265 - Kimi no Na wa,Long Price-Abraham,Sun Swrd-West,Colette,Word Flesh&Devil,Good Grief-Dessa(Vid)

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Request 1 by ambyr
君の名は。| Kimi no Na wa. | Your Name. 
Miyamizu Mitsuha, Okudera Miki

Ms Okudera's interest in Taki only seems to be present when Mitsuha is occupying his body. I would be interested in either missing scenes that show Okudera and Mitsuha-in-Taki's-Body interacting during the period of the film or future fic about them finally meeting in person. What does Okudera think is going on with Taki's shifts in behavior? How does Mitsuha feel about the fact that she's flirting with a girl? Do they still have an attraction when Taki's body isn't in the picture? Can Okudera help Mitsuha make a home in Tokyo? (Is she surprised by what the country girl does--and doesn't--know about the big city?) Does encountering each other help spark any memories of Mitsuha's body-switching? Does Mitsuha ever go back to the ruins of Itomori, and if so, what does Okudera make of the town? I ship both Mitsuha/Okudera and Mitsuha/Okudera/Taki; if you don't want to write femslash or poly fic, I'd prefer a fic that focuses on friendship between the two women and doesn't explicitly state that either are involved with anyone else post-movie. DNW: rape, incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, non-poly het



Request 2 by ambyr
Long Price Quartet - Daniel Abraham 
Idaan Machi (Long Price Quartet)

Idaan--particularly Idaan as we see her in The Price of Spring, older, snarky, and accepting responsibility without drowning in guilt--is one of my favorite characters in fiction. Her description of her immediate post-exile life is tantalizing, if you'd like to write about what she does after A Betrayal in Winter. I ship her and Cehmai and would love a look at their courtship (I'm fascinated by how they moved from their manipulative, unequal youthful entanglement into something genuine with each other in middle age) or their life after The Price of Spring, but if you'd rather not right that I will be thrilled with gen about Idaan on her own. If you're more interested in backstory, I'd enjoy something that looked at very young Idaan, perhaps incorporating Stone-Made-Soft (one of my favorite andat). DNW: rape, incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, AU of any sort.



Request 3 by ambyr
Sun Sword - Michelle West 
Diora en'Leonne, Kiriel di'Ashaf

Diora's tentative reaching out to the ever-skittish Kiriel (and Kiriel's awkward place in Diora's court, post Sun Sword), is one of my favorite relationships in Sun Sword. The Southern courts are a place for delicacy and subtlety, and Kiriel is a great big missile crashing into that. Does Diora ever regret embracing Kiriel? Or is it useful to have a companion who is so wildly outside the gender norms of the South as to be both acceptable inside the harem and safe outside it? How does Kiriel's relationship with Ashaf's homeland continue to evolve? What would the two of them having to solve some sort of mystery at court look like? Or, if you want to go fork-in-the-road AU: what is Diora's role in a world where Allasakar has won and Kiriel has become Queen? I am interested in femslash if that's a thing you want to write (particularly if you go AU), but I am also happy with gen. DNW: rape, incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, mundane AU, Jewel.



Request 4 by ambyr
Colette (2018) 
Gabrielle Colette, Mathilde "Missy" de Morny

I love the too-brief moments we see on screen of Colette and Missy together; I love the way Missy's worldliness and Colette's fearlessness complement each other, how they shore up each other's weaknesses. I would like more of them together navigating their often constricting world to find spaces where they can be themselves. I have a Wikipedia-level awareness of where their relationship goes, post-movie; I am not opposed to fic that deals with their eventual break-up, but if you go there, I'd like to see them as people whose roads have diverged but are stronger for the time they spent together, not as people who are angry and broken. This is also one fandom where I'm fine if you scrap the setting entirely and go full-on AU: Colette And Missy In Space? Colette And Missy, Cyberpunk Hackers? Colette and Missy Discover Magic? You decide--though I'm more interested in genre AUs than mundane AUs. DNW: rape, incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, Nazis, suicide.



Request 5 by ambyr
The World the Flesh and the Devil (1959) 
Sarah Crandall, Ralph Burton, Benson Thacker

I am baffled as how the ending of this film--which strongly implies the beginning of an interracial poly relationship--passed the Hays Code censors, and yet it did. So my main prompt is: what happens next? Yes, they're all holding hands at the end of the film--but moments before Benson and Ralph were trying to kill each other, and the racism they're all steeped into continues to drive a sharp divide between Ralph and the other two. Can they, over months and years, build a functional working relationship? What happens if and when other survivors enter the picture? While I like to think about the ending as a poly one, I would be equally happy with gen in which they all build a functional platonic relationship. If you go the poly route, I would be interested in a triad or a V of any configuration. I am interested in the minutia of rebuilding civilization after an apocalypse--food production, clothing production, what it looks like when you start to create new art instead of just saving old art. Anything that involves them working together on any aspect of that would be great. DNW: rape (references to/attempt at resolving feelings from the canonical time Benson considers and rejects raping Sarah are fine), incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, use of the N word (I am okay with other period-typical racism appearing in the story).


Request 6 by ambyr
Good Grief - Dessa (Music Video) 
Woman (Good Grief), Man (Good Grief)

What (or whom) is being grieved, and what's the relationship between the two characters and the old, abandoned house? I tend to read them as siblings or cousins returning to a location from their childhood, but I'm open to other alternatives. The ritualism of the final bonfire surrounded by box fans fascinates me--what are they burning, and why does it matter? I would be particularly interested in a fantasy take on this, one where the ritual is magic of some sort: an attempt to fix a spell-gone-wrong in their childhood, when they didn't know what they were doing? A final embrace of a magical tradition practiced by a parent or grandparent which they've previously always rejected? An attempt to raise a phoenix? But if you'd rather write straight-up realism, that's fine, too. What's most important to me is that the atmosphere match that of the video: bleak, elegiac, but ending on a hopeful note. DNW: rape, incest, alcoholism, organ transplants, lyrics interspersed in the story.




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