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As a general note:

Hi - this letter includes prompts/commentary that didn't fit in the sign-up proper.

I like things that are weird and out-there. I like surprises. I have very few DNWs and if nothing in my letter resonates with you, or even if it does but there's something else that resonates more, you have my full permission to go wild. Even if you do like the prompts, feel free to take whatever you want from them/mix and match.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Karli Morgenthau
I like sympathetic takes on Karli - her collateral damage isn't worse than the avengers, after all. And her goals are extremely noble. I'm fine with an angle about corrupted morals though, or something else entirely.

Prompts:
- The actress' parents are Irish and Jamaican, if you want to use that for a backstory
- The five years post snap
- Karli ends up in America and meets Sarah during the five years
- Formation of the flag smashers / some typical leftist drama
- No X-Men in the MCU yet, so I could totally see Karli watching X-Men cartoons/reading comics
- Karli in a heist movie style set up

Ships of particular interest: Karli/Sarah, Karli/Sharon, Karli/Helmut Zemo, Karli/Michelle Jones, Karli/Erik Killmonger

Original Works
I think a lot of these relationships double as prompts, but I will add a little info on what I liked about them/what my barebones thoughts on one way they could be written is. Ignore if not useful to you, recip.

Group: Teenager on Way to Becoming the Next Big Bad & Teenager Also on Way to Villainy (OW)
Seems like there's a lot of potential for a complicated superhero world in the background of an interpersonal drama. I could also imagine a frank discussion of what brings people into supervillainy (class?). Fine with any gender combo for the characters.

Group: World-Weary Samurai/Exasperated Tea Shop Owner Who Always Tends To Her Injuries (F/F) (OW)
For me the draw here was the contrast in roles and emotions serving as foils. It might be fun if the tea shop owner is actually older than the world-weary samurai. I also requested it because I know it's something I do not have the requisite knowledge of samurai, in a trope or historic sense, to write it myself.

Group: Vampire Skeptical of Aliens & Alien Skeptical of Vampires & Their Human Friend
I like the inbuilt comedic tension here. I also really really want to know why they're skeptical.

Group: Female Librarian Skeptical About Romance/Regency Lady From Latest Hit Harlequin Novel (OW)
I love how meta this prompt is. (Part of me wants to say that the female librarian is skeptical about romance because book characters from different genres keep coming to life around her and that complicates things)

Group: Female Serial Killer/Her Vampire Lover (OW)
This pairing sounds very dark and sexy and also a little bit like Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Do they know about the other? Is there a pile of dead bodies they're hiding from each other? Do they accidentally target the same victim? Or if you wanted, is the vampire a very ethical vampire who drinks pig's blood from the butcher and is slowly horrified to realize what her lover/girlfriend is doing?

Group: Superhero's Single Mom/Supervillain's Single Mom (OW), Group: Retired Supervillainess/Superheroine She Is Roommates With Who Needs Saving (OW)
Look, I love superheroes.

Prompts:
- Superhero and villain team up to try and break up their respective moms
- Retired supervillainess is teaching in her retirement and runs a dojo

Star Trek: DS9
Benjamin Sisko/Q
This entire nomination is solely based on this blooper video from the Q episode where Avery Brooks breaks character and it's delightful.

Benjamin Sisko
He's my favorite captain and doesn't get a lot of attention in the fandom relative to a few other characters. Anything you write would delight me. I love Sisko's sense of ethics (sometimes they're not great! Unnuke that planet, uninhabited or no), his compassion, his passion, his family spirit. I also love whatever Benny Russel and Mirror Sisko and would consider fic/comics focused on them as a fill for Sisko.

If you want more specific prompts, here is a list I wrote a while back, with more in a tumblr reblog by jazzypizzaz. You can also find my original post copied to this journal if you prefer.

Jake Sisko
Jake is a fun character, love that he doesn't go into Starfleet, love the potential for future fic where he has the weirdest backstory or to see his perspective on work as a writer.

Prompts:
- Dominion occupation on DS9
- Noncanon character interactions: Dukat, Garak, Ziyal, Picard, the Nagus, the borg, Pel..
- Jake/Mardah - that was interesting for a hot second there
- More Mirroverse / More Jake & Bashir interactions
- Something Jake wrote and his POV around writing it
- Jake goes to Cardassia post canon

Group: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak & Elim Garak/Enabran Tain (ST: DS9)
Don't really have anything to say for this beyond 'I like darkfic and trauma, have fun!'

