We have eight new pinch hits, numbered #57-64. These pinch hits are due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.

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CLAIMED - PH #57: The Sting (1973), Father Brown (2013), Born With Teeth - Adams, Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by Tosie
The Sting (1973)
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker (The Sting)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), PWP (smut is great, but I’d like some feelings too please), sad ending, unrequited love, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them and would welcome romance and/or smut—but really what I like is the intimacy of their relationship, so as long as that’s there I’m good. Feel free to include other characters from the movie, or OCs, but I would like the focus on Johnny and Henry. Similarly a plot-heavy or con-based fic is welcome as long as it still highlights that relationship.
Shippy tropes I like with these characters:
- MUTUAL PINING. Give me all of it.
- Feelings realizations
- Experienced x inexperienced romantically and/or sexually (including previous relationships all being hetero)
- Bisexual awakening/realization
- Pretend relationship (playing gay chicken ~for the con~? Yes please)
- Only one bed/otherwise being forced into close quarters
Gen tropes:
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- Thinking the other is dead
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Witty banter
- Humor
More specific prompts in my letter!

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing

Request 2 by Tosie
Father Brown (2013)
Characters: M. Hercule Flambeau (Father Brown TV 2013), Father Brown (Father Brown TV 2013)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), “explicit” sex (“mature” is fine, but focusing on the feelings involved rather than the squelchy details), sad ending, unrequited love, Father Brown leaving the priesthood, established relationship, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I do ship them, but anything exploring their fascinating journey from enemies to friends (and/or lovers) would be great! Other cast members and casefic welcome as long as these two get to do some philosophical bonding along the way.
Stuff I like:
- Flambeau being vulnerable with Father Brown, intentionally or not.
- Getting trapped together for an extended period
- Either one compromising their morals for the other (especially if they do something out of character in the heat of the moment, and only subsequently realize that it was a big deal/signifies a shift in their relationship)
- If it is shippy, I really enjoy Father Brown explaining why he feels morally okay breaking his vows of celibacy (that can be the whole fic if you want!). But I also realize that’s a difficult question, so feel free to just not address it. I’d rather the issue be ignored altogether than brought up and handwaved away, if that makes sense.
- Hurt/comfort (especially wound tending, ESPECIALLY if said wounds were obtained in defense of the wound tender)
- One turns up on the other’s doorstep out of the blue, badly injured and/or on the run
- Shaving fic. As in, one has to shave the other, ideally with a straight razor. The vulnerability and intimacy of it really gets me.
- Kinky Catholicism. Flambeau wanting to worship and be absolved by Father Brown, rather than God. This doesn’t have to be sexual.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing

Request 3 by Tosie
Born With Teeth - Adams
Characters: Christopher Marlowe (Born With Teeth Adams), William Shakespeare (Born With Teeth Adams)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: rape/noncon, underage (mentions of past consensual underage relationships are fine), sad ending*, AUs other than canon divergence (an alternate first meeting would be fine, for example; a high school AU would not)
Optional details: I got to see the 2025 production with Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel, which was excellent. 90 minutes of intense, sweaty homoeroticism. A+ no notes
Things I enjoyed in the play and would love to see more of: witty flirtatious banter, humor, philosophical musings
I’d love a fixit for the downer ending, particularly one exploring the (vaguely credible?) theory that Marlowe faked his own death.
* I realize that the play has a sad ending. I’m not saying I need you to change the canon ending, if you don’t want to disturb canon I’d be very happy to read a missing scene inserted in the middle. But if you’re going past 1593 I would prefer for things to diverge in a happier direction.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing

Request 4 by Tosie
Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: rape/noncon, AUs, pederasty*, PWP
Optional details: This is a weird one! This poem is famous for coming up in Oscar Wilde’s trial, when he eloquently but unwisely described the nature of “the love that dare not speak its name.” I read the poem and thought “I wanna see them kiss.” Cause let’s be honest, despite one of them being heterosexuality personified, they’re both pretty gay.
They don’t have to kiss, but that’s what inspired me to request this. Also, you can refer to them however you want, I struggled with coming up with the tags. I was thinking Joyous Love/Sighing Love, if you like that, or you can give them real names or just avoid referring to them by name at all. Feel free to tag them differently.
* So, Oscar Wilde’s famous definition of the second Love (available here: https://www.famous-trials.com/wilde/342-wildetestimony) is love between an older man and a younger man (exact ages unspecified). I don’t think there’s anything in the poem itself that implies it means that, as opposed to regular old gayness. It’s cool if you want to reference Wilde’s testimony, but I’d like it clear that the Love that dare not speak its name is homosexuality in general, and not specifically pederasty.
Prompts/stuff I’d be interested to see:
- Their journey (before the events of the poem) from friends (to lovers?) to enemies
- Exploration of Joyous Love’s own shame and why he projects it onto Sighing Love
- Them making up after the poem’s events
- Some explanation of how bisexuality fits into this, lol. Threesome? Maybe they’re all actually bi? Idk.
- Other sexualities? By Wilde’s definition it seems like you might need a separate entity for lesbian love.
- Further expanding of the world. I didn’t add Worldbuilding as a character because I’d like the focus on the two Loves, but I’d definitely be interested in seeing the mythology fleshed out a bit more around them!
- Nonstandard fic structure (e.g. epistolary, poetry, etc)
- Something that blends the real world with the dream garden, like one or both of them being called to testify at Wilde’s trial or something???
- Honestly feel free to play with this, if you feel inspired. I just like the idea of seeing more of them/their relationship and I think I’ll be thrilled with anything that does that.

Letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1553LdFtZvhjZyYZaRdsos7_rh18Lg2qyJzujNdx_jVM/edit?usp=sharing

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CLAIMED - PH #58: British Airways ""May We Haveth One's Attention"" Safety Video, The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson, Il Gattopardo | The Leopard (2025), Warrior (TV 2019), Matthew Shardlake Series - C. J. Sansom

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by Isis
British Airways ""May We Haveth One's Attention"" Safety Video
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I watched this homage to British costume drama (and airline safety video!) and was instantly charmed. Feel free to take it anywhere along the crack continuum that you like: is this a strange alternate world in which airplanes were invented much, much earlier? Did the historical characters time-travel forward, or the flight attendants time-travel in reverse? Did a real queen isekai into the filming of an airline safety video and just deal with it with royal aplomb? Why are Anne and George sitting in airline seats in the parlor? (Do they invite the flight attendants to their wedding?) And, the most provoking question of all: how did the Scots get seatbelts on their horses?
Additional DNW for this fandom: don't break up Anne and George! However, any other relationships here are fair game, and I'd be intrigued by something like Scot/flight attendant or Queen/pilot.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.

Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html

Request 2 by Isis
The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson
Characters: Worldbuilding (Fractured Europe Sequence)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

The Fractured Europe Sequence - Dave Hutchinson: Worldbuilding
I first read Europe in Autumn and Europe at Midnight nearly 10 years ago, when the ""Xian Flu"" was a far-fetched SF imagining and the ""Global War on Terror"" was not nearly so global. I'm re-reading these books now in preparation for reading the rest of the series, and let me just say it's landing rather differently.
The worldbuilding in this series delights and enthralls me! I would love anything about the splinter polities, about the Line, about the Campus or the Community or the Coureurs, on scales small (the discovery of an entrance to the Community) to large (a seemingly-stable country splitting into pieces). Past, present, or future; Europe, or beyond - what happened in Asia? In North America? while all this is happening in Europe? There are intriguing hints that the US has had a civil war, and that Texas has become its own country! The little bits of story with secondary characters hint at lots of things outside the scope of the novels that could be filled in. Or - and I don't know yet if these get answered in the books, but if it doesn't - how does mapping an alternate dimension make it spring into being? What was Mundt's ""trick of topology""?
(Please note that as I write this letter, I've only read the first two books and about half of the third, but I will have read the entire series by Yuletime.)
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.

Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html

Request 3 by Isis
Il Gattopardo | The Leopard (2025)
Characters: Concetta Corbera di Salina (Il Gattopardo 2025)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I enjoyed this costume drama set in the waning days of the Sicilian nobility and the rise of the Kingdom of Italy. I'm specifically looking for a canon-divergence AU here: please give Concetta a happy future. Maybe she runs off with Tancredi to America; maybe she runs off to Paris with Angelica! Maybe she gets married to Bombello after all, and it works out. Or perhaps she finds joy in her stewardship of the Salina estate, somehow, if you want to keep things closer to canon. I'd be intrigued with a crossover with historical RPF of the period, or any appropriate fandom I'm familiar with.
DNW a romantic relationship between Concetta and any of her siblings or parents, or Calogero, but I'm fine with her finding love with an OC, male or female, or a minor character ditto.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.

Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html

Request 4 by Isis
Warrior (TV 2019)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This show gave me vibes of Peaky Blinders set in the late 19th C San Francisco Chinatown Tong Wars, with a generous helping of Game of Thrones. I'd love a story about any of the nominated characters, particularly their backstory or an imagined future after the show (you are welcome to canon-divergence away canon deaths). Some specific things that interest me:
- How Ah Toy and Nellie navigate their romantic relationship (forbidden in multiple ways!)
- Lai's hero-worship of Ah Toy, her silent steadfastness, the way she blossomed at the vineyard
- Hong's ridiculous cheery attitude in the face of a thousand insults and injuries, his matter-of-fact approach to his sexuality
- Wang Chao's careful balancing act at the fulcrum of the warring tongs and the police
- The fraught father-son relationship of Father Jun and Young Jun
Please don't break up canon relationships. General DNW of unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters applies here except for the following: I vaguely ship Wang Chao with Richard Lee (growing out of their developing understanding during their forced road-trip); Lai might be interesting with Penelope or Mai Ling, if you could figure out how to get them together, or an OC (male or female) or any other non-nominated character; Hong with an OMC or any non-nominated male character, before or after his time with Marcel. However, please feel completely free to write gen!
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.

Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html

Request 5 by Isis
Matthew Shardlake Series - C. J. Sansom
Characters: Hugh Curteys
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I read the first few Shardlake books a few years ago, and then read the rest of them in one fell swoop this summer. I feel like they just got better and better! Heartstone, where we meet Hugh Curteys, was possibly my favorite, because it contains one of my favorite tropes. Which is unfortunately a major spoiler, so I won't talk about it here, but if you've matched on this fandom you can find additional details in my letter.
I'd really love a story about Hugh's new life in Antwerp working in the cloth trade, and I'm fine with it being set with him back in England talking to Shardlake, or epistolary, or just completely about Hugh with no involvement from Shardlake and the other characters. I'm fine with gen, or with him attempting a romance either with a man or a woman (original character) - it's up to you whether it goes well or disastrously, considering his secret and the setting. But please keep things firmly set within the historical context of these books.
Additional DNW for this fandom: No Hugh/Jack or Hugh/Matthew. I'm cautiously open to Hugh/Nicholas, and although there are not a lot of appropriate female characters in these books, if you can think of one, that's fine. Original characters are of course fine here.
DNW: I do not want fic focusing on pregnancy or children (mentions of either are fine), A/B/O or BSDM dynamics, mundane modern AUs, or major character death (other than canon deaths). I do not want anything that contradicts the characters being cisgender as presented in canon, unless they are canonically not cisgender. I do not want fic that uses neopronouns (e.g. 'xie') – please use 'they' for nonbinary or agender characters, or whatever these characters use in canon. I do not want nonstandard capitalization or punctuation other than in the title. I very strongly prefer past tense; if you feel your story really needs to be in present tense for stylistic reasons that's fine, but I want it to be a conscious choice, not a default.
I do not want unrequested noncanon ships involving canon characters even in the background, other than those I've specifically mentioned I'm okay with. Canon ships, mentioned past relationships with OCs, and implicitly canon ships (such as people’s parents) are fine, as are OC/OC relationships. Please don't break up any specified relationships or put my requested characters in relationships other than the ones I've mentioned I like.

Letter:
https://isis.dreamwidth.org/349078.html

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CLAIMED - PH #59: Cowboy Bebop (Anime), Piranesi - Susanna Clarke, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Old Kingdom - Garth Nix, 커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince, Bee and PuppyCat, Sakeru Gummy ""Long Long Man"" Commercials, Futurama

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Cowboy Bebop (Anime)
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Faye having her own adventure while Spike and Jet are working a job
- Spike/Jet getting together, mutual pining or slice of life. It probably gets kind of lonely out there in space
- someone takes up a new hobby. Chaos ensues
- someone has an introspective think about their past choices
- exploring a new city (either leisurely or for a job)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout

No letter

Request 2 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Characters: The House (Piranesi), Worldbuilding (Piranesi)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Treats welcome!
Likes: I just really want more of the house, the worldbuilding and the lore

No letter

Request 3 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Treats welcome!
Likes: getting together, farce, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, slice of life, trope subversion, case fic, pining, time loops
Optional Prompt ideas:
- Cabenela/Jowd
- Sissel and Missile have an adventure
- Lynne discovers her own superpowers (and it's not dying)
- Memry's various part time jobs
- Pigeon Professor's backstory
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout

