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Itch.io Is Having Its Strikethrough Moment

Last night, bluesky exploded with the discovery that itch.io has delisted/shadowbanned pretty much all its "adult" games - they don't show up in a search anymore, even if you have the 'show me adult content' turned on, even if you are the game's creator.

They are still listed on the creator's pages; they are still in the bundles they've been in, and the "search title/author/tag" on the bundle pages still works.

Some games have been removed entirely - with a claim that they violate the TOS and therefore the creators can't receive payment, so itch will be just keeping their money thankyouverymuch.

After a mad scramble to figure out "what's going on and why," Itch mentioned payment processor issues on its Discord (which is going wild with drama; it does NOT have enough moderators for this), and eventually released a statement:

We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by this change.

Recently, we came under scrutiny from our payment processors regarding the nature of some content hosted on itch.io. Due to a game titled No Mercy, which was temporarily available on itch.io before being banned back in April, the organization Collective Shout launched a campaign against Steam and itch.io, directing concerns to our payment processors about the nature of certain content found on both platforms.

Itch instantly caved to their "Warriors for Innocence."

( Specific game info )

Current Mood: supportive
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 22: SquidgeWorld Fundraiser

squidgiepdx has been showing fandom the love for 31 years (he founded Squidge.Org in 1994 to provide both website hosting and mailing lists for fandom and in 2020 he created the SquidgeWorld Archive) and I'm here to say let's have fandom show some love back with a successful fundraiser. (And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I donated $100.00 to this fundraiser.)

Click here for detailed post about the fundraiser and about how to donate.

Click here for Fanlore page about Squidge.Org and SquidgeWorld.

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recs

Book recommendation

My friend Annick Trent has a new historical m/m romance out: By Marsh and by Moor. It's about a pressed English sailor running from the press gang during the Napoleonic wars, and his companion on the run, who is running from something else entirely. Obviously I am not impartial here, but I've been enjoying beta reading this book even when I haven't been reading much other fiction.

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games

Game: Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

I finished the game, yay! As I've mentioned before, this is a spooky atmospheric puzzle game, very stylized in grayscale with splashes of red, and a sort of phase-shifted overlay effect that makes everything look a little unreal. You play as a mysterious woman who has come to a mysterious hotel full of locked doors somewhere in Europe (Italy? Austria? Germany?) in 1963, at the request of a mysterious man for reasons of ??? The gameplay is very simple: you move with either a controller stick or arrow keys, and you have a single action button to interact with whatever is highlighted in front of you, or if nothing is, to bring up your "introspection" screen that includes inventory, "photographic memory" (images of everything important you've interacted with, text from books/documents/signs you've seen, etc), and "mental notes" which is where your quests, so to speak, show up, e.g. "Unlock room 1957" or "Broken elevator?" The game manual - once you find it :-) - is minimal, and a lot of the game consists of figuring out how you need to figure out the game. The story also makes little sense and is mostly vibes until you accumulate more information, as putting the story together is in some sense the point of the game.

The puzzles are mostly a matter of figuring out codes to open locks (doors, safes, puzzle boxes, computer logins) based on information that is usually near the lock, but may require extra information from books, letters, or other documents in order to transform into the needed code. Some things rely on Greek letters or Roman numerals; some rely on perspective or rotation or other transformation. Usually if I couldn't figure something out, it meant I didn't have the necessary auxiliary information, though sometimes I had it but didn't realize it was the missing piece.

I found the overall game structure really interesting, in that it's sort of separated into informal stages where there are a number of places you can go and things you can do (and a few things you can't do yet and can't figure out at all, e.g. a statue with a hole in it where obviously something is meant to go but you don't know what, or a room you can see but not enter) and within that, you can do things in any order you like, it's completely nonlinear. And then either something you do triggers an event which opens up additional places you can go/things you can do, or you solve a puzzle that gives you a key (possibly literally) to open up a new area. However, sometimes (probably often!) you receive access to a new area before you've solved everything in a previous area, though in order to fully progress the game you'll need to go back and solve whatever you missed. My brother and I compared notes occasionally, and marveled at how we often did things in completely different orders! For example, there's one area called the "Quiz Club" where you have to answer questions about in-game things in order to progress, and to get to it, you need to solve a puzzle that you have access to from fairly early in the game. My brother got there long before I did, because I missed that puzzle entirely until much later, but he was only able to answer a few of the questions, since he hadn't encountered the answers yet; by the time I got there, I was able to get through the whole thing fairly easily.

