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raspberryhunterHi! Thanks for writing for me! Also, please don't read in anything to the sections having variable length; mostly what it means is that if I had previous cut and paste it made the section longer ;) This is really just a rehash of my signup prompts, but maybe it's nice to have it all together.
General: I like a lot of different things! I am a fan of gen, but I'm totally open to het/slash/femslash. I very much welcome alternative ways of telling stories -- IF, epistolary fic, text messages/tweets, poetry, DW-thread-comments, what-have-you, yes please!! Crossovers would also be more than fine. Darkfic/character death is great and even encouraged for at least some of these fandoms (though please tag and check the fandom-specific DNWs). I absolutely love fork-in-the-road type AUs for any fandom. For setting-changed AUs, I would adore them for 16th and 18th C RPF, but not for the others. I'm good with most things as long as you tag for it so I know what I'm getting into!
Things I love: (I don't expect all of these by any means, this is just a sampling of Things That Make Me Happy): I love worldbuilding fic and plotty fic. I love character-driven fic that thinks hard about the ramifications of characters' choices. I love most of all for there to be some sort of character arc, or characters (and/or the reader) coming to a greater understanding of something or someone during a fic. I love and adore deep friendship/partnerships, especially platonic ones, of all gender-variety. I love loyalty and duty bonds (and I have a special place in my heart for physical expressions of fealty bonds, like kneeling or ritualized oath-swearing). I love it when all the characters are understandable rather than straight-out villainous or malicious, or where expectations of malice are subverted. I love when something or some implication is clear to the reader that is not clear to the characters, or some subset of the characters, because we have knowledge (about the actual canon, for example) that they don't have.
In art: (again just a random mishmash of things, some of which wouldn't even fit together) I love jewel tones, blues-greens-purples, lots of different kinds of colors spanning the entire rainbow, monochrome that plays with shadow and light, abstract watercolor-ish art that suggests rather than strongly delineates the subject, realistic depiction of a subject, line drawing, landscapes, water (oceans, seas, lakes, streams, waterfalls), rocks, rocks-and-water, animals (dragons!), spaceships, people having strong feelings (not necessarily sexual) at each other, people kneeling or displaying other kinds of loyalty -- basically I really enjoy a lot of different kinds of art!
DNW: PWP; unrequested noncanon poly; graphic gratuitous violence/gore; infidelity involving characters whose fidelity is an important part of their character (e.g. Brother Thomas) or involving characters who plausibly or canonically have faithful romantic relationships (like Jeff/Dicey). (I have no problems with infidelity that plausibly occurs in canon.) For these canons, unless specifically okayed I don't want completely tragic endings / endings with no hope. Please no references to current politics/current events. For art DNWs, see the particular canons.
Babylon 5 (Delenn & Neroon, fic and art): I didn't think about this pair very much until S4, when suddenly I was like WHOA, Neroon is amazing, Delenn and Neroon are hilariously awesome together!! Would love fork-in-the-road AU where Neroon lives and they continue plotting politically together, or canon-compliant (or any other fork-in-the-road AU, for that matter) where they interact and snark at each other and are awesome, presumably before the events of S4. I mean, basically all I want is Delenn and Neroon plotting together and annoying each other :D (Happy or at least hopeful endings for this would be great, though definitely not required. Please tag if it's an unhappy ending, though!) I love them shipped and not shipped equally, so if you want to write the ship, even though it wasn't nominated/requested, go right ahead.
Art of Delenn and Neroon annoying each other and/or plotting together (both of them bent over a sheet of paper where they're plotting something??) or how they might have looked at each other at the Starfire Wheel if they'd had time to give each other looks, would be amazing.
