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eatdrinkmakemerry is running again! It's a low-commitment multifandom exchange celebrating food and drink. Check it out!Tags:
eatdrinkmakemerry is running again! It's a low-commitment multifandom exchange celebrating food and drink. Check it out!sufficiently_advanced_ex is an exchange for book canons only. The tag set is great, with lots of both popular and very obscure books, from Adrian Tchaikovsky to Nnedi Okorafor to C. L. Moore to Daryl Gregory to Stephen King to Stephen Graham Jones.I will be signing up as soon as I get my letter together and I hope some of you will join me.Tags:
In case anyone missed it, this is a public service announcement to inform you that Chocolate Box is not running this year. Instead, there is a substitute, this-year-only exchange, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
candyheartsex. It's identical to Chocolate Box, except that you have the option of requesting only one fandom. (Chocolate Box had a three-fandom minimum.)
CandyHeartsEx, like Chocolate Box, is a relationship-based fic and art exchange for any type of relationship - romantic, friends, enemies, etc - with a 300 word or one sketch minimum.
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up. The tag set is huge, the minimum is tiny, and it's the biggest exchange after Yuletide. It's also the last exchange I'll be doing for a while as I need to focus on my original writing, so if you want me to write for you, this is your chance.
candyheartsex. It's identical to Chocolate Box, except that you have the option of requesting only one fandom. (Chocolate Box had a three-fandom minimum.)CandyHeartsEx, like Chocolate Box, is a relationship-based fic and art exchange for any type of relationship - romantic, friends, enemies, etc - with a 300 word or one sketch minimum.
Tomorrow is the last day to sign up. The tag set is huge, the minimum is tiny, and it's the biggest exchange after Yuletide. It's also the last exchange I'll be doing for a while as I need to focus on my original writing, so if you want me to write for you, this is your chance.
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Chocolate Box is not running this year, but a this-year-only exchange has popped up as a replacement, candyheartsex. It is taking nominations now.
It's for art, fanfic, and original art/fic. It has a very short word count minimum - 300 words. It is a relationship-based exchange, so all requests must be for more than one character. The relationship can be romantic, friendship, enemies, or anything else.
It has the same rules as Chocolate Box, with one notable exception: you can request as few as one fandom if you like. So if you for instance, only want Biggles, or only want Biggles or Worrals, you can request only that. (However, if you do that and end up on the pinch hit list and nobody claims your request, and you are not willing to add more, the mods won't hold up the collection opening till you get a gift.)
This will be the last exchange I will do until I finish a non-fanfic novel. So if you want to have me write fic for you or to write fic for me in an exchange, this will be your last chance for a while.
The tag set is still taking nominations, but it's looking good so far! I see...
Biggles, with 12 sets of characters.
Worrals, with Worrals/Frecks and Worrals & Frecks.
Arthuriana under Arthurian Mythology and Phyllis Ann Karr's Idylls of the Queen (Kay/Mordred!) but no listings yet for Mary Stewart, Elizabeth Wein, T. H. White, or Aster Glenn Gray. YET.
The Tillerman Cycle, with 7 pairings.
Earthsea, with 10.
TV show nominations include The Leftovers, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Punisher (under Defenders), The Wilds, 陈情令 | The Untamed, and 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire
And finally, I spotted this unexpected nomination:
The Chronicles of Prydain, with a single pairing of... Gwydion/Melyngar. His wife? A horse.
candyheartsex. It is taking nominations now. It's for art, fanfic, and original art/fic. It has a very short word count minimum - 300 words. It is a relationship-based exchange, so all requests must be for more than one character. The relationship can be romantic, friendship, enemies, or anything else.
It has the same rules as Chocolate Box, with one notable exception: you can request as few as one fandom if you like. So if you for instance, only want Biggles, or only want Biggles or Worrals, you can request only that. (However, if you do that and end up on the pinch hit list and nobody claims your request, and you are not willing to add more, the mods won't hold up the collection opening till you get a gift.)
This will be the last exchange I will do until I finish a non-fanfic novel. So if you want to have me write fic for you or to write fic for me in an exchange, this will be your last chance for a while.
The tag set is still taking nominations, but it's looking good so far! I see...
Biggles, with 12 sets of characters.
Worrals, with Worrals/Frecks and Worrals & Frecks.
Arthuriana under Arthurian Mythology and Phyllis Ann Karr's Idylls of the Queen (Kay/Mordred!) but no listings yet for Mary Stewart, Elizabeth Wein, T. H. White, or Aster Glenn Gray. YET.
The Tillerman Cycle, with 7 pairings.
Earthsea, with 10.
TV show nominations include The Leftovers, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Punisher (under Defenders), The Wilds, 陈情令 | The Untamed, and 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire
And finally, I spotted this unexpected nomination:
The Chronicles of Prydain, with a single pairing of... Gwydion/Melyngar. His wife? A horse.
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Fic in a Box is open!
Or should I call it Biggles in a Box? Because there are EIGHTEEN Biggles stories in the collection!
I have not yet read them all (though I will!), but all that I have read are great. If you like Biggles, go forth and read!
If you don't like Biggles or like other things in addition to Biggles, the collection is a gold mine of delightful things. It's not limited to fic, so there's comics, cocktail recipes, cross-stitch patterns, and other charming things.
I wrote eight stories for the collection. At least one is Biggles, unsurprisingly. They are not all Biggles. See if you can spot them!
My marvelous gifts:
Bread at Midnight. Two beautiful and adorable pictures based on my Pern story "Cakes at Midnight." Menolly and Mirrim bake bread; their fire lizards help.
Lifeline. A truly epic story in which Biggles can see ghosts and Sakhalin is LITERALLY a hellhole.
Biggles often saw ghosts. Men he'd flown with and seen shot down in flames, crossing the street a few yards away or sitting in the far corner of the Aero Club on their own. Pilots he'd last seen leaping off into space, checking the weather reports in the squadron office. Young mechanics who'd been in the wrong place during a bombing raid, polishing fuselage quietly in the corner of his eye.
