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• Review: Cosmetology High

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• Brainstorming for Topics: Discussions & Picspams

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• Fanfic for: The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

• Fanfic for: Word of Honor

• Topic Tuesday: Character Recasts

• DMBJ Calendars announcement!

• Triple Drabble and Various Icons

• Quick Rec Wednesday

• Various Drabbles and Graphics

• Did You Make a Thing?

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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Harding Welsh
Rating: Teen
Length: 4590
Content Notes: The author chose not to warn. AU from the end of Victoria's Secret as Fraser wasn't shot and he left with Victoria on the train.

If you'd much rather know about major AO3 warnings and be spoiled for the reveal at the end, click the arrow at left. SPOILERS

Ray doesn't realise until near the fic's end that it's Fraser's ghost meeting with him, as Victoria killed him then ran for the US border. But with Fraser's and Welsh's help, they catch her.

Creator Links: MSSalieri on AO3, Salieri's old website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Friendship, Cops and Crime, AU: Fork in the road

Summary: He’s in a booth around the corner, hands folded on the Formica table. It’s his jacket, the one he had on when he jumped onto the train, so Ray believes it’s him. But it’s not the guy Ray knew. His hair hangs to his collar. His eyes are dark with exhaustion, his face gaunt. He’s been gone nineteen months. It might as well be nineteen years.

Dief’s whine is thin, a little panicky. He’s shivering against Ray’s knee.

“Hello, Ray,” Fraser says.

Reccer's Notes: This is a tough story, but I keep going back to it from time to time because it's just so good. Set more than a year after Ray Vecchio stumbled and missed the shot so that Fraser left with Victoria on the train, Ray meets up once more with a very changed Fraser in a motel at the ass end of Canada, in a blizzard. It's sad, spooky, and wonderfully written. Powerful and haunting, and very much worth a read.

Fanwork Links: Dysmas on AO3, Dysmas on Wayback

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We have eight new pinch hits, numbered #65-72. These pinch hits are due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.

Comments are turned off for this community. To claim a pinch hit, please email the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com and:

Include the pinch hit number in the subject line
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For example, if your AO3 username is yuletidehippo and you want to claim Pinch Hit #42 for AwsomRecip, you might email us with the subject line “PH 42 for AwsomRecip” and “I’m yuletidehippo on AO3” in the body of the email. As was the case previously, if you don’t receive a reply you did not get the pinch hit.

Also! We now have a pinch hitters' prompts post! If you weren't signed up and you're pinch hitting, your rare fandom prompts are very welcome!

PH #65: 凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon), Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song), Level Clear! - Tom Cardy (Song), 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga), Bang Brave Bang Bravern (Anime)

Request 1 by Marks
凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon)
Characters: Wreck (To Be Hero X), Original Nice (To Be Hero X), Dragon Boy (To Be Hero X), Yang Cheng (To Be Hero X)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Anyone who follows me on social media this year has unfortunately had to watch me descend into madness week after week as TBHX aired. To say this series has occupied my thoughts is the understatement of the century. I requested these four, but really I'd also be happy to get a gen ensemble piece featuring any of the nominated characters (of which there are so, so many).
I don't mind an unhappy or ambiguous ending for a fic set in this fandom. No need for a happy ending when there are so few in canon. Also, I don't care what version of the names you use for any of the characters. Whatever you’re comfortable with is fine by me.
As for these four, I give permission for any of the following character configurations: any of the four alone in a solo character examination piece, gen featuring any combination of the four requested characters, and then the ships Original Nice/Wreck, Original Nice/Yang Cheng, Dragon Boy/Yang Cheng, or Dragon Boy/Original Nice. I also love Yang Cheng/Shang Chao, and I would have requested Shang Chao, too, if I could have requested five characters!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 2 by Marks
Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song)
Characters: Psychiatrist (Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song)), Patient (Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert (Song))
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Name these two whatever you want. Call them Tom and Brian if that's easiest, but I’m fine with renaming the characters, or leaving them nameless.
We love a five-minute fandom, don't we? I periodically get obsessed with Tom Cardy's music and the possibilities therein, and him dragging Brian David Gilbert into the mix is only a plus. I'm really happy that the song's psychiatrist and patient found their destiny in each other, so any exploration of that would be fantastic, romantic or otherwise. Maybe the patient decides to go into psychiatry, too, to see if there are any other beautiful minds out there. Maybe the psychiatrist struggles with the knowledge that his soulmate is a patient and the moral and ethical quandaries that introduces. Maybe they go out into the world together to look for ways to travel through space and time, or they just find a bear learning how to water ski.
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 3 by Marks
Level Clear! - Tom Cardy (Song)
Characters: Hero (Level Clear! - Tom Cardy), Bad Guy (Level Clear! - Tom Cardy)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Name these two whatever you want, or leave them nameless. This can be based off of just the song, or the extended worldbuilding that the video introduces, such as things like the hero being Super European laborer sibling saving the Princess or finally opting to walk away from the game at the end of the song.
Something about the relentless pursuit of happiness, achieving it, and still never being fulfilled is a real punch to the gut, and Tom Cardy is really good at introducing deep topics and approaching them in the stupidest way possible. I'd like to see the hero and the bad guy come to some sort of agreement to coexist together as allies or friends or romantically because the song makes it clear that they're pretty wrapped up together. As the bad guy says, "Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?" and clearly the hero trying everything under the sun doesn't really work to erase the high of conquering his enemy.
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 4 by Marks
佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga)
Characters: Sasaki Shuumei, Miyano Yoshikazu
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Sasaki and Miyano are my two favorite weirdos in love. I love that their slow burn actually led to something canonical, and I love how careful Miyano was as he considered Sasaki's confession, even though making him wait six months for an answer almost killed me. I know only the manga is in the tagset, but if you're anime-only or haven't read the last couple of manga volumes, I don't mind you branching off from another point for something canon-divergent. I'm very much into Sasamiya as a ship, though if you want to write something non-romance focused like Miyano getting used to his first weeks at university, that would be great!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

