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due south

Due South fic beta?

Hi guys - anyone able to beta a short (~2300) due South fic for me, for the Secret Santa? It's Fraser/Vecchio. Deadline for the go-live is the 24th Dec. TIA if you can!

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Treat for Jabbage: Peace and Literature

Title: Peace and Literature
Recipient: Jabbage
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: No Warnings
Summary: Sherlock and Mycroft spend some quiet time together as children.

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meme

one nation controlled by the media

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Art + Fic recs from Fic in a Box 2025 (DC Comics, Andor, Original Femslash)

Sharing a few gems that I've loved from the

ficinabox exchange. All creators are still anonymous!

Fandom: DC Comics
Fanwork type: art
Pairings/Characters: Diana
Rating and/or Content Warnings: SFW (but a bit suggestive)
Links: we can get a little restless
Summary:

Diana and a beautiful evening.

Reccer's Notes: Really vibrant, colourful style! A pin-up style pose, fabulously flirty.

Fandom: Andor (TV)
Fanwork type: fic
Pairings/Characters: Kleya Marki/Vel Sartha
Rating and/or Content Warnings: M
Links: the whisperings and the champagnes and the stars
Summary:

“That’s not what this is.” There is something about this, about all of this situation - the light, the faint jasmine lift of the scent Vel’s wearing, the casual, careless wealth - that Kleya cannot stand.

“You don’t like me and you can’t stand knowing you’re capable of being that petty. That’s exactly what this is.”

And that’s too much. “As I said, it's valuable work. Sorry you’re struggling with the burden of seducing rich socialites or whatever it is you’re doing but at least the catering’s good, right?”

The Aldhani mission fails. Vel blinks out of Kleya's life - only to reappear at a party six months later.

Reccer's Notes: This is outstanding, and pulls no punches! Excellent dialogue and characterization, and smolderingly hot but spiky chemistry between them.

Fandom: Original Work
Fanwork type: art, board game reskin, plushie pattern
Pairings/Characters: Fairy Queen/Young Woman Who Unwittingly Entered Her Realm
Rating and/or Content Warnings: G
Links: the Fairy and the Human
Summary:

There are legends about the fairy realm. Tales of wonder and the tales to scare children from the forest, where the entrance to the magical kingdom is supposed to be located.

Some believe in those tales; some don't, but no human dares to seek the truth and enter the fairy realm. Until one day, a woman running away from her past crosses the border and walks into the unknown.

Reccer's Notes: Gorgeous! This link goes to the first chapter which is stunning art of the queen and the young woman, with really lovely composition and beautiful colours and textures. But the creator has also created an entire reskinned board game with fairyland creatures, a cute sticker set, and even a small plushie pattern. I'm overwhelmed by the creativity, so cool!

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: my apartment

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habit tracking

Habit Tracking: Week 50 (December 07 - December 13)

Another from the moth sticker set by Abi Stevens Art. A luna moth!

Closer pic for the details and the holo star effect.

This was a good week. I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped, unfortunately as usual, but we did get the most important things - car diagnostics, rent paid - done. Writing didn't happen at all, but I kind of knew that was probably going to go on hold through the holidays. Also behind where I want to be on reading, but I'm still trying to chip away at it! I'm glad we got our trees put up, and that I pretty much finished my holiday shopping. Lots of gifts to wrap, cards and a package to get in the mail, baking to plan...

Goals for the week:

I did finish reading A Conjuring of Light
I did start reading Mary
I hosted writethisfanfic for the week
I put my laundry away
I did not work on my WIP outline
I did write out my holiday cards
We did some holiday decorating
Alex got rent paid
I did work on my reading page
I did work on my reviews a little bit
I did not work on my pin boards
We did take the truck over for my coworker and his neighbor to look at
I adjusted my book ratings from earlier in the year (a few of them)
We did go get crickets and fruit flies
I did not make that phone call

Tracked habits:

Work - 4/7 - I took Wednesday off
Household Maintenance - 6/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 7/7
Personal Writing - 6/7
Other Creative Things - 3/7
Reading - 7/7 - I finished A Conjuring of Light, and started reading Mary; Alex and I read some of The Sun Dog.
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we watched some storm and explore videos, and a review later; Monday watched some paranormal videos and a review; Tuesday we went to see Five Nights at Freddy's 2 which was meh, then later a review and an annual rewatch of hbomberguy's War on Christmas video; Wednesday rewatched more video essays; Thursday had some videos in the background; Friday had some reviews in the background; Saturday watched news coverage of the Brown shooting, then later a paranormal video.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 6/7

Total words written: 0

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NEW PHs #213-215, plus still seeking: 167, 184, 185, 198, 200

This is the consolidated version of our post-deadline pinch hits so far, plus see NEW PH #213-215 at the end! We appreciate all of you who are watching for new pinch hits - please keep it up!

These pinch hits are due on Monday 22 December at 9am 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
Include the recipient's AO3 name in the subject line
Include your AO3 username in the body of the email

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, remember our pinch hitters' prompts post! If you weren't signed up and you're pinch hitting, your rare fandom prompts are very welcome!

If the pinch hit you're interested in has been claimed, you are still welcome to post treats!

Request 1 by TeaRoses
D.P. | Deserter Pursuit (TV)
Characters: An Jun Ho, Han Ho Yeol
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I felt like they had a lot of chemistry, whether you take it as bromance or romance. Just them being bros and maybe casefic (not necessarily something elaborate) would be great. Something with them flirting/getting together/hooking up would also be great. Just please don't pair them with other people in the fic.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 2 by TeaRoses
견우와 선녀 | Head Over Heels (TV)
Characters: Bae Gyeonu, Park Seonga (Head Over Heels TV), Pyo Jiho (Head Over Heels TV)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love these three as a trio in general and as an OT3. They just all seem to have such love and devotion for each other.
If you do go the romantic route, please keep the fic T or below if it takes place when they’re in high school. After the time skip any rating is great!
DNW: Adding more people to the relationship if they are an OT3 in the fic, sexual situations involving someone possessed by Bong Su.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 3 by TeaRoses
이상한 변호사 우영우 | Extraordinary Attorney Woo (TV)
Characters: Choi Su Yeon, Dong Geurami
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I like the idea of these two dating or in a relationship. I also like the idea of them being friends and supporting each other. Just please don't pair them up with other people (Su Yeon's pairing with Kwon is fair to acknowledge as it's canon. But breaking them up is OK too.)
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (breaking up Su Yeon and Kwon is fine), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 4 by TeaRoses
굿보이 | Good Boy (TV)
Characters: Yoon Dongju, Kim Jonghyeon (Good Boy)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love these two. They had so much chemistry with each other and I think they’d be great as boyfriends or as friends/rivals like in canon. Just please don't pair them up with other people (canon pairing with Hanna exempted from that, but please no OT3.)
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (breaking up Dongju and Hanna amicably is fine), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
I headcanon them both strongly as bi and would rather that is not explicitly contradicted in the fic. But just not mentioning orientation (whether it's a slash fic or not) is perfectly fine.
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 5 by TeaRoses
손해 보기 싫어서 | No Gain No Love (TV)
Characters: Nam Jayeon, Bok Gyuhyun
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I loved these two together and wished we’d had more of them in canon. For me it was an enemies to lovers that truly worked. Though a gen fic about them is great too - just please don't pair them up with other people.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings, alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Please do not write the entire fic in the Spice Up Our Love universe.
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!

Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 6 by TeaRoses
Good Doctor (Korea TV)
Characters: Cha Yoon Seo (Good Doctor), Park Shi On (Good Doctor)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love them as a couple, working out their differences and learning about love and romance. Though a gen fic is great too, just please don't pair them up with other people.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings, alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 7 by TeaRoses
당신이 잠든 사이에 | While You Were Sleeping (TV)
Characters: Jung Jae Chan, Nam Hong Joo, Han Woo Tak
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I love them as an OT3 because they all just liked each other so much, but that's also what makes them great as friends!

