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conulyLet's say, hypothetically I wanted to move a whole bunch of feeds I listen to en masse off of Spotify and onto something else, is there any way to do that other than manually looking at each feed, in alphabetical order, and searching it up elsewhere?
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22 Nov 2025 22:13conuly in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
agonyauntDear Carolyn: My boyfriend is still in regular contact with his ex-girlfriend. He is her confidant, and she admits she still loves him. He keeps her posted on our relationship, which is rocky because I am jealous of their relationship. I am not allowed to set any boundaries about this.
I want to ask him to stop being her confidant and to stop telling her about our relationship. They can remain friends, just not with such intimate conversations. He absolutely refuses any boundaries because “I am not going to let you pick my friends.”
Should I just exit this situation? For context, he and I are on and off because of this, and he usually dates her again when we are off.
— Jealous
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I want to ask him to stop being her confidant and to stop telling her about our relationship. They can remain friends, just not with such intimate conversations. He absolutely refuses any boundaries because “I am not going to let you pick my friends.”
Should I just exit this situation? For context, he and I are on and off because of this, and he usually dates her again when we are off.
— Jealous
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PHs #57-64
23 Nov 2025 14:33yuletidemods in yuletide_pinch_hitsWe have eight new pinch hits, numbered #57-64. These pinch hits are due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.
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This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by Tosie
The Sting (1973)
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker (The Sting)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), PWP (smut is great, but I’d like some feelings too please), sad ending, unrequited love, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them and would welcome romance and/or smut—but really what I like is the intimacy of their relationship, so as long as that’s there I’m good. Feel free to include other characters from the movie, or OCs, but I would like the focus on Johnny and Henry. Similarly a plot-heavy or con-based fic is welcome as long as it still highlights that relationship.
Shippy tropes I like with these characters:
- MUTUAL PINING. Give me all of it.
- Feelings realizations
- Experienced x inexperienced romantically and/or sexually (including previous relationships all being hetero)
- Bisexual awakening/realization
- Pretend relationship (playing gay chicken ~for the con~? Yes please)
- Only one bed/otherwise being forced into close quarters
Gen tropes:
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- Thinking the other is dead
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Witty banter
- Humor
More specific prompts in my letter!
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 2 by Tosie
Father Brown (2013)
Characters: M. Hercule Flambeau (Father Brown TV 2013), Father Brown (Father Brown TV 2013)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), “explicit” sex (“mature” is fine, but focusing on the feelings involved rather than the squelchy details), sad ending, unrequited love, Father Brown leaving the priesthood, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them, but anything exploring their fascinating journey from enemies to friends (and/or lovers) would be great! Other cast members and casefic welcome as long as these two get to do some philosophical bonding along the way.
Stuff I like:
- Flambeau being vulnerable with Father Brown, intentionally or not.
- Getting trapped together for an extended period
- Either one compromising their morals for the other (especially if they do something out of character in the heat of the moment, and only subsequently realize that it was a big deal/signifies a shift in their relationship)
- If it is shippy, I really enjoy Father Brown explaining why he feels morally okay breaking his vows of celibacy (that can be the whole fic if you want!). But I also realize that’s a difficult question, so feel free to just not address it. I’d rather the issue be ignored altogether than brought up and handwaved away, if that makes sense.
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Shaving fic. As in, one has to shave the other, ideally with a straight razor. The vulnerability and intimacy of it really gets me.
- Kinky Catholicism. Flambeau wanting to worship and be absolved by Father Brown, rather than God. This doesn’t have to be sexual.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 3 by Tosie
Born With Teeth - Adams
Characters: Christopher Marlowe (Born With Teeth Adams), William Shakespeare (Born With Teeth Adams)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), sad ending*, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I got to see the 2025 production with Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel, which was excellent. 90 minutes of intense, sweaty homoeroticism. A+ no notes
Things I enjoyed in the play and would love to see more of: witty flirtatious banter, humor, philosophical musings
I’d love a fixit for the downer ending, particularly one exploring the (vaguely credible?) theory that Marlowe faked his own death.
* I realize that the play has a sad ending. I’m not saying I need you to change the canon ending, if you don’t want to disturb canon I’d be very happy to read a missing scene inserted in the middle. But if you’re going past 1593 I would prefer for things to diverge in a happier direction.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 4 by Tosie
Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, AUs, pederasty*, PWP
Optional details: This is a weird one! This poem is famous for coming up in Oscar Wilde’s trial, when he eloquently but unwisely described the nature of “the love that dare not speak its name.” I read the poem and thought “I wanna see them kiss.” Cause let’s be honest, despite one of them being heterosexuality personified, they’re both pretty gay.
They don’t have to kiss, but that’s what inspired me to request this. Also, you can refer to them however you want, I struggled with coming up with the tags. I was thinking Joyous Love/Sighing Love, if you like that, or you can give them real names or just avoid referring to them by name at all. Feel free to tag them differently.
* So, Oscar Wilde’s famous definition of the second Love (available here: https://www.famous-trials.com/wilde/342-wildetestimony) is love between an older man and a younger man (exact ages unspecified). I don’t think there’s anything in the poem itself that implies it means that, as opposed to regular old gayness. It’s cool if you want to reference Wilde’s testimony, but I’d like it clear that the Love that dare not speak its name is homosexuality in general, and not specifically pederasty.
Prompts/stuff I’d be interested to see:
- Their journey (before the events of the poem) from friends (to lovers?) to enemies
- Exploration of Joyous Love’s own shame and why he projects it onto Sighing Love
- Them making up after the poem’s events
- Some explanation of how bisexuality fits into this, lol. Threesome? Maybe they’re all actually bi? Idk.
- Other sexualities? By Wilde’s definition it seems like you might need a separate entity for lesbian love.
- Further expanding of the world. I didn’t add Worldbuilding as a character because I’d like the focus on the two Loves, but I’d definitely be interested in seeing the mythology fleshed out a bit more around them!
- Nonstandard fic structure (e.g. epistolary, poetry, etc)
- Something that blends the real world with the dream garden, like one or both of them being called to testify at Wilde’s trial or something???
- Honestly feel free to play with this, if you feel inspired. I just like the idea of seeing more of them/their relationship and I think I’ll be thrilled with anything that does that.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by Isis
British Airways ""May We Haveth One's Attention"" Safety Video
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I watched this homage to British costume drama (and airline safety video!) and was instantly charmed. Feel free to take it anywhere along the crack continuum that you like: is this a strange alternate world in which airplanes were invented much, much earlier? Did the historical characters time-travel forward, or the flight attendants time-travel in reverse? Did a real queen isekai into the filming of an airline safety video and just deal with it with royal aplomb? Why are Anne and George sitting in airline seats in the parlor? (Do they invite the flight attendants to their wedding?) And, the most provoking question of all: how did the Scots get seatbelts on their horses?
Additional DNW for this fandom: don't break up Anne and George! However, any other relationships here are fair game, and I'd be intrigued by something like Scot/flight attendant or Queen/pilot.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 2 by Isis
The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson
Characters: Worldbuilding (Fractured Europe Sequence)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson: Worldbuilding
I first read Europe in Autumn and Europe at Midnight nearly 10 years ago, when the ""Xian Flu"" was a far-fetched SF imagining and the ""Global War on Terror"" was not nearly so global. I'm re-reading these books now in preparation for reading the rest of the series, and let me just say it's landing rather differently.
The worldbuilding in this series delights and enthralls me! I would love anything about the splinter polities, about the Line, about the Campus or the Community or the Coureurs, on scales small (the discovery of an entrance to the Community) to large (a seemingly-stable country splitting into pieces). Past, present, or future; Europe, or beyond - what happened in Asia? In North America? while all this is happening in Europe? There are intriguing hints that the US has had a civil war, and that Texas has become its own country! The little bits of story with secondary characters hint at lots of things outside the scope of the novels that could be filled in. Or - and I don't know yet if these get answered in the books, but if it doesn't - how does mapping an alternate dimension make it spring into being? What was Mundt's ""trick of topology""?
(Please note that as I write this letter, I've only read the first two books and about half of the third, but I will have read the entire series by Yuletime.)
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 3 by Isis
Il Gattopardo | The Leopard (2025)
Characters: Concetta Corbera di Salina (Il Gattopardo 2025)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I enjoyed this costume drama set in the waning days of the Sicilian nobility and the rise of the Kingdom of Italy. I'm specifically looking for a canon-divergence AU here: please give Concetta a happy future. Maybe she runs off with Tancredi to America; maybe she runs off to Paris with Angelica! Maybe she gets married to Bombello after all, and it works out. Or perhaps she finds joy in her stewardship of the Salina estate, somehow, if you want to keep things closer to canon. I'd be intrigued with a crossover with historical RPF of the period, or any appropriate fandom I'm familiar with.
DNW a romantic relationship between Concetta and any of her siblings or parents, or Calogero, but I'm fine with her finding love with an OC, male or female, or a minor character ditto.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 4 by Isis
Warrior (TV 2019)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This show gave me vibes of Peaky Blinders set in the late 19th C San Francisco Chinatown Tong Wars, with a generous helping of Game of Thrones. I'd love a story about any of the nominated characters, particularly their backstory or an imagined future after the show (you are welcome to canon-divergence away canon deaths). Some specific things that interest me:
- How Ah Toy and Nellie navigate their romantic relationship (forbidden in multiple ways!)
- Lai's hero-worship of Ah Toy, her silent steadfastness, the way she blossomed at the vineyard
- Hong's ridiculous cheery attitude in the face of a thousand insults and injuries, his matter-of-fact approach to his sexuality
- Wang Chao's careful balancing act at the fulcrum of the warring tongs and the police
- The fraught father-son relationship of Father Jun and Young Jun
Please don't break up canon relationships. General DNW of unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters applies here except for the following: I vaguely ship Wang Chao with Richard Lee (growing out of their developing understanding during their forced road-trip); Lai might be interesting with Penelope or Mai Ling, if you could figure out how to get them together, or an OC (male or female) or any other non-nominated character; Hong with an OMC or any non-nominated male character, before or after his time with Marcel. However, please feel completely free to write gen!