Crossover Fandom
Group: Annalise Keating (HTGAWM TV)/Nakia (Black Panther MCU)
I don't think anyone is going to offer this, but just in case: I love the idea of Annalise discovering Wakanda, I love the idea of two complicated black women forming a relationship.

Group: Mazikeen (Lucifer TV)/Valkyrie (Thor MCU)
Team kind of a dickbag with moral flaws but a heart of gold.

Other: Worldbuilding (Parahumans - Wildbow & Nemesis - April Daniels)
I think the two worlds have some similarities, fusing the worldbuilding elements from either might be really interesting, lots of the characters could have interesting interactions.

Group: Bellatrix Lestrange (HP - JKR)/Bella Swan (Twilight - Meyer)
- Madame Lestrange lives alone in a big mansion in a small town and Bella has discovered her secret - she's a vampire. (Is Bella right?)
- Bellatrix works for the Volturi

Harry Potter
In general, Harry Potter is probably the fandom in which I enjoy crack fic the most, as well as that genre of fic where the main characters solve all their problems wayyy quicker.

Other: Worldbuilding
There's plenty of gaps in the HP worldbuilding and I'd probably be happy to read anything you want to write. I would be interested in pre-canon fic, whether it fills in the Grindewald-Dumbledore saga, or shines some more light on Hogwarts/the first war with Voldemort. I'm interested in attempts to explain how magic works. I'm interested in the world outside of Wizarding Britain. I'm interested in worldbuilding on how the muggle/wizard world got separated or how much the politics bleed over - did wizards participate in British colonialism? How common is it for wizards to rejoin the muggle world in some level?

Some more specific prompts:
- Examples of muggle events that were influenced or caused by wizards - from the lighthearted (that's not really a UFO) to the serious
- POV of several of the British Prime Ministers as they discover the wizarding world - or possibly other muggle politicians
- Wizards abstaining/joining muggle wars
- AU where the wizarding world is revealed to muggles
- Stories from professional wizard dueling masters / training montage
- Normie wizard trying to choose a job
- Wizarding discrimination as derivative of muggle racism/anti-Semitism and how that came about
- POV employee or casefiles for the International Statute of Secrecy who has to record all the different violations - from a young wizard who threatened their abusive parents, a drunk witch who made her own fireworks on New Years Eve, a black wizard who singlehandedly took down a burgeoning hate group, w/e

Cho Chang/Luna Lovegood
This wasn't a tag I nominated but I requested it because it is an interesting rare pair. I think there's a lot of potential for bonding over grief, considering Luna lost her mother and is the sort of person who drops kindness like it's magic. Or post-canon. Or with Dumbledore's Army. Or a fed-up Cho taking out some of her anger on another student who is bullying Luna, which blossoms into something more.

Prompts:
- Luna Lovegood is an extremely successful naturalist who also runs a sketchy wizarding herbal therapy business. She's going to buy the Malfoy Manor.
- Cho & Luna are both imprisoned in Malfoy Manor AU
- Cho is self-harming by offering her blood at a vampire's den. Luna is a young vampire who let a friend turn her as a favor.

Rita Skeeter
Rita is a fun character, at least in part because she's a total dickbag.

I really enjoy F/F stories about her. Stories where she meets up with any of the golden trio post-second war. I'm also fine if she's more of a POV character telling someone else's story, that's interesting too.

Pre-canon stories can be fun - who was she rooming with at Hogwarts? I also want to know more about her work. Is she happy, is she settling, does she have a masterplan?

Prompts:
- McGonagall meets up with her least favorite student (Rita)
- Rita in the slug club
- Rita stalking Hermione post-war, somehow they don't hate each other by the end
- Rita and Bellatrix as roommates
- Rita facing off against another columnist who has it out for her
- Rita's school friend (OC, canon character?) becoming a death eater and her reuniting with them... somehow.
- Rita vs Dumbledore, the final battle (to be waged metaphorically, of course)
- Rita has a hard-hitting anti corruption battleplan that she supports with her gossipy pieces
- Rita actually ends the second wizarding war by casting an avada kedavara at Voldemort when in her insect Animagus, with a very tiny wand

Bellatrix/Narcissa
Some possible character interpretations/prompts:
- Siblingcest as the trauma reaction of two young children
-Siblingcest as the unintended outcome of blood purity rhetoric
- It's us against the world
- Forced to by Voldemort
- The most stable relationship in either of their lives, as they ignore their marriages to reconnect with each other
- They don't actually want to be in an incestous relationship but Narcissa can get Bella out of Azkaban onto parole if Bellatrix has a competent and reliable spouse who can serve as a guardian
- team up against Voldemort
- two women being evil and pretty

Narcissa Malfoy/Harry Potter
Another relationship that I did not nominate but find intriguing. Would be interested in either a darkfic angle or an unconventional but happy relationship angle.

