Yuletide 2017
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desertscribeSome of My Likes:
- happy endings
- bittersweet endings
- unavoidably tragic endings
- stories that give a good view of a character's thought process
- women who aren't afraid to ask for what they want in bed
- lovers who have fulfilling sexlives without sex being the sole basis for their relationship
- foreplay
- sex which occurs as a natural progression of the plot
- fading to black if the sex would disrupt the flow of the rest of the story
- cuddling, either between lovers or platonically between close friends
- found families
- quiet domestic scenes
- wild action scenes
- humor
- horror
- scheming villains
- scheming heroes
- creative problem solving
- partnerships of equals (or at least something close)
- characters being at least as competent as they were in canon
- character growth
- people learning from their mistakes (and then sometimes going on to make completely different mistakes)
- people playing to their strengths and acknowledging their weaknesses (at least to themselves, unless that level of self-awareness would be OOC)
- people attempting to communicate with each other even if they don't always succeed
- verbal sparring/banter
- earned respect, with or without earned friendship
- rivals-to-friends story arcs
- a sense of place
- situations where what a person doesn't say is just as important as what they do say
- backstory
- missing scenes from canon
- post-canon adventures
- casefic
- slice of life stories
- time travel
- monsters that aren't as bad as they seem
- monsters that are even worse than they seem
- genre-savvy characters
- genre-bending weirdness
- occasional moral ambiguity
- subverted tropes or clichés
- tropes or clichés played straight but lampshaded
- cracktastic premises played straight
- fictional characters interacting with historical figures
- characters dealing with the consequences of having been in situations which brought out aspects of their personalities, either positive or negative, which they had not previously realized they had
- storytelling and/or stories as either a theme or a plot point
- characters comparing scars, either literally or metaphorically
- vacations gone awry
- accidental animal acquisition
- enemies forced to join forces with each other against a common foe
- road trips
- fake relationships that don't become real relationships
- canon-divergent AUs
My Requests:
Requested Characters:
Greir and Navaan
Optional Details:
I really loved the interaction these two had when they needed to team up against the Fun God and how their contrasting styles somehow managed to combine to get results, and I would love to see more of that. Maybe the lesbian pirates steal something Greir was hired to guard and only Navaan can help her get it back, possibly with undercover-as-a-couple shenanigans that turn into something real. Or maybe Navaan is the one who steals the thing from Greir just because she wants to see what Greir will do to get it back. Or maybe Navaan needs Greir's help to escape villagers who are angry about the results of her fake doctor business. Or maybe instead of the usual fuck-or-die trope, Greir finds herself stuck in a have-fun-or-die situation and only Navaan has a chance of getting her to crack a smile. Or just give me lots of chasing and fighting and sexual tension that gets resolved with acrobatic kissing and inappropriate use of fake death pellets. Or Greir could introduce Navaan to the Snow Queen for some reason that made sense at the time but now seems like it may have been a really bad idea because Navaan has broken out her fruit viking seduction costume and there are frozen bananas everywhere. Or whatever else you can think of.
Feel free to include whatever other canon characters you want for supporting roles in the story or make up OCs. In terms of ships, I'd be equally happy with either gen or Greir/Navaan. Greir/Navaan/Snow Queen would be good too but is in no way expected or required.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Oglaf (NSFW) is available free on line at http://oglaf.com. A list of all Greir's appearances in the comic can be found on this page, and a list of all Navaan's appearances can be found on this page.
Requested Characters:
Gwendolen Chelm and Maria Dannreuther
Optional Details:
These two have such an interesting relationship. They kind of start out scamming each other in their separate ways, and then in short order both want to steal each other's husbands, yet there never seems to be any enmity between them, and they might even be some sort of actual friends by the end of the movie. I would love to see any kind of missing scenes from the movie where it is just the two of them together, either wandering around town entertaining themselves while waiting for the ship to be ready, or when they think Dan is dead, or on the ship, or after they've been "shipwrecked" and taken into custody, or whenever. Gwendolen is prone to compulsive lying/making up stories, so what kind of stories does she make up about herself and Maria when they're alone? Or, what happens after the end of the movie? What happens after Harry sends for Gwendolen to join him in Africa? Does she go join him? Does Maria go join him? Do Gewndolen and Maria work out some kind of spouse swapping deal? Do they drag their husbands into some kind of poly relationship? Do they ditch the men and run off together as either friends or lovers? Dan and Harry have both been mistakenly thought to be dead, so do Gewndolen and/or Maria ever end up being mistaken for dead at some point in the future, either accidentally or on purpose?
