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dreamerinsilicoHi! I've never done this exchange before! Hopefully the following will be useful to you.
Rather than doing an About Me here, let me just point you at that post on this site.
If I got a list of DNWs as short as the ones I put on my signup, it might make me a bit nervous, so: There are very few things I categorically will not read. (Heck, there might not be any. Morbid curiosity is a powerful force. :P) My main fandom these days is NBC Hannibal. I sometimes near-literally have fic that a lot of people would find squicky and/or overly morbid for breakfast.
In terms of character tropes, I particularly enjoy complicated relationships (romantic or otherwise), found family, and reunions. Narratively speaking, I generally prefer an overall optimistic-leaning bent, but I've read and enjoyed darkfic as well.
Some specific stuff about my requested fandoms: (edited 10/25 to add in everything in my actual signup as well)
Wayward Children
I am so in love with this series I cannot even. I was definitely one of the kids who tried to find doors to Narnia in the back of their closets growing up. Jack is my favorite because she combines a fairly extreme level of mercenary pragmatism with a studied, highly intentional dedication to certain principles and individual people, and for her dry, ironic sense of humor.
The prompts I gave in the signups all were kind of implicitly canon-compliant, but I think the series is really ripe for crossovers, too, and I'd be open to receiving some kind of crossover as long as it's a canon I'm familiar with. Fandoms I've written for can be pretty easily seen on my AO3 or here, but if you wind up with some kind of crossover in mind but you can't easily tell if I know the other 'verse, you can drop me an anonymous comment on this post to ask about it.
Rather than doing an About Me here, let me just point you at that post on this site.
If I got a list of DNWs as short as the ones I put on my signup, it might make me a bit nervous, so: There are very few things I categorically will not read. (Heck, there might not be any. Morbid curiosity is a powerful force. :P) My main fandom these days is NBC Hannibal. I sometimes near-literally have fic that a lot of people would find squicky and/or overly morbid for breakfast.
In terms of character tropes, I particularly enjoy complicated relationships (romantic or otherwise), found family, and reunions. Narratively speaking, I generally prefer an overall optimistic-leaning bent, but I've read and enjoyed darkfic as well.
Some specific stuff about my requested fandoms: (edited 10/25 to add in everything in my actual signup as well)
Wayward Children
I am so in love with this series I cannot even. I was definitely one of the kids who tried to find doors to Narnia in the back of their closets growing up. Jack is my favorite because she combines a fairly extreme level of mercenary pragmatism with a studied, highly intentional dedication to certain principles and individual people, and for her dry, ironic sense of humor.
The prompts I gave in the signups all were kind of implicitly canon-compliant, but I think the series is really ripe for crossovers, too, and I'd be open to receiving some kind of crossover as long as it's a canon I'm familiar with. Fandoms I've written for can be pretty easily seen on my AO3 or here, but if you wind up with some kind of crossover in mind but you can't easily tell if I know the other 'verse, you can drop me an anonymous comment on this post to ask about it.
DNW: Don't (permanently) kill anyone who doesn't perma-die in canon, please. Temporary death is fine :) Not that I'm really *expecting* smut in this fandom, and I'm not at all opposed to some sexual themes going on, but just in case, I'd really rather not receive PWP for this one.
Kushiel's Legacy
I wrote at one point here on DW that getting into Hannibal shouldn't actually have surprised me at all, given what one of my prominent teenage OTPs was. I enjoy the setting and most of the characters, but as I indicated on the signup, the staying power for me for this fandom comes from Melisande/Phedre. Not only do I adore the characters themselves, but the world needs more femslash that's not all sunshine and rainbows and schmoop.
I'm not the shipwars-y type, so don't worry about acknowledging either characters' other canonical relationships in the Yuletide fic if it makes sense to do so. I'd just like the fic to primarily be focused on them.
Crusader Kings 3
Honestly tickled as hell that this one got nominated - I would not have thought to, but I'm all for it. My idea of "CK3 fic that isn't just Historical RPF" would take world history seriously off the rails and/or incorporate some of the ridiculousness one gets rather often from the random events. While I don't really spend time on Reddit anymore, I'm a certified meme-loving fuck when it comes to video games in general, and Crusader Kings in particular. I also spent something like 600 hours in CK2, if that matters for contextual purposes. (If we don't eventually get a "promote your horse to Chancellor" event in CK3, I will be at least mildly disappointed.)