Request 5 by Marks
Bang Brave Bang Bravern (Anime)
Characters: Lewis Smith | Bravern, Ao Isami
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

DNW: long discussions of consent, the traffic light system, non-canonical nicknames, explicit works featuring characters younger than 16, hopeless endings, pregnancy, lactation
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Bravern absolutely rewrote my brain when it came out. It gave me everything I've always wanted in a mecha anime, and several things I had no idea that I wanted.
For my fic's character interactions, I want Isami in it no matter what, and I also want some iteration of Lewis included, but I don't care if Lewis is Lewis or Bravern or both. Something like just Isami realizing while in Bravern that Bravern is also Lewis would be great, but I'm also fine with Isami/Bravern or Isami/Smith alone.
Isami and Smith had one of the best canonical love stories I've watched possibly ever, and that applies to Isami and Bravern as well, so I'd love a story where they make those feelings obvious and consummated. If you really just want to write about them fighting aliens or boxing or chilling with Lulu, that's all cool, too. Gen stories involving Lulu and Superbia or any of Isami and Smith's coworkers would also be fun as hell!
My linked letter has more specific fandom prompts, along with my general likes for both lower ratings and explicit ones. I'd love a fic based on my prompts, something more general, or one completely from your imagination. Aside from avoiding my DNWs, what's best for me as a gift-receiver is getting something that my author had fun writing.
I'm open to treats and have gifts enabled!

Letter:
https://marks.dreamwidth.org/318033.html

PH #66: The Great North (Cartoon), Murdoch Mysteries, Adults (TV 2025), Selfie (TV)

Request 1 by sandyk
The Great North (Cartoon)
Characters: Honeybee Shaw-Tobin, Judy Tobin, Dirtrude "Aunt Dirt" Tobin, Kima (the Great North)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Exception: as long as Honeybee is there with JUdy and/or Dirtrude, I'm good.
DNW: first person, second person, incest ( I do no need to relive Wolf and Kathleen), rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, no infidelity for Honeybee, gore, do not want the return of Kathleen.

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 2 by sandyk
Murdoch Mysteries
Characters: Violet Hart, Effie Newsome (Murdoch Mysteries), Louise Cherry, Llewellyn Watts
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Exception: Either Violet, Effie and Watts or Violet, Effie and Louise, Watts not required.
DNW: WWI, Violet as villain, Watts in a straight relationship, first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore.

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 3 by sandyk
Adults (TV 2025)
Characters: Paul Baker, Anton Evans
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore, Paul Baker and Anton not being together (Open relationship? Sleeping with other people? All good as long as Paul Baker and Anton are also together).

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

Request 4 by sandyk
Selfie (TV)
Characters: Henry Higgs (Selfie (TV)), Eliza Dooley (Selfie (TV)), Charmonique Whitaker (Selfie (TV))
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNW: first person, second person, incest, rape, non-con, major character death, explicit sex, changing the setting AUs (canon divergence is okay, no to regency setting, yes to turned left instead of right), dystopia, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, vampires, zombies, soulmates, soul bonds, soul marks, all dialogue, no dialogue, serious angst, unhappy ending, cancer, animal death, gore.

Letter:
https://callmesandyk.dreamwidth.org/2051150.html

PH #67: Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox, Apothecia (Webcomic), LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Swarm (Cartoon), Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Request 1 by Senri
Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
Characters: Lucifer (Vintner's Luck), Aurora de Valday, Xas (Vintner's Luck)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Groups it is ok to write:
Lucifer & Xas
Lucifer & Aurora
Put another way, I am very interested in Lucifer and want fic that features him in some way, whether you incorporate all three characters or one of these duos.
DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I just really love the romance and menace of Lucifer, and I love Xas and Aurora and the interesting reactions actual Satan himself brings out in them. What if Aurora goes to hell and meets Lucifer again? Or some backstory between him and Xas...? I'm also familiar with The Angel's Cut should you wish to reference it.
I don't much care for Sobran, but he certainly looms large in Xas and Aurora's mind, so mentions are fine, but please don't focus on him.

Letter:
https://sushiflop.dreamwidth.org/391735.html

Request 2 by Senri
Apothecia (Webcomic)
Characters: Jessie (Apothecia), Spore Alien (Apothecia)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I've loved this story of a very moral(ly rigid) teen and an evil alien who is the only person who listens to her for a very, very long time. I love that the spore alien feels weirdly parental towards Jessie early on, and that they end up bodysharing later... more twisted philosophical discussions, alien horror, and battles (or meetings) in the center of the mind would be just the thing.

Letter:
https://sushiflop.dreamwidth.org/391735.html

Request 3 by Senri
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Swarm (Cartoon)
Characters: Swarm (Love Death Robots: Swarm), Galina Mirny (Love Death Robots: Swarm)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

DNWs
► ~~Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)~~ waived for this request
► ~~Pregnancy fic~~ waived for this request
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable) Caveat for this request: references to Afriel/Galina or even current, twisted Afriel/Galina alongside Galina & Swarm or Galina/Swarm is ok
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
When I first watched this short I was so sure the ending twist would be that Galina regretted betraying the biome to humanity and had gone over to Swarm willingly. I'd love a twisted fix-it fic written in that vein, or perhaps a story where Swarm and Galina build some kind of twisted relationship through their years together. Swarm interfaces directly with her brain, imagine the twisted kink and romantic potential. Galina is in hell, she doesn't have to be trapped there; her mind could be free...

