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rosanicusHello!
I'm extremely excited about this exchange, this is my first time participating and it seems like it'll be very fun to write for. I've requested for two fandoms (Biggles and The Goblin Emperor/The Cemeteries of Amalo) and will be delighted to receive anything for either canon.
General Likes: Hurt/Comfort, Case Fic, Queer Gen, Time Loops/Time Travel, Competence Porn, Cultural Exchange, Presumed Dead, Sickfic, Trauma Recovery, Close-Canon AUs (canon but with magic/werewolves/daemons, etc.)
DNWs: Major Character Death, Terminal Illness, Infidelity, Rape/Non-Con between protagonists, Hate Crime/Violent Homophobia, MPreg, Omegaverse
Algy Lacey & James "Biggles" Bigglesworth
Algy Lacey & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Erich von Stalhein
James Bigglesworth & Ginger Hebblethwaite & Algy Lacey & Bertie Lissie & Erich von Stalhein
William Raymond & James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich Von Stalhein
Fandom specific likes: Canon-typical hurt/comfort (e.g. firing squads, imprisoned in a castle, dramatic last stands, scorpion/tarantula related injury etc.), Best Enemies, Enemies to Friends, Fantasy Elements, Canon-typical crossdressing, Casefic, Snark
Fandom specific DNWs: fic based on Takes A Holiday/Flies North/No Rest, fic set during WW2, canon-typical racism
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Prompts:
- In general, I would love any fic which features something from either Likes section in this post! I struggle with coming up with specific prompts because they tend to end up growing legs and walking into my own Google Drive, so feel free to go wild :)
- Speaking of queer gen: I would love to see fic of any permutation of characters interacting with gay nightlife in London during canon. I think Ginger in particular would like drag. Additionally, I would adore AU fic where one or multiple of the main characters are trans and/or GNC.
- A fic set in the Interwar period (even though the dating makes my head hurt a bit...), in that nebulous period where Ginger is in training and Biggles and Algy are essentially co-parenting him. I think that there is a lot of potential for fun hijinks and the struggles of looking after a teenager who is already shockingly self-sufficient.
- For Raymond: I'd really like to hear his perspective on Major Sterne and the events of Flies East, whether he's talking to EvS or Biggles about it many years later or if he's reacting to it straight after the book. It seems like it would really shake his confidence to realise that there had been an enemy agent in his own camp so many times.
- This fandom will never have too many post-Hatchet recovery fics. I love stories which explore how everyone learns to live in the same city as each other - whether that's Algy learning to tolerate von Stalhein for Biggles' sake (and eventually liking him, however annoyed it makes him), or Bertie sweeping EvS off to ride horses and generally return him to a golden moment of pre-WW1 simplicity, or Biggles just looking after him in his own inimitable way, I love all of it. And many variations besides!
- Medium Opt-Ins: I think that case reports or news articles would be a really fun way to engage with some of the canon! Especially considering some of the canon-level insanity in books like Charter Pilot I can only imagine that a truly honest report on a decapod encounter would be a great read. News articles about & Co would also be interesting, since we know from some of the canon that Biggles is reasonably famous within the world of aviation you would hope that someone out there within universe would end up writing a few articles (or a posthumous biography with some controversial conclusions...) about the Special Air Police. Rashomon style narratives would also work well from this angle, I would love to see a series of conflicting accounts about one of the SAP cases or even an Interwar adventure
Thara Celehar/Iana Pel-Thenhior
Thara Celehar & Maia Drazhar
Csethiro Ceredin/Maia Drazhar
Fandom specific likes: Worldbuilding about Amalo, Linguistics, Cultural Exchange between Goblins and Elves
Fandom specific DNWs: Excessive canon-typical homophobia*
(*I don't mind reference to canon-typical attitudes towards marnei but please don't make it a central part of the fic/expressed violently)
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Prompts:
- I love Thara Celehar and his colony of Definitely Not His Cats - so any fic about him looking after them, or Iana meeting the cats, or just general fluff about him spending time with them would be Fine By Me
- While we wait for the conclusion of the trilogy I continue to yearn for more Thara & Maia interaction. Now that Thara is more settled in Amalo (even with the events of The Grief of Stones) I would love to see he and Maia catching up in some way, whether through letters or in person during an Imperial visit to Amalo
- How would Iana and Thara navigate actually being in a relationship? I'm talking small things here - who sleeps on which side of the bed, who irritates the other by leaving empty teacups on the table without a coaster - tiny domestic issues or indeed domestic joys.
- Csethiro and Maia in similar domestic situations - complicated by the fact that they are both nobility, even as Maia is used to performing small domestic tasks and Csethiro very much is not.
- Medium Opt-Ins: Iana's notes for a new opera (about a downtrodden Witness?)! Anora and Iana exchanging letters in which they unsubtly give each other updates on Thara! I love the use of letters and other correspondence in the series so I think there's a lot of scope here. For the worldbuilding prompt, I'd be interested in seeing what the press thinks of Maia over time as he becomes more confident in his role as Edrehasivar Zhas.
I'm extremely excited about this exchange, this is my first time participating and it seems like it'll be very fun to write for. I've requested for two fandoms (Biggles and The Goblin Emperor/The Cemeteries of Amalo) and will be delighted to receive anything for either canon.
