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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

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weather,
work

It's fuckin' wimdy

(A phrase attached permanently to my hindbrain.)

It is, indeed, fuckin wimdy right now. (Current peak gusts have been over 100mph!)

Our local power company enacted some preventive power cuts (Public Safety Power Shutoff) to help minimize the potential for downed lines sparking wildfires. I am in favor of this, as much as it sucks, because we have had some extraordinarily awful and destructive wildfires. (No one wants another Marshall Fire.)

While (*knock wood*) so far we haven't had more than the briefest of power flickers at home, my office was within the PSPS area. These areas were announced yesterday, originally slated to start at noon, and later moved up to 10am. While yesterday it was still couched as them "maybe" cutting power, by later yesterday and certainly by this morning, it was definite: they would be cutting power at 10am for the announced areas.

A mildly annoying timeline:

- On Tuesday afternoon, the power company announces the *potential* for a PSPS on Wednesday in light of wind and fire risk forecasts, probably around 12.

- Many local schools and county government offices announce schedule adjustments, planning for early closures.

- My manager called me in the afternoon: my company had made the decision to cancel all appointments on Wednesday afternoon in preparation for the wind, and office staff would be going home at noon Wednesday in order to beat the wind and since we anticipated losing power.

- Into late afternoon, the PSPS announcements are tending more toward this IS a planned action, no longer just a potential.

- Government offices declare they will close for the entire day.

- My manager texts me in the evening, saying that despite the warnings only growing MORE emphatic, the company had decided that we will only close early IF the power went out; otherwise, we should plan to stay for the entire day, even though all appointments had been cancelled. Gotta answer phones.

- Relatively late into the night, county schools decided to close for the entire day on Wednesday (which is a pain at least for the high schools, since it's finals week!)

- By this morning, the PSPS announcement is a definite warning; power to the planned areas will shut off at 10:00.

- I go to work, starting at 9:30. No one else seems aware that the 10:00 time was a definite time; everyone is still operating on "maybe around 12:00."

- It is not yet windy.

- There is one group of appointments that was missed in the rescheduling flurry from yesterday, so we call them and ask them to move up to before 12:00.

- At exactly 10:00 the power goes out. Shock. Amaze.

- We are told by upper management to "wait and see." (FOR WHAT? THE POWER IS OUT AND NOT SLATED TO EVEN POSSIBLY COME ON UNTIL AFTER 6PM. WE CAN DO NOTHING.)

- Some of those students we called do come in; we do our best to handle their tests in the lobby, since that's the only room with windows, and to enter their results on our phones.

- My manager asks again how long we should stay. It's still not windy, but the power is, crucially, still out. No computers. No phones. No students. WE ARE JUST SITTING. In an increasingly hot office, because we have no fans or central air, and the sun comes directly in the windows. The answer is "Stay as long as you feel safe! :)" Which... no, it isn't unsafe right now, but THERE IS NOTHING TO DO.

- Finally around 12:30 my manager did let me leave, because we really had nothing else to do. I think it was mostly because she was annoyed that Alex was waiting in the parking lot (because he knew the power was out, and didn't want to go home just to have to come back to pick me up), but whatever.

- The wind really did not start in our area until later afternoon, and even then wasn't terribly severe. It was far worse earlier to the north, and by now it is very windy here, too.

No idea yet if we'll have power at the office tomorrow. There is apparently a risk that they'll do another PSPS on Friday for forecast winds, with the warning that some areas where those warnings overlap could be without power for 3+ days, as they may not restore power just to cut it again. If our power is NOT on, I don't know what the plan will be... I don't know if they'll ask me to go to a different office (hope not, since those are all pretty far from me and I don't have any of my stuff, so I don't want to do that...) or if I'll have the choice to use a PTO day, or if I'll have to just sit in a dark, empty office..?

We will see.

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DC K.O Round 4: Titans # 30 Swamp Thing Vs Cyborg

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At least you're getting younger in spirit

Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

https://cheezburger.com/10587513088/at-least-youre-getting-younger-in-spirit

Current Mood: impressed
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Annie Lennox "Into the West"

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Dept. of Memes

Music Meme, Day 15

I've been surviving very cold Chicago; I've been adulting, doing the Green Card renewal (which the CIS folks just sent me two letters stating my case is "in process," huzzah) and getting my Rexulti program application for 2026 ready for delivery to my delightfully old-fashioned shrink and The Amazing Nicki, and spending more time than I should cooking and baking rather than reading. But it's time to put all that behind me and return to my music meme, at least until I can think of interesting things in my brain that others might like to hear about. Therefore, I bring you -

A song from a movie soundtrack:

I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy more times than I can remember. I also watched the three movies, both theatrical and extended release, dozens of times in total, in theaters, and at home. I love both the books and, with caveats, the movies.

I believe that the ending of The Return of the King, the third movie, is as close to perfect as it could possibly be. A major reason is the song written by Annie Lennox and Fran Walsh, with music by Lennox and Howard Shore. The words, which take from one of Gandalf's comments to Pippin before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and speak of Elves being called home to the Undying Lands, get me every time.

This could have been the song I chose as one that makes me cry, but it's for that strange mix of grief, awe, and yearning that is somehow transmuted into joy. And of course Annie Lennox's voice is the wind that fills the sails as the ships leave the Grey Havens.

Watch on YouTube

Here is a link to Day 14 and to Day 13; should you desire, you can see what I yammered on about in earlier meme iterations.

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8am and it already feels hot

IDK. I did go outside, checked the chickens food (bother, just realised I didn't check their water).

Temps are supposed to be 30+ today and the next few days, alas, before cooling down on Christmas Day. By which we mean "mid-20s".

CRIPES. It's a week to Christmas.

My mother wants us to go over on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day. *sigh* I just don't want to do "Christmas Day", and then "Christmas Day But With The Stepbro's Family".

I don't seem to have gotten COVID - still testing clear, just feeling generally tired.

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It's six hours later and it's crazy hot out there.

The Star

Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

https://cheezburger.com/10587963392/the-star

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Cloud Carpets

Last week while taking out the trash, I noticed that the clouds were low in the sky and really thick and ropey, like a plush carpet. Hurried home to grab the camera as sunset was coming soon and I wanted to be sure I caught the look.

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Current Mood: accomplished

Coldplay tribute for Dick Van Dyke

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Current Music: I am wearing a hat / After winter, I'll marry / I'm entitled to that

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book: the expanse

If there's one thing I learned from finishing The Expanse novels

I was right to say I do not understand one goddamn thing that happens in Amos Burton's head when I asked for him for Yuletide.

I don't know that I have the Chrisjen Avasarala/Bobbie Draper series of my heart in my fingers, but I will be over here shippin' it like whoa.

Overall, they were a lovely ride. The audiobook reader learned to pronounce gimbals very late in the canon, and got the stress pattern wrong in Avasarala, but was quite good at voice distinction, and definitely didn't do the All Women are Falsetto crap.

The Oscars Are Moving to YouTube (and Just YouTube) in 2029

Posted by Lainey Bobainey

https://www.pajiba.com/pajiba_love/the-oscars-are-moving-to-youtube-and-just-youtube-in-2029.php

After airing on ABC since 1976, the Oscars will go streaming only in 2029 as the Academy Awards move its entire operation to the platform where celebrities try to answer questions with a mouth full of hot wings. What a...

NO LONGER UPDATED - PHs #191-207

This post is no longer being updated, but see below for request details if you are interested in treating! For all pinch hits currently needed, see https://yuletide-pinch-hits.dreamwidth.org/tag/currently-needed

This is one of several post-deadline pinch hit batches!

These pinch hits are due on Monday 22 December at 9am UTC.

Comments are turned off for this community. To claim a pinch hit, please email the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com and:

Include the pinch hit number in the subject line
Include the recipient's AO3 name in the subject line
Include your AO3 username in the body of the email

For example, if your AO3 username is yuletidehippo and you want to claim Pinch Hit #42 for AwsomRecip, you might email us with the subject line "PH 42 for AwsomRecip" and "I'm yuletidehippo on AO3" in the body of the email. As was the case previously, if you don't receive a reply you did not get the pinch hit.

Also, remember our pinch hitters' prompts post! If you weren't signed up and you're pinch hitting, your rare fandom prompts are very welcome!

If the pinch hit you're interested in has been claimed, you are still welcome to post treats!

claimed - PH #191: 철인왕후 | Mr. Queen (TV), Schmigadoon! (TV), Emelan - Tamora Pierce, 星汉灿烂 | Love Like the Galaxy (TV), Willow (TV 2022), Terra Nova (TV), 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV), 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings

Request 1 by LeBibish
철인왕후 | Mr. Queen (TV)
Characters: Jang Bonghwan | Kim Soyong
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, Jang Bonghwan is Kim Soyong's reincarnation

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 2 by LeBibish
Schmigadoon! (TV)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Schmigadoon!)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, EXPLORE THE WORLD - What IS Schmigadoon/Schmicago and who/what are these characters outside of the stolen narratives?

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 3 by LeBibish
Emelan - Tamora Pierce
Characters: Dedicate Rosethorn (Emelan), Dedicate Lark (Emelan)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters (Rosethorn/Lark 4ever), found family, actual good teachers teaching

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 4 by LeBibish
星汉灿烂 | Love Like the Galaxy (TV)
Characters: Cheng Shaoshang
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, Women being awesome friends with each other, finding your family and learning what that means (sweet version), smart competent women building and creating things

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 5 by LeBibish
Willow (TV 2022)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, Knights of Galladoorn worldbuilding, Cashmere Kingdom worldbuilding, Kit/Jade, Mad Martigan I miss you

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 6 by LeBibish
Terra Nova (TV)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, what does it take to rebuild/build a new society?
Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 7 by LeBibish
莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, identity shenanigans, healing from trauma, the power of pets/home-making/gardening for healing
Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

Request 8 by LeBibish
魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings
Characters: Wenren E (Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, infidelity (polyamory requires enthusiastic consent from all parties).
Optional Details (in general - more detailed in Dear Author letter):
- Worldbuilding, cultural exploration, family feels, characters being competent, discovering secrets, mythology, magic, friendship, messing about with gender, queer characters, exploring morality in a grey world
Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/lebibish/797984146075107328/dear-yuletide-author-thanks-for-being-my-author?source=share

claimed - PH #192: Homicide: Life on the Street, Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, Sinners (2025), The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast), City of Bohane - Kevin Barry

Request 1 by Luna
Homicide: Life on the Street
Characters: Kay Howard
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I would absolutely adore anything centered on Kay, who might be my favorite character ever on television? Details in my letter.
General Do Not Wants:
Noncon/sexual violence, animal harm or death, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, pregnancy/kidfic, physical illness, non-canonical character death, homophobia/transphobia (including the internalized kind), Islamophobia, antisemitism, reader self-inserts, crossovers, fusions, AUs.

Letter:
https://luna.dreamwidth.org/4605.html

Request 2 by Luna
Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett
Characters: Anagosa Dolabra, Worldbuilding (Shadow of the Leviathan)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love watching Ana's mind work; I'd also love to see facets of the Empire that the books haven't explored yet. Details in my letter.
Fandom-specific DNW: Ana/Din romance
General Do Not Wants:
Noncon/sexual violence, animal harm or death, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, pregnancy/kidfic, physical illness, non-canonical character death, homophobia/transphobia (including the internalized kind), Islamophobia, antisemitism, reader self-inserts, crossovers, fusions, AUs.

Letter:
https://luna.dreamwidth.org/4605.html

Request 3 by Luna
Sinners (2025)
Characters: Annie (Sinners 2025)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I want more of Annie and her relationship with Smoke, with Mary, or with magic. Details in my letter.
Fandom-specific DNW: Annie as a vampire.
General Do Not Wants:
Noncon/sexual violence, animal harm or death, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, pregnancy/kidfic, physical illness, non-canonical character death, homophobia/transphobia (including the internalized kind), Islamophobia, antisemitism, reader self-inserts, crossovers, fusions, AUs.

Letter:
https://luna.dreamwidth.org/4605.html

Request 4 by Luna
The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)
Characters: Sana Tripathi
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Sana is so soft and so strong, and I'd love something that shows both sides of her, whether in a romantic setting or a revolutionary one. Details in my letter.
General Do Not Wants:
Noncon/sexual violence, animal harm or death, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, pregnancy/kidfic, physical illness, non-canonical character death, homophobia/transphobia (including the internalized kind), Islamophobia, antisemitism, reader self-inserts, crossovers, fusions, AUs.

Letter:
https://luna.dreamwidth.org/4605.html

Request 5 by Luna
City of Bohane - Kevin Barry
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Literally any fic for this book would be amazing, anything from worldbuilding with OCs to a quiet character study to a street fight. Details in my letter!
General Do Not Wants:
Noncon/sexual violence, animal harm or death, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, incest, torture, body-fluid kinks, pregnancy/kidfic, physical illness, non-canonical character death, homophobia/transphobia (including the internalized kind), Islamophobia, antisemitism, reader self-inserts, crossovers, fusions, AUs.

Letter:
https://luna.dreamwidth.org/4605.html

claimed - PH #193: Magic and Romance Series - Sara Raasch, Royals and Romance Series - Sara Raasch, Yield Under Great Persuasion - Alexandra Rowland

Request 1 by Macdragon
Magic and Romance Series - Sara Raasch
Characters: Elethior Tourael, Sebastian Walsh
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I greatly enjoyed how this went from enemies to being feral for each other. would love anything more about their relationship, prompts in letter.

Letter:
https://katemacetak.dreamwidth.org/5015.html

Request 2 by Macdragon
Royals and Romance Series - Sara Raasch
Characters: Hex Hallow, Nicholas "Coal" Claus
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love the setting and the dynamic between the characters. Prompts in letter.

Letter:
https://katemacetak.dreamwidth.org/5015.html

Request 3 by Macdragon
Yield Under Great Persuasion - Alexandra Rowland
Characters: Nicolau Lyford, Tam Becket
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

My favorite idiots to lovers! I love goblin Tam and golden retriever Lyford. Prompts in letter.

Letter:
https://katemacetak.dreamwidth.org/5015.html

claimed - PH #194: 垂涎 | ABO Desire (TV 2025), God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek, Hive Mind Series - Janet Edwards, Love & Legends (Visual Novel), The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley

Request 1 by Morbane
垂涎 | ABO Desire (TV 2025)
Characters: Gao Tu (Desire the Series), Shen Wenlang (Desire the Series)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This section is a little longer than the rest because it's the only canon I haven't requested before. I looked deep into my own heart and asked myself "would I be just as happy to get this as some faves I've loved longer?" and the answer is YES. Watching this unhinged show has been a delight of the last few months.
Many spoilers!
Please get Gao Tu and Shen Wenlang together with full catharsis of all the shit Gao Tu's been put through. That said, if Gao Tu could go through slightly less shit, that would be great! I wanted Shen Wenlang to get a clue looong before Gao Tu's kid is an actual toddler. In fact, for all the angst potential of their encounter, and for all my love of identity porn I would be very happy for that encounter to have gone a different way - even without the pregnancy. If they have to fuck that way could they at least enjoy a little part of it? Because. Horrific.
Maddening as Shen Wenlang's assumptions and prejudices were, and all the times Gao Tu sadly shrugged and just weathered it, there were times Shen Wenlang was really likeable to me. His eyerolling in the background of Hua Yong's scenes was hilarious. HIs utter blind spot about how Gao Tu felt about his pretense of coercing poor vulnerable omega Hua Yong to sleep with him was fascinating - he seemed to expect that no one who knew him would believe in it, that was just a farce for that arrogant bastard Sheng Shaoyou, right?! So the scenes where he was yanking Sheng's chain but also concerned about Gao Tu's reaction to alpha pheromone conflicts really stuck with me. Anyway, I would love for him to realize that because of how he's been acting, it was actually very reasonable for Gao Tu to believe he would do such a thing. But I also want to see his good traits come through. I think Gao Tu should get the jawdroppingly gorgeous alpha he wants, but I would also like to see a Shen Wenlang who has something going for him besides being jawdroppingly gorgeous. Please let both of them have some competence. Like, I think Shen Wenlang deserves to grovel a bit, but would prefer we not do that thing where the entire fic is Gao Tu Deserves Everything And Shen Wenlang Is A Worm. I hope that makes sense! Sorry if not!
I also really enjoyed Gao Qing! And the worldbuilding! Tell me more about HR requirements for pheromone-proof rooms in your company of upwards of X staff etc. Anyone else is welcome to show up; I'm especially fond of Chen Pinming and Chang Yu.
I'm obviously especially fond of canon divergence here, but scenes from pre-canon that lean all the way into the pining would be great too. And if you want to throw tropes at a wall, dreamsharing would be amazing, or give me a five times fic(x) of five different ways Gao Tu and Shen Wenlang's first time could have gone better.
For purposes of likes, here's other past exchange requests (for different fandoms) in k's database: https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Morbane
Additional gifts are enabled.
DNW: harm to hands, amnesia, substance abuse; overall I prefer not to have stories about people doing unsafe things or things they'd be ashamed of while under the influence of something, but I realize that's canon-typical here. So please just don't have it be the whole plot, avoid humiliating people, or find ways to reclaim slightly more agency for people than in, say, Gao Tu/Shen Wenlang's encounter.

No letter

Request 2 by Morbane
God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek
Characters: Ashleigh Trine, Kieran Trevarde
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Sorry for the very short sign-up! I've requested this canon before: see promtps at database - https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Morbane
In addition to those prompts, which are still very welcome, maybe something in the far future for Kieran and Ash? Play out the setting with more technology, different god conflicts - with Kieran and Ash still alive OR maybe reincarnated again. Or: shortly after canon, give them a reason to travel to another location and operate relatively incognito; I love scenarios where powerful people can relatively-subtly help out among others who don't know what they're capable of.
But basically, anything that celebrates their romance would be great.
Additional gifts are enabled.
DNW: harm to hands, amnesia, substance abuse (broadly including people doing unsafe things or things they'd be ashamed of while under the influence of something, or a focus on addiction), infidelity.

No letter

Request 3 by Morbane
Hive Mind Series - Janet Edwards
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Sorry for the very short sign-up! I've requested this canon before: see prompts/likes at database - https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Morbane
This is an absolutely beloved comfort canon and I have re-read the whole thing occasionally in the last few years. Any expansion of the world, with nominated or non-nominated characters, would be wonderful. I've requested it a few times before and welcome responses to my past prompts. Additionally, maybe something about people's Colour zone identity and how it's managed to allow people to safely differentiate themselves without having the rigidity of level rankings. It's fascinating to me how this is a dystopia but Amber - and her closest colleagues - don't necessarily know that. But you're very welcome to write a purely uplifting story for them! Action/adventure and worldbuilding are great and so is celebrating Lucas/Amber.
Additional gifts are enabled.
DNW: harm to hands, amnesia, substance abuse (broadly including people doing unsafe things or things they'd be ashamed of while under the influence of something, or a focus on addiction), infidelity.

No letter

Request 4 by Morbane
Love & Legends (Visual Novel)
Characters: Helena Klein, Main Character (Love & Legends)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Sorry for the very short sign-up! I've requested this canon before: see prompts/likes at database - https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Morbane
This canon is absolute catnip to me and I welcome responses to any of my past prompts! Additionally, I'm happy to receive a Helena/Witch Queen, Helena/Witch Queen/Alain, or MC/Witch Queen fic. Altea's welcome on a platonic basis (flirtation fine! Just not interested in MC/Altea focus or MC/Altea/Helena focus for this exchange.)
I'd love something that digs into the setting more, especially how things got to how they were under the Witch Queen; I'd love future diplomacy! Trying out different kinds of magic also great, and what does the MC's role in the world look like in a more peaceful future? But the complications and the sweetness of MC/Helena's relationship (finding hope and redemption!) are wonderful and I'd be happy with just that. Optional kink prompt: honour bondage?
Additional gifts are enabled.
DNW: harm to hands, amnesia, substance abuse (broadly including people doing unsafe things or things they'd be ashamed of while under the influence of something, or a focus on addiction), infidelity.

No letter

Request 5 by Morbane
The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley
Characters: Landen of Bellandra, Torina Archelda, Dahmis of Glavenrell
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Sorry for the very short sign-up! I've requested this canon before: see prompts/likes at database - https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Morbane
I fell in love with this canon as a pre-teen and still absolutely adore it. I don't have a lot to add to my previous prompts so just want to echo the theme of action/adventure! Dramatic romance! Pining! Handwave the practicalities of different royal allegiances to give me poly romance please?? Though if you can somehow put in even MORE identity porn that would be amazing.
Additional gifts are enabled.
DNW: harm to hands, amnesia, substance abuse (broadly including people doing unsafe things or things they'd be ashamed of while under the influence of something, or a focus on addiction), infidelity.

No letter

claimed - PH #195: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Mythic Quest (TV 2020), Sworn Soldier Series - T. Kingfisher, Indiana Jones Series

Request 1 by PrettyThief
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
Characters: Emily Wilde, Wendell Bambleby
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would only want Wendell and Emily on good terms; no outside relationships for either character but they don't necessarily have to be together. No noncon or overt misogyny/bigotry. Otherwise go crazy!

No letter

Request 2 by PrettyThief
Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
Characters: Haymitch Abernathy
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I am an open book for this. I would love to see a little bit of character work for Haymitch! Either angsty and introspective or a moment of happiness for him. Bonus points for any Haymitch/Effie content you want to include. DNW noncon or overt bigotry.

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Request 3 by PrettyThief
Mythic Quest (TV 2020)
Characters: Ian Grimm, Poppy Li
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Want Ian x Poppy romance. Not interested in "just friends" stories. Would love something E rated, or something where they're separated and find one another again, or just something cute and slice of life.

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Request 4 by PrettyThief
Sworn Soldier Series - T. Kingfisher
Characters: Alex Easton, Miss Potter (Sworn Soldier), Angus (Sworn Soldier)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Would love something romantic or deeply platonic for Alex. The series is fun and I love the characters but need more feelings! DNW misgendering.

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Request 5 by PrettyThief
Indiana Jones Series
Characters: Henry "Indiana" Jones, Marion Ravenwood
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Longing! Yearning! Second chances at love! I love a story based on years of history. Or even a story on how they met or a first time fic.

