Dear Fandom5k author!

Apr. 9th, 2021 10:45 am
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My dear writer, hello! Thank you for matching to me, and I hope you'll enjoy writing your story. Feel free to mix and match my likes, prompts and ideas for different fandoms, or come up with scenarios I did not come up with, or experimenting; as long as my DNWs are met, I'm completely fine with you going ODAO. I love all the iddy, all-out, unrestrained things, and I can't wait to see what you write.

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Likes:

  • Hurt/comfort! When in doubt, go with h/c: physical, emotional, captivity scenarios, caretaking, whipping, dungeons, bullet wounds, wilderness survival, whatever. I love hurt/comfort within a relationship context (ships or gen: family ties, friendship, comradeship, all is good), as an opening for one character to be hurt and for the other(s) to be outraged/terrified/comforting on their behalf. I am particular about who gets whumped, and will usually indicate so in prompts.
  • Found families, tight friendships, us-against-the-world, people finding and keeping each other, providing kindness and warmth against the dark.
  • Hope and kindness, Clair universes, stories where the entropy tries its hardest but doesn't win.
  • Loyalty in all forms! From ritualized (oaths, kneeling, ring-kissing, knights and bodyguards and henchmen and so on) to more casual ways, like standing up for your friends.
  • Self-sacrifice (metaphorical and quite literal) and martyrdom (ditto).
  • Tropey AUs - space opera! high fantasy! historical! pirates!
  • Outsider POVs.

DNWs:

  • Hurt no comfort.
  • Partner betrayal of any kind or infidelity.
  • Unhappy endings and permanent character death ("presumed dead" and "died but got better" are fine).
  • A/B/O, hurtcomfortverse, any other 'verses with built-in biology-based inequality.
  • Hanahaki AUs and variations thereof.
  • Mundane AUs.
  • Non-con and dub-con front and center in the story (as a piece of backstory or an implied threat it's fine).

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells Moon (Books of the Raksura)

Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence,Canon-Style Plot - Freeform, Character Development, Hurt/Comfort

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Final Fantasy XV
Group: Noctis Lucis Caelum/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Ignis Scientia

Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence, Fix-it fic, Hurt/Comfort

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The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Maia Drazhar

AU - Canon Divergence, Character Development, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort

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Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards Group: Brandon Saint John & Rune Saint John & Addam Saint Nicholas; Group: Brandon "Brand" Saint John/Rune Saint John/Addam Saint Nicholas; Group: Brandon "Brand" Saint John & Rune Saint John

Action/Adventure, Canon-Style Plot - Freeform, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery/Procedural

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Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse Group: Mike Jackson/Rupert Psmith

Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort

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Dear HurtComfortEx Author!

Mar. 5th, 2021 11:23 pm
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Dearest author, hello! Thank you so much for picking my fandoms, and enjoying the same tags I do; I'm incredibly excited for this challenge, my favorite of the year, and and those canons, and I want everything.

There are so many tags that I've definitely missed something interesting! I'll try to give some prompts for every fandom, some riffing off the tags and some not. Feel free to mix, match, disregard and ODAO at will, as long as my DNWs are kept. Bring all the tropes to my yard! I can't wait.

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General hurt/comfort preferences: I like my hurt hardcore and physical, and my comfort at least somehow proportional and ending on at least a hopeful note, and I like it in context of any given relationship (i.e. the character getting hurt in sight of / for the sake of / in relation to other characters, and them reacting / rescuing / comforting / rehabilitating them, et cetera, not just the character suffering in the vacuum).

I love reading about the aftermaths of disasters as much as I love reading about disasters itself - the recovery, the backsliding, the acceptance, the assistance. Permanent injuries and consequences yes! Adjusting to the new circumstances yes! New understanding yes! And I especially love all those things in the context of larger-than-life, codependent loyalty (formalized or not), self-sacrifice and self-negation.

In particular, the physical kinks especially dear to my heart: torture, dungeons or cages, and rescue thereof, starvation, exhaustion, hand injuries, whipping, crucifixion, various mobility issues, chronic pain, all variations on accepting injuries for somebody's sake. For the emotional hurt/comfort, all variations on pining (and/or mutual pining!) and characters (mistakenly) thinking that they're either unloved or undeserving of being loved or protected, and being shown they're wrong.

I prefer my woobies competent, BAMF-y and fighting every step of the way, or going into the self-sacrifice determinedly and with their eyes open.

