halcyonine

another year another post! going to put some of my thoughts in here too this time

jan 21
天元册 by 上灵 : https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8799422

two people on opposing sides of the jianghu get stranded on a deserted island together! oh dear, whatever will happen to them.
the author started very strongly but began to waffle in the middle - there were three different plot threads going on there and they were all suffering from padding. this problem was still around in the ending but to a much lesser scale, and the ending did neatly wrap everything up in a bow. gave it four stars on jjwxc as the average of the five/three/four I would give for start/middle/end respectively

jan 26
a deadly education, naomi novik

what if your school wanted to eat you but there was an easy way not to get eaten but also you were prophesised to be evil but just want to be a good person!!
delightfully fun, I greatly enjoyed it. love it when authors strike the balance between sharing their worldbuilding and making it ordinary because that's the world the character's lived in for the whole time. love how much character el gets to have, and how much the world gets to have. also long before I read this I read a tumblr post that said this and victory condition were twins and. yeah man I can see it. and victory condition was pretty fucking mindblowing so im hoping for good things out of the remaining two in the trilogy!

jan 30th
some desperate glory, emily tesh

area woman in authoritarian regime accidentally discovers free will.
the extent of my space opera is like, teixcalaan and the hands of the emperor. aka not a big dataset, so I went in blind. this made it interesting, because the first few pages of the book allowed me to predict... roughly the first third, I think, purely off how this type of story works. after which the kitchen sink flew out the window. very strong character work here - kyr isn't much of a likable protagonist, but she's meticulously crafted, and that was really established very early on. stayed up late to finish this book at midnight despite having to go to office the next day, so, y'know. it's got company.

feb 5th
detective chinatown 1900

not a movie I would rewatch, but there was no falling asleep in the theatre so. liu haoran is cute and that's kind of the only unambiguous positive I have about it

feb 10
nezha 2

not me running to book as soon as they put extra advanced screenings in... I have many good things to say about this movie, but unfortunately it did rely on a trope I tend to be iffy towards (miscommunication) which was, however, perfectly in character, so there's a war here between me being impressed at the craft and me being annoyed (by a three-year-old being impatient - wow I sound like an ass). this movie has some incredible animation in it and is truly a visual feast for the eyes. the pacing I'm less sure of, which is probably because an effective miscommunication plot requires things to jump around (much like my blood pressure), and the narrative was simple but easily grasped and fairly well-delivered. incredible continuity between nezha 1 and nezha 2 in characterisation which is great for a film which starts 5 minutes after the first one ends.

my only gripe is there wasn't enough ao guang HA please I need more of the hot single dragon dad who may or may not be an ex of the emperor. please

feb 15
nezha 2

rewatch! knowing the pacing made me a lot less unhappy with it haha. also these two comments are playing in repeat in my head: 【大海啊全是水 敖丙呀全是腿】【父王我是你女儿 我是敖夜！！】 puns are SO funny. also turns out the cure to not enough ao guang is just to rewatch! immediately 2x the ao guang content!

feb 23
conclave

actually an insanely good movie, probably the best twenty five dollars I've spent recently (generally do Not pay the full adult fare thru work discounts and the like). every time I thought I knew where this movie might be going towards conclave said lmao no. much like how god tells cardinal lawrence lmao no-
also the vape is literally inspired. hats off for that characterisation fr

feb 25
the golden raven, nora sakavic

love the "man wants to play made-up sport so much he's willing to get ganked by the yakuza for it" universe. second of the trilogy and it really shows - but decently enjoyable in its own right. jean moreau my beloved <3

I think my main issue with it is mainly the time setting - iirc aftg is supposed to be early 2000s? but it doesn't feel like that at all, a lot closer to late 2010s than early 2000s. at least thats when i started noticing bubble tea pop up... I laughed very very hard over put phone in rice but that does also feel out of time. it's weird!