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claimed - PH #196: Archie Comics, Roman Holiday (1953), Lost Girl (TV), Werewolf By Night (2022)

Request 1 by RaelStone
Archie Comics
Characters: Betty Cooper (Archie Comics Version), Reggie Mantle (Archie Comics)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

My favourite ship from the comic is Reggie/Betty and there isn't enough of it in the world. I would love something featuring the two of them, either romance or friendship. I feel like she calms him and he breaks her out of her brain (insecurities and perfectionist mindset). Each in their own way make one another better.
I also love Jughead as he feels like the "wise sage" character who often sheds light on everyone else's drama and his dynamic with the others is always interesting to see.
AU and future fics more than welcome! Maybe a reunion or them being thrown together into a school play or some other shenanigans right out of the comics (maybe a scheme goes awry in the worse possible way and they end up with detention or community service?)?
Thank you in advance for whatever you come up with!
General DNW
non con
pregnancy
unrealistic characterization

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Request 2 by RaelStone
Roman Holiday (1953)
Characters: Joe Bradley, Princess Ann | Anya "Smitty" Smith
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is the most bittersweet romance I think ever was put to screen. Its a perfect moment before endless longing.
I would love to maybe see their daydreams where they get to be together, or a reunion with another interview at another time of life, or leaning into the angst of a love that will never be fulfilled.
Thank you in advance for whatever you come up with!
General DNW
non con
pregnancy
unrealistic characterization

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Request 3 by RaelStone
Lost Girl (TV)
Characters: Kenzi (Lost Girl), Dyson (Lost Girl)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Dyson and Kenzi as friends or romance as my favourite pairing in the fandom and would love to see more of it. Maybe having a caper featuring the two? A sweet moment of bonding? Finding common ground? Kenzi making Dyson's life interesting? Them having an understanding that goes far beyond what others can understand?
Thank you in advance for whatever you come up with!
General DNW
non con
pregnancy
unrealistic characterization

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Request 4 by RaelStone
Werewolf By Night (2022)
Characters: Elsa Bloodstone (Werewolf By Night 2022), Jack Russell (Werewolf By Night 2022), Ted Sallis (Werewolf By Night 2022)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I don't know the source material but loved this adaptation and have watched it more than once. And each time it has left me wanting more. The chemistry and dynamics, the potential for future encounters is so rich...
So anything is welcome.
Maybe its a favour that's called in?
Maybe Elsa is on a hunt only to find Jack? How would she save him or help him save himself? What if Ted went to her for help?
...and while I'm not specifically asking for smut on this one... I wouldn't say no. Even if it featured Ted :)
Thank you in advance for whatever you come up with!
General DNW
non con
pregnancy
unrealistic characterization

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PH #197: Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jožin z bažin - Ivan Mládek (Song), Vlny | Waves (2024)

Request 1 by RisalSoran
Kolja | Kolya (1996)
Characters: Kolja Biljukov (Kolja | Kolya (1996)), František Louka (Kolja | Kolya (1996)), Klára (Kolja | Kolya (1996)), Josef Brož (Kolja | Kolya (1996))
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I opt in to gifts written (entirely or in part) in Czech! (I also opt in to gifts including Russian, but I would prefer for the story to be written primarily in Czech or English).
General Likes: Character-focused stories. Misunderstandings (linguistic, social, cultural, etc.). Found family. Acceptance. Friendship – especially among people who find making friends and maintaining friendships challenging. Psychology, sociology, worldbuilding. Diversity – especially neurodiversity. Autistic headcanons for characters who canonically have difficulty with pragmatic communication and with making and maintaining friendships, have a tendency to fixate on special interests (and info-dump about them), and may have sensory differences. Ecology, gardening, Nature, plants, animals. Characters showing their expertise at their profession/hobby. Equitable relationships and clear consent (especially when there is an actual or apparent imbalance of power between the characters). Hurt/comfort. Languages (including sign languages!) (and, for this fandom, especially Czech and/or Russian).
Canon-specific: Including other characters is welcome, though I would prefer a focus on requested character(s). I would love to see missing scenes from the movie, or the events of the movie - or following the movie - from Kolya's perspective, or from Mr. Brož or Mrs. Brožová's perspective! What would it be like for Kolya to live with a stepfather he has only met a few times and who knows only a few words of Kolya's language? He's young, and probably isn't a fluent reader in Russian yet, but what would it be like to be beginning to learn to read and write his own name and some simple words - and find himself living in a country that uses a completely different alphabet? What would it be like to return to the mother who left him behind, whom he hasn't seen in over a year, and who speaks a language he has barely heard in over a year - and to move to a new country, with a new language, and his mother's new boyfriend - and to leave behind the 'father' who has been caring for him for so long? It would also be fascinating to see the effect of the Velvet Revolution on the characters, too. How much does Kolya understand of what's going on? What is it like for František to no longer be blacklisted and once again play cello in the Prague Philharmonic instead of only playing at funerals?
General DNW: Anything requiring any of the major archive warnings. Uncalled out pro-fascist ideology. Gore, graphic descriptions of violence (canon-typical is fine), explicit smut, implied or referenced use of tobacco, implied or referenced consumption of dairy products or meat by humans (nursing by infants and young children (and young non-human mammals) is fine)). Un-called out bigotry, ablism, bullying, character bashing. Hurt/no comfort.

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Request 2 by RisalSoran
Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Characters: Jenda (Cesta do pravěku 1955), Jirka (Cesta do pravěku 1955), Petr (Cesta do pravěku 1955), Toník (Cesta do pravěku 1955)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I opt in to gifts written (entirely or in part) in Czech!
General Likes: Character-focused stories. Acceptance. Misunderstandings (linguistic, social, cultural, etc.). Found family. Friendship – especially among people who find making friends and maintaining friendships challenging. Psychology, sociology, worldbuilding. Diversity – especially neurodiversity. Autistic headcanons for characters who canonically have difficulty with pragmatic communication and with making and maintaining friendships and/or other relationships, have a tendency to fixate on special interests (and info-dump about them), and may have sensory differences. Ecology, gardening, Nature, plants, animals. Characters showing their expertise at their profession/hobby. Equitable relationships and clear consent (especially when there is an actual or apparent imbalance of power between the characters). Hurt/comfort. Languages (including sign languages!) (especially, for this fandom, Czech).
General DNW: Anything requiring any of the major archive warnings. Uncalled out pro-fascist ideology. Animal harm, detailed descriptions of meat, dairy, or the eating of meat or dairy (casual references to the eating of meat by carnivorous animals are fine, as is nursing by infants or young children); gore, graphic descriptions of violence (canon-typical is fine), explicit smut, implied or referenced use of tobacco, un-called out bigotry, ablism, bullying, character bashing. Hurt/no comfort. Major character death (referenced canonical deaths are fine, but please no deaths of requested characters).

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Request 3 by RisalSoran
Jožin z bažin - Ivan Mládek (Song)
Characters: Narrator (Jožin z Bažin), Jožin (Jožin z Bažin), Chairman (Jožin z Bažin), Chairman's Daughter (Jožin z Bažin)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I opt in to gifts written (entirely or in part) in Czech!
General Likes: Character-focused stories. Misunderstandings (linguistic, social, cultural, etc.). Found family. Acceptance. Friendship – especially among people who find making friends and maintaining friendships challenging. Psychology, sociology, worldbuilding. Diversity – especially neurodiversity. Autistic headcanons for characters who canonically have difficulty with pragmatic communication and with making and maintaining friendships, have a tendency to fixate on special interests (and info-dump about them), and may have sensory differences. Ecology, gardening, Nature, plants, animals. Characters showing their expertise at their profession/hobby. Equitable relationships and clear consent (especially when there is an actual or apparent imbalance of power between the characters). Hurt/comfort. Languages (including sign languages and, especially for this fandom, Czech!).
Canon-specific: In the song Jožin z Bažin, the chairman of a village promised his daughter's hand in marriage and half of the local agricultural collective to the narrator if he brought in the monster Jožin, dead or alive. The narrator successfully caught Jožin and decided to sell him to the zoo instead. What did the daughter think about her father's offer? Did the chairman have her permission to offer her hand in marriage? Was the chairman serious about his offer?
Why did the narrator decide he'd rather have cash than marriage to the chairman's daughter and half of an agricultural collective?
How does Jožin adapt to the zoo? Does he hate being in captivity? Does he enjoy a wider variety of food? Does he enjoy watching and interacting with people, even though he can no longer hunt them?
Possible prompts:
The narrator wants to accept the chairman's offer, but only if the chairman's daughter's wants to marry him. She does not. She uses traditional (organic) methods on her family's personal plot, and has observed the differences between her family's garden and the collective farm's chemical agriculture – and noticed that the pest insects are the first to return after application of pesticides; the predatory insects, spiders, and birds take much longer – allowing for greater losses to pests in the chemical agriculture than the traditional. She is not interested in marriage to a person who operates a powder plane.
He's not a farmer by avocation; he learned to fly in the Air Force, and accepted work flying a crop duster after he left the military. He appreciates her knowledge, skill, and enthusiasm for traditional gardening. She respects his decision to not marry her under duress – and to sell Jožin to the zoo rather than turn him over to her father for execution.

General DNW: Anything requiring any of the major archive warnings. Uncalled out pro-fascist ideology. Gore, graphic descriptions of violence (canon-typical is fine), explicit smut, implied or referenced use of tobacco, implied or referenced consumption of dairy products or meat by humans (nursing by infants and young children (and young non-human mammals) is fine, as is reference to Jožin and/or carnivorous animals hunting and/or eating meat). Un-called out bigotry, ablism, bullying, character bashing. Hurt/no comfort.
Canon-specific DNW: uncalled out support for the use of crop dusters/pesticides for any agricultural purpose (use for catching Jožin is fine!).

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Request 4 by RisalSoran
Vlny | Waves (2024)
Characters: Věra Šťovíčková-Heroldová, Tomáš Havlík, Pavel Havlík
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I opt in to gifts written (entirely or in part) in Czech!
General Likes: Character-focused stories. Misunderstandings (linguistic, social, cultural, etc.). Found family. Acceptance. Friendship – especially among people who find making friends and maintaining friendships challenging. Psychology, sociology, worldbuilding. Diversity – especially neurodiversity. Autistic headcanons for characters who canonically have difficulty with pragmatic communication and with making and maintaining friendships and/or other relationships, have a tendency to fixate on special interests (and info-dump about them), and may have sensory differences. Ecology, gardening, Nature, plants, animals. Characters showing their expertise at their profession/hobby. Equitable relationships and clear consent (especially when there is an actual or apparent imbalance of power between the characters). Hurt/comfort. Languages (including sign languages!).
General DNW: Anything requiring any of the major archive warnings. Uncalled out pro-fascist ideology. Animal harm, detailed descriptions of meat, dairy, or the eating of meat or dairy (casual references to the eating of meat by carnivorous animals are fine, as is nursing by infants or young children); gore, graphic descriptions of violence (canon-typical is fine), explicit smut, implied or referenced use of tobacco, un-called out bigotry, ablism, bullying, character bashing. Hurt/no comfort. Major character death (referenced canonical deaths are fine, but please no deaths of requested characters).

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PH #198: even if TEMPEST 宵闇にかく語りき魔女 (Visual Novel), Flowers Series (Visual Novels), Lkyt. (Visual Novel)

Request 1 by ryulynn
even if TEMPEST 宵闇にかく語りき魔女 (Visual Novel)
Characters: Anastasia Lynzel, Maya Kirkland
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW general: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con (dub-con okay), permanent main character death, explicitly described violence/gore, sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, homophobia, transphobia, incest, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: any Conrad romantic ships, Maya shipped romantically with anyone outside of Anastasia
General likes: humor, fluff, flirting, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes
Favorite ships: Anastasia/Maya, Crius/Tyril, Anastasia/Crius/Tyril, Anastasia/Crius, Anastasia/Tyril, Anastasia/Zenn, Evelina/Leticia
I love Anastasia and Maya's relationship so much! Whether it be platonic or romantic, I love their devotion to each other. Thus I would like to see either Anastasia/Maya as a romantic pair (I usually see Anastasia as the initiator of this but if you have ideas for the other way around, I'd love to see it) or Maya's commentary/thoughts/influence/etc on Anastasia's other relationships, whether they be following one of the romantic routes of the game or Anastasia not getting together with any of the guys.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

Request 2 by ryulynn
Flowers Series (Visual Novels)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con, major character death, excessive violence/gore, sex before the characters are 18+ (aka set fic in the future if you write smut), sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, focus on homophobia or transphobia (aka no more than what is in canon), incest, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: focus on any romantic ships except Chidori/Erika, Mayuri/Suoh, Nerine/Yuzuriha
General likes: humor, fluff, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes, talk about food
Okay I stan Chidori/Erika and Nerine/Yuzuriha. Erika and Yuzuriha are my favorite POVs in the series, but fic from any POV is fine. If you just want to focus on one character, I would love either backstory/memories or future fic. I also totally love so many of the friendships in this series. Especially Erika & Suoh and everyone with the Sasaki twins.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

Request 3 by ryulynn
Lkyt. (Visual Novel)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con (dub-con okay), non-canonical character death, excessive explicit descriptions of violence/gore, sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, homophobia, transphobia, incest except for Takeru/Towa, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: Ango/anyone besides Tasuku or his wife, Tasuku/anyone besides route characters Takeru, Towa, Ango, or Yael
General likes: humor, fluff, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes, worldbuilding, family stuff (especially Tasuku's family)
Favorite ships: Tasuku/Takeru, Tasuku/Towa, Tasuku/Yael, Tasuku/Ango, Tasuku/Takeru/Towa, Tasuku & Fuuka, Takeru & Towa
Yes, give me fluff and alternative scenes before the end game because this game made me cry a bunch. Especially Takeru's route which I played first! Or give me backstory scenes that expand on the little bit of knowledge we know of other [redacted] relationships. Or give me post epilogue ideas.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

PH #199: Justice League International (Comics), Absolute Wonder Woman (DC Comics), Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Comics)

Request 1 by saiditallbefore
Justice League International (Comics)
Characters: Tora Olafsdotter (Justice League International), Beatriz da Costa (Justice League International)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Likes: Femslash || Competency (being really good at Their Thing) || Outsider POV || Hurt/Comfort || Friends-to-Lovers || Enemies-to-Lovers || Families of Choice || Angst with a happy ending || Pretend dating or secretly dating || Happy or happy-for-now endings || Heists || Language barriers || Timeloops || Loyalty kink || Stranded together/forced to work together || Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience || Stargazing || Kissing in the rain || Character studies and relationship studies || Genderbending male characters to female (of the "always a girl" variety) || Bondage || Phone sex || Dom/sub || Cunnilingus || Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional) || Orgasm denial || Hate sex || Object insertion (vaginal only) || Nipple play || Spanking || Vaginal fisting
DNW: Unrequested on-screen character death || Unprompted crossovers or fusions || Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon || Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK) || Brainwashing/mental horror || Focus on unrequested pairings || Breathplay || Anal sex || Homophobia || Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it) || Poetry
I am open to treats. Please see my letter for specific thoughts and prompts!

Letter:
https://saiditallbefore.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/23/

Request 2 by saiditallbefore
Absolute Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
Characters: Diana (Absolute Wonder Woman), Circe (Absolute Wonder Woman)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Likes: Femslash || Competency (being really good at Their Thing) || Outsider POV || Hurt/Comfort || Friends-to-Lovers || Enemies-to-Lovers || Families of Choice || Angst with a happy ending || Pretend dating or secretly dating || Happy or happy-for-now endings || Heists || Language barriers || Timeloops || Loyalty kink || Stranded together/forced to work together || Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience || Stargazing || Kissing in the rain || Character studies and relationship studies || Genderbending male characters to female (of the "always a girl" variety) || Bondage || Phone sex || Dom/sub || Cunnilingus || Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional) || Orgasm denial || Hate sex || Object insertion (vaginal only) || Nipple play || Spanking || Vaginal fisting
DNW: Unrequested on-screen character death || Unprompted crossovers or fusions || Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon || Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK) || Brainwashing/mental horror || Focus on unrequested pairings || Breathplay || Anal sex || Homophobia || Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it) || Poetry
I am open to treats. Please see my letter for specific thoughts and prompts!

Letter:
https://saiditallbefore.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/23/

Request 3 by saiditallbefore
Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League
Characters: Lian Harper (Cheetah and Cheshire), Barbara Minerva (Cheetah and Cheshire), Jade Nguyen (Cheetah and Cheshire)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Likes: Femslash || Competency (being really good at Their Thing) || Outsider POV || Hurt/Comfort || Friends-to-Lovers || Enemies-to-Lovers || Families of Choice || Angst with a happy ending || Pretend dating or secretly dating || Happy or happy-for-now endings || Heists || Language barriers || Timeloops || Loyalty kink || Stranded together/forced to work together || Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience || Stargazing || Kissing in the rain || Character studies and relationship studies || Genderbending male characters to female (of the "always a girl" variety) || Bondage || Phone sex || Dom/sub || Cunnilingus || Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional) || Orgasm denial || Hate sex || Object insertion (vaginal only) || Nipple play || Spanking || Vaginal fisting
DNW: Unrequested on-screen character death || Unprompted crossovers or fusions || Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon || Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK) || Brainwashing/mental horror || Focus on unrequested pairings || Breathplay || Anal sex || Homophobia || Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it) || Poetry
I am open to treats. Please see my letter for specific thoughts and prompts!

Letter:
https://saiditallbefore.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/23/

Request 4 by saiditallbefore
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Comics)
Characters: Chelli Lona Aphra (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Likes: Femslash || Competency (being really good at Their Thing) || Outsider POV || Hurt/Comfort || Friends-to-Lovers || Enemies-to-Lovers || Families of Choice || Angst with a happy ending || Pretend dating or secretly dating || Happy or happy-for-now endings || Heists || Language barriers || Timeloops || Loyalty kink || Stranded together/forced to work together || Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience || Stargazing || Kissing in the rain || Character studies and relationship studies || Genderbending male characters to female (of the "always a girl" variety) || Bondage || Phone sex || Dom/sub || Cunnilingus || Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional) || Orgasm denial || Hate sex || Object insertion (vaginal only) || Nipple play || Spanking || Vaginal fisting
DNW: Unrequested on-screen character death || Unprompted crossovers or fusions || Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon || Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK) || Brainwashing/mental horror || Focus on unrequested pairings || Breathplay || Anal sex || Homophobia || Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it) || Poetry
I am open to treats. Please see my letter for specific thoughts and prompts!

Letter:
https://saiditallbefore.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/23/

PH #200: DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics), No I'm not a Human (Video Game), Dread Weight (Video Game), The Troop - Nick Cutter

Request 1 by sarriathmg
DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics)
Characters: Dick Grayson (DC vs. Vampires), Koriand'r (DC vs. Vampires), Jason Todd (DC vs. Vampires), Hal Jordan (DC vs. Vampires)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DC DNW:

- Dick whump, hurt!Dick, comparing Dick’s trauma to Jason’s as if they’re equal (no mentioning Catalina, no implying that Dick's heart stopping in Forever Evil is equivalent to Jason's death etc.)
- Tim whump, hurt!Tim, mentions of Titan's Tower incident, implying Tim is a victim of any sort (when in doubt just don't write him)
- / ships for solo Jason (other than childhood noncon, Dick/Jay, and background canon ships)
- purely platonic Dick & Jay (“will they won’t they,” pre-slash both fine, but if they’re not shipped together I’d rather Dick be mean to Jason)
- reverse Robins or AUs where Jason and Dick's age difference is shortened significantly or reversed (if topic comes up Dick being 3+ yrs older is fine, but preferably their canon 6+ yrs)
- top!Jason, Jason being the only one who smokes or swears, Jason characterized as "illiterate/dumb"
- bottom Dick (when penetration is concerned, however oral is fine no matter who's receiving), sub/"subby" Dick
- Jason having facial scars or crooked features
- Jason being described as overly bulky or "big" (especially if he's Robin or pre/without Lazarus pit, then he should stay small)
- Dick being described as physically small or thin or weak or "feminine", exaggerating Dick and Jason's body size difference
- (if A/B/O) Dick being anything other than alpha
- Dick being characterized as a ray of sunshine, a self-sacrificing martyr, or is unsure and lacking self-confidence
- side/implied/potential pairings involving Dick unless it's clear he's the top and the "leading party" of that relationship; no side/past/potential Sladick
- Dick Grayson having prey features for animal features AUs
- Romani Dick
- focusing on Dick's ass, ass jokes

DNW-general:

- discussing "social issues" (gender politics, racism etc.)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- Non-con when the victim stays unaroused (fine if orgasm/arousal is forced)
- Permanent non-canon character death or injury/mutilation for requested ships (fine for unrequested chars, for example feel free to kill off Bruce if he isn't requested)
- race change from canon (except Romani!Dick, which is a dnw)
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
- Religion being discussed as a major philosophical topic while presenting it as unironically positive (religious fanaticism/piety as character trait/period-typical religion is fine, just not the narration itself being "preachy").

Treats are welcome!
Dick with Jason, Hal, or Kory. Dick is the only required character, but I definitely don't mind more characters added as long as I get the sexy evil vampire Nightwing I crave. (Dick with his harem of willing and unwilling thralls? YES PLEASE)
Vampire King Dick is the best thing ever. He's so evil and ruthless and I just want to see him fuck everyone up and laugh while drinking their loved ones' blood out of a cup while sadistically taunting them. Tell me there wasn't sexual tension when he had dying Jason at his mercy and pulled off his mask, or a huge D/s undertone in his Lord/Lieutenant relationship with Hal. Or the part where he implied having Kory as a prisoner while using her blood as a temporary "cure" for signs of vampirism. Just want to see Dick as a dominant, totally remorseless vampire villain who you want to hate but also can't help but be enthralled by because "sexy vampires" and stuff.
Kinda into any kind of kinky scenario where Dick keeps Jason or Kory prisoner as unturned blood cows/sex toys, or Hal being a good little submissive vampire servant, or Jason being a good little submissive vampire servant in a world where Dick turns him. Of course if shippy/NSFW isn't your thing I'm just really into Dick being a demanding vampire lord in general so him basically commanding Jason or Hal or keeping Kory as a prisoner with heavy seductive undertones would be awesome too.
Evil Dick and top Dick (if you want to go shippy at all) only please. I have a huge squick with fanon's obsession with whumping Dick Grayson and bottom Dick so that's the only thing I ask. That includes things like typically OOC "bottom" traits (see DNW breakdown). Also, Jason is my blorbo so if you're writing him, please don't write him as ugly or dumb or "always bad" (turning bad from vampirism is very good however!).

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Request 2 by sarriathmg
No I'm not a Human (Video Game)
Characters: Protagonist (No I'm not a Human), Widowed Woman (No I'm not a Human), Neighbor's Daughter (No I'm not a Human)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW-general:

- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- race change from canon
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)

Would love worldbuilding or something that tells me more about the characters.
The full game gave us a lot of info on what exactly caused the visitors, but there’s still a lot we don’t know. Why is the pale man so in control while the cashier girl so lost? Are there different kinds of visitors? Are the visitors caused by fungus or the bug in the ears? Are they revived from the dead? Are some of them more “original” or “powerful” than the others? Do they really wear human skin (other than the pale man, the old granny also has a face that droops the longer you speak to her)? And how do the sun and FEMA play into all of this?
Are the visitors like vampires—risen from the dead, can’t enter without an invitation, and anyone can become one?
You don’t have to include all the requested characters, but please include the Protagonist.
The protagonist—his backstory is so intriguing. I want to know more. I want to know why he’s the way he is—lonely and borderline suicidal, but has to learn to open his heart for his guests. One thing the game really left me wanting is that there isn’t a single ending that’s objectively “good.” No… I didn’t really like the death ending in which we assume the Protagonist just… died. I’d love to see your take on a “good ending” in which the Protagonist not only survives but… is grateful that he does. Maybe with some of the guests being his found family. Perhaps he ends up fulfilling the neighbor’s last wish and adopts his daughter (damaged man reluctantly adopting an orphaned child is one of my all-time favorite tropes!). Or forming a bond with the widow and raising the neighbor’s daughter with her?
Other guests—not all listed, but I’d also love to learn more about any of the other guests that you find interesting.
I also find the demon baby ending really creepy and would love the backstory of the seductive woman and the cult.
Since only a few characters have canonical names, I’d love for you to come up with names for characters who don’t, but would prefer them to be other Eastern European names to fit with the setting.

Letter:
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Request 3 by sarriathmg
Dread Weight (Video Game)
Characters: Kurt (Dread Weight), Dimitri (Dread Weight), Protagonist (Dread Weight)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW-general:

- real-life politics (for this canon, it's fine to touch on politics, but if you do, I prefer that you either don't mention specific historical leaders' names or events, or just make up fictional names for them)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- Non-con when the victim stays unaroused (fine if orgasm/arousal is forced)
- Permanent non-canon character death or injury/mutilation for requested ships
- race change from canon
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)

Can be Dimitri &/ Kurt; Dimitri &/ Protagonist; Kurt &/ Protagonist; OR Dimitri &/ Kurt &/ Protagonist. I'd really really love for this to be either romantic, sexual, or something similar, no matter which character group you're picking. But if that's really not your thing, that's fine, I just really want to see these characters! I have a slight preference for plot focus rather than platonic relationship focus if romance/smut is off the table.
I'll admit, I haven't played the game hands-on, only watched numerous playthrough videos of it. I think I've seen all the routes, however, so I should understand whichever detail you want to focus on. What I like about the relationships from this game is that... they're all kinda fucked up? Kurt's manipulation of everyone around him; Dimitri being a doctor who wants to do good but is inexcusable in enabling Kurt's evil deeds (possibly blinded by love?); the Protagonist being the player character connecting the most with us but ends up revealing as an enforcer of a tyrannical regime... Messy feelings and fucked up power dynamics all around!!! Kurt keeping Dimitri by his side using sweet talk but holds unspoken power over him; Kurt being all around creepy and fucked up with Protagonist when she lost her memories (I think the whole non-consensual mind/body modification alone is a HUGE assault on someone's person); Dimitri trauma bonding with the Protagonist over Kurt's manipulations... Or put them together, have Dimitri bonding with Protagonist only for Kurt to discover them and punish them both, or let Kurt be at their mercy. Going darker: Kurt forcing them into doing things they aren't comfortable with as punishment, or something with an unbalanced V-type relationship where Kurt clearly prefers one of them but keeps the other around anyway just to be cruel.
Other random ideas:
- anything similar to the Dimitri ending (possibly without the deaths?) where they successfully run away together (whether in a romantic way or not)
- I kept having thoughts about Kurt sexually assaulting the protagonist what with undressing in front of her and sleeping in her bed... but I'd also love to see more of the Anime-esque "bastard boyfriend" trope where he essentially tortures her (traps her in a toxic relationship) even though he's written as the pretty boy male love interest stereotype
- Kurt and Dimitri's backstory, how they got together, etc. I see their relationship being a bit more consensual than the above, but I will never say no to noncon either, especially with how fucked up Kurt is.
- Kurt arrested by Protagonist ending: the potential ramifications of that. Also I get really excited thinking about a Protagonist with her memories back giving Kurt a taste of his own medicine. Her torturing Kurt (whether in a kinky way or not) for information or for what he'd done would be great, as does a wider look at the people she works for and the attempt at recreating Kurt's brand of immortality
- something gen (or not so gen) horror involving Kurt's fate or Dimitri crawling inside the mansion walls would be GREAT
For Protagonist (if you're including her), I'm fine with any OC name you want to give her as long as it's reasonably believable for a female character with an Eastern European-esque background. I'm also fine with either second or third-person narration with her as long as it's not literally readerfic (no stuff like y/n or deliberating involving the reader, just treat her as her own character please.)

