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Jun. 13th, 2021 06:45 pmI'm Gammarad on ao3. I love all my requests equally! Fill any one you want. (Requests at the bottom, copied from the form entries pretty much verbatim.)
LIKES:
Character, setting, and theme likes: cats (including cat-like fantasy creatures or spirits), aliens (including cat-like and human-like aliens as well as ones like nothing at all on Earth), friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, unusual settings, ancient history (BCE), science fiction, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
Gen (& relationship) likes: Loyalty - either one way or mutual, enemies who have a certain understanding, colleagues who rely on each other, colleagues who undermine each other, employee & employer relatioship either with loyalty or with one using the other, parent & child relationships with protectiveness, student & teacher relationships with mutual desire to learn, criminal & victim relationships with complexities, bounty hunter & target relationships where they have to be taken alive (or where the target is just that hard to kill), stranger & potential new friend (but also potential new threat) relationships, allies of convenience. One character noticing things about the other and sharing insights (or not, as their character dictates). Doing something meaningful without being asked. Bickering. Using someone's observed weakness against them. The way only someone close to them can hurt them like that.
Romantic (/ relationship) likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, equal partnerships, casual consensual D/s elements, different sorts of beings (like AI/human or vampire/human or AI/vampire or alien/different kind of alien, you get the idea) in love. Being able to see what makes that person the one they want. Being perfect for each other but not knowing it yet. Characters struggling to figure out how to show their love. Characters who have good reason to think the person they want isn't right for them but can't help it. Obsessive unhealthy love. Complicated relationships with give and take and balance issues. Canon poly.
Plotty likes: intelligent non-humans, learning to get along despite differences, working out misaligned goals. Myth inspired plots or fairy tale retellings, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, case or mission fic, noir style, pastiche of canon, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing. Happy for now endings, bittersweet endings, knowing what you have won't last forever, getting what they want and realizing it's not what they need, getting what they need even though it wasn't what they thought they wanted, taking what they can get in lieu of what they really need or want.
Smut likes: Older human characters having explicit sex. Saying with physical affection what they can't say out loud. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing). Sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. D/s (with equal amounts of experience or with the submissive person more experienced, I also like couples who switch who is dominant), vampires with sexy blood drinking, aliens with strange genitalia, robots or cyborgs with technological genitalia.
Style likes: I like a whole broad variety of styles. First person, second person, omniscient narrator (like a historian or telepath or seer or deity), same as canon, totally different from canon for reasons, carefully preserved realism, blend of realism vs fantastical elements, fourth wall breaking, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, main character viewpoint, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being. For all writing-style options, go with whatever best suits your personal style or your chosen story.
Dislikes - these are general DNWs that I have that may not apply in all cases - please be aware that request-specific DNWs from signup always trump this list:
-- face claims of real people for original characters (Drawings you made are wonderful and very welcome!)
-- incest (defined as *actual family members* closer than first cousins. Does not apply to 'like a brother' or 'childhood friends' or anything like that). Exception: immortal beings (example: Greek gods), in adult form.
-- explicit underage sex (sometimes exceptions for sex between two teens 16 and over, when requested).
-- noncon of underage victims
-- bulging or inflation kink
-- injury that includes exposed bone
-- serious injury or death of cats or cat-like creatures (exception: ghost cats are fine, and showing how they die and become ghosts is fine; it's also fine when a cat is a requested character and the scenario involves hurt/comfort for the cat)
-- "corrective" noncon of a person of any orientation; victims of noncon or dubcon stating that aggressor is of gender they aren't attracted to
-- feminization of one part of m/m pairing to make it more like het; masculinization of one part of f/f pairing to make it more like het; any discussion of who is "the girl" or "the man" etc in the ship. People who are gender non-conforming, feminine men, masculine women, butch women, etc, are all fine if it doesn't fall into that sort of thing. Exception for it happening canonically.
