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Snowflake Challenge #7
In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.
Ooh this is so fun!
Recommendation Requests:
Fanon Requests
If you'd like to make something based on any of the following I'd be ecstatic! I'm open to any type of medium or general fanon thing (such as a headcanon, a song that reminds you of a ship/character, similar media recommendations, etc) for any of the following:
Thank you to anyone who shares! :D
Ooh this is so fun!
Recommendation Requests:
- Fanvid recs for any fandom. Feel free to recommend some of your own!
- Music recs! I'd love recs for songs that are important to you for whatever reason, any genre.
- Shows, films, or story-driven video games that focus on female characters. Bonus points if speculative fiction.
- Films that will give me an existential crisis or rewire my brain or make me come out the other side completely different lol
- Speculative fiction novellas or short story recs! I prefer if novellas are standalone since I don't have the attention span for anything longer that might exist in the book series it's part of. Femslash is a plus.
- Things to listen to while trying to be productive. I do best with instrumental music and white noise or other sounds.
- Your favorite prompt lists, prompt generators, prompt accounts, etc.
- A lesser-known website that brings you joy that you think other people should know about
Fanon Requests
If you'd like to make something based on any of the following I'd be ecstatic! I'm open to any type of medium or general fanon thing (such as a headcanon, a song that reminds you of a ship/character, similar media recommendations, etc) for any of the following:
- 1000xRESIST - Literally any character or ship or aspect of this game because it makes me insane. Favorite characters are Healer, Knower, and Mimi. I am particularly desperate for meta as well.
- Arcane - Cait/Ambessa
- Earth 2 (1994) - Any female characters or adult femslash combinations
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - Fem!Sol/Utopia, Fem!Sol/Anemone, Fem!Sol & Fluorescent
- The Orville - Kelly/Teleya, Teyela & Anaya
Thank you to anyone who shares! :D
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One of my favorite movies has a tendency to do that to people: I Saw The TV Glow. I love that movie so much.
I use Abao in Tokyo videos to be productive. They are rain/jazz study with me videos.
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I second "I Saw The TV Glow" as a rec!! Absolutely fantastic movie.
Wish Granted!
Wednesday has mostly strong female leads. The males wind up looking kind of superfluous, which is amusing.
Miraculous Ladybug has a female lead and a male lead, with tons of supporting characters and good attention to female relationships.
Nimona is ... female-presenting a majority of the time but not exclusively female. Fantasy with shapeshifting.
The Dragon Prince has a mix of female and male major characters, and some well-built female relationships.
>> Films that will give me an existential crisis or rewire my brain or make me come out the other side completely different lol <<
Lucy.
>> Your favorite prompt lists, prompt generators, prompt accounts, etc.<<
>> A lesser-known website that brings you joy that you think other people should know about <<
Joseph Lofthouse, because we need landrace gardening to have a chance of surviving climate change, and because it's so fun.
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I enjoyed Season 1 of Russian Doll last year. Time loops + Natasha Lyonne = fun.
I felt this, because I also love films like this. Last year, I watched Past Lives and it really got me thinking about friendships and connections and the people we meet throughout our life.
Aftersun gutted me and made me think about the lens through which we see events, though this film comes with trigger warnings, so I wouldn't watch it if you're in a bad headspace.
I will always recommend Her for anyone who wants to think about the meaning of love, the parameters of it etc.
Manchester by the Sea is the saddest movie I have ever watched, such a heartbreaking film about grief. Take very good care of your headspace with this one!
I read Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker last night and I'm still thinking about it. Honestly, I recommend Sarah Pinsker period. Her stuff is great!
Shameless self-promotion!
A Raven
The Truth
The Journey
Complete list
This song reminds me of my best friend who died of HIV related pneumonia in 1991: we both loved it.
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i second the rec for russian doll! it's super weird - especially s2 - but natasha lyonne is fantastic.
my favorite background noise site is mynoise.net, which is full of soundscapes. some of them are more musical than others but there are a lot of them.