Letter:
https://sushiflop.dreamwidth.org/391735.html

Request 4 by Senri
Sandkings - George R. R. Martin
Characters: Jala Wo, Shade (Sandkings), White Sandkings
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Groups it is ok to write:
Jala Wo & Shade
Jala Wo & Shade & White Sandkings
DNWs
► Violent noncon (Dubcon/sex under coercive circumstances/sex that the characters regret is fine)
► Pregnancy fic
► Unrequested romantic ships for requested characters (exceptions will be listed where applicable)
► Setting change AUs including omegaverse
► Poetry
►► Death of Jala and/or Shade
Likes
► Genfic and casefic
► Complex friendships, characters being weirdly obsessed with each other, relationships that blur the lines between romantic and platonic
► Characters playing mind games with each other
► Characters with very different perspectives and values respecting, liking, even loving each other
► No-win scenarios, characters coping with those
► Funny characters, characters showing a sense of humor
► Ambiguous/bittersweet/melancholy but hopeful endings
► Mindsharing/bodysharing
► GHOSTS. Appended to canons that have no other fantastical elements, included in canons with fantastical elements; sympathetic ghosts, recognizable as humans; terrible ghosts, reduced to monstrosity, emotional and ethereal sludge; weird ghosts! You can write a ghost story for anything. My love for ghosts supercedes my no setting change AUs DNW if you're concerned a ghost story might violate that.
► Characters weaponizing assumptions others make about them
► Disloyalty kink - where does devotion BREAK DOWN? What WON'T a character do? Characters choosing their principles/mission/cause over another character
► Crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
► Doom is actually inevitable; characters find joy, quiet moments, spots of peace anyway
► Eerie tenderness, tenderness characters cannot trust, unexpected mercy
► Stories with some kind of stakes involved
► If your story could encompass the phrase "awful, but cheerful!" I will probably find lots to like in it
I am very interested in Jala and Shade, their history together... and... their future together? What other adventures and mishaps have they encountered through their years of partnership together? If you include the White Sandkings, I'd love something about how they were dealt with, or even if they could be helped.

No letter

PH #68: Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000), Hotel Portofino (TV), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Request 1 by Alley_Skywalker
Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000)
Characters: Ivan Alekseyevich Dolgoruky (Secrets of the Palace...), Pyotr II Alekseyevich | Peter II of Russia (Secrets of the Palace...)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 2 by Alley_Skywalker
Hotel Portofino (TV)
Characters: Anish Sengupta, Lucian Ainsworth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Lucian/Nish is OTP ❤
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 3 by Alley_Skywalker
Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Characters: Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (W&P), Fyodor "Fedya" Ivanovich Dolokhov (W&P), Elena "Hélène" Vasilyevna Kuragina (W&P)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Ship preferences for this request: Dolokhov/Anatole, Dolokho/Helene, Anatole/Dolokhov/Helene
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

CLAIMED - PH #69: The Bone Harp - Victoria Goddard, Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo, The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-, Hurog - Patricia Briggs, Spindle's End - Robin McKinley, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by bookwyrm
The Bone Harp - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I would love to read about the Sons of Dâr, after. After they all died and both the dead and the living believed they'd left their brother alone with his curses and oaths? After they were sung home and had to relearn life, and peace, and the company of others? After Tamsin walks back into their lives, somehow, wearing that same old cloak and tunic but no longer silent, no longer cursed? This book has so much buildup and the payoff that we get in text is lovely but very brief.
I am very into all of the Gender that Tamsin has going on, if that's something you want to lean into. Also totally fine if you want to leave him out completely! The elflands don't actually revolve around him and his musical talent.
Definitely prefer overall gen for this one, but shippy mentions are fine (canon or otherwise).
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 2 by bookwyrm
Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
Characters: Wild Pig Yi, Wei Jintai
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love Wild Pig Yi and that we've seen her legends come up outside of Riverlands (Mammoths and maybe somewhere else?). I love the triad and all the different stories about them, and the different facets and truths and falsehoods. I love Wei Jintai and Mac Sang.
I'd love to read a legend of the Southern Monkey Master and her sworn sister (or his sworn brother, if the legend has traveled a very long way). I'd love to read a legend of Wild Pig Yi and her exploits and lovers. I really enjoy when the fox girl with eyes painted on her eyes shows up, and I honestly don't care if there's ever a resolution on that or if she just keeps showing up and prognosticating in the background.
I really, really like how these are stories about stories. How different stories reveal or conceal, contain truth and fiction. That a story is never the whole picture. That context matters, and that sometimes the information you're given is just wrong.
Canon-typical violence, unreliable storytellers, horror themes, etc are all good with me.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 3 by bookwyrm
The Comfortable Courtesan - Madame C- C-
Characters: Mrs F- (The Comfortable Courtesan)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Eliza Ferraby, my beloved! I love the triad, I love her managing Raxdell House for Gervais, I love her and Clorinda, I love her and Jos. I don't have a lot of specific requests on this one, I just think everybody's lovely.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 4 by bookwyrm
Hurog - Patricia Briggs
Characters: Wardwick (Hurog)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I just really like Ward. He's smart and thoughtful and kind, he knows what he wants, he cares for the people around him, and he is willing and able to receive care from them as well. Everybody here has huge amounts of damage and trauma, and they're still doing their best.
Ward & Oreg - I would be delighted to read Ward And Oreg Have A Nice Day And Nothing Bad Happens. Ward And Oreg: Roadtrip To Piss On Every Hurog Lord's Gravestone. Ward And Oreg Have Tea With A Dragon.
Ward & Garranon - Garranon is just a really decent guy. They are both decent, honorable guys who lived through awful things and have decided not to do that to the people around them. On the other hand, Garranon was part of putting Ward in another awful situation, although with limited agency himself - is there anything they need to hash out?
Ward & Tisala - Slice of life after they're married? Dealing with some kind of very mundane and handle-able problem? Slice of life in the lead-up to getting married?
Basically, I would like any or all of these people to Have A Nice Day. Sometimes, even when one is having a nice day, trauma rears its gnarly head, but I would prefer that it not be the central theme.

