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Lovely author, here is my theory about letters: how much detail people want in a letter is HIGHLY variable. Some people (such as myself) prefer if their recip gives LOTS of guidance on their wishes. Some prefer as little as possible so they can be free as a bird. Most are somewhere in between. So! Here's everything including the kitchen sink if you find it helpful, but feel free to ignore it if it is not helpful. I would rather get a story you were happy with than "well, she said she liked x, so I guess I have to do x even though I don't like x and/or am just not inspired that way." I'm fairly easy to please; I've been doing ficathons for over a decade and am very rarely disappointed with my gifts.
The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves. Even when I don't like a character, I don't go in for character-bashing. If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks just don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with.
I have an embarrassment squick, which makes humor kind of hit-or-miss sometimes. The kind of humor where someone does something embarrassing and the audience is laughing at them makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, the kind of humor where the audience is laughing with the characters I really enjoy.
Please no incest or darkfic. I define "darkfic" as stuff where there's a lot of suffering and no hope even at the end and all the characters are terrible. Angst with a happy ending is fine, I enjoy it, but there's gotta be a payoff. Even an ambiguous ending is fine! But there has to be some note of grace or redemption or hope somewhere, it can't just be "people are awful and the world sucks, the end."
Here are some other things to keep in mind:
I love outsider perspectives and academic takes on things. In-universe meta (newspaper articles, academic monographs--especially with the sort of snarky feuding common in actual real-world academia, social media feeds in current day or future worlds) is awesome.
Also, I'm picky about European historical clothing details. You don't have to talk about it at all! In fact, if you don't know much about historical clothing, I would prefer if you didn't mention it at all. My pet peeve is corsets: no, they weren't a restrictive tool of the patriarchy, no, they didn't interfere with most women's daily lives, no, most women weren't wearing them so tight they couldn't breathe.
I like religion but I'm picky about it. Basically, Christianity is deeply weird compared to most other religions, and a lot of people whose only experience with religion is living in a culturally-Christian nation assume that what they know about Christianity is some sort of universal principle of What Religion Is Like, and that's just not the case. For example, in Christianity what you believe is more important than what you do. This is not to say we Christians don't teach and practice Christian ethics or have rituals we are very attached to, but rather that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, it doesn't matter what rituals you participate in or what ethical things you do, you are not a Christian. Every Christian group has at least a minimal core theology that members must affirm, but participation in ritual is generally far less rigidly a requirement. Most other religions rank what you do (both ethically and ritually) as more important than what you believe, and it is usually quite possible to be a member in good standing if you participate in the practices and rituals even if you believe none of the teachings. So if you are doing worldbuilding for a fantasy or non-Christian religion ... unless it is explicitly a Christian-analogue, it should be different from Christianity.
Specific Fandom Combinations
Request One:
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Doctor Who (2005)
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Enola Holmes (2020)
This is the "fantasy/historical fantasy" one. And while I only listed one Doctor Who (because we can't do things that might get us matched on two parts of the same fandom) I would be fine with any Doctor of any era. With these fandoms, I'd be fascinated to see how the worldbuilding fits together. Is Valdemar on the other side of the ocean from the Ethuveraz, and what's that clash like when they encounter one another? What if the Addams Family had a house in London for the Season and interacted with either Kate & Cecilia or Enola Holmes? Would Frankenstein's Creature find a home and acceptance with the Addamses, or with Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner? Or with any one of the Wizards we know in canon? Or with the Doctor? Do Elizabeth and Will meet up with Maia's sister the lesbian pirate captain? Was there a wizard investigation of the crash of the ship Maia's father was on? What if Maia (or his mother!) were a wizard in the Young Wizards sense? And, of course, the Doctor can poke his nose in anywhere, and everything is better with dragons.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Two:
Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
Enola Holmes (2020)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the "mostly 19th Century historical fiction and fantasy" grouping, which is in general less focused on the worldbuilding and more on the characters. For example, I'd be interested in any of the Austen characters meeting, or encountering Elizabeth Swann or James Norrington. Dragons make everything better, and so does wizardry. You might have to do some timeline fudging to make things work--by the time of Enola, for example, the Austen characters would be elderly and Elizabeth Swann is probably dead of old age--but I'm fine with moving the timeline around, particularly for Enola and PotC, which are only lightly anchored to historical time anyway. Oh, and with Mansfield Park, I'm firmly of the opinion that Henry Crawford would have made Fanny miserable in the long run, so if you don't like Fanny/Edward or Fanny/Mary, this is the perfect opportunity for a crossover pairing. Or no pairing, give her a dragon instead! (Also, I think in some ways she would have a lot of sympathy for Frankenstein's Creature.)