mar 1
the fifth season, nk jemisin

welcome to the end of the world
apparently some people didn't but can't relate - I really enjoyed the narrative voice here. always have a soft spot for second person and using second/third to split the long ago and the immediate is so clever I'm mad I can't think of anything else that does this. something richly hypnotic about second person and the tone in this one that made me settle in for a story immediately... only awakening four hours later with no more book to read. alas.
gorgeous worldbuilding too, it permeates the story and because the second person hit me like I was sitting down to a storyteller it flowed incredibly well. overall a super enjoyable read!

mar 2
the last graduate, naomi novak

*clenches fist* better review incoming but UGH does its job as second in a trilogy too well because immediately i need the third one

maybe the school is just tired and overworked and doesn't want to kill you...
feels like this book is weaker than its predecessor bc it kind of gets mired down in character development... which ofc is extremely valuable, but GOD do I want to shake el a little bit. this is kinda the same problem I had with rin in the poppy war - she's so doomerism and I'm not and I kinda want to reach across and shake her. simultaneously impressed with the characterisation work and raging at the characterisation. falling squarely into the its good but it doesn't appeal to me square of the quadrant. worldbuilding remains crazy tho and its true, immediately i need the third one.

mar 8
conclave, robert harris

118 men try their bestest to elect a pope
its very rare for me to be reading the book after watching the movie, so I credit this to not knowing the book existed beforehand lmao. it's a pretty good book! and now I can reflect on where the movie stayed faithful (ha) and where it diverged, and generally most of them were very strong storytelling choices. never going to stop thinking abt how thomas lawrence means man with doubts being roasted alive in saint-name meanings. but also I got so many more religious reading out of the book than the movie haha (well, it's not like there's a narrator voice in the movie in sotto voce telling you this quote is from this theologian!)

mar 23
the golden enclaves, naomi novik

and if you made the world a kinder place-
ahhhh I really think this book nailed the landing, hammered in the trilogy's themes, sealed off the unwitting earlier lore drops etc etc. added all the finishing architecture. there are many more construction metaphors I can use. the world expands so much in the third book now that they're out of the scholomance, and it's delight and horror both. when she described liu and deathlessness and everything snapped together it was !!!!
and also, I'm telling you, there are transformers everywhere for those with eyes to see (you cannot tell me orion lake has no relation to optimus prime you can't... its in the name...)

mar 26
silk and venom: the incredible lives of spiders, james o'hanlon

this is a book about spiders!
this is a very cool book about spiders, actually. whenever an author is very passionate about their work it bleeds through the pages and it's like I'm sharing in their joy and enthusiasm. plus he has a great sense of humour, so every chapter in this book was like a slice of secondhand euphoria and a great way to relax. also there's photos in this book, and what do you mean this is a spider, this is CLEARLY an ant - wait how many legs does it have?
i'm still very much in the spider-please-stay-away-from-me camp but that did not stop this book being a great read - glad I picked it up on a whim from the library.

apr 4
four seasons in rome, anthony doerr

a memoir about living in rome for a year, and raising twins, and insomnia, and life
picked this up on a whim from the library too and thoroughly enjoyed it; knew him before from all the light we cannot see (which I haven't read yet...) and that was it. this is a gorgeous memoir - there's so many beautiful turns of phrase in here, and I do feel his musings on perhaps only babies/children appreciating the world while the rest of us are mired in habit. lots and lots of musings in here, very much enjoyed wandering around his metaphorical brain, if I ever win the lotto I too would get a studio in rome for a year

also its so funny to me a conclave happened in this book too. just when i was climbing out

apr 18-onwards
started playing ludicrous amounts of sultan's game. this has been very bad for my sleeping habits.

may 7
string theory: david foster wallace on tennis, david foster wallace

a collection of essays on tennis
backstory: i found the chinese translation of this in a hotel I stayed at and got sufficiently curious to find it in english. thank you my not-local libraries you do me a great service <3 this is definitely an interesting collection of essays, he does have a way with words... though it came off as unfairly mean a couple of times to the people who were not in the spotlight of it. learned a great deal about pre-00s tennis. also saw food prices in the 00s and thought about how much they cost today and immediately became glum. (and he was complaining about how the food price was TOO HIGH back then...)