I really love non-mundane AUs (high fantasy, pirates, space opera, et cetera), so go there without hesitation if it's your thing.

DNWS:

  • Hurt no comfort
  • Partner betrayal of any kind or infidelity
  • Unhappy endings and permanent character death ("presumed dead" and "died but got better" are both fine)
  • A/B/O, hurtcomfortverse, any other 'verses with built-in biology-based inequality
  • Hanahaki AUs, soulmates AUs and variations thereof
  • Mundane AUs
  • Non-con and dub-con (threat of non-con or mentioned past dub/non-con is fine, but not as a central theme of the fic)

Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly

  • Benjamin January & Abishag Shaw (hurt Abishag Shaw)
  • Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/Hannibal Sefton (hurt Hannibal)

A's unrequited pining found to be requited while B helps them recover from serious injury, accepting injury to protect someone, A accused of crimes; only B believes they're innocent, attempted self-sacrifice is thwarted by people who do not agree character is expendable, Bronchitis/Pneumonia, Buried Alive, Career Ending Injuries, character being extremly tired/exhausted, Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another, Character doesn't care about their own wellbeing, Character jumped in front of a bullet to save someone, Character needs painful first aid but there's no anesthetic, coughing up blood, Day to day living with a partner who deals with chronic pain, Hair Brushing, Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character, A presumed dead; B refuses to believe A died, On the Run with a Sick or Injured Partner, Watching Loved One’s Physical Health Deteriorate, Whipping

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Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse

  • Mike Jackson/Rupert Psmith (hurt Psmith)

A's unrequited pining found to be requited while B helps them recover from serious injury, accepting injury to protect someone, Accident - A can't use their hands so B takes care of A, Alternate Universe - Slavery, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, Carrying sick/hurt/exhausted character to bed, Character is Injured while Protecting Another, Hands too shaky to complete task, Hiding an Injury or Illness, I'll do the traumatic thing because I'm used to it, loss of voice, Slavery, Sickfic, Starvation, Wrist Injuries, Torture - Tortured While Loved Ones Were Forced To Watch, Pretending to Betray Someone to Save them, Private body worship apology for public enslavement, Collapsing from hunger, Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another

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The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards

  • Addam Saint Nicholas & Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)
  • Addam Saint Nicholas/Rune Saint John/Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)
  • Rune Saint John & Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)

A's unrequited pining found to be requited while B helps them recover from serious injury, accepting injury to protect someone, Aftermath of Torture - Character doesn't tell anyone they were tortured; is found out anyway, Aftermath of Torture - Tortured character's superiors ensure their torturers are brought to justice, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, Buried Alive, Character A reminds Character B they are loved, Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another, Electrocution, Hypothermia, I'll do the traumatic thing because I'm used to it, imprisoned together but not close enough to touch, Injury on Top of Old Injuries, remain conscious, Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character, Locked in a Cage, stranded in hostile environment with injury, Torture - Tortured While Loved Ones Were Forced To Watch, Video of Character's Torture is Sent to Their Friends, Whipping

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Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher

  • The Paladins of Saint of Steel & The White Rat Clerics (hurt paladins)

attempted self-sacrifice is thwarted by people who do not agree character is expendable, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, chained to a wall, Character doesn't care about their own wellbeing, Character doesn't realize how badly they're hurt until they collapse, Character expected to die but didn't and has no idea how to live anymore. Other helps & comforts., Character expects to be punished but is unexpectedly comforted instead, Character is Injured while Protecting Another, Character restrained so they won’t hurt themselves, Exhaustion, Overworking, Restraining Someone to Keep Them From Hurting Themselves, Self-Sacrifice, sleep deprivation that leads to breaking, Starvation, Trapped with someone in need of medical care

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The Lily and the Crown - Roslyn Sinclair

  • Ariana "Ari" Gecker/Mir (hurt Ariana)

Aftermath of Torture - Character trying to hold it together is clearly low-key fraying at the edges, Aftermath of Torture - Long Recovery, Aftermath of Torture - Tortured character's superiors ensure their torturers are brought to justice, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, Bronchitis/Pneumonia, Caretaking, Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance, Carrying sick/hurt/exhausted character to bed, Character A claims they're Character B to save B from danger, Collapsing from exhaustion, Collapsing from hunger, Enemy targets loved one just to get revenge on character, Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character, A presumed dead; B refuses to believe A died, Rescue, Sensory Deprivation, Sickfic, Starvation, Wheelchairs and mobility issues

