Snowflake Challenge #3

[majorr]

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

Fic Recs: Supernatural Gen! I feel myself headed for a rewatch of season one, and I know I'm going to be in the mood to read once I get into that space. Monster fic, angst fic, humor, the Winchesters getting into any kind of canon-typical trouble. I love both long and short fic, case fic, action/adventure, horror. Anything that vibes with the earlier seasons or takes place later in the series is both fun.

Book Recs: Thriller novels written by women. I have a few on my TBR, but I want more! Author recs in general if they've written a bunch worth checking out are also welcome.

Icons: I am back in a deep hole of Vampire Diaries feels. I am always on the hunt for more TVD icons. I have a lot in my stash, lol. Some characters I have less of: Matt (I've found so few!), Tyler, Jeremy; Combos: Jeremy/Tyler, Stefan/Caroline, Damon/Elena, Bonnie & Caroline & Elena (I love this trio, plus any of the girls & Matt), Damon & Liz. Also, I always love icons with quotes!

Pictures: I like chubby animals and can always use a laugh! Hippos, marmots, seals, anything really. It's a fast way to a huge smile. :D

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

i have... a lot of spn links and all of them are old. some of these are on lj, some are on ao3, i think only one is on dw. in no particular order and mostly pretty short:

stick shifts and safety belts by silverkit
One of the most important things is Dean’s world goes through a startling transformation.
and the impala tells jo she remembers that jo had very clean shoes.

hell (and binky) follows with him by pdragon76
If you’re gonna balls it up, go large.
a spn/discworld crossover. funny and weird.

silence and the taste of burnt sienna by taillypo
They're not lost. They know where they are.
sam and dean and a creepy-ass covered bridge. s1, set between provenance and dead man's blood.

frost by zionsstarfish
for the spn_north challenge: Nunavut
sam and dean go to canada to investigate some missing kids. set i think sometime in s2 - there are references to in my time of dying. it's ultimately about siblings so it's sad and angsty and lightly wincesty at the end. (apologies if that's not your thing.)

on a steel horse by apocalypsos
This story doesn't end the way you think it does.
recced elsewhere because it's seriously one of the best post-devil's trap fics i ever read.

but i never could sharpen no blade, quite the way he say by halfhardtorock
Sam listened too. “Do you think she’ll make it-”
Dean rolled his eyes. “This car will make the apocalypse.”
dean drives sam to stanford. a little funny, a little angsty.

celestial navigation by soraismus
You already know how this will end.
post-s1 - dean's dead, dad's dead, it's just sam and dad's journal, kind of looking for dean. it's so sad but i really liked it.

qanat by ignipes
Skin and flesh and bone and memories -- this is what a man is made of.
post-skin mixed with some pre-series vignettes. dean needs to know how sam knew the skinwalker wasn't him.

memento mori by halfshellvenus
John makes a long overdue pilgrimage to The Wall.
(the vietnam memorial in dc.) i don't know how you feel about john, but if you're down for some pre-series contemplation and closure, this is a really good fic.

thump by zionsstarfish
Sam, Dean, snow. Cracky goodness.
it's a haunted snowman and to be honest i thought it was more disturbing than cracky. feel free to form your own opinion. :D

the edge of the known world by ignipes
Dying is easy. The hard part is coming back to life.
this might be an unfair rec since it's a sequel (cartography in empty spaces is the first one). futurefic. dean has been missing for two years and when sam gets him back he remembers nothing. this is dean trying to deal with it. it's really sad and a little hopeful and i just really like it so i had to include it in the list.

the crying of lot 67 by dark_roast
futurefic. it's an entry for the impala from an auction catalogue in 2152 and it manages to pack in a lot of (imagined) history and folklore about the winchesters and their car.

dwellers in silence by dwarfankylosaur
post-s3, more or less. there's no summary so i'll just say it's about what happens when sam saves dean from his deal with the crossroads demon and weird shit happens. angsty weird more than cracky weird. ultimately really disturbing and really good.

cursed by curiosity by halfshellvenus
Dean is too impulsive for anyone's own good.
dean touches something he shouldn't and bad things happen to him. apparently set during s2. cracky and fun.

a bugle calls the cavalry by deirdre-c
Agent Henriksen finds himself some unexpected allies.
post-jus in bello and that's all i'm going to say.

it's not the years, it's the mileage by deirdre-c
Sam runs into a hunter on campus.
and you might be able to guess who. :D pre-series. i love this fic.

...i'm so sorry. this sent me down a nostalgia spiral and i couldn't stop.

[majorr]

So many fics! Shipfic for them is not my thing, but I’m saving everything else, including the John fic. I’m definitely down to read fic for him. I love how older canons lead back to LJ. It’s making me nostalgic for LJ comms! I think I’m most looking forward to checking out the haunted snowman one, both because haunted snowman and because I’m curious where I’ll fall on the disturbing or cracky line. I’m excited to get into these. Thank you for such a long list!

[tsuki_no_bara]

enjoy! i'd totally forgotten that frost was very lightly 'cesty at the end because i read so much gen and so little wincest but i included it because it's just really good. but if it's not your thing, no worries! no harm no foul, as they say. (and i could've totally whiffed it with memento mori - i mean, you could've been profoundly anti-john.) god knows there's enough other fics here. :D

and seriously, going through my recs was such a nostalgia trip. lj comms really were something, weren't they. back when they were big and there were a million of them.