hiddencait

Dear Yuletide Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of my requested fandoms and characters! I know this letter is ridiculously long, but again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X Reader fics esp in fandoms with few femme love interests and/or solo requested characters, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Optional Re Yuletide Challenges: I am always a fan of the Yuletide mini challenges, and would definitely be thrilled in particular to get gifts that fit the following ones: Two for On and Yuleporn! Specific requests/details for any of those 2 challenges can be found on those journal entries!

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you!

Northmen: A Viking Saga

Asbjorn, Inghean

Tom Hopper pulled me into this teeny tiny fandom after Black Sails moved him onto my fandom boyfriend list. I gotta admit, it’s such a terrible movie objectively, but it totally appeals to my love of questionable action movies. We get all the Tom Hopper biceps you might hope for in his character (and the lead) Asbjorn, though sadly he never takes the shirt completely off. As the leader of the exiled and shipwrecked Vikings, he’s awesomely competent and has mad chemistry with the female lead (the only one in the entire film sadly), Inghean. She is a Scottish princess the Vikings kidnap in hopes of ransom only to discover her father prefers to see her dead than pay for her safe return. She also is the source of the one fantasy element in the film: an earth sense that warns her when the group is in danger. All in all, I just desperately want a post-movie fic with these two. The movie ended so very abruptly, and there was so much more of the story hanging. How do they all survive the long boat? Do they ever find safety? Is it at the Viking encampment they hoped to find? Does Inghean’s earth sense end up more under control or cause people to see her as a witch? Will Inghean and Asbjorn EVER do more than stare at each other longingly?

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)

Albert Hawke, Takanashi Sei

This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. There are of course given it’s an isekai monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – but still all told - my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” shojo trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight, as well. Really I just want these two sweetly shy, ridiculously brave kiddos to get to be romantic with each other.

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest

Lizzie Borden, Emma Borden, Nance O’Neill

This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for fandom y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book! Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies, especially if you can manage some of the style of the book! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential! (Plus, LBR, any opportunity to see more fics based off Lovecraft’s works that would REALLY piss that bigot off posthumously just makes me smile on principle lolol)

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James

Jillian Leigh, Drew Merriken, Toby Leigh

A friend dragged me kicking and screaming (occasionally literally thanks to the creepy factor lol) into this author’s ghost story romances, but I have loved every one of them so far and am super sad that I’m literally the only person who has written for any of the books (and only a single one in a previous Yuletide no less LOL). INQUIRY is the book I’ve read most recently for the series (and the only one already with an archive listing), so I figured I’d go ahead and request it separately. For Drew and Jillian, I would love a glimpse into how their courtship goes after she returns to University. This is a fandom where I think epistolary stories/romance would be especially fun, though I also wouldn’t mind seeing a few ghostly letters show up from her Father/Uncle as if he was able to follow her home and finally manage to almost be family from the other side as he never was capable of in life. But regardless, Drew and Jillian are a delight on their own! As far as books or journals, glimpses of the book Toby might have written or even a coauthored book by Toby and Jillian for a posthumous release could be really cool to play with. As with several of my requests, I’m game for crossovers with the characters/pairings from the other books in this “series” from the author - especially something like a “Ladies Paranormalist Society” or something featuring all the ladies meeting up with Jillian and discussing their respective hauntings lol

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi | Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits (Anime)

Ranmaru

I only recently stumbled onto this series, and it is a DELIGHT. Definitely has a slow cozy vibe while almost accidentally mixing in plot. And bonus, there’s a wealth of side characters I really enjoy, especially the one I’ve requested: Ranmaru. We got just enough of this character to intrigue the hell out of me in the second half of season one, and I’d love to see more of him (not just because his character design is handsome as hell lol). Whether it’s him in his role as Hachiyo of his region or leading Orio-ya’s inn staff, or his relationship with Ginji his “brother”, or what it means to be his type of ayakashi, or even what type of person he might fall in love with (M/F preferred, but I’m game for mortal or ayakashi), I’d be interested in any and all of it!

Dear Fic-In-A-Box Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of the available shapes and sizes in any mix and match of fandoms from the default 10k delightful long fic to a grab bag of different mediums. Every time I’ve signed up for this exchange, I’ve completed at least 2-4 gifts for my assignment of different types and lengths, so if you feel led to run amok in a way other than a 10k fanfic, you definitely have free range to do so if you wish! I know this letter is ridiculously long as I love these fandoms (I actually requested all of them last time too lol) and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, worldbuilding with a bureaucracy focus, crossovers especially between requested fandoms and/or with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc. added to historical or contemporary fandoms, competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X FemmeOC and/or X FemmeReader fics for solo requested characters below, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to again specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you!

MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins below for each of my fandom requests (as appropriate - for 'recipient's fics - I've only written in Solo Leveling lol). I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:

Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Combined Media (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules – Cross Stitch Pattern
Medium Opt-In: Combined Media (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Journal/Sketchbook Page
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Diary
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Solo Journaling TTRPG rules
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Combined Media (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Document - Scientific Document
Medium Opt-In: Combined Media (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Document
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Cover/Spread
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover - Vintage Erotica
Medium Opt-In: Art – Medieval Illumination-Style Art
Medium Opt-In: Audio – Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)
Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Botanical Illustration

Note: for all requests, while I haven’t specifically requested “WB: Any”, I do love those details and will totally enjoy gifts that feature that – just with a focus on my requested characters in relation to the world building you do, if that makes sense. So for examples of what I mean:Saint’s Magic, you could include WB about the summoning ritual or the Institute’s founding or Albert’s training.
Borden Dispatches basically is a HUGE amount of WBing how Lovecraft’s Innsmouth would relate with Lizzie Borden lol
Yona: How the Royal Court sees the Royal Family, Hak’s training, any legends Yona was specifically told about the dragons.
Solo Leveling: All the Guild bureaucracy. In this case, how any of my 3 requested characters experienced their Awakenings and/or where they were when they first heard about the gates, the difference between Hae-In’s role as a Vice President of a Guild versus Yoon-Ho’s as a Guild President/Guild Master versus Hee-Jin’s as a ‘mere’ guild member and/or support staff when she works on the recruitment side.

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)
Albert Hawke/Takanashi Sei
This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. There are, of course given it’s an isekai, monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – but still all told - my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” shojo trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight, as well. Really I just want these two sweetly shy, ridiculously brave kiddos to get to be romantic with each other.

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest
Solo: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden & Emma Borden
Lizzie Borden/Nance O’Neill
This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for fandom y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book. Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies, especially if you can manage some of the style of the book! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential!

Note for the next few requests: OK so if you have followed my fandomness at all, you know I tend to fixate on actors. Apparently that applies to voice actors as well… that or one particular English voice actor is just PAINFULLY typecast to play characters that are stupidly my type. BC yes, yes all three of the dude characters in the requests below are dubbed by the same person. Whoops? Sorry not sorry?

Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
Son Hak/Yona
Anyone who knew me when I started reading manga wayyyyyyyyyyy back when would recognize this one as SO my type. I had flashbacks to Fushigi Yuugi and Ceres Celestial Legend and SO MANY of the older Shojo Beat specials of my college days. I somehow missed the manga version of Yona appearing back then, but MAN am I thrilled I stumbled on the anime on Crunchie. And yes, yes Hak does, in fact, have my fave voice actor. Yes, I apparently have a shojo anime hero type rather similar to my shonen anime hero type. Whoops? Anyway, I do love this show and this pairing in particular, especially on the side of Hak and his absolute devotion to Yona, up to the point that he’d convinced himself he was perfectly happy to protect her AND her supposed future husband while never acting on his own feelings. I just, I can’t even with that type of dynamic, especially with the slight edge of “gah she annoys me so much wait where is she I cannot lose sight of her for an instant or my world collapses ok now I need to hold her and it definitely is still annoying I swear” vibe he’s got going on. Again I’ve only seen S1 of the anime, so I don’t know what’s to come, but anything on their journey in that season from canon AUs to missing scenes will make me super thrilled.