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Request 4 by sarriathmg
The Troop - Nick Cutter
Characters: Newton Thornton (The Troop - Nick Cutter), Max Kirkwood (The Troop - Nick Cutter)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW-general:

- underage human/human sex for this canon (parasitic erotic horror involving underage characters, with canon-typical body horror elements, is welcome for this canon! eg. mpreg with worms)
- discussing "social issues" (gender politics, racism etc.)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- race change from canon
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
- Religion being discussed as a major philosophical topic while presenting it as unironically positive (religious fanaticism/piety as character trait/period-typical religion is fine, just not the narration itself being "preachy").

I’m a sucker for stories where the trauma that characters face is treated with care. The middle of the book nearly lost me, but the ending pulled me back full force!
Damn! I was hoping for Newton to survive, but I can’t complain that it ended up being Max. The chapter dedicated to his lasting trauma is sad but so well done that I can even forgive the turtle scene. I really want to see some form of happy ending where both boys survive and grow into adulthood, or just anything that’s less sad than the canon ending. And what about the aftermath? How would Newton corroborate with Max’s version of events? How would the parents cope? Would the two surviving boys form some kind of a trauma bond? Max/Newton is just as good as Max & Newton, so gimme shippy or gen content, I love them both!
I also love dark shit and the body horror of this book, especially when the worms are making Shelley believe that he’s pregnant and must now protect his “babies.” That’s both fucked up and has a… strange erotic undertone that makes you kinda uncomfortable. I love body horror, especially the type when a foreign parasitic entity is rewiring someone’s brain or modifying their body, severing their identity and making them into tools for the entity’s procreation. I like Shelley’s psychopathic creepiness as well as the scifi horror of the worms. Gimme something creepy, if you’d like! I’d love to see whump in which Shelley gets his hands (or the worms make him get his hands) on Max or Newton or both. Torturing them or making them into hosts just like Shelley. No happy ending is required for this, especially if you want to fully embrace the horror!

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

claimed - PH #201: The Changeover - Margaret Mahy, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight - Anonymous (Song), In the Flesh (TV)

Request 1 by Selden
The Changeover - Margaret Mahy
Characters: Sorensen Carlisle, Laura Chant (The Changeover), Miryam Carlisle, Jacko Chant
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Thank you so much for writing for me! Please don't feel tied down by the specifics of this prompt, and do feel free to go far afield in terms of tone, form, and genre.
I love The Changeover a great deal - it's such a fantastic coming-of-age story, with huge compassion for all its characters (except of course the truly evil bad guy), a brilliant feeling of magic flaring at the edge of things, and a wonderful sense of place. Plus, I still ship Laura and Sorry like burning.
Don't feel you have to include all the characters I've listed - I'd love something that focused in on just Miryam, out with Winter in their big house surrounded by built-over fields. An AU in which she doesn't send Sorry away (not that I see this working out all that well, necessarily), or in which she takes more dangerous measures to stop suburbia creeping close? Or something about her relationship with Sorry, or with Laura?
I'd also really enjoy a glimpse of Sorry and Laura's future relationship - both of them growing up and figuring themselves out some more, and maybe fighting magical evil while they're at it. I'm very invested in Sorry's future life of being out in the wild and talking to trees, but what does Laura do once she's left school? How does she fold her life as a witch into the everyday world of her mother and Jacko? Really, I'd love anything here, from casefic to romance to slice of life.
General likes: worldbuilding, a sense of place and a sense of history, myths and legends, ancient and possibly unfriendly gods, descriptions of food, weird suburbia, deep dark woods, night driving, ruins, vast cities, gothic romance, fantasy, space opera, historical fiction, unusual styles, unusual formats, unreliable narrators, intrigue, political machinations, redemption, identity porn, enemies to lovers, complicated characters figuring out stuff about themselves and/or their world.
DNW: Underage (i.e. sex involving characters under the age of sixteen).

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Request 2 by Selden
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight - Anonymous (Song)
Characters: Lady Isabel (Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight), The Elf-Knight (Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Thank you so much for writing for me! Please don't feel tied down by the specifics of this prompt, and do feel free to go far afield in terms of tone, form, and genre.
I'd love a retelling, a reworking in a different context, a 'what happens next' (does Lady Isabel set up a service for the women of ballad-country who get in too deep?). But I'm also interested in how eager Lady Isabel is to call in and ride out with her knight: just how badly does she want to get away (and/or get off)? She's so competent, as well, at disposing of the knight once his true intentions are revealed - I especially like the version in which she puts him to sleep with a 'small charm' (though I love the more sea- or water-focused versions as well - feel free to play around with the different tellings). Does she have magic of her own? Where might this take her in the future, out of the door of her father's house and into a greenwood she's made safe(r) for herself?
General likes: worldbuilding, a sense of place and a sense of history, myths and legends, ancient and possibly unfriendly gods, descriptions of food, weird suburbia, deep dark woods, night driving, ruins, vast cities, gothic romance, fantasy, space opera, historical fiction, unusual styles, unusual formats, unreliable narrators, intrigue, political machinations, redemption, identity porn, enemies to lovers, complicated characters figuring out stuff about themselves and/or their world.
DNW: Underage (i.e. sex involving characters under the age of sixteen).

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Request 3 by Selden
In the Flesh (TV)
Characters: Kieren Walker, Steve Walker (In The Flesh)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I loved this sweet, sad, sharp little show: how generously metaphorical its central conceit was, how suggestive its mythology and worldbuilding, how fiercely hopeful it remained for all that it was full of horror and petty cruelty and the corrosiveness of fear. I've nominated Kieron and Simon, but I'd be delighted with fic that focused on expanding the post-Rising world, or on answering some of the questions the end of season 2 left open: what is to become of Amy? Of Jem? Of Maxine? One of my very favourite aspects of the show was its sense of place: how rooted it was in the landscape and community of Roarton; how much attention it paid to the dangerous (in this case, almost literally apocalyptic) dynamics of local gossip and old-new prejudices. Worldbuilding-focused fic that worked along these lines (minutes from meetings of the Roarton Historical Society before, during, and after the Rising?), or which expanded on the nightmarish bureaucracy faced by 'PDS sufferers' (to chilling and/or comedic effect) would be amazing.
(Incidentally, intrigued though I am by the implications of Amy's canon fate - and much as I refuse to buy that her second death was intended to be final - I'm not all that interested in seeing the undead returned wholesale to life, or at least not with this being presented as an uncomplicated happy ending.)
I should admit, as well, that In The Flesh was crammed full with tropes I absolutely love. 'Monsters' trying desperately to pass for human; characters haunted and threatened by the loss of their very identity (and identity-porn in general); the everyday mechanics of uncanny bodies; body-horror and unethical human experimentation galore ... if your fic leans into the curve on any of these aspects, I would be delighted.
I'd also be delighted with flat-out shipfic: how do Kieran and Simon negotiate their romance, after the end of season 2? How do they manage sex, if they do so at all? (I'd be more than fine with sweet/unsettling/hilarious zombie porn adventures!). How does Kieran cope with being the subject of some of the same messianic zeal that Simon once applied to the cause of the Undead Liberation Army - with having become, perhaps, Simon's new Cause? How does Simon deal with Kieran's tendency to second-guess himself, to sink into apathy or despair? How do they both manage to sustain a relationship across possible centuries of unlife? (And, ngl, I'd prefer it if they did.) What does the world look like, five centuries after The Rising? After Amy's (assumed) second resurrection? When Roarton itself is gone, and all its living inhabitants distant memories? There's a lot of room here for epic scope and aching bittersweetness (or flat-out darkfic: absolutely welcome), but I'm also very fond of the dopey, earnest awkwardness of Simon and Kieran's early courtship: I'd love just another supper with Kieran's family, or perhaps a meeting with an older Jem, post-canon. Or, well, just a day in the unlife. Village fêtes optional!
General likes: worldbuilding, a sense of place and a sense of history, myths and legends, ancient and possibly unfriendly gods, descriptions of food, weird suburbia, deep dark woods, night driving, ruins, vast cities, gothic romance, fantasy, space opera, historical fiction, unusual styles, unusual formats, unreliable narrators, intrigue, political machinations, redemption, identity porn, enemies to lovers, complicated characters figuring out stuff about themselves and/or their world.
DNW: Underage (i.e. sex involving characters under the age of sixteen).

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claimed - PH #202: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Лето в пионерском галстуке - Елена Малисова и Катерина Сильванова | Pioneer Series - Elena Malisova & Katerina Silvanova, The Paris Express - Emma Donoghue

Request 1 by Shizuku206
Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Cliopher "Kip" Mdang (Nine Worlds), Artorin Damara | Fitzroy Angursell (Nine Worlds)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I have read HotE, Petty Treasons, Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander, RoFA, and AtfotS. Please NO SPOILERS for books I haven’t read.
I definitely want Kip & HR to be a focus but please feel free to also include additional canon characters!
HotE ate my entire brain. I LOVE Cliopher. I love his devotion and love for his Radiancy, his desire to make the world a better place, his stubbornness and determination, his deep connection to his family, home and culture despite his long years so far away, his utter competence and unshakeable ethics… I love HR and his humor and mischief and longing to escape the confines of his position. I love the special bond they obviously have and which obviously means so much to them both, and my god the pining, I want them to be able to be together in all the ways they want to. I obviously ship them romantically, but if you are more moved to write about their love platonically, that is completely welcome as well. I am absolutely on board with canon divergence of the flavor "Kip is sexually attracted to HR" OR canon-level aroace Kip. I would adore fic that has the five friends living in Kip’s house in Gorjo City after they retire, something slice-of-life or working out who they are apart from their jobs. I’m imagining some silly roommate fluff/humor like HR making nothing but fruit salad every time it’s his turn to cook (because he loves fresh fruit!! And he doesn’t know how to cook anything) and everyone else is like “again?!”
General likes: hurt/comfort, pining, mutual pining, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, couples who super dislike each other on first meeting, alt-POV canon scenes, missing scenes, fix-it, whump, smut, fluff, cuddling and snuggling, helping lovers recover from past trauma, neurodivergence (canon or headcanon), lovers accommodating characters’ neurodivergence especially when the ND character doesn’t even have to ask/assumes they don’t deserve accommodations/doesn’t know what accommodations they need, neurodivergent traits celebrated and loved (e.g. infodumping, special interests, hyperfocus), characters oblivious to the fact that they’re in love, tender caretaking, wearing each others’ clothes, sleeping together, only one bed/forced proximity due to circumstances, crying, crying on each other, angst and comfort, anxiety and reassurance, rescuing each other, taking revenge on someone who wronged their partner, found family, love declarations, commitment declarations, sweet gestures of affection especially from normally reserved/prickly characters, “mom friend override” (normally anxious/nonconfrontational character going in guns blazing because someone they love has been threatened), background characters being queer, happy endings, waking from a nightmare and their partner is there, grief/mourning and partner helping them cope, catharsis, trying to come out but whoops the person already knows you’re queer, supporting characters accepting and affirming the canon ship as a matter of course especially if MCs were trying to hide it, queer culture/safe queer spaces to escape period homophobia & be openly affectionate.
Smut likes: Experienced partner/inexperienced partner, gentle first time, explicit consent, enthusiastic consent, negotiating, ongoing communication about consent & likes/dislikes, trying new things, role play and dressing up, hurt/comfort sex, normally anxious/reserved character finding their voice in bed/taking charge, height difference, partially clothed, undressing each other, caring for each other as foreplay/afterplay (e.g. hairwashing, baths, etc.), nipple play, orgasm delay, blindfolds, lots of buildup, characters desperate and begging, so horny they can’t wait/semi-public sex, not conventionally attractive character being desired, rewrite of canon scenes full of sexual tension to instead be ‘what if they just went for it’, restraint, light pain play, sharing of fantasies & then partner planning to fulfill them, disability/neurodivergence accommodation during sex, use of magic during sex, consensual somnophilia.

General DNWs:
-AI-generated content
-Noncon/dubcon
-Scat/watersports/vomit/blood kink. (Blood in general is ok, just not as a kink.)
-Guinea pigs being eaten or abused
-Under age 16 sex
-Time/setting change AUs
-Infidelity, breakup, heartbreak/sad ending, MCD
Canon divergence and AUs that add elements to the canon setting are welcome.
Treats are welcome!!

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Request 2 by Shizuku206
Лето в пионерском галстуке - Елена Малисова и Катерина Сильванова | Pioneer Series - Elena Malisova & Katerina Silvanova
Characters: Yuri Konev, Vladimir Davydov
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Oh these boys!! I have only read book 1 and I want to see them have happy times together, it could be either in the original camp time, maybe they agree/decide to have sex before they part, or when they meet again, figuring out how to be together as adults.
General likes: hurt/comfort, pining, mutual pining, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, couples who super dislike each other on first meeting, alt-POV canon scenes, missing scenes, fix-it, whump, smut, fluff, cuddling and snuggling, helping lovers recover from past trauma, neurodivergence (canon or headcanon), lovers accommodating characters’ neurodivergence especially when the ND character doesn’t even have to ask/assumes they don’t deserve accommodations/doesn’t know what accommodations they need, neurodivergent traits celebrated and loved (e.g. infodumping, special interests, hyperfocus), characters oblivious to the fact that they’re in love, tender caretaking, wearing each others’ clothes, sleeping together, only one bed/forced proximity due to circumstances, crying, crying on each other, angst and comfort, anxiety and reassurance, rescuing each other, taking revenge on someone who wronged their partner, found family, love declarations, commitment declarations, sweet gestures of affection especially from normally reserved/prickly characters, “mom friend override” (normally anxious/nonconfrontational character going in guns blazing because someone they love has been threatened), background characters being queer, happy endings, waking from a nightmare and their partner is there, grief/mourning and partner helping them cope, catharsis, trying to come out but whoops the person already knows you’re queer, supporting characters accepting and affirming the canon ship as a matter of course especially if MCs were trying to hide it, queer culture/safe queer spaces to escape period homophobia & be openly affectionate.
Smut likes: Experienced partner/inexperienced partner, gentle first time, explicit consent, enthusiastic consent, negotiating, ongoing communication about consent & likes/dislikes, trying new things, role play and dressing up, hurt/comfort sex, normally anxious/reserved character finding their voice in bed/taking charge, height difference, partially clothed, undressing each other, caring for each other as foreplay/afterplay (e.g. hairwashing, baths, etc.), nipple play, orgasm delay, blindfolds, lots of buildup, characters desperate and begging, so horny they can’t wait/semi-public sex, not conventionally attractive character being desired, rewrite of canon scenes full of sexual tension to instead be ‘what if they just went for it’, restraint, light pain play, sharing of fantasies & then partner planning to fulfill them, disability/neurodivergence accommodation during sex, use of magic during sex, consensual somnophilia.

DNWs:
-AI-generated content
-Noncon
-Scat/watersports/vomit/blood kink. (Blood in general is ok, just not as a kink.)
-Guinea pigs being eaten or abused
-Under age 16 sex
-Time/setting change AUs
-Breakup/sad ending/MCD
-Focus on internalized homophobia/conversion therapy (brief mention of canon stuff ok)
Canon divergence and AUs that add elements to the canon setting are welcome.
Treats are welcome!!

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Request 3 by Shizuku206
The Paris Express - Emma Donoghue
Characters: Victor Garnier (The Paris Express), Guillaume Pellerin (The Paris Express)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

The Victor/Guillaume relationship was by far the most compelling part of this book for me. What's it like for them to be the loves of each others' lives, but with so much unspoken?
General likes: hurt/comfort, pining, mutual pining, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, couples who super dislike each other on first meeting, alt-POV canon scenes, missing scenes, fix-it, whump, smut, fluff, cuddling and snuggling, helping lovers recover from past trauma, neurodivergence (canon or headcanon), lovers accommodating characters’ neurodivergence especially when the ND character doesn’t even have to ask/assumes they don’t deserve accommodations/doesn’t know what accommodations they need, neurodivergent traits celebrated and loved (e.g. infodumping, special interests, hyperfocus), characters oblivious to the fact that they’re in love, tender caretaking, wearing each others’ clothes, sleeping together, only one bed/forced proximity due to circumstances, crying, crying on each other, angst and comfort, anxiety and reassurance, rescuing each other, taking revenge on someone who wronged their partner, found family, love declarations, commitment declarations, sweet gestures of affection especially from normally reserved/prickly characters, “mom friend override” (normally anxious/nonconfrontational character going in guns blazing because someone they love has been threatened), background characters being queer, happy endings, waking from a nightmare and their partner is there, grief/mourning and partner helping them cope, catharsis, trying to come out but whoops the person already knows you’re queer, supporting characters accepting and affirming the canon ship as a matter of course especially if MCs were trying to hide it, queer culture/safe queer spaces to escape period homophobia & be openly affectionate.
Smut likes: Experienced partner/inexperienced partner, gentle first time, explicit consent, enthusiastic consent, negotiating, ongoing communication about consent & likes/dislikes, trying new things, role play and dressing up, hurt/comfort sex, normally anxious/reserved character finding their voice in bed/taking charge, height difference, partially clothed, undressing each other, caring for each other as foreplay/afterplay (e.g. hairwashing, baths, etc.), nipple play, orgasm delay, blindfolds, lots of buildup, characters desperate and begging, so horny they can’t wait/semi-public sex, not conventionally attractive character being desired, rewrite of canon scenes full of sexual tension to instead be ‘what if they just went for it’, restraint, light pain play, sharing of fantasies & then partner planning to fulfill them, disability/neurodivergence accommodation during sex, use of magic during sex, consensual somnophilia.
General DNWs:
-AI-generated content
-Noncon
-Scat/watersports/vomit/blood kink. (Blood in general is ok, just not as a kink.
-Guinea pigs being eaten or abused
-Under age 16 sex (reference to canon instances ok)
-Time/setting change AUs
-Breakup/sad ending/MCD
Canon divergence and AUs that add elements to the canon setting are welcome.
Treats are welcome!!

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claimed - PH #203: Locust City - An Elysium Story (video game), RimWorld (Video Game), Safety Videos - U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Web Series)

Request 1 by snuffradio
Locust City - An Elysium Story (video game)
Characters: Cunoesse (Locust City), Cuno (Locust City), Locusts (Locust City), Worldbuilding (Locust City)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

RESOURCE MASTERPOST: https://www.tumblr.com/parasolemn/793302529486258176/x7-masterpost-so-i-can-stop-getting-confused-where
I don’t need all the characters in my signup to be in the story. I don’t need only characters in the tagset to be in the story. I picked all 4 tags available - Cuno, Cunoesse, the Locusts, & Worldbuilding - with the "giver's choice" tag.
Prompts (assorted):
- Daemon AU. Daemon-settling fics are so much about coming of age stories and formative experiences, and LC is a coming of age story about formative experiences; I love all the daemon tropes in general, but one of the things that interests me most about the idea of an AU for LC in particular is that I can’t imagine they’d settle as the same things in each ending, since the endings make them into such drastically different people. (But if *you* imagine they would settle the same way no matter what I’d be really intrigued by that too.)
- Post-canon - which may or may not include the immediate aftermath - of any of the endings, but the one that intrigues me the most is post-brainwashing. Either POV would be interesting. (Re: brainwashing: Does she regret it? What is it like? *What happens afterwards?*)
- Something surrounding Cuno’s relationship to the locusts and/or his nightmares and/or his imagination in some combination. I dearly love the locust box mechanic and its grotesque and beautiful evolution. (I would be delighted, and impressed, by any fic that manages to be about the relationship between the three of them: Cuno, Cunoesse, and the Box of Locusts.)
- Anything using Zaum (the drug) &/or the psychedelic cavefish marrow.
- I love Hercule and every ‘timeline’ he can go through in Act II and what C&C do to him; I love his opinions of them and theirs of him. & I also love everything we know about the Girl Leader and her place and scenes in Act IV. I think it would be really interesting to bounce them off other characters their age in a fic without leaning into smarm or losing their canon-typical rough edges. (I have a strong bias towards fiction that takes conflicts between children seriously.)
- There are very few C POV fics out there in the world compared to Cuno, and I would love any fic from C’s POV. (I love also whatever is going on with her skill Surface Tension and her “deep connection to water”, and wonder how that affects her perspective.)
NOTE: I have like, null opinions on slash tagging (/) vs ampersand tagging (&) C and C. There seems to be really broad disagreement about how exactly to categorize or describe their relationship regardless of which tagging convention someone picks.
(Much more, optional information linked in Dear Yuletide Writer letter.)

Letter:
https://perikarnassian.dreamwidth.org/445.html

Request 2 by snuffradio
RimWorld (Video Game)
Characters: Worldbuilding (RimWorld)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

My ideal RimWorld fic is a fic about your own RimWorld characters. (Or with their permission your friend’s, or something.) I’m really invested in other people’s games and read through their RimWorld liveblogging tags for fun.
Notes and prompts:
- I love modded RimWorld most of all. Mods and DLCs are the fun part, most of all the self-indulgent ones that give all the colonists fox tails or make torture worse or whatever it is a given player likes. (Pick what YOU like.) I include the forbidden mod as an acceptable mod to write; i.e. RJW is not a DNW, but also not a request.
- I actively like other people’s very self-indulgent RW OCs. RimWorld *is* a “story generator”.
- I would gladly love an AU from another fandom set inside RimWorld if the focus is on RimWorld worldbuilding. (Example fandoms I am in: Annihilation & the whole Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer, The Wire (2002), all Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s stories in the story codex on xrafstar.monster - yeah, these are weird choices, but the weirder the better.) It being a fandom I’m not in is fine.
- Or maybe RimWorld adapted to integrate another trope, like Wingfic, or Daemon AU, or Time Loops, into RW.
- I am definitely open to experimental formats.
The thing I am *most interested in* is worldbuilding, which I know (especially with mods) is different for every game: What is your agricultural system like? What’s going on with your economy? How are your politics, or religion, or prison systems, or factions doing? How does all this impact colonists’ lives? What is it like to be a colonist there? This is the type of question I would like a story to answer.
(More, optional information linked in Dear Yuletide Writer letter.)

Letter:
https://perikarnassian.dreamwidth.org/445.html

Request 3 by snuffradio
Safety Videos - U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Web Series)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Hello, this surprised me so much when I saw it on the fandom list. I didn’t know what it meant and spent a few fascinated hours watching videos and reading their associated comments sections and screenshotting things and sending them to my friends. To my knowledge there is no other fic about it, and I could not find a fandom. I don’t know what a fic about it *would* look like. If you’ve signed up to write it I assume you have some idea of what you’d most like to write about it so like: Please write what your heart wants. And show me. Because I’m very invested and still watching U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board videos.
I think this would be really well-suited to experimental formats in particular.
(More, optional information linked in Dear Yuletide Writer letter.)

Letter:
https://perikarnassian.dreamwidth.org/445.html

PH #204: The Alters (Video Game), Time of Iron Series - Sarah Rees Brennan, The Accountant (Movies), The Institute (TV)

Request 1 by Suaine
The Alters (Video Game)
Characters: Jan Dolski, Jan Refiner (The Alters), Lucas Peña, Benjamin "Ben" Harris
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Every once in a while I will pick up a narrative work without knowing very much about it - purely based on vibes - and it will turn out to be very, very queer. The Alters surprised me. I went in expecting some identity stuff, some sci-fi, and fun gameplay. I sure got that, but I was not prepared for the "I guess we're all bi here" or the fundamental exploration of what it means to be the worst version of yourself by virtue of making all the worst choices and having to grow out of that while constantly under threat. I was not prepared for falling in love with all versions of Jan Dolski and also wanting him to climb Lucas Pena like a tree.
As you can perhaps see from which characters I chose, I would truly appreciate you exploring the Jans' queerness. I would like to see your take on saving Ben and what it means to love someone who doesn't even know you yet. I want to see what you would do with Lucas and Jan, whether they get to go to that dinner with grandma. Also, the worldbuilding and all the other choices you can make that change not just the fate of these characters, but the entire world.

