themorikelife | Entries tagged with fandom exchanges

I forget my inspiration for signing up for this exchange. Maybe I was just excited about writing and receiving a fic well above the normal fic exchange minimum. I didn't write a letter to document what I was feeling at the time, so we will go with "I wanted to write something long."

To my surprise, I received two fics for this exchange! Making it the third in a row that I received two fics! I know this streak of good karma isn't going to last. I am grateful for it anyway. But enough about that. Let's get to the fics!

( Fics! Fics! Fics! )

Have a smiley day!

Current Mood: loved

This wrap up is a long time coming. Mostly because the preamble is very personal and I am, in my natural state, a private person. But if I learned anything, it was that being vulnerable and asking for what you want will get you what you need. Such a treat for an exchange you didn't sign up for.

So I would like to extend my deep gratitude to

happinesssceceit and

Koschei_B. They gifted me wonderful fics, and I cherish both their kindheartedness and their fics.

I would also like to thank the mods of the Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2022. You were really nice and considerate. The comfort to my hurt.

Thank you thank you thank you. <333

( My Hurt/Comfort Fics )
May the coming season bring you the comfort you need. <3

Current Mood: grateful

First and foremost, I'm so excited that you are writing a fic for me! Please do not stress about this assignment in the slightest. I am looking forward to the fic you'll be writing.

I'm going to do something a little different with this exchange letter. Instead of explaining why I like certain ships or fandoms (which would just be repeating what I've said in previous letters), I'm going to explain why I chose the additional tags I chose (if I feel like an explanation needs to be given) and then offer prompts. If you would like to see previous letters for my general likes and dislikes, my sign up should have all that. This letter is meant to be a supplement.

Some tags have more explanations and prompts than others. That doesn't mean anything, just that I was feeling particularly inspired when writing that part of the letter. I want all prompts and AUs equally! If something doesn't have prompts under it, consider that permission to do whatever you want. If a tag does have a prompt under it, consider that permission to do whatever you want too. All this to say, everything here is a suggestion. Feel free to adhere or ignore as you seem fit.

This letter is going to be pretty long, so I apologize in advance for subjecting you to its length and odd organization. I'm putting all the additional tags behind cuts for your convenience.

[EDIT] Here are easy hyperlinks to all the prompts by fandom! (Links go comments on this post):

( General Overview )
( 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction AU )
( A Character Has Always Been a Cat )
( A/B/O - Omegaverse Regency Romance )
( Age of Sail )
( Character is the Ferryboatman Who Takes Souls to the Afterlife )
( Chuck Tingle-Style Story )
( Circus/Traveling Carnival AU )
( Dieselpunk )
( Homeowner's Association )
( In-Universe Coffee Shop AU )
( Jedi AU )
( Mecha )
( One Character is Exploring an Uninhabited Planet but Keeps Finding Suspicious Hints )
( Phone Sex Operator AU )
( Regency-Inspired Science Fiction AU )
( Robotech or Macross AU )
( Secret Agents but Identify is Continually Blown Due to a Recognizable Butt )
( Soukyuu no Fafner Fusion )
( Space Setting like that of Silver Millennium from Sailor Moon )
( Weird Adventures While Living Together in a Retirement Home )
( Western/Wild West with Powers/Magic )
( Western - Mail Order Brides )

Current Mood: excited

Hello! I am excited about this exchange and so happy that you’ll be writing for me. Just in case you need it, this is blanket permission to go wherever your muse takes you!

I am excited for this exchange because there are so many heterosexual relationships that I would love more if they were both women and kept the same dynamics they had in canon.

My general likes and DNWs are in my sign up on AO3, so I’ll only repeat them at the very end. In the meantime, this is what I like about all the fandoms and ships I’m requesting.

( Full Letter )

( Signup Boilerplate )

Thanks so much! Looking forward to my gift!

Current Mood: artistic

I am so, so excited that you (yes you!) will be making something for me. I already know it’s going to be fabulous.