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 5 by Isis
Matthew Shardlake Series - C. J. Sansom
Characters: Hugh Curteys
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I read the first few Shardlake books a few years ago, and then read the rest of them in one fell swoop this summer. I feel like they just got better and better! Heartstone, where we meet Hugh Curteys, was possibly my favorite, because it contains one of my favorite tropes. Which is unfortunately a major spoiler, so I won't talk about it here, but if you've matched on this fandom you can find additional details in my letter.
I'd really love a story about Hugh's new life in Antwerp working in the cloth trade, and I'm fine with it being set with him back in England talking to Shardlake, or epistolary, or just completely about Hugh with no involvement from Shardlake and the other characters. I'm fine with gen, or with him attempting a romance either with a man or a woman (original character) - it's up to you whether it goes well or disastrously, considering his secret and the setting. But please keep things firmly set within the historical context of these books.
Additional DNW for this fandom: No Hugh/Jack or Hugh/Matthew. I'm cautiously open to Hugh/Nicholas, and although there are not a lot of appropriate female characters in these books, if you can think of one, that's fine. Original characters are of course fine here.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Cowboy Bebop (Anime)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Faye having her own adventure while Spike and Jet are working a job
- Spike/Jet getting together, mutual pining or slice of life. It probably gets kind of lonely out there in space
- someone takes up a new hobby. Chaos ensues
- someone has an introspective think about their past choices
- exploring a new city (either leisurely or for a job)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 2 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Characters: The House (Piranesi), Worldbuilding (Piranesi)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Treats welcome!
Likes: I just really want more of the house, the worldbuilding and the lore
No letter
Request 3 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion, case fic, pining, time loops
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Cabenela/Jowd
- Sissel and Missile have an adventure
- Lynne discovers her own superpowers (and it's not dying)
- Memry's various part time jobs
- Pigeon Professor's backstory
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 4 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: worldbuilding, exploration, adventure
Optional Prompts:
- Lirael's adventures in the library.
- A stay in the Abhorsen's house
- retrieving something from deep in death
- anything with paperwings
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 5 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Characters: Go Eunchan, Choi Hangyeol (Coffee Prince), Choi Hanseong
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Treats Welcome!
Optional Prompts:
- The adventures of Eunchan, part-timer
- rock band or flower shop AU
- Eunchan and Hangyeol post-canon slice of life
- date night
- the lengths Eunchan will go to to hide that she's a girl
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 6 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Bee and PuppyCat
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Optional Prompts:
- Bee and PuppyCat take a temp job
- Bee's awkward date
- holiday party at the Wizards'
- Bee and Deckard cooking together
- Bee goes to Cas's wrestling match
- Crispin repairs Bee (and maybe their relationship)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 7 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Sakeru Gummy ""Long Long Man"" Commercials
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Optional Prompts:
- long long man and tooru's sakeru gummy sponsored wedding and/or honeymoon
- Slice of life: horribly balanced throuple
- POV long long man
- Chi on candy version of bachelorette
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 8 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Futurama
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, coffee shop, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, music au, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, case fic, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompts:
- Amy and Leela have a fling
- a delivery goes wrong (as usual)
- holophoner band AU
- Bender becomes a tiktok influencer
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by cadmean
Alan Wake (Video Games)
Characters: Thomas Zane (Alan Wake)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Tom the Poet-Diver-Director -- what IS going on with the guy? Love the various roles he ends up playing across both games, and I'd be super interested in anything that digs a bit deeper into the guy and his history with Bright Falls and the Dark Place.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
Request 2 by cadmean
Exordia - Seth Dickinson
Characters: Ssenenet (Exordia), Ssrinsahautha-ku-Ssraaa | Ssrin (Exordia), Iruvage (Exordia)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Snek aliens damned to literal actual Hell, my beloved. I love what we get to see of them in canon (gory and hammy and at the end of the day just utterly alien), and I'm super interested in exploring their various dynamics further! Ssrin and Ssenenet with their doomed sister-relation, the revelation that Iruvage was doing everything against Ssrin on Ssenenet's orders...it's beautiful.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
Request 3 by cadmean
Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space
Characters: Valantin the Pirate (Infinite Space), Emperor Taranis Lugovalos (Infinite Space)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Love me a pair of people who see that the universe is damned to destruction by its (and their own!) creators and just go, ""no, actually, we're going to fight those things."" Valantin and Taranis are already super intriguing to me on their own, but the fact that they're actually a Tracker-Observer pair is just *chef's kiss* to me and I'd be super interested in anything exploring that dynamic further.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
Characters: Francis Crawford of Lymond and Sevigny, Philippa Somerville, Marthe (Lymond Chronicles), Oonagh O'Dwyer
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon refs): AUs outside canon era/setting; women being 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern medical/psychiatric whump Sex:Rape turning romantic/consensual; non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canon CDA, incest, underage; sex/rape changing one's sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc female attacker in noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; gnc women called men/boys in bed
Likes: Whump, H/C, fewer women die; F/F; Lymond with OCD or chronic pain; Disability rep; R63 - f!Lymond (any prompt) especially butch/masc bi girl Lymond who's a as rakish and 'weird' genderwise like Francis in canon is 'effette'
Christian Lives
Prompts: Chris survives her fall with injuries, even permanently-disabling ones; I just want her to live and get some agency back. I don't think she HAS done everything she wanted to before dying.
Likes: Lesbian Christian; recovery/rehab fic; Margaret Fleming as friend/caretaker/love interest; F/F
DNW: ""Better dead than (more) disabled"" trope; M/F; Lymond-centric (him being there is fine)
Oonagh/Marthe
Prompts: AUs where they meet & Oonagh lives: the PiF rescue works out; her and Marthe traveling together after that as a setup; Oonagh settling in France post-PiF then Oonagh/Marthe during RC or CM; canon-divergence where they meet in QP somehow
Likes: Lesbian!Marthe; Marthe and Oonagh supporting/protecting each other as they both reckon with past abuse and extending kindness to each other; gay sex
DNW: Noncon; Marthe/Jerott centric
Margaret Douglas/Philippa (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts:
- RC era where Philippa is stuck at Margaret's house. Margaret attempts seduction to break Lymond and Philippa up, or just takes the opportunity like she did with Lymond after Solway, or thinks she's ""stealing"" ""Lymond's"" woman
- CM era: Margaret holding Lymond hostage but she's demanding sexual favors from Philippa as well as payment/ransom to get him back
Likes: Margaret being creepy with a sweet veneer; Philippa being shrewder than Margaret thinks but playing innovent; Margaret ignoring boundaries
Shippy: Margaret easing/tricking Philippa into things she can't get out of; sex; Margaret is Philippa's first time and she's relishing it; dub/noncon and coercion OK (as dark as you want); battle of wits that Margaret thinks is one-sided seduction; Philippa suffering emotionally (eg getting off and being ashamed/confused/upset)
DNW: Overtly-violent noncon; failing the Bechdel test
Lymond/Margaret Douglas (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts: Prompts: Post-Solway Moss or post-galleys, where Lymond is in the Douglases' and Lennoxes' respective clutches, or when Lymond is Margaret's hostage in CM
- Margaret indulging in all of the manipulation and gaslighting and seduction she wants, and how Lymond reacts to it. Anything with digging into Lymond's weak spots, sussing out things like the child abuse.
-Post galleys - hurt Lymond recovering from the whipping scars (could involve nerve pain/mobility restriction from the new scar tissue); Margaret gaslighting about how getting sold out to the French was totally an accident and she was sooo worried; her trying to work out what new trauma Lymond got from the galleys (physical/sexual/psychological)
-Pressured/coerced sex (or implication that it's heading there if you don't want to write that)
-Lymond both clocking the bullshit and being too emotionally exhausted to really push back and just going along with it as a result; alternately, trying to work out how to mask the trauma caused by all this in real time.
DNW: Physically-violent noncon; E-rated underage sex (E is fine post galleys when Lymond is 18+). Talking about the psychological impacts or non-graphically mentioning what Margaret does physically is fine if set when Lymond is under
Lymond H/C or Rescue with Philippa and/or Richard
Prompts: Lymond-rescue fic. Due to spying/war/political shenanigans or otherwise, Lymond being captured/trapped (and either injured in the process or afterwards (torture, re-injuring old wounds, migraine/chronic illness flare.)
-Philippa or Richard or both as rescuer/comfort-er is ideal. They could work together, or have a romantic highly-competent Philippa on her own or throwbacks to Richard saving Lymond from peril.
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 2 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita ""Needy"" Lesnicki
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump SexRape turning romantic/consensual; Non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; Fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen, etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canonical CSA, incest or underage; sex/rape “changing” sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc queer woman attacker in F/F noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; GNC women called men/boys
General Likes:
It will Not shock you that I am a huge Needy/Jennifer shipper. I love a good mix of teenage toxicity and ""sandbox love"", like in canon that balance of mean and sweet and just plain confused moments is soooo teenage-sapphic. To me.
I know ""God, you're butch"" was a joke but. What if. What if she actually got butch in future though.
Needy/Jennifer (Maybe Fix-It)
Prompts:
Needy working her ass off to find some solution to Jennifer's demon issues - to reverse the curse, to stave off the hunger, something - even if it doesn't fix the situation exactly, but the key thing here is, getting Jennifer in on helping Jennifer instead of trying to essentially go over her head. Maybe Jennifer's initial post-death vulnerability putting her in a place where Needy can convince her to listen to her and that gets a crack in the impenetrable killing-boys armor?
