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C'est une sorte de mème pris à modocanis, la liste des choses sur lesquelles j'aurais bien envie de lire des fics, dans des fandoms divers...

Alors, qu'est-ce que j'aime ?

( Comme genres de fics )

( Et pour les fandoms, persos et couples ! )

Titre : D'amour et de poison
Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Demon Slayer
Persos/Couples : Shinobu/Tamayo
Genre : UST et angst
Résumé : Shinobu s'était promis de ne pas laisser sa haine sur les démons affecter son professionalisme, quand elle prémare un poison avec Tamayo. C'est plus compliqué quand d'autres sentiments s'en mêlent.
Rating : PG-13
Disclaimer : Rien ne m'appartient !
Nombre de mots : ~1500
Avertissements : Des mentions de mort à venir, et des spoilers.
Notes : Ecrit pour ladiesbingo sur le thème "Icy Politenesse" et sur une liste femslash february sur le thème "Plongeons ensemble"

( Lien vers AO3 )

A new challenge for February! ow pressure, one top 10 every week.
For the first week

Make a Top Ten list for your favourite standalone media and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - movies, one shot dramas, novels, short stories, plays, something else not mentioned here. Whatever you like!

( Top 10 of short stories that stayed with me )

Absolutely none of these stories are realistic, they all have some kind of supernatural or sci-fi element, which wasn't part of the selection, it's just how my tastes work :D

Fics are unanoned!
I wrote a ship I love, but that I rarely write. First time in English even!

Title : In the Haze I See your Shape
Author : Nelja
Fandom : The Picture of Dorian Gray
Characters/Ships : Basil/Dorian
Genre : Dark smut
Summary : Dorian has invited Basil, and only him. He wanted him drunk, he wanted him apologetic, and maybe he wanted more.
Rating : NC-17
Disclaimer : Everything was created by Oscar Wilde
Word Count : ~1800
Warnings :

( Link to AO3 )



And I got two gifts fot the same fandom, same ship, I'm not complaining at all. :D Both noncon for necromancy reasons.

Weather the storm (you made it) by Farasha (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Explicit)
Wei Wuxian calls Wen Ning to him to try and find out what's been happening to his friend all these years. What he finds is that someone has been using his friend in terrible ways.
Wei Wuxian reached out to touch the manacle around one of Wen Ning's wrists. Wen Ning moved faster than his eye could follow, his hand snapping out and clamping around Wei Wuxian's wrist instead.
"Wen Ning," Wei Wuxian said, a nervous little laugh in his voice. "Let me go."
Wen Ning didn't move. He stared at Wei Wuxian with nothing behind his eyes.

Nightmare by WolffyLuna (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Explicit)
Wei Wuxian has a nightmare, that unfortunately makes Wen Ning see him as an enemy.

( La révolte, Clara Dupont-Monod ) 7/10

( Deux cavaliers de l'orage, Jean Giono ) 8/10

( Le feu de chaque jour, Octavio Paz ) 8/10

( Bungou Stray Dogs : The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency, Asagiri Kafka ) 8/10

( Où roules-tu petite pomme ?, Leo Perutz ) 8/10

( Witch King, Martha Wells ) 7/10

( L'entretien d'embauche au KGB, Iegor Gran ) 7/10



Progression : 7/52
"Risques de lecture" : La révolte, Deux cavaliers de l'orage, Où roules-tu petite pomme ?, Witch King, L'entretien d'embauche au KGB -> 5/26
Bingo-livres : 6/25


Bonus :

( L'anxiété, quelle chose étrange, Steve Haines, Sophie Standing ) 6/10

In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

Today I'm advertising one of my favorite lesser-known mangas : Double by Noda Ayako.



It's a manga that, right now, is five volumes in Japan, and advancing very slowly. Which makes me very sad, because it's one of my faves. Another thing that makes me very sad? It's not selling enough, in France like in the US, but I can at least try to remedy this by advertising.

Kamoshima Yuujin and Takarada Takara are both stage actors, in the same company. They are friends, they are not roommates but not far (they're living in near very small flats and are often eating together).

Yuujin was an actor longer, but Takara has more presence on stage, not to mention he's more conventionally attractive. He also has something undiagnosed (I'd bet for ADD but could be anything) that makes him quite unable to follow a planning or appointments without help, that Yuujin provides. He wants to see Takara becoming a celebrity, because he loves him, but also because he would like the credit for noticing him first. They have a fascinating relationship, mixing friendship, admiration, jealousy and codependency.

If you're wondering: yes there's also some romantic aspect to their relationship, but it's far from being the most important factor, or the most positive factor. Still, it being canon while still very much not being a romance is one of the reasons I love it so much.

Another thing I love about this manga: all the conversations about plays, about acting. I really love manga about art, and here I can believe in it? Whether it's about the differences between playing on stage or for TV, or thinking about mistakes they have made, or analyzing the characters they're playing in the plays themselves, the differences of interpretation that two characters can have with exactly the same text... it sounds right to me. Of course I only ever played as an amateur, but still! I love it!

I also love the art style, even if sometimes the expressions agre exaggerated (not in the exmpla I give though)

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If anything interests you in this summary, you should give it a try!

