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Mar. 12th, 2023 06:51 pmAt the bottom you'll see a list of fandoms I'm *considering* adding requests for - comment (all comments screened) if you think I should request one of them. (as long as it's before signups close, of course) Nu guarantee I will have the inspiration to come up with prompts etc, but it could influence me for sure!
Fandoms I'm requesting:
General 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 relationship 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.
The Culture
The first two above are from Surface Detail and Hydrogen Sonata respectively. For the third, any mind from either of those would be great, or anyone from Look to Windward or Excession also would work very well. But really I'm good with whatever Mind you find evocative or inspiring for the third request, and have them interacting with anyone at all.
(I don't care for Zakalwe and would somewhat prefer he not show up in the gift).
Prompts: An Ex-Culture Mind and its activities that it couldn't do inside the Culture
A day in the life of a GSV or Station Mind
A Special Circumstances intervention from the POV of an involved Mind, or the Mind's intervention from POV of the non-Culture people being interfered with
A chat-fic between Minds having a conversation like they do
Vyr and Ngaroe in a post-Hydrogen Sonata meet up or in a parallel two-storyline story where they each do something that somehow mirrors or foils the other. Vyr and Ngaroe in a canon-deviation AU where they do something different from what they did in the book.
Lededje and the OU, or the OU's avatar, post-Surface Detail meet up or in a parallel two-storyline story where they each do something that somehow mirrors or foils the other. Lededje and Falling Outside... do something different than they did in the book, with surprising (or not so surprising) results.
The Luminous Dead
I would most want a future fic for these characters where they're together, in whatever form that takes, and a sci-fi approach to the story. Focus on the worldbuilding as much or as little as is comfortable - I'd be fine with 99% worldbuilding / 1% shipfic or just 100% shipfic with the world barely there as a backdrop.
I'm also interested in (mostly-nonviolent) noncon or dubcon between these characters, or a one-sided relationship where one of them is obsessed and the other is not nearly as into it, or over it, or afraid of what the other would do so is trying to stay away.
I'd be happy with explicit sex in this request.
If you want to do pre-canon, perhaps add a framing that's post canon with the / ship part in it?
DNW Setting-change AUs for this that make it no longer sci-fi; an AU with a somewhat different but still sci-fi setting would be fun, though.
The Space Between Worlds
I read this book and got into this fandom for Yuletide 2022. It was great - the setup with parallel worlds and one of them exploiting the rest has so much potential, the characters are vivid and compelling, the whole thing is full of possibilities for fic.
Cara could go to one of the Earths not visited in the book; she could meet visitors from whichever of the other dimensions might somehow (in canon divergence or post canon) be able to visit her; she could explore more of her own Earth (22) or of the one she lives on (not 22) - she and Dell could work on their relationship, or they could have a nice time together, or they could fight and (maybe) break up, or get together in a different way than in the book. Also I love worldbuilding so if you want to focus on that and have the character or ship just there in the story while it's the world that gets all the development, that's absolutely fine - the novel gives both a lot of great material, but an exchange fic won't necessarily have the space for everything, so having the requested character and/or ship present as a vehicle for worldbuilding is a fine way to approach it. Or ignore the worldbuilding entirely except as a background for character and/or ship focus, that's also a fine approach!
I'm open to very messy relationships for this pairing, or super happy and sweet, however you want to go with it. Like, write me one of them (or both!) cheating and the other finding out, great; write me one of them thinking the other is dead, excellent; write them on a honeymoon after they get married, also wonderful. Even if Dell actually died and then Cara encounters another version of Dell who can now visit Earth-0? (or, possibly more plausibly, the other way around, since there are a few Caras left). Wouldn't that be a trip.
Yellow and the Perception of Reality
I'm very interested in worldbuilding for this story, as well as in the characters selected. Feel free to have any additional canon characters interacting with the selected character, or any original characters too.
The concept of the breaking of how reality is perceived is always so interesting in fiction, and this story is no exception! I requested it in Yuletide before and all those prompts are still welcome:
What happens when Wanda finally relearns how to talk and interact? Does she spread the damaging knowledge or is it too incomprehensible to communicate? What is Claude up to that the aquarium keepers don't know about? We barely learn anything about Kyle, what was his life like, and what led him to take the path he did? You could do a canon divergence where Kyle survives instead of Wanda, maybe a role reversal between their two parts, and June visits Kyle instead, trying to learn what happened to her sister from him perhaps?
Second Person, Present Tense
I've sort of low key been wanting a ship fic for Joelly (the girl who calls her "Miss T") in love with Therese and then falling for / being courted by Terry since I read this story. Not sure why it struck me so hard but that's how it is. So anything for this nonexistent pairing in this nonexistent fandom would be great.
That said, I also adore the world building in the story and would love a story about an original character who takes the drug and has a very different experience from what Terry goes through, amybe in the same recovery facility she was in, or a meta type story in the form of a reddit or other social media fic, or magazine articles or the like, about the drug and its effects, or the "cures" and their survivors, and so on. I adore that sort of thing.
Administration
Charm of Magpies
Roads of Heaven
Swordspoint
Duma Key
Mirabile
Anathem
Steerswoman
Two Spacesuits
Biting the Sun
Chalion (Des & Penric, WB Demons)
Forgotten Beasts of Eld
In Conquest Born
Lathe of Heaven
Solaris
Afterparty
Fandoms I'm requesting:
- The Culture - Iain M. Banks
- The Luminous Dead
- Second Person, Present Tense
- Yellow and the Perception of Reality
- The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
General 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 relationship 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.