This letter is more of a guide than a manual. It’s here to give insight, provide clarification, and answer questions I cannot anticipate. If you are stuck between doing things your way and doing things my way, do the thing that feels right for the story. At the end of the day, I enjoy a quality fic more than a fic that followed my preferences to its detriment. If you still have questions, my Tumblr has anonymous turned on. :) Or you can ask the mods to pass on the question. Either will reach me!

I prefer a fic or podfic for my gift. I will accept treats of any medium!

Below the cut is further explanation of why I like each pairing. My sign up is organized in such a way that any additional tag can go with any couple in the request. I have some suggested prompts for one fandom, and it’s up to you whether you follow them or not.

Most importantly, I really hope you have fun!

( General Likes/DNWs )

( Just Married Full Letter )

Thanks so much for writing and/or creating for me! I can’t wait to read the wonderful thing you wrote!

Current Mood: excited

You know, I had this really long post written out, with the HTML and everything, but then I realized that it was probably too long of a post for people to actually read. Skim? Sure. Appreciate my fine words for the art that they are? Absolutely not.

So this post is all about the SpaceSwap that finished up weeks ago. And so it doesn’t annoy your timeline, I have it underneath a cut (I figured out how to do those now!)

( ”Space!Swap!” )

If I tagged you and you don't want to be tagged, please let me know and I'll remove it. Thanks for reading!

Current Mood: bouncy

Hello! I feel a little weird writing this post because there’s some dynamics to it that I am about to explain.

First, I did not sign up for the hurtcomfortex this year. I’ll say why in a minute. But I still wanted to participate because hurt/comfort and angst are my two favoritest things in fic. So I watched the pinch hits and I took an assignment that would be fun to write and I am having fun writing it.

But it would also be fun to receive a fic as a gift. You see, my dad died unexpectedly immediately before sign ups. I did not sign up because I didn’t know if I would have the spoons to write fic at all, so I didn’t. But here I am, in possession of said spoons for fic writing, and it would be really nice to receive a fic of my favorite tropes right about now.

I asked the mods if they would have a post for pinch hitters to list their requests. I am currently awaiting a response to that, even if that response is No. [EDIT: The post is up! I'm so glad!] This post is mostly a request to the void. If you are listening, void, and if you would like to write something for me, I would love to read it.

(I just realized that I am in a couple servers with someone named Void, and I want to clarify that this is not a request to them in particular. I say Void as a general plea to the Internet At Large.)

No one is obligated to write a gift/treat for me for this exchange, or in general. I want to stress that. This is just a “it would be nice if . . .” sort of thing mixed with a "You don't receive anything if you don't ask" sort of thing. If it happens, great! If it doesn’t happen, cool. There is an entire collections’ worth of fic I can read and enjoy without one gifted to me.

That being said, this post is structured thusly:

Fandoms and Relationships from the Hurt/Comfort Exchange tagset
Freeform tags/prompts
General Likes/DNWs

For your reference, here is the Hurt/Comfort Exchange collection for this year.

( Fandoms and Relationships )

( Freeform Tags but Mostly Prompts )

( General Fanfiction Likes/DNWs )

Thank you so much for your interest!

Current Mood: hopeful

Creators for the Rare Femslash Exchange are revealed! Now is the time to celebrate what I wrote and what I received!

My resolution for 2022 was to only write fanfiction for fandom exchanges. I was thinking it would only be a handful of times throughout the year and that would redirect my writing energy towards original fiction. Except I keep finding more and more multifandom exchanges and I want to participate in them all! As I write this, I am eyeing the Hurt Comfort Exchange and the Unsent Letters Exchange. Lemme tell you, I am Tempted. So very Tempted. I love Hurt/Comfort as a trope. And the premise behind Unsent Letters sounds so fun!

In January and February, I had a fun time writing for the Rare Femslash Exchange. If your femslash pairing had over a certain amount of fics in it, it did not qualify for this exchange. I wrote a gift and a treat, and I also received a gift and a treat! Here are the fics in question.