DNW: Adding more people to the relationship if they are an OT3 in the fic
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Request 8 by TeaRoses
Unnatural (Japan TV)
Characters: Nakado Kei, Misumi Mikoto
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I thought they had a lot of chemistry together, but they also work so well as colleagues and friends so a gen fic is great too. Just please don't pair them up with other people in the fic.
Please see letter for more optional details!
DNW: Major character death, noncon, dubcon, unrequested changes to a character’s sexual orientation or gender identity, unrequested polyamory, incest, cannibalism, farting, unhappy/tragic endings, break-up of canon pairings (with exceptions noted in certain fandoms!), alternate universe e.g. vampire AU, coffee shop AU, (Alternate timeline and canon divergence are fine), mpreg, ABO, pregnancy with complications
Smut DNW: rimming, humiliation, watersports, scat, dubcon, noncon, kink featuring severe pain (consensual light spanking is OK) withdrawal used as birth control (withdrawal for fun is fine), explicit scenes featuring characters under age 18.
I welcome treats!
Letter:
https://rosehiptea.dreamwidth.org/288362.html

Canon promo posts: Good Doctor (Korea TV), 당신이 잠든 사이에 | While You Were Sleeping (TV)

PH #184: Aveyond (Video Games), Quasimorph (Video Game), Geneforge

Request 1 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Aveyond (Video Games)
Characters: Te'ijal Ravenfoot
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I have a headcanon that Te'ijal Ravenfoot is a psychopath. I would love a story that explored this concept further, delving into how Te'ijal's psychopathy would affect/recontextualize both her interactions with her colleagues and her actions throughout the Aveyond games. Furthermore, content that supplements those already in the Aveyond games, such as extra conversations or scenes, would also be welcome.
DNW: Unrequested kinks, mundane/setting change AUs, Te'ijal being "cured" of her psychopathy (i.e. being made neurotypical), Te’ijal character bashing*, neurodivergence being used to excuse bad behavior**.
*Given the stigma surrounding psychopathy, I understand if there is any confusion over this specific DNW. Let me make this clear: psychopaths are still people; having little or no empathy or emotional intelligence does not make one categorically evil or dangerous. For the purposes of this prompt, Te’ijal should be a person with both rights and accountability.
**Using neurodivergence to excuse bad behavior sounds something like this: “She can’t take responsibility for her actions because she can’t control herself/she doesn’t know what she’s doing/her brain isn’t wired correctly/etc.”
On a related note, I am fine with the inclusion of sanist language, bigotry, and/or violence as long as it is not presented as ethically/morally correct by the story itself. Keep in mind that hostility towards a neurodivergent offender in retaliation to the offender perpetrating antisocial behavior, such as inflicting harm upon or violating the rights of others, is not necessarily sanism.
On another related note, I am also fine with Te'ijal receiving treatment for her psychopathy as long as it does not fall into the trope of curing neurodivergence.
Disclaimer: Psychopathy is not a condition that one can be clinically diagnosed with. The proper diagnostic term for people exhibiting behavior commonly associated with psychopathy is antisocial personality disorder. However, the term "psychopathy" is still useful as a descriptor for a distinct pattern of behavior within the spectrum of antisocial personality disorder.
P.S.: Below are some helpful resources if you need to do research on psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder. Of course, feel free to use other sources for further research.
https://psychopathyis.org/what-is-psychopathy/
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-psychopath-5025217
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy
https://www.healthline.com/health/psychopath#Psychopathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozh8ur3tJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-UfTCGOdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpjYtAB9i2w
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353928
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000921.htm
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/personality-disorders/types-of-personality-disorder/#AntisocialPersonalityDisorder
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546673/
Note: Please exercise discretion if you choose to consult psycho-diagnostic checklists such as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R). Such tools are meant to be used in specific, controlled settings with prerequisite qualifications and can cause significant harm if used outside of these conditions. For example, see: http://www.hare.org/scales/pclr.html
P.P.S.: If you are unfamiliar with the concept of sanism, several definitions with sources are provided below. Like before, feel free to consult additional resources.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanism): “Sanism, saneism, mentalism, or psychophobia refers to the systemic discrimination against or oppression of individuals perceived to have a mental disorder or cognitive impairment.”
From The Ability Toolbox (https://theabilitytoolbox.com/sanism-mental-illness/): “Sanism is prejudice against people with mental illness. Sanism can take the form of harassment, bullying, violence, and discrimination in healthcare, employment, housing, and other aspects of daily life.”
From Simmons University Library (https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-sanism): “Sanism often stems from the "pathology paradigm [that] ultimately boils down to just two fundamental assumptions:
1. There is one 'right,' 'normal,' or 'healthy' way for human brains and human minds to be configured and to function (or one relatively narrow 'normal' range into which the configuration and functioning of human brains and minds ought to fall).
2. If your neurological configuration and functioning (and, as a result, your ways of thinking and behaving) diverge substantially from the dominant standard of 'normal,' then there is Something Wrong With You." (from Nick Walker)”

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Request 2 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Quasimorph (Video Game)
Characters: Francis Reid-Daly, John Hawkwood
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Quasimorph has become my greatest special interest over the past couple of years. One of the most fascinating things about it is the cyberpunk, science-fantasy dystopia portrayed in that game. I'd love a story that explores not just the lives of those who live in the anarcho-capitalist paradigm in Quasimorph. The scope of the available characters in this request covers the most violent, destructive, and brutal element of Quasimorph's society: the private military sector, as exemplified by both the soldier Francis Reid-Daly, and the proprietor John Hawkwood. My interests for a story in this fandom include: character studies, worldbuilding, action scenes, and violence (including blood and gore). Darkfics are welcome for this request.
DNW: Mundane/setting change AU.

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Request 3 by DreckDetritusAndDross
Geneforge
Characters: Litalia (Geneforge)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would love a story detailing how Litalia's tumultuous life and fight against the Shapers has affected her, both physically and mentally, as I feel that there's a lot of potential for a compelling narrative that is sadly underexplored, in my opinion, in the Geneforge saga.
DNW: Mundane/setting change AU.

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PH #185: Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz, Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960), Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski, Grunwald Monument

Request 1 by FakeCirilla9
Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz
Characters: Ulryk von Jungingen (Przyłbice i kaptury – Kazimierz Korkozowicz)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
The first chapter of this book is such a peanut gallery of all the adversaries of the story. This is my favourite characterisation of Ulryk in the literature so far. He's described in an incredibly sexy way, too, with eyes darkening in anger or sparkling in joy. During the introductory conversation, his mood switches from ire to amusement with the speed of a falling blade, and he manages to offend his late brother in front of a stranger.
And then there's Kuno! Obviously used to his master's volatile nature and making snarky remarks about it. Isn't that an interesting relationship? Why is the grand commander allowed to laugh at Ulryk's expense? How close are those two? Is there friendship or something more between them? Or maybe they're just two like-minded baddies united by common politics?
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 2 by FakeCirilla9
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
Characters: Ulrich von Jungingen - Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
Ulrich has a golden armour here! How cool is that? I'd be satisfied to receive a short piece with an armour kink.
Or, if you're thinking of something with a more ambitious plot, feel free to use Rotgier as well. Does Ulrich confront him about the kidnapped girl after the heroes of the story complain about it to the grand master of the Order? Or is he too busy seizing power or mourning his brother's death or both? If he acknowledges his underling’s fault, is he angry at him or does he brush the whole affair off, maybe even providing some plausible excuses to help to sweep it under the rug?
Or, a darker take: I've heard that the punishment for a Teutonic knight who broke the chastity vows was flogging administered by the grand master himself. I'd adore to see such a scene unfolding between Ulrich and Rotgier.
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 3 by FakeCirilla9
Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski
Characters: Ulryk von Jungingen (Piraci północy – Dariusz Domagalski)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
This is an easy-to-read book, in which the characters have emotional depth as thick as a sheet of printing paper. Ulryk is evil here because the plot demands a punching bag for the main hero. But I love that for the main adversary of the story, of all the possible Teutonic knights, the author chose Ulryk. The idea that Ulryk von Jungingen and Klaus Störtebeker met in person is glorious. They also got an incredibly ~~cool~~ hot sword-fighting scene in the book. Maybe the fic could deal with the aftermath of that encounter?
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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Request 4 by FakeCirilla9
Grunwald Monument
Characters: Ulrich von Jungingen (Grunwald Monument)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional details:
I know it was erected to honour king Jagiełło, but I'm not a big fan of him, and he's so distant on his high horse there. Whereas Ulrich is literally within one's hand reach (as you can see by his statue's fingers polished to gold by countless tourists). And isn't the sprawled pose marvellous? It's oddly satisfying on a primal level to see him thrown there at Vytautas’ feet, like one more war trophy from the battlefield.
DNWs:
Animal death, especially no dead horses in the Battle of Grunwald, please. Don't hurt any dogs too.
(I'm fine with the characters eating meat or hunting for food, but if it's for sport, let them rather hunt pagans. Murder as many human characters as you wish. MCD is allowed by all means.)

