Snowflake Day 3 - recs

[amberdreams]

Finally getting round to Day 3, which was to make 3 recs for fanworks. So very tough after some 10 years in fandom to narrow it down to only three! So this is, by necessity, a somewhat random selection, taken from my most recent bookmarks on AO3.

NB, just because they are my recent bookmarks doesn't mean they are all recent fics!!

1. Memory is a Fickle Siren Song by sleepypercy.

Official summary: Sam’s trying to pretend he’s getting by, that he doesn’t feel guilty for walking out on his family to go to college, when Dean shows up with no memory of who he is or that they’re even brothers.

This was my gift in this year's snj2xmas exchange and beautifully combines at least three tropes that I love - amnesia, first times and Stanford era. It is sad, funny and the happy ending is only happy in the Winchester sense. I.e. kind of angsty! If you're still catching up on the fills over there, make sure you read this one!

2. Cartography of Empty Spaces by ignipes.

Official summary: "Nobody is looking," she tells him. "The world has already forgotten you."
This is a series, and most folk will probably have read these a long time ago, as they were written back in 2007. But I only discovered this author recently and so I'm busy catching up with her back catalogue. This particular set of stories features a Dean who is very damaged (torture and amnesia), and deals with both Sam and Dean coping with the aftermath of the trauma Dean's suffered. In some ways this is the post Hell scenario we never got from the show (without Dean actually having been to the Biblical version of Hell).

This writer is the author Kali Wallace, who has now published two novels. I've just started reading the first of these too, Shallow Graves. Thanks to tsuki_no_bara for the heads up about these!

3. Mirror, Mirror by nomelon.

Another old one, from 2010, but it's so good... Official summary: A dark tale of the lengths Sam will go to to save Dean.

And that's pretty much it. Set in the gloriously angsty days of Season 3, it's an alternative view of Sam's efforts to save Dean from Hell, and has a lovely twist at the end. I do love me some dark Sam.


I feel now I should also do a separate art rec post - which reminds me, I was doing those a while back. Maybe I should revive them.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Reccing old fic is essential--otherwise how will new people in the fandom find it?

[mekare]

Thank you for these recs, the first one especially sounds like just the thing! Also, yes yes yes to the art rec posts!

[fufaraw]

I will definitely check out the other two recs, but Cartography has always been a favorite (and a rec) of mine. I had no idea the author was published, or under what name, so this news is welcome! Thank you!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank tsuki_no_bara, she was the one who told me they were the same person! :D

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs, my dear. So now I know what to read this morning :-))

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Yay, three fics i haven't read! Thanks so much for the recs, I've added them to my list.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Hope you like them!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Yay for recs - thank you! And well done for doing this, it's a bit of nightmare with a fandom as big as ours!!!