Tillerman Cycle - Voigt (Brother Thomas & Horace Greene, Dicey & James & Maybeth & Sammy & Abigail "Gram" Tillerman (Tillerman Cycle), fic) - I already loved Brother Thomas because of his cheerful snarkiness, but then he broke my heart with his crisis of faith -- the part where he keeps on his habit because he's not sure he would put it on again if he took it off? Oh, Thomas <3 Horace Greene seems to think it's an issue of living in love, which clearly harks back to his own experiences; is he being perceptive or is he projecting? I would just love to read more about this. I totally see Brother Thomas, Horace Greene, and Jeff Greene as a family; whether you want to write Thomas/Horace as a ship or not is up to you (and certainly it is complicated by Thomas' vows), write this in whatever way is true to your conception of the characters and I will love it -- I'd just request that Thomas not break his vows, so if there were a sexual relationship it would have to be after giving up his vocation. I only care very much that all three of them are bonded by love. (And the different kinds of families bonded by love, of course, is a major theme of the Tillerman books.) I think that there is some textual evidence that he remains a monk -- at the end of Come a Stranger, years later, he's referred to as Brother Thomas -- but I'm happy to read about it either way and I think either way could be super interesting; I would like you to tag if he doesn't remain a monk :)
I also absolutely adore the entire Tillerman family, how connected they are and how hard they work to function as a family, and would love to read anything about them. I don't require all the characters to be present in the fic, as long as most of them are and the rest are at least mentioned so we get a sense of all the relationships :) What does James' future look like after he graduates from Yale? Is he able to have the life of the mind he's searching for and his grandfather never found? Will he be able to keep a deep relationship with his family even if he gravitates towards a different kind of life than the rest of them do? (Yes. The answer here is yes. :P :) ) What about Sammy? Sammy will be okay whatever happens, but is he able to achieve any of his goals? And I always want MORE MAYBETH. Does she stay at the farm as a beloved unmarried matriarch at the center of a ton of siblings and friends and nieces and nephews (and chickens?? hee) who are always making life interesting? In general, how does she strike a balance between listening to her more-intellectually-capable family and making her own heart-capable decisions? Given that her upbringing had so much more support than her mother's, can she avoid her mother's fate? (Yes. The answer here again should be yes. :P :) )
Star Trek: Rihannsu - Diane Duane (Arrhae t'Llhweiir & Ael t'Rllaillieu (Rihannsu), James T. Kirk/Ael t'Rllaillieu/Spock/Nyota Uhura (Rihannsu), fic and art)
Arrhae & Ael -- I love these two, and I love how both of them so much desire to embody and uphold the ideals of being Rihannsu. Anything with them interacting -- epistolary fic where they correspond either before or after the events of The Romulan Way? Post-series fic where they solve governmental or personal problems together? A conversation where they both complain about how annoying McCoy is being? :D
Kirk/Ael/Spock/Uhura -- one of the most interesting things about My Enemy, My Ally to me was the unresolved sexual tension between Ael and Kirk (especially) and Ael and Spock (in a very different way), none of which really ever went anywhere but which was intriguing all the same because it seems like it was very consciously written in. I don't get a UST feel for Duane's specific rendition of Kirk/Spock or Uhura/anyone, but I lowkey shipped Kirk/Spock before I knew what shipping was, and I am on board for imagining Uhura as part of this too. I would love a conversation or something where all this UST either propagated (I adore UST) or an AU where it actually got resolved. If there's a resolved romantic relationship, I'd especially love it if the interstellar ramifications of it were explored. DNW: PWP or really anything more than PG-rated (ST was my fandom when I was a kid, what can I say).
I would also love fanart of these characters, looking at each other or in some sort of action pose or ...? Arrhae and Ael working on something together, or with S'Task's sword? Arrhae swearing an oath to Ael? If fanart for Kirk/Ael/Spock/Uhura, and if you go romantic instead of action, I would like a romantic pose that's suggestive rather than explicit -- that is, I DNW kissing or hugging (and definitely anything more than that), but a hand on the shoulder or the wrist in a way that a Rihannsu or Vulcan would never do if they weren't hardcore involved... that would be super hot.
16th Century CE RPF (Any, fic and art) - Go wild, I'll take whatever you want to write or draw! Anne Boleyn's hateship with Catherine of Aragorn? James I's relationship with his wife and/or his lovers? Robert Carr and Frances? (Bonus points if you mention her first husband Bob "NOT IMPOTENT" of Essex!) Go for it!
18th Century CE RPF (Any, fic and art) - you know what, I'm giving you carte blanche. If you want to write or draw hot baroque Farinelli/Vivaldi, or a classical examination of the relationship between Nannerl and Wolfgang (bonus points for musical references, and maybe canon-like scatalogical letters??), or Fritz's hateship with Maria Theresa, or the Algarotti/Lady Mary/Hervey triangle... go for it!
