Sci Fi Swap Letter!
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hiddencaitHello my Sci Fi Swap darling! I just wanted to thank you for being awesome and writing one of these fandoms and pairings of my heart. You rock; I love you; that is all.
Thanks said – on to the nitty gritty letter stuff!
First of all – DON’T PANIC! Seriously, I have no doubts that I will love whatever you write. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these pairings in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I just love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size.
I know this letter will likely be ridiculously long and meta-y as again I love these fandoms, but don’t let that scare you off. If none of the prompts/like lists work for you, feel free to ignore them. The only thing I do ask is that my squick list be avoided. Other than that though, do whatever the muse tells you!
Anyway, on to the nitty gritty general likes/dislikes:
Things I like: post-apocalypse fic, slice of life/domestic fic (if you can manage both post-apocalyptic AND domestic I will bow to your greatness lol), teamfics, crossovers, AUs (particularly coffee shop, Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, and Pacific Rim fusions), supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters.
Also I am TOTALLY OK with M rated fic if the smut muse visits you. Also, trio fics tend to make me happy, and I’ll try to remember trio options down in the fandom specific stuff in case that tickles your fancy.
Squicks/Dislikes: noncon, dubcon, character death, infidelity, RPF, bodily fluids, knife/blood play (as I have some triggers there – though only in a sexual context – cannon level battle violence is fine), mpreg, underage/pedophilia, explicit slash, genderswap, incest in any fandom other than the ones I’ve specifically requested (I’ve only have 2 incest ships ever).
Hopefully that gives you a rough idea of my preferred types of fics. On to the fandom specifics!
(Oh and BTW, if you’ve been trolling the ShipSwap letters, why YES there are some duplicates here, not all but some. What can I say – that gives me more chance I’ll get my lovelies in fic! *grin*)
1. Crossover Ships – as I mentioned in my likes, I absolutely love crossovers!
Richard B. Riddick (Pitch Black)/River Tam (Firefly)
OK lets be honest here, Riddick is just sexy and sinister all at once, and apparently that’s a combination that works for me. Add his complete lethalness to his apparent inability to harm children and dogs, plus the stupid voice that Vin Diesal has, and well, I’m hooked. That said, I had a hard time shipping him with anyone in his cannon. Caroline Frye was competent and tough and there was a lot of onscreen chemistry, but most of that seemed to be Riddick screwing with her head as opposed to mutual attraction. Even if she’d survived, I don’t think that pairing would have lasted long assuming it got of the ground in the first place. Jack/Kyra is the other open pairing option, and again, it just doesn’t quite ring true for me. Jack was far too into the hero worship, and Kyra? Well, Kyra seemed too much to want to be Riddick as opposed to wanting to be with Riddick. If that makes sense at all.
So cue me turning to the crossover section of FFN to see if there was something that might appeal to me. I found one – River Tam ala Firefly. Bless her, she is not totally stable, and even at the end of Serenity it was pretty clear she never would be. But after the Big Damn Movie, she was definitely finding her footing between her reader gifts and the fact that she was a bitty killer woman.
Plus, as she once told Badger, “’Course I got a secret. More’n one.” And Riddick is always drawn to secrets.
As far as prompts/ideas, I’d love to maybe seen Serenity being the ship to find the shuttle at the end of Pitch Black. The interactions between each crew could be interesting as hell. Any other way you’d like to have Riddick joining up with our Big Damn Heroes could be fun too, whether he signs on as a passenger or is caught on the wrong side of a bounty hunter or even ends up enjoying the show as River dominates a bar fight. Grace and lethality are what I’m hoping for here!
2. Andromeda – I have the whole series, and I loved it from start to finish. Season 5 in some ways was my fave, though it often felt like a completely different show. My very favorite characters ended up being played by the same actor. The idea of genetic re-incarnation totally made it easy for me to fangirl!
