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weakinteractionFirst of all, thank you for creating for me! I'm very excited to request all my super-rare faves; while I have provided prompts in case you're the sort of person who likes to have something to go on, genuinely, anything at all (that doesn't hit my DNWs) in these fandoms will be hugely appreciated. So please do feel free to follow wherever your inspiration takes you. Also, please don't read anything into differing lengths of different sections, which is almost certainly the result of me doing a lot of cut and paste from old letters. There's absolutely nothing here that I wouldn't be completely and utterly delighted to receive (my bucket request could be even bigger, to be honest, but I decided I had to draw the line somewhere).
On the details front, my AO3 name is weakinteraction and I'm requesting both fic and art for all of these fandoms.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
General likes
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 if we matched on a single character or a worldbuilding tag, or as a background pairing in a work for a relationship tag we matched on. (In general, I am more than happy to handwave that Everyone Is Bi And Poly for the purposes of fanworks.)
Tropes-wise, I am particularly fond of time travel, canon-divergent AUs, people with issues relating to identity (in the sense of things like secret identities and amnesia) and telepathy. In terms of relationship dynamics, I like all sorts of things but particularly: 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 epistolatory 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 (eg: Tink and friends in a post-apocalyptic scenario where one of the crises didn't get resolved, Aphra and Sana facing off with lightsabers in Jedi training, Squirrel Girl: Agent of SHIELD, etc.). 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 (e.g. something for TNG having an LCARS interface around it) 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.
DNWs
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Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee
Note: I haven't had a chance to get hold of Raven Stratagem yet, and even if I do manage to before reveals, odds are I won't have time to read it. If you've read it, feel free to use elements from it but please avoid any huge spoilers.
I adore the worldbuilding in this, so feel free to play around with it if you want. How the calendar system works, what the servitors are up to, etc.
Ajewen Cheris & Garach Jedao Shkan - The spikiness of the relationship between them is great, especially the fact that Cheris can't trust Jedao but kind of wants to. And it really plays into my love of identity issues. Something introspective from one or other point of view (or both, if you want) about what it's like for them would be good, but I'd be down for seeing what they get up to in their downtime as well (e.g. Cheris's love of cheesy soaps). Feel free to go canon-divergent AU from the end of the first book if you want to have them dealing with other situations in their team up. Art-wise, I'd definitely be up for something playing around with the idea of Jedao as Cheris's shadow.
Vahenz afrir dai Noum/Inaiga Zai - I love the way Vahenz seems to be permanently slightly exasperated with Zai. Backstory about them planning their heretical break from the hexarchate before it becomes public? If you want to carry on the epistolary thing from the book, I'd definitely welcome that. Art-wise, it seems to me that we know very little about what everything looks like: any sort of illustration of how you imagine them would be great.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Wonder Woman/DCEU
Etta Candy/Diana Prince - I debated whether it was worth using up two slots to make sure I requested this under WW by itself and the broader DCEU tag, and decided that it was. I came out of the movie shipping this hard (that line about "A pair of glasses, and suddenly she's not the most beautiful woman you've ever seen?" sold me on it); I would love anything at all. I like the idea of Etta taking over the role Steve mostly has in the film of explaining the world to Diana. I would very much be up for mission based stuff. (Maybe Diana works for some shadowy directorate of the League of Nations when it forms after the war? Its eventual failure could tie in to Diana's disillusionment with superhero-ing.) If you're up for smut, I am very much here for inappropriate use of the lasso.
I also have a thing for immortal/mortal ships, so I would be very interested in exploration of what it's like (from either point of view) for Etta to age while Diana doesn't. (I have a very specific headcanon that Diana takes Etta to Themyscira when she's very old, knowing that [however the magic there works] will preserve her, because she can't bear the idea that Etta might die. But she can't go back herself because the world still needs her. And Etta ends up telling Hippolyta et al all about what Diana's been up to.)
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
(No characters/ships in the tag set.)
Literally anything would be great here. I would be happy with something set entirely in the show-within-the-show, or something about the behind-the-scenes side of it (or just about other aspects of Garth's career), or something that mixes the two together as the show itself did.