I did a bit more than 95% completion (there are some optional things you can do, some of which I chose not to) and finished in about 25 hours, which is probably dead slow, but I'm a slow gamer. I have 9 pages of notes - the facts and diagrams are of course saved in "photographic memory", but I wrote some things down so I could refer to them while in the game without having to access it (and sometimes it's not available, so you have to either remember or take notes). Also a few photos I took with my phone, heh.

The game is pretty inexpensive on Steam and goes on sale periodically (at the moment it's $17.49). As I mentioned in one of my updates, there is a really excellent hint guide on the steamcommunity.com site, which gently nudges you in the direction you should be thinking in order to solve the puzzles, rather than providing answers. You can pet the dog! You can drink espresso (after solving a certain puzzle...)! If you like puzzle games of this sort, I recommend this game!

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promo post

current fandom comms/events

fan_writers is a community for meta about writing.

everykindofcraft is a community for sharing information, advice and images about all sorts of crafts projects, old or new

enemiestoloversex, a multifandom gift exchange focused on the "enemies to lovers" trope (including ships that don't have that dynamic in canon), is open for sign-ups until July 23rd, 10PM UTC.

relationshipping, a fic/art/podfic incest exchange, has opened sign-ups until July 25th, 9:59PM EDT.

austenexchange, an exchange for all things Jane Austen, has opened sign-ups until July 27th, 10PM UTC.

sedoretuex, an exchange dedicated to celebrating the sedoretu (a specific organization of a poly marriage created by Ursula K. Le Guin), is open for sign-ups until July 27th, 11:59PM EDT.

classicfilmex, an exchange for fandoms in movies released before 1/1/1980,is open for sign-ups until July 29th, 10PM UTC + 2.

spookybang is a Big Bang focused on crossing over characters from different supernatural, paranormal and horror fandoms. Author Sign-Ups are open until August 10th and Artist Sign-Ups are open until November 30th.

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Relationshipping letter 2025

I'm

colorcoded on AO3. Requesting art/fic/podfic for everything.

( DNWs )
( Likes )

( Bravely Default )
( Cinderella )
( Final Fantasy X )
( Soul Calibur )
( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )
( Star Trek: Discovery )
( Star Trek: The Next Generation )
( Trials of Mana )

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art,
tv: daredevil

Art post - Daredevil

I've been spending the summer learning how to draw! I've always wanted to and I figured why not now. I'm having a blast with it, and I feel like every drawing I do I get a little better.

I decided to try and draw something fannish this weekend, so here's Daredevil, in charcoal!

( art behind the cut! )

Reference image: here.

The last 24 hours have been a whole year

1. Chaos. Last night, the building across the street caught on fire.

Again.

It's an abandoned/defunct factory; this is the... fifth? time it's caught on fire in the last couple of years. (The owner who acquired it after the previous owner died has been trying to sell it for far more than anyone wants to pay.)

2. Discord. This morning: Skipped my GURPS game (sigh) for round 3 of 4 of the Seattle Worldcon virtual business meeting. 3.75 hours of intense Roberts Rules neepery wrapped around 16 action items. 14 passed, 2 failed. I took notes on (1) everything that happened and (2) How To Bog Down A Worldcon Business Meeting, should I ever be so inclined.

There are a substantial number of people involved for whom Roberts Rules is apparently their main fandom. The Worldcon Business Meeting is their Pennsic. Some of them get annoyed at people who aren't interested in RRONR procedures as much as they want changes to Worldcon rules.

Also I have volunteered to be on two committees; we'll see if I get accepted to either.

3. Confusion. Family birthday party. Eldest daughter came over to cook tacos yay. Much bustling around a small kitchen with people no longer used to having three butts in a one-butt sized space.

Tacos were yummy. Cake and ice cream were yummy. French-press coffee was yummy; I wound up thinking "I should do that more often" and then remembered why I don't - because the cleanup is a hassle, and also, I prefer the coffee hotter than the press makes it. (5 minutes of sitting in a glass cylinder is cooler than I prefer.) But it's nice once in a while.

4. Bureaucracy. 2 hrs of OTW Board public meeting. (The meeting is 1 hr, but I'm involved as a volunteer, so had to be there in advance.) It ran short - instead of the normal "dozen questions emailed in advance + 10-20 questions asked in session," it was "5 questions sent in advance and only 4 more asked in session." All questions answered during the meeting; none left over to get posted on the website later.

5. Aftermath. Kid the Elder has gone home with doggo via Lyft; I am trying to catch up on the several chat channels with all sorts of stuff in them. Also now trying to figure out what writing deadlines I have pressing that have been shoved aside during prep for these two meetings.

