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Pinch Hit #6 - Mother of Learning, Rhianna Chronicles, Farwalker's Quest, Star Split


Request 1 by Elsin
Mother of Learning - nobody103
WB: aranean languages (Mother of Learning), WB: Folklore and Literature (Mother of Learning), WB: how language and gesture and mana interact to form spells (Mother of Learning), WB: Ikosian as spell language: how comprehension affects outcome (Mother of Learning), WB: Oral Traditions (Mother of Learning), WB: the development of unstructured magic and shaping exercises (Mother of Learning), WB: the Winter Mountains (Mother of Learning), Original Eagle Shifter Character(s) (Mother of Learning), Zenomir Olgai (Mother of Learning), Original Character(s) (Mother of Learning), Any or No Characters (Mother of Learning), Xvim Chao (Mother of Learning), Kirielle Kazinski (Mother of Learning), In-Universe Meta

General DNW
non-con/dub-con; explicit sexual content; incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family); a/b/o; mpreg; non-canonical permanent major character death; complete downer endings; hurt no comfort; heavy angst; on-page deliberate self-harm*; on-page suicide; gore; graphic physical trauma; character bashing; cringe comedy; fic-as-writer-soapbox; setting AUs**; unrequested identity headcanons; romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

**This doesn't mean that I'd expect you to hew very narrowly to what we know for sure in canon; after all, this exchange is for worldbuilding. However, for this exchange I'd prefer not to have anything that fundamentally alters the character of the world--eg elements like a/b/o, or things like a post-canon zombie apocalypse in a canon where that doesn't really fit in with the established tone/genre/world, that sort of thing.

 

fandom-specific dnw: romantic and/or sexual Zach/Zorian; physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family; significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction

Letter: http://lostinthewinterwood.tumblr.com/post/640806906340982784


Request 2 by Elsin
Mother of Learning - nobody103
WB: Architecture (Mother of Learning), WB: Artistic Traditions (Mother of Learning), WB: Clothing and Fashion (Mother of Learning), WB: how language and gesture and mana interact to form spells (Mother of Learning), Any or No Characters (Mother of Learning), Kirielle Kazinski (Mother of Learning), Original Character(s) (Mother of Learning), Zenomir Olgai (Mother of Learning), Fanart, In-Universe Meta

General DNW
non-con/dub-con; explicit sexual content; incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family); a/b/o; mpreg; non-canonical permanent major character death; complete downer endings; hurt no comfort; heavy angst; on-page deliberate self-harm*; on-page suicide; gore; graphic physical trauma; character bashing; cringe comedy; fic-as-writer-soapbox; setting AUs**; unrequested identity headcanons; romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

**This doesn't mean that I'd expect you to hew very narrowly to what we know for sure in canon; after all, this exchange is for worldbuilding. However, for this exchange I'd prefer not to have anything that fundamentally alters the character of the world--eg elements like a/b/o, or things like a post-canon zombie apocalypse in a canon where that doesn't really fit in with the established tone/genre/world, that sort of thing.

 

fandom-specific dnw: romantic and/or sexual Zach/Zorian; physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family; significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction

Letter: http://lostinthewinterwood.tumblr.com/post/640806906340982784


Request 3 by Elsin
The Rhianna Chronicles - Dave Luckett
WB: Wizardly College (Rhianna Chronicles), WB: Wild Talents and wild magic (Rhianna Chronicles), WB: Eldra society (Rhianna Chronicles), WB: Eldra magic (Rhianna Chronicles), WB: academic magic and spellcasting techniques (Rhianna Chronicles), Original Male Eldra Character(s) (Rhianna Chronicles), Original Character(s) (Rhianna Chronicles), Any or No Characters (Rhianna Chronicles), Rhianna Wildwood (Rhianna Chronicles), Eriseth Arwensgrove (Rhianna Chronicles), Arwenna Songsinger | Arwenna the Wise (Rhianna Chronicles), Antheus Northstar | Serenir (Rhianna Chronicles), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

General DNW
non-con/dub-con; explicit sexual content; incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family); a/b/o; mpreg; non-canonical permanent major character death; complete downer endings; hurt no comfort; heavy angst; on-page deliberate self-harm*; on-page suicide; gore; graphic physical trauma; character bashing; cringe comedy; fic-as-writer-soapbox; setting AUs**; unrequested identity headcanons; romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

**This doesn't mean that I'd expect you to hew very narrowly to what we know for sure in canon; after all, this exchange is for worldbuilding. However, for this exchange I'd prefer not to have anything that fundamentally alters the character of the world--eg elements like a/b/o, or things like a post-canon zombie apocalypse in a canon where that doesn't really fit in with the established tone/genre/world, that sort of thing.

