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PH 1 - The Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist, Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy - William Gibson, Parahumans Series - Wildbow
Request 1 by Hekateras
The Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist
Mediums: Fanart, FanfictionRelationships:
- Any Relationship
Freeforms:
General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic violence, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story
Prompts
- My first fandom... my nominated tags lean heavily on the events of Krondor: The Betrayal (and the novelisation's source material), and (in spirit) on Honored Enemy, but I would also be happy with some worldbuilding.
- I love the 'not so different' aspect of the eledhel and moredhel and their divergent fates from a very similar origin, one of the things I enjoy is the ambiguity over why they turned out so different. In-universe, characters (especially humans) readily embrace the idea that the moredhel are just innately evil (and treat them as such), but it's easy to see traces of how their material conditions shaped their civilisation and the way the eledhel might have turned out the same way if things had been different. It's very interesting that the author mentioned (way back in the day on crydee.com) Native Americans as an inspiration for the moredhel - displaced, their lands taken from them, in constant conflict with the Kingdom - and then spent dozens of books ignoring that.
- In particular, I can't help but wonder: what if Elvandar's magic began to fail (and/or their Spellweavers lost their magic)? Their diplomatic and peaceful relationship with the Kingdom would likely turn a lot more fraught if they didn't have a forest full of defensive magic that effortlessly keeps intruders out and makes sure only Approved Visitors(TM) get into Elvandar.
- On the character request side (and please feel free to freely mix book canon with videogame canon if you happen to know both): I just want to see more of Gorath & Owyn, really. But I'd also love more branches diverging from and exploring more of canon, such as:
- Gorath goes to Elvandar but doesn't Return, because his sense of duty to his people is too strong to accept the kind of change in loyalties that means he could never go home again
- Gorath goes to Elvandar and Returns but it's deconstructed as something unsettling and wrong (I can't be the only one who thinks that whole thing as written in the books has strong brainwashing vibes, right?)
- Everybody Lives!AU for the ending. And feel free to take that to the logical extreme, because it's interesting to consider Gorath and Delekhan both surviving the events under Sethanon and what Gorath would do if his old enemy were defeated... would he show mercy? Insist on revenge? Demand restitution of some kind? And how does the messy succession of moredhel leadership and Liallan affect the picture?
- I just want messy diplomatic negotiations between the moredhel and the Kingdom in the aftermath of Delekhan's defeat ok. Maybe Gorath can be alive to participate alongside Liallan or it can be the other characters he made an impact on (damn near everybody in the cast, apparently, from Owyn to Pug to Jimmy and Locky and even Dolgan, by-the-by the encounter between Dolgan & Gorath remains my favourite book-only scene) advocating on his behalf.
Request 2 by Hekateras
Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy - William Gibson
Mediums: Fanart, FanfictionRelationships:
- Solo: Molly Millions (Neuromancer)
Freeforms:
General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic violence, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story
Prompts
- I'm fascinated by Molly, she's easily one of the best parts of Neuromancer for me and it's not surprising to see how her character has inspired so many other cyberpunk classics. Lethal, self-assured, and easy to dismiss as just the hired muscle but quietly always playing the game, digging for answers and talking to the right people.
- I would love something Molly-centric, such as one of the things she does when Case isn't around, or pre-canon, or an origin story of sorts, something formative in her past.
- However, if you have a cool idea, please free to go for it! I'm generally very happy with canon divergent AUs, too
Request 3 by Hekateras
Parahumans Series - Wildbow
Mediums: Fanart, FanfictionRelationships:
- WB: Any (Parahumans)
- Solo: Taylor Hebert (Parahumans)
Freeforms:
General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic violence, noncon, heavy crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this), bottoming angst as a major part of the story
Prompts
- I would love something else set in this world or exploring various points of canon, or a canon divergence AU of some kind. There's a lot to be done here, but if you're looking for ideas, maybe something set during the multi-month timeskip with all the Endbringer attacks? Taylor coming into her own as a hero and coming to trust and be trusted by her team despite the initial difficulties is such a good part of the story. Could be plotty or something lighter like "Golem or one of the others makes Taylor take a damn break every once in a while".
- That said, I also adore Taylor's villain phase and would love something from the era after she's had her identity and so many of her secrets exposed, and her enemies know exactly who they're dealing with (but it doesn't help).
- I love the tenuous team-ups between heroes and villains: both when it's the Undersiders teaming up with the Wards, and when it's Weaver!Taylor teaming up with the Undersiders again while on the other side of the line now. I particularly enjoy the interactions between Taylor and Clockblocker as well as Taylor and Dragon.
