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Happy Little Delusions (by busaikko) (Teen)

Shows: SGA
Rec Category: Apocafic
Characters: John Sheppard/Nancy Sheppard, Sam Carter
Categories: F/M
Words: 3254
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

busaikko
Author's Website: busaikko on AO3
Link: Happy Little Delusions on AO3, or backup on Wayback in case AO3's playing up.
Why This Must Be Read: This is set in Vegas'verse and it goes AU near the end of the episode, as in this fic John doesn't manage to get the Wraith killed in time and its signal gets through. So the Wraith fleet is coming for Earth and John's recovering after almost dying, at Nancy's, as she's still his listed next of kin. Beautifully written and with great characterisation for Nancy and John, this is kind of bleak, yes, as the apocalypse looms, but at the end there's some hope, and some redemption.

( snippet of the fic under here )

holiday wishes

My problem is that there's nobody in a position to get me the things I want.

They're either so ginormously big (peace on earth, fairness for people experiencing systemic 'isms', health, wealth, happiness) or impossibly specific (a Captain Hill epic that is well written and which I don't have to do myself).

All the middling stuff? I can pretty much manage myself.

I even organised my own 7x7 birthday party (completely forgot that I was going to give a speech about why 7x7) had a great time, had dinner with friends last night, watched the Matildas (Aussie national women's soccer team) play against NZ to win 5-0 with a friend and her kids, her eldest son (12) swapped a few chips for popcorn chicken bits, and later on asked me a bunch of questions like I was a trustable adult...

I hope to snuggle with my nephew come Christmas (not entirely sure I'll get that, he might end up being a wriggly boy and want mama), and to get out on the water in a friends' boat, and to see the cousins for Christmas...

Anyway, I'm tired rn, so more about the party shortly. And I haven't forgotten Georgia, I've just been so busy with the party (and with The Month Of Writing Dangerously) that I haven't managed to gather my thoughts.

Entry tags:

PHs #65-72

We have eight new pinch hits, numbered #65-72. These pinch hits are due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.

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

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

Also! We now have a pinch hitters' prompts post! If you weren't signed up and you're pinch hitting, your rare fandom prompts are very welcome!

PH #65: 凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon), Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song), Level Clear! - Tom Cardy (Song), 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga), Bang Brave Bang Bravern (Anime)

