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Dear ToT Creator,

Thank you so much for creating for me! I hope that you have a good time with your assignment or treat.

General Likes )

General Do Not Wants )

The Servant )

Sweet Caress )

Please Be My First Boyfriend! )

Dangeum and Jigyo )

I Promise to Return )

Go Jin and Gam-rae )

The Insatiable Man )

Kiss the Abyss )

fiab 2025

Aug. 25th, 2025 09:55 pm
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Dear FIAB Creator,

Thank you so much for creating for me! I hope that you have a good time with your assignment or treat.

General Likes )

General Do Not Wants )

Dangeum and Jigyo )

Go Jin and Gam-rae )

I Promise to Return )

Star Control )

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Dear IPQ Creator,

Thank you so much for creating for me! I hope that you have a good time writing your assignment or treat.

General Likes )

General Do Not Wants )

15th Century Historical RPF )

Nicked - M. T. Anderson )

Walking Practice - Dolki Min )

FIAB 2024

Aug. 29th, 2024 08:36 pm
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Dear FIAB Creator,

Thank you so much for creating for me! I hope that you have a good time making your assignment or treat. Please don't feel obligated to write to any of my prompts; going after my likes is great, too.

General Likes )

General Do Not Wants )

Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder )

Dungeon Meshi )

Royal Order )

Star Control )

RMSE 2024

Jun. 2nd, 2024 09:16 am
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Hello there! I'm back at doing exchanges for the first time in four years, so please excuse my rustiness. I included some sort-of prompts in my letter, but please don't feel bound to those - I was just spitballing. Treats are welcome!

General Likes
  • For canon queer ships, I like fics set in post-canon exploring what happens with the ship after the end of the story.
  • Alternate universes. I love them, the weirder and more specific the better. Modern? Hell yeah. Canon divergence? Hell yeah. Some sort of genre setting different from the canon? Hell yeah. However, I don't like police, mafia, omegaverse, coffee shop, university, serial killer, or high school AUs. Other than those, go ham.
  • I absolutely adore horror. However, I don't like bad or unhappy endings, though you're free to kill off all the side characters or OCs that you want. Here's some tags I asked for in the Jump Scare exchange: Horror Comedy, Blood and Gore, Competently handling the horrifying thing, Creeping Horror, folk horror, The kind of 'scary' that could be described as 'haunting', Tending to injury incurred by horror situation.
  • I like scenarios where a couple is isolated from others and have to work together to survive.
  • I enjoy humor and fic that's just exploring a character or relationship.
  • I love established relationship fics.
  • Smut is always excellent and PWP is welcome. The sex I best like to read has a lot of enthusiasm from both sides. The sex doesn't have to be flawlessly amazing but everyone is having fun. I prefer reading anal to other sex acts and I've specified who I want to top in each ship's section. If you want to add a kink to a scene, I love crossdressing and non-degrading dirty talk.
  • Road trips. 
  • ROMANCE. Give me my ship being loving in whatever way they tend to show their love and I'll be so happy.
  • I enjoy fic of any rating. I know explicit fic covers a large part of my output, but that's just how my brain goes for ideas and doesn't reflect all the things that I like reading.
General Do Not Wants
  • Permanent disabling injury of requested characters. Temporary horrible injuries are welcome and eye injury is fine.
  • Major character death. Canonical deaths and OC deaths are fine.
  • The following alternate universe settings:
    • Coffee shop, police, mafia, university, Harry Potter, serial killer, high school, omegaverse
  • Pregnancy of any sort in anyone, including mentions. Minors. Deaging. Babies. Infantilization. Lactation.
  • Asexual or aromantic characters in a requested ship.
  • Angst about aging/lifespan differences.
  • Crossovers and fusions.
  • One-sided relationships where only one character has feelings for the other.
  • Pairings that include a cis character and a trans character unless explicitly requested. Writing T4T between characters with the same kind of genitals is just fine, although I'd rather you not make trans identity a focus of the story if you do. Also, I prefer that AMAB/alternate words be used in sex scenes involving trans men.
  • Fic that's over 10,000 words.
  • Negotiation about consent or kinks. I want everyone to be on the same page, but discussion is not needed.
  • Noncon/rape or rape play. Dubcon (drunk sex is fine as long as the characters are not so wasted that they can't consent). Underage.
  • Domestic abuse. Slavery.
  • BDSM and D/s.
  • Switching. I prefer pairings be fixed in who tops and who bottoms. I've noted which character I want to top in my requests.
  • Polyamory/OT3s/open relationships. Unrequested non-canon side pairings. Infidelity. Breaking up. Exes to lovers.
  • Focus on an M/F relationship. Brief mentions of canon ones are fine.
  • Fic focusing on gender dysphoria or identity, misogyny, racism, homophobia, sexual identity, transphobia, mental illness, bipolar disorder, or self-harm.
  • Cat harm.
Sex-related Do Not Wants: rough nipple play, anal sex without lube (spit's ok), rimming, foot kink, frottage, ass to mouth, pee, anal bleeding/tearing, daddy kink, fisting, vomit, scat, belly bulges/stuffing/inflation/feeder kink, enemas, sounding, and vore.

