Snowflake Challenge: 3

[keiliss]

Day 3
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. 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 who maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.

Okay, let's start with an 'other than stories' piece of fanwork honouring the Avengers. This is like nothing I've seen before and I seem to have fallen in love. mdarkdreamer has made Avengers shields out of yarn - just the cutest, coolest, cleverest little things I've found in ages and I wanted to share them. Go look!

LotR fiction: The Last Homely House by the Magic Rat (warnings for mpreg and lunacy) must be eight, nine years old now, but it's still utter feel-goodness. It's sad and touching and sweet and achingly funny and off the wall in the way only really good AU can be and survive, plus it's a good, long read! The style is intensely visual, rather like Terry Pratchett's - you can just picture the graphic novel. Here's the official summary: The basic idea is Elrond took most of his household to the Havens, including Frodo and Bilbo, then turned around and came back with his sons, Glorfindel and Erestor, and a few others. Legolas and Gimli moved in roughly the same time Haldir and Rabbit did....

And then there's a whole body of work from about the same time that I haven't visited in a while, an old LotR website called Maggie's Place, featuring the slash fiction of Maggie Honeybite ----- I won't suggest any specific fic, my two favourites were Sweetness and Gall and In The Bleak Midwinter, but it was a long time ago and I might say differently now if I reread the lot (which I just might do). This was back in the days of the Yahoo groups, and people couldn't wait for updates to Sweetness and Gall and Secondhand Happiness. The two words 'Maggie's posted' were enough to stop a conversation in its tracks. I never read anything she wrote that I didn't love and was so sorry when she had to move on.

And finally, as a bonus, Maggie also has a couple of non-Tolkien pieces on the site, two of which are based on The Charioteer by Mary Renault and are amongst my favourites in that fandom - one's Laurie/Ralph and the other's Laurie/Andrew. They are absolutely worth reading even if you're not familiar with the book.

Day 4

Comments

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Sweetness and Gall!
And Dark's shields are fantastic!

[scarlet1061.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of these and I might read them.
So, thanks :)

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

The Last Homely House was one of the earliest fanfics I ever read! Loved that storyline.

I just finished listening to Sweetness and Gall and 2ndhand Happiness! I have those on my kindle and they'll always be a favorite. So well done.

And Dark's shields are awesome.

[ysilme]

Those shields really are awesome! The fanfic sounds fascinating, I've added it to my reading pile. Who could resist Elrond, particularly if it's a long, good read? *g* I'm going to check out the other stories as well. Thankfully they are still online; I've already met quite a couple of older things in the 'verse which have gone offline.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Secondhand Happiness never spoke to me quite as loudly as Sweetness and Gall, but it was still a great sequel and resolved a lot of things. But Sweetness and Gall was AWESOME.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Old school fiction - oldies but goodies, I think's the term *g*. Seriously, it really was a different fandom back then. I miss the excitement and the enthusiasm of it all sometimes.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I need to put more of these old ones onto my Kindle, much easier than remembering to go back and read them now and then. I have a whole folder of old fics I should do that with.... And how cool you've just finished with Maggie's fics.

There are images from the Last Homely House that I've never forgotten - Elrond drunk, talking to the dragon, Erestor stepping over Fin and the baby to get to the brandy after that dinner... that's its own compliment, I guess, because I haven't reread it in ages.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

It's sad that so much is no longer online, either taken down or lost when some really nice archives died. The Elrond fanfic is thoroughly AU and fits into a fairly unique universe, but it is such a cool (rather tangled) story!

Dark's shields are definitely wonderful, such a great idea.

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

I have lots and lots on fanfics on my kindle - I set up a folder for them. I found the text format works best for listening to them with text to speech. I also have docs with several favorites that I listen to all the time in one document so they play one after the other. Kindle is wonderful for that. That's also what I love about Ao3 because you can download a mobi format for the kindle.

[ysilme]

either taken down or lost when some really nice archives died
*nods* I witnessed that in the Potterverse, too. I have one or two stories from back then given to me by mail after they were taken offline and the authors vanished, as I have been a latecomer there as well, ;o) and I have co-moderated a character-centric archive for a while which ended when the owener's web hosting subscription ended and she didn't want to renew it - nor did anybody else want. I still have all the stories as I backed them up with everybody's agreement - or at last that of those still around.
Sometimes, stories can be found through the wayback machine, but one would need to know the original address, I think, or at least the name and author. I'm not familiar with using it, though.

[starbuckssue.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the LotR recs, watching the DVDs over Christmas has piqued my interest in fanfic!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

It's my pleasure :) If you'd like a few archives to wander through, there are some links in my Day 2 post (http://keiliss.livejournal.com/294555.html).

[starbuckssue.livejournal.com]

Many thanks, I've headed over there. I am still working my way through the Day Two and Day Three posts, there's just such a wealth of new sites and authors/artists found from this challenge!