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2022-08-10 01:18 pm

FFFX Letter

Dear FFFX Creator, Thanks so much for checking out my letter! I'm very excited to see what you might create!
 
The theme for my requests this exchange seems to be Battle Couples! 
 
I want to just say upfront that I love experimental styles, unconventional interpretations of tropes, and anything else weird! If it isn't explicitly on my DNW I'm here for it! If you see something on my likes list and want to do an unconventional twist on it that breaks down the trope? Go for it!
 
Basically if you have an idea run with it, I'll probably love it! 
 
Note: Anywhere I made a solo character request I'm open to fic featuring that character in a ship or platonic relationship (I'll DNW any ships i'm not comfortable but other than that go wild!) 

(Sorry this letter is a little unfinished. I have at least something for every request though!)


LIKES:
General Likes:
character studies, getting together fic, case fic, competency kink, found family dynamics, angst, hurt/comfort, 5 times +1 time fic, relationship studies, coda fic, missing scenes, crack treated seriously, humor, characters living together, fluff, outsider pov, fluff with plot, worldbuilding, super competent and awesome women, whump, Neurodivergent characters, ace and aro characters (especially aroallo), What if *insert* fic, 
 
Relationship Likes: 
established relationships, the italicized Oh moment, friends to lovers, idiots to lovers, oh no they're hot moments, casual sex that accidentally becomes about feelings, oh no i like them moments, everybody knew they were in love/dating except for the characters themselves, poly ships where one character is secretly pining after the others but the others thought they were dating the whole time, fake dating for a mission, the love is requited they just idiots, illicit relationships, taboo relationships being treated as taboo, secret relationships, relationship reveals, traditionally powerful characters being absolutely whipped for their partner, aromantic characters in relationships, queer platonic relationships, age differences

(Note I'm absolutely fine with no smut if you'd rather not write it!)

Smut likes:
smut with feelings, enthusiastic consent, Alien and Non-human biology, clit stimulation, characters exploring kink together, semi public sex (preferably without them actually being walked in on), biting/hickies, women on top, intercrural sex, non penetrative sex, women in charge/control, characters teasing their partner while the partner has to act normal (eg: blow job under the table while on a work call), sparing as foreplay, 

 
General DNWs:
a/b/o, mpreg, a heavy focus on pregnancy or birth (mentioning it is fine though), scat/watersports, foot fetish, wing fic, out of setting AUs (like highschool AUs or coffee shop AUs), hanahaki disease, 1st person pov, soulmate AUs, humiliation/degradation in sex, calling a partner daddy during sex, ddlg dynamics, 
 
 
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2022-07-04 02:31 pm

Battleship Letter

Dear Creator(s) Thanks so much for checking out my letter! I'm very excited to see what you might create!

The theme for my requests this exchange seems to be Superheros and... Incest? (Well luckily for me that's on the main tagset anyway lol) 

I want to just say upfront that I love experimental styles, unconventional interpretations of tropes, and anything else weird! If it isn't on my DNW I'm here for it! 

I'm also quite happy with requested ships being written as pre-slash. Combining my requests is also cool.

Basically if you have an idea run with it, I'll probably love it!
 
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2022-06-09 11:52 am
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The Orville S3 Episode 2 Thoughts

 Ok so it's confirmed, I love this new season so much!

(spoilers ahead)

The tone looks like it's going to stay a bit darker than the previous two season which is an interesting choice for a show that was born as a comedic parody of Star Trek. However I am absolutely still here for it! I do kinda hope we get some the old silly or trying to be serious and failing so bad it's funny style episodes but for now i'm quite happy with the show!

I love that we finally got our zombie ghost ship episode! I feel like it's a required plot for every good scifi spaceship based show and I absolutely love them! 

This episode did such a good job building and maintaining the tension throughout the episode! I had to put down my crocheting several times to fully focus on what was happening! 

I love that we're getting so many Claire focused episodes as she's probably one of my favorite characters (aside from Issac that it) and I love that she's getting to be an awesome complex person! 

