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shmaylorDear Podficcer, I adore you and I'm very excited to hear what you create for me! I've also moved apartments and started a new job recently and am very tired in general, which means I would love to listen to something comforting <3
For me, comforting means either: something funny, something gentle, or something I'm familiar with.
1. Funny is pretty self explanatory :D
2. To me gentle fics are a little soft and quiet, and they cup you in their palms and support you through the tough emotions. Maybe it's sweet and happy and all okay at the end, or maybe it's not all okay at the end but you feel like it could probably be okay eventually.
3. The go-to for things I'm familiar with is bookmarks. Anything that I've ever bookmarked in the fandoms I signed up with, or anything I've bookmarked in any fandom from 2019 through now would be a great gift. With those you can go wild. Funny, tragic, soft, dark, angsty, joyful, whatever speaks to you.
Likes:
- Fake married
- Accidentally married/woke up married
- secret married
- why do so many of my favorite tropes involve marriage?? who knows. (dating instead of married is also super legit for these tropes)
- Emotional vulnerability is hard, but they're Trying Their Best
- getting together
- established relationship
- Origin stories and character studies
- Team humor fic and banter
- I love canon divergence and altered canon, but not full AUs (coffeeshop, fairytale, vampire, etc).
Do not wants:
- strong secondhand embarrassment
- pregnancy fic, kid fic, or de-aged fic
- infidelity
- unrequited love
- straight-up curtain fic. I know that may sound contradictory to me wanting something comforting, but I still do like a little bit of plot or introspection or character exploration.
- domestic violence and non-con. mentions of it and canonical stuff are fine, but please nothing graphic that's been added to give a character A More Tragic Backstory.
- Hazing. i.e. anything a person has to do when joining a group/organization that doesn't have a purpose beyond embarrassing, inconveniencing, shaming, or hurting them. The power dynamic of new person vs established group is what makes this bad for me. Teammates who have been together a long time pranking each other etc is fine.
Fandom specific, in no particular order:
Star Wars Rogue One
- Cassian/K2 is the ship of my heart for this fandom
- I also love more gen-focused team feels
- No thank you to "some die, some live" fic
What We Do in the Shadows
- I've read almost nothing in this fandom, so I'm coming in pretty blank slate in terms of what's out there, but I'm assuming there's some great humor fic!
The Locked Tomb
- Harrow/Gideon
- Camilla and Sextus, either gen or shippy (I'm forever in my feelings about 'go loud', a scene which I have re-read at least 15 times)
- weird skeleton sex
- no modern/mundane AUs
Thrilling Adventure Hour
- Beyond Belief is my favorite segment and I love Frank/Sadie SO MUCH
- Captain Laserbeam or Sparks Nevada content would also be top tier
- I'm fond of Croach/Sparks/Red and Sparks/Ginny
The Magnus Archives
- your classic Elias/Peter divorce fic
- TMA is a workplace comedy
- crack treated seriously
- I love Jon/Martin the most, but you can talk me into almost any ship involving the archives staff. Not very interested in the smaller side characters or avatars, except for Helen!
That was a lot of things, but I hope it was useful. Podficcer, you are a wonder and a delight, and I hope you have a ton of fun with this exchange. I can’t wait to listen <3
For me, comforting means either: something funny, something gentle, or something I'm familiar with.
1. Funny is pretty self explanatory :D
2. To me gentle fics are a little soft and quiet, and they cup you in their palms and support you through the tough emotions. Maybe it's sweet and happy and all okay at the end, or maybe it's not all okay at the end but you feel like it could probably be okay eventually.
3. The go-to for things I'm familiar with is bookmarks. Anything that I've ever bookmarked in the fandoms I signed up with, or anything I've bookmarked in any fandom from 2019 through now would be a great gift. With those you can go wild. Funny, tragic, soft, dark, angsty, joyful, whatever speaks to you.
Likes:
- Fake married
- Accidentally married/woke up married
- secret married
- why do so many of my favorite tropes involve marriage?? who knows. (dating instead of married is also super legit for these tropes)
- Emotional vulnerability is hard, but they're Trying Their Best
- getting together
- established relationship
- Origin stories and character studies
- Team humor fic and banter
- I love canon divergence and altered canon, but not full AUs (coffeeshop, fairytale, vampire, etc).
Do not wants:
- strong secondhand embarrassment
- pregnancy fic, kid fic, or de-aged fic
- infidelity
- unrequited love
- straight-up curtain fic. I know that may sound contradictory to me wanting something comforting, but I still do like a little bit of plot or introspection or character exploration.
- domestic violence and non-con. mentions of it and canonical stuff are fine, but please nothing graphic that's been added to give a character A More Tragic Backstory.
- Hazing. i.e. anything a person has to do when joining a group/organization that doesn't have a purpose beyond embarrassing, inconveniencing, shaming, or hurting them. The power dynamic of new person vs established group is what makes this bad for me. Teammates who have been together a long time pranking each other etc is fine.
Fandom specific, in no particular order:
Star Wars Rogue One
- Cassian/K2 is the ship of my heart for this fandom
- I also love more gen-focused team feels
- No thank you to "some die, some live" fic
What We Do in the Shadows
- I've read almost nothing in this fandom, so I'm coming in pretty blank slate in terms of what's out there, but I'm assuming there's some great humor fic!
The Locked Tomb
- Harrow/Gideon
- Camilla and Sextus, either gen or shippy (I'm forever in my feelings about 'go loud', a scene which I have re-read at least 15 times)
- weird skeleton sex
- no modern/mundane AUs
Thrilling Adventure Hour
- Beyond Belief is my favorite segment and I love Frank/Sadie SO MUCH
- Captain Laserbeam or Sparks Nevada content would also be top tier
- I'm fond of Croach/Sparks/Red and Sparks/Ginny
The Magnus Archives
- your classic Elias/Peter divorce fic
- TMA is a workplace comedy
- crack treated seriously
- I love Jon/Martin the most, but you can talk me into almost any ship involving the archives staff. Not very interested in the smaller side characters or avatars, except for Helen!
That was a lot of things, but I hope it was useful. Podficcer, you are a wonder and a delight, and I hope you have a ton of fun with this exchange. I can’t wait to listen <3