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PH #198: even if TEMPEST 宵闇にかく語りき魔女 (Visual Novel), Flowers Series (Visual Novels), Lkyt. (Visual Novel)

Request 1 by ryulynn
even if TEMPEST 宵闇にかく語りき魔女 (Visual Novel)
Characters: Anastasia Lynzel, Maya Kirkland
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW general: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con (dub-con okay), permanent main character death, explicitly described violence/gore, sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, homophobia, transphobia, incest, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: any Conrad romantic ships, Maya shipped romantically with anyone outside of Anastasia
General likes: humor, fluff, flirting, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes
Favorite ships: Anastasia/Maya, Crius/Tyril, Anastasia/Crius/Tyril, Anastasia/Crius, Anastasia/Tyril, Anastasia/Zenn, Evelina/Leticia
I love Anastasia and Maya's relationship so much! Whether it be platonic or romantic, I love their devotion to each other. Thus I would like to see either Anastasia/Maya as a romantic pair (I usually see Anastasia as the initiator of this but if you have ideas for the other way around, I'd love to see it) or Maya's commentary/thoughts/influence/etc on Anastasia's other relationships, whether they be following one of the romantic routes of the game or Anastasia not getting together with any of the guys.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

Request 2 by ryulynn
Flowers Series (Visual Novels)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con, major character death, excessive violence/gore, sex before the characters are 18+ (aka set fic in the future if you write smut), sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, focus on homophobia or transphobia (aka no more than what is in canon), incest, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: focus on any romantic ships except Chidori/Erika, Mayuri/Suoh, Nerine/Yuzuriha
General likes: humor, fluff, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes, talk about food
Okay I stan Chidori/Erika and Nerine/Yuzuriha. Erika and Yuzuriha are my favorite POVs in the series, but fic from any POV is fine. If you just want to focus on one character, I would love either backstory/memories or future fic. I also totally love so many of the friendships in this series. Especially Erika & Suoh and everyone with the Sasaki twins.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

Request 3 by ryulynn
Lkyt. (Visual Novel)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: AUs generally except for canon-divergence or future fic, rape, non-con (dub-con okay), non-canonical character death, excessive explicit descriptions of violence/gore, sexual acts that involve one party being humiliated, homophobia, transphobia, incest except for Takeru/Towa, focus on unrequited feelings (mentions are fine), hurt without comfort
DNW ships: Ango/anyone besides Tasuku or his wife, Tasuku/anyone besides route characters Takeru, Towa, Ango, or Yael
General likes: humor, fluff, banter, accidentally romantic gestures, established relationship, domestic scenes, worldbuilding, family stuff (especially Tasuku's family)
Favorite ships: Tasuku/Takeru, Tasuku/Towa, Tasuku/Yael, Tasuku/Ango, Tasuku/Takeru/Towa, Tasuku & Fuuka, Takeru & Towa
Yes, give me fluff and alternative scenes before the end game because this game made me cry a bunch. Especially Takeru's route which I played first! Or give me backstory scenes that expand on the little bit of knowledge we know of other [redacted] relationships. Or give me post epilogue ideas.
Optional prompts are in the letter.

Letter:
https://ryulynn.dreamwidth.org/66179.html

Canon promo post: Lkyt.

CLAIMED - PH #200: DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics), No I'm not a Human (Video Game), Dread Weight (Video Game), The Troop - Nick Cutter

Request 1 by sarriathmg
DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics)
Characters: Dick Grayson (DC vs. Vampires), Koriand'r (DC vs. Vampires), Jason Todd (DC vs. Vampires), Hal Jordan (DC vs. Vampires)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DC DNW:
- Dick whump, hurt!Dick, comparing Dick’s trauma to Jason’s as if they’re equal (no mentioning Catalina, no implying that Dick's heart stopping in Forever Evil is equivalent to Jason's death etc.)
- Tim whump, hurt!Tim, mentions of Titan's Tower incident, implying Tim is a victim of any sort (when in doubt just don't write him)
- / ships for solo Jason (other than childhood noncon, Dick/Jay, and background canon ships)
- purely platonic Dick & Jay (“will they won’t they,” pre-slash both fine, but if they’re not shipped together I’d rather Dick be mean to Jason)
- reverse Robins or AUs where Jason and Dick's age difference is shortened significantly or reversed (if topic comes up Dick being 3+ yrs older is fine, but preferably their canon 6+ yrs)
- top!Jason, Jason being the only one who smokes or swears, Jason characterized as "illiterate/dumb"
- bottom Dick (when penetration is concerned, however oral is fine no matter who's receiving), sub/"subby" Dick
- Jason having facial scars or crooked features
- Jason being described as overly bulky or "big" (especially if he's Robin or pre/without Lazarus pit, then he should stay small)
- Dick being described as physically small or thin or weak or "feminine", exaggerating Dick and Jason's body size difference
- (if A/B/O) Dick being anything other than alpha
- Dick being characterized as a ray of sunshine, a self-sacrificing martyr, or is unsure and lacking self-confidence
- side/implied/potential pairings involving Dick unless it's clear he's the top and the "leading party" of that relationship; no side/past/potential Sladick
- Dick Grayson having prey features for animal features AUs
- Romani Dick
- focusing on Dick's ass, ass jokes
DNW-general:
- discussing "social issues" (gender politics, racism etc.)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- Non-con when the victim stays unaroused (fine if orgasm/arousal is forced)
- Permanent non-canon character death or injury/mutilation for requested ships (fine for unrequested chars, for example feel free to kill off Bruce if he isn't requested)
- race change from canon (except Romani!Dick, which is a dnw)
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
- Religion being discussed as a major philosophical topic while presenting it as unironically positive (religious fanaticism/piety as character trait/period-typical religion is fine, just not the narration itself being "preachy").
Treats are welcome!
Dick with Jason, Hal, or Kory. Dick is the only required character, but I definitely don't mind more characters added as long as I get the sexy evil vampire Nightwing I crave. (Dick with his harem of willing and unwilling thralls? YES PLEASE)
Vampire King Dick is the best thing ever. He's so evil and ruthless and I just want to see him fuck everyone up and laugh while drinking their loved ones' blood out of a cup while sadistically taunting them. Tell me there wasn't sexual tension when he had dying Jason at his mercy and pulled off his mask, or a huge D/s undertone in his Lord/Lieutenant relationship with Hal. Or the part where he implied having Kory as a prisoner while using her blood as a temporary "cure" for signs of vampirism. Just want to see Dick as a dominant, totally remorseless vampire villain who you want to hate but also can't help but be enthralled by because "sexy vampires" and stuff.
Kinda into any kind of kinky scenario where Dick keeps Jason or Kory prisoner as unturned blood cows/sex toys, or Hal being a good little submissive vampire servant, or Jason being a good little submissive vampire servant in a world where Dick turns him. Of course if shippy/NSFW isn't your thing I'm just really into Dick being a demanding vampire lord in general so him basically commanding Jason or Hal or keeping Kory as a prisoner with heavy seductive undertones would be awesome too.
Evil Dick and top Dick (if you want to go shippy at all) only please. I have a huge squick with fanon's obsession with whumping Dick Grayson and bottom Dick so that's the only thing I ask. That includes things like typically OOC "bottom" traits (see DNW breakdown). Also, Jason is my blorbo so if you're writing him, please don't write him as ugly or dumb or "always bad" (turning bad from vampirism is very good however!).

