Star Wars Legends: I Jedi - Michael A. Stackpole I want to hear more about Corran's Jedi training, or the stuff from his heritage his father managed to sneak in that he didn't know was Jedi stuff at the time. I'd love for stuff pre-book about the Halcyon/Horn family, from the Clone Wars through hiding in the time of the Empire to the New Republic days.
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison In this fandom, I would love something exploring court politics and Maia's goblin heritage. Other plot bunnies: Sedoretu AU. AU where the Great Avar took offense at his daughter's relegation and did something. AU where Maia was sent off to be relegated with Arbelan, instead of with Setheris.
Superstition - Superstition_hockey (Original Work) I want an autistic Luc. Last year I want my take on that, this year I'd like to see someone else's take. Or a sequel to mine would be fine.
The Hunt for Red October (1990) Admiral Greer is an interesting fellow. What was his time in the Navy like? How did he go from there to the CIA? Did he do more of his career on ships, or most of it doing intelligence? How does he relate to his fellow officers now he's a spook? He and Marko have been on the opposite sides of the Cold War, what's their perspective on each other? Both serve imperial powers that don't like/trust their ethnic group (Ramius as a Lithuanian/not Russian, Greer as a Black man) how is that similar and different?
Sense8 (TV) HOLY COW DO I WANT WORLDBUILDING. Also, I want to know what happens next. And I'm curious for both the immediate lives of the cluster (I love them all), but also for the larger world of sensate clusters. Do they start building their own culture, now that it's safer? What scars have been left by the corporate exploitation and murder? What continuing steps are needed to get rid of the lingering influence of BPO? Does the larger world ever learn about sensates, and what happens to the cluster then? Of the cluster, my favorites are Kala, Nomi and Amanita, and Capheus. Will and Riley are the ones I find least interesting. I don't dislike them, I'm just not excited about them.
The Martian (2015) Vincent Kapoor Vincent is, in a lot of ways, the hinge around which the plot turns. He's the one herding cats at NASA and coordinating everything. In an organization full of really bright people, he's the one who puts things together. I would love just about anything with him.
Backstory: how'd he get interested in NASA and what path did he take to get there? Did he have any interesting projects before getting to work on ARES III? His parents come from two very different religious traditions, so what (if any) of that has he made his own? (Also, in the book his name is Venkat, not Vincent--is Venkat what his family calls him?)
During the mission: What's going on at home while he's giving all his hours to the project? Does he have a family/wife/partner? What are some of the things about the mission and coordinating everything that we *didn't* see? What are his relationships like with his coworkers? What are his relationships like with the Ares III crew? How often does he have to do media stuff and does he like it or hate it?
After the mission: what's next for him? Where does he go from there? Does he get promoted, and if so, to what? Does he work on Ares IV, and is it a nice, quiet, meticulously-planned operation with no major unforseen issues, or is there another problem?
Still Star Crossed I love this show and want to know WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. I love the slow burn enemies to lovers of Rosaline and Benvolio. I would be happy with either them together and married, or not married but friends-for-life. I am interested in: stuff that explores Rosaline's reaction to how the Prince has treated her by ordering this. Stuff that explores Rosaline's religious vocation--I'd like it to be something she genuinely wants, not just her escape from needing to marry. I'd love stuff that explores how fucked up both their families are and gives them the chance to heal together and build a better future for themselves.
Hobson's Choice Maggie Hobson Mossop, Will Mossop. Pretty much anything with Maggie being smart and determined and Will being caring and growing. What was it that caught Maggie's eye about Will? What was it Will saw in Maggie that he came to care for her? Because in the first half he's just kind of shell-shocked and along for the ride, but by the second half there's a lot of mutual love and respect there, and I'd love to see it grow. Or give me a day-in-the-life about their little shop in the basement, or what they're doing twenty years after the movie ends.
I love this movie, and I love everyone in it except Mr. Hobson and his cronies. Charles Laughton may have been the "star" of the show but it's not about him, not at all. It's about Maggie and her choices, and her figuring out what she wants in life and how to get it. Her father may be the ostensible star, but he's the obstacle to the plot, not the one moving it along. Also, if possible, period accuracy is much appreciated. Like, notice how Maggie works within the social structures, instead of trying to tear them down while shouting "death to patriarchy!" I mean, I could see her as a suffragette ... but a 19th century suffragette is a very different beast from a second or third wave feminist, you know?
