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Thank you for writing for me! If you have any questions, please check with the mods. I am a very easy recipient and will be delighted with whatever you write for me. I have no special requirements beyond what's specifically stated in my DNWs. I'm fine with all POVs (i.e., first, second, third), tenses, ratings, story lengths, unusual formats, etc.
My AO3 name is Edonohana. I am open to treats. Very open. I love them.
I like hurt-comfort, action/adventure, horror, domestic life, worldbuilding, evocative descriptions, camaraderie, loyalty, trauma recovery, difficult choices, survival situations, mysterious places and weird alien technology, food, plants, animals, landscape, X-Men type powers, learning to love again or trust again or enjoy life again, miniature things or beings, magic, strange rituals, unknowable things, epistolary fiction/found footage/art described in fiction. And many other things, too, of course! That list is just in case something sparks an idea.
General DNWs: issuefic (preachiness; stories whose main point is some kind of political/social issue)| real-life current political figures | child/adult sex (referencing canonical child abuse is fine) | covid-19 (other pandemics are fine)| spanking and infantilization | unrequested change-the-setting AUs (canon divergence, time loops, etc are fine) | non-canonical human pregnancy or human babies; heavy focus on canonical human pregnancy or human babies (older children & non-human babies are fine) | real-life brain damage and dementia (fiction-style amnesia, etc is fine) | real-life terminal illnesses like cancer (fictional terminal illnesses are fine) | anything more than a brief mention of bodily wastes (blood, sweat, and tears are fine) | death of requested characters or any characters who don't die in canon, unless I specifically say that's okay for the canon.
Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
Eilonwy
Canon-specific DNW: Sexism directed at Eilonwy. People can be mean to or underestimate her because she's young or seems scatterbrained, but not because she's a girl.
This is one of my favorite series, along with Alexander's Westmark trilogy. If you like you can find my reviews of the books tagged alphabetically by author. I love the characters - all the characters, so feel free to include anyone you want.
I'd love to see Eilonwy get a her-specific test or quest, whether it's an epic adventure or something seemingly small with larger implications. Other than when she first helped Taran escape Spiral Castle, the times where the story most focused on her also had her unconscious or enchanted; her best moments were more off to the side of the main plot. I love the way she thinks and talks, how her mind goes in such unexpected directions to make unexpectedly wise or clever connections, and how forthright and practical she is. I'd like to see her get to shine, whether in a dark night of the soul or in a more lighthearted adventure. Maybe, like Taran, she could try out a job or a craft?
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Serret, Tenar, Yarrow
Canon-specific DNW: Fic set during the period that Tenar is married to Flint.
DNW exception: I'm fine with Serret dying in the story.
I love all the characters in the tag set and would be happy with any of them making an appearance.
I love the dragons as they were portrayed in the earlier books, the songs and poems and stories, the day-to-day tasks, the magic, the herblore and animals. For Yarrow and Serret, I'd prefer a story set earlier in canon, before The Farthest Shore. For Tenar, any time before The Other Wind is fine.
I'd be equally happy with 1000 words of Yarrow and her family or Tenar and her family eating breakfast, or a whole AU of Serret escaping with Ged and them having to deal with each other, or anything in between. I love the coziness of the series, but I also love its horror aspects - parts of A Wizard of Earthsea are outright terrifying. Obviously this goes much more for a story about Serret or Tenar, but I also think Yarrow having to face some dark magic would be really interesting so long as she ends up fine.
Serret and Tenar were both raised for a terrible purpose and trapped with dark powers and doing cruel things, but Tenar escaped and Serret didn't. I'm very taken with the idea of them meeting. What if Serret's gull had been a little faster? Would she have stayed with Ged for a while, or flown farther, maybe as far as the Tombs of Atuan? Or if she'd lived, might she have come questing to the Tombs later?