I never expected to receive a treat, so I am very excited to announce that I received two fics in this exchange! Both are fairly short, but both are lovely. I can’t pick a favorite out of the two.

This first one is just plain fun, and it captures the slapstick essence of Sailor Moon perfectly. There’s also a gimmick in this fic, so I can’t say much about it in terms of plot. But I loved how everything played out, and the characterizations of everyone is spot on!

Battle to the End by neosaiyanangel
Fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Relationship: Seiya Kou/Usagi Tsukino
Quick Summary:Two sailor scouts, both alike in stubbornness, vie for [SPOILER]. I’m not going to give specifics because the fic is so short and the reveal is comedic gold. This fic is delightful and the ending made me smile.

Passing the Torch by neosaiyanangel
Fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Relationship: Seiya Kou/Usagi Tsukino
Emotional hurt/comfort where Usagi and Seiya visit Mamoru’s grave. The angst was delicious and sweet. Go read it!

I defaulted my original assignment, unfortunately. I felt kind of bad, but I also couldn’t get into what I had to write. I tried a few times, and I was not feeling it. Nor was I feeling any idea that came to mind that my recipient would like. I’m sure if I had the spoons to get something together over a long period of time, I would be able to. But the writing period for this was also during an intense family emergency and thus, any writing I did couldn’t be for something that required a lot of mental energy. So I apologize to my original recipient for defaulting. I hope you got something much more amazing that I could have ever produced.

I did, however, spend an evening trolling the request summaries for prompts I could knock out as treats. To make up for not writing for my original recipient, you know? This prompt I fell in love with, in part because it’s a similar idea to what I requested. And why not, right? And I got such sweet, long comments on it too! The recipient really liked it, which is always heartwarming.

Say my name like an elegy by Morike91 (me)
Fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Relationship: Queen Serenity/Sailor Pluto
Quick Summary: Vignettes of a developing relationship between a queen and her sentinel.

I also took up a post-deadline pinch hit! I was reading through what needed to be written and I came across one prompt that I figured I could write. So I got the pinch hit, wrote the fun little fic, and had a good time. As of this writing, the recipient still hasn’t commented, but they did leave kudos.

All this work for a party? by Morike91 (still me)
Fandom: Hawkeye (TV 2021)
Relationship: Yelena Bolokov/Kate Bishop
Quick Summary: Yelena has a proposal to Kate. It’s a proposal.

Look for more exchange work later this year, and possibly into next year too!

Current Mood: bouncy

Dear Spacer:

Hello! I am so excited that you are writing for me! I hope this letter acts as inspiration and gives you a good primer of my tastes. This exchange sounds super fun, and I would love anything that leans into the humorous and playful.

Things I love: hurt/comfort, character study, complicated relationships, exploration of platonic relationships, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, character-focused or character-driven stories, femslash, ace or aro headcannons

I am good with canon-divergences, missing scenes, post/pre-canon stuff—wherever your muse takes you! I am normally a sucker for angst. As I would prefer a playful or lighthearted fic for this exchange, feel free to use angst for comedic effect!

DNWs: noncon/rape, sexual violenc and/or sexual assault (references to the previous are fine; I just don’t want to read any sort of depiction of it), scat, pisskink, other bodily fluids (some mention is fine), intense or lots of gore, doing something for shock value, character bashing, AUs that send the characters outside of their original universe (with the exception of The Locked Tomb)

I would like fanfiction or podfic for my exchange gift. I will accept treats of any medium!

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Thank you so much and I can’t wait to read what you write!

Current Mood: happy

This wrapped up more than a month ago and here is my summary of fics received and written.

I organized this event, with the help of my wonderful mod team, and there was a time last month where I thought of putting out some type of wrap up/summary post about everything about the exchange, from how many words were written, which pairings and tags were the most popular, etc. That never happened. This is also not that post. I am Tired and can’t be bothered. (If I didn’t have a day job, maybe I would have bothered. But alas, the rent payment is due every month regardless of my fancies.)