may 12
cold enough for snow, jessica au

daughter and mother go to japan for a holiday
encountered this in an article about the inaugural winner of the novel prize, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be just over 90 pages. don't know what the other candidates were, but this conjured up some emotion I can't name - instead of reading it, it was more like someone had taped it and I was listening to it on a cassette player. think the narrator and her mother never being named contributed to this, like looking through one of those translucent glass panels at the shadows behind. it was a very emotionally stable book, though in some places I get this enormous sensation of being stifled - and isn't that the narrator in a nutshell.

may 18
我的阿勒泰，李娟

semi-autobiographical short stories / essay collection of the author's time in the altay region
so there was a tv drama based on this and I saw it a lot in bookstores in china so I decided to add it to the list. and wow is it not something I expected. for one I thought it was a novel... but nope, it's a collection of short stories, divided into ~half based on the time they occurred. there is a particular sense of humour I quite enjoyed in the first half, where she's telling you exasperated facts... like the line of kazakh men lining up in the store to call their sweethearts, and sweet heavens could they hurry up it was midnight and she wanted to go to sleep! such vivid life. the second half is her life in the plains / herding grounds in the altay mountains, before she moved to 'town', and it has some incredible imagery... particularly striking is when she's describing falling asleep on the grass under the sky and its just *clenches fist* I wish that were me.

jan 6th
网游之千里之行， 云上君子

feb 26th
遗相, 刑上香

march 18th
the circuit: a tennis odyssey, rowan ricardo phillips

march 24th
piranesi, susanne clarke

march 29th
kung fu panda 4

april 14
the sunshine court, nora sakavic

june 11
丞相他觊觎朕已久, 卡了能莎

june 14
从龙，七茭白

june 16
红白囍， AyeAyeCaptain

june 18th
强宠第一受害者, 千金复来

june 30th
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, gabrielle zevin

july 1st
朕，是一个演技派, 崔罗什

july 6th
我死以后，楼不危

july 8th
玉阶遥, 白糖三两

july 31st
怀刃，如似我闻

september 24th
将军令, 偷偷写文

october 5th
broken stars anthology, edited by ken liu

october 15th
the shell collector stories, anthony doerr

nov 29th
从万米高空降临, 塞纳左岸

dec 1st
判官，木苏里

dec 2nd
好东西 / her story

dec 4th
昏君指南， 修七

dec 6th
wicked

dec 13th
gladiator ii

dec 26th
肱骨之臣, 大少一横

hihi, Yuletide writer! I’m halcyonine on ao3, and thank you for sharing my tiny fandoms  <3 it’s such a treat every year to see what happens, and I’m sure this year will be no different!

Optional details are optional, so please don’t stress about any individual prompts! As long as some funky stir-fry of my likes and your likes (and no DNWs) are created, I’ll be sitting down to feast come reveals.

General likes:

• Angst, slow burn, loyalty and devotion, enemies-to-lovers and its subsets (and enemies-to-still-enemies)
• Missing canon scenes, slight canon-divergence AUs/for want of a nail scenarios
• Imagery and random worldbuilding headcanons
• Banter! People being friends! People being witty together! People hanging out!
• Tenderness or intimacy expressed as physical touch and caretaking
• Characters being impeccably polite when actually they want to slit your throat
• Characters being competent, but also endearingly awkward out of their competency zone

NSFW likes:

• Oral sex
• Power play and power dynamics (does not have to be equal), humiliation
• Bondage, knife play, impact play, sensation play, body worship
• Dubious consent, false tenderness

DNWs:

• Setting-based AUs (modern AU, highschool AU, coffeeshop AU, Hogwarts AU etc)
• Catboys and other humans-with-animal-features
• Pregnancy/kidfic, A/B/O, genderswap
• Watersports, scat, age play, daddy kink, pet play, vore
• Christmas, pandemic, or current-events fic
• First-person POV
• CamelCase

+ you can always check my bookmarks for more indications of what I like!