나 혼자만 레벨업 | Solo Leveling (Webcomic)
Solo: Baek Yoon-Ho (Solo Leveling)
Finally, I think I can best sum up my feelings regarding this fandom and this side character when I say that every time I mention any of it to my friends, I inevitably start with either “so this asshole…” or “so I was watching for the plot when…” Yeah, of the 3 characters I requested that this voice actor portrays, this is the one that was probably the most bulletproof guaranteed to make me obsessed, and that’s even aside from the amount of fan service that proves the art director was THIRSTY for this character given how many more shirtless moments he has compared to literally ANY other character including even the main character lol, which I respect them for. But seriously, y’all, Baek Yoon-Ho is that dedicated, heroic – he literally was a freaking firefighter BEFORE he became an S rank Hunter – painfully responsible, terribly loyal and protective to his people, heartthrob of a side character that part of me is already depressed because I KNOW the series will end up shifting attention away from him after S2 of the anime. And that just makes me sad damn it! So give me all the Yoon-Ho content please, whether is gen bureaucracy with him as Guildmaster leading and mentoring the other Hunters of the White Tiger Guild or doing a dungeon raid (since we actually don’t get to witness much of his freaking white tiger shifter transformation magic on screen as it were), or him awakening to his abilities and rank or being bros with Eun-Seok and Byung-Gyu, or something super shippy tropey delight with him having an OC soulmate or a X Reader fic even (if you don’t go for one of the canon characters I ship him with below which there of course are NO fics for him for either badass lady yet lolsob). I just want to see this man get good things and be a competent badass. That’s it. BTW, I do headcanon him and Choi being exes of the toxic not-remotely-friends with benefits type and thus Yoon-Ho being bisexual, but while that can be backstory, I do not want Choi to be a focus in my gift please. Art/Remix Fanart specific for this request - I have 1 Yoon-Ho fic I've written and it features a FireFighter Charity Calendar Spread of him from his firefighter days shirtless and holding a gray and white striped kitten. Do with that what you will ;)

Baek Yoon-Ho/Cha Hae-In
Hello mutual competency kink! Not me yet again taking a blink and you miss it moment and starting to build a ship around it. Especially not yet another tol and smol ship (not that Hae-In is necessarily small – Yoon-Ho is just stupidly large in the best ‘climb him like a tree’ way). But honestly, I really have been sucked in by That Chest Glance moment during the sparring episode when (again bless that thirsty art director) Yoon-Ho steps up beside Hae-In and all of her eye level is Yoon-Ho’s pecs and then crossed arms. I know they were talking about Jin-Woo who is her canon love interest, but SERIOUSLY who wouldn’t be distracted by that view at her eyeline? And then, if that moment wasn’t fanserviced enough, Yoon-Ho freaking WINKS AT HER. Your honors, I rest my shipping case. OTPs have definitely been based on far less evidence. And again, that’s even without considering how clearly he respects her as an S rank Hunter in their battle on Jeju Island. So yeah, slightly older man/younger woman, competency kink, tol and smol, rival Guilds: it just has the potential for so so many of my fave tropes and I wants it precious. Do with that what you will LOL.

Baek Yoon-Ho/Park Hee-Jin
My mental vibe for these two definitely has some of the similarities to the above ship as far as tropes, but with a side of boss/subordinate and Guildmaster/Guildmember that I really think I could enjoy, especially with how respectful Yoon-Ho appears to be of his people from the little bit we get in the show. Hee-Jin would see a very different side of him in his Guild than even Hae-In might as a fellow S rank, and I think that push and pull between Yoon-Ho and Hee-Jin’s levels power, profession, and age wise could be really interesting. Hee-Jin definitely seems to have her head on straight in the couple episodes we see, and I’d love to see her featured more and get with the handsome love interest. This one also could have all the logistical details I often love from the inner workings of the guild to how her training might have gone to even whether or not they somehow had crossed paths before she awakened. Is that part of why she joined the White Tigers in the first place? In canon, all the S ranks are celebrities, is there a chance for her being starstruck and having to change her expectations of him? To flip that tropey script, is she one of those folks who hates the tabloids and anyone they focus on just on principle and thus has to see him as a real person in that respect instead? Just give me these two lovelies being lovely together please k thanks.

As stolen from

tielan

i. Look at your last 10 fics.

ii. Make a list of their first lines of dialogue, with any necessary description. No cheating, I mean don't go through your fics looking for the best line of dialogue.

iii. Post them and we'll see if we can guess what the story will be about from the dialogue.

This got uh... a little difficult given how many of my recent fics were epistolary and/or had a first chapter that was just a 'blog' post and/or completely dialogue-free vignettes but I think I managed it as best I can lolsob.

"Could Be Worse" archiveofourown.org/works/75934431

“Got the parts. I think.” He smiled wryly at his last words, that slightly self-deprecating sense of humor causing her lips to twitch as it always seemed to. “Bishop scanned ‘em just to be sure, but we’ll see if it actually works."

"In the Time of My Marked Discontent" archiveofourown.org/works/64760989

“Fuck. My. Life.” she muttered, proud that she’d managed the phrase in Korean, though she wasn’t sure if the accent had been quite right.

"A Fortunate Confusion of Colonels" archiveofourown.org/works/73104831

“Where is the Colonel?" she muttered under her breath, shutting her mouth with a click and smiling innocently as she noticed a passing matron raise her eyebrows at her.

"Letters from Milton to One's Family" archiveofourown.org/works/73104581

I hope you are well, and that the flurry of the Season is not yet overwhelming you.

"The Visited" archiveofourown.org/works/72706686

What if that certainty is just another lie she’s telling herself, right along with “it never happened” and “maybe Nick can forgive me.”

"An Observation of a Chance for a Brighter Winter" archiveofourown.org/works/71010161

“Thank you all for the… welcome of our party. Though I fear it seems that some of your people are somewhat uncomfortable with our presence.”

"The Grieving Widow, A Well Mourned Aunt, and Other Such Unlikely Creatures" archiveofourown.org/works/64706782

I apologize for the impropriety of my writing you directly, but due to the regular occurrence of your company and the assistance your Lady aunt often required of me of late with regards to her correspondence both to you and to others of your extended family, I hardly feel that improper.

"mama said knock you out" archiveofourown.org/works/61031137

Midoriya Inko considers herself a reasonable woman with reasonable wants and reasonable needs, and right now, she needs to kick her ex’s ass into treating their son properly.

"Most Impertinent" archiveofourown.org/works/56601544

I fear either my initial correspondence or your subsequent response has been unfortunately sent awry by the postal service, and so I am once again attempting to contact you regarding the disagreement between yourself and my late father, and my hopes to mend the breach thusly.

"Sound the Call" archiveofourown.org/works/52338166

This then is what he claims to have heard: a creak, a groan, a strange combination of both.

Borrowed from @Tielan

The ABC's of me.

A. Age: less than a month until I evolve to the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything ;)

B. Bed Size: King-sized & built by the husbeast.

C. Chore You Really Dislike: The vacuum is my nemesis

D. Dogs: The bigger the pupper, the better. Our current is a incredibly dog shaped mutt who's at least 75 lbs.

E. Essential Start to Your Day: Cold brew coffee with the protein shake my dietician recommends as "creamer"

F. Favorite Color: Purple

G. Gold or Silver: Yes with copper & rose gold as a bonus - just all the metallics lol

H. Height: 5'3"

I. Instruments You Play: Haven't in quite a while, but used to be a percussionist so... a LOT of different ones LOL Tympani & standing chimes were my faves. Something about those lingering resonant tones.

J. Job: Technical editor for the day job & SFF novelist for the side hustle

K. Kids: One medical miracle who's more than enough. Sweet to the bones but very threenager right about now.

L. Live: I think this means where? And Hill Country in Texas.

M. Mom’s Name: Amusingly the same as my late MILs - made it easy to know what to name the kiddo.

N. Nicknames: Pretty much any one you can come up with for my name lol.

O. Overnight Hospital Stays: Several including after a major car accident I was in at 10, the above mentioned kiddo, and the recent yeeterus.

P. Pet Peeve: Folks who make decisions that "no one in the office does *such and such" while I'm literally right in front of them doing said *such and such*

Q. Quote From A Movie: So so many, but "Multipass" is always a go to.

R. Right or Left Handed: Right but left dominance for my feet and eyes just to make things complicated lolsob

S. Siblings: A half sister from my dad's first marriage and a full brother.

T. Time You Wake Up: Too early - I am pretty easy to get up but more sleep will always be more better.

U. Underwear: Necessary but not something I enjoy particularly. It almost never matches lol.

W. What Makes You Run Late: Going back inside more than once for things I forgot or bc the OCD needs another check of the lock.

X. X-Rays You’ve Had: Oof the number of various types of images is seriously too many to list.

Y. Yummy Food You Make: I'm not a fantastic cook, but I've got several recipes I've perfected over the years that the husbeast loves: a banana walnut bread with dark chocolate chunks and a gnocchi sausage soup with bacon, as well as a gnocchi sausage sheet pan thing.

Z. Zoo - favorite animal: Caracals.

If any of the words don't work for you, choose a different word that uses the same letter. That way the meme changes and evolves as it travels around.

As stolen from

swingandswirl

01. Grab the nearest book.

02. Turn to page 126

03. The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

From THE RESURRECTIONIST by Kathleen S. Allen, one of several ARCs I won off Goodreads last year that uh... I have yet to finish. Oh well, they're on my priority TBR for the Beat The Backlist 2026 challenge.

Ready for the quoted sentence?

"Hmm."

......... ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW???