Letter: http://lostinthewinterwood.tumblr.com/post/640806906340982784


Request 4 by Elsin
The Farwalker's Quest - Joni Sensel
WB: the nature of trees (Farwalker's Quest), WB: how Tree-Singer Abbey came to be (Farwalker's Quest), WB: ghosts and how they work (Farwalker's Quest), WB: Folklore and Fairytales (Farwalker's Quest), WB: Essence and the Trades (Farwalker's Quest), Scarl Finder (Farwalker's Quest), Original Character(s) (Farwalker's Quest), Misha (Farwalker's Quest), Ezekiel Stone-Singer (Farwalker's Quest), Ariel Farwalker (Farwalker's Quest), Any Storian(s) (Farwalker's Quest), Any or No Characters (Farwalker's Quest), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

General DNW
non-con/dub-con; explicit sexual content; incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family); a/b/o; mpreg; non-canonical permanent major character death; complete downer endings; hurt no comfort; heavy angst; on-page deliberate self-harm*; on-page suicide; gore; graphic physical trauma; character bashing; cringe comedy; fic-as-writer-soapbox; setting AUs**; unrequested identity headcanons; romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

**This doesn't mean that I'd expect you to hew very narrowly to what we know for sure in canon; after all, this exchange is for worldbuilding. However, for this exchange I'd prefer not to have anything that fundamentally alters the character of the world--eg elements like a/b/o, or things like a post-canon zombie apocalypse in a canon where that doesn't really fit in with the established tone/genre/world, that sort of thing.

 

fandom-specific dnw: works that rely on knowledge of later books in order to make sense--i'm not gonna care all that much about spoilers? but i haven't read 'em, so.

Letter: http://lostinthewinterwood.tumblr.com/post/640806906340982784


Request 5 by Elsin
Star Split - Kathryn Lasky
WB: growing up as an Original (Star Split), WB: growing up as a Laureate's umbula (Star Split), WB: divergence/difference between Genhant and Original dialects and mannerisms (Star Split), WB: disability in the Bio Union (Star Split), WB: "tears in the mind"/ancient word memories in masked chimeras (Star Split), Vivian (Star Split), Original Umbula Character (Star Split), Original Character(s) (Star Split), Max Lasovetch (Star Split), Lana | The Prima (Star Split), Darci Murlowe (Star Split), Any or No Characters (Star Split), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

General DNW
non-con/dub-con; explicit sexual content; incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family); a/b/o; mpreg; non-canonical permanent major character death; complete downer endings; hurt no comfort; heavy angst; on-page deliberate self-harm*; on-page suicide; gore; graphic physical trauma; character bashing; cringe comedy; fic-as-writer-soapbox; surface-level setting AUs**; unrequested identity headcanons; romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

**This is a pretty loose dnw for this fandom, given that the canon leans very hard on the line between straight scifi and science fantasy; it acts like it's grounded future dystopia, speculative but not fantastic, but... well. Based on canon events, I can't fully consider it as such--so as long as you keep the surface elements more or less the same, no matter what the underlying justification for them is we'll be good. Is your explanation Aliens Did It? sweet, go for it. or anything else in that vein. this world is your oyster.

 

fandom-specific dnw--all of this is for the narrative level (not addressing it is fine; having characters who believe or do these things is fine): eugenics apologetics; segregation portrayed as good for society/the people living under it; infantilization of disabled characters; portrayal of low-prestige dialects as being "bad grammar" versions of higher-prestige dialects

Letter: http://lostinthewinterwood.tumblr.com/post/640806906340982784

Pinch Hit #9 - American Gods (TV), Marianne Trilogy, Witchblade (TV)


Request 1 by Miss_M
American Gods (TV)
WB: sex rituals (American Gods TV), WB: resurrection rituals (American Gods TV), WB: other magical properties of the lucky coin (American Gods TV), WB: other death/chthonic gods (American Gods TV), WB: Magical bargains and oaths (American Gods TV), Laura Moon (American Gods TV), Mad Sweeney (American Gods TV), Fanfiction

If the WB tags don't spark your imagination, check out prompts here.