( Now what? )

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Jukebox 2025 fic post!

I had a great time this year writing for an excellent folk song, I Go Like the Raven by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.

O'er the dark and dervish sky (2141 words) by alchemise
Fandom: I Go Like the Raven - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Narrator (I Go Like The Raven)
Additional Tags: Captivity, Magic, Animal Transformation
Summary: She was trapped.

( fic behind the cut! )

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thursday reads and things

I really did intend to post yesterday, but I didn't get to it. Well, it's Thursday!

What I recently finished reading:

The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison, the third book in the Cemeteries of Amalo sub-series of The Goblin Emperor books. I had gone into it with mixed feelings; not that I strongly cared about

spoiler

the Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior ship, but I had heard that the way it was sunk was awkward and issueficcy and felt like "I was going to write this relationship in but it felt pointless after all the fanfiction", and - yeah, it was

but I enjoyed it, overall. I liked the low-ish stakes plot, and the DRAGONS, and the fairly mild author's message of what makes a person a person, and the importance of basic rights and the rule of law, which, let's face it, is a relevant message these days.

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, stand-alone SF. Again, a lot of people whose reviews I follow didn't like it, but I did; Tchaikovsky is hit and miss for me, but this was a hit. A biologist who is also a political dissident on an extremely authoritarian Earth is exiled as prison labor on a planet with native life that is very weird and apparently hostile. This is basically another exploration of Tchaikovsky's Theme, which is at core, I think, "How can we see the Other as a Person? How do we overcome the instinct to be closed and tribal, and instead practice empathy, leading to discussion and exchange?" There are echos of the Children of Time series, in particular Children of Ruin (the second book), I think. There is also the strong contrast between a culture which gives lip service to the importance of individuality, but demands conformity, and a culture which emphasizes the communal and the good of the community. And of course, the importance of resistance, of holding to one's core beliefs even in the face of a terrible horrible authoritarian government.

I mostly enjoyed the style except for a few references which seemed a little too grounded in 21st century reality for this future in which humans are mining multiple far-flung planets. The structure and pacing worked well for me. Warning for a terrible horrible authoritarian government that doesn't give a shit about human lives other than their own, and body horror, and an ending which may strike some people as not entirely happy, but which satisfied me.

sovay, it's very different from Elder Race but if these themes appeal I think you'll like it.

"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by Martha Wells, a Murderbot short story, in which Murderbot doesn't explicitly appear, but ART | Perihelion has recently met it for the first time. It's from Iris's point of view, on a mission with the rest of the crew, and really the mission is just a framing device McGuffin for "Peri has changed because it met someone?!?", and I agree with

runpunkrun's take that there are way too many words devoted to them walking around on this mission which turns out to be not really relevant, compared to the actual point of the story. Still, it's nice to have a bit about Murderbot from not Murderbot's POV.

What I'm reading now:

Just started on the seventh and last Shardlake book by CJ Sansom, Tombland.

What I recently finished watching:

Murderbot! I enjoyed it! I (mostly) appreciate, or at least understand, the changes they made in adaptation. (Not sure why it's not enough for Pin-Lee to be Space Lawyer, but also must be Badass Fighter? And the Arada/Pin-Lee/Ratthi thing didn't seem to have any reason for being and just felt a bit cringe.) I really loved the ending, and Gurathin's whole general arc, and SANCTUARY MOOOOON, and Mensah is chef's kiss perfect.

Speaking of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot vidded it! Okay, it was really

pollyrepeat, but: RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid]!!!

What I'm watching now:

Arcane, because B watched the first episode during the winter, riding the stationary bike, and decided I might like to watch it with him, so moved on to something else so we could watch it together. Not very far into it yet.

What I recently listened to:

The third episode of S3 of The Strange Case of Starship Iris, which, I really liked this one!

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about me

Yes, Another

Me: I did a task!

Also me: And now you have to do another one.

Me again: Gasp! Not another!