Anyway, as a mod, I had a great time and I am glad for the positive reactions to the exchange. As a writer and contributor, my recipient did not kudos or comment on my fic. They also defaulted their own assignment. There was one ask shortly after Assignments went out that expressed upset feelings about the assignment they received, and I have a feeling with no proof that my recipient was that disgruntled anon. I have only kept that to myself until now.

But enough about that. Here is the wonderful fic I received!

In the Gold Room (Here I Am Leaving You Clues) by searchforthescars
Relationship: Camilla Hect & Palamedes Sextus
Tags: Fairy Tale

The request I wanted most of all was a Cam & Pal fairy tale AU and my writer delivered! In my request, I specified that the fairy tale in question is up to the writer. I am honored that the fairy tale recreated here was a homebrew tale from the writer’s favorite librarian as a child. Seriously, that’s so amazing. I love this little fairy tale. I cherish it. Please read it and send the writer many deserving platitudes!

Thinking that it would be easier to match with someone, I put in my offer Modern Setting Griddlehark, knowing that I could write that pretty easily. Well, that was certainly the tag I matched with! Except there was another prompt that caught my eye: The western vampire au. I knew going into this fic that I would be writing that, as that was the more interesting prompt I received.

So I give you my fic! I spent hours and hours reading this aloud in a Yankee version of a Southern accent, so advanced apologies if I get turns of phrases completely wrong. I am not a western gal, but I leaned into what I knew of the aesthetic as I wrote. Please enjoy. And if you feel like making a podfic out of it, you have my permission to do so! I think it would sound amazing when spoken aloud, but that’s just me. :)

my cathedral is the badlands (come back to me, darling) by Morike91
Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Alternate Universe - Western, Canon-Typical Violence, Check beginning notes for content warnings, Harrow the Ninth Spoilers (Locked Tomb Trilogy)
Relationship: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Thank you for reading, and if you participated. thank you for participating! I hope to see you all again next year!

Current Mood: tired

Dear Creator:

Hello! I am so excited that you are writing for me! I can’t wait to read what you’ve got in store. I hope this letter acts as inspiration and gives you a good primer of my tastes.

Things I love: angst, hurt/comfort, character study, complicated relationships, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, character-focused or character-driven stories

I am good with AUs, canon-divergences, missing scenes, post/pre-canon stuff—wherever your muse takes you! Smut and kinky smut are great! If you want to write a couple thousand words of sex, I would like some exploration of character through it (and also, I would love to read it).

DNWs: noncon/rape, sexual violence, sexual assault (references to the previous three are fine; I just don’t want to read any sort of depiction of it), scat, pisskink, doing something for shock value

I would like fanfiction for my exchange gift. I will accept treats of any medium!

Please read my Dear Creator letter for specific prompts on each fandom/pairing.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

I love the tension between Seiya Kou (Sailor Star Fighter) and Usagi Tsukino in the anime! Anything you can think of to bring these two together would be wonderful. I think Queen Serenity should reward her lonely sentinel Sailor Pluto. And if you want to make that union sad, I willingly offer my heart on a plate and a hammer. I would love to read anything you come up with for Queen Nehellenia/Princess Serenity!

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Olivier Mira Armstrong deserves a woman as strong as her, and that woman is Izumi Curtis. Their boys are already having fun together, so they should have a little fun too. I know Winry Rockbell and Paninya err on the side of “total fluff,” but I would love to see what brings them together (or drives them apart). The clan-based rivalry between Lan Fan and Mei Chang is ripe for the picking, especially if Lan Fan is prone to falling for ambitious individuals.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Ritsuko and Misato have History with a capital H. Their relationship is ripe with angst and complication. Anything you write with these two would be loved.