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Request 2 by sarriathmg
No I'm not a Human (Video Game)
Characters: Protagonist (No I'm not a Human), Widowed Woman (No I'm not a Human), Neighbor's Daughter (No I'm not a Human)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW-general:
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- race change from canon
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
Would love worldbuilding or something that tells me more about the characters.
The full game gave us a lot of info on what exactly caused the visitors, but there’s still a lot we don’t know. Why is the pale man so in control while the cashier girl so lost? Are there different kinds of visitors? Are the visitors caused by fungus or the bug in the ears? Are they revived from the dead? Are some of them more “original” or “powerful” than the others? Do they really wear human skin (other than the pale man, the old granny also has a face that droops the longer you speak to her)? And how do the sun and FEMA play into all of this?
Are the visitors like vampires—risen from the dead, can’t enter without an invitation, and anyone can become one?
You don’t have to include all the requested characters, but please include the Protagonist.
The protagonist—his backstory is so intriguing. I want to know more. I want to know why he’s the way he is—lonely and borderline suicidal, but has to learn to open his heart for his guests. One thing the game really left me wanting is that there isn’t a single ending that’s objectively “good.” No… I didn’t really like the death ending in which we assume the Protagonist just… died. I’d love to see your take on a “good ending” in which the Protagonist not only survives but… is grateful that he does. Maybe with some of the guests being his found family. Perhaps he ends up fulfilling the neighbor’s last wish and adopts his daughter (damaged man reluctantly adopting an orphaned child is one of my all-time favorite tropes!). Or forming a bond with the widow and raising the neighbor’s daughter with her?
Other guests—not all listed, but I’d also love to learn more about any of the other guests that you find interesting.
I also find the demon baby ending really creepy and would love the backstory of the seductive woman and the cult.
Since only a few characters have canonical names, I’d love for you to come up with names for characters who don’t, but would prefer them to be other Eastern European names to fit with the setting.

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Request 3 by sarriathmg
Dread Weight (Video Game)
Characters: Kurt (Dread Weight), Dimitri (Dread Weight), Protagonist (Dread Weight)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW-general:
- real-life politics (for this canon, it's fine to touch on politics, but if you do, I prefer that you either don't mention specific historical leaders' names or events, or just make up fictional names for them)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- Non-con when the victim stays unaroused (fine if orgasm/arousal is forced)
- Permanent non-canon character death or injury/mutilation for requested ships
- race change from canon
- Raceplay
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- Spitting in mouth
- vomit kink
- weight gain
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
Can be Dimitri &/ Kurt; Dimitri &/ Protagonist; Kurt &/ Protagonist; OR Dimitri &/ Kurt &/ Protagonist. I'd really really love for this to be either romantic, sexual, or something similar, no matter which character group you're picking. But if that's really not your thing, that's fine, I just really want to see these characters! I have a slight preference for plot focus rather than platonic relationship focus if romance/smut is off the table.
I'll admit, I haven't played the game hands-on, only watched numerous playthrough videos of it. I think I've seen all the routes, however, so I should understand whichever detail you want to focus on. What I like about the relationships from this game is that... they're all kinda fucked up? Kurt's manipulation of everyone around him; Dimitri being a doctor who wants to do good but is inexcusable in enabling Kurt's evil deeds (possibly blinded by love?); the Protagonist being the player character connecting the most with us but ends up revealing as an enforcer of a tyrannical regime... Messy feelings and fucked up power dynamics all around!!! Kurt keeping Dimitri by his side using sweet talk but holds unspoken power over him; Kurt being all around creepy and fucked up with Protagonist when she lost her memories (I think the whole non-consensual mind/body modification alone is a HUGE assault on someone's person); Dimitri trauma bonding with the Protagonist over Kurt's manipulations... Or put them together, have Dimitri bonding with Protagonist only for Kurt to discover them and punish them both, or let Kurt be at their mercy. Going darker: Kurt forcing them into doing things they aren't comfortable with as punishment, or something with an unbalanced V-type relationship where Kurt clearly prefers one of them but keeps the other around anyway just to be cruel.
Other random ideas:
- anything similar to the Dimitri ending (possibly without the deaths?) where they successfully run away together (whether in a romantic way or not)
- I kept having thoughts about Kurt sexually assaulting the protagonist what with undressing in front of her and sleeping in her bed... but I'd also love to see more of the Anime-esque "bastard boyfriend" trope where he essentially tortures her (traps her in a toxic relationship) even though he's written as the pretty boy male love interest stereotype
- Kurt and Dimitri's backstory, how they got together, etc. I see their relationship being a bit more consensual than the above, but I will never say no to noncon either, especially with how fucked up Kurt is.
- Kurt arrested by Protagonist ending: the potential ramifications of that. Also I get really excited thinking about a Protagonist with her memories back giving Kurt a taste of his own medicine. Her torturing Kurt (whether in a kinky way or not) for information or for what he'd done would be great, as does a wider look at the people she works for and the attempt at recreating Kurt's brand of immortality
- something gen (or not so gen) horror involving Kurt's fate or Dimitri crawling inside the mansion walls would be GREAT
For Protagonist (if you're including her), I'm fine with any OC name you want to give her as long as it's reasonably believable for a female character with an Eastern European-esque background. I'm also fine with either second or third-person narration with her as long as it's not literally readerfic (no stuff like y/n or deliberating involving the reader, just treat her as her own character please.)

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Request 4 by sarriathmg
The Troop - Nick Cutter
Characters: Newton Thornton (The Troop - Nick Cutter), Max Kirkwood (The Troop - Nick Cutter)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW-general:
- underage human/human sex for this canon (parasitic erotic horror involving underage characters, with canon-typical body horror elements, is welcome for this canon! eg. mpreg with worms)
- discussing "social issues" (gender politics, racism etc.)
- Unrequested gender swap
- unrequested trans/ace headcanons
- race change from canon
- xeno pronouns (“they/them” = great; “it/its” = great in a dehumanization/degradation context or to show how inhuman a character is; “xe/ze” = not these please)
- food used in sex (things like hand feeding as a part of D/s relationship is fine, but no food going near places other than hands and mouth please)
- Religion being discussed as a major philosophical topic while presenting it as unironically positive (religious fanaticism/piety as character trait/period-typical religion is fine, just not the narration itself being "preachy").
I’m a sucker for stories where the trauma that characters face is treated with care. The middle of the book nearly lost me, but the ending pulled me back full force!
Damn! I was hoping for Newton to survive, but I can’t complain that it ended up being Max. The chapter dedicated to his lasting trauma is sad but so well done that I can even forgive the turtle scene. I really want to see some form of happy ending where both boys survive and grow into adulthood, or just anything that’s less sad than the canon ending. And what about the aftermath? How would Newton corroborate with Max’s version of events? How would the parents cope? Would the two surviving boys form some kind of a trauma bond? Max/Newton is just as good as Max & Newton, so gimme shippy or gen content, I love them both!
I also love dark shit and the body horror of this book, especially when the worms are making Shelley believe that he’s pregnant and must now protect his “babies.” That’s both fucked up and has a… strange erotic undertone that makes you kinda uncomfortable. I love body horror, especially the type when a foreign parasitic entity is rewiring someone’s brain or modifying their body, severing their identity and making them into tools for the entity’s procreation. I like Shelley’s psychopathic creepiness as well as the scifi horror of the worms. Gimme something creepy, if you’d like! I’d love to see whump in which Shelley gets his hands (or the worms make him get his hands) on Max or Newton or both. Torturing them or making them into hosts just like Shelley. No happy ending is required for this, especially if you want to fully embrace the horror!