Canon-specific DNWs: Laura as Essie or Sweeney’s wife’s reincarnation/descendant or lots of comparing her to them, Sweeney staying dead, any S3 spoilers.

Exception to blanket DNW: describing the physical decay of the undead is fine!

General likes:
-worldbuilding (surprise! :-)
-pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and missing-scene stories
-character-driven and plot-driven stories
-fics which mix humor and angst/serious business
-characters at work and play
-group dynamics, family dynamics (incl. constructed families), professional partnerships, friendships, alliances, rivalries, intimate couples, UST-ridden couples who are not just UST-ridden but connected in other ways too
-irony, snark, humor, angst
-linear, non-linear, and 5+1 stories
-hopeful endings, happy endings, bittersweet endings, “everything is awful but you’re here and maybe I don’t entirely hate that” endings
-characters who are always and unapologetically themselves
-competent characters

Shippy and smutty likes:
-(where it fits the characters) banter
-competitiveness or antagonism shading into attraction (this tension need not be resolved)
-”oh god why did it have to be you what did I do to deserve this“
-”come here and say it to my face/do that again/kiss me, you motherfucker”
-bickering yet loving couples
-characters who are serious about their romantic interests
-characters who think they are much better at flirtation than they actually are
-characters forced to work together only to prove much more compatible than they initially assumed
-I don’t know how better to phrase this than: smut which fits the characters; how does their canon dynamics spill over into hubba hubba stuff?
-sexual scenarios that subvert expectations a little and surprise the characters themselves
-sexual scenarios that contain an element of competition or antagonism
-“this is a bad idea but we’re going for it hammer and tongs”
-not wanting to admit feelings or show vulnerability except oops it happens anyway, whether the characters acknowledge it or not
-characters getting way more into the sex or being more affected by it than they thought they would
-quick and intense sex, slow and intense sex, rough yet willing sex (when it fits the characters), unexpectedly emotional and/or tender sex
-masturbation while thinking of the other half of the ship (or not wanting to think about them only oops there they are in the fantasy!)
-first time sex
-established relationship, we-know-each-other-so-well sex
-”we’ve both wanted this and now we both know it so here we go diving in headfirst” sex
-oral, vaginal, anal incl. pegging, manual (ifyouknowwhatImean) – all is good. You can go as veiled or as explicit as you like, but please avoid excessive medical jargon – I don’t find a lot of mention of “penis” or “clit” sexy.

Ship/smut DNWs:
MPREG, A/B/O, knotting
D/s, formalized BDSM, painful sex, hard kinks (holding someone down playfully, hair pulling and such like, the odd spank are a-OK)
scat, watersports
knife/gun/blood play
incest
deaging/infantilization, mommy/daddy kink
under-16yos in sexual situations
humiliation
body distortion/horror (feeding/weight kink, come inflation, vore, etc.)
unrequested ships/pairings
soulmates and soul marks
pregnancy and children (can be mentioned if canon, just don’t make the whole fic about them)
wedding setting/theme
secondary characters shipping the main pair like it’s their job
xeno, tentacles, bestiality
noncon/dubcon

Other DNWs:
torture and abuse (this and noncon/dubcon can be mentioned, but please don’t dwell on it in loving detail or subject any of my requested characters to it)
descriptions of vomit, shit, and piss (”He pissed up against a tree” and the like is fine), toilet humor
lots of gore/blood (mention it, yes; lovingly describe it, no), cannibalism, serious illness or injury
character bashing
genderswap/genderbent characters, characters as kids/young teens
issuefic, gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity/religion/ability/identity headcanons
death of requested characters
hopeless, unrelenting gloom/angst/horror
RL holiday setting/theme, RL religions as a major theme (invented fictional holidays and rituals are fine)
reference to RL current events
1st and 2nd person POV
unrequested crossovers or fusions
AUs which have nothing to do with canon
fic written in lapslock


Request 2 by Miss_M
The Marianne Trilogy - Sheri S. Tepper
WB: other fields on Cattermune's boardgame (The Marianne Trilogy), WB: Cave of Light (The Marianne Trilogy), WB: Alphenlicht and Lubovosk (The Marianne Trilogy), Any or No Characters (The Marianne Trilogy), Marianne Zahmani (The Marianne Trilogy), Therat (The Marianne Trilogy), Makr Avehl Zahmani (The Marianne Trilogy), Aghrehond (The Marianne Trilogy), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

If the WB tags don't spark your imagination, check out prompts here.