This is a fandom where I'd definitely be up for experimentation with the format, for what it's worth. Write in Garth's style! Or do a piece from one of those '90s cult magazines about this "lost horror classic". Or invent the internal C4 memos about the cancellation of it.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Disney Fairies
Tink/Vidia - I see this very much in a rivals-to-lovers-to-friends way, if that makes sense; I can readily imagine them repeatedly hooking up when sparks fly and then gradually mellowing out towards each other as a result. (In canon, I think there's a definite transition in their relationship in Great Fairy Rescue.) Snark is definitely a bonus here.
Fawn/Nyx - These two similarly have an initially adversarial relationship, though in their case much more to do with having different opinions on the right thing to do rather than the sort of snark that characterises Tink/Vidia. I imagine these two in terms of Nyx being extremely apologetic after the events of Neverbeast, and Fawn grieving for the fact that she'll never see Gruff again, but Nyx is somehow easier to talk to about it than her friends.
Some prompts that could work for either ship: A visit to the Mainland. Dealing with yet another crisis in Pixie Hollow. Relaxing in Sunflower Meadow or somewhere. The use and abuse of Pixie Dust (feel free to have Zarina involved inventing brand new types; I like her, I just don't ship her with anyone particularly).
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Note: I am extremely agnostic about Alien Crossfire; feel free to do any of ignore it, incorporate it, or borrow some elements from it while ignoring others completely.
Corazon Santiago/Deirdre Skye - The "canon" story that comes out in the Datalinks quotes and wonders videos implies a war where the Gaians eventually completely overrun the Spartans with mind worms, and I would definitely be up for darkfic along those lines if the inspiration strikes you. In general, the screaming pain sphere thing that captured leaders get put in when you defeat a faction and all the "swear a pact to serve me" stuff if you let them capitulate has quite strong BDSM-y overtones to me. But each time you play a game you get a brand new history of planet, and I don't consider the "canon" version any more or less valid than any other possibility. So I'd also be up for something similar with the tables turned and Santiago winning, or a grand alliance between the Gaians and the Spartans, cemented by the union of the two leaders, or arguments in the planetary council leading to hatesex, or anything else that occurs to you. Art-wise, any sort of illustration of anything like the above would be great, or maybe something more abstract representing telepathic contact?
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Obviously, these are two fandoms in the sign up but I'm lumping them together here because my general Star Wars likes apply across both: I am always here for pilots and their ships, lightsabers, galactic politics/diplomacy and weird alien planets (either in-keeping-with-the-films single biome efforts, as the games go for, or ones that try to be more "realistic"). I tend to find that I can take or leave the intricacies of the internal bureaucracy of evil organisations like the Sith, but I am so here for the Dark Side in terms of fallen Jedi abusing the trust of their former friends and stuff like that so "X goes Dark Side" AUs (in terms of the KotOR games, taking the Dark Side ending) are very welcome. If you're going down the smutty route, any and all types of Force Sex are good with me.
I am up for whatever interpretation of how the game might have played out that you want to go for, including going fully down the Dark Side route if that's the way inspiration takes you -- I have played both of them far too many times with different alignments/character motivations I was RPing in my head even though none of the dialogue choices quite fit/etc.
If not specified in the tag, I'm fine with either gender for the player character. Also, please feel free to strategically ignore anything a later game says about an earlier one (i.e. don't take KotOR II as gospel on what happened next if you're writing about the KotOR I characters, and feel free to ignore the MMORPG entirely -- I still haven't played it, though I have no objection if you do want to incorporate elements from it; I have osmosed a few things).
KotOR I
Yuthura Ban/Female Revan - I love Yuthura, and wish there was a lot more of her in the game. Feel free to explore her backstory if the fancy takes you. I am very much up for any and all possible takes on the dynamics of this ship: amnesiac Revan as eager student of the Dark Side, post-Leviathan Revan as reborn Sith Lord who Yuthura is the first to swear allegiance to, Revan (with memories or without) redeeming Yuthura (even better if Yuthura is simultaneously trying to corrupt Revan), etc.
Juhani/Female Revan - There's a mirroring thing going on here, given that Revan initially meets Juhani when the Council are trying to make a point to her about the dangers of the Dark Side. However, there's also history given the revelation that it was Revan, on the way through Taris, who inspired Juhani to become a Jedi in the first place.
I'd be up for things like: helping each other stay on the Light Side, post-canon missions, Dark Side Revan turning Juhani at the Temple instead of killing her. Art-wise, them fighting with lightsabers (either each other, or back-to-back or a similar pose against various enemies) would be great.