Or a Needy corruption arc where she's so pissed off about the murder shit that she decides she's willing to sacrifice someone (other than her boyfriend, RIP) to save Jennifer
Needy failing to stab Jennifer and getting bitten-and-turned instead; they're now Stuck Together because they're both functionally undead
Alternately, I would LOVE for Jennifer to get resurrected somehow post-stabbing (maybe by demon!Needy) - like reversing the Devil's Kettle ritual basically - and have them go on sapphic murder-demon adventures together
Likes:
Consummating (literally or figuratively) the Needy/Jennifer relationship
Bi4Bi Jennifer/Needy
Psychological horror as much as body horror; maybe addressing the mental damage that dying/seeing all that death does to Jennifer and Needy respectively as well as the horror of the sacrifice itself having more explored aftermath vs. just happening in the moment
DNW: M/F centric fic; psych hospital setting
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 3 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Dark Winds (TV)
Characters: Bernadette ""Bernie"" Manuelito
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
General Likes: If Bernadette was bi it would make me so happy. IDK man I just… she's so pretty and my brain has been going ""what if she was gnc/masc presenting sometimes in culturally-specific ways though…"" Anyone want to research queer Diné culture/vibes in the 1970s? Pretty please?
I love equal-opportunity whump, where men and women both can get hurt and rescued/cared for/helped in similar ways instead of ""girl ways"" and ""boy ways""—I actually like whump with women BECAUSE it's a great place to highlight both resiliency/persistence and vulnerability, and not make female characters either ""weaker"" or by default ""better"" at caregiving.
On my genderbend bullshit again - I think genderbent Chee (ie always a woman) with all of the pop-culture immersion and swaggery would be hilarious and iconic, if that's a thing that moves you PLEASE do it… Especially if Chee's still copying a lot of the masculine affectations etc from canon, but it would also be awesome to see a take on like, what's the womenswear equivalent of the super-cool popped collar, etc… On that note, if you do do that, making Chee a disaster lesbian/bisexual and Chee/Bern F/F would add years to my life I think.
Bernadette Backstory
Prompts:
I would love fic about how Bern got to where she is career-wise, and maybe something about her obviously longstanding relationship with the Leaphorns (especially Emma! I love the women and their relationships in this show so much)
Bern and/or Chee Whump or Hurt/Comfort
Prompts:
This show is soooo good at hurt/comfort potential and banging up the characters emotionally and physically only to put them back together again. I would love to see this especially with Bern (who got a bit less of it compared to Chee and Joe Sr.) but Chee is always great too!
In terms of comfort or caretaking, Emma's obviously a great choice too - she's an absolute rock who can handle Bern's no-nonsense needs or Chee's… nonsense lol, and she has the skills needed!
Likes:
Bern and Chee in particular are on such an even keel with each other that I trust their characterization with each other in a H/C situation—that Chee wouldn't be infantilizing hurt!Bern and Bern wouldn't randomly transform into some kind of nursemaid with hurt!Chee (look, I like her a lil gruff even though she's got a lot of heart). So highlighting that canon balance they come to in the course of their work would be great in this context.
DNW: High focus on racist, gendered or queerphobic violence in whump specifically. It's fine if those things come up in the fic, but if you do go with H/C I'd rather the hurt part not be a hate crime or something
Career Fix-It Fic
Prompts:
I don't have a ton of specific prompts here but Lord Almighty can someone PLEASE remove Bern from the Border Patrol and put her in any other job… I was dying inside at that ending, even if I do like the idea of her doing something for herself that's moving up ladder-wise… help…
Giving her a different job that fulfills the same goals and needs she had taking the one she did in canon is obviously ideal, don't feel obligated to write about her circling back unless you want to—just please don't have her join that particular organization.
DNW: Border Patrol positivity :/
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 4 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Suspiria (1977)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Suspiria 1977)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
Prompts: Tell me about the witches' magic system! Mother Markos's origins! The founding of the school! Where the coven came from! There's so much territory to explore here.
Likes: Historical accuracy/details; Potential real-world issues that play into this (the gender politics of running a school with no men involved in earlier time periods eg)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom; Markos being demonized or exoticized for being an immigrant. I can't with that; witchcraft tropes related to blood libel (there aren't any in the film, but please look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about - a lot of witchcraft mythos from Europe unfortunately has antisemitic roots)
No letter
Request 1 by ictus
Mr. Robot (TV)
Characters: Elliot Alderson
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This show is such a mindfuck, it left me reeling. I'd love to get inside Elliot's head and see the world from his perspective, whether he's orchestrating a hack, or just trying to survive in a post-5/9 world. Please feel free to lean into darker themes, like his mental health struggles and delusions. An expansion on his traumatic past is likewise welcome, starting with his destruction of the server room pre-season, or even going back to his childhood with his father. Feel free to pull in other characters, such as Darlene (their relationship is so special, I'd love to see more), Krista (I'd love her take on him; maybe Elliot hacks her to read her notes on him?), Mr. Robot or other alters, or any other characters! Post-series fic with the 'real' Elliot is also something I'd love to see.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
Request 2 by ictus
Respire | Breathe (2014)
Characters: Charlie (Respire), Sarah (Respire)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This film was so subtly sinister, and the role of Sarah was played superbly. I loved how she had a seductive quality that drew people to her like a moth to a flame, but when she was done with them, her cold indifference was absolutely brutal. I would love to see more of her toying with Charlie, not even for any particular gain, but just because she enjoys it. On a shippy note, there were so many moments in this film where the sexual tension between Charlie and Sarah was almost palpable, and I would love any kind of smut with these two, especially if Sarah's mean about it (e.g. bossing Charlie around, teasing her for being a virgin). I'd also be interested in Sarah spending time with other girls to make Charlie jealous, and this could be in a platonic or a romantic way. I'm interested in receiving French fic for this canon, but English fic is welcome too.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
Request 3 by ictus
Burnt (2015)
Characters: Tony Balerdi
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This film is a surprising delight, and it gave me almost everything I wanted—that is, everything except for a romantic arc for Tony. I'd love to see a version of events where he and Adam become partners in every sense of the word, or perhaps a pre-canon fic that expands on his history with Reece. Some sort of convoluted V-shaped love triangle with Tony at the centre would be next-level. If shipfic isn't your jam, I'd love insight into the day-to-day life of running one of the most highly-regarded restaurants in the world; food porn is very much welcome here, as is the minutiae of working in a kitchen. Pre-canon fic that details how Tony came to know Adam and Reece in Paris would be great, as would post-canon fic about life after securing the elusive Michelin Star.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
Request 1 by oldernowiser
Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier
Characters: Gedes (Tuyo Series), Kelleos (Tuyo Series), Aras Eren Samaura, Ryo inGara
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
I would love a Gedes and Kelleos story, but if you’d rather not then I’m quite happy with Aras and/or Ryo in whatever situation you might like to put them.
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW:
nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No Aras/Ryo
No letter
Request 2 by oldernowiser
The Chronicles of Morgaine - C. J. Cherryh
Characters: Nhi Vanye i Chya, Morgaine kri Chya, Worldbuilding (Morgaine)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
I’d love a bit of Morgaine backstory, or a Morgaine and Vanye story, or something about the gates themselves
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No letter
Request 3 by oldernowiser
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Characters: Ged (Earthsea), Tenar (Earthsea)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
A Ged and Tenar story please! Maybe something about Tenar settling into her new life post-Tombs, but I’d be happy with whatever you choose to write.
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No letter
Request 4 by oldernowiser
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Lirael (Old Kingdom), The Disreputable Dog | Kibeth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
I would love a story about Lirael’s years in the Clayr library.
If you’d rather not, then anything about Lirael and the Dog in any situation you choose!
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
No letter
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
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CLAIMED - PH #57: The Sting (1973), Father Brown (2013), Born With Teeth - Adams, Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)
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Request 1 by Tosie
The Sting (1973)
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker (The Sting)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), PWP (smut is great, but I’d like some feelings too please), sad ending, unrequited love, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them and would welcome romance and/or smut—but really what I like is the intimacy of their relationship, so as long as that’s there I’m good. Feel free to include other characters from the movie, or OCs, but I would like the focus on Johnny and Henry. Similarly a plot-heavy or con-based fic is welcome as long as it still highlights that relationship.
Shippy tropes I like with these characters:
- MUTUAL PINING. Give me all of it.
- Feelings realizations
- Experienced x inexperienced romantically and/or sexually (including previous relationships all being hetero)
- Bisexual awakening/realization
- Pretend relationship (playing gay chicken ~for the con~? Yes please)
- Only one bed/otherwise being forced into close quarters
Gen tropes:
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- Thinking the other is dead
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Witty banter
- Humor
More specific prompts in my letter!
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 2 by Tosie
Father Brown (2013)
Characters: M. Hercule Flambeau (Father Brown TV 2013), Father Brown (Father Brown TV 2013)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), “explicit” sex (“mature” is fine, but focusing on the feelings involved rather than the squelchy details), sad ending, unrequited love, Father Brown leaving the priesthood, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them, but anything exploring their fascinating journey from enemies to friends (and/or lovers) would be great! Other cast members and casefic welcome as long as these two get to do some philosophical bonding along the way.
Stuff I like:
- Flambeau being vulnerable with Father Brown, intentionally or not.
- Getting trapped together for an extended period
- Either one compromising their morals for the other (especially if they do something out of character in the heat of the moment, and only subsequently realize that it was a big deal/signifies a shift in their relationship)
- If it is shippy, I really enjoy Father Brown explaining why he feels morally okay breaking his vows of celibacy (that can be the whole fic if you want!). But I also realize that’s a difficult question, so feel free to just not address it. I’d rather the issue be ignored altogether than brought up and handwaved away, if that makes sense.
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Shaving fic. As in, one has to shave the other, ideally with a straight razor. The vulnerability and intimacy of it really gets me.
- Kinky Catholicism. Flambeau wanting to worship and be absolved by Father Brown, rather than God. This doesn’t have to be sexual.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 3 by Tosie
Born With Teeth - Adams
Characters: Christopher Marlowe (Born With Teeth Adams), William Shakespeare (Born With Teeth Adams)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), sad ending*, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I got to see the 2025 production with Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel, which was excellent. 90 minutes of intense, sweaty homoeroticism. A+ no notes
Things I enjoyed in the play and would love to see more of: witty flirtatious banter, humor, philosophical musings
I’d love a fixit for the downer ending, particularly one exploring the (vaguely credible?) theory that Marlowe faked his own death.
