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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 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!

 

 Dear Fandom Growth 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 micro 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.

 

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

 

DNW:  On the page infertility and/or miscarriage of major characters, discussion of plagues/pandemics, slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, major character death unless part of canon, infidelity unless part of canon, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), characters de-aged/aged back up during the story (if you make one of the characters a child, make them “canon” children for that story if that makes sense), A/B/O, crackfic, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult relationships, gender swap, teacher/student relationships, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism, or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (Unless the source material for the fandom is in 1st person – then go for it!). 

 

For M-rated fics, please no knife play/blood play/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, 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 between requested fandoms, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels trilogy verse, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions) – tho as above I’d prefer no Modern AUs that erase any magical/supernatural elements, outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, fics where characters have kids and are adorable parents, or 5 and 1 style fics.

 

I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a clear top ordering their bottom around, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/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.

 

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?

 

Post WWI Linked Ghost Story Romances – Simone St. James
Sarah Piper & Jillian Leigh; Sarah Piper & Jillian Leigh & Kitty Weekes & Jo Manders & Ellie Winter

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. While not listed as a specific series, each of the books is set in the same timeframe, and there are little Easter egg mentions of various characters from earlier books showing up in the later books making all of this a true connected canon. The love interests are great, but the real stars are definitely the main characters of the ladies getting drawn into the ghostly world in one way or another. The one thing this series is lacking for me, however, are really great women friendships, and honestly, who better to be friends than these heroines? It’s not as if they could talk about what they’ve experienced with just anyone, now could they? While SILENCE OF THE DEAD is my fave, and I’ve read INQUIRY INTO LOVE AND DEATH most recently, all five of the books are a delight, and I’d love to see letters between any of these ladies or even something like a “Ladies Paranormalist Meeting” minutes. Mentions of the men from the series will of course be welcome, but I really want a focus on these women being friends and/or correspondents with each other.

 

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James 
Jillian Leigh/Drew Merriken, Jillian Leigh & Toby Leigh
As I mentioned above, 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! For other prompts, 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.

 

The Innkeeper Chronicles - Ilona Andrews

Dina Demille/Sean Evans, Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt, Sean Evans & Gertrude Hunt, Gertrude Hunt & None

Really what’s not to love about an intergalactic Bed and Breakfast? Dina/Sean have my whole heart I swear, though honestly I really love all of the characters in this story, especially the inn itself, Gertrude Hunt which DEFINITELY feels like a character all on its own (Inn POV fic?). So, prompt/concepts I’m excited about: I’d love to have a 1st POV fic ala the books (though from any character you like – Dina, of course, is always a win as the book’s POV character, but I’m game for a look into anyone’s head, especially outsider POV on Dina/Sean), & I’d like it mostly set in and around Gertrude Hunt since the inn is a delight and the other “character” I specifically requested. Domestic fic in particular would make me super happy here. We always see Dina in a panic, but rarely get those calm moments of life running like normal or even with a guest that ISN’T close to causing an intergalactic incident. Of course, if you do want to write an action fic I’d be happy to read that as well. Seriously run wild – this series just makes me happy in general. BTW, I would definitely be thrilled to have a crossover with any of the other Ilona Andrews series as long as it’s taking place in the Innkeeper universe.

 

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 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 being useless. 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 (her character was very meh to me sadly). 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 its first fic in the archive!

Christmas Lodge (2011)