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Three:
Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
The Lady Astronaut Series - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Clue (1985)
Agent Carter (TV)
Sense8 (TV)
This is the "Fantasy/SFF Early 20th Century" group. I'd love worldbuilding in how these fit together. With the Lady Astronaut series, a lot of the people in these fandoms won't be in the select group of people that get to leave the planet, so there's a lot of potential for despair, but I'd rather focus on hopeful stuff like "what do we do with the time we have" and "how do we ensure the survival of the greatest number of people here on earth" and such rather than "we're all going to die." Also, can the wizards help with either the evacuation or saving the planet? Other crossovers: take characters, make them part of a sensate cluster--preferably a diverse world-spanning cluster, like the one in the show. (OCs are fine!) Or just add dragons and/or wizards! Or have Agent Carter going up against the blackmailer in Clue! Or working with Peter Wimsey to solve a case! Or, that house in Clue looks a lot like something the Addamses might like, is it their house? What if they'd been there for the dinner party? Or what if Bertie Wooster had wandered in?
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Four:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Sense8 (TV)
Doctor Who (1963)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Clue (1985)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Lilies of the Field (1963)
This is the "mid 20th Century character exploration" grab bag. Worldbuilding is nice, but not necessary with these ones. For example: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Llilies of the Field are both Sidney Poitier movies, but he plays two very different characters, and I'd be interested to see what they think of each other. I specified Doctor Who 1963 because you can't pick two from the same fandom, but really, I'm fine with any doctor of any era. I can see Sarah Connor getting sent back in time for some reason and getting along with Homer Smith as they go on a road trip together. Or having to deal with the ladies of NASA as they try to figure out "how do we get to the Moon while also not building one of the prerequisites of Skynet?" For Sense8, this is too early for the canon characters (unless you want to make that set earlier) but you can take characters from other canons, make them part of a sensate cluster--preferably a diverse world-spanning cluster, like the one in the show. (OCs are fine!). Superman is always fun to play with, and so is Clark Kent, and would be an interesting addition to any of these canons.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Five
Agent Carter (TV)
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the "mid-20th Century" grouping. I think there's really two main avenues for any combination of the fandoms in this request. One is the casefic option: Clark Kent investigates BPO in conjunction with Superman helping save sensates! Agent Carter investigates Hydra moles in NASA! Doctor John Prentiss has to figure out what sensates are and the biosocial and public health aspects thereof! Peter Wimsey investigates something in the US, and meets Clark Kent! Peter Wimsey has a case in Oxford that intersects with the Rivers, somehow! Wizards have to figure out a problem that also comes to Superman's attention! etc. Nightingale investigates the crash that killed 3/4 of the Pevensies! The other option is the "grapple with social issues" one. Racism, classism, sexism, imperialism, all are explicitly or implicitly there in all of these canons, and putting them together and seeing what happens could lead to some really interesting fic.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Six
Batman Beyond
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the future/near-future Fantasy/SFF group. With these fandoms, I would love either worldbuilding (how do you fit superheroes and genius loci into one universe? Duane's wizards and Aaronovitch's?) or character stuff (put the characters in a room together, see how they get along or don't) or exploration of social issues that are implicit or implied in the canons. Also, wizards make everything better, and I am fascinated by the concept of sensate clusters. And it seems to me that Janelle Monae's lush dystopias would fit very well with the aesthetic of Batman Beyond.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Seven
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Pitch (TV 2016)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Stargate SG-1
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The West Wing
Torchwood
This category's a bit of a grab-bag, but they'd all be interesting! Ginny Baker goes to the White House to meet the President! President Santos is touring Area 52 and accidentally switches places with his counterpart who's still in the military and is a pilot for the Stargate Program! The Talents become crucial to Earth's space program not because of their military uses, but because that allows easy settlement of planets that aren't on the Stargate network (and which therefore aren't already inhabited and/or targeted by the Goa'uld)! Sarah Connor and Sam Carter team up to fight Skynet! Peter Grant is a sensate!