Feel free to include whatever other canon characters you want or make up OCs for supporting roles in the story. Gen, femslash, or any het or poly combinations involving Gwendolen, Maria, Dan and/or Harry are equally fine.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Requested Characters:
Tilly
Optional Details:
I love Tilly and would love to see anything about what she was doing during the time-skip at the end of the movie or further into the future. How does she handle going from a boring job where she sits in a little booth all night to a job where she's dealing with magic and wonder and chaotic all night parties, all while officially she's still supposed to be sitting in that little booth all night? Is there any part of the museum that she especially loves or hates when it comes to life? What kind of fun or trouble does she have during the exhibits' world tour at the end of Secret of the Tomb? Does she keep in touch with Larry to get advice and/or complain about the latest magical shenanigans she has had to clean up after? Does Tilly ever talk Ahkmenrah and/or Lancelot into letting her have swords and teaching her how to use them? I ship Laaa/Tilly and would love to see a post-canon story about how they handled a relationship involving a language barrier and a species barrier. Bonus points for body-positivity and Laaa thinking that Tilly looks like a fertility goddess. Does Tilly ever get to celebrate any holidays with the exhibits, either in London, in New York, or anywhere else along the tour? Would the Tablet's powers do anything to a living person who was dressed up as somebody/something else, such as a person in a Halloween costume or dressed as Santa Claus or whatever, and how would Tilly deal with the results?
Feel free to include whatever other major or minor canon characters you want, whether they're in the tag set or not, because they're all entertaining, or make up OCs to fill supporting roles. As I said above, I ship Tilly/Laaa. Any ships between whatever supporting characters you decide to include are fine too as long as they aren't the main focus of the story.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Requested Characters:
Grace D'Argento and Julian Slink
Optional Details:
Some of my favorite moments in canon are the interactions between Grace and Slink, especially times like the interrogation in "The Fucking Dead" and their whole time together in the bar in "Fistful of Blood" when Slink can't just brain-bomb shock Grace into submission, because they're both so driven to get what they want and are ready to break out the violence with little provocation, and there's no telling what they might do to each other or any bystanders. I love how they're just so opposed to each other both for legitimate and for very petty reasons and how, despite everything Slink has done, Grace isn't afraid of him and isn't even impressed.
Did they interact at all in the year between when Grace agreed to join the Blood Drive and when the main race takes place? Were there qualifying races Grace had to drive in before the main event? Did Slink just show up to annoy her from time to time to make sure his "hand-picked battle bitch" would be ready to put on a good show when the time came? I would also love to see missing scenes from any point in canon, maybe from the two hour time-skip between the beginning of their "twenty questions, twenty punches" game and Slink telling Grace that her life reads like a depressing country song, or Grace having to put up with Slink as a road trip companion between episodes 10+11 or 12+13. Or insert an extra leg of the race where they had to face another instance of random sci-fi/horror tropes like giant mutant insects, ghosts or other supernatural creatures, time loops, time travel, dealing with (un)natural disasters, or whatever else you can think of. I'd also love to see something post-canon where they both somehow survive, because of course they would have if the show had gotten a second season. If they met up again after destroying Heart Tower, how would their goals have shifted? Would they try even harder to kill each other because they don't have any reason to hold back anymore, or would they have enough built up grudging respect for each other to team up again to go rescue Arthur, or would their reactions be something else entirely?
Feel free to include whatever other major or minor canon characters you want, whether they're in the tag set or not, because they're all entertaining, or make up OCs to fill supporting roles. I'd prefer Grace and Slink's relationship remain gen, with no sex/romance. For potential background ships, I like Slink/Rasher, Grace/Arthur, Grace/Carolina, Grace/Domi, Aki/Christopher, Arthur/Christopher, and Domi/Cliff.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Blood Drive (NSFW) can be streamed from the show's official website or purchased from Amazon. It can probably be acquired from other sources too.
