Snowflake Challenge #13

In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

I was tempted to rec Last of Our Kind by Shiome, because I'm so fond of that one that I'm podficcing it. But otoh, I'm podficcing it, so idk whether that might count as self promotion. I'm going to play it safe and choose some other ones.

There are a number of really good Meng Yao redemption fics which I could recommend, but I think you would have to know the canon to really enjoy them, so I'm going to rec

1. Meng Yao vs. the Board of the HOA, by Ariaste which is a delightful modern AU in which Lan Xichen is married to Meng Yao, Lan Wangji is married to Wei Wuxian, Wei Wuxian and Meng Yao are totally not friends, and Meng Yao has a grudge against the local housing association which won't allow Lan Xichen to fulfil his house-husbandly dreams of growing his own organic tomatoes in the garden.

2. We Desperately Tried to Convince the Rest, by SunderedAndUndone in the spirit of 'the more obscure the better' this is a fanfic for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. In which, a long time ago a race of beings decided to split off their good parts from their evil parts, so that they could be entirely good. But what they created was a race of Skeksis, who were full of all the flaws and the energy and drive, and Mystics who were extremely good but also kind of torpid and inclined not to interfere with anything at all. So the Skeksis conquered the world and started to drain its life energy via the dark crystal. In this story, one of the Skeksis, Skek-Gra and his opposite half among the Mystics, Ur-Goh decide to visit the Mystics and try to persuade them to re-unite with their other halves in order to save the world. Skek-Gra is hilarious, and Ur-Goh is extremely lovable, and the philosophical conundrums of having to reconcile the good and evil inside a single being are really interesting and beautifully handled.

3. Function by FigOwl a lovely story in which SecUnit 003 (aka Three) from the Murderbot diaries goes through its own journey toward selfhood, overcoming a great deal of trauma on the way, with the help of music and a found family of highly augmented transhuman hackers.

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Just watched the last of Amazon's Rings of Power. Good God, they really did just make the whole thing up, didn't they?

What kind of hellworld do we live in that a big corporation can spend millions just to buy rights to a deeply beloved book so it can comprehensively misrepresent it in the most expensive way possible? I can't even call it fanfiction because whoever wrote this can't have actually been a fan.

Why couldn't they have written a story that they did have the rights to? And then they could have made something that could have lived with the actual canon.

GDI Amazon.