Dear Yuletide Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of my requested fandoms and characters! I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for for Yuletide – I think my reading muse’s ADHD is hitting HARD y’all LOLSOB. But again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X Reader fics esp in fandoms with few femme love interests and/or solo requested characters, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Optional Re Yuletide Challenges: I am always a fan of the Yuletide mini challenges, and would definitely be thrilled in particular to get gifts that fit the following ones: Two for One, Yuleporn, Femslash Festivus, and Queering the Tide! Specific requests/details for any of those 4 challenges can be found on those journal entries!

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you! If not, I’m also a fan of book verses getting crossed over with other series/stories by the same author!

Northmen: A Viking Saga

Asbjorn, Inghean

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)

Albert Hawke, Takanashi Sei

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest

Lizzie Borden, Emma Borden, Nance O’Neill

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James

Jillian Leigh, Drew Merriken, Toby Leigh

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret Hale, John Thornton

Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married life goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Sanditon are my faves tho I’ve only seen S1. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover!).

Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)

Victoria “Tori” Stewart, Olivia Sanderson

Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. I’m also a fan of worldbuilding/mixed media, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive and TOTALLY ship Olivia/Tori– fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The other/previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet).

... Not me FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER realizing I can go look at my old sign ups from previous years to figure out what I may or may not want to nominate for Yuletide. It really is one of my top exchanges ever - or at least the one I've been in the most consistently since, oh, 2013 it looks like? No wonder it felt weird not signing up last year LOLSOB.

But seriously, looking back over my old sign ups was such a trip. Moods ranging from "ohhhh I need to reread/rewatch that!" to "remember when Black Sails qualified but now it's got 6k fics lmao" to "there's no way that still qualifies... it only has 500 fics total? ... I guess I've just read them all. Oops"

Also, looking at numbers, I apparently never wanted to nominate a fandom that technically has a web comic, light novel, and now cartoon before. How did y'all ever figure out if those were eligible or not when they don't get consistently tagged together?? All this to say, sadly Solo Leveling probably is NOT eligible. I think? Ish? If one of you darlings would like to sort out the math for me to prove me wrong, I would love you forever LOL. If not, oh well, I'll get my Baek Yoon-ho requests in via other exchanges.

In any case, I believe I'm nominating the below fandoms this year. Probably. Possibly? We'll see if I change my mind at the last minute once noms actually open on the 15th. I'm so SO glad they are allowing 5 fandom nominations this year!

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime):

Sei Takanashi
Albert Hawke

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest:

Lizzie Borden
Emma Borden
Nance O’Neill

An Inquiry into Love and Death - Simone St. James:

Jillian Leigh
Toby Leigh
Drew Merriken

Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014):

Asbjorn
Inghean

The Others - Anne Bishop

Meg Corbyn
Simon Wolfgard

I am crossing my fingers someone else nominates Rolling in the Deep - Seanan McGuire, but it's been in the tag set multiple years in a row so hopefully I'm safe using my noms for ones that are less often in there. *crosses fingers and toes* What all is everyone else thinking of nominating?

Dear Fic-In-A-Box Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of the available shapes and sizes in any mix and match of fandoms. I think last time I entered this exchange in 2023, I completed 3-4 gifts for my assignment of different types and lengths, so if you feel led to run amok in a way other than a 10k fanfic, you definitely have free range to do so if you wish! I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for – I think my reading muse’s ADHD is hitting HARD y’all LOLSOB. But again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X Reader fics esp in fandoms with few femme love interests and/or solo requested characters, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you!

MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins below for each of my fandom requests. I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules – Cross Stitch Pattern
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover
Medium Opt-In: Art – Medieval Illumination-Style Art
Medium Opt-In: Art – Remix – Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Audio – Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)

Crossover Fandom:
Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)/Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice)
Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Charlotte Lucas (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) & Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
I really REALLY love crossovers for Jane Austen stories. Especially for the rare pairs and side characters above. Something about Colonel Brandon and Colonel Fitzwilliam just appeals to me on both fronts, and the quiet sisters of both canons, Jane, and Elinor, seem to me to have deserved better than the fates they were given by the text, as does the other “less” desirable miss, Charlotte Lucas. So, if the canon doesn’t supply a proper pairing – find another canon! Seriously, here I’m just all about mutual respect and “hearth like” loves instead of “raging fire” passions and competency kinks abounding! I don’t have a lot of specific prompts for these requests, but if you like the style, I would particularly love me an epistolary love story or even society/gossip pages about how the couples fall in love ala Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown for an added crossover detail LOL!

Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do want River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River!

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)
Albert Hawke/Takanashi Sei
This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. There are of course given it’s an isekai monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – but still all told - my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” shojo trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight, as well. Really I just want these two sweetly shy, ridiculously brave kiddos to get to be romantic with each other.

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest
Solo: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden & Emma Borden
Lizzie Borden/Nance O’Neill
This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for fandom y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book! Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies, especially if you can manage some of the style of the book! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential!

Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character – bonus played by one of my fave SG1 actors - only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightfully attractive way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks!

Note for the next few requests: OK so if you have followed my fandomness at all, you know I tend to fixate on actors. Apparently that applies to voice actors as well… that or one particular English voice actor is just PAINFULLY typecast to play characters that are stupidly my type. BC yes, yes all three of the dude characters in the requests below are voiced by the same person. Whoops? Sorry not sorry?

Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
Son Hak/Yona
Anyone who knew me when I started reading manga wayyyyyyyyyyy back when would recognize this one as SO my type. I had flashbacks to Fushigi Yuugi and Ceres Celestial Legend and SO MANY of the older Shojo Beat specials of my college days. I somehow missed the manga version of Yona appearing back then, but MAN am I thrilled I stumbled on the anime on Crunchie. And yes, yes Hak does, in fact, have my fave voice actor. Yes, I apparently have a shojo anime hero type rather similar to my shonen anime hero type. Whoops? Anyway, I do love this show and this pairing in particular, especially on the side of Hak and his absolute devotion to Yona, up to the point that he’d convinced himself he was perfectly happy to protect her AND her supposed future husband while never acting on his own feelings. I just, I can’t even with that type of dynamic, especially with the slight edge of “gah she annoys me so much wait where is she I cannot lose sight of her for an instant or my world collapses ok now I need to hold her and it definitely is still annoying I swear” vibe he’s got going on. Again I’ve only seen S1 of the anime, so I don’t know what’s to come, but anything on their journey in that season from canon AUs to missing scenes will make me super thrilled.

Black Clover - Tabata Yuki (Anime & Manga)
Yami Sukehiro
I recently marathoned this anime with my husbeast and MAN I enjoyed the hell out of this character. Part of it admittedly was the English voice actor, who was a delight, but part of it was just Yami in all his ridiculous contradictions. Harsh with his team but also secretly a damn teddy bear with a heart for the underdog; crude as hell but as a Captain probably considered the next thing to nobility. Considered a foreigner, but so expert with the magic and culture that he can mentor Asta. Just, yeah, I was super sucked into this character and want all the fic with him! Prompts: 1) Yami and his pet beasts. I’m a sucker for a big gruff guy adopting baby animals (even if he was forced to defeat their mother), ESPECIALLY when they turn out to be big and fierce but super loving to their adopter. Just all the cuddly and/or battle moments with Yami and his pets. 2) Shippy! I am not into M/M lately but I would love to see Yami either with an OC lady or with Captain Charlotte Roselei. I don’t have specific prompts for this but feel free to run wild as long as Yami gets his love life on (and yes smut is DEFINITELY welcome LOL). 3) Isekai/Portal fantasy AU Yami! I have only seen the anime of this and was hugely intrigued by the fact that (at least prior to the current season being aired) they basically only mention Yami’s past as him washing up on the shore as a “foreigner,” wielding the only Japanese style sword in the show, and then being chosen by a grimoire with pretty damned rare magic. He just SCREAMS isekai hero to me, and I’d love a look at his story from that perspective. I’d also love to see this prompt and the shippy OC prompt combined – is another person transported to the Clover kingdom from our world? How does he recognize her as such? Is she someone he knew there? Again, just lots of fun potential! 4) Finally, I’m all about the gen found family/adopted BDE (Big Dad Energy… tho uh the other BDE version also applies LOL) vibe Yami gives off with his team. Anything domestic and family like would be great.