Jack Rand & Charlene Rand, Mary Tobin/Jack Rand
Oh hey it’s another random Michael Shanks fandom (why yes I tend to have the current fandom boyfriend in multiple exchange requests – I regret nothing! LOL). This one is an utterly sticky sweet comfort movie for me. It’s very Hallmark movie, but while yes, it’s got a huge amount of Christian scripture (which you can DEFINITELY skip both in the movie and in the fic), it’s surprisingly feminist with Mary getting to both get the guy AND still keep the job she’s amazing at, to the point that her job opens a new office just for her to allow her to work in the rural area with the small towns she loves. Jack Rand (Michael Shanks’s character) is my catnip as far as romance hero bait: he’s a single dad who cooks and adores his daughter and who’s struggling to rebuild the lodge his family has built and run for so long but that fell to ruin while he was mourning his wife and helping his late parents through ill health before their deaths, as well. The costume director definitely leaned into the romance novel tropes, dressing him in flannels and sweaters and henleys and bonus tool belts just in case we weren’t quite sold on him as yet another walking competency kink LOLOL. It’s just a really sweet low stakes romance, y’all, and it screams the holiday season mood for me. Prompt wise, I’d really love domestic fic vibes with anything from Jack and Charlene as their tiny family prior to the movie to Mary and Jack and Charlene building their family together and continuing to run Christmas Lodge as a functioning vacation lodge/B&B for years to come (I don’t know what it is but I really do love B&Bs). I’d also love more of Mary and Jack as a couple, whether it’s getting together or them as a couple. And yes, yes, this DOES mean I would welcome smut – the movie literally doesn’t even have them kiss until Jack proposes LOL, so uh, a little more chemistry and physicality would be great. For a completely off the wall, specific prompt – if you have read and are a fan of the Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews, I think it could be a blast to see Christmas Lodge as one of the magical intergalactic Inns with Jack Rand as an Innkeeper and Mary having to learn just how magical the lodge actually is. Obviously not remotely required – just figured I’d mention it since it popped into my head!

 

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, Olivia Sanderson & Ray Marino

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. 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. Prompt wise:  1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against said murder mermaids and their 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 it not end the way it did – 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 previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually as fake as thought or did the people on site cover something else up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake if the next one takes place 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!

 

Welp, that’s what I’ve got! Thanks for reading all the way through this long LONG letter (what can I say – I babble about the things I love LOLOL). I look forward to what you come up with!

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 and 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! Note: I do have more prompts for the Stargate SG1 request, but that’s only because I recycled some of it from a previous exchange. I definitely love all of these fandoms equally – no matter how much or little I have in their section!

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

DNW:  I’m really more into fluff/happy/angst-with-a-happy-ending fics than darker subject matter, so most of my DNWs are on the angstier subject matter side: infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character major character 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, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, incest, or Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.  

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/domesticfic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs/fusions (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, “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. I love all of these characters, so would happily accept one pair meeting another or even the pairs themselves mixed and matched beyond the people they’re requested with. The only caveat is that I do tend to prefer het or femmeslash, so please keep that in mind.

 

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

 

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 watch – 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.

 

Chronicles of Riddick Verse

Richard B. Riddick/Original Character(s)

Oof, this is legit one 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). In any case, I am a SHIP RIDDICK WITH SO MANY THINGS kind of person, though I do prefer them to be female or femme non-binary type folks. But beyond that feel free to go wild. Is it another Furyan he stumbles on? A regular human who’s going through hell and finds a monster to drag her out of it? A bounty hunter who changes her mind? Riddick is another I’m gave for a crossover pairing with if you wish as well. Really as long as my gender preferences are followed, I’m good to go!

 

Pride and Prejudice

Catherine Bennet/Original Male Character; Colonel Fitzwilliam/Charlotte Lucas; Colonel Fitzwilliam/Jane Bennet

Y’all, I love Jane Austen fanfiction – I even happily buy some of the published ones. My faves tho are the ones focusing on the side characters as opposed to the main couples, and MAN this exchange gives me the opportunity to ask for some fun ones! All of the above four characters always deserved better than what the book gave them in my opinion, and I’m thrilled to see how you can get them to their happily ever afters. I’m legitimately fine with any of these pairings – just let them be happy at the end and give me the lovely Regency setting!

Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson/Sha’re; Daniel Jackson/Janet Fraiser
Oh Daniel 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 won’t lie, he is 90% of my love for these two requests, but I do adore both ladies as well, I promise LOL. But yeah, Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel and his lady love (whichever you choose) 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 them something relaxing and domestic and fluffy and romantic 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. So how do they manage it? 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.” LOL 3) 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. 4) 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!

Welp that’s all I’ve got! I hope it inspired you and that you have fun writing for me! *massive hugs*

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.

DNW:  This time of year, I’m really more into fluff/happy fics than darker subject matter, so most of my DNWs are on the angstier subject matter side: infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character major character 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, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, incest, or Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.  

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/domesticfic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs/fusions (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, “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.

Optional Re Challenges: I am also happy to receive fills that meet the Yuleporn 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 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!