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/73230125-aad5-4891-97ee-0f49562a16e0

Request 2 by Suaine
Time of Iron Series - Sarah Rees Brennan
Characters: Eric Mitchell | The Golden Cobra, Marius Valerius | The Last Hope
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is a very simple "oh please, please, make them kiss" prompt. I'm fascinated by the worldbuilding, by who these characters were and became - especially Eric who is, quite frankly, my favorite and deserves everything and anything he wants - by what it means to be both a person and a CHARACTER, especially in a narrative that's so steeped in archetypes and their subversion. But above all, I want Marius to gently hold Eric and kiss him like his life depends on it.

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/73230125-aad5-4891-97ee-0f49562a16e0

Request 3 by Suaine
The Accountant (Movies)
Characters: Christian Wolff, Braxton (The Accountant Movies)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Listen, I am a simple girl with simple tastes and I would like you to explore their relationship. If you're into that, I'm not opposed to romance, and if you're not, I just want to know how we can get them to finally stay within reach of each other. It's funny how the movies so clearly portray both of them as neurodiverse, but only Christian is allowed to be. Braxton has to be the normal one. He has constructed this image of himself as the caretaker, even though neither of them really want that. The distance Christian puts between them is deliberate and I want you to dig into the why. What pushes them apart, what pulls them together? And can two very fucked up assassins in their middle-age find some peace, maybe even with or alongside each other?

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/73230125-aad5-4891-97ee-0f49562a16e0

Request 4 by Suaine
The Institute (TV)
Characters: Luke Ellis, Nicky Wilholm
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

When I read the book, I was deeply invested in the relationship between these two boys and the TV series dialed that up to eleven. There's a connection between them that's undeniable, no matter in what direction it develops.

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/73230125-aad5-4891-97ee-0f49562a16e0

claimed - PH #205: The Accountant (Movies), Scholomance - Naomi Novik, The Summer War - Naomi Novik, Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Request 1 by taywen
The Accountant (Movies)
Characters: Christian Wolff, Braxton (The Accountant Movies)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNWs: major character death, mpreg, non-con
(Treats are enabled and would be very welcome!)
I find Braxton and Christian's relationship to be one of the most compelling aspects of the movies. I also ship them. I'm still not over the revelation in the second movie that Chris just... didn't show up to his promised meeting with Braxton. (At least it sounds like Braxton made a point of staying in touch this time...) Also, Braxton's teary-eyed vulnerability whenever Chris was in the same frame in the first movie continues to compel me.
Some prompts:
- Post-movies, one brother rescues the other from peril. Maybe they're together on a mission and something goes wrong, or maybe they were doing separate missions and one of them got in over his head. Hurt/comfort, teary (Braxton) and stoic (Chris) reunion, bad guys get murdered with violence. I'm here for any and all of it.
- Post-movies, they go hiking as Chris planned, or at least stay together for some time. What do they do with the cat? Is Braxton, king of abandonment issues, really going to just ditch Greg the corgi?? (Maybe they are both cat people, or maybe they can be a cat and dog family; either way, I'd love to read it!)
- Missing scene - one (or more) phone calls that Braxton made to Chris in the eight years between movies.
- Christian's reaction to the NASTY tattoo, during sex or wound-tending or for whatever reason!

Letter:
https://taywen.dreamwidth.org/4947.html

Request 2 by taywen
Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Characters: Alfie (Scholomance), Galadriel "El" Higgins, Liesel Mueller (Scholomance), Orion Lake
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNWs: major character death, teen pregnancy, focus on pregnancy, non-con
(Treats are enabled and would be very welcome!)
(Re: pregnancy DNW - I'm fine with kidfic, but I would rather the kid(s) already be born in the fic. Mentions of pregnancy are fine but I'd prefer it not be the focus.)
As long as at least two of my requested characters are the focus (in any combination), that's fine with me! Please also feel free to include as few (or many) of the other characters from the books as you'd like, so long as at leas two of my requested characters are the focus.
I have a particular soft spot for Alfie - something about characters that you wouldn't necessarily expect to be aware of their own privilege being so careful not to take advantage of said privilege and in fact actually feeling an obligation to give something in return for that privilege... Yeah. (Not to say that he doesn't have blind spots or any sense of entitlement, but he did seem to be one of the more decent enclaver kids.)
But I also really enjoy El, Liesel and Orion as well, and I won't be upset at all if Alfie isn't the focus. I'm here for Alfie/Liesel and El/Orion, or some variation of an Alfie/Liesel/El/Orion polycule, or gen. If it is post-canon, I would prefer if Alfie/Liesel and El/Orion are still a thing (although their relationship(s) certainly doesn't need to be the focus of the fic)!
Some prompts (partly recycled from last year's letter, when I only requested Alfie - which is why there are a few more prompts for him)
- A typical day in the Scholomance - what does that look like for a normie-ish enclaver? The Scholomance reacted to Alfie's full name in the second book - are there other perks (or disadvantages) that come with being the descendant of the school's founder?
- Or maybe a not-so-typical day in the Scholomance? Enclave kids don't usually get attacked by mals, but maybe that day, Alfie does. Maybe Orion saves him, or maybe another character helps him, or maybe he saves himself. (Alfie as a sort of outsider POV on Orion(/El) could be interesting!)
- Post-canon, how involved would Alfie be in the maw-mouth hunting project? Or in the polycule? (I like the idea of him hooking up with El and/or Orion too, but if he's just very supportive of Liesel's relationship with El I'm here for it!)
- Post-canon, Orion joins El on the maw-mouth hunt during summer break. How does that go? Does he feel any kind of way about hunting maw-mouths? Is he just happy to be there? Does much maw-mouth hunting get done or are they too busy getting it on?
- Pre-canon AU where El and Liesel meet before entering the Scholomance. Maybe Liesel's mother goes to Gwen for healing the illness/injury that did her in canonically? Would the two girls being acquaintances and maybe allies affect the events of canon? Would Liesel's spreadsheet of compliments strategy somehow improve El's social prospects??
- Pre-canon AU where El and Alfie meet before entering the Scholomance. Maybe he's sick and can only be healed by Gwen, so his parents take him to the commune. Would they be able to become friends? Could El trust an enclaver back then?
- Post-canon, Liesel has to babysit/escort/guard Orion for ~reasons~ during a Scholomance break while El is away. Does it go well? Does Orion even remember her name? Do they find trouble to get into even without El there??
- Post-canon, Liesel and Alfie (and El?)'s efforts to take down Liesel's father and his wife in Munich. Is it more diplomatic or scorched earth?

Letter:
https://taywen.dreamwidth.org/4947.html

Request 3 by taywen
The Summer War - Naomi Novik
Characters: Elithyon (The Summer War), Eislaing (The Summer War), Celia (The Summer War), Argent (The Summer War)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNWs: major (non-canon) character death, pregnancy of any kind, non-con
(Treats are enabled and would be very welcome!)
This combination of characters is probably difficult to fit into the same fic, so I'm fine with a focus on Argent & Elithyon (gen or ship, inclusion of Celia optional), Argent & Celia (inclusion of Elithyon and/or Eislaing optional) or Celia & Eislaing (gen or ship, further explanation below). Feel free to also include as few or many of the other book characters in the fic as you'd like!
Some prompts:
- Argent and Elithyon's wedding night. Is Argent a virgin? Is he nervous? Is Elithyon nervous? Are there any differences between summerling and human anatomy that need to be navigated? (I'd appreciate if a good time is had by all, in the end!)
- Missing scenes from Argent and Celia's childhood?
- Argent and Elithyon pay a visit to Prosper's court? Or Celia pays them a visit instead?
- Eislaing died, but perhaps some part of her yet remains. Celia manages to return her to life, or contact her shade, and they—become friends? Something more? Maybe Eislaing reacts negatively to this turn of events instead??
- Eislaing perspective on the book's events from the afterlife or something?
- The shadow people return and need to be dealt with? Maybe they attack the summerlings first, and Celia has to save the day??
- Elithyon musing to Argent on the similarities and differences between Celia and Eislaing?

Letter:
https://taywen.dreamwidth.org/4947.html

Request 4 by taywen
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Characters: The Dragon | Sarkan, The Falcon | Solya, Marek (Uprooted)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNWs: major (non-canon) character death, mpreg, non-con
(Treats are enabled and would be very welcome!)
Feel free to omit one of these characters if you would prefer! I’m open to just about anything involving some combination of these characters, ship or gen fic. I think these characters have interesting dynamics in each pair as well. I’m a firm believer that Marek and Solya were banging during the events of the book. Sarkan and Solya have big bitter exes energy as well. Marek and Sarkan just…do not get along at all, lol, but what if they didn’t have any choice but to work together? ( Feel free to also include as few or many of the other book characters in the fic as you'd like!)
Some prompts:
- Young Marek sets out to enlist the Dragon’s help to save his mother from the Wood, after it becomes obvious that his father and the other court wizards have no intention of doing so. Solya is the lucky wizard who’s sent to retrieve Marek from what everyone assumes to just be a standard problem child running away. Does Marek make it to the valley? Or maybe Solya takes him there just to get a rise out of Sarkan?
- Solya and Marek when they first started working together. Solya seems like pretty much the exact sort of person that Marek would despise, so how did they end up being such close allies? Or are they just using each other for mutual benefit?
- Something about the beginning of Solya and Sarkan’s rivalry? The two of them as apprentices or new wizards, before Sarkan takes up vigil in the the valley?
- After a particularly egregious incident in court, Solya is sent to the valley to guard it as punishment for him and Marek. In exchange, Sarkan is dragged back to court despite his protests. Sarkan and Marek have to figure out a way to get things restored to the proper order before it’s too late.
- AU where Marek survives the book but the assault by the Wood-queen leaves his ambitions shaken. He and Solya try to pick up the pieces, or perhaps even...make amends?
- Post-canon, Solya trying to cope with Marek's death (or maybe just with how that affects his own ambitions) with Sarkan as a reluctant audience?
- (I know this one in particular is a long shot, but just putting it out there--) I'd love to see a fusion AU with the Scholomance trilogy? Solya and Sarkan as reluctant indie allies? Solya trying to get close to enclaver!Marek, much to Sarkan's disdain?? Solya exasperated af with Sarkan's refusal to cozy up to enclavers in general???

Letter:
https://taywen.dreamwidth.org/4947.html

PH #206: Columbo, Mario Kart (Video Games), Final Fantasy IV, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Pokemon Concierge (Cartoon), Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi

Request 1 by TheMangosity
Columbo
Characters: Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I’m sure I'll love whatever you write for me because I just want to read some amazing stories in these fandoms!
In case my Yuletide letter isn’t done before assignments go out, I wanted to say a little bit about some of the fandoms so you at least have a little bit of inspiration. You can also find my past Yuletide letters on my dreamwidth account if you want to get an idea of some of the things I like.
I don't have any triggers or anything I absolutely wouldn't want to see in a story. I like the kinds of stories that take place in universe and match the tone of the original. It's fun to see what's happening in the characters' lives post-series or behind the scenes.
Here are some things I like: Hurt/Comfort, Brotherly Love, Action Adventure, Crossovers. I’m also interested in Interactive Fiction if that’s something you enjoy making. I go into more detail about these things here in the beginning of last year’s letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/2896.html

Columbo: Homicide detective immediately knows who murderer is and chooses to harass and annoy murderer for entire episode.
Over the past year I became a super Columbo fan and it’s all thanks to Yuletide! Last year I matched with someone on Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and they had also requested Columbo. I didn’t even know that much about Columbo but for some reason I decided to write a Columbo/Majora’s Mask crossover. I watched a bunch of the show and thought it was so funny. It’s just Columbo harassing and annoying the murderer for an hour and a half until he busts them. It’s so funny.
After writing that crossover last year, I’m really into Columbo crossovers. Each Columbo episode is him meeting completely new characters, so it’s the perfect setup for a crossover to happen. I’m totally open to a crossover of Columbo and any of the other fandoms I’ve requested. If there’s something else similar to these fandoms that you want to do a crossover with, that’s fine too.
But if we matched on Columbo and you know nothing about any of theses other fandoms, or if you just are not feeling the crossover thing, I totally understand.
I love Columbo’s dog, so I would love if you can find a way to include him even briefly!

Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

Request 2 by TheMangosity
Mario Kart (Video Games)
Characters: Cow (Mario Kart), Koopa Troopa (Mario Kart), Yoshi (Mario Kart), Shizue | Isabelle (Mario Kart)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Super Mario and his friends decide to have kart racing tournaments together.
I requested Mario Kart because of this specific tweet where Nintendo posted a video of a Koopa traveling across the world with his little bread basket: https://twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1960054642412290131 I thought it was so cute and funny! Why is he carrying this bread basket with him? Is he delivering it? Does he just like bread?
I also nominated Cow as a character because she looks really cool driving the motorcycle. Why is this cow cooler than any of us?

Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

Request 3 by TheMangosity
Final Fantasy IV
Characters: Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV), Kain Highwind (Final Fantasy IV)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Cool guy uses power of the moon to defeat the darkness.
To be honest I’ve only played a little bit of Final Fantasy IV, so I’m not sure if my description is even true. But I love Cecil and Kain! I watched all of the Dissidia Final Fantasy cutscenes and that’s where most of my knowledge of them comes from. Cecil seems like he has a strong sense of justice, like he always tries to see the good in people. He also seems a little naïve and inexperienced with the world. Kain seems like more of a realist. He’s willing to do anything to help his friends, even the hard stuff no one wants to do. If it has to get done, so be it.
I didn’t get very far in the game, but I know a little bit about Cecil’s journey. I know there’s a part in the beginning where a town gets destroyed and he’s devastated. Maybe you could write something about how he feels about that, what that means to him. If you know Dissidia I wouldn’t mind if the story takes place there.
I don’t mind if you mention some non-spoiler events from the game, just please don’t include any major plot spoilers.

Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

Request 4 by TheMangosity
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Characters: Link (The Wind Waker), Tetra (The Wind Waker), Medli (The Wind Waker), Quill (The Wind Waker)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Here’s what I wrote about Wind Waker for a previous Yuletide, just so you can get an idea of what I like about the world. I’ll come up with new ideas and prompts in the full Yuletide letter.
I love Wind Waker for its cute and carefree world. I'd like an adventure story that has Link, Tetra, and the talking boat. Feel free to include any characters you like from the game! It can take place during the events of the game or post game. Here are some ideas I came up with:
-Link, Tetra and the pirate crew go on pirate voyages together. They're taking care of the last few monsters left over after Ganondorf's defeat. The talking boat offers his support however he can.
-Link gets sick while out on the high seas in his boat and Tetra and the pirate crew find him and take care of him.
-Link introduces Tetra and the pirate crew to his family and everyone else in his home village.
I'm open to other ideas too! Just as long as it's similar to the tone of the game. Also, if you'd like to cross this over with any of the other Zelda games, I'm open to that, especially Breath of the Wild.
Thanks for reading this! I’ll come up with more details and prompts for all of the fandoms in my full Yuletide letter!

Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

Request 5 by TheMangosity
Pokemon Concierge (Cartoon)
Characters: Haru (Pokemon Concierge), Koduck | Psyduck (Pokemon Concierge), Alisa (Pokemon Concierge), Tyler (Pokemon Concierge)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

No prompts

Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

Request 6 by TheMangosity
Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi
Characters: Lah Kara (Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi), Ethan (Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi), Juro (Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi), Homen (Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

I wrote about Star Wars Visions in a previous Yuletide letter, so here it is so you can get some ideas. I’ll come up with some new ideas in the new letter.
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/2419.html
Letter:
https://themangosity.dreamwidth.org/3297.html

PH #207: Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast), Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel), 杀破狼 | Sha Po Lang - priest

Request 1 by WolffyLuna
Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Oathsworn)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I really love Oathsworn. I am a sucker for dramatic last stands against the apocalypse, the dread of everything getting worse and death spirals as people desperately try to make things still work. I am a sucker for the all of the characters, and I find the worldbuilding fascinating.
Note: I am currently up to episode 69. There is a world where I finish the podcast before sign ups close. There is another world where I finish after sign ups close but before works reveal. If any of my prompts are ‘but wait, they answered that question in episode 73?’ …woops.
General likes and prompts are in my letter, they are a bit too long to fit in this box.
I am open to treats!
DNWS:
- Torture being portrayed as effective/achieving goals
- Impregnation/pregnancy risk
- if there is a mention of some sort of birth control, even if it just the pull out method, you will have avoided my dnw.
- Explicit underage (<18) sex
- Daddy kink/ mommy kink / family terms being used in sex (unless people are actually related)
- organised crime AUs
- out of control fires

Letter:
https://wolffyluna.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/16/

Request 2 by WolffyLuna
Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel)
Characters: Pluto (Heaven Will Be Mine), Luna-Terra (Heaven Will Be Mine), Saturn (Heaven Will Be Mine)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Ladies kissin’ each other, and explorations of what it means to be The Other and how to respond to it... IN SPACE!
I love the worldbuilding, and all the implications that circle around the fact that is space reality is defined by whoever has the strongest personality. The way that being one of the space kids is a metaphor for being queer, and the way you can look at those sorts of things at different angles through metaphor, while at the same time all the major characters are non-metaphorically queer.
Also, ladies kissin’ in giant robots is cool.
General likes and prompts are in my letter, they are a bit too long to fit in this box.
I am open to treats!
DNWS:
- Torture being portrayed as effective/achieving goals
- Impregnation/pregnancy risk
- if there is a mention of some sort of birth control, even if it just the pull out method, you will have avoided my dnw.
- Explicit underage (<18) sex
- Daddy kink/ mommy kink / family terms being used in sex (unless people are actually related)
- organised crime AUs
- out of control fires

Letter:
https://wolffyluna.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/16/

Request 3 by WolffyLuna
杀破狼 | Sha Po Lang - priest
Characters: Chang Geng | Li Min
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I am a sucker for political dramas with romance, steampunk, hurt/comfort, and that sort of ‘I’m going to fix the economy!’ sort of optimisation fic. Sha Po Lang was very much made for me.
General likes and prompts are in my letter, they are a bit too long to fit in this box.
I am open to treats!
DNWS:
- Torture being portrayed as effective/achieving goals
- Impregnation/pregnancy risk
- if there is a mention of some sort of birth control, even if it just the pull out method, you will have avoided my dnw.
- Explicit underage (<18) sex
- Daddy kink/ mommy kink / family terms being used in sex (unless people are actually related)
- organised crime AUs
- out of control fires

Letter:
https://wolffyluna.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/16/

Entry tags:

due 2025-12-22

NO LONGER UPDATED - PHs #173-190

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Include the recipient's AO3 name in the subject line
Include your AO3 username in the body of the email

claimed - PH #173: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996), Fields of Mistria (Video Game)

Request 1 by 2manyboys
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
Characters: The Master (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I’m not sure I’ve read a Shalka fic I didn’t like but I’m especially partial to anything Master-centric, including exploration of how his body functions and various challenges to his dignity. (Take that as smutty as you will.) How’s he spending his days? What’s the maintenance schedule like? How might the Doctor apologize for any instance of turning him off?
DNW: discussions of suicide

No letter

Request 2 by 2manyboys
Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I majorly ship d/m no matter what bodies they’re in. What I’m really craving is a canon divergence of some sort that changes the ending. Maybe the Doctor gets the Master’s confession dial or a similar last words scenario and that’s what he’s reading at the beginning? Maybe when the Doctor can’t remember anything else he remembers he’s looking for his best friend? Maybe the Master doesn’t manage to hang on to one body the whole movie, or to get one at all?? If none of that sounds fun, I’m also partial to accidental confessions, outsider pov, telepathic shenanigans, and I’m sure I’ll love anything you come up with that I haven’t thought of!

No letter

Request 3 by 2manyboys
Fields of Mistria (Video Game)
Characters: Juniper (Fields of Mistria), Valen (Fields of Mistria)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

What I’m most hoping for is some Juniper/Valen tooth rotting fluff and/or pwp. The way I’ve been playing the game is that my farmer’s dating them both as a long con to get them together; happy for anything along those lines and/or for your own farmer to make an appearance. If you don’t ship it or wanted to write something gen, a story where they have to work together and are pleasantly surprised by how well it goes would delight me too. Feel free to go wild with something like real world au, body swap, or sex pollen — anything really :)

No letter

PH #174: Fell Murder - E. C. R. Lorac, Menewood - Nicola Griffith, Zombies Run!, The Silt Verses (Podcast)

Request 1 by Acephalous
Fell Murder - E. C. R. Lorac
Characters: Marion Garth, Elizabeth Meldon
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I'd love a post canon story about these two. Shippy or gen is fine.

DNWs: pregnancy fic, kid fic

No letter

Request 2 by Acephalous
Menewood - Nicola Griffith
Characters: Bryhtstige (Menewood), Cian Boldcloak (Menewood), Hild (Menewood)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I'd love a post canon fic about Bryhstige, or a fix it fic with Hild and Cian where survives the battle/they manage to slip away before the battle.

No letter

Request 3 by Acephalous
Zombies Run!
Characters: Sam Yao, Amelia Spens
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love the dynamic between these two, and how Amelia slowly develops a kind of moral compass and over time, and I would love a fic set in the aftermath of season 10, or something set after the trip to Finland in season 5.

No letter

Request 4 by Acephalous
The Silt Verses (Podcast)
Characters: Devereaux (The Silt Verses), Sebastian (The Silt Verses), Paige (The Silt Verses), Hayward (The Silt Verses)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

I'd love a fix-it fic for Sebastian and Deveraux, or a fic about Paige and Hayward in the last season.

DNWs: pregnancy fic, kid fic

No letter

PH #175: Space Shuttle No. 8 - เจฟ ซาเตอร์ | Jeff Satur (Music Videos), Dominion of the Fallen - Aliette de Bodard, วิมานหนาม | The Paradise of Thorns (2024)

Request 1 by AirgiodSLV
Space Shuttle No. 8 - เจฟ ซาเตอร์ | Jeff Satur (Music Videos)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please don‘t feel limited to the tagset. I am 100% on board with any characters typically included in the SS8 multiverse: Passion, Rain, etc. I’d be very interested in seeing more of Morningstar from Tell Me The Name, or Lost and Found.
I’m really intrigued by what we’re learning about Lovedie—is he also The Writer? Was he the first to create/summon Sunshine? Does he know about Ride? Was he on Space Shuttle No. 8 in the Asia Tour trailer? What’s in the notebook with his name on it? I’m also on board for the ladies’ side of the story—Trinity, Em, Iris, all of them. Are they simple antagonists, or is it more complicated than that? Are they working together? Are they part of the AI simulation from the Journey Book, like Sunshine?
I love the speculative fiction/magical realism aspects of the stories—playing around with life and death, divinity and immortality, trickster god illusions and misdirection, magical or superhuman powers like levitation or bringing the world from grayscale into full color. I’m intrigued by the technological augmentations, like Ghost’s ports and Moonshine’s arm cage, and the nature-based fae influences of Lucid and Ghost.
I like that these characters are drawn to each other and tied together, but there's still that tension and wariness. They can't stay away from each other, but they don't necessarily trust each other, either. I like those sharper edges. If you want to go the fusion route, any universe I’m familiar with (The Raven Cycle/Dreamer Trilogy, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Old Guard, The Locked Tomb, etc.) would also be great to put these characters into!
DNW: Non-con, torture, soulmates, pregnancy, underage

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aleEk5wNqh7WAtS_sjF74TsB0LpBfH1qS3triF0FeRI/

Request 2 by AirgiodSLV
Dominion of the Fallen - Aliette de Bodard
Characters: Rong Minh Thanh Thuan, Asmodeus (Dominion of the Fallen)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

The 'Dragons and Blades' novellas are essentially everything I love to read in a story. They're trope-tastic (enemies-to-lovers, arranged marriage, hurt/comfort) and focus on the relationship between two characters who each have their own issues, their own responsibilities, and are actively trying to make their relationship work in spite of misunderstandings and conflicts.
I love how different their magic systems and cultures are; I love that each of them is strong and vulnerable in different ways; I love that they get so intensely under each other's skin. (I love that they're constantly distracted by how much they want each other, and that magic is often involved.)
I'd love to see Thuan and Asmodeus together, whether it's facing a relationship hurdle, solving a mystery, providing support when the other one is in need, or exploring some of those cultural differences. Please feel free to dig into the canon worldbuilding and/or draw on other sources of Vietnamese, Abrahamic, or French traditions and lore. Please also feel free to use those in service of something explicit and kinky if that’s what appeals to you!
DNW: Non-con, torture, soulmates, pregnancy, underage

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aleEk5wNqh7WAtS_sjF74TsB0LpBfH1qS3triF0FeRI/

Request 3 by AirgiodSLV
วิมานหนาม | The Paradise of Thorns (2024)
Characters: Thongkam Khanlongsuk, Jingna Jongyoi
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I will be honest: I just want some happiness here. A fix-it, an AU, a missing scene or stolen moment…Thongkam and Jingna deserve it. Let them eat durian and roll around in mosquito nets together to their hearts’ content.
Please feel free to cast a wider net than this fandom! If you’re into RPF, I find the way Keng Harit and Jeff Satur take turns playing ‘I will guide you with a hand at the small of your back’ at events together adorable. There is fun music fodder there too, with Keng attending Jeff’s concert and covering Rain Wedding, and the two of them singing together.
If you’re into fusions, I’m thoroughly invested in the worldbuilding of Khemjira: The Series and Pharan as a character, but not the show romance—If you’re inspired to write a Pharan/Thongkam crossover where Thongkam comes to Pharan’s village after Sek’s death, I would be over the moon. Ghosts! Discoveries! Healing! Culture! Unexpected love!
DNW: Non-con, torture, soulmates, pregnancy, underage

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aleEk5wNqh7WAtS_sjF74TsB0LpBfH1qS3triF0FeRI/

claimed - PH #176: Strangers in Paradise (Comics), Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness, 星合の空 | Hoshiai no Sora | Stars Align, 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)

Request 1 by AntigravityDevice
Strangers in Paradise (Comics)
Characters: Casey Bullocks-Femur, Tambi Baker
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I think Casey and Tambi's personalities and kinks could fit together quite well, and make for a shippy scene to warm up my Yule. If you're not comfortable writing anything explicit or are simply not aboard the ship, scenes with these two interacting with each other and perhaps with Tambi's girls would be equally great. Perhaps a rescue is in order, and the girls need to put their heads together? A bit of H/C would be wonderful!
DNW: Pregnancy or kidfic, omegaverse, readerfic
I would be thrilled to receive treats!