Telemachus Rhade/Genevieve Rhade (canon wife)
Considering we only saw her for a whopping 2 episodes at the very end of the series, I wouldn’t have expected Genevieve (I.E. Telemachus’s cannon wife) to intrigue me quite as much as she did. It might have been that she was played by Colby Smuthers (yes Maria Hill) who does a quiet competency better than a lot of people on screen right now. Part of it, I think is that Nietzchean women are so very much a powerful part of their culture. While yes the guys can have more that one wife (cue cannon trio opportunities!), it was made very clear that the women get to choose whether they’ll accept the courting Nietzchean male as their husband. And I have to imagine that they have a fair amount of say as to who will be accepted as a sister wife, too.
So I think I’d enjoy something like an AU where Louisa survived or Telemachus stumbled upon a Nietzchean lady in Seefra and brought her back, and now it’s up to his wife to decide if they’ll keep her. Or better yet, Genevieve picks out a wife for him and sets up to convince him that courting the mystery lady is all his idea. If that direction doesn’t work for you, then another idea might be what she does while he’s gone being all space soldiery – after all, in the very end of the series, he has flown himself back to Andromeda. The military wife angle could be really cool for these two.
Gaheris Rhade/Beka Valentine
The Unconquerable Man was one of my favorite episodes of the series – the cannon AU where Gaheris kills Dylan and takes his place in the rest of the series was a very interesting concept. That said – I’d really be interested to see what might happen if both Gaheris and Dylan manage to live through the battle and getting trapped on the edge of the even horizon. The new dynamic with the old guard and Beka and her crew could be really fun to play with. I definitely enjoyed the glimpse of the Beka/Gaheris pairing in the episode, too. Mostly I just want to see the pair being sexy and bad ass together. As pretty as Tyr might have been, Beka deserves a Nietzchean who isn’t bent on total tri-galaxy/Nietzchean dictatorship.
3. Agents of SHIELD I am FINALLY caught up all the way through TRACKS and oh holy I would love anything dealing with Jemma's whole *blinkandyoumissit* jump on the grenade moment or her dealing with the blood on her hands, so to speak. Oh man my heart! *ahem* Anyway!
I really am loving this show – it’s so darling and quirky with action and superpowers thrown in. It’s just FUN and that’s what I’m looking forward to with this pairing.
Jemma Simmons/Grant Ward
This pairing snuck up on me, and it makes me sad that it has so few fics. Honestly, it wasn’t so much the parachute rescue that did it for me, but instead the moment with the tree that just utterly convinced me that these two could be darling together. Note: just because I like these two together does NOT mean that I want to see Melinda or Skye bashing. Respect all the awesome series ladies please – just let Jemma be the lady genius who gets her man!
As far as prompts, I’m not sure I’ve actually got anything. Mostly just Jemma being smart and having her shit together when it comes to her job, and Grant being a badass but actually having a personality under his guise of the Commando Ken doll.
4. Pacific Rim I just flat out love everything about this movie. All of it, I tell you! An everyone!lives AU to ditch some of the angst would be great, but I’ll take cannon, too.
Hercules Hansen/Mako Mori
Herc was easily the hottest man in this film for me, and considering the various men involved in the project, that’s saying a heck of a lot. That said, while I enjoy reading Team Hot Dad fics, I really desperately want some sexy het fic for him. Unfortunately, the list of available lovelies is small in cannon, but at least said ladies are absolutely awesome.
I really like the idea of Mako and Herc, not just because I have a thing for May/December romances (though yes, yes I do). I think I like that Mako is strong enough to stand on her own, and that Herc would be strong enough to let her do so. Just a gorgeous pair all the way around.
Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket
Drift partners to lovers in cannon or some other connection forming in an AU somewhere, honestly I don’t care – these two are just fantastic together. Loved that Raleigh was so obvious infatuated with her strength and her intelligence, and she was just as intrigued.
Herc Hansen/Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket
It’s not on the actual list, but let’s just say I am TOTALLY OK with these all being trio’d up.