Christmas Lodge (2011) Jack Rand, Charlene Rand, Mary Tobin

This is the second of my “zero fic fandoms” that I nominated this year, and oh hey it’s another random Michael Shanks fandom (why yes I tend to have the current fandom boyfriend in multiple Yuletide requests – I regret nothing! LOL). This one is an utterly sticky sweet comfort movie for me. It’s very Hallmark movie, but while yes, it’s got a huge amount of Christian scripture (which you can DEFINITELY skip both in the movie and in the fic), it’s surprisingly feminist with Mary getting to both get the guy AND still keep the job she’s amazing at, to the point that her job opens a new office just for her to allow her to work in the rural area with the small towns she loves. Jack Rand (Michael Shanks’s character) is my catnip as far as romance hero bait: he’s a single dad who cooks and adores his daughter and who’s struggling to rebuild the lodge his family has built and run for so long but that fell to ruin while he was mourning his wife and helping his late parents through ill health before their deaths, as well. The costume director definitely leaned into the romance novel tropes, dressing him in flannels and sweaters and henleys and bonus tool belts just in case we weren’t quite sold on him as yet another walking competency kink LOLOL. It’s just a really sweet low stakes romance, y’all, and it screams the holiday season mood for me. Prompt wise, I’d really love domestic fic vibes with anything from Mary and Jack and Charlene building their family together and continuing to run Christmas Lodge as a functioning vacation lodge/B&B for years to come (I don’t know what it is but I really do love B&Bs). I’d also love more of Mary and Jack as a couple, whether it’s getting together or them as a couple. And yes, yes, this DOES mean I would welcome smut – the movie literally doesn’t even have them kiss until Jack proposes LOL, so uh, a little more chemistry and physicality would be great. For a completely off the wall, specific prompt – if you have read and are a fan of the Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews, I think it could be a blast to see Christmas Lodge as one of the magical intergalactic Inns with Jack Rand as an Innkeeper and Mary having to learn just how magical the lodge actually is. Obviously not remotely required – just figured I’d mention it since it popped into my head!

Dying with her Cheer Pants On – Seanan McGuire Steph, Colleen, Jude Ciobanu, Worldbuilding

Last but not least of the fandoms I nominated that have never had a fic written for them and that TOTALLY deserve it. This anthology by the FANTASTIC Seanan McGuire is a set of interconnected stories with a monster of the week vibe centered around the Fighting Pumpkins, the varsity cheerleading squad in the odd town of Jordan’s Crossing, who protect the high school and the rest of the community from everything from aliens to zombies to run of the mill apocalypses. Think “what if Buffy made it onto the cheer squad after all and her Scoobies ended up being other cheerleaders” but uh… the squads die pretty much on the regular, occasionally leaving the whole school with semi-amnesia regarding the previous squad members. It’s got a fantastic diverse current squad too (there are three in the book but most of the stories center on the “current” squad), both as far as race and sexuality and as far as their supernatural abilities. I’ve nominated and requested 3 specific characters, as well as worldbuilding, and honestly I’d be thrilled with something regarding any of the characters or even all of them as a full “squad” story so to speak. Jude is the squad leader and a vampire, and carries the weight of being one of the few legacies – a daughter of one of the rare surviving cheer squad members from a previous team; Colleen is the squad historian – something I really wanted to see more of/to get more details about how she was chosen and what knowledge she may possess that the rest of the squad doesn’t; and Steph is a literal embodiment of the harvest who we only get to know for one story but who honestly was one of my fave characters. As far as worldbuilding, I’d love more info as to why the cheerleaders became the warriors/sacrifices in this town in the first place and how the Handbook passes from one squad leader to the next. There’s also a blink and you miss it reference in one of the stories to the other world saving teams in the town: a junior baseball team and a senior knitting circle – more details about them would be a blast, too as would a team up between either team and the Fighting Pumpkins. 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 verse character or setting colliding with this one – especially the Rolling in the Deep series I also requested. Does one of the squad members go on a cruise for vacation and end up face to teeth with one of the deep sea mermaids? (Note: I haven't read much of her Mira Grant titles yet aside from Rolling in the Deep and some of her 1-shot Subterranean Press exclusives so best to stick with her Seanan McGuire series/stories as crossover fodder).

Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP) Any including: 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 (this is not the first year I’ve requested more than one of her fandoms for Yuletide LOL), and these books are the perfect example of why. 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 verse character or setting colliding with this one – especially the Fighting Pumpkins from the anthology I also requested. Does one of the squad members go on a cruise for vacation and end up face to teeth with one of the deep sea mermaids? (Note: I haven't read much of her Mira Grant titles yet aside from Rolling in the Deep and some of her 1-shot Subterranean Press exclusives so best to stick with her Seanan McGuire series/stories as crossover fodder).