Letter:
https://antigravitydevice.dreamwidth.org/3569.html

Request 2 by AntigravityDevice
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
Characters: Kagari Shuusei (Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness), Tsurugi Takuma (Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

They call each other Shuu and Taku-chan like they're old buddies, they're both thrust into the middle of impossibly hard situations and just trying to make the best of it, and they have the same taste in old manga. That's more than enough to build a unique bond. Whether platonic or no, I think their coping mechanisms and easy-going mannerisms are very well matched. Taku-chan is exactly the kind of company Kagari was lacking in the original manga and anime, and I'd just like to see them interact and bounce off of each other some more -- ideally in an emotionally charged situation to dig into the ways this dystopia has screwed them both, but a relaxed scene at the Tower with a lot of banter and teasing would work wonderfully, too; think of the Toybox Brothers route. And I'm always up for smut, if you're so inclined! I bet they can't shut up while they're at it, either.
DNW: Pregnancy or kidfic, omegaverse, readerfic
I would be thrilled to receive treats!

Letter:
https://antigravitydevice.dreamwidth.org/3569.html

Request 3 by AntigravityDevice
星合の空 | Hoshiai no Sora | Stars Align
Characters: Takenouchi Shingo, Soga Tsubasa
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love how earnestly this anime digs into the complex emotional issues of its characters, and takes their problems seriously. But we only got 12 episodes, which means a lot of the side characters and their stories got barely a nod in canon. Let's fix that! Shingo and Tsubasa are my faves, because I love it when self-confident and cocky characters show their vulnerable sides, and their dynamic is just so fun and endearing. I'd love to dig into the way Shingo's stepmum pushes her own insecurities onto him and tries to ruin the adorable close bond he has with his little sister. Tsubasa's frustration with his father, whose acceptance he also desperately wants, and his need to measure up to his brothers whom he loves is also intriguing. I also find their approaches to masculinity and expectations thereof very interesting; Shingo is unashamed of doing silly dances with his sister, while Tsubasa acts like he has something to prove, all the time. These are both brash kids who aren't afraid to speak their mind, so I'd like to sit them down on another park bench and give it a go.
I also ship them, so if you'd like to focus on them dealing with a crush and queer feelings in general, or even set the fic in the future and explore it some more when they're older, go right ahead!
DNW: Pregnancy or kidfic, omegaverse, readerfic
I would be thrilled to receive treats!

Letter:
https://antigravitydevice.dreamwidth.org/3569.html

Request 4 by AntigravityDevice
光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
Characters: "Hikaru" | Fake Indou Hikaru (光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)), Tsujinaka Yoshiki (光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime))
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love the complex, heart-breaking dynamic between "Hikaru" and Yoshiki; there's grief, fear, love, longing, and who knows what kind of otherworldly urges "Hikaru" brings into the mix. And mixed they are. I like poking at their vulnerable points, so anything to do with "Hikaru" feeling despondent when the human world confuses him and he can't measure up to the real Hikaru, or Yoshiki's internalised homophobia and his lonely grief for someone no one misses like he does is all delicious to me. We see their relationship build but it's still so fragile, and I love that Yoshiki has different feelings for Hikaru and "Hikaru" -- they get to decide what their relationship is and how it works, since no one else could possibly understand. That's the kind of freedom they can find even in the claustrophobia of the small village with a terrible, ancient secret.
I'd love to see some body horror and general pushing of boundaries if you want to write something more physical between them; "Hikaru" means well but he doesn't always know Yoshiki's limits, physically or mentally, and Yoshiki has a lot of issues with self-loathing and self-denial. Whatever you end up writing, I'd love their bond to feel intense and strange and inexplicable, because that's one of the things I love the most about the show.
DNW: Pregnancy or kidfic, omegaverse, readerfic
I would be thrilled to receive treats!

Letter:
https://antigravitydevice.dreamwidth.org/3569.html

claimed - PH #177: The Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt, Great Cities Series - N. K. Jemisin, 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois, The Story Girl Series - L. M. Montgomery

Request 1 by blueorangecrush
The Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt
Characters: Dicey Tillerman, Jeff Greene (Tillerman Cycle), Wilhemina Smiths
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

General DNW: Substance-induced dubcon portrayed positively. Graphic sex or binding legal marriage involving anyone under 16.
General likes: found/chosen family, soulbond tropes played not quite straight, earned happy endings, take-your-fandom-to-work style slice of life, weird psychic/supernatural overlay to a mundane setting.

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/blueorangescribble/798259795081723904/dear-author-letter-yuletide-2025

Request 2 by blueorangecrush
Great Cities Series - N. K. Jemisin
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General DNW: Substance-induced dubcon portrayed positively. Graphic sex or binding legal marriage involving anyone under 16.
General likes: found/chosen family, soulbond tropes played not quite straight, earned happy endings, take-your-fandom-to-work style slice of life, weird psychic/supernatural overlay to a mundane setting.

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/blueorangescribble/798259795081723904/dear-author-letter-yuletide-2025

Request 3 by blueorangecrush
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General DNW: Substance-induced dubcon portrayed positively. Graphic sex or binding legal marriage involving anyone under 16.
General likes: found/chosen family, soulbond tropes played not quite straight, earned happy endings, take-your-fandom-to-work style slice of life, weird psychic/supernatural overlay to a mundane setting.

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/blueorangescribble/798259795081723904/dear-author-letter-yuletide-2025

Request 4 by blueorangecrush
The Story Girl Series - L. M. Montgomery
Characters: Peter Craig (Story Girl - Montgomery), Felicity King (Story Girl - Montgomery)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General DNW: Substance-induced dubcon portrayed positively. Graphic sex or binding legal marriage involving anyone under 16.
General likes: found/chosen family, soulbond tropes played not quite straight, earned happy endings, take-your-fandom-to-work style slice of life, weird psychic/supernatural overlay to a mundane setting.

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/blueorangescribble/798259795081723904/dear-author-letter-yuletide-2025

claimed - PH #178: The Departed (2006), Slow Horses (TV), Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon), 24 (TV), Dark (TV 2017), From (TV 2022)

PH #179: Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters (Tumblr Post), Knights of Guinevere (GLITCH Web Series), Quacks (TV), Ultra Q (TV), 仮面ライダーガヴ | Kamen Rider Gavv (TV), 王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney Movies)

Request 1 by Bobcatmoran
Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters (Tumblr Post)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I’d love a fic made up of scenes of increasingly frustrated saxophone hating time travelers trying and failing to off Adolph Sax. Bonus points if it’s the same person on at least two occasions. Open for treats!

No letter

Request 2 by Bobcatmoran
Knights of Guinevere (GLITCH Web Series)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I want more of this so badly. More about how the present-day characters got to where they are today. More about the development of Park Planet’s surface alongside the theme park. More about this specific Guinevere model. More about Orville Park and his Vision. More about any of these or anything else you can think of, with any/all of the characters. Please no non-con. Open for treats!

No letter

Request 3 by Bobcatmoran
Quacks (TV)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I’m up for pretty much anything with any/all of these characters, set in canon era. The juxtaposition of the wild west of European medicine at this time with the extremely repressed Victorian English societal restrictions (for the social classes these characters come from, especially Caroline, Robert, and William) is fascinating to me. Please no self-harm and no non-con. Open for treats!

No letter

Request 4 by Bobcatmoran
Ultra Q (TV)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Oh gosh. Almost anything, since there’s practically no fic for this series and I’d love to read some. You wanna write a kaiju story? Maybe with something from one of the later Ultra series? Go for it. You wanna write a slice of life thing with the main trio just hanging out? Go for it. You wanna do some sort of hard sci-fi plot? Go for it. You want to write the aftermath of one of the episodes? Go for it. You have some other idea in mind? Go for it. I’m ok with shipping the main trio in any combo if you feel like going that way, but I’m not hugely interested in romance being the focus of the story, and definitely want them to all stay on good terms with each other by the end of the fic. Please, no self-harm and no non-consensual sex. Open for treats!

No letter

Request 5 by Bobcatmoran
仮面ライダーガヴ | Kamen Rider Gavv (TV)
Characters: Amane Sachika, Inoue Shouma, Raage9 | Rakia Amarga, Karakida Hanto
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I’d love a slice-of-life fic with any/all of the Hapipare quartet, especially during the one-month gap between episodes 28 and 29. Please, no self harm and no non-consensual sex. Open for treats!

No letter

Request 6 by Bobcatmoran
王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I'd kind of love a little slice of life with any/all of the characters, whether during the course of the show or before it happens. Alternatively, a look at the rebuilding and rejiggering of the political situation post-series would be very welcome. I love this show's Game of Thrones For Kindergarteners politics, Giant Bug Friends, the fact that all the Kingohgers are such strong personalities (which clash against each other a LOT some of the time, but they still band together when they need to), and hey, if you wanna poke some more at the worldbuilding, I wouldn't say no to that, either. Please, no self-harm, no incest, and no non-consensual sex. Open for treats!
No letter

Request 7 by Bobcatmoran
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney Movies)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I’d love to see some fic about the Ulysses crew, in any combination of the listed characters or those not listed (as always, optional details are optional, so if you want to stick to those listed, that’s 100% ok). Slice-of-life fic, either on the movie expedition, the previous expedition, or before/after the movie events would be lovely. If you want to include Kida and are up for explorations of Atlantean linguistics, I'd be super down for that. I’m ok with gen or shippy, but would prefer that if you go the latter route, that you keep out of the “explicit” rating zone.
No letter

claimed - PH #180: The Bone Harp - Victoria Goddard, Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo, The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-, Hurog - Patricia Briggs, Spindle's End - Robin McKinley, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard

Request 1 by bookwyrm
The Bone Harp - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I would love to read about the Sons of Dâr, after. After they all died and both the dead and the living believed they'd left their brother alone with his curses and oaths? After they were sung home and had to relearn life, and peace, and the company of others? After Tamsin walks back into their lives, somehow, wearing that same old cloak and tunic but no longer silent, no longer cursed? This book has so much buildup and the payoff that we get in text is lovely but very brief.
I am very into all of the Gender that Tamsin has going on, if that's something you want to lean into. Also totally fine if you want to leave him out completely! The elflands don't actually revolve around him and his musical talent.
Definitely prefer overall gen for this one, but shippy mentions are fine (canon or otherwise).
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 2 by bookwyrm
Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
Characters: Wild Pig Yi, Wei Jintai
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love Wild Pig Yi and that we've seen her legends come up outside of Riverlands (Mammoths and maybe somewhere else?). I love the triad and all the different stories about them, and the different facets and truths and falsehoods. I love Wei Jintai and Mac Sang.
I'd love to read a legend of the Southern Monkey Master and her sworn sister (or his sworn brother, if the legend has traveled a very long way). I'd love to read a legend of Wild Pig Yi and her exploits and lovers. I really enjoy when the fox girl with eyes painted on her eyes shows up, and I honestly don't care if there's ever a resolution on that or if she just keeps showing up and prognosticating in the background.
I really, really like how these are stories about stories. How different stories reveal or conceal, contain truth and fiction. That a story is never the whole picture. That context matters, and that sometimes the information you're given is just wrong.
Canon-typical violence, unreliable storytellers, horror themes, etc are all good with me.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 3 by bookwyrm
The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-
Characters: Mrs F- (The Comfortable Courtesan)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Eliza Ferraby, my beloved! I love the triad, I love her managing Raxdell House for Gervais, I love her and Clorinda, I love her and Jos. I don't have a lot of specific requests on this one, I just think everybody's lovely.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 4 by bookwyrm
Hurog - Patricia Briggs
Characters: Wardwick (Hurog)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I just really like Ward. He's smart and thoughtful and kind, he knows what he wants, he cares for the people around him, and he is willing and able to receive care from them as well. Everybody here has huge amounts of damage and trauma, and they're still doing their best.
Ward & Oreg - I would be delighted to read Ward And Oreg Have A Nice Day And Nothing Bad Happens. Ward And Oreg: Roadtrip To Piss On Every Hurog Lord's Gravestone. Ward And Oreg Have Tea With A Dragon.
Ward & Garranon - Garranon is just a really decent guy. They are both decent, honorable guys who lived through awful things and have decided not to do that to the people around them. On the other hand, Garranon was part of putting Ward in another awful situation, although with limited agency himself - is there anything they need to hash out?
Ward & Tisala - Slice of life after they're married? Dealing with some kind of very mundane and handle-able problem? Slice of life in the lead-up to getting married?
Basically, I would like any or all of these people to Have A Nice Day. Sometimes, even when one is having a nice day, trauma rears its gnarly head, but I would prefer that it not be the central theme.

Prefer only canon relationships for this. I'm pretty neutral/meh on kidfic in general, but I think this is a fandom where it makes sense and could work well (either Ward and Tisala's kids or Ward's niblings. I will happily read it if that's the way inspiration takes you.
Request-specific DNW: I don't mind if anybody's past experiences with Jakoven & co. come up, but I would prefer that it not be the focus of the story.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 5 by bookwyrm
Spindle's End - Robin McKinley
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Aunt - she's lived a long life, there's lots to explore. What was she like as a young woman? When Katriona arrived in her care? When Kat was gone for six months attending the princess's name-day? When they started hearing the news that something went terribly wrong? She had some idea what was happening, but it still must have been awfully hard to wait for Kat to come home.
Katriona - She grows up and grows into her own power so much over the course of this book. Kat and Zel, now that her familiar has finally found her? How did Zel know about that long-ago promise to the fox who helped them? Kat missing Peony? Kat in the aftermath? Kat and Aunt, the two most powerful fairies in the Gig?
Peony - Peony and the Princess. Peony being the Princess. Peony and the Princess's family. Peony and the Princess's future subjects, on the grand tour back through the country and to her new home. I feel so bad for Peony, that she was never quite wanted by her family, that she volunteered to be the Princess for a few months and got stuck with being the Princess for the rest of her life. She will be a good Queen, but... does she want that?
Maybe Pernicia lost but took the Princess with her, leaving only the Princess's two waiting women. Maybe there's a way they can both stay in Foggy Bottom, even once they're breathing their own breath, casing their own shadows. Maybe Rosie goes with her to the palace and her new life - perhaps not forever, but for long enough that it's not a total severance. I kind of hate that Narl said to Katriona, "don't you want to keep her" and they both threw their power into it without Peony having any kind of say. Or maybe Peony and Rosie did talk about it, in the long quiet hours at the top of their tower. They don't know what will happen, maybe one or both of them will be dead on the first day of the Princess's 22nd year, so why not spin out the possibilities. Maybe Rosie knew that Peony would truly enjoy it, rather than just wanting to get out of it herself.
Rosie - Some years down the line being recognized, truly, by her parents? All of them needing to grapple with the events and choices that brought them here? Rosie unable to get out of being the Princess, learning to cope, allowing herself to be formed, a little, but also pushing back and making space for herself at the court? The royal family of her mother's country breeds sighthounds - there's no reason she can't be known for the quality of her stable.
Rosie & Peony / Rosie/Peony - I really like their friendship. I also think there's a lot of room for shippy feels here, requited or otherwise. They breathe together. They only cast one shadow. Rosie, bending down to wake her friend (a sleeping beauty) with true love's kiss. I can't even!

Request-specific DNW: I'm pretty meh on Rosie/Narl. McKinley has a thing for young women with much older men and I'm just not that into it. Please don't focus on this relationship. Narl's fine as a character but he's at least twice her age. Ych.

My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 6 by bookwyrm
Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Jullanar of the Sea | Mrs. Etaris (Nine Worlds)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I would love to get Mrs. Etaris's perspective on any of the events since Jemis arrived back home in September.
Also very intrigued by the shippy potential of Jullanar/Pali, if that's a direction you're interested in. Either during the original Red Company, or in their somewhat older, somewhat wiser reformation. (Maybe even especially as they are now, having had plenty of time to figure out what they don't want out of life.)

My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons
Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

PH #181: Murderbot (TV), The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy (Cartoon), Mickey7 - Edward Ashton

Request 1 by bruised_fruit
Murderbot (TV)
Characters: Dr. Mensah (Murderbot TV), Pin-Lee (Murderbot TV)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Mensah/Pin-Lee smut, emotional hurt/comfort, and/or cuddling, or exploration of Pin-Lee's pining for Mensah, Mensah's attunement to their emotional needs, and/or Mensah's relative comfort with vulnerability with them. I am particularly interested in seeing something that digs into Pin-Lee's devotion to Mensah and some kind of reciprocity, at least in terms of care and respect.
I am open to treats— I love drabbles and ficlets!
DNWs:
AUs and OCs
Unrequested ships (reference to canon ships okay, but please don’t put heavy emphasis on them)
Emphasis on unrequested characters (for Murderbot and Second Best Hospital, please do not include male characters in the story who speak more than a couple lines)
Noncon/rape or non-sexual intentional boundary pushing (eg, unwanted touches)
Sexual content or shipping involving characters under 18
Bashing/vilifying any characters or ships (but it is okay to frame characters/ships negatively if this is supported by canon or feels appropriate for the character— just please don’t center the story around that or unrequested characters/ships in general)
Any messaging that queer people in romantic or sexual dynamics are immoral or dirty; framing a platonic dynamic as inherently more pure/moral, progressive, or acceptable than a dynamic involving romantic or sexual elements (but exploration of internalized cisheterosexism is okay if you feel it suits the character/world and want to explore that)
Heavy emphasis on non-canon identity labels (eg, explicit description or justification of identity headcanons mid-fic— a character having a non-canon identity is fine, but I DNW the character to state the identity or explain the identity to another character, and I do not want the fic to be about a character’s marginalization)
Characters with furry/animal features (unless canon)
Discussion of pregnancy or STI/STD risk, including humorous
Drug or alcohol intoxication
Misgendering characters, whether you are writing them as trans or cis; please match their canon pronouns, DNW genderbends
Characters thinking/saying anything negative about another character’s body outside of a consensual humiliation/degradation context
Use of slurs (please no racist, homophobic, or transphobic slurs. sexist slurs okay in kink or negative self-talk context, and ableist slurs okay if character/canon-typical)
Use of specific words: “ebony” or similar porn terms related to race, “bbw” or similar porn terms related to fatness, “milf,” “mommy”
Specific sex or kink DNWs: urethral play, scat, body modification, comparing kink to abuse, and any kind of fetishization based on disability, transness, race, or body type
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Positive framing of Arada/Pin-Lee/Ratthi (that is, please retain the canon framing that the throuple is not a positive or wanted thing for Pin-Lee if it is referenced. I DNW anything suggesting Pin-Lee likes the throuple arrangement since they say otherwise in canon)
Ratthi as a character in the story. It’s okay to mention him
ComfortUnits and/or sexual slavery
Mixing book and TV canon, with the exception of Mensah’s spouses or Preservation steering committee characters if you choose to mention them
Heavy emphasis on the idea of exclusive relationships (eg, if you write unreciprocated pining, DNW their marriages as the sole perceived barrier to a relationship. If you write shipfic and an infidelity angle, please do not center the cheating-related feelings)
Discussion/framing of Mensah as mammy-like. Please avoid the mammy trope and other antiblack/misogynistic tropes or negative framings of Mensah
Fic that explicitly contradicts the idea that Pin-Lee has romantic feelings for Mensah, holds her in high esteem, and finds her attractive (genfic that does not focus on these things is fine)

Letter:
https://peach-soft.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/18/

Request 2 by bruised_fruit
The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy (Cartoon)
Characters: Dr. Klak (The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy), Dr. Sleech (The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Exploration of Sleech pining for Klak based off of season 2 details, Klak/Sleech fluff or emotional hurt/comfort, their perspectives on each other's canon relationships/situationships, Vlam giving Sleech relationship advice (TM), or anything exploring Sleech's emotional issues and how they affect her perception of Klak or their friendship.
I am open to treats— I love drabbles and ficlets!
DNWs:
AUs and OCs
Unrequested ships (reference to canon ships okay, but please don’t put heavy emphasis on them)
Emphasis on unrequested characters (for Murderbot and Second Best Hospital, please do not include male characters in the story who speak more than a couple lines)
Noncon/rape or non-sexual intentional boundary pushing (eg, unwanted touches)
Sexual content or shipping involving characters under 18
Bashing/vilifying any characters or ships (but it is okay to frame characters/ships negatively if this is supported by canon or feels appropriate for the character— just please don’t center the story around that or unrequested characters/ships in general)
Any messaging that queer people in romantic or sexual dynamics are immoral or dirty; framing a platonic dynamic as inherently more pure/moral, progressive, or acceptable than a dynamic involving romantic or sexual elements (but exploration of internalized cisheterosexism is okay if you feel it suits the character/world and want to explore that)
Heavy emphasis on non-canon identity labels (eg, explicit description or justification of identity headcanons mid-fic— a character having a non-canon identity is fine, but I DNW the character to state the identity or explain the identity to another character, and I do not want the fic to be about a character’s marginalization)
Characters with furry/animal features (unless canon)
Discussion of pregnancy or STI/STD risk, including humorous
Drug or alcohol intoxication
Misgendering characters, whether you are writing them as trans or cis; please match their canon pronouns, DNW genderbends
Characters thinking/saying anything negative about another character’s body outside of a consensual humiliation/degradation context
Use of slurs (please no racist, homophobic, or transphobic slurs. sexist slurs okay in kink or negative self-talk context, and ableist slurs okay if character/canon-typical)
Use of specific words: “ebony” or similar porn terms related to race, “bbw” or similar porn terms related to fatness, “milf,” “mommy”
Specific sex or kink DNWs: urethral play, scat, body modification, comparing kink to abuse, and any kind of fetishization based on disability, transness, race, or body type
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Animal genitalia (alien genitalia that works in mysterious made up ways is fine)
Klak’s mom as a character in the story. It is okay to reference her or Klak’s trauma, but please do not include her as a character
Negative framing of polyamory/open relationships/casual sex (references to canon unhappy/unhealthy relationships are okay)
If you write a pining angle, DNW emphasis on jealousy beyond canon (jealousy can be present in the story, but I would prefer it not be the main source of angst)
D/s or kink elements in a “first time” scenario (but if you write established ship, feel free to write a D/s dynamic or other kink elements)