The Culture
- GOU Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints & Lededje Y'breq
- Vyr Cossont & Ngaroe QiRia
- Solo: Any Culture or Ex-Culture Mind
The first two above are from Surface Detail and Hydrogen Sonata respectively. For the third, any mind from either of those would be great, or anyone from Look to Windward or Excession also would work very well. But really I'm good with whatever Mind you find evocative or inspiring for the third request, and have them interacting with anyone at all.
(I don't care for Zakalwe and would somewhat prefer he not show up in the gift).
Prompts: An Ex-Culture Mind and its activities that it couldn't do inside the Culture
A day in the life of a GSV or Station Mind
A Special Circumstances intervention from the POV of an involved Mind, or the Mind's intervention from POV of the non-Culture people being interfered with
A chat-fic between Minds having a conversation like they do
Vyr and Ngaroe in a post-Hydrogen Sonata meet up or in a parallel two-storyline story where they each do something that somehow mirrors or foils the other. Vyr and Ngaroe in a canon-deviation AU where they do something different from what they did in the book.
Lededje and the OU, or the OU's avatar, post-Surface Detail meet up or in a parallel two-storyline story where they each do something that somehow mirrors or foils the other. Lededje and Falling Outside... do something different than they did in the book, with surprising (or not so surprising) results.
The Luminous Dead
- Em Arasgain/Gyre Price
I would most want a future fic for these characters where they're together, in whatever form that takes, and a sci-fi approach to the story. Focus on the worldbuilding as much or as little as is comfortable - I'd be fine with 99% worldbuilding / 1% shipfic or just 100% shipfic with the world barely there as a backdrop.
I'm also interested in (mostly-nonviolent) noncon or dubcon between these characters, or a one-sided relationship where one of them is obsessed and the other is not nearly as into it, or over it, or afraid of what the other would do so is trying to stay away.
I'd be happy with explicit sex in this request.
If you want to do pre-canon, perhaps add a framing that's post canon with the / ship part in it?
DNW Setting-change AUs for this that make it no longer sci-fi; an AU with a somewhat different but still sci-fi setting would be fun, though.
The Space Between Worlds
- Earth-22 Cara
- Earth-22 Cara/Earth-0 Dell
I read this book and got into this fandom for Yuletide 2022. It was great - the setup with parallel worlds and one of them exploiting the rest has so much potential, the characters are vivid and compelling, the whole thing is full of possibilities for fic.
Cara could go to one of the Earths not visited in the book; she could meet visitors from whichever of the other dimensions might somehow (in canon divergence or post canon) be able to visit her; she could explore more of her own Earth (22) or of the one she lives on (not 22) - she and Dell could work on their relationship, or they could have a nice time together, or they could fight and (maybe) break up, or get together in a different way than in the book. Also I love worldbuilding so if you want to focus on that and have the character or ship just there in the story while it's the world that gets all the development, that's absolutely fine - the novel gives both a lot of great material, but an exchange fic won't necessarily have the space for everything, so having the requested character and/or ship present as a vehicle for worldbuilding is a fine way to approach it. Or ignore the worldbuilding entirely except as a background for character and/or ship focus, that's also a fine approach!
I'm open to very messy relationships for this pairing, or super happy and sweet, however you want to go with it. Like, write me one of them (or both!) cheating and the other finding out, great; write me one of them thinking the other is dead, excellent; write them on a honeymoon after they get married, also wonderful. Even if Dell actually died and then Cara encounters another version of Dell who can now visit Earth-0? (or, possibly more plausibly, the other way around, since there are a few Caras left). Wouldn't that be a trip.
Yellow and the Perception of Reality
- WB: Claude the Octopus
- Solo: Kyle Choi
- Solo: Wanda Harris
I'm very interested in worldbuilding for this story, as well as in the characters selected. Feel free to have any additional canon characters interacting with the selected character, or any original characters too.
The concept of the breaking of how reality is perceived is always so interesting in fiction, and this story is no exception! I requested it in Yuletide before and all those prompts are still welcome:
What happens when Wanda finally relearns how to talk and interact? Does she spread the damaging knowledge or is it too incomprehensible to communicate? What is Claude up to that the aquarium keepers don't know about? We barely learn anything about Kyle, what was his life like, and what led him to take the path he did? You could do a canon divergence where Kyle survives instead of Wanda, maybe a role reversal between their two parts, and June visits Kyle instead, trying to learn what happened to her sister from him perhaps?
Second Person, Present Tense
- WB: Any
- Terry/Joelly
I've sort of low key been wanting a ship fic for Joelly (the girl who calls her "Miss T") in love with Therese and then falling for / being courted by Terry since I read this story. Not sure why it struck me so hard but that's how it is. So anything for this nonexistent pairing in this nonexistent fandom would be great.
That said, I also adore the world building in the story and would love a story about an original character who takes the drug and has a very different experience from what Terry goes through, amybe in the same recovery facility she was in, or a meta type story in the form of a reddit or other social media fic, or magazine articles or the like, about the drug and its effects, or the "cures" and their survivors, and so on. I adore that sort of thing.
Administration
Charm of Magpies
Roads of Heaven
Swordspoint
Duma Key
Mirabile
Anathem
Steerswoman
Two Spacesuits
Biting the Sun
Chalion (Des & Penric, WB Demons)
Forgotten Beasts of Eld
In Conquest Born
Lathe of Heaven
Solaris
Afterparty