I do have a weirdly specific idea here (probably lends itself more to fic than art), inspired by a recent LS playthrough: the first time I got the little bit of shippy dialogue at the very end of the game came in a playthrough where I messed up several important conversations that ended in me failing to redeem other characters and having to kill them instead (Dustil, and worst of all when I got to the Star Forge, Bastila), which left it feeling like a rather bittersweet victory at best. So I'd be into a take on these two that looked at the cost of victory/the fragility of redemption/etc.
KotOR II
Queen Talia & None - I see her as KotOR's Padme, basically. (And I do ship her with Master Kavar; I'm kicking myself for not having thought to nominate that. Feel free to throw that in if it takes your fancy.) Anything exploring what it's like as a young queen in a dangerous galaxy would be fantastic.
G0-T0 - I'm up for all sorts of things here. How does G0-T0 perceive running the Exchange? (Art-wise, I'd very much be up for some sort of visualisation of his plans for the galaxy if the idea takes your fancy.) I love the backstory bit that you can get if you do all the right things influence-wise (/cheat) about how he's the droid that went missing from the Ithorians on Citadel Station because the task of saving the Republic couldn't be done within the confines of his programming. Something about the process of going from that droid to the crime boss projecting a holo-villain would be lovely.
Handmaiden/Visas - although the game half-heartedly posits them as romantic rivals for Male Exile's attention, these two actually have a lot in common in terms of having been trained to a very high level by people who really didn't have their best interests at heart (Atris/Nihilus). I can buy this in terms of Light Side vs Dark Side, redemption for Visas, or the corruption of Handmaiden.
Exile/Visas - Another either-they-can-redeem-each-other-or-fall-together ship; there may be a theme here ... Anything at all around Visas's constant refrain of "My life is yours" would be interesting. As would Visas dealing with her past: we see her doing this somewhat on the Ravager, but seeing her with Exile after that would be interesting, or going back to Katarr. Deeper exploration of the Force Sight thing than happens in the game would also be great (interesting art-wise, too). In a similar vein, Visas's ability to detect Exile is effectively a gameplay mechanic (getting halfway up or down the karma meter, or reaching Lvl 15), but what is it equivalent to in-universe?
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Star Wars (Marvel Comics)
Aphra/Sana - Give me them at each other's throats (in any sense). Give me them forced to work together and hating every minute of it. Give me backstory: their good times that were never really that good (or were they?). Give me bitterness and resentment and angst and betrayal and unhealthiness and obsession and all that good stuff.
Prompts: Aphra trying to puzzle out why Sana seems to have thrown her lot in with the Rebels. Sana realising that her feelings are more complicated than she wants to admit. If you want to set it further back in the timeline, Aphra trying to keep Sana secret from Vader (and maybe failing). Wagers and forfeits. Or if you're going back into their backstory, any sort of smuggling/archaeological hijinks. (Aphra going playing anywhere in Legends worldbuilding is A-OK with me.)
Poe/Terex - I love the obsessional nature of their mutual antagonism, and if you want to play around with that sort of thing earlier in the timeline go for it, but since what happened to Terex in #14, I have actually found myself feeling awful for him and I would definitely also be interested in Poe rescuing him from fate-worse-than-death and the experience persuading Terex to switch sides, while still being a complete untrustworthy snake.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
[NB All the comics fandoms below this point are in my bucket request, so I am requesting "Any", but I've spelled out what that means within their sections]
Lady of the Shard
(I don't normally do "here's the source" bits in my letters but this is a relatively short webcomic available for free here, if you're interested.)
Acolyte/Old God, Acolyte/Old God/Radiant Goddess, Acolyte/Radiant Goddess, Old God/Radiant Goddess
I love the sort of slightly dreamy tone that permeates the story; I'm particularly fond of the way most of the art is usually very simple, almost stick-figure-y, but then the closer things get to the divine, the more detailed it becomes. All of the pairings have their own different dynamics but I think what unites them for me is this kind of feedback loop between the divine and the human; there's all sorts of interesting implications about the nature of belief buried in there, if you want to explore the more philosophical side of it. I'd be interested in pretty much anything and everything for any of these ships (and I am definitely OK with mind-control/reality-altering dubcon in the Acolyte/Old God and Old God/Radiant Goddess pairings; the threesome OTOH I see as more redemptive and would prefer that not to go down those lines).