Life calls the tune, we dance. A lovely canon AU in which a very Biggles-typical action leads to von Stalhein coming back with him earlier; this doesn't mean anything is easy for either of them.
At one point he had been lying propped up against von Stalhein. The sensory memory threw him. It had a touch of unreality to it; this wasn't something that could happen between him and Erich.
(Very funny that both my Biggles stories have titles beginning with "Life.")
Or should I call it Biggles in a Box? Because there are EIGHTEEN Biggles stories in the collection!
I have not yet read them all (though I will!), but all that I have read are great. If you like Biggles, go forth and read!
If you don't like Biggles or like other things in addition to Biggles, the collection is a gold mine of delightful things. It's not limited to fic, so there's comics, cocktail recipes, cross-stitch patterns, and other charming things.
I wrote eight stories for the collection. At least one is Biggles, unsurprisingly. They are not all Biggles. See if you can spot them!
My marvelous gifts:
Bread at Midnight. Two beautiful and adorable pictures based on my Pern story "Cakes at Midnight." Menolly and Mirrim bake bread; their fire lizards help.
Lifeline. A truly epic story in which Biggles can see ghosts and Sakhalin is LITERALLY a hellhole.
Biggles often saw ghosts. Men he'd flown with and seen shot down in flames, crossing the street a few yards away or sitting in the far corner of the Aero Club on their own. Pilots he'd last seen leaping off into space, checking the weather reports in the squadron office. Young mechanics who'd been in the wrong place during a bombing raid, polishing fuselage quietly in the corner of his eye.
Life calls the tune, we dance. A lovely canon AU in which a very Biggles-typical action leads to von Stalhein coming back with him earlier; this doesn't mean anything is easy for either of them.
At one point he had been lying propped up against von Stalhein. The sensory memory threw him. It had a touch of unreality to it; this wasn't something that could happen between him and Erich.
(Very funny that both my Biggles stories have titles beginning with "Life.")
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I wrote three treats for Trick or Treat.
Annihilation (Movie)
The Journey, for Rhizophora. 1366 words.
Lena explores the beach by the lighthouse.
The prompt was "I just want to see Lena exploring more of the Shimmer." Irresistible.
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Five Times Balerion Saved Rhaenys and One Time She Saved Him, for coaldustcanary. Balerion | Rhaenys Targaryen's Cat & Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Elia). 5153 words.
A butterfly flaps its wings, a kitten chases the butterfly, and a girl and her cat get a different destiny.
Rhaenys Targaryen was Elia and Rhaegar's daughter, who named her black kitten Balerion after the dragon. She was murdered as a child in the sack of King's Landing. It's implied that the huge ferocious black tomcat who prowls the keep is her Balerion, grown up; Arya catches him as part of her training. The prompt was for more of Balerion, and perhaps an alternate fate for Rhaenys.
The Stand and some other Stephen King works
Flagg by Night, forskazka. 748 words.
Randall Flagg takes a trip down memory lane.
Annihilation (Movie)
The Journey, for Rhizophora. 1366 words.
Lena explores the beach by the lighthouse.
The prompt was "I just want to see Lena exploring more of the Shimmer." Irresistible.
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Five Times Balerion Saved Rhaenys and One Time She Saved Him, for coaldustcanary. Balerion | Rhaenys Targaryen's Cat & Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Elia). 5153 words.
A butterfly flaps its wings, a kitten chases the butterfly, and a girl and her cat get a different destiny.
Rhaenys Targaryen was Elia and Rhaegar's daughter, who named her black kitten Balerion after the dragon. She was murdered as a child in the sack of King's Landing. It's implied that the huge ferocious black tomcat who prowls the keep is her Balerion, grown up; Arya catches him as part of her training. The prompt was for more of Balerion, and perhaps an alternate fate for Rhaenys.
The Stand and some other Stephen King works
Flagg by Night, for
skazka. 748 words. Randall Flagg takes a trip down memory lane.
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Some of these are my birthday gifts, some are from the Trick or Treat Collection, and some are just things I recently enjoyed. I hope you find something to enjoy too. If you do, please kudos or comment and make the creator happy.
(I did not sign up for Trick or Treat this year, but I did write three treats (can you guess which they are?) and I've been enjoying browsing the collection.)
(You will note a lack of Biggles. This is because I have enough Biggles fic recs for its own post.)
Art and Fic
Watership Down - Richard Adams. Rabbit-of-the-Moon, by Zdenka. 100 words + art. Silverweed dreams of the moon.
Art
There was a ton of art I loved in the Trick or Treat collection. To browse just the art, sort by wordcount and start at the end.
Star of the Ballet. In another universe, Degas paints darling gorilla girl ballerinas.
The Endless Halloween. Sandman TV. A lovely autumnal portrait of Death, in an outfit she would TOTALLY wear.
Ladies' Games. House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra/Alicent. A great example of how hot a scene can be when everyone is modestly clothed, seen from the waist up, and not doing anything overtly sexual.
a delightful family portrait and a study in badassitude. SPY X FAMILY. I don't know the show but the art is GREAT.
Similarly, I bounced off the Locked Tomb books but I still enjoyed this cool animation of Gideon and this lovely portrait of Nona.
Haircare. Alien vs. Predator. Continuing the theme of me living under a pop culture rock, I've never seen the movie but clearly you don't need to in order to enjoy this tender portrait of a Predator doing his beloved's hair.
Fic
Candyman (Original). the girl made of fire. 348 words. The stories they tell about Helen.
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin. tomorrow will not be too late, by victoria_p (musesfool). A beautiful look at Tenar through the years.
Original Works/Lovecraftiana. A pair of delightful Original Female Character/Eldritch Horror With Lots of Tentacles stories, both sweet and hilarious. In which Shoggoths have nothing on grad school and Roommates-to-lovers on Halloween.
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare. for always I am Caesar. 532 words. Gorgeously written.
Iron Fist. Pumpkin Problems. 991 words. Ward gets turned into a pumpkin. Need I say more?
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier. As Sank I Senseless by the Dreadful Shore. 1587 words. Absolutely pitch-perfect narrative voice, a chilling post-novel story.