Request 1 by Marks
凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon)
Characters: Wreck (To Be Hero X), Original Nice (To Be Hero X), Dragon Boy (To Be Hero X), Yang Cheng (To Be Hero X)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Anyone who follows me on social media this year has unfortunately had to watch me descend into madness week after week as TBHX aired. To say this series has occupied my thoughts is the understatement of the century. I requested these four, but really I'd also be happy to get a gen ensemble piece featuring any of the nominated characters (of which there are so, so many).
I don't mind an unhappy or ambiguous ending for a fic set in this fandom. No need for a happy ending when there are so few in canon. Also, I don't care what version of the names you use for any of the characters. Whatever you’re comfortable with is fine by me.
As for these four, I give permission for any of the following character configurations: any of the four alone in a solo character examination piece, gen featuring any combination of the four requested characters, and then the ships Original Nice/Wreck, Original Nice/Yang Cheng, Dragon Boy/Yang Cheng, or Dragon Boy/Original Nice. I also love Yang Cheng/Shang Chao, and I would have requested Shang Chao, too, if I could have requested five characters!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 2 by Marks
Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song)
Characters: Psychiatrist (Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song)), Patient (Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song))
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Name these two whatever you want. Call them Tom and Brian if that's easiest, but I’m fine with renaming the characters, or leaving them nameless.
We love a five-minute fandom, don't we? I periodically get obsessed with Tom Cardy's music and the possibilities therein, and him dragging Brian David Gilbert into the mix is only a plus. I'm really happy that the song's psychiatrist and patient found their destiny in each other, so any exploration of that would be fantastic, romantic or otherwise. Maybe the patient decides to go into psychiatry, too, to see if there are any other beautiful minds out there. Maybe the psychiatrist struggles with the knowledge that his soulmate is a patient and the moral and ethical quandaries that introduces. Maybe they go out into the world together to look for ways to travel through space and time, or they just find a bear learning how to water ski.
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 3 by Marks
Level Clear! - Tom Cardy (Song)
Characters: Hero (Level Clear! - Tom Cardy), Bad Guy (Level Clear! - Tom Cardy)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Name these two whatever you want, or leave them nameless. This can be based off of just the song, or the extended worldbuilding that the video introduces, such as things like the hero being Super European laborer sibling saving the Princess or finally opting to walk away from the game at the end of the song.
Something about the relentless pursuit of happiness, achieving it, and still never being fulfilled is a real punch to the gut, and Tom Cardy is really good at introducing deep topics and approaching them in the stupidest way possible. I'd like to see the hero and the bad guy come to some sort of agreement to coexist together as allies or friends or romantically because the song makes it clear that they're pretty wrapped up together. As the bad guy says, "Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?" and clearly the hero trying everything under the sun doesn't really work to erase the high of conquering his enemy.
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 4 by Marks
佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga)
Characters: Sasaki Shuumei, Miyano Yoshikazu
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Sasaki and Miyano are my two favorite weirdos in love. I love that their slow burn actually led to something canonical, and I love how careful Miyano was as he considered Sasaki's confession, even though making him wait six months for an answer almost killed me. I know only the manga is in the tagset, but if you're anime-only or haven't read the last couple of manga volumes, I don't mind you branching off from another point for something canon-divergent. I'm very much into Sasamiya as a ship, though if you want to write something non-romance focused like Miyano getting used to his first weeks at university, that would be great!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 5 by Marks
Bang Brave Bang Bravern (Anime)
Characters: Lewis Smith | Bravern, Ao Isami
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Bravern absolutely rewrote my brain when it came out. It gave me everything I've always wanted in a mecha anime, and several things I had no idea that I wanted.
For my fic's character interactions, I want Isami in it no matter what, and I also want some iteration of Lewis included, but I don't care if Lewis is Lewis or Bravern or both. Something like just Isami realizing while in Bravern that Bravern is also Lewis would be great, but I'm also fine with Isami/Bravern or Isami/Smith alone.
Isami and Smith had one of the best canonical love stories I've watched possibly ever, and that applies to Isami and Bravern as well, so I'd love a story where they make those feelings obvious and consummated. If you really just want to write about them fighting aliens or boxing or chilling with Lulu, that's all cool, too. Gen stories involving Lulu and Superbia or any of Isami and Smith's coworkers would also be fun as hell!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

PH #66: The Great North (Cartoon), Murdoch Mysteries, Adults (TV 2025), Selfie (TV)

Request 1 by sandyk
The Great North (Cartoon)
Characters: Honeybee Shaw-Tobin, Judy Tobin, Dirtrude "Aunt Dirt" Tobin, Kima (the Great North)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Exception: as long as Honeybee is there with JUdy and/or Dirtrude, I'm good.
DNW: first person, second person, incest ( I do no need to relive Wolf and Kathleen), rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, no infidelity for Honeybee, gore, do not want the return of Kathleen.

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 2 by sandyk
Murdoch Mysteries
Characters: Violet Hart, Effie Newsome (Murdoch Mysteries), Louise Cherry, Llewellyn Watts
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Exception: Either Violet, Effie and Watts or Violet, Effie and Louise, Watts not required.
DNW: WWI, Violet as villain, Watts in a straight relationship, first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore.

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 3 by sandyk
Adults (TV 2025)
Characters: Paul Baker, Anton Evans
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore, Paul Baker and Anton not being together (Open relationship? Sleeping with other people? All good as long as Paul Baker and Anton are also together).

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 4 by sandyk
Selfie (TV)
Characters: Henry Higgs (Selfie (TV)), Eliza Dooley (Selfie (TV)), Charmonique Whitaker (Selfie (TV))
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore.

