forestofglory

It's my birthday so I thought I'd host a rec party. I love both giving and receiving recs! It's fun to tell people about things I love and it's fun to discover new things that other people love.

So in the comments either recommend something you think I'd like or ask for a rec. Or both, both is good too.

You can rec or ask for recs of books, short fiction, fanfic, vids, music, meta, manga, recipes or anything else that comes to mind.

I'm always interested in cool ecological worldbuiling; fiction with lots of food; architectural and urban planning themes; and stories about moms. However don’t feel limited by this list I’m happy to hear about all kinds of things you like. Please do warn for dead moms and children in peril. If you want to see what I've been into recently you can check out my media roundup tag.

Happy recing!

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From:

alexseanchai

Embers by Vathara (start with "Theft Absolute") includes a lot of what I think falls under the heading of "ecological worldbuilding". It's an Avatar: the Last Airbender AU; one of the points that comes up is, Air Nomads (before the war, of course) didn't know the difference between Earth Kingdom land, where dropping a herd of ten-ton flying beasts on the ground wasn't going to do any particular damage to the soil, and Fire Nation land, where a single sky bison tromping around a field might make the field impossible to grow things in for a couple years. Also, the OFC Amaya isn't Zuko's mother nor is she trying to be, but, like, that's not not how to think of her either? (There are both dead moms and children in peril, but those warnings apply to the canon, too. In fact, leaving out some original characters' mothers, all of whom died before the fic starts, and ignoring anything in comics or Korra, it's possible to argue that the dead-mom warning is less applicable to this fic than to canon.)

From:

forestofglory

Oh, I've had that on my ereader for a bit because it was mentioned on Be the Serpent. I didn't know it had ecology too! I'm a bit intimated by how long it is but it sounds really good.

I don't really understand FF.net how does the version there compare to what's on A03? (https://archiveofourown.org/works/3591783/chapters/7921653) The version I have is form there.

From:

alexseanchai

I have not read through the AO3 version to compare with, but I know for a fact the AO3 version did not have Vathara's name on when it went up.

From:

forestofglory

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you should read an compare. That's defiantly too much work! Hmmm... the AO3 version currently has note saying its their with the author's permission. I guess I'll have to do some digging and figure out what's going on. Drat, its much easier for me to read long fic on my ereader.

From:

jesse_the_k

FanFicFare is software to create ebooks from hundreds of fic sites, including fanfiction.net. It's what the AO3 now uses to create ebooks.

It's available as a webservice here:

https://fanficfare.appspot.com

You have to login with a google id -- it just uses this to minimize spam.

Go to a story's home page, copy the URL, and paste it into the box on FanFicFare. Choose mobi for Kindles and epub for others.

Submit the request, and then wait. FFN limits how many requests it accepts, so the FanFicFare service magically asks slowly. Keep the page open, and eventually it will tell you "Done!"
Plug in the FFN url and it will chew away and download