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elwinfortuna) wrote2023-01-26 12:21 pm
elwinfortuna) wrote2023-01-26 12:21 pm
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Snowflake Challenge #13
Challenge #13: In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.
I'm going to rec some of my favourite stories that can be read without knowing the canon.
Digging for Orchids by betts
Fandom: Heaven Official's Blessing/Tian Guan Ci Fu
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian
A modern AU of Heaven Official's Blessing. Xie Lian is a Cdrama actor who was injured in a stunt gone wrong and then cancelled/blacklisted when provoked into a fit of rage about it. Afterward, he moves to Los Angeles and exists in a depressed haze, until a sexy art student shows up to house-share with him. An art student who, apparently, has been telling everyone they're married.
This fic does a great job of capturing what the vibes between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian might be in a modern context. I enjoyed how the author incorporated details of the backstory as elements in dramas Xie Lian has acted in. Although the plot is totally different, of course, the characters feel very similar. The sexual and romantic tension also builds beautifully through the story, with the fake-married elements providing a great excuse for the characters to act out what they are really feeling. You can read this fic canon-blind without worrying too much about spoilers; I think there's only one relatively minor spoiler for the actual plot of TGCF.
At Aphelion by gunjourui
Fandom: Word of Honor RPF aka Junzhe
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Gong Jun/Zhang Zhehan
Junzhe in spaaaaaace! Zhang Zhehan, a human from Earth, falls into a wormhole and encounters Gong Jun, pilot of the Exa, and the rest of the Exa's crew and passengers.
This story is very easy to read as original fic. I love the worldbuilding, the space politics, the danger that the Ataraxians present as a superior fighting force, the wormhole thing in and of itself, and the characterisation.
Happy For Now by ScarlettStorm
Fandom: The Untamed
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (genderswapped)
Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are romance novelists, at a convention, sharing a bed. As you do.
Love the characterisation in particular. This story gets the vibes and their personalities so right. The story is full of humour and fun, as well as some good old-fashioned mutual pining.
I'm going to rec some of my favourite stories that can be read without knowing the canon.
Digging for Orchids by betts
Fandom: Heaven Official's Blessing/Tian Guan Ci Fu
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian
A modern AU of Heaven Official's Blessing. Xie Lian is a Cdrama actor who was injured in a stunt gone wrong and then cancelled/blacklisted when provoked into a fit of rage about it. Afterward, he moves to Los Angeles and exists in a depressed haze, until a sexy art student shows up to house-share with him. An art student who, apparently, has been telling everyone they're married.
This fic does a great job of capturing what the vibes between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian might be in a modern context. I enjoyed how the author incorporated details of the backstory as elements in dramas Xie Lian has acted in. Although the plot is totally different, of course, the characters feel very similar. The sexual and romantic tension also builds beautifully through the story, with the fake-married elements providing a great excuse for the characters to act out what they are really feeling. You can read this fic canon-blind without worrying too much about spoilers; I think there's only one relatively minor spoiler for the actual plot of TGCF.
At Aphelion by gunjourui
Fandom: Word of Honor RPF aka Junzhe
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Gong Jun/Zhang Zhehan
Junzhe in spaaaaaace! Zhang Zhehan, a human from Earth, falls into a wormhole and encounters Gong Jun, pilot of the Exa, and the rest of the Exa's crew and passengers.
This story is very easy to read as original fic. I love the worldbuilding, the space politics, the danger that the Ataraxians present as a superior fighting force, the wormhole thing in and of itself, and the characterisation.
Happy For Now by ScarlettStorm
Fandom: The Untamed
Rating: E
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (genderswapped)
Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are romance novelists, at a convention, sharing a bed. As you do.
Love the characterisation in particular. This story gets the vibes and their personalities so right. The story is full of humour and fun, as well as some good old-fashioned mutual pining.