Letter:
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PH #67: Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox, Apothecia (Webcomic), LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Swarm (Cartoon), Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Request 1 by Senri
Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
Characters: Lucifer (Vintner's Luck), Aurora de Valday, Xas (Vintner's Luck)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Groups it is ok to write:
Lucifer & Xas
Lucifer & Aurora
Put another way, I am very interested in Lucifer and want fic that features him in some way, whether you incorporate all three characters or one of these duos.
DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I just really love the romance and menace of Lucifer, and I love Xas and Aurora and the interesting reactions actual Satan himself brings out in them. What if Aurora goes to hell and meets Lucifer again? Or some backstory between him and Xas...? I'm also familiar with The Angel's Cut should you wish to reference it.
I don't much care for Sobran, but he certainly looms large in Xas and Aurora's mind, so mentions are fine, but please don't focus on him.

Letter:
https://sushiflop.dreamwidth.org/391735.html

Request 2 by Senri
Apothecia (Webcomic)
Characters: Jessie (Apothecia), Spore Alien (Apothecia)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I've loved this story of a very moral(ly rigid) teen and an evil alien who is the only person who listens to her for a very, very long time. I love that the spore alien feels weirdly parental towards Jessie early on, and that they end up bodysharing later... more twisted philosophical discussions, alien horror, and battles (or meetings) in the center of the mind would be just the thing.

Letter:
https://sushiflop.dreamwidth.org/391735.html

Request 3 by Senri
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Swarm (Cartoon)
Characters: Swarm (Love Death Robots: Swarm), Galina Mirny (Love Death Robots: Swarm)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNWs
► ~~Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)~~ waived for this request
► ~~Pregnancy fic~~ waived for this request
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable) Caveat for this request: references to Afriel/Galina or even current, twisted Afriel/Galina alongside Galina & Swarm or Galina/Swarm is ok
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
When I first watched this short I was so sure the ending twist would be that Galina regretted betraying the biome to humanity and had gone over to Swarm willingly. I'd love a twisted fix-it fic written in that vein, or perhaps a story where Swarm and Galina build some kind of twisted relationship through their years together. Swarm interfaces directly with her brain, imagine the twisted kink and romantic potential. Galina is in hell, she doesn't have to be trapped there; her mind could be free...

Letter:
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Request 4 by Senri
Sandkings - George R. R. Martin
Characters: Jala Wo, Shade (Sandkings), White Sandkings
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Groups it is ok to write:
Jala Wo & Shade
Jala Wo & Shade & White Sandkings
DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
►► Death of Jala and/or Shade
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I am very interested in Jala and Shade, their history together... and... their future together? What other adventures and mishaps have they encountered through their years of partnership together? If you include the White Sandkings, I'd love something about how they were dealt with, or even if they could be helped.

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PH #68: Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000), Hotel Portofino (TV), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Request 1 by Alley_Skywalker
Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000)
Characters: Ivan Alekseyevich Dolgoruky (Secrets of the Palace...), Pyotr II Alekseyevich | Peter II of Russia (Secrets of the Palace...)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 2 by Alley_Skywalker
Hotel Portofino (TV)
Characters: Anish Sengupta, Lucian Ainsworth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Lucian/Nish is OTP ❤
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 3 by Alley_Skywalker
Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Characters: Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (W&P), Fyodor "Fedya" Ivanovich Dolokhov (W&P), Elena "Hélène" Vasilyevna Kuragina (W&P)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Ship preferences for this request: Dolokhov/Anatole, Dolokho/Helene, Anatole/Dolokhov/Helene
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