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sunshine revival challenge

sunshine revival challenge #4

Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
I love music so I'm going to just post a top 10 songs I've been listening to recently (though not all time) and in no particular order. All links go to YouTube! :D

1. Stargazing by Myles Smith
2. Three Six Five by Shinedown
3. That's Not How This Works by Charlie Puth & Dan+Shay
4. Ordinary by Alex Warren - first song of his I've heard and I really like it
5. back to friends by sombr - it was a crazy coincidence how spotify recommended them to me and then all of a sudden, a couple of their songs started playing on the radio like a few weeks later. i like this one and 'undressed'.
6. Revolving Door by Tate McRae - she has really catchy songs.
7. can't slow down by almost monday
8. Azizam by Ed Sheeran
9. Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims - ngl at first I thought he was saying "closer when I cry" and I only found out later it was "no sound when I cry"
10. Me Without You by Evan Cline

Current Mood: trouble-maker
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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political

PSA: Across America Let's Make "Good Trouble"

Five years ago today Representative John Lewis -- an icon of civil rights -- died, but his message lives on and we declare it today all across America with this Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. As Representative John Lewis said: "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

Click here to find today's event details including a map that shows where a "Good Trouble" event is taking place near you today.

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Jukebox 2025!

There are some great works in the collection this year. I received a lovely romance story for Barenaked Ladies - Lovers in a Dangerous Time:

Nothing Worth Having (1902 words) by felcast
Fandom: Lovers in a Dangerous Time - Barenaked Ladies (Song)
Rating: Mature
Additional Tags: Post-Apocalypse Glamping
Summary: What do you do when everyone but your girlfriend vanishes overnight? According to Molls, you go find ‘em.

Other works I really enjoyed:

Last One on the Ground (4 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Abandoned Town - The Smooth Maria (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Additional Tags: Art

Perigee (1025 words) by galaxyofroses
Fandom: Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Additional Tags: Magic, POV Second Person, Apocalypse, Horror
Summary: The moon is a sly bitch with a slantwise smile.

Heartlock (1226 words) by felcast
Fandom: Lock-Keeper - Stan Rogers (Song)
Rating: Mature
Summary: I wouldn't trade your life for one hour of home.

Living Here Today (1431 words) by Iseult_Variante
Fandom: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Additional Tags: Magical Realism, Weather, Optimism, Having a Nice Day
Summary: And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day?
Hey...

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fic: what are you to me (everything) - steve/tony

This is what I wrote for the

hurtcomfortex. :)

Title: what are you to me (everything)
Fandom: MCU
Pairing/Characters: Steve/Tony
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2391
Summary: Another close call makes Steve realize he can't run from his feelings anymore.

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h/c exchange gift fics (1 kim/tommy, 1 mia/nicholas)

These are the fics I received from the

hurtcomfortex exchange. :)

Title: Fleurs du Mal
Author:

Griddlebone
Fandom: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Pairing/Characters: Kimberly/Tommy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 4,466
Summary: Shortly after breaking up with Tommy, Kimberly comes down with a strange illness.

Hanahaki + Kim/Tommy post breakup is such a great combo and I loved the way it was handled.

Title: and swear, a taste of sweetness to soothe your soul
Author:

forsworn
Fandom: The Princess Diaries (Movies)
Pairing/Characters: Mia/Nicholas
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3863
Summary: Mia's been working too hard, but she's determined to enjoy her day off with Nicholas - and even if her exhausted body lets her down, Nicholas and his gourmet cooking skills can still lift her spirits.

This was so soft and sweet. I love Nicholas taking care of Mia and the banter/dynamic was perfect. :D

Sunshine Revival Challenge: 10 Cool Things

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Recent reading

Right, let's get this reading post done before the excitement of

raremaleslashex assignments takes over :D

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans (2010). I read this as background/research for potential Étoile fic writing, and it has been very informative. It covers the history of ballet from its emergence in the court dances of seventeenth-century France, through its development in various places through time, trends and arguments, the influence of other dance styles, its success and declines, etc. etc. Lots of interesting and useful little titbits, both generally and fannishly (I especially like the influential eighteenth-century French ballerina Marie Sallé, who—in a period when female dancers were more or less expected also to be courtesans and mistresses—developed a reputation for universally rejecting male attentions, and on her retirement 'lived quietly with an Englishwoman, Rebecca Wick, to whom she left her modest worldly belongings'; on the fannish side of things, I think I see why Maya Plisetskaya is Cheyenne's fave); I also enjoyed the discussion of how ballet has developed and been reinterpreted in widely diverse cultural and political contexts (the court of Louis XIV; post-Revolutionary Paris; the Romantic nineteenth century; the twentieth-century US and USSR). Homans, a former ballet dancer turned historian, is ideally placed to write a book like this; she writes very much from a perspective informed by direct practical experience of dance, and doesn't hesitate to express her artistic and professional opinions, especially in the final chapters on the flourishing of ballet in twentieth-century America. At the end she argues that ballet, having fallen from those heights, has entered a decline which is probably terminal, perhaps due to its incompatibility with modern culture. I don't know what to make of that; at least I'm sure the characters and presumably the creators of Étoile would not agree! I have seen very little actual ballet in my life—I must go and remedy that soon—and I'm sure someone more familiar with it would have got more out of this book than I did, but still a very worthwhile read.