Some specific prompts: An external perspective on any of the relationships (e.g. the other acolytes, a visitor from the Distant Stars, the Titans). Something post-canon about how things work in the new universe. Expansion on any of the key moments in canon, either in terms of an introspective piece about what one of the characters is feeling at that point, or filling in some of the fade-to-blacks.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Doreen Green & Tomas Lara-Perez & Ken Shiga & Nancy Whitehead - Team Squirrel Girl shenanigans in the style of the comic of any flavour more than welcome (as indeed they would be for the ships below). Feel free to throw in other characters, whether it's Brain Drain, Doreen's mom, anyone else who's appeared in the comic, or indeed your fave other Marvel characters (I have at least a passing familiarity with most).
Tomas Lara-Perez/Ken Shiga - They're great, and I would love absolutely anything about them. Fic-wise, anything from mission fic to looking after their animal friends to get together to established relationship stuff would be great. Ken's bad puns very welcome. Art-wise, an illustration from anything like that, or just a kiss or similar would be lovely. (Incidental note: it's not confirmed in canon AFAIK, but WoG from Erica is that Ken is trans. I don't mind if you don't make reference to this at all, but would prefer that you not outright contradict it.)
Doreen Green/Nancy Whitehead - I am increasingly convinced this is going to be canon (at least Nancy->Doreen), but maybe I'm just kidding myself. Get together or established relationship welcome. (Come to think of which, what didn't Old Lady Doreen tell her younger self in the Doom arc?) Nancy sometimes feels a bit left out without superpowers/is keen on the idea of having a robot body: what if she gets either/both of those?
Random crossover idea: if you know Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics, I would be very much up for the USG characters encountering T-Rex and co.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
The Wicked + The Divine
Ananke & None - any exploration of what she was up to all those millennia is more than welcome, either during previous recurrences or between them. Exactly how much was she lying? (I have a bit of a headcanon/spec that the whole thing is heading towards them discovering that she was mostly telling the truth and the whole cycle is going to start again with one of the gods having to take on Ananke's role [probably Persephone]. What if this Ananke isn't actually the original one?)
Baal/Inanna - I find that I have increasingly large numbers of feels about this particular relationship with each and every reread. Baal is pretty much the only character anywhere in this exchange I don't headcanon as at least potentially poly, since his jealousy is a key driver of what happened with them. I am very much up for angsty stuff here -- either around the breakup, Baal's reaction to Inanna's death, or back before they broke up the fact that Baal is apparently still at least somewhat closeted (Cassandra, who has done a lot of research, is surprised about it) while Inanna's whole shtick is getting people to accept themselves. I am happy with the 2014 versions of them or earlier recurrences (or a huge epic across all of time if you really want to go for it).
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Stephen Strange & None, Victor von Doom & None, Stephen Strange & Victor von Doom, Stephen Strange/Victor von Doom
There's this huge eight year gap in the backstory of Battleworld waiting to be explored here where Doom set up Battleworld and ran it before the arks were found. I'd be up for anything from what it was like at the very beginning to an exploration of a particular encounter with an upstart baron or something along those lines; feel free to bring in any versions of any Marvel characters that take your fancy if you're going in that general direction, not just ones we know about from the event. Or a more detailed exploration of things that are alluded to in the main story, like how Johnny Storm ended up being the sun.
On the other hand, if you want to open up a particular point during the mini-series itself and do a more introspective piece exploring how either or both of them are feeling at that time, that'd be great too. How Stephen's feeling when he chooses to aid Reed and co., or how Doom feels after killing Stephen, would both be particularly interesting to read about.
On the ship side, I've low key shipped Stephen/Victor since coming across The Triumph and the Torment, but I really like the twist on their relationship we get here, where Stephen turned away from the opportunity to be god but appreciates that Victor did save everyone by taking it, even while he doesn't really trust him. Anything exploring that dynamic between them (whether shippy or not) would be great. Especially if it has a bit of a hint of Stephen having secrets and schemes. Though I do like the idea that they might occasionally start to forget that this isn't the way it always was, if that makes sense, until something jarring happens to remind them.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
On the details front, my AO3 name is weakinteraction and I'm requesting both fic and art for all of these fandoms.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
General likes
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 if we matched on a single character or a worldbuilding tag, or as a background pairing in a work for a relationship tag we matched on. (In general, I am more than happy to handwave that Everyone Is Bi And Poly for the purposes of fanworks.)