Prompts:
- Narcissa befriends Harry post-war to try and improve her political and social standing. Things get interesting from there.
- Narcissa forced to rape Harry by Voldemort/misc Death Eaters
- Narcissa finds Harry after the battle of Hogwarts - do they talk? bond?
-- darkfic option: she pushes an exhausted Harry back into the bed.
- Draco POV

Hello! This letter includes a couple of expanded ideas/prompts/themes from my sign-up on AO3. Generally speaking, I am very easy to please and I would prefer to receive fic or art where someone focused on whatever excites them than trying to hit my particular buttons. Chances are, if it excites you, it will excite me. However, here are some things that interest me, for you to take or leave:

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fandom stuff
trust fall by kangeiko
Tony/Rhodey, MCU, short.

like a saint
Original f/f, spy fic, short, made for hurtcomfortex

Re: Leia and Finn GEN, Poe/Finn optional
Fill on the tfa_kink meme

On queer friendship, fandom, and negative capability by breathedout

not-fandomy

The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them by Virginia Morell
(I think I originally saw this on a list of links on dreamwidth. I don't remember whose, sadly)

[originally from tumblr, semi-archived since I trust dreamwidth more than tumblr]
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so all the way back in the innocent year of 2019, AO3 did a cool fanworks bingo to celebrate reaching 5 million works. Even though the social media hashtag for the event is long gone and AO3 now has 7 million works, I thought it would be fun to fill out as a reclist.

Text version (for accessibility) by jesse_the_k

[TN: 5 by 5 table has five columns labelled B I N G O, and five unlabelled rows]

Column B:
r1: A fanworks challenge; Jukebox is very cool; it's all a collection of fanworks based on songs and music videos. darkwitches is also a very fun defunct livejournal exchange for dark harry potter f/f.
r2: A meta work; On the Subject of Noncon Fanworks: Thoughts of a Reader, Writer, Survivor by Anarfea, one of the best essays I've read on any topic in my entire life.
r3: A photo manip; This mcu!Nebula edit.
r4: A podfic over 1 hour; RED as podficced by lattice_frames. Natasha Romanov centric & twisty.
r5: A fanwork for when you're happy. The Villain Wrangler by Lise. Child with cancer requests Loki as his Make-a-Wish Foundation "wish." He gets Loki.

Column I:
r1: A podfic under 30 minutes; Podfic of Two-Step, a Gaila/Uhura fic. The podfic includes really creative and lovely use of music as well.
r2: A fanwork with one of your fav tropes; Does Ultimates!Steve Rogers and his internalized homophobia count as a trope? Because if so, I'm Not Really a Waitress (The Swan out of Duckling Remix) by Sineala will be a treat for you too.
r3: A character study fanwork; Quark's Day by Selena.
r4: A fanwork in progress; An Education by lilithenaltum (mcu Shuri/Loki)
r5: A fanvid. god i pity the violins by hitlikehammers. do I like bbc sherlock that much? eh. is this a masterful work of video editing? yeah.

Column N:
r1: A comment you left on a fanwork; a comment thread of one of my fave comment section interactions
r2: A creator with only one posted fanwork; Slow_Burn_87 does only two fanworks count?
r3: FREE! Your favorite fanwork; I have 11 pages of "Fave" bookmarks on AO3. But here's turn a little faster; the world will follow after by katiemariie
r4: A fanwork for when you're sad; (No) Places of Safety by withthekeyisking
r5: A 100-word drabble. Reversed roles by Melime

Column G:
r1: A fan art based on another fanwork; Hermione/Narcissa fanart by marrymehesterharper (based on the Glass Silence fic)
r2: A fanwork from a small fandom; Bad Guys by ryfkah (for The Handmaiden)
r3: A crossover fanwork; To Have and to Hold, a marvel comics/film crossover between each iteration of Civil War.
r4: A favorite additional tag; Alien Cultural Differences
r5: A fanmix. Volatile

Column O:
r1: A fanfic over 50,000 words long; The Manipulation of Julian Bashir
r2: A canon-divergent fanwork; & a past life in the trunk by notbecauseofvictories
r3: A fanwork with a colour in the title; Seeing a Different Shade of Red by AliceInKinkland
r4: A fan art comic; Repossession - The Graphic Novel
r5: A "classic" fanwork; Stubborn Mouths: Humans in Translation

I would have put money on there being a big fandom revival for The Hunger Games with Suzanne Collins publishing a prequel (and a pretty good one too, even if it did drag in some parts). Especially since everyone seems to think fondly of Suzanne Collings/THG; there was never a big polarization or backlash. Maybe no one wanted to read dystopia rn, which I get.