For romantic (/) art in this particular canon, I prefer longing looks and hand-kissing etc. and DNW embraces and mouth-kissing -- except for Algarotti/Lady Mary/Hervey -- where I am still very happy with longing looks and hand-kissing, but let's face it, we all know that Algarotti is all over everyone :)
The King's Touch - Jude Morgan (Any, fic and art) - so many possibilities: Jemmy and his doomed marriage, Henrietta and her even more doomed marriage to Philippe (what does Philippe think about his two wives?), Charles II and Henrietta (uh, yet another doomed relationship, I guess!), Jemmy and William and Mary (wait! for once not a doomed relationship, this one strikes me as just fun).
I would love art of Charles II and Henrietta, or Henrietta disdaining Philippe being awful to her, or Jemmy and William and Mary having fun ice skating <3
Earthsea (Ged & Orm Embar, art) - Note that I am asking for art for assignment, but would accept fic for a treat.
I absolutely LOVE the dragons of Earthsea. I would absolutely adore a picture of Orm Embar and Ged -- Orm Embar telling Ged how to find the Rune of the Kings; or Orm Embar bidding Ged to follow and leave the Children of the Open Sea; or Ged and Arren following the dragon in Lookfar; or Orm Embar speaking to Ged after he and Arren sail the Dragons Run (really, if you wanted to make me art of the Dragon's Run with a ton of dragons, that would be GLORIOUS); or Ged sleeping right next to Orm Embar. Or Ged kneeling to Orm Embar would be just amazing!!
I do have a preference for dragons over people, so I'd much rather have detailed dragon and sketched-in person/people than have Ged's face be detailed and the dragon be not detailed, if you see what I mean :) Or a panoramic scene set from far away, with water or islands being the central motif and both the dragon and the people being small or silhouetted, would be amazing.
If treating fic, I would love to know more about how Orm Embar told Ged to find the Rune of the Kings! Especially since dragons don't speak plainly... what pitfalls did Ged find, later?
DNW: I do not want anything at the point Orm Embar loses his speech or afterwards. In particular, no dead or dying Orm Embar, no Cob.
General: I like a lot of different things! I am a fan of gen, but I'm totally open to het/slash/femslash. I very much welcome alternative ways of telling stories -- IF, epistolary fic, text messages/tweets, poetry, DW-thread-comments, what-have-you, yes please!! Crossovers would also be more than fine. Darkfic/character death is great and even encouraged for at least some of these fandoms (though please tag and check the fandom-specific DNWs). I absolutely love fork-in-the-road type AUs for any fandom. For setting-changed AUs, I would adore them for 16th and 18th C RPF, but not for the others. I'm good with most things as long as you tag for it so I know what I'm getting into!
Things I love: (I don't expect all of these by any means, this is just a sampling of Things That Make Me Happy): I love worldbuilding fic and plotty fic. I love character-driven fic that thinks hard about the ramifications of characters' choices. I love most of all for there to be some sort of character arc, or characters (and/or the reader) coming to a greater understanding of something or someone during a fic. I love and adore deep friendship/partnerships, especially platonic ones, of all gender-variety. I love loyalty and duty bonds (and I have a special place in my heart for physical expressions of fealty bonds, like kneeling or ritualized oath-swearing). I love it when all the characters are understandable rather than straight-out villainous or malicious, or where expectations of malice are subverted. I love when something or some implication is clear to the reader that is not clear to the characters, or some subset of the characters, because we have knowledge (about the actual canon, for example) that they don't have.
In art: (again just a random mishmash of things, some of which wouldn't even fit together) I love jewel tones, blues-greens-purples, lots of different kinds of colors spanning the entire rainbow, monochrome that plays with shadow and light, abstract watercolor-ish art that suggests rather than strongly delineates the subject, realistic depiction of a subject, line drawing, landscapes, water (oceans, seas, lakes, streams, waterfalls), rocks, rocks-and-water, animals (dragons!), spaceships, people having strong feelings (not necessarily sexual) at each other, people kneeling or displaying other kinds of loyalty -- basically I really enjoy a lot of different kinds of art!
