Snowflake Challenge: Day 7

Day 7

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

This book is wonderful in about all the ways a book can be. First, let's talk about the beauty of Pulley's writing. It's spare, without a word out of place, but so, so richly descriptive. Here's our main character, Thaniel, on page 15 discussing filing mandatory wills with a coworker while they wait to see if Irish separatists make good on a bomb threat against their employer:

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Just, guh.

Not since Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief have I read a book that gets so much better with each read. I'll never be able to re-experience the initial discovery of reading Watchmaker for the first time but having read it three times now, I realise how ridiculously tightly plotted it is with each new read. I never skim; if I'm reading something I'm reading it damn closely, and it's a rare book where I miss things on the second read, to say nothing of the first.

And Pulley is a joy; she never tells you anything. She just quietly shows (and boy does she know how to show) and trusts her readers are smart enough and careful enough to catch it. Here are some of my favorite examples of this with bonus gushing. If you haven't already, READ THE BOOK FIRST. You won't regret it. Now having properly caveated, ( Bonus gushing. )

TL;DR: Pulley is talented. Watchmaker is damn good. Read it.

これで以上です。

Snowflake Challenge: Day 6

Day 6

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Start a fandom! I personally have spent a goodly amount of time going, Where are the Ouchou Romanse Moroe/Narushige/Senju threesome fics? and, If only someone would write fanfic from Naono Bohra djs about Karaku and Kichiza and the gang.

Maybe the trick is that if one person starts the ball rolling, other people who've been thinking the same thing will come out of the woodwork. They'll probably never be large fandoms, or even particularly active (especially if the source material is older), but they'll be bigger than they were before. And sharing the love is good!

これで以上です。