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! 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!

Dear Fandom Growth 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.

 

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

 

DNW:  On the page infertility and/or miscarriage of major characters, discussion of plagues/pandemics, slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, major character death unless part of canon, infidelity unless part of canon, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), characters de-aged/aged back up during the story (if you make one of the characters a child, make them “canon” children for that story if that makes sense), A/B/O, crackfic, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult relationships, gender swap, teacher/student relationships, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism, or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (Unless the source material for the fandom is in 1st person – then go for it!).  For M-rated fics, please no knife play/blood play/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, 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 between requested fandoms, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels trilogy verse, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions) – tho as above I’d prefer no Modern AUs that erase any magical/supernatural elements, outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, fics where characters have kids and are adorable parents, or 5 and 1 style fics. I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a clear top ordering their bottom around, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/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.

 

Northmen: A Viking Saga

Asbjorn/Inghean

Tom Hopper pulled me into this teeny tiny fandom after Black Sails moved him to the top of 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?

 

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James

Jillian Leigh/Drew Merriken

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 them (in a previous Yuletide no less LOL). 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 – and I 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. If you’ve read the rest of the books and feel the urge, I also would definitely enjoy seeing some of the ladies from the other books (those set in England – not the most recent book) show up and share in their lady-awesomeness since it’s always fun finding the tiny Easter egg mentions of the previous books (SILENCE OF THE DEAD is my other fave). But regardless, Drew and Jillian are a delight on their own!

 

The Innkeeper Chronicles - Ilona Andrews

Dina Demille/Sean Evans, Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt, Sean Evans & Gertrude Hunt, Gertrude Hunt & None

Really what’s not to love about an intergalactic Bed and Breakfast? I specifically requested Dina/Sean because I want the story to focus on that pairing, though honestly I really love all of the characters in this story, especially the inn itself, Gertrude Hunt which DEFINITELY feels like a character all on its own (Inn POV fic?). So, prompt/concepts I’m excited about: I’d love to have a 1st POV fic ala the books (though from any character you like – Dina, of course, is always a win as the book’s POV character, but I’m game for a look into anyone’s head, especially outsider POV on Dina/Sean), & I’d like it mostly set in and around Gertrude Hunt since the inn is a delight and the other “character” I specifically requested. Domestic fic in particular would make me super happy here. We always see Dina in a panic, but rarely get those calm moments of life running like normal or even with a guest that ISN’T close to causing an intergalactic incident. Of course, if you do want to write an action fic I’d be happy to read that as well. Seriously run wild – this series just makes me happy in general. BTW, I would definitely be thrilled to have a crossover with any of the other Ilona Andrews series as long as it’s taking place in the Innkeeper universe.

 

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, Olivia Sanderson & Ray Marino

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. 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. Prompt wise:  1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against said murder mermaids and their 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 it not end the way it did – 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 previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually as fake as thought 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 if the next one takes place 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!

 

Crimson Peak (2015)

Edith Cushing/Alan McMichael/Thomas Sharpe

Man this is so my aesthetic in the best of ways. The semi-sentient (and not remotely benevolent) mansion, the moths, the tragic siblings, the ghoooooooosts, Edith’s everything, Tom Hiddleston being utterly magnetic despite the truly terrible things he’s done (or allowed to be done), and Alan’s quite steady competence and support and surprise interest in ghosts along with Edith. I just loved this film. I have been surprised, however, by how few Thomas/Edith/Alan fics there are. Something about that nod between Alan and Thomas at the funeral and the moment of connection (literal with a knife LOL) at the entrance to the mansion really just worked for me. So yeah, if at all possible, I would love fix it fic to keep Thomas alive that ends up OT3’d. I have no idea how to get there: should it be after everything with Thomas surviving bc Alan is an amazing doctor? Have the three of them been negotiating this behind Lucille’s back throughout Edith’s courtship? Was Alan actually the one to win Edith’s hand but then realizes he and Edith are both still fascinated with Thomas and set out to woo him together, winning him free of the hold Lucille has over him? What if Edith and Alan never met Thomas in Buffalo, could their mutual interest in ghosts lead them to Allerdale Hall eventually? So. Many. Options. Note: please avoid discussions of Edith having infertility or miscarriages, and I’d also prefer to have Lucille off screen as opposed to a very present side character to the requested three if that makes sense? Like ghost Lucille existing sure, but not a heavy focus on her in the present story timeline.