5. Sanctuary This show was just a laundry list of all the things I love best in fic, from the badass ladies, to the cryptids/Abnormals, to the Steampunk details showing up in Helen’s history and all of Henry’s tech. Just too much fun!
Henry Foss/Ashley Magnus
All through the first season I hoped this pairing might end up happening. Henry was so blatantly crushing on his young buddy, but never pushed at her, and I really liked that aspect to their relationship. Plus I thought they made a really interesting partnership with her being the one physically stronger at first glance, but only because he chose not to embrace the physical side of his shapeshifting. Plus courtship through fun weaponry just made me smile like a loon.
I’d been good with a pre-Ashley’s abduction fic or an AU where she survived or was found alive. Mostly I just want to see these two being adorable together.
6. The Fifth Element Oh the joys of nostalgia fandoms! I’ve written/read very little for this movie, but every time I see a new one pop up I grin like crazy. Everything from the style of the film to the over the top action and alien life forms. Just all of it was awesome!
Leeloo/Korben Dallas
These two are absolutely one of my long time OTPs. Basically I’d love darned near anything with these two, though I would like to avoid any heavy angst. This is one of my fun bubbly happy movies – I don’t want to feel depressed after the fic please!
7. Gundam Wing Yet another nostalgia fandom – this was the first anime that I flat out fell in love with. Once again, there was basically nothing that I DIDN’T like about the show. It had mecha and young brilliant soldiers and political alliances and badass ladies and family struggles and just yay. All the yay. Oh! And I totally take Endless Waltz as cannon along with the comics, Blind Target and Episode Zero. (Though I’m not a fan of Frozen Teardrop so please nothing set during that timeline/comic series.)
Heero Yuy/Relena Peacecraft
Again, this was such an OTP for me – Relena grew up so much over the course of the show and movie, and she became a lovely touchstone for Heero, too. Yes there was a hell of a lot of conflict between them early on, but later it was clear to me that they were drawn to each other.
Post-Endless Waltz stories of how they actually get together would be great, though really I’d probably be happy with just about anything for these two!
Thanks said – on to the nitty gritty letter stuff!
First of all – DON’T PANIC! Seriously, I have no doubts that I will love whatever you write. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these pairings in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I just love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size.
I know this letter will likely be ridiculously long and meta-y as again I love these fandoms, but don’t let that scare you off. If none of the prompts/like lists work for you, feel free to ignore them. The only thing I do ask is that my squick list be avoided. Other than that though, do whatever the muse tells you!
Anyway, on to the nitty gritty general likes/dislikes:
Things I like: post-apocalypse fic, slice of life/domestic fic (if you can manage both post-apocalyptic AND domestic I will bow to your greatness lol), teamfics, crossovers, AUs (particularly coffee shop, Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, and Pacific Rim fusions), supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters.
Also I am TOTALLY OK with M rated fic if the smut muse visits you. Also, trio fics tend to make me happy, and I’ll try to remember trio options down in the fandom specific stuff in case that tickles your fancy.
Squicks/Dislikes: noncon, dubcon, character death, infidelity, RPF, bodily fluids, knife/blood play (as I have some triggers there – though only in a sexual context – cannon level battle violence is fine), mpreg, underage/pedophilia, explicit slash, genderswap, incest in any fandom other than the ones I’ve specifically requested (I’ve only have 2 incest ships ever).
Hopefully that gives you a rough idea of my preferred types of fics. On to the fandom specifics!