Letter:
https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/24719.html

Canon promo post: Dread Weight (Video Game)

CLAIMED - PH #213: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Dimension 20: Escape from the Bloodkeep, 勿扰飞升 - 月下蝶影 | Ascending Do Not Disturb - Yue Xia Die Ying, Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series), The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison

Request 1 by Nemainofthewater
Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Raphael Amian | Lord of Ysthar (Nine Worlds)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.
Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!
Likes
-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.
-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.
-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.
-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)
-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!
-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions
-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.
-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).
-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.
-Competence and competence porn!
-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!
-Identity porn
-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…
-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!
-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.
DNWs
DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine
*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there
Opt-ins
Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested
I would adore anything about Raphael. He is the saddest and soggiest person in the Nine Realms but he is slowly getting there! I love the contrast of his rich inner monologue in contrast to what he actually says out loud with his mouth to his friends, which is not a lot.
-What is his relationship with Circe like outside of THVWU? He was apparently dating her (or at least his cover identity was dating her cover identity) until just before the beginning of the book – what was that like?
-Raphael and his friends post and pre canon
-Pick your favourite historical even and dump Raphael into it
-Kasian & Raphael please, or any of the rest of his family! Yes Damian, but also where was Pharia? What were his siblings like? Did no one look for him at all before Kasian? Or did they try and it just didn’t work?
-I have a huge spot for the academic rivalry between him and Emperor Artorin
-What does it mean to be a Lord Magus of a world? Are there ever any meetings between all the Lords Magi

Letter:
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Request 2 by Nemainofthewater
Dimension 20: Escape from the Bloodkeep
Characters: Leiland | Kraz-Thun (D20: Escape From the Bloodkeep), Maggie (D20: Escape From the Bloodkeep)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.
Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!
Likes
-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.
-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.
-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.
-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)
-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!
-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions
-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.
-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).
-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.
-Competence and competence porn!
-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!
-Identity porn
-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…
-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!
-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.
DNWs
DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine
*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there
Opt-ins
Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested
-I am a huge fan of the wholesome vibes. I would love to see something about Leiland and Maggie co-parenting Leiland junior post canon
-Alternately, something very messed up in an alternate universe where Zaul’nazh decides that he wants and deserves a girlfriend AND a piece on the side, and how Leiland and Maggie deal with that (though I would prefer something where they end up on the same side eventually against their terrible lover as opposed to the entirety of the fic being about them hating each other)

Letter:
https://nemainofthewater.dreamwidth.org/6182.html

Request 3 by Nemainofthewater
勿扰飞升 - 月下蝶影 | Ascending Do Not Disturb - Yue Xia Die Ying
Characters: Worldbuilding (ADND), Wang Tong (ADND), Kong Hou (ADND), Huan Zhong | Zhong Xi (ADND)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.
Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!
Likes
-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.
-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.
-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.
-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)
-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!
-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions
-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.
-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).
-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.
-Competence and competence porn!
-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!
-Identity porn
-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…
-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!
-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.
DNWs
DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine
*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there
Opt-ins
Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested

I just love this webnovel. If you haven’t read it, it can be found here https://dreamsofjianghu.ca/ascending-do-not-disturb/table-of-contents/ and I highly recommend it.
When I say that I will adore anything at all, I am not lying. Please give me more about any of the characters, the worldbuilding, the super chill Sect.

Letter:
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Request 4 by Nemainofthewater
Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
Characters: Wicander Halovar (Critical Role: Aramán), Tyranny (Critical Role: Aramán)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.
Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!
Likes
-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.
-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.
-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.
-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)
-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!
-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions
-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.
-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).
-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.
-Competence and competence porn!
-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!
-Identity porn
-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…
-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!
-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.
DNWs
DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine
*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there
Opt-ins
Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested
Hey platonic, romantic, siblings, I will take any interactions between these two. I would also love to see anything that explores the implications of
Spoiler for ep2
Wicander having a Celestial as a grandfather (just saying, I am a huge fan of wingfic…)
I have been keeping up with episodes so far, so please don’t worry about spoilers! Equally I realise this canon is very much ongoing and so please know that even if things are not canon compliant I will still love everything and anything that I am gifted.

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Request 5 by Nemainofthewater
The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Characters: Csevet Aisava
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Thank you so much for writing for me in advance! Please know that I will absolutely adore anything that you gift me and though I am going to provide more likes/dislikes and some general prompts further down, please feel free to combine prompts, or ignore them completely if you get inspired in a different direction! I’m Nemainofthewater on AO3 and most other fandom spaces.
Please go wild – I will literally adore anything that you make me. If you want to do something experimental (a series of drabbles, interactive fiction, art, etc…) I will be delighted to see it!
Likes
-Found family. I really love team-as-family, slice of life type stories where everything may be difficult (or not!) but at least they have each other.
-I love angst. Please put my blorbos through The Horrors ™ . So long as it is appropriately tagged, I am up for anything.
-Adventures: I love case fics or adventures where the characters work together to solve a problem. It doesn’t have to be anything important! Problem solving is wonderful at all levels, whether it’s something large like overtaking an empire or small like hunting for the perfect cake. Bonus for characters displaying unexpected knowledge/skills, or just being good at their jobs and their being appreciated.
-Canon divergence AUs or role reversal. I really like time travel and time loops as well as ‘for want of a nail’ type stories. I am fond of the type of modern day AUs that preserve the fantastical elements (ie, cultivation in the modern world type thing!)
-Bring your fandom to work. Are you interested in a thing? Do you want to gush about things through the medium of fic? Here is your chance!
-Crossovers, though I would prefer if the request canon is not completely overtaken. Even for requests where I have not requested a crossover, please feel free to add some in. The list of fandoms I know is on my AO3 profile, and I am happy to read fandom blind. I also adore canon fusions
-Characters who don’t take care of themselves being gently bullied into sleeping/eating/resting, or just generally just looking after themselves.
-Food or creating things as a love language (platonic or romantic).
-OT3s to solve love triangles or, conversely, to make things worse.
-Competence and competence porn!
-Multimedia! (meta, articles, etc). Outsider POV is also something that I love and if you feel intrigued by adding that and/or any multimedia bits please indulge yourself!
-Identity porn
-Wingfic, especially wingfic that looks at the practical things associated with wings/the (pseudo)biology/the social implications…
-Survival stories. Characters are trapped somewhere for a long period of time and have to work together to survive!
-Worldbuilding – please give me all the details that you ever wanted to share, nothing is too nerdy or too detailed.
DNWs
DNWs: sibling (biological or otherwise) incest | underage (as defined by explicit sexual content from characters under 16) | character bashing (out of universe: it doesn’t count if characters don’t like each other in canon, for example) | racism*| sexism*| homophobia*| aphobia | transphobia | AI-generated content | Explorations of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease | Heavy explorations of cancer (mention is fine) | Scat | Watersports | Mundane Aus (ie coffee shop, college) though mundane with magic is fine
*Canon typical mentions are ok, but please don’t make the whole work about it and please don’t insert it if it wasn’t already there
Opt-ins
Recursive fic of my fic | Sequels/Prequels/recursive works of gifts I have received (with the author’s permission) | Any relationships (that don’t hit my DNWs) for Character requests | Crossovers with fandoms that I have previously created for/requested
-Ok, but overnight Csevet went from courier to running the government. How is he dealing with this?
-Outsider POV!
-If you’re interested in it, I am also a huge fan of Csevet & Csethiro and also Csethiro/Maia/Csevet
-Seriously, the leadership of this government is pretty young and yet they are doing amazing things – what do the people think about this?