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Eight
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Sense8 (TV)
Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Some of these are easier to fit together than others. For example, Murderbot can pop up anywhere and fit into any canon, because if there's a difference in the sociopolitics or the way interstellar travel works between Murderbot canon and whatever series you're putting MB in, it can be handwaved away as "Murderbot doesn't care and therefore didn't notice." And you can put a sensate cluster in any canon. (What difference would it have made if Luke and Mara were in the same sensate cluster, for example?) And wizards are also very adaptable. With Star Trek and Star Wars, both series show enough of the galaxy and enough of galactic history, and have different enough physics that it's a bit tougher. But still doable! Ye Olde Wormhole/Alternate Universe can work wonders.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Doctor Who (2005)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Some of these are easier to fit together than others. For example, The Doctor can pop up anywhere, and the Addams Family is supposed to not fit their surroundings. With Star Trek and Star Wars, both series show enough of the galaxy and enough of galactic history, and have different enough physics that it's a bit tougher. But still doable! Ye Olde Wormhole/Alternate Universe can work wonders. I specified DW2005, because I had to pick one, but I love all Doctors, so feel free to go with Old School Who if you would prefer.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
beatrice_otter on AO3.Lovely author, here is my theory about letters: how much detail people want in a letter is HIGHLY variable. Some people (such as myself) prefer if their recip gives LOTS of guidance on their wishes. Some prefer as little as possible so they can be free as a bird. Most are somewhere in between. So! Here's everything including the kitchen sink if you find it helpful, but feel free to ignore it if it is not helpful. I would rather get a story you were happy with than "well, she said she liked x, so I guess I have to do x even though I don't like x and/or am just not inspired that way." I'm fairly easy to please; I've been doing ficathons for over a decade and am very rarely disappointed with my gifts.
The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves. Even when I don't like a character, I don't go in for character-bashing. If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks just don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with.
I have an embarrassment squick, which makes humor kind of hit-or-miss sometimes. The kind of humor where someone does something embarrassing and the audience is laughing at them makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, the kind of humor where the audience is laughing with the characters I really enjoy.
Please no incest or darkfic. I define "darkfic" as stuff where there's a lot of suffering and no hope even at the end and all the characters are terrible. Angst with a happy ending is fine, I enjoy it, but there's gotta be a payoff. Even an ambiguous ending is fine! But there has to be some note of grace or redemption or hope somewhere, it can't just be "people are awful and the world sucks, the end."
Here are some other things to keep in mind:
- I like stuff that takes side characters and puts them center-stage, especially when they are characters of color or women. I enjoy seeing them come to life.
- I don't like it when characters of color or women get relegated to the sidekick/supporting/helper role so that it can be All About The White Dude.
- I like it when female characters are more than just the Strong Female Character(tm) or The Nurturer.
- I like fluff
- I like angst with a happy ending
- I like stories that make me think about things in a new way.
- I like cultural diversity, and to know that culture matters to people, and to see how different cultures interact and where the clashes are.
- I like quirky characters.
- I like unreliable narrators.
- I like acknowledgment that different people can have different points of view without either of them being wrong.
- I like stories that engage with problematic aspects of the source, and which deal with privilege in one way or another instead of sweeping it under the rug.
- Worldbuilding is my jam, I am pretty much always up for explorations of why the world is the way it is. I love hearing about the economics, the politics, the religion, the clothing, the history, the folklore, all of that kind of stuff. And I want to know why it matters--how is all this cultural background stuff affecting the characters, the plot, everything. You don't have to do deep worldbuilding, but I'll enjoy it if you do.
- I don't like it when plots hinge on characters being selectively stupid, or selectively unable to communicate. Like, if they are stupid or a himbo or whatever in general, or have problems communicating in general, that's fine! But if it's just "the only way I can think of for this plot to work is if the character spontaneously and temporarily loses half their intelligence and competence," then I'm going to spend the rest of the fic wondering why the character didn't just ____?
- I like AUs, but not complete AUs (i.e. no highschool or college or coffee shop AUs, and especially not mundane AUs--nothing where you keep characters but drop most of the worldbuilding). I like fork-in-the-road type AUs, where one thing is different and the changes all result from that one thing, and you explore what might have been if such-and-such happened.
- I like historical AUs, but only when the author actually knows the history period in question and does thoughtful worldbuilding to meld actual culture of the time with the canon.
- Crackfic is really hit and miss for me, sometimes I love it and sometimes I can't stand it. Basically, if it's the characters we know and love in a ludicrous situation, that's great. If they're OOC or parodied in order to make something funny ... it's not funny to me.
