Snowflake Challenge #1

Decided to jump in late and do this years Snowflake challenge, since I haven't done one before!

Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself!

I'm libraralien! Most of my engagement with fandom is as a reader, though I do write as well, and I really enjoy exchanges and attending cons. I still consider myself a fandom latercomer, since I only really got in around 2013, and am a tumblr/AO3 native. As an AO3 native, so all my fic can be found over there. I also volunteer for the OTW, and try to "give back" to fandom that way.

I dabble in a lot of fandoms and occasionally fall deeply and passionately into one in particular for a while. I rarely really leave any fandom once I am in, even as my enthusiasm might come and go.
I read a fair amount of published books as well as fic, so I have lots of tiny book canons. Some larger fandoms (if I listed every small fandom, this list would be very long) I have been in include: Hannibal, Black Sails, Star Trek DS9, Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice and Fire, Aubrey-Maturin Novels, Metal Gear, and Leverage. Lately I have been getting into The Terror, Oasis RPF, due South, and British Comedy RPF. I have a strong weakness for historical, and in particular Age of Sail, canons.

Yuletide 2019 Wrap-Up

I received four fics this Yuletide (and loved every single one)!

i would breathe water (~2.4k) by brampersandon
Fandom: The Lighthouse (2019)
Relationship: Thomas Wake/Ephraim Winslow
Rating: Explicit
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Blow Jobs, Dubious Consent, Gay Wickie Hell, Forced Masturbation, Shame
Summary: "Yer hands are filthy." He spits right there on the floor, watches it bubble. "Don't want that in my mouth."

When he does look up, he expects Thomas to launch into another tirade, lay one more curse upon him. Instead he only laughs, scratchy and wheezing. "That so? I got bad news about the rest of me, boy."

And The Melody Lingers On (~2.2k) by sharkie
Fandom: Political RPF - US 20th c.
Relationship: William F. Buckley Jr./Gore Vidal
Rating: Explicit
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, Hate Sex, Intercrural Sex, Unreliable Narrator
Summary: An excerpt from an unpublished Vidal essay.

light and wick (~700) by marginaliana
Fandom: The Lighthouse (2019)
Relationship: Thomas Wake/Ephraim Winslow
Rating: Explicit
Additional Tags: discussion of Dubious Consent
Summary: Watching and being watched.

Fancy (~900) by misura
Fandom: Stardust (2007)
Relationship: Captain Shakespeare/Shakespeare's First Mate
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Additional Tags: Crossdressing, Dressing Room Sex
Summary: Captain Shakespeare goes shopping.

And I wrote one fic!

A Bloody Husband (2.2k) for skazka
Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018)
Relationship: Harry D. S. Goodsir/Cornelius Hickey
Rating: Explicit
Additional Tags: Oral Sex, Torture, Circumcision
Summary: Hickey will make a believer of Goodsir yet.

Snowflake Challenge #2

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

Oh man, this is a fun one for me because my fannish history is extremely meandering. I kept only just barely not getting into transformative fandom for...many years, and also have strong lurker tendencies. Put behind a cut, because the description is also extremely meandering.

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