Canon-specific DNWs: Harvey or Madame Delubovoska appearing in the fic (you may mention them); focusing on Marianne’s pregnancy or on her and Makr Avehl’s daughter; anything over M rating for sex.

General likes:
-worldbuilding (surprise! :-)
-pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and missing-scene stories
-character-driven and plot-driven stories
-fics which mix humor and angst/serious business
-characters at work and play
-group dynamics, family dynamics (incl. constructed families), professional partnerships, friendships, alliances, rivalries, intimate couples, UST-ridden couples who are not just UST-ridden but connected in other ways too
-irony, snark, humor, angst
-linear, non-linear, and 5+1 stories
-hopeful endings, happy endings, bittersweet endings, “everything is awful but you’re here and maybe I don’t entirely hate that” endings
-characters who are always and unapologetically themselves
-competent characters

Shippy and smutty likes:
-(where it fits the characters) banter
-competitiveness or antagonism shading into attraction (this tension need not be resolved)
-”oh god why did it have to be you what did I do to deserve this“
-”come here and say it to my face/do that again/kiss me, you motherfucker”
-bickering yet loving couples
-characters who are serious about their romantic interests
-characters who think they are much better at flirtation than they actually are
-characters forced to work together only to prove much more compatible than they initially assumed
-fics which mix an exploration of characters’ professional and everyday lives with shipping
-I don’t know how better to phrase this than: smut which fits the characters; how does their canon dynamics spill over into hubba hubba stuff?
-sexual scenarios that subvert expectations a little and surprise the characters themselves
-sexual scenarios that contain an element of competition or antagonism
-“this is a bad idea but we’re going for it hammer and tongs”
-not wanting to admit feelings or show vulnerability except oops it happens anyway, whether the characters acknowledge it or not
-characters getting way more into the sex or being more affected by it than they thought they would
-quick and intense sex, slow and intense sex, rough yet willing sex (when it fits the characters), unexpectedly emotional and/or tender sex
-masturbation while thinking of the other half of the ship (or not wanting to think about them only oops there they are in the fantasy!)
-first time sex
-established relationship, we-know-each-other-so-well sex
-”we’ve both wanted this and now we both know it so here we go diving in headfirst” sex

Ship/smut DNWs:
MPREG, A/B/O, knotting
D/s, formalized BDSM, painful sex, hard kinks (holding someone down playfully, hair pulling and such like, the odd spank are a-OK)
scat, watersports
knife/gun/blood play
incest
deaging/infantilization, mommy/daddy kink
under-16yos in sexual situations
humiliation
body distortion/horror (feeding/weight kink, come inflation, vore, etc.)
unrequested ships/pairings
soulmates and soul marks
pregnancy and children (can be mentioned if canon, just don’t make the whole fic about them)
wedding setting/theme
secondary characters shipping the main pair like it’s their job
xeno, tentacles, bestiality
noncon/dubcon

Other DNWs:
torture and abuse (this and noncon/dubcon can be mentioned, but please don’t dwell on it in loving detail or subject any of my requested characters to it)
descriptions of vomit, shit, and piss (”He pissed up against a tree” and the like is fine), toilet humor
lots of gore/blood (mention it, yes; lovingly describe it, no), cannibalism, serious illness or injury
character bashing
genderswap/genderbent characters, characters as kids/young teens
issuefic, gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity/religion/ability/identity headcanons
death of requested characters
hopeless, unrelenting gloom/angst/horror
RL holiday setting/theme, RL religions as a major theme (invented fictional holidays and rituals are fine)
reference to RL current events
1st and 2nd person POV
unrequested crossovers or fusions
AUs which have nothing to do with canon
fic written in lapslock


Request 3 by Miss_M
Witchblade (TV)
WB: the witchblade's effect on wearer's body and/or psyche (Witchblade TV), WB: other magical properties of the witchblade (Witchblade TV), WB: how the witchblade chooses or rejects its wearer (Witchblade TV), WB: gender of the wearer and the witchblade (Witchblade TV), Sara Pezzini (Witchblade TV), Danny Woo (Witchblade TV), Fanfiction

If the WB tags don't spark your imagination, check out prompts here.

Canon-specific DNWs: Irons and any version of Nottingham appearing (you can mention them if you need to).