I especially liked her drinking and bonding scene with Kelly! (Please Orville give us more girls bonding scenes it was so sweet!!!) 

I'm also excited that they seem to be leaning back into the Claire/Issac relationship! (I have many strong headcanons about them as a grayro/aro qpr! With Issac as an aro who enjoys the platonic closeness of a relationship and Claire as an allo who doesn't mind that Issac can't exactly understand romantic love!)... Or in a simpler way, I ship it!

The way this episode ended honestly surprised me! the fact that they just couldn't save anyone was super unexpected! I thought there would a last minute scifi magic explanation about how to reverse the transformation or something! 

But if i'm being honest I really liked the ending! it was sad and a little bit scary but very impactful! 

I'm looking forward to next episode!

Sadly it looks like we're only getting a 10 episode season (though hopefully they'll get renewed for a 4th season on Hulu!) I'm very interested in episode 5 which (according to wikipedia) is titled "A Tale of Two Topas" which sounds very intriguing! Are we finally going to get a continuation on that storyline? I absolutely adored the terrible way this show handled Moclan gender and well everything about Moclans to be honest! (Those episodes are silly trash TV at it's finest!)
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2022-06-02 10:37 pm
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The Orville Season 3 Is Finally Here!

 So episode 1 of the third season of The Orville has finally dropped! It honestly took me by surprise as I had honestly forgotten about it XD

So it was a very pleasant surprise to come home from a day full of exams to see that my favorite trash TV show had dropped an episode for the first time in years!

(Spoilers for the episode and mentions of suicide, past this point so please beware!)

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I really liked the opening sequence and I love that the trauma that the kids faced during the battle with the Kaylons is being treated with some real weight! 

(also Issac's face plate opening up into a jaw was absolutely terrifying and made me physically flinch!) Jump scares are often rather cheap for me but this was great!

The episode surprised me a lot with just how serious it was! I mean I do like that the events of the last season are being treated as actual things with a lasting impact (I'm especially glad that they didn't do a time skip or something to explain the real world time break) but this episode was miles away from the tone that I'm used to seeing from The Orville!

I mean it's a comedic Star Trek parody for gods sake! I don't expect it to depict a character being ostracized and hated by his entire community to the point that he commits suicide!

So yeah this episode was absolutely angst fuel for Issac! My boy is not having a good time in this episode (which to be fair he does deserve).

The majority of the ship (mostly excluding the main cast) distrusts or straight up hates him for his part in the Kaylon attack (which as I've already said is quite valid) and even Marcus seems to hate Issac. 

Issac in his usual way seems both robotically unphased but in a way that lets the invested viewer see and underlying emotional reaction. Which I absolutely love! It's so cool how the show always toes the line of Issac's humanity without ever truly confirming it one way or the other. He clearly is able to form attachments to people but other than that it never commits further.

Issac's relationship with Claire was adorable but he never seemed to truly understand love or romance, even when he parroted it. However if you wish to see that he feels it you can! The show never definitely says that he did or didn't love Claire in the romantic sense! It leaves it up to the viewer to project which ever interpretation they wish onto Issac. He is exactly as human as you want him to be.

(As an aromantic I prefer to believe that while he did care for Claire he could never love her in the romantic sense! He just wasn't programmed that way, and neither was I!) 

Either way his Suicide absolutely surprised me, I was not expecting The Orville to go there! But it was a fascinating thing to explore! The different ways that it affected people (Especially Claire, Ty, and Marcus) was really fun to watch! As a fan of angst I definitely enjoyed it (even though I was terrified that my favorite character had just been permanently killed off!)

Luckily for me Issac was revived and will hopefully remain on the ship for many more seasons! I'm really interested to see where the rest of the season will take this plot thread of the animosity of the crew towards Issac! I feel like even though there was some resolution there's still so much to be tackled! Especially with the new ensign who (kinda rightfully) hates him for the death of her best-friend. 

