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In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So, this is a weird thing to say, but recs are hard for me. I don't want to have to say that, but I have this weird thing where:

(1) I can't REMEMBER anything, so I have often consumed AMAZING fanworks and knew they were AMAZING fanworks and then sort of...forgotten they existed. Which is sad, but I sometimes go through my AO3 bookmarks like "what IS this?" and it turns out it was a really great work that had a lot of impact on me and I had forgotten it and I read it again and it seems vaguely familiar but it's not this instant recognition thing. Bright side, I get to enjoy it again.

(2) in many instances I can't parse things. I'm on the autism spectrum, which means I see things as sort of universally good or universally bad (or in this case "enjoyed" or "didn't enjoy") which makes it hard to assign relative rankings to works. So something that is SO AMAZINGLY IMPACTFUL often gets ranked the same as something that was pretty good, but not overly memorable.

(3) I never know how to tell people WHY I enjoyed a work or WHAT I enjoyed, I just sort of...know I enjoyed it. Like...this affected me in some way and therefore I connected to it. I don't usually ask why. I'm a highly emotional person so if something tugged at an emotion or made me connect to it in some cryptic way, it becomes "I like this thing" and I just let that be what it is.

That said, there are works I come back to from time to time, so I will share those with you here. I will probably miss some, but here are ones I know for sure impacted me in some way for some reason. Due to point 3, they are offered with minimal explanation because the only thing I will have for you consistently is "they were good and I liked them" which is unhelpful.

I encourage you to check all these out and leave feedback, especially since many of them are in smaller fandoms or are older works or are podfics and probably need your love.

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itsadrizzit: Amy Pond from Vincent and the Doctor (Default)
Title: Truth or Dare (Part 1)
Author: [profile] melungeoned|dollylux
Reader: itsadrizzit
Fandom: Football RPF (Spanish National Team)
Pairing: Sergio Ramos/Fernando Torres, Iker Casillas/Cesc Fàbregas, Xabi Alonso/Steven Gerrard, Iker Casillas/Sergio Ramos, David Beckham/Iker Casillas, David Silva/David Villa, Raúl González/José María Gutiérrez
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Sergio Ramos, Fernando Torres, Iker Casillas, and Cesc Fábregas play an on-going game of Truth or Dare whenever they meet up for La Seléccion.
Notes: Part 1 of 6. This covers chapters 1 - 6 of the original fic.

Thanks so much to Dollylux for writing this and for giving me permission to record it. Despite being a Dutchie, all the sad pictures of Iker at WK2014 basically just broke my heart so much that I had to go seek out some fic. This was getting posted here on AO3 at the same time and it was simultaneously everything I needed and even more heartbreaking in places. I consumed it obsessively (making myself late for work on more than one occasion) until it was over, and then I read it again. Safe to say this fic changed my life...and now all of a sudden (much to the dismay of my Hotspur-loving family) I go out of my way to watch the Chelsea match every weekend just so I can coo at Cesc.

Was recording this fic a little self-indulgent? Yes. But it's one of the most beautiful, life changing things I ever read and the more time I spend with it, the deeper down this well I fall. And I'm loving every second of it.


Truth or Dare Part 1 Podfic Cover

Length: 01:20:24


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