Similarly, I really wanted Tenar and Yarrow to meet. They both come from small communities, Tenar's barren but filled with power, Yarrow's domestic and filled with life. Tenar might have found that a refuge, if she'd gone there instead of to Gont. Plus I bet she'd like the harekki. And both of them ended up with daughters - I'd love to see them meeting as middle-aged women.
For Yarrow solo, maybe she comes along on one of Vetch's ordinary wizard jobs. Or maybe Ged visits her, either when she's still a girl or when she's a woman with three daughters. He says she's wise; maybe he has a non-magical problem he wants to talk to her about, like some issue with a student on Roke. And how did he end up telling her his true name? I'd also like seeing her just going about her ordinary life, in any time period.
For Tenar solo, I'd be happy with a snippet of her life as Arha, or her post-Farthest Shore life with Ged, or an AU where she and Ged didn't part, or where she did literally anything but marry Flint. Or an AU where Tehanu isn't a dragon even if she does have magical power, and Tenar and Ged raise her to come into herself as a human woman.
For Serret solo, her parts of A Wizard of Earthsea were fucking creepy and I loved it. More creepiness please! Give me a conversation with the Stone! Or, a little worldbuilding on WTF was even going on in Osskil. If Serret's mother was an enchantress, she learned that somewhere that wasn't Roke and seemed a big step above village witches.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick
DNW exception: It's fine for anyone but Jane to die in this story.
I would be thrilled with anything set in this world. Melanchthon is wonderfully horrible, and I love the meryons and Monkey and all the weird faerie beings. In the novel, all the fae are European-based, but the setting also feels very American. So feel free to use beings and lore from anywhere you like.
Of the canon characters, I adore Jane and also the Jane/Tetigistus/Kunosaura trio. I used their true names as I'd be happy with any incarnation of Tetigistus and Kunosoura, including the implied ones on Earth or new ones in Faerie that we didn't see in the book, like if Jane lasted longer in Faerie, and met them again in Faerie academia where they're all professors, or Faerie suburbia where she's having a midlife crisis, or in a noir version where Kunosaura is the dame and Tetigistus is the patsy and Jane is the ambivalent detective.
Feel free to make up their names if they don't have canon ones. Once they're not in the rigged game of Faerie, can Jane, Tetigistus, and Kunosoura have a less doomed and tragic relationship? Doom and tragedy is fine too! I'd be delighted with any bittersweet, heartwrenching, and/or kinky moment between the three of them in their canon incarnations. (Can these three crazy kids please have a threesome?)
For Jane solo, I would love to see her dealing with any of the bizarre, dream-logic, modern life meets folklore inhabitants or places of Faerie. I'm especially partial to her high school and college timelines.
Or you could leave out all of them, and just show me some other area of Faerie. We saw a Faerie factory, high school, college, and high society; what about a Faerie restaurant, art scene, heist, military at a lower level than Jane saw, or soul-sucking suburbia?
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: The House, Sylvia D'Agostino
Canon-specific DNW: Sylvia D'Agostino in the clutches of Laurence Arne-Sayles for the entire story.
I also love Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorensen and Sixteen | Sarah Raphael and would be happy with any of them also appearing.
This is an incredibly beautiful book. I'd like something that captures some of its beauty, mystery, danger, and bittersweet joy. The House is an amazing and infinite creation. For a House-focused story, I'd be completely happy with 1000 words of the narrator exploring the House at any point in his life other than when he was totally despairing, or bringing James Ritter to it, or Sarah Raphael exploring the House, or some original character exploring the House, or a character from one of my other requests exploring the House... you get the picture.
Don't feel like you have to stick with the specific mythological imagery seen in Piranesi - I imagine that the House appears different depending on what the characters are familiar with, so some people encounter statues of minotaurs and fauns, while others might find nagas and apsaras.
Sylvia D'Agostino is so intriguing from the brief, off-page glimpses we get of her. I would of course love to see what actually happened to her. I'm okay with the idea that she's one of the skeletons but if so, I'd like it be for some reason other than Arne-Sayles trapped her there and she died - all else aside, she could travel so easily that she could have just left.
