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Because why not.
Also because yesterday was even more spectacularly horrible than usual for completely unrelated reasons, involving a really bad thing that happened at work which I can't discuss because confidentiality, followed by four hours in the ER with my cat culminating in the vet coming in and saying, "Well… it could be a little scratch that got infected… or IT COULD BE CANCER." (I don't think it's cancer.)
Beneath the cut, I am going to put a bunch of prompts for stories, fanfic or original, in case anyone wants to pick one up and cheer me up.
I like hurt-comfort, worldbuilding, adventure, action, heroism, self-sacrifice, hard choices, camaraderie, luscious descriptions of food and landscape, loyalty kink, trauma and recovery, military settings, bands of brothers (or sisters, or brothers and sisters) and a strong sense of place. I'm fine with original characters. I enjoy gen, het, femmeslash, and slash, and I enjoy relationships of any variety, from friendships to epic romance to hot sex. I prefer happy or bittersweet endings to doom and despair.
I could write epics on what I like about hurt-comfort, but I think the key is tenderness. So many individual elements that I like - characters helping each other to walk or eat or bathe, stroking hair, cuddling, etc - come down to that. I also like the opportunities for glorious melodrama, such as desperate stumbles through the woods in search of aid, bedside vigils, delirious confessions of long-held secrets, stoicism, soldiering on with a task until total collapse (possibly while concealing an injury), etc.
Things I find hot: fantasy prostitution where it's consensual and totally a fantasy of being able to simply point your finger and get the exact sexual experience or partner you want, like the Kushiel books or that hot short story Ellen Kushner wrote in "Sirens." Strong men and their muscles, especially if they're stocky/wiry but not tall. Strong, lean, boyish or butch women and their muscles. Voluptuous Venus of Willendorf women. Slim petite women with wings. Collarbones. Breasts. Hands. Long, graceful feet. Jeremy Renner's arms. Eyes of any color, from ordinary to ridiculously exotic. Long flappy leather coats. Elaborate clothing with ribbons and complicated ties. Masquerade balls. Carnival masks. Venice and fantasy cities with canals. Passionate sex up against the wall. Corsets. Half-clothed sex. People really getting into each others' bodies. Writing on bodies.
Quiet men with still waters running deep, like Le Guin's Ged. Wizards, artists, craftspeople, medics, soldiers and warriors, chefs, musicians, DJs, dancers, acrobats, pilots, martial artists, physical and psychotherapists. Really determined people. Happy people, especially when they have not had easy lives. People with scars or disabilities, mental or physical. Found families. Friendship. Misfits finding a home. People who love their jobs, especially if they're not very glamorous. Telepathic animals. Rats. People with beautiful wings. Myth and folklore. Nicknames, formalized or not. Shapeshifters. PTSD. Hard-earned happy endings. Loyalty against all odds. Lovers on opposite sides of a war. Conflicts of honor.
Settings where everything is lush and beautiful. Settings where everything is trying to eat you. (Or both!) Deserts. Lush forests. Big bustling cities, Hostage or imprisonment scenarios. Desperate last stands. Clever escapes. Con artists. DRAGONS. Portals. Wish-fulfillment that's earned. Mist. Mountains. Journeys, into the known or the unknown. Ships or portals that will take you somewhere, who knows where, or make you vanish forever. Space explorers. Space Marines. Trapped in an evil lab. Psychic kids (or adults.) People with powers who aren't costumed superheroes. Boarding schools. Boot camp. Riding anything. Dragon hatching, cub bonding - anything where people bond with animals, that is my favorite thing ever.
I am pretty much un-triggerable by written fiction, so don't even worry about that. I don't like character-bashing, and depressing endings are out. However, bittersweet or heroic last stands or that sort of thing are fine - I don't mind crying because I'm moved. Stories about healing might make me cry, but also in a good way.
Don't worry about writing stuff that may hit too close to home right now. My squicks and do not wants are the same as they've always been: vomit and other detailed gross descriptions, most incest (canon incest is fine), cement truck denouements, a general air of misery, cancer, brain damage, radiation sickness and nuclear war (generations post-war is fine), and most baby or pregnancy-centered stories. (Puppies or alien lizard babies are fine.)
Any fandom I've ever mentioned is still good. I would still enjoy stories in anything I've ever prompted for Yuletide.
If you know of a fandom I haven't mentioned and want a prompt, ask me! I will give you some unless I don't know it.