Prompts:
Time travel to fix something in the past results in visit to other canon
Time travel that forms a static looping - between canons
Rescuing a canon character or multiple canon characters from a non-canon peril
Rescuing a canon character or multiple canon characters from canonical peril
Attempting to rescue canon character and interfering with canonical rescue process
Canon-typical case/mission fic (but with the other canon playing a role)
Slice of life interrupted by sudden dimensional door to/from other canon
Romance between characters from different canons
Merge two canons and explain how they overlap / coexist
Origin story of a canon character as if they originated in another canon
Exploring a strange place that is supernaturally or sci-fi-ishly weird and surreal
Character from one canon goes into business in another canon to complain about employee
A canon character meets up with characters from another canon and they:
- are instantly in conflict per their respective goals/needs/preferences
- experience culture clash in amusing ways
- misunderstand each other but both think the other(s) are great! they're just *wrong*
- can't speak each other's language and try to figure out how to communicate
- instantly know the answer to the other side's thorniest problem - now what?
- ought to kill them immediately but don't for *reasons*
Show one side's idea of what's happening, then tell it from the other side's viewpoint and it's almost totally different
Amnesia, one canon character has forgotten they always knew the other canon existed
Character from one canon stalks character from other canon
Characters from different canon are exes; never thought they'd meet again
Copy of signup below! See per-request prompts, per-request DNWs, and allowed fandom combinations.
Request 1 by Gammarad
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski,
Jane Unlimited - Kristin Cashore,
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke,
October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Fic/Crossover
Strange houses and otherworld passages - And it's all in the state of mind, isn't it?
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender. Cats, aliens, artificial intelligences,
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- story told from the POV of the genius loci of one of the significant places from one of the canons
- meeting between two individuals each from one of the canons about a way to travel between their worlds
DNWs for this request: noncanonical underage sex; noncanonical incest; noncanonical deliberate animal cruelty; noncanonical cruelty to children by adults
Request 2 by Gammarad
The Broken Earth Series - N. K. Jemisin,
Medium (TV), Russian Doll (TV 2019),
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018),
The Endless (2017), Loki (TV 2021),
Sense8 (TV)
Fic/Crossover
Fic/Fusion
Canons where certain people have magic or psychic powers, or are seeing the past or future or reliving options of what could happen.
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender. Cats, aliens, artificial intelligences,
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- someone with a canonical problem from one canon goes to a person from another canon for advice on what to do
- someone persecuted in their canon tries to change the past in a way that might work in another canon
DNWs for this request: noncanonical underage sex; noncanonical incest; noncanonical deliberate animal cruelty; noncanonical cruelty to children by adults
Request 3 by Gammarad
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien,
The Rescuers (Movies),
Hamster Princess Series - Ursula Vernon
Fic/Crossover
rodent request!
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- rodent shenanigans
- fairy tale-esque situation leads to meeting between characters from different canons
DNWs for this request: any explicit sex; cats as villains; cruelty to cats
Request 4 by Gammarad
The Culture - Iain M. Banks,
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie,
The Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith,
Solaris - All Media Types,
Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein,
Dark Matter (TV),
Steven Universe (Cartoon),
On a Sunbeam (Graphic Novel),
Captain Marvel (2019)
Fic/Crossover
science fiction - in space - space opera - spaceships!
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- a ship sends a SOS after a weird occurrence disables it in space; another ship responds
- a ship or shuttle crashes or emergency-lands on a planet and meets strangers
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
Request 5 by Gammarad
Dark City (1998),
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
To the Moon Series (Video Games),
SCP Foundation,
The Mentalist
Fic/Crossover
unreliable narrators and memory redaction -- in a variety of media and styles.
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- a character needs to forget a piece of knowledge - or recover one that's been forgotten - for life-or-death reason (or so emotionally compelled that it might as well be)
- two characters from different canons meet after forgetting each other - rediscover how they used to be connected
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
Request 6 by Gammarad
The Queen's Gambit (TV),
Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Fic/Crossover
Two very different adaptations of Walter Tevis novels
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- Beth finds out one of her parents was an alien from Anthea, what does this mean for her?