 

陰陽師 | Onmyoji (Video Games)
characters: Susanoo, Jinkougyou, Yato no Kami

My beloved blorbos! To clarify, I would be happy to see anyone in the Onmyoji tagset showing up in your fic, but if you’re doing something character-centric, I’d like it the centric to be on one of these three.

On another note, since Izanami’s release is taking place during the writing period, please feel free to AU after Kujaku-Myoo’s event, or earlier.

Fandom-specific DNW: angst without a happy ending for Susanoo.

• Susanoo: I love this absolute puppy of a god and his love for the world. He’s doomed enough in the game, and it’s indeed a great flavour of angst, but I’d like something that ends happily for this guy, be it exploring the time he’s ended up in, late-night talks with Susabi, or throwing golden jade at Enmusubi – or before the time travel, during a respite from the Evil Gods? Even further before that, dealing with carnivorous plant and bird and beast in the Land of Yomi? Anything goes!
  • Ship-wise, I’m interested in Susanoo/Susabi, and if you’re into poly, I’d be extremely interested in a sedoretu with Susanoo & Tsukuyomi in one moiety and Susabi & Amaterasu in the other. So many fun dynamics in these four! If you do go for poly feel totally free to stick Izanami/Amaterasu in there as well. The more the merrier with these guys.
• Jinkougyou: Hiro!! Funky chaotic incense man with a duty on his shoulders and a brother he loves so dearly who leaves him behind, who he’s still reaching for – ahhhhh. Talk about nailing angst, loyalty, banter and power dynamics in one. The talisman pass story where he’s writing cliffhangers as a taunt and plea to Hikaru to return and read them did me so much emotional damage. Tell me anything about him – being raised in the Onkou Clan, being alone in those long lonely years, or being in Heian-Kyo!
  • Ship-wise, I don’t care either way about fictional incest, so if you want to write a Hiro/Hikaru ship fic, be my guest! I also have an extremely crack Jinkougyou/Kidomaru ship that’s basically, jin going “wow you smell like home! corpses” and kido freaking out, so if you want to sneak that in feel absolutely free. Otherwise, I’m happy to have you explore any platonic pairings.
• Yato no Kami: /pointing this man is an asshole and proud of it! Redmoon Thrillers is absolutely one of my favourite events, the dynamic of him and Seimei together at the end was just *chefs kiss*. And his awkward fascination with Vampira and the way he treats the Enshyoujo, mmmm. He hit an absolute bullseye with competency and endearing awkwardness there. I want so many more fics about his everything! Birth, previous games, what he does after he lost…
  • Ship-wise, I am extremely invested in Seimei/Yato because they are the pinnacle of characters being extremely polite while thinking of doing not polite things to each other (aka Stabbing). I’d also be really interested in an exploration of Yato/Orochi! Yato is the guy who promised to give Orochi all the blood and water in the world, after all.
    

Song Yuzhang | 宋玉章
characters: Nie Xueping, Song Yuzhang

See, I was spoiled for Song Yuzhang ages before I read the novel, and then I read the novel, and then I put down my phone when I reached it and had to recover for like an hour. And then I had to keep recovering reading the next few chapters.

I requested these two, but please feel free to include others from the novel as well! The jealousy angle between Nie Xueping and Meng Tingjing was a delight, that horse racing <333 impeccable politeness while throwing daggers at each other my beloved!

What I really like about their dynamic is just… how simple it is. How much they both respect each other. That implacable calm Nie Xueping carries with him and how it steadies Song Yuzhang. The way they court and the way they kiss. Chapter 105 I’m never forgiving you. But also, poor Song Mingzhao… to be forgotten the way shadows are forgotten…

I’d love something sweet with these two – we get plenty in canon but then they all get vaporised, you know? Song Yuzhang playing with Nie Bonian while Nie Xueping watches (waive no kidfic DNW on this one), or them going on a date, or pure explicit fun times – I feel like they’d pair great with body worship and sensation play.

