kerravonsen | Fandom Snowflake Challenge

Why not, hmmm?

Day one, three self-recs
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Remember that by fanwork, we are talking about: all forms of creativity. From meta to fic writing to picspamming to hosting a comment-fic-meme to running a challenge, to vidding and podficcing and reccing and pretty much anything you can think of. Crafts, knitted items, repurposed rubber duckies, finger puppets. Pimping posts. Guides to timelines, tattoos, quotes, nit-picky canon guides, episode recaps, synopses, beta work. If you think it's creative, then it definitely fits under the heading "fanwork."

Therefore, I'm going to embrace the broadness of this definition.

1) Net-Fic reviews. This is my fanfic-on-the-net reviews site (or sub-site, since it's part of my huge sprawling personal website). I've been doing this since 1999, which is when I discovered Sentinel fandom and wanted to rec all the lovely fic I found there (and warn against the crappy fic I also found). Yes, I also have anti-recs there as well as recs, because I feel it's just as much of a service to fanfic readers to help them not waste their time on crap, particularly if the crap in question is highly recommended by other fans. This has given me a lot of flack over the years, though much more so in the early days than recently. I've been called "malicious" and "jealous" by fans who couldn't take criticism. But even so, there are HEAPS more recs than anti-recs on the site. It's an ongoing labour of love, so I figure I should list it here.

2) The Finish-a-thon organized at

multific. This is a ficathon I organize and have done so since 2006. It was born out of the frustration that I found myself a lot more productive in fic-writing when I wrote for ficathons (challenges, exchanges etc) than when I didn't have such promptings, but that this also meant that my own personal fiction ideas got neglected because I was writing for ficathons instead. So I decided to organize a ficathon for writing one's OWN plot-bunnies. It has the usual elements of a ficathon, with deadlines and writing for other people. How can one write for other people when one is writing one's own ideas? By putting up a selection of plot bunnies (and partially written stories) and getting other people to vote on which one that you are supposed to write. It isn't a huge ficathon, but the people participating in it have liked it. More than one story of my own has been a result of this ficathon:
Necessity (Doctor Who AU)
By Any Other Name (Doctor Who AU, taken down for revision)
How The Winds are Laughing (Doctor Who AU) (gee, there's a pattern!)
Embodyment of Hope (Sandman/Narnia crossover)

3) The Cactus and the Flowers
This isn't a fan story, but it was a story written for a fan,