Snowflake Challenge Day 6

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Day 6
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. Book recs! I read far too quickly and am always on the hunt for more. I like pretty much all sci-fi and fantasy and will read just about anything if I'm told it's good. I'm trying to getting away from reading just straight white dudes books so if you have recs by POC, queer people, woman, or some intersection of the three I'd love to hear about them.

2. People to write more Katara centric fic. Katara was the first fictional character I highkey identified with and the one who's fanfic I am consistently the most disappointed in. While there's some really good shipping fic, I can never seem to find Fic where Katara is in character, interesting, and Doing It for Herself. such selfish prayers by andromeda3116 is the only one I can think of and I've been reading the fic since the gd ship wars. So recs for fic like this, and also people to write good Katara fic.

3. I wish people would leave more comments on my fic. It's very frustrating to post and then get no feedback whatsoever. Though I gotta say, moving away from tumblr to dreamwidth has helped that already. So i'm gonna be greedy and say even more comments? 

Comments

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If you haven’t checked out An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, it’s a great debut SFF. CW for violence and sexual assault against women.

Octavia Butler, while well know, is a good choice if you haven’t read her.

If you want something light and fluffy, all the lesbian romanantic comedies by Clare Lydon (can’t go wrong with London Calling) are fab and I have both audio/and ebooks of hers available through my library/overdrive.

If you are okay with YA, my favorite book I read last year was We Are Okay by Nina LaCour. CW for minor character death. It was one of my only ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ reads last year.

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Never heard of it but I will add it to the list as well as running down some information about the CW. I have a hard time with sexual assault narratives and sometimes can get around it, sometimes not.

Octavia Butler is alway fab. And Clare Lydon's books sound right up my alley.

And that's a +1 to We Are Okay. one of my friends recommended it to me about a week ago

[glassesofjustice]

Happy to answer any specific questions in DM, but it’s a spin on a futuristic slave narrative, and it’s pretty violent, so maybe give it a pass.

Yay for +1 on We Are Okay, and just adding another warning for that one that it’s sad in parts. My co-worker cried over it and was pretend mad at me for not telling her. I did not cry but did tweet a ton about how much I loved it at 3am when I finished it.

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yeah i'll probably wait on that one, at least until im in a better place mentally. It's looks worth a read when i'm a little less raw.

Honestly that sound perf! I like books where you get the full range of emotion