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Thank you so much for writing a fic for me! I’m so excited to see what you write. In case you’d like to know a bit about what kinds of things I like, some notes below, but all of it is totally optional. Feel free to use this list to spark ideas, or to go another direction entirely. For the fandom-specific notes, the same applies!

Some tropes I always like:
• Alien or fantasy culture shock/culture clash
• Outsider POVs
• Fish out of water stories
• Time travel
• Found-document or in-world document fics
• Platonic intimacy
• Secret identities/identity porn (not in the actual porn sense)
• Competence porn (not in the actual porn sense)
• Worldbuilding, especially when it’s really in-depth and researched and unique
• Canon divergence AUs/“For want of a nail”
• Intense but unexpected friendships or relationships
• Staying mostly true to the tone/vibe of the source material
• For these fandoms, I’m most interested in fics that don’t only focus on romance

DNW:
• Explicit rape, incest, or suicide
• Christmas themes

Requests:

Arrival (2016)

This is a single movie starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, based on an excellent short story called Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. (Even if you didn’t get matched to me based on this, I think you could easily watch it if you wanted to try writing for it.)

I love the linguistics aspect, the first contact element, and the more philosophical elements about choice and time. I’m fascinated by the idea that in 1,000 years, the heptapods will need humanity—what would that look like? Or, what will happen on Earth after the ending of the movie, once people starting learning the heptapod language? I would love any sort of thoughtful look at this world and concept.

Books of the Raksura

This is such an expansive world—some things I’m interested in are, what else has Delin seen and written about? Are there other kinds of shape-shifters? What does diplomacy look like for the Raksura after the series, not just between themselves but with other peoples?

I am especially delighted by times the Raksura interact with groundlings, either as themselves or pretending to be groundlings. There’s also that moment in the first book on the journey taking Moon to the Raksura for the first time, where Stone in his groundling form meets with groundlings who are camped on the raised road, and they offer him food and he turns it down, not worrying about being known as odd, while Moon hides. They don’t know what he is, but are curious. I would love to know more about this kind of in-between dynamic.

I have “focus on babies” as a DNW—to explain, the mention or presence of babies is fine, I just think there’s a possibility with this fandom to focus a lot on reproduction and child-rearing, and I’d like a fic that’s not only about that.

If you have a worldbuilding idea that doesn’t end up including any of these characters, that would also be great.

Blue Eye Samurai

I love how single-minded Mizu is, and how everyone figures out what they want and what they need to do to get it. I also love how this show plays with gender and I love the historical elements. I don’t want a modern AU.

I wouldn’t prefer straight-up romance for fic for this show—I’m more interested in all the ways that these characters can get closer to each other (and angrier at each other) and learn about each other without romance. I’d also be excited about fic that’s “behind the scenes,” other character POVs other than the main characters, or canon divergence.

The Modern Faerie Tales – Holly Black

Kaye Fierch, Rath Roiben Rye

Any subset of these characters is ok!

I grew up with these books and have always wanted a little more of these characters. I’ve read Holly Black’s later books set in the same world, which had a few cameos, but it wasn’t enough! And while I like the characters from later books, I’d prefer they not be the focus here. But feel free to include other characters from the original books, I love them all.

Some ideas/prompts that would delight me:

·      Anything dealing with trying to make human things/ideas work in faerie or faerie things/ideas work in the human world

·      Faerie/human interactions—humans finding faeries and getting mixed up in the wrong thing, and vice versa?

·      The daily reality of faerie politics--maybe Kaye or Roiben has to solve a thorny political problem

·      Worldbuilding; what do the Faerie courts look like in other parts of the country/world? Do they ever visit?

·      Humorous elements mixed in with the creepy or serious; Kaye being goth

·      What happens if Faerie becomes common knowledge to humans?

If you have read Holly Black's short story in this world “The Land of Heart's Desire” (in the collection The Poison Eaters if you want to find it!), I especially loved that intermingling of the human and faerie worlds (aka “what happens when humans who want to find faeries show up at your under-the-radar faerie-run coffee shop”). I’ve been dreaming of a fic a little like this.

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)

Any subset of these characters is ok! Plus other characters, I just didn't want to limit it. 

I really don’t think you can go wrong with any Murderbot fic you write for me. I would prefer no romantic shipping of Murderbot with anyone but even that’s not a dealbreaker.

Some ideas/prompts that would delight me:

·      Amena takes SecUnit to the Preservation version of prom/school play/ice skating/any other slightly mundane activity—it could go amazingly wrong or it could go terribly right!

·      A plotty situation that calls for SecUnit going undercover as augmented human security again

·      Preservation internal politics

·      SecUnit learning how to be a person who lives in a society; SecUnit possibly freaking humans out a little bit

·      SecUnit using the equivalent of the Internet

·      My favorite supporting characters are probably Mensah, Gurathin, Pin-Lee, Amena (of course I love many others as well, no need to limit it)