* I realize that the play has a sad ending. I’m not saying I need you to change the canon ending, if you don’t want to disturb canon I’d be very happy to read a missing scene inserted in the middle. But if you’re going past 1593 I would prefer for things to diverge in a happier direction.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
Request 4 by Tosie
Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW: rape/noncon, AUs, pederasty*, PWP
Optional details: This is a weird one! This poem is famous for coming up in Oscar Wilde’s trial, when he eloquently but unwisely described the nature of “the love that dare not speak its name.” I read the poem and thought “I wanna see them kiss.” Cause let’s be honest, despite one of them being heterosexuality personified, they’re both pretty gay.
They don’t have to kiss, but that’s what inspired me to request this. Also, you can refer to them however you want, I struggled with coming up with the tags. I was thinking Joyous Love/Sighing Love, if you like that, or you can give them real names or just avoid referring to them by name at all. Feel free to tag them differently.
* So, Oscar Wilde’s famous definition of the second Love (available here: https://www.famous-trials.com/wilde/342-wildetestimony) is love between an older man and a younger man (exact ages unspecified). I don’t think there’s anything in the poem itself that implies it means that, as opposed to regular old gayness. It’s cool if you want to reference Wilde’s testimony, but I’d like it clear that the Love that dare not speak its name is homosexuality in general, and not specifically pederasty.
Prompts/stuff I’d be interested to see:
- Their journey (before the events of the poem) from friends (to lovers?) to enemies
- Exploration of Joyous Love’s own shame and why he projects it onto Sighing Love
- Them making up after the poem’s events
- Some explanation of how bisexuality fits into this, lol. Threesome? Maybe they’re all actually bi? Idk.
- Other sexualities? By Wilde’s definition it seems like you might need a separate entity for lesbian love.
- Further expanding of the world. I didn’t add Worldbuilding as a character because I’d like the focus on the two Loves, but I’d definitely be interested in seeing the mythology fleshed out a bit more around them!
- Nonstandard fic structure (e.g. epistolary, poetry, etc)
- Something that blends the real world with the dream garden, like one or both of them being called to testify at Wilde’s trial or something???
- Honestly feel free to play with this, if you feel inspired. I just like the idea of seeing more of them/their relationship and I think I’ll be thrilled with anything that does that.
Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing
CLAIMED - PH #58: British Airways ""May We Haveth One's Attention"" Safety Video, The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson, Il Gattopardo | The Leopard (2025), Warrior (TV 2019), Matthew Shardlake Series - C. J. Sansom
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by Isis
British Airways ""May We Haveth One's Attention"" Safety Video
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I watched this homage to British costume drama (and airline safety video!) and was instantly charmed. Feel free to take it anywhere along the crack continuum that you like: is this a strange alternate world in which airplanes were invented much, much earlier? Did the historical characters time-travel forward, or the flight attendants time-travel in reverse? Did a real queen isekai into the filming of an airline safety video and just deal with it with royal aplomb? Why are Anne and George sitting in airline seats in the parlor? (Do they invite the flight attendants to their wedding?) And, the most provoking question of all: how did the Scots get seatbelts on their horses?
Additional DNW for this fandom: don't break up Anne and George! However, any other relationships here are fair game, and I'd be intrigued by something like Scot/flight attendant or Queen/pilot.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 2 by Isis
The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson
Characters: Worldbuilding (Fractured Europe Sequence)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson: Worldbuilding
I first read Europe in Autumn and Europe at Midnight nearly 10 years ago, when the ""Xian Flu"" was a far-fetched SF imagining and the ""Global War on Terror"" was not nearly so global. I'm re-reading these books now in preparation for reading the rest of the series, and let me just say it's landing rather differently.
The worldbuilding in this series delights and enthralls me! I would love anything about the splinter polities, about the Line, about the Campus or the Community or the Coureurs, on scales small (the discovery of an entrance to the Community) to large (a seemingly-stable country splitting into pieces). Past, present, or future; Europe, or beyond - what happened in Asia? In North America? while all this is happening in Europe? There are intriguing hints that the US has had a civil war, and that Texas has become its own country! The little bits of story with secondary characters hint at lots of things outside the scope of the novels that could be filled in. Or - and I don't know yet if these get answered in the books, but if it doesn't - how does mapping an alternate dimension make it spring into being? What was Mundt's ""trick of topology""?
(Please note that as I write this letter, I've only read the first two books and about half of the third, but I will have read the entire series by Yuletime.)
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 3 by Isis
Il Gattopardo | The Leopard (2025)
Characters: Concetta Corbera di Salina (Il Gattopardo 2025)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I enjoyed this costume drama set in the waning days of the Sicilian nobility and the rise of the Kingdom of Italy. I'm specifically looking for a canon-divergence AU here: please give Concetta a happy future. Maybe she runs off with Tancredi to America; maybe she runs off to Paris with Angelica! Maybe she gets married to Bombello after all, and it works out. Or perhaps she finds joy in her stewardship of the Salina estate, somehow, if you want to keep things closer to canon. I'd be intrigued with a crossover with historical RPF of the period, or any appropriate fandom I'm familiar with.
DNW a romantic relationship between Concetta and any of her siblings or parents, or Calogero, but I'm fine with her finding love with an OC, male or female, or a minor character ditto.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 4 by Isis
Warrior (TV 2019)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This show gave me vibes of Peaky Blinders set in the late 19th C San Francisco Chinatown Tong Wars, with a generous helping of Game of Thrones. I'd love a story about any of the nominated characters, particularly their backstory or an imagined future after the show (you are welcome to canon-divergence away canon deaths). Some specific things that interest me:
- How Ah Toy and Nellie navigate their romantic relationship (forbidden in multiple ways!)
- Lai's hero-worship of Ah Toy, her silent steadfastness, the way she blossomed at the vineyard
- Hong's ridiculous cheery attitude in the face of a thousand insults and injuries, his matter-of-fact approach to his sexuality
- Wang Chao's careful balancing act at the fulcrum of the warring tongs and the police
- The fraught father-son relationship of Father Jun and Young Jun
Please don't break up canon relationships. General DNW of unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters applies here except for the following: I vaguely ship Wang Chao with Richard Lee (growing out of their developing understanding during their forced road-trip); Lai might be interesting with Penelope or Mai Ling, if you could figure out how to get them together, or an OC (male or female) or any other non-nominated character; Hong with an OMC or any non-nominated male character, before or after his time with Marcel. However, please feel completely free to write gen!
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
Request 5 by Isis
Matthew Shardlake Series - C. J. Sansom
Characters: Hugh Curteys
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
I read the first few Shardlake books a few years ago, and then read the rest of them in one fell swoop this summer. I feel like they just got better and better! Heartstone, where we meet Hugh Curteys, was possibly my favorite, because it contains one of my favorite tropes. Which is unfortunately a major spoiler, so I won't talk about it here, but if you've matched on this fandom you can find additional details in my letter.
I'd really love a story about Hugh's new life in Antwerp working in the cloth trade, and I'm fine with it being set with him back in England talking to Shardlake, or epistolary, or just completely about Hugh with no involvement from Shardlake and the other characters. I'm fine with gen, or with him attempting a romance either with a man or a woman (original character) - it's up to you whether it goes well or disastrously, considering his secret and the setting. But please keep things firmly set within the historical context of these books.
Additional DNW for this fandom: No Hugh/Jack or Hugh/Matthew. I'm cautiously open to Hugh/Nicholas, and although there are not a lot of appropriate female characters in these books, if you can think of one, that's fine. Original characters are of course fine here.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.
Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html
CLAIMED - PH #59: Cowboy Bebop (Anime), Piranesi - Susanna Clarke, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Old Kingdom - Garth Nix, 커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince, Bee and PuppyCat, Sakeru Gummy ""Long Long Man"" Commercials, Futurama
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Cowboy Bebop (Anime)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Faye having her own adventure while Spike and Jet are working a job
- Spike/Jet getting together, mutual pining or slice of life. It probably gets kind of lonely out there in space
- someone takes up a new hobby. Chaos ensues
- someone has an introspective think about their past choices
- exploring a new city (either leisurely or for a job)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 2 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Characters: The House (Piranesi), Worldbuilding (Piranesi)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Treats welcome!
Likes: I just really want more of the house, the worldbuilding and the lore
No letter
Request 3 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion, case fic, pining, time loops
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Cabenela/Jowd
- Sissel and Missile have an adventure
- Lynne discovers her own superpowers (and it's not dying)
- Memry's various part time jobs
- Pigeon Professor's backstory
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 4 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Treats welcome!
Likes: worldbuilding, exploration, adventure
Optional Prompts:
- Lirael's adventures in the library.
- A stay in the Abhorsen's house
- retrieving something from deep in death
- anything with paperwings
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 5 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Characters: Go Eunchan, Choi Hangyeol (Coffee Prince), Choi Hanseong
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Treats Welcome!