DNW: PWP; unrequested noncanon poly; graphic gratuitous violence/gore; infidelity involving characters whose fidelity is an important part of their character (e.g. Brother Thomas) or involving characters who plausibly or canonically have faithful romantic relationships (like Jeff/Dicey). (I have no problems with infidelity that plausibly occurs in canon.) For these canons, unless specifically okayed I don't want completely tragic endings / endings with no hope. Please no references to current politics/current events. For art DNWs, see the particular canons.
Babylon 5 (Delenn & Neroon, fic and art): I didn't think about this pair very much until S4, when suddenly I was like WHOA, Neroon is amazing, Delenn and Neroon are hilariously awesome together!! Would love fork-in-the-road AU where Neroon lives and they continue plotting politically together, or canon-compliant (or any other fork-in-the-road AU, for that matter) where they interact and snark at each other and are awesome, presumably before the events of S4. I mean, basically all I want is Delenn and Neroon plotting together and annoying each other :D (Happy or at least hopeful endings for this would be great, though definitely not required. Please tag if it's an unhappy ending, though!) I love them shipped and not shipped equally, so if you want to write the ship, even though it wasn't nominated/requested, go right ahead.
Art of Delenn and Neroon annoying each other and/or plotting together (both of them bent over a sheet of paper where they're plotting something??) or how they might have looked at each other at the Starfire Wheel if they'd had time to give each other looks, would be amazing.
Tillerman Cycle - Voigt (Brother Thomas & Horace Greene, Dicey & James & Maybeth & Sammy & Abigail "Gram" Tillerman (Tillerman Cycle), fic) - I already loved Brother Thomas because of his cheerful snarkiness, but then he broke my heart with his crisis of faith -- the part where he keeps on his habit because he's not sure he would put it on again if he took it off? Oh, Thomas <3 Horace Greene seems to think it's an issue of living in love, which clearly harks back to his own experiences; is he being perceptive or is he projecting? I would just love to read more about this. I totally see Brother Thomas, Horace Greene, and Jeff Greene as a family; whether you want to write Thomas/Horace as a ship or not is up to you (and certainly it is complicated by Thomas' vows), write this in whatever way is true to your conception of the characters and I will love it -- I'd just request that Thomas not break his vows, so if there were a sexual relationship it would have to be after giving up his vocation. I only care very much that all three of them are bonded by love. (And the different kinds of families bonded by love, of course, is a major theme of the Tillerman books.) I think that there is some textual evidence that he remains a monk -- at the end of Come a Stranger, years later, he's referred to as Brother Thomas -- but I'm happy to read about it either way and I think either way could be super interesting; I would like you to tag if he doesn't remain a monk :)
I also absolutely adore the entire Tillerman family, how connected they are and how hard they work to function as a family, and would love to read anything about them. I don't require all the characters to be present in the fic, as long as most of them are and the rest are at least mentioned so we get a sense of all the relationships :) What does James' future look like after he graduates from Yale? Is he able to have the life of the mind he's searching for and his grandfather never found? Will he be able to keep a deep relationship with his family even if he gravitates towards a different kind of life than the rest of them do? (Yes. The answer here is yes. :P :) ) What about Sammy? Sammy will be okay whatever happens, but is he able to achieve any of his goals? And I always want MORE MAYBETH. Does she stay at the farm as a beloved unmarried matriarch at the center of a ton of siblings and friends and nieces and nephews (and chickens?? hee) who are always making life interesting? In general, how does she strike a balance between listening to her more-intellectually-capable family and making her own heart-capable decisions? Given that her upbringing had so much more support than her mother's, can she avoid her mother's fate? (Yes. The answer here again should be yes. :P :) )
Star Trek: Rihannsu - Diane Duane (Arrhae t'Llhweiir & Ael t'Rllaillieu (Rihannsu), James T. Kirk/Ael t'Rllaillieu/Spock/Nyota Uhura (Rihannsu), fic and art)
Arrhae & Ael -- I love these two, and I love how both of them so much desire to embody and uphold the ideals of being Rihannsu. Anything with them interacting -- epistolary fic where they correspond either before or after the events of The Romulan Way? Post-series fic where they solve governmental or personal problems together? A conversation where they both complain about how annoying McCoy is being? :D
Kirk/Ael/Spock/Uhura -- one of the most interesting things about My Enemy, My Ally to me was the unresolved sexual tension between Ael and Kirk (especially) and Ael and Spock (in a very different way), none of which really ever went anywhere but which was intriguing all the same because it seems like it was very consciously written in. I don't get a UST feel for Duane's specific rendition of Kirk/Spock or Uhura/anyone, but I lowkey shipped Kirk/Spock before I knew what shipping was, and I am on board for imagining Uhura as part of this too. I would love a conversation or something where all this UST either propagated (I adore UST) or an AU where it actually got resolved. If there's a resolved romantic relationship, I'd especially love it if the interstellar ramifications of it were explored. DNW: PWP or really anything more than PG-rated (ST was my fandom when I was a kid, what can I say).
