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October 23rd, 2021 03:43 pm - Yuletide Letter 2021
Hi writer! Sorry this is a bit late, I got all up in my head about it and then went a trifle overboard on prompts. But here is my letter! Feel free to ignore anything in this letter and write me what you want, I am an ODAO person!

Also I usually end up having at least one or two DNWs in my letter, and I am going to mention a few fandom-specific things I don't want, but I couldn't really come up with anything I definitively don't want at all this year. Anywhere my prompts take you - even if it's into the depths of the AO3 mandatory warnings, or the sort of kinks that are in 90% of DNW lists - I am willing to follow. (Don't take that as a challenge though, I am also all in for gen fluff in any of these fandoms.)

I'm also happy to get crossovers of any kind or fic in unusual or experimental formats, including IF! And I'm happy to get any sort of treats, including non-fic format, if someone is inspired.

If you've scrolled down my recent DW posts you might have the impression I am obsessed with enemy ships, but I am just in the middle of a three-month-long self-imposed posting challenge, I promise I am not actually obsessed with enemy ships and would be happy with lots of other kinds of shipping! Though scrolling down some of those recs posts would probably give you a better idea of my general likes than any list I attempted to come up with here.

Also I limited my character requests on a couple fandoms mostly because I wasn't sure I could come up with prompts for everyone, but if you want to write other characters, there aren't really any in these fandoms that I don't want!

( Astielle )


( Rock Candy Mountain (Comics) )


( Casablanca (1942) )


( The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner )


( Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet )


( Loki: Agent of Asgard )

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October 23rd, 2021 09:49 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 71. Jaime/Brienne
My knowledge of Game of Thrones canon is... limited? I read the first three books, just before book four came out, in the course of a week, but then I heard that in book four, the *only* characters I cared about were going to be Jaime and Brienne, the others were all getting pushed to book five. And I had already started skipping around the the chapters I cared about (have I mentioned my lack of patience for POV-switching books where there are dozens of POVs and the different threads have nothing to do with each other?) so I said I was just going to wait to read any more until the whole series was out. Also it was becoming increasingly clear that it was *not* going to be Frontier Wolf fanfic like the first couple of chapters implied.

Fifteen years later I think I have been justified in waiting :P I never watched any of the show (not having access to HBO or caring enough to pirate) but I have kind of kept up with the Jaime/Brienne fanfic, because I to do enjoy them.

Jaime is a tarnished night: after too many years of royal politics, he's best known for murder and betrayal, and for brazenly sleeping with another man's wife (who is also his sister), and for blatantly playing off the way his family's money and power and his own talent mean nobody can do anything about it, and being an asshole about it into the bargain.

Brienne is Britomart, or more directly Bradamant of Orlando Furioso: the female knight, undefeated in battle and untouchable in honor. (I first met her in The Compleat Enchanter and have loved her since.) Except, since it's a George R. R. Martin book, instead of being known throughout the land for her uncontested beauty as well, she's spent her life being insulted and harassed and thinks she's ugly, because you've gotta cram the misogyny in there wherever it fits.

Anyway, Jaime and Brienne end up crossing a war-torn land with Jaime as Brienne's prisoner, but it goes wrong and they end up having to rescue each other, and by the end of it they have come to like each other despite themselves. And then presumably some other stuff happens, but that's where it was left at the end of the last book I read, and literally all the fic goes AU at some point after that, because seriously, this canon.

But they make such a good enemyship! The actual lines of enemy/ally are flickering back and forth across the gameboard like lightning at that point, because plot, but through the whole thing Jaime and Brienne trust each other, and they're the only ones who do: everybody knows Jaime as the Kingslayer, regicide, traitor; everybody knows Brienne as the laughingstock lady who thinks she's a knight; but they know each other somehow, and they trust each other even when the whole world says they shouldn't. Meanwhile, having the admiration and respect of a knight who - for all his tarnish - is one of the most handsome, strong, brave and skilled in all the land - does wonders for Brienne's self-esteem. And Brienne "pours out honor like a fountain", and give him enough time and Jaime will soak up enough to remember how to use his own again.

Also this is a very good pairing for arranged marriage and marriage of convenience fic so there's that too.


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