Teeth and Bones: A Guardian Dire Pandas Challenge

Welcome!

Ever since melannen mentioned that dire pandas existed around 10,000 years ago and therefore would fix right into Ye Olde Haxing, I have wanted Guardian fanworks with dire pandas. I have talked about this with other fans and I’m not the only person who thinks that this would be fun. So I’m hosting an event! Please come and create dire panda fanworks with me!

Fanworks can be as silly or serious as you desire. Any type of fanwork is allowed. There’s no minimum word count or pixel size or anything like that. Works inspired by the drama, the novel, or RPF are all allowed. WIPs, continuations of existing works, and work for other events are all fine. I’m aiming to make this fun and low pressure. Prompts and cute pictures of pandas are not only allowed but encouraged.

How It Works:

•Please put your creation, or the link to your creation, in a comment to this post.
•Any type of fanwork, all pairings, 'verse, lengths and ratings are welcome.
•You may leave prompts and cute pictures of pandas (dire or otherwise) in the comments.

I will update this post with a list of all works created for this challenge. On October 16 I’ll post a round up of everything that has been created so far, but the challenge will not close, and anything that gets posted after that will still be linked to in the main post. If there’s enough additional fanworks after the 1st round up I may post a second round up at some point.

Works:
Pandemonium by china_shop
Dire Straits by lunabee34
If you go down in the woods today by yantantether
Dire Panda Icons! by china_shop
PANDAnt by starriewolf
Overgrown by frith_in_thorns

Recent Media: Trees, Letters and Siblings

Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts by Joanna Russ -- I enjoyed reading To Write Like a Woman despite it being strange time travel enough to check out another book of Russ’ essays from the library. I’ve only read one of these so far but it was much more personal that the essays in To Write Like a Woman which was good but also made for really intense reading.

Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee -- a lot of these are backstory of characters in The Machineries of Empire which is fun since I like those characters. Most of these stories are also very short which is nice for dipping into when I don’t have much time. The last story is new Novella but I haven’t gotten there yet. I’m also enjoying the author notes after each story, which talk it about how and when each story was written.

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh This fantasy novella was very much my thing It had tree magic, and coppicing and a bad ass mom! There’s a also a cute m/m romance -- which despite what it looks like in the beginning is not actually tenant/landlord. (Which is good because the power imbalance there isn’t something I’d enjoy)

The Untamed eps 43-50 I finished this! I enjoyed the whole thing, including the ending. The sibling stuff that I was enjoying so much continued to be interesting and dramatic right until the end. As I’ve said in earlier media round ups this was very swooshy. I loved the aesthetics of it -- there were pretty costumes, pretty scenery and pretty sword fights. I also really liked the characters frith_in_thorns described the main character Wei Wuxian as being like Miles Vorkosigan and I think that's super apt.
(Content note: gore, zombies, bad things happening to kids and teens)

Nirvana in Fire eps 28-32 R was traveling over labor day so we have not gotten to watch very much of this. The angst level has really increased in the last couple of episodes!

Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty -- so I was complaining about dead moms in YA on twitter again and one of my friends recommended this book. It was really good and sweet! It’s an epistolary novel, focusing on letters between two girls in Australia one who goes to a private school and one who goes to public school a few blocks away. But there are also letters from other people and form things like “the society of teenagers”. (I’m not quite sure where these are coming from -- you just have to accept them as some type of fabulism). I really enjoyed the focus on friendship and the mother daughter relationship. (content note: animal death, attempted sucide)