...Because I was curious what a playlist of all of the songs I've used for titles in my 'fic would look like.

• "One Foot in the Gas, One Foot in the Grave" - Streetlight Manifesto (Somewhere in the Between)
• "Wave of Mutilation" - Pixies (Doolittle)
• "Condition 11:11" - Defiance, Ohio (The Great Depression)
• "Split Me Wide Open" - The Bravery (The Sun and the Moon)
• "Underneath the Flood" - Dave Smallen (Everything Changes and Nothing Changes)
• "I'm Glad You're Evil, Too" - Pinocchio-P (Rachie's English lyrics)
• "It's Nice to Have a Friend" - Taylor Swift (Lover)
• "Fountain of Sorrow" - Jackson Browne (Late For the Sky)
• "'39" - Queen (A Night at the Opera)
  • (Honorable Mention: the album Jen and Jenny are listening to is, in my mind, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks)
• "St. Elmo's Fire" - Brian Eno (Another Green World)
• Honorable Mention: the album Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
• "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
  • Honorable Mention: "Revolution 9" - The Beatles (The Beatles)
  • Honorable Mention: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (The Beatles)
  • "Helter Skelter" - The Beatles (The Beatles)
  • "Oh! Darling" - The Beatles (Abbey Road)

Conclusion: my Boomer is showing.

I finally managed to finagle the CSS so the title, summary, and bylines follow the styling of individual workskins, so Canned Southern Hospitality and Soulsong now look a little bit prettier! Also head to wear the crown.

Guess who forgot that the minimum wordcount for 100fandoms is 100 words. Removing my Omega Mart 'fic pronto.

Just found out that a collection  request for one of my works has been sitting for approval for five years and I just wasn't aware. Whoops.

Then: I don't own anything! Pwease don't sue me Anne Rice!
Now: This 'fic belongs to me, and you should probably pay me for it.

Dear Candy... Hearter?,

Thank you for writing for me, I look forward to reading your 'fic. My AO3 is Disworl. Herein lies my letter detailing a bit more of my specifications of my various requests. There's a lot of overlap between it and my requests on AO3, but it's got some extra stuff, because I'm a bastard like that. Maybe dreamwidth is also easier to read?

Iruma-Kun

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con (unless the relationship is anagonistic in canon and thereby in line with that), Infidelity.

Likes: Earnest emotionality (let it be apparent how much the characters love each other, unless that contradicts the 'ship's tone), gore/body horror/anything playing with an intersection of sex/romance/desire & death (unless it contradicts the 'ship's tone)

Ameri/Iruma/Kiriwo: I've no clue how this would play out, but I'm game to see two 'ships I like combine. Maybe Kiriwo had some sort of redemption arc (though hopefully still being a damn kinky bastard, just with consent! this time 'round), maybe it's a dark AU (I can totally see how Ameri's strengths, when pointed in the wrong direction, could make her a fearsome figure.

Ameri/Iruma: Ah yes, the Manlet/Amazoness 'ship. Aside from just liking tall, badass women, I think what really gets me about this 'ship is how much the two think of each other. They both clearly think the other is the best thing since sliced bread (I mean, Iruma thinks that of multiple people), which is just adorable. They would make a really funny power couple.

Alice/&Clara/&Iruma: The chaos trio. I just love their whole back-and-forth dynamic, and how they're so comfortable being themselves with each other.

Kiriwo/Iruma: And compared to the triad with Ameri, this is just kinky. The two's, in some way, very polar natures, and finding out how to make it reconcile proves to be an interesting challenge. (Or not! It could also be freakily one-sided like it is in canon.)

Discworld

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con (unless the relationship is anagonistic in canon and thereby in line with that), Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, a strong sense of place re: Ankh-Morpork.

Moist & Vimes: This is my dudebro fan 'who would win in a fight' 'ship, except it's 'what would happen if these two dudes partly responsible for keeping Ankh Morpork from metaphorically or literally self-combusting met'. I think in Raising Steam or such it turns out Moist and Adora live near Sam and Sybil? House visits could be ripe entertainment.

RamVetVimes: The deal is that I really love SamSyb to the point I can't imagine VetVimes without her, and I think Raminari is an underrated dynamic. (She knew him growing up, y'all!)

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con (unless the relationship is anagonistic in canon and thereby in line with that), Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, faffing about with bending.

Aang & The Gaang: I just love this kid so much and I love group dynamics and I like him being appreciated. Let him be with his friends!

Zukaang: Their relationship is so essential to the story of canon, even if for the longest time it's drawn out in parallels and motifs and implications. They are so important to each other on personal and narrative levels. You can write them as good friends, or go dark with them still being enemies. You can make them the same age or age them up if that helps your consicence, or not. I'm fine with or without the canon age dynamic.

Azulaang: I admit I'm not as well-versed in this 'ship but Azula is a very compelling character, and their whole speculative dynamic is pretty damn intriguing, and also hot. Same thing re: ages as Zukaang.