Or just one of the what-ifs of canon? How would he react to knowing Song Yuzhang is Zhao Shufang? What would they be like as business partners? If Song Yuzhang never responded to his poem, or if sensibility won out over desire and their age gap convinced Nie Xueping never to try? I’d love to see your exploration!

Lymond Chronicles
characters: Graham Reid Malett, Francis Crawford

recently added some Dunnett books to my collection so when I saw this in the tagset, let’s just say all the memories of Disorderly Knights and Pawn in Frankincense rushed my brain at once. These two… head in hands. Their insane tension! Mindboggling smarts! Every time I think about that line where Richard says Lymond has found (or was it needs?) a master in Gabriel my stomach swoops three times.

Whether they’re & or / will not make a difference to me! I have no prompts for Lymond this year, though I would like to request footnotes for anything these two ridiculously educated men quote. I also have no qualms with references to other relationships, and will be most impressed if you twirl Joleta into their dance or snare Kuzum into their whirlpool. If it helps, these two nail the people being witty together, tenderness/intimacy expressed as physical touch and caretaking (that one’s crucified to the whipping scene), being impeccably polite, power dynamics and dubious consent square of my likes.

 

Thanks for writing for me! I hope reading this letter has given you some inspiration, though please remember all optional details are optional. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the collection opening at 8pm my time.

Happy Yuletide, and have fun!

 

feb 2
揽明月， 归鸿落雪

apr 10
桃花令，睡芒

may 30
pride and prejudice, jane austen

aug 12
the great gatsby, f scott fitzgerald

september 2-10
various cnovel rereads

oct 13
宋玉章，冻感超人

oct 15
dark rise, c.s pacat

nov 4
regency buck, georgette heyer

nov 14
percy jackson and the olympians: the chalice of the gods, rick riordan

nov 15
dark heir, c.s pacat

dec 19
第一剑修退休后， 时今

hihi, Yuletide writer! I’m halcyonine on ao3, and thank you for sharing my tiny fandoms ❤ I can’t wait to see what you create! Don’t stress too much about the specific prompts – optional details are optional, I’m not much good at prompting, and as long as you leave out the DNWs I’m sure I’ll love it!

General likes:

• angst, slow burn, loyalty, enemies-to-lovers and its subsets (and enemies-to-still-enemies) – any of these will make me a happy halcy!
• missing canon scenes, slight canon-divergence AUs
• imagery and random worldbuilding headcanons (if you have them, please DO insert something about how x plant was discovered in y year or whatever randomly into the narration, I find those delightful!)
• banter! people being friends! or, you know, being ‘friends’
• tenderness or intimacy expressed as physical comfort

NSFW likes:

• dubious consent
• power dynamics and power play, both equal and unequal
• bondage, knifeplay, sensation play, oral

DNWs:

• setting-based AUs (coffeeshop, modern, high school etc)
• catboys
• pregnancy/kidfic, ABO, genderswap
• watersports scat, age play, pet play, vore

onto the fandoms!

陰陽師 | Onmyoji (Video Game)
characters: Seimei, Yato no Kami, Susanoo

the game near and dear to my heart ❤ you do not have to include all characters in the same fic! and I’d prefer it if you didn’t, I don’t think Susanoo ‘time-travels 1000 years to kill a snake’ would get along very well with Yato ‘would give all the blood and water in the world to a snake’ no Kami. Seimei’s courtyard would be very sad. Prompts:

• Yato no Kami/Seimei: so I’m like, permanently afflicted with the incurable disease known as ‘want to smooch Yato’, and absolutely adored their dynamic in redmoon thrillers. [holds up a sign saying I ship it] I think they would have the most amazing banter and the cleverest flirting, and I’d love to see this in fic! I also think Yato would be the most infuriating lover and I’d love to see that too. nsfw-wise, I think Yato would have great fun letting Seimei do all sorts of things to him. I would also have great fun reading all this.
• Susanoo: my cashcow babygirl who cooks cleans and catches fish I love him so much!! very specifically for him, you can strike out the ‘angst’ from my likes because I do not want him sad at all, I want him to be the happiest person in the world! Give me stories of him and Izanagi uncontrollably roasting each other, or of Susabi leading him around the Heian-Kyo a thousand years after (feel free to play up the Susabi angst angle, by the way, HE isn’t immune to my angst tastes haha), or of him and Kagura having a night-market excursion, or him feeding Ibuki fish – just give him happiness! he deserves it!

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
characters: John Childermass, John Uskglass | The Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, Worldbuilding

I have many fond memories of this book and its very many footnotes! you do not have to include all characters in the fic. my favourite character/blorbo here is the Raven King, so I’d appreciate it if he was one of the characters – or, if you’ve gone with worldbuilding, to worldbuild me something about him. Goodness knows the footnotes about him and the history of English magic suggest lore as deep and deceptive as the Mariana Trench. Prompts:

• John Childermass/John Uskglass – loyalty is the big one this pair hits for me, so I’d love some exploration of that. Or some exploration of the Raven King rewarding Childermass for said loyalty, ahem. nsfw: bondage and sensation play, anyone? King and retainer does lend itself to so many good tropes! But also – what is it like, being the servant of the Raven King, when the Raven King is so long gone, and never gone at all, and magic is also gone and never gone at all from England?
• Catherine of Winchester and the Raven King – I am so fascinated by this period of history that we get glimpses of in JSMN! Feel absolutely free to include Thomas of Dundale and William of Lancaster and however many other magicians you need to here. That’s the worldbuilding side, but I’d be just as interested in an exploration of Catherine herself, with the Raven King only ‘present’ in the sense of magic, or in an exploration of any of the relationships that make up the pyramid of Catherine-Thomas-William-the Raven King. (I would also read a paper/essay about them from perspectives such as ‘tired modern-day undergrad who just wants to pass the unit’, just saying)
• Worldbuilding – make it something to do with the Raven King and I'll be happy as a clam! If you’re looking for something particular, I am very curious over how the Raven King gained a kingdom in Hell (and the maintenance of said kingdom, if any)

The Lion Hunters Series – Elizabeth Wein

characters: Medraut, Lleu, Goewin

To start off, I must say that I’ve only read the following in this series: The Winter Prince, the one chapter of the second book included as a preview at the end of The Winter Prince (which helpfully told me that everyone died – at which point I promptly searched for spoilers and was rewarded) and, in a fever dream, the Medraut/Morgause published in an anthology. I say fever dream because I read it once on a dodgy forum filled with Cyrillic ads and have never found it again since.

I’m not really sure what to prompt here – a continuation of the love/hate relationship between Lleu and Medraut? It gets resolved at the end of The Winter Prince, but I’d be interested in knowing what happens after when they hit the first snag, or any small conflict (neither of them being very… good, at straightforward conflict resolution. having asked for this series I don't think it needs to be said, but in any case - fictional incest is fine by me, and if you'd like to go in that direction feel free!). Anything with Lleu and Goewin and Medraut navigating the aftermath? Goewin bringing the horses home by herself, and her mental journey during that, and the aftermath of that?

