Stories for a winter's night

I've finally finished the Snowflake Challenge this year with the following entries:

Day 1 - A personal Recommendation of my own works.
Day 2 - Fannish things I'd like.
Day 3 - My creative process.
Day 4 - Spreading the love or People You've Never Interacted With Before.
Day 5 - Fannish Origin Story
Day 6 - Create a fanwork. For this part of the challenge, I wrote the first chapter for my Transformers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe story. It's coming along nicely and it should be good! :)
Day 7 - Favourite Trope
Day 8 - Love Meme, or Why should you love me!
Day 9- Surprising Things About Fandom
Day 10 - Playing with something new. For this part of the challenge, I wrote my first ever Captain Marvel/Billy Batson story.
Day 11 Fannish Resources
Day 12 - What I bring to Fandom
Day 13 - Recommend a creator
Day 14 Recommending someone else's works.
Day 15 - Creating your own challenge

This was actually the first year that I completed all of the aspects of the challenge. Sort of. I bowed out of day 2 because I just didn't feel comfortable asking for anything. Though in retrospect, I think I might have asked for some of the rarer pairings that I enjoy. Like Onslaught/Prowl, or Onslaught/Soundwave, or Onslaught/Megatron ... yeah, there's a trend forming here and I think that i'll need to come up with some bunnies for those pairings.

This year was hard, just like last year, but I think I did better this year. There was less pity-partying and more positivity on my part. I think that I'm starting to feel more comfortable in fandom in general and in my own work as a writer. It's a start and I plan on keeping it up this year. Onward and Upward! Right?

( Day 9 In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) but you ended up loving. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. )

And there they are. My three reccs that I never thought I'd like.

Okay, so attempt number 2 because my stupid computer decided to eat my post ...




Day 5

In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

( Answer under the cut )