CLAIMED - PH #69: The Bone Harp - Victoria Goddard, Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo, The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-, Hurog - Patricia Briggs, Spindle's End - Robin McKinley, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLAIMED - PH #70: Berserk (Anime & Manga), Titanic (1997), Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game), Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, High Potential (TV), Burn Notice (TV 2007), Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by redbelles
Berserk (Anime & Manga)
Characters: Guts (Berserk), Casca (Berserk)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 2 by redbelles
Titanic (1997)
Characters: Rose DeWitt Bukater, Jack Dawson
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 3 by redbelles
Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game)
Characters: Duchess (Elden Ring Nightreign), Heolstor the Nightlord (Elden Ring Nightreign)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 4 by redbelles
Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce
Characters: Buriram Tourakom, Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak (Song of the Lioness)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 5 by redbelles
High Potential (TV)
Characters: Morgan Gillory, Adam Karadec (High Potential)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 6 by redbelles
Burn Notice (TV 2007)
Characters: Fiona Glenanne, Michael Westen
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!
Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 7 by redbelles
Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews
Characters: Hugh d'Ambray, Elara Harper (Kate Daniels), Darren Argent | Derek Gaunt, Aurelia Ryder | Julie Olsen
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!
Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

CLAIMED - PH #71: Witches of Thistle Grove Series - Lana Harper, Codename: Kids Next Door, Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by teacup_of_doom
Witches of Thistle Grove Series - Lana Harper
Characters: Talia Avamarov, Emmy Harlow, Nina Blackmoore, Dasha Avramov
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, I'd like to see what you think Talia and Emmy get up to after the events of Payback's A Witch, through the rest of the current series - if you'd like, or just something they get up to on the sidelines. Use as many other characters as you think fits the story.
Spicy? Funny? Absolute chaos? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

Request 2 by teacup_of_doom
Codename: Kids Next Door
Characters: Nigel Uno | Numbuh 1, Hoagie Pennywhistle Gilligan Jr. | Numbuh 2, Abigail Lincoln | Numbuh 5, Kuki Sanban | Numbuh 3
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, your mission is to come up with a mission for our KND heroes, and write them going through it! You can use any of the KND characters you'd like.
Funny? Absolute chaos? Are they going up against old villeins, or a new threat? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

Request 3 by teacup_of_doom
Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce
Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau (Song of the Lioness), Jonathan of Conté, Myles of Olau, George Cooper (Song of the Lioness)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, I'd like to see something of our characters, either while training to be knights, or once they are officially knighted. Maybe they get up to some shenanigans in the palace, or they go out for a night in George's court? Maybe Liam and George share secrets? Feel free to use any characters from the books as you like (bonus points for Faithful!).
Spicy? Funny? Absolute chaos? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

CLAIMED - PH #72: Bodies (TV 2023), There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm, Midnight Mass (TV)

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
Bodies (TV 2023)
Characters: Iris Maplewood
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No prompts

No letter

Request 2 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
Characters: Marion Wheeler (TINAD), Adam Wheeler (TINAD), Worldbuilding (TINAD)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

No prompts

No letter

Request 3 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
Midnight Mass (TV)
Characters: Father Paul Hill | Monsignor John Pruitt, Beverly Keane
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Anything on a scale from the lightest of fluff to pure angst (including character death) is fine. Writer can lean hard into the vampire aspect of canon, or completely ignore it.
I'm a fan of AUs and crossovers (I'd prefer fandoms I'm familiar with for crossovers).

No letter

December

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Multifandom: Blood Drive

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Between the Lines by Sholio

Show: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: gen
Warnings: None
Word Count: 6,727
Author on DW:

sholio
Author's Website: sholiofic.com

Link: Between the Lines on AO3

Author's Summary: Sometimes you'd never dream of being friends with someone, especially the most annoying person in Antarctica, until you get stuck with them in another galaxy.

Why This Must Be Read: I love this story so much. Sholio hits it out of the park with this story where Sheppard considers his first impression of McKay then follows them through canon and the amazing friendship they are building together. It's sweet and fun. I've probably read it several times because of the humor mixed with just the perfect view of them. Sholio really understands John and Rodney and gets their witty banter down perfectly. I can't recommend it enough.

And! There's a wonderful podfic by Rheanna for it as well which I've listened to at least twice. One of my favorites.

