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A pal loved the Amazon Prime (in US) series "Night Sky", an SF show featuring Sissy Spacek and JK Simmons. It ended without resolution, since Amazon canceled it after 8 eps. My pal would love to read the fixit fic.

I tried my fandom due diligence with no joy:

  • zip zero zilch on AO3 or FF.net
  • a handful of Tumblr posts
  • the Reddit sub was folks bemoaning cancelation while mocking the idea of fic
  • Fandom.com site with empty pages
  • an unrelated Anime Discord server.
  • here on DW "night sky" interests yielded amateur astronomers, but nothing on [community profile] dwfanfic

Do you know of Night Sky fan works?

Or more/better places to search?

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I'm working on putting together some topic-based reclists, and I need some help with my ghost-themed one. I'm looking for fic and fanworks featuring or including ghosts in some capacity. What are people's favourite fanworks with ghosts?

I'm using rec here quite broadly, please feel free to share your own fanworks that have ghosts or even just fanworks you know of that include ghosts. I'm trying to get a reall wide sample!
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[personal profile] melannen
Does anyone have recommendations for fanfic for a hot summer day? You know, heat wave, no ACs, everything's sticky and gross, it's too hot to do anything except sit on the porch with a lemonade, let me check you for ticks, nobody can wear shirts in this, skinnydipping in the crick just to cool down, we've been having waking fever dreams for days, it's too humid to want to touch another human being except maybe you do, fic?
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Buffyverse Top 5 session Chosen Not to Fade Away


It's time to pick out your costume, start carving those pumpkins, and decide on goodies to share because it's almost time for the 2021 session of Buffyverse Top 5!

That means recs for all fanworks in the Whedon fandoms. Our kickoff is on October 22, 2019 at midnight UTC (click here for your time zone). The session will run across Halloween in all timezones and close on November 2 midnight UTC.

For anyone who has questions about how things will go, please comment here or you can check out information on what to post during a Buffyverse Top 5 session.
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
[personal profile] melannen
So, for some of us, this is looking like a good time to curl up in a blanket and read fic for a couple of weeks!

Who wants to share recs for fanfic or pairings or canons that are good for while anxious and stuck in the house?

I am enjoying rereading all the Garak/Bashir fic right now - if you don't know the pairing, it's from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, about a bright-eyed Starfleet doctor with a dark secret, and a cynical Cardassian exile with a dark past and a heart of gold, and their complicated relationship (which was queercoded on purpose in the show.) A lot of the fanfic is set post-canon, with both of them on Cardassia helping with recovery after devastation from a terrible war, and it's all very soft and hopeful but set in troubled times.

I've also had a very slow project of going through my entire AO3 history (I'm currently in the summer of 2012, the first Avengers movie just came out) and pulling out the fics that I never want to lose track of ever, and bookmarking them as permanent collection. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to get farther in that project in the next couple of weeks! Everything in that collection is works I'm happy to go back to when I need a comfort read.

And if you have any old favorite fics you've been trying to track down but can't, let's use this post to try to track them down! I have two pre-AO3 fics I've been wanting to add to that collection but can't remember enough to find:

--There was a Pirates of the Caribbean fic, probably on LJ, the summer after the first movie came out. It was set in modern day, though I think it was a reincarnation AU; there were capers at a marina, all the old gang got back together, and Jack Sparrow was an IRS agent. Does this ring any bells? There might have been two similar stories that I'm combining in memory.

--There was a very long post-canon Spike/Buffy fic where Spike had disappeared and Buffy found him living quietly in some backwater town, working as a professor at the local college and leading poetry workshops for demons in the evening. Buffy started going to the workshops for lack of a better idea, and at one point wrote a villanelle (I think?) with the refrain "I shape death with my hands".
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Follow Friday: What Fics Are You Following?

Including five fics I'm currently following where getting the update notification totally makes my day.

N.B. Not familiar with #followfriday? It's an old DW meme:
Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read.
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I recently listened to HaHeePrime exellent podfics of Astolat's Transformer fics, and had a blast listening to them.
In order of listening: Champion, Excerpts from The Sacrifice of Violence, and I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You (which kept me for more than 6 hours over the week-end! <3)
The writting was obviously great, and the reading was very pleasant to listen to.

I'm not usually a podfic person, but now I want more good podfics to listen to but I dont know where to go to find them!
I'm very multifandom, so it's less about the fandom that it is about how good the fics and the reading of them are. I'm ready to try long fics, if they come highly recommended, But I'd rather have recs for fics under 2 hours.

Do you have favorite podfics to rec? Communities? Readers who turn any fic they read to gold? Let me know!
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
[personal profile] melannen
You all did such a great job the last time I asked for fic recs, so here's something completely different:

Can you rec me some really *well-written* explicit sex scenes in fanfic?

Not necessarily the sexiest or your favorite, but scenes you'd suggest as good examples to learn from, for someone trying to figure out how to write better sex scenes.

I've realized I have manylots WIPs that are stalled out because they need a long, detailed, explicit sex scene at that point, and I have no confidence in my ability to even tell if I'm writing it well or not. And that's partly because when I'm reading fic, I either find the sex scenes boring and skim them, or find them really good and then I'm not paying attention to the writing. (And I don't necessarily want to use my own favorites for this, because I don't want to ruin them for re-reading). So I want to put together a portfolio of scenes that are good examples that I can read closely and figure out what makes them work and how they go together.

If this works well maybe we can make a collection other people can learn from, too.

I don't really care about fandom, pairing, content, or anything other than whether you personally think it's well done, but:

1. Please do include a link.
2. If it's just one scene in a much longer work, either link to the specific chapter, or include a unique phrase I can ctrl+F on to find the specific scene.
3. If it needs one of the AO3 warnings (underage, extreme violence, character death, noncon/rape) please include the warning.
4. Bare links are fine, but it would be nice to include a short account of what the scene involves (random examples pulled from my wips list: "sweet, fun genderqueer orgy", "age-gap f/f first time with awkwardness and magic sex toys", "angsty f/m mutual dubcon feat. healing cock", "m/m one-night stand with some well-negotiated but kinda dark roleplay")
5. If you want to talk a little about what you think a scene does particularly well and why you chose it, that would be cool too!
6. Fanfic only. Original fiction genres tend to have their own tropes and styles for this, and I'm looking specifically for how fanfic does it.

ETA CLARIFICATION:
1. Yes, you can self-rec! Go for it!
2. Anything I say in comments here or elsewhere about what makes sex scenes work for me is not meant to be a a suggestion for what to rec - the only thing I want in the scenes you rec is that YOU think they are very well-written, whatever that means to you. We probably disagree! That's great - that's what I'm trying to learn things from.
3. I may be late replying to comments because, uh, I probably can't do these ones at work.
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
[personal profile] melannen
Okay, if you were loading your phone up with offline copies of longfic (20,000-300,000 words) from A03 to keep as your stash of emergency re-reads, what would you pick? Any fandom, pairing, age, no shame or standards except 'it's a good thing to have on hand when you really need a longfic'.

I am trying to come up with a list, but it's all coming stuff I've re-read too often lately, so I need some new blood or old blood I've forgotten.

(I have Murderbot, Barrayar, T. Kingfisher and Young Wizards as my emergency profic longreads on there, but I want some fanfic to pad it out.)

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