SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #3: GIMME GIMME GIMME

[queenslayerbee]

 

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.
 

• I would definitely welcome sites where you can get information to help with research. Specially scientifical/medical information (a lot of complicated injuries and injury complications will be making an appearance in upcoming fic lol.

• Generally, any good resource for writers you think is useful! You never know.

• Book recs! I like adult lit, and welcome any genre, but tend to go for fantasy and sci-fi, preferably centered on women, and ideally writing by non-british, non-north american authors (just for variety!). Oh, and any good non-fiction you might have read recently! I favour philosophy/world history and autobiographies by interesting historical women, but I'd read anything that catches my eye.

• And why not, fic recs! You can look at my sticky post for my fandoms, but I'm particularly in the mood for dc comics (especially Jason-related, but some other favourite characters of mine are Talia, Dick, Kara, Selina, or Diana), the buffyverse (Buffy, Lilah/Wesley, Faith, Angel, Willow, Giles), the plecverse (Caroline, Bonnie, Elena), or, weirdly, because it's not really one of my fandoms, ASOIAF (ANYTHING for the female characters that focuses on their damn selves and/or dynamics between them and ignores the guys pls... Cersei, Catelyn, Brienne, Daenerys, Arya, Shae, Sansa...). At the moment I'm interested in long, plotty fics; gen or shippy, although I know I'd be extra nitpicky about the latter class lol.

Thank you in advance ^-^

Comments

[sparrow2000]

This is a great list of wishes. I'm especially intrigued by the scientific/medical information one so I hope someone can help with that. BTW, love, love your icon :)

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you! A Lisa icon felt necessary, especially this one :P

[brumeier]

May I humbly recommend You Should Be Writing (ushobwri)? It's a DW community for writers. We offer support, a place to log weekly wordcounts if you do that sort of thing, and a chance to get some concrit on things you're working on. Posts every Monday and Thursday every month but November, when we have daily posts to assist folks doing NaNo.

Next month we'll be focusing on WIPs. We're an inclusive, very chill group. Come check us out!

Wish Granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I would definitely welcome sites where you can get information to help with research. Specially scientifical/medical information (a lot of complicated injuries and injury complications will be making an appearance in upcoming fic lol.<<

These are some I use:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid

https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/default.htm

https://www.verywellhealth.com/first-aid-4014723


Also helpful are wilderness first aid guides:

https://sbbchidaho.org/PDF/FirstAidManual.pdf

https://www.eacbsa.org/files/4810/Emergency-Reference-Guide


For hardcore books on this topic I use:

Body Trauma: A Writer’s Guide to Wounds and Injuries
(All the Howdunit books I've read are great.)

Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance


>>Generally, any good resource for writers you think is useful! You never know.<<

My current favorite series is Writers Helping Writers -- like loose parts for wordsmiths. :D I probably use Emotional Wounds the most, followed by Positive & Negative Traits.

[donutsweeper]

I have something like 180 links for writing injuries, medical issues and their treatments at this post here that might help?

[kiki_eng]

I've really been enjoying little_details lately for all of the very specific questions that writers need help figuring out, including medical stuff.

And a fic rec:
a tempest, a cyclone, a goddamned hurricane by Dialux
Game of Thrones | 57,809 | PG-13 | Sansa
Summary: There’s nobody named Lyarra in Winterfell, according to her father; the last person who bore that name was his mother, and she was buried decades ago.
Sansa speaks to her the next week.
Sansa can speak to ghosts, and this changes everything.

[lyntergalactic]

the way i turned into the eyes emoji when i saw you said kara... 👀

which version of kara are you most interested in? i've got a couple of fics i could rec but, uh. there have been a lot of different iterations of her over the years, and the tv show has complicated the ao3 searches even more, hah.

also if you really want something long and plotty with a batfam emphasis, may i recommend Foreign Object by audreycritter? it's technically part of a series, (that i haven't read all of but what i have read is good) but it ends well and is a lovely little angsty-with-a-happy-ending snapshot into the various batfam relations. mostly with bruce but also with each other and a side of clark.

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you! I'll check it out.

Re: Wish Granted!

[queenslayerbee]

All of these sound really useful, thank you!

[queenslayerbee]

That looks very thorough, thank you!

