Poly Trolley Dear Creator Letter
Mar. 28th, 2018 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weakinteractionHi! Thanks very much for creating for me.
My AO3 is weakinteraction -- same as this dreamwidth -- and for all of these I'm requesting both fic and art.
General likes
I am up for a wide range of types of fanworks, and equally happy with ratings anywhere on the scale.
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. 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. 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.) To be honest, I don't feel very confident about how well my prompts tend to lend themselves to art, but I hope at least some of the more general ones lend themselves to being illustrated/provide some sort of useful inspiration.
DNWs
Lady of the Shard
Source: online comic here, free, takes less than an hour to read
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.
Relationship: Acolyte/Old God/Radiant Goddess
Freeforms: A ménage à trois can power stronger sex magic than a couple, Group Sex Saves The Day!
Prompts: An external perspective (e.g. the other acolytes, a visitor from the Distant Stars, the Titans). Something post-canon about how things work in the new universe (maybe regular sex magic is required to maintain the structure of the new universe?). Expansion on any of the key moments in canon, either in terms of an introspective piece about what the characters is feeling at that point, or filling in some of the fade-to-blacks (I'm definitely seeing "Group Sex Saves The Day!" as tying into "From their union arose the all-goddess, complete in power.") Dubcon mind-control-tastic AU where the Old God wins.
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonald's
Source: Twine game here, free, takes an hour or two to play to get all the endings
I love the fun tone of this canon, and especially the way that Everything Is True in relation to vampires. The way it makes you inhabit Lucy's relationship dynamics works really nicely for me, too, with her feelings becoming clear in the slight disconnect between the player and her, with her occasionally resisting/outright refusing to use certain options.
Relationships: Lucy/Luke/Maggie, Claire/Lucy/Luke/Maggie
Freeforms: Group Sex Saves The Day!, Individual enters a relationship with an established couple, A ménage à trois can power stronger sex magic than a couple
Prompts: More vampire hunting shenanigans for Lucy, Maggie and Luke. The game portrays an atypical experience, what does a more typical one look like? Exactly how bad at it were they when they first got started? Or do they find themselves having to deal with other supernatural creatures, and having to learn a bunch of new lore? (Leading to a group sex saves the day/sex magic situation?) Claire going to find Lucy, as implied by the extra ending. (This was what I was thinking with the "individual enters a relationship ..." freeform, though I guess I'm secretly thinking "... with an established threesome" rather than "couple".)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Source*: single-player RPG here on gog.com, ~$10, takes 25 hours or so for a single playthrough, more like 40 if you're thorough about sidequests, and a single playthrough doesn't get all the content
*one of these things is very much not like the others ...
I've spent far, far more time playing KotOR than consuming other branches of SW canon so in all honesty this version of the Old Republic era is my default view of the GFFA, even if it has all been retconned now.
Relationship: Juhani/Female Revan/Bastila Shan
This is basically my default party for most of the game. (I generally build Revan as a high-INT Scout/Consular for high skills and Force powers to make it work, but really do feel free to ignore that. I'm just geeking out about character builds now.) I think in terms of the OT3 I like that they all have their moments of falling to the Dark Side.
Freeforms: Equilateral Threesome, BDSM Threesome - Dom/sub/sub
Prompts: Working through the rough edges of working together during the period covered by canon. LS post-canon based on the idea that they've all been through different redemption arcs: helping each other stay on the Light Side, that sort of thing. DS post-canon (assuming Juhani gets turned instead of killed on the Temple roof, unless you have other ideas for a path to it): Dark Lord Revan and her concubines. (This is where I'm seeing the second freeform coming in, but I'm not wedded to that.)
(Note: if you do go down the DS route, I'm fine with the various LS character deaths that would involve, as per the apocalyptic AUs exception in the DNWs.)
My AO3 is weakinteraction -- same as this dreamwidth -- and for all of these I'm requesting both fic and art.
General likes
I am up for a wide range of types of fanworks, and equally happy with ratings anywhere on the scale.