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Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

  • Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián (hurt Xiè Lián)

Alternate Universe - Slavery, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, Buried Alive, captured and tortured for a very long time, Carrying sick/hurt/exhausted character to bed, Character A gets angry at Character B's tendency to self-sacrifice, Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another, Character is Injured while Protecting Another, Character overuses powers/magic/etc to protect a loved one, Character taken prisoner; expects torture/humiliation; gets kind & honorable treatment, Hurt character is used to having to tend to their own wounds, Hypothermia, I'll do the traumatic thing because I'm used to it, imprisoned together but not close enough to touch, Locked in a Cage, Past Torture, Slavery, Starvation, Traumatic Backstory Revelations, Whipping

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成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV)

  • Sui Zhou & Tang Fan & Wang Zhi (hurt Tang Fan)
  • Sui Zhou/Tang Fan (hurt Tang Fan)
  • Sui Zhou/Tang Fan/Wang Zhi (hurt Tang Fan)
  • Tang Fan & Wang Zhi (hurt Tang Fan)

Accident - A can't use their hands so B takes care of A, Aftermath of Torture - Long Recovery, Alternate Universe - Slavery, Bronchitis/Pneumonia, Carrying sick/hurt/exhausted character to bed, Character doesn't realize how badly they're hurt until they collapse, Character is Injured while Protecting Another, Character is Exhausted From Overwork, coughing up blood, Hair Brushing, Headaches & Migraines, Locked in a Cage, loss of voice, Punished in front of others, Sensory Deprivation, Slavery, Torture - Tortured While Loved Ones Were Forced To Watch, Trapped Together While One Is Injured, Trapped/Injured in a Cave-In, Whipping

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Final Fantasy XV

  • Gladio Amicitia/Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)
  • Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)
  • Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)
  • Noctis Lucis Caelum & Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)
  • Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)
  • Prompto Argentum/Ignis Scientia (hurt Ignis)

Accident - A can't use their hands so B takes care of A, Aftermath of Torture - Character doesn't tell anyone they were tortured; is found out anyway, Aftermath of Torture - Long Recovery, BAMF character A is hurt and is still a BAMF; character B provides comfort anyway, Bargaining - Victim Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others, Character who's usually good at hiding their chronic pain is in too much pain to hide it, Collapsing from exhaustion, Hiding an Injury or Illness, Starvation, Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character, Locked in a Cage, Permanently injured character pines for someone they think won't reciprocate due to their injury, Restraining Someone to Keep Them From Hurting Themselves, Self-Sacrifice, Sick/hurt character is indispensable on a mission; team looks after them while they get things done, Sick/hurt character sleeping in the back seat of a car, Torture - Tortured While Loved Ones Were Forced To Watch, Traumatized character will never be the same but their loved ones stand by them, Wheelchairs and mobility issues, Whipping

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heaven official's blessing // tian guan ci fu

Dec. 13th, 2020 11:17 pm
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the state of the novel, all 4k reader screens and change: finished! it cost me a sleepless night or two, but, honestly, i haven't been really fannishly invested for so long, it was completely worth it; and as i'm seized with the need to write a whole post about it, even more so.

where is it and what is it
it's a chinese webnovel by mxtx, the same author who did untamed; it exists as a webnovel, finished and kindly translated here, the manhwa, the donghua (animated adaptation) happening right now, and there's a live action adaptation in plans, directed by the same guy who did untamed. the donghua is gorgeous, the live action i'm unsure about but prepared to be hopeful, the manhwa seems to be very pretty.

but all the adaptations only cover the very beginning of the novel for now, so i went ahead and read the novel, and i have no regrets. it helps that the translation is very good - not without awkward translatorese, but it has consistent and engaging flow and style, and it's also pretty good at conveying mxtx's humor without awkwardness. it reads pretty well.

what's it about?
the world is split into two parts: mortals and various ghosts and demons and entities share the land, while 'heaven officials', aka gods, live in the heavenly kingdom in the sky. pretty much anybody can become a god if they do something really heroic or memorable and/or cultivate (meditation, training, virtuous behavior) really hard. when above, the gods rule their domains and fulfill their believers' wishes; they work sort of like pratchettian gods, dependent on their followers' beliefs and getting influenced by them. heavens are strictly hierarchical, with their own economy and pecking order, and the gods aren't particularly sinless or benevolent; mostly it's a question of scale.

our hero, xie lian, is a prince of a prosperous kingdom who's been on a fast track to ascension for most of his very short life; he's talented, he's virtuous, he's kind, he's strong, and his only peculiar flaw is (somehow naive, but well-meaning) obsession with equality and value of human lives and so on. he becomes a god, unexpectedly, at seventeen, after slaying one especially dangerous ghost, and rises in heaven at the peak of his faith, influence and happiness.