Thank you in advance, and happy upcoming holiday(s) of choice!
I'm not super-invested in getting any specific kind of story for this one (so feel free to ignore the following if you have another idea you really like), but here are some ideas:
1. A fic about Jack's (& by extension Jill's) early time at the school. Obviously they'd settled into being part of Team Creepy Kids by the time Nancy arrived, but how were things before that? Especially love the idea of Jack getting to know/interacting with Christopher and/or Kade, since there's a fair amount of mutual regard implied with each in Come Tumbling Down.
2. Something from the early or middle years of Jack's apprenticeship, maybe a problem to solve and/or an exploration of her relationship with Dr. Bleak and/or Alexis.
3. Post-CTD, there's a new foundling on the Moors (or possibly not really a proper foundling, but a traveler from some other world. Heck, maybe even some of Jack's old school comrades again? They helped her, before...)
Kushiel's Legacy
I wrote at one point here on DW that getting into Hannibal shouldn't actually have surprised me at all, given what one of my prominent teenage OTPs was. I enjoy the setting and most of the characters, but as I indicated on the signup, the staying power for me for this fandom comes from Melisande/Phedre. Not only do I adore the characters themselves, but the world needs more femslash that's not all sunshine and rainbows and schmoop.
I'm not the shipwars-y type, so don't worry about acknowledging either characters' other canonical relationships in the Yuletide fic if it makes sense to do so. I'd just like the fic to primarily be focused on them.
DNW: Deathfic, and JUST IN CASE, A/B/O
The complex relationship between Phedre and Melisande is a substantial part of my attachment to this canon. I love them as a ship, but very much not in a schmoopy, "everything is beautiful and nothing hurts except in the fun way" sense.
Some ideas (smutty or non-smutty are both fine):
1. An encounter at a party during Phedre's time as Delaunay's ward, either before or after she actively begins working as a courtesan.
2. AU where Phedre becomes an adept of Valerian house, and perhaps encounters Melisande as part of a Shahrizai group visit there
3. AU where Phedre accepts Melisande's offer to stay with her in book 2
Crusader Kings 3
Honestly tickled as hell that this one got nominated - I would not have thought to, but I'm all for it. My idea of "CK3 fic that isn't just Historical RPF" would take world history seriously off the rails and/or incorporate some of the ridiculousness one gets rather often from the random events. While I don't really spend time on Reddit anymore, I'm a certified meme-loving fuck when it comes to video games in general, and Crusader Kings in particular. I also spent something like 600 hours in CK2, if that matters for contextual purposes. (If we don't eventually get a "promote your horse to Chancellor" event in CK3, I will be at least mildly disappointed.)
DNW: ... is anyone going to write CK3 porn? Anyway, that idea amuses me, but please don't. (However, the idea of A/B/O alt-medieval history is OBJECTIVELY HILARIOUS, so if you feel like doing that, go nuts.)
I'm just here for some alt-history shenanigans. Preferably centered on women/a woman, but if you wanted to write about Alfred the Great or one of the 867 Viking Bros, I wouldn't complain, either.
I honestly have very little idea how to prompt for this one, but I've had the most fun in the game playing some flavor of pagan and taking over (most of) the world. That time I started as Matilda and made my own (much improved) Christian faith was fun, too.
Would a The Old Guard crossover be cheating, given its ineligibility for the fest? Anyway, I'm into that fandom, too, so I'd potentially enjoy a TOG crossover, although if you do that, I'd prefer it didn't just become a Joe/Nicky fic, as that's a bit obvious, and also they get plenty of love as it is. So, for a TOG cross, maybe Andromache being part of history going absolutely off the rails in typical CK3 fashion in some historical ruler's court.
Thank you in advance, and happy upcoming holiday(s) of choice!
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Date: 2021-10-31 03:36 am (UTC)The Inbreed Only one made me laugh so hard my sides hurt.
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