The Sandman TV. A Place For One (Or Two). 852 words. A lovely and very cozy story about Dream and Lucienne's developing friendship.
The Stand - Stephen King. Cheap Thrills, by Maidenjedi. 1354 words. An unsettling, wistful look at one of my favorite pre-flu characters, Maria the Oral Hygienist.
(I did not sign up for Trick or Treat this year, but I did write three treats (can you guess which they are?) and I've been enjoying browsing the collection.)
(You will note a lack of Biggles. This is because I have enough Biggles fic recs for its own post.)
Art and Fic
Watership Down - Richard Adams. Rabbit-of-the-Moon, by Zdenka. 100 words + art. Silverweed dreams of the moon.
Art
There was a ton of art I loved in the Trick or Treat collection. To browse just the art, sort by wordcount and start at the end.
Star of the Ballet. In another universe, Degas paints darling gorilla girl ballerinas.
The Endless Halloween. Sandman TV. A lovely autumnal portrait of Death, in an outfit she would TOTALLY wear.
Ladies' Games. House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra/Alicent. A great example of how hot a scene can be when everyone is modestly clothed, seen from the waist up, and not doing anything overtly sexual.
a delightful family portrait and a study in badassitude. SPY X FAMILY. I don't know the show but the art is GREAT.
Similarly, I bounced off the Locked Tomb books but I still enjoyed this cool animation of Gideon and this lovely portrait of Nona.
Haircare. Alien vs. Predator. Continuing the theme of me living under a pop culture rock, I've never seen the movie but clearly you don't need to in order to enjoy this tender portrait of a Predator doing his beloved's hair.
Fic
Candyman (Original). the girl made of fire. 348 words. The stories they tell about Helen.
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin. tomorrow will not be too late, by victoria_p (musesfool). A beautiful look at Tenar through the years.
Original Works/Lovecraftiana. A pair of delightful Original Female Character/Eldritch Horror With Lots of Tentacles stories, both sweet and hilarious. In which Shoggoths have nothing on grad school and Roommates-to-lovers on Halloween.
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare. for always I am Caesar. 532 words. Gorgeously written.
Iron Fist. Pumpkin Problems. 991 words. Ward gets turned into a pumpkin. Need I say more?
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier. As Sank I Senseless by the Dreadful Shore. 1587 words. Absolutely pitch-perfect narrative voice, a chilling post-novel story.
The Sandman TV. A Place For One (Or Two). 852 words. A lovely and very cozy story about Dream and Lucienne's developing friendship.
The Stand - Stephen King. Cheap Thrills, by Maidenjedi. 1354 words. An unsettling, wistful look at one of my favorite pre-flu characters, Maria the Oral Hygienist.
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Multifandom Horror is open, and it's full of great stuff! It's been especially fun for me to go through the collection as I haven't had much fic-reading and art-viewing time for the last few months. Here's some recs.
Carrie - Stephen King .
Reunion. Sue hears stories about Carrie White. Amazingly versatile pastiche of many styles.
1982 was the first year any company made Carrie White masks for Halloween: rubbery pale flesh streaked with fake blood, long dishwater blonde wigs, and sparkly tiaras. Gore-spattered prom dresses sold separately.
The company rode out the outrage and—any publicity is good publicity—raked in the cash. By 1985, every major costume vendor had an equivalent, with some generic fig-leaf of a name like BLOODY PROM QUEEN or BAD PROM DATE.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Green Glass. The ka-tet tries traveling by boat. They shouldn't. One of my wonderful gifts! Beautifully written and extremely eerie.
The river lay low in its bed. Its current was lazy and gentle, like since there was only a little of it and it was sure where it was going, it didn’t really care how fast it got there.
Sometimes it would look so still that, out of the corner of their eyes, they’d almost think they saw their reflections in it. Always a little misshapen and discolored, warped and greened by the water, like they were seeing themselves on the curve of a glass Coke bottle.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
If You Get Lost. Sam, Bucky, and Zemo explore a forest that suddenly appeared overnight. They get considerably more than they bargained for. Great character development, great creeping horror, great dialogue. Bucky punches a tree.
“I’ve got wings that won’t have room to operate, and Bucky’s going to, what, stab a tree?"
Night Fishing. There's something killing people in the swamps behind Sam's childhood home. And he and Bucky are going on a hunting expedition. You can practically breathe the Gothic swamp atmosphere; unusual angle on Bucky and Sam as city boy/country boy. Bucky punches a swamp monster.
"Your neighbor has a harpoon gun just lying around?"
"Welcome to Louisiana."
Sharks! “Sharks?! There are sharks now??” What it says on the tin. Bucky punches a shark.
Bucky looked where Sam was looking and spotted a fin in the distance. It didn’t look that big to him, but he had to admit that he didn’t actually know anything about sharks and, specifically, their fin to body (or really, mouth) ratio.
Snap. Sam gets lost in a hall of mirrors. Unsettling, eerie, ambiguous. I think Bucky punches a mirror.
He struggled to reconcile the video, his own face spouting such hate filled garbage. “It’s gotta be fake. A deep fake? Or something.”
“Sure,” his therapist said, boots clacking as she walked around him in the filming studio and turned off the bright ring light. “But if it was you, and I’m just saying those dimples don’t lie, you probably had a good reason.”
Jurassic Park -
ART. The Queen's Crown. Clever girls always take trophies from their victories! Could not be more delightful.
Us (Movie)
stretch out your hand and take it The borders between who is who is always most porous at night. In the dark, they’re both shadows. One of my wonderful gifts! Beautifully written, intense, and epic-feeling in a short space.
Everything breakable in the tunnels was broken long ago. What remains is sturdy barrack furniture built for bomb raids and wire cages and scissors. The others down here have no idea how breakable the world up above is.
WandaVision
Syndication. In this week's episode, Wanda and Vision help the boys with their history homework, and Wanda worries about the quality of education they're getting. [Rerun.] Pitch-perfect sitcom dialogue, and grief and terror underneath. If you've seen the show, this is a must-read.
