Fanwork Recs — August 2nd, 2018

[helloladies]

Fanwork is awesome and sharing fanwork is even more awesome. Join us as we keymash and squee over our favorite fanwork, from fic (both written and podfic) to art to vids and meta and back again.

If you find something you love, we encourage you to comment/favorite and let the creator know you enjoyed their work. :D o/

Recommendations included:

• Crossover: No Reservations/Chronicles of Narnia — fic (1)


• MCU — art (2)


• Uncharted — vid (1)

KJ

[FIC] [No Reservations/The Chronicles of Narnia] No Reservations: Narnia by edonohana (6,228) (Anthony Bourdain, Reepicheep)

This fic is several years old (from Yuletide 2010), but I'd never seen it before. It's a delightful mashup of the Narnia setting (and characters that are immediately recognizable despite being mostly OCs) and Bourdain's distinctive style and voice. I presume the story is making the rounds again because of Bourdain's recent passing; though written well before his death, I still found it a fitting tribute to his memory, and a comfort and joy to read.

Susan

[ART] [MCU] "when I was young i wanted to become a valkyrie" by greatsenpai (Thor, Valkyrie)

This is a really cute picture of little baby Thor being utterly flustered by Valkyrie.

[ART] [MCU] TITLE by alicexz (Killmonger)

Oh wow, the colours and style of this one are incredible! I love this painterly look, and it's a gorgeous piece.

[VID] [Uncharted] UNCHARTED – Live Action Fan Film (2018) directed by Allan Ungar (14:48) (Ensemble)

I was pretty sceptical about casting Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake, but it... Actually works? It feels very much like the game, from Nate getting knocked about to his and Elena's pure joy about history, and once the shooting started, they did start filming it like the game, which was really cool! But from the writing to the filming to the plot (and yes, to the fact that all of the not-white people are trying to kill Nathan Drake, thanks guys), it feels like the opening to an Uncharted game, so it has won me over.

What fanwork have you loved recently?

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I presume the story is making the rounds again because of Bourdain's recent passing

That, and then a charming little piece in the New Yorker revealing that yes, Bourdain did read it (which then spread to Metafilter and AV Club, thus disseminating the fic to even more people):

https://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/2208784.html (rachelmanija is happy to link Rachel Manija Brown and Edonohana -- this is her reaction post to the New Yorker piece)
http://links.newyorker.mkt4334.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTM5NDA2MzMS1&r=MTMzMTgyNjUwOTIyS0&j=MTQ0MjE4MDk1MQS2&mt=1&rt=0
https://www.metafilter.com/175591/Yes-Anthony-Bourdain-did-eventually-read-No-Reservations-Narnia
https://news.avclub.com/anthony-bourdain-did-in-fact-read-that-fan-fiction-ab-1827934859

[owlmoose]

Thanks for the links! That is indeed a sweet little article.