Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Day 6

Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Skipping Day 5 for the moment...

And goining all the way back to White Collar, the very first fandom I ever participated in, to the moment that really gave me the hard buzz (there were a lot of soft tingles along the way). Back in the Day, before streamers, when you actually had to wait a week for each ep, USA used to do short seasons and divide them in half, 16 eps, 8 eps with a month break. Hard Sell was the Season 1 mid-season cliffhanger ep and it was pretty fucking spectacular in all respects, but there's always one scene that gets me - when Neal, famously "not a gun guy" picks up a rifle and blows away some skeet "pigeons" to make his point to Peter:

"Just because I don't like guns doesn't mean I can't use them."

Up until now, Matt Bomer had been quite justifibly a lovely man. He's pretty, can do a bit of angst, but anger? That does not seem to be in his repertoire. But in this scene, he brings it and brings it hard. He's so furious, but it's not in an obvious way. I think I watched that episode a dozen times on Hulu the week it aired. More than a dozen years later, it's still an all-time favorite.

Star Wars Prequel Fic - WildPeace - Chapter 3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 3 - The Wolf and the Lamb
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~3,700 (this chapter) / 12,100 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: After a rocky start, Kal gets to know his Irish family. Not just his Cousin David, but the entire Monstrous Regiment.

And he likes them.

Of course he does.



Chapter Three on AO3