How I Wonder

Hi SW Rare Pairs author!! Super excited for another year of the teeny tiny rowboat ships putting in their oars!!


Prompt ideas!

Hello writer and thank you for being a part of this exchange!! I continue to be excited to share in the love for these rowboat ships! After the list of likes/DNWs are possible prompts, but please feel free to go where your imagination takes you :)

In General

Likes:
Adventure
Aftermath of torture/captivity
Angst
Building a New Republic
Characters being big giant nerds about their shared interest
Characters learning about GFFA history/lore
Everyone in the GFFA is Bi
Fluff
Force shenanigans
Found family
Hurt/Comfort
Missions
Pilot stuff
Pining
Slice-of-Life
Soulmarks (but not for ships with canonical villains)
Whump
Worldbuilding

Spicier Likes:
Bondage/restraints
Inappropriate use of the Force
Noncon/dubcon with villain/hero ships (e.g., where Krennic, Moff Gideon, or Thrawn are involved)
Restraints
Tentacles (as in GFFA monsters) - dubcon/non-con more than okay!

DNWs:
A/B/O dynamics
Ageplay
Body horror
Canonical ending of Rogue One
Childbirth/pregnancy
Genderbent characters
Han/Leia as bad parents (if mentioned or present)
Incest
Infidelity
MCD
Mpreg
Non-GFFA AUs
Noncon with hero/hero ships 
Scat/watersports
Self-harm
Sequel era-fic
Underage
Unhappy ending (although these and ambiguous endings are okay with villain/hero ships)


Ships & Prompts (in alphabetical order)

Bodhi Rook/Luke Skywalker (Any)
A few prompts:
-Bodhi runs into Luke on Yavin IV during Luke's first-ever rainstorm. 
-In a GFFA where Anakin never Fell and Everything Is Fine, Bodhi becomes a flight instructor at the Academy at the same time the Prince of Naboo enrolls for classes.
-During one of Luke's various attempts to find Jedi artifacts after the war, someone suggests he should check out the ruins of Jedha for kyber crystals, and across the library (or wherever) Bodhi, who has been avoiding Luke since 0BBY, drops his datapad in shock...
-Oops, they ran into some tentacle monsters and Bodhi is having an especially bad time of the noncon/dubcon until Luke, uh, helps him focus

Cassian Andor/Dr. Penn Pershing (any)
In disguise on some Imperial infiltration mission or another, Cassian gets picked up in a bar by (or is trying to pick up) a lonely scientist with a lot less baggage than Galen Erso (although I'm down for Jyn in his earpiece egging him on XD) Dubcon due to concealed identity is fine. 

Ezra Bridger/Thrawn (Ahsoka)
Thrawn's been keeping a close personal eye on where Ezra went, after they arrived at Peridea. Sometimes, they meet up. After all, Thrawn has much to learn about the Force. And there is much he wants to teach Ezra in return. Dubcon/non-con fine here!

Haja Estree/Bail Organa/Breha Organa (OWK)
Look, the two Haja OT3 ships are here because the other two people in each ship would be varying levels of ?????????? about him, and I think it would be funny. A prompt for this one, post-show: Haja crashing a party on Alderaan (and being extremely "Our Mutual Friend Sent Me" because he's terrible at discretion)!

Haja Estree/Obi-Wan Kenobi (OWK)
After the events of the show, Haja is all about helping Obi-Wan out. You know. However Obi-Wan wants. Also, misconceptions about the Jedi and possibly some wildly inappropriate use of the Force? :D

Haja Estree/Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun (OWK)
Obi-Wan has to go off-world for a bit again, and Haja is somehow the next best person to keep an eye on things. He gets bored very, very quickly.

Moff Gideon/Dr. Pershing (Mando)

Both Bodhi and Dr. Pershing are afraid of, well, a lot; the difference between these two characters I absolutely adore is that Bodhi is trying to be brave, and Pershing is a complete and utter coward. And I love him for it XD

Anyway, a prompt: Dr. Pershing is punished for his (repeated) failures. If post-season 3, preferably with most of his memory intact. Dubcon/non-con fine here!

Orson Krennic/Bodhi Rook (R1)

Placeholder for now, but my requests are:

Hustlers (2019), Destiny/Ramona

The Good Place, Tahani, Vicky, Simone, Janet

Gargoyles, emphasis on Elisa

Eta: eek, will do my best to fill this out more this weekend; I'm doing a craft fair so may be a bit late!! Previous letters can be found under my Yuletide tag though!!

Hi!! I've been doing this for a long time, and am so excited to participate in it again!!

Likes/dislikes:

I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I'm fond of allusions to canon and other related works. Tropes are my JAM--trope-tastic, inverted, subverted; the more lampshades the better! I love stories that mess around with perspective and time.

I love gen, het, and slash, but I would prefer nothing very explicit, crack-tastic, or very AU (I am not a fan of high school/college or coffee shop AUs, for example). I adore explorations of the world(s) that the authors and creators have built!

I love stories that are about thriving, not just survival. Stuff about how power works, managing cultural expectations and ambition and fear. I love people trying to do the best they can in the face of extremely long odds--although, again, not just about surviving, but actually making something of the situation?

But really--I love Yuletide most of all. :)

Thanks, yuletide writer!!


More specifics for this year, if you're curious:

Dreamblood Series - N.K. Jemisin
Would love some post-novel explorations of what any of these amazing women are up to. If the ones who have met, ever meet again; if they don't. Where are the places they fit now?