Exception to blanket DNW: dubcon is fine.

General likes:
-worldbuilding (surprise! :-)
-pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and missing-scene stories
-character-driven and plot-driven stories
-fics which mix humor and angst/serious business
-characters at work and play
-group dynamics, family dynamics (incl. constructed families), professional partnerships, friendships, alliances, rivalries, intimate couples, UST-ridden couples who are not just UST-ridden but connected in other ways too
-irony, snark, humor, angst
-linear, non-linear, and 5+1 stories
-hopeful endings, happy endings, bittersweet endings, “everything is awful but you’re here and maybe I don’t entirely hate that” endings
-characters who are always and unapologetically themselves
-competent characters

Shippy and smutty likes:
-(where it fits the characters) banter
-competitiveness or antagonism shading into attraction (this tension need not be resolved)
-”oh god why did it have to be you what did I do to deserve this“
-”come here and say it to my face/do that again/kiss me, you motherfucker”
-bickering yet loving couples
-characters who are serious about their romantic interests
-characters who think they are much better at flirtation than they actually are
-characters forced to work together only to prove much more compatible than they initially assumed
-fics which mix an exploration of characters’ professional and everyday lives with shipping
-I don’t know how better to phrase this than: smut which fits the characters; how does their canon dynamics spill over into hubba hubba stuff?
-sexual scenarios that subvert expectations a little and surprise the characters themselves
-sexual scenarios that contain an element of competition or antagonism
-“this is a bad idea but we’re going for it hammer and tongs”
-not wanting to admit feelings or show vulnerability except oops it happens anyway, whether the characters acknowledge it or not
-characters getting way more into the sex or being more affected by it than they thought they would
-quick and intense sex, slow and intense sex, rough yet willing sex (when it fits the characters), unexpectedly emotional and/or tender sex
-masturbation while thinking of the other half of the ship (or not wanting to think about them only oops there they are in the fantasy!)
-first time sex
-established relationship, we-know-each-other-so-well sex
-”we’ve both wanted this and now we both know it so here we go diving in headfirst” sex
-oral, vaginal, anal incl. pegging, manual (ifyouknowwhatImean) – all is good. You can go as veiled or as explicit as you like, but please avoid excessive medical jargon – I don’t find a lot of mention of “penis” or “clit” sexy.

Ship/smut DNWs:
MPREG, A/B/O, knotting
D/s, formalized BDSM, painful sex, hard kinks (holding someone down playfully, hair pulling and such like, the odd spank are a-OK)
scat, watersports
knife/gun/blood play
incest
deaging/infantilization, mommy/daddy kink
under-16yos in sexual situations
humiliation
body distortion/horror (feeding/weight kink, come inflation, vore, etc.)
unrequested ships/pairings
soulmates and soul marks
pregnancy and children (can be mentioned if canon, just don’t make the whole fic about them)
wedding setting/theme
secondary characters shipping the main pair like it’s their job
xeno, tentacles, bestiality
noncon/dubcon

Other DNWs:
torture and abuse (this and noncon/dubcon can be mentioned, but please don’t dwell on it in loving detail or subject any of my requested characters to it)
descriptions of vomit, shit, and piss (”He pissed up against a tree” and the like is fine), toilet humor
lots of gore/blood (mention it, yes; lovingly describe it, no), cannibalism, serious illness or injury
character bashing
genderswap/genderbent characters, characters as kids/young teens
issuefic, gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity/religion/ability/identity headcanons
death of requested characters
hopeless, unrelenting gloom/angst/horror
RL holiday setting/theme, RL religions as a major theme (invented fictional holidays and rituals are fine)
reference to RL current events
1st and 2nd person POV
unrequested crossovers or fusions
AUs which have nothing to do with canon
fic written in lapslock

Pinch Hit #14 - Palm Springs, Constantine (TV), Dirk Gently (TV)


Request 1 by alchemise
Palm Springs (2020)
WB: What's behind the timeloop (Palm Springs), WB: Time fuckery (Palm Springs), WB: The physics of the timeloop (Palm Springs), WB: Other people in the timeloop (Palm Springs), WB: Dinosaurs! (Palm Springs), Roy (Palm Springs), Original Character(s) (Palm Springs), Any or No Characters (Palm Springs), Sarah Wilder (Palm Springs), Nana Schlieffen (Palm Springs), Daisy (Palm Springs), Nyles (Palm Springs), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