Prefer only canon relationships for this. I'm pretty neutral/meh on kidfic in general, but I think this is a fandom where it makes sense and could work well (either Ward and Tisala's kids or Ward's niblings. I will happily read it if that's the way inspiration takes you.
Request-specific DNW: I don't mind if anybody's past experiences with Jakoven & co. come up, but I would prefer that it not be the focus of the story.
My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 5 by bookwyrm
Spindle's End - Robin McKinley
Characters: Any
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Aunt - she's lived a long life, there's lots to explore. What was she like as a young woman? When Katriona arrived in her care? When Kat was gone for six months attending the princess's name-day? When they started hearing the news that something went terribly wrong? She had some idea what was happening, but it still must have been awfully hard to wait for Kat to come home.
Katriona - She grows up and grows into her own power so much over the course of this book. Kat and Zel, now that her familiar has finally found her? How did Zel know about that long-ago promise to the fox who helped them? Kat missing Peony? Kat in the aftermath? Kat and Aunt, the two most powerful fairies in the Gig?
Peony - Peony and the Princess. Peony being the Princess. Peony and the Princess's family. Peony and the Princess's future subjects, on the grand tour back through the country and to her new home. I feel so bad for Peony, that she was never quite wanted by her family, that she volunteered to be the Princess for a few months and got stuck with being the Princess for the rest of her life. She will be a good Queen, but... does she want that?
Maybe Pernicia lost but took the Princess with her, leaving only the Princess's two waiting women. Maybe there's a way they can both stay in Foggy Bottom, even once they're breathing their own breath, casing their own shadows. Maybe Rosie goes with her to the palace and her new life - perhaps not forever, but for long enough that it's not a total severance. I kind of hate that Narl said to Katriona, "don't you want to keep her" and they both threw their power into it without Peony having any kind of say. Or maybe Peony and Rosie did talk about it, in the long quiet hours at the top of their tower. They don't know what will happen, maybe one or both of them will be dead on the first day of the Princess's 22nd year, so why not spin out the possibilities. Maybe Rosie knew that Peony would truly enjoy it, rather than just wanting to get out of it herself.
Rosie - Some years down the line being recognized, truly, by her parents? All of them needing to grapple with the events and choices that brought them here? Rosie unable to get out of being the Princess, learning to cope, allowing herself to be formed, a little, but also pushing back and making space for herself at the court? The royal family of her mother's country breeds sighthounds - there's no reason she can't be known for the quality of her stable.
Rosie & Peony / Rosie/Peony - I really like their friendship. I also think there's a lot of room for shippy feels here, requited or otherwise. They breathe together. They only cast one shadow. Rosie, bending down to wake her friend (a sleeping beauty) with true love's kiss. I can't even!

Request-specific DNW: I'm pretty meh on Rosie/Narl. McKinley has a thing for young women with much older men and I'm just not that into it. Please don't focus on this relationship. Narl's fine as a character but he's at least twice her age. Ych.

My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons

Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

Request 6 by bookwyrm
Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Jullanar of the Sea | Mrs. Etaris (Nine Worlds)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I would love to get Mrs. Etaris's perspective on any of the events since Jemis arrived back home in September.
Also very intrigued by the shippy potential of Jullanar/Pali, if that's a direction you're interested in. Either during the original Red Company, or in their somewhat older, somewhat wiser reformation. (Maybe even especially as they are now, having had plenty of time to figure out what they don't want out of life.)

My preference is generally for characterization and setting that are pretty close to the text. Canon-divergent plot is all good. In terms of bad stuff happening on or off page: up to canon levels of violence/trauma unless otherwise noted.
General likes:
- Treats!
- Loyalty
- Friendship
- Found family
- Threesomes/moresomes
- Queerness, both of persons and relationships
- In-character fluff
- Humor
You can find my bookmarks at https://pinboard.in/u:bookwyrm if that's helpful.
DNW:
- Noncon
- Dubcon
- Incest
- Explicit porn (fade-to-black sexy times are fine if that's your jam)
- Queerphobia or transphobia
- Complete alternate setting AUs like coffee shop or high school.
- I'm really not a big fan of fic driven by Huge Misunderstandings or Failure to Communicate
- A/B/O at all and most other power dynamics sort of worlds
- Modern gender/sexuality language for historical or fantasy canons
Letter:
https://rabid-bookwyrm.dreamwidth.org/360774.html

CLAIMED - PH #70: Berserk (Anime & Manga), Titanic (1997), Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game), Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, High Potential (TV), Burn Notice (TV 2007), Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by redbelles
Berserk (Anime & Manga)
Characters: Guts (Berserk), Casca (Berserk)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 2 by redbelles
Titanic (1997)
Characters: Rose DeWitt Bukater, Jack Dawson
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 3 by redbelles
Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game)
Characters: Duchess (Elden Ring Nightreign), Heolstor the Nightlord (Elden Ring Nightreign)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 4 by redbelles
Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce
Characters: Buriram Tourakom, Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak (Song of the Lioness)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 5 by redbelles
High Potential (TV)
Characters: Morgan Gillory, Adam Karadec (High Potential)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!

Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 6 by redbelles
Burn Notice (TV 2007)
Characters: Fiona Glenanne, Michael Westen
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!
Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

Request 7 by redbelles
Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews
Characters: Hugh d'Ambray, Elara Harper (Kate Daniels), Darren Argent | Derek Gaunt, Aurelia Ryder | Julie Olsen
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

No noncon, dubcon, or extreme kinks. Please see my Yuletide letter for more details!
Letter:
https://redbelles.tumblr.com/post/798150180961714176/dear-yuletide-author

CLAIMED - PH #71: Witches of Thistle Grove Series - Lana Harper, Codename: Kids Next Door, Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by teacup_of_doom
Witches of Thistle Grove Series - Lana Harper
Characters: Talia Avamarov, Emmy Harlow, Nina Blackmoore, Dasha Avramov
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, I'd like to see what you think Talia and Emmy get up to after the events of Payback's A Witch, through the rest of the current series - if you'd like, or just something they get up to on the sidelines. Use as many other characters as you think fits the story.
Spicy? Funny? Absolute chaos? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