My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, Colonel Pickering, Mrs. Higgins I really don't like the pairing canon tries to push on us. I think Eliza and Higgins make great friends, but any kind of romantic or marital relationship between them would be horrible for all concerned. But I love all of the characters as individuals and I love the banter when they're together. So! Ideas, take as much or as little of them as you like, mix and match, whatever. Eliza starts up a business, either a flower shop or a phonetics tutor (if teaching phonetics, bonus points if she uses the "Hungarian Princess" mystique and totally pwns Zoltan Karpathy), while Higgins and Pickering are "confirmed bachelors" together (wink, wink) and Eliza and Mrs. Higgins commiserate. Eliza marries Freddy, because he's a good person despite being brainless, and she likes being adored, and he's good with the kids and she uses his social cachet to keep her business and the whole family afloat, and when his brainlessness gets too much they go and have dinner with the Professor/Mrs. Higgins/Colonel Pickering. Or what about Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering settling down together in a poly relationship, either as a romance or just committed good friends, while Mrs. Higgins sighs because they're happy but it's terribly scandalous, and if any of her friends (or the Bishop!) found out, egads. Or Eliza marries the Colonel because they're good friends and she respects him, and when they're no longer dealing with the training every day and Higgins is a visitor instead of their host and Eliza has a woman friend in Mrs. Higgins, they actually are quite happy and content together. Or Eliza stays with Mrs. Higgins for a while as she's getting on her feet (possibly starting a business?) and Colonel Pickering keeps coming by to smooth things over and ask Eliza back, and he and Mrs. Higgins get together and pair up while the Professor is loudly aghast and Eliza thinks it's awesome. Whatever you choose, banter and humor is the key to this (though I do have an embarrassment squick, so laughing with=good, laughing at=bad).
It's been years since I've read any of the George Bernard Shaw play that this is based on, but definitely, go with the Shaw-esque witty banter. If you marry any of the characters off, it doesn't have to be romantic--these people are from an era and classes where romance and love are not the primary reasons for marriage. For the rich it's about alliance and preserving the family name/money/honor, and for the poor it's about needing to pool resources to survive, but in both cases love is a benefit not the main goal. Even Eliza, who objects to being sold on the marriage market, would probably think differently if it wasn't just "beauty and perceived classiness being exchanged for money," but rather a mutual exchange and partnership. I can see all of these characters (except Freddy) deciding that friendship and a permanent alliance are what they really want in life, and taking steps to achieve it. I don't think that Eliza and Professor Higgins could manage to live together without her killing him unless a) Pickering is there all the time for a buffer or b) Professor Higgins grows up and realizes that he can't get his own way all the time and starts to genuinely respect Eliza. As of the end of the movie, he's beginning to respect her (but it's still a new and fragile thing) and he assumes that having her back means that everything is going to go back to the way it was before. If you want to do the Eliza/Higgins thing with no Pickering, that's okay, but you're going to have to work to make me believe that Higgins can man up and change.
Black Lightning I love the whole Pierce family. There's others I enjoy, but they're it for me in this fandom. You could focus on any of them: stuff at work or school (how do you balance academics and being a SUPERHERO?) You could deal with the legal and/or political ramifications of the show (and oh, boy, howdy are there a lot of them, both personal and familial and educational and....). You could explore the different ways the three powered ones feel about their powers. You could do a mission. You could focus on the love lives of any of the characters. You could do future missions cleaning up the city's corruption. You could do a really satisfying thing where the good guys win and the major problems get fixed and everyone is happy. You could do a family game night! DNW: please nothing too dark and nothing where the bad guys win.
What I love about this show is that everybody feels like real people, not the cartoonish thing you sometimes get with superheroes (much as I love them). And their family is a good family, which (despite its secrets) is supportive and loving and there for each other. And the sisters give each other grief like real siblings do. And everybody is an intelligent, thoughtful person, so that plots don't depend on people being idiots.
Additional Details: I opt in to Three Turtle Doves (poly!), Two for One (crossovers!) DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, darkfic, AUs in which the worldbuilding or the setting massively changes (historical AUs, omegaverse, mundane AUs, everyone is a werewolf, etc), reader-insert fic It's fine to contact me with questions if you want.
