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281 | brief Battleship 2024 thoughts + many many recs! (both art + fic)
Thursday, 1 August 2024 08:29 pmDropping by with a lot of recs for Battleship 2024! I had so much fun this year—I was on Team Crystal, and it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had with Battleship, which is saying something, considering that it’s been my favorite fandom event since I first joined in back in 2022!
(…I also sacrificed far more sleep to the game than I ever have before;;; The number of nights with <5 hours of sleep were… not nonzero. But each and every one of them was absolutely worth it <3)
We’re still in the anon period currently—it’s a two week anon period rather than the usual one, which I was grateful for, because with a collection of over 2000 works*, including four million words of fic, over 300 pieces of art, and nearly 200 podfics, I definitely needed that time to make my way through it!
(*More than Yuletide! Created in a barely-longer-than-two-weeks period! We truly all lost our collective minds/chill this year, and it was great <3)
I “only” read about 200K of those words, according to my reading & media tracking spreadsheet, but it still took some days to get through it all, haha. And who knows how much art I looked at…
But there truly were so many amazing gems in the collection. For the sake of making this long list somewhat comprehensible, I’m going to be splitting this up into several sections: my gifts, then my personal top three works (both fic and art) that made me absolutely lose my mind in the best way, then the rest of my fic recs, and finally the rest of my art recs, all organized alphabetically by fandom.
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First off, my gifts! ( more beneath the cut )
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Next up, my top favorites. This is not to say that I didn’t love and adore the other things I’m reccing below as well, but these three things truly made me lose my mind. So much (internal) screaming and (external) flailing and oh my god, I can’t believe these were created in this short period of time??? ( also beneath the cut )
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Now, for the other fic recs! In alphabetical order by fandom.I originally wanted to make a short comment about each piece like I did with the art recs below, but I’ve run out of steam, so please just have a simple list instead.( beneath the cut )
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Finally, the remaining art recs, including some I was very tempted to include in the top recs section, before I decided that I would restrict that section to only three works.
This is unfortunately incomplete (and heavily weighted towards OW), in that I foolishly didn’t think to save links to the artworks I looked at when I first started making my way through the collection, and now feel rather ;;;;; at the thought of digging through my history to find them. But even with those restrictions, I found a lot to recommend!
( also beneath the cut )
(…I also sacrificed far more sleep to the game than I ever have before;;; The number of nights with <5 hours of sleep were… not nonzero. But each and every one of them was absolutely worth it <3)
We’re still in the anon period currently—it’s a two week anon period rather than the usual one, which I was grateful for, because with a collection of over 2000 works*, including four million words of fic, over 300 pieces of art, and nearly 200 podfics, I definitely needed that time to make my way through it!
(*More than Yuletide! Created in a barely-longer-than-two-weeks period! We truly all lost our collective minds/chill this year, and it was great <3)
I “only” read about 200K of those words, according to my reading & media tracking spreadsheet, but it still took some days to get through it all, haha. And who knows how much art I looked at…
But there truly were so many amazing gems in the collection. For the sake of making this long list somewhat comprehensible, I’m going to be splitting this up into several sections: my gifts, then my personal top three works (both fic and art) that made me absolutely lose my mind in the best way, then the rest of my fic recs, and finally the rest of my art recs, all organized alphabetically by fandom.
*
First off, my gifts! ( more beneath the cut )
*
Next up, my top favorites. This is not to say that I didn’t love and adore the other things I’m reccing below as well, but these three things truly made me lose my mind. So much (internal) screaming and (external) flailing and oh my god, I can’t believe these were created in this short period of time??? ( also beneath the cut )
*
Now, for the other fic recs! In alphabetical order by fandom.
*
Finally, the remaining art recs, including some I was very tempted to include in the top recs section, before I decided that I would restrict that section to only three works.
This is unfortunately incomplete (and heavily weighted towards OW), in that I foolishly didn’t think to save links to the artworks I looked at when I first started making my way through the collection, and now feel rather ;;;;; at the thought of digging through my history to find them. But even with those restrictions, I found a lot to recommend!
( also beneath the cut )