And if you’d like to do a canon-divergence AU of everyone lives, nobody dies, or mess with the timeline so things don’t implode so fast – please, by all means! This book and these characters really were lovely, and I’ll be delighted with whatever you deliver.

ao3 records 64 and a half pages of history for my account this year! is that a lot? a little? guess next year will tell

but why not create a list of fave completed things I read this year while avoiding the slowly-imminent 2022? (linear time is awful, when do we get parabola time anyway)
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might as well do a reflection/summary on my writing (and life) for the first half of the year, seeing as july is horrifyingly right around the corner---

ao3 records a word count of 11432 posted for the year, which doesn't include the tumblr prompts I opened for new years' day... I can probably double this by the end of the year if thesis doesn't murder me, but that's sure an if. these 11k words are split not-very-evenly across five fics, which is more than expected!
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Hello, Yuletide writer! I’m halcyonine on ao3 – thank you for sharing my tiny fandoms and writing for me <3 This is my first time participating in Yuletide, so if you think I’ve left something out, please feel free to ask someone to poke me about it. Don’t worry too much about including the specific prompts – I’m not much good at prompting, and as long as it has some of what I like and no DNWs, I’m sure I’ll love it!

General likes:
• angst! my one dear love, particularly emotional/relationship angst.
• pining and slow burn, trust, loyalty
• enemies to lovers (enemies to enemies with benefits? works just as well)
• missing canon scenes, slight canon-divergence AUs, character studies
• imagery! especially unsettling imagery in the realm of gothic/uncanny valley. as an extension to this, worldbuilding
• bantering between characters
• characters lying on top of each other/tenderness or intimacy expressed as physical comfort

NSFW likes:
• dubious consent, false tenderness
• power dynamics (doesn’t have to be equal)
• large and very comfortable beds
• bondage and knifeplay
• sensation play
• oral sex

DNWs:
• setting-based AUs (coffeeshop, modern, high school etc)
• catboys
• pregnancy/kidfic of any sort, ABO, genderswaps
• watersports/scat, ageplay, petplay, vore
• characters explicitly killing another (threatening/offscreen is fine!)

陰陽師 | Onmyoji (Video Game)
characters: Ungaikyo, Orochi, Susabi, Miketsu

First off, you do not have to include all four characters in the same fic! Ship-wise, I’d prefer either Ungaikyo/Orochi or Orochi/Susabi, while gen can be any combination, and both SP and SSR versions of Miketsu are fine with me. The only fandom-specific DNW here is excessive ‘hmph’ing in place of dialogue – looking at you, Susabi!
Some prompts:
• For Ungaikyo/Orochi – if you play Onmyoji, you’ve surely seen that hot vampire AU art from the official account: https://twitter.com/Onmyojigame/status/1306172471670747138. Completely waive the setting-AU DNW if you’re writing off this prompt. I am up for literally any exploration of how they ended up in this position, sex is optional but intimacy would be loved here!
• Alternatively, a more canon-based exploration: as the two villains of the current plotline, what are their interactions like? How did Orochi corrupt Ungaikyo before the war of Sealand? How is Ungaikyo dealing with the loss of his yang half (how is this loss driving him to bad decisions, if you want to go the dubcon route?)
• For Orochi/Susabi – I see them as filling enemies-to-lovers here, though I can’t imagine either of them being too dedicated to the roles they’re playing. Unfortunately, I have no prompts here beyond them wanting them to be happy/resolving their angst, or as much as a resolution as two gods can get anyway.
• Gen-wise, I’d love to see any combination of them being relaxed and enjoying (or not so enjoying) each other’s company – maybe taking a day off from their divine (mirror) duties? In this case, I’d prefer the yang form of Ungaikyo to be alive.

Lymond Chronicles – Dorothy Dunnett
characters: Lymond, Gabriel

I’m currently about a sixth of the way through my Disorderly Knights reread and just. These two are a terrible, terrible, terrible disaster. Please feel free to make it as emotionally messy as you can – the more complicated and terrible they are towards each other, the better. Hurt no/false comfort is incredibly ok with me for these two.