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CLAIMED - PH #214: Straume | Flow (Movie 2024), The Anomaly - Hervé Le Tellier, Last Breath - Peter Stark, Widow Clicquot (2023), A Wizard (TowerWizard Bluesky Account)

Request 1 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Straume | Flow (Movie 2024)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Flow)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

So many ideas could be explored! If you already have something in mind, go for it—and if you'd like to hear suggestions from me, read on! (And don't worry about whether you're fulfilling the "Worldbuilding" tag—anything you write will count as worldbuilding to me, even if the story just focuses on small corners of the world.)
Who was building the gigantic cat statue, and why? It's not clear exactly how long ago the human abandonment of the area took place, but I've considered the possibility that the left-behind drawings that look so much like the cat are actually of that very same cat, and whatever happened, happened recently enough that the cat and the people who left would have known each other. (Certainly it's clear that the water never rose this high before, since those drawings were left previously undamaged by water.) I get the impression also that the humans may simply have left this area and gone Somewhere Else (rather than vanishing entirely—though you may have other ideas!)—in which case, perhaps a human who knew the cat could learn something from the news about the place they left the cat behind in? (Whether they learn anything about the cat specifically or not.) Or further exploration of any of the animals' individual stories would be interesting, before or after the events of the movie—whether the nominated characters or any of the other creatures they encounter.
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Request 2 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
The Anomaly - Hervé Le Tellier
Characters: Worldbuilding (The Anomaly - Hervé Le Tellier)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

"I think we're even dealing with some sort of test. To take the idea further, it may be precisely because we can now envision the idea of being programs that the simulation is offering us this test. And we'd better get it right, or at least make something interesting out of it."
"Why's that?" Silveria asks.
"Because if we fail, the entities running this simulation could just shut it down."
Anything: I'm interested in anything you do for this! (Don't worry about whether you're fulfilling the "Worldbuilding" tag—anything you write will count as worldbuilding to me, even if the story just focuses on individual characters.)
I otherwise haven't found the idea that we're all living in a simulation all that compelling, but I find it so interesting that the test is clearly failed and the simulation ends on the last page. And to think: the Chinese government hiding the existence of their duplicate plane and sequestering the passengers (apparently permanently) didn't fail the test. Even the malicious killing of one set of duplicates caused by the (publicly-known) duplicate plane that landed in the US didn't fail the test. But the American president choosing to shoot down the next duplicate of the same plane (…the triplicate??), killing all aboard: that failed the test and ended the simulation. What does this suggest about the priorities and ethical standards of the entities running the test? Could there be other conditions that would also fail the test, and if so, I wonder what they are?
What would have happened if the triplicate plane had been allowed to land? Would the same plane just have kept coming again and again? Were there/would there have been any future versions of the duplicate plane that landed in China? Do any other places see their own versions of a duplicate plane? Do any other strange events start occurring as part of this phenomenon? Or you could do a close-in focus on any of the characters—what additional alternate branching pathways could unfold for them?
Or you could explore further into the entities running the simulation! Who are they? What are the goals of the simulation? Is this a serious-business experiment or just some folks fucking around? Is there future IRB overseeing experiments on virtual subjects? Who's funding this? (If any of these questions even apply..?)
Or: there were a lot of other people on the plane! What are any of their stories?
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Request 3 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Last Breath - Peter Stark
Characters: Myrna (Last Breath - Peter Stark)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Fandom promo post from last year with more information about the source! https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/326270.html?thread=5443198#cmt5443198
I don't even have a clear idea of what kind of story I want to request here, it just makes me happy every time I think of Myrna, so I'd like to see more of her!
She knows Phil so well! She knows she can't be with him anymore! She still loves him and wishes him well! She can predict the exact way he is going to be a dumbass on his sailing trip adventure and mitigate it pre-emptively. She KNOWS what is UP. She knows what she wants out of life, and I hope she gets it.
(Phil doesn't have to be in or even mentioned in the story, of course—which maybe you would have assumed from the nomination and character request anyway!—it's just hard for me to talk about what I like about her without mentioning him at all, since in the book we only know about her via that context.)
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Request 4 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Widow Clicquot (2023)
Characters: Louis Bohne (Widow Clicquot 2023), François Clicquot (Widow Clicquot 2023), Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Widow Clicquot 2023)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

"You like him."
"Yes. I do."
"I see the way you are with one another."
"Are you jealous?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I know you love me. And because I believe we must be free to feel whatever we feel, so that we never mistake rebellion for reality. Because I like his company too."
"You like his company?"
"I do."
Man, for like a minute there I thought they were heading for a happy threesome! And then that did not happen. But it could in fanfiction! What if they all got to love each other at the same time? I loved loved loved those glimpses of the physical affection between François and Louis, and Barbe-Nicole's lack of jealousy, and how much Barbe-Nicole and François loved each other—put these ingredients together!
If you want to write about sexytimes with any/all of them—some possible elements I find interesting are: involving any of the accoutrements of wine production (from tasting the finished products all the way to the mud of the fields the grapes grow in); reading/quoting sexy literature/letters to each other; the domineering streak in Barbe-Nicole demonstrated when she kisses Louis and then tells him "Now, get out of my office." (I LOVED that line.) And I always love non-heteronormative sex.
I'm not sure I see a way to a happy alternate ending for all three of them, without any way of identifying in nineteenth-century France whatever mental illness François is dealing with, much less how to treat it. But the three of them can share happiness along the way, even if it still leads to sadness.
Even if they're not all together at the same time, focusing on the important relationships between each pair of them would make me happy. For instance, would Barbe-Nicole and Louis ever talk about Louis' past relationship with François after Barbe-Nicole and Louis get together after François' death?
Barbe-Nicole tells her father-in-law that they both failed to recognize that François needed help, and that's why he's dead—she must feel such grief and guilt over her perception of failing him. That line she and François exchange about "wanting to die in your arms" is really striking, especially how in the end François said he wanted to die in Barbe-Nicole's arms...and then he died alone.
I really feel for Barbe-Nicole being so haunted by François in every corner of their home, even as she tries to move ahead alone into the future they had planned for themselves together. Perhaps the haunting could even be literal, and François could be a ghost?
François singing to the vines and getting Barbe-Nicole to do so as well reminded me of a beekeeping tradition I've heard about, where when the beekeeper marries, the new spouse has to be introduced to the bees, and somebody also needs to tell the bees when the old beekeeper has died. Perhaps the vines kept growing so well for Barbe-Nicole because she already sang for them and they knew her?
If you do want to try for a happy ending, I'll also note that in general, the approach I prefer for a "happy ending" with mental illness in stories is that of characters finding ways to manage it/work around it/live with it, although the effects never go away entirely—and not a solution that magically fixes everything.
Reading the book the movie is based on showed me that the character dynamics I was so interested in were entirely invented for the movie :-D That being the case, feel free to port the character dynamics into a different setting if you'd like to play around with it (or just don't want to do historical research :-P)—an alternate past with magic (like the couple of magic ideas I have above)? an In Space AU is always fun? or bring your own ideas!
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Request 5 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
A Wizard (TowerWizard Bluesky Account)
Characters: The Wizard (TowerWizard Bluesky Account)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Find this here! https://bsky.app/profile/towerwizard.bsky.social
I'd be very happy with anything that fills in some of the details (mundane or fascinating) between the hourly updates in the Bluesky account. (Like, what does the contract for the weekly garbage pickup by the monster who eats it look like?) There are also hints of a tragic backstory that could be fascinating to explore.
I only nominated the wizard, but any other characters you want to bring in as well are very welcome! In fact, maybe it could be interesting to see characters in combination that the wizard usually interacts with separately? I do love the whole little social network the wizard has around himself!
I do especially love the close relationship between the wizard and the ex-paladin (the ex-paladin minds the wizard's stall at the weekly market for him and BRUSHES CRUMBS off the wizard's CHEEK when they eat together!) and I'd love to see more elaboration on it (whether romantic, platonic, or [vaguely handwaves]. I believe the ex-paladin's gender is never specified, so you can do whatever you want with it!
I also love how the wizard takes care of the little cat and would be delighted to see more of that! Also, what's going on those times when the little cat appears to be reading a tome/grimoire/spellbook at night when the wizard is asleep?
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CLAIMED - PH #215: Impromptu (1991), Like a Prayer - Madonna (Music Video), Where Angels Fear To Tread - E. M. Forster, Den stygge stesøsteren | The Ugly Stepsister (2025), Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Movie 2022), My Two Dads (TV), Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter (Music Video), The Golden Girls (TV 1985)

Request 1 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Impromptu (1991)
Characters: Marie D'Agoult (Impromptu), Franz Liszt (Impromptu), Frédéric Chopin (Impromptu), George Sand (Impromptu)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

I love the complicated, ridiculous tangle between these four people. I want it to be messy and gossipy and backbiting and filled with passion! I love George's nontraditional pursuit of Frédéric and I want to see how that extends in their relationship (in their bedroom?). And Marie and Franz' endless, baby-laden drama -- well, I'll take anything from smut to a historical AU where they stick together.
Feel free to feature any of the other nominated characters in the tagset, especially Alfred!

