs and valleys, sandstone, and eucalypts. I'd say it's probably looking out over the Jamison Valley, if I had to try to pin down a more specific location.

[pensnest]

I wish we'd been able to see more while we were there. It was glorious. I think you may well be right about the header, thanks for pointing it out to me!

I actually took some pix and posted them here.

[hamsterwoman]

I love that RoL/Discworld fic -- truly a perfect crossover, excellently done :)

[pensnest]

Absolutely - neither series is favoured at the expense of the other, and the *logic* of the crossover really works.

[brandywine28]

Easily the best Big Baby Airport Tantrum (Nazi category) I've seen in a very long time. Excellent! Ten out of ten! Would watch again!

Maybe I'm biased, but it seems like the big winner of an Adam/Kris bodyswap scenario would be Kris, no contest. Yes, he's a good looking guy, but Adam is...ADAM.

[pensnest]

Mmmmm, depends who gets swapped into which body, perhaps?

[spikedluv]

Rivers of Ankh-Morpork sounds fun!

[wenchpixie]

It's been pleasant to see people meeting consequences, finally.


HRm, that AIrpf sounds up my alley!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you for those recs. I really enjoyed the Discworld/Rivers of London fic - which I then discovered I'd read before - just as good on a second reading. And the Heyer one with Lord Legerwood was excellent too.