Snowflake Challenge 3

[cmk418]

I've done challenge 1 (updating my fandoms list with All For The Game) and 2 (Jan 2 post with goals actually done the day before the challenge came out). Here's challenge 3

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1) More participation at hardtime100. This writing community for HBO's OZ has been chugging along for a little over 20 years. There are over 300 drabble prompts and over 100 fanfic prompts that participants can tackle and the word counts are fairly relaxed. Gone are the days of strict 100 word drabbles so if you've ever dabbled in the OZ fandom, come on back and give it a whirl. And if you don't feel like writing, I'd be happy to have some new prompt ideas.

2) Icons of strong female characters

3) Book recommendations - standalone fiction. I like a lot of mainstream/lit fiction, books with a lot of humor throughout would be nice, but I can also handle heavier material. Would like to read more books by women and/or BIPOC and/or LGBTQ authors.

That's all I have at the moment.

Comments

[dragonofeternal]

Perhaps not exactly your cup of tea, but if you would like a horror novel with a bit of a literary bent to its prose and occasionally very darkly funny moments... I highly recommend THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones. Jones is, himself, Blackfoot, and his story of a group of Blackfoot men hunted by the ghost of an elk they killed while hunting in lands reserved for elders in their community is both a tightly paced horror and a powerful look at Native American life and identity that refuses to lionize or demonize the struggles and mistakes of its characters. It's about basketball, revenge, cycles of violence, and the lengths parents will go to trying to do what's right for their children. Plus, the ghost of the elk is an incredible female character who, like the men she hunts, is both deeply sympathetic and incredibly flawed.

[cmk418]

That sounds like fun. I'm adding it to the list. Thank you!

[dragonofeternal]

I hope you enjoy it! I've read it a couple times at this point because it keeps haunting my thoughts haha