“You’re sure there’s no science fair project this year?” Vision said. He sounded disappointed. “Maybe a working model of the solar system? A clean energy source?” He added to Wanda, “I miss the days of dioramas. Small-scale matter manipulation… the smell of Play-Doh…”
The Wilds (TV)
ART. Haunted Even in the spa Gretchen keeps seeing Linh. It's getting harder and harder to remember that it's all just in her head. Haunted and haunting.
perilous in the wrong conditions Nora’s fight-or-flight response is triggered as Rachel’s life is endangered. Intense, well-characterized, beautiful imagery.
The pool had looked so big, and her sister so small all the way up there. The water below lying in wait for Rachel’s sacrifice.
And that's only from what I've had a chance to read! I haven't even started on Original Works, for instance.
What have you enjoyed in the collection so far?
Carrie - Stephen King .
Reunion. Sue hears stories about Carrie White. Amazingly versatile pastiche of many styles.
1982 was the first year any company made Carrie White masks for Halloween: rubbery pale flesh streaked with fake blood, long dishwater blonde wigs, and sparkly tiaras. Gore-spattered prom dresses sold separately.
The company rode out the outrage and—any publicity is good publicity—raked in the cash. By 1985, every major costume vendor had an equivalent, with some generic fig-leaf of a name like BLOODY PROM QUEEN or BAD PROM DATE.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Green Glass. The ka-tet tries traveling by boat. They shouldn't. One of my wonderful gifts! Beautifully written and extremely eerie.
The river lay low in its bed. Its current was lazy and gentle, like since there was only a little of it and it was sure where it was going, it didn’t really care how fast it got there.
Sometimes it would look so still that, out of the corner of their eyes, they’d almost think they saw their reflections in it. Always a little misshapen and discolored, warped and greened by the water, like they were seeing themselves on the curve of a glass Coke bottle.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
If You Get Lost. Sam, Bucky, and Zemo explore a forest that suddenly appeared overnight. They get considerably more than they bargained for. Great character development, great creeping horror, great dialogue. Bucky punches a tree.
“I’ve got wings that won’t have room to operate, and Bucky’s going to, what, stab a tree?"
Night Fishing. There's something killing people in the swamps behind Sam's childhood home. And he and Bucky are going on a hunting expedition. You can practically breathe the Gothic swamp atmosphere; unusual angle on Bucky and Sam as city boy/country boy. Bucky punches a swamp monster.
"Your neighbor has a harpoon gun just lying around?"
"Welcome to Louisiana."
Sharks! “Sharks?! There are sharks now??” What it says on the tin. Bucky punches a shark.
Bucky looked where Sam was looking and spotted a fin in the distance. It didn’t look that big to him, but he had to admit that he didn’t actually know anything about sharks and, specifically, their fin to body (or really, mouth) ratio.
Snap. Sam gets lost in a hall of mirrors. Unsettling, eerie, ambiguous. I think Bucky punches a mirror.
He struggled to reconcile the video, his own face spouting such hate filled garbage. “It’s gotta be fake. A deep fake? Or something.”
“Sure,” his therapist said, boots clacking as she walked around him in the filming studio and turned off the bright ring light. “But if it was you, and I’m just saying those dimples don’t lie, you probably had a good reason.”
Jurassic Park -
ART. The Queen's Crown. Clever girls always take trophies from their victories! Could not be more delightful.
Us (Movie)
stretch out your hand and take it The borders between who is who is always most porous at night. In the dark, they’re both shadows. One of my wonderful gifts! Beautifully written, intense, and epic-feeling in a short space.
Everything breakable in the tunnels was broken long ago. What remains is sturdy barrack furniture built for bomb raids and wire cages and scissors. The others down here have no idea how breakable the world up above is.
WandaVision
Syndication. In this week's episode, Wanda and Vision help the boys with their history homework, and Wanda worries about the quality of education they're getting. [Rerun.] Pitch-perfect sitcom dialogue, and grief and terror underneath. If you've seen the show, this is a must-read.
“You’re sure there’s no science fair project this year?” Vision said. He sounded disappointed. “Maybe a working model of the solar system? A clean energy source?” He added to Wanda, “I miss the days of dioramas. Small-scale matter manipulation… the smell of Play-Doh…”
The Wilds (TV)
ART. Haunted Even in the spa Gretchen keeps seeing Linh. It's getting harder and harder to remember that it's all just in her head. Haunted and haunting.
perilous in the wrong conditions Nora’s fight-or-flight response is triggered as Rachel’s life is endangered. Intense, well-characterized, beautiful imagery.
The pool had looked so big, and her sister so small all the way up there. The water below lying in wait for Rachel’s sacrifice.
And that's only from what I've had a chance to read! I haven't even started on Original Works, for instance.
What have you enjoyed in the collection so far?
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I'd like to lure more people into participating in the AU Exchange, for alternate universes!
Both canon divergence (What if Narnia isn't destroyed after Calormen wins? What if different characters survive the plague in The Stand?) and actual alternate universes (what if Edward II's Isabella had a dragon? What if the Jeeves & Bertie Wooster stories were set in space?) These are all actual tags, by the way.
You can select from available fandoms and types of alternate universes here in the tagset - the types of alternate universes are under "freeforms," sorted by ones specific to certain fandoms and ones that can be applied to any, labeled "ALL." So, for instance, you select Heian Jidai | Heian Period RPF as your fandom, Murasaki Shikibu/Sei Shonagon as your characters, and ALL: Noir AU or ALL: Character(s) forced into circus run by evil being as your AU. And so forth.
These are all also actual tags, by the way.