- happy endings
- bittersweet endings
- unavoidably tragic endings
- stories that give a good view of a character's thought process
- women who aren't afraid to ask for what they want in bed
- lovers who have fulfilling sexlives without sex being the sole basis for their relationship
- foreplay
- sex which occurs as a natural progression of the plot
- fading to black if the sex would disrupt the flow of the rest of the story
- cuddling, either between lovers or platonically between close friends
- found families
- quiet domestic scenes
- wild action scenes
- humor
- horror
- scheming villains
- scheming heroes
- creative problem solving
- partnerships of equals (or at least something close)
- characters being at least as competent as they were in canon
- character growth
- people learning from their mistakes (and then sometimes going on to make completely different mistakes)
- people playing to their strengths and acknowledging their weaknesses (at least to themselves, unless that level of self-awareness would be OOC)
- people attempting to communicate with each other even if they don't always succeed
- verbal sparring/banter
- earned respect, with or without earned friendship
- rivals-to-friends story arcs
- a sense of place
- situations where what a person doesn't say is just as important as what they do say
- backstory
- missing scenes from canon
- post-canon adventures
- casefic
- slice of life stories
- time travel
- monsters that aren't as bad as they seem
- monsters that are even worse than they seem
- genre-savvy characters
- genre-bending weirdness
- occasional moral ambiguity
- subverted tropes or clichés
- tropes or clichés played straight but lampshaded
- cracktastic premises played straight
- fictional characters interacting with historical figures
- characters dealing with the consequences of having been in situations which brought out aspects of their personalities, either positive or negative, which they had not previously realized they had
- storytelling and/or stories as either a theme or a plot point
- characters comparing scars, either literally or metaphorically
- vacations gone awry
- accidental animal acquisition
- enemies forced to join forces with each other against a common foe
- road trips
- fake relationships that don't become real relationships
- canon-divergent AUs
My Requests:
Oglaf (Webcomic)
Requested Characters:
Greir and Navaan
Optional Details:
I really loved the interaction these two had when they needed to team up against the Fun God and how their contrasting styles somehow managed to combine to get results, and I would love to see more of that. Maybe the lesbian pirates steal something Greir was hired to guard and only Navaan can help her get it back, possibly with undercover-as-a-couple shenanigans that turn into something real. Or maybe Navaan is the one who steals the thing from Greir just because she wants to see what Greir will do to get it back. Or maybe Navaan needs Greir's help to escape villagers who are angry about the results of her fake doctor business. Or maybe instead of the usual fuck-or-die trope, Greir finds herself stuck in a have-fun-or-die situation and only Navaan has a chance of getting her to crack a smile. Or just give me lots of chasing and fighting and sexual tension that gets resolved with acrobatic kissing and inappropriate use of fake death pellets. Or Greir could introduce Navaan to the Snow Queen for some reason that made sense at the time but now seems like it may have been a really bad idea because Navaan has broken out her fruit viking seduction costume and there are frozen bananas everywhere. Or whatever else you can think of.
Feel free to include whatever other canon characters you want for supporting roles in the story or make up OCs. In terms of ships, I'd be equally happy with either gen or Greir/Navaan. Greir/Navaan/Snow Queen would be good too but is in no way expected or required.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Oglaf (NSFW) is available free on line at http://oglaf.com. A list of all Greir's appearances in the comic can be found on this page, and a list of all Navaan's appearances can be found on this page.
Beat the Devil (1953)
Requested Characters:
Gwendolen Chelm and Maria Dannreuther
Optional Details:
These two have such an interesting relationship. They kind of start out scamming each other in their separate ways, and then in short order both want to steal each other's husbands, yet there never seems to be any enmity between them, and they might even be some sort of actual friends by the end of the movie. I would love to see any kind of missing scenes from the movie where it is just the two of them together, either wandering around town entertaining themselves while waiting for the ship to be ready, or when they think Dan is dead, or on the ship, or after they've been "shipwrecked" and taken into custody, or whenever. Gwendolen is prone to compulsive lying/making up stories, so what kind of stories does she make up about herself and Maria when they're alone? Or, what happens after the end of the movie? What happens after Harry sends for Gwendolen to join him in Africa? Does she go join him? Does Maria go join him? Do Gewndolen and Maria work out some kind of spouse swapping deal? Do they drag their husbands into some kind of poly relationship? Do they ditch the men and run off together as either friends or lovers? Dan and Harry have both been mistakenly thought to be dead, so do Gewndolen and/or Maria ever end up being mistaken for dead at some point in the future, either accidentally or on purpose?
