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Request 1: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Mary Malone | Lyra Belacqua | Will Parry | Worldbuilding 
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen characters (giver's choice)

General Likes
Missing scenes | Exploring new places | Mutual pining | Protectiveness, hurt/comfort | Competence kink | Strong sense of place | Complicated relationships with family, home, faith. | Friends-to-lovers | Complications of inhuman/human relationships | Slow-burn | Trauma recovery | Tenderness and gentle touching (hair stroking, hand holding, face touches, all that stuff.) | Banter and snark | Non-mundane AUs (setting change or canon divergence) | Setting change AUs I like: steampunk, solarpunk, historical, fantasy | Time travel and time loops | 5 times fic / 5+1 fic | Women in leadership positions, working with/against other women | Mission fic | Fixing/building things together

DNWs
Non-con | Mpreg | BDSM | Incest | Watersports & scat | Underage | Teenager (under-18)/adult romance and sex | Omegaverse | Sex pollen | Unrequested non-canon ships | Medical kink (meaning: explicitly kinking on medical treatment, doctor/patient relationship, use of medical equipment. Feelings and attraction developing during hurt/comfort, wound care, etc., are fine.) | Readerfic | Character bashing (characters can be critical of others, particularly if canon-compliant, but I don't like characters being made to be villains when they aren't meant to be.) | Pre-relationship that doesn't go beyond that

Fandom-specific Likes
- Alternate worlds
- Canon-typical weirdness (mulefa? Super weird. Love them. Mary's time in their world is one of my favourite parts of the books)
- Focus on personal growth and learning and kindness
- Death meaning becoming part of the world again
- The importance of stories
- Family of choice
- Daemons, of course - the bond between daemon and person, daemon settling, the huge intimacy of daemon-touching. I love that Will and Mary will be able to get to know their daemons.
- Armoured bears, their society, and their sky-iron souls
- Rebuilding in the aftermath (Lyra and Will moving on; building 'the Republic of Heaven'; Mary and Will navigating the real world)
- The alternate history and geography of Lyra's world
- Dust! Anything about Dust and what it is, what it can do, how it can affect the world
- The history of angels and the angel rebellion, and what they do after the books
- Relearning how to use the alethiometer
- Lyra going on adventures and learning more about her world, and how she works to better it
- Please feel free to include canon from The Book