Did she deliberately choose to lose her memories and exist in the House as some new person? If so, did she do it to escape trauma or because she loved it so much or because she hoped to create art from her experience? Is more of her art floating around somewhere, maybe from after she disappeared - maybe from another world entirely? I'd enjoy a story in the form of an article or review or some such where it's discovered, with hints of an unseen other story around the edges. Or did she escape Arne-Sayles' clutches entirely and has been living her life elsewhere, maybe periodically visiting some other part of the House than the one Piranesi explored; it is, after all, apparently infinite. Or maybe she and Piranesi did meet, and he forgot. Or she didn't go to the House at all, and went to some other world - we know there's many, maybe an infinite number.
The Stand - Stephen King
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Fran Goldsmith, Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, Randall Flagg.
Canon-specific DNW: Nadine ending as an incubator for Flagg's baby.
Exceptions to general DNWs: Death of canon and/or requested characters is fine for this canon. Including Fran's pregnancy is fine but I'd prefer it to not be the main focus of the story. Flagg being his canonical rapey self is totally fine, but please no sexual assault committed or threatened by anyone else.
I love all the book characters, so feel free to include anyone. I love snippets of life in Vegas or Boulder, or ominous pre-plague presentiments, or lost moments post-plague on the road. I regret that Frannie never got to directly confront Flagg and would love to see that, especially if it was related more to her as a person than to her baby. I LOVE Flagg generally wreaking havoc, whether before or during the book. I always enjoy canon-divergence AUs for this canon - feel free to have Flagg court Larry as a demon lover, give Frannie or Nadine or Larry a different traveling companion, or do a Groundhog Day on the last day in Vegas.
I'd also love to see a canon AU or lost moment where any of them stumble into a genre horror situation, like a haunted house or the remnants of the Shop still doing experiments. Or an unclassifiably creepy incident, like Stu's story about Jim Morrison. There's tons of on-the-road wandering through creepy, deserted, body-littered America where they can have creepy incidents.
"Pre-plague life with creepy Flagg appearance" is always a favorite of mine and I'd enjoy it for Nadine and Larry. Nadine's Ouija board is one of my favorite scenes and I'd love more of him fucking with her, or of her making different choices or getting the better of him. For Larry, I always enjoy him getting courted/fucked with by Flagg, or a glimpse of his time with the Tattered Remnants. Or just a bit of a scene of any of them surviving on the road or at any time in the book would be great.
For Flagg, please give me him fucking with people, from this book or not, in any period. I love how awful and weirdly unmoored he is, how he can give people real gifts based on real understanding of their characters like luring Lloyd with trust and responsibility, what an utter chaos machine he was pre-plague, and his totalitarian Las Vegas.
Watership Down - Richard Adams
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Black Rabbit of Inlé, El-Ahrairah, Hyzenthlay, Silverweed.
I have an exception for my DNW of requested characters dying for this canon. It's fine in the context of the existence of the rabbit afterlife, like El-Ahrairah showing up for Hyzenthlay at the end of a long, good life.
I love all the characters in the tag set and the book, and would be happy with appearances from any of them.
I am fascinated by Silverweed's utterly creepy warren and by Silverweed himself and how he deals with his warren's embrace of random death by transforming it into beautiful poetry in praise of death. What's it like to be him, and watch rabbits he know disappearing with no one allowed to speak of it, and be praised for portraying it as right and beautiful? Does he get a wake-up call after death, or before, or never? Might he unexpectedly show up at Watership Down, or at Efrafa?
What are rabbit stories like in his warren? I'd love a story in the style of the ones in the book, but teaching its values instead of the traditional ones. (Maybe listening to those is how he and others got to be how they are.)
On that note, I would love a rabbit story about the Black Rabbit of Inlé or El-Ahrairah, ideally with a frame story of who's telling it, to whom, and why.
