Snowflake challenge day 7

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In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

One of my fannish wishes is underway, but may or may not get finished.  Honestly, I think it'll happen.  But I'll list it anyway: the fic wherein Gene, Sam and Annie have their own personal marriage ceremony.

My second wish is really more of a "oh please, universe, just let this happen" sort of thing; I just want Life on Mars fandom to continue in a healthy fashion for a while.  I want the newcomers to continue to be excited and inspired, and I want the old-timers to continue to find love and meaning in the community.  I just... I just love it; it means a lot to me and I don't want it to end yet.

Wow, so I have to think of a third thing!  I wish I could do a art/fic collaboration from the ground up with someone.  I've done lots of illustrations after the fact, and even the Life on Mars Big Bang was in that vein, but to start from the beginning, maybe bouncing inspiration back and forth...

That would be sweet.

Snowflake challenge day 6 - unexpected love recs

Day 6

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) and that you ended up loving.



My introduction to slash began so many years ago, with a casual aquaintance who said she wrote Star Trek:TOS slash. That was in the days of photocopiers and typewriters, and I didn't come near the genre for quite some time until I fell in love with Farscape and googled on a whim and read a few fics. But still my interest was vague and disjointed. I got a little more intrigued when I encountered some lovely Firefly slash, most particularly Mal/Jayne, and then New Who entered my life and transformed me, and I readreadread. But it wasn't until Life on Mars that I was sufficiently moved to write.

So my recs, on this topic, are going to tend to be of the LoM persuasion.

1. Ease my worried mind by petra. When I first read this it wasn't that I expected not to like it, but that I had a kneejerk reaction to the concept that all people are divided into either doms or subs. That reaction stems, no doubt, from my tendency to reject preconceived notions of what a person should or shouldn't do, but part of it was just that I had not been exposed to much of that kind of thinking. While I understood "kinky", I didn't understand "kink". But now, oh now how I appreciate petra's fic and the things she's done and her subtle understanding of who these characters are (or the ways in which she's warped my understanding thereof...).

2. I never thought about furry kink or had a particular need to read it. But Life on Mars fandom has taught me that either I'm pretty open-minded about kinks, or I'm happy to read anything as long as it's in my fandom, or...? So here's Toys, in which Sam Tyler has a serious issue with his stuffed animals. And I think it's scorchingly hot.

3. I really should rec something that's not in my fandom. My first impulse is to rec another freakish and weird LoM kinkfest, because honestly, I can think of multiple options. But for the sake of diversity I will rec... Even dirty has layers, a piece of Top Gear slash that's quite monstrously hot. When I realized there was such a thing as Top Gear slash I was absolutely charmed.