Homestuck

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con (unless the relationship is anagonistic in canon and thereby in line with that), Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, anything playing with an intersection of sex/romance/desire & death (unless it contradicts the 'ship's tone), a strong sense of place re: Alternia.

Solkat: I'm still 'shipping this in 2023 like a hopeless fucko in love - luckily, that works for these two! The way Sollux and Karkat relate to each other as two damned kids trying to get by in the uncertainty of Alternian society. They're at their best in a quadrant mush, because their feelings vacillate so hard, but it's clear that they have this intense connection their bickering can cover only so much. The awkward teenage boy kind of douchebaggy kindness.

Aradia & Karkat: I love Aradia so much, and I love Karkat so much too. MVP Aradia all the way, put threw the wringer of time but she ends up happy. Karkat's thing with blood isthat he connected people, but we never really saw him with Aradia, and I think that's a little bit of a missed opportunity. This bit at the end of Summerteen Romance always gave me the feeling that there could've been more of a friendship than what we'd seen: "Aradia, though. She was so important to our story and you killed her off before yours even started. [...] It just figures that the one friend who we had who might actually already be happy became a miserable ghost of her real self under your  leadership." ...If you read between Karkat's immense self-loathing, that is.

SolAraKat: And so combining those two 'ships with the slightly morbid, MVP team of AraSol, you get this triad. I think they'd work well together in a quadrantless jumble, or in a flush/pale* or pitch/pale/flushed** or pitch/pale/flushed/ashen*** thing.

*Any combination of Red/Pale for the pairs.
**Pitch/Flush/Pale SolKat, Flush/Pale AraSol (though seeing Pitch AraSol could be interesting for the novelty), Pale AraKat
***Pitch/Flush SolKat, Flush/Pale AraSol, Pale AraKat, Ashen SolAraKat.

Sollux & The Psiioniic: I don't know, I feel the ties the trolls have their ancestors is really neat. Especially as before the dancestors, the ancestors were only considered mirrors of the trolls. If you manage to slip in some SuffPsii or Psiimaid, I also wouldn't complain. The tie of doom that bonded them in death is interesting, if macabre.

JohnDirk: Pranks and hijinks abound - two ridiculous brains being carried by meaty fleshbags being forced to be known and realize how absurd they both are. I like how their personalities can help them become better, break each other out of their bad habits.

Beta OT4: Ohhh these kids mean so much to each other. I love an interpretation where their weird little bond kind of isolates them from other people, whether by the experience of the game in a recreated Earth (the way people envisioned it pre-Earth 3), or by other ways. Aspect symbolism or a sort of low-magic like that is also really cool.

Them being, in some ways, more personality-shapes, forces of their aspects or their titles (Heir of Breath, et cetera), and then having to reconcile that with their humanity is an idea I really like. Something a little in the vein of Closing Time by Cephied_Variable, perhaps.

PsiiCon: The relationship so kinky TVtrollpes ran out of descriptors, or something like that. I feel a weird sort of affection, from the Condesce would be nice. You know, a sort of Hannibal-esque 'like you is not mutually exclusive with hurting you' kind of deal. Maybe the Psiioniic comes to reciprocate in his own sort of way, and/or he's still torn by his attachment to the Signless, Dolorosa, and Disciple.

Community (TV)

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con, Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, 'fics following canon's style, genre fuckery, a strong sense of place re: Greendale Community college.

Troy&/Abed: True love is whatever Troy and Abed have. I just love their connection and how they just let the other be themself, in all their creative, childish glory. Dressing up as Calvin and Hobbes was absolutely spot-on, is what I'm saying.

Abed Nadir & Study Group: I just want to see Abed receive the support and care he deserves, and what he brings to the Study Group, essentially.

Abed Nadir/Jeff Winger: Harmon described their relationship as possibly the most important to the series, which I think is interesting, because it's pretty understated compared to Jannie or Trobed. There was an academic paper (the horror!) that postulated as Jeff and Abed as symbolic as the traditional sitcom form and the metatextual oddballness in Community, respectively.


Hannibal (TV)

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con (unless the relationship is anagonistic in canon and thereby in line with that), Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, gore/body horror/anything playing with an intersection of sex/romance/desire & death (unless it contradicts the 'ship's tone).

Beverly & Will: I love both of these characters so much and I want more of a view into their friendship and its benefits beyond being the reason for Beverly's death fueling his manpain/the plot. (If it wasn't clear, no dead Bevs here, please.) Ideally, from Beverly's perspective instead of Will's. I just want to dive more into her history and their comraderie. It can get dark and seamy, but I want their relationship to be without a doubt, beneficial, Let Will and Bev Have A Good Day style.

