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Dickinson

I'm in love with the style of this show: the approachable modern voices and straight up anachronisms, coupled with the lushness of the setting and the poetry. And that soundtrack? Hilarious and amazing.

Notes on Fanart

Words are so much a part of Emily's relationships, and I would love to see them incorporated into your art! Whether it's a sea of surging phrases around the characters, your own interpretation of one of Emily's puzzle-like letters, or a visual rendering of a poem, a current song you find fitting, or even a specific emotion, I'm here for it.

I also love how Emily's dream worlds bleed into (and become?) reality, especially around Death. (I also love Death's sense of fashion and how Emily rises to meet it. Any/all characters decked out very much appreciated!)

(Emily/Sue)

• • Any kind of epistolary fiction is welcome: prose, poetry, or poetry-in-progress. Describing the ridiculous ways Emily has found to send her letters through the years would also be fun. Maybe with puzzles and games for Sue? Maybe just ridiculous sneaking around the homesteads? As mentioned, this would also be a great prompt to express through art.


• • Sketch (literally or with words) a moment when Emily and Sue found comfort nested together. This could be romance, or a mental exercise, or the kind of high-jinks we saw in Volcanoes (by which I mean the girls exploring everything and anything they shouldn't, but if you want to write me crossdressing then yes please that too.)


• • For this canon, I’m obviously lifting my standard infidelity DNW, but I would prefer that you not throw the girls’ relationships with Austin back into crash-and-burn territory. In fact, if you decide to include him at all, I’d be much more interested in seeing them settle into a functional group later in life.


• • Lean into the weirdness of this show and make Emily and Sue’s continued life even wilder. Emily stops leaving her room but starts astral projecting next door? The girls on a double-date with Death and the historical personage of your choice (or another nobody, that’s fine too.) Getting witchy in a more intimate setting? All excellent.


• • Not really a prompt, but I mentioned I loved the anachronisms, many of which are music-based. Finding a way to express that in fic would be killer.

(Emily & Death)

• • Fuck yes, carriage rides! Emily appreciating Death's work like nobody else, Death totally showing off but also showing up with the hard truths. I love these two and their ride while other people are dying relationship.
  


• • I am cribbing from the Emily/Sue section but again: The girls on a double-date with Death and the historical personage of your choice (or another nobody, that’s fine too.)


• • Emily haunts Death for once instead of the other way around.


• • A seance ties Death somewhere. Could be the homestead, could be a neighbor's house. Maybe Emily has to fix things, or just keep from looking more unhinged than usual.

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on Homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, Focus on Heterosexual Relationships for Emily or Sue (Austin semi-excepted as per the prompts. For Emily, I trust her in s2 when she says she's never been in love with a man, so I'm not vetoing Ben or mentions - just don't make it romantic), Alternate Universe Settings

เขา...ไม่ใช่ผม | Not Me

I love this show as a work of protest and a thesis for change. I love this show as a ridiculously over the top drama about psychic twin bonds and terrible parkour. I contain multitudes. So does Not Me.

Notes on Fanart

One of my favorite things about NM is the sheer amount of queer/protest art it manages to pack into each episode. I would love to see a fanwork in any one of the visual styles we see in the show (Namo or Dan's style but used as portraiture/storytelling, Yok's work as-is, graffiti generally.) Or something that calls back to Eugene's work in more subtle ways -- writing on skin, use of masks, something with a great sense of motion.

I've also requested exactly one relationship, so you know I'm here for just some good old fashioned shippy stuff. Or fake IG posts! Or weird little mascot guys!

(Black/Eugene/Gram)

Ok, this might need some explaining.

Eugene really is the best girl, she deserves all the boys even though she makes it very clear she doesn't need them. I was actually extremely charmed by her relationship with Gram -- first friendship, then courtship. He's such a sweetheart!

At the same time, I don't buy that Gram didn't have feelings for Black. That study session? Come on. At the very least they were toeing the line into attraction, though it's hard to say if Gram realized it, and obviously we don't actually see much of how Black used to be around Gram. There's a lot of room to play around with that backstory.

And then there's Black, who pushed everyone away, friends and lovers alike. I love him as he is: driven, hurt, and just a terrible asshole about it, but I can't help but think that he needs Gene and Gram more than he knows. That goodbye scene right before the secondhand drowning was just so emotional, not matter how hard he tried to cut himself off from his feelings. And Gene loved him back!

Basically, I don't buy any of these three staying away from each other.

• • If you want to take my little manifesto up there (oops) and write out what happened next, I will love you.


• • But given this is a drabble exchange, I'm also very down for handwaving how these three get together and just showing a slice-of-life moment. What is a relationship like with these three very different personalities? A date? An argument? Living together? Sex? Patching Black up after he’s done something reckless and/or tried to freeze them out? Anything's good, as long as we don’t end on angst.


• • Black and Gram finally letting Gene in on the full details of one of their acts of protest before it happens -- maybe she even joins in?


• • Or reverse this. Have her draw them into her world of protest art, as spectators or actual participants. Maybe one of them has a hidden talent for it? Or maybe they're both just really, really terrible and should go back to lighting things on fire.


• • We already have inexplicable twin bonds. Allow me to suggest: inexplicable partner bonds. I haven’t requested Sean/White but they’re very welcome to tag along on this adventure (or any other, for that matter. There are no characters I dislike.)

