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Generalities: I have no absolute lines in the sand. Problematic characters and tropes are fine if you approach them sensibly and with a little sensitivity. You can write about bad people doing bad things without glorifying violence or abuse. That said, I am less interested in works putting an emphasis on sexual violence, with the exception of stories that focus on the act of survival. The thing that bothers me most is abusive characters who frame their actions as benevolent. I also don't like sharks but I don't expect that to come up. When it comes to humor, I generally don't find extremely embarrassing situations very funny, but my sense of humor is oddly idiosyncratic, so don't mind me.
Things I love: bisexual characters, polyam relationships, negotiation, relationships that are ambiguously either romantic or platonic but not quite either, disabled characters being their best selves, politics, worldbuilding, found family/family of choice. Nonbinary gendered characters make me very, very happy. Any of these things would make me very happy.
Specifics:
The Good Place: I love Eleanor/Chidi like burning but I'm good with all pairings. Janet is probably my favorite character. No amount of worldbuilding is too much. My dream A/U is one where Michael or Shawn tries to recruit Eleanor to work for the Bad Place, whether for reals or as part of an elaborate trick.
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: I love Rey, Finn, Poe and Rose all more or less equally. I adore Leia and Holdo. I would be into anything filling in the missing relationships that the movies didn't get to address, Rey and Rose finally meeting, Poe getting to know Rey better since they only just met, any combination of pairings with these characters. Or Leia and Holdo's history together. Not that interested in Kylo Ren, alas.
Wonder Woman: If a fandom takes place partly or wholly surrounding WWI, crossing it over with Wonder Woman is a-ok in my book. Anything happening on Themyscira interests me, before during or after the canon. Antiope's past. Relationships between the Amazons, or between the Amazons and the Gods. How exactly did the women of Themyscira learn so many modern languages? What sort of artifacts do they keep in their vaults? Amazon feelings on trans issues. Post-canon, I'd like to see Hippolyta's reaction to losing/not-losing her sister and her daughter, maybe with bonus Philippus. Anything continuing the friendship between Diana and Etta would equally delight me. I do like Diana/Steve so if you want to write an A/U where he survives I'm into that too.
Long Live the Queen: My LLTQ playthroughs tend to run a little dark. I'd love to see some Elodie/Alice stuff with a very Machiavellian Queen Elodie. I haven't seen any of that as yet. But I'd be equally happy with Elodie/Briony, or no romance at all. I have given the worldbuilding of LLTQ way too much thought, so if you feel like going wild, I'd love to see stories about some of the lost Lumen crystals.
Cinders: Anything at all TBH, but I love Cinders/Basile when Cinders isn't Queen but instead the mistress of the house.
Imperial Radch Series: I'm years late to this party so I'm not really familiar with what the fandom has to offer. I'm interested in the syncretic nature of Radch religion, and in the idea of self-policing AI culture. I love all the characters. Breq is asexual. Go wild.
Megillat Ester: This is my favorite fairy tale and I love Ester as a cunning, spirited epic fantasy princess who saves her people through the power of her rapier wit. My feelings about Vashti are summed up by this story I wrote for a previous PG. I would be surprisingly okay with an Ester/Achashverosh story with a sort of "we're married, now what" slant.
Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem: If it doesn't involve Jarrod being treated as a woobie, I'll probably love it. What I'd most love to see is either one of the previous Seven-Year Summits (Constance!), or a future one. For example, with a previous delegate appearing for the first time as a chaperon. Don't worry too much about possibly contradicting the last two weeks of the game, I'm flexible.
Generalities: I have no absolute lines in the sand. Problematic characters and tropes are fine if you approach them sensibly and with a little sensitivity. You can write about bad people doing bad things without glorifying violence or abuse. That said, I am less interested in works putting an emphasis on sexual violence, with the exception of stories that focus on the act of survival. The thing that bothers me most is abusive characters who frame their actions as benevolent. I also don't like sharks but I don't expect that to come up. When it comes to humor, I generally don't find extremely embarrassing situations very funny, but my sense of humor is oddly idiosyncratic, so don't mind me.
Things I love: bisexual characters, polyam relationships, negotiation, relationships that are ambiguously either romantic or platonic but not quite either, disabled characters being their best selves, politics, worldbuilding, found family/family of choice. Nonbinary gendered characters make me very, very happy. Any of these things would make me very happy.
Specifics:
The Good Place: I love Eleanor/Chidi like burning but I'm good with all pairings. Janet is probably my favorite character. No amount of worldbuilding is too much. My dream A/U is one where Michael or Shawn tries to recruit Eleanor to work for the Bad Place, whether for reals or as part of an elaborate trick.
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: I love Rey, Finn, Poe and Rose all more or less equally. I adore Leia and Holdo. I would be into anything filling in the missing relationships that the movies didn't get to address, Rey and Rose finally meeting, Poe getting to know Rey better since they only just met, any combination of pairings with these characters. Or Leia and Holdo's history together. Not that interested in Kylo Ren, alas.
Wonder Woman: If a fandom takes place partly or wholly surrounding WWI, crossing it over with Wonder Woman is a-ok in my book. Anything happening on Themyscira interests me, before during or after the canon. Antiope's past. Relationships between the Amazons, or between the Amazons and the Gods. How exactly did the women of Themyscira learn so many modern languages? What sort of artifacts do they keep in their vaults? Amazon feelings on trans issues. Post-canon, I'd like to see Hippolyta's reaction to losing/not-losing her sister and her daughter, maybe with bonus Philippus. Anything continuing the friendship between Diana and Etta would equally delight me. I do like Diana/Steve so if you want to write an A/U where he survives I'm into that too.
Long Live the Queen: My LLTQ playthroughs tend to run a little dark. I'd love to see some Elodie/Alice stuff with a very Machiavellian Queen Elodie. I haven't seen any of that as yet. But I'd be equally happy with Elodie/Briony, or no romance at all. I have given the worldbuilding of LLTQ way too much thought, so if you feel like going wild, I'd love to see stories about some of the lost Lumen crystals.
Cinders: Anything at all TBH, but I love Cinders/Basile when Cinders isn't Queen but instead the mistress of the house.
Imperial Radch Series: I'm years late to this party so I'm not really familiar with what the fandom has to offer. I'm interested in the syncretic nature of Radch religion, and in the idea of self-policing AI culture. I love all the characters. Breq is asexual. Go wild.
Megillat Ester: This is my favorite fairy tale and I love Ester as a cunning, spirited epic fantasy princess who saves her people through the power of her rapier wit. My feelings about Vashti are summed up by this story I wrote for a previous PG. I would be surprisingly okay with an Ester/Achashverosh story with a sort of "we're married, now what" slant.
Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem: If it doesn't involve Jarrod being treated as a woobie, I'll probably love it. What I'd most love to see is either one of the previous Seven-Year Summits (Constance!), or a future one. For example, with a previous delegate appearing for the first time as a chaperon. Don't worry too much about possibly contradicting the last two weeks of the game, I'm flexible.