Optional Prompts:
- The adventures of Eunchan, part-timer
- rock band or flower shop AU
- Eunchan and Hangyeol post-canon slice of life
- date night
- the lengths Eunchan will go to to hide that she's a girl
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 6 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Bee and PuppyCat
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Optional Prompts:
- Bee and PuppyCat take a temp job
- Bee's awkward date
- holiday party at the Wizards'
- Bee and Deckard cooking together
- Bee goes to Cas's wrestling match
- Crispin repairs Bee (and maybe their relationship)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 7 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Sakeru Gummy ""Long Long Man"" Commercials
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Optional Prompts:
- long long man and tooru's sakeru gummy sponsored wedding and/or honeymoon
- Slice of life: horribly balanced throuple
- POV long long man
- Chi on candy version of bachelorette
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
Request 8 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Futurama
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, coffee shop, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, music au, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, case fic, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompts:
- Amy and Leela have a fling
- a delivery goes wrong (as usual)
- holophoner band AU
- Bender becomes a tiktok influencer
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter
CLAIMED - PH #60: Alan Wake (Video Games), Exordia - Seth Dickinson, Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by cadmean
Alan Wake (Video Games)
Characters: Thomas Zane (Alan Wake)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Tom the Poet-Diver-Director -- what IS going on with the guy? Love the various roles he ends up playing across both games, and I'd be super interested in anything that digs a bit deeper into the guy and his history with Bright Falls and the Dark Place.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
Request 2 by cadmean
Exordia - Seth Dickinson
Characters: Ssenenet (Exordia), Ssrinsahautha-ku-Ssraaa | Ssrin (Exordia), Iruvage (Exordia)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Snek aliens damned to literal actual Hell, my beloved. I love what we get to see of them in canon (gory and hammy and at the end of the day just utterly alien), and I'm super interested in exploring their various dynamics further! Ssrin and Ssenenet with their doomed sister-relation, the revelation that Iruvage was doing everything against Ssrin on Ssenenet's orders...it's beautiful.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
Request 3 by cadmean
Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space
Characters: Valantin the Pirate (Infinite Space), Emperor Taranis Lugovalos (Infinite Space)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Love me a pair of people who see that the universe is damned to destruction by its (and their own!) creators and just go, ""no, actually, we're going to fight those things."" Valantin and Taranis are already super intriguing to me on their own, but the fact that they're actually a Tracker-Observer pair is just *chef's kiss* to me and I'd be super interested in anything exploring that dynamic further.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse
Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html
CLAIMED - PH #61: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett, Jennifer's Body (2009), Dark Winds (TV), Suspiria (1977)
This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!
Request 1 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
Characters: Francis Crawford of Lymond and Sevigny, Philippa Somerville, Marthe (Lymond Chronicles), Oonagh O'Dwyer
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon refs): AUs outside canon era/setting; women being 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern medical/psychiatric whump Sex:Rape turning romantic/consensual; non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canon CDA, incest, underage; sex/rape changing one's sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc female attacker in noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; gnc women called men/boys in bed
Likes: Whump, H/C, fewer women die; F/F; Lymond with OCD or chronic pain; Disability rep; R63 - f!Lymond (any prompt) especially butch/masc bi girl Lymond who's a as rakish and 'weird' genderwise like Francis in canon is 'effette'
Christian Lives
Prompts: Chris survives her fall with injuries, even permanently-disabling ones; I just want her to live and get some agency back. I don't think she HAS done everything she wanted to before dying.
Likes: Lesbian Christian; recovery/rehab fic; Margaret Fleming as friend/caretaker/love interest; F/F
DNW: ""Better dead than (more) disabled"" trope; M/F; Lymond-centric (him being there is fine)
Oonagh/Marthe
Prompts: AUs where they meet & Oonagh lives: the PiF rescue works out; her and Marthe traveling together after that as a setup; Oonagh settling in France post-PiF then Oonagh/Marthe during RC or CM; canon-divergence where they meet in QP somehow
Likes: Lesbian!Marthe; Marthe and Oonagh supporting/protecting each other as they both reckon with past abuse and extending kindness to each other; gay sex
DNW: Noncon; Marthe/Jerott centric
Margaret Douglas/Philippa (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts:
- RC era where Philippa is stuck at Margaret's house. Margaret attempts seduction to break Lymond and Philippa up, or just takes the opportunity like she did with Lymond after Solway, or thinks she's ""stealing"" ""Lymond's"" woman
- CM era: Margaret holding Lymond hostage but she's demanding sexual favors from Philippa as well as payment/ransom to get him back
Likes: Margaret being creepy with a sweet veneer; Philippa being shrewder than Margaret thinks but playing innovent; Margaret ignoring boundaries
Shippy: Margaret easing/tricking Philippa into things she can't get out of; sex; Margaret is Philippa's first time and she's relishing it; dub/noncon and coercion OK (as dark as you want); battle of wits that Margaret thinks is one-sided seduction; Philippa suffering emotionally (eg getting off and being ashamed/confused/upset)
DNW: Overtly-violent noncon; failing the Bechdel test
Lymond/Margaret Douglas (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts: Prompts: Post-Solway Moss or post-galleys, where Lymond is in the Douglases' and Lennoxes' respective clutches, or when Lymond is Margaret's hostage in CM
- Margaret indulging in all of the manipulation and gaslighting and seduction she wants, and how Lymond reacts to it. Anything with digging into Lymond's weak spots, sussing out things like the child abuse.
-Post galleys - hurt Lymond recovering from the whipping scars (could involve nerve pain/mobility restriction from the new scar tissue); Margaret gaslighting about how getting sold out to the French was totally an accident and she was sooo worried; her trying to work out what new trauma Lymond got from the galleys (physical/sexual/psychological)
-Pressured/coerced sex (or implication that it's heading there if you don't want to write that)
-Lymond both clocking the bullshit and being too emotionally exhausted to really push back and just going along with it as a result; alternately, trying to work out how to mask the trauma caused by all this in real time.
DNW: Physically-violent noncon; E-rated underage sex (E is fine post galleys when Lymond is 18+). Talking about the psychological impacts or non-graphically mentioning what Margaret does physically is fine if set when Lymond is under
Lymond H/C or Rescue with Philippa and/or Richard
Prompts: Lymond-rescue fic. Due to spying/war/political shenanigans or otherwise, Lymond being captured/trapped (and either injured in the process or afterwards (torture, re-injuring old wounds, migraine/chronic illness flare.)
-Philippa or Richard or both as rescuer/comfort-er is ideal. They could work together, or have a romantic highly-competent Philippa on her own or throwbacks to Richard saving Lymond from peril.
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 2 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita ""Needy"" Lesnicki
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump SexRape turning romantic/consensual; Non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; Fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen, etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canonical CSA, incest or underage; sex/rape “changing” sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc queer woman attacker in F/F noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; GNC women called men/boys
General Likes:
It will Not shock you that I am a huge Needy/Jennifer shipper. I love a good mix of teenage toxicity and ""sandbox love"", like in canon that balance of mean and sweet and just plain confused moments is soooo teenage-sapphic. To me.
I know ""God, you're butch"" was a joke but. What if. What if she actually got butch in future though.
Needy/Jennifer (Maybe Fix-It)
Prompts:
Needy working her ass off to find some solution to Jennifer's demon issues - to reverse the curse, to stave off the hunger, something - even if it doesn't fix the situation exactly, but the key thing here is, getting Jennifer in on helping Jennifer instead of trying to essentially go over her head. Maybe Jennifer's initial post-death vulnerability putting her in a place where Needy can convince her to listen to her and that gets a crack in the impenetrable killing-boys armor?
Or a Needy corruption arc where she's so pissed off about the murder shit that she decides she's willing to sacrifice someone (other than her boyfriend, RIP) to save Jennifer
Needy failing to stab Jennifer and getting bitten-and-turned instead; they're now Stuck Together because they're both functionally undead
Alternately, I would LOVE for Jennifer to get resurrected somehow post-stabbing (maybe by demon!Needy) - like reversing the Devil's Kettle ritual basically - and have them go on sapphic murder-demon adventures together
Likes:
Consummating (literally or figuratively) the Needy/Jennifer relationship
Bi4Bi Jennifer/Needy
Psychological horror as much as body horror; maybe addressing the mental damage that dying/seeing all that death does to Jennifer and Needy respectively as well as the horror of the sacrifice itself having more explored aftermath vs. just happening in the moment
DNW: M/F centric fic; psych hospital setting
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 3 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Dark Winds (TV)
Characters: Bernadette ""Bernie"" Manuelito
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
General Likes: If Bernadette was bi it would make me so happy. IDK man I just… she's so pretty and my brain has been going ""what if she was gnc/masc presenting sometimes in culturally-specific ways though…"" Anyone want to research queer Diné culture/vibes in the 1970s? Pretty please?
I love equal-opportunity whump, where men and women both can get hurt and rescued/cared for/helped in similar ways instead of ""girl ways"" and ""boy ways""—I actually like whump with women BECAUSE it's a great place to highlight both resiliency/persistence and vulnerability, and not make female characters either ""weaker"" or by default ""better"" at caregiving.
On my genderbend bullshit again - I think genderbent Chee (ie always a woman) with all of the pop-culture immersion and swaggery would be hilarious and iconic, if that's a thing that moves you PLEASE do it… Especially if Chee's still copying a lot of the masculine affectations etc from canon, but it would also be awesome to see a take on like, what's the womenswear equivalent of the super-cool popped collar, etc… On that note, if you do do that, making Chee a disaster lesbian/bisexual and Chee/Bern F/F would add years to my life I think.
Bernadette Backstory
Prompts:
I would love fic about how Bern got to where she is career-wise, and maybe something about her obviously longstanding relationship with the Leaphorns (especially Emma! I love the women and their relationships in this show so much)
Bern and/or Chee Whump or Hurt/Comfort
Prompts:
This show is soooo good at hurt/comfort potential and banging up the characters emotionally and physically only to put them back together again. I would love to see this especially with Bern (who got a bit less of it compared to Chee and Joe Sr.) but Chee is always great too!
In terms of comfort or caretaking, Emma's obviously a great choice too - she's an absolute rock who can handle Bern's no-nonsense needs or Chee's… nonsense lol, and she has the skills needed!
Likes:
Bern and Chee in particular are on such an even keel with each other that I trust their characterization with each other in a H/C situation—that Chee wouldn't be infantilizing hurt!Bern and Bern wouldn't randomly transform into some kind of nursemaid with hurt!Chee (look, I like her a lil gruff even though she's got a lot of heart). So highlighting that canon balance they come to in the course of their work would be great in this context.
DNW: High focus on racist, gendered or queerphobic violence in whump specifically. It's fine if those things come up in the fic, but if you do go with H/C I'd rather the hurt part not be a hate crime or something
Career Fix-It Fic
Prompts:
I don't have a ton of specific prompts here but Lord Almighty can someone PLEASE remove Bern from the Border Patrol and put her in any other job… I was dying inside at that ending, even if I do like the idea of her doing something for herself that's moving up ladder-wise… help…
Giving her a different job that fulfills the same goals and needs she had taking the one she did in canon is obviously ideal, don't feel obligated to write about her circling back unless you want to—just please don't have her join that particular organization.