Re-read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020), gradually over the last eight weeks with the JSMN fandom read-along Discord that

pretty_plant kindly invited me to. I love this book as much as ever and, as ever, what I love most about it is how kind and gentle it is in the face of incomprehensibly horrible things happening, and the understanding that both the narrator and Sarah Raphael ultimately reach of their experiences and the world they live in. I was less caught by the academic backstory this time; perhaps I wasn't in the right mood. I do think this book benefits from being read quickly all in one go and getting properly mentally absorbed in it; reading only one part a week with other obsessions going on at the same time made less of it.

Dr Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope (1881). Having finished the Barsetshire series last year, I wanted to keep up my tradition of reading a Trollope each summer but was dithering over where to go next; I didn't want to launch into the Palliser books, his other famous series, because from the sound of it they have less of the elements I enjoyed most about Barsetshire (church politics and rural society) and more of the elements I was less interested in (London and the nobility). In the end I picked a title from his bibliography on Wikipedia on the basis of, that sounds interesting, I'd like to see what he does with a school setting. Well, it is about a school setting in a sense, though it's not what you'd call a school story; Dr Wortle is a very Barsetshire-ish country clergyman who also runs a small preparatory school, so I managed to pick well for myself there. But if this book is half Barsetshire, the other half turns out to be a Wilkie Collins novel: the main plot turns on a reveal entertainingly similar to the inciting reveal in No Name (but made in hilariously non-sensation novel fashion: early on in the book Trollope spends several paragraphs telling the reader 'now, authors usually draw this sort of thing out for the drama and suspense, but I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to tell you the big twist now; perhaps some readers will find this boring and fun-ruining, in which case I suggest they put the book down'). It is an interesting example of how different authors with different priorities tackle a similar scenario: besides Trollope not being a sensation novelist, this story kind of returns to the themes of The Warden in being very much about the social consequences of scandal and the practical importance they have, whereas No Name is all about the legal consequences and the social effects that follow as a result. I liked it! I especially liked the character of Dr Wortle, who is principled and determined on following his conscience in the face of social pressure and serious threatened consequences, but who is also dictatorial, prone to poor judgement and not always actuated by purely charitable motives; I think Trollope is too sympathetic to his failings, but I nevertheless liked how he portrays his protagonist's complexity. The book is let down by a particularly annoying Victorian love subplot which increasingly eclipses the main story towards the end, but aside from that it was worth reading.

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KJ Charles Fall Exchange 2025

Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I'm within_a_dream on AO3 and am requesting fic and art for all requests. I am within_a_dream on AO3, and you can read my previous letters here if you want to see some of my previous exchange requests!

In general, please feel free to include any kinks or tropes not in my DNWs (yes even the really weird ones, I have unusually broad interests), and include any ships in addition to my requested characters/ships, including adding characters to my requested ships. Crossovers are also welcome – I've read all of KJC's books and I'm familiar with many other fandoms!

Trans characters, trans headcanons, and character-is-trans AUs always welcome. I enjoy aromantic, no-romo, friends-with benefits takes on ships and characters with unusual or nontypical attitudes towards romance (although I prefer for historical characters not to explicitly use the word aromantic). I’m also down for any amount of character death, graphic violence, and/or noncon.

Don’t feel bound to my prompts if none of them catch your interest – I’ll be happy with anything about my ships that doesn’t contain my DNWs! Length of prompts is 0% an indication of what I want more and 100% just a function of what ships I’ve requested before/have previous prompts to pull from.

DNWs

DNWs

Unrequested pregnancy, childbirth, oviposition - Canonical pregnancy is fine, as is pregnancy I prompted for

Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine!

Explicit monogamy - I'm fine with my two-person ships being the only ship in the work, and I don't need anyone to be explicitly poly, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other or that they're not poly

No-homophobia AUs of historical settings

Breaking up canon ships, canon ships cheating on each other - my preferred way to handle canon ships for my noncanon ship requests is to either have it be an open relationship or simply not mentioning the canon ship/s

Unrequested noncon with a ship member as the perpetrator - past or onscreen noncon with an OC, or fuck-or-die/etc between my requested ships are always fine, as is one character being possessed and the thing doing the possessing using their body to noncon the other ship member/s

AUs I DNW: Modern/mundane AUs, soulmate AUs (soulbonds are welcome!), BDSM AUs (regular BDSM is fine, I just don’t want the engrained/biological dom/sub roles), omegaverse

Unnecessarily long list of likes, sorted by theme:

General Likes

I love all tenses and POVs!