나 혼자만 레벨업 | Solo Leveling (Webcomic)
Solo: Baek Yoon-Ho (Solo Leveling)
Finally, I think I can best sum up my feelings regarding this fandom and this side character when I say that every time I mention any of it to my friends, I inevitably start with either “so this asshole…” or “so I was watching for the plot when…” Yeah, of the 3 characters this voice actor portrays, this is the one that was probably the most bulletproof guaranteed to make me obsessed, and that’s even aside from the amount of fan service that proves the art director was THIRSTY for this character given how many more shirtless moments he has compared to literally ANY other character lol, which I respect them for. But seriously, y’all, Baek Yoon-Ho is that dedicated, heroic – he literally was a freaking firefighter BEFORE he became an S rank Hunter – painfully responsible, terribly loyal and protective to his people, heartthrob of a side character that part of me is already depressed because I KNOW the series will end up shifting attention away from him after S2 of the anime. And that just makes me sad damn it! So give me all the Yoon-Ho content please, whether is gen with him as Guildmaster leading and mentoring the other Hunters of the White Tiger Guild or doing a dungeon raid (since we actually don’t get to witness much of his freaking white tiger shifter transformation magic on screen as it were) or him awakening to his abilities and rank or being bros with Eun-Seok and Byung-Gyu to super shippy tropey delight with him having an OC soulmate or a X Reader fic even (if you don’t go for one of the canon characters I ship him with below which there of course are NO fics for him for either badass lady yet lolsob). I just want to see this man get good things and be a competent badass. That’s it. BTW, I do headcanon him and Choi being exes of the not-remotely-friends with benefits type and thus Yoon-Ho being bisexual, but while that can be backstory, I do prefer Choi not to be a focus in my gift please.

Baek Yoon-Ho/Cha Hae-In
Hello mutual competency kink! Not me yet again taking a blink and you miss it moment and starting to build a ship around it. Especially not yet another tol and smol ship (not that Hae-In is necessarily small – Yoon-Ho is just stupidly large in the best of ways). But honestly, I really have been sucked in by That Chest Glance moment during the sparring episode when (again bless that thirsty art director) Yoon-Ho steps up beside Hae-In and all of her eye level is Yoon-Ho’s pecs and then crossed arms. I know they were talking about Jin-Woo but SERIOUSLY who wouldn’t be distracted from the subject at eyeline? And then, if that moment wasn’t fanserviced enough, Yoon-Ho freaking WINKS AT HER. Your honors, I rest my shipping case. OTPs have definitely been based on far less evidence. And again, that’s even without considering how clearly he respects her as an S rank Hunter in their battle on Jeju Island. So yeah, slightly older man/younger woman, competency kink, tol and smol, it’s just so so many of my fave tropes and I wants it precious. Do with that what you will LOL.

Baek Yoon-Ho/Park Hee-Jin
My mental vibe for these two definitely has some of the similarities to the above ship as far as tropes, but with a side of boss/subordinate, Guildmaster/Guild member that I really think I could enjoy, especially with how respectful Yoon-Ho appears to be of his people from the little bit we get in the show. Hee-Jin would see a very different side of him in his Guild than even Hae-In might as a fellow S rank, and I think that push and pull between Yoon-Ho and Hee-Jin’s levels both power wise, profession, and age wise could be really interesting. Hee-Jin definitely seems to have her head on straight in the couple episodes we see, and I’d love to see her featured more and get with the handsome love interest. This one also could have all the logistical details I often love from the inner workings of the guild to how her training might have gone to even whether or not they somehow had crossed paths before she awakened. Is that part of why she joined the White Tigers in the first place? In canon, all the S ranks are celebrities, is there a chance for her being starstruck and having to change her expectations of him? Is she one of those folks who hates the tabloids and anyone they focus on just one principle and thus has to see him as a real person in that respect instead? Just give me these two lovelies being lovely together please k thanks.

Dear ShipsCrossing Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Crossovers make me ridiculously happy. Really. So this is going to be a blast no matter what! Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for and again I love these fandoms and tend to babble, but don’t let that scare you off. Nor is there any one request that I want more than the others, no matter how much I’ve written for one verses the others. Mostly, I’ve had years requesting some of these so LOTS of time to come up with prompts versus new pairings/fandoms might not have as many. But honestly for this whole signup, I just wanted to give you as much detail and choice as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consumation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Pride and Prejudice
Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)/Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice)
Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Charlotte Lucas (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) & Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
I really REALLY love crossovers for Jane Austen stories. Especially for the rare pairs and side characters above. Something about Colonel Brandon and Colonel Fitzwilliam just appeals to me on both fronts, and the quiet sisters of both canons, Jane, and Elinor, seem to me to have deserved better than the fates they were given by the text, as does the other “less” desirable miss, Charlotte Lucas. So, if the canon doesn’t supply a proper pairing – find another canon! Seriously, here I’m just all about mutual respect and “hearthlike” loves instead of “raging fire” passions and competency kinks abounding! I don’t have a lot of specific prompts for these requests, but if you like the style, I would particularly love me an epistolary love story or even society/gossip pages about how the couples fall in love ala Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown for an added crossover detail LOL!

Chronicles of Riddick Series
Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do want River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River!

Richard B Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series) & John “Reaper” Grimm (Doom)
The ridiculous Doom movie is yet another of my way too formative fandoms. It was one of the VERY first I ever wrote fic for actually, and is a large part of my Karl Urban Problem™. Back in the day, said Problem also led to the joy of tying John into other Karl Urban fandoms with his infection turning him into an immortal. Or something? Anyway, Reaper!Vaako having lived for however many hundreds of years falling into the Necro cult if only for the possibility that he might get to die some day could be VERY fun, especially once the Riddick shows up. Riddick after all has a helluva lot of keener instincts than most, and it would be fun to see if he could figure out something is just a little extra off about Vaako. Bonus for this leading to Kyra surviving and that maybe leading to all three of them remembering how to be as close to human as possible. Hell maybe John bites Kyra to save her for Riddick? IDEK. I just like the implications of this!

Games of Thrones TV
Sansa Stark (ISOIAF)/Aragorn (LOTR)
I’ve been in a “ship Sansa with people who treat her like a queen” mood, and this crossover pairing has SO MUCH potential. I think I’d prefer it set in one world or the other, but I have read some awesome “slip from one universe to another fic” if that’s really what you are in the mood to write. Regardless of how you get them together, I would prefer no bashing of Arwen as she is glorious – she just isn’t meant to be with Aragorn for this exchange lol. But yeah, Sansa deserved SO MUCH BETTER, and Aragorn is one of my early (probably too early honestly) fantasy crushes. Oh! I also think I would prefer Sansa to be human in either world, but yeah, other than that – run amok! Courtly love! Political shenanigans that a king must deal with no matter than he still feels more like a Ranger! Letters between an arranged marriage! Sansa serving and caring for her people during a war (whichever war you decide on)! I’m just fascinated by the thought of these two – I look forward to seeing what you write!

Innkeeper Chronicles – Ilona Andrews
Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt (Innkeeper Chronicles) & Any Character from Another Ilona Andrews Series (Creator's Choice of Fandom)
Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt (Innkeeper Chronicles) & SG1 Team (Stargate SG1)
Dina Demille (Innkeeper Chronicles)/Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG1)
Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt (Innkeeper Chronicles) & Any (Creator's Choice of Fandom)
I don’t know what it is about inns in general and semi-sentient ones like Gertrude Hunt in particular, but I LOVED the Innkeeper series by Ilona Andrews, and Dina and her relationship with Gertrude Hunt is definitely one of the major factors there. I also love that the inn pretty much is a perfect crossover vehicle with doors opening up to thousands of worlds and possibilities. (Why yes, yes you could cross over Riddick and/or John Grimm in this location 😉) I would be happy to see just about any crossover in this inn which is why I’ve allowed for Creator’s Choice of Fandom, and bonus Creator’s Choice of any other Ilona Andrews fandom – more Book Devouring Horde-verse shenanigans for the win! (I’ve read everything they’ve released so far so take your pic unless you have an ARC of Maggie in which case I am super jealous and also won’t get what’s going on there sadly until next year). Aside from that, Stargate SG1 is another of my forever fandoms which ALSO has a great potential for crossovers. I’ve asked for SG1 as the whole team for a gen request or something shippy with Daniel Jackson who is one of my long time fandom boyfriends and deserves all the good things (assuming Sean Evans never managed to woo Dina). I do heart me some Sean Evans though, so feel free to let him show up in any of the other request options!

Dear Author,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Honestly, epistolary/found document style stories are one of my very favorite types of formats, and the fact that you’re going to write me an epistolary for one of my fave fandoms makes it that much better. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. Really, it’s a win/win from my perspective – so no stress needed on your part!

I know this letter is ridiculously long as I tend to babble and want to offer as much inspiration as possible, but don’t let that scare you off. As long as my DNWs are avoided, you’re basically guaranteed to write something I will love!

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs outside of the epistolary sections (Unless the source material for the fandom is in 1st person – then go for it!).

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon action scene type violence is fine); embarrassment/mocking of a Sub by their Dom; scat and/or watersports; rape-as-fantasy-scenes; and any kind of direct blow in a sexual connotation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire style a bonus! – and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics..

