Community Recs Post!

[glitteryv]

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanarts/fancrafts/fanvids/podfics/fics/some other kind of fanwork have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Comments

[delphi]

A rec-in-progress (aka a rec for an active WiP):

The Island by triedunture (Our Flag Means Death, Stede Bonnet/Izzy Hands + Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach + Izzy Hands/Edward Teach, rated E, 49k words to date) is currently up to 11/? chapters of clever and sweet parallel universe crossing.

It starts with Stede waking up post-canon in the inn he's building with Ed. Only it isn't an inn, it's a homestead. And it isn't Ed in bed with him—it's Izzy. It soon becomes clear (with a nice bit of sea-metaphor fantasy that slots into the canon well) that two Stedes from parallel universes have inadvertently switched places. We then follow canon Stede as he tries to get home to Ed while also learning more about Izzy and about the version of himself that exists in this other world where the events of season 2 went differently. I have a weakness for well-thought-out canon divergence and parallel universes, and for the amnesia trope—and while this isn't an amnesia story per se, it scratches that same itch for me of a character rediscovering their own life through fresh eyes. All told, this is so far some great execution of some of my favourite ways to remix a canon or a character in fic.

[glitteryv]

The magic of fic is that aspect of remixing canons or characters in such fascinating ways. Thank you for reccing this fic. :D

[delphi]

That's a great way to put it! Very happy to share.