Letter:
https://peach-soft.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/18/

Request 3 by bruised_fruit
Mickey7 - Edward Ashton
Characters: Cat Chen (Mickey7), Mickey Barnes | Mickey7 (Mickey7)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Cat character study or Cat/Mickey. I like the idea that she is into him secondary to her existential crisis and that they have earnest respect and care for each other. Would love something digging into her existential angst/anxieties, feelings about her own morally gray behavior, and loneliness. I would also like Cat/Mickey/Nasha set post-book 1, particularly if the dynamic is painted as amicable (and maybe a little tenuous).
I am open to treats— I love drabbles and ficlets!
DNWs:
AUs and OCs
Unrequested ships (reference to canon ships okay, but please don’t put heavy emphasis on them)
Emphasis on unrequested characters (for Murderbot and Second Best Hospital, please do not include male characters in the story who speak more than a couple lines)
Noncon/rape or non-sexual intentional boundary pushing (eg, unwanted touches)
Sexual content or shipping involving characters under 18
Bashing/vilifying any characters or ships (but it is okay to frame characters/ships negatively if this is supported by canon or feels appropriate for the character— just please don’t center the story around that or unrequested characters/ships in general)
Any messaging that queer people in romantic or sexual dynamics are immoral or dirty; framing a platonic dynamic as inherently more pure/moral, progressive, or acceptable than a dynamic involving romantic or sexual elements (but exploration of internalized cisheterosexism is okay if you feel it suits the character/world and want to explore that)
Heavy emphasis on non-canon identity labels (eg, explicit description or justification of identity headcanons mid-fic— a character having a non-canon identity is fine, but I DNW the character to state the identity or explain the identity to another character, and I do not want the fic to be about a character’s marginalization)
Characters with furry/animal features (unless canon)
Discussion of pregnancy or STI/STD risk, including humorous
Drug or alcohol intoxication
Misgendering characters, whether you are writing them as trans or cis; please match their canon pronouns, DNW genderbends
Characters thinking/saying anything negative about another character’s body outside of a consensual humiliation/degradation context
Use of slurs (please no racist, homophobic, or transphobic slurs. sexist slurs okay in kink or negative self-talk context, and ableist slurs okay if character/canon-typical)
Use of specific words: “ebony” or similar porn terms related to race, “bbw” or similar porn terms related to fatness, “milf,” “mommy”
Specific sex or kink DNWs: urethral play, scat, body modification, comparing kink to abuse, and any kind of fetishization based on disability, transness, race, or body type
Fandom-specific DNWs:
Diegetic BDSM/kink of any kind for this fandom (ie, please write them in a vanilla dynamic if you write smut)
Reference to anything from movie canon that was not present in the books
Emphasis on the in-universe religion/cult or exploration of eugenics beyond canon
Fic centering Mickey8/Eight (the Mickey I requested and which Cat interacts with most is Mickey7/Seven, the books’ POV character)
Cat being sexually forward with Mickey or framed as pushing his boundaries (she can be interpersonally flawed in other ways, but please no coercion or hypersexual framing of the character)
If you write Mickey cheating on Nasha, please do not write that he prefers Cat to her or wants to leave her (otherwise, any angle is fine. Mickey can be shitty and human in any way you want as long as there isn’t noncon or him blatantly devaluing Nasha)

Letter:
https://peach-soft.dreamwidth.org/2025/10/18/

claimed - PH #182: Library of Alexandria RPF, Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, Knives Out (Movies)

Request 1 by curtaincall
Library of Alexandria RPF
Characters: Zenodotus of Ephesus, Aristarchus of Samothrace
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General likes: plotty stuff, humor, mystery, satire of corporate culture, epistolary/document-based stories, heists, riddles/puzzles, trains
General DNW: explicit sex (strong implications/suggestive content/sex jokes all fine), death of requested characters, rape/noncon, underage sex, extreme angst, in-depth discussion of sexual or gender identity, BDSM or other D/s, unrequested noncanon pairings for requested characters, detailed description of pregnancy, unrequested setting AUs
Fandom-specific notes:
So my entire basis for nominating/requesting this is that we were reading the Iliad and talking about the manuscript history and my professor said something along the lines of "Aristarchus always goes with the opposite of whatever Zenodotus does, he always picks the opposite reading." And that made me desperately curious about what Aristarchus might have thought of Zenodotus himself (since he has such a tendency to disagree violently with him), and what Zenodotus might have thought of Aristarchus' reactions to his work.
I know they weren't alive at the same time so I'd be perfectly happy with Aristarchus just thinking/talking about Zenodotus, but if you want to either change the timeline so that they could possibly meet or introduce some kind of time travel into the mix I would also enjoy that! (But please don't do a full modern AU.)
Some more prompts/ideas:
- daily life at the Library for either/both of them
- what drives their differing approaches to the text? (lectio facilior vs lectio difficilior, etc)
- a modern-day scholar, or a later librarian, going through their different edits and puzzling out something about what's going on with them
- Adding romance/tension between them would be welcome as would keeping it on a professional/rivals level
- I can read Ancient Greek (and Latin, if that should become relevant), so if you want to include any I'd love it! (Please consider this my explicit opt-in to receive fic in Latin or Ancient Greek rather than English.)

No letter

Request 2 by curtaincall
Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett
Characters: Anagosa Dolabra, Dinios Kol, Worldbuilding (Shadow of the Leviathan)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

General likes: plotty stuff, humor, mystery, satire of corporate culture, epistolary/document-based stories, heists, riddles/puzzles, trains
General DNW: explicit sex (strong implications/suggestive content/sex jokes all fine), death of requested characters, rape/noncon, underage sex, extreme angst, in-depth discussion of sexual or gender identity, BDSM or other D/s, unrequested noncanon pairings for requested characters, detailed description of pregnancy, unrequested setting AUs
Fandom-specific notes:
Per the additional tag, I'm fine with a worldbuilding fic that doesn't include Ana and Din, or Ana and Din fic that doesn't include worldbuilding! DNW romantic Ana/Din.
Ideas/prompts:
- Case fic - maybe Ana and Din have an opportunity to solve some smaller-scale mystery? Maybe one or both of them is unjustly accused? Maybe they have to in some way do a bit of what the other does?
- Travel adventures/misadventures for Ana and Din!
- In-universe documents about the Empire, the administration, the many constituent parts. Bureaucratic nitty-gritty!
- More about the augurs in particular, or specific types of enhancements in general

No letter

Request 3 by curtaincall
Knives Out (Movies)
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General likes: plotty stuff, humor, mystery, satire of corporate culture, epistolary/document-based stories, heists, riddles/puzzles, trains
General DNW: explicit sex (strong implications/suggestive content/sex jokes all fine), death of requested characters, rape/noncon, underage sex, extreme angst, in-depth discussion of sexual or gender identity, BDSM or other D/s, unrequested noncanon pairings for requested characters, detailed description of pregnancy, unrequested setting AUs
Fandom-specific prompts:
- Case fic! Potential settings: train (either a fancy one or a subway), archaeological dig, animal shelter, political campaign - or anything else that you're knowledgeable and passionate about.
- Going off the part in Glass Onion where he struggles at Among Us, it would be fun to see him having more difficulty with social deduction games, or another kind of game/puzzle.
- I could honestly buy him as either a more strictly-business, no mystery-solving off the clock guy OR someone who can't help diving into little mysteries as he comes across them, so I'd enjoy either a fic where he keeps encountering small mysteries and stubbornly refusing to engage with them, or one where he does find and solve one!
- I plan to watch Wake Up Dead Man before works are revealed, so no need to worry about spoilers!

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claimed - PH #183: Royals and Romance Series - Sara Raasch, Magic and Romance Series - Sara Raasch, The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden, Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment (Universal Parks Attraction), Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series) RPF

Request 1 by dansrusse
Royals and Romance Series - Sara Raasch
Characters: Fionnuala "Finn" Patrick, Iris Lentora
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Finn and Iris had SOOOO much chemistry in Go Luck Yourself - since as of right now, Sara's not getting a book 3 of this series, I'd love to see that explored.
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids

Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

Request 2 by dansrusse
Magic and Romance Series - Sara Raasch
Characters: Sebastian Walsh, Elethior Tourael, Orok Monroe
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I just loved this series and want fic for it. I'd love to see Sebastian and Orok's relationship explored, or Thio and Orok! The period of time between Thio and Sebastian's graduation and their engagement is a pretty long time and rich for fanfic, so something in there could be really fun. I am really wide open here, but some ideas:
- Thio moving in with Sebastian
- Sebastian dealing with Orok moving far away
- handing the court case
- Orok's involvement in the court as a pro athlete
- Orok and Thio bonding over Sebastian
These are just a few ideas, but I'm pretty open here! I love these characters and this world, I want to bask in it.
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids

Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

Request 3 by dansrusse
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Characters: Laura Iven, Penelope "Pim" Shaw
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love Pim and Laura's relationship, and I'd love to see it filled in a bit more. I'd love to see a missing scene between the two of them, or an alternate ending. How might things have gone differently for them? I don't generally like characters taken out of the stories of their circumstances, but canon divergent fics are fine here!
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids

Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

Request 4 by dansrusse
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment (Universal Parks Attraction)
Characters: Victoria Frankenstein (Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment), Victoria Frankenstein's Creature (Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment), Dracula (Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I think the ride makes abundantly clear that Victoria wants Dracula to be part of her harem. Please, by all means, expand on this idea. THIS IS the exception to my "I don't want smut" request: This is a smut premise. Victoria wants a threesome with her creature and Dracula. If you can make this non-smutty, I'm down for that, too. But smut is absolutely fine here, I know what I'm asking for. I would prefer Victoria herself be centered in this fic: MFM, not MMF. It's important to me that SHE is the romantic/erotic center of this polyamory triad.
I specifically am NOT interest in Ygor in an erotic sense, though. I would prefer he not be a part of any romantic/sexual proceedings.
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids

Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

Request 5 by dansrusse
Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
Characters: Bolaire Lathalia (Critical Role: Aramán)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I really like Bolaire as of the single episode I have seen, and I intend to continue liking Bolaire, because in general I like how Taliesin plays characters. As of right now, I am shipping Wicander and Bolaire, so that would be a ship that I am interested in. I am also interested in Vaelus and Bolaire, but not romantically.
In general, I like Bolaire, I want to see fic about Bolaire, Bolaire and Wick seem like a good romantic ship, Bolaire and Vaelus seem like they have an interesting history. I am not interested in Tyranny or Julien, but I do like Halandil, Thaisha, Occtis and Azune.

The world is your oyster here, because we know NOTHING about the world! It's all very exciting.
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids

Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

Request 6 by dansrusse
Critical Role (Web Series) RPF
Characters: Taliesin Jaffe (Critical Role RPF)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Taliesin is my parasocial crush...I like how he thinks, and how his brain works. I particularly like how he interacts with Ashley, and I like his friendship with Matt and Marisha as well. I do like the MMT triad, but only when it's written in a positive way (no relationship angst, everyone is happy and fulfilled in their own way.)
I also do not like the "eldritch abomination" fan joke. It's not for me.
What I'd like to see are quiet, positive interactions with him and the rest of the cast, platonic or romantic. Seeing them all interact, seeing day to day in the actual play and voice acting industries, slice of life moments.
General Likes
Hurt/comfort, care taking, food as a language for love, getting together, established relationships, curtain fic, friendship, missing scenes, non-sexual intimacy, slice-of-life/ordinary life
General Dislikes/DNW
Anything involving pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriages or abortions, unhappy endings, rape/sexual assault, major character death (though talking about canon-compliant character deaths is fine), alternate universes that take the characters out of their canon contexts, smut/pwp, referring to real-world issues, vomiting/bodily fluids
Letter:
https://kpopwinemom.dreamwidth.org/11992.html

PH #184: Aveyond (Video Games), Quasimorph (Video Game), Geneforge

Request 1 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Aveyond (Video Games)
Characters: Te'ijal Ravenfoot
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I have a headcanon that Te'ijal Ravenfoot is a psychopath. I would love a story that explored this concept further, delving into how Te'ijal's psychopathy would affect/recontextualize both her interactions with her colleagues and her actions throughout the Aveyond games. Furthermore, content that supplements those already in the Aveyond games, such as extra conversations or scenes, would also be welcome.
DNW: Unrequested kinks, mundane/setting change AUs, Te'ijal being "cured" of her psychopathy (i.e. being made neurotypical), Te’ijal character bashing*, neurodivergence being used to excuse bad behavior**.
*Given the stigma surrounding psychopathy, I understand if there is any confusion over this specific DNW. Let me make this clear: psychopaths are still people; having little or no empathy or emotional intelligence does not make one categorically evil or dangerous. For the purposes of this prompt, Te’ijal should be a person with both rights and accountability.
**Using neurodivergence to excuse bad behavior sounds something like this: “She can’t take responsibility for her actions because she can’t control herself/she doesn’t know what she’s doing/her brain isn’t wired correctly/etc.”
On a related note, I am fine with the inclusion of sanist language, bigotry, and/or violence as long as it is not presented as ethically/morally correct by the story itself. Keep in mind that hostility towards a neurodivergent offender in retaliation to the offender perpetrating antisocial behavior, such as inflicting harm upon or violating the rights of others, is not necessarily sanism.
On another related note, I am also fine with Te'ijal receiving treatment for her psychopathy as long as it does not fall into the trope of curing neurodivergence.
Disclaimer: Psychopathy is not a condition that one can be clinically diagnosed with. The proper diagnostic term for people exhibiting behavior commonly associated with psychopathy is antisocial personality disorder. However, the term "psychopathy" is still useful as a descriptor for a distinct pattern of behavior within the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder.
P.S.: Below are some helpful resources if you need to do research on psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder. Of course, feel free to use other sources for further research.
https://psychopathyis.org/what-is-psychopathy/
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-psychopath-5025217
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy
https://www.healthline.com/health/psychopath#Psychopathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozh8ur3tJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-UfTCGOdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpjYtAB9i2w
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353928
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000921.htm
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/personality-disorders/types-of-personality-disorder/#AntisocialPersonalityDisorder
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546673/
Note: Please exercise discretion if you choose to consult psycho-diagnostic checklists such as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R). Such tools are meant to be used in specific, controlled settings with prerequisite qualifications and can cause significant harm if used outside of these conditions. For example, see: http://www.hare.org/scales/pclr.html
P.P.S.: If you are unfamiliar with the concept of sanism, several definitions with sources are provided below. Like before, feel free to consult additional resources.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanism): “Sanism, saneism, mentalism, or psychophobia refers to the systemic discrimination against or oppression of individuals perceived to have a mental disorder or cognitive impairment.”
From The Ability Toolbox (https://theabilitytoolbox.com/sanism-mental-illness/): “Sanism is prejudice against people with mental illness. Sanism can take the form of harassment, bullying, violence, and discrimination in healthcare, employment, housing, and other aspects of daily life.”
From Simmons University Library (https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-sanism): “Sanism often stems from the "pathology paradigm [that] ultimately boils down to just two fundamental assumptions:
1. There is one 'right,' 'normal,' or 'healthy' way for human brains and human minds to be configured and to function (or one relatively narrow 'normal' range into which the configuration and functioning of human brains and minds ought to fall).
2. If your neurological configuration and functioning (and, as a result, your ways of thinking and behaving) diverge substantially from the dominant standard of 'normal,' then there is Something Wrong With You." (from Nick Walker)”

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Request 2 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Quasimorph (Video Game)
Characters: Francis Reid-Daly, John Hawkwood
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Quasimorph has become my greatest special interest over the past couple of years. One of the most fascinating things about it is the cyberpunk, science-fantasy dystopia portrayed in that game. I'd love a story that explores not just the lives of those who live in the anarcho-capitalist paradigm in Quasimorph. The scope of the available characters in this request covers the most violent, destructive, and brutal element of Quasimorph's society: the private military sector, as exemplified by both the soldier Francis Reid-Daly, and the proprietor John Hawkwood. My interests for a story in this fandom include: character studies, worldbuilding, action scenes, and violence (including blood and gore). Darkfics are welcome for this request.
DNW: Mundane/setting change AU.

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Request 3 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Geneforge
Characters: Litalia (Geneforge)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would love a story detailing how Litalia's tumultuous life and fight against the Shapers has affected her, both physically and mentally, as I feel that there's a lot of potential for a compelling narrative that is sadly underexplored, in my opinion, in the Geneforge saga.
DNW: Mundane/setting change AU.

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PH #185: Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz, Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960), Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski, Grunwald Monument

Request 1 by FakeCirilla9
Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz
Characters: Ulryk von Jungingen (Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
The first chapter of this book is such a peanut gallery of all the adversaries of the story. This is my favourite characterisation of Ulryk in the literature so far. He's described in an incredibly sexy way, too, with eyes darkening in anger or sparkling in joy. During the introductory conversation, his mood switches from ire to amusement with the speed of a falling blade, and he manages to offend his late brother in front of a stranger.
And then there's Kuno! Obviously used to his master's volatile nature and making snarky remarks about it. Isn't that an interesting relationship? Why is the grand commander allowed to laugh at Ulryk's expense? How close are those two? Is there friendship or something more between them? Or maybe they're just two like-minded baddies united by common politics?
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 2 by FakeCirilla9
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
Characters: Ulrich von Jungingen - Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
Ulrich has a golden armour here! How cool is that? I'd be satisfied to receive a short piece with an armour kink.
Or, if you're thinking of something with a more ambitious plot, feel free to use Rotgier as well. Does Ulrich confront him about the kidnapped girl after the heroes of the story complain about it to the grand master of the Order? Or is he too busy seizing power or mourning his brother's death or both? If he acknowledges his underling’s fault, is he angry at him or does he brush the whole affair off, maybe even providing some plausible excuses to help to sweep it under the rug?
Or, a darker take: I've heard that the punishment for a Teutonic knight who broke the chastity vows was flogging administered by the grand master himself. I'd adore to see such a scene unfolding between Ulrich and Rotgier.
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 3 by FakeCirilla9
Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski
Characters: Ulryk von Jungingen (Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
This is an easy-to-read book, in which the characters have emotional depth as thick as a sheet of printing paper. Ulryk is evil here because the plot demands a punching bag for the main hero. But I love that for the main adversary of the story, of all the possible Teutonic knights, the author chose Ulryk. The idea that Ulryk von Jungingen and Klaus Störtebeker met in person is glorious. They also got an incredibly ~~cool~~ hot sword-fighting scene in the book. Maybe the fic could deal with the aftermath of that encounter?
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 4 by FakeCirilla9
Grunwald Monument
Characters: Ulrich von Jungingen (Grunwald Monument)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
I know it was erected to honour king Jagiełło, but I'm not a big fan of him, and he's so distant on his high horse there. Whereas Ulrich is literally within one's hand reach (as you can see by his statue's fingers polished to gold by countless tourists). And isn't the sprawled pose marvellous? It's oddly satisfying on a primal level to see him thrown there at Vytautas’ feet, like one more war trophy from the battlefield.
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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claimed - PH #186: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers, Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner, L'amica geniale | The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante

Request 1 by freevistas
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Characters: Speaker (Wayfarers Series), Roveg (Wayfarers Series)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Whump, heavy angst, character death, a/b/o, sexual violence (either on-screen or implied/referenced), sex involving animals or minors

Letter:
https://soricel.dreamwidth.org/352514.html

Request 2 by freevistas
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
Characters: Sadie Smith (Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner), Bruno Lacombe (Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Whump, heavy angst, character death, a/b/o, sexual violence (either on-screen or implied/referenced), sex involving animals or minors

Letter:
https://soricel.dreamwidth.org/352514.html

Request 3 by freevistas
L'amica geniale | The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
Characters: Pasquale Peluso (The Neapolitan Novels)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: Whump, heavy angst, character death, a/b/o, sexual violence (either on-screen or implied/referenced), sex involving animals or minors

Letter:
https://soricel.dreamwidth.org/352514.html

claimed - PH #187: Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Red Shoes (1948), Il Conformista | The Conformist (1970), Trois couleurs | Three Colours (Movies), Deadwood, The Folly of the World - Jesse Bullington

Request 1 by fullborn
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Characters: Cissie Colpitts 3, Cissie Colpitts 2, Cissie Colpitts 1, Madgett (Drowning by Numbers)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love Greenaway's interest in erotics, baroque painting, and the formal yet playful way he weaves the progressing numbers into each scene. The autumnal, seaside, off-kilter logic of the film. The set design and cinematography. I particularly enjoy the various rituals and games in the film and the fond spiky relationship between the Cissies and Madgett (and Smut!). Every character is incredibly odd. Madgett and his son Smut are obsessed with games, numbers, and death; the Colpitts carry on with their murders with matter-of-fact inevitability. It's all a tragic game! I love the interplay of decay, life and death, nature, sexuality, fate, and blackmail throughout the story.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)

Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

Request 2 by fullborn
The Red Shoes (1948)
Characters: Victoria Page, Boris Lermontov, Julian Craster
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love the lush set design and tragedy of the film, but most of all the push-and-pull between the enigmatic Lermontov and his protégées. Most of all I love Anton Walbrook's dastardly subtle performance and his slayful costuming. I'll always fall for tales of obsession, repulsion, horribly destructive mentorships, and the steep price of art. Powell and Pressburger's work contain such moviemaking magic--the ballet scene is one of the best dance sequences of any film! The shifting set and editing effects--it's so gorgeous. I love Lermontov's relationship with Vicky and the positive beginning that turns sour as things progress towards their tragic end.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)

Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

Request 3 by fullborn
Il Conformista | The Conformist (1970)
Characters: Marcello Clerici
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I adore the film's design and sweeping aesthetic, as well as the rot of fascism at the core of every beautiful scene. Jean-Louis Trintignant was made to play vile, spineless, loser types, which he does with such despicable excellence here. Would love character study, missing scenes, pre and post canon, Clerici being a pathetic irredeemable freak (derogatory). Any historical and political detail would be wonderful.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)

Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

Request 4 by fullborn
Trois couleurs | Three Colours (Movies)
Characters: Joseph Kern, Valentine Dussaut
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I was amazed to see this in the tagset, I love Three Colours: Red the most out of the trilogy. The inevitable and deep relationship between Valentine and the judge, Kern. It's so beautiful. Connection and distancing through technology, the ties that bind people in indescribable ways. The significance of the scene where the judge talks to Valentine after the fashion show while the storm rages outside is one that still gives me chills. If you can inject some level of mystery, depth, and wonder into their relationship I would be very happy.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)

Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

Request 5 by fullborn
Deadwood
Characters: Al Swearengen, Alma Garret
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

The genius dialogue, setting, history, profanity, and vein of true grace and mutual interdependence that runs through this series. I love it all. I've also seen the movie, if you'd like to reference that! Any and all other cast members are more than welcome, though I particularly love Doc Cochran, Jewel, Jane, Joanie, Cy, Ellsworth, Trixie...sorry, I'm just listing them all. I'm requesting Al and Alma here as I'd love to see them interacting with each other, as we barely get to see them in the same room together in the show for all that Al's actions effect the course of Alma's life from the very first episode--though I'd be more than happy with a character study for either Al or Alma, or both.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)

Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

Request 6 by fullborn
The Folly of the World - Jesse Bullington
Characters: Jan Tieselen, Sander Himbrecht, Jolanda (The Folly of the World)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I loved how vulgar and gross and funny this book is. The characters are insane (complimentary) and all using each other while grasping pathetically for fortune and love. Also appreciate the eels, noose fetishism, found family of the distinctly terrible variety, the unsavoury ways Jan uses his partners, dysfunctional and horny Sander/Jan, historical tomfoolery, wild schemes, limbchopping (the Hand of Glory made me laugh out loud), Jo's survival instinct and changing relationship with Sander, identity theft, hauntings, any and all references to Bruegel's painting and the historical setting.
See my letter for prompts! Treats enabled and welcome.
DNWs
- A/B/O and other bioessentialism
- Characters having non-canonical children or pregnancy
- Character bashing
- PWP
- Purely fluff/domestic fic/crackfic
- Alternate-setting AUs (coffee shop/high school/royalty/etc) that change everything about characters' positioning in canon and backstory. I'm okay with genre twists, such as infusing a non-horror canon with horror, or migrating events to a different historical period. My rule of thumb with AUs is that as long as characters are recognisable as themselves, I'm on board.
- Non-canonical permanent character deaths
- Unrequested non-canonical established relationships
- Explicit sexual scenarios involving underage characters (reference or discussion of CSA okay)
- First/second person POV (epistolary is fine)
Letter:
https://fullborn.dreamwidth.org/2541.html

claimed - PH #188: やがて君になる | Yagate Kimi ni Naru | Bloom Into You (Manga), Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Cartoon), The Hollow (Cartoon), The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins

Request 1 by GallifreyanFairytale
やがて君になる | Yagate Kimi ni Naru | Bloom Into You (Manga)
Characters: Koito Yuu, Nanami Touko
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

thank you in advance for whatever you create!!
treats are welcome 🫶
general likes
character/relationship study, college au, fantasy/fairytale/yokai au, sharing clothes, hurt/comfort, fake dating, road trips, non-sexual intimacy, slice of life, nonbinary/aspec headcanons, disability headcanons, masquerade ball, festivals, stargazing, experimental style fics, celestial imagery
fandom-specific details
i would be happy to see a shipfic for yuu/touko or a genfic/solo fic centered on either character! i'm also fine if you want to write based solely off of the portion of the story that happens in the anime rather than the full manga
possible prompts:
- exploration of either/both characters' aspec identity
- festival date
- arcade date
- group hangout with the other student council members
- yuu coming out to her sister / parents / friends
- yuu helping touko practice lines for an upcoming show
these are just meant to serve for potential inspiration; don't feel tied down to picking something from this list. create something you have fun with, and i'm sure i'll love it!
DNW
pregnancy/fankids, omegaverse, bugs/spiders, first person POV, cisswap genderbends, smut, incest, minor/adult ships (including aging up characters who are minors in canon to ship them with adults), non-canonical character death, character bashing, unhappy ending (ambiguous/open ending is fine)
major spoilers for the light novels, maki in a relationship

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Request 2 by GallifreyanFairytale
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Cartoon)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

thank you in advance for whatever you create!!
treats are welcome 🫶
general likes
character/relationship study, college au, fantasy/fairytale/yokai au, sharing clothes, hurt/comfort, fake dating, road trips, non-sexual intimacy, slice of life, nonbinary/aspec headcanons, disability headcanons, masquerade ball, festivals, stargazing, experimental style fics, celestial imagery
fandom-specific details
i think the world of this show is so cool and there could be so much to explore!! if you're overwhelmed by options, wolf is my favorite character, but i'd genuinely be happy to see something with any of the characters from the tagset or general worldbuilding. go wild! for ships, i like benson/troy and kipo/asher, but no pressure to include either of those
possible prompts:
- pre-canon worldbuilding
- wolf backstory
- dealing with trauma post-canon (or mid-canon)
- tending to wounds
- wolf learning how to ask for help / be vulnerable
- nonbinary wolf (possibly bonding with asher over genderqueerness)
- game night with benson, kipo, & wolf (inclusion of other characters optional)
- benson/troy date night
these are just meant to serve for potential inspiration; don't feel tied down to picking something from this list. create something you have fun with, and i'm sure i'll love it!
DNW
pregnancy/fankids, omegaverse, bugs/spiders (fandom-specific exception for dave), first person POV, cisswap genderbends, smut, incest, minor/adult ships (including aging up characters who are minors in canon to ship them with adults), non-canonical character death, character bashing, unhappy ending (ambiguous/open ending is fine)
ships with wolf, heavy focus on scarlemagne

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Request 3 by GallifreyanFairytale
The Hollow (Cartoon)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

thank you in advance for whatever you create!!
treats are welcome 🫶
general likes
character/relationship study, college au, fantasy/fairytale/yokai au, sharing clothes, hurt/comfort, fake dating, road trips, non-sexual intimacy, slice of life, nonbinary/aspec headcanons, disability headcanons, masquerade ball, festivals, stargazing, experimental style fics, celestial imagery
fandom-specific details
any characters!! or worldbuilding!! literally go wild i would love to see anything at all for this fandom. for ships, i love kai/adam and enjoy mira/skeet. adam/reeve exes is also real to me but i don't ship them in the present. vanessa/mira is welcome as well #yuriwin. if you don't vibe with any of those, i always adore genfics and platonic dynamics
possible prompts:
- post-canon healing/dealing with trauma
- kaidam getting together / confession / first kiss / etc.
- unreality
- existential crises
- time loop
- weirdy in the real world having to mentally deal with the knowledge that the kids' consciousnesses were copied into the game
- a look into the real world post-season 1
these are just meant to serve for potential inspiration; don't feel tied down to picking something from this list. create something you have fun with, and i'm sure i'll love it!
DNW
pregnancy/fankids, omegaverse, bugs/spiders, first person POV, cisswap genderbends, smut, incest, minor/adult ships (including aging up characters who are minors in canon to ship them with adults), non-canonical character death, character bashing, unhappy ending (ambiguous/open ending is fine)

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Request 4 by GallifreyanFairytale
The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins
Characters: Luxa (Underland Chronicles), Gregor (Underland Chronicles), Ares (Underland Chronicles), Ripred (Underland Chronicles)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

thank you in advance for whatever you create!!
treats are welcome 🫶
general likes
character/relationship study, college au, fantasy/fairytale/yokai au, sharing clothes, hurt/comfort, fake dating, road trips, non-sexual intimacy, slice of life, nonbinary/aspec headcanons, disability headcanons, masquerade ball, festivals, stargazing, experimental style fics, celestial imagery
fandom-specific details
i'd be happy with a gift centered on any of the four characters i selected, and feel free to include other characters from canon as you see fit! for ships, i like gregor/luxa, but i'm also happy to see their dynamic portrayed as platonic
possible prompts:
- post-canon grief / healing
- luxa & hazard in the aftermath of hamnet's death
- ares & aurora (& luxa) during the times in canon when gregor is away from underland
- ripred training with luxa or gregor
- luxa getting to see overland, or being introduced to things (food/games/etc) from overland culture
- luxa and aurora pre-canon
these are just meant to serve for potential inspiration; don't feel tied down to picking something from this list. create something you have fun with, and i'm sure i'll love it!
DNW
pregnancy/fankids, omegaverse, spiders, first person POV, cisswap genderbends, smut, incest, minor/adult ships (including aging up characters who are minors in canon to ship them with adults), non-canonical character death, character bashing, unhappy ending (ambiguous/open ending is fine)
note: my general bugs DNW is waived for this request given the nature of the series, but the spiders DNW is still in place

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PH #189: Sex Education (TV), For All Mankind (TV 2019), The Lone Gunmen (TV)

Request 1 by greycoupon
Sex Education (TV)
Characters: Isaac (Sex Education), Maeve Wiley, Aimee Gibbs
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would love an Isaac story. He's such an interesting character & and as a disabled person myself, it is so refreshing to see a character with a physical disability who has sex. I would love to know what happens to him after the conclusion of the show.
I love Maeve and Aimee. Maeve/Aimee would be awesome. So would a friendship fic. More details in my letter.
Totally cool with any other characters in the story except Jakob. I know Jean isn't in the tagset so just a mild a suggestion but more Maeve and Jean interaction would be cool.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide. Talking about Aimee's assault is fine.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

Request 2 by greycoupon
For All Mankind (TV 2019)
Characters: Margo Madison, Aleida Rosales, Molly Cobb (For All Mankind)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Love women being badasses. More details in letter.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

Request 3 by greycoupon
The Lone Gunmen (TV)
Characters: Richard "Ringo" Langly (The Lone Gunmen), Melvin Frohike (The Lone Gunmen), John Fitzgerald Byers (The Lone Gunmen), Dana Scully (The Lone Gunmen)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

AU welcome and encouraged. See letter for complete details.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

claimed - PH #190: 月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, xxxHoLic, 괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV), 손 : The Guest (TV)

Request 1 by Kagura
月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

General DNWs: Mundane AUs (Highschool, University Students, No Powers, Cafés etc etc) or Mafia AUs or Everyone Is Suddenly In The USA AU, Fake Dating/Arranged Marriage/Divorced/Cheating/Getting Back Together, Ship Sinking, First or Second person, Canon Tone Wishplash, Pregnancy, Time Travel, Age Regression, Incest, Noncon between ship or graphic on-screen rape, PWP, Watersports, scat, anything involving vomit unless in passing, Age play, Daddy/Mommy Kink, Incest Kink, Character death or terminal illnesses, Animal abuse, Student/Professor, Instalust, Kidfic
Specific DNWs: I truly love Hori and Kashima in all their glorious GNC-ness, so please not breaking them up or interfering with it, otherwise it’s perfectly fine.
I would love to read something with Supernatural or Horror or Magical Realism for, either a full AU or something skirting the line (Nozaki has a dream where they are all fairies? They break into an abandoned house to look for inspiration for an Halloween episode and find an actual ghost? They run into a vampire and he’s super not impressed by how little they are taking this seriously? They are building a hunting house for the school festival but it's actually haunted? Kashima flirts too much with a fae and now she's stuck in some ridicolous scenario?). I'm also weak to the idea of Nozaki having to deal with his own fandom, such as going to comic-on or finding doujinshi and fanfiction of his work and how would he interact with it, or Nozaki deciding that he is totally capable of making his own dating sim, actually. Or he decides to experiment with romantasy by writing a romantasy play for the theater club...
If nothing inspires you I'm happy to read anything, I just like seeing the majority of the cast involved and up to their usual chaos!

Letter:
https://kagura-j.dreamwidth.org/694.html

Request 2 by Kagura
xxxHoLic
Characters: Watanuki Kimihiro (xxxHoLic), Doumeki Shizuka (xxxHoLic)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

General DNWs: Mundane AUs (Highschool, University Students, No Powers, Cafés etc etc) or Mafia AUs or Everyone Is Suddenly In The USA AU, Fake Dating/Arranged Marriage/Divorced/Cheating/Getting Back Together, Ship Sinking, First or Second person, Canon Tone Wishplash, Pregnancy, Time Travel, Age Regression, Incest, Noncon between ship or graphic on-screen rape, PWP, Watersports, scat, anything involving vomit unless in passing, Age play, Daddy/Mommy Kink, Incest Kink, Character death or terminal illnesses, Animal abuse, Student/Professor, Instalust, Kidfic
DNWs: If we can hold hands and pretend Domeki and Kotone never got married just to have an offspring that would serve Watanuki forever (unless that's actually undone in the fic itself).
You can’t break my heart more than CLAMP already did, so if possible something hinting to a happy ending or an alternative universe where Domeki smashed that egg would be great. Of course a full AU would also be fine, as long as it keeps the supernatural canon elements. I’m particularly fond of the idea of Watanuki as a non-human (you know, in a different way than in Canon) if that’s anything that catches your fancy. I have put Arranged Marriages in my DNWs, but any magical scenario in which those two are forced to marry each other would actually get a pass.

Letter:
https://kagura-j.dreamwidth.org/694.html

Request 3 by Kagura
괴물 | Beyond Evil (TV)
Characters: Lee Dongsik (Beyond Evil), Han Juwon (Beyond Evil), Yoo Jaeyi (Beyond Evil)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

General DNWs: Mundane AUs (Highschool, University Students, No Powers, Cafés etc etc) or Mafia AUs or Everyone Is Suddenly In The USA AU, Fake Dating/Arranged Marriage/Divorced/Cheating/Getting Back Together, Ship Sinking, First or Second person, Canon Tone Wishplash, Pregnancy, Time Travel, Age Regression, Incest, Noncon between ship or graphic on-screen rape, PWP, Watersports, scat, anything involving vomit unless in passing, Age play, Daddy/Mommy Kink, Incest Kink, Character death or terminal illnesses, Animal abuse, Student/Professor, Instalust, Kidfic.
Specific DNWs: Han Joo Woon/Yoo Jae Yi, Yoo Jae Yi/Oh Ji Hwa, I am a firm believer that Han Joo Woon would be a virgin until he got into a serious relationship (if ever) because well, look at him. Also when it comes to Han Joo Woon/Lee Dong Sik, canon-wise I’m not a fan of anything actually happening before the end of the series and AU-wise… just no insta lust, let them suffer as they should. Please don't change their canonical ages and age gap (by making them the same age or swapping the older/younger dynamic). Also, especially if the fic is set in contemporary South Korea, please don't have them get married and have children when/where it wouldn't be realistic, unfortunately I can't turn my brain off and suddenly there was marriage equality and whatnot.
I do adore jwds (Lee Dong Sik/Han Joo Woon) so anything exploring the pairing would be welcomed, otherwise I would like to see something with gothic, folk horror or supernatural elements - especially when it comes to ghosts.
Otherwise I am as always happy to read character studies or post-canon stuff, as well as Canon divergencies!
Casefics are always welcomed, but if set in the Canon-verse, I’d prefer to have Lee Dong Sik collaborating strictly as a civilian, since he can’t rejoin the force after the events of the series - if this leads to very awkward moments as Lieutenant Han Joo Woon has to explain why this social worker/victim advocate’s/Church volunteer/random old man is casually assisting with the investigation, so be it.
Of course if you have an idea for a casefic set during the event of the series that results in a Canon divergency, that's also absolutely great!
When it comes to Yoo Jae Yi I would love to see more of her finding herself after the events of the series - we know she knows truly takes over the shop, but is that is? Did she have no other regrets? Didn’t the time she tailed someone with Oh Ji Hoon and then rescue Park Jeong Je maybe made her think there is something more she would like to do? That scene with her and the old women in Busan is super fascinating to me.
Of course you can go in a totally fantastic direction and decide that she saw her mom’s ghost because she’s actually a latent shaman. I just would like to see her have a plot of her own.

Letter:
https://kagura-j.dreamwidth.org/694.html

Request 4 by Kagura
손 : The Guest (TV)
Characters: Choi Yoon, Yoon Hwa Pyung, Kang Gil Young
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

General DNWs: Mundane AUs (Highschool, University Students, No Powers, Cafés etc etc) or Mafia AUs or Everyone Is Suddenly In The USA AU, Fake Dating/Arranged Marriage/Divorced/Cheating/Getting Back Together, Ship Sinking, First or Second person, Canon Tone Wishplash, Pregnancy, Time Travel, Age Regression, Incest, Noncon between ship or graphic on-screen rape, PWP, Watersports, scat, anything involving vomit unless in passing, Age play, Daddy/Mommy Kink, Incest Kink, Character death or terminal illnesses, Animal abuse, Student/Professor, Instalust, Kidfic.
DNWs: They don't have to be in a romantic relationship all together but not sidelining one for the other. Also I am more than happy to read about a queer Kang Kil Young but not if it's used in a trope-y way to write her out of the way of the guys, she can happily be straight or bi and just not be into them.
I have just finished the series and opened Ao3 in despair, so please, literally anything would do but especially anything after the ending that puts them into different scenarios and all together. Could be a crime casefic, could be a "Canon typical" casefic (so, demons or ghosts), could be Hwang Pyung having to find another job, could be Choi Yoon finding a hunted doll in an orphanage, just please something that actively involves them all and it's a bit happier than in Canon.
In case of a casefic, I would love a scenario where some supernatural element is revealed to be banal, normal human misery.
Otherwise I will be happy with anything and I would be even more happy if, for any reason, Yook Gwang and Detective Ko are alive and well to provide their usual brand of warm comfort and usual commentary.

No letter

Entry tags:

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PH #140: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Final Fantasy VI, Sea of Stars (Video Game), 英雄伝説空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games), Lunar (Video Games)

Request 1 by azurefishnets
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

There are so many things about this world they live in that are so interesting! There are robots! There are ghosts! There’s some kind of cold war??? There are tiny submarines that can be run by only ten crewmen! I just think there are tons of situations you could throw any group of the tagged characters at a worldbuilding moment and it would be amazing.
Specific likes in letter!
DNWS:
non-requested romantic relationships, or ways of writing requested relationships as infidelity
hurt without comfort
underage relationships
non-canon children of established canon pairings (unrelated OC children are OK if needed for plot reasons)
any kinds of consent issues as regards developing a relationship
descriptions of bodily fluids and/or explicit depictions of bodily damage
things squirming under skin
Yomiel as fic protagonist or main plot focus
Cabanela & Yomiel friendship or reconciliation
Having the old timeline be remembered by everyone
Unexamined xenophobia if writing any person with blue skin

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/azurefishnets/798078057082748928/yuletide-letter-2025?source=share

Request 2 by azurefishnets
Final Fantasy VI
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

So many questions and trails left to explore in this world! I love the cast, the setting, the various unanswered questions, especially surrounding the War of the Magi, relics, and the Warring Triad. Any of these questions explored in context of the tagged characters would be exciting. The World of Ruin, with its reopening of old wounds, is especially interesting to me. Hidden secrets from an obscured past… please lean into this stuff if exploring the worldbuilding!
Any missing moments between any grouping of the tagged characters in any of the places where they actually could be in canon (or, if they are traveling together post-canon) would be just wonderful. I particularly like caves, ruins, and/or links to the world that was…or the world that was before that, during the War of the Magi. I would also be very happy to see these characters post-canon, aging and trying to change the world in different ways this time.
Specific likes in letter!
DNWS:
non-requested romantic relationships, or ways of writing requested relationships as infidelity
hurt without comfort
underage relationships
non-canon children of established canon pairings (unrelated OC children are OK if needed for plot reasons)
any kinds of consent issues as regards developing a relationship
descriptions of bodily fluids and/or explicit depictions of bodily damage
things squirming under skin
Terra in a romantic pairing

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/azurefishnets/798078057082748928/yuletide-letter-2025?source=share

Request 3 by azurefishnets
Sea of Stars (Video Game)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I really and truly would love you to pick your favorite location and put any group of the tagged characters there to have a missing moment or small adventure together. There are so many wonderful places to explore and missing character moments. I have played the DLC and so anyplace including anywhere in Horloge is up for exploring.
Specific likes in letter!
DNWS:
non-requested romantic relationships, or ways of writing requested relationships as infidelity
hurt without comfort
underage relationships
non-canon children of established canon pairings (unrelated OC children are OK if needed for plot reasons)
any kinds of consent issues as regards developing a relationship
descriptions of bodily fluids and/or explicit depictions of bodily damage
things squirming under skin

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/azurefishnets/798078057082748928/yuletide-letter-2025?source=share

Request 4 by azurefishnets
英雄伝説空の軌跡 | Sora no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Series (Video Games)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

These games are all about the found family and I love it but I also adore the absolute whiplash from adorable fluffiness to profound existential wtf-ness. I would be more than OK with something that explored that, maybe in conjunction with the multiple suggestions we’ve had of time loops, created beings, whatever happened to the civilization predating the Great Collapse… Anything exploring the Mistwald dreams, Phantasma, the Tetracyclic Towers, or the time on the Ark would be super cool. Interweavings and references to the other games in the series (somehow, given this is the first one in-canon but still) are more than fine with me; I've played all of them up through Trails through Daybreak II.
Specific likes in letter!
DNWS:
non-requested romantic relationships, or ways of writing requested relationships as infidelity
hurt without comfort
underage relationships
non-canon children of established canon pairings (unrelated OC children are OK if needed for plot reasons)
any kinds of consent issues as regards developing a relationship
descriptions of bodily fluids and/or explicit depictions of bodily damage
things squirming under skin

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/azurefishnets/798078057082748928/yuletide-letter-2025?source=share

Request 5 by azurefishnets
Lunar (Video Games)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I have so many questions and wonderings about what happens next or, frankly, what happened before! So much worldbuilding potential in either era, between Vane, the new dungeons that were built (or the sewers that are still somehow solidly under Meribia for that matter), the dragon caves…why did they move habitats between the old era and the new? In fact, the world seemed to change a lot between old times and new… what happened there…
Specific likes in letter!
DNWS:
non-requested romantic relationships, or ways of writing requested relationships as infidelity
hurt without comfort
underage relationships
non-canon children of established canon pairings (unrelated OC children are OK if needed for plot reasons)
any kinds of consent issues as regards developing a relationship
descriptions of bodily fluids and/or explicit depictions of bodily damage
things squirming under skin
fantasy racism toward the (sigh) Vile Tribe

Letter:
https://www.tumblr.com/azurefishnets/798078057082748928/yuletide-letter-2025?source=share

Request 1 by elanorofcastile
カラオケ行こ！ | Karaoke Iko! | Let's Go Karaoke! (Anime)
Characters: Narita Kyouji (Karaoke Iko! Anime), Oka Satomi (Karaoke Iko! Anime)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Would prefer no actual underage sex, but otherwise, pretty open!
Kumicho is definitely welcome (as is any of the kumi) but didn't add his tag so you didn't feel obliged. Past (or current!) Kumicho/Kyouji is also fine to include. No preference between top Satomi or Kyouji, switching is also fun. But seriously, my only request is please no actual sex when Satomi is underage

No letter

Request 2 by elanorofcastile
カラオケ行こ！ | Karaoke Iko! | Let's Go Karaoke! (Manga)
Characters: Kumicho | Head of Matsuribayashi-gumi (Karaoke Iko! Manga), Narita Kyouji (Karaoke Iko! Manga), Oka Satomi (Karaoke Iko! Manga)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Would prefer no actual underage sex, but otherwise, pretty open!
Kumicho is definitely welcome (as is any of the kumi) but didn't add his tag so you didn't feel obliged. Past (or current!) Kumicho/Kyouji is also fine to include. No preference between top Satomi or Kyouji, switching is also fun. But seriously, my only request is please no actual sex when Satomi is underage

No letter

Request 3 by elanorofcastile
ファミレス行こ。 | Famiresu Iko | Let's Go to the Family Restaurant (Manga)
Characters: Oka Satomi (Famiresu Iko), Narita Kyouji (Famiresu Iko)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Would prefer no actual underage sex, but otherwise, pretty open!
Kumicho is definitely welcome (as is any of the kumi) but didn't add his tag so you didn't feel obliged. Past (or current!) Kumicho/Kyouji is also fine to include. No preference between top Satomi or Kyouji, switching is also fun. But seriously, my only request is please no actual sex when Satomi is underage

No letter

Request 4 by elanorofcastile
極主夫道 | Gokushufudou | The Way of the House Husband (Manga)
Characters: Tatsu (Gokushufudou), Miku (Gokushufudou), Masa (Gokushufudou)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Chants: OT3, OT3, OT3!
Getting together, established, hijinks, serious, I truly am game for whatever delights you write!

No letter

claimed - PH #148: Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow, Deadloch (TV 2023), Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures (Comics), Star Wars: The High Republic (Marvel Comics 2021), Ologies (Podcast) RPF, Score: A Hockey Musical (2010), Fallen London | Echo Bazaar

Request 1 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 2 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Deadloch (TV 2023)
Characters: Eddie Redcliffe, Dulcie Collins, Sven Alderman, Abby Matsuda
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 3 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures (Comics)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Fandom-specific DNWs:

Krix Kamerat. You can mention him if you want but I don't want him to appear in the fic itself. I just hate that guy.

Master/Padawan relationships even if the Padawan has been knighted — i.e., if they were ever Master/Padawan, please don't have them in a romantic or sexual relationship!

Positioning the Jedi as "evil" or a cult — I welcome characters struggling with the Code/their place in the Jedi Order and even characters deciding to leave (otherwise I wouldn't have requested Lula), but I'm more interested in those struggles about doctrine as portrayed in canon, where the Jedi are still good.

Jedi turning Dark (touching the dark side briefly like several of them do in canon is fine) or going evil (but recovering from having made that decision in the past is fine).

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 4 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Star Wars: The High Republic (Marvel Comics 2021)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Fandom-specific DNWs:

Matty/Oliviah (it just doesn't appeal to me, but you can mention it being unrequited since it's canon)

Matty/Any male character. I would like her to be a lesbian if romance comes up, please!

Master/Padawan relationships even if the Padawan has been knighted — i.e., if they were ever Master/Padawan, please don't have them in a romantic or sexual relationship!

Positioning the Jedi as "evil" or a cult — I welcome characters struggling with the Code/their place in the Jedi Order and even characters deciding to leave (otherwise I wouldn't have requested Lula in THRA!), but I'm more interested in those struggles about doctrine as portrayed in canon, where the Jedi are still good.

Jedi turning Dark (touching the dark side briefly like several of them do in canon is fine) or going evil (but recovering from having made that decision in the past is fine).

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 5 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Ologies (Podcast) RPF
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 6 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Score: A Hockey Musical (2010)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Fandom-specific DNW: please don't have Farley and Eve together! Eve deserves someone better. I love her. (Mentions of her crush on Farley are fine.)
Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

Request 7 by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf)
Fallen London | Echo Bazaar
Characters: The Bishop of Southwark (Fallen London), Milton (Fallen London)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This is just my DNWs but i have likes and prompts for specific ships in my letter!
Do Not Wants

Unhappy endings

Major Character Death, unless it's a bad guy

Omegaverse

Pregnancy

Smut (fade to black totally fine)

Humiliation

Watersports/scat

Big age gap (7 years-ish? i'm not going to be a massive stickler on this, it's more a power imbalance that I'm not a fan of)

Significant power imbalance or mentor/mentee romance/sexual relationship (eg Master/Padawan)

Unrequited love

Incest

Modern/mundane AUs, like highschool/college or bakery.