Matthew/Will: This is my indulgence semi-crack speculative 'ship. Mostly just a sort of softer, dedicated (though still probably obsessive) connection between these two back when Hannibal was at his height of Fuck Over Will Graham-iest. It can be bloody, or not! Depends on the morality of your Will, I guess. Matthew's awe and puppydog longing for Will is really cute, in a semi-creepy way, because this is still Hannibal.

Will &/ Freddie: I've no clue how they could get together romantically, but maybe somehow it happens in a more Red Dragon-y universe, after Dolarhyde is killed by Molly. But I love Freddie and her pot-stirrin' ways, versus Will who does everything he can to have a normal life.

Beverly/Freddie: And similarly, I love these two fierce women who are strong in different ways. They're both clever and bold, but put it to use in very different ways. You could perhaps explore that and how it's borne of their different (actor-theorized) bad childhoods. According to Park, Beverly had an abusive father whom her mother divorced before remarrying another man, and according to Chorostecki Freddie grew up in an unstable household that forced her to learn how to spin a story to her advantage quickly, and well.

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Annnnnnd here's the wildcard corner. I don't expect anything here to be written, but if it is, I'll be pleasantly surprised!

South Park

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death (obvious exception given to Kenny's immortality), Non-con, Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, gore/body horror/anything playing with an intersection of sex/romance/desire & death (unless it contradicts with the 'ships tone), a strong sense of place re: South Park.

K2: I have a soft spot for genrebending into a sort of melancholic tone, with the town itself hanging like a long shadow set by a low sun. A sense of glaciality and frostbite on everything.

Stan & Kyle: Okay okay okay. The specific way I see this 'ship is that it takes from the codependence between Stan and Kyle in canon, and their general (quietly?) deranged need for each other you see in certain slices of Style 'fic, except it's a damnably platonic batshit super best friendship. I'm talkin' The Significant Other Of One Will Have To Deal With Also Sharing A Bed And House With The Other levels of batshit. I'm talking Never Even Considered Romantic Attraction As A Possibility Even With Compatible Orientations levels of damnably platonic!

SKKE: A chaotic, unbreakable-through-their-frequent-conflict quartet. More than breaking them down into pairs, seeing how they all do together is something I really like for SKKE. A thing I really like to see reflected in their group is the slightly metatextual subtext of peaked-in-Elementary, washed-up-third/fourth-graders that can often haunt fandom's trend of transforming canon down to reality (and now haunts canon a bit, too, given the original future timeline in the 40 year gap) - sort of reconciling their three dimensional, flesh-and-blood, no longer static selves in type versus their intentionally two-dimensional, construction paper-made, eternal funhouse mirrors of boyhood personas and pop culture spirits that exist on the screen.

'"Die bored, motherfucker", that's my favourite insult.'

The World's End

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection, just a clear sense of how much these characters mean to each other, Andy POV.

Gary/Andy: The way they both hurt each other in their awkward teenage boyness (especially on Gary's side), and the loyalty that stuck through despite it all is heart-wrenching and true.

Five Musketeers: I just the whole friend group deserves to love each other and shit. Probably an everybody lives AU, but it could also be between the blank young musketeers as they grapple with their concept of selfhood.

Mysterious Skin

Do Not Want: Explicit Sex or Porn Without Plot (foreplay, fade to black, and other bits of suggestiveness are otherwise fine and encouraged), Omegaverse, Pregnancy (Male or otherwise), Kid 'fic, Major Character Death, Non-con, Infidelity.

Likes: Character studies, psychological/introspection.

Brian/Neil: How they get on after the end of the film, and how that can branch into a relationship. Maybe it's them years or decades into the future, with their affairs as sorted as they can be, or maybe it's here, and now, and they're doing the best as they can, trying to sew sutures in the places where they're torn.

Wendy & Neil: Neil calls Wendy his soulmate. Wendy says, without hesitation, that Neil has a bottomless pit instead of a heart. Whether the two of them view their friendship differently in some important ways, or that both things are simultaneously true from both sides, this contradiction is begging to be explored.

I've been playing Arcade Spirits recently as my second visual novel (my first was the good but nevertheless very straight guy orientated Starlight Shores, it took me a few minutes to realize Alec was not a romance option), and while it's been very nice, I've realized that my glacial pace and somewhat sporadic pick-up schedule in terms of playing it is probably because I already spend a lot of my time reading... books. Visual Novels are still definitely in the game category (I'm not taking Dear Esther but-is-it-really faffing about here), I experience them as games, I do not think of Arcade Spirits when I groan at my endless to-read list, I think of it when I groan at my endless to-play list, but nevertheless they are mostly reading! And making decisions, sometimes, in most visual novels (the ones without, so-described as kinetic, are arguably crossing into book territory - but they're still games).

Somehow this is different with Twine? I devour Twine a lot easily. Maybe it's because the Twine games I've played have all been short, and Arcade Spirits is a much bigger experience than Starlight Shores. Or maybe there is just something about Twine that groks me better.

And Parser 'fic... I struggle with that, but that's a whole different story.