Fic about canonical children, Accidental Child Acquisition of OC children (especially for characters who are not at all parental and have no idea what to do with kids)

Casefic, with a loose definition of "case" that encompasses mysteries for mystery fandoms, paranormal investigations for fantasy canons, espionage for spy canons, etc (or mix it up and make the spies face something supernatural, the wizards solve a murder, etc!)

Ghost stories! Particular favorites include the "ghostly hitchhiker" urban legend and the setup where characters need to spend the night in a haunted house for Reasons

Recovery or aftermath – of canonical traumatic events or noncanonical torture, rape, murder attempts, etc

Whump, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort

5+1 fics

Epistolary fic

Always-a-woman AUs (cis or trans women welcome!)

Trans headcanons, trans characters, character-is-trans AUs

Aromantic, noromo, etc relationships

Internal or external homophobia

Art Likes

I love any art styles and media!

Ships sharing each other’s clothes

Disheveled characters (whether from fights or sex or anything else)

Clothing/costume porn

Clothed/unclothed, or discrepancies in level of dress, for shippy art

Limited color palettes

Blood, bruises, marks, scars

Casual physical contact

Smut Likes

Feel free to include any of your favorite kinks if you are writing or drawing me smut! My only squicks are in my DNWs – anything else goes.
Any and all sex acts (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, frottage, intercrural, fisting, double penetration, sounding, etc) are great! I have no top/bottom or dom/sub preferences.

My favorite words for genitals are cock and cunt, but I have no objections to whatever you’d like to use

Anal sex for everyone, but especially m/f and f/f anal

Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella. I am especially into unnegotiated or undernegotiated kink, and characters falling into kinky dynamics or things they enjoy (especially with the younger characters). I have no dom/sub preferences

I would love noncon for any of my requested characters or fandoms – if you want to know more about what I like in dubcon or noncon I have a general list of kinks and tropes here in my Consent Issues letter. I generally prefer noncon with an OC or canonical antagonist as the rapist, and "fuck or die" setups between my requested characters are also great!

Roleplay – I am into both serious roleplay and goofy scenarios that the characters can’t quite take seriously, and I am especially fond of rape roleplay/consensual non-consent

Group sex, orgies, and gangbangs

Gunplay, especially fucking someone with a gun

Watersports – I am mostly into it for humiliation or marking aspects, and am neutral about drinking piss (and would prefer if any drinking happens it’s someone having their mouth pissed in directly rather than just drinking a glass of pee/etc)

Whump Likes

For sickfic, I’m good with anything from the common cold to deadly diseases. Just make my requested hurt character/s miserable and I will be happy! Historically-accurate medical care for my historical canons is very welcome, but not necessary

Torture – I’m especially fond of beatings, whipping, and broken bones

Fevers, especially making confessions of emotion while feverish and not thinking clearly

Characters feeling guilty about needing care

Characters not wanting to stop and rest despite their injuries and/or mental state

Anxiety or panic attacks

Rape/Noncon/Rape Recovery Likes

Graphic/onscreen noncon is very welcome, as is a gift that only includes the aftermath and/or recovery!

Any aggressor/victim gender combos are great!

You know how so many KJC characters have horrible older brothers and/or fathers? Just feel free to add sexual abuse and/or rape to any of those relationships

Characters blaming themselves for the rape

Characters hiding the rape from their friends/loved ones until they accidentally reveal it by completely breaking down

I am totally down for aroused or unaroused victims

Aggressors praising the victims, especially in a condescending way

Aggressors cutting or branding words into the victim, especially insults or marks of property

Bruises, cuts, blood (especially bleeding from the nose or mouth), visible injuries

Forced bestiality (with the victim being penetrated)

Victims killing their aggressor/s during or after the rape

Society of Gentlemen

SoG prompts

Solo: Richard Vane's Mother

I accidentally gave myself so many emotions about Richard's mom on my latest Society of Gentlemen reread and I am going to make this everyone's problem. Like, she was saddled with an abusive husband, was imprisoned in an isolated house after fighting back against him, and then she died a presumably horrible death of cancer?? And the complicated emotions Richard has about her and her death are so juicy. (She was never quiet about her hatred of her children!! But!! She saved all of his letters!!)

First off, if you just want to write/draw something tragic and canon-compliant, please feel free. Art-specific prompt: I would love to see a formal portrait of her, not least so I can adopt your appearance headcanons as my own as I write my own fic about her.