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Standalone novellas seem to be increasingly rare as they turn into series, but here are some I've particularly enjoyed that either are or can be read as standalone, and one short series:
- Sarah Pinsker's And Then There Were (N-One) -- A really fun whodunit that also made me think thinky thoughts or the "road not taken" variety. The novella was published in Uncanny Magazine and can be read there, or it's also available as part of Pinsker's short fiction collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Not femslash per se, but the female protagonist is married to a woman.
- Kelly Robson's Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach -- interesting time-travel story with parallel narratives and unusual POV characters.
- Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Elder Race -- does a cool thing where you have two POV characters, one of whom sees the happenings through a sort of fantasy lens (demon, wizard, etc.) while the other is aware of the science-fictional nature of what's happening (advanced alien civilization, etc.)
- Nghi Vo's The Singing Hills Cycle novellas are a sequence set in the same universe and sharing the same framing approach: a wandering cleric who collects stories -- but each novella centers on a different story, and so they can be read as standalone. The first one, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, is particularly strong, IMO, and my second favorite is Into the Riverlands.
- Not standalone, but there are only two novellas currently out (third is coming out this year, I believe) and the are femslash: Malka Older's Mossa and Pleiti novellas, which are sort of Sherlock Holmes pastiche on Jupiter, if Holmes and Watson were both women and in a romantic relationship. Neat worldbuilding, especially with the Jovian frontier giving it a sort of gaslamp Victorian feel. The first book is The Mimicking of Known Successes and the second The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles/
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Starlighted Stage AMV by Synæsthesia Productions
The Kittens Ride Again (AWA Pro 2021) [Eizouken AMV]
[VivifxAMV] Ship Happens [Best Comedy Otakon 2014]
Books:
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Janina Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor is an alternate history / fantasy novel I really enjoyed! It's technically part of a wider universe, but I haven't listened to the podcast drama it ties into at all and got the whole of the story. The main character is a woman who marries another woman, but that happens fairly late into the book.
[Dis]Connected is a short story and poem collection, which each short story being inspired by a short poem that another author in the collection wrote. It's a mix bag, but I've enjoyed more of the stories/poem than not!
Lesser know websites:
crouton.net -- exactly what it says on the tin, I'm just fond of it's existence...
rotatingsandwiches -- another "what it says on the tin" website, the images may take a moment to load.
filesfound.net -- a website documenting a person's hobby of doing through old data storages for cool things.
centennialbulb.org -- website for the "Worlds Longest Burning Light Bulb!"
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Fanvid recs for any fandom. Feel free to recommend some of your own!
I actually do something in my journal called "Fanvid Friday" where I recommend a fanvid (almost) every Friday for various fandoms. None of them mine (I'm not that talented), but it's to shine a light on some of the other incredibly talented people in fandom spaces, and to get those vidders some recognition. You can check them out here.
Music recs! I'd love recs for songs that are important to you for whatever reason, any genre.
My current love at the moment is XG. They are a seven member all-Japanese global girl group that sings entirely in English, does most of their promotion in South Korea, and has recently done their first world tour (and will be appearing in this year's Coachella). I love discovering new songs and artists, and XG grabbed me by the throat and it hasn't yet let up once. Their entire artistic concept are aliens/wolf pack, and their sound is very of the 90s/early 00s rnb/hip-hop/rap/pop scene. I love them. I'm obsessed.
It's hard to choose a few to share, since everything they've put out have been absolute bangers, no skips for me. With that being said, here are some of their songs/music videos: "Shooting Star", "Left Right", "Woke Up", and "Howling".
Shows, films, or story-driven video games that focus on female characters. Bonus points if speculative fiction.
Shows: Orphan Black, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jessica Jones, Witchblade, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Carmilla (webseries). Ones that have an ensemble cast but are very good for female characters include: The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Dark Matter, Legend of the Seeker. Just to name a few.
Films: Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider (2018), Kamikaze Girls
Video games: Portal / Portal 2, Life Is Strange, Mirror's Edge, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Tomb Raider (all the games), The Last Of Us.
This is just on the top of my head. I have a lot of favorite female-centric or heavily women focused stories.