Tropes-wise, I am particularly fond of time travel, canon-divergent AUs, people with issues relating to identity (in the sense of things like secret identities and amnesia) and telepathy. In terms of relationship dynamics, I like all sorts of things but particularly: 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 epistolatory 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 (eg: Tink and friends in a post-apocalyptic scenario where one of the crises didn't get resolved, Aphra and Sana facing off with lightsabers in Jedi training, Squirrel Girl: Agent of SHIELD, etc.). 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 (e.g. something for TNG having an LCARS interface around it) 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.
DNWs
- extremely fluffy fluff so that essentially all that happens is the characters exchange endearments you'd never hear them use in canon
- character bashing (these are all canons where I like the rest of the characters too)
- any kind of AU apart from canon-divergent
- pregnancy/kidfic (I don't mind occasional appearances by canonical children, but please don't focus on them to the exclusion of all else)
- major character death (exceptions: deaths that happened in canon, but even there I'd prefer not to have a huge focus on characters grieving afterwards or similar; or deaths happening offscreen if a lot of time has passed since the time the character was around in canon, i.e. you don't have to make everyone immortal if you're writing futurefic; also this doesn't apply to apocalyptic canon-divergent AUs, because an apocalypse that everyone happens to survive doesn't really make sense)
- violent non-con (I'm fine with sf/fantasy type noncon like mind control for pairings it would suit, or dubcon of various stripes)
- as far as porn goes, I am generally fine with most stuff; the only things I'd ask you to avoid are breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, and emetophilia.
- incest and under-16s having sex (none of these pairings are anywhere near fitting the bill for either of these, but please no background incest pairings or revealing characters to have been related all along or anything like that)
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee
Note: I haven't had a chance to get hold of Raven Stratagem yet, and even if I do manage to before reveals, odds are I won't have time to read it. If you've read it, feel free to use elements from it but please avoid any huge spoilers.
I adore the worldbuilding in this, so feel free to play around with it if you want. How the calendar system works, what the servitors are up to, etc.
Ajewen Cheris & Garach Jedao Shkan - The spikiness of the relationship between them is great, especially the fact that Cheris can't trust Jedao but kind of wants to. And it really plays into my love of identity issues. Something introspective from one or other point of view (or both, if you want) about what it's like for them would be good, but I'd be down for seeing what they get up to in their downtime as well (e.g. Cheris's love of cheesy soaps). Feel free to go canon-divergent AU from the end of the first book if you want to have them dealing with other situations in their team up. Art-wise, I'd definitely be up for something playing around with the idea of Jedao as Cheris's shadow.
Vahenz afrir dai Noum/Inaiga Zai - I love the way Vahenz seems to be permanently slightly exasperated with Zai. Backstory about them planning their heretical break from the hexarchate before it becomes public? If you want to carry on the epistolary thing from the book, I'd definitely welcome that. Art-wise, it seems to me that we know very little about what everything looks like: any sort of illustration of how you imagine them would be great.
General | Ninefox Gambit | WW | Darkplace | Fairies | SMAC | KotOR | Marvel SW | Lady of the Shard | USG | WicDiv | Secret Wars
Wonder Woman/DCEU
Etta Candy/Diana Prince - I debated whether it was worth using up two slots to make sure I requested this under WW by itself and the broader DCEU tag, and decided that it was. I came out of the movie shipping this hard (that line about "A pair of glasses, and suddenly she's not the most beautiful woman you've ever seen?" sold me on it); I would love anything at all. I like the idea of Etta taking over the role Steve mostly has in the film of explaining the world to Diana. I would very much be up for mission based stuff. (Maybe Diana works for some shadowy directorate of the League of Nations when it forms after the war? Its eventual failure could tie in to Diana's disillusionment with superhero-ing.) If you're up for smut, I am very much here for inappropriate use of the lasso.
I also have a thing for immortal/mortal ships, so I would be very interested in exploration of what it's like (from either point of view) for Etta to age while Diana doesn't. (I have a very specific headcanon that Diana takes Etta to Themyscira when she's very old, knowing that [however the magic there works] will preserve her, because she can't bear the idea that Etta might die. But she can't go back herself because the world still needs her. And Etta ends up telling Hippolyta et al all about what Diana's been up to.)
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
(No characters/ships in the tag set.)
Literally anything would be great here. I would be happy with something set entirely in the show-within-the-show, or something about the behind-the-scenes side of it (or just about other aspects of Garth's career), or something that mixes the two together as the show itself did.