DRAMAtical Murder: Clear/Seragaki Aoba

So, I got into DMMD about ten years after everyone else - my apologies for this request coming from the far depths of the past. I absolutely adore Clear as a fan of both robots and whatever the fuck eccentricities he has going on. He's just so cute in his dotty way! Aoba is so charming and I love how he rolls with absolutely bizarre scenarios like "well he's actively disintegrating but he wants to fuck so I guess this is my life now." I'd love to read something exploring their relationship dynamic because we didn't get much of it in the visual novel, whether in the canon setting or otherwise. And if you keep Clear a robot, it'd be neat to explore his robotic nature as well. If you write sex, I prefer that Clear top.

Dungeon Meshi: Kabru/Mithrun of the House of Kerensil

This pairing hit me hard. I'd put off getting into Dungeon Meshi because I'm not big about watching stuff, but was increasingly tempted because Kabru is beautiful. Then, a friend told me the basic setup of Kabumisu and I read all of the manga within 4 days. I love Kabru and Mithrun so much, they're both such interesting characters. Kabru's great for his observational skills, but also his warmth and love of humanity. Love his winky faces. Where do I start with Mithrun? I want to open up his brain and chew on it. I love the glimpses into his personality we get and the difference between his past/present. Also: he's beautiful. I'd love fic set post-canon, but also canon divergence and any AU you felt could keep the spirit of their manga characterization intact.

So, some things inherent to the pairing are on my do not want list. However, I have no problem with fics focusing on mental illness in relation to Mithrun, as long as that mental illness isn't bipolar disorder. Self-harm is also OK to mention.

I'm not interested in canon setting fics where Mithrun never had his desires eaten. If you write sex, I prefer that Kabru top and Mithrun enjoy it, whether or not he has his desires back or not.

I Became the Lousy Side Top: Seo Jaewoo/Yoo Hyeonjin

Not to sound like the beginning of a recipe blog, but I read this manhwa obsessively while enduring a visit to the in-laws and it made me extra fond of this story. Jaewoo is a precious sweetheart and I love Hyeonjin for how he went from wary of Jaewoo to being devoted. I really enjoyed how much food and care played a role in Jaewoo and Hyeonjin's romance. I think it'd be really fun to read something set post-canon where Jaewoo and Hyeonjin are managing their restaurant, but exploring bits of canon that didn't get fleshed out would also be great and alternate universes are always tasty. If you write sex, I prefer that Hyeonjin top.

I know I listed kids as a do not want, but you're welcome to include Hyeonjin's little brothers in the fic. I think their little family is so cute.