- Beth and/or some of her chess buddies rescue Newton from the government agents and save him from his canonical fate
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
LIKES:
Character, setting, and theme likes: cats (including cat-like fantasy creatures or spirits), aliens (including cat-like and human-like aliens as well as ones like nothing at all on Earth), friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, unusual settings, ancient history (BCE), science fiction, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
Gen (& relationship) likes: Loyalty - either one way or mutual, enemies who have a certain understanding, colleagues who rely on each other, colleagues who undermine each other, employee & employer relatioship either with loyalty or with one using the other, parent & child relationships with protectiveness, student & teacher relationships with mutual desire to learn, criminal & victim relationships with complexities, bounty hunter & target relationships where they have to be taken alive (or where the target is just that hard to kill), stranger & potential new friend (but also potential new threat) relationships, allies of convenience. One character noticing things about the other and sharing insights (or not, as their character dictates). Doing something meaningful without being asked. Bickering. Using someone's observed weakness against them. The way only someone close to them can hurt them like that.
Romantic (/ relationship) likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, equal partnerships, casual consensual D/s elements, different sorts of beings (like AI/human or vampire/human or AI/vampire or alien/different kind of alien, you get the idea) in love. Being able to see what makes that person the one they want. Being perfect for each other but not knowing it yet. Characters struggling to figure out how to show their love. Characters who have good reason to think the person they want isn't right for them but can't help it. Obsessive unhealthy love. Complicated relationships with give and take and balance issues. Canon poly.
Plotty likes: intelligent non-humans, learning to get along despite differences, working out misaligned goals. Myth inspired plots or fairy tale retellings, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, case or mission fic, noir style, pastiche of canon, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing. Happy for now endings, bittersweet endings, knowing what you have won't last forever, getting what they want and realizing it's not what they need, getting what they need even though it wasn't what they thought they wanted, taking what they can get in lieu of what they really need or want.
Smut likes: Older human characters having explicit sex. Saying with physical affection what they can't say out loud. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing). Sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. D/s (with equal amounts of experience or with the submissive person more experienced, I also like couples who switch who is dominant), vampires with sexy blood drinking, aliens with strange genitalia, robots or cyborgs with technological genitalia.
Style likes: I like a whole broad variety of styles. First person, second person, omniscient narrator (like a historian or telepath or seer or deity), same as canon, totally different from canon for reasons, carefully preserved realism, blend of realism vs fantastical elements, fourth wall breaking, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, main character viewpoint, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being. For all writing-style options, go with whatever best suits your personal style or your chosen story.
Dislikes - these are general DNWs that I have that may not apply in all cases - please be aware that request-specific DNWs from signup always trump this list:
-- face claims of real people for original characters (Drawings you made are wonderful and very welcome!)
-- incest (defined as *actual family members* closer than first cousins. Does not apply to 'like a brother' or 'childhood friends' or anything like that). Exception: immortal beings (example: Greek gods), in adult form.
-- explicit underage sex (sometimes exceptions for sex between two teens 16 and over, when requested).
-- noncon of underage victims
-- bulging or inflation kink
-- injury that includes exposed bone
-- serious injury or death of cats or cat-like creatures (exception: ghost cats are fine, and showing how they die and become ghosts is fine; it's also fine when a cat is a requested character and the scenario involves hurt/comfort for the cat)
-- "corrective" noncon of a person of any orientation; victims of noncon or dubcon stating that aggressor is of gender they aren't attracted to
-- feminization of one part of m/m pairing to make it more like het; masculinization of one part of f/f pairing to make it more like het; any discussion of who is "the girl" or "the man" etc in the ship. People who are gender non-conforming, feminine men, masculine women, butch women, etc, are all fine if it doesn't fall into that sort of thing. Exception for it happening canonically.
Prompts:
Time travel to fix something in the past results in visit to other canon
Time travel that forms a static looping - between canons
Rescuing a canon character or multiple canon characters from a non-canon peril
Rescuing a canon character or multiple canon characters from canonical peril
Attempting to rescue canon character and interfering with canonical rescue process
Canon-typical case/mission fic (but with the other canon playing a role)
Slice of life interrupted by sudden dimensional door to/from other canon
Romance between characters from different canons
Merge two canons and explain how they overlap / coexist
Origin story of a canon character as if they originated in another canon
Exploring a strange place that is supernaturally or sci-fi-ishly weird and surreal
Character from one canon goes into business in another canon to complain about employee
A canon character meets up with characters from another canon and they:
- are instantly in conflict per their respective goals/needs/preferences
- experience culture clash in amusing ways
- misunderstand each other but both think the other(s) are great! they're just *wrong*
- can't speak each other's language and try to figure out how to communicate
- instantly know the answer to the other side's thorniest problem - now what?
