Past Imperfect, Future Unknown Letter

[weakinteraction]

I am very excited for this exchange. Please know that anything you come up with really will be automatically awesome as far as I'm concerned simply because it involves this theme.

My AO3 name is weakinteraction -- same as this dreamwidth account.


I am up for a wide range of types of fanworks, and equally happy with ratings anywhere on the scale.

I genuinely do equally like all of gen, slash, het and femslash. On the shipping side of things, I don't really have NOTPs in any of these fandoms, so any combination of characters that you're interested in is absolutely fine with me, and I don't have any objection to requested and/or unrequested characters in background pairings. (As a general note, if you are going in a shippy direction I am more than happy to handwave that Everyone Is Bi And Poly for the purposes of fanworks.)

Aside from the time travel tropes (which I'm not really talking about in this section because they're the freeforms for this exchange -- though to be honest a lot of them are just "more of what I like in canon" in this case), I am keen on:

• canon-divergent AUs (which I consider to bet time-travel-adjacent even when they're not explicitly created by a time travel situation)
  
• people with issues relating to identity (in the sense of things like secret identities and amnesia)
  
• telepathy
  
• A whole raft of different relationship dynamics, eg friends-to-lovers, friends-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers, lovers-to-enemies(-who-are-maybe-occasionally-still-lovers-against-their-better-judgement), loyalty kink, and you-and-me-against-the-universe sorts of situations
  
• Many (but not quite all) of my favourite characters share traits of being competent and getting on with their jobs/vocations/whatever, particularly in the sense of Doing The Right Thing over their strong personal preferences to do the opposite and/or against a general angsty background.

Fic likes: Overall, I am honestly very easy to please; I genuinely like pretty much all types of fic, from humorous vignettes, to angsty introspection, to twisty plotty adventure stories, casefic, slice of life, or digging into the canon's worldbuilding, and all points in between. I do want to make a positive point of the fact that fic-wise I'm always up for non-standard formats, anything from epistolary or verse through to stories presented through documentary evidence, 1st/2nd person, present/future tense, IF, etc. etc. Again, if it works for what you want to do, I'll lap it up. (This is not to say that I don't enjoy reading third person, past tense, because I definitely do! I just don't want you to be put off doing other things if your inspiration takes you in that direction.)

Art likes: I do like use of light and shade in a picture, and interesting Easter-egg-y type stuff going on in the background (if there is one). An action scene that's a snapshot from an adventure, the characters in the middle of kicking ass. Goofy hijinks when the characters are off-duty. Portrayals of canon-divergent AU versions of the characters very, very welcome if the inspiration strikes you. For shippier stuff, little moments of intimacy: stolen kisses, hurt/comfort type stuff (but please not too much on the hurt front), that sort of thing. (I have no problem receiving NSFW art, fwiw.) I am also definitely up for things like diagrams, maps, etc. In the same Easter-egg-y vein mentioned earlier, things like that presented with in-universe trappings would be lovely. I've provided some specific art prompts where I can think of them, but in cases where I haven't I hope at least some of my more general prompts lend themselves to being illustrated. Also, I am very happy to receive things like complex diagrams of overlapping timelines and schematics of time machines or whatever along those lines, as well as more "traditional" illustrations.

DNWs

• character or ship bashing (in particular, where there are conflicting canon ships for these characters, quietly ignoring them/AU-ing them away/handwaving everyone as being happily poly are all far preferable to me to devoting large chunks of the fic to demonstrating that the canon love interest is The Worst and breaking them up; OTOH, angst where everybody feels bad about it can work just fine)
  
• non-canon-divergent AUs like coffee shops, A/B/O, etc. (canon-divergent ones, on the other hand, are a big yes as mentioned above)
  
• pregnancy/kidfic
  
• watersports
  
• scat
  
• emetophilia
  
• bloodplay
  
• breathplay
  
• vore
  
• violent non-con (coercion/mind control/etc. are fine)
  
• incest
  
• underage (my definition isn't quite the same as AO3's: what I don't want is people under 16 having sex; for characters in the 13-15 range I am OK with it being mentioned that they're sexually active if that's plausible given their canon circumstances, but I wouldn't want it front and centre)

Doctor Who
Characters/groups: Any
Freeforms: Time War between multiple factions with time travel capability

Time War between multiple factions with time travel capability: I am totally serious about the any character/group thing. Give me anyone (even if they're not in the tag set, tbh) involved in any Time War and I will be very, very happy. Could be the new series one (that BF have fleshed out), the EDA one, the 4D War early in Gallifrey's history from Alan Moore's DWM backup strips, a brand new time war we don't know anything about from any branch of canon ... (maybe one that got retro-annulled out of existence entirely???)


Sapphire and Steel
Characters/groups: Any
Freeforms: Place Beyond Time, Worldbuilding about Temporal Mechanics, Trying To Avoid A Temporal Paradox, Time travel is regulated by forces beyond normal spacetime

Place Beyond Time: I'm seeing this in terms of where the elements are based. Where do they come from? What do they do in between assignments? etc.

Worldbuilding about Temporal Mechanics: or, what the heck is the opening narration all about anyway?

Trying To Avoid A Temporal Paradox & Time travel is regulated by forces beyond normal spacetime: both of these basically translate to "canon-typical adventures" in this case ...


Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters/groups: Any
Freeforms: Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created, Backwards Time Travel Creates New Timelines, Time War between multiple factions with time travel capability

Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created: I feel like this is a slightly cheating way of asking for "continuation from the S2 cliffhanger, please!" but that is exactly what happened; but if you want to go with a different take on it, feel free (in all honesty, the entire show is this, since Cameron brings them all forward by several years in the very first episode, changing things completely in the process)

Backwards Time Travel Creates New Timelines: One of my favourite things the show did, particularly in S2, was having everyone who appeared back in the past be coming from a different timeline, created by the actions that had already been going on in the present. (I particularly enjoyed this in relation to Jesse and Derek in S2.) So anything that explored this aspect of things would be great -- if you want to work in other branches of the Terminator franchise along the way, that's fine with me. (I have a lot of fairly vague and self-contradictory headcanons about how they all fit together.)

Time War between multiple factions with time travel capability: The thing I love most of all about the show is that it really commits to this, albeit doing it from the Connors' point of view pre-Judgment-Day. But the four-dimensional conflict between the Resistance, Skynet, and various others who may or may not be perfectly aligned with them is absolutely fascinating to me. Using Weaver here would be particularly welcome; what exactly is her deal?