For Hyzenthlay, I just love her and I'd like a story where she gets to have an adventure or go on a farm raid or uses her seer ability to help the warren post-Efrafa, or just gets to enjoy the freedom of Watership Down. Or a story from within Efrafa, when she's organizing the does and Blackavar.
My AO3 name is Edonohana. I am open to treats. Very open. I love them.
I like hurt-comfort, action/adventure, horror, domestic life, worldbuilding, evocative descriptions, camaraderie, loyalty, trauma recovery, difficult choices, survival situations, mysterious places and weird alien technology, food, plants, animals, landscape, X-Men type powers, learning to love again or trust again or enjoy life again, miniature things or beings, magic, strange rituals, unknowable things, epistolary fiction/found footage/art described in fiction. And many other things, too, of course! That list is just in case something sparks an idea.
General DNWs: issuefic (preachiness; stories whose main point is some kind of political/social issue)| real-life current political figures | child/adult sex (referencing canonical child abuse is fine) | covid-19 (other pandemics are fine)| spanking and infantilization | unrequested change-the-setting AUs (canon divergence, time loops, etc are fine) | non-canonical human pregnancy or human babies; heavy focus on canonical human pregnancy or human babies (older children & non-human babies are fine) | real-life brain damage and dementia (fiction-style amnesia, etc is fine) | real-life terminal illnesses like cancer (fictional terminal illnesses are fine) | anything more than a brief mention of bodily wastes (blood, sweat, and tears are fine) | death of requested characters or any characters who don't die in canon, unless I specifically say that's okay for the canon.
Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
Eilonwy
Canon-specific DNW: Sexism directed at Eilonwy. People can be mean to or underestimate her because she's young or seems scatterbrained, but not because she's a girl.
This is one of my favorite series, along with Alexander's Westmark trilogy. If you like you can find my reviews of the books tagged alphabetically by author. I love the characters - all the characters, so feel free to include anyone you want.
I'd love to see Eilonwy get a her-specific test or quest, whether it's an epic adventure or something seemingly small with larger implications. Other than when she first helped Taran escape Spiral Castle, the times where the story most focused on her also had her unconscious or enchanted; her best moments were more off to the side of the main plot. I love the way she thinks and talks, how her mind goes in such unexpected directions to make unexpectedly wise or clever connections, and how forthright and practical she is. I'd like to see her get to shine, whether in a dark night of the soul or in a more lighthearted adventure. Maybe, like Taran, she could try out a job or a craft?
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Serret, Tenar, Yarrow
Canon-specific DNW: Fic set during the period that Tenar is married to Flint.
DNW exception: I'm fine with Serret dying in the story.
I love all the characters in the tag set and would be happy with any of them making an appearance.
I love the dragons as they were portrayed in the earlier books, the songs and poems and stories, the day-to-day tasks, the magic, the herblore and animals. For Yarrow and Serret, I'd prefer a story set earlier in canon, before The Farthest Shore. For Tenar, any time before The Other Wind is fine.
I'd be equally happy with 1000 words of Yarrow and her family or Tenar and her family eating breakfast, or a whole AU of Serret escaping with Ged and them having to deal with each other, or anything in between. I love the coziness of the series, but I also love its horror aspects - parts of A Wizard of Earthsea are outright terrifying. Obviously this goes much more for a story about Serret or Tenar, but I also think Yarrow having to face some dark magic would be really interesting so long as she ends up fine.
Serret and Tenar were both raised for a terrible purpose and trapped with dark powers and doing cruel things, but Tenar escaped and Serret didn't. I'm very taken with the idea of them meeting. What if Serret's gull had been a little faster? Would she have stayed with Ged for a while, or flown farther, maybe as far as the Tombs of Atuan? Or if she'd lived, might she have come questing to the Tombs later?
Similarly, I really wanted Tenar and Yarrow to meet. They both come from small communities, Tenar's barren but filled with power, Yarrow's domestic and filled with life. Tenar might have found that a refuge, if she'd gone there instead of to Gont. Plus I bet she'd like the harekki. And both of them ended up with daughters - I'd love to see them meeting as middle-aged women.
