Fandom Snowflake 2020 - Day 9

Challenge #9

In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom). Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I can cheerfully rec old canon for everything I'm fannish about - all of my fandoms either have closed canon or are in a long lull before new material.


White Collar - Although I'm not creating new fanworks for my first fannish love, Seasons One and Two of White Collar will always remain the ne plus ultra of OT3 perfection. The love between the characters and the friendships (and the bad guys and plot) are so rich and so perfect. While I enjoyed almost all of the series (Season 5 never happened, nor did the last fifteen minutes of Season 6), Seasons 1 and 2 are the best.

The Flash - It's a pity the show was cancelled fifteen minutes before the end of the last episode in Season 2. That's all I'm gonna say.

Kingsman: The Secret Service - I love the the fandom noped so hard about Harry Hart's death that the sequel brought him back. Pity Matthew Vaughn fucked everything else up. I'm at the point where I don't consider The Golden Circle canon, just a really bad and homophobic fanwork.

Morse'verse - Technically, since Endeavour has just finished filming Series 7 and is renewed for S8, canon isn't closed. But Endeavour is a prequel to Inspector Morse, and we know what happens, just not the details. Now, if someone gets their act together and signs Laurence Fox and Kevin Whatley to an Inspector Hathaway series, we'll get open canon.

Fandom Snowflake 2020 - Day 8

Challenge #8

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm late with this because Wednesday was Not A Good Day and I didn't want to rec other people's stuff when I was feeling so crappy about myself. But today is better and I'm a fucking completist. So here are three fan works that make me happy they exist.

All The Wonders That Remain by missbecky

Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Pairing: Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin
Summary: This is his life now, Eggsy thinks. His family on one side, Kingsman on the other. And all around, filling up the space in between, Harry Hart.

One year together in the life of the perfect spy couple.

Why Rec: This is one of the first fics I read in the Kingsman fandom and it ticks the box on everything I love in a story. A bit of action and adventure, but mostly domestic moments between two very flawed, very damaged people. There are moments that make me ache and bring me close to tears, and at the end, I sigh with happiness. It is something of the perfect fic.

---

Tempus Fugit by kyele

Fandom: The Flash (TV)
Pairing: Barry Allen/Eobard Thawne | Harrison Wells
Summary: Nora is dead. The Barry from the future – the Flash from the future – is gone. If Barry wants answers, if he wants to know why his future self had waved him off of saving his mother, he’s going to have to get them from a different source.

Fortunately, he knows exactly where – or, rather, when – his answers may be found.

April 25, 2024.

Why Rec: This is the fic that introduced me to the glory that is Kyele, and gave voice to everything I was feeling about the need for a redemption arc for Eobard Thawne | Harrison Wells. The story isn't easy - especially in the beginning, when time is reset and Barry Allen knowingly relives his transformation into The Flash and re-mets his nemesis, The Man in Yellow - the Reverse Flash. But the two enemies need to work together and in the process discover that things really aren't as they appear. Exquisite and complex and utterly satisfying, it's a retelling of canon that really should be canon.

---

Clever Men by storiesfortravellers / dariaw

Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Summary: Angsty Peter/Neal slash and UST. The fic starts in Season 1 and ends a few years into the future, and shows snippets of different stages of their relationships.

Why Rec: Do you every read a story and it just sticks with you for years and years? Bits and pieces of scenes that are like beloved photographs? You can't remember all of the details but then you read it again after a long time and you think, oh yessssss, this is what I still want. I usually don't care for stories without a happy - or at least hopeful - ending, but this one really fits the bill. There's pain but a softness to it. I will always consider it one of the very finest works of White Collar fan fiction ever written.