Request 2 by teacup_of_doom
Codename: Kids Next Door
Characters: Nigel Uno | Numbuh 1, Hoagie Pennywhistle Gilligan Jr. | Numbuh 2, Abigail Lincoln | Numbuh 5, Kuki Sanban | Numbuh 3
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, your mission is to come up with a mission for our KND heroes, and write them going through it! You can use any of the KND characters you'd like.
Funny? Absolute chaos? Are they going up against old villeins, or a new threat? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

Request 3 by teacup_of_doom
Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce
Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau (Song of the Lioness), Jonathan of Conté, Myles of Olau, George Cooper (Song of the Lioness)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Dear awesome Yuletide writer! Thank you in advance.
For this request, I'd like to see something of our characters, either while training to be knights, or once they are officially knighted. Maybe they get up to some shenanigans in the palace, or they go out for a night in George's court? Maybe Liam and George share secrets? Feel free to use any characters from the books as you like (bonus points for Faithful!).
Spicy? Funny? Absolute chaos? The choice is yours. I want you to have as much fun writing, as I get out of reading it.
Dislikes: non-con, dubious consent, overly whump, overly sad
Likes: silly, happy, funny

No letter

CLAIMED - PH #72: Bodies (TV 2023), There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm, Midnight Mass (TV)

This pinch hit is claimed, but treats are welcome!

Request 1 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
Bodies (TV 2023)
Characters: Iris Maplewood
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

No prompts

No letter

Request 2 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
Characters: Marion Wheeler (TINAD), Adam Wheeler (TINAD), Worldbuilding (TINAD)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

No prompts

No letter

Request 3 by Red Eyes Black Scythe (VisceraNight)
Midnight Mass (TV)
Characters: Father Paul Hill | Monsignor John Pruitt, Beverly Keane
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Anything on a scale from the lightest of fluff to pure angst (including character death) is fine. Writer can lean hard into the vampire aspect of canon, or completely ignore it.
I'm a fan of AUs and crossovers (I'd prefer fandoms I'm familiar with for crossovers).

No letter

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen, background M/M (Everything implied no specifics); Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao & Nie Mingjue; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen, A-Qing, Original Character
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 6,330
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, OC POV, Outsider POV, Neurodivergent Character POV, disability as a communication obstacle, heavy verse-specific content
Creator Tags: Communication is hard when you're dead, We ain't afraid of no ghosts, We've been dead for years, Bad jokes because writer is in a mood, NaNoWriMo Breaktime, ghost hunt - Freeform, mystery haunting, Undead Investigation Team

Creator Links: (AO3)

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Theme: Mystery & Suspense, Casefic, Just Plain Fun, Outsider POV, Post-Canon

Summary: The Vermillion Peony Tree has stood for two hundred years... It might stand for two hundred more.... Given no one's stupid enough to annoy its guardian.

In which a possibly familiar Original Character meets a group of very familiar Night Hunters, attempting to clear a haunting from an inn built maybe a bit too close to the Burial Mounds.

(Part of the Mending the Pieces Universe.)

Author’s Notes:

* Not every monster or ghost you go after is a real monster. Sometimes the ones you have to worry about are the living people.
* Which, of course, was the message of the early Scooby Doo Adventures. Wish they hadn't lost that later on.

Reccer's Notes: A post-canon Halloween Scooby-Doo homage in which sapient fierce corpses Nie Mingjue and Song Zichen and demi-undead Meng Yao, incognito and under aliases, have become a wandering occult investigation trio. (Or, to the inn stableboy who can see ghosts Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing, a quintet.)

(JustAWanderingBabbit is the sort of author who maintains a repertory company of sorts; POV character Ah Bai is an OC who recurs in several of her MDZS works.)

Fanwork Links: House on Haunted Hill (AO3-locked).

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Last week's bread almost held out - lasted pretty well, but not quite to the end of the week.

Friday night supper: penne with bottled sliced artichoke hearts.

Saturday breakfast rolls: Tassajarra method, approx 50:50% Marriage's Light Spelt and Golden Wholegrain, maple syrup, raisins, turned out rather well.

Today's lunch: partridge breasts with a rub of salt, 5-pepper blend, coriander seeds and thyme, panfried in butter and olive oil, deglazed with white wine; served with kasha, buttered spinach and sugar snap peas stirfried with garlic.

settiai

Not Quite Birds of a Feather (1418 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Aeducan/Leliana/Morrigan (Dragon Age), Female Aeducan/Leliana (Dragon Age), Female Aeducan/Morrigan (Dragon Age), Leliana/Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Characters: Female Aeducan (Dragon Age), Leliana (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Complicated Relationships, Dragon Age Poly Exchange, One Shot, Polyamory
Summary: The three of them had almost nothing in common. It shouldn't have worked. Yet somehow it did.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

No Strings (1466 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jowan/Cullen Rutherford/Male Surana
Characters: Cullen Rutherford, Jowan (Dragon Age), Male Surana (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Casual Sex, Denial of Feelings, Dragon Age Poly Exchange, Kinloch Hold (Dragon Age), One Shot, Secret Relationship, Teenagers, Trans Male Character
Summary: It didn't mean anything. If they kept telling themselves that much, then maybe it would be true.

Current Mood: creative

brightknightie

As this US Thanksgiving weekend draws to a close, I'd like to tell you, my Dreamwidth community, how very thankful I am for you. ♥

You are my fannish air and breath. You are a refuge. You are a delight. I look forward to what you share with me. I love what DW gives us, this text-driven, words-rich, open world of connections we choose.

I wish there were more of us. I wish we all had more time and spoons to play here with each other. I wish fandom still practiced certain customs that it doesn't seem to anymore.

