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neveralarchHello author! Hope you're as excited about Yuletide as I am :) Treats are also welcome, if anyone's wondering!
Let me make this easy-ish: I'm probably going to be happy with whatever you're thinking of writing. In general terms, I really like happy fics, funny fics, and I always have a serious craving for fics where someone is mildly sick/injured, has screwed up, or is just stressed out and someone else helps them out. I will read most things and love them, including dark fic, plotty fic, ship fic, and so on and so on. I will love your gen fic, and I will also love your smut - I do have some notes about pairings in my requests, but please don't take them as demands, just suggestions.
DNWs: I generally have to be careful reading things with horror (especially body horror), acute embarrassment, death as a major plot point (or philosophical discussion), incest, underage character/of age character, and rape/non-con. If it's something incidental, I can probably deal, but a fic focusing on any of these things would be really difficult for me to read. I know several of these things come up in the canons I requested, and I would be ok with something that discusses it at about the same level as canon does - just not in much more graphic detail.
Otherwise: go wild. Specific requests are reposted here for your convenience.
The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
Ayushiridara | Third Prince (The Radiant Emperor Series), General Ouyang (The Radiant Emperor Series), Wang Baoxiang, Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang
I was really fascinated in this series by characters' relationship to masculinity as something they want/don't want/resent/revel in... I would love something really digging into that with one or all of these characters. The contrast between Ouyang and Wang Baoxiang was especially compelling to me, since Ouyang is so reluctant to recognize it and most of the books are so focused on Zhu Yuanzhang - it just seems like a great place to build a story.
If that's not interesting to you (or you want more ship guidance haha) I was really into the Third Prince/Wang Biaoxiang's power dynamics and how Wang Biaoxiang is kind of doing gay-for-pay but seems to be enjoying it under the surface. I also have A Thing about sleep deprivation, and it would be great to spend more time in Wang Biaoxiang's muddled headspace and how he navigates the world when it's in a bit of a fog. I also loved the sadism elements of Zhu Yuanzhang/Ouyang, and would love to see Ouyang have to grapple a little more with Zhu's complex gender identity. Gen or ship fic of any rating is equally good for me.
DNWs: For this fandom particularly, I'm totally cool with wacky AUs (these characters in a coffee shop would be so funny), but would rather receive a fic in the canon time period than a normal modern AU.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Eugenides (Queen's Thief), Attolia | Irene
I'm fully obsessed with Eugenides and Irene and the fact that she cut his hand off and they're in love and they just live that life every day. I can't handle it!! Would love to see anything just really rolling around in the mess of their relationship and how affectionate yet distant they can be with each other.
If you're interested in writing explicit fic, I would love to see fem-dom with them (or Irene on top). If you're more of a gen person, I don't need a super shippy fic - just something about how they navigate the court together would be great. I'm also super interested in AUs, and how on earth 'she cut off m hand and I sulked for months and we're in love' would translate into a modern AU or similar.
DNWs: For this fandom particularly, I'm totally cool with Irene and Eugenides having an open marriage but I really don't want cheating or break-up fic.
Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)
Dorothy "Dot" Malto (Transformers: Earthspark), Megatron (Transformers: Earthspark)
I REALLY just want Dot and Megatron hanging out in the old days... Or the current days... SURELY they must have time to jet around and reminisce a bit. Gen/platonic fic very welcome, but I absolutely wouldn't say no to shipfic either (or Alex getting involved haha). Weird AUs also very welcome - I'm imagining them in a coffee shop and it's cracking me up.
Bottoms (Movie 2023)
Josie (Bottoms), PJ (Bottoms), Hazel Callahan, Isabel (Bottoms)
UGH I loved this movie and all the different flavors of lesbians it gave us. It would be great to see what happens with Josie, PJ, Hazel, and/or Isabel's lives after they graduate high school and enter the 'real' world. Do they get into hijinks? Meet girls? Fall back in with each other? Join boxing gyms?
I would happily take gen/platonic fic in this fandom, or shipfic featuring any combination of these characters (really can't think of a pairing I wouldn't like here). I'd also be super interested in an AU that dumps one or more of these characters into the plot of some other movie, like Legally Blonde, Narnia, or whatever other nonsense crossover you'd like to try out.