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. 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. 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.) To be honest, I don't feel very confident about how well my prompts tend to lend themselves to art, but I hope at least some of the more general ones lend themselves to being illustrated/provide some sort of useful inspiration.
DNWs
- platonic relationships (although in general I am interested in Vs and more complicated geometries, for the purposes of this exchange, I have only requested ships where I would like to have everyone involved with everyone else within the threesome/foursome in a romantic and/or sexual way)
- poly issuefic/poly evangelism (I would define "issuefic" as anything that is about educating other characters or the reader about poly, and "evangelism" as anything that sets poly up as superior to monogamy -- I would very strongly prefer that it was just that it happens to work for these characters)
- 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)
Lady of the Shard
Source: online comic here, free, takes less than an hour to read
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.
Relationship: Acolyte/Old God/Radiant Goddess
Freeforms: A ménage à trois can power stronger sex magic than a couple, Group Sex Saves The Day!
Prompts: An external perspective (e.g. the other acolytes, a visitor from the Distant Stars, the Titans). Something post-canon about how things work in the new universe (maybe regular sex magic is required to maintain the structure of the new universe?). Expansion on any of the key moments in canon, either in terms of an introspective piece about what the characters is feeling at that point, or filling in some of the fade-to-blacks (I'm definitely seeing "Group Sex Saves The Day!" as tying into "From their union arose the all-goddess, complete in power.") Dubcon mind-control-tastic AU where the Old God wins.
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonald's
Source: Twine game here, free, takes an hour or two to play to get all the endings
I love the fun tone of this canon, and especially the way that Everything Is True in relation to vampires. The way it makes you inhabit Lucy's relationship dynamics works really nicely for me, too, with her feelings becoming clear in the slight disconnect between the player and her, with her occasionally resisting/outright refusing to use certain options.
Relationships: Lucy/Luke/Maggie, Claire/Lucy/Luke/Maggie
Freeforms: Group Sex Saves The Day!, Individual enters a relationship with an established couple, A ménage à trois can power stronger sex magic than a couple
Prompts: More vampire hunting shenanigans for Lucy, Maggie and Luke. The game portrays an atypical experience, what does a more typical one look like? Exactly how bad at it were they when they first got started? Or do they find themselves having to deal with other supernatural creatures, and having to learn a bunch of new lore? (Leading to a group sex saves the day/sex magic situation?) Claire going to find Lucy, as implied by the extra ending. (This was what I was thinking with the "individual enters a relationship ..." freeform, though I guess I'm secretly thinking "... with an established threesome" rather than "couple".)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Source*: single-player RPG here on gog.com, ~$10, takes 25 hours or so for a single playthrough, more like 40 if you're thorough about sidequests, and a single playthrough doesn't get all the content
*one of these things is very much not like the others ...
I've spent far, far more time playing KotOR than consuming other branches of SW canon so in all honesty this version of the Old Republic era is my default view of the GFFA, even if it has all been retconned now.
Relationship: Juhani/Female Revan/Bastila Shan
This is basically my default party for most of the game. (I generally build Revan as a high-INT Scout/Consular for high skills and Force powers to make it work, but really do feel free to ignore that. I'm just geeking out about character builds now.) I think in terms of the OT3 I like that they all have their moments of falling to the Dark Side.
Freeforms: Equilateral Threesome, BDSM Threesome - Dom/sub/sub
Prompts: Working through the rough edges of working together during the period covered by canon. LS post-canon based on the idea that they've all been through different redemption arcs: helping each other stay on the Light Side, that sort of thing. DS post-canon (assuming Juhani gets turned instead of killed on the Temple roof, unless you have other ideas for a path to it): Dark Lord Revan and her concubines. (This is where I'm seeing the second freeform coming in, but I'm not wedded to that.)
(Note: if you do go down the DS route, I'm fine with the various LS character deaths that would involve, as per the apocalyptic AUs exception in the DNWs.)