But that's okay. I have you. And I'm truly grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

james_davis_nicoll

21 works reviewed. 11 by women (52%), 10 by men (48%), 0 by non-binary authors (0%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 8 by POC (38%).

Book by book, closer to aleph null.

November 2025 in Review

schneefink

I'm sick (uuugh), but it's November 30th and I don't want to fail my monthly rec challenge now. So you get four Hermitcraft recs without a larger theme. 1 art & 3 fic (1 space AU & 2 admin power games, one of them a Life series crossover.)
I don't think canon knowledge is required for any of them: definitely not the first two, and I think the important parts of the other two become clear very quickly.

in too deep by

modest_starr
digital art, Geminitay
Summary: additional tags: Imminent Character Death, she is literally drowning, Hallucinations, Eye strain, highly saturated colors, Hermitcraft Season 10, Anthropologist Geminitay, Sea Monsters
Why I like it: The tags say "hallucinations" but I also really like the idea of scientist Gem looking too deep. Very cool colors.

Why is everyone sucking Farlands' dick over their new ship??? by

Kaesa
6k, SF AU, implied Scar/Grian, social media outsider PoV with in-universe RPF
Summary: Hey, uh, what's with everyone losing their minds over Farlands' Good Times? I thought we all agreed Farlands was evil incarnate? Last big colony mission they launched, even half the people at Brave Voyages were like "wow so sick of Farlands' bullshit, hope Farlands explodes," but this thing has been around for less than a year and people HERE are like, writing romantic poetry about it? Can someone explain? Obviously I too am fascinated by whether they're using tuned mass dampers or something else to keep the gravity steady, and the reflex rewiring they have to do to the pilots to get something that big through hyperspace is wild, but uh. This is not that.
A forum thread from the future.
Why I love it: Reccing part 2 here so I have a good reason to rec the series when it's done; I also recommend part 1 but I like this one even better. Scar is a Pilot, which means he controls a spaceship with his brain, and Grian is his doctor. Very cool worldbuilding and very funny.

feeling a gold hand unfolding on me by

springbeetle
3.3k, Grian & Xisuma, non-sexual kink (body modification, admin powers)
Summary: It was daylight, not that you could tell from the enclosed room Xisuma had teleported Grian into. A bright, fantastic Hermitcraft day, his friends bustling about the server engaged in activities, cheerfully oblivious to what Xisuma and Grian were about to do in this room together. To what Xisuma was about to do to Grian.
Most Hermits weren’t big on tradition, when you got down to it. They’d been around too long, seen enough of the universe to have set preferences about their bodies, or they had their own plans for each season. Scar and Cub had recently finished with their predatory ConVex business, for instance, and Cleo kept her zombieness– zombitude? Zombiehood?-- firmly under her own control, and the less said about Joe’s usual brand of shenanigans, the better.
So it had been unusual, having a new player such as Grian bring the concept up in the roundabout fashion he had, side-eyeing Xisuma like he wasn’t sure whether Xisuma would just snatch him up one day, like he was checking off a box on some haphazard to-do list-- like he’d smacked himself on the helmet and gone oh, silly me, that’s right! I forgot to modify Grian to my personal preferences last month!
Why I like it: Wonderful take on admin Xisuma taking care of his player even with an unusual request. I like how Xisuma needs the encouragement and reassurances to keep going but he does enjoy getting into his evil role when he feels comfortable and he is good at it, too. And Grian is very good at prodding him just enough and having to admit he doesn't not want this, delicious.

a weave that can be unpicked by

strifetxt
3.4k, Scar&/Grian, Third Life
Summary: Grian's eyes widen. “Wait, did you think I’d made a plug-in to force players into turning hostile?”
Scar blinks. “Didn’t you?”
“Wh— No, of course not!”
“Oh.” Scar deflates, but then, just as quickly, perks back up. “Could you though?”
Or: Scar has some ideas to make Third Life more fun. Grian has some concerns.
Why I like it: Excellent recursive fic of the above, and another case of a player prodding an admin into using their powers on them. I love the intimacy of the admin power used on a willing subject.

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An academic's dismal prospects are transformed by a magical umbrella.

The Incredible Umbrella (Incredible Umbrella, volume 1) by Marvin Kaye

oursin

Happy birthday,

smw!

petra

I am reading Retrograde, an Old Guard story, off a recommendation from the Rec Center newsletter. It is charming, and I am more than happy to forgive it its comma splices for the well-told tale of Nicky waking up at a different point in his own history every time he dies.

What made me pause to cry laughing was actually a footnote in the fic that "'Snails" is a minced oath for "God's nails," as cited in Green's Dictionary of Slang from 1599.

I haven't giggled this hard at something snail-related since the Barricades Con did a snéance (a snail séance) to ask Victor Hugo a few burning questions.

I am also sad all over again that they didn't name the sequel 2 Old 2 Guard, and that it wasn't good, but that is a Doylistic set of concerns, and when I am enmeshed in the story, I don't care so much.

Current Mood: shakespearean
Current Music: Arm in arm in arm in arm

settiai

It looks like Leslie Fish has passed away.

I've gotta admit, I'm very torn on this one. In recent years, she's made it clear that she's transphobic, bigoted, and a generally horrible person all around. A fair bit of her music has meant a lot to me over the years, though, before it became widely known just what she's like.

So... yeah. I'm mourning for just how important she used to be to both me and fandom at large, but at the same time it's hard to be all that sad about the death of someone who's made it clear that she didn't consider me to be a person.

Current Mood: blank

petra

Also open to people for whom it is Not Dark Outside in the Southern Hemisphere.

Let me know if you'd like a holiday card, with or without short verse or prose, or a short piece of fiction in your inbox.

Even if you know I have your address, if you want a physical card, I would appreciate your leaving it in a comment on this post -- all comments are screened -- so I don't have to hunt for it. I'm in the US and have a pile of domestic and international stamps just waiting to come see you.