I also hope we get a more fulfilling and long-term resolution between Marcus and Issac!

ALSO LET TY HUG HIM GODSDAMMIT! Why didn't we get a scene with Ty reacting to Issac being ok?? D:

I also really liked the therapy session between Claire and Issac at the end of the episode! The implication that Issac's suicide might have been based completely on robotic logic about optimal crew functioning levels vs the underlying feeling that there's something more to it is a great example of how the show continues to play with Issac's humanity.

(Also I find it extremely humorous in a dark way that the emotionless android is probably now on a suicide watch)

I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season! For more of this Issac centered storyline but also for storylines centered on the other characters! (I feel like aside from Claire and the new ensign we really didn't get much about non-Issac characters in this episode!) 

I honestly really want more from LaMarr this season!

Oh and of course I hope we get some content about my favorite dysfunctional (should probably get a divorce) couple: Bortus and Klyden! God those two are so bad for each other! :D 
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2022-06-02 06:27 pm
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Daily Life Post

 Two more exams down! Only two to go (and they are a week away) so I'm going to be rewarding myself with some relaxing TV time!

Today on the way home I stopped and bought my tickets for a local anime con in July! I can't wait to go to my first con since covid started :D (Additionally since I'm now over 18 I can attend the night events! I bought a ticket for the games night but i'm skipping the after party since i doubt it'll be my scene)

I'm so tired after today so I can't wait to just relax and maybe rewatch Peacemaker for the third time! :D

But I also have a pile of books and comics to check out? Hm so many choices and so little free time! XD
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2022-06-01 09:17 pm
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Daily Life Post

 Four exams down and four more to go! :D

Today I had my written Literature in English exam! I crammed most of my research the night before so I was super nervous going in but I think it turned out ok! (I'm just going for a pass here not the top score) XD

Tomorrow I have two more exams so right now I'm having an informal virtual study/revision group with my classmates! Sociological theories are making my brain melt. I'm really looking forward to being done with all this! :(

I can't believe I'm already at the halfway point now it seems like it just started yesterday!

Oh also it's the first of June so, Happy Pride!!
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2022-05-29 07:45 pm
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Daily Life Post

 As my time as a student wraps up I'm starting to think about what the fuck i'm going to do after.

Well aside from desperately applying to get a job asap. XD

There's so many things that I've been putting off for after graduation because I simply didn't have the time or energy for them... and soon I'll have to actually try to do them! :0

I won't be done with school until the end of June but I like being able to pre-plan stuff well in advance so here's a non-comprehensive list of stuff I want to do after June!

  • Resume learning German
  • Work on more art that is just for fun rather than for school
  • Hang out with my friends again (Places are now fully open again for the first time since covid started so there's so much we could do!!!)
  • Go out drinking! (I'm over 18 now and bars have re-opened so I wanna try it. Though I don't think i'll like it XD )
  • Finally crochet again! :D
  • Go to a convention again! (There's one in July!)  :D
  • Read actual books again (I have so many books sitting on my shelf waiting for me to start/finish them)
  • Work on stuff for the artist alley table I'm sharing at the convention in July (It's gonna be my first time trying to sell my art!) 
  • Finally learn some coding

There's definitely more and I have no idea if i'll actually get around to everything on this list but I'm excited to get some of it done! :D
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2022-05-29 07:28 pm
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I Just Realized

 So a lot of people love Binaural audio or 8D music (including a few of my friends) and in general it seems to be something the neurodivergent people find nice stimmy.

However I absolutely hate it. It make me feel weirdly anxious in a way i could never really place. I find the concept fun and when I was younger I used to enjoy it, so I could never really explain why i hate it now.

But I just realized why it upsets me to listen to it! 

Over the years I'm intermittently lost hearing in one of my ears (mostly due to simple stuff like an ear infection or wax buildup) but whenever it's happened I've gone through like a day or two of irrational paranoia that it was going to be permanent.

The most recent time it happened was during my birthday, and since I went on a weekend trip with my friends I couldn't go to the hospital for a few days.