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Nobody Said It Was Easy by Kodiak Bear Country (G)

Show: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: gen
Warnings: None
Word Count: 6,516
Author on LJ: Kodiak Bear Country No DW
Author's Website: Not on AO3, so fanfiction.net link
Link: Nobody Said It Was Easy (ffn). or on LJ

Author's Summary: Sheppard and McKay are trapped in a cave Sheppard reflects on how he got to where he is on his birthday.

Why This Must Be Read: Kodiak Bear Country is one of my favorite authors and she always right a spot on John Sheppard. In this story, she has John reflecting on his past and his choices as he and Rodney wait for rescue. It's his 40th birthday. It's written before we learned about John's dad and other stuff in canon, but it's not far off from what canon decided. I love this John so worried about Rodney while thinking about what brought him to this point. It's sweet, reflective, and a quick read.

Unfortunately, Kodiak Bear Country has all her stuff on LJ and fanfiction.net and not on AO3, but I still think it's really worth the read anyway.

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Current Mood: hopeful

Entry tags:

holiday cards

Holiday Cards

Same thing I said last year time slipped away from me. I meant to do this a while back. It's time for the holiday card exchange. I miss the paper mail days and I enjoy sending and receiving cards (if you want a non religious one, let me know. I have plenty of both, mostly because charities keeps sending me tons of religious freebies).

I am willing to send overseas (you'll want to request fast on them given I'm late) If we've exchanged before, don't assume I have any idea where I put your address because my apartment is absolutely chaotic at this point. I'll have these comments screened but you can feel free to DM me too.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: The Running Man

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Writerly Ways

I have nothing to talk about writing wise today. My brain dribbled out my ears hours ago. I'm also annoyed that CVS is out of my insulin again. Eye rolls

But there are joys, like the acceptance from all of yinz even if I can't keep up on comments right now AND I had a second online concert. This one was for Valentine Wolf's new album. It was good.

Oh I suppose I could put this in for writerly ways based off a rant by Mortius on YT (he rants over the Amazon ads as he's reviewing Hazbin) Remember that if it is a digital copy you DO NOT own it, even if you 'bought it.' So if you have a book you love to reread, let me suggest buying a paper copy. I've already had Amazon gut my TBR pile when they decided to no longer carry those books. I know one of the animation companies have done this and people lost every anime they had bought. This is also why I wish Disney would put The Owl House on dvd (since it's a very queer teen show and I can see them being forced to delete or them just deciding eh it's been X number of years, time to go). I did end up buying the Hazbin DVDs for S1 for just this reason.

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Mo Dao Zu Shi: House on Haunted Hill, by JustAWanderingBabbit

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen, background M/M (Everything implied no specifics); Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao & Nie Mingjue; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen, A-Qing, Original Character
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 6,330
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, OC POV, Outsider POV, Neurodivergent Character POV, disability as a communication obstacle, heavy verse-specific content
Creator Tags: Communication is hard when you're dead, We ain't afraid of no ghosts, We've been dead for years, Bad jokes because writer is in a mood, NaNoWriMo Breaktime, ghost hunt - Freeform, mystery haunting, Undead Investigation Team

Creator Links: (AO3)

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Theme: Mystery & Suspense, Casefic, Just Plain Fun, Outsider POV, Post-Canon

Summary: The Vermillion Peony Tree has stood for two hundred years... It might stand for two hundred more.... Given no one's stupid enough to annoy its guardian.

In which a possibly familiar Original Character meets a group of very familiar Night Hunters, attempting to clear a haunting from an inn built maybe a bit too close to the Burial Mounds.

(Part of the Mending the Pieces Universe.)

Author’s Notes:

* Not every monster or ghost you go after is a real monster. Sometimes the ones you have to worry about are the living people.
* Which, of course, was the message of the early Scooby Doo Adventures. Wish they hadn't lost that later on.