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Request 2 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Like a Prayer - Madonna (Music Video)
Characters: Murdered Woman (Like a Prayer MV), Madonna's Character (Like A Prayer MV), Choir Leader (Like a Prayer MV), Black Saint (Like a Prayer MV)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

The play-within-a-music-video nature of this music video is so interesting; how much is fiction? Is it based on a true story? Are the play's actors being haunted by the ghosts of these saints and victims? Is a miracle happening when Madonna's character makes love to the black saint? Why does the choir welcome her so joyfully? Murdered woman backstory!

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Request 3 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Where Angels Fear To Tread - E. M. Forster
Characters: Lilia Herriton (Where Angels Fear to Tread), Gino Carella (Where Angels Fear to Tread), Caroline Abbott (Where Angels Fear To Tread), Philip Herriton (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

A major theme of every Forster novel is that travel makes you romantically insane. Give me a story where Lilia lives to raise her son with Gino, but Caroline follows her to Italy anyway to find out what on earth has happened to her. Or Lilia DOES die and give me more background that explains why Caroline's in love with Gino. Correspondence between the cousins. Anything you like.
Or perhaps Philip falls for Gino. Or Caroline chooses both Philip AND Gino, since she's already bucking convention. Go very cute or very passionate, I'm into it all.

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Request 4 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Den stygge stesøsteren | The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Characters: Agnes | The Ugly Stepsister (2025), Alma | The Ugly Stepsister (2025), Elvira | The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I want to know how Alma and Elvira manage without their mother. Does Agnes recover from her injuries? Find love again? Do they settle into happy but edgy spinsterhood? What if the prince comes calling, dissatisfied with Agnes' lack of 'purity' and they decide to Goodbye Earl him?
How does Agnes survive the political machinations she's now up against at court? Nature seems to be on her side - is she a witch? Does she ever regret what she's done? When she has daughters, does she understand the sacrifices Rebekka and Elvira made?
Feel free to use Julian if you need to for this story but I naturally don't want anything entirely focused on him.

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Request 5 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Movie 2022)
Characters: Madonna (Weird), Weird Al Yankovic (Weird)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

This movie is bananas and I'd love for you to make it even more bananas. Write a parody fic! Make Al a zombie, back and trying to take revenge on Madonna! Madonna trying to stay on top of the pop food chain, by any means necessary. Missing scenes and moments from their "affair." Al lives AU (wait, would that be reality?).

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Request 6 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
My Two Dads (TV)
Characters: Nicole Bradford, Michael Taylor (My Two Dads), Joey Harris (My Two Dads)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I'm definitely here for Michael/Joey and any and every cheesy trope you can throw at them (Sharing a bed! Fake dating/married!), but I'm also interested in how their joint raising of Nicole shaped her as a person. Is she as unflappable as she was in her youth? Is she an artist? An activist? An accountant?
Feel free to ignore the show's series finale and pretend that Joey never moved to California, or if you want to use it, explore Nicole's complicated feelings about having to fly out to see Joey every now and again. Future fic with Joey and Michael babysitting Nicole's kid would be extra funny.
IF you want to stick with gen, feel free to stay canon-typical and give me a breezy plot in which Michael and Joey have to help Nicole with some important event.
Marcy Lives. She didn't, but comes back wrong. Nicole keeps seeing her in her dreams and discovers Michael and Joey have been seeing her too.
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Request 7 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter (Music Video)
Characters: Sabrina Carpenter's Character (Manchild MV)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I need to know more about this character! And her roadtripping! And her homicidal ways. We get all these little snippets! Give me something that's missing or weave them all together into a different kind of narrative.
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Request 8 by CherryPinkAndAppleBlossomWhite
The Golden Girls (TV 1985)
Characters: Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, Rose Nylund, Sophia Petrillo
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Adventures set during the holiday season; missing scenes
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Current Mood: joyful
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post #44: More Joy Day: Annual Fandom Holiday

The 19th Annual Fandom Holiday of More Joy Day will be Thursday, January 8th, 2026.

What is More Joy Day? In short it's this: in 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy,

sdwolfpup proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one or more acts, either online or in physical space (or both!), which bring joy to another person, and which might even inspire that person to spread joy further, exponentially onward.

For more details, and to see where to post on Dreamwidth your More Joy Day action(s), click here for

sdwolfpup's post.

And here's a Fanlore entry about More Joy Day.

SPREAD JOY!

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Daily Happiness

1. I had a meeting scheduled at 2pm today and then one at 4pm, and was expecting to have to stay at work until after the second meeting was over, but we moved the earlier one up a bit and were done by like 2:15, so I decided to go home and take the second meeting from there. Traffic is a bit better at that time, plus it meant once the meeting was over I was already home and could just get on with my evening, so that was nice.

2. This cutie guy snuggled with me while I had my meeting this afternoon. :)

Current Mood: sleepy

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Ads For Subs in the Suburbs

Saw an interesting thing today for the second time: an ad on the back end of an OC Transpo bus for Hanhwa Ocean's KS-III submarines. Hanhwa Ocean is one of the firms competing for contracts to build submarines for the Canadian Navy. I'd expect to see the ads in the tunnel under MacKenzie King Bridge that connects the Rideau Centre with DND HQ. Not on a bus out in the eastern suburbs of Ottawa.

(I'll try to remember to upload the picture soon.)

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Treat for beaglesbites: To Implore Your Light

Title: To Implore Your Light
Recipient: beaglesbites
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Now that Holmes had returned to London, alive and well, Watson had thought the nightmares would stop. He had the most marvelous proof that the worst had not happened, that Holmes was not lost, his body not left to be battered by the torrent of the Reichenbach Falls forever. Still, the nightmares continued.

Read on AO3: To Implore Your Light

Gosh, don't you just hate it

when your boyfriend, who turned out to be a fabulously wealthy member of the magical nobility, insists on buying you an expensive ring, and not just to get at his awful family who all hate you?

Last time that happened to me, I told him, "The ring is nice, but seriously, get your shit together and stand up to your folks, or the wedding's off." And this is why I'm not married today. Fabulous wealth is all well and good, but there are limits, and realistically speaking, you probably can't murder all your inlaws.

Alas, our protagonist is going to take the next book and a half to put her foot down. I can just tell. Unlike any sensible heroine, she's going to spend all her time trying to placate those assholes instead. Honey, it's a wasted effort! If you insist on standing by your man, stand by him by booking a couples spa date - no parents allowed.

(The ring isn't even magical. It's just expensive. I mean, honestly, I would not put up with those people for a nonmagical ring, and here she is insisting that it's all too much, it's too valuable, is he sure he wants to spend what, to him, amounts to pocket change on little old her? Please.)

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( Read more... )

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: nothing now

Roundabout.

I made a cake for my dad's book group, as is customary, and it wasn't until late in the day, long after dropping it off, that I found out the book group had cancelled its in-person meeting - to be fair, they hadn't known that until the afternoon, what with someone coming down with something and everyone else electing not to drive.