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Star Wars Legends: I Jedi - Michael A. Stackpole
I want to hear more about Corran's Jedi training, or the stuff from his heritage his father managed to sneak in that he didn't know was Jedi stuff at the time. I'd love for stuff pre-book about the Halcyon/Horn family, from the Clone Wars through hiding in the time of the Empire to the New Republic days.
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
In this fandom, I would love something exploring court politics and Maia's goblin heritage. Other plot bunnies: Sedoretu AU. AU where the Great Avar took offense at his daughter's relegation and did something. AU where Maia was sent off to be relegated with Arbelan, instead of with Setheris.
Superstition - Superstition_hockey (Original Work)
I want an autistic Luc. Last year I want my take on that, this year I'd like to see someone else's take. Or a sequel to mine would be fine.
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Admiral Greer is an interesting fellow. What was his time in the Navy like? How did he go from there to the CIA? Did he do more of his career on ships, or most of it doing intelligence? How does he relate to his fellow officers now he's a spook? He and Marko have been on the opposite sides of the Cold War, what's their perspective on each other? Both serve imperial powers that don't like/trust their ethnic group (Ramius as a Lithuanian/not Russian, Greer as a Black man) how is that similar and different?
Sense8 (TV)
HOLY COW DO I WANT WORLDBUILDING. Also, I want to know what happens next. And I'm curious for both the immediate lives of the cluster (I love them all), but also for the larger world of sensate clusters. Do they start building their own culture, now that it's safer? What scars have been left by the corporate exploitation and murder? What continuing steps are needed to get rid of the lingering influence of BPO? Does the larger world ever learn about sensates, and what happens to the cluster then? Of the cluster, my favorites are Kala, Nomi and Amanita, and Capheus. Will and Riley are the ones I find least interesting. I don't dislike them, I'm just not excited about them.
The Martian (2015)
Vincent Kapoor
Vincent is, in a lot of ways, the hinge around which the plot turns. He's the one herding cats at NASA and coordinating everything. In an organization full of really bright people, he's the one who puts things together. I would love just about anything with him.
Backstory: how'd he get interested in NASA and what path did he take to get there? Did he have any interesting projects before getting to work on ARES III? His parents come from two very different religious traditions, so what (if any) of that has he made his own? (Also, in the book his name is Venkat, not Vincent--is Venkat what his family calls him?)
During the mission: What's going on at home while he's giving all his hours to the project? Does he have a family/wife/partner? What are some of the things about the mission and coordinating everything that we *didn't* see? What are his relationships like with his coworkers? What are his relationships like with the Ares III crew? How often does he have to do media stuff and does he like it or hate it?
After the mission: what's next for him? Where does he go from there? Does he get promoted, and if so, to what? Does he work on Ares IV, and is it a nice, quiet, meticulously-planned operation with no major unforseen issues, or is there another problem?
Still Star Crossed
I love this show and want to know WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. I love the slow burn enemies to lovers of Rosaline and Benvolio. I would be happy with either them together and married, or not married but friends-for-life. I am interested in: stuff that explores Rosaline's reaction to how the Prince has treated her by ordering this. Stuff that explores Rosaline's religious vocation--I'd like it to be something she genuinely wants, not just her escape from needing to marry. I'd love stuff that explores how fucked up both their families are and gives them the chance to heal together and build a better future for themselves.
Hobson's Choice
Maggie Hobson Mossop, Will Mossop. Pretty much anything with Maggie being smart and determined and Will being caring and growing. What was it that caught Maggie's eye about Will? What was it Will saw in Maggie that he came to care for her? Because in the first half he's just kind of shell-shocked and along for the ride, but by the second half there's a lot of mutual love and respect there, and I'd love to see it grow. Or give me a day-in-the-life about their little shop in the basement, or what they're doing twenty years after the movie ends.
I love this movie, and I love everyone in it except Mr. Hobson and his cronies. Charles Laughton may have been the "star" of the show but it's not about him, not at all. It's about Maggie and her choices, and her figuring out what she wants in life and how to get it. Her father may be the ostensible star, but he's the obstacle to the plot, not the one moving it along. Also, if possible, period accuracy is much appreciated. Like, notice how Maggie works within the social structures, instead of trying to tear them down while shouting "death to patriarchy!" I mean, I could see her as a suffragette ... but a 19th century suffragette is a very different beast from a second or third wave feminist, you know?