I love outsider perspectives and academic takes on things. In-universe meta (newspaper articles, academic monographs--especially with the sort of snarky feuding common in actual real-world academia, social media feeds in current day or future worlds) is awesome.
Also, I'm picky about European historical clothing details. You don't have to talk about it at all! In fact, if you don't know much about historical clothing, I would prefer if you didn't mention it at all. My pet peeve is corsets: no, they weren't a restrictive tool of the patriarchy, no, they didn't interfere with most women's daily lives, no, most women weren't wearing them so tight they couldn't breathe.
I like religion but I'm picky about it. Basically, Christianity is deeply weird compared to most other religions, and a lot of people whose only experience with religion is living in a culturally-Christian nation assume that what they know about Christianity is some sort of universal principle of What Religion Is Like, and that's just not the case. For example, in Christianity what you believe is more important than what you do. This is not to say we Christians don't teach and practice Christian ethics or have rituals we are very attached to, but rather that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, it doesn't matter what rituals you participate in or what ethical things you do, you are not a Christian. Every Christian group has at least a minimal core theology that members must affirm, but participation in ritual is generally far less rigidly a requirement. Most other religions rank what you do (both ethically and ritually) as more important than what you believe, and it is usually quite possible to be a member in good standing if you participate in the practices and rituals even if you believe none of the teachings. So if you are doing worldbuilding for a fantasy or non-Christian religion ... unless it is explicitly a Christian-analogue, it should be different from Christianity.
Specific Fandom Combinations
Request One:
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Doctor Who (2005)
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Enola Holmes (2020)
This is the "fantasy/historical fantasy" one. And while I only listed one Doctor Who (because we can't do things that might get us matched on two parts of the same fandom) I would be fine with any Doctor of any era. With these fandoms, I'd be fascinated to see how the worldbuilding fits together. Is Valdemar on the other side of the ocean from the Ethuveraz, and what's that clash like when they encounter one another? What if the Addams Family had a house in London for the Season and interacted with either Kate & Cecilia or Enola Holmes? Would Frankenstein's Creature find a home and acceptance with the Addamses, or with Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner? Or with any one of the Wizards we know in canon? Or with the Doctor? Do Elizabeth and Will meet up with Maia's sister the lesbian pirate captain? Was there a wizard investigation of the crash of the ship Maia's father was on? What if Maia (or his mother!) were a wizard in the Young Wizards sense? And, of course, the Doctor can poke his nose in anywhere, and everything is better with dragons.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Two:
Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
Enola Holmes (2020)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the "mostly 19th Century historical fiction and fantasy" grouping, which is in general less focused on the worldbuilding and more on the characters. For example, I'd be interested in any of the Austen characters meeting, or encountering Elizabeth Swann or James Norrington. Dragons make everything better, and so does wizardry. You might have to do some timeline fudging to make things work--by the time of Enola, for example, the Austen characters would be elderly and Elizabeth Swann is probably dead of old age--but I'm fine with moving the timeline around, particularly for Enola and PotC, which are only lightly anchored to historical time anyway. Oh, and with Mansfield Park, I'm firmly of the opinion that Henry Crawford would have made Fanny miserable in the long run, so if you don't like Fanny/Edward or Fanny/Mary, this is the perfect opportunity for a crossover pairing. Or no pairing, give her a dragon instead! (Also, I think in some ways she would have a lot of sympathy for Frankenstein's Creature.)
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Three:
Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
The Lady Astronaut Series - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Clue (1985)
Agent Carter (TV)
Sense8 (TV)
This is the "Fantasy/SFF Early 20th Century" group. I'd love worldbuilding in how these fit together. With the Lady Astronaut series, a lot of the people in these fandoms won't be in the select group of people that get to leave the planet, so there's a lot of potential for despair, but I'd rather focus on hopeful stuff like "what do we do with the time we have" and "how do we ensure the survival of the greatest number of people here on earth" and such rather than "we're all going to die." Also, can the wizards help with either the evacuation or saving the planet? Other crossovers: take characters, make them part of a sensate cluster--preferably a diverse world-spanning cluster, like the one in the show. (OCs are fine!) Or just add dragons and/or wizards! Or have Agent Carter going up against the blackmailer in Clue! Or working with Peter Wimsey to solve a case! Or, that house in Clue looks a lot like something the Addamses might like, is it their house? What if they'd been there for the dinner party? Or what if Bertie Wooster had wandered in?