(Oh and BTW, if you’ve been trolling the ShipSwap letters, why YES there are some duplicates here, not all but some. What can I say – that gives me more chance I’ll get my lovelies in fic! *grin*)
1. Crossover Ships – as I mentioned in my likes, I absolutely love crossovers!
Richard B. Riddick (Pitch Black)/River Tam (Firefly)
OK lets be honest here, Riddick is just sexy and sinister all at once, and apparently that’s a combination that works for me. Add his complete lethalness to his apparent inability to harm children and dogs, plus the stupid voice that Vin Diesal has, and well, I’m hooked. That said, I had a hard time shipping him with anyone in his cannon. Caroline Frye was competent and tough and there was a lot of onscreen chemistry, but most of that seemed to be Riddick screwing with her head as opposed to mutual attraction. Even if she’d survived, I don’t think that pairing would have lasted long assuming it got of the ground in the first place. Jack/Kyra is the other open pairing option, and again, it just doesn’t quite ring true for me. Jack was far too into the hero worship, and Kyra? Well, Kyra seemed too much to want to be Riddick as opposed to wanting to be with Riddick. If that makes sense at all.
So cue me turning to the crossover section of FFN to see if there was something that might appeal to me. I found one – River Tam ala Firefly. Bless her, she is not totally stable, and even at the end of Serenity it was pretty clear she never would be. But after the Big Damn Movie, she was definitely finding her footing between her reader gifts and the fact that she was a bitty killer woman.
Plus, as she once told Badger, “’Course I got a secret. More’n one.” And Riddick is always drawn to secrets.
As far as prompts/ideas, I’d love to maybe seen Serenity being the ship to find the shuttle at the end of Pitch Black. The interactions between each crew could be interesting as hell. Any other way you’d like to have Riddick joining up with our Big Damn Heroes could be fun too, whether he signs on as a passenger or is caught on the wrong side of a bounty hunter or even ends up enjoying the show as River dominates a bar fight. Grace and lethality are what I’m hoping for here!
2. Andromeda – I have the whole series, and I loved it from start to finish. Season 5 in some ways was my fave, though it often felt like a completely different show. My very favorite characters ended up being played by the same actor. The idea of genetic re-incarnation totally made it easy for me to fangirl!
Telemachus Rhade/Genevieve Rhade (canon wife)
Considering we only saw her for a whopping 2 episodes at the very end of the series, I wouldn’t have expected Genevieve (I.E. Telemachus’s cannon wife) to intrigue me quite as much as she did. It might have been that she was played by Colby Smuthers (yes Maria Hill) who does a quiet competency better than a lot of people on screen right now. Part of it, I think is that Nietzchean women are so very much a powerful part of their culture. While yes the guys can have more that one wife (cue cannon trio opportunities!), it was made very clear that the women get to choose whether they’ll accept the courting Nietzchean male as their husband. And I have to imagine that they have a fair amount of say as to who will be accepted as a sister wife, too.
So I think I’d enjoy something like an AU where Louisa survived or Telemachus stumbled upon a Nietzchean lady in Seefra and brought her back, and now it’s up to his wife to decide if they’ll keep her. Or better yet, Genevieve picks out a wife for him and sets up to convince him that courting the mystery lady is all his idea. If that direction doesn’t work for you, then another idea might be what she does while he’s gone being all space soldiery – after all, in the very end of the series, he has flown himself back to Andromeda. The military wife angle could be really cool for these two.
Gaheris Rhade/Beka Valentine
The Unconquerable Man was one of my favorite episodes of the series – the cannon AU where Gaheris kills Dylan and takes his place in the rest of the series was a very interesting concept. That said – I’d really be interested to see what might happen if both Gaheris and Dylan manage to live through the battle and getting trapped on the edge of the even horizon. The new dynamic with the old guard and Beka and her crew could be really fun to play with. I definitely enjoyed the glimpse of the Beka/Gaheris pairing in the episode, too. Mostly I just want to see the pair being sexy and bad ass together. As pretty as Tyr might have been, Beka deserves a Nietzchean who isn’t bent on total tri-galaxy/Nietzchean dictatorship.
3. Agents of SHIELD I am FINALLY caught up all the way through TRACKS and oh holy I would love anything dealing with Jemma's whole *blinkandyoumissit* jump on the grenade moment or her dealing with the blood on her hands, so to speak. Oh man my heart! *ahem* Anyway!
