Snowflake Challenge Day 4

[kingstoken]

Challenge #4

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Wishlist:
*Some help with fandomtrees, the reveals have been delayed til the 11th because not every tree has 2 gifts, this is the needy trees post that also lists the fandoms requested. The minmum is just 100 words.
*This my fandomtree if you want to add something
*Book recs that could fulfill a square on my Book Bingo Card. I am pretty open to anything, my only do not wants are: no WW11, no tragic endings, and no stories where someone is dying of a terminal illness (I just can't take it)
*GOT Final Season Memes and Info: I am helping to write a Fanlore article about the Fan Response to the Game of Thrones Finale, so many memes and responses were created at the time, but are now floating around the ether, so if anyone has bookmarked memes or fan meta about the final season and could provide me with links I would appreciate it.
*Kudos and comments on my fics or art on AO3 would be appreciated

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Book rec: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain. My favourite book of 2021.

[kingstoken]

Thank you, I will check it out.

[octahedrite]

I also wish fandomtrees receives more gifts! I posted a few for the fandoms I could write.

Book recs:

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - Sci-fi or Fantasy, the setting is kind of ambiguous so it could fill Non-Western Setting, Title is at least five words long.
• Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda - POC Author, Non-Western Setting, Translated Book, Horror or Paranormal
• The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag - YA or Children's, Title is at least five words long, Graphic Novel, might also fill Place in the Title
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang - Sci-fi or Fantasy, Collection or Anthology, POC Author
• The 57 bus by Dashka Slater - Non-fiction

I'm not sure how many pages these are since I read them as ebooks. Just out of curiosity, will you be counting one book per box or can one book fill multiple boxes?

[kingstoken]

Thank you for your help, and all the book recs, I have read Becky Chambers before and enjoyed their work. It is one book per box for the bingo.

[tarlanx]

Yes to fandomtrees. I've created and written for a number of 'trees' and managed to do one more today.

[kingstoken]

Thank you very much for all the lovely gifts you have created.

[tarlanx]

I just hope the recipients like them too :D

[kingstoken]

I'm sure they will.

[spikedluv]

I wish I knew any of those remaining fandoms! I also wish they get filled.

For the crime/mystery square, I recommend Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski series (P.I. in Chicago) or Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series (P.I. in Alaska) or, if you like cozy mysteries, The Cat in the Stacks series by Miranda James.

I've got your AO3 bookmarked to check out . . . later. o_O *g*

[kingstoken]

Thank you for the great books recs, The Cat in the Stacks sounds familiar, I might have seen it at my local library.

[spikedluv]

You're welcome! You might have seen it at your library, but I've probably mentioned it once or twice. *g* I hope you enjoy whatever you try.

[yarnofariadne]

(accidentally left my book recs on the other post, moving them here - apologies!)

I'd highly recommend Vivian Shaw's Greta Helsing series! It would fit for a book that's part of a series or horror/paranormal.

For a classic, I'd really recommend The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte if you haven't yet read that one; it's a classic I only recently got to and I wish I'd read it sooner.

And if you'll forgive a bit of cheek, I'd recommend Grimm & Dread as an anthology of fairy tale retellings; it's cheeky because my own retelling of Hansel & Gretel is in there, so feel free to disregard the self-promo XD

[kingstoken]

Thank you for the great book recs. I have heard The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I think one of the booktubers I watch is planning on doing a read-along with that book, so might pick it up.

Also, there is nothing wrong with a bit of self promotion ;)

[corvidology]

I'm not familiar with most of your fandoms but I did find some fanvids to watch. Thank you! :D

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[mekare]

Am going to do a quick gift for one of the needy trees today.

[kingstoken]

Thank you very much!

[dreamersdare]

No matter how many times I go and look at the needy trees spreadsheet, I still don't know any of the fandoms that are left. But it's nice to see that list slowly getting reduced :)

How did you get the book bingo list? I could do with something like that to focus and encourage me to read things for fun rather than from necessity. In terms of suggestions I have a couple, (drawn largely from books I have enjoyed and that have lingered with me, but which might fit your squares):

The Shock of the Fall (Nathan Filer)
Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik) - although, honestly, anything by this author is good

[kingstoken]

We are slowly whittling down that need trees list.

I made the Book Bingo Card myself, with help from some dreamwidth mutuals, you can find the unmarked card here, https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/70845.html, if you would like to try it for yourself.

Thank you for the book recs, I have definitely heard of Naomi Novik, I keep meaning to pick up something by her, but never seem to get around to it.

[dreamersdare]

Perfect, thank you. I will steal that quite happily. Here's to some happy reading!

[tsuki_no_bara]

these feel like very random book recs, but "rec me some books!" is turning into my favorite wish from this challenge, and i can't resist.

biting the sun, tanith lee - sci-fi or fantasy, classic or published before 1985 (it's actually two books combined that came out in 1976 and 1977)
the bingo palace and/or love medicine, louise erdrich - poc author, classic or published before 1985 (love medicine, in 1984)
alif the unseen, g willow wilson - sci-fi or fantasy, non-western setting, over 300 pages
fortunately, the milk, neil gaiman and skottie young - ya or children's
shallow graves, kali wallace - ya or children's, horror or paranormal, crime or mystery (the main character is a revenant trying to solve her own murder, so i guess it's a horror mystery? it also fits for lgbtq but you've already read that square.)

the collection that i'd recommend is scholars and soldiers by mary gentle, but i hesitate because i think it's out of print.

edited to add! the nameless city, faith erin hicks - graphic novel, non-western setting, book that is part of a series, ya or children's (it's the first in a trilogy)

[kingstoken]

Thank you for all the great book recs!