Therapy Game: Ikushima Shizuma/Mito Minato

This manga is such perfectly executed slice-of-life that I'm glued to every chapter, even though it's mostly Minato being unhinged and Shizuma being the perfect boyfriend. Shizuma is the type of character who SHOULD be boring since he's flawless and patient with Minato's frenetic energy, but Hinohara-sensei is just so damn good at making her characters engaging that I adore Shizuma. Minato is my favorite type of bottom character in yaoi because he's just so messy. I think both of them have interesting jobs (I loved "All Creatures Great and Small" as a kid, and Minato's photography career gets absurd at times). Feel free to write more slice-of-life or get them into some sort of high-stakes scenario or wild AU. I know I listed cat harm as a do not want, but if you write about Shizuma treating a cat that gets better, that's just fine. If you write sex, I prefer that Shizuma top.
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Hello! I'm Sath on AO3 and sathindetection on Twitter. I hope you're having a lovely Yuletide!

General Likes
General Do Not Wants
Can Ci Pin
Kaleidoscope of Death
The Earth is Online

General Likes
Feel free to write just towards my general likes instead of my prompts. I’m not super married to any of the prompts – I just thought they might be helpful.
  • Canon divergences are always fun! Canon-typical plots in general are my jam. Wanna write post-canon fic? I love it!
  • I also enjoy hurt/comfort – and characters getting injured in general. I don't like hurt/comfort when it's stuff like, a character has a cold and gets pampered. Whump is great, especially when the whumped character is grimly carrying on. In general, I love when a character gets bloody, hehehehe. Here are some tags I asked for in the H/C Exchange: Blood Loss, coughing up blood, field medicine, Hurt can only be resolved with Sex for some reason, and Trapped Together While One Is Injured.
  • I absolutely adore horror. However, I don't like bad or unhappy endings, though you're free to kill off all the side characters or OCs that you want. Here's some tags I asked for in the Jump Scare exchange: Horror Comedy, Blood and Gore, Competently handling the horrifying thing, Creeping Horror, folk horror, The kind of 'scary' that could be described as 'haunting', Tending to injury incurred by horror situation.
  • I like scenarios where a couple is isolated from others and have to work together to survive.
  • Missing scenes are always fun! I also like humor and fic that's just exploring a character or relationship.
  • I love established relationship fic. Feel free to write alternate get-togethers if the translation hasn't gotten there yet, though!
  • Smut is always excellent and PWP is welcome. The sex I best like to read has a lot of enthusiasm from both sides. Maybe the sex is funny, maybe it's just sexy, but everyone is having fun. Anal sex is definitely a big like for me, but if you'd rather write oral or handjobs because that's what you feel more comfortable with or more inspired to write, please go for those instead! Don't feel tied to the butt! If you want some more specific inspiration, here are some tags I asked for in Smut 4 Smut:
    • Desperate Sex, Consensual Drunk Sex, Awkward Sex
    • Jealousy leads to possessive sex (standard gong vinegar style, not actually controlling behavior)
    • Dirty Talk (I prefer praise/general enjoyment/sharing fantasies to degrading/threatening talk - it's also really nice when it's customized to the character rather than being generic)
    • Roleplaying (the more unique to the characters the better)
  • ROMANCE. Give me my OTP being loving in whatever way they tend to show their love and I'll be so happy.
  • I enjoy fic of any rating. I know explicit fic covers a large part of my output and some of my prompts, but that's just how my brain goes for ideas and doesn't reflect all the things that I like reading.
  • Feel free to go for whatever length of story you want - minimum word count, 2k, 5k, 10k - go for what you enjoy!