No letter

Request 4 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Treats welcome!
Likes: worldbuilding, exploration, adventure
Optional Prompts:
- Lirael's adventures in the library.
- A stay in the Abhorsen's house
- retrieving something from deep in death
- anything with paperwings
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout

No letter

Request 5 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
커피프린스 1호점 | Coffee Prince
Characters: Go Eunchan, Choi Hangyeol (Coffee Prince), Choi Hanseong
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Treats Welcome!
Optional Prompts:
- The adventures of Eunchan, part-timer
- rock band or flower shop AU
- Eunchan and Hangyeol post-canon slice of life
- date night
- the lengths Eunchan will go to to hide that she's a girl
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout

No letter

Request 6 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Bee and PuppyCat
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional Prompts:
- Bee and PuppyCat take a temp job
- Bee's awkward date
- holiday party at the Wizards'
- Bee and Deckard cooking together
- Bee goes to Cas's wrestling match
- Crispin repairs Bee (and maybe their relationship)
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter

Request 7 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Sakeru Gummy ""Long Long Man"" Commercials
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Optional Prompts:
- long long man and tooru's sakeru gummy sponsored wedding and/or honeymoon
- Slice of life: horribly balanced throuple
- POV long long man
- Chi on candy version of bachelorette
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter

Request 8 by apricityinthecity (apricitydays)
Futurama
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Likes: getting together, farce, only one bed, UST, coffee shop, fighting to fucking, unexpected hobbies, fake dating, poetry/experimental writing, surrealism, cuddling/sensual touching/horny non-sexual intimacy, bi panic, music au, thinking something is probably a bad idea and doing it anyways, case fic, slice of life, trope subversion
Optional Prompts:
- Amy and Leela have a fling
- a delivery goes wrong (as usual)
- holophoner band AU
- Bender becomes a tiktok influencer
DNWs: Rape, MCD, degredation, terminal illness, de-aging/ageplay, self harm, nuclear fallout
No letter

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CLAIMED - PH #60: Alan Wake (Video Games), Exordia - Seth Dickinson, Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by cadmean
Alan Wake (Video Games)
Characters: Thomas Zane (Alan Wake)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Tom the Poet-Diver-Director -- what IS going on with the guy? Love the various roles he ends up playing across both games, and I'd be super interested in anything that digs a bit deeper into the guy and his history with Bright Falls and the Dark Place.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse

Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html

Request 2 by cadmean
Exordia - Seth Dickinson
Characters: Ssenenet (Exordia), Ssrinsahautha-ku-Ssraaa | Ssrin (Exordia), Iruvage (Exordia)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Snek aliens damned to literal actual Hell, my beloved. I love what we get to see of them in canon (gory and hammy and at the end of the day just utterly alien), and I'm super interested in exploring their various dynamics further! Ssrin and Ssenenet with their doomed sister-relation, the revelation that Iruvage was doing everything against Ssrin on Ssenenet's orders...it's beautiful.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse

Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html

Request 3 by cadmean
Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space
Characters: Valantin the Pirate (Infinite Space), Emperor Taranis Lugovalos (Infinite Space)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Love me a pair of people who see that the universe is damned to destruction by its (and their own!) creators and just go, ""no, actually, we're going to fight those things."" Valantin and Taranis are already super intriguing to me on their own, but the fact that they're actually a Tracker-Observer pair is just *chef's kiss* to me and I'd be super interested in anything exploring that dynamic further.
Please see my letter for more details :D
DNW: mundane AUs, unrequested crossovers, kidfic, vore, scat, rimming, pregnancy/mpreg/oviposition, omegaverse

Letter:
https://teumesia.dreamwidth.org/9376.html

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CLAIMED - PH #61: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett, Jennifer's Body (2009), Dark Winds (TV), Suspiria (1977)

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
Characters: Francis Crawford of Lymond and Sevigny, Philippa Somerville, Marthe (Lymond Chronicles), Oonagh O'Dwyer
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW (except canon refs): AUs outside canon era/setting; women being 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern medical/psychiatric whump Sex:Rape turning romantic/consensual; non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canon CDA, incest, underage; sex/rape changing one's sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc female attacker in noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; gnc women called men/boys in bed
Likes: Whump, H/C, fewer women die; F/F; Lymond with OCD or chronic pain; Disability rep; R63 - f!Lymond (any prompt) especially butch/masc bi girl Lymond who's a as rakish and 'weird' genderwise like Francis in canon is 'effette'
 
Christian Lives
Prompts: Chris survives her fall with injuries, even permanently-disabling ones; I just want her to live and get some agency back. I don't think she HAS done everything she wanted to before dying.
Likes: Lesbian Christian; recovery/rehab fic; Margaret Fleming as friend/caretaker/love interest; F/F
DNW: ""Better dead than (more) disabled"" trope; M/F; Lymond-centric (him being there is fine)
 
Oonagh/Marthe
Prompts: AUs where they meet & Oonagh lives: the PiF rescue works out; her and Marthe traveling together after that as a setup; Oonagh settling in France post-PiF then Oonagh/Marthe during RC or CM; canon-divergence where they meet in QP somehow
Likes: Lesbian!Marthe; Marthe and Oonagh supporting/protecting each other as they both reckon with past abuse and extending kindness to each other; gay sex
DNW: Noncon; Marthe/Jerott centric
 
Margaret Douglas/Philippa (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts:
- RC era where Philippa is stuck at Margaret's house. Margaret attempts seduction to break Lymond and Philippa up, or just takes the opportunity like she did with Lymond after Solway, or thinks she's ""stealing"" ""Lymond's"" woman
- CM era: Margaret holding Lymond hostage but she's demanding sexual favors from Philippa as well as payment/ransom to get him back
Likes: Margaret being creepy with a sweet veneer; Philippa being shrewder than Margaret thinks but playing innovent; Margaret ignoring boundaries
Shippy: Margaret easing/tricking Philippa into things she can't get out of; sex; Margaret is Philippa's first time and she's relishing it; dub/noncon and coercion OK (as dark as you want); battle of wits that Margaret thinks is one-sided seduction; Philippa suffering emotionally (eg getting off and being ashamed/confused/upset)
DNW: Overtly-violent noncon; failing the Bechdel test
 