Permanent amnesia

Infidelity (polyamory is fine with consent of all parties)

Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)

Cancer/other terminal illness

Suicide (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are fine)

Queer tragedy

Painful breakups (reference to past breakups is fine)

Christmas and Christianity

Covid

Love triangles unless they end in polyamory

Dubcon/noncon between nominated characters

Letter:
https://spacegandalf.dreamwidth.org/5682.html

claimed - PH #158: Dwight in Shining Armor (TV), Mythica (Movies), Rivals (TV 2024), The Ark (TV 2023)

Request 1 by meridian_rose (meridianrose)
Dwight in Shining Armor (TV)
Characters: Dwight (Dwight in Shining Armor), Chlodwig (Dwight in Shining Armor)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: animal abuse/death; main character death; rape/non-con; explicit fic/PWP; pregnancy; infidelity; trans headcanons; omegaverse; anything relating to pandemics/quarantine/virus/face-coverings. Any canon exceptions and optional details are in my DYA letter.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uCDCcT9Vj6zqJnSp1zUdWnre6KWfosZ6mYo31RQ748c/edit?tab=t.0

Request 2 by meridian_rose (meridianrose)
Mythica (Movies)
Characters: Dagen (Mythica Movies)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: animal abuse/death; main character death; rape/non-con; explicit fic/PWP; pregnancy; infidelity; trans headcanons; omegaverse; anything relating to pandemics/quarantine/virus/face-coverings. Any canon exceptions and optional details are in my DYA letter.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uCDCcT9Vj6zqJnSp1zUdWnre6KWfosZ6mYo31RQ748c/edit?tab=t.0

Request 3 by meridian_rose (meridianrose)
Rivals (TV 2024)
Characters: Rupert Campbell-Black, Basil "Bas" Baddingham
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: animal abuse/death; main character death; rape/non-con; explicit fic/PWP; pregnancy; infidelity; trans headcanons; omegaverse; anything relating to pandemics/quarantine/virus/face-coverings. Any canon exceptions and optional details are in my DYA letter.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uCDCcT9Vj6zqJnSp1zUdWnre6KWfosZ6mYo31RQ748c/edit?tab=t.0

Request 4 by meridian_rose (meridianrose)
The Ark (TV 2023)
Characters: Sharon Garnet, Spencer Lane
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: animal abuse/death; main character death; rape/non-con; explicit fic/PWP; pregnancy; infidelity; trans headcanons; omegaverse; anything relating to pandemics/quarantine/virus/face-coverings. Any canon exceptions and optional details are in my DYA letter.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uCDCcT9Vj6zqJnSp1zUdWnre6KWfosZ6mYo31RQ748c/edit?tab=t.0

claimed - PH #165: 2020's Men's Tennis RPF, The Bikeriders (2023), Challengers (Movie 2024)

Request 1 by serve_cunt
2020's Men's Tennis RPF
Characters: Jannik Sinner (2020's Men's Tennis RPF), Carlos Alcaraz (2020's Men's Tennis RPF)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

The sincaraz dynamic has become SO compelling over the last year. They're alone at the top of the rankings, in a world all their own basically. They will probably face each other in most important finals for the forseeable future — each is deeply invested in beating the other. Carlos is clearly SO invested in the meaning and drama of the rivalry, Jannik seems to keep Carlos (and the rest of the world) more at bay... I love fics that really play with that, so whether or not Jannik is ALSO interested in Carlos is up to your discretion.

No letter

Request 2 by serve_cunt
The Bikeriders (2023)
Characters: Benny (The Bikeriders), Johnny (The Bikeriders), Cal (The Bikeriders), Danny Lyon
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I thought this movie was fine, but the setting was GREAT. would love a story involving the gang, specifically about loyalty to the detriment of your own happiness and about being Known and Loved Anyway.

No letter

Request 3 by serve_cunt
Challengers (Movie 2024)
Characters: Patrick Zweig (Challengers (Movie 2024)), Art Donaldson (Challengers (Movie 2024))
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Would love an outsider POV of this love triangle?? like from Art's trainer or something along those lines.

No letter

claimed - PH #166: Love Bullet (Manga), WordGirl (Cartoon), Making Fiends, Knights of Guinevere (GLITCH Web Series)

Request 1 by Starfood
Love Bullet (Manga)
Characters: Chiyo (Love Bullet), Ena (Love Bullet), Kanna (Love Bullet)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love my cupid girls! And I want to see your take on Ena/Kanna or Chiyo/Ena! Have fun and be as creative as you want!
Smut is optional and welcome.
Likes: Rooftop conversations, liminal spaces, queer exploration, existentialism, ice skating, only one bed, sex pollen, complicated relationships
DNW: Ai-generated, scat, ABO, ABDL, foot fetish, noncon (for this prompt. dubcon welcome)

No letter

Request 2 by Starfood
WordGirl (Cartoon)
Characters: Becky Botsford | WordGirl, Theodore "Tobey" McCallister III
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Give me some Tobecky smut with dom Becky! You’re welcome to be as explicit or implicit as you like.
Feel free to throw them in any setting you please — a camping trip, the beach, a museum after operating hours, etc.
Bonus points for flirting, enemies to lovers, sexual tension, roughhousing, Tobey with a praise kink!
DNW: Ai-generated, scat, ABO, ABDL, foot fetish
Fandom specific DNW: Dom Tobey, noncon (dubcon is welcome), Sub Becky, extreme underage (16 and up, please, preferably they are adults — you can reference them having sex in the past as teens if you wish)

No letter

Request 3 by Starfood
Making Fiends
Characters: Charlotte (Making Fiends), Vendetta (Making Fiends)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Give me some Charlotte/vendetta horror, but with Charlotte as the (sweet, smiling) aggressor and Vendetta as the (terrified, desperate) victim! Charlotte appears innocent on the outside, but in reality, she’s as twisted as Vendetta, and if anything, far, far more disturbed than her. Eventual smut (dubcon or noncon) is preferred.
Likes: twisted fluff, sex pollen, dubcon, noncon (For this prompt!), body horror, stalking, bathtub sex, liminal spaces (I.e. waiting at the bus stop), blood play, angst, ambiguity, toxic yuri
Bonus if Vendetta ends up developing Stockholm syndrome or aroused if you take the root of Charlotte eventually non-conning her!
DNW: Ai-generated, scat, ABO, ABDL, foot fetish
fandom specific DNW: Vendetta getting her way, vendetta non conning Charlotte, tooth-rotting fluff, happy ending, extreme underage (16 and up, please)

No letter

Request 4 by Starfood
Knights of Guinevere (GLITCH Web Series)
Characters: Frankie (Knights of Guinevere), Andi (Knights of Guinevere), Guinevere (Knights of Guinevere), Olivia Park (Knights of Guinevere)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Give me your take on Andy/Frankie or Guinevere/Sophia Park!
Smut is optional and welcome.
You are welcome to create dubcon/noncon for Guinevere/Sophia Park.
Likes: 2nd POV, nonlinear narrative, twisted fluff, complicated relationships, vaginal fingering, body worship, ankle kisses, dumpster diving
DNW: Ai-generated, scat, ABO, ABDL, foot fetish, Noncon (for Andi/Frankie only. Okay for Sophia Park/Guinevere!)

No letter

Request 1 by TeaRoses
D.P. | Deserter Pursuit (TV)
Characters: An Jun Ho, Han Ho Yeol
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I felt like they had a lot of chemistry, whether you take it as bromance or romance. Just them being bros and maybe casefic (not necessarily something elaborate) would be great. Something with them flirting/getting together/hooking up would also be great. Just please don't pair them with other people in the fic.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 2 by TeaRoses
견우와 선녀 | Head Over Heels (TV)
Characters: Bae Gyeonu, Park Seonga (Head Over Heels TV), Pyo Jiho (Head Over Heels TV)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love these three as a trio in general and as an OT3. They just all seem to have such love and devotion for each other.
If you do go the romantic route, please keep the fic T or below if it takes place when they’re in high school. After the time skip any rating is great!
DNW: Adding more people to the relationship if they are an OT3 in the fic, sexual situations involving someone possessed by Bong Su.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 3 by TeaRoses
이상한 변호사 우영우 | Extraordinary Attorney Woo (TV)
Characters: Choi Su Yeon, Dong Geurami
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I like the idea of these two dating or in a relationship. I also like the idea of them being friends and supporting each other. Just please don't pair them up with other people (Su Yeon's pairing with Kwon is fair to acknowledge as it's canon. But breaking them up is OK too.)
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (breaking up Su Yeon and Kwon is fine), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 4 by TeaRoses
굿보이 | Good Boy (TV)
Characters: Yoon Dongju, Kim Jonghyeon (Good Boy)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love these two. They had so much chemistry with each other and I think they’d be great as boyfriends or as friends/rivals like in canon. Just please don't pair them up with other people (canon pairing with Hanna exempted from that, but please no OT3.)
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (breaking up Dongju and Hanna amicably is fine), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
I headcanon them both strongly as bi and would rather that is not explicitly contradicted in the fic. But just not mentioning orientation (whether it's a slash fic or not) is perfectly fine.
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 5 by TeaRoses
손해 보기 싫어서 | No Gain No Love (TV)
Characters: Nam Jayeon, Bok Gyuhyun
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I loved these two together and wished we’d had more of them in canon. For me it was an enemies to lovers that truly worked. Though a gen fic about them is great too - just please don't pair them up with other people.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings, alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Please do not write the entire fic in the Spice Up Our Love universe.
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 6 by TeaRoses
Good Doctor (Korea TV)
Characters: Cha Yoon Seo (Good Doctor), Park Shi On (Good Doctor)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love them as a couple, working out their differences and learning about love and romance. Though a gen fic is great too, just please don't pair them up with other people.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings, alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 7 by TeaRoses
당신이 잠든 사이에 | While You Were Sleeping (TV)
Characters: Jung Jae Chan, Nam Hong Joo, Han Woo Tak
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love them as an OT3 because they all just liked each other so much, but that's also what makes them great as friends!

DNW: Adding more people to the relationship if they are an OT3 in the fic
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 8 by TeaRoses
Unnatural (Japan TV)
Characters: Nakado Kei, Misumi Mikoto
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I thought they had a lot of chemistry together, but they also work so well as colleagues and friends so a gen fic is great too. Just please don't pair them up with other people in the fic.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

PH #168: Perpetrator (2023), Hellbender (2021), Satanic Panic (2019)

Request 1 by TechnicolorRevel
Perpetrator (2023)
Characters: Jonny Baptiste (Perpetrator), Jean Baptiste (Perpetrator), Hildie Baptiste (Perpetrator), Electra (Perpetrator)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW
AI content
First Person POV
Scat
Spitting
Urethral sounding
Tribbing/scissoring/vulva to vulva sex
Cervix Penetration
Soulmate/one and only AUs
Permanent Character Death
Suicide/self harm/eating disorders
Mundane AUs in fantastical settings (e.g., putting Sabrina Spellman in a coffee shop AU)
Hopeless endings
Torture/interrogation
Characters explicitly discussing and/or naming their sexuality/gender
Sexuality/gender used as a plot device
Characters using different pronouns than their canonical ones
Any ships not requested - I'm alright with combining the ships I've requested, but please do not include any I did not. (Mentions of past relationships are fine, though!)
W&M with food (versus paint, slime, etc)
Explicitly stated monogamy (I'm fine with a requested two-person ship being the only ship in the work, and no one has to be explicitly polyam, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other/they gave up a FWB for their partner/they're not poly/they'll never fuck anyone else/they turned down other intimate or sexual relationships because of their partner).
Polyam fic focusing on the POV character setting their partner up with someone else.
Explicit on screen polyamory or consent negotiations
Christmas (beyond background mentions)
General Likes
Fairy tales motifs | domesticity | transformation, physical and emotional | genderfuckery | snapshots in time | awkward emotional sincerity | places with personality | pining | daemon AUs | non-monogamy | cooking and baking | second person | horror movies | dad jokes | uncommon signs of affection | physical affection | grey area relationships | accidental marriage | dreamscapes | devotion
Perpetrator
This is one of my absolute favorite films - the weird, dreamy atmosphere combined with the raw, horny discomfort of being a teenager. Especially being a teenager. I love the metaphorical power of becoming someone else (and having it passed on by other people), I love the way it's about women support each other, I love how gross it is and how… understanding it is of how selfish and kind teen girls can be. I love how it captures that weird complicated feeling of knowing that the adults in your life love you and want to help you however they can, but also that they can't always help you. It's just… urgh. And the way that they all get together to save the girls, the way they defeat her father… urgh. I love it. I love it so much. It's such a weirdly kind film, an understanding film, but also vicious and painful in all the best ways possible. The whole world of it feels so hyper-real, from the way everyone talks to the endless use of mirrors. The way that everything is just a little too gross (… the blood vomit scene) but also so very… real? I think this is the first film I've ever seen where someone's period blood became a plot device, and I'm all for it. And just the… strangeness that comes with growing up, from joining a community, from realizing that you're part of a long line of people who are like and unlike you. I think there's so much fun to be had in this world, with these characters.

Letter:
https://technicolorrevel.dreamwidth.org/19416.html

Request 2 by TechnicolorRevel
Hellbender (2021)
Characters: Mother (Hellbender), Izzy (Hellbender)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW
AI content
First Person POV
Scat
Spitting
Urethral sounding
Tribbing/scissoring/vulva to vulva sex
Cervix Penetration
Soulmate/one and only AUs
Permanent Character Death
Suicide/self harm/eating disorders
Mundane AUs in fantastical settings (e.g., putting Sabrina Spellman in a coffee shop AU)
Hopeless endings
Torture/interrogation
Characters explicitly discussing and/or naming their sexuality/gender
Sexuality/gender used as a plot device
Characters using different pronouns than their canonical ones
Any ships not requested - I'm alright with combining the ships I've requested, but please do not include any I did not. (Mentions of past relationships are fine, though!)
W&M with food (versus paint, slime, etc)
Explicitly stated monogamy (I'm fine with a requested two-person ship being the only ship in the work, and no one has to be explicitly polyam, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other/they gave up a FWB for their partner/they're not poly/they'll never fuck anyone else/they turned down other intimate or sexual relationships because of their partner).
Polyam fic focusing on the POV character setting their partner up with someone else.
Explicit on screen polyamory or consent negotiations
Christmas (beyond background mentions)
General Likes
Fairy tales motifs | domesticity | transformation, physical and emotional | genderfuckery | snapshots in time | awkward emotional sincerity | places with personality | pining | daemon AUs | non-monogamy | cooking and baking | second person | horror movies | dad jokes | uncommon signs of affection | physical affection | grey area relationships | accidental marriage | dreamscapes | devotion
Hellbender
This is an odd little film. I didn't entirely know what I was expecting when I put it on, but going from That opening scene (the hanging!) moving to Mother and Izzy singing together in their badass corpse makeup… it all feels so very isolated and off balance, and I mean that as the highest compliment. I love the claustrophobic openness of the setting - the way it's just the two of them in the woods, even after she meets the other girl. And I love the way that so much of it is about the ways people hurt each other, the ways people are connected to the natural world. The way that it's about growing up and finding out who you are - what you are - and how dangerous that can be for those around you, the way you can pull away from your parents and what that might mean. What it means to be part of society versus pointedly not of society, the way that Izzy didn't get a choice of being in society versus Mother did, the dangers of it all… it's such a juicy contrast, and there's so many fun things you can do with it!

Letter:
https://technicolorrevel.dreamwidth.org/19416.html

Request 3 by TechnicolorRevel
Satanic Panic (2019)
Characters: Judi Ross (Satanic Panic), Danica Ross (Satanic Panic)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW
AI content
First Person POV
Scat
Spitting
Urethral sounding
Tribbing/scissoring/vulva to vulva sex
Cervix Penetration
Soulmate/one and only AUs
Permanent Character Death
Suicide/self harm/eating disorders
Mundane AUs in fantastical settings (e.g., putting Sabrina Spellman in a coffee shop AU)
Hopeless endings
Torture/interrogation
Characters explicitly discussing and/or naming their sexuality/gender
Sexuality/gender used as a plot device
Characters using different pronouns than their canonical ones
Any ships not requested - I'm alright with combining the ships I've requested, but please do not include any I did not. (Mentions of past relationships are fine, though!)
W&M with food (versus paint, slime, etc)
Explicitly stated monogamy (I'm fine with a requested two-person ship being the only ship in the work, and no one has to be explicitly polyam, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other/they gave up a FWB for their partner/they're not poly/they'll never fuck anyone else/they turned down other intimate or sexual relationships because of their partner).
Polyam fic focusing on the POV character setting their partner up with someone else.
Explicit on screen polyamory or consent negotiations
Christmas (beyond background mentions)
General Likes
Fairy tales motifs | domesticity | transformation, physical and emotional | genderfuckery | snapshots in time | awkward emotional sincerity | places with personality | pining | daemon AUs | non-monogamy | cooking and baking | second person | horror movies | dad jokes | uncommon signs of affection | physical affection | grey area relationships | accidental marriage | dreamscapes | devotion
Satanic Panic
I love this movie so much. It's so… ridiculous and so sincere at the same time. The way that it talks about income inequality and the unfairness of capitalism. The way it points out sexism. The fact that at one point Rebecca Romijn's character puts her whole arm down into her husband's neck… altogether A+. It has weird incest vibes if you wanna go towards there, it's got fun weird femslash vibes if you want to go there, it's got fun world building… it's an altogether excellent fun romp, & I really recommend it if you want a fun, ridiculously gory horror movie with a surprising amount of heart!
Treats Welcome

Letter:
https://technicolorrevel.dreamwidth.org/19416.html

Entry tags:

A Tale of Two Peters

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21 Purrfectly Round Pictures of Cats Achieving Peak Bagel

Posted by Sarah Brown

https://cheezburger.com/43666693/21-purrfectly-round-pictures-of-cats-achieving-peak-bagel

Cats have a habit of curling themselves into neat little circles that somehow look both intentional and effortless. One minute they are stretched out across the couch, and the next they have folded into a compact ball of fur with their tail tucked in like it belongs there. It is a shape they seem to return to again and again.

When a cat settles into one of these curled naps, the whole space feels calmer. The tight circle looks warm and comfortable, like the cat has figured out the most efficient way to rest without wasting any space. Some look like fluffy donuts, others like tiny cinnamon rolls, but the goal is always the same: maximum comfort. Even cats that are usually nonstop chaos seem to take these moments seriously.

Watching a cat sleep like this makes it easier to slow down too. There is something reassuring about seeing them so content and settled. These perfectly curled naps turn an ordinary moment into something quietly comforting, and they are a reminder that sometimes the best thing to do is simply curl up and rest.

https://cheezburger.com/43666693/21-purrfectly-round-pictures-of-cats-achieving-peak-bagel

Current Mood: accomplished

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ficathon: yuletide

Yuletide: The Last Update (For Now)

All fics that were due today have been posted! One of them might have been right down the wire, but it was posted on time so that's all that matters.

I'm giving it a rest until tomorrow, and then I'll go over them again to tweak a few things and maybe add one more scene to one of them. And then I can work on more Yuletide fics! Because it's me, and I'm bound and determined to write as many as I can possibly fit in before the archive goes live next week.

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Drabble: Holiday Hurricane, Gen, Severus/Harry

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Current Mood: drunk
Current Music: nothing now

General festivity.

As I've been saying over the evening: my father's book group usually meets in person, but due to one of the members coming down with the flu, the decision was made to meet on Zoom like it's 2020 all over again. But their loss was the party's gain. The cake I made for what would have been the book group's meeting instead went to my father's building's winter holiday party, so it still made its way to a good home. An apple ginger spice cake seemed fitting for Charles Dickens' London - they were meeting to discuss Bleak House - and it managed to slip into a general wintertime holiday festival without any issue or trouble. Once people started in on it, it went quick.

I'd had a stressful day, due to meeting with a therapist and my parents at the same time. It was necessary and it was useful and by golly was it stressful. After it was over, I simply went back to my apartment. Nothing else. Then I thought I could sit in my apartment or I could go to my parents' building winter holiday party. I went with the party. I'm fairly hammered at this point - it wasn't an open bar as such, but there was rum and there was tequila, and all I used as a mixer was a slice of lime and about a quarter cup of commercially made eggnog at one point. And the eggnog was with the tequila, not the rum, which isn't a choice I'll make if I attend another such function.

For all that I'm not anticipating tomorrow, with all its responsibilities, I'm good with having gone tonight.

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Wednesday Reading Meme for Dec 17 2025

What I’ve Read
The Fortunate Fall – Cameron Reed – A book worth reading! I really enjoyed the writing style and it felt like it was making interesting observations about life in this future fictional world that mapped onto our own in surprising ways. This book was originally published in 1997 and it feels shockingly modern in the same way that 60s Star Trek does – sometimes a keen eye can just see where things might go and map out options, even if reality did end up in a slightly different direction.

I haven’t seen a summary of the plot anywhere, so I will write a short one: Vague spoilers under the cut!

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I really liked it and I think it will actually unfold better on the re-read!

Into the Drowning Deep – Mira Grant – I think I can call it at this point: I am not for Mira Grant and Mira Grant is not for me. This book contains scenes that have action; it does not convey a feeling of action. It has scenes that contain horror; it does not convey a feeling of horror. The writing problems were on a scene level, as opposed to sentence or book level: Grant kept setting up scenes where vital and life-altering, even life-saving!, information would be almost revealed! But, then we pivot to another topic, interrupting the focus in the middle to add extraneous characterization or shift focus to something completely nonurgent, and never really getting back to the sharp punch she was winding up. The pacing got fucked. There was info-dumping about the wrong things, things that were not really relevant to the present situation! The cumulative effect was to make every character so wooden that even the ones that were deep and heroic slowly drained of all life after delivering extensive sidebars during life-threatening danger. I ended up complaining about this book at some length to a friend. I could have edited this book into something I adored and cut off about 25% of it. Since I had a similar, but not so pointed, set of thoughts about Newsflesh, I think this proves Grant is not for me. I heard good things about October Daye, but I hate the fey as a writing concept, so. Probably done here.

A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath (audiobook) – Audiobook romance by a favorite author. This is the third in a series that focuses on the lives of Victorian working class people in a variety of jobs. Our heroine, Theodora, wants to be on the stage doing the fun, risque musical hall act that she has been working on for years – but her stuffy family wants to be respectable and will not allow that kind of act in their theatre! When her sister elopes and her brother pulls her out of acting entirely to work as the family’s drudge, Theo runs off to a prizefighter turned music act manager as part of a deal – she’ll marry him and give him control over her 25% share of the family theatre so that he can get his foot in the door and expand his music hall to the larger venue, and he has to support her male impersonator career attempt.

These books suffer a bit on the male leads – they are kind of big sexy small time businessmen with a surprising amount of self-insight for the period (and for their nationality). The women are FANTASTIC. They are so interestingly weird and trying to find an interesting life for themselves – these are the kind of women who end up the poor relation receiving charity in other books set in these periods, and overall, it’s really nice to see them thriving in unconventional jobs or settings. I am a sucker for people marrying for pragmatic economical historical reasons and then finding out how much they like each other.

A flaw in these books is that they often throw in an epilogue about how the female lead is So! Happy! To be! Pregnant!, and I'm like, thanks, I'll be skipping that, byyyyye.

What I’m Reading

Guillermo del Toro: Cabinet of Curiosities – on hold. (This book is just obnoxiously large.)

Heated Rivalry: Started and promptly abandoned. Thanks, but no, thanks. I have Ovechkin/Crosby RPF fic at home, I will not be accepting the watered down version. The show is cute and distinct enough that I’ll continue watching but the idea of reading hockey fic that filters out the hockey.... not for me.

The Hunger Games – Book club pick! I’m finding that this book stuck in my head surprisingly well. I think I read thru the original series but bailed on the final book.

What I’ll Read Next
Natural History of Dragons

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life: fiber magic

I finished a project!

I have finished the daisy which covers the tea stain on this t-shirt! I am very proud of myself.

Satin stitch, French knots, stem stitch, and fishbone stitch.