I know this is generally considered wildly gauche at best but who cares. Anything anyone writes based on anything I wrote would thrill me to bits. I am happy to provide prompts upon request, but seriously… ANYTHING. Crack ships, in SPAAACE AUs, whatever.
Fandoms I am currently into: Everything I've ever nominated for Yuletide, Earthsea, The Dispossessed, Rocannon's World (Basically anything Le Guin), The Martian (movie), X-Men comics (preferred), X-Men (first two movies), Blade Runner, Leverage, Penny Dreadful, Modesty Blaise, Watership Down, Fire Dancer, The Rifter, Peter Wimsey, George R R Martin's early space opera stories, MacDonald's The Golden Key, The Steerswoman, early Young Wizards books, The Tale of the Five, Diane Duane's Star Trek, Northwest Smith, Jirel of Joiry, Ki and Vandien, Locke Lamorra, Suzanne Brackmann's Troubleshooters, Captive Prince (as of the second book, when they're no longer antagonistic), anything Neil Gaiman (Sandman! Stardust's faerie market! Whatever happened to Anesthesia?), early Pern (pre-White Dragon), Cherryh's Finisterre, Cyteen, The Stand, Dreamsnake, Caught in Crystal, Saiyuki, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Mushishi, Gundam Wing, Dick Francis, Alien and Aliens, Temeraire, Attack on Titan, Darkchild, Baahubali, Jane Yolen's Sister Light, Sister Dark, Star Trek original series, Sharpe (movies), The Dark is Rising, Narnia, Hornblower (movies), every Barbara Hambly series ever, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dragonlance even, am I the only one who wants Laurana/Kitiara or Raistlin/Laurana or Raistlin/Kitiara, Prydain, Midnighters, Tillerman Cycle, Mad Max Fury Road, McKinley's Damar or Sunshine, Enid Blyton's boarding school books, and many more I'm just not thinking of.
I would enjoy anything in any of those. I always enjoy gen, but am often a multi shipper. If you'd like a prompt for any of them, just ask.
Original stories: Yes! I love them!
I am not naming the original works of anyone on my f-list because awkward, but if anyone wanted to write me something, you undoubtedly know what I love and I would love whatever you wrote. I could also provide prompts.
Also because yesterday was even more spectacularly horrible than usual for completely unrelated reasons, involving a really bad thing that happened at work which I can't discuss because confidentiality, followed by four hours in the ER with my cat culminating in the vet coming in and saying, "Well… it could be a little scratch that got infected… or IT COULD BE CANCER." (I don't think it's cancer.)
Beneath the cut, I am going to put a bunch of prompts for stories, fanfic or original, in case anyone wants to pick one up and cheer me up.
I like hurt-comfort, worldbuilding, adventure, action, heroism, self-sacrifice, hard choices, camaraderie, luscious descriptions of food and landscape, loyalty kink, trauma and recovery, military settings, bands of brothers (or sisters, or brothers and sisters) and a strong sense of place. I'm fine with original characters. I enjoy gen, het, femmeslash, and slash, and I enjoy relationships of any variety, from friendships to epic romance to hot sex. I prefer happy or bittersweet endings to doom and despair.
I could write epics on what I like about hurt-comfort, but I think the key is tenderness. So many individual elements that I like - characters helping each other to walk or eat or bathe, stroking hair, cuddling, etc - come down to that. I also like the opportunities for glorious melodrama, such as desperate stumbles through the woods in search of aid, bedside vigils, delirious confessions of long-held secrets, stoicism, soldiering on with a task until total collapse (possibly while concealing an injury), etc.
Things I find hot: fantasy prostitution where it's consensual and totally a fantasy of being able to simply point your finger and get the exact sexual experience or partner you want, like the Kushiel books or that hot short story Ellen Kushner wrote in "Sirens." Strong men and their muscles, especially if they're stocky/wiry but not tall. Strong, lean, boyish or butch women and their muscles. Voluptuous Venus of Willendorf women. Slim petite women with wings. Collarbones. Breasts. Hands. Long, graceful feet. Jeremy Renner's arms. Eyes of any color, from ordinary to ridiculously exotic. Long flappy leather coats. Elaborate clothing with ribbons and complicated ties. Masquerade balls. Carnival masks. Venice and fantasy cities with canals. Passionate sex up against the wall. Corsets. Half-clothed sex. People really getting into each others' bodies. Writing on bodies.