I would also love fanart of these characters, looking at each other or in some sort of action pose or ...? Arrhae and Ael working on something together, or with S'Task's sword? Arrhae swearing an oath to Ael? If fanart for Kirk/Ael/Spock/Uhura, and if you go romantic instead of action, I would like a romantic pose that's suggestive rather than explicit -- that is, I DNW kissing or hugging (and definitely anything more than that), but a hand on the shoulder or the wrist in a way that a Rihannsu or Vulcan would never do if they weren't hardcore involved... that would be super hot.
16th Century CE RPF (Any, fic and art) - Go wild, I'll take whatever you want to write or draw! Anne Boleyn's hateship with Catherine of Aragorn? James I's relationship with his wife and/or his lovers? Robert Carr and Frances? (Bonus points if you mention her first husband Bob "NOT IMPOTENT" of Essex!) Go for it!
18th Century CE RPF (Any, fic and art) - you know what, I'm giving you carte blanche. If you want to write or draw hot baroque Farinelli/Vivaldi, or a classical examination of the relationship between Nannerl and Wolfgang (bonus points for musical references, and maybe canon-like scatalogical letters??), or Fritz's hateship with Maria Theresa, or the Algarotti/Lady Mary/Hervey triangle... go for it!
For romantic (/) art in this particular canon, I prefer longing looks and hand-kissing etc. and DNW embraces and mouth-kissing -- except for Algarotti/Lady Mary/Hervey -- where I am still very happy with longing looks and hand-kissing, but let's face it, we all know that Algarotti is all over everyone :)
The King's Touch - Jude Morgan (Any, fic and art) - so many possibilities: Jemmy and his doomed marriage, Henrietta and her even more doomed marriage to Philippe (what does Philippe think about his two wives?), Charles II and Henrietta (uh, yet another doomed relationship, I guess!), Jemmy and William and Mary (wait! for once not a doomed relationship, this one strikes me as just fun).
I would love art of Charles II and Henrietta, or Henrietta disdaining Philippe being awful to her, or Jemmy and William and Mary having fun ice skating <3
Earthsea (Ged & Orm Embar, art) - Note that I am asking for art for assignment, but would accept fic for a treat.
I absolutely LOVE the dragons of Earthsea. I would absolutely adore a picture of Orm Embar and Ged -- Orm Embar telling Ged how to find the Rune of the Kings; or Orm Embar bidding Ged to follow and leave the Children of the Open Sea; or Ged and Arren following the dragon in Lookfar; or Orm Embar speaking to Ged after he and Arren sail the Dragons Run (really, if you wanted to make me art of the Dragon's Run with a ton of dragons, that would be GLORIOUS); or Ged sleeping right next to Orm Embar. Or Ged kneeling to Orm Embar would be just amazing!!
I do have a preference for dragons over people, so I'd much rather have detailed dragon and sketched-in person/people than have Ged's face be detailed and the dragon be not detailed, if you see what I mean :) Or a panoramic scene set from far away, with water or islands being the central motif and both the dragon and the people being small or silhouetted, would be amazing.
If treating fic, I would love to know more about how Orm Embar told Ged to find the Rune of the Kings! Especially since dragons don't speak plainly... what pitfalls did Ged find, later?
DNW: I do not want anything at the point Orm Embar loses his speech or afterwards. In particular, no dead or dying Orm Embar, no Cob.