Likes:
- h/c, violence, stoic injured characters, action/mysteries/casefic, reunions, competency, noncon tattooing, catharsis, outsider POV
- pegging, groping/touching (hands all over the place!), dubcon (noncon is fine too, but I prefer the victim unbroken), threesomes, wall sex, intense fast desperate sex, slow lazy sex, manhandling
- spirits/ghosts/hauntings, cosmic horror, psychological horror, corruption, apocalypses

Do Not Wants:
- setting AUs (anything that changes the premise of the canon, e.g. mundane, in space, werewolves, etc), incest, pregnancy, 2nd person (unless it's for an unusual format), soulbonds/soulmates, omegaverse, formalized BDSM/kink negotiation/"master" or "sir" language, sexual humiliation, breathplay/drowning/suffocation, suicide (unless it's self-sacrifice to save someone/for the greater good), mindbreak/woobification, the POV of a character as they die, unrequested identity headcanons

Letter: http://alchemise.dreamwidth.org/349451.html


Request 2 by alchemise
Constantine (TV)
WB: What’s behind Zed’s visions (Constantine), WB: The Rising Darkness (Constantine), WB: Heaven’s plans (Constantine), Any or No Characters (Constantine), John Constantine (Constantine), Zed Martin (Constantine), Manny (Constantine), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

Likes:
- h/c, violence, stoic injured characters, action/mysteries/casefic, reunions, competency, noncon tattooing, catharsis, outsider POV
- pegging, groping/touching (hands all over the place!), dubcon (noncon is fine too, but I prefer the victim unbroken), threesomes, wall sex, intense fast desperate sex, slow lazy sex, manhandling
- spirits/ghosts/hauntings, cosmic horror, psychological horror, corruption, apocalypses

Do Not Wants:
- setting AUs (anything that changes the premise of the canon, e.g. mundane, in space, werewolves, etc), incest, pregnancy, 2nd person (unless it's for an unusual format), soulbonds/soulmates, omegaverse, formalized BDSM/kink negotiation/"master" or "sir" language, sexual humiliation, breathplay/drowning/suffocation, suicide (unless it's self-sacrifice to save someone/for the greater good), mindbreak/woobification, the POV of a character as they die, unrequested identity headcanons

Letter: http://alchemise.dreamwidth.org/349451.html


Request 3 by alchemise
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
WB: What’s behind whatever’s going on (Dirk Gently), WB: Dirk’s role in the universe (Dirk Gently), WB: Blackwing projects (Dirk Gently), Any or No Characters (Dirk Gently), Mona Wilder (Dirk Gently), Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently), Farah Black (Dirk Gently), Bart Curlish (Dirk Gently), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

Likes:
- h/c, violence, stoic injured characters, action/mysteries/casefic, reunions, competency, noncon tattooing, catharsis, outsider POV
- pegging, groping/touching (hands all over the place!), dubcon (noncon is fine too, but I prefer the victim unbroken), threesomes, wall sex, intense fast desperate sex, slow lazy sex, manhandling
- spirits/ghosts/hauntings, cosmic horror, psychological horror, corruption, apocalypses

Do Not Wants:
- setting AUs (anything that changes the premise of the canon, e.g. mundane, in space, werewolves, etc), incest, pregnancy, 2nd person (unless it's for an unusual format), soulbonds/soulmates, omegaverse, formalized BDSM/kink negotiation/"master" or "sir" language, sexual humiliation, breathplay/drowning/suffocation, suicide (unless it's self-sacrifice to save someone/for the greater good), mindbreak/woobification, the POV of a character as they die, unrequested identity headcanons

Letter: http://alchemise.dreamwidth.org/349451.html

Pinch Hit #15 - Kado: The Right Answer, The City & the City, Roadside Picnic, Goblin Emperor, Culture, Imperial Radch, Heart of Gold


Request 1 by Gammarad
正解するカド | Kado: The Right Answer
WB: Reactions to Anisotropic Technology outside Japan (Kado), WB: Humans Exploring the Anisotropic (Kado), WB: Half-Human and Half-Anisotropic Existence (Kado), WB: Daily Life in the Anisotropic (Kado), WB: Applications of Wam (Kado), Original Anisotropic Character(s) (Kado), Original Character(s) (Kado), Shinawa Kanata (Kado), Shindou Yukika (Kado), Any or No Characters (Kado), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

What I like about this fandom:
The attempt at communication and sharing between aliens and humans, and the way that attempt affects both. The enthusiasm and ingenuity with which the scientists study the new technology. The strangeness of the anisotropic and its technology. Even though it ends with a soft reset, I like to think that first of all, the main human character made it out to the anisotropic, and second, it's still affecting the world, only in subtler ways perhaps.

