
Day 3
In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.
This is a shorter list than I'd like. I've been caught up in a podfic/Yuletide-writing haze lately, and my mind has gone blank. So these are old favourites, recent finds and other things in between.
PODFIC
It's a truism that podficcers don't get feedback. It's partly the nature of the medium - not many people have the comment page open when they're listening - and partly that not as many people listen as they do read. So if you like anything here, or if you listened to something lately, please go and give the podficcer some love. It's hard work and we do it first and foremost because we love it, but I promise you every kudos is treasured and cherished.
I have a basic rule, that if Blackglass records it, and I am vaguely aware of the fandom, I will listen to it. Having said that, there is one of hers that I find myself about to quote regularly, in her exact intonation, before remembering that no one else will get the reference.
Culture, and other balls of twine is how post-Avengers canon *should* have gone. But mostly, the rendition of "that's what's going in the diary for June?" is firmly stuck in my head, and I have now earwormed myself. I also commend to you Fonder (Star Wars) and Robot Trip (MCU)
The whole of Scifigirl47's Toaster-verse, but especially Four (or five) reasons for kidnapping Tony Stark as read by Hananobira. It's not my sort of fic - I am strictly a Gen girl, and prefer my emotions unstated - but I find the reading comforting, and I turned to it in a bout of severe anxiety lately. There's something about Hananobira's voice that I find deeply reassuring.
The best podfic in the history of ever remains Texts from Cephalapods. The original fic was on Photobucket, and hasn't yet been replaced. The original podfic went down when the Audiofic archive had a mishap. But there is a GLORIOUS live recording from Podfication 2016 that I urge you to listen to now. No, right now. Shoo. I'll wait*. From that same year, Drunk Historians and From the Desk of N Fury are also glorious.
*I pulled it out and created it as a single track from the audio file so that I could have it on repeat for a while. I still laughed every time. It's possible I need to get out more...
FIC
I suspect these are mostly 'big hits' but they're maybe a chance to revisit something you'd forgotten.
Recently, Go Now, You Are Forgiven hit me just about as hard as is possible. It's Critical Role, but to a certain extent, you can read it without knowing much about the fandom. It handles religion in one of the most sensitive ways I've ever come across, feeling respectful, critical, sharp and tender, all at once. There's tons and tons of good CR fic, of which I particularly love Impossibletruth's two AUs, We're on the road to nowhere (let's find out where it goes) (Star Wars fusion) and it starts with an earthquake (post-apocalyptic).
To get a little old on you, The Best Laid Plans is a wonderful Merlin Gen story. It's long and plotty and clever and the character voices are So. Good. Similarly Let Us Dare is a wonderful AU and The Five Kingdoms is fabulous. Both take things in unexpected but utterly believable directions, which is definitely something I look for a in a fic.
I recently stumbled across the Rivers of London stories of Philomytha and tore through them in a few days. the walls of where is particularly haunting, but they're all great to read. In the same fandom, Mind the Gap by maple_clef is a great case-fic.
For laugh out loud funny, a recent favourite was Occupational Safety (podfic link - story link in post), which picks up an obvious question from Star Wars: why aren't there more handrails?
For such a good fic, Ask no questions, hear no lines has criminally few hits. It's a wonderful Maria Hill character study that is just perfect in tone and execution. If you know the MCU and read nothing else on this list, go give this one some love.