General Do Not Wants
  • Permanent injury of requested characters.
  • Major character death. Canonical deaths and OC deaths are fine.
  • Alternate universe fics (e.g., setting changes, role reversal, gender changes, A/B/O, etc.), except for canon divergence and where specifically requested.
  • Time travel and time loops.
  • Pregnancy of any sort in anyone, including mentions. Kids. Deaging. Babies. Infantilization. Lactation.
  • Breaking up canon pairings or making it so canon pairings never happened.
  • Crossovers and fusions.
  • Gender and identity headcanons. Changing character pronouns from canon.
  • Cancer.
  • Negotiation about consent or kinks. I want everyone to be on the same page, but discussion is not needed.
  • Noncon/rape or rape play. Dubcon. Underage. Domestic abuse. Slavery.
  • BDSM and D/s.
  • Polyamory/OT3s/open relationships. Unrequested non-canon side pairings. Infidelity.
  • Focus on M/F relationships/heterosexuality.
  • Fic focusing on gender dysphoria, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, mental illness, self-care, or self-harm.
  • Cat harm.
Sex-related Do Not Wants:
rough nipple play, anal sex without lube, rimming, humiliation, foot kink, frottage, ass to mouth, pee, anal bleeding/tearing, daddy kink, fisting, vomit, scat, belly bulges/stuffing/inflation/feeder kink, enemas, boypussy/cuntboys, sounding, and vore

Can Ci Pin
Lin Jingheng, Lu Bixing
WHERE DO I START WITH SPACE GAYS I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I love how it starts out small-scale and then spreads across multiple galaxies. I LOVE LULIN I LOVE THEM TOGETHER! CCP asks so many interesting questions about human nature and the role of technology, and I love the concept of mental networks and how mechs are controlled. Normally I have a favorite character within a CP, but I honestly can't pick whether I love Lu Bixing or Lin Jingheng more? They're just both so compelling!
Lu Bixing has such great development over the course of the novel. He starts out so naive and optimistic (yet there was still the childhood incident with the snake girl - Lu Bixing never had the luxury of TRUE innocence), but then becoming Prime Minister, the 16 years of separation... really tempered him and gave harder (toppier? lol) edges to his sunshine.
Lin Jingheng - where do I start? What a badass. I love his wicked sense of humor and talent (passion?) for insults. BUT HE HAS A HEART UNDERNEATH IT ALL... even if it took Lu Bixing to find it. Every time he actually cracks a smile I'm like, ahhhhhh! Also I'm a sucker for the stern military type who gets nicely disheveled (and topped).
LULIN IS SUCH A POWER COUPLE WOW REQUESTING THE HECK OUT OF THIS PAIRING. Their dynamic has so much great give and take and I love how they had to learn each other all over again after the 16 years. Their love is so epic...
If you write anal, I have a slight preference for Lu Bixing topping, but if you have an idea for Lu Bixing REALLY ENTHUSIASTICALLY bottoming, I'm all for it.
Some prompts:
  • What if they ended up marooned on a strange planet? Lost on an abandoned space station? They can only rely on each other and their wits to survive!
  • I'd be interested in reading an exploration of any of the fade to black scenes...
  • Whump either of them. Maybe some bad relaxant abuse side effects. Maybe Lu Bixing has problems with the biochip.
  • Extended shenanigans with Lu Bixing and Lin Jingheng going undercover in other galaxies.
  • Kaleidoscope of Death or The Earth is Online AU where they have to survive a door scenario or a black tower game.