…and then he finds out about drought and incipient trouble in his own kingdom, and, being a young and righteous god too close to his mortality, eschews heavens and returns to save everybody. it, to put it lightly, does not go well. at all. in fact, it goes catastrophically wrong, and, having lost everything, xie lian ascends again, only to get into a fight with the heavenly emperor, and get banished again, this time for good. he roams the mortal lands for next eight hundred of very lonely, luckless and hard years, technically immortal but not invincible, with his powers and his luck stripped away, and learns to make do, eking out a living as a scrap collector. his temples are desecrated, his name is forgotten, his kingdom is long gone, and - well. so it goes.

so it goes! until one day, to everybody's great surprise, he ascends once again: a humble, gentle, immune to shame, unflappable man, an embarrassment to heavens, a 'laughingstock of three realms' who just wants to be left well enough alone. he's Tired.

instead of rest, he gets sent to investigate a dangerous ghost stealing brides who pass through its mountain, and there, during the course of the interrogation, has his first (he thinks) meeting with a terrifying, old-powerful and vengeful ghost king named hua cheng, who likes to terrorize heavens from time to time. but said ghost king seems to be very benevolent and very interested in helping xie lian, and xie lian is pretty instantly smitten… without knowing what's the cause of such interest.

…and meanwhile, in the beginning, there was an unlucky boy, born under the worst stars, whom xie lian saved from falling to his death once, while still mortal, and promptly lost track of. a lot of things happened to this boy, who wanted to be the most devoted worshipper of xie lian the god of the sword and the flower. as one does, you know.


that's the beginning! from there on: investigations, heavenly secrets, old friends and enemies and acquaintances, thematic parallels, old tragedies, more pining than you can shake a stick at, grand acts of love.

is it good?
it's very, very good. it's the first propercnovel i read (aside from the hilarious one about a guy traveling back in his own timeline and becoming a sugar baby to a mafia boss, which was in a very different league), so i don't know which things are baseline and which things are unique, but it had a very solid foundation: ambitious multilevel, multi-timeline plot coming together in the end both events- and emotions-wise, beautifully iddy main relationship, maybe multifaceted characters who change and grow and clash together in fun ways, a clear and heartfelt understanding of its own core themes.

it's also, unexpectedly, very funny, in this visual, slapsticky, begs-to-be-adapted way - i found myself laughing out loud over it a lot of times, and it possesses this gift of swerve between understated but earnest emotions and all-out jokes that i associate with… a bit of prattchett and a bit of gintama, honestly. take it as you will.

(oh my god the mecha. i will laugh over this one until i die.)

it also made me cry several times; granted, it's not like it's this time, but those were very heartfelt tears.

and the main duo?
first let me say that xie lian was lifted out, wholesale, out of my deepest character preferences. he fell really, really far, and did some bad things, and some very horrible things were done to him, and by the time we meet him he went through everything and achieved this effortless kind of traumatized, humble, accepting, wryly self-deprecating, utterly competent chill that makes a character incredibly appealing to me. he's kind, and he's sweet, and he's gotten any possible embarrassment at least a couple of centuries ago, and he kinda made peace with himself and kinda didn't. i love him and i would raze some cities for his sake.

thankfully for me, hua cheng, the ghost king, loves him a whole damn lot, a ridiculous amount, an epic, over-the-lifetimes, life-shattering amount, and he's a terrifying presence to everybody else and a shy, protective, sweet dork to xie lian, and every time they're together on page my entire heart is just. it's AMAZING. he's a great combination of playing the obsessive protective yandere stalker-lover trope straight and putting it on its head, by making hua cheng not just revere but respect xie lian, in all his good and bad decisions.

they are just so - good for each other, holy shit. they get each other so well. they're the best ever power team. i love them.

