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Hi! I am so glad you are writing for me! I hope you found my prompt(s) not too terrifying!
As usual, anything you wrote me in any of the fandoms I requested will make me very, very happy! I am not a picky sort of person! I just love these fandoms & characters and want to increase the love! And I tend to get scary with the exclamation points in these letters! But I am usually a quite non-scary person, honest!
If you would like more help, though, I can go on about about what I want in fic that I don't have to write for *ages*.
General stuff: I like het, gen, slash, femslash, poly, and things that don't fit those categories. There are no kinks or genres I will not read, if written well and with affection. If you're inspired to a crossover, I love crossovers, and for a small fandom, really don't care if I know the other fandom involved. If you're inspired to an AU or crackfic, ditto. Clicking the tags on this post will get you a bunch more of me rambling about the kind of stories I like to see, too.
Specific fandoms & requests:
Lucky Starr: If you don't know these stories, it's six short YA novels written by Isaac Asimov in the 1950s, intended as a TV pitch. They're supposed to be "Lone Ranger in Space", but ended up being closer to the Green Lantern or equivalent.
They're very, very 1950s YA sci-fi, from the earnest but obsolete science to the basically complete lack of anyone but clean-limbed young white men even existing, but the characters are compellingly written (and very, very gay), and the stories are set up as intricate puzzle-mysteries that are just fun to read.
If you're interested, they are quick reads and have been in print enough that they should be pretty easy to find copies of. Here are totally-not-illegal-I-swear ebooks of Lucky Starr 1 and 3-6. (I don't have 2, but that's okay, because it is my least favorite of them all. Also the one with the most backstory, alas, but you can't win 'em all. 5 & 6 are indubitably the best of the lot, though.)
This is actually recycling a request from the first yuletide ever! So let's see: Wess/Lucky, yes, there was so *clearly* some history there, and Wess is just such a *magnificent* bastard. And if you want to write me Henree/Conway, you are my favorite ever: if you want a prompt, I'd love something about them as parents: how acquiring Lucky as a child changed their relationship; how they feel as a couple & as parents as he grows up & finds his way & starts taking risks with his life, especially them in private & public during the period when all the galaxy hates him, in Rings of Saturn; or earlier, with David & Barbara getting together, and how pairings and friendships happened and strengthened--
If you write me an explicit Henree/Conway sex scene set during canon I will love you forever.
Er, the Bigman thing: I really try not to put negative requests in, because I know that if you 'ship the ship and get one, it can be really offputting, but I see Lucky as having far too much power in the relationship for me to buy them being together without a lot of changes happening first. It's obvious Bigman loves him, though, and if you want to write me 50,000 words justifying how they got from where they were at the end of canon, to where Henree and Conway are, I will not complain.
If you don't feel the slash
Anthony Villiers: If you don't know this canon, you are not alone. According to the internets, it has a "cult following", but I have seen no evidence thereof, and have thus decided to create one for it.
When I first started reading it, I summarized it to myself as "what would happen if someone had taken an outline of a Heinlein juvenile, given it to P. G. Wodehouse to write, and then let Terry Pratchett beta-read." Or as the first google result says, "ANTHONY VILLIERS, sometime-Viscount, is a sort of travelling adventurer/gambler/private eye, a kind of interplanetary Simon Templar, with a bit of Bret Maverick tossed in, living off his wits. He's young and slight of build, but that doesn't seem to stop him, or his faithful companion, Torve the Trog, a large furry toad who rides a red tricycle, from wandering the universe, having wildly improbable adventures rescuing fair maidens and thwarting the bad guys. A combination of The Brothers Grimm, The Rockford files, and Star Trek."
In other words, it's a late-1960s SF series that was written by a fan who loved the genre, and loved best using its own tools to point out how silly it is. It's hilariously and lightly written and clever and lovely and slashy-as-all-get-out, it takes all the period SF cliches and makes them come out the way they ought to, and full of barely-mentioned corners of a broad universe that need fleshing out.
It's three short novels, but not very easy to find; hasn't been reprinted for almost twenty years, and I haven't found the third one myself, though apparently there is a complete edition for kindle. But hey! I happen to have some not-at-all-pirated-no ebooks I can share: New Celebrations: The Complete Adventures of Anthony Villiers.
Alternatively, you can just go to Alexei Panshin's website and read the hilarously, meticulously detailed and documented account of his feud with Robert Heinlein over whether Heinlein could write sex or not, which puts all of f_w to shame forever, and then write me 1960s SF Fandom RPF instead. I wouldn't mind. (Though the website is longer than the books...)
Irresponsible Captain Tylor: This is an amazing anime series from the 1990s that one of my friends forced me to sit down and watch. I'm not entirely sure how to summarize it - basically, it's set in a deeply earnest space-opera universe where we have been at war with the alien empire for years and the great heroes of our space navy protect the planets.
Except the main character only joined the military for the health insurance and retirement benefits, doesn't believe in violence, and treats laziness as a religion He's either the luckiest fool who ever lived, or so very twisted and clever that even he doesn't understand the depths of his plans - or both. He's basically what would happen if Captain Jack and the Doctor had a kid, only turned up to 11. And as he stumbles his way up the ranks, he acquires an equally hilarious supporting cast.
The first episode isn't really the best, but if you hang in until episode 3, I guarantee you will be unable to stop watching; it gets that brilliant, that fast. There are only twenty-six episodes of the TV series, and oh look, someone has been posting them on youtube!
I mentioned "bio-hack-y" in my request; what I meant by that was I love stories that deal with human bodies & minds that aren't the factory standard model. Specifically in this case I was thinking of the fact that Azalyn's medical staff seem to have quite a lot of capabilities, and may have done things to Tylor other than the obvious... but there's lots of other scope in the series, starting with androids and near-humanoid aliens and carrying on from there. And if you don't want to write about that, don't force yourself-there's plenty else to explore.
Um, and if you don't want to write my dream Azalyn/Tylor D/s story, I really don't blame you; you can write me pretty much anything set in this canon and it will be a story I already burningly desire. (This canon is also quite ripe for crossovers with other space opera 'verses. If someone can write me believable Tylor vs. Miles Vorkosigan, I will probably spontaneously explode from joy.)
I've only seen the TV series, but I don't mind if you bring in elements from the OVA or novels (though Tylor/Yuriko is probably the 'ship I'm least interested in of them all.)
Web 2.0 Anthropomorphic : HOW had nobody requested this yet??? Tragic. I am forced to bite the bullet for you all.
My vision for the story you will write me is something about DW that could slot into the same universe as
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china_shop's Making Up Is Hard To Do. Especially if the DW character you create emphasizes the site's commitment to diversity. And it ends up being poly.But really, the coolest thing about anthropomorfic is that you can go anywhere you want with it, and please do, and bring in as many characters as you'd like, and be as cracky and off-the-wall as you want, and basically have fun! I would prefer that if you can't say something nice about Dreamwidth, Journalfen, or Librarything, you don't say anything about them at all, because I love those sites beyond logic, but other than that, go wild.
A Final Note as usual: I will probably be in the land of No Internets for the last week of the year, so I may be a bit late in responding to your story, but I will do my best to get you feedback before reveals - even if it means walking to the library in the snow - and if I don't manage until late, please believe me that it's no reflection on you or your story.
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...I do not have a problem, I can stop any time. Really.
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