For M-rated fics, I particularly love dirty talk; Dom/Sub dynamic (Service Dom and Service Sub a plus); a Dom ordering their Sub around; hair-pulling; restraint i.e.: ropes/handcuffs/holding partner down; wall sex; shower sex; cramped vehicular sex; biting/marking (without major blood being drawn); mate bonds; “OMG we didn’t die” sex; and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Finally, I am game for crossovers between any of my requested fandoms as long as you keep my requested relationships together!

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)
Albert Hawke/Takanashi Sei
Format: Books and Articles; Journals and Diaries; Letters

This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. Again, there are monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – and thus so my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight!

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest
Lizzie Borden & Emma Borden, Lizzie Borden/Nance O’Neill
Format: Books and Articles; Journals and Diaries; Letters

This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for this exchange y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book! Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential!

Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein
Eomer Eadig/Lothiriel
Format: Letters

I’ll admit, I know very little about Lothiriel as she suffered from the same lack of page time as a lot of JRRT’s heroines (unless she’s in more of the extra stories in which case I just haven’t read them lolsob), but those glimpses of her fate intrigue the hell out of them. In no small part because I love me some Eomer (and will be ever grateful to casting directors for Karl Urban!) and the thought of him having a politically motivated or arranged marriage to the daughter & sister of several of the men he fought beside just hits me RIGHT in the feels. I love the idea of these two falling in love on paper before or after their betrothal and marriage! There’s so much empty space for their story here – I can’t even manage to prompt because I honestly will just love anything you can give me!

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Eleanor Dashwood
Format: Books and Articles, Letters

This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on. Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with a quiet glorious competence and respect between them that I could see growing into a strong, contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (honestly in my opinion I think that would be a stronger relationship!). I definitely do want shippyness for this fandom if possible though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers for, especially with other Austin stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves) or North and South, or the other fandoms requested here. As with all of my Regency era requests, I would love me an epistolary love story or even society/gossip pages about how the couples fall in love ala Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown!

Crossovers
Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)/Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice)
Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) & Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
Format: Books and Articles, Letters
So when I said I loved crossovers for Jane Austen stories – I meant it LOL. Especially for the rare pairs and side characters above. Something about Colonel Brandon and Colonel Fitzwilliam just appeals to me on both fronts, and the quiet sisters of both canons, Jane, and Elinor, seem to me to have deserved better than the fates they were given by the text. So, if the canon doesn’t supply a proper pairing – find another canon! Seriously, here I’m just all about mutual respect and “hearthlike” loves instead of “raging fire” passions and competency kinks abounding! As with all of my Regency era requests, I would love me an epistolary love story or even society/gossip pages about how the couples fall in love ala Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown!

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James
Jillian Leigh/Drew Merriken; Jillian Leigh & Toby Leigh
Format: Books and Articles; Letters

A friend dragged me kicking and screaming (occasionally literally thanks to the creepy factor lol) into this author’s ghost story romances, but I have loved every one of them so far and am super sad that I’m literally the only person who has written for any of the books (and only a single one in a previous Yuletide no less LOL). INQUIRY is the book I’ve read most recently for the series (and the only one already with an archive listing), so I figured I’d go ahead and request it separately. For Drew and Jillian, I would love a glimpse into how their courtship goes after she returns to University. This is a fandom where I think epistolary stories/romance would be especially fun, though I also wouldn’t mind seeing a few ghostly letters show up from her Father/Uncle as if he was able to follow her home and finally manage to almost be family from the other side as he never was capable of in life. But regardless, Drew and Jillian are a delight on their own! As far as books or journals, glimpses of the book Toby might have written or even a coauthored book by Toby and Jillian for a posthumous release could be really cool to play with.

Whew that’s it, I think! I’m impressed if you managed to read through all of this ridiculously long letter, but I appreciate it if you did and I’m so so excited to see what you come up with!

Hey darlings!

I am just about to have the Advanced Reader Copies for the queer trailer park urban fantasy thing, and I wanted to see if any of my mutuals over here would like one?

Also IT'S FINALLY GOT A RELEASE DATE. It's been uh... a long haul to get it out, compounded by me & the lead editor swearing someone may have cursed the cover specifically bc we're on the THIRD cover artist at this point. But we have prevailed - damn near through sheer SPITE and the editor really liking the book.

So now, officially, it's coming out on March 6th 2025. I am a liiiiiiiiiiittle nervous to share the exact sales link here as I do like to keep my fannish like and my authorly life a bit separate, but mutuals, y'all can DEFINITELY message me for that as well.

But yeah, I should have the ProlificWorks link in the next week or so I think? *crossing fingers and toes*

✨ holiday love meme 2024 ✨
my thread here

And the FOMO is hitting so SO hard!

Basically, I really REALLY need to focus on getting some original fiction projects completed and out the door into the query trenches once again. And I've definitely noticed I can procrastinate like hell with fanfic, especially with exchanges. And y'all I LOVE EXCHANGES.

But publishing career. BUT PUBLISHING CAREER DAMN IT CAIT.

So yeah, this will be the first year in, hell I don't actually know how long that I'm not signing up for Yuletide, and I went ahead and defaulted on my FFFX assignment since it's early enough that it can pick up a pinch hitter with plenty of time to write them a good story.

I'm so bummed, y'all!

But, this is what I want to do. What I need to do. I just have to remember to remind myself of that.

If I reach my wordcount goals over the next few months, maybe I'll reward myself with writing a pinch hit or treat or something. We'll see. But original fic MUST come first.

Oof.

Stole it from

swingandswirl because I too suck at remembering to post anything but Dear Author Letters and as I think I'm going to be bowing out on exchanges for a while, I would like to have SOME engagement around here lolsob.

Obviously we can't do "likes" here, so just let me know which numbers you might be interested in!

Infographic with 30 numbered prompts

Hey all,

I know this tends to be an all "Dear Exchange Author Letter" all the time kind of profile, but I have a question and it seems to be one folks here would have good insight on.

I am working hard to start bringing in funds with my writing little by little via different income streams in hopes of eventually earning my portion of our household bills part time via writing. And one of the ways I want to do that is to start self-publishing, as well as releasing things via small press and trad pub (since both of the latter take a long time to get books out but on the upside don't require any upfront money from me the way self-pub does). But anyway!

My specific question is in regards to some of the Jane Austen fanfiction I've already posted on AO3. I've seen different folks just take their fics down from that site once they are ready to self-pub, usually with an update to the Summary section that it will no longer be on AO3 as of such date or what not. I don't have any novel length fics for that yet, but I did realize I have several longer short stories that are all epistolary for P&P rare pairs and thus would make a themed anthology pretty easily so I'm tempted to take them down for that.

My concern is that most of them were written for fic exchanges and are "gifts" to different people. Should I try to private message/comment to them that the fics are likely to come down so they can donate PDFs, etc?

Jane Austen/classics fanfiction is one of those odd grey areas for publishing, and having it originally written for fic exchanges adds another complication into the mix, so I just figured I'd see how folks felt about it/what they recommended.

I like the idea of JA fanfiction for one of my self-pub pen names because it would still have that sense of "fun/hobby" writing I get for fanfic which I miss sometimes when writing original novels, you know?

Anyway, random rambling, but I'd appreciate y'all's thoughts :)

Dear FFFX Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for and again I love these fandoms and tend to babble, but don’t let that scare you off. Nor is there any one request that I want more than the others, no matter how much I’ve written for one verses the others. Mostly, I’ve had years requesting some of these so LOTS of time to come up with prompts versus new pairings/fandoms might not have as many. But honestly for this whole signup, I just wanted to give you as much detail and choice as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consumation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my fave characters/pairings. Admittedly some of those crossovers would require you be more creative than others, but good luck if you want to try it!

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Just FYI, for all of these, I requested both fanfic lengths below. I will totally be happy with either option – seriously, so don’t stress too much about that. If you do go the two 5k fics route, I am game for completely different fandoms/characters, different unrelated stories for the same fandom/character, or even associated one-shots in a series or something for the same fandom/character. Honestly, whatever you need to do to complete the gift(s) will be awesome!

Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion

REQUESTS
Sense and Sensiblity – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on long before I reread the book and realized I had NO IDEA why Elinor/Brandon wasn’t the original end game. The sheer amount of mutual admiration society moments literally on the page just floors me every time I read it now LOL. And honestly, Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with their quiet glorious competence and a respect between them that I could see growing into a strong love and contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (let’s face it, I’m so gung ho for the pairing because I think instead it will be MUCH stronger). I definitely do want shippyness for this request though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other because they can’t have the person they originally wanted in Marianne or Edward. I’m honestly ambivalent about what happens to Edward, poor chap. He just never struck me as having much of a spine, and Elinor needs the kind of man who will stand up for her as opposed to just gazing at her uselessly while knowing he isn’t free to pursue her. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from other Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1. Bridgerton or North and South would also be a fun crossover!).

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read (and am actually rereading) the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married live goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Sanditon are my faves tho I’ve only seen S1. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover!).