Here are a few intriguing alternate universe tags which you can request someone to write for you, or offer to write yourself:
ALL: Amateur theatre group AU
ALL: Character plays a game with Death in exchange for their/somebody else's life
ALL: Characters are soulbonded to psychic wolves
ALL: Characters Have Or Acquire Fire Lizards
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
ALL: Cube (1997) Fusion
ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed
ALL: Dinosaurs & Tropical-Type Climate & Flora Survived to Canon Time Period
ALL: Megafauna Survived To Canon Time Period
ALL: Everything is the Same but one Character is a Kitten
ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac
ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac on a spaceship
ALL: Finisterre (Cherryh Night Horses) Fusion
ALL: Female characters are the major players
ALL: Fuck/Marry/Kill Is Sometimes Magically Binding
ALL: Good Character Meets Their Evil Counterpart From Another Dimension (or Vice Versa)
ALL: Groundhog Day timeloop
ALL: Groundhog Peggy Sue
ALL: Possessed by time travelling future self
ALL: Magical Horticulturalists
ALL: Power Swap
ALL: Snowed in at a Haunted Hotel
ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches AU (Context.)
ALL: Tethered (Us) AU
ALL: The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) Fusion
ALL: With the right postage you can send letters anywhere anywhen
Dragonriders of Pern: Canon Dragon Colors Have Different Cultural Meanings
Dragonriders of Pern: Dragons Have Different Colors With Different Cultural Meanings
Marvel Comics: (Non-Empath) Hellions Join the New Mutants
Marvel Comics: Different Characters Trapped In Limbo
What tags are calling to you?
Both canon divergence (What if Narnia isn't destroyed after Calormen wins? What if different characters survive the plague in The Stand?) and actual alternate universes (what if Edward II's Isabella had a dragon? What if the Jeeves & Bertie Wooster stories were set in space?) These are all actual tags, by the way.
You can select from available fandoms and types of alternate universes here in the tagset - the types of alternate universes are under "freeforms," sorted by ones specific to certain fandoms and ones that can be applied to any, labeled "ALL." So, for instance, you select Heian Jidai | Heian Period RPF as your fandom, Murasaki Shikibu/Sei Shonagon as your characters, and ALL: Noir AU or ALL: Character(s) forced into circus run by evil being as your AU. And so forth.
These are all also actual tags, by the way.
Here are a few intriguing alternate universe tags which you can request someone to write for you, or offer to write yourself:
ALL: Amateur theatre group AU
ALL: Character plays a game with Death in exchange for their/somebody else's life
ALL: Characters are soulbonded to psychic wolves
ALL: Characters Have Or Acquire Fire Lizards
ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU
ALL: Cube (1997) Fusion
ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed
ALL: Dinosaurs & Tropical-Type Climate & Flora Survived to Canon Time Period
ALL: Megafauna Survived To Canon Time Period
ALL: Everything is the Same but one Character is a Kitten
ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac
ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac on a spaceship
ALL: Finisterre (Cherryh Night Horses) Fusion
ALL: Female characters are the major players
ALL: Fuck/Marry/Kill Is Sometimes Magically Binding
ALL: Good Character Meets Their Evil Counterpart From Another Dimension (or Vice Versa)
ALL: Groundhog Day timeloop
ALL: Groundhog Peggy Sue
ALL: Possessed by time travelling future self
ALL: Magical Horticulturalists
ALL: Power Swap
ALL: Snowed in at a Haunted Hotel
ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches AU (Context.)
ALL: Tethered (Us) AU
ALL: The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) Fusion
ALL: With the right postage you can send letters anywhere anywhen
Dragonriders of Pern: Canon Dragon Colors Have Different Cultural Meanings
Dragonriders of Pern: Dragons Have Different Colors With Different Cultural Meanings
Marvel Comics: (Non-Empath) Hellions Join the New Mutants
Marvel Comics: Different Characters Trapped In Limbo
What tags are calling to you?
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multifandomhorrorexchange is an exchange I think some of you would enjoy. It's for fic or art with horror elements, 1000 word minimum, and a really fun, extensive tag set which includes, among many other items of interest...Original Works
Space Pirate Crew Stranded in Uncharted Void with a Missing Captain and Broken Ship
Disaffected Young Lord Bed-ridden For the Summer/Creepy Butler
Madwoman in the Attic & Her Son Who Just Wants Revenge On Whoever Put Her In the Attic
Depressed Person & Mascot of the Cereal They Eat for Every Meal
Person & Super Intelligent Snail That Will Kill Them If It Touches Them
Clown Ghost & Evil Circus Owner Mistreating The Circus Performers
Stylish Goat-Headed Cult Leader
Books
Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Sellic Spell (never even heard of that before)
House of Leaves with pairings/characters including The House on Ash Tree Lane/Will Navidson, Johnny Truant/The Minotaur and The House On Ash Tree Lane
Gideon the Ninth
Stephen King's Dark Tower, IT, Carrie, The Stand, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Pet Sematary
Movies
Annihilation (really interesting set of pairings there)
2001 (Ditto, including Smart Man-Apes & Alien Monolith and Smart Man-Apes & Less Smart Man-Apes)
Veggie Tales
Sapphire and Steel
Lisa Frank Merchandise (Lisa Frank Cat With Rainbow Wings, Lisa Frank Rainbow Unicorn, and Lisa Frank Skye Pegasus.)
And much more!
Last year had some particularly excellent IT works, such as the art The Library for IT by seinmit and Always the Fire, a tense and eerie Mike Hanlon story by Miss_M.
Come on in! The water's fine. Until something grabs your ankle.
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I wrote four stories for Chocolate Box. Heed the tags!
Dragonlance. The Golden General's Captive. Kitiara/Laurana. 1354 words. She was the Golden General. Kitiara was her prisoner. It made no sense for Laurana to be afraid…
Dragonriders of Pern. The Rhythm of Wings. 1209 words. Menolly/Mirrim, Mirrim & Path. Mirrim and Menolly go flying.
The Stand - Stephen King. one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. 2977 words. Flagg rewards Lloyd for doing a good job.
Us (Movie). This Little Piggy Stayed Home. 402 words. Adelaide Wilson/Red. Addie's mother taught her nursery rhymes.
It's been an incredibly busy time and I read basically nothing other than my gift stories. But my gift stories were GREAT!
X-Men (Comics). Wayward Reflections bysheliak. 4432 words. Madelyne Pryor/Spiral, Madelyne Pryor/Rita Wayward. Madelyne Pryor never wants to be powerless again. To that end, she's willing to bargain with Spiral of the Wildways.