Quiet men with still waters running deep, like Le Guin's Ged. Wizards, artists, craftspeople, medics, soldiers and warriors, chefs, musicians, DJs, dancers, acrobats, pilots, martial artists, physical and psychotherapists. Really determined people. Happy people, especially when they have not had easy lives. People with scars or disabilities, mental or physical. Found families. Friendship. Misfits finding a home. People who love their jobs, especially if they're not very glamorous. Telepathic animals. Rats. People with beautiful wings. Myth and folklore. Nicknames, formalized or not. Shapeshifters. PTSD. Hard-earned happy endings. Loyalty against all odds. Lovers on opposite sides of a war. Conflicts of honor.
Settings where everything is lush and beautiful. Settings where everything is trying to eat you. (Or both!) Deserts. Lush forests. Big bustling cities, Hostage or imprisonment scenarios. Desperate last stands. Clever escapes. Con artists. DRAGONS. Portals. Wish-fulfillment that's earned. Mist. Mountains. Journeys, into the known or the unknown. Ships or portals that will take you somewhere, who knows where, or make you vanish forever. Space explorers. Space Marines. Trapped in an evil lab. Psychic kids (or adults.) People with powers who aren't costumed superheroes. Boarding schools. Boot camp. Riding anything. Dragon hatching, cub bonding - anything where people bond with animals, that is my favorite thing ever.
I am pretty much un-triggerable by written fiction, so don't even worry about that. I don't like character-bashing, and depressing endings are out. However, bittersweet or heroic last stands or that sort of thing are fine - I don't mind crying because I'm moved. Stories about healing might make me cry, but also in a good way.
Don't worry about writing stuff that may hit too close to home right now. My squicks and do not wants are the same as they've always been: vomit and other detailed gross descriptions, most incest (canon incest is fine), cement truck denouements, a general air of misery, cancer, brain damage, radiation sickness and nuclear war (generations post-war is fine), and most baby or pregnancy-centered stories. (Puppies or alien lizard babies are fine.)
Any fandom I've ever mentioned is still good. I would still enjoy stories in anything I've ever prompted for Yuletide.
If you know of a fandom I haven't mentioned and want a prompt, ask me! I will give you some unless I don't know it.
I know this is generally considered wildly gauche at best but who cares. Anything anyone writes based on anything I wrote would thrill me to bits. I am happy to provide prompts upon request, but seriously… ANYTHING. Crack ships, in SPAAACE AUs, whatever.
Fandoms I am currently into: Everything I've ever nominated for Yuletide, Earthsea, The Dispossessed, Rocannon's World (Basically anything Le Guin), The Martian (movie), X-Men comics (preferred), X-Men (first two movies), Blade Runner, Leverage, Penny Dreadful, Modesty Blaise, Watership Down, Fire Dancer, The Rifter, Peter Wimsey, George R R Martin's early space opera stories, MacDonald's The Golden Key, The Steerswoman, early Young Wizards books, The Tale of the Five, Diane Duane's Star Trek, Northwest Smith, Jirel of Joiry, Ki and Vandien, Locke Lamorra, Suzanne Brackmann's Troubleshooters, Captive Prince (as of the second book, when they're no longer antagonistic), anything Neil Gaiman (Sandman! Stardust's faerie market! Whatever happened to Anesthesia?), early Pern (pre-White Dragon), Cherryh's Finisterre, Cyteen, The Stand, Dreamsnake, Caught in Crystal, Saiyuki, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Mushishi, Gundam Wing, Dick Francis, Alien and Aliens, Temeraire, Attack on Titan, Darkchild, Baahubali, Jane Yolen's Sister Light, Sister Dark, Star Trek original series, Sharpe (movies), The Dark is Rising, Narnia, Hornblower (movies), every Barbara Hambly series ever, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dragonlance even, am I the only one who wants Laurana/Kitiara or Raistlin/Laurana or Raistlin/Kitiara, Prydain, Midnighters, Tillerman Cycle, Mad Max Fury Road, McKinley's Damar or Sunshine, Enid Blyton's boarding school books, and many more I'm just not thinking of.
I would enjoy anything in any of those. I always enjoy gen, but am often a multi shipper. If you'd like a prompt for any of them, just ask.
Original stories: Yes! I love them!
I am not naming the original works of anyone on my f-list because awkward, but if anyone wanted to write me something, you undoubtedly know what I love and I would love whatever you wrote. I could also provide prompts.