Gargoyles
I didn't nominate this one, but when I saw it I was really excited that someone had!!! Obviously, as with my other requests, I'm most interested in the woman of color; I'd love to see her exploring mythologies on her own, or how she's managing years on down the line from the show. I'm not looking for anything particularly shippy out of this set of characters; it's much more interesting to me that some of them are immortals! I love the mythology of the Gargoyles universe and mythology in general, so anything that highlights those connections would be great.

The Good Place
Kamilah, Tahani, Hydrogen, Vicky
The one prompt that leaped into my head was: Kamilah definitely goes to the Bad Place. Vicky is there.
Or, you know, I love love Vicky-the-diva; what's karaoke night like in the Bad Place (besides terrible? I have a friend whose go-to is some godawful really long Nickelback song XD)

so i guess i've moved here now? this is mostly going to be a repository for the old stuff plus the obligatory Yuletide letter space at the end of the year. most of my social media & fannish maunderings are over on tumblr.

I don't have a Star Wars icon(?!), so Harrison Ford as Indy will have to do.

Yeah. Holy shit.

I may have a longer essay about What Star Wars Means To Me to write, but right now all I want to do is scour the internet for press I haven't read or videos I haven't watched, refresh AO3 for new stormpilot or OT3 fic, or...work on the next chapter of this fic that apparently I'm writing now?

I didn't write a single fic last year, not even for Yuletide. This year I've written four: two for Jupiter Ascending, my Yuletide fic (forthcoming), and this multi-chapter stormpilot thing that KEEPS HAPPENING IN MY BRAIN.

You never forget your first fandom, even if three prequels get in the way.

ETA: haha, clicking my own damn star wars tag revealed I DID make a bunch of Star Wars icons for myself, just never got them in the system. :P

YAY!!! End-of-the-year fic party time!! Thank you, writer, for your love of whatever fandom we matched on!

General fanfic likes/dislikes:

I love stories that mess around with perspective and time. I prefer plot, but I like character vignettes, too. I'm fond of allusions to canon and other works, related or not. Uh, what's going to probably become pretty clear from the details below is I really, really love the pairing of someone expert in a system with someone really novice to it. Tropes are my JAM--trope-tastic, inverted, subverted; the more lampshades the better!

I love gen, het, and slash, but I would prefer nothing very explicit, crack-tastic, or very AU (I am not a fan of high school or coffee shop AUs, for example).

( Details! )

So as to stave off impending intellectual burnout (haha, too late), I went to museums today instead of morning and early afternoon sessions. Specifically, the Penn Museum of archaeology and anthropology, and the Mutter Museum--there will come a day when I cannot use a student discount again, but today is not that day!

The Penn Museum is clearly On The Ball with regards to making changes and visitor studies. I started with the North American hall, which looks to have been redone fairly recently, with great use of touchscreens to allow visitors to learn more about objects and their creators. The mix of objects in the displays was really cool, too; instead of by American Indian tribe, culture or time period, it was based around a theme, like celebrations, or sacred spaces. Thus, there were archaeological, historic, and contemporary art objects in each case. Really cool.

From that hall, I went into the Mesoamerican gallery, which focused heavily on Maya and other Mesoamerican cultures that predated Maya. I have NEVER been that close to stelae before (I could put my face right on them if I didn't, y'know, know not to do that.) It definitely made me once again regretful that I dropped the Aztec, Maya, and Inca class in undergrad...

The next hall, "Imagine Africa," was definitely geared towards obtaining visitor feedback and prompting reflection. They provided dry-erase markers to write on the walls in response to various questions about content and themes; I wrote a long response on one that probably took up all the space--fortunately it seemed difficult to erase my writing without the proper tools, so at least I know it'll be read by someone and not simply get wiped off by a visitor who wants to write something too XD

And then I went downstairs to the Sphinx.

I was BLOWN AWAY by the space. There is the sphinx, seated in front of several columns, all softly lit from below--the columns are AMAZING, and again I was really surprised at just how close I could really get. My museum and archaeologist identities are both strong enough to overcome the child "OMG I COULD TOUCH THIS" identity, but it was...really hard to resist wanting to touch the hieroglyphs...but seeing that one of the columns had PAINT on it definitely curbed my "want to touch" feelings.

Also...yeah. I am BLOWN AWAY by the fact that there are parts of an Egyptian temple in this museum. I mean, how likely is it that I'm going to go to Egypt and get to see these places for real? So that is really, really amazing--but, on the other hand, WHY DO WE HAVE PARTS OF AN EGYPTIAN PALACE IN THIS COUNTRY WTFFFFFFFF (You can see where the columns were cut so they could be transported. Sigh.) It's a seriously amazing Egyptian collection, but my anti-colonial sentiments had me going >_< a lot.

Cruised around the rest of the museum quickly so I could get to the Mutter Museum next with my friend Mike. Which was just wonderful--I think they negotiated the tension between "this is the history of medical teaching and learning, here are the very prosaic facts" and "ewwwww" really well. The coolest (recent) exhibit was on Grimm's fairy tales and the body. (I do, however, feel like it does sidestep questions of how oppressed and marginalized groups tended to get exploited for medical purposes--there were several skulls on the wall labeled "gypsy", for example, and a couple of suicides that were related to abject poverty...so...yeah...)

Mike took me out to lunch since we haven't spent much time together this semester, and then I went to the session on digital badging. I'm now charging my phone (took a TON of photos at the Penn Museum) and then going to head over to the reception my school is having tonight. On the agenda tomorrow...some more sessions and I have GOT to get some more work done. I keep doing little bits here and there but I feel like I'm going to be behind when I get home. :P