Original Works:
Herd of miniature flying horses & world-weary tough person: That's how the light gets in, by Silex. 3811 words.
Psychic Kids On The Run & Protective Sentient Location: Land of Shadows, by chiiyo86. 10,896 words.
Dragonlance. The Golden General's Captive. Kitiara/Laurana. 1354 words. She was the Golden General. Kitiara was her prisoner. It made no sense for Laurana to be afraid…
Dragonriders of Pern. The Rhythm of Wings. 1209 words. Menolly/Mirrim, Mirrim & Path. Mirrim and Menolly go flying.
The Stand - Stephen King. one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. 2977 words. Flagg rewards Lloyd for doing a good job.
Us (Movie). This Little Piggy Stayed Home. 402 words. Adelaide Wilson/Red. Addie's mother taught her nursery rhymes.
It's been an incredibly busy time and I read basically nothing other than my gift stories. But my gift stories were GREAT!
X-Men (Comics). Wayward Reflections by
sheliak. 4432 words. Madelyne Pryor/Spiral, Madelyne Pryor/Rita Wayward. Madelyne Pryor never wants to be powerless again. To that end, she's willing to bargain with Spiral of the Wildways.Original Works:
Herd of miniature flying horses & world-weary tough person: That's how the light gets in, by Silex. 3811 words.
Psychic Kids On The Run & Protective Sentient Location: Land of Shadows, by chiiyo86. 10,896 words.
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I am a very easy recipient so please don't stress over this. I adore AUs so I am easy to please.
I'm requesting fic for everything. But if anyone feels moved to give me an art treat, that would be delightful!
Feel free to use more than one prompt or combine prompts within fandom requests.
( General Likes. )
( General DNWs. )
( Dark Tower - Stephen King )
( The Leftovers (TV) )
( The Stand - Stephen King )
( Torchwood )
I'm requesting fic for everything. But if anyone feels moved to give me an art treat, that would be delightful!
Feel free to use more than one prompt or combine prompts within fandom requests.
( General Likes. )
( General DNWs. )
( Dark Tower - Stephen King )
( The Leftovers (TV) )
( The Stand - Stephen King )
( Torchwood )
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If you've been thinking of signing up for Eat, Drink, and Make Merry, today is the last day!
It's a low-pressure (500-word minimum for fic, a sketch on unlined paper for art) fanfic and original fiction exchange based on food and drink. Assignments are due July 19.
I think it will be extremely cheering and comforting to read about my favorite characters getting a good meal for once, having adventures with sourdough starter, or being faced with "these cans have no labels so dinner will be whatever is in them when we open them." Not to mention original fiction starring Caterer for the Dead/Ghost Planning Dead Day Party, Neolithic Beermaker/Neolithic Beer Aficionado, or Professional Chef Trying To Get Laid/Michelin Inspector Who Thinks He's Been Made.
Who's in?
It's a low-pressure (500-word minimum for fic, a sketch on unlined paper for art) fanfic and original fiction exchange based on food and drink. Assignments are due July 19.
I think it will be extremely cheering and comforting to read about my favorite characters getting a good meal for once, having adventures with sourdough starter, or being faced with "these cans have no labels so dinner will be whatever is in them when we open them." Not to mention original fiction starring Caterer for the Dead/Ghost Planning Dead Day Party, Neolithic Beermaker/Neolithic Beer Aficionado, or Professional Chef Trying To Get Laid/Michelin Inspector Who Thinks He's Been Made.
Who's in?
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Since I had so much fun with Flash in the Pan, I was delighted to see another food-themed exchange pop up, Eat, Drink, and Make Merry. eatdrinkmakemerry.
This one is also low-pressure (500 word minimum) but has a longer writing period and different rules. You can nominate individual characters a la Yuletide, for instance, as well as pairings and groups. Sign-ups close June 12, and assignments are due July 19.
Nominations are open now, and there's lots of fun stuff in the tag set already. I see Little House in the Prairie, Prydain Chronicles, The Goldfinch, Hannibal (yikes), X-Men/New Mutants (under Marvel Comics), and Strawberry Shortcake - though I admit, I was a bit disappointed to see that was the 2003 TV series, not the dolls from the 80s. I really really wanted Blueberry Muffin when I was nine.
Also, my favorite for tag-browsing, Original Works.
Alien Who Can Eat Anything/Human Curious What Objects Taste Like if They Taste Good
Avant-Garde Food Truck Chef/Rival Traditional Food Truck Chef
Female Post-Apocalyptic Diner Cook/Female Gunslinger
Florist Specialising In Edible Plants/Molecular Gastronomist Who Prefers Animal Products
Guerrilla Vegetable Gardener/Confused Owner of Vacant Lot
Lonely Hermit & Hungry Wild Animals
Original Male Character & Sentient Candy Bar
Post-Apocalyptic Food Truck Owner/Hungry Wasteland Traveler
Who's joining me? Are there any canons that would be great for a food-centric exchange that haven't been nominated yet?
eatdrinkmakemerry.This one is also low-pressure (500 word minimum) but has a longer writing period and different rules. You can nominate individual characters a la Yuletide, for instance, as well as pairings and groups. Sign-ups close June 12, and assignments are due July 19.
Nominations are open now, and there's lots of fun stuff in the tag set already. I see Little House in the Prairie, Prydain Chronicles, The Goldfinch, Hannibal (yikes), X-Men/New Mutants (under Marvel Comics), and Strawberry Shortcake - though I admit, I was a bit disappointed to see that was the 2003 TV series, not the dolls from the 80s. I really really wanted Blueberry Muffin when I was nine.
Also, my favorite for tag-browsing, Original Works.
Alien Who Can Eat Anything/Human Curious What Objects Taste Like if They Taste Good
Avant-Garde Food Truck Chef/Rival Traditional Food Truck Chef
Female Post-Apocalyptic Diner Cook/Female Gunslinger
Florist Specialising In Edible Plants/Molecular Gastronomist Who Prefers Animal Products
Guerrilla Vegetable Gardener/Confused Owner of Vacant Lot
Lonely Hermit & Hungry Wild Animals
Original Male Character & Sentient Candy Bar
Post-Apocalyptic Food Truck Owner/Hungry Wasteland Traveler
Who's joining me? Are there any canons that would be great for a food-centric exchange that haven't been nominated yet?