DNW: Border Patrol positivity :/
Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc
Request 4 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Suspiria (1977)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Suspiria 1977)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
Prompts: Tell me about the witches' magic system! Mother Markos's origins! The founding of the school! Where the coven came from! There's so much territory to explore here.
Likes: Historical accuracy/details; Potential real-world issues that play into this (the gender politics of running a school with no men involved in earlier time periods eg)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom; Markos being demonized or exoticized for being an immigrant. I can't with that; witchcraft tropes related to blood libel (there aren't any in the film, but please look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about - a lot of witchcraft mythos from Europe unfortunately has antisemitic roots)
No letter
PH #62: Mr. Robot (TV), Respire | Breathe (2014), Burnt (2015)
Request 1 by ictus
Mr. Robot (TV)
Characters: Elliot Alderson
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This show is such a mindfuck, it left me reeling. I'd love to get inside Elliot's head and see the world from his perspective, whether he's orchestrating a hack, or just trying to survive in a post-5/9 world. Please feel free to lean into darker themes, like his mental health struggles and delusions. An expansion on his traumatic past is likewise welcome, starting with his destruction of the server room pre-season, or even going back to his childhood with his father. Feel free to pull in other characters, such as Darlene (their relationship is so special, I'd love to see more), Krista (I'd love her take on him; maybe Elliot hacks her to read her notes on him?), Mr. Robot or other alters, or any other characters! Post-series fic with the 'real' Elliot is also something I'd love to see.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
Request 2 by ictus
Respire | Breathe (2014)
Characters: Charlie (Respire), Sarah (Respire)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This film was so subtly sinister, and the role of Sarah was played superbly. I loved how she had a seductive quality that drew people to her like a moth to a flame, but when she was done with them, her cold indifference was absolutely brutal. I would love to see more of her toying with Charlie, not even for any particular gain, but just because she enjoys it. On a shippy note, there were so many moments in this film where the sexual tension between Charlie and Sarah was almost palpable, and I would love any kind of smut with these two, especially if Sarah's mean about it (e.g. bossing Charlie around, teasing her for being a virgin). I'd also be interested in Sarah spending time with other girls to make Charlie jealous, and this could be in a platonic or a romantic way. I'm interested in receiving French fic for this canon, but English fic is welcome too.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
Request 3 by ictus
Burnt (2015)
Characters: Tony Balerdi
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
This film is a surprising delight, and it gave me almost everything I wanted—that is, everything except for a romantic arc for Tony. I'd love to see a version of events where he and Adam become partners in every sense of the word, or perhaps a pre-canon fic that expands on his history with Reece. Some sort of convoluted V-shaped love triangle with Tony at the centre would be next-level. If shipfic isn't your jam, I'd love insight into the day-to-day life of running one of the most highly-regarded restaurants in the world; food porn is very much welcome here, as is the minutiae of working in a kitchen. Pre-canon fic that details how Tony came to know Adam and Reece in Paris would be great, as would post-canon fic about life after securing the elusive Michelin Star.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)
Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html
PH #63: Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier, The Chronicles of Morgaine - C. J. Cherryh, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Request 1 by oldernowiser
Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier
Characters: Gedes (Tuyo Series), Kelleos (Tuyo Series), Aras Eren Samaura, Ryo inGara
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
I would love a Gedes and Kelleos story, but if you’d rather not then I’m quite happy with Aras and/or Ryo in whatever situation you might like to put them.
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW:
nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No Aras/Ryo
No letter
Request 2 by oldernowiser
The Chronicles of Morgaine - C. J. Cherryh
Characters: Nhi Vanye i Chya, Morgaine kri Chya, Worldbuilding (Morgaine)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
I’d love a bit of Morgaine backstory, or a Morgaine and Vanye story, or something about the gates themselves
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No letter
Request 3 by oldernowiser
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Characters: Ged (Earthsea), Tenar (Earthsea)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
A Ged and Tenar story please! Maybe something about Tenar settling into her new life post-Tombs, but I’d be happy with whatever you choose to write.
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No letter
Request 4 by oldernowiser
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Lirael (Old Kingdom), The Disreputable Dog | Kibeth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
I would love a story about Lirael’s years in the Clayr library.
If you’d rather not, then anything about Lirael and the Dog in any situation you choose!
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
No letter
PH #64: 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
Bless me, what *do* they teach them at these schools
22 Nov 2025 17:39flemmingsNot civics or political science, for sure. "The horrors of socialism"? And Democrats voted for that? I'm not surprised. Even up here we have people who maintain that Carney is-- wait for it-- a communist. When in fact he's not even a Liberal: he's an old-fashioned Red Tory.
In minor matters, the fruit flies congregated about my traps but showed no inclination to fall in and drown. Come morning the upstairs trap was actually pretty full but there was still a cloud of the suckers in the kitchen. Have bought glue strips and hope they work.
At some point must go down to the basement and read my water meter. The city had them sending automatic reports until someone noticed that something like 80% of the meters were doing no such thing. So for the past however long they've been estimating usage. And now they want homeowners to read the meters for them. Got the notice last week and was all moan groan tremble in anticipation of a bill in the thousands of dollars. Reminded myself that in the old days they billed me less than the recent estimates, and I trust I have no leaking toilets that do boost the bills, and anyway it's something I must do, so...
In minor matters, the fruit flies congregated about my traps but showed no inclination to fall in and drown. Come morning the upstairs trap was actually pretty full but there was still a cloud of the suckers in the kitchen. Have bought glue strips and hope they work.
At some point must go down to the basement and read my water meter. The city had them sending automatic reports until someone noticed that something like 80% of the meters were doing no such thing. So for the past however long they've been estimating usage. And now they want homeowners to read the meters for them. Got the notice last week and was all moan groan tremble in anticipation of a bill in the thousands of dollars. Reminded myself that in the old days they billed me less than the recent estimates, and I trust I have no leaking toilets that do boost the bills, and anyway it's something I must do, so...
Australian Radio Top 100 Book Meme
22 Nov 2025 21:23shadowkatRadio Australia Top 100 Book Meme aka The Book Club/Books Adapted into Television Series and/or Films Meme
Rules:
1.Did you read it (bold or state for the HTML Adverse), (audio books count)
2. DNF (Did not Finish) or Italicize
3. Saw the film or television adaptation series - state that (or underline)
4. loved it put a *
( if you want to write anything about it - do.)
1.Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton (it's a boy's coming of age story in Australia, about a boy who lives with a criminal family, and struggles to get by, as far as I could tell - it's airing on Netflix, and I saw one or two episodes before giving up on it.)
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. >A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (was on Showtime, one season. I enjoyed the audio book. The author writes poetic prose. I did have problems following the plot though. It's about an aristocrat who is held prisoner by the Soviets in a Hotel in Moscow during and post Russian Revolution, and his friendship with a little girl over the years, who is staying at the Hotel with her family.)
4. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - tried to watch on Netflix but only made it through two episodes. (WWII yarn about a blind French girl/spy and a German boy, notable for the cast).
5 Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (watched on Apple + - good miniseries about a female chemist who starts a cooking show after her husband's death).
6 Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
7 The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
8 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
9 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
10 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel* (Television Mini-Series on PBS) - I've tried to listen to this as an audio book (among the first I ever did, it doesn't work well as an audio book), tried to read it, and tried to watch it - and I either don't have the mental energy for it? Or I don't like historical fiction enough? It's about the Tudor period, Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. So it's possible it's a period of history that I overstudied and grown tired of? (Note to self - get PBS Passport.)
( The rest beneath the cut )
Whew, I read or saw more of those than I thought.
Rules:
1.Did you read it (bold or state for the HTML Adverse), (audio books count)
2. DNF (Did not Finish) or Italicize
3. Saw the film or television adaptation series - state that (or underline)
4. loved it put a *
( if you want to write anything about it - do.)
1.Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton (it's a boy's coming of age story in Australia, about a boy who lives with a criminal family, and struggles to get by, as far as I could tell - it's airing on Netflix, and I saw one or two episodes before giving up on it.)
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. >A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (was on Showtime, one season. I enjoyed the audio book. The author writes poetic prose. I did have problems following the plot though. It's about an aristocrat who is held prisoner by the Soviets in a Hotel in Moscow during and post Russian Revolution, and his friendship with a little girl over the years, who is staying at the Hotel with her family.)
4. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - tried to watch on Netflix but only made it through two episodes. (WWII yarn about a blind French girl/spy and a German boy, notable for the cast).
5 Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (watched on Apple + - good miniseries about a female chemist who starts a cooking show after her husband's death).
6 Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
7 The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
8 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
9 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
10 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel* (Television Mini-Series on PBS) - I've tried to listen to this as an audio book (among the first I ever did, it doesn't work well as an audio book), tried to read it, and tried to watch it - and I either don't have the mental energy for it? Or I don't like historical fiction enough? It's about the Tudor period, Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. So it's possible it's a period of history that I overstudied and grown tired of? (Note to self - get PBS Passport.)
( The rest beneath the cut )
Whew, I read or saw more of those than I thought.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
22 Nov 2025 13:44![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
8daysofdwj_feedNobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Burton and Kipling, and the limitations of escape into fantasy,
Transcript available here, and we'll be back next time with Castle in the Air!
Picture Diary 109
22 Nov 2025 13:03poliphiloPicture Diary 109
1. Have a strawberry
2. The party faithful
3. Sunset
4. Two Women
5. Satori
6. The President is leaving office
1. Have a strawberry
2. The party faithful
3. Sunset
4. Two Women
5. Satori
6. The President is leaving office
Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
22 Nov 2025 12:00andrewducker- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Beta Post for Round 6
22 Nov 2025 22:42modzilla in fffxThis is the beta post for the 2025-2026 round of fffx.
Please comment below if you can offer brainstorming, critique, canon-checking, fact-checking, or tips on structure, perspective, or visual effects for art or stories in this exchange! Thank you to all volunteers.
Sign-up summary of requested fandoms
Requests in the app
Tag set
Please include a way to contact you. Here is an optional template to fill out:
Again, thank you!!