As someone who doesn't vid/engage in a lot of vidding circles, I don't see a lot of vid reclists. So here's a list of vids I've found particularly enjoyable.

===Atomic Blonde:===
Head Is Not My Home by AurumCalendula (link to AO3 embed)
This is essentially (implied) as a fix-it vid where Delphine lives. There's a sort of thematic manipulation where the canon images of audio and video recording and editing are repurposed to create an unreliable narrator/more ambiguous story. It's a lot of fun.

===GLOW (Netflix series)===
am I only dreaming? by thingswithwings
GLOW has women wrestling and a canon f/f relationship between two women of color (Artie & Yolanda, who dance in this vid and on the show). It's a pretty fun show. This vid doesn't push too far beyond the source material, but it's an enjoyable ship tribute.

===The Handmaiden (2016)===
Bad Guys by ryfkah
The timing is impeccable for this vid, each lyrical beat corresponds perfectly. It does a really good job of showcasing the humorous bits in an otherwise kind of dark film.

===Harry Potter===
Bellatrix Lestrange || Heathens by
amberaimee
I do love a good Bellatrix tribute, since apparently all of my moral scruples disappear when I see Helena Bonham Carter looking kind of sexy.

Bellatrix | Look What You Made Me Do by lushlila
Okay, really good song choice on this one and it mashes up quite well with the scenes chosen.

===The Hunger Games===
the devil within || mockingjay (Katniss, Snow, Coin)
A character-focused vid, drawing visual parallels between Coin and Snow, with the three characters circling around each other. It's a bit ambiguous, but so was the source material, so.

===Sherlock BBC:===
Happy Now? by franzeska (link is AO3 account-locked, there might be a version on Vimeo for anyone without an AO3 account):
This one's a fun little character study for Sally Donovan. Hmm... I don't have quite the right words to describe it but the song and images really hammered in the theme. It left a nice feeling of understanding for the angst-fodder that is her plotline, some tragedy, so on.

===Stargate Atlantis===
a lieutenant colonel is being beaten by thingswithwings
From the little I know about vidding, thingswithwings is kind of a big name, so this rec is likely not news for quite a few people. I've never seen Stargate Atlantis and I still enjoyed it immensely, because I have seen shows with an unreasonable amount of kinky subtext/whump fuel. Of course, the standard warnings about interpreting acts of non-consensual violence as latent masochism apply.

===Star Trek:===
American Idiot by orphan_account
A DS9 vid set to American Idiot. Maybe not the most boundary pushing vid I've ever seen, but it still has quite a bit of appeal on the premise alone.

Bad Guy by AudreyV/Beth of All Trades.
on YouTube, AO3 embed
This is one of my all time favorites. I'm not super into Discovery or Michael/Phillipa but this vid has impeccable timing, darkly comedic bits, character study parallels... it's excellent.

===Marvel:===
after the day's work is done by stardust_rain
A Nick Fury character study. The video editing is lovely and shows quite a few scenes that aren't typically part of vids, but the song really drives the theme home. It's more of a slow moving, luxuriate in it like a slow-melting chocolate pacing than what I typically prefer in vids, but it's good. The vid also has something of a thesis to it about who this somewhat ambiguous secondary (but vital) character is.

===Multi-Fandom:===
Dance Apocalyptic by eruthros and thingswithwings
In many ways, this is the vid that got me hooked as a watcher. Images are spliced from a plethora of sources in the perfect homage to the Janelle Monae song, but also to resilience and happiness in the face of... things that are not happy. There's a tag on the AO3 post, "finding happiness even when the world is terrible." This vid does come with a CW for violence, most of which is probably hovering around the level of The Hunger Games films.

The Glass by thingswithwings
Another vid that will not be a surprise for many. Essentially, this vid works off a quote by fan-studies scholar Henry Jenkins about how slash (f/f and m/m for this vid) is what happens when you take away the glass. The glass refers to both the infamous glass between Kirk and Spock during Spock's temporary death, but also the queer content that will never be canonized due to discrimination and the fantasies we replace it with.