 

Welp, that’s what I’ve got! Thanks for reading all the way through this long LONG letter (what can I say – I babble about the things I love LOLOL). I look forward to what you come up with!

 Dear LBD Author,

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 characters 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, but don’t let that scare you off.

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

DNW:  Incest, underage/adult relationships, noncon, dubcon, infertility and/or miscarriage for requested LBDs, unhappy or tragic endings for the LBD/pairing, discussion of plagues/pandemics, slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, major character death, infidelity unless part of canon, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), A/B/O, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, gender swap, teacher/student relationships, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs.

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

Yes Please: Fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt B&B of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels trilogy verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, Regency era, and Pacific Rim fusions) – tho as above I’d prefer no Modern AUs that erase any SFF elements, outsider POVs, mutual competency kink, and 5 and 1 style fics.

I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a dom ordering their sub around without humiliating language, service doms and service subs, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/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 generally mention that crossovers and/or LBD pairings between any of my requested characters/fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing. Also, for this, I will happily take F/F crossovers even if the specific character request is only for femme LBD/M due to the canon available characters; however, I’m not interested in M/M crossovers for the characters I’ve requested right now.

REQUESTS:

Black Sails

Charles Vane x LBD/F (Except for Eleanor Guthrie or Max)

Note willing for crossovers with other characters and/or fandoms I’ve requested. Also game for original characters or readerfics.
 

Stargate SG1

Daniel Jackson x LBD/F (Except Sam Carter as they have Big Sibling Energy for me)

Note willing for crossovers with other characters and/or fandoms I’ve requested, as well as for characters from Stargate Atlantis. Also game for original characters or readerfics.

 
Chronicles of Riddick

Richard B. Riddick x LBD/F (Except Dahl though Riddick & Dahl background BroTP allowed – just not in a sexual/romantic sense) Note willing for crossovers with other characters and/or fandoms I’ve requested. Also game for original characters or readerfics.
 

Crimson Peak

Edith Cushing x LBD/M

Note willing for crossovers with other characters and/or fandoms I’ve requested.
 

Sanctuary

Helen Magnus x LBD/F & LBD/M (except John Druitt or Henry Foss)

Note willing for crossovers with other characters and/or fandoms I’ve requested. Also game for original characters or readerfics.

 

I think that should cover it! Hopefully my requests aren’t too confusing. I’m so excited to see what you come up with for me! :D

 

Dear 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 I tend to babble and want to offer as much inspiration as possible, but don’t let that scare you off.

DNW:  Infertility/miscarriage; Covid; slave worlds; possession/mind control; prostitution; noncom/dubcon; requested character death; non-canon infidelity; love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up); A/B/O; gangster/mob/noir settings; Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements; amnesia; loss of limb/amputations; mpreg; gender swap; teacher/student relationships; focus on drug abuse/alcoholism; or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (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: Competency kink; post-apocalypse; slice of life/domestic fic; epistolary/found documents style stories; found family dynamics; crossovers between requested fandoms; crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series; AUs (particularly Regency, Black Jewels trilogy verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions); outsider POVs; supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc.; fixit fics to bring back killed off characters; 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.

FYI: Just in case it gets buried in my general like list, I’m always game for crossovers between my requested fandoms!

 

Fandom: ALIENS (1986) (single request)

 

Relationship: Ellen Ripley/Dwayne Hicks

Prompts/Details: Dear lord these two and the shared respect and competency just gets me every. Single. Time. I still am pissed about the way all of the built up story and relationship was just washed down the drain with the next movie, so please feel free to erase it and start with a different post-movie time line for Ripley/Hicks, as well as Newt and Bishop. Do they manage to get away from Weyland-Yutani unscathed? Is another xenomorph found somewhere else, leading them back into the fight? Do they officially adopt Newt or do they get folded into her birth family as honorary aunt and uncle? I just want post-movie everybody!lives for this fandom. Go wild!