(the rest of canon is various characters reenacting "really? in front of my salad?" meme at them. it's hysterical, and it's the best. everybody teams up to tell xie lian that his boyfriend is Problematic way, way before xie lian clues into the fact that he does have a boyfriend, and he's having none of it. i love it.)



and the themes?
okay, so. roughly half of this novel is ridiculous iddy pining, and a fourth of it is various tropes (off the top of my head: soulbond, sex pollen, body switch, de-age, various shades of identity porn… crossdressing…) played very shamelessly. but it also really benefits from having an overarching set of ethical questions, and while it deals with them a bit shounen-style, it still deals with them, and it makes the whole text fresh, and sweet, and bold.

is it possible to save everybody? should you try to save everybody? if you lack the powers to back your convictions, does it make you complicit? when is it possible to stop the cycle of suffering, what can you do if you want to but can't? if you tried and people you failed turned on you, whose fault it is, where does the blame stop?
( detailed spoilers begin from here, and i would REALLY advise to stay unspoiled, because the domino reveals are very fun )

and incoherent spoilery screaming for people who read it already
( spoilers )


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Dear HurtComfortEx author!

Mar. 8th, 2019 02:24 am
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Dear author, welcome! I'm unbelievably excited about this challenge, and I can't wait to see the fic that it brings. I've done my best to prune down the freeform multitude, but I'm 100% sure that there were tags that I have missed, so if there's something in tagset or outside of it that fits my requests or that you particularly like - go for it! Bring all the tropes to my yard, please.

I'll try to give my general likes and some fandom-specific preferences, but feel free to mix and match, or ODAO if nothing in particular strikes your fancy; as long as it doesn't hit my DNWs, I'm good! I'm deeply in love with all those fandoms, and I'll be super, super happy with fic for any of them.

Links:

- my exchange tag (letters, recs et cetera)
- [archiveofourown.org profile] egelantier (fics and bookmarks)
- [tumblr.com profile] egelantier

DNWs:

- Hurt no comfort
- Partner betrayal of any kind or infidelity
- Unhappy endings and permanent character death
- A/B/O, hurtcomfortverse, any other 'verses with built-in biology-based inequality
- Hanahaki AUs and variations thereof
- Mundane AUs
- PWPs

General hurt/comfort preferences:

I like my hurt hardcore and physical, and my comfort at least somehow proportional and ending on at least a hopeful note, and I like it in context of any given relationship (i.e. the character getting hurt in sight of / for the sake of / in relation to other characters, and them reacting / rescuing / comforting / rehabilitating them, et cetera). I love reading about the aftermaths of disasters as much as I love reading about disasters itself - the recovery, the backsliding, the acceptance, the assistance. Permanent injuries and consequences yes! Adjusting to the new circumstances yes! New understanding yes! And I especially love all those things in the context of larger-than-life, codependent loyalty (formalized or not), self-sacrifice and self-negation.

In particular, the physical kinks especially dear to my heart: torture, dungeons or cages, and rescue thereof, starvation, exhaustion, hand injuries, whipping, crucifixion, all variations on accepting injuries for somebody's sake. For the emotional hurt/comfort, all variations on pining (and/or mutual pining!) and characters (mistakenly) thinking that they're either unloved or undeserving of being loved or protected, and being shown they're wrong.

I prefer my woobies competent, BAMF-y and fighting every step of the way, or going into the self-sacrifice determinedly and with their eyes open (as probably evident in my character selection; never let it be said that I don't have a type.)

I really love non-mundane AUs (high fantasy, pirates, space opera, et cetera), so go there without hesitation if it's your thing.

Final Fantasy XV
Ignis/bro(s) or Ignis&bro(s) in any combination, Ignis/Noct/Luna, Ignis/Ravus (hurt Ignis)

Accepting Injury To Save Another - Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One - Aftermath of Torture - Bathing/Washing - Both hands/arms injured or out of commission - Bridal/Princess Style Carrying - Cages - Car Accidents - Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse - Character insists on being left behind - Character Thinks Loved One Is Pining For Someone Else - Chronic Pain - coughing up blood - Crucifixion - Dungeon - Exhaustion - Harming Self To Prevent Harm To Someone Else - Hiding Injuries - Hostage Situations - Hurt in the wilderness

Optional Tags: Hypothermia - More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First - Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character - Pneumonia - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity - Poisoning - Refuse to Break under Torture - Restraining Someone to Keep Them From Hurting Themselves - Self-Sacrifice - Slavery - Slaves Together - Starvation - Video of Character's Torture is Sent to Their Friends - Watching Loved One’s Physical Health Deteriorate - Whipping/Flogging - Fainting - Stab Wound - All Magic Comes With a Price - Character can magically take injuries/pain from others by transferring them to themself

