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 :)

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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