 

Fandom: STARGATE SG1 (three requests)

Character: Daniel Jackson
Prompts/Details: I’m surprising looking for Gen for this particular request, so a focus on found family vibes preferred over a pairing. 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. So how does he do so? Feel free to bring in Sam or some of the other researchers with this one – though I prefer not to get an AU if you do so. 3) Unless of course you want to go the Hogwarts Professors route – what would Daniel teach? How annoyed is he with the workload, teaching etc? He just seems like he would work well there LOL

 

Relationship: Daniel Jackson/Sha’re

Prompts/Details: I’m ALL about Sha're lives for this request. I want to see her somehow saved and rescued to join the SGC with Daniel. How would they get her back? How would she fit in at the SGC? I would prefer an SGC setting here as opposed to Abydos, or even Atlantis could be fun! I just really want this couple alive and well and HAPPY.

 

Relationship: Daniel Jackson & Jonas Quinn

Prompts/Details: While I was thrilled we got Daniel back, I really enjoyed the hell out of Jonas and especially Jonas and Daniel on screen together. They were just peak competent, enthusiastic geeks with their hearts on their sleeves and I love that about them. Their dynamic the few times we got to have both of them in an episode was such a blast to me, I’d love to see some kind of AU where Jonas remained with the SGC and they got to be friends and the Science!Twins were Science!Triplets lol. Definitely prefer gen here BTW over shipping them. Otherwise, I’m really up for almost anything here – feel free to go wild as long as we get both of them alive and well!

 

Fandom: CROSSOVER FANDOM (single request)

 

Relationship: Richard B. Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)

Prompts/Details: Here we have one of my long time fave crossover pairs. The bitty psychic killer woman and Riddick just seem like they would be each other’s brand of vicious, and I’ve loved basically everything I’ve read that pairs the two of them up (though please make her of legal age). Fusions of either movie/show verses are totally welcome as are the various characters therein. Otherwise, as long as these two respect and lust after each other, I’m in no matter how you decide to put them on each other’s radars!

 

Fandom: JUPITER ASCENDING (single request)

 

Relationship: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise

Prompts/Details: If you are a fan of this glorious movie, you already likely know just how fun this pairing is. I love Caine’s utter devotion and Jupiter’s acceptance of him just the way he is (with a large side of lust there too). I would love post movie shenanigans for this: whether it’s Jupiter starting to claim her role in the Gyre or dealing with Kalique or her mother (a ‘meet the family’ type story re-introducing Caine to either side of the family could be great), or the practicalities of being a Space Queen while still settling on Earth. I’m also definitely game for smut for this request, with Femmedom Jupiter giving Caine orders he loves to answer as a fave trope for this fandom (though I’m not a huge knotting person). But yeah, honestly I’d love damn near anything post-movie for this as long as these two are happily in love!

 

Fandom: GUNDAM WING (two requests)

 

Relationship: Heero Yuy/Relena Peacecraft

Prompts/Details: This is one of the first fandoms I remember reading fic for, and I rewatch the series fairly regularly because something about it just hits me right in the gut in the best of ways. Heero and Relena’s dynamic was a delight – he tries so hard to be the Perfect Soldier he was engineered to be, but this fierce pacifist of a lovely young woman challenges that at every turn. I just want the two of them to find a future together whether that’s with him working in the Preventers helping to guard her or deciding to finally stop fighting and choosing to be a professor or work at an animal shelter or just something that lets him be at piece while supporting Relena as she goes about her political career. House Husband Heero getting to heal and NOT have to fight just sounds delightful. (Just FYI, I have read very little of Frozen Teardrop and it confuses the hell out of me so please ignore its existence with this fic LOLOL)

 

Relationship: Trowa Barton/Relena Peacecraft

Prompts/Details: I’m not going to lie, while the above was my long time OTP for this fandom, Trowa is my fave pilot (not only because of those suspenders in Endless Waltz – what can I say, I’m weak LOLOL). I can see Trowa’s quiet support being a boon to Relena if she didn’t end up with Heero (though I’d prefer no Heero bashing or horrible breakups here – them remaining friends who figured out they weren’t what each other needed as they grew out would work maybe?). He also offers her a great option for escape every so often, of joining he and Cathy at the circus and just getting to be a person instead of a politician for a while!