For Yarrow solo, maybe she comes along on one of Vetch's ordinary wizard jobs. Or maybe Ged visits her, either when she's still a girl or when she's a woman with three daughters. He says she's wise; maybe he has a non-magical problem he wants to talk to her about, like some issue with a student on Roke. And how did he end up telling her his true name? I'd also like seeing her just going about her ordinary life, in any time period.
For Tenar solo, I'd be happy with a snippet of her life as Arha, or her post-Farthest Shore life with Ged, or an AU where she and Ged didn't part, or where she did literally anything but marry Flint. Or an AU where Tehanu isn't a dragon even if she does have magical power, and Tenar and Ged raise her to come into herself as a human woman.
For Serret solo, her parts of A Wizard of Earthsea were fucking creepy and I loved it. More creepiness please! Give me a conversation with the Stone! Or, a little worldbuilding on WTF was even going on in Osskil. If Serret's mother was an enchantress, she learned that somewhere that wasn't Roke and seemed a big step above village witches.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick
DNW exception: It's fine for anyone but Jane to die in this story.
I would be thrilled with anything set in this world. Melanchthon is wonderfully horrible, and I love the meryons and Monkey and all the weird faerie beings. In the novel, all the fae are European-based, but the setting also feels very American. So feel free to use beings and lore from anywhere you like.
Of the canon characters, I adore Jane and also the Jane/Tetigistus/Kunosaura trio. I used their true names as I'd be happy with any incarnation of Tetigistus and Kunosoura, including the implied ones on Earth or new ones in Faerie that we didn't see in the book, like if Jane lasted longer in Faerie, and met them again in Faerie academia where they're all professors, or Faerie suburbia where she's having a midlife crisis, or in a noir version where Kunosaura is the dame and Tetigistus is the patsy and Jane is the ambivalent detective.
Feel free to make up their names if they don't have canon ones. Once they're not in the rigged game of Faerie, can Jane, Tetigistus, and Kunosoura have a less doomed and tragic relationship? Doom and tragedy is fine too! I'd be delighted with any bittersweet, heartwrenching, and/or kinky moment between the three of them in their canon incarnations. (Can these three crazy kids please have a threesome?)
For Jane solo, I would love to see her dealing with any of the bizarre, dream-logic, modern life meets folklore inhabitants or places of Faerie. I'm especially partial to her high school and college timelines.
Or you could leave out all of them, and just show me some other area of Faerie. We saw a Faerie factory, high school, college, and high society; what about a Faerie restaurant, art scene, heist, military at a lower level than Jane saw, or soul-sucking suburbia?
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: The House, Sylvia D'Agostino
Canon-specific DNW: Sylvia D'Agostino in the clutches of Laurence Arne-Sayles for the entire story.
I also love Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorensen and Sixteen | Sarah Raphael and would be happy with any of them also appearing.
This is an incredibly beautiful book. I'd like something that captures some of its beauty, mystery, danger, and bittersweet joy. The House is an amazing and infinite creation. For a House-focused story, I'd be completely happy with 1000 words of the narrator exploring the House at any point in his life other than when he was totally despairing, or bringing James Ritter to it, or Sarah Raphael exploring the House, or some original character exploring the House, or a character from one of my other requests exploring the House... you get the picture.
Don't feel like you have to stick with the specific mythological imagery seen in Piranesi - I imagine that the House appears different depending on what the characters are familiar with, so some people encounter statues of minotaurs and fauns, while others might find nagas and apsaras.
Sylvia D'Agostino is so intriguing from the brief, off-page glimpses we get of her. I would of course love to see what actually happened to her. I'm okay with the idea that she's one of the skeletons but if so, I'd like it be for some reason other than Arne-Sayles trapped her there and she died - all else aside, she could travel so easily that she could have just left.