I would love to see Richard get to actually talk to her, instead of arriving just after she dies. The rest of my prompts are fairly sympathetic towards her, but I am also down for a take that really delves into what a shitty parent she was to Richard if you would like!

The rest of the ideas are just variations on, what if she got to be happy? Give her a friend, or a girlfriend, or a lover. Have her survive and reconnect with Richard. Have her meet Cyprian as a kind of counterpoint to Richard meeting David's mom.

Hyperspecific prompt that I release into the wild and which you may take all of, part of, or none of as you so choose: what if in a parallel to Richard, she falls in love with her lady's maid or companion or someone similar? And the two of them fuck off to Europe after an inheritance or windfall makes them somewhat financially independent? And then she hears about Harry's return to the family and this spurs her to return home to London? And she and Richard have an awkward and tentative reconnection while both are trying to hide their queer identity and relationship from each other?

Will Quex/Jonathan Shakespeare

I so desperately want backstory fic for these two. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? How did they end up running Quex’s? What was Will’s life like between leaving his family and the beginning of the books? Dropping some treats and pspspsing at those of us who love to write novellas (or fics of any length) about the love stories of secondary characters in the books...

Will and/or Jon POV on the events of the books would be very fun. I love that they’re in the background snarking about the gentlemen and occasionally helping Silas and David, and I’d love to see any of the big (or small) events of SoG through their eyes

So I love threesomes and I love that Will and Jon are canonically into threesomes, and I would love to see more smut about this, whether that’s with Cyprian, with Silas (+/- Dom), or with other characters or OCs of your choice (feel free to bring in some crossover characters for porn purposes as well! I’ve read all of KJC’s other books if any of her characters strike your fancy, but I’m down for literally any fandom for this crossover prompt, even if I haven’t heard of it)

I’d also really love smut of the two of them alone!

Really, I just want more fic about these two somewhat minor characters who have stolen my heart. So if you have a Will & Jon story you’ve been dying to tell, hit me with it and I will love it.

Julius Norreys/Edward Rawling/Harry Vane/Verona Vane

So this was spawned by the concept of a Harry/Verona marriage of convenience AU, but it would still be fun in other settings! I just love the idea of Harry and Verona ending up attracted to each other after they both no longer have to hide their lovers, and/or Rawling ending up attracted to Harry and/or Julius or vice versa, and ending up having a foursome that could be really awkward or could work weirdly well fueled solely by Harry's charm.

I forgot to nom Harry & Verona this year, but here is the marriage of convenience AU prompt even though it's not directly related to the requested foursome: I also would love an AU where Harry and Verona actually get married in a marriage-of-convenience way. They can team up to torment Gideon, it would be great. They are super indiscreet about their affairs but refuse to acknowledge this to Gideon. Verona has a baby who looks just like Rawlings and Harry's like, "Oh, he takes after my mother!" I have this scene in my head of Verona hearing that Richard objects to infidelity and cornering him to give him this whole speech (drawn from the feminist works of Euphemia Gordon) about how a marriage is what its participants define it to be, and if a woman were to agree to marry someone and consent to that someone keeping his lover, then who's being hurt here? And Harry's just hiding in the corner giving her a thumbs up.

Band Sinister

Band Sinister prompts

Amanda Frisby/Any Member(s) of the Murder Except Guy Frisby

I just want Amanda to get to join the polycule and slut it up! I think it would be fun if she commandeered her friends to block out scenes from her latest novel-in-progress, and also if she started writing erotica and borrowing Murder members for more hands-on sex experience. Amanda deserves to attend an orgy, or be the center of a gangbang. I do love Amanda/David, but I also think an AU where she ends up marrying a different Murder member would be delightful (my first thought is thoroughly scandalizing everyone by marrying Corvin, after assuring both him and Guy that she expects neither love nor fidelity out of this, but I'm down for anyone). I'm requesting the non-incestuous version of the tag bc I don't actively ship Guy/Amanda, but I don't mind them being present at the same orgies/sex parties, having the same lover/s, or hearing about each other's sex lives.

Doomsday Books

Doomsday prompts

Berengaria d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty, Fulk d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty, Odo d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty

Okay so I love how when faced with the horrible D’Aumesty clan, Rufus sets about figuring out how to get along with his cousins, and I want to see his post-canon interactions with one, two, or all three of them! Meeting Odo’s fiancee, working with Fulk on the estate (listen I am such a slut for estate maintenance), talking art with Berengaria, or anything else you can think of! I'm also totally down for any canon ships happening alongside the cousin-bonding, and I am very soft for Rufus cautiously telling his cousins about him and Luke (or one or more of the cousins figuring it out on their own) and everyone accepting him.