- ought to kill them immediately but don't for *reasons*
Show one side's idea of what's happening, then tell it from the other side's viewpoint and it's almost totally different
Amnesia, one canon character has forgotten they always knew the other canon existed
Character from one canon stalks character from other canon
Characters from different canon are exes; never thought they'd meet again
Copy of signup below! See per-request prompts, per-request DNWs, and allowed fandom combinations.
Request 1 by Gammarad
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski,
Jane Unlimited - Kristin Cashore,
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke,
October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Fic/Crossover
Strange houses and otherworld passages - And it's all in the state of mind, isn't it?
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender. Cats, aliens, artificial intelligences,
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- story told from the POV of the genius loci of one of the significant places from one of the canons
- meeting between two individuals each from one of the canons about a way to travel between their worlds
DNWs for this request: noncanonical underage sex; noncanonical incest; noncanonical deliberate animal cruelty; noncanonical cruelty to children by adults
Request 2 by Gammarad
The Broken Earth Series - N. K. Jemisin,
Medium (TV), Russian Doll (TV 2019),
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018),
The Endless (2017), Loki (TV 2021),
Sense8 (TV)
Fic/Crossover
Fic/Fusion
Canons where certain people have magic or psychic powers, or are seeing the past or future or reliving options of what could happen.
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender. Cats, aliens, artificial intelligences,
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- someone with a canonical problem from one canon goes to a person from another canon for advice on what to do
- someone persecuted in their canon tries to change the past in a way that might work in another canon
DNWs for this request: noncanonical underage sex; noncanonical incest; noncanonical deliberate animal cruelty; noncanonical cruelty to children by adults
Request 3 by Gammarad
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien,
The Rescuers (Movies),
Hamster Princess Series - Ursula Vernon
Fic/Crossover
rodent request!
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- rodent shenanigans
- fairy tale-esque situation leads to meeting between characters from different canons
DNWs for this request: any explicit sex; cats as villains; cruelty to cats
Request 4 by Gammarad
The Culture - Iain M. Banks,
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie,
The Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith,
Solaris - All Media Types,
Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein,
Dark Matter (TV),
Steven Universe (Cartoon),
On a Sunbeam (Graphic Novel),
Captain Marvel (2019)
Fic/Crossover
science fiction - in space - space opera - spaceships!
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- a ship sends a SOS after a weird occurrence disables it in space; another ship responds
- a ship or shuttle crashes or emergency-lands on a planet and meets strangers
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
Request 5 by Gammarad
Dark City (1998),
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
To the Moon Series (Video Games),
SCP Foundation,
The Mentalist
Fic/Crossover
unreliable narrators and memory redaction -- in a variety of media and styles.
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- a character needs to forget a piece of knowledge - or recover one that's been forgotten - for life-or-death reason (or so emotionally compelled that it might as well be)
- two characters from different canons meet after forgetting each other - rediscover how they used to be connected
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
Request 6 by Gammarad
The Queen's Gambit (TV),
Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Fic/Crossover
Two very different adaptations of Walter Tevis novels
Genre and style likes: worldbuilding, sci-fi, picaresque, case fic, horror, weird, urban-fantasy, ship fic, comedy, experimental fiction, fourth wall breaking, any POV, slipstream, multiple genres combined in one work.
Character likes: canon characters, original characters created for canon settings, older mature characters, characters of any gender.
Prompts (if you want them -- feel free to write whatever idea you have!)
- Beth finds out one of her parents was an alien from Anthea, what does this mean for her?
- Beth and/or some of her chess buddies rescue Newton from the government agents and save him from his canonical fate
DNWs for this request: underage sex, noncanonical deliberate cruelty to animals