Please format your request like so:

I would like [a physical card/just a physical card, no fiction/just a piece of fiction or verse sent digitally], please.

If you want a physical card:
Envelope Name
Address formatted the way your country likes them done

Card Name (if different from envelope name):

If you want some words:
Please write me a [drabble or poem], [silly or serious or smutty or author's choice], for [one or more of these fandoms (the fandoms I know)] on the theme of [my favorite trope(s)]. Please avoid mentioning [winter holidays I don't celebrate].

Optional if you want to reciprocate:
I'm planning on sending holiday cards and don't have your address. Please provide it [at this link or in a reply comment].

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conuly

I guess winter's finally here.

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Summary: The titular girl turning 12 is Katie, a homeschooled girl in Kentucky in summer/autumn 2004. She is enduring the beginning of puberty -- having to wear a bra*, growing leg hair, getting her period -- while her best friends have temporarily moved to Wisconsin, she is getting bullied at church** youth group, discovering her budding feminist rage about dress codes, and, worryingly, might have a crush on a girl in her theater club. A midgrade graphic novel.

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petra

There is currently a meme going around Tumblr of looking at the AO3 to see which of one's fanworks has the fewest hits. Mine is currently a drabble of Shakespeare/Marlowe titled from Stephen Sondheim.

As Jack points out, said fanwork could only be more on-brand for me if it involved mentor/student or one person/everyone else.

BRB, contemplating Kit/everybody and/or Will/everybody.

~~Oh thank goodness, I have the right icon for this post!~~

Current Mood: silly
Current Music: I am somewhat imperfectly me

petra

It is definitely time for the ceremonial Watching of the Comfort Movie.

RIP, Tom Stoppard. And may you not have to do it all over again and again and again, because life is neither a rehearsal nor a play.

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: Postulate

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umadoshi

Reading: Since last weekend, I've finished reading Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater and read Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone and Aster Glenn Gray's The Wolf and the Girl, and

scruloose and I finished listening to Network Effect. (One Murderbot audiobook left to go! At least until whenever the new one comes out next year.)

I'd never read any of The Dark is Rising [series] before, but a while back I got the whole set in an ebook bundle, and this week I remembered to actually ask around about which part of people read seasonally (or if it's the whole thing) and confirmed that winter solstice is indeed the season in question. So I expect to take a stab at reading The Dark is Rising [book] in a few weeks.

Seasonally related: Llinos Cathryn Thomas has a new seasonal novella out, All is Bright, which I understand can just be read like any other book but is written to work as an Advent countdown, one chapter a day. Hopefully I'll remember to start that on Monday, alongside whatever else I pick up next.

Watching: Having finally finished Network Effect,

scruloose and I dipped back into Silo season 2 last night. Three whole episodes down now!

I also succumbed to anticipatory fandom hype and watched the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry. I can't say I'm in love, but it looks like it's only six episodes total, so I expect I'll keep on with it. [Content note: the sex scenes are fairly graphic, at least by my fuzzy impression of standards for a mainstream show.] I have zero familiarity with the book, so no idea what's going to happen or how it is as an adaptation.

[Via The Rec Centre: "How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Became the Internet’s Favorite Show — Before It’s Even Aired".]

Householding: We've ordered a new upright freezer for the garage, since the current one is still being cranky. Once we've swapped the new one in (ETA: next weekend),

scruloose may take a stab at repairing it; that might've been the first step if it had been an appliance that's not full of food that needs to stay frozen, but with no idea what we would've done with said food during the attempt and troubleshooting and repair, and given how busy they've been lately, it wasn't a good choice right now. If they're able to fix the old one, we should be able to rehome it with someone who needs one.

Cooking: We did indeed make the Smitten Kitchen Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Cabbage last weekend, and it was really good. I've been pleased about how many vegetables it turns out I can find palatable in some situations, but I think this was the most actual enjoyment I've had from one. (The cabbage didn't do as well as a leftover the next night as the chicken itself did, but was still fine.)

Current Mood: hungry

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oursin

I suppose it's remotely possible that there's someone with a similar name to mine for whom this would be a relevant conference:

The ITISE 2026 (12th International conference on Time Series and Forecasting) seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of mathematics, econometric, statistics, forecaster, computer science, etc in the field of time series analysis and forecasting.

in Gran Canaria. But this looks like another of those dubious conferences spamming people very generally.

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I have discovered a new 'offputting phrase that, found in blurb, causes you to put the book down as if radioactive': 'this gargantuan work of supernatural existentialism' - even without the name of the author - Karl Ove Knausgård - who has apparently moved on from interminable autofiction to interminable this.

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A certain Mr JJ, that purports to be an Art Critick, on long history of artistic rivalries (between Bloke Artists, natch):

Shunning competition makes the Turner Prize feel pointless. It may be why there are no more art heroes any more.
Artistic competition goes to the essence of critical discrimination. TS Eliot said someone who liked all poetry would be very dull to talk to about poetry. Double header exhibitions that rake up old rivalries are not shallow, but help us all be critics and understand that loving means choosing. If you come out of Turner and Constable admiring both artists equally, you probably haven’t truly felt either. And if you prefer Constable, it’s pistols at dawn.

Let us be polyamorous in our artistic tastes, shall we?

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I rather loved this by Lucy Mangan, and will be adopting the term 'frothers' forthwith:

I like to grab a cup of warm cider and settle down with as many gift guides as I can and enjoy the rage they fuel among people who have misunderstood what many might feel was the fairly simple concept of gift guides entirely. I am particularly fond of people who look at a list headed, say, “Stocking stuffers for under £50” and respond by commenting on how £50 is a ridiculous amount of money to be spending on a stocking stuffer. They are closely followed in my pantheon of greats by those who see something like “25 affordable luxuries for loved ones” and can only type “Affordable BY WHOM?!?!” before falling to the ground in a paroxysm of ill-founded self-righteousness. On and on it goes. I love it. Never change, frothers. You are the gift that keeps on giving.