This is a fandom where I'd definitely be up for experimentation with the format, for what it's worth. Write in Garth's style! Or do a piece from one of those '90s cult magazines about this "lost horror classic". Or invent the internal C4 memos about the cancellation of it.
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Disney Fairies
Tink/Vidia - I see this very much in a rivals-to-lovers-to-friends way, if that makes sense; I can readily imagine them repeatedly hooking up when sparks fly and then gradually mellowing out towards each other as a result. (In canon, I think there's a definite transition in their relationship in Great Fairy Rescue.) Snark is definitely a bonus here.
Fawn/Nyx - These two similarly have an initially adversarial relationship, though in their case much more to do with having different opinions on the right thing to do rather than the sort of snark that characterises Tink/Vidia. I imagine these two in terms of Nyx being extremely apologetic after the events of Neverbeast, and Fawn grieving for the fact that she'll never see Gruff again, but Nyx is somehow easier to talk to about it than her friends.
Some prompts that could work for either ship: A visit to the Mainland. Dealing with yet another crisis in Pixie Hollow. Relaxing in Sunflower Meadow or somewhere. The use and abuse of Pixie Dust (feel free to have Zarina involved inventing brand new types; I like her, I just don't ship her with anyone particularly).
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Note: I am extremely agnostic about Alien Crossfire; feel free to do any of ignore it, incorporate it, or borrow some elements from it while ignoring others completely.
Corazon Santiago/Deirdre Skye - The "canon" story that comes out in the Datalinks quotes and wonders videos implies a war where the Gaians eventually completely overrun the Spartans with mind worms, and I would definitely be up for darkfic along those lines if the inspiration strikes you. In general, the screaming pain sphere thing that captured leaders get put in when you defeat a faction and all the "swear a pact to serve me" stuff if you let them capitulate has quite strong BDSM-y overtones to me. But each time you play a game you get a brand new history of planet, and I don't consider the "canon" version any more or less valid than any other possibility. So I'd also be up for something similar with the tables turned and Santiago winning, or a grand alliance between the Gaians and the Spartans, cemented by the union of the two leaders, or arguments in the planetary council leading to hatesex, or anything else that occurs to you. Art-wise, any sort of illustration of anything like the above would be great, or maybe something more abstract representing telepathic contact?
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Obviously, these are two fandoms in the sign up but I'm lumping them together here because my general Star Wars likes apply across both: I am always here for pilots and their ships, lightsabers, galactic politics/diplomacy and weird alien planets (either in-keeping-with-the-films single biome efforts, as the games go for, or ones that try to be more "realistic"). I tend to find that I can take or leave the intricacies of the internal bureaucracy of evil organisations like the Sith, but I am so here for the Dark Side in terms of fallen Jedi abusing the trust of their former friends and stuff like that so "X goes Dark Side" AUs (in terms of the KotOR games, taking the Dark Side ending) are very welcome. If you're going down the smutty route, any and all types of Force Sex are good with me.
I am up for whatever interpretation of how the game might have played out that you want to go for, including going fully down the Dark Side route if that's the way inspiration takes you -- I have played both of them far too many times with different alignments/character motivations I was RPing in my head even though none of the dialogue choices quite fit/etc.
If not specified in the tag, I'm fine with either gender for the player character. Also, please feel free to strategically ignore anything a later game says about an earlier one (i.e. don't take KotOR II as gospel on what happened next if you're writing about the KotOR I characters, and feel free to ignore the MMORPG entirely -- I still haven't played it, though I have no objection if you do want to incorporate elements from it; I have osmosed a few things).
KotOR I
Yuthura Ban/Female Revan - I love Yuthura, and wish there was a lot more of her in the game. Feel free to explore her backstory if the fancy takes you. I am very much up for any and all possible takes on the dynamics of this ship: amnesiac Revan as eager student of the Dark Side, post-Leviathan Revan as reborn Sith Lord who Yuthura is the first to swear allegiance to, Revan (with memories or without) redeeming Yuthura (even better if Yuthura is simultaneously trying to corrupt Revan), etc.
Juhani/Female Revan - There's a mirroring thing going on here, given that Revan initially meets Juhani when the Council are trying to make a point to her about the dangers of the Dark Side. However, there's also history given the revelation that it was Revan, on the way through Taris, who inspired Juhani to become a Jedi in the first place.