 

Note: this is the only fandom I requested fanvids for because I have for YEARS wanted to see a Relena centric fanvid set to Savage Garden’s “To the Moon and Back” – I mean come ON, it’s so painfully perfect a song for her! That said, I would also very much enjoy any kind of star/space themed song for either of these pairings. Sara Bareilles “Gravity” or “Cassiopeia” or “Send Me the Moon” also immediately come to mind as does Taylor Swift’s “Untouchable” but those are just off the top of my head. There would definitely be a ton of great options out there!

 

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!

 Dear Yulegoat,

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 I tend to babble and want to offer as much inspiration as possible, but don’t let that scare you off.

DNW:  Infertility/miscarriage; Covid; slave worlds; possession/mind control; prostitution; noncom/dubcon; requested character death; non-canon infidelity; love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up); A/B/O; gangster/mob/noir settings; Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements; amnesia; loss of limb/amputations; mpreg; gender swap; teacher/student relationships; focus on drug abuse/alcoholism; or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (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: Competency kink, post-apocalypse; slice of life/domestic fic; epistolary/found documents style stories (especially for Worldbuilding requests); found family dynamics; crossovers between requested fandoms; crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series; AUs (particularly Regency, Black Jewels trilogy verse, steampunk, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions); outsider POVs; supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc.; fixit fics to bring back killed off characters; 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.

FYI Challenges: I am game for gifts/treats that fit the various Yuletide challenges if that’s your thing. The specific ones I've "signed up" for in the blogs are: Yulebuilding, Yuleporn, Two for One Crossovers Challenge, Make the Yuletide Gay, and Three Turtle Doves. I'll probably do Mrs. Claus and Femme Slash Festivus if I see those pop up, as well, and who knows maybe some of the others LOL. Not a requirement of course, but I’ve noticed those occasionally get my brain moving so I figured I’d point them out! The only one I'd really prefer NOT to get (as I like more hopeful fics this time of year) is a Crueltide fill.

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

Any including: Victoria “Tori” Stewart, Olivia Sanderson, Ray Marino, Hallie Wilson, Worldbuilding, and Mermaids 

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. 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!

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 
Colonel Brandon, Eleanor Dashwood

This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on. Eleanor 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 another that I’d be especially game for crossovers for, especially with other Austin stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves) or the other fandoms requested here.

Crimson Peak (2015) 

Edith Cushing, Thomas Sharpe, Alan McMichael

Man this is so my aesthetic in the best of ways. The semi-sentient (and not remotely benevolent) mansion, the moths, the tragic siblings, the ghoooooooosts, Edith’s everything, Tom Hiddleston being utterly magnetic despite the truly terrible things he’s done (or allowed to be done), and Alan’s quite steady competence and support and surprise interest in ghosts along with Edith. I just loved this film. I have been surprised, however, by how few Thomas/Edith/Alan fics there are. Something about that nod between Alan and Thomas at the funeral and the moment of connection (literal with a knife LOL) at the entrance to the mansion really just worked for me. So yeah, if at all possible, I would love fix it fic to keep Thomas alive that ends up OT3’d. I have no idea how to get there: should it be after everything with Thomas surviving bc Alan is an amazing doctor? Have the three of them been negotiating this behind Lucille’s back throughout Edith’s courtship? Was Alan actually the one to win Edith’s hand but then realizes he and Edith are both still fascinated with Thomas and set out to woo him together, winning him free of the hold Lucille has over him? What if Edith and Alan never met Thomas in Buffalo, could their mutual interest in ghosts lead them to Allerdale Hall eventually? So. Many. Options)!  Alternately, if OT3 isn’t your thing, I’d be game for either Edith/Thomas or Edith/Alan working their way to as happy an ever after as is possible with all of their combined trauma (Edith/Alan ghost hunters would be love here). I would prefer NOT to have solely Thomas/Alan with Edith sidelined however. Also, please avoid discussions of Edith having infertility or miscarriages, and I’d prefer to have Lucille off screen as opposed to a very present side character to the requested three if that makes sense? Like ghost Lucille existing sure, but not a heavy focus on her in the present story timeline.

