zilentdreamer | Snowflake Challenge #6 - Make a Wishlist! (Reply)

In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you. Are you dying for podfic of your writing? Do you need icons for a character that doesn't get much fanart? Is there a story you want to read? Are you looking for new canons to get into? Would you like a collaborator for a project?

Maybe you want more people to talk about a certain fandom with, or you'd love to trade ficlets with somebody over email. Maybe you're new to a fandom and would like some recs to start reading, or communities to join. This is the time to ask!

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Ugh, I don't know why it's so hard to ask for things but I guess I'll try...

1. I guess the first thing I would ask for are comments. Any comments for the stories I've written are always treasured and hoarded to pull out when I'm back to questioning why I think I can write in the first place. And not just the polite acknowledgment that you read the story and enjoyed it (but holy shit are those appreciated.) I want a full length comment where someone went through my story and pointed out their favorite lines or what I did with this character and how perfect that description was. I've received a few of those and omg I'm not going to lie, those usually have me tearing up. My friends are supportive of my writing but none of them leap at the chance to read my works so its heart-warming to get some serious feedback.

2. Recs for sci-fi/fantasy books with awesome female main characters that don't have the paint by numbers romance crap going on. Let me explain. My biggest pet-peeve with a lot of the books floating around out there are they have fantastic worlds or engaging plots, but the focus is on her infatuation with the love interest? I don't mind romance, but the kind of thing where her first meeting is a fight with the hunk where she gets pinned against a wall and can feel "the strength of his body against hers".....*gag*. At that point she should be fighting for her life and trying to figure out where she needs to stab to get this bruiser off her, not noticing how chiseled his jaw is in the halflight of the torches. The slow build up in the background while the story focuses on the actual world ending situation is what I'm all about if the story is intent on there being a romance. If I want the other thing I will go read a romance novel. So yeah, hope that made sense.

3. Recs for long (no shorter than 60k) fics that deal with the "what if" scenario. I adore fics that look at canon and go....hmm well what would have happened if the character had gone left, didn't shoot, had a moment of conscience, didn't hesitate, or was late, etc. As an example, my all-time favorite is 'Embers" by Vathara. Admittedly it is a monster of a fic (over 700,000 holy crap!) but ugh it was amazing. It takes the moment from The Last Airbender when Zuko steals the ostrich horse in the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", and basically plays out how things could have gone if he HADN'T stolen the ostrich horse. The author goes completely AU with their interpretation of bending and consequences of angering the spirits which is not a lot of people's cup of tea but for me it was like stumbling across the perfect fic I'd always wanted without realizing that was what I was looking for. So fics that deal with CanonAU are totally my jam and I would love to read more. I'm not fandom specific, at this point I don't mind doing a little research to understand what happened in canon to understand the differences. If the writing is good I'm up for anything.

And yeah, that's all I can manage at this point. If I can think of something else I might come back and edit this list, but for now these are the things I think about the most.

Thank you for reading!