Snowflake Challenge 2024 #13

Challenge #13

Make a rec list! Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I have three recs for fanfic I’ve read recently! Here we go:


The Bargeman of Dixing (being a variant account of Shen Wei at the Pillar of Heaven and what happened thereafter) by Martha
Fandom: Zhen Hun / Guardian (drama)

Ao3 Summary: Shen Wei does eventually get down from that pillar, and everything takes a hard left straight out of canon.

WIP. As the name and summary suggest, it diverges when Shen Wei is chained to the pillar.
This has been so much fun to follow along. When I get an email that Bargeman updated, I drop everything and read immediately.
It has lots of organic worldbuilding for Dixing and YOHE, a delightfully broken Ye Zun, and Weilan deserve each other in all the best ways.


The Bachelor by blue_grama
Fandom: KinnPorsche: The Series

Ao3 Summary: It’s Pete who explains, the next morning over breakfast, because of course the news has spread all over the compound. “Haven’t you ever watched a mob movie?” he asks Porsche, gesticulating with a spoon. “They have all the money they could ever need, but they can never get respectability. The old-money types look down on them. The new-money types take their bribes, but they don’t let them into the inner circle. This is public relations.”

“A kinder, gentler mob?” Porsche laughs. “Come on.”

“They’ll use it to look nonthreatening, highlight the legitimate businesses, that sort of thing,” Pete says. He lowers his voice. “Everyone knows the Theerapanyakuls are dirty, but if they’re on television, how dirty can they be, right? And… I don’t know, but Khun Korn is strange about Khun Kinn’s love life. Maybe he’s trying to keep him in line somehow.”

This fic features the characters participating in a reality show, but it’s not actually an AU – these are the actual mafia-member characters who simply decided appearing in trash TV is a good idea. It’s exactly as good an idea as you might be thinking :P
It’s funny and goofy and dramatic – just as it should be!


More than Expected by JhanaMay
Fandom: Under the Skin

Ao3 Summary: He’s not complaining. Really, he’s not. Sex with Du Cheng is amazing. It’s a connection to another person Shen Yi never knew was possible. He’s had plenty of sex in his life, but it’s never been like this. It’s never been with someone who Shen Yi is self-aware enough to know he’s fallen for. The idea is both exhilarating and terrifying.

And so, here he is, standing outside his boyfriend’s apartment with a bag of sex toys, hoping he can talk Du Cheng into using them. Into not treating him as if he’s made of glass. Yes, sex with Du Cheng is fantastic, but sometimes, Shen Yi wants to be fucked so hard he feels it the next day. Is that too much to ask?

A down-to-earth/slice-of-life mild BDSM oneshot. This fic is not only piping hot, it also captures the experience of convincing your partner to break the routine of vanilla sex really well.