Did she deliberately choose to lose her memories and exist in the House as some new person? If so, did she do it to escape trauma or because she loved it so much or because she hoped to create art from her experience? Is more of her art floating around somewhere, maybe from after she disappeared - maybe from another world entirely? I'd enjoy a story in the form of an article or review or some such where it's discovered, with hints of an unseen other story around the edges. Or did she escape Arne-Sayles' clutches entirely and has been living her life elsewhere, maybe periodically visiting some other part of the House than the one Piranesi explored; it is, after all, apparently infinite. Or maybe she and Piranesi did meet, and he forgot. Or she didn't go to the House at all, and went to some other world - we know there's many, maybe an infinite number.
The Stand - Stephen King
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Fran Goldsmith, Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, Randall Flagg.
Canon-specific DNW: Nadine ending as an incubator for Flagg's baby.
Exceptions to general DNWs: Death of canon and/or requested characters is fine for this canon. Including Fran's pregnancy is fine but I'd prefer it to not be the main focus of the story. Flagg being his canonical rapey self is totally fine, but please no sexual assault committed or threatened by anyone else.
I love all the book characters, so feel free to include anyone. I love snippets of life in Vegas or Boulder, or ominous pre-plague presentiments, or lost moments post-plague on the road. I regret that Frannie never got to directly confront Flagg and would love to see that, especially if it was related more to her as a person than to her baby. I LOVE Flagg generally wreaking havoc, whether before or during the book. I always enjoy canon-divergence AUs for this canon - feel free to have Flagg court Larry as a demon lover, give Frannie or Nadine or Larry a different traveling companion, or do a Groundhog Day on the last day in Vegas.
I'd also love to see a canon AU or lost moment where any of them stumble into a genre horror situation, like a haunted house or the remnants of the Shop still doing experiments. Or an unclassifiably creepy incident, like Stu's story about Jim Morrison. There's tons of on-the-road wandering through creepy, deserted, body-littered America where they can have creepy incidents.
"Pre-plague life with creepy Flagg appearance" is always a favorite of mine and I'd enjoy it for Nadine and Larry. Nadine's Ouija board is one of my favorite scenes and I'd love more of him fucking with her, or of her making different choices or getting the better of him. For Larry, I always enjoy him getting courted/fucked with by Flagg, or a glimpse of his time with the Tattered Remnants. Or just a bit of a scene of any of them surviving on the road or at any time in the book would be great.
For Flagg, please give me him fucking with people, from this book or not, in any period. I love how awful and weirdly unmoored he is, how he can give people real gifts based on real understanding of their characters like luring Lloyd with trust and responsibility, what an utter chaos machine he was pre-plague, and his totalitarian Las Vegas.
Watership Down - Richard Adams
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)
Characters: Black Rabbit of Inlé, El-Ahrairah, Hyzenthlay, Silverweed.
I have an exception for my DNW of requested characters dying for this canon. It's fine in the context of the existence of the rabbit afterlife, like El-Ahrairah showing up for Hyzenthlay at the end of a long, good life.
I love all the characters in the tag set and the book, and would be happy with appearances from any of them.
I am fascinated by Silverweed's utterly creepy warren and by Silverweed himself and how he deals with his warren's embrace of random death by transforming it into beautiful poetry in praise of death. What's it like to be him, and watch rabbits he know disappearing with no one allowed to speak of it, and be praised for portraying it as right and beautiful? Does he get a wake-up call after death, or before, or never? Might he unexpectedly show up at Watership Down, or at Efrafa?
What are rabbit stories like in his warren? I'd love a story in the style of the ones in the book, but teaching its values instead of the traditional ones. (Maybe listening to those is how he and others got to be how they are.)
On that note, I would love a rabbit story about the Black Rabbit of Inlé or El-Ahrairah, ideally with a frame story of who's telling it, to whom, and why.
For Hyzenthlay, I just love her and I'd like a story where she gets to have an adventure or go on a farm raid or uses her seer ability to help the warren post-Efrafa, or just gets to enjoy the freedom of Watership Down. Or a story from within Efrafa, when she's organizing the does and Blackavar.
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