Lymond/Margaret Douglas (CW dub/noncon)
Prompts: Prompts: Post-Solway Moss or post-galleys, where Lymond is in the Douglases' and Lennoxes' respective clutches, or when Lymond is Margaret's hostage in CM
- Margaret indulging in all of the manipulation and gaslighting and seduction she wants, and how Lymond reacts to it. Anything with digging into Lymond's weak spots, sussing out things like the child abuse.
-Post galleys - hurt Lymond recovering from the whipping scars (could involve nerve pain/mobility restriction from the new scar tissue); Margaret gaslighting about how getting sold out to the French was totally an accident and she was sooo worried; her trying to work out what new trauma Lymond got from the galleys (physical/sexual/psychological)
-Pressured/coerced sex (or implication that it's heading there if you don't want to write that)
-Lymond both clocking the bullshit and being too emotionally exhausted to really push back and just going along with it as a result; alternately, trying to work out how to mask the trauma caused by all this in real time.
DNW: Physically-violent noncon; E-rated underage sex (E is fine post galleys when Lymond is 18+). Talking about the psychological impacts or non-graphically mentioning what Margaret does physically is fine if set when Lymond is under
 
Lymond H/C or Rescue with Philippa and/or Richard
Prompts: Lymond-rescue fic. Due to spying/war/political shenanigans or otherwise, Lymond being captured/trapped (and either injured in the process or afterwards (torture, re-injuring old wounds, migraine/chronic illness flare.)
-Philippa or Richard or both as rescuer/comfort-er is ideal. They could work together, or have a romantic highly-competent Philippa on her own or throwbacks to Richard saving Lymond from peril.

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc

Request 2 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita ""Needy"" Lesnicki
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump SexRape turning romantic/consensual; Non-sexual fluids/unsanitary kinks; Fantasy sex (omegaverse, sex pollen, etc); pregnancy/breeding; non-canonical CSA, incest or underage; sex/rape “changing” sexual orientation; transfem, butch or masc queer woman attacker in F/F noncon; marital rape; comphet sex; GNC women called men/boys
General Likes:
It will Not shock you that I am a huge Needy/Jennifer shipper. I love a good mix of teenage toxicity and ""sandbox love"", like in canon that balance of mean and sweet and just plain confused moments is soooo teenage-sapphic. To me.
I know ""God, you're butch"" was a joke but. What if. What if she actually got butch in future though.
Needy/Jennifer (Maybe Fix-It)
Prompts:
Needy working her ass off to find some solution to Jennifer's demon issues - to reverse the curse, to stave off the hunger, something - even if it doesn't fix the situation exactly, but the key thing here is, getting Jennifer in on helping Jennifer instead of trying to essentially go over her head. Maybe Jennifer's initial post-death vulnerability putting her in a place where Needy can convince her to listen to her and that gets a crack in the impenetrable killing-boys armor?
Or a Needy corruption arc where she's so pissed off about the murder shit that she decides she's willing to sacrifice someone (other than her boyfriend, RIP) to save Jennifer
Needy failing to stab Jennifer and getting bitten-and-turned instead; they're now Stuck Together because they're both functionally undead
Alternately, I would LOVE for Jennifer to get resurrected somehow post-stabbing (maybe by demon!Needy) - like reversing the Devil's Kettle ritual basically - and have them go on sapphic murder-demon adventures together
Likes:
Consummating (literally or figuratively) the Needy/Jennifer relationship
Bi4Bi Jennifer/Needy
Psychological horror as much as body horror; maybe addressing the mental damage that dying/seeing all that death does to Jennifer and Needy respectively as well as the horror of the sacrifice itself having more explored aftermath vs. just happening in the moment
DNW: M/F centric fic; psych hospital setting

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc

Request 3 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Dark Winds (TV)
Characters: Bernadette ""Bernie"" Manuelito
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
General Likes: If Bernadette was bi it would make me so happy. IDK man I just… she's so pretty and my brain has been going ""what if she was gnc/masc presenting sometimes in culturally-specific ways though…"" Anyone want to research queer Diné culture/vibes in the 1970s? Pretty please?
I love equal-opportunity whump, where men and women both can get hurt and rescued/cared for/helped in similar ways instead of ""girl ways"" and ""boy ways""—I actually like whump with women BECAUSE it's a great place to highlight both resiliency/persistence and vulnerability, and not make female characters either ""weaker"" or by default ""better"" at caregiving.
On my genderbend bullshit again - I think genderbent Chee (ie always a woman) with all of the pop-culture immersion and swaggery would be hilarious and iconic, if that's a thing that moves you PLEASE do it… Especially if Chee's still copying a lot of the masculine affectations etc from canon, but it would also be awesome to see a take on like, what's the womenswear equivalent of the super-cool popped collar, etc… On that note, if you do do that, making Chee a disaster lesbian/bisexual and Chee/Bern F/F would add years to my life I think.
Bernadette Backstory
Prompts:
I would love fic about how Bern got to where she is career-wise, and maybe something about her obviously longstanding relationship with the Leaphorns (especially Emma! I love the women and their relationships in this show so much)
Bern and/or Chee Whump or Hurt/Comfort
Prompts:
This show is soooo good at hurt/comfort potential and banging up the characters emotionally and physically only to put them back together again. I would love to see this especially with Bern (who got a bit less of it compared to Chee and Joe Sr.) but Chee is always great too!
In terms of comfort or caretaking, Emma's obviously a great choice too - she's an absolute rock who can handle Bern's no-nonsense needs or Chee's… nonsense lol, and she has the skills needed!
Likes:
Bern and Chee in particular are on such an even keel with each other that I trust their characterization with each other in a H/C situation—that Chee wouldn't be infantilizing hurt!Bern and Bern wouldn't randomly transform into some kind of nursemaid with hurt!Chee (look, I like her a lil gruff even though she's got a lot of heart). So highlighting that canon balance they come to in the course of their work would be great in this context.
DNW: High focus on racist, gendered or queerphobic violence in whump specifically. It's fine if those things come up in the fic, but if you do go with H/C I'd rather the hurt part not be a hate crime or something
 
Career Fix-It Fic
Prompts:
I don't have a ton of specific prompts here but Lord Almighty can someone PLEASE remove Bern from the Border Patrol and put her in any other job… I was dying inside at that ending, even if I do like the idea of her doing something for herself that's moving up ladder-wise… help…
Giving her a different job that fulfills the same goals and needs she had taking the one she did in canon is obviously ideal, don't feel obligated to write about her circling back unless you want to—just please don't have her join that particular organization.
DNW: Border Patrol positivity :/

Letter:
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/627cbc32-0083-4734-82cd-b699753678fc