My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, Colonel Pickering, Mrs. Higgins
I really don't like the pairing canon tries to push on us. I think Eliza and Higgins make great friends, but any kind of romantic or marital relationship between them would be horrible for all concerned. But I love all of the characters as individuals and I love the banter when they're together. So! Ideas, take as much or as little of them as you like, mix and match, whatever. Eliza starts up a business, either a flower shop or a phonetics tutor (if teaching phonetics, bonus points if she uses the "Hungarian Princess" mystique and totally pwns Zoltan Karpathy), while Higgins and Pickering are "confirmed bachelors" together (wink, wink) and Eliza and Mrs. Higgins commiserate. Eliza marries Freddy, because he's a good person despite being brainless, and she likes being adored, and he's good with the kids and she uses his social cachet to keep her business and the whole family afloat, and when his brainlessness gets too much they go and have dinner with the Professor/Mrs. Higgins/Colonel Pickering. Or what about Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering settling down together in a poly relationship, either as a romance or just committed good friends, while Mrs. Higgins sighs because they're happy but it's terribly scandalous, and if any of her friends (or the Bishop!) found out, egads. Or Eliza marries the Colonel because they're good friends and she respects him, and when they're no longer dealing with the training every day and Higgins is a visitor instead of their host and Eliza has a woman friend in Mrs. Higgins, they actually are quite happy and content together. Or Eliza stays with Mrs. Higgins for a while as she's getting on her feet (possibly starting a business?) and Colonel Pickering keeps coming by to smooth things over and ask Eliza back, and he and Mrs. Higgins get together and pair up while the Professor is loudly aghast and Eliza thinks it's awesome. Whatever you choose, banter and humor is the key to this (though I do have an embarrassment squick, so laughing with=good, laughing at=bad).
It's been years since I've read any of the George Bernard Shaw play that this is based on, but definitely, go with the Shaw-esque witty banter. If you marry any of the characters off, it doesn't have to be romantic--these people are from an era and classes where romance and love are not the primary reasons for marriage. For the rich it's about alliance and preserving the family name/money/honor, and for the poor it's about needing to pool resources to survive, but in both cases love is a benefit not the main goal. Even Eliza, who objects to being sold on the marriage market, would probably think differently if it wasn't just "beauty and perceived classiness being exchanged for money," but rather a mutual exchange and partnership. I can see all of these characters (except Freddy) deciding that friendship and a permanent alliance are what they really want in life, and taking steps to achieve it. I don't think that Eliza and Professor Higgins could manage to live together without her killing him unless a) Pickering is there all the time for a buffer or b) Professor Higgins grows up and realizes that he can't get his own way all the time and starts to genuinely respect Eliza. As of the end of the movie, he's beginning to respect her (but it's still a new and fragile thing) and he assumes that having her back means that everything is going to go back to the way it was before. If you want to do the Eliza/Higgins thing with no Pickering, that's okay, but you're going to have to work to make me believe that Higgins can man up and change.
Black Lightning
I love the whole Pierce family. There's others I enjoy, but they're it for me in this fandom. You could focus on any of them: stuff at work or school (how do you balance academics and being a SUPERHERO?) You could deal with the legal and/or political ramifications of the show (and oh, boy, howdy are there a lot of them, both personal and familial and educational and....). You could explore the different ways the three powered ones feel about their powers. You could do a mission. You could focus on the love lives of any of the characters. You could do future missions cleaning up the city's corruption. You could do a really satisfying thing where the good guys win and the major problems get fixed and everyone is happy. You could do a family game night! DNW: please nothing too dark and nothing where the bad guys win.
What I love about this show is that everybody feels like real people, not the cartoonish thing you sometimes get with superheroes (much as I love them). And their family is a good family, which (despite its secrets) is supportive and loving and there for each other. And the sisters give each other grief like real siblings do. And everybody is an intelligent, thoughtful person, so that plots don't depend on people being idiots.
Additional Details: I opt in to Three Turtle Doves (poly!), Two for One (crossovers!)
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, darkfic, AUs in which the worldbuilding or the setting massively changes (historical AUs, omegaverse, mundane AUs, everyone is a werewolf, etc), reader-insert fic
It's fine to contact me with questions if you want.