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Last week I had a wonderful time participating in Flash in the Pan, a food-themed fanfic flash exchange.
I wrote three stories and got three stories, and really enjoyed reading the archive, which contained everything from a Mysterious and Fragrant Herbal Tea with Special Properties turning Danny Rand into a teeny, tea-sipping dragon to Ulquiorra bewilderedly learning to celebrate Dumpling Day..
I wrote...
The Realm of Persephone for Rubynye. Ancient Greek Religion and Lore. 360 words. Persephone takes Hades blackberry picking.
A Slave to the Senses forscioscribe. Star Trek - Original Series. 2854 words. Mirror Uhura claims Mirror Janice Rand as a slave. She could do anything with her, so naturally she decides to treat her to a good breakfast.
Cakes at Midnight forcyphomandra. Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey. 1712 words. Mirrim and Menolly do some stress baking while trapped by a storm.
And I got...
Safe Camp--Don’t Give Up--Go This Way byscioscribe. The Long Walk - Stephen King. A lovely, heartfelt, comfort-ful story of unexpected joy and hobo signs.
Flash in the Can bysholio. Dark Tower - Stephen King. A sweet and hilarious story for the prompt These Food Cans Don't Have Any Labels So Dinner Will Be Whatever We Find When We Open Them.
If you participated, how was your experience? If you read, what did you enjoy?
I wrote three stories and got three stories, and really enjoyed reading the archive, which contained everything from a Mysterious and Fragrant Herbal Tea with Special Properties turning Danny Rand into a teeny, tea-sipping dragon to Ulquiorra bewilderedly learning to celebrate Dumpling Day..
I wrote...
The Realm of Persephone for Rubynye. Ancient Greek Religion and Lore. 360 words. Persephone takes Hades blackberry picking.
A Slave to the Senses for
scioscribe. Star Trek - Original Series. 2854 words. Mirror Uhura claims Mirror Janice Rand as a slave. She could do anything with her, so naturally she decides to treat her to a good breakfast.Cakes at Midnight for
cyphomandra. Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey. 1712 words. Mirrim and Menolly do some stress baking while trapped by a storm. And I got...
Safe Camp--Don’t Give Up--Go This Way by
scioscribe. The Long Walk - Stephen King. A lovely, heartfelt, comfort-ful story of unexpected joy and hobo signs. Flash in the Can by
sholio. Dark Tower - Stephen King. A sweet and hilarious story for the prompt These Food Cans Don't Have Any Labels So Dinner Will Be Whatever We Find When We Open Them. If you participated, how was your experience? If you read, what did you enjoy?
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Flash in the Pan is a 300 word-minimum flashfic fanfic exchange centered around FOOD, with an excellent opt-in system for common DNWS.
Tags are open for nominating, but sign-ups end TONIGHT. Flashfic exchanges have short writing periods - they're like the last-minute scramble to get a story in before the Yuletide archive closes.
Sign-up Closes: Tue 14 Apr 2020 11:59PM ADT (07:59PM PDT)
Assignments Due: Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:50AM ADT (08:50PM PDT)
Works Revealed: Sat 18 Apr 2020 01:50AM ADT (09:50PM PDT)
Creators Revealed: Mon 20 Apr 2020 12:00AM ADT (08:00PM PDT)
Check out the delightful freeform tags!
A Preposterously Juicy Mango
Adventures with sourdough starter
Character(s) Keep Cultural Tradition Alive Through Cooking
Choking Down Terrible State Dinner
I Must Trust You If I'm Eating Something That Could Be Poisoned
Mortal Food is Surprisingly Edible
Orchestrating An Elaborate Heist To Steal The Only Copy Of A Secret Recipe
The Pot-Luck From Hell
These Food Cans Don't Have Any Labels So Dinner Will Be Whatever We Find When We Open Them
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Must Grudgingly Work Together To Cook A Feast
Fantasyland Characters Discover That Cooked Giant Spider Tastes Like Crab. This Changes Everything
Please join me to write about my favorite thing, FOOD. The minimum word-count is only 300, and will be a delightful distraction.
ETA: My own requests are currently at the top of the page here.
Tags are open for nominating, but sign-ups end TONIGHT. Flashfic exchanges have short writing periods - they're like the last-minute scramble to get a story in before the Yuletide archive closes.
Sign-up Closes: Tue 14 Apr 2020 11:59PM ADT (07:59PM PDT)
Assignments Due: Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:50AM ADT (08:50PM PDT)
Works Revealed: Sat 18 Apr 2020 01:50AM ADT (09:50PM PDT)
Creators Revealed: Mon 20 Apr 2020 12:00AM ADT (08:00PM PDT)
Check out the delightful freeform tags!
A Preposterously Juicy Mango
Adventures with sourdough starter
Character(s) Keep Cultural Tradition Alive Through Cooking
Choking Down Terrible State Dinner
I Must Trust You If I'm Eating Something That Could Be Poisoned
Mortal Food is Surprisingly Edible
Orchestrating An Elaborate Heist To Steal The Only Copy Of A Secret Recipe
The Pot-Luck From Hell
These Food Cans Don't Have Any Labels So Dinner Will Be Whatever We Find When We Open Them
Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Must Grudgingly Work Together To Cook A Feast
Fantasyland Characters Discover That Cooked Giant Spider Tastes Like Crab. This Changes Everything
Please join me to write about my favorite thing, FOOD. The minimum word-count is only 300, and will be a delightful distraction.
ETA: My own requests are currently at the top of the page here.
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King of Exchanges, the Stephen King exchange that sholio and scioscribe and I modded, is OPEN! Read and enjoy. It has works in 11/22/63, Carrie, Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, IT, The Long Walk, and The Stand.
All the stories I've read so far have been fantastic, and many of the stories focus on rarely-ficced works or unusual crossovers. It's a really awesome and special exchange if I do say so myself.
scioscribe and I had never run a fic exchange before, but we really wanted to make this happen. Enter sholio, who helped us navigate AO3's less-than-intuitively obvious framework for running exchanges. Thank you SO MUCH.