Meaning I spent about 5 or 6 days freaking out that I was going to permanently lose hearing in that ear (I have really bad anxiety about having medical problems that might impact my life in the long term)

So now when i listen to binaural audio it subconsciously reminds me of that experience!
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2022-05-24 01:51 pm

Love Death + Robots (My Fav Episodes)

 Season 1
Season one probably gave me my top ten episodes out of the whole show! There were just so many good episodes (and I found myself super charmed by the episodic stories)

1) Shape Shifters
While it's really hard to really put an order to these episodes (they are all so good!) I know for certain that my absolute fav was this one! Idk what it was, the casual well thought out urban fantasy? the gorgeous animation? the cute shippable friendship between the two werewolves? IDK but it was some good stuff! I loved it a lot! And I wish it had a happy ending

2) Good Hunting
Again this one was no struggle to place! I absolutely adored this episode! The animation was just gorgeous and the story was haunting! I love the examination of colonialism (and as someone from a country that has been heavily impacted by colonialism, I'm always here for colonized people murdering the british!) The beautiful blend of fantasy and steampunk in this one just blew me away!

3) When The Yogurt Took Over
Listen this is such a funny little story! I adore the cute claymation art style, and the silly and absurd story is perfect!

4) The Witness
The art style of this is so fucking stunning! I adore the weird and trippy story and the time loop vibes!

5) Three Robots
This story is so funny! I love the adorable characters and the misinterpretation of human culture!

6) Ice Age
This episode is so funny! I love the weird and low key wholesome message of the tiny civilization's existence. Also I think having a tiny civilization in your freezer would be really fun (like a tiny tv show you could watch when ever you're bored) Also i'm probably a bad person for saying this but after the third time the civilization went though it's full cycle i'd probably start messing with them (trying to see what happens if i destroy their buildings or toss a tiny ufo in there just to see what they do) XD

Season 2
Season two was honestly pretty meh. This combined with the much shorter season means that this is an incredibly short list. Additionally while there were a few episodes that i really liked none of them came close to my favs from season one! 

1) Automated Customer Service
This one was very silly and fun! We love evil technology comedy! Also the Claymation was a really nice contrast to the hyper realistic style of a lot of the other episodes from this season! I love that it had a surprisingly cute and uplifting ending!

2) Pop Squad
This was a haunting dystopia and I loved it! I really want an au where the characters get to live happily ever after.

3) Snow in the Desert
Idk man I just really liked Snow! (and as happens when i really like a male character I now want to see him get railed by anyone and everyone!) Actually now that i think about it between his regeneration/immortality and being hunted by every bounty hunter he's absolutely the perfect victim for  my fav brand of whumpy non-con! Plus you can toss in a lovely touch of gore and torture!
(Like maybe some hunter decided to have some fun with Snow before turning him in? It would probably end with snow killing the bounty hunter and escaping but not before being fully and totally broken first) :D


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2022-04-16 03:59 pm
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What I'm Watching

So I just finished binge watching 911: Lone Star and then the original 911 both of which were great! (though I definitely preferred lone star) 

But now I'm in need of a new show for background noise as I work on my art homework. I'm kinda feeling the (non-police) procedural format of 911 so I might try a medical one next? 

It almost feels sacrilegious to a younger/teenaged me to be getting really into non magic/scifi shows but there's something really appealing about them as i'm getting older that I just can't describe! 

I don't think I'm gonna like med shows as much as 911 and 911: lone star but at least it'll be something to watch! :D 

For now I'll start with The Resident (mostly because it's not one i know much about and it kept coming up as an ad before 911 episodes lol)

(EDIT: After one episode of the resident i can tell that this show is uh... not for me! So I guess i'll have to keep looking for a good show to watch)
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2022-04-04 10:09 pm
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Daily Life Post

Today was mostly spent working on my art assignments for school. I've been pretty stressed over them for a long time but I think I'm finally making some headway! 