Request 4 by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Suspiria (1977)
Characters: Worldbuilding (Suspiria 1977)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom
Prompts: Tell me about the witches' magic system! Mother Markos's origins! The founding of the school! Where the coven came from! There's so much territory to explore here.
Likes: Historical accuracy/details; Potential real-world issues that play into this (the gender politics of running a school with no men involved in earlier time periods eg)
DNW (except canon ref):AUs outside canon era/setting; Women bieng 'broken'; Pregnancy; childbirth; Child harm/death onscreen; ableism-centric; torture working; modern med/psychiatric whump; E-rated/sex scenes for this fandom; Markos being demonized or exoticized for being an immigrant. I can't with that; witchcraft tropes related to blood libel (there aren't any in the film, but please look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about - a lot of witchcraft mythos from Europe unfortunately has antisemitic roots)

No letter

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PH #62: Mr. Robot (TV), Respire | Breathe (2014), Burnt (2015)

Request 1 by ictus
Mr. Robot (TV)
Characters: Elliot Alderson
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This show is such a mindfuck, it left me reeling. I'd love to get inside Elliot's head and see the world from his perspective, whether he's orchestrating a hack, or just trying to survive in a post-5/9 world. Please feel free to lean into darker themes, like his mental health struggles and delusions. An expansion on his traumatic past is likewise welcome, starting with his destruction of the server room pre-season, or even going back to his childhood with his father. Feel free to pull in other characters, such as Darlene (their relationship is so special, I'd love to see more), Krista (I'd love her take on him; maybe Elliot hacks her to read her notes on him?), Mr. Robot or other alters, or any other characters! Post-series fic with the 'real' Elliot is also something I'd love to see.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)

Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html

Request 2 by ictus
Respire | Breathe (2014)
Characters: Charlie (Respire), Sarah (Respire)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This film was so subtly sinister, and the role of Sarah was played superbly. I loved how she had a seductive quality that drew people to her like a moth to a flame, but when she was done with them, her cold indifference was absolutely brutal. I would love to see more of her toying with Charlie, not even for any particular gain, but just because she enjoys it. On a shippy note, there were so many moments in this film where the sexual tension between Charlie and Sarah was almost palpable, and I would love any kind of smut with these two, especially if Sarah's mean about it (e.g. bossing Charlie around, teasing her for being a virgin). I'd also be interested in Sarah spending time with other girls to make Charlie jealous, and this could be in a platonic or a romantic way. I'm interested in receiving French fic for this canon, but English fic is welcome too.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)

Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html

Request 3 by ictus
Burnt (2015)
Characters: Tony Balerdi
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This film is a surprising delight, and it gave me almost everything I wanted—that is, everything except for a romantic arc for Tony. I'd love to see a version of events where he and Adam become partners in every sense of the word, or perhaps a pre-canon fic that expands on his history with Reece. Some sort of convoluted V-shaped love triangle with Tony at the centre would be next-level. If shipfic isn't your jam, I'd love insight into the day-to-day life of running one of the most highly-regarded restaurants in the world; food porn is very much welcome here, as is the minutiae of working in a kitchen. Pre-canon fic that details how Tony came to know Adam and Reece in Paris would be great, as would post-canon fic about life after securing the elusive Michelin Star.
For more details, see my letter! Treats are enabled and very much welcome.
Do Not Wants:
• scat, watersports, pregnancy, kidfic
• 1st person POV, AUs set outside of canon
• sexuality angst, internalised homophobia
• requested characters in het relationships (references to canon M/F ships are okay)

Letter:
https://scansionictus.dreamwidth.org/4265.html

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CLAIMED - PH #63: Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier, The Chronicles of Morgaine - C. J. Cherryh, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, Old Kingdom - Garth Nix

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by oldernowiser
Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier
Characters: Gedes (Tuyo Series), Kelleos (Tuyo Series), Aras Eren Samaura, Ryo inGara
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would love a Gedes and Kelleos story, but if you’d rather not then I’m quite happy with Aras and/or Ryo in whatever situation you might like to put them.
 
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW:
nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)
No Aras/Ryo

No letter

Request 2 by oldernowiser
The Chronicles of Morgaine - C. J. Cherryh
Characters: Nhi Vanye i Chya, Morgaine kri Chya, Worldbuilding (Morgaine)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I’d love a bit of Morgaine backstory, or a Morgaine and Vanye story, or something about the gates themselves
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)

No letter

Request 3 by oldernowiser
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Characters: Ged (Earthsea), Tenar (Earthsea)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

A Ged and Tenar story please! Maybe something about Tenar settling into her new life post-Tombs, but I’d be happy with whatever you choose to write.
 
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).
DNW: nothing extremely E-rated (mild smut is fine)

No letter

Request 4 by oldernowiser
Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Characters: Lirael (Old Kingdom), The Disreputable Dog | Kibeth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

I would love a story about Lirael’s years in the Clayr library.
If you’d rather not, then anything about Lirael and the Dog in any situation you choose!
 
Generally, I like humour and fluff, missing scenes, AUs, epistolary, slice-of-life and competency fics, hurt/comfort and angst (not absolute tragedy).

No letter

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PH #64: Sex Education (TV), For All Mankind (TV 2019), The Lone Gunmen (TV)

Request 1 by greycoupon
Sex Education (TV)
Characters: Isaac (Sex Education), Maeve Wiley, Aimee Gibbs
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I would love an Isaac story. He's such an interesting character & and as a disabled person myself, it is so refreshing to see a character with a physical disability who has sex. I would love to know what happens to him after the conclusion of the show.
I love Maeve and Aimee. Maeve/Aimee would be awesome. So would a friendship fic. More details in my letter.
Totally cool with any other characters in the story except Jakob. I know Jean isn't in the tagset so just a mild a suggestion but more Maeve and Jean interaction would be cool.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide. Talking about Aimee's assault is fine.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

Request 2 by greycoupon
For All Mankind (TV 2019)
Characters: Margo Madison, Aleida Rosales, Molly Cobb (For All Mankind)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Love women being badasses. More details in letter.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

Request 3 by greycoupon
The Lone Gunmen (TV)
Characters: Richard ""Ringo"" Langly (The Lone Gunmen), Melvin Frohike (The Lone Gunmen), John Fitzgerald Byers (The Lone Gunmen), Dana Scully (The Lone Gunmen)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

AU welcome and encouraged. See letter for complete details.
DNW: non-canon sexual assault, incest, suicide.Anyone dying from cancer. Human feet, especially toes. (weird phobia, I know!)

Letter:
https://greycoupon.livejournal.com/561666.html

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There is also one Pinch Hit available for grabs:

PH #1 - CLAIMED

Please comment here if you'd like it or contact the mods. (Comments are screened).