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The Collared Knight - Tara McGolden
Ralston/Farnesse/Lio (hurt Farnesse)

Accepting Injury To Save Another - Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One - Aftermath of Torture - Bathing/Washing - Beating - Both hands/arms injured or out of commission - Cages - Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other - Character Being Comforted Doesn't Believe They Deserve Comfort - Character volunteers to be punished on behalf of other character - Collapsing from exhaustion - dislocated shoulder - Dungeon - Electrocution - Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You - Hostage Situations - Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character - Pneumonia - Poisoning - Recovery After Abduction and Long Captivity

Optional Tags: Rehumanization - Restrained for Their Own Good - Self-Sacrifice - Starvation - Whipping/Flogging

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The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards
Rune Saint John & Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)
Addam Saint Nicholas/Rune Saint John/Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)
Addam Saint Nicholas & Brandon Saint John (hurt Brandon Saint John)

Accepting Injury To Save Another - Accepting Torture to Protect a Loved One - Aftermath of Torture - Bathing/Washing - Beating Bedside - Vigils - Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape - Both hands/arms injured or out of commission - Buried Alive - Burns - Cages - Character expects to be punished for failure but is shown unexpected concern - Collapsing from exhaustion - Collapsing from hunger - coughing up blood - dislocated shoulder - Dungeon - Electrocution - Exhaustion - Harming Self To Prevent Harm To Someone Else

Optional Tags: Kidnapped and used as leverage against the other character - More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First - Refuse to Break under Torture - Restraining Someone to Keep Them From Hurting Themselves - Self-Sacrifice - Touch-Starved - Video of Character's Torture is Sent to Their Friends - Watching Loved One’s Physical Health Deteriorate - whipping/flogging

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And that's it! Thank you in advance, and I can't way to meet your story, come reveals.
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Dear Yuletide Writer!

Oct. 6th, 2017 04:56 am
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Dear Yuletide writer, it's this time of the year again! Thank you for having a wonderful taste in fandoms, and thank you for writing for me; I can't wait to see what you come up with.

I'll try to list things I love in general and individual prompts for each fandom below, but disclaimer one: if nothing in there really works for you, feel absolutely free to ODAO the hell out of it and just write the story you really want to write! As long as you don't hit my DNWs, I'm excited to read pretty much anything written with love for these fandoms. And disclaimer two: some fandom entries are longer than the others pretty much only because some canons are longer than the others. I've picked out only the fandoms I really, really, really want, and each one of them will make me happy.

Some links for Yule stalking:
[tumblr.com profile] egelantier
Book reviews at [tumblr.com profile] egelantier-reading
My fics at [archiveofourown.org profile] egelantier
My AO3 bookmarks
Previous Dear Author letters, reveals, recs and so on

Things I like:
- Hurt/comfort! All the hurt/comfort, you can't do wrong (or be too hardcore) with it. Physical h/c, emotional h/c, captivity scenarios, caretaking, whipping, dungeons, bullet wounds, you name it and i've been into it for decades. I love hurt/comfort mostly within the context of a relationship (not necessarily romantic - filial ties, friendship, brothers-in-arms comradeship, whichever fits), as an opening for one character to be hurt and for the other to be outraged/terrified/comforting on their behalf.
- Found families, tight friendships, us-against-the-world, people finding and keeping each other, providing kindness and warmth against the dark.
- Hope and kindness, Clair universes, stories where the entropy tries its hardest but doesn't win.
- Loyalty in all forms! From ritualized (oaths, kneeling, ring-kissing, knights and bodyguards and henchmen and so on) to more casual ways, like standing up for your friends.
- Self-sacrifice (metaphorical and quite literal) and martyrdom (ditto).
- Non-mundane, tropey AUs - space opera! high fantasy! historical! pirates!
- Outsider POVs.

DNWs:
- Character death.
- Infidelity and partner betrayal of any kind.
- Hurt without comfort.
- A/B/O universes and mpreg.
- Grimdark stories and unhappy endings.
- PWPs.

Now, onwards to specific canons! With a blanket spoiler warning for all four.


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Dear Yuletide Writer!

Oct. 3rd, 2016 03:08 am
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Dearest Yuletide writer, hello! I'm so happy we've matched, and I hope you'll enjoy writing for me and find something here to your liking. These four picks are very tiny fandoms very dear to my heart, and so whatever you choose to write will absolutely delight me. Here are some preferences and likes and prompt ideas, but really, at the heart of - anything goes! Just enjoy yourself and write what works for you.