Some prompts:
• Injury/sickfic circa Disorderly Knights? I imagine Lymond must be the injured one here, because Lymond being vulnerable and Gabriel being Gabriel is such a delicious recipe for angst, but also possibly because Jerott might fistfight him to take care of an injured Gabriel. But if you want to make Gabriel the injured one, I will also become the ‘heart eyes, motherfucker’ Vine, so.
• Stranded together in winter – ok, so my knowledge of the Scottish countryside amounts to zero, but I know it snows. Perhaps Lymond and Gabriel are out checking on something for St Mary’s when a sudden snowstorm catches them by surprise, and they have to stick together to survive. You can make this as tropey as you like; I will devour it with great pleasure.

I can’t think of any Pawn in Frankincense prompts in particular, but rest assured I would love to read versions of them during Pawn as well. As an aside, since I have maybe a hundredth of Lymond’s brain when it comes to biblical verses, Scottish history, medieval and Old English poetry, and Latin and Ancient Greek, which are all the things that make Lymond a wonderterror to read – if you’re making allusions, I would love a list of sources at the end to follow you into the rabbit hole!

Wheel of Time
characters: Rand al’Thor, Ishamael/Moridin/Elan Morin Tedronai

Where do I even start with these two? There’s something so lasting about good and evil facing off against each other. Moridin’s whole thing of searching for and being continuously denied rest just makes me go very :( and then you have Rand who is just a continuous :( saddled with duty he chains to his own shoulders until like the last scenes of Tarmon Gai’don, so. What a pair of characters.

Some prompts:
• More dreamshard shenanigans – it’s such a shame that the only time they meet in Tel’aran’rhiod is… right before/during Merrilor. I’d love them being dragged into dreamshard meetings with each other, either after important canon events (Semirhage and the cleansing of saidin spring to mind) or just during completely mundane periods in canon, since I suppose discussing with the enemy things you’ve done to the enemy is a bit… unwise
• Both Rand and Moridin live after Tarmon Gai’don AU – what would Moridin be like, with the Dark One sealed and the Bore not scheduled to open again until another revolution of the wheel and death once again snatched from him? How does Rand feel, constantly having to make sure that Moridin doesn’t do something like balefire a city in frustration? I’d prefer an implied HEA in this case – somehow Moridin gets the same epiphany Rand gets at Dragonmount, or becomes less bleak about the inevitability of the Wheel, or decides giving Rand grey hairs is more interesting than waiting to be spun around and reincarnated again. Anything that steers away from the idea of futility/resignation to inevitability is great with me!

Teixcalaan series
characters: Nineteen Adze, Yskander Aghavn, Six Direction

A great big hello to the tragic threesome that now lives rent free in my head thanks to a six-hour binge of the entire book. I would love anything that expands on the teasers of their relationship in canon, which consistently sent me into Feelings on rereads. There is so much weight to the layers of their histories, and I love it. I’m okay with the fic being focused on only two out of three characters as long as Six Direction plays a role; he gave me far too many of those feels.

I’d gladly accept epistolary fic and poetry for this fandom – if you want to write it their relationship as a series of infofiche mails, I will make grabby grabby hands, and if you write it as poetry in Teixcalaani verse I will be happy to worship you forever.

Some prompts:
• Yskandr’s seduction, both of and by, Teixcalaan – how did his relationship with both the Emperor and Nineteen Adze start? When did he think to trade Lsel technology for Lsel freedom? “Was the Emperor in bed with you when he asked you to make him immortal” – how did this conversation go, and what kind of heartbreak was it?
• The progression of Nineteen Adze and Six Direction – Nineteen Adze a young military commander, Six Direction come into the high blossoming of his power, all the way until they agreed by inaction to Yskandr’s death. Nineteen Adze and her love and devotion, Six Direction and all the terrible majesty of empire, the manipulations before the sun temple. There is so much in there, and I’d love any unpacking of even the slightest of it
• (nsfw) The physical contact Six Direction seems to so easily initiate, and the way both Nineteen Adze and Yskander yearn for it – I can’t help but think bondage and overstimulation would be perfect for their relationship, all wrapped up in that overwhelming tenderness/comfort Yskander canonically, and Nineteen Adze almost certainly, feels toward the Emperor, and I would love to see a fic exploration of this.