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on Homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, Vee Relationship (ie: I don't want Gram and Black to love/date Gene and not each other here!), Alternate Universe Settings

The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley will always have my number, and once I finally read this book, The Kingdoms was no exception. Relationships made nebulous because of a shifting timeline, coupled with an unbreakable loyalty that the entire world tilting on its axis can’t change is absolute catnip to me.

Notes on Fanart

So many good styles and themes here. Classic portraiture, sketches done on deck when the other party wasn't looking, marginalia, photos and any other exciting new ways of setting down an image, new tattoos. The way details in any of these might fade or shift with time(lines).

I've also really struck by that visual of the locals taking photos in the face of oncoming winter. While there's nowhere where this totally makes sense to have happened within our story, I kind of don't care? Freeze them in time all the same.

(Kite/Jem|Joe)

• • As is so often the case, I really do just want more. We got some of that relationship development before Jem became Joe, but I will always take a missing scene. Likewise, post-canon happiness would be a balm.


• • Moments in the time between Joe stepping off the train and the lighthouse when the other’s shadow loomed large, for either of them. Maybe not all reactions to the discordant timelines are moments of perfect clarity? Maybe the others are just too instinctive to notice. And for Kite, who knows exactly who he’s missing, this would be all the places in his (their) lives that Jem should be but is not. ETA that for this prompt I would consider the absence of the other to count as including him in the story, so no harm no foul re: exchange rules.


• • I feel like the whole concept of the lighthouse itself being a space where the “walls” between timelines are thin was so interesting and then didn’t really go anywhere. Are there other such places? Could a conversation, unwitting or otherwise, have happened?


• • Joe just wants to be a dad so badly that I will make an entire separate prompt indicating that you could let him. I don't know what curtainsfic looks like in this universe but I'll take it.


• • I mentioned new tattoos above and I will do so again here. For either or both of
  them.

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, Focus on homophobia or other intolerance of the sexual or gender spectrum, AU settings

บทกวีของปีแสง | Be My Favorite

This show has so much heart. I expected a silly little romcom, and I got it, but I wasn’t expecting how human everyone would feel. BMF tackles topics from social anxiety to marriage equality to children of divorce to the hurt people cause by being politically liberal but socially conservative ("it's fine with ME if you're gay, I just worry how hard it would be on you to come out" struck me to the BONE.) This was, as they say, not on my bingo card. But I felt for every single character and I cheered for their ultimate happy ending.

I want to add that I’ve gotten some great fic for some of these prompts very recently. I’m keeping them in rotation because I’m always thirsty for more different spins!

Notes on Fanart

If I recall correctly we see Kawi's doodles and. They're terrible. I am genuinely OK with getting an excerpt from his notebook in exactly that style, if you wanted to go for it! Otherwise, this is a canon where I don't get a strong sense of art styles/themes that might be appropriate, but I am very here for cute content, as well as just general shippiness for the boys, in whatever your preferred medium/look might be.

(Kawi/Pisaeng)

• • I love how vague the time travel mechanic is. I don’t think Kwai can possibly remember everything from every timeline, but I fully believe he knows more than what we see! What’s living with that jumble like? Specifically: knowing Pisaeng too well when he probably shouldn’t. Doesn't have to be physical, but certainly could be.


• • Blanket statement: I love Pear and don't want any fics about her suffering, but I feel like there was a high chance of at least emotional infidelity in all of our other timelines, and I would actually like to hear about it.


• • Popstar timeline: Please bring Pisaeng on tour, I want vacations for them so much. (This can tie in with the prompt above, but it doesn't have to.)


• • The runaway groom timeline, where they’ve been best friends for years. What does that look like? What’s Kawi done to keep Pisaeng holding a torch and genuinely unsure if this is just friendship or not? (Same as above re: cheating.)


• • Final timeline: We start the show with Kawi being angry and judgemental, and Pisaeng being scared and lonely. Obviously a lot of their change and growth happens right on screen… but I’d also like to see them dealing with that in their shared future. Making things right, forming a community, taking their found-friendships to the level of found-family as they all grow up, being out and going to the gay bar properly! Any of that!


• • Final timeline: It’s easy to forget that Pisaeng is musical too. I bet he has opinions on things like rhythm and vocals. The two of them listening to the songs Kawi wrote lyrics to - at home or in a club. (Actually, this would probably work with Kawi as a singer too, now I think about it.)


• • Any timeline: Pisaeng is very whipped and I appreciate that about him. Write me moments when he gives in to Kawi on ridiculous things!


• • Any timeline: Kawi actually has a lot of emotional sincerity (if not... maturity...) once he becomes aware of an issue. I'd like to see him carrying Pisaeng once in a while.

(Pisaeng & Pear)

• • I admit that I don't have as many prompts for these two, but I love how close they are, how much they clearly care about each other and read each other even when no one else does. I would like to see them taking care of each other in any timeline


• • I'm also really curious to see someone's take on how they got so close in the first place! Yes, they're family friends, but there's clearly a kinship there too


• • And while this is probably stretching the rules a bit, Kawi and Pisaeng's final timeline relationship through Pear's eyes, and perhaps leading to her own growth and happiness, would also be lovely. (To reiterate, I don't really want Pear's POV on other timelines -- too much angst for me!)

DNW: Rape, Non-Canonical Character Death, Focus on Suicidal Ideation or Self-Harm, AU settings (alternate timelines don't count and you could even make up an extra one, but no High Fantasy or something.) For this canon I am OK with discussions of homophobia but would ask that the full work not be angst, and it end on a happy note.