DNWs: Character bashing, "corrective" noncon, focus on underage sex or romance, cross-generational incest, incest between purely human characters, serious or permanent harm to cats (mentioned/past harm to cats is ok).

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 2 by Gammarad
The City & the City - China Mieville
WB: Urban Infrastructure (The City & the City - China Mieville), WB: Relations with near geographical neighbors (The City & the City - China Mieville), WB: Folklore (The City & the City - China Mieville), Original Character(s) (The City & the City - China Mieville), Any or No Characters (The City & the City - China Mieville), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

What I like about this fandom:
The strangeness of the setting, and how interesting it is to imagine what it's like to live there. The contrast between the mundanity of the everyday life there and the superstition about Breach or supernatural elements of Breach, and how those could go either way.

DNWs: Character bashing, "corrective" noncon, focus on underage sex or romance, cross-generational incest, incest between purely human characters, serious or permanent harm to cats (mentioned/past harm to cats is ok).

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 3 by Gammarad
Пикник на обочине - Братья Стругацкие | Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
WB: Zones Other Than Harmont (Roadside Picnic), WB: Source of the Zones (Roadside Picnic), WB: Physical Anomalies in Zone Stalkers And Their Progeny (Roadside Picnic), WB: Future of the Zones (Roadside Picnic), WB: Artifacts from the Zones and Their Powers (Roadside Picnic), Any or No Characters (Roadside Picnic), Dina Burbridge (Roadside Picnic), Dr. Kirill Panov (Roadside Picnic), Dr. Valentine Pilman (Roadside Picnic), Original Alien Characters (Roadside Picnic), Redrick Schuhart (Roadside Picnic), Original Character(s) (Roadside Picnic), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

What I like about this canon: The strangeness of the place, the determination of the characters to investigate it and to keep putting themselves deeper in literal and metaphorical debt for what they seem to think is an infinite prize. The way it's strongly implied that the objects don't have the same meaning at all to the aliens who left them behind. The side effects and how little the characters seem to care, but how significant they might be to others in the same world (hence it's ripe for world-building fic).

DNWs: Character bashing, "corrective" noncon, focus on underage sex or romance, cross-generational incest, incest between purely human characters, serious or permanent harm to cats (mentioned/past harm to cats is ok).

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 4 by Gammarad
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
WB: Trade and relations between Ethuveraz and Pencharn (Goblin Emperor), WB: the nation of Pencharn (Goblin Emperor), WB: opera (The Goblin Emperor), WB: the Athmaz'are (Goblin Emperor), WB: the Clocksmiths' Guild (Goblin Emperor), Cora Drazhar (Goblin Emperor), Kiru Athmaza (Goblin Emperor), Nedao Vechin (Goblin Emperor), Sehalis Athmaza (Goblin Emperor), Writer of Traveler's Handbook to the Elflands (The Goblin Emperor), Any or No Characters (The Goblin Emperor), Original Character(s) (The Goblin Emperor), Fanfiction

What I like about this canon: The complexity and depth of the setting, the way it's integrated into the story, the subtlety of the magic and the way the mages form an extended family of sorts, the appealing minor characters scattered through the whole thing. The use of language, especially formal/informal pronouns in English, to give depth to dialogue. Mostly, I like everything about the book.

DNWs: Character bashing, "corrective" noncon, focus on underage sex or romance, blood-relative incest (= anything closer than first cousins), serious or permanent harm to cats (mentioned/past harm to cats is ok).