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you! That community looks like precisely what I was looking for, and the fic sounds interesting.

[queenslayerbee]

LOL yeah, I've only recently started to get into comics featuring and reading about how her story has changed for years is uh. Something.

I'm not interested in anything related to the show, but I'd welcome fics about any version of comics!Kara, really.

And thanks for that rec! I'm nitpicky about my batfam fic, I'll admit that xD, but I'll give anything a try.

Re: Wish Granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.

[charlottenewtons]

I don't read a huge amount of fantasy or sci-fi but these are some books I've enjoyed recently that you might like: Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister the Serial Killer, Katherine Clements – The Coffin Path, Natsuo Kirino – Out, Patricia Highsmith – Strangers on a Train, Carol Goodman – the Lake of Dead Languages, Laura Shepherd-Robinson – Daughters of Night, anything by Megan Abbott or Tana French.

[sugareey]

Creative Prompts for Writing is a Tumblr I follow and reference a lot of various topics. She has a masterpost here in case anything catches your fancy!

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you for these recs! Of these I've read a little Abott, but none of the others, IIRC.

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you! I'll check it out.

[lyntergalactic]

if you ever want a good primer/explainer on kara comics, i actually have one laying around on an external hard drive somewhere.

sadly, there aren't very many comics!kara longfics. hell, there aren't a whole lot of fics where she features prominently either as she's often in a fic for a couple scenes while some other bats and supers are the main focus. but! shobogan has some absolutely lovely pre-crisis babs/kara one-shots, and this ficlet by mithen is an adorable look at what could be if dc ever let kon and kara hang out

[svgurl]

I started a fantasy book called The Jasmine Throne (first of The Burning Kingdom trilogy) by Tasha Suri and it was pretty interesting! The author is British but she's a WOC and the book is set in ancient India. It's about a princess who has been imprisoned by her dictator brother and her only contact is with her maidservant, secretly a priestess, and their destinies quickly become entwined.

[queenslayerbee]

if you ever want a good primer/explainer on kara comics, i actually have one laying around on an external hard drive somewhere.

ngl, that would be IMMENSELY useful lol. I understand the gist of it, I THINK, but still. Besides, the more comics I read, the least I trust wiki sources for them, so they're not even useful for this lol.

Yeah, I expected it'd be difficult to find longfics for her :/. It's a pity because the more I get to know her, the more I think she's going to become my favourite super (admittedly my knowledge of superfam is faaar more limited that my knowledge of the bats ^^U, but still... her story packs a punch, IMO). Thanks for those recs, though! Especially the Kon and Kara ones; I also have limited knowledge of comics!Kon, but his character concept is another one I find utterly fascinating.

[queenslayerbee]

Thanks for the rec! It does sound really interesting, and I do enjoy court intrigue and the like.

[lyntergalactic]

okay i cannot find the doc for the life of me, but! i am fairly easily summarize.

essentially there are 5 iterations in supergirl comics. first you've got pre-crisis. this was the first version of supergirl to show up in action comics back in '59. this was kara zor-el, superman's cousin from krypton. she was around until crisis on infinite earths where she was killed, and then the dcu was soft rebooted in some places.

in amidst all of that, power girl was introduced. she's kara zor-l from earth-2, an alternate universe version of supergirl. she's changed a bit as dc has gone through various reboots but never been completely overhauled the way supergirl has been.

after crisis on infinite earths, the next supergirl was matrix. matrix was a genetically modified shape-shifting bit of protoplasm created by lex luthor. (and this was somehow less convoluted than kara's backstory, apparently 🙄) she eventually breaks away from luthor and lives with the kents as mae kent. later she meets a young woman named linda danvers and essentially merges with her to save her life and linda becomes supergirl. this is the peter david supergirl run in the '90s. it... sure is a thing. but basically if supergirl is wearing a white cropped t-shirt in the comics, it's linda danvers.

in '05, they brought kara back. she fell to earth with a bunch of kryptonite, was trained by clark, bruce, and diana, and eventually became a hero in her own right. this is the version of her with the long-sleeved crop top and miniskirt. (and my favorite version of her, actually!) she had a bit of a rough beginning with the way some of her comics were written, but her solo book gets really good, especially once you get to sterling gates' run.