Feel free to include whatever other canon characters you want or make up OCs for supporting roles in the story. Gen, femslash, or any het or poly combinations involving Gwendolen, Maria, Dan and/or Harry are equally fine.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Night at the Museum (Movies)
Requested Characters:
Tilly
Optional Details:
I love Tilly and would love to see anything about what she was doing during the time-skip at the end of the movie or further into the future. How does she handle going from a boring job where she sits in a little booth all night to a job where she's dealing with magic and wonder and chaotic all night parties, all while officially she's still supposed to be sitting in that little booth all night? Is there any part of the museum that she especially loves or hates when it comes to life? What kind of fun or trouble does she have during the exhibits' world tour at the end of Secret of the Tomb? Does she keep in touch with Larry to get advice and/or complain about the latest magical shenanigans she has had to clean up after? Does Tilly ever talk Ahkmenrah and/or Lancelot into letting her have swords and teaching her how to use them? I ship Laaa/Tilly and would love to see a post-canon story about how they handled a relationship involving a language barrier and a species barrier. Bonus points for body-positivity and Laaa thinking that Tilly looks like a fertility goddess. Does Tilly ever get to celebrate any holidays with the exhibits, either in London, in New York, or anywhere else along the tour? Would the Tablet's powers do anything to a living person who was dressed up as somebody/something else, such as a person in a Halloween costume or dressed as Santa Claus or whatever, and how would Tilly deal with the results?
Feel free to include whatever other major or minor canon characters you want, whether they're in the tag set or not, because they're all entertaining, or make up OCs to fill supporting roles. As I said above, I ship Tilly/Laaa. Any ships between whatever supporting characters you decide to include are fine too as long as they aren't the main focus of the story.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Blood Drive (TV)
Requested Characters:
Grace D'Argento and Julian Slink
Optional Details:
Some of my favorite moments in canon are the interactions between Grace and Slink, especially times like the interrogation in "The Fucking Dead" and their whole time together in the bar in "Fistful of Blood" when Slink can't just brain-bomb shock Grace into submission, because they're both so driven to get what they want and are ready to break out the violence with little provocation, and there's no telling what they might do to each other or any bystanders. I love how they're just so opposed to each other both for legitimate and for very petty reasons and how, despite everything Slink has done, Grace isn't afraid of him and isn't even impressed.
Did they interact at all in the year between when Grace agreed to join the Blood Drive and when the main race takes place? Were there qualifying races Grace had to drive in before the main event? Did Slink just show up to annoy her from time to time to make sure his "hand-picked battle bitch" would be ready to put on a good show when the time came? I would also love to see missing scenes from any point in canon, maybe from the two hour time-skip between the beginning of their "twenty questions, twenty punches" game and Slink telling Grace that her life reads like a depressing country song, or Grace having to put up with Slink as a road trip companion between episodes 10+11 or 12+13. Or insert an extra leg of the race where they had to face another instance of random sci-fi/horror tropes like giant mutant insects, ghosts or other supernatural creatures, time loops, time travel, dealing with (un)natural disasters, or whatever else you can think of. I'd also love to see something post-canon where they both somehow survive, because of course they would have if the show had gotten a second season. If they met up again after destroying Heart Tower, how would their goals have shifted? Would they try even harder to kill each other because they don't have any reason to hold back anymore, or would they have enough built up grudging respect for each other to team up again to go rescue Arthur, or would their reactions be something else entirely?
Feel free to include whatever other major or minor canon characters you want, whether they're in the tag set or not, because they're all entertaining, or make up OCs to fill supporting roles. I'd prefer Grace and Slink's relationship remain gen, with no sex/romance. For potential background ships, I like Slink/Rasher, Grace/Arthur, Grace/Carolina, Grace/Domi, Aki/Christopher, Arthur/Christopher, and Domi/Cliff.
Do Not Want: incest, rape/non-con, scat/watersports, graphic underage sex, omegaverse, modern/mundane AUs
Where to find canon:
Blood Drive (NSFW) can be streamed from the show's official website or purchased from Amazon. It can probably be acquired from other sources too.