Title of the Series: first words spoken (can open a heart)
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV)
Pairing: Kara Danvers/Maxwell Lord
Overall Rating: General Audiences
Warnings/Spoilers: Soulmates AU - First Words Spoken, thus Canon Divergence for Season 1. 
Series Summary: Kara/Maxwell Soulmates AU. Takes place after S1 Ep 3 "Fight or Flight". The series will continue to follow the first season as close to canon compliant as I can be until it of course takes turns/twists to focus more on Kara & Maxwell.






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( PH 5 - 4k - Christian Astrology - William Lilly, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 龍の国 ルーンファクトリー | Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (Video Game), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses )

( PH 12 - 6k - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

( PH 13 - CLAIMED - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )

( PH 17 - CLAIMED - 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Anime), Persona 3, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Undertale (Video Game), Promare (2019) )

( PH 22 - 4k - The Good Wife (TV), Fresh Meat (TV), Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Guardians of Time - Marianne Curley, Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom )

( PH 61 - CLAIMED - Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Buffyverse (TV), Captain America (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Game of Thrones (TV), Wednesday (TV 2022), Stranger Things (TV 2016) )

( PH 62 - CLAIMED - Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Haikyuu!!, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Vanitas no Carte (Manga), Vanitas no Carte (Manga) )

( PH 68 - 3k - Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Great North (Cartoon), Bob's Burgers (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Iron Man (Movies), Murdoch Mysteries, Hawkeye (TV 2021) )

( PH 101 - 4k - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball )

( PH 106 - CLAIMED - A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Crossover Fandom, The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Leverage (US TV 2008), Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Bridgerton (TV), House of the Dragon (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy )

( PH 129 - 3k - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Omniscient Reader - singNsong & UMI & Sleepy-C (Webtoon), 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) )

( PH 132 - CLAIMED - Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hacks (TV 2021), House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, ONE - Cheesy Hfj (Web Series), Brand New Cherry Flavor (TV), Translation State - Ann Leckie, Short Term 12 (2013) )

( PH 134 - 6k - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) )

( PH 138 - 5k - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Given (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )

( PH 145 - CLAIMED - Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (1963) )

( PH 166 - CLAIMED - 백작가의 망나니가 되었다 - 유려한 | Lout of Count's Family | Trash of the Count's Family - Yulyeohan, X -エックス- | X/1999, Pokemon Horizons: The Series (Anime 2023), Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures, 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Pokemon Colosseum & XD, Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game) )

( PH 171 - CLAIMED - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon), 凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime) )

Finished since the last reading post
The Lost Abbot, with a suitably large and confusing number of deaths during Matthew and friends' stay in Peterborough looking for the abbot who seems to have disappeared.

Also finished The End of Innocence. It was good, a mix of personal stories interspersed with the more factual narrative. With it being a book originally published in the mid-1990s and reprinted in 2021, as a reader you have a different point of view than the first readers at the time.

Currently reading
In the middle of The Instrumentalist Harriet Constable, which I'm really enjoying. And have just about made a start on The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian

Reading next
Not sure

After five months and eight appointments, the tooth that started troubling me in June now has its permanent crown. The fitting it today was a bit trickier than I or the dentist had imagined, but we got there in the end. We have a health-related cashback benefit at work so I finally put the paperwork together and submitted a claim. Usually, it's just a question of attaching your receipt and that's it, but with so many appointments and payments made in stages, I ended up putting together an entire document in addition to a scan of the treatment plan and scans of the receipts. Not sure if it works out, and even when it does, it's not going to be anywhere near the entire cost of treatment, with my cover being just at the basic level where I don't pay anything extra.

I think I'm due a normal check-up soon, but perhaps that will be pushed forward with the number of times I've been at the dentist over the past months.

Every year, well over a hundred pinch hitters take on extra assignments. Many of these pinch hitters are signed up to Yuletide, with an assigned writer and recipient from the start. Some are not!

Though these supporting pinch hitters are not guaranteed a gift, we'd like to make it a possibility. On this post, we're collecting prompts from the pinch hitters who are not signed up to Yuletide, so that others may give them treats.


To writers
Please consider writing a treat for a pinch hitter! See instructions for how, where, and when to post a treat. Full-length gifts for pinch hitters are welcome in the Main collection.


To pinch hitters
If you are signed up to Yuletide this year, this post does not apply to you, but we still hope you enjoy your gift(s).

If you are not signed up to Yuletide this year but you have claimed or posted a pinch hit, please comment to this post with your requests! Please limit yourself to Yuletide-eligible fandoms, but you can ask for more than 8 different fandoms.

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You can treat your comment as a Dear Writer letter, with likes and prompts, or include a link to a letter. Either way, please include the following information when you comment:

-your AO3 name
-your requested fandoms [please format the fandoms exactly as they are in the tag set if possible]
-your requested characters

and, optionally, ideas for what you would like to receive, DNWs, and/or (a) link(s) to other places where you have written about what you would like. You're welcome to comment on mini-challenge posts!


Thank you, pinch hitters! And thank you to anyone on the lookout to pick up a pinch hit - we will post them at yuletide_pinch_hits throughout the exchange.

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Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened. And specifically, if you would like to get a treat, we need your AO3 name so we know whom to give it to!

This morning brought sunshine, slightly hazy, but absolutely gorgeous nonetheless. I ventured out for some parkrun tourism and it was great to be out in that sunshine, even if the wind was rather brisk and chilly.

My train from Edinburgh departed at midday, so I didn't really have time for anything apart from parkrun. The journey was uneventful and I spent it reading. And the cross-London transfer and train journey home were equally unremarkable. There were some delays and changes on GWR trains after Storm Claudia, but that didn't really affect me, as I'd always aim for whichever would depart next. All the issues were apparently further west down the line.

We are ready to GOOOOO!

2025 AO3 Collection | Signup Page | Tagset

The tagset has been preloaded with individual character tags for the main characters as well as relationships that are commonly requested in exchanges. For anything you want that's not in there already, feel free to add it! (I've given everyone a ton of nomination slots, so you shouldn't have any problems running out, but I can also add tags for you if you like!) Tags will need to be approved by the mods, so there'll be a bit of a delay while that happens.

A few tagset notes:

* In this exchange, "Character & Anyone" is the way to request a character on their own; this could be interacting with other canon characters, OCs, animals, or just a character study of the character alone. Basically treat it like the "Solo: Character" tag in some other exchanges.

* You can also request "Character/Anyone" or (probably more recommended) narrower variants such as "Erich von Stalhein/Any Male Character."

* For the "anyone" tags, it's okay to DNW individual characters in your signup, e.g. you can request Erich/Any Male Character but DNW Zorotov and Fritz.

