Snowflake Challenge - Day 7

Am back to work, so starting to fall behind on the challenges...

Day 7

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you.

At first I thought, I don't have time to try something new. But then I thought, let's try a new pairing. So, I gave originalceenote's WinterHawk a try. It is fluffy Barnes/Barton fun!

The Water Cooler is a Neutral Zone (8178 words) by OriginalCeenote
Fandom: Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/James "Bucky" Barnes
Characters: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes, James Rhodes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner, Peter Quill, Peter Parker
Additional Tags: Office AU, Workplace Rivalry, Shenanigans, the author is a horrible person, crackfic, No Sex, Enemies to friends with Benefits, winterhawk - Freeform, no powers, silliness, Bad coffee pot etiquette, Clint Barnes is a Human Disaster, Bucky Barnes is Picky About Coffee Creamer, Cubicle Farms, otpprompts, Tumblr Prompt, Wait a minute there’s sex in Chapter Two, Oops
Summary:
“I’m gonna get him good this time,” Clint muttered as he shook glittering confetti over Barnes’ keyboard.

Rogers looked bored from his perch on the edge of Bucky’s desk. “What’d he do this time?”

“He stole all the marshmallows out of my Lucky Charms!”

“Seriously, Barton?”

“Rogers. You don’t mess with a guy’s Lucky Charms. They’re sacred, for fuck’s sake. You should know this.”

And then halotolerant was posting pretty pictures from a slashy Chinese web show, Guardian, that looks fab.

Here are the two actors from the show (who are also Mandopop singers) singing, in Halo's words, a ship manifesto to their characters. (Turn on the subtitles! They're adorable.)

"Bai Yu.Zhu Yilong.Happy Camp.2.Original Song.Dixing Hits Haixing" (Watch on YouTube)

And here's the first episode:

"Guardian 01（Bai Yu,Zhu Yilong）" (Watch on YouTube)

(I've been warned that there's an unhappy ending, but lots of pretty on the way, and the author of the source material wrote a fix-it.)

Snowflake Challenge - Day 8

Day 8

In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created.

I'm going to go for one work each from three of my biggest fandoms...

1. The Professionals, Love's Not a Competition (vid)

"Love's Not a Competition - Pros vid" (Watch on YouTube)

What with the kid situation and being busy and having a vidding computer that's on its last legs, I haven't finished a vid in four years, but I used to create a lot of them. And this is one of my faves in Pros. (A downloadable version can be found on my vid site

2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV), Los Vivos y los muertos (fic, Napoleon/Illya)

MFU was my second fandom (after Blake's 7) but the first one I wrote a serious amount of fic in, and my first official slash fandom. This story is part of a loose series I wrote where every installment occurs during a different holiday. In this story, the holiday is the Mexican Day of the Dead, and both Illya and Napoleon run into literal ghosts from their past. It is possibly my favourite of my MFU stories.

3. Captain America (MCU), Let in the Sun (fic, Steve/Bucky)

Captain America, and Stucky in particular is my current fannish love. Let in the Sun is two golden afternoons in the long friendship of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. It says it's gen on the tin (because it was written for a recipient who asked for gen) but I prefer to think of it as slash without the sex.