With that in mind, here we go for generalities! (some things are carried over from my previous letters, some are new).

I like:
- You literally can't go wrong with hurt/comfort. It's my oldest and dearest bulletproof narrative kink, and if you're into it, just be as indulgent as you like. I love physical hurt/comfort, I love emotional hurt/comfort, I love various (AU or canon-compliant) captivity scenarios, I adore nursing-from-wounds-or-sickness stuff, I'm hugely into any opportunity for the characters to showcase their care and love for each other. I love hurt/comfort mostly within the context of the relationship (not necessarily romantic - filial ties, friendship, brothers-in-arms comradeship, whichever fits), as an opening for one character to be hurt and for other to be outraged/terrified/comforting on their behalf.
- Found families, everlasting friendships, us-against-the-world - I love the stories where people keep and find warmth and meaning in each other within the larger universe even when said universe is not generally benevolent. I love people holding each other against the dark.
- Complicated and deep relationship between women - love, friendship, family ties, rivalries, loyalties.
- Hope and kindness - I love, in general, Clair universes, stories where there is, ultimately, meaning and hope instead of just entropy and neverending misery. Sometimes against all odds and sometimes at a great price, but getting there in the end.
- Loyalty - there's pretty much nothing I don't love about loyalty kink in all it forms! From its ritualized forms (royalty AUs, knights, oaths, kneeling, whatever you want) to more mundane of being unquestionably and in all events there for the other person.
- Self-sacrifice and martyrdom - give me people sacrificing themselves for others and suffering for the sake of something greater or somebody they love, and I'm a happy, happy reader.

I would prefer not to read about:
- Character death.
- Infidelity and partner betrayal of any kind.
- Hurt not followed by sufficient comfort; it's a very well-respected genre, but it's definitely not my thing (as for grievous hurt followed by comfort, then yes, see above and go ahead!).
- A/B/O universes and mpreg.
- Grimdark stories and unhappy endings.

I like gen and shipping fics alike, and porny shippy fics are fine as well, but I would prefer not to receive a PWP story, if possible.


If you want some other info on my preferences or are just curious in a great Yuletide-stalking tradition, my previous yuletide letters and gifts are unlocked, and also there are: my greatly disorganized tumblr, my fics and bookmarks and some of my book reviews.


( Fandoms: The Fire's Stone - Tanya Huff, 赤髪の白雪姫 | Akagami no Shirayukihime, Memory Sorrow and Thorn - Tad Williams, The Change Series - Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith, Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) )
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but here it is the knock knock knock of your own heart that matters

Jan. 2nd, 2016 10:05 pm
eglantiere: (collar)
it's still snowing outside, relentlessly and softly; i find it endlessly comforting, while we're cocooned inside, safe as houses and cuddling on a whim. most of the day was spent in bed, rewatching old movies and finishing up olivier salad. (well, i've also passed the fourth quiz in my calculus course, derivatives! 6/6 on the first try, either i get smarter or things are starting to coalesce).

meanwhile, [community profile] snowflake_challenge time! in your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. leave a comment in this post saying you did it. include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. maybe someone will grant a wish. check out other people's posts. maybe you will grant a wish. if any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

- more goblin emperor fics!this year's yuletide brought a great harvest of them, but apparently my heart's desire is hurt/comfort with maia being in a center, and maia/csethiro as the main relationship with others being adjascent to it (a poly relationship, a poly v relationship, whatever, but csethiro must be there, for me). outsider povs, maia's household doting on him, political intrigues, whatever. my heart is still not sated, and it's been a whole book.

- i'm always excited and humbled by any kind of related works for my fics - fanart (oh my), or podfics, or remixes (ahhh i want), or anything. i don't think it's unusual ^___^

- i really want baahubali to happen as a fandom. [archiveofourown.org profile] avani wrote me a gorgeous drabble for yule madness, but i want moooore and more and more. and more.


also, dearest [livejournal.com profile] hamsterwoman, as promised to you and inspired by you, 2015 reading roundup! i've tried to at least shortly review everything i read this year (here or on goodreads)), so it's something more of an attempt of a summary. not a bad reading year, all things considered, although a bit lackluster one.

( the reasons for living the freedom of words )

january is starting well.

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