Kaleidoscope of Death
Lin Qiushi, Ruan Nanzhu
*screams into hands* I love them so much! I love KoD in general - all the gore! The peril! The creepiness!
I love crossdressing gongs and Ruan Nanzhu sure as hell does it well and with clear zest. He's so wonderfully protective without being smothering, and I find him so interesting in how he acts differently inside and outside the door. How inside the door he's so quick to play the damsel in distress for Linlin, how affectionate he is, ALL THE BEDSHARING AND CUDDLING, and then outside the door he acts so cold and distant (when he's not flirting). His flirtatiousness is great. Also, Chestnut approves of him, so he's clearly a keeper for Lin Qiushi. Wah Ruan-ge you're so cool~
As for Lin Qiushi, I identify so much with his love for cats. THIS MAN IS SO DENSE THOUGH. Linlin you are killing me!!! He's great in that he's not just around to be rescued by Ruan Nanzhu - he's very independent and clever and fearless. I like how he acts protective/physically affectionate with Ruan Nanzhu in the doors, without separating "Zhu Meng" and Ruan Nanzhu in his head at all. He loves (and wants to bone) Ruan Nanzhu regardless of whether he's wearing a skirt or not! Lin Qiushi's just so accepting of his quick intimacy with Ruan Nanzhu...
I ship Nanqiu like burning with how absolutely loving and supportive they are, so consider it requested. THEY GO THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER AND THEY'RE BOTH SO BRAVE... FOR EACH OTHER!!! Like, out of the many BL novels I've read, I'd consider Nanqiu one of the most romantic couples *sobs*
If you write anal, I'd rather Ruan Nanzhu top.
It's fine to mention Lin Qiushi's cancer; I just don't want a focus on it.
I'm keeping up with the English TL, but I've also MTLed the whole thing with the extras.
Prompts:
  • A door scenario would be awesome! Possible inspirations could be r/nosleep stories, folklore, horror movies - maybe even the Dyatlov Pass Incident? Throw some gore at me!! Bathe the 25th of December in blood!!
  • Nanqiu go on a date awwww.
  • Wuxia or gufeng AU.
  • More Ruan Nanzhu whump, maybe? He could get really injured in one of the doors...
  • Nanqiu screw. That's it that's my prompt.
  • Post-canon humor fic.

The Earth is Online
Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo
This novel was just such a delight! I devoured it, despite the length. The puzzles were so innovative, even though I could never solve them and was always surprised by the solution. I also really like how well the story wrapped up! It was such a hopeful ending after the endless battles that preceded it. But my favorite part of the novel was Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's slow burn romance, so consider the pairing requested! THEY'RE SO SWEET TO EACH OTHER. Love how these fumbling virgins (THE HANDSHAKE??? WHEN THEY CAME OUT TO EACH OTHER??? WHAT WAS THAT!!!!) managed to get together. Hope they can get over the disagreement over coriander/cilantro, though! Try it a few more times Tang Tang!!!
Tang Mo was such a delightful MC. I love how he took no shit from the start to the end of the novel. He takes everything in stride and never gives in to despair (though he does vent his anger). It was so great how he just accepted his love for Victor without ever angsting over it, and despite my furious tweeting to the contrary, I really liked how he took his time to advance his relationship with Fu Wenduo (and how Tang Mo set the pace in general). They got together on their own terms, rather than as a power up.
Fu Wenduo! Can I gave him an award for 'most considerate'? He's so good to Tang Mo, even though he is a MEAN BULLY to Xiao Fu hahaha. I love how badly he fails at jokes. He's so decisive without being foolish or impulsive. When he was first introduced and we only got occasional appearances from him I was very ARGH because he's very magnetic.
If you write anal, I'd prefer that Fu Wenduo top.
Prompts:
  • More black tower games! Perhaps you could go for some of the more obscure fairytales. What about Bluebeard? Maybe some inspiration from movies that hit pop culture really hard. Don't worry about making the puzzle particularly clever - I will NOT guess it regardless.
  • I know I've prompted this for other pairings but... a... date???? WITH CILANTRO.
  • Post-canon road trip!
  • A peek at their bomb sex life. Tang Mo bottoming but acting toppy is a plus.
  • You could set stuff in the canon mundane AU because it was cute as hell.
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Hello! I'm Sath on AO3 and sathindetection on Twitter. This is one of my favorite exchanges of the year! Spooks appreciated but not required.