 “The Proper Thing” – Seanan McGuire Patreon Short Story/Novella 

Any including: Maisie, Valentine, Samuel Delacroix, and/or Worldbuilding

Why yes this is another Seanan McGuire fandom and no I don’t regret anything! This story was only released over at her Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/posts/proper-thing-36645089, but y’all, for the amount of stories/backlist she has up there, the minimum monthly support of only $1.00 is totally worth it. Anyway, this is one of the longest stories she’s released as a “short story” and is easily one of my fave things she’s written (which is saying a lot considering how many of her books I own). Magical cheese, different magical storefronts of specialty items all linked through hallways existing out of linear space, people created from animals having to learn how/if they even want to truly be people… it’s just glorious, seriously. I’m game with any of the suggested characters or even none of them with world building/a story from one of the mentioned shops that we don’t spend more time in (If you like crossovers, are some of the characters from my other fandoms working or visiting these shops as customers?). I would prefer we don’t have anything centered on the story’s fox villain, but other than that, I’m totally game. But yeah, honestly, I’m so thrilled by this story in general that I don’t know how to prompt for it, because honestly my answer is that I would happily read anything related to it!

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!

 

Dear Fandom Growth Exchange 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.

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

No thanks:  On the page infertility and/or miscarriage of major characters, discussion of plagues/pandemics, slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, major character death unless part of canon, infidelity unless part of canon, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), characters de-aged/aged back up during the story (if you make one of the characters a child, make them “canon” children for that story if that makes sense), A/B/O, crackfic, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult relationships, gender swap, teacher/student relationships, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism, or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (Unless the source material for the fandom is in 1st person – then go for it!).  

 
For M-rated fics, please no knife play/blood play/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, 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 between requested fandoms, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels trilogy verse, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions) – tho as above I’d prefer no Modern AUs that erase any magical/supernatural elements, outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, fics where characters have kids and are adorable parents, or 5 and 1 style fics.

I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a clear top ordering their bottom around, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/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.

Northmen: A Viking Saga Asbjorn/Inghean

Tom Hopper pulled me into this teeny tiny fandom after Black Sails moved him to the top of 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? 

 

An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James Jillian Leigh/Drew Merriken

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 them (in a previous Yuletide no less LOL). 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 – and I 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. If you’ve read the rest of the books and feel the urge, I also would definitely enjoy seeing some of the ladies from the other books (those set in England – not the most recent book) show up and share in their lady-awesomeness since it’s always fun finding the tiny Easter egg mentions of the previous books (SILENCE OF THE DEAD is my other fave). But regardless, Drew and Jillian are a delight on their own!

 

The Innkeeper Chronicles – Ilona Andrews Dina Demille/Sean Evans, Dina Demille & Gertrude Hunt, Sean Evans & Gertrude Hunt, Gertrude Hunt & None

Really what’s not to love about an intergalactic Bed and Breakfast? I specifically requested Dina/Sean because I want the story to focus on that pairing, though honestly I really love all of the characters in this story, especially the inn itself, Gertrude Hunt which DEFINITELY feels like a character all on its own (Inn POV fic?). So, prompt/concepts I’m excited about: I’d love to have a 1st POV fic ala the books (though from any character you like – Dina, of course, is always a win as the book’s POV character, but I’m game for a look into anyone’s head, especially outsider POV on Dina/Sean), & I’d like it mostly set in and around Gertrude Hunt since the inn is a delight and the other “character” I specifically requested. Domestic fic in particular would make me super happy here. We always see Dina in a panic, but rarely get those calm moments of life running like normal or even with a guest that ISN’T close to causing an intergalactic incident. Of course, if you do want to write an action fic I’d be happy to read that as well. Seriously run wild – this series just makes me happy in general. BTW, I would definitely be thrilled to have a crossover with any of the other Ilona Andrews series as long as it’s taking place in the Innkeeper universe.

 

Barbarians Rising Arminius/Thusnelda

Why yes, yes it is another Tom Hopper fandom, and no I don’t care LOL. This docudrama was one of my faves recently, and while Tom obviously was part of that, I did enjoy all of it over all. Thusnelda in particular intrigued the hell out of me, though she didn’t get a single spoken line in any of the show. There is just so much to unpack there, especially with the history you can draw on. I would prefer NOT to have Thusnelda as a slave after she’s taken from Arminius – an AU where either he is able to rescue her or not have her kidnapped at all and them getting to be a happy family would be much MUCH preferred in my opinion!

 

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, Olivia Sanderson & Ray Marino

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. 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. Prompt wise:  1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against said murder mermaids and their 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 it not end the way it did – 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 previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually as fake as thought 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 if the next one takes place 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!