I have five painting to produce (on an extremely short time frame.... whoops!) Each one will be a fandom-ish parody of a famous piece of art (something my advisor thinks is an extremely original idea, and I won't be correcting her!) 

I've decided on 3/5 of the paintings so far:
1) An Ineffable Husbands version of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
2) A Mandalorian version of Girl with a Pearl Earring (Mando with Beskar Armor!) Which is definitely my favorite so far! :D
3) And finally a very unoriginal one: A Van Gogh style painting of the Tardis (don't tell my tutor that I'm just stealing the idea from an actual Doctor Who episode!)

And I'm considering doing a Art Noueau inspired one with Fearne (from CR campaign 3)! Though I'm not quite sure about it yet?

For my fifth painting I want to base it on something that's not of a typically European style (preferably something post-colonial or African to please my examiners) But I'm having trouble finding something recognizable enough to fit the idea! D:

Of course that doesn't really matter that much as long as I can justify it in my analysis I guess  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I also started watching The Gilded Age. I like it so far (though I haven't really been paying enough attention to properly follow the plots) The characters are fun and the underhanded bitchiness of all the interactions between the rich are absolutely my kinda thing! And the costumes ARE GORGEOUS!!! (or at least the dresses are. The men's wear are all kinda boring and same-ish to be honest) 

For some reason the aunts really remind me of Chuck's aunts in Pushing Daisies? Which is definitely a plus for me since that's one of my favorite shows! 
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2022-01-02 02:46 am
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Chocolate Box 2022

Dear Chocolatier, first of all thank you so much for creating for me and i am very excited to see what you make! I hope my letter isn't too much of a mess, I'm not great at organizing my thoughts or talking about my likes without infodumping. ^-^ 

While i have put specific favorite tropes and plots associated with each ship I'd honestly be happy for anything not listed as a DNW. Please just treat these as suggestions and ideas and don't let them box you in. If you have an idea you like, go for it! (feel free to give me an experimental or unusual fic if a plot bunny grabs you)

Note for Marvel (Comics) requests: while i'm mainly interested in the comic versions of these characters I'm not opposed to mixing in some avengers tower era/early mcu fanon elements or the netflix Daredevil tv show. 
 
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2021-10-01 06:51 am
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SW Rare Pairs Exchange 2021

Dear Creator


First of all I want to thank you for writing for me and say that I am very excited to see whatever you create! :D

This letter might be a bit chaotic as it's my first dear creator letter and I'm basically info-dumping about my ships (apologies about that)


General DNWs:

a/b/o, mpreg, a heavy focus on pregnancy or birth (mentioning it is fine tho), scat/watersports, pwp, foot fetish, noncon, wing fic, out of setting AUs (like highschool AUs or coffee shop AUs), hanahaki disease, 1st and 2nd person pov, soulmate AUs, humiliation/degradation in sex


General Likes:

World building, Mandalorian Culture, Clone culture, copious use of mando’a , alien biology (where canonically applicable), headcanons/worldbuilding for alien cultures, character studies, established relationships, getting together fic, sparing as flirting/fighting as flirting, competency kink, characters that are usually unemotional or badass breaking down and being comforted by their loved one, characters dealing with their trauma, found family dynamics, bounty hunting (where applicable), mission fic/case fic, angst, hurt/comfort, order 66 angst, order 66 fix it fic, illicit relationships, 5 times +1 time fic,

A Couple Common Discourses and My Opinions:
The Jedi: I am very neutral on the Jedi to be honest. They don't interest me all that much as portrayed in the movies and shows, however I have nothing against them in fic and do like it when fic examine or worldbuild them!


Deathwatch: I have no really feelings on them, I'm more inclined towards them as villains (mostly because they kinda are in canon) but it really doesn't matter

Jango Fett: Ok so I personally love Jango. However I do acknowledge that he was a very very flawed parent and absolutely messed up Boba. While I'm fine with criticizing him and portraying him as a flawed parent I'd really rather if you didn't make him an intentionally abusive parent or bash him.  
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