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Four:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Sense8 (TV)
Doctor Who (1963)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Clue (1985)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Lilies of the Field (1963)
This is the "mid 20th Century character exploration" grab bag. Worldbuilding is nice, but not necessary with these ones. For example: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Llilies of the Field are both Sidney Poitier movies, but he plays two very different characters, and I'd be interested to see what they think of each other. I specified Doctor Who 1963 because you can't pick two from the same fandom, but really, I'm fine with any doctor of any era. I can see Sarah Connor getting sent back in time for some reason and getting along with Homer Smith as they go on a road trip together. Or having to deal with the ladies of NASA as they try to figure out "how do we get to the Moon while also not building one of the prerequisites of Skynet?" For Sense8, this is too early for the canon characters (unless you want to make that set earlier) but you can take characters from other canons, make them part of a sensate cluster--preferably a diverse world-spanning cluster, like the one in the show. (OCs are fine!). Superman is always fun to play with, and so is Clark Kent, and would be an interesting addition to any of these canons.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Five
Agent Carter (TV)
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the "mid-20th Century" grouping. I think there's really two main avenues for any combination of the fandoms in this request. One is the casefic option: Clark Kent investigates BPO in conjunction with Superman helping save sensates! Agent Carter investigates Hydra moles in NASA! Doctor John Prentiss has to figure out what sensates are and the biosocial and public health aspects thereof! Peter Wimsey investigates something in the US, and meets Clark Kent! Peter Wimsey has a case in Oxford that intersects with the Rivers, somehow! Wizards have to figure out a problem that also comes to Superman's attention! etc. Nightingale investigates the crash that killed 3/4 of the Pevensies! The other option is the "grapple with social issues" one. Racism, classism, sexism, imperialism, all are explicitly or implicitly there in all of these canons, and putting them together and seeing what happens could lead to some really interesting fic.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Six
Batman Beyond
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Superman (Christopher Reeve Movies)
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
This is the future/near-future Fantasy/SFF group. With these fandoms, I would love either worldbuilding (how do you fit superheroes and genius loci into one universe? Duane's wizards and Aaronovitch's?) or character stuff (put the characters in a room together, see how they get along or don't) or exploration of social issues that are implicit or implied in the canons. Also, wizards make everything better, and I am fascinated by the concept of sensate clusters. And it seems to me that Janelle Monae's lush dystopias would fit very well with the aesthetic of Batman Beyond.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Seven
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Pitch (TV 2016)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sense8 (TV)
Stargate SG-1
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The West Wing
Torchwood
This category's a bit of a grab-bag, but they'd all be interesting! Ginny Baker goes to the White House to meet the President! President Santos is touring Area 52 and accidentally switches places with his counterpart who's still in the military and is a pilot for the Stargate Program! The Talents become crucial to Earth's space program not because of their military uses, but because that allows easy settlement of planets that aren't on the Stargate network (and which therefore aren't already inhabited and/or targeted by the Goa'uld)! Sarah Connor and Sam Carter team up to fight Skynet! Peter Grant is a sensate!
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Eight
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Sense8 (TV)
Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Some of these are easier to fit together than others. For example, Murderbot can pop up anywhere and fit into any canon, because if there's a difference in the sociopolitics or the way interstellar travel works between Murderbot canon and whatever series you're putting MB in, it can be handwaved away as "Murderbot doesn't care and therefore didn't notice." And you can put a sensate cluster in any canon. (What difference would it have made if Luke and Mara were in the same sensate cluster, for example?) And wizards are also very adaptable. With Star Trek and Star Wars, both series show enough of the galaxy and enough of galactic history, and have different enough physics that it's a bit tougher. But still doable! Ye Olde Wormhole/Alternate Universe can work wonders.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
Request Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Doctor Who (2005)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Some of these are easier to fit together than others. For example, The Doctor can pop up anywhere, and the Addams Family is supposed to not fit their surroundings. With Star Trek and Star Wars, both series show enough of the galaxy and enough of galactic history, and have different enough physics that it's a bit tougher. But still doable! Ye Olde Wormhole/Alternate Universe can work wonders. I specified DW2005, because I had to pick one, but I love all Doctors, so feel free to go with Old School Who if you would prefer.
DNW: bashing, incest, explicit sex, rape/noncon, major embarrasment/humiliation, modern AUs, human/no powers AUs, darkfic