General Likes: Hurt/Comfort, Case Fic, Queer Gen, Time Loops/Time Travel, Competence Porn, Cultural Exchange, Presumed Dead, Sickfic, Trauma Recovery, Close-Canon AUs (canon but with magic/werewolves/daemons, etc.)
DNWs: Major Character Death, Terminal Illness, Infidelity, Rape/Non-Con between protagonists, Hate Crime/Violent Homophobia, MPreg, Omegaverse
Algy Lacey & James "Biggles" Bigglesworth
Algy Lacey & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Erich von Stalhein
James Bigglesworth & Ginger Hebblethwaite & Algy Lacey & Bertie Lissie & Erich von Stalhein
William Raymond & James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich Von Stalhein
Fandom specific likes: Canon-typical hurt/comfort (e.g. firing squads, imprisoned in a castle, dramatic last stands, scorpion/tarantula related injury etc.), Best Enemies, Enemies to Friends, Fantasy Elements, Canon-typical crossdressing, Casefic, Snark
Fandom specific DNWs: fic based on Takes A Holiday/Flies North/No Rest, fic set during WW2, canon-typical racism
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Prompts:
- In general, I would love any fic which features something from either Likes section in this post! I struggle with coming up with specific prompts because they tend to end up growing legs and walking into my own Google Drive, so feel free to go wild :)
- Speaking of queer gen: I would love to see fic of any permutation of characters interacting with gay nightlife in London during canon. I think Ginger in particular would like drag. Additionally, I would adore AU fic where one or multiple of the main characters are trans and/or GNC.
- A fic set in the Interwar period (even though the dating makes my head hurt a bit...), in that nebulous period where Ginger is in training and Biggles and Algy are essentially co-parenting him. I think that there is a lot of potential for fun hijinks and the struggles of looking after a teenager who is already shockingly self-sufficient.
- For Raymond: I'd really like to hear his perspective on Major Sterne and the events of Flies East, whether he's talking to EvS or Biggles about it many years later or if he's reacting to it straight after the book. It seems like it would really shake his confidence to realise that there had been an enemy agent in his own camp so many times.
- This fandom will never have too many post-Hatchet recovery fics. I love stories which explore how everyone learns to live in the same city as each other - whether that's Algy learning to tolerate von Stalhein for Biggles' sake (and eventually liking him, however annoyed it makes him), or Bertie sweeping EvS off to ride horses and generally return him to a golden moment of pre-WW1 simplicity, or Biggles just looking after him in his own inimitable way, I love all of it. And many variations besides!
- Medium Opt-Ins: I think that case reports or news articles would be a really fun way to engage with some of the canon! Especially considering some of the canon-level insanity in books like Charter Pilot I can only imagine that a truly honest report on a decapod encounter would be a great read. News articles about & Co would also be interesting, since we know from some of the canon that Biggles is reasonably famous within the world of aviation you would hope that someone out there within universe would end up writing a few articles (or a posthumous biography with some controversial conclusions...) about the Special Air Police. Rashomon style narratives would also work well from this angle, I would love to see a series of conflicting accounts about one of the SAP cases or even an Interwar adventure
Thara Celehar/Iana Pel-Thenhior
Thara Celehar & Maia Drazhar
Csethiro Ceredin/Maia Drazhar
Fandom specific likes: Worldbuilding about Amalo, Linguistics, Cultural Exchange between Goblins and Elves
Fandom specific DNWs: Excessive canon-typical homophobia*
(*I don't mind reference to canon-typical attitudes towards marnei but please don't make it a central part of the fic/expressed violently)
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Prompts:
- I love Thara Celehar and his colony of Definitely Not His Cats - so any fic about him looking after them, or Iana meeting the cats, or just general fluff about him spending time with them would be Fine By Me
- While we wait for the conclusion of the trilogy I continue to yearn for more Thara & Maia interaction. Now that Thara is more settled in Amalo (even with the events of The Grief of Stones) I would love to see he and Maia catching up in some way, whether through letters or in person during an Imperial visit to Amalo
- How would Iana and Thara navigate actually being in a relationship? I'm talking small things here - who sleeps on which side of the bed, who irritates the other by leaving empty teacups on the table without a coaster - tiny domestic issues or indeed domestic joys.
- Csethiro and Maia in similar domestic situations - complicated by the fact that they are both nobility, even as Maia is used to performing small domestic tasks and Csethiro very much is not.
- Medium Opt-Ins: Iana's notes for a new opera (about a downtrodden Witness?)! Anora and Iana exchanging letters in which they unsubtly give each other updates on Thara! I love the use of letters and other correspondence in the series so I think there's a lot of scope here. For the worldbuilding prompt, I'd be interested in seeing what the press thinks of Maia over time as he becomes more confident in his role as Edrehasivar Zhas.
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Date: 2023-08-28 07:11 pm (UTC)Indeed the most relatable. I also suffer from this problem.
(Me: *writes my letter*
Also me: *has to stop myself from deleting half of it which I now want to write*)
I love your prompts!
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Date: 2023-08-28 08:55 pm (UTC)...I have literally deleted things from my letter that I now want to write /o/