I got two absolutely incredible stories.
The Once and Future Prince - Gerald's Game. I wanted a fix-it for Prince, the abandoned stray dog. I got a story that 100% satisfied on that level, and was beautifully written to boot.
Some Find Solace - Carrie, Dark Tower, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. For my prompt that a different group of characters - in this case, four generations of women and girls - become a ka-tet in Mid-World. This story is epic and wonderful and I can't praise it enough. I felt like I was reading a piece of an alternate Dark Tower itself.
sholio and scioscribe and I modded, is OPEN! Read and enjoy. It has works in 11/22/63, Carrie, Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, IT, The Long Walk, and The Stand.All the stories I've read so far have been fantastic, and many of the stories focus on rarely-ficced works or unusual crossovers. It's a really awesome and special exchange if I do say so myself.
scioscribe and I had never run a fic exchange before, but we really wanted to make this happen. Enter sholio, who helped us navigate AO3's less-than-intuitively obvious framework for running exchanges. Thank you SO MUCH.I got two absolutely incredible stories.
The Once and Future Prince - Gerald's Game. I wanted a fix-it for Prince, the abandoned stray dog. I got a story that 100% satisfied on that level, and was beautifully written to boot.
Some Find Solace - Carrie, Dark Tower, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. For my prompt that a different group of characters - in this case, four generations of women and girls - become a ka-tet in Mid-World. This story is epic and wonderful and I can't praise it enough. I felt like I was reading a piece of an alternate Dark Tower itself.
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Keep thinking about doing a fic/art exchange, but haven't ever gotten around to it? There's some good ones coming up!
Trick or Treat signups close in two days. Read all about it. It's a low-pressure fic and art exchange (300 word minimum), loosely Halloween themed but you don't have to follow that if you don't feel like it.
Here's my Trick or Treat letter.
Femslash Ex is also open for signups. Read all about it. It has an absolutely fantastic tag set, including some great original fiction prompts (under "No Media") such as Eldritch Abomination/Canny Psychiatrist, Cutthroat and Talented Necromancer/Her Reluctant Bodyguard Sworn to Her Service, female horse soldier/intelligent mare who can take the form of a woman, and female horse soldier/woman who can take the form of a horse.
Here's my Femslash Ex letter.
Trick or Treat signups close in two days. Read all about it. It's a low-pressure fic and art exchange (300 word minimum), loosely Halloween themed but you don't have to follow that if you don't feel like it.
Here's my Trick or Treat letter.
Femslash Ex is also open for signups. Read all about it. It has an absolutely fantastic tag set, including some great original fiction prompts (under "No Media") such as Eldritch Abomination/Canny Psychiatrist, Cutthroat and Talented Necromancer/Her Reluctant Bodyguard Sworn to Her Service, female horse soldier/intelligent mare who can take the form of a woman, and female horse soldier/woman who can take the form of a horse.
Here's my Femslash Ex letter.
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It's time for the AU Exchange! Open for both art and fic. Sign-ups are open till July 14.
Here's the tagset, which shows what canons and tags are available for requests and offers.
AU Exchange is especially fun because it lends itself so well to serious explorations of what might have happened (canon divergence AUs), changes of settings, and absolute crack. Here are a few of my favorite freeform tags:
All: 1930s science fiction writers AU
All: Amateur theatre group AU. I am requesting this for Punisher. The moment I saw it I realized how well the characters would fit into that milieu, no seriously. Moody method actor Frank! Put-upon stage manager David!
ALL: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon. Is there any canon this wouldn't change radically?
ALL: Character(s) forced into circus run by evil being
ALL: Future Arranged Spouses are Forbidden To Meet But Able To Study One Another's Hobbies
ALL: Fuck/Marry/Kill Is Sometimes Legally Binding
ALL: Merpeople & Octopeople
ALL: Major Canon Location is haunted
ALL: Shadows of the Apt fusion
ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches
ALL: Yarn store AU
Crossover: Eliot Spencer’s Remedial Cooking Class for Underfed Spies and Secret Agents
Greek Myth: Zeus is not an asshole
Marvel Comics: Madelyne Pryor Doesn't Choose The Evil Fingernail
Marvel Comics: Scott Summers Pissed Off The Goddesses & Now His Love Life Is What It Is
Marvel Comics: Supervillainy Is A Venereal Disease & Scott Summers Is A Carrier
MCU: Everything is the same except Tony Stark is a goldfish
Game of Thrones: Everything is the same except Jon Snow is a chicken
Here's the tagset, which shows what canons and tags are available for requests and offers.
AU Exchange is especially fun because it lends itself so well to serious explorations of what might have happened (canon divergence AUs), changes of settings, and absolute crack. Here are a few of my favorite freeform tags:
All: 1930s science fiction writers AU
All: Amateur theatre group AU. I am requesting this for Punisher. The moment I saw it I realized how well the characters would fit into that milieu, no seriously. Moody method actor Frank! Put-upon stage manager David!
ALL: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon. Is there any canon this wouldn't change radically?
ALL: Character(s) forced into circus run by evil being
ALL: Future Arranged Spouses are Forbidden To Meet But Able To Study One Another's Hobbies
ALL: Fuck/Marry/Kill Is Sometimes Legally Binding
ALL: Merpeople & Octopeople
ALL: Major Canon Location is haunted
ALL: Shadows of the Apt fusion
ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches
ALL: Yarn store AU
Crossover: Eliot Spencer’s Remedial Cooking Class for Underfed Spies and Secret Agents
Greek Myth: Zeus is not an asshole
Marvel Comics: Madelyne Pryor Doesn't Choose The Evil Fingernail
Marvel Comics: Scott Summers Pissed Off The Goddesses & Now His Love Life Is What It Is
Marvel Comics: Supervillainy Is A Venereal Disease & Scott Summers Is A Carrier
MCU: Everything is the same except Tony Stark is a goldfish
Game of Thrones: Everything is the same except Jon Snow is a chicken
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