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 5 by Gammarad
The Culture - Iain M. Banks
WB: alien misunderstandings of Culture norms (Culture), WB: Culture media created for consumption on Earth (Culture), WB: fate of ships that entered the Excession (Culture), WB: ramifications of easily being able to change gender (Culture), WB: Sublimation (Culture), WB: the myriad ways Minds entertain themselves (Culture), Any Mind(s) (Culture), Lededje Y'breq (Culture), Original Character(s) (Culture), GSV Sleeper Service (Culture), Jernau Morat Gurgeh (Culture), Flere-Imsaho (Culture), GOU Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints (Culture), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

What I like about this canon: the wish fulfillment aspects of it, the humor, the demonstration of the real problems that still exist when scarcity and illness and aging are all fixed, the Minds, the enormous scale, the exploration of the virtual and the alien and the wide variety of characters and their wide variety of interests and hobbies. The elegiac feeling it often evokes when it's being more serious, too. My favorite books of the series are Look to Windward, Player of Games, Hydrogen Sonata, Surface Detail (in that order). My least favorites are Matter and Use of Weapons (also in that order). The others (Excession, Inversions, Consider Phlebas, State of the Art) are in-between; I've read them all, multiple times for all but the two least favorites.

DNW: focus on underage sex or romance, or romantic relationships that began when one character was not yet an adult but the other one was. Serious or permanent harm to cat-like pets (past or mention is fine). Any appearance of Zakalwe, whether under that name or any of his pseudonyms.

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 6 by Gammarad
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
WB: Human Geck (Imperial Radch), WB: History of reverence for vestiges on Hwae (Imperial Radch), WB: Life in Compassionate Removal (Imperial Radch), Any or No Characters (Imperial Radch), Original Character(s) (Imperial Radch), Garal Ket | Pahlad Budrakim (Imperial Radch), Ingray Aughskold (Imperial Radch), Tic Uisine (Imperial Radch), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

I love the whole Imperial Radch series but I'm most interested in Provenance and its characters. If you want to combine these or make additional world-building topics in Provenance parts of the universe, I'm here for it. What I love about Provenance: the characters, the different cultures and how they all interact, the intensity of the strained relationships each of the nominated characters has with their parents and how those tie into the way their world is arranged -- the parental figures have used these characters to advance what they see as the right way of their cultures, and it's cost them all.

DNW: Focus on underage sex or romance (brief references not a problem if necessary for story or world-building), or romantic relationships that began when one character was not yet an adult but the other one was. Serious or permanent harm to cat-like pets (past or mention is fine).

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html


Request 7 by Gammarad
Heart of Gold - Sharon Shinn
WB: Biotechnology after bioterrorism events (Heart of Gold), WB: Lost City (Heart of Gold), WB: Business Practices (Heart of Gold), Del (Heart of Gold), Coe (Heart of Gold), Kitrini Solvano Candachi (Heart of Gold), Jalciana Candachi (Heart of Gold), Nolan Adelpho (Heart of Gold), Colt (Heart of Gold), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

What I like about this canon: Culture clash, matriarchy, biotechnology, interesting transportation system differences, the world it's set in and the characters. The story's attitude of everyone has a point, not making one side the good guys or the bad guys. Also I'm very fond of the color blue.

DNW: incest, underage sex, focus on underage romance, character bashing. Harm to cats or cat-like pets.

Letter: http://lemniskath.dreamwidth.org/4629.html

Pinch Hit #16 - Scholomance, Fullmetal Alchemist, Star Wars (AMT and Jedi: Fallen Order) - CLAIMED!


Request 1 by TanTales
Scholomance - Naomi Novik
WB: Notable enclaves & life within them (Scholomance), WB: Magical affinities (Scholomance), WB: Creation of the Scholomance school and early years (Scholomance), Any or No Characters (Scholomance), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

I am open to any offers, and have no strong dislikes.


Request 2 by TanTales
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
WB: Military Culture and Society (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga), WB: State Alchemists & Independent Alchemists (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga), Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga), Any or No Characters (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

I am open to any offers, and have no strong dislikes.


Request 3 by TanTales
Star Wars - All Media Types
WB: Youngling Life in the Jedi Temple (Star Wars AMT), WB: The Alderaan diaspora (SW AMT), WB: Alderaanian culture and traditions (SW AMT), WB: Alderaanian mourning rituals (SW AMT), WB: Monarchy of Alderaan (SW AMT), WB: Droid personhood (Star Wars AMT), Any or No Characters (Star Wars AMT), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

I am open to any offers, and have no strong dislikes.

I am very interested in Alderaan and Mandalore.
And about the Mon Calamari <3


Request 4 by TanTales
Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game)
WB: Scrappers’ Guild (SW JFO), WB: Jedi living in hiding (SW JFO), Any or No Characters (SW JFO), Cal Kestis (SW JFO), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta

I am open to any offers, and have no strong dislikes. I am a big fan of BD-1, Cal's training, what the crew does on their down time and the Zeffo.

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