The Locked Tomb Series

I cannot contain my love for this series into what amounts to a single 30-second elevator pitch, so I’ll just let the fact that most of my AO3 profile is Locked Tomb fic speak for itself. ^_^;; I think Camilla Hect/Dulcinea Septimus is a fabulous pairing. Same with Abigail Pent/Dulcinea Septimus. Any depictions of Real!Dulcie being a complete menace are wonderful. I love Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Camilla Hect and firmly believe we need more fics of this rarepair. For Gideon Nav/Ianthe Tridentarius—they have the best on-page chemistry and I’d love to see that further explored.

Arcane League of Legends

This is my latest obsession. Have you seen? I love it so much. All the fight scenes between Sevika/Vi are charged with something. Vi being the prodigy of Vander and coming home to find his “kingdom” decimated is something I’d love to see more in fic. She basically is a Hamlet figure, right? Caitlyn/Jinx is super interesting, and I’d love to see if or what Jinx’s fixation on her is rooted in anything other than abandonment. Whoever put the Cassandra/Greyson tag on the tagset, I love you. Why is Greyson invited to Cassandra’s hunting lodge party? What are they hiding? [smirk]

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Of all the princesses, I love Perfuma and Scorpia the best. Perfuma/Scorpia have fantastic chemistry, and any fic where they lift each other up would be golden. Perfuma/Huntara is amazing and I love to see it, especially if their dynamics from their one episode together are further explored.

The Expanse (TV)

I’m more invested in the television show than the books. I love Camina Drummer/Naomi Nagata because their dynamic is rooted in friendship and shared competence. Bobbie Draper/LeeLee is everything I love, with a rivals-to-coworkers/enemies-to-lovers dynamic. (LeeLee being the criminal chick she interacts with in season 4). And now that season 6 is airing, seeing more Clarissa Mao/Naomi Nagata and their rough dynamic evolving into something more would be great candy. I didn’t know I wanted a f!James Holden/Monica Stuart until I saw it in the tagset. And now I am Interested with a capital I.

Original Work

These prompts are so great, I’ll let them speak for themselves! Additional notes I may have are in parenthesis.

Bartender/Gang Member
Immortal Demonic Sorceress/Reincarnation of her Angelic Nemesis
Pirate Captain/Admiral from the royal navy (can be set in space/a space opera if desired)
Princess who is cursed to marry for love/Ace betrothed for an arranged marriage (honestly, the thing that I am hoping to write myself)
Sensible but Lonely Queen-Elect/Charming Hereditary Princess Marrying Her for Political Reasons
Injured Gunslinger/Her Ex-Lover Who Always Nurses Her Wounds
Female Writer of Fluffy Fanfiction/Female Writer of Fucked Up Fanfiction
Barista who Loves Coffee Shop AUs/Grumpy Patron Secretly Writing them

Go forth and write something amazing! I promise I’ll love it <3 <3 <3

Current Mood: creative

This was my first time participating in the annual Femslash Exchange. You can read more about it at its official Dreamwidth page. While not my first fandom exchange, it is the first one I participated in that was handled entirely through AO3.

Part of my participation was research for the TLT Holiday Fic Exchange, which I'm organizing.

And also: femslash. I have some thoughts about femslash that I'm not ready to expound on just yet; I can say that I enjoy what I've been reading and writing. And I intend to write more of it in the future.

But enough about that. This is the gift I got in this exchange!

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Current Mood: grateful

Dear Creator,

I am so excited that you’ll be gifting me this fic, you have no idea! Hopefully all the information below made it into the prompt on AO3, and this letter exists on the off-chance that it doesn’t. I hope it’s a useful reference for you to get started on your fic-writing journey.

First, a general list of Do Not Wants. I’ll be repeating these with each prompt, but each prompt also has some that are unique to it.

Catch all* DNWs: sexual violence/abuse, pisskink, scat, lack of aftercare, intense violence, intense gore

*I removed the intense violence and intense gore from the last prompt to allow for a deliciously gruesome crime, but I would like it if that gruesomeness stayed well out of the bedroom

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