I'd be up for things like: helping each other stay on the Light Side, post-canon missions, Dark Side Revan turning Juhani at the Temple instead of killing her. Art-wise, them fighting with lightsabers (either each other, or back-to-back or a similar pose against various enemies) would be great.
I do have a weirdly specific idea here (probably lends itself more to fic than art), inspired by a recent LS playthrough: the first time I got the little bit of shippy dialogue at the very end of the game came in a playthrough where I messed up several important conversations that ended in me failing to redeem other characters and having to kill them instead (Dustil, and worst of all when I got to the Star Forge, Bastila), which left it feeling like a rather bittersweet victory at best. So I'd be into a take on these two that looked at the cost of victory/the fragility of redemption/etc.
KotOR II
Queen Talia & None - I see her as KotOR's Padme, basically. (And I do ship her with Master Kavar; I'm kicking myself for not having thought to nominate that. Feel free to throw that in if it takes your fancy.) Anything exploring what it's like as a young queen in a dangerous galaxy would be fantastic.
G0-T0 - I'm up for all sorts of things here. How does G0-T0 perceive running the Exchange? (Art-wise, I'd very much be up for some sort of visualisation of his plans for the galaxy if the idea takes your fancy.) I love the backstory bit that you can get if you do all the right things influence-wise (/cheat) about how he's the droid that went missing from the Ithorians on Citadel Station because the task of saving the Republic couldn't be done within the confines of his programming. Something about the process of going from that droid to the crime boss projecting a holo-villain would be lovely.
Handmaiden/Visas - although the game half-heartedly posits them as romantic rivals for Male Exile's attention, these two actually have a lot in common in terms of having been trained to a very high level by people who really didn't have their best interests at heart (Atris/Nihilus). I can buy this in terms of Light Side vs Dark Side, redemption for Visas, or the corruption of Handmaiden.
Exile/Visas - Another either-they-can-redeem-each-other-or-fall-together ship; there may be a theme here ... Anything at all around Visas's constant refrain of "My life is yours" would be interesting. As would Visas dealing with her past: we see her doing this somewhat on the Ravager, but seeing her with Exile after that would be interesting, or going back to Katarr. Deeper exploration of the Force Sight thing than happens in the game would also be great (interesting art-wise, too). In a similar vein, Visas's ability to detect Exile is effectively a gameplay mechanic (getting halfway up or down the karma meter, or reaching Lvl 15), but what is it equivalent to in-universe?
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Star Wars (Marvel Comics)
Aphra/Sana - Give me them at each other's throats (in any sense). Give me them forced to work together and hating every minute of it. Give me backstory: their good times that were never really that good (or were they?). Give me bitterness and resentment and angst and betrayal and unhealthiness and obsession and all that good stuff.
Prompts: Aphra trying to puzzle out why Sana seems to have thrown her lot in with the Rebels. Sana realising that her feelings are more complicated than she wants to admit. If you want to set it further back in the timeline, Aphra trying to keep Sana secret from Vader (and maybe failing). Wagers and forfeits. Or if you're going back into their backstory, any sort of smuggling/archaeological hijinks. (Aphra going playing anywhere in Legends worldbuilding is A-OK with me.)
Poe/Terex - I love the obsessional nature of their mutual antagonism, and if you want to play around with that sort of thing earlier in the timeline go for it, but since what happened to Terex in #14, I have actually found myself feeling awful for him and I would definitely also be interested in Poe rescuing him from fate-worse-than-death and the experience persuading Terex to switch sides, while still being a complete untrustworthy snake.
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[NB All the comics fandoms below this point are in my bucket request, so I am requesting "Any", but I've spelled out what that means within their sections]
Lady of the Shard
(I don't normally do "here's the source" bits in my letters but this is a relatively short webcomic available for free here, if you're interested.)
Acolyte/Old God, Acolyte/Old God/Radiant Goddess, Acolyte/Radiant Goddess, Old God/Radiant Goddess
I love the sort of slightly dreamy tone that permeates the story; I'm particularly fond of the way most of the art is usually very simple, almost stick-figure-y, but then the closer things get to the divine, the more detailed it becomes. All of the pairings have their own different dynamics but I think what unites them for me is this kind of feedback loop between the divine and the human; there's all sorts of interesting implications about the nature of belief buried in there, if you want to explore the more philosophical side of it. I'd be interested in pretty much anything and everything for any of these ships (and I am definitely OK with mind-control/reality-altering dubcon in the Acolyte/Old God and Old God/Radiant Goddess pairings; the threesome OTOH I see as more redemptive and would prefer that not to go down those lines).