General Likes
General Do Not Wants
I Ship My Adversary X Me
Kaleidoscope of Death
Global University Entrance Examination/Quanqiu Gaokao

General Likes
Feel free to write just towards my general likes instead of my prompts (or writing whatever you're inspired to write, as long as it doesn't go against my do not wants). I’m not super married to any of the prompts – I just thought they might be helpful.
  • Canon divergences are always fun! Canon-typical plots in general are my jam. Wanna write post-canon fic? I love it!
  • Smut is always excellent and PWP is welcome. The sex I best like to read has a lot of enthusiasm from both sides. Maybe the sex is funny, maybe it's just sexy, but everyone is having fun. Anal sex is definitely a big like for me, but if you'd rather write oral or handjobs because that's what you feel more comfortable with or more inspired to write, please go for those instead! Don't feel tied to the butt! If you want some more specific inspiration, here are some tags I asked for in Smut 4 Smut: Desperate Sex, Consensual Drunk Sex, Jealousy leads to possessive sex (standard gong vinegar style, not actually controlling behavior), Awkward Sex, Topping from the Bottom, Dirty Talk (I prefer praise/general enjoyment/sharing fantasies to degrading/threatening talk - it's also really nice when it's customized to the character rather than being generic), Roleplaying (the more unique to the characters the better), Semi-Public Sex (like when they're hidden away but someone might hear them/walk in on them - I don't like voyeurism or exhibitionism though).
  • I love crossdressing/crossdressing plots/crossdressing during sex. I don’t like it when there’s an element of humiliation or shame though. I don't want any changing of pronouns or referring to body parts by names other than what they actually are. If you write crossdressing during sex, I don't care whether the crossdressing character is topping or bottoming.
  • I also enjoy hurt/comfort – and characters getting injured in general. I don't like hurt/comfort when it's stuff like, a character has a cold and gets pampered. Here are some tags I asked for in the H/C Exchange: Blood Loss, coughing up blood, field medicine, Hurt can only be resolved with Sex for some reason, and Trapped Together While One Is Injured.
  • If you're looking for spooky things, here's some tags I asked for in the Jump Scare exchange: Horror Comedy, Blood and Gore, Competently handling the horrifying thing, Creeping Horror, folk horror, The kind of 'scary' that could be described as 'haunting', Tending to injury incurred by horror situation.
  • Missing scenes are always fun! I also like humor and fic that's just exploring a character or relationship.
  • I love established relationship fic. Feel free to write alternate get-togethers, though!
  • I enjoy fic of any rating. I know explicit fic covers a large part of my output and some of my prompts, but that's just how my brain goes for ideas and doesn't reflect all the things that I like reading.
  • Feel free to go for whatever length of story you want - minimum word count, 2k, 5k, 10k - go for what you enjoy!

General Do Not Wants
  • Permanent injury of requested characters.
  • Major character death. Canonical deaths and OC deaths are fine.
  • Alternate universe fics (e.g., setting changes, role reversal, gender changes, A/B/O, etc.), except for canon divergence and where specifically requested.
  • Time travel and time loops.
  • Pregnancy of any sort in anyone, including mentions. Kids. Deaging. Babies. Lactation.
  • Breaking up canon pairings or making it so canon pairings never happened.
  • Crossovers and fusions.
  • Writing characters as trans, asexual, or aromantic who are not explicitly so in canon.
  • Cancer.
  • Negotiation about consent or kinks. I want everyone to be enthusiastic into what they're doing, but discussion is not needed.
  • Noncon/rape or rape play. Dubcon. Underage. Domestic abuse. Slavery.
  • BDSM and D/s.
  • Polyamory/OT3s/open relationships. Unrequested non-canon side pairings. Infidelity.
  • Focus on M/F relationships/heterosexuality.
  • Fic focusing on gender dysphoria, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, mental illness, self-care, or self-harm.
  • Cat harm.

