#dandelion recs

[anonymousdandelion]

“Apparently Fiddler on the Roof’s opening song was specifically about rushing to get ready for Shabbat. It was transformed into “Tradition” because the original wasn’t sufficiently relatable. A shame, it’s a great song!”

Fellow Yidden... we were robbed. This is so good. And so much better than what the show ended up with.

(And the notion that it was “not sufficiently relatable” is how you can tell that Fiddler was really not written for a Jewish audience. This is quite possibly the most relatable song I have ever heard in my entire life.)

[anonymousdandelion]

Sometimes I'm feeling discouraged about the world, and then I just find myself thinking about that moment in @dduane's High Wizardry (third book in the Young Wizards series) where

[spoiler for a book you should most definitely read if you haven't already]

a human, in a last-ditch attempt to persuade the party of newborn sentient AI robots she built that organic life is worth preserving, provides a "data transfer" consisting of the whole of her life's experiences...

then despairs upon the realization that in so doing she has also exposed them to the pain that comes with life, the grief and fear and cruelty and hurting, and surely it's all over now, any chance of proving that "slowlife" is worth it has been irreparably lost...

but then, oh, but then.

“Now we see what these ‘heart’ things she gave us are for.” That was Gigo. Good kid, Dairine thought weakly, good baby. You tell ‘em.

“And what entropy does, and what it cannot touch, ever.” That was Beanpole, the silly looking thing—where did he get such a voice? “Not all the evils and deaths it makes possible can touch the joys that run through it. We will have those too.”

“We will not stop that joy,” said Monitor. “Not for a nanosecond.”

...thank you, @dduane, for the reminder that hearts are worthwhile, and there is joy.

[anonymousdandelion]

Guess the Author: Music

It's Guess the Author time once again! This month, our starting prompt was "Music," and the AO3 collection has a rocking nineteen mini Good Omens fanfics (500 words or shorter).

Currently (and through Wednesday), everything in the collection is anonymously authored — so if you want to try your hand at guessing, now's your chance! One is written by me. The others are by @reblog-house, @ineffableomenshusbands, @ineffable-doll, @luminarygardens, @edosianorchids901, @fenrislorsrai, @pueblodelosgatos, @geometricfractal, @ineffableghost, @hasturswig, @kanna-ophelia, Luinlothana, @mirjam-writes, @ngkiscool, pilatesandpinot, @prettybirdy979, @supergeek21, and @the-bentley.

Having read all of them, I can say with confidence that every one is lovely. It is well worth checking out the collection to read and appreciate some or all of the works included therein!

And as always, new soft-loving Good Omens fans are welcome to join us in the Soft Omens Snuggle House if you want to join in the fluff and fun!

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[anonymousdandelion]

Guess the Author: Desserts

For any Good Omens fans in the mood for some sweet, bite-sized desserts in the form of fanfic: the November prompt for the Soft Omens Snuggle House Discord's Guess the Author game was "crêpes and other desserts", and we've got a delightful collection of fifteen fics on the table!

One of them was written by me — though my lips are sealed as to which one. :-) The other fourteen are by the talented @ineffableomenshusbands, @ineffable-doll, @edosianorchids901, @fenrislorsrai, Flores_de_Junio, @geometricfractal, @ineffableghost, @kanna-ophelia, Luinlothana, @ngkiscool, pilatesandpinot, @prettybirdy979, @supergeek21, and @the-bentley.

I very much recommend exploring this collection and giving the anonymous authors some love! And if you want to join in the guessing, well, you have until tomorrow to try to figure out who wrote what.

(The session of supportive screaming about fics, followed by author reveals, will take place at 1 PM CST — and feel free to join us in the SOSH server if you want to be part of it! <3)

[anonymousdandelion]

just came back from Angels Dancing and ooohhhh thats so warm and fuzzy and calmly intimate, also i love that they're hooved and chicken-toed, and the use of it/its, and the name Little Ash- its very endearing,, all of it, very nice

Ahhh, thank you so much!! This is the sweetest note, and it made my morning <3 and I'm so glad you enjoyed the fic.

None of those details (hooves/claws/pronouns/names) were my own idea (though they were @kuttithevangu's!), so if you enjoyed the characters and vibes, I VERY highly recommend reading When the Angels Left the Old Country if you haven't already.

...Especially because since I gather you like glossaries, you'll love the official eleven-page glossary at the end of the book. ;)

[anonymousdandelion]

Hello! This is random, but I'm home on a sick day today and was browsing old comments left on my fics because that usually gives me a nice pick me up, and I noticed some tags you'd put in a bookmark on one of my fics that were seriously SO SWEET AND KIND and it was like way back in January, but gah it was literally exactly what I needed to see today! So this is extremely belated (😅) but thank you so much! ☺☺☺ it made an enormous difference on an otherwise blegh day! 🤗

Hi! Aww, you are so very welcome. I'm sorry about your blegh day — but very glad that my bookmark notes could make a difference by providing a bit of a boost when you needed one. <3

Just for the record, whatever I said in the bookmark in January remains true now; all of your writing is absolutely wonderful!

And thank you as well for your message; it was such a sweet, lovely surprise to discover in my inbox. Been having something of a less-than-wonderful time myself for other reasons, and honestly, I think this was exactly what I needed to hear today. The cycle of kind words: the very best kind of cycle. :)

Wishing you well, and hoping you feel better soon!

(And as a side note for anyone else seeing this: if you like Good Omens whump, hurt/comfort, and ace-friendly love in fanfiction, I definitely recommend checking out 29Pieces's AO3 works here!)