* You can also request groups in general, such as "Erich von Stalhein & Any SAP" or "Any Member(s) of 666 Squadron" or "Erich von Stalhein & Any Member(s) of Biggles's Family". For those requests, any one or more members of the requested group will be acceptable.

Go forth, sign up, and please let me know right away if you have any questions or problems! Signups will close a week from today, next Friday, and assignments will go out by Saturday evening if not sooner.

(Edit: You are welcome to mention this exchange in any community, discord, forum, etc, where you think Biggles fans might hang out! I will be posting about it to Fandom Calendar and Tumblr this weekend.)

Today, I started my day by heading out to the National Galleries Modern. There's actually Modern One and Modern Two, but I only went to the former. There are some sculptures outside, too. Like the name suggests, the art on display is from 1900 onwards or so, mostly organised thematically. Very enjoyable. I had lunch there before taking the steps down from the museum to the riverside and following the Water of Leith walkway for a while for my walk back towards the city centre. There's an Antony Gormley sculpture in the river, and a riverside AIDS memorial.

Before going to the National Museum of Scotland, I made detour to the National Galleries National shop. At the National Museum, there was so much to see I barely made it through two areas.

The weather today was a clear improvement on yesterday: clear and bright if not particularly sunny, although breezier and a bit colder than yesterday. It had cleared rained during the time I'd been in the National Museum, and there was some more before I made it back to where I'm staying. I probably don't have time for anything much tomorrow before my train south departs.

The main plotline of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) alone -- with no sidequests, exploration, minigames, or collections -- takes ~50 hours. So, roughly, 2 old-fashioned US TV seasons of 22-26 episodes or 3-4 epic Peter Jackson movies. Here's that plot, summarized:

( Massive spoilers )

Last night, instead of starting to settle for the night I headed out to travel to London Euston to catch Caledonian Sleeper to Edinburgh. I got onboard soon after it opened after 10.30pm and settled down to sleep fairly soon, but wasn't really asleep when we departed a quarter to midnight. I slept rather fitfully and when my alarm went off at seven in the morning I thought there was something odd going on. It took me a little while to figure out what it was from what was hearing and what Caledonian Sleeper had messaged. We were being held at Carlisle because the line was blocked ahead. The reason was initially cited as a broken-down train, later they suggested the breakdown was related to flooding on the line. In any case, we stood at Carlisle long enough that the Edinburgh portion ended up arriving over two hours behind schedule. That was actually fine with me, as I'd been wondering what I'd do in the morning if it was raining heavily and I'd have two hours to kill. In the end, I just took my bigger bag to left luggage and headed straight out to the National Galleries of Scotland, the National, and enjoyed looking at art there. After it, I went to St. Giles and had a look around and did some walking about at the castle end of the Royal Mile. And then went to the castle, where I had the official guided tour, followed by visiting some of the buildings at the site. Even on a grey rainy day, the views were wonderful. And although rain made it harder to just enjoy walking around, it wasn't anything I hadn't expected and the forecast for tomorrow is better.

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Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 26th at 10:00 PM EST.

Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.

Additionally:

• Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
• You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.
• In the future we'll include details in the post, but for this post we're linking to the app for that to keep the post size down!

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

• The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
• The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
• An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)

( PH 3 - 5k - Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Crossover Fandom, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV) )

( PH 5 - 6k - Christian Astrology - William Lilly, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 龍の国 ルーンファクトリー | Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (Video Game), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses )

( PH 12 - 6k - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

( PH 13 - 5k - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )

( PH 17 - 2k - 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Anime), Persona 3, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Undertale (Video Game), Promare (2019) )

( PH 22 - 4k - The Good Wife (TV), Fresh Meat (TV), Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Guardians of Time - Marianne Curley, Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom )

( PH 28 - CLAIMED - Crossover Fandom, クールドジ男子 | Cool Doji Danshi | Play It Cool Guys (Manga), 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), イエスかノーか半分か | Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka | Yes No or Maybe? (Light Novel Series), ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon )

( PH 29 - CLAIMED - 단금지교 | Dangeum and Jigyo (Webcomic), Star Control (Video Games), Chang Feng Juan | I Promise to Return (Webcomic), 고진감래 | Go Jin and Gam-rae (Webcomic) )

( PH 31 - CLAIMED - Oasis (Band), Kyle Murchison Booth Stories - Sarah Monette, Thor (Movies), Red Sonja (2025) )

( PH 36 - CLAIMED - Dwarf Fortress, Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games) )

( PH 43 - CLAIMED - Yellowjackets (TV), Dawson's Creek, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Once Upon a Time (TV), The Vampire Diaries (TV), Gossip Girl (TV 2007) )

( PH 53 - CLAIMED - บ้านหลอน ON SALE | Peaceful Property (TV), เกมนี้เพื่อนาย | The Rebound (TV 2024), 今際の国のアリス | Imawa no Kuni no Alice | Alice in Borderland (TV), 逆爱 | Revenged Love (TV), 화이트 크리스마스 | White Christmas (TV 2011), 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV), Black Doves (TV), 不良執念清除師｜Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (TV) )

( PH 62 - 1k - Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Haikyuu!!, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Vanitas no Carte (Manga), Vanitas no Carte (Manga) )

( PH 68 - 3k - Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Great North (Cartoon), Bob's Burgers (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Iron Man (Movies), Murdoch Mysteries, Hawkeye (TV 2021) )

( PH 73 - CLAIMED - Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things (TV 2016) )

( PH 101 - 4k - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball )

( PH 109 - CLAIMED - Buffyverse (TV), Crossover Fandom, The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Original Work, Thor (Movies) )

( PH 115 - CLAIMED - Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), DC Extended Universe, DC's Arrowverse, Superman (Movie 2025), Crossover Fandom, Descendants (Disney Movies) )

( PH 129 - 4k - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Omniscient Reader - singNsong & UMI & Sleepy-C (Webtoon), 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) )

( PH 132 - 7k - Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hacks (TV 2021), House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, ONE - Cheesy Hfj (Web Series), Brand New Cherry Flavor (TV), Translation State - Ann Leckie, Short Term 12 (2013) )

( PH 134 - 6k - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) )

( PH 138 - 5k - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Given (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )

( PH 146 - CLAIMED - Étoile (TV), Olympo (TV), The Pitt (TV), Conclave (2024), Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey )

( PH 154 - CLAIMED - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo )

( PH 158 - CLAIMED - Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Overwatch (Video Game), Original Work, The Lion King (Movies 1994 1998 2004), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Undertale (Video Game), Original Work )

( PH 159 - CLAIMED - Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Crossover Fandom, Death in the Spires - K. J. Charles, Band Sinister - K. J. Charles )

( PH 162 - CLAIMED - DCU (Comics), Doctor Who (2005), Miraculous Ladybug, Free!, Haikyuu!!, KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Naruto (Anime & Manga), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Loki (TV 2021) )

( PH 163 - CLAIMED - What Does the Spleen Do? ft. Harvard Medical School - HMS Class of 2016 (Music Video), Doctor Odyssey (TV), Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sector General Series - James White, Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey )

( PH 170 - CLAIMED - 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon) )

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Two Week Delay!