Sex-related Do Not Wants:
rough nipple play, anal sex without lube (I consider spit to be adequate lube unless the top is really hung - which I guess most of them canonically are HAHA), rimming, humiliation, foot kink, frottage, ass to mouth, pee, anal bleeding/tearing, daddy kink, fisting, vomit, scat, belly bulges/stuffing/inflation/feeder kink, enemas, cuntboys, sounding, and vore

I Ship My Adversary X Me
Wei Yanzi
I laughed so hard reading ISMM and it cheers me up so much. Wei Yanzi is just... hilarious. He wants his fluff! I can't even pick all his funniest moments... was it when he strained his pelvis trying to be sexy? The angry LoL playing? His enjoyment of the 139 page PDF Niangzi manifesto? He just absolutely kills me. I don't normally go for secondhand embarrassment but ISMM just does it SO WELL and so affectionately. As for the style of the canon, please write whatever you're most comfortable with. You can imitate the original canon format or switch to third person - I don't care. Established relationship is very welcome with this pairing.
NIANGZI IS RIO so of course if you would like to write the ship, I'm all about it.
If you write anal, Wei Yanzi has to bottom. I'm sorry but I cannot imagine him topping ANYONE, even though I'm sure Gu Yiliang would go with whatever Yanyan wanted.
Feel free to write post-canon fic or spoil me for stuff past the EN TL - but if you do, please note anything coming from canon in the author's notes!
Prompts:
  • Wei Yanzi and Gu Yiliang are cast in a wuxia film together. GYL and WYZ rehearse together and then it turns into bad roleplay sex where WYZ is the shizun being boinked by his horny disciple.
  • WYZ and GYL go on the vacation from hell. Everything goes wrong!!!!
  • Kaleidoscope of Death AU where GYL and WYZ are drawn into the doors... (AU DNW does not apply here)
  • Ghost hunter AU. Or maybe not even AU, but they pick up looking for ghosts as a hobby? Exorcist AU?
  • Wei Yanzi becomes a Niangzi BNF himself and gets involved with some wild drama with another BNF.

Kaleidoscope of Death
Ruan Nanzhu
*screams into hands* I love him so much! As you could see from my likes, I love crossdressing gongs and he sure as hell does it well and with clear zest. He's so wonderfully protective without being smothering, and I find him so interesting in how he acts differently inside and outside the door. How inside the door he's so quick to play the damsel in distress for Linlin, how affectionate he is, ALL THE BEDSHARING AND CUDDLING, and then outside the door he acts so cold and distant. His flirtatiousness is great. Also, Chestnut approves of him, so he's clearly a keeper for Lin Qiushi. I ship Nanqiu like burning with how absolutely loving and supportive they are, so consider it requested. THEY GO THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER AND THEY'RE BOTH SO BRAVE... FOR EACH OTHER!!!
If you write anal, I'd rather Ruan Nanzhu top.
It's fine to mention LQS's cancer; I just don't want a focus on it and certainly not him dying from it.
I'm keeping up with the English TL, but I've also MTLed the whole thing with the extras.
Prompts:
  • A door scenario would be awesome! Possible inspirations could be r/nosleep stories, folklore, horror movies - maybe even the Dyatlov Pass Incident?
  • Nanqiu go on a date awwww.
  • Wuxia or gufeng AU (AU DNW doesn't apply here).
  • Nanqiu screw. That's it that's my prompt. I have a slight preference for outside of the door, and post-canon is a perfectly fine setup for fucking.
  • Fic exploring the big spoiler about Ruan Nanzhu.