then dc decided to reboot! they completely reintroduced kara in the new 52 and yet again erased her history, starting her from scratch. when rebirth came around they changed some of her story yet again to make it mesh better with the tv show, though that version of kara was 16, not an adult. but she went by "linda danvers" because of her adoptive parents in this iteration.

currently i have no idea what they're doing with her. "whatever they feel like at the moment" seems to be the most accurate answer? but it's very confusing.

tl;dr: if the comic is from between '59 and '85, it's pre-crisis kara. if she's got a boob window, it's power girl. if it's from '89 to the early aughts and/or the supergirl has a white crop top in her costume, it's either matrix by herself or fused with linda danvers. if it's from '05 to '12, it's post-crisis kara. if it's from '12 to around now, it's post-flashpoint kara.

[queenslayerbee]

See, I had a basic idea of this (except for the Matrix stuff. wtf xD), but it's definitely bonkers lmao. I'm particularly interested in her new earth era (because I'm generally a new earth gal), although some of the comics I'm eyeing come later. For example, have you read the arc where she gets a red lantern ring? The concept interests me, but my experience with the new 52 has been largely terrible xD.

And also, if it's not too much trouble, any run/mini series/etc. you'd recommend in particular?

[x95]

Hello, dropped in from the snowflake challenge :)

This tumblr post (archived version) has some good scholarly databases, useful for in-depth for research. The Online Books Page with its archives page is great, too.

[queenslayerbee]

Those look like great resources, thank you!

[lyntergalactic]

lkasjdf this is such a late reply i'm sorry

that's one i haven't read, though i'm intrigued by it! i'm mostly a new earth gal as well and have only sporadically kept up with comics in......... oh jesus it's been 12 years since the n52 i feel old

omg yes! okay so--her solo book is generally pretty good, though the beginning is rocky so i'd start with issue #23. there's some good stuff before it but it's book-ended by very WTF stuff.

(the main issues i love from before that are 9, 12, and 20. the former two are the more rounded out look at her somewhat bratty "i don't know what to do with my life because i don't feel like a hero" phase immediately post OYL where she's besties with owen mercer.)

a significant chunk of the later issues technically intersect with the new krypton story arc that might be a bit confusing without context? but iirc the bits she mostly shows up for are in action comics and the specific new krypton minis.

superman/supergirl: maelstrom is a fantastic miniseries and it has art by phil noto which is always a plus.

her run with the JLA is a bit of a mess (#45-60) but it's got some cute moments and it leads into reign of doomsday which... i'll be honest i didn't read all of but the end of it has some choice kara moments and superman/batman annual #5 is full of good kara and dick content.

the brave and the bold #4 technically is in the middle of a bigger story but you don't really need to know all of it to appreciate the hilarity that is kara and lobo teaming up

outside new earth!kara, i cannot recommend supergirl: woman of tomorrow enough. it's got gorgeous art and pitch-perfect kara writing.

[queenslayerbee]

I had barely been reading comics (mostly Jason's, but I had also started reading Cass' first run, some iconic Batman arcs, some Wonder Woman, etc.) when the reboot hit and I was so frustrated with the very idea I stopped reading comics for years lol. I read and reread some old ones here and there, but until this past year I didn't really return to them -and not just DC, although yeah, that's most of what I read lol. I tried to read some current runs, and I've enjoyed some (if more in context than in execution), but rn I've dropped all mainline run except 'Tec; though I do still follow some Black Label / AU runs. Prime Earth just frustrates me, generally speaking xD

But I did read woman of tomorrow a few months ago, and I loved it! It's what really got me into Kara as a character, really. I liked her before, but it was more theoretical than anything because I hadn't really read anything that put the focus on her. That comic did a really good job showcasing what a great character she is and how much potential she has, and yes, Bilquis Evely's art is fantastic and really elevates it.

Thank you for all the recs about new earth!Kara, too!

[miss_grimwood]

Not necessarily in-depth research, but ijustreallylovedaredevil has a medical meta series which I love, specifically to help fic writers

https://www.tumblr.com/ijustreallylovedaredevil/tagged/medical%20meta%20series

[queenslayerbee]

Oh, thank you SO much for that link, it's really going to come in handy.

[miss_grimwood]

No worries! It's been a life saver for me over the years