face the strange

Challenge #13 - In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

The first one is my playlistexchange gift I just got today because I was going to rec it in a new post anyway when I found out what the newest Snowflake challenge was. :D

And then two more! I'm definitely not choosing my favorites out of all my gifts, it would be impossible - all of them are not only amazing in their own right but also perfectly tailored to my personal likes and dislikes. So I didn't even attempt to do that, and my criteria for choosing the other two recs were: (a) it's the first fic that popped into my head, (b) it's not something I've recced anywhere recently (and preferably ever, though I'm not 100% sure about that), (c) all three recs are in different fandoms. And this is what I got, but it doesn't mean I love my other gifts any less. ♡♡♡

i can't help this awful energy (568 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, Quentin Coldwater
Additional Tags: 23rd Timeline (The Magicians), Shadeless Quentin Coldwater, Minor Violence, Song: Control (Halsey)
Summary: Quentin Coldwater, freed from his shade, feels more powerful than he has in years.

the creation of time and will (3309 words) by OldSportSquared
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Skins (UK)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Effy Stonem, Katie Fitch, Tony Stonem, James Cook (Skins UK), Pandora Moon
Additional Tags: dream state, Dreams vs. Reality, Time Travel, Mental Instability, not sure what's real, Post-Skins Fire
Summary: “Here,” Cook says, as she passes. “You need to go further back.” He’s leaning against a tree, clipping his fingernails, wearing the only jacket she ever remembers him wearing, warm and easy.

come my darling homeward bound (1817 words) by nonexistentwench
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arya Stark & Weasel of the Riverlands
Characters: Arya Stark, Weasel of the Riverlands (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Additional Tags: Melancholy, Wilderness Survival, Visions, Old Gods-induced time travel shenanigans
Summary: Separated from the rest of their group, Arya and Weasel spend a night on the Island of Faces and receive a visit from the future.

Challenge #9 - In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

In addition to my mental health finally significantly improving in the summer (and still continuing to improve), I'm really proud of my progress as an artist. So I'm going to share 5 more of my favorite pieces of fanart I created in 2022 (I already shared one in the scavenger hunt post). :D

( under the cut (image heavy) )

The last entry for the blorbo meme. (Unless someone gives me another fandom to write about, that would be super awesome ofc! :D)

The 100 (asked by jacquelee)

❤️ blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)
BECCA, literally just Becca, the blorbest of blorbos, that's it. ♡♡♡ (Every song by Purity Ring is about Becca as far as I'm concerned BTW. :D)

❤️ scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)
Madi, obviously. :D

❤️ scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)
I was going to say 'I don't know who's underappreciated' and then I remembered Luna, lol, so yep, Luna. I love Diyoza too, and Hope, and Jordan, but I actually don't know what fandom thinks about them.

❤️ glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
Becca is THE glup shitto of all glup shittos honestly - out of 7 seasons she got 3 episodes (four seasons apart) and a handful of brief scenes and mentions here and there each of them SQUEE'd at by me, and yet without her I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even care for this show. Like, it has other characters I love, but I honestly wasn't all that interested or fannish at all until Becca showed up in season 3, and then I was instantly like "BEST SHOW OMG!" The scene in my icon? *FLAILS* ♡♡♡ And then I patiently waited for her to come back even though it was never a given that she ever would because her story was sort of finished, and then season 6 and especially season 7 were literally allllll about her story in a way (though she still only got one actual episode) which automatically makes them my favorite thinggggggg, hands down. ♡♡♡

❤️ poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)
A.L.I.E., obviously, as a sort of an extension of my Becca love. Also, fuck, I don't like him as a person, but I love how badly his brain works and I think his 1000-year-long hate-follow obsession with Becca is certainly something - Bill Cadogan. Also I need to put Octavia somewhere, my second fav after Becca I think, so here she goes too. :D

➽ This icon is what I needed, like, I made it earlier today because I needed it so much. :D

➽ Let me finish the blorbo meme that I abandoned last spring right before the end! I have exactly 2 fandoms left to do, so I'll do one today and one after the next Snowflake post, but if you want to give me more fandoms you can always do so. :D I have both more fandoms and more friends now, and my friends have more fandoms too, so there are more possibilities! ♡ (Or maybe you just missed my posts before, that's okay too. :D)

Shadowhunters (asked by tamsin)

I've only watched one season of Shadowhunters and it was a while ago, so my answers might be funny to read for someone who's a hardcore fan? :D Also feel free to convince me to watch more! ♡

❤️ blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)
I don't quite have a blorbo, but my favorite character would be either Izzy or Clary.

❤️ scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)
I think there might not be anyone who fits this description in the part of the show that I watched. *looks around*

❤️ scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)
I don't know who's underappreciated, but I know who's frakking awesome and didn't get enough screentime - the alternate version of Izzy from the other universe! The alternate version of everyone, tbh, like, Magnus too. But mostly Izzy. I adored her SO MUCH after the few minutes she was on screen. ♡

❤️ glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
I mean, that could be the alternate Izzy too, but I have a better/weirder/more accurate answer here - THE SEELIE QUEEN. Who is not in season 1. So I have never actually seen her on screen. Which only makes sense when I tell you that I watched the show for Lola Flanery (Madi on The 100), and only then I found out she wasn't going to show up anytime soon. So yeah, I wouldn't shut up about it for a week if she had actually shown up, lmao. :D

❤️ poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)
I feel like Magnus fits here, in the way that he can be shady af but also he's kind of Eliot Waugh.