The Snowflake Challenge, day 13

Day 13

Fandom is full of amazing people who make awesome things. Let's show some love.

In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is actually much harder than to pick an individual fic, but I have recently come across a writer whose fics I really love. I have already recced her fics so I probably come across as rather fangirly now, but I really really love daystarsearcher fics. I only just realised that there is Doctor Who-fics, which in itself is rather odd as I have been a fan of both the classic and new Doctor Who for years. So I have been reading far and wide and very recently stumbled over her work. Everything I have had time to read I have liked. Two Birds In A Cage is, though, one of the best fics I have ever read

I really think you can read this story even if you have never watched Doctor Who, if you think of it as an SF story. The plot is about a humanoid alien, the Doctor, who crash-lands in a Great Britain that is controlled by ad fascist government. The alien is imprisoned and because his technological knowledge much more advanced, he is forced to build weapons for those who have locked him up. One of his requirements is to have an assistant and a young woman who has been arrested for dissident behaviour, SJ, finds herself being “given” to him. He distrust her, as one of his former assistants have turned out to be a spy for the government and she is terrified as she has been tortured, raped and mutilated before she is turned over to him and has no reasons to believe that he will not treat her the same way. It is a work in progress and so far the story have mostly been about these two people who has no one else than each other and have to learn to trust to survive. It’s really a quite complex story with many layers and it unfolds rather slowly, which could make a story boring, but in this case makes it more thrilling. I have read it twice, got an extremely vivid nightmare out of it and can’t help wondering what will happen next, so you can tell that it has given me a very strong impression.


The fics can be found at An Archive of Our Own and Livejournal

General information and masterlists

This journal is mostly about fanfiction. And about fandom and fanart and books. There may be a few more personal posts, but they are always f-locked. This journal is where I post my fanfic first, elsewhere you may found them under the nicks Dancingsalome (Teaspoon, AOU) and Salomedancing (ff.net). At the moment I am on a tremendous Doctor Who-trip, so the focus is on that excellent TV-show. I love talking about fanfiction, or fandom in general and I always enjoy finding friends who likes that too. If you friend me, you will be friended back.

On a more personal note, I'm Swedish, a librarian, married, owned by both cats and dogs.

Please note that many of my fics are darkfics, angsty and often with potential triggering subjects. Pay attention to the warnings. I talk a bit more about why I write what I write about in this post. I also talk about my writing in an interview for The Doctor Who Fanfic Review, part 1 and part 2.

Fandom I written in, for now, are Doctor Who (classic & new), Penny Dreadful, Peter Pan, Sleepy Hollow (the Movie), Harry Potter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Historian/Dracula, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel, Elizabeth of the New Moon and The Mummy.

Masterlist for Doctor Who-fanfiction

Masterlist for multi-fandomfiction

Masterlist for Peter Pan-fanfiction

Feedback is much appreciated.

List over fanfiction recs