Some specific prompts: An external perspective on any of the relationships (e.g. the other acolytes, a visitor from the Distant Stars, the Titans). Something post-canon about how things work in the new universe. Expansion on any of the key moments in canon, either in terms of an introspective piece about what one of the characters is feeling at that point, or filling in some of the fade-to-blacks.
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Doreen Green & Tomas Lara-Perez & Ken Shiga & Nancy Whitehead - Team Squirrel Girl shenanigans in the style of the comic of any flavour more than welcome (as indeed they would be for the ships below). Feel free to throw in other characters, whether it's Brain Drain, Doreen's mom, anyone else who's appeared in the comic, or indeed your fave other Marvel characters (I have at least a passing familiarity with most).
Tomas Lara-Perez/Ken Shiga - They're great, and I would love absolutely anything about them. Fic-wise, anything from mission fic to looking after their animal friends to get together to established relationship stuff would be great. Ken's bad puns very welcome. Art-wise, an illustration from anything like that, or just a kiss or similar would be lovely. (Incidental note: it's not confirmed in canon AFAIK, but WoG from Erica is that Ken is trans. I don't mind if you don't make reference to this at all, but would prefer that you not outright contradict it.)
Doreen Green/Nancy Whitehead - I am increasingly convinced this is going to be canon (at least Nancy->Doreen), but maybe I'm just kidding myself. Get together or established relationship welcome. (Come to think of which, what didn't Old Lady Doreen tell her younger self in the Doom arc?) Nancy sometimes feels a bit left out without superpowers/is keen on the idea of having a robot body: what if she gets either/both of those?
Random crossover idea: if you know Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics, I would be very much up for the USG characters encountering T-Rex and co.
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The Wicked + The Divine
Ananke & None - any exploration of what she was up to all those millennia is more than welcome, either during previous recurrences or between them. Exactly how much was she lying? (I have a bit of a headcanon/spec that the whole thing is heading towards them discovering that she was mostly telling the truth and the whole cycle is going to start again with one of the gods having to take on Ananke's role [probably Persephone]. What if this Ananke isn't actually the original one?)
Baal/Inanna - I find that I have increasingly large numbers of feels about this particular relationship with each and every reread. Baal is pretty much the only character anywhere in this exchange I don't headcanon as at least potentially poly, since his jealousy is a key driver of what happened with them. I am very much up for angsty stuff here -- either around the breakup, Baal's reaction to Inanna's death, or back before they broke up the fact that Baal is apparently still at least somewhat closeted (Cassandra, who has done a lot of research, is surprised about it) while Inanna's whole shtick is getting people to accept themselves. I am happy with the 2014 versions of them or earlier recurrences (or a huge epic across all of time if you really want to go for it).
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Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Stephen Strange & None, Victor von Doom & None, Stephen Strange & Victor von Doom, Stephen Strange/Victor von Doom
There's this huge eight year gap in the backstory of Battleworld waiting to be explored here where Doom set up Battleworld and ran it before the arks were found. I'd be up for anything from what it was like at the very beginning to an exploration of a particular encounter with an upstart baron or something along those lines; feel free to bring in any versions of any Marvel characters that take your fancy if you're going in that general direction, not just ones we know about from the event. Or a more detailed exploration of things that are alluded to in the main story, like how Johnny Storm ended up being the sun.
On the other hand, if you want to open up a particular point during the mini-series itself and do a more introspective piece exploring how either or both of them are feeling at that time, that'd be great too. How Stephen's feeling when he chooses to aid Reed and co., or how Doom feels after killing Stephen, would both be particularly interesting to read about.
On the ship side, I've low key shipped Stephen/Victor since coming across The Triumph and the Torment, but I really like the twist on their relationship we get here, where Stephen turned away from the opportunity to be god but appreciates that Victor did save everyone by taking it, even while he doesn't really trust him. Anything exploring that dynamic between them (whether shippy or not) would be great. Especially if it has a bit of a hint of Stephen having secrets and schemes. Though I do like the idea that they might occasionally start to forget that this isn't the way it always was, if that makes sense, until something jarring happens to remind them.
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