I really am loving this show – it’s so darling and quirky with action and superpowers thrown in. It’s just FUN and that’s what I’m looking forward to with this pairing.
Jemma Simmons/Grant Ward
This pairing snuck up on me, and it makes me sad that it has so few fics. Honestly, it wasn’t so much the parachute rescue that did it for me, but instead the moment with the tree that just utterly convinced me that these two could be darling together. Note: just because I like these two together does NOT mean that I want to see Melinda or Skye bashing. Respect all the awesome series ladies please – just let Jemma be the lady genius who gets her man!
As far as prompts, I’m not sure I’ve actually got anything. Mostly just Jemma being smart and having her shit together when it comes to her job, and Grant being a badass but actually having a personality under his guise of the Commando Ken doll.
4. Pacific Rim I just flat out love everything about this movie. All of it, I tell you! An everyone!lives AU to ditch some of the angst would be great, but I’ll take cannon, too.
Hercules Hansen/Mako Mori
Herc was easily the hottest man in this film for me, and considering the various men involved in the project, that’s saying a heck of a lot. That said, while I enjoy reading Team Hot Dad fics, I really desperately want some sexy het fic for him. Unfortunately, the list of available lovelies is small in cannon, but at least said ladies are absolutely awesome.
I really like the idea of Mako and Herc, not just because I have a thing for May/December romances (though yes, yes I do). I think I like that Mako is strong enough to stand on her own, and that Herc would be strong enough to let her do so. Just a gorgeous pair all the way around.
Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket
Drift partners to lovers in cannon or some other connection forming in an AU somewhere, honestly I don’t care – these two are just fantastic together. Loved that Raleigh was so obvious infatuated with her strength and her intelligence, and she was just as intrigued.
Herc Hansen/Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket
It’s not on the actual list, but let’s just say I am TOTALLY OK with these all being trio’d up.
5. Sanctuary This show was just a laundry list of all the things I love best in fic, from the badass ladies, to the cryptids/Abnormals, to the Steampunk details showing up in Helen’s history and all of Henry’s tech. Just too much fun!
Henry Foss/Ashley Magnus
All through the first season I hoped this pairing might end up happening. Henry was so blatantly crushing on his young buddy, but never pushed at her, and I really liked that aspect to their relationship. Plus I thought they made a really interesting partnership with her being the one physically stronger at first glance, but only because he chose not to embrace the physical side of his shapeshifting. Plus courtship through fun weaponry just made me smile like a loon.
I’d been good with a pre-Ashley’s abduction fic or an AU where she survived or was found alive. Mostly I just want to see these two being adorable together.
6. The Fifth Element Oh the joys of nostalgia fandoms! I’ve written/read very little for this movie, but every time I see a new one pop up I grin like crazy. Everything from the style of the film to the over the top action and alien life forms. Just all of it was awesome!
Leeloo/Korben Dallas
These two are absolutely one of my long time OTPs. Basically I’d love darned near anything with these two, though I would like to avoid any heavy angst. This is one of my fun bubbly happy movies – I don’t want to feel depressed after the fic please!
7. Gundam Wing Yet another nostalgia fandom – this was the first anime that I flat out fell in love with. Once again, there was basically nothing that I DIDN’T like about the show. It had mecha and young brilliant soldiers and political alliances and badass ladies and family struggles and just yay. All the yay. Oh! And I totally take Endless Waltz as cannon along with the comics, Blind Target and Episode Zero. (Though I’m not a fan of Frozen Teardrop so please nothing set during that timeline/comic series.)
Heero Yuy/Relena Peacecraft
Again, this was such an OTP for me – Relena grew up so much over the course of the show and movie, and she became a lovely touchstone for Heero, too. Yes there was a hell of a lot of conflict between them early on, but later it was clear to me that they were drawn to each other.
Post-Endless Waltz stories of how they actually get together would be great, though really I’d probably be happy with just about anything for these two!