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Further to that expose of freebirthers, A concerned NHS midwife responds to an article about the Free Birth Society

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james_davis_nicoll

Eight books new to me. Five fantasy, one horror, two science fiction, of which two are series and six may not be.

Books Received, November 22 — November 28

Poll #33890 Books Received, November 22 — November 28

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59

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Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry (June 2026)
19 (32.2%)

The Franchise by Thomas Elrod (May 2026)
9 (15.3%)

Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden (July 2026)
3 (5.1%)

Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer (June 2026)
28 (47.5%)

Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire (June 2026)
19 (32.2%)

Cursed Ever After by Andy C. Naranjo (June 2026)
7 (11.9%)

For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce (February 2026)
3 (5.1%)

The War Beyond by Andrea Stewart (November 2025)
9 (15.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (1.7%)

Cats!
42 (71.2%)

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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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oursin

Happy birthday,

ethelmay!

sine_nomine

"Know that holy no's are what guide us towards the Divine yes."
-- Blair Trygstad Stowe

Current Mood: intrigued

mific

It's that time of year again! Mine are more like New Year cards as I'm slow to start making them.

If you're on my card list but your mailing address has changed, let me know - replies to this post are screened.

And if you're not on my seasonal cards list and would like to be, also drop me a reply below, with your preferred postal name and address. I send them all over the world, so no worries about that.

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Sam Carter
Rating: Unrated. I'd say, Teen.
Length: 8260
Content Notes: The author chose not to warn.

If you'd much rather know about major AO3 warnings and be spoiled for the reveal at the end, click the arrow at left. SPOILERS

John has died and it's his ghost or semi-ascended self keeping the team company on their memorial road trip. He's kind of in denial about this until the end, after which he ascends.

Creator Links: vain_glorious on AO3
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Road trips, Team, Friendship, AU: fork in the road

Summary: Following the events of 5X01, Team Sheppard goes to Earth and takes a roadtrip across the US.

Reccer's Notes: The team, plus newborn Torren, are back in the USA, travelling across the country and stopping at all John's favourite attractions. It should be a fun time, but they're all in unhappy moods and John can't get them to perk up at all. As the story progresses, we become aware that something's off, but it's hard to figure out what. The mystery's finally made clear in a possibly hopeful ending, depending on your point of view. It's not for those who don't like any darkness in their fics, but there's great characterisation and it's very well written, surprisingly funny at times, and the ending is powerful.

Fanwork Links: Unmanifest Destiny

conuly

Well, she tried, anyway.

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james_davis_nicoll

But this time, I managed to wake her up without help. Go me.

settiai

I've made this post a few times without any luck, but I wanted to try again just in case I have better luck this time. Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. I'm about $65 shy of where I need to be to pay for my storage unit this month, because the universe hates me, and it would help a lot if I could manage to sell even one of them.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

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endou mamoru, matsukaze tenma, and inazumori asuto welcoming the new protagonist sasanami unmei

New to the Inazuma Eleven (IE) fandom, or looking for your next read? Come and have a look at these algorithm-free recommendations!

ina11recs is a community created by arimamary as part of their participation in rec_cember, a Dreamwidth community event to share their Inazuma Eleven fic recommendations from AO3. Thirty-nine fics will be shared in different posts such as relationships, rating, and other themes.

All entries will be crossposted between Dreamwidth and Tumblr.

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petra

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: A glorious burst of heavenly song

oursin

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

starandrea

Yesterday Daphne participated in her first 5k! I've taken her to races before but yesterday was the first time we did a course with hundreds of other people and dogs. She was great.

Then there was gardening, Thanksgiving lite, napping, and Legos ♥

I finished building the Yiling Wen settlement last night, did my Black Friday shopping for me, and have enough groceries to last through the weekend. Which means it's time for

The Super Special 10k Catch Up Or Else Writing Marathon Event Of The Year

I'll be here all day.

james_davis_nicoll

Mongoose Publishing recently announced that next year will see the launch of Traveller 5E, a brand new version of the long running sci-fi RPG that will leverage the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition ruleset.

oursin

'My dear boy, why don't you try acting?' (attested from the mouth of Dustin Hoffman, to whom Olivier addressed this plea when Hoffman was going to extreme Method lengths).

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar.

And this was not a dreadful error in the props room or something out of a murder mystery:

It was the Exeter University theatre society’s annual play at the Edinburgh fringe and I’d landed the part of Cassius in Julius Caesar. The director decided that instead of killing himself, Cassius would die during a choreographed fight with his rival, Mark Antony. We also chose to use real knives, which sounds absurd, but we wanted to be authentic. The plan was for the actor playing Antony to grab my arm as I held the knife, and pretend to push it behind my back. We must have rehearsed the sequence 50 times.
We were about halfway through our month-long run, performing to a decently sized audience. Dressed in our togas, with the stage dark and moody, we began the fight as usual. Then something went wrong.
There was a sharp piercing feeling. The knife was supposed to have been quietly slipped to me – instead, it had gone into my back. I realised what had happened while acting out my character’s death, and thinking: I have to lie here until the lights go down.
....
When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”

However, right at the end of the article he does acknowledge: 'I’m super conscious of safety nowadays'. We should hope so.

What next - real poison where text requires? What was the director thinking? I would think using Real Knives might make it less authentic with choreographing to ensure Doing No Harm

Current Music: The Bogglemen, Boggle up your Shakespeare

james_davis_nicoll

Well, that was more close brushes with performing CPR than I consider ideal for a commute...

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goodbyebird

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

Oh and only a few days until

Welcome to Rec-Cember, the month long multi-fandom reccing event. Let's recommend some fanworks! Let's appreciate and comment on those fanworks!

rec_cember . intro . sign ups

Now I'm going to try to make it to the store and back. Wish me luck 🤞

Current Music: Hannah Georgas - Evelyn

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