Laura Colefax/Odo d'Aumesty

I ended this series so unexpectedly fond of Odo, and I want to see his life post-canon!. Based on absolutely nothing, I assume Laura and her father have a good relationship, and I’d love to see Odo’s feelings about joining like, an actually functional and loving family. I want to see the two of them nerding out about history together. I am totally down for smut and would especially love to see them doing some incredibly nerdy and intricate roleplay (possibly with one of them getting derailed correcting the other on historical inaccuracies), or something genderfucky with Odo roleplaying as a woman and/or Laura as a man. Would love to see Laura being just as much of a weirdo (affectionate) as Odo.

Will Darling Adventures

WDA prompts

Maisie Jones/Phoebe Stephens-Prince & Barbara Secretan (Lady Chingford), Maisie Jones/Phoebe Stephens-Prince/Barbara Secretan (Lady Chingford)

Catch me falling for yet another extremely minor woman! I was so thrilled to see Babs get a bit of screen time in This Lord's Father and I desperately want to see her further integration into the extended Secretan family! I'm also totally down for her to interact with Will and Kim but I feel like she and Maisie and Phoebe would have fun together. Does Barbara get involved in some Private Bureau business? Do they shit-talk Chingford together? Does Maisie make her a dress? Do they have wild gay threesomes, possibly whilst kinking on cuckolding Chingford? Do you have another vision for these relationships? Go wild!

The Duke At Hazard

Duke at Hazard prompts

Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage

I just want to see more of them together after their somewhat-of-a-whirlwind romance! Especially more of them living and being together when Cassian is in his "real" identity. Daizell figuring out what he wants his new life to look like! Cassian learning to assert his own desires more around his family/society and also possibly fumbling into being a rich jerk to Daizell more and having to fix that! More sex, whether it's more somnophilia or vanilla or praise kink or pony play or something else entirely! (Would you like…to create the work I have plotted out but not managed to write where Cassian offers himself up for free use for Daizell and Hart and Robin and anyone else you'd like at Lady Wintour's hell after-hours...)

Solo: Martin Nichols (John Martin), Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage & Martin Nichols (John Martin), Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage/Martin Nichols (John Martin)

I just want more Martin! Love this traumatized asshole, love that he gets a happy ending and a new job at the end, would love to see literally anything you would like to create about him. Loved that Martin was determined to Git Gud at valet-ing as soon as Cassian offered him the job, and would love to see more of that. I am also a sucker for a rape/trauma recovery story, and would love to see something along those lines (whether as gen or as part of a shipfic, for Cassian/Daizell/Martin or Martin/OC).

Death in the Spires

Death in the Spires prompts

Ella Feynsham/Toby Feynsham/Jem Kite/Prue Lenster/Hugo Morley-Adams/Aaron Oyede/Nicky Rook

My first thought upon finishing DitS was, wow, KJC has managed to do the impossible and write an ensemble cast I don't want to have an orgy. My second thought was, okay but under what circumstances would I enjoy them having an orgy anyway? I just want them to have the world's most uncomfortable group sex while in school together. My first thought is that they all get sex pollened as an impetus for the fucking, but I am also down for them just fucking without sex pollen to spur them on, or a horrible unhappy tangled polyamorous relationship. I am very here for Ella & Toby to get weird and incestuous, or not if you so prefer.

Ella Feynsham/Jem Kite/Prue Lenster/Aaron Oyede/Nicky Rook

And the happier "everyone but the assholes" version of a DitS orgy. I would love to see them all end up in one big polyship after they reunite in canon. I also love the idea of this happening post-canon in a world where the full orgy also happened at school, with someone saying they should have a second go at the orgy now that Hugo and Toby are out of the picture.

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Hurt/Comfort Exchange creator reveals

My lovely Kidnapped gift was by

sweetsorcery—thank you! :)

I, meanwhile, was pleased to match on The Warm Hands of Ghosts and Laura/Pim again. It's a good pairing for the angsty kind of hurt/comfort where the hurt (of both characters) is bigger and more complicated than the comfort can fix, but it still matters...

A Relapse and a Respite (2411 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Iven/Penelope "Pim" Shaw
Characters: Penelope "Pim" Shaw, Laura Iven
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Unresolved Feelings, Wrapped in blankets while hurt/sick
Summary:

The flu isn’t quite done with Laura, after all; Pim takes care of her, but she has other things on her mind too.