maidenjedi | Snowflake Challenge - Day 2, 2019 (Reply)

Day 2 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create

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fahye - This is THE Jurassic World aftermath story, imho. Canon. It was a Yuletide 2015 story that wiped the field clean. It's Claire/Owen in a sweet, aching sort of way. Claire having coffee with Lex. A lot of tech-speak that rights wrongs and sets the story firmly in the original Crichton-verse. I re-read this every so often and it always feels like the first time.

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thedevilchicken - Obi-Wan POV. Obi-Wan/Padme. My favorite non-canon ship in all its doomed and beautifully painful glory. It's also really hot. Even if you don't think you ship Obi-Wan and Padme, it's worth a read.

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tree - The only other time a fanfiction story turned me on to the original canon, instead of the reverse, was with an old Harry Potter story. Tree's Walt and Vic are so pitch-perfect they set the standard - no other Walt or Vic could measure up, they are so perfectly themselves. This story, with a fun alphabet conceit that almost melts away completely to leave the story perfectly exposed, is one of my favorite reads of the last two years.