Snowflake Challenge - Day 10

[gothikmaus]

Challenge # 10

In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) 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.

How can I choose only one?! Well, for sentimentality's sake, I'll say the Vegas Lights series by Midna_Ronoa on AO3, because it's one of the first works I've read in the CSI fandom and I would love to read more instalments of it.

And I'll add another one. I'm currently reading The Fourth Horseman by The_She_Devil, a Nick/Greg fic set in the middle of a pandemic. The eerie thing is that this story was written well before the outbreak of COVID, but the evolution of the pandemic in the first few chapters is really quite similar to what actually happened, and the "strategies" used to prevent the spread of the disease are the same ones that have been put in place in the last two years: from generic suggestions to wear masks and wash hands, to quarantine for infected people and night curfew. Of course the story is much more dystopic than what happened in the real world, but all the similarities really hit me. I'm almost halfway through it, and I really, really hope there will be a happy ending, because Nick and Greg are suffering so much in this. 😭

Please, check the tags before reading the second fic. I put off reading it until two days ago because of the tags, but I must admit it's really well written. I just hope the ending won't be too tragic. 😭

EDIT: And another one, because I really needed something happy and fluffy after thinking of that second story: i tell myself i'm not in love (but one more time is not enough) . This is also one of the first Nick/Greg fics I've read, it's a little angsty at the beginning, but just so, so sweet. And there's a bit that has stuck with me ever since I read it for the first time:

"No one will ever be as cute as we were, Nicky."

What can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic.

Comments

[goddess47]

And I'm also a hopeless romantic, so you're in good company! ;-) And you're also not alone in giving more than one rec.

It can be scary, reading pandemic-related fic, especially one written before our current predicament. Thank you for highlighting the warnings, that's always useful.

Thanks you for sharing these with us!

[gothikmaus]

Giving recs is always difficult for me, I never know what to choose, but picking only one would've been impossible!