Reccer's Notes: A post-canon Halloween Scooby-Doo homage in which sapient fierce corpses Nie Mingjue and Song Zichen and demi-undead Meng Yao, incognito and under aliases, have become a wandering occult investigation trio. (Or, to the inn stableboy who can see ghosts Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing, a quintet.)

(JustAWanderingBabbit is the sort of author who maintains a repertory company of sorts; POV character Ah Bai is an OC who recurs in several of her MDZS works.)

Fanwork Links: House on Haunted Hill (AO3-locked).

Current Mood: accomplished

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d&d: titansfall

Titansfall D&D: Summary for 11/30 Game

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: nervous
Current Location: My computer
Current Music: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish!!

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[#281] recuerda tu muerte (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

Theme Prompt: #281 -- Mirage
Title: recuerda tu muerte (remember your death)
Fandom: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (ft. references to Puss in Boots 1 + Shrek Forever After's alt timeline)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (thanks, Death and Puss' canonically awful mental health)
Word Count: 813 words
Author's Note: Oops! All Emotions About Spanish Orange Cats! (aka I rewatched Last Wish last week and now I am thinking about Puss' wack ass relations to Death / Lobo lol)
Bonus: Yes (kind of)
Summary: Puss and the various times he has seen the bounty hunter so dead set on ending his last life.

--
( At the start of the last life.. )

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, November 30

Cordelia: Well, all I know is, my cheerleading squad wasted a lot of pep on losers. It's about time our school excelled at something.
Willow: Hmm. You're forgetting our high mortality rate.

~~S2E20: Go Fish~~

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new destructions in the sky, by elumish (M)

Show: SG-1, Teen Wolf, The Sentinel

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: Clone Jack O'Neill/Stiles Stilinski
Categories: slash, crossover,
Warnings: canon-typical violence
Word Count: 90,824
Author on LJ:

elumish No DW account found.
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: new destructions in the sky

And a set of stories in the same universe: the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky worth checking out.

Author's Summary:

Go to the Sentinel/Guide conference, Lydia said. It’ll be useful, Lydia said. You might even find your Sentinel, Lydia said, because of course in the ridiculous town of Beacon Hills that’s full of supernatural creatures there is precisely one Sentinel of the right age and Parrish is already her Guide.

Why This Must Be Read:

This really is for the Teen Wolf fans who also adore Stargate SG-1. This is a Stiles-centric fic from start to end but Stiles is a Guide who ends up with Clone Jack O'Neill as his Sentinel. It's a Stiles who doesn't want to be a Guide. And Clone Jack still remembers being bonded to Daniel. That's as messy as it sounds.

Add in rogue NID agents kidnapping Guides, a confused Sheriff who is not happy with the apparent age of his son's Sentinel, werewolves, NDAs up the wazoo, and a frustrated Blair who is challenged every step of the way by Stiles who asks 'why' about everything and you have a fascinating fic that brings some of our favorite people into one place.

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Link Click: LC Rare Character Semiflash

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[Challenge #478] BtVS / Spuffy — Her Champion

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fanfiction: dragon age

Fic: Not Quite Birds of a Feather (Dragon Age)

Not Quite Birds of a Feather (1418 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Aeducan/Leliana/Morrigan (Dragon Age), Female Aeducan/Leliana (Dragon Age), Female Aeducan/Morrigan (Dragon Age), Leliana/Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Characters: Female Aeducan (Dragon Age), Leliana (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Complicated Relationships, Dragon Age Poly Exchange, One Shot, Polyamory
Summary: The three of them had almost nothing in common. It shouldn't have worked. Yet somehow it did.

Current Mood: creative

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fanfiction: dragon age

Fic: No Strings (Dragon Age)

No Strings (1466 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jowan/Cullen Rutherford/Male Surana
Characters: Cullen Rutherford, Jowan (Dragon Age), Male Surana (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Denial of Feelings, Dragon Age Poly Exchange, Kinloch Hold (Dragon Age), One Shot, Secret Relationship, Teenagers, Trans Male Character
Summary: It didn't mean anything. If they kept telling themselves that much, then maybe it would be true.