Crossover Fandoms
Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do prefer River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River!

Sansa Stark (ISOIAF)/Aragorn (LOTR)
I’ve been in a “ship Sansa with people who treat her like a queen” mood, and this crossover pairing has SO MUCH potential. I think I’d prefer it set in one world or the other, but I have read some awesome “slip from one universe to another fic” if that’s really what you are in the mood to write. Regardless of how you get them together, I would prefer no bashing of Arwen as she is glorious – she just isn’t meant to be with Aragorn for this exchange lol. But yeah, Sansa deserved SO MUCH BETTER, and Aragorn is one of my early (probably too early honestly) fantasy crushes. Oh! I also think I would prefer Sansa to be human in either world, but yeah, other than that – run amok! Courtly love! Political shenanigans that a king must deal with no matter than he still feels more like a Ranger! Letters between an arranged marriage! Sansa serving and caring for her people during a war (whichever war you decide on)! I’m just fascinated by the thought of these two – I look forward to seeing what you write!

Black Clover - Tabata Yuki (Anime & Manga)
Yami Sukehiro
I recently marathoned this anime with my husbeast and MAN I enjoyed the hell out of this character. Part of it admittedly was the English voice actor, who was a delight, but part of it was just Yami in all his ridiculous contradictions. Harsh with his team but also secretly a damn teddy bear with a heart for the underdog; crude as hell but as a Captain probably considered the next thing to nobility. Considered a foreigner, but so expert with the magic and culture that he can mentor Asta. Just, yeah, I was super sucked into this character and want all the fic with him! Prompts: 1) Yami and his pet beasts. I’m a sucker for a big gruff guy adopting baby animals (even if he was forced to defeat their mother), ESPECIALLY when they turn out to be big and fierce but super loving to their adopter. Just all the cuddly and/or battle moments with Yami and his pets. 2) Shippy! I am not into M/M lately but I would love to see Yami either with an OC lady or with Captain Charlotte Roselei. I don’t have specific prompts for this but feel free to run wild as long as Yami gets his love life on (and yes smut is DEFINITELY welcome LOL). 3) Isekai/Portal fantasy Yami! I have only seen the anime of this and was hugely intrigued by the fact that they basically only mention Yami’s past as him washing up on the shore as a “foreigner,” wielding the only Japanese style sword in the show, and then being chosen by a grimoire with pretty damned rare magic. He just SCREAMS isekai hero to me, and I’d love a look at his story from that perspective. I’d also love to see this prompt and the shippy OC prompt combined – is another person transported to the Clover kingdom from our world? How does he recognize her as such? Is she someone he knew there? Again, just lots of fun potentional! 4) Finally, I’m all about the gen found family/adopted BDE (Big Dad Energy… tho ugh the other version also applies LOL) vibe Yami gives off with his team. Anything domestic and family like would be great.

Primeval
Hilary James Becker/Jess Parker
I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve been missing this ridiculously delightful pair of tol and smol and sunshine/grump. Jess Parker is just an utter delight of color and unexpected competence at her job being so often underestimated, and it’s such a great contrast to Mr. “I only wear black and something switched me from a soldier to a private security force (possibly an something with a timeline shift no one noticed oops) but overall I. Am. Very. Serious.” And thus don’t have time for bright and lovely Jess Parker. Not even if she thinks he has lovely hair and he brings her chocolate-without-orange when she’s brilliant which is always. Seriously I can’t with this dynamic and these two! Regarding prompts, I love me some “stranded through the anomaly” stories, and anything where Jess gets to show she’s competent in the field as well as behind her desk is also a delight! Alternately something strictly shippy be it fluffy or smutty or both, and I’ll be a happy camper. Just give me more of these two making me smile!

Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson
Oh my darling Daniel-in-Distress, polyglot extroidinaire, kind to the bones, still trying desperately to hold on to that wonder at the universe and archeology, I SWEAR! I headcanon him as demisexual (on the ace spectrum and unlikely to feel sexual attraction until an emotional connection is made), so including that would be a bonus, but is not necessary (really, how many folks flirted with him and he legit never noticed or just bluescreened – that poor assassin who tried to hit on him was SO confused LOLOL). For SG1 pairings, the more I rewatch it, the more I’m solely in it for Daniel/Sha-re or Daniel/Janet lately, (Probably because some of the other pairings (including w/villains) are much more prevalent) though I am totally game for some Sam & Daniel brotp! Otherwise, I really love crossover pairings for him, actually, including our Atlantis ladies, Hermione Granger (of legal age), Faith Lehane, & Darcy Lewis, but I’m always willing to see new het crossover pairings for him if it’s a fandom I’m familiar with. I’m a multi-shipper for sure, so I’m willing to be surprised – especially with characters from some of the other fandoms here. Just please avoid noncon/dubcon for him. Also, if you are a M/M shipper for him, please go the gen route as there’s a lot of M/M out there for him and I’m not in the mood for it lately. Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel a Good DayTM – bless him I don’t think the man has really RESTED since the series started, even after coming back from the dead multiple times. Just give him something relaxing and domestic and non-life threatening please lol. 2) Academia woes! We know he has all the PhDs ever & generally you need to publish or attend conferences etc to keep up your identity in the academic world. I know the Stargate Program makes this… exciting to manage, especially after his infamous presentation way back when. So how does he do so? Feel free to bring in Sam or some of the other researchers with this one. 3) Daniel goes to Atlantis for longer than a couple episodes – he deserves it! Whether he was a part of the original expedition or actually makes it there during one of the times Vala interrupts his plans, or even if things go FUBAR and the whole of SGC has to retreat from Earth to Atlantis. I just want him to get to know the city he searched so long for. I’m also definitely a fan of semi-sentient but maybe non-verbal Atlantis having her faves, and with or without the gene (though I am game for him to have gotten it post-Ascensions), Daniel could easily be one of those faves. 4) Kidfic! It may have been Michael Shanks’s fatherhood experience coming through but MAN Daniel was always so sweet when they encountered kiddos. I’d love to see him get to be a dad, adopted or otherwise. Did Oma manage to remove Shifu’s powers so he could grow up a normal kid with Daniel? Is Daniel co-parenting Cassie (shippy Janet option right there!)? Or even that little girl from Birthright – it would be a helluva culture shock for her on Earth, but you never know! Seriously, I just would love to see Daddy!Daniel here. 5) Another shippy option: Sha’re!Lives AU – how is she saved or is she never taken? What would the pair of them be like with the SGC in that case? Would he or she still be on a gate team or would they have a more on-site role? I would want them with the SGC tho as opposed to just on Abydos.

Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
And now for Michael Shanks playing someone COMPLETELY different than above LOL. This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character hands down only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and assumably blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightful way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks! Oh hey I am game for twins separated by the foster system Victor Stecker-Epps and Daniel Jackson shenanigans if you are a fan of both shows – talk about a culture shock if the two ever collided!

The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008)
Jacob Thain
(I swear this is my last Michael Shanks request I swear LOL. What can I say, I tend to marathon fandom boyfriends and currently he’s in several LOL) Y’all, this movie is so SO bad in the best of ways. It’s just the embodiment of “crack taken seriously” for me with relatively well known actors trying SO HARD to save this movie from its questionable script and really terrible special effects. My fave character Jacob Thain (played by Michael Shanks is once again delightfully playing a polyglot archeologist which just WORKS for me lol) the seemingly snooty useless academic caricature who slowly reveals his competency over the course of the movie, complete with a fluency in an “ancient” Aztec language and familiarity in escaping traps that gives the strong impression he has in fact been in the field many times, despite the impression everyone else on the dig has of him. Basically he’s a walking competency kink for me, and I really REALLY enjoy Michael Shanks speaking various languages LOL. As to prompts, I’d love to see prequel type adventures dealing with his past and where he’s gained his skills, or alternately sequel type stories with or without Susan Jordan as an ongoing love interest. Also fun would possibly be crossovers with other adventure/archeologist characters like Helen Magnus from Sanctuary, any of The Librarians, or The Mummy movies. Mostly I just want to see this fandom get its first fic in the archive, and a long one from this exchange would be a delight!

Black Sails
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones
Let’s be honest, if you decided to write for this pairing, then you probably are already on this little rowboat of a ship with me and don’t need my spiel about these two in particular. So how about some prompts instead? 1. AU where Billy really is someone she might have known back in England. Bookish Abigail keeps buying journals & stationary at the same printer’s shop for reasons, and society ends up scandalized when the daughter of a governor forms an attachment to the son of a Leveler. 2. Billy courting Abigail be in in an AU in England or in Nassau. Is he good at it? Is he rubbish at it? Is he so painfully adorable that we (and Abigail) don’t care either way? 3. Modern AU firefighter!Billy. I’ll admit I’ve written a fill for this prompt before, but I just don’t think there can be enough of it LOL. 4. Really just Abigail climbing Billy like a tree because smut is always acceptable.