Global University Entrance Examination/Quanqiu Gaokao
You Huo
HE'S SUCH AN IRON WOOBIE. So stoic! So secretly soft! So shameless about having a boyfriend! My first impression of You Huo was that he was OP without any depth but it turns out he's OP with a tragic backstory and... surprisingly cute? His relationship with Qin Jiu is great - I love how equal it is, how much they respect each other, HOW THEY'VE FALLEN FOR EACH OTHER 3 SEPARATE TIMES, the fact that they are shameless (SHAMELESS!!!). Qin Jiu's teasing goes so well with You Huo's cooler (YET CARING) personality. Jiuhuo is very much requested!!
If you write anal, I'd prefer that Qin Jiu top. You Huo getting wrecked... exquisite.
I am keeping up with the translation, but I think it might actually be done by the time that fics are due, so I may add some prompts based on however it ends. Please don't feel compelled to check back on my letter, though!
  • There's so much room for exploring You Huo's past, particularly with Qin Jiu. Anything exploring more of how they got together those first two times would be great!
  • You Huo's past before he met Qin Jiu would also be interesting! Or what about when he was recovering from being kicked from the system, before the novel started?
  • Remember the exam right before they got together, with the Duke and the "married" couples? WHAT IF... you wrote a canon divergence... where Qin Jiu and You Huo were assigned as a married couple... or if in order to group up, You Huo put on a dress? WHEEZE. Maybe the system wouldn't go off if they did it because *waves hands vaguely* the system got confused.
  • WHY DIDN'T MUSULI INCLUDE ANY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE JIUHUO BLOODDRINKING??? YOU COULD FIX IT.
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Hello! I'm Sath on AO3 and sathindetection on Twitter. I'm looking forward to this little pre-Yuletide run!
I am so sorry for all the extra spacing I'm so bad at html.

General Likes
General Do Not Wants
Sha Po Lang
Tian Ya Ke
Wushuang
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As a writer, what I’m most interested in is characterization. In fanfic, it’s one of the most important aspects of writing, if not the MOST important, considering the popularity of AUs such as coffeeshops, college, etc., where only the characters are the same. I tend to get positive feedback on my characterization (thanks everyone who’s mentioned it!), so I thought I’d write a brief guide to how I approach characterization and characters.

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Eh, why not. I'm not listing any fics I wrote under 1k words, because I moved them over to my sock anyway. 

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I read this book all in one day (it was only 192 pages) while waiting for and riding on buses while it was BALLS COLD OUT. This probably influenced my reading a little because the fever dreamishness was enhanced. 

The book is about a young woman who’s dying of fever, and the conversation she has with a neighbor’s child who could be best described as a changeling (though the book never goes there). The theme of poison is used to really good effect here, as well as Subtle Wrongness Building to Hella Wrongness.

I recommend it, particularly if you want a short, frenetic read of a horror story.

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I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting book reviews, even though they're very half-assed. I read a fair variety of things, so chances are I'll eventually hit someone's interest. This one is ported over from Tumblr. 

The Slynx is about post-apocalyptic Russia, written about two hundred years or so after the calamity. It was really interesting and creative, although it really suffered from me disliking he POV character. Benedict is an unlikable ass, and I honestly don’t care about his Big Book Feelings because he’s an asshole. This is in fact a major sticking point for me when it comes to books: the main character doesn’t need to be a good person, but I have to like/enjoy them somehow. Benedict was just someone whom I felt was getting in the way of the worldbuilding. 

As for the worldbuilding, Tolstaya does a great job at playing up the mutant trope and the theme of rebuilding from nothing. Something she did that was particularly good was she had survivors from the time of the Blast who were basically immortal, but she didn’t use one for the POV - which I think was ultimately a good decision, because it meant Benedict was a naive narrator, but also a problem because I couldn’t stand the guy. 

Tolstaya wrote a great mix of the familiar and the uncanny - a good example is how the cats in The Slynx still chase mice, but they have little human hands (kinda adorable IMO). Mice, by the way, form the basic economic unit of the post-apocalyptic society. 

Highly recommend this to fans of post-apocalyptic lit if you can withstand a punchable narrator. 

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Hehehehe bad "so you're learning HTML/CSS/basic programming" joke. 

I'm going to try to use my DW more from now on. Expect short book reviews and the occasional meta or writing meme. I'm also going to try to do some writing process posts as well. 
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