- What if Taylor did actually end up going back to school at Arcadia High for a while, pretending to be a normal teen? God, imagine...
PH 5 - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Crossover Fandom
Request 1 by redgear
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Mediums: FanfictionRelationships:
- Solo: Vlad Tepes
Freeforms:
DNW:
- Permanent death of requested characters (Both undeath and temporary character death as in time loops etc is always welcome)
- Unrequested Barista/omegaverse etc type setting change AUs
- Unrequested gender identity hcs, neurodivergent hcs, or genderswaps
- Characters going to therapy
- Bad/unhappy/hopeless endings
- Mpreg
- Kink negotiations/negotiated kink, safewords/color checks, characters using modern BDSM terminology like "scene" or "drop"
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The big motivation reveal for Vlad knocked me for an absolute loop and I would like anything that addressed that, or anything else about the long years of vampiredom.
Spoilers for novel within
- It's been 500 years and no one has taught him how to use a classified ad? A temp agency? Vlad pls you're killing me. I'd love to read the story of some oc librarian who got hired in a less bugnutty way to do Vlad's paperwork (or any of the canon academics in a divergence au!!). still a very bugnutty situation with vampires and all ofc but like, pls, more reasonable hiring practices than scattershotting very secret diaries across random universities and waiting for decades to see if anyone will circle (yes) on the "do you like me y/n" you left hidden in the woodblock print.- How did Vlad get so hung up on libraries, specifically, anyway? Did he catch the bookworm vibe while he was in jail in Hungary?? Is he pining for Matthias? Also, I can't imagine that he would just have let the bibliotheca corviniana just get robbed by other people - those should be in HIS museum, right? Vampire heist fic to steal the books before Suleiman's boys can get them/before they can get shipped back to the Empire?
- So we got like a half glimpse at Matty collecting vampire books and a longer glimpse at Mehmed setting up anti-vampire secret society but PLEASE i'm begging you: what did saint stephen the great think about his COUSIN being a vampire? pls the contrast... so fascinating... (also please feel VERY welcome to do like, a saberhagen-y twist thing and tell me a lionizing POV of why Vlad was the real hero of this twisted narrative all along lmao.)
- Vlad has tried his wacky hiring strategy for hundreds of years and mysteriously still can't find a good librarian so he goes to get an MLS and learn how to do it himself
Letter: https://redgear.dreamwidth.org/8861.html
Request 2 by redgear
Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter
Mediums: FanfictionRelationships:
- Any Relationship
Freeforms:
DNW:
- Permanent death of requested characters (Both undeath and temporary character death as in time loops etc is always welcome)
- Unrequested Barista/omegaverse etc type setting change AUs
- Unrequested gender identity hcs, neurodivergent hcs, or genderswaps
- Characters going to therapy
- Bad/unhappy/hopeless endings
- Mpreg
- Kink negotiations/negotiated kink, safewords/color checks, characters using modern BDSM terminology like "scene" or "drop"
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Gyula is my guy, would love any Gyula fic whatsoever. Give me more elaboration on his backstory growing up in a village, working his way up to the institute, picking up all his many talents! Give me more about what he does in the background of the past while Karoly isn't looking at or thinking about him! Elaboration on what he does post-canon, does he manage to get anything set up wherever he goes next? Or how about an AU where Gyula went to the past alone and just wildly changed shit instead of trying to change nothing at all? He got chased out when he tried making his stuff in the end, but if he'd had Matthias's backing it would've been different, I imagine. Matthias picking up Gyula the smith like the folktale of picking up Kiniszi as a miller pls..
Letter: https://redgear.dreamwidth.org/8861.html
Request 3 by redgear
Crossover Fandom
Mediums: FanfictionRelationships:
- Mircea II of Wallachia (Touch the Dark) & Vlad Tepes (Once Burned)
Freeforms:
DNW:
- Permanent death of requested characters (Both undeath and temporary character death as in time loops etc is always welcome)
- Unrequested Barista/omegaverse etc type setting change AUs
- Unrequested gender identity hcs, neurodivergent hcs, or genderswaps
- Characters going to therapy
- Bad/unhappy/hopeless endings
- Mpreg
- Kink negotiations/negotiated kink, safewords/color checks, characters using modern BDSM terminology like "scene" or "drop"
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Dark Fuck Prince Vampire brothers each discover their brother isn't dead after all!! Do they find each other shortly after becoming undead or does it take much longer?
Letter: https://redgear.dreamwidth.org/8861.html