Abigail Ashe/Charles Vane
Abigail was raised a gentlewoman but clearly a little bloodthirsty and less intimidated by pirates than she should be, and that just DESTROYS ME. Her response to Vane of “Good” will never fail to be delightfully chilling, and I can see that steel in her definitely catching Charles’s attention. Without Eleanor there to blind him with their tumultuous history and sexual attention, I can see that bit of intrigue growing into a grudging respect and later into attraction. However you get them back in the same location, whether the crew finds Abigail during the sacking of Charles Town and takes her with them on the ship or if she finds her way to Nassau due to her reputation being ‘ruined’ in the eyes of society – I’m really not picky on the details. I just want to see these two together, preferably with both enthusiastically consenting. Also pirate!Abigail would definitely be something I’d enjoy for this pairing for sure!

Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones/Charles Vane
What can I say: my answer to any ships where I can see multiple pairings/connections of the same few folks is, of course, to just trio them all together! And hey Black Sails is a canon threesomes fandom so I think adding another OT3 just makes it even better, don’t you? No specific details for this one, though I do have one prompt I’ve been craving forever: The Walking Dead AU, preferably in the Modern universe since I’ve gotten a GLORIOUS Black Sails era zombie fic previously! I have no idea why that specific scenario sounds so fun for this trio; it just does. All other characters as survivors definitely welcome just as long as these three are the chore of the story. Also a delight on the AU side would be a Pacific Rim AU, Black Jewels AU, or Western AU – really I don’t know why but this trio makes AUs pop into my head lol.

And that’s it for me! Congrats if you made it all the way through this ridiculously long letter!

Dear RarePair Writer,
You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms/pairings in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as again I love these fandoms and tend to babble, but don’t let that scare you off. Honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing!

The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.

DO NOT WANT: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format or if for a fandom already in that POV (i.e. 1st person in Innkeeper Chronicles fic).

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

YES PLEASE: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire styles a bonus! – and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)
Victoria “Tori” Stewart/Olivia Sanderson
Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. I’m also a fan of worldbuilding/mixed media, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive and TOTALLY ship Olivia/Tori– fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The other/previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet tho they are on my list).

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read (and am actually rereading) the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married live goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL.

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on long before I reread the book and realized I had NO IDEA why Elinor/Brandon wasn’t the original end game. The sheer amount of mutual admiration society moments literally on the page just floors me every time I read it now LOL. And honestly, Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with their quiet glorious competence and a respect between them that I could see growing into a strong love and contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (let’s face it, I’m so gung ho for the pairing because I think instead it will be MUCH stronger). I definitely do want shippyness for this request though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other because they can’t have the person they originally wanted in Marianne or Edward. I’m honestly ambivalent about what happens to Edward, poor chap. He just never struck me as having much of a spine, and Elinor needs the kind of man who will stand up for her as opposed to just gazing at her uselessly while knowing he isn’t free to pursue her. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from other Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves) or even North and South and/or Bridgerton for Lady Whistledown-esque society pages.

Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley
Let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for the little found family of survivors at the end of the movie and this couple and their off the charts chemistry and competency kink. It’s one of my top comfort movies – full of space horror and space marines and one scared little girl who manages to live against all possible odds and an android that is far more human that the company asshole along for the ride. And then there’s Ripley – have I mentioned our lady and savior badass extroidinaire and all around incredibly gorgeous human, Ellen Ripley? There literally is nothing I don’t love about this character, holy hell. Seriously I just want them to survive after the end of the film (3rd movie – what 3rd movie?), however you manage to do it, whether it’s rewriting the canon events of the 3rd movie to have all of them there and surviving that hell, too, or they take off for parts unknown, or continue to be hunted by Weyland-Yutani – just SOMETHING for these lovelies will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley! One final little detail, the only negative of this movie was that there wasn’t enough of Jonesy the cat – I know bringing him back into the thick of things could be complicated given he was left on the station, but I’d love to see Ripley get her kitty back.

Crossover Fandom
Sansa Stark (ISOIAF)/Aragorn (LOTR)
I’ve been in a “ship Sansa with people who treat her like a queen” mood, and this crossover pairing has SO MUCH potential. I think I’d prefer it set in one world or the other, but I have read some awesome “slip from one universe to another fic” if that’s really what you are in the mood to write. Regardless of how you get them together, I would prefer no bashing of Arwen as she is glorious – she just isn’t meant to be with Aragorn for this exchange lol. But yeah, Sansa deserved SO MUCH BETTER, and Aragorn is one of my early (probably too early honestly) fantasy crushes. Oh! I also think I would prefer Sansa to be human in either world, but yeah, other than that – run amok! Courtly love! Political shenanigans that a king must deal with no matter than he still feels more like a Ranger! Letters between an arranged marriage! Sansa serving and caring for her people during a war (whichever war you decide on)! I’m just fascinated by the thought of these two – I look forward to seeing what you write!

And that’s it for my requests this year! If you made it this far, you are amazing. And regardless, I am super excited about whatever you write for me!

Dear Yuletide Writer,
You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as again I love these fandoms and tend to babble, but don’t let that scare you off. Honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing!

The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.

DO NOT WANT: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format or if for a fandom already in that POV (i.e. 1st person in Innkeeper Chronicles fic).

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

YES PLEASE: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire style a bonus! – and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings.

Optional Re Challenges: I am also happy to receive fills that meet the Yuleporn, Mrs. Clause, and/or Two for One Crossover challenges. (I’ll update this letter if I miss any of the ones I think I could qualify for LOL).

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Requests:
The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008): Jacob Thain
Y’all, this movie is so SO bad in the best of ways. It’s just the embodiment of “crack taken seriously” for me with relatively well known actors trying SO HARD to save this movie from its questionable script and really terrible special effects. My fave character (unsurprisingly for anyone who knows my various fandom boyfriends) was Jacob Thain (played by Michael Shanks aka Daniel Jackson from Stargate who is once again delightfully playing an archeologist which just WORKS for me lol) the seemingly snooty useless academic caricature who slowly reveals his competency over the course of the movie, complete with a fluency in an “ancient” Aztec language and familiarity in escaping traps that gives the strong impression he has in fact been in the field many times, despite the impression everyone else on the dig has of him. Basically he’s a walking competency kink for me, and I really REALLY enjoy Michael Shanks speaking various languages LOL. As to prompts, I’d love to see prequel type adventures dealing with his past and where he’s gained his skills, or alternately sequel type stories with or without Susan Jordan as an ongoing love interest. Also fun would possibly be crossovers with other adventure/archeologist characters be they from The Librarians or The Mummy movies. Mostly I just want to see this fandom get it's first fic in the archive!

Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)
Victoria “Tori” Stewart, Olivia Sanderson, Ray Marino, and Worldbuilding
Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. Specific character focused fic would rock, but you could definitely go for non-character specific worldbuilding/mixed media or the mermaids in other time periods/fandoms, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive – fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Hallie’s lexicon of mermaid sign, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet tho they are on my list).

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read (and am actually rereading) the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married live goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL.

And that’s it for my requests this year! If you made it this far, you are amazing. And regardless, I am super excited about whatever you write for me!

I apparently enjoy the HELL out of FicinaBox. Not sure why I've never signed up for it before - maybe the massive list of mediums intimidated me or something? Who knows, but yeah, love love love love. 10k of "words" hasn't felt this "easy" to do in a long LONG time, and man am I super excited to see what my giftee things eventually.

*scampers off to continue writing*

Dear FicinaBox Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for and again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.

DO NOT WANT: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format or if for a fandom already in that POV (i.e. 1st person in Innkeeper Chronicles fic).

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

YES PLEASE: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire style a bonus! – and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins here for each of my fandom requests. I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bestiary
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scrapbook
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
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Requests:
Sense and Sensiblity – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on long before I reread the book and realized I had NO IDEA why Elinor/Brandon wasn’t the original end game. The sheer amount of mutual admiration society moments literally on the page just floors me every time I read it now LOL. And honestly, Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with their quiet glorious competence and a respect between them that I could see growing into a strong love and contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (let’s face it, I’m so gung ho for the pairing because I think instead it will be MUCH stronger). I definitely do want shippyness for this request though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other because they can’t have the person they originally wanted in Marianne or Edward. I’m honestly ambivalent about what happens to Edward, poor chap. He just never struck me as having much of a spine, and Elinor needs the kind of man who will stand up for her as opposed to just gazing at her uselessly while knowing he isn’t free to pursue her. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from other Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover – Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).

Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley, Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley & Bishop & Rebecca “Newt” Jordan
Why yes yes there is a reason I specifically nominated just this specific movie instead of the canonical Alien Quadrilogy – because let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for this little found family of survivors and this couple and their off the charts chemistry and competency kink. It’s one of my top comfort movies – full of space horror and space marines and one scared little girl who manages to live against all possible odds and an android that is far more human that the company asshole along for the ride. And then there’s Ripley – have I mentioned our lady and savior badass extroidinaire and all around incredibly gorgeous human, Ellen Ripley? There literally is nothing I don’t love about this character, holy hell. Seriously I just want these three to survive after the end of the film (3rd movie – what 3rd movie?), however you manage to do it, whether it’s rewriting the canon events of the 3rd movie to have all of them there and surviving that hell, too, or they take off for parts unknown, or continue to be hunted by Weyland-Yutani – just SOMETHING with this little quartet will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley if that floats your boat! One final little detail, the only negative of this movie was that there wasn’t enough of Jonesy the cat – I know bringing him back into the thick of things could be complicated given he was left on the station, but I’d love to see Ripley get her kitty back.

Bridgerton (TV)
Benedict Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
Y’all I don’t even go here *headdesk* This is one that a fandom friend completely won me over to with a really stunning fic (for a fandom I haven’t even watched – why why do I let my writer friends do this to me??? LOLOL), and now I just want more of it. Give me all the mutual respect between creatives and Penelope figuring out there’s a Bridgerton who isn’t afraid for it to be known he’s attracted to her. Seriously, the girl is stunning – give the curvy girl some love! BTW I know I mention it above, but I really love for this to remain in the Regency (ish lol) world of the show as opposed to any modern AUs. Also, epistolary elements and/or Lady Whistledown content would be a TON of fun for this one. Finally, this is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).

Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson
Oh my darling Daniel-in-Distress, polyglot extroidinaire, kind to the bones, still trying desperately to hold on to that wonder at the universe and archeology, I SWEAR! I headcanon him as demisexual (on the ace spectrum and unlikely to feel sexual attraction until an emotional connection is made), so including that would be a bonus, but is not necessary (really tho, how many folks flirted with him and he legit never noticed or just bluescreened – that poor assassin who tried to hit on him was SO confused LOLOL). For SG1 pairings, the more I rewatch it, the more I’m solely in it for Daniel/Sha-re or Daniel/Janet lately, (Probably because some of the other pairings (including w/villains) are much more prevalent) though I am totally game for some Sam & Daniel brotp! Otherwise, I really love crossover pairings for him, actually, including any of the Atlantis ladies, Hermione Granger (of legal age), Faith Lehane, & Darcy Lewis, but I’m always willing to see new het crossover pairings for him if it’s a fandom I’m familiar with. I’m a multi-shipper for sure, so I’m willing to be surprised – especially with characters from some of the other fandoms here. Just please avoid noncon/dubcon for him. Also, if you are a M/M shipper for him, please go the gen route as there’s a lot of M/M out there for him and I’m not in the mood for it lately. Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel a Good DayTM – bless him I don’t think the man has really RESTED since the series started, even after coming back from the dead multiple times. Just give him something relaxing and domestic and non-life threatening please lol. 2) Academia woes! We know he has all the PhDs ever & generally you need to publish or attend conferences etc to keep up your identity in the academic world. I know the Stargate Program makes this… exciting to manage, especially after his infamous presentation way back when. So how does he do so? Feel free to bring in Sam or some of the other researchers with this one, or even make it shippy: give me a medical conference with Daniel as Janet’s arm candy or an archeology conference with folks very confused by Daniel’s pretty wife’s fluency when she “doesn’t have a degree or experience.” 3) Daniel goes to Atlantis for longer than a couple episodes – he deserves it! Whether he was a part of the original expedition or actually makes it there during one of the times Vala interrupts his plans, or even if things go FUBAR and the whole of SGC has to retreat from Earth to Atlantis. I just want him to get to know the city he searched so long for. I’m also definitely a fan of semi-sentient but maybe non-verbal Atlantis having her faves, and with or without the gene (though I am game for him to have gotten it post-Ascensions), Daniel could easily be one of those faves. 4) Kidfic! It may have been Michael Shanks’s fatherhood experience coming through but MAN Daniel was always so sweet when they encountered kiddos. I’d love to see him get to be a dad, adopted or otherwise. Did Oma manage to remove Shifu’s powers so he could grow up a normal kid with Daniel? Is Daniel co-parenting Cassie (shippy Janet option right there!)? Or even that little girl from Birthright – it would be a helluva culture shock for her on Earth, but you never know! Seriously, I just would love to see gooddad!Daniel here. 5) Another shippy option: Sha’re!Lives AU – how is she saved or is she never taken? What would the pair of them be like with the SGC in that case? Would he or she still be on a gate team or would they have a more on-site role? I would want them with the SGC tho as opposed to just on Abydos. 6) Related LOL Janet Lives AU – throw her into the mix of Season 9 & 10 (whether in place of Vala and/or Caroline or just in addition to them, I care not which). Both actors really felt these two should be shipped, and how can I argue? Basically just let Janet climb Daniel like a tree. Height kink for the win!

Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
And now for Michael Shanks playing someone COMPLETELY different than above LOL. This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character hands down only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightfully attractive way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks! Oh hey I am game for twins separated by the foster system Victor Stecker-Epps and Daniel Jackson shenanigans if you are a fan of both shows – talk about a culture shock if the two ever collided!

Black Sails
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones
Let’s be honest, if you decided to write for this pairing, then you probably are already on this little rowboat of a ship with me and don’t need my spiel about these two in particular. So how about some prompts instead? 1. AU where Billy really is someone she might have known back in England. Bookish Abigail keeps buying journals & stationary at the same printer’s shop for reasons, and society ends up scandalized when the daughter of a governor forms an attachment to the son of a Leveler. 2. Billy courting Abigail be in in an AU in England or in Nassau. Is he good at it? Is he rubbish at it? Is he so painfully adorable that we (and Abigail) don’t care either way? 3. Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times! 4. Modern AU firefighter!Billy. I’ll admit I’ve written a fill for this prompt before, but I just don’t think there can be enough of it LOL. (And yes these two prompts are the exception to my ‘no Modern AUs rule lol) 5. Really just Abigail climbing Billy like a tree because smut is always acceptable.

Abigail Ashe/Charles Vane
Abigail was raised a gentlewoman, but clearly is a little more bloodthirsty and less intimidated by pirates than she should be, and that just DESTROYS ME. Her response to Vane of “Good” will never fail to be delightfully chilling, and I can see that steel in her definitely catching Charles’s attention. Without Eleanor there to blind him with their tumultuous history and sexual attention, I can see that bit of intrigue growing into a grudging respect and later into attraction. However you get them back in the same location, whether the crew finds Abigail during the sacking of Charles Town and takes her with them on the ship or if she finds her way to Nassau due to her reputation being ‘ruined’ in the eyes of society – I’m really not picky on the details. I just want to see these two together, preferably with both enthusiastically consenting. Also pirate!Abigail would definitely be something I’d enjoy for this pairing for sure! And as above: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!

Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones/Charles Vane
What can I say: my answer to any ships where I can see multiple pairings/connections of the same few folks is, of course, to just trio them all together! And hey Black Sails is a canon threesomes fandom so I think adding another OT3 just makes it even better, don’t you? No specific details for this one, though I do have several AU prompts: 1) The Walking Dead AU, preferably in the Modern universe since I’ve gotten a GLORIOUS Black Sails era zombie fic previously! I have no idea why that specific scenario sounds so fun for this trio; it just does. All other characters as survivors definitely welcome just as long as these three are the core of the story. 2) also a delight on the AU side would be a Pacific Rim AU, Black Jewels AU, or Western AU – really I don’t know why but this trio makes AUs pop into my head lol. 3) Finally, for all 3 of this fandom’s requests, I’m totally on board with the same prompt: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!

Crossover Fandoms
Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do prefer River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River and vice versus!

Primeval
Hilary James Becker/Jess Parker
I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve been missing this ridiculously delightful pair of tol and smol and sunshine/grump. Jess Parker is just an utter delight of color and unexpected competence at her job being so often underestimated, and it’s such a great contrast to Mr. “I only wear black and something switched me from a soldier to a private security force (possibly an something with a timeline shift no one noticed oops) but overall I. Am. Very. Serious.” And thus doesn’t have time for bright and lovely Jess Parker. Not even if she thinks he has lovely hair and he brings her chocolate-without-orange when she’s brilliant which is always. Seriously I can’t with this dynamic and these two! Regarding prompts, I love me some “stranded through the anomaly” stories, and anything where Jess gets to show she’s competent in the field as well as behind her desk is also a delight! Alternately something strictly shippy be it fluffy or smutty or both, and I’ll be a happy camper. Just give me more of these two making me smile!

Welp, that’s what I’ve got. Congratulations – if you made it here, you read through the longest Dear Author letter I’ve ever written (and I regret NOTHING lol).

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