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

Oh yeah! For the love letter day, I already talked about my fandom friends, but I can talk about them again, among other things. So, love and appreciation
* For everyone who went with me to the movie, or saw a show with me, or made a book club with deadlines with me. It helps so much! Real life or Internet! I miss some of you.
* For everyone who accepted to see a show or read a book I had already seen to be with the fandom with me and chat about it, you're incredible
* For everyone who reacted on my fics, with Kudos or comments, thank you so much
* For all the betareaders that helped me, I could'nt do this without you
* For everyone who writes or draws or makes fanmixes in my fandoms, about my faves, thank you
* For everyone who's contributing to the fandom resources I use every day, the AO3 volunteers, the wikipedia editors who lovingly summarizes the chapters, the fandom wiki people, the people who do the scantrads and the fansubs, the tvtropes editors too. I remember a time where all this didn't exist, and fandom is so much better with all this, you're heroes.

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm bad at this, I'm sad to be bad at fanmixes because I love them, but three songs? I can probably find three songs about Illyana Rasputin.

* Emily Jane White, Hole in the Middle
Everybody's got a little hole in the middle
Everybody does a little dance with the devil
And you know I'm evil now, and you shout it loud and proud

* Radiohead, Climbing up the walls
And either way you turn, I'll be there
Open up your skull, I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

* May and Robot Koch, Bad Kingdom
Vacuous winter stare
Worn out version of yourself
Too tough to fall
But not strong enough to turn

And just a bonus where the song globally doesn't work except for one line

* Marina and the Diamonds, Buy the Stars
Oh, we don't own our heavens now
We only own our hell
And if you don't know that by now
Then you don't know me that well

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

Oh, I've done this some previous years, but it seems I'm gonna do it again. And with a trope I already talked about, but it was a very long time ago :D

So, one of my fave tropes is "Enemies forced to work together"
It can be against a common enemy, to save the world, to save themselves, because of an old promise they have to honor, all is good to :D

It can be the beginning of a long-time redemption, or, more rarely, corruption arc, or it can be something they agree to never mention again, both are good to me.

What do I love in it: the fact that they have to understand more things about each other. Or sometimes the fact that they already know so much things about each other.
I love the competence kink, the strengths complementing each other instead of fighting against each other, and how far they can go (one of the very rare versions I don't like is when when they join the heroes for a while the villains become very much weaker for absolutely no reason). I love when sometimes they have to show each other's weaknesses.
I love the emotional points, them realizing that oh no, they respect each other, they care about each other, maybe even they trust each other? Maybe they're right about it, or wrong?
I love when there is betrayal of principles for an enemy they can't let die. I also love when their principles or just pragmatism force them to save an enemy they hate so much.

The first encounter with the trope I can remember was a quite late episode in McGyver where Murdoc asks McGyver help to save his sister. The character asking their enemy for help because they didn't know where else to go is still a nice topping to the trope, even it it's not mandatory.

I love enemy shipping, and when two enemies you ship are doing this, inn canon or fanfic, it's always fantastic.
For a long time, i read a lot of fics like this about my ships. I think at the time one of my fave ships for it was Xavier/Magneto. it happens in canon (in the X-2 movie, and in too many comics to count, and in some of the nineties anime), and I wanted all the fics, that were the same, just with more ship.
I often say that my romance trope is not actually enemies to friends to lovers, it's enemies to enemies forced to work together to grudgingly trusting and understanding each others to friends to lovers :D
Sometimes it happens in canon! Buffy/Spike or Root/Shaw were such good enemies to lovers ships to me, for this!

But actually! I adore it in gen too! I think that it was the s2 episode from Veronica Mars, where Veronica and Clarence Wiedmann had to work together, that I realized, no, amount of shippy feelings: 0 but amounts of competence kink feelings: up the roof.

I'm lucky it's a very popular trope. In lots of fantasy/sf shows i was following, it was some kind of compulsory figure, be it as a funny episode that would never be talked about again, or as the Big Finale against a worst enemy.

But! Also! Sometimes I'm in a fandom where not only it happens but it's the main theme! And when it's well done, I'm so happy about it!
Last year, one of my friends lent me The Coldfire Trilogy by Celia Friedmann, and it's the main plot, a warrior prince having to ally with the main evil of his religion to save the world. their relationship and its evolution is absolutely perfect.
Last year, I also fell deep into Bungou Stray Dogs where the writer decided that past basic character introduction most situations should be resolved by some enemies working together situation, and the hero having to work repeatedly together with his enemy and their relationship slowly evolving because of that is one of the main plot points.

Please if you know fandoms like this, character arcs, romance arcs, or just very good individual episodes about this, don't hesitate to give me recs :D


But also, I hesitated about which trope to choose, so have a post to a non-snowflake post I made some time ago, about my shipping obsession for underlings with a crush on their boss.

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good.

* I have a very good memory for my special interests and ability to research hard and fast. It's nice for ficcing, nice for work sometimes, and I feel accomplished whenever I get to help my friends with questions like "which books would you recommend for creole fairy tales?" "what's a creature that's the conceptual opposite of a gnome" or "in which TMA episode does this thing happen?"

* I sure can be determined and patient when I have decided to do something.
Even if sometimes I joke that it's easier for me to put something on my todo-list, do it, and then cross it with a triumphant laugh, than to actually do it, I'm not mad at myself for it. Actually it's funny.

* And you know what, I don't always love my writing, but I always love that I'm writing.