The reveals date is being delayed two weeks to November 29th at 10 PM EST (countdown) to allow time for pinch hits to be finished! Updates on the posted schedules and a new PH post will be put up shortly!

All currently assigned pinch hits which have a due date of the 12th, 13th, or 14th have been updated to a due date of November 19th at 10 PM EST. You are of course welcome to post earlier!

Pinch Hits picked up from this point will have a due date of November 26th at 10 PM EST.

If at any point you don't believe you can complete a PH, please default immediately. If you do end up being able to complete the PH you can always pick it up later!

If you're looking for people to treat, don't forget to check the comments of the pinch hitter post (link)! These are pinch hitters who aren't signed up to the exchange, and it would be lovely if some (or all!) of them got treats!

The last two Forever Knight episodes I went through were fairly meh. So I found myself pleased to get to "The Fix," a much better episode (on the vampire side of the story, at least; the cop side, not so much).

A cure! At last! But... not really. Ups and downs. And Nick eats another guy's lunch. Rude!

( Read more... )

Finished since the last reading post
Co-intelligence by Ethan Mollick, which was OK. It's subtitled Living and working with AI, so that's what it does, proposing principles of how to adopt AI and the roles you can usefully cast into—as a coworker, tutor, and so on.

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson, with Jackson trying to find the biological family of a woman whose adoptive parents moved from Yorkshire to New Zealand when she was a baby, and feeling he's not really getting anywhere, totally unaware of all the other changes happening in the lives of the people who he needs to talk to. This book kept surprising me.

Currently reading
Started reading The Lost Abbot by Susanna Gregory, where Matthew and company are in Peterborough looking for the abbot who's disappeared but many assume is already dead. No progress with anything else, I don't think.

Reading next
I've packed one more book for this week's trip but mostly just keeping with the books I'm already reading.

After a few delays, we are a GO! The new 2025 collection will be linked here when signups open; it's still being finalized.

Schedule for 2025:
• Fri, Nov 14 - Signups open
• Fri, Nov 21 - Signups close (2pm AKST/6pm EST/11pm UK)
• Sat, Nov 22 - Assignments out no later than this
• Fri, Jan 9 - Assignments due (2pm AKST/6pm EST/11pm UK)
• Wed, Jan 14 - Works revealed (11am AKST/3pm EST/8pm UK)
• Mon, Jan 19 - Authors revealed (11am AKST/3pm EST/8pm UK)

(I realize the times are a bit weird, but that's what you get when the main mod is in Alaska and most of the fandom is in the UK ...)

Tag nominations and signups will be happening simultaneously as in past years. The tagset will come preloaded with a basic array of relationships and solo characters, and then you can add whatever else you want! Crossovers and characters from other Johns books are perfectly fine as long as at least one Biggles character is involved!

We will stick with fanfic-only again this year (there was some interest on other fanwork types in the poll last year, but for now, not enough to add the extra admin headache of matching multiple fanwork types).

However, I am thinking about a prompt fest in December, so we can have some low-pressure holiday festivities (this exchange doesn't reveal 'til the new year, after all), as well as allowing works of any type.

Biggles also has a very strong showing in Yuletide this year, so I hope everyone who's doing that is having a great time!

See you all for Friday signups!

(batdina, this is to your address. ~grin~)

I realized today that when I started engaging with The Legend of Zelda (TLOZ) in a fanfic kind of way, and mentioning it here, I did it with no overview or explanation, as if you all either necessarily already knew or wouldn't care to know. Please let me remedy that now! :-D

The Legend of Zelda is a Tolkien-inspired Japanese RPG video game franchise with 21 main-series games and many spin-offs since it appeared in 1986. I played the first game on a relative's console in, I think, '89. A live-action movie is coming in 2026; I'm anxious. (At least it must be better than the regretted '89 cartoon.)

The different games tell different tales. They combine puzzle-solving, combat, and exploration gameplay to unfold a story and theme. To grotesquely and unfairly oversimplify, Ocarina of Time is about nostalgia and loss and consequences; Majora's Mask is about fate and loss and meaning; Tears of the Kingdom is about community and loss and rebuilding; Twilight Princess is about identity and loss and choice; Link's Awakening is about reality and loss and truth...

The usual setting is the kingdom of Hyrule and its surrounds. The usual leads are Link, the hero, representing courage; Zelda, the princess, representing wisdom; and Ganondorf, the villain, representing power. The most important macguffins are the Master Sword, aka the sword that seals the darkness, and the Triforce, a sacred embodiment of the energy of divine creation balanced as courage, wisdom, and power. Most Hyruleans are ordinary humans, if usually with pointy ears, dividing themselves into sub-groups by region or culture. There are also several other sentient species. This universe has technology, magic, divinities, and demons.

While some of the games are direct sequels to others, most happen hundreds or even thousands of years apart, and so are both fully-functional standalone stories and intricate parts of a complex canon web. The games have not come out in chronological order. The timeline is controversial; it begins in unison, splits into three AU lines, and then those three lines eventually reunify.

The various Links, Zeldas, and Ganondorfs -- and other recurring characters -- throughout the games may or may not be reincarnations or descendants of each other even within the same timeline. All Zeldas are descendants of the goddess Hylia (Skyward Sword). We have had blonde, brunette, and red-haired Zeldas. Only one Link is known to be a descendant of another Link (Twilight Princess); we know of once that there were two Links alive at the same time (The Minish Cap). We have had blond and brunet, tall and short, child and adult Links. Every Ganondorf so far has been born to the Gerudo people, at least one century apart, with a similar build and coloring.

All* mainline TLOZ games are well-regarded in the gaming community, nominated for or winning awards as well as usually selling well. A few are universally considered masterpieces. These days, most fanficcy fans are into Breath of the Wild, its sequel Tears of the Kingdom, and their two non-mainline spin-offs, Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment, which wrap non-TLOZ gameplay around TLOZ story cores.

Thank you for joining me on this tour. I appreciate it! :-D

* Okay, okay, maybe not so much Tri Force Heroes, Four Swords Adventures, Spirit Tracks, and Phantom Hourglass. But I think that Spirit Tracks is underrated.