Please comment below if you can offer brainstorming, critique, canon-checking, fact-checking, or tips on structure, perspective, or visual effects for art or stories in this exchange! Thank you to all volunteers.
Sign-up summary of requested fandoms
Requests in the app
Tag set
Please include a way to contact you. Here is an optional template to fill out:
Again, thank you!!
- We also have outstanding pinch hits available.
- Check-in week for this exchange is November 23-30.
Round 6 Schedule and Description
22 Nov 2025 21:53modzilla in fffxFFFX stands for Five Figure Fanwork Exchange. It is a multifandom gift exchange for fanfic of 10,000+ words, and for comics of least 10 pages or at least 40 panels. FFFX is part of the Triple Crown multi-event challenge (triplecrownofexchanges)
AO3 collection | Tag set | Browser app | Canon promo post | Beta post
Current Phase: Check-in week is upon us! Please look out for the check-in post, and either affirm that you're working on your assignment and expect to complete it, or default
Nominations close: 27 August (11:59pm EDT)
Sign-ups start: 2 September
Sign-ups close: 11 September
Assignments out by: 13 September
Assignment Swaps / FINAL Letter Completion Deadline*: 21 September
Check-in Week**: 23-30 November
Assignments due: 24 January 2026 (11:59pm EST)
Works revealed: 28 February (5pm EST)
Creators revealed: 14 March (5pm EST)
*How do assignment swaps work? This exchange allows you to trade in your current assignment for a different one. This is intended as a safety net. Maybe you tried a new fandom to match a request and it didn't work out. Maybe you matched on something safe, but fell in love with something else after assignments went out. Whether you can swap to the new assignment of your choice will depend on several factors, including whether several other people are already creating for it. You can ask for any other assignment before September 21. Between September 21, 2025, and the main deadline of January 24, 2026, you can still trade in the assignment you hold for another one, but only if the one you want is listed as a pinch hit.
If you're writing a letter, I recommend you finish it during sign-ups so that your assigned creator can use it right away, but that doesn't always happen. So there's a hard deadline: please complete any linked letters by September 21; if you are matched to a recipient whose letter is incomplete after September 21, you are welcome to ask to swap to any other recipient throughout the exchange.
**What is Check-In Week? This is when you contact the mod on a check-in post at this community to confirm that you are committed to fulfilling your assignment(s). If you do not check in, you will be defaulted.
FFFX follows the pattern of many other Archive-of-Our-Own-based multifandom exchanges. The pool of available fandoms is created by nominations (eight fandoms, with six characters or relationships each, per person, with selective additions possible during sign-ups). When signing up, you can offer and request as few as four fandoms (one for offers), with one character or relationship in each, or as many as ten fandoms, with ten relationships in each. You will match on one of those characters or relationships (OR matching). FFFX allows original works prompts. FFFX does not match on freeform tags or rating.
Because this is an exchange for long works and many creators like to have something to go on, you must fill out your AO3 requests with your choice of the following: prompts, or notes on what appeals to you about a fandom, or general likes, or some combination of these.
Fandom promotion posts and guides to where your canon can be found are encouraged.
The mod can be reached at mod.modzilla@gmail.com as well as through this Dreamwidth community.
Previous sticky posts
triplecrownofexchanges)AO3 collection | Tag set | Browser app | Canon promo post | Beta post
Current Phase: Check-in week is upon us! Please look out for the check-in post, and either affirm that you're working on your assignment and expect to complete it, or default
Schedule
Nominations start: 18 August 2025Nominations close: 27 August (11:59pm EDT)
Sign-ups start: 2 September
Sign-ups close: 11 September
Assignments out by: 13 September
Assignment Swaps / FINAL Letter Completion Deadline*: 21 September
Check-in Week**: 23-30 November
Assignments due: 24 January 2026 (11:59pm EST)
Works revealed: 28 February (5pm EST)
Creators revealed: 14 March (5pm EST)
Click/expand this details tag to see more explanations, covering assignment swaps, check-in week, and other topics
*How do assignment swaps work? This exchange allows you to trade in your current assignment for a different one. This is intended as a safety net. Maybe you tried a new fandom to match a request and it didn't work out. Maybe you matched on something safe, but fell in love with something else after assignments went out. Whether you can swap to the new assignment of your choice will depend on several factors, including whether several other people are already creating for it. You can ask for any other assignment before September 21. Between September 21, 2025, and the main deadline of January 24, 2026, you can still trade in the assignment you hold for another one, but only if the one you want is listed as a pinch hit.
If you're writing a letter, I recommend you finish it during sign-ups so that your assigned creator can use it right away, but that doesn't always happen. So there's a hard deadline: please complete any linked letters by September 21; if you are matched to a recipient whose letter is incomplete after September 21, you are welcome to ask to swap to any other recipient throughout the exchange.
**What is Check-In Week? This is when you contact the mod on a check-in post at this community to confirm that you are committed to fulfilling your assignment(s). If you do not check in, you will be defaulted.
FFFX follows the pattern of many other Archive-of-Our-Own-based multifandom exchanges. The pool of available fandoms is created by nominations (eight fandoms, with six characters or relationships each, per person, with selective additions possible during sign-ups). When signing up, you can offer and request as few as four fandoms (one for offers), with one character or relationship in each, or as many as ten fandoms, with ten relationships in each. You will match on one of those characters or relationships (OR matching). FFFX allows original works prompts. FFFX does not match on freeform tags or rating.
Because this is an exchange for long works and many creators like to have something to go on, you must fill out your AO3 requests with your choice of the following: prompts, or notes on what appeals to you about a fandom, or general likes, or some combination of these.
Fandom promotion posts and guides to where your canon can be found are encouraged.
The mod can be reached at mod.modzilla@gmail.com as well as through this Dreamwidth community.
Previous sticky posts
Holding Things Together
22 Nov 2025 08:25poliphilo The larger and livelier a group becomes the more likely it is that trouble will arise and cliques will form. We get around 15-25 people attending worship at our Meeting House on a Sunday and around 10 on a Thursday. People drop in, people drop out. I make it my business to know the names and a little of the background of everyone who shows up but sometimes memory fails. We're at a level where unity becomes hard to maintain- and I'm aware of hairline cracks that could become fissures.
At area level- where Quakers from Meetings spread across half of Sussex from Seaford to Rye try to find common ground- there is undisguised disharmony. Ailz is at a get together this afternoon which will be dealing with the bugger-up that occured last Sunday. She says our visit to Bunhill Fields has helped her put things in perspective. When you're walking across the unmarked graves of nearly 100 people who died for their faith in the ghastly prisons of 17th century London the dissension and hurt we're experiencing seems not so very important.....
At area level- where Quakers from Meetings spread across half of Sussex from Seaford to Rye try to find common ground- there is undisguised disharmony. Ailz is at a get together this afternoon which will be dealing with the bugger-up that occured last Sunday. She says our visit to Bunhill Fields has helped her put things in perspective. When you're walking across the unmarked graves of nearly 100 people who died for their faith in the ghastly prisons of 17th century London the dissension and hurt we're experiencing seems not so very important.....
(no subject)
21 Nov 2025 23:23conuly in agonyauntDear Annie: I've always had a complicated relationship with my older sister, "Beth." She's the golden child -- successful, pretty, everyone's favorite. I'm more of the quiet one. I've never resented her accomplishments, but I've spent years feeling like I'm living in her shadow.
Recently, something strange happened. I got offered a promotion at work that would put me in a leadership role over a project Beth's company is contracted on. It's a huge opportunity. When I told my parents, they were polite but not enthusiastic. My mom actually said, "Well, let's hope that doesn't make things awkward for Beth."
Beth hasn't said much, just a text that said "Congrats," with a period. Not even an exclamation point.
Part of me wants to let it go and focus on the win. But another part of me feels really, really sad, like I'm still chasing approval I'll never get. I don't want this old family dynamic to steal the joy from something I worked hard for.
How do I celebrate myself without needing my family to do it with me? And is it worth trying to fix something that maybe they don't even think is broken? -- Out of the Shadow
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Recently, something strange happened. I got offered a promotion at work that would put me in a leadership role over a project Beth's company is contracted on. It's a huge opportunity. When I told my parents, they were polite but not enthusiastic. My mom actually said, "Well, let's hope that doesn't make things awkward for Beth."
Beth hasn't said much, just a text that said "Congrats," with a period. Not even an exclamation point.
Part of me wants to let it go and focus on the win. But another part of me feels really, really sad, like I'm still chasing approval I'll never get. I don't want this old family dynamic to steal the joy from something I worked hard for.
How do I celebrate myself without needing my family to do it with me? And is it worth trying to fix something that maybe they don't even think is broken? -- Out of the Shadow
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Friday is thankful it is Friday finally...and the Vertigo is gone!
21 Nov 2025 18:30shadowkatI'm procrastinating dinner, mainly because I don't know what to eat? (I have to throw out the chicken and chicken soup that I made last weekend - and haven't touched, after getting incredibly ill. I didn't get ill because of it? But the idea of reminds me of it - so just no.)
Both Crazy Workplace and Apartment Complex are having holiday parties the second week of December, and since I will be around - I should probably go to them. ( Read more... )
There's a new list of top 100 books - that is kind of interesting? - it's the Australian Radio List or what I want to call the Top 100 Books that have been, will be or are soon to be adapted into movies or television series. I've either read, tried to read, seen or tried to watch over half of them - some I have on my to see/to read list, and actually own. I could literally go down a good portion of that list and give recommendations. I'm tempted.
Decided on the left over baked salmon, celery, carrots and some quinoa.
Then watched Buffy S4 Primeval, after watching Yoko Factor the night before.
