Laughter Through Tears

Yuletide! An exciting year for me this year, since many/most of my requested fandoms are ones I nominated, also.

General wants: ( general wants )

( Opt-ins )

General DNWs: ( Read more... )

Fandom-specific prompts and preferences:

( The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher )

( Their Majesties' Pleasure (Interactive Fiction) )

( Wylde Flowers (Video Game) )

( Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel) )

( A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher )

A placeholder!

If by some fluke, I forget to fill this in properly in time, you can look up my old letters. Most of what's in last year's holds.

Plus, I am always open to any masquerade-related fic. <3

15/1 update: I am so, so sorry that this took so long, and please consider everything in this letter optional!

( Read more... )

By fandom, alphabetically.

( The Adventure Zone (Balance) )

( Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones )

( Leverage )

( Long Live the Queen )

( Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types )

( Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons) )

I have not yet made a post for the new year on DW, so Happy New Year and may 2022 treat us all kindly.

I am ostensibly supposed to be working on a new year's post for my WP blog, right now.

Right now, big important things are happening with my IRL family. We're entering into a necessary period of uncertainty, and all of us are dealing with our anxieties in different ways. One of the ways I'm dealing with mine is by how I adjust my two-week schedule. I've lately gotten into the habit of setting a loose work schedule for my writing in chunks of two weeks, and I anticipate lacking focus for the work, while events are happening around me. I also may have less material time, if my family needs me to e.g. cook or help with chores.

Events will unfold as they will, and I have no control over them. I've really prepared as much as I reasonably can. And in the end, this is a good change, it's just this transition period that is obscurely stressful and uncertain. Most likely, everything will turn out more or less okay.

And while I attempt to parse my feelings on the subject (with the help of my therapist), I am also signing up for purimgifts (as I do almost every year), and worldbuildingex (for the last round, unless it's inherited by different mods). Being able to focus my energies outside of myself is another way to manage my bad overthinking habit. And I even know exactly what I want to nominate for PG, this year.

My 2020 letter for reference.

My requested fandoms: ( Read more... )

General likes and dislikes: ( Read more... )

( Fandom-specific prompts )

Addendum 9/1/21:: Look, I know I was super-late finishing this letter, so you're not remotely obligated to anything in it. Well, per the exchange rules you never were, but you're extra not obligated.

Hello, gifter. I have tried to strike a balance between providing enough detail for inspiration, and not restricting your creativity too much. I hope you enjoy writing this story as much as I enjoy anticipating it.

The Dragon Prince

Amaya/Janai

( TDP freeforms )

( TDP likes )

( TDB dislikes )

Pride and Prejudice

Lydia Bennet/George Wickham, Mr. Bennet/Mrs. Bennet

( P&P freeforms )

( P&P likes )

( P&P dislikes )

Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance

Luis de Vega/Main Character, Gabriel De Mendosa/Main Character

Royal Court Reaction to Marriage. Marriage to Confer Status, Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought, Widow's Second Chance Wedding to Inappropriate Past Suitor, Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive

( AOTC likes )

( AOTC dislikes )

Créme de la Créme

Delacroix/Max, Delacroix/MC/Max, Mr Blanchard/Miss Dalca/Mr Griffith, Blaise/MC, Karston/MC, Auguste Renaldt/MC, Auguste Renaldt/Freddie Crawford

For matching reasons, I rendered this fandom as three different requests. I'm collapsing them in the letter to make things less complicated.

( CDLC likes )

( CDLC dislikes )

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem

It's a small fandom, so I'm just putting it all under one cut tag.

( 7KPP )

This letter took two hours and is almost 2K words long, I'm so so sorry.

Third election. Voted. Don't expect it to do much good. They say if you didn't vote, you don't get to complain, and I love complaining, so I voted.

Still on an October Daye kick. I'm on the next-to-last (barring preorder) so this will be the last one, because the most recent title in a series still has the new book price, which is almost double. And I have so many books already, so I had best try to finish them.

After this, I'm holding myself accountable and I'm gonna finally finish This Is How You Lose the Time War -- which I had been loving, and I'm still not sure why I set it down. My reading streaks rely on momentum.

My purimgifts fics for this year are almost complete, too. And my stubborn cold has mostly receded.

Last week I had a very bad case of strep throat. The weekend was worst (I didn't get out of bed on Friday) but I still spent most of the week recovering. This has set back my July writing goals considerably.

Next week I have a surgical consult.

In the mean time, I'm just holding on and taking it one thing at a time. Right now, that's auexchange sign-ups.

Edited 12/1/19 11PM IST

General pros: gen, strong but complex family relationships, female mentors, nonbinary or gender variant characters, femslash, poly shipping, snark, banter, did I mention gen?

General cons: more than canon-typical violence or gore, large amounts of casual background sexual violence, romanticizing dysfunctional relationships, pairing off every single background character, aro-negativity.

( A note about cartoon fandoms and violence )

( 3Below )

( Cinders )

( 7KPP )

( She-Ra and the Princesses of Power )

( Steven Universe )

( The Dragon Prince )

( Crossovers and A/Us )

Most importantly: have fun with it.