DNWs: Please no serious fic that deals with the consequences of them killing an entire football team.
Let me make this easy-ish: I'm probably going to be happy with whatever you're thinking of writing. In general terms, I really like happy fics, funny fics, and I always have a serious craving for fics where someone is mildly sick/injured, has screwed up, or is just stressed out and someone else helps them out. I will read most things and love them, including dark fic, plotty fic, ship fic, and so on and so on. I will love your gen fic, and I will also love your smut - I do have some notes about pairings in my requests, but please don't take them as demands, just suggestions.
DNWs: I generally have to be careful reading things with horror (especially body horror), acute embarrassment, death as a major plot point (or philosophical discussion), incest, underage character/of age character, and rape/non-con. If it's something incidental, I can probably deal, but a fic focusing on any of these things would be really difficult for me to read. I know several of these things come up in the canons I requested, and I would be ok with something that discusses it at about the same level as canon does - just not in much more graphic detail.
Otherwise: go wild. Specific requests are reposted here for your convenience.
The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
Ayushiridara | Third Prince (The Radiant Emperor Series), General Ouyang (The Radiant Emperor Series), Wang Baoxiang, Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang
I was really fascinated in this series by characters' relationship to masculinity as something they want/don't want/resent/revel in... I would love something really digging into that with one or all of these characters. The contrast between Ouyang and Wang Baoxiang was especially compelling to me, since Ouyang is so reluctant to recognize it and most of the books are so focused on Zhu Yuanzhang - it just seems like a great place to build a story.
If that's not interesting to you (or you want more ship guidance haha) I was really into the Third Prince/Wang Biaoxiang's power dynamics and how Wang Biaoxiang is kind of doing gay-for-pay but seems to be enjoying it under the surface. I also have A Thing about sleep deprivation, and it would be great to spend more time in Wang Biaoxiang's muddled headspace and how he navigates the world when it's in a bit of a fog. I also loved the sadism elements of Zhu Yuanzhang/Ouyang, and would love to see Ouyang have to grapple a little more with Zhu's complex gender identity. Gen or ship fic of any rating is equally good for me.
DNWs: For this fandom particularly, I'm totally cool with wacky AUs (these characters in a coffee shop would be so funny), but would rather receive a fic in the canon time period than a normal modern AU.
The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Eugenides (Queen's Thief), Attolia | Irene
I'm fully obsessed with Eugenides and Irene and the fact that she cut his hand off and they're in love and they just live that life every day. I can't handle it!! Would love to see anything just really rolling around in the mess of their relationship and how affectionate yet distant they can be with each other.
If you're interested in writing explicit fic, I would love to see fem-dom with them (or Irene on top). If you're more of a gen person, I don't need a super shippy fic - just something about how they navigate the court together would be great. I'm also super interested in AUs, and how on earth 'she cut off m hand and I sulked for months and we're in love' would translate into a modern AU or similar.
DNWs: For this fandom particularly, I'm totally cool with Irene and Eugenides having an open marriage but I really don't want cheating or break-up fic.
Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)
Dorothy "Dot" Malto (Transformers: Earthspark), Megatron (Transformers: Earthspark)
I REALLY just want Dot and Megatron hanging out in the old days... Or the current days... SURELY they must have time to jet around and reminisce a bit. Gen/platonic fic very welcome, but I absolutely wouldn't say no to shipfic either (or Alex getting involved haha). Weird AUs also very welcome - I'm imagining them in a coffee shop and it's cracking me up.
Bottoms (Movie 2023)
Josie (Bottoms), PJ (Bottoms), Hazel Callahan, Isabel (Bottoms)
UGH I loved this movie and all the different flavors of lesbians it gave us. It would be great to see what happens with Josie, PJ, Hazel, and/or Isabel's lives after they graduate high school and enter the 'real' world. Do they get into hijinks? Meet girls? Fall back in with each other? Join boxing gyms?
I would happily take gen/platonic fic in this fandom, or shipfic featuring any combination of these characters (really can't think of a pairing I wouldn't like here). I'd also be super interested in an AU that dumps one or more of these characters into the plot of some other movie, like Legally Blonde, Narnia, or whatever other nonsense crossover you'd like to try out.
DNWs: Please no serious fic that deals with the consequences of them killing an entire football team.