It also turns out that my parents had a building party scheduled that same night. One my dad thought he wouldn't go to with the book group, but could attend since the commute would only be from the lobby to the apartment. One where he could bring a cake that I'd happened to have dropped off earlier that day.

The group had been reading Charles Dickens, and I thought an apple ginger spice cake would be fitting to the general vibe of the novel. It turned out to be a set of flavors that were just as fitting for a near-solstice wintertime party.

I'm always happy when something I've baked finds its way to a good home, and I'm even happier when there's a little story to go along with the cake.

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books

Recent reading

Read A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews, a slim, unconventional memoir. Framed as her repeated failure to respond to the prompt why do you write? to the satisfaction of a literary conference in Mexico City (she was eventually uninvited), it reads like a commonplace book: a mix of anecdotes, and copies of letters Toews exchanged with her sister over the years (the answer to why do you write? being, originally, because she asked me to), and musings on how to go about creating a "wind museum", and random quotes and poetry and the names/details of historical figures who died by suicide. It helped to know a bit about Toews' background - mostly that she was raised Mennonite and that both her father and sister died by suicide - because eventually both of those things are clearly stated, but I did get a sense that she presumed someone picking up Toews' personal non-fiction on why she writes has already read at least some of her novels, many of which have drawn-from-life elements.

In other writing about writing, I received This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days by John Darnielle as an early birthday/Christmas gift - an illustrated, annotated collection of the Mountain Goats' lyrics - and, of course, immediately just skimmed it for my favorite songs, which quickly turned into reading random chunks because each "annotation" is a short paragraph, max - sometimes about the context for writing the song, or commentary on the characters/story, or what inspired it, or how people respond to it, or some observation/quote/etc. that is not obviously related to the song in any way - so once you've opened it to a specific page it's easy to just keep going for a while, and anyway, now I have to figure out to actually read this book. Just read it cover to cover? Listen to each song in the order they appear, and read the accompanying passage? (Which is a cool idea, but would take forever. Theoretically, I could do one song per day, devotional-style, but I know my attention span well enough to know that's not happening.)

Current Mood: ambitious
Current Music: Best Winter - Tom McRae

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adventures in cooking

sleeping in the shadow of the empire state

I am officially on vacation - I don't have to go back to work until January 5th! Now the bakepocalypse can begin! I've made more work for myself, but I think it will all work out - I've been planning it in my head, and this is how it goes (please take "run dishwasher" as a given at least once and probably twice each day):

( 6-day plan )

I think adding in the roast pork and the pork buns and the orange cranberry rolls might be kind of nuts? But also having that food on hand will let me eat breakfast/dinner without having to do any real cooking or ordering in. (I will also have some ham and cheese to make sandwiches if it comes to that, and some granola bars for snacks/breakfast if the orange cranberry rolls don't happen.) And I think I do have time before the cupcake baking begins in earnest.

What I'm considering now is whether I should make the frostings and immediately put them in piping bags (with specific tips in) for storing in the fridge instead of trying to do the transfers all at once on Christmas Eve morning the way I usually do. Filling the bags and then keeping them in tupperware might be easier? But I've also found that sometimes my "time-saving" plans end up making things worse, so idk.

Anyway, that's my plan for the next 6 or so days! It's a good thing I enjoy cooking. *g*

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The Friday FIve for 19 December 2025

1. What is one thing about you that you hate?

2. What is one thing about you that you love?

3. If you had to change one thing about you what would it be and why?

4. What is one word that you would use to define yourself?

5. Imagine what you would look like in a perfect world...what do you look like?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

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December Check-In

This month's post will be serving double duty as a community promo. I also run the

threeforthememories event, whose 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Participant posts consist of 3 photos (only) you've taken of anything from 2025 that you find meaningful in some way or which represent how you experienced the year. These could be your crafting activities, or anything else you find relevant.

Questions? Visit the announcement post at

threeforthememories

This month's question involves the holidays. Do you normally do crafting over this period? Is it related to any holidays? Do you do craft gifting? And if so, what do you plan to gift this year?

Current Mood: busy

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Unwrapped Surprise (part 1 of 1, complete)

Unwrapped Surprise
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1168
[Second week of December 2016]

:: Shiv is wrapping his gift for Luci when… I was ambushed by a plot demon. Written as an extension of an earlier prompt for the December of 2025 month of gifted stories, this was in mind immediately after receiving the prompt. My thanks to the readers and the prompters! ::

Shiv smirked as he used the scrap of metal under his fingernail to cut a strip of aluminum foil from the roll, making the strip as wide as his pinky nail, then repeated the process four more times. He picked up the box that Genna had given him, a fancy one for necklaces, even padded with pristine cotton batting, as if she’d bought it new and then just set it aside for later.
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Christmas music

Last night I discovered that Kiiras had released a Christmas song, called "Kiirasmas." I don't think I'd objectively say it's a good song, but it's still fun to listen to.
Watch on YouTube
A few years ago, I did a K-pop Christmas song Advent calendar. This morning, as I added "Kiirasmas" to my K-pop Christmas playlist, I realized that if I wanted to post the whole playlist one song a day, I'd have had to start back on October 15! ^^
After having to spend 40 minutes listening to the store playing Christmas music while I waited for the pharmacy to fill a prescription. I'd like to say: No matter how Christmas-adjacent some of its lyrics may be, "My Favorite Things" is not a Christmas song. I'm willing to get seriously injured on this hill. However, if it means that I'll hear "The Christmas Song" less often, I'm willing to act like it's a Christmas song.

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write every day

Write every day: Day 18

Had a writing session with

garonne, which shook some stuff loose. Wrote 300 words. How about you?

Tally:
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Day 17:

china_shop,

garonne,

badly_knitted,

sylvanwitch,

chestnut_pod,

trobadora,

goddess47,

cornerofmadness,

sanguinity,

Bonus farm news: Today I learned the basics of how to use the chain saw from housemate. No more am I dependent on a man when I want to cut down a small tree or sever a piece of wood! \o/

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, December 18th

RILEY: What's your plan?
BUFFY: Big sleep. My count encounter wiped me out.
RILEY: (nods) I'm kinda wired. Maybe I should just let you get your rest.
BUFFY: You sure? I mean, maybe if you just lie down with me... (suggestive look)
RILEY: (grinning) Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.

~~Buffy vs Dracula~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Sink Into that Pain Again (Spike/Buffy, M) by thelastwriter
Watch Her Take Me by Surprise (Crossover w/ Batman, Buffy, G) by Viwiel
You quench my thirst (Giles/Reader, E) by bluekidchaos

- The Pawer of Love (Buffy/Spike, Ensemble, R) by wrecked life

'Tis the Season (Buffy/Spike, R) by Behind Blue Eyes
'Tis the Damn Season (Buffy/Spike, Dawn, NC-17) by acekoomboom

[Chaptered Fiction]

Wished Away Series, Ch. 339 (Multifandom, Spike/Buffy, Scoobies, T) by CSmalley
Stuck Inside These Four Walls, Ch. 2 (Spike/Buffy, Tara, Anya, Not Rated) by BloodyEll42
The Fireproof Girl, Ch. 8 (Crossover w/Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, Buffy, T) by Account2002
Heartless, Ch. 13 (Angel/Buffy, T) by LSquared1501
Remnants of a Slayer, Ch. 16 (Crossover w/ RWBY, BtVS & AtS Ensembles, M) by Sir_Deadpool
Welcome to Cleveland, Ch. 2 (Crossover w/ The Avengers, Willow, Buffy, Tara, G) by Genx71
Road to Forever, Ch. 7 (Angel/Buffy, Faith/Spike, Not Rated) by twiddle3
Atelier, Ch. 183 (Multifandom, Faith/Buffy, M) by Hallowtide
The Red Slayer:, Ch. 111 (Oz/Willow, Angel/Buffy, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)