I love the winter...

snowflake_challenge 2014 - Day 11

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing or trope. Try creating a different kind of fanwork. Or check out some types of fanworks that are new to you.

I wrote things, I made a "photo-comic", icons and did recs. I have read and looked at fanworks from other fandoms recently. So at first I thought that I might have to skip this day again.

But then I read akamine_chan's wishlist and thought about creating a cover for one of her podcasts. I looked on her list and got lost in the huge amount of fic and artwork. I clicked at random entries and somehow landed at her Pillow series. A lovely story, including tentacles!

I had read some tentacle-fic recently, because ofseyren mentioning her rec list in one of her recent snowflake-entries.

So I felt inspired to do art. Or, rather, a banner of some sorts. Is this transformative work already? Definitely "inspired by-". <3
Therefore I'll dedicate it to akamine_chan and seyren.

( tentacles O.O )

snowflake_challenge 2014 - Day 9

In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) but you ended up loving.

1) Need You Like Air
artwork by akamine_chan
Created for a prompt about breathplay-kink-discovery. Bandom.

I haven't been looking at artwork a lot. For me it's mostly about reading stories (says the one who's made artwork for the same gift-exchange), but because it was for a challenge I took part in myself, I wanted to take a look at everything that had been created.

The combination of powerful and sweaty performance-pictures with words that are almost like song-lyrics makes a gripping analogy to breathplay: physical, potentially dangerous and hot.

And - it made me discover A Softer World which I hadn't known before.


2) You want me to leave it there
fic by Philipa_Moss, "Queer As Folk (UK)"

It's not that I thought I would not like a story about Vince and Stuart's future, but I never thought I'd need one. Although recently, I must admit, I wondered about what Vince would make of the new Doctor Who.

But those glimpses in a future life with the same kind of humour and emotion that I remember from the original series - and yes, a mention of the new DW - are really enjoyable.
Same men, same problems - or not?



I can't really think of a third thing to rec. I'm probably not open enough to try and read outside my known comfort-zone. That's probably because there are so many great fanworks there, I can't even catch up with all my bookmarks as it is.

snowflake_challenge 2014 - Day 7

In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

Of course I didn't get an idea for the whole evening. Only when I decided to go to bed I "just wanted to try something".
And now I made icons from photographs I took in London last year:

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snowflake_challenge 2014 - Day 5

In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.

I discovered a lot of amazing creators during the last years, so I hope there'll be lots of chances of talking about them. But for now I chose sunsetmog.

I started reading fic by reading short stories and ficlets. "The Holiday" by sunsetmog was one of the first long stories I read, which was a couple of years ago during my christmas-holidays. It's a funny romantic friends-to fake husbands-to lovers story. I enjoyed it so much that I read everything else, sunsetmog had written in bandom. But I must have missed her Rugby Verse which I discovered only last december and it became another feelgood-read for my holidays. The kid-fic-verse "Annabel" is a sweet but not too sweet story which at the same time made me relieved that I don't have children, but want one (and a Spencer!) at once.

The long stories never get boring or feel repetetve. There's lots of pining and banter and hot sex.

As my examples show, even if I like all the other pairings, Spencer and Brendon are my favourites in sunsetmog's stories. Probably only hotter when in a threesome, which is my absolute favourite kind of story: PWI (Pr0n with Issues). Unfortunately she (I'm assuming she's female - correct me if I'm wrong) hasn't posted a Bandom-fic for a while now, but when (*coughstherejustwascoughs*) she will post a +100K fic in a different fandom, I might consider reading it. Because sunsetmog.

First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

This is the second time I'm taking part in the snowflake_challenge. I'm still not participating a lot anywhere, but I've been reading and enjoying other fanworks during the last year. And through the 2013-challenge I've discovered many new authors and artists I like.

Now for this year's challenge:

snowflake_challenge 2014 - Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

( Here's my Day 1 )