Buffy S4 Rewatch - Yoko Factor and Primeval
After watching Yoko Factor again, I get why the fandom split over the character of Spike to the degree it did? I'd forgotten how cool Spike was as an anti-hero character, and how good an antagonist. ( Read more... )
What's interesting about Angel and Buffy's cross-overs to each other's series - is that Buffy only crosses over to Angel in S1. ( Read more... )
At any rate, Yoko Factor reminds me of why I love this series. Snappy banter, which is just a joy to behold (a lot of television writers ironically can't write dialogue - how they become television writers without being able to write good dialogue is beyond me?). Also, Adam is actually palpable in the episode - due to Spike. I was actually rooting for him to get his chip out and disappointed he didn't. Although, they'd have to kill him off. So that wasn't happening.
There's a hilarious scene where Xander gives Spike a gun, and Spike gleefully points it at him - only to get a migraine. ( Read more... )
Primeval - eh, this feels like watching a bad comic book brought to life. I remember liking it better in the early 00s. It doesn't age well, and is kind of on the campy side? Forrest is ...annoyingly misogynistic - so much so, that it doesn't surprise me that Whedon went there again with Warren and Caleb. I prefer the villains who aren't misogynistic. I really did not like the villians in S4 at all. This episode just reminds me of why.
( Read more... )
Note while this is the last arc episode? It's not the last episode of the season. Which is interesting, and different from S1-3, in which it would have been the last episode. Showing that S4 was meant to be a bridge episode between S3 and S5.
Some say this is the best episode of S4, IMBD did, which makes me wonder about some of their reviewers? I mean obviously HUSH is the best episode, with several others coming close. HUSH is among the best of the series. Each season has one or two standout episodes. S4 is hands down - HUSH.
***
Crazy Workplace
Breaking Bad: I swear this place could be a Paddy Chafesky play. It is a Paddy Chafesky play. It might even be better if it was.
Me: Paddy Chafesky wrote Network right?
Breaking Bad: Yup, excellent writer.
ME: Agreed. I read all his plays in high school. (Don't remember them, but I did read them.)
I even put a Paddy Chafesky quote from NETWORK in my high school yearbook. "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take any longer." I kind of regret doing that. But I found it amusing at the time.
***
Now that the Vertigo is blessedly gone, I've a ENT on Monday about it. (Taking the day off.) I'd rather have had the ENT appointment on Tuesday when it was still there, bugging me. On the other hand - I wouldn't have been able to get to the ENT appointment or provided coherent information, so maybe not.
Both Crazy Workplace and Apartment Complex are having holiday parties the second week of December, and since I will be around - I should probably go to them. ( Read more... )
There's a new list of top 100 books - that is kind of interesting? - it's the Australian Radio List or what I want to call the Top 100 Books that have been, will be or are soon to be adapted into movies or television series. I've either read, tried to read, seen or tried to watch over half of them - some I have on my to see/to read list, and actually own. I could literally go down a good portion of that list and give recommendations. I'm tempted.
Decided on the left over baked salmon, celery, carrots and some quinoa.
Then watched Buffy S4 Primeval, after watching Yoko Factor the night before.
Buffy S4 Rewatch - Yoko Factor and Primeval
After watching Yoko Factor again, I get why the fandom split over the character of Spike to the degree it did? I'd forgotten how cool Spike was as an anti-hero character, and how good an antagonist. ( Read more... )
What's interesting about Angel and Buffy's cross-overs to each other's series - is that Buffy only crosses over to Angel in S1. ( Read more... )
At any rate, Yoko Factor reminds me of why I love this series. Snappy banter, which is just a joy to behold (a lot of television writers ironically can't write dialogue - how they become television writers without being able to write good dialogue is beyond me?). Also, Adam is actually palpable in the episode - due to Spike. I was actually rooting for him to get his chip out and disappointed he didn't. Although, they'd have to kill him off. So that wasn't happening.
There's a hilarious scene where Xander gives Spike a gun, and Spike gleefully points it at him - only to get a migraine. ( Read more... )
Primeval - eh, this feels like watching a bad comic book brought to life. I remember liking it better in the early 00s. It doesn't age well, and is kind of on the campy side? Forrest is ...annoyingly misogynistic - so much so, that it doesn't surprise me that Whedon went there again with Warren and Caleb. I prefer the villains who aren't misogynistic. I really did not like the villians in S4 at all. This episode just reminds me of why.
( Read more... )
Note while this is the last arc episode? It's not the last episode of the season. Which is interesting, and different from S1-3, in which it would have been the last episode. Showing that S4 was meant to be a bridge episode between S3 and S5.
Some say this is the best episode of S4, IMBD did, which makes me wonder about some of their reviewers? I mean obviously HUSH is the best episode, with several others coming close. HUSH is among the best of the series. Each season has one or two standout episodes. S4 is hands down - HUSH.
***
Crazy Workplace
Breaking Bad: I swear this place could be a Paddy Chafesky play. It is a Paddy Chafesky play. It might even be better if it was.
Me: Paddy Chafesky wrote Network right?
Breaking Bad: Yup, excellent writer.
ME: Agreed. I read all his plays in high school. (Don't remember them, but I did read them.)
I even put a Paddy Chafesky quote from NETWORK in my high school yearbook. "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take any longer." I kind of regret doing that. But I found it amusing at the time.
***
Now that the Vertigo is blessedly gone, I've a ENT on Monday about it. (Taking the day off.) I'd rather have had the ENT appointment on Tuesday when it was still there, bugging me. On the other hand - I wouldn't have been able to get to the ENT appointment or provided coherent information, so maybe not.
My great big transit adventure pt 3
21 Nov 2025 17:51flemmingsI'd scheduled a cab to take me down to my appointment at Service Ontario but today was the day those No park signs spraypainted onto the street for the last week came into effect as little bobcats ripped chunks out of the pavement and then filled them up again with asphalt. When I went to check 90 minutes before my due time, cars were able to pass, but there was no guarantee the bobcats wouldn't start on a new section. So I cancelled my cab and hoofed it over to Bathurst (shall be oh so happy when the Christie elevator becomes operational) and so down to College. Where my normal up elevator was out of service but I eventually located one in the labyrinthine and badly signposted MARS building. Up to the street and over to Bay and eventually located the totally unsignposted wheelchair entrance, and by dint of asking a security guard, the minisculely signposted elevator down.
I was early because of course I was, but they called me fifteen minutes after my appointed time and I was out ten minutes after. Found my MARS elevator no prob, empty subway train to St George, and announcements that train would bypass Spadina station because of a police investigation. Well, I wasn't going north, I was going west today, so down to the line 2 platform, black with the unlovely youth of TO and their backpacks and their hockey sticks and their shoving and jostling and loud whoops of glee. Ah well, knew I'd hit the student rush hour, shou ga nai. But the westbound train comes in, I get on, and then a stentorian loudspeaker says EASTBOUND TO KENNEDY, THIS TRAIN IS EASTBOUND TO KENNEDY. Bref, all westbound trains were turning back at St George because the investigation was at the line 2 Spadina station. So forced my way back through the crowd and tried to locate the elevator which was on the far side of the sea of humanity, both sides of the platform. And may I say, guys who stand on the platform edge looking down the tunnel in case the train might come earlier than announced, blissfully unaware of someone trying to pass them from behind, are asking to be shoved off said platform. Made it to the elevator along with many other disabled types with walkers, and mothers with tank strollers, and the elevator showed no signs of coming, and when it did it was full of tank strollers who decided no they didn't want to get off after all. One or two walkers made it on, also an unlovely youth who slid past me before I could move and stood there looking innocently over my head.
Got to the street eventually and then walked home. The one good thing being that Wieners was still open and I could buy fruit fly traps. Guy recommended fly paper but I've dealt with fly paper before and don't care to repeat the experience. So 8000 steps today and a temporary health card and the real thing if and when the post office agrees.
The odd thing being that both my health card and ID date from four years ago and I seem to remember going down to Bay St to get them, pandemic or no, but I have no record at all of doing so.
I was early because of course I was, but they called me fifteen minutes after my appointed time and I was out ten minutes after. Found my MARS elevator no prob, empty subway train to St George, and announcements that train would bypass Spadina station because of a police investigation. Well, I wasn't going north, I was going west today, so down to the line 2 platform, black with the unlovely youth of TO and their backpacks and their hockey sticks and their shoving and jostling and loud whoops of glee. Ah well, knew I'd hit the student rush hour, shou ga nai. But the westbound train comes in, I get on, and then a stentorian loudspeaker says EASTBOUND TO KENNEDY, THIS TRAIN IS EASTBOUND TO KENNEDY. Bref, all westbound trains were turning back at St George because the investigation was at the line 2 Spadina station. So forced my way back through the crowd and tried to locate the elevator which was on the far side of the sea of humanity, both sides of the platform. And may I say, guys who stand on the platform edge looking down the tunnel in case the train might come earlier than announced, blissfully unaware of someone trying to pass them from behind, are asking to be shoved off said platform. Made it to the elevator along with many other disabled types with walkers, and mothers with tank strollers, and the elevator showed no signs of coming, and when it did it was full of tank strollers who decided no they didn't want to get off after all. One or two walkers made it on, also an unlovely youth who slid past me before I could move and stood there looking innocently over my head.
Got to the street eventually and then walked home. The one good thing being that Wieners was still open and I could buy fruit fly traps. Guy recommended fly paper but I've dealt with fly paper before and don't care to repeat the experience. So 8000 steps today and a temporary health card and the real thing if and when the post office agrees.
The odd thing being that both my health card and ID date from four years ago and I seem to remember going down to Bay St to get them, pandemic or no, but I have no record at all of doing so.
Life with two kids: Limited Musical Choices
21 Nov 2025 21:58andrewduckerWe have a Spotify family account, so I thought I'd add Sophia to it.
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
SFFest38: Prompt Submission Reminder
21 Nov 2025 07:16spikedluv in smallfandomfestToday, Friday, November 21, is the last day to get your prompts in for this round! If you've got more prompts to submit, or you've been putting it off, head on over to the Prompt Submission Post and prompt away!
Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
21 Nov 2025 12:00andrewducker- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
- (tags:oxytocin psychology morality sharing business )
- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
- (tags:games history Microsoft opensource )
- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
- (tags:women work society satire funny USA )
- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
- (tags:lotr viaNancyLebov video music )