Yuletide 2018 letter

[dhampyresa]

Thank you for writing for me! I'm sure whatever you write me will be wonderful.

Feel free to poke around this journal or my Ao3 account (username: sevenofspade ) if you want to. My letters tag is here.

I have the following Do Not Wants: porn, allegory/metaphor of real world politics, incest, rape, child abuse, character death, dysphoria and the Arthurian mythos. When these are canon, please don't focus on them. I would also prefer not to have to deal with people losing things important to them and toxic living arrangements, be that family or roomates. Thank you.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things I do want. Here’s a partial list. (I obviously don’t expect you to stick all of these in one story, that would be impossible.)

General likes:

• Plot. I prefer it to introspection, but it doesn’t have to be a massive epic.

• Hopeful and/or bittersweet endings, just not the unrelenting grim darkness of the far future.

• FRIENDSHIP FIC. You can never go wrong with friendship fic as far as I’m concerned.

• Femslash, gen, het, poly and slash! I'm honestly not difficult. Most of my prompts are gen, but if you want to take them in a shippy direction, go right ahead! I've pointed out ships I ship, but if you ship something else, I'll gladly read it. I tend to ship ALL THE SHIPS.

• Dinosaurs.

• IN SPAAAAAAAAACE AUs.

• Historical AUs. If you're looking for something more specific, I'm always a sucker for the Second Punic War.

• Fandom AUs! Or better yet, fandom not!AUs, in which the canon is exactly the same, except everyone's in fandom!

• (Consider "They do yuletide [fandom exchange of your choice]" as your get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to plot.)

• Crack taken seriously.

• People on opposite side who care about each other! Whether it's enemies-turned-(grudging)-friends or friends-turned-(grudging)-enemies or any other variation on this theme, I love this trope very dearly.

• Complicated relationships and conflicted loyalties in general, really.

• Superpowers!

• Bodyswap!

• SCIENCE and ART and people really into either/both.

• Please feel free to make anyone not human as alien as you want. Alien biology! Alien psychology! Alien cultures! Alien aliens!

• Canon-divergent AUs! Allllllll the “WHAT IF” fics. ALL OF THEM.

• Identity porn! When someone (or several people) have secret identities (fannish, superheroic, all of the above, etc) and their interactions change depending on who's presenting as what at any given time.

• People being smart/competent!

• Timetravel! I love all the kinds of timetravel. The ones that create paradoxes and the ones that don't; the ones that are stable and the ones that aren't; the ones with alternate pasts/presents/futures and all the rest. Just. All the timetravel, yeah?

• Worldbuilding! Fuck yeah, worldbuilding. Tell me everything about a tiny (or not so tiny) canon detail. Show the parts of the world the canon never goes to. TELL ME ABOUT THE STORIES THEY TELL IN THAT UNIVERSE. (Seriously. Rewrite canon as a legend from that universe, that would be amazing.)

• Folktales/fairytales/etc.

• If all else fails, you can always stick any random combination of characters on a roadtrip/force them to work together and have them become friends and I will eat it up with a spoon.


Feel free to take prompts in whichever direction you like! And if none of my prompts work for you, then write whatever you want -- I'll be happy with anything.

[EDIT OCTOBER 25: added prompts.]


Carthaginian Historical RPF
Any of: Dido | Elissa (Carthaginian Historical RPF), Hannibal Barca (Carthaginian Historical RPF), Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Maior (Carthaginian Historical RPF), Sophonisba (Carthaginian Historical RPF)

I ship Hannibal/Scipio most, but I could be convinced by any combination of the characters. Friendship fics are also amazing! Appearances by Tanith very welcome.

Prompts:
  -     Hannibal fulfilling Dido's revenge! What if Hannibal marched on Rome?
  -     PUNIC! AT THE DISCO (listen. I love puns and a Pun-ic war would be amazing)
  -     Scipio/Sophonisba arranged marriage
  -     Dido convincing Scipio not to march on Carthage
  -     Dido and Sophonisba, advising each other in their hour(s) of need
  -     Family moments: Scpio and his daughter, Hannibal and his siblings, Sophonisba and her father, Dido and her sister...
  -     Aemilia/Hannibal/Scipio
  -     Dido telling Aeneas to go fuck himself, because seriously, fuck that guy


Eferum Series - Andrea K. Höst
Kendall Stockton, Sukata Illuma

I ship it so much! They are the cutest monster-hunting lesbians and I love Kendall's determination to free Sukata's people. I shipped from the moment in the first book where they were looking at stars together.

Prompts:
  -     First date! First date uninterrupted by monsters!
  -     magic lessons!
  -     Role reversal! Kendall the glass golem, Sukata the feral mage
  -     mystery solving
  -     more interactions with the Emperor because that guy's devotion to his people would be interesting to contrast with the other two's dedication to theirs
  -     an AU where the villains (either) won or never lost
  -     an AU swapping them with Rennyn and her beau
  -     STARGAZING


Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Valeria Richards | Head of the Foundation, Victor von Doom | God-Emperor Doom

They have the best and weirdest relationship in this. Also the science in Battleworld must be really weird and I wish to know more about the worldbuilding (can be literal worldbuilding, but doesn't have to be).

Prompts:
  -     the founding of the Foundation
  -     what's Valeria's opinion on her uncle being the sun?
  -     Valeria and Strange working together
  -     Experiments on Doom stuff / god particles
  -     what if the ark doesn't get open?
  -     CSI: BATTLEWORLD
  -     how does Doom feel being the only one in his family who remembers a time before Battleworld?
  -     are there alternate Dooms and/or Valerias running around?


Powerless (TV 2017)
Beatriz da Costa (Powerless 2017), Emily Locke

I ship it! I have a real soft spot for superhero/civilian relationships and they were really cute together. I love the "behind the scenes in the superhero world" aspect of the series.

Prompts:
  -     Emily vs tabloids
  -     Green Fury gets in the Justice League
  -     what of they tried to get people to not call her Green Fury anymore
  -     KARAOKE! Emily's enthusiasm is really cute
  -     a villain kidnaps Emily (with or without the team) and then Green Fury rescues her
  -     or vice versa. Emily would make a good superhero
  -     5 times Emily used the Green Fury button
  -     what if one of them is secretly a supervillain?


The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Comic)
The Girl (Fabulous Killjoys Comic), Phoenix Witch (Fabulous Killjoys Comic)

WORLDBUILDING! I love this comic and the album it grew out of. Maybe an AU where the Killjoys don't die? Or maybe the Girl and the Witch go on a roadtrip? Blue can come too. Also, I like Girl's cat.

Prompts:
  -     where did the Phoenix Witch come from?
  -     what if Val Velocity had had any fucking chill at any point?
  -     how did Blue end up in that alley where Red found her?
  -     what are the Analog Wars?
  -     how do the Phoenix Witch and Cherri Cola know each other? Does he know they know each other?
  -     what if the Girl did detonate in the next world?
  -     when the Phoenix Witch describes the Girl's powers, the art shows Blue waking Destroya -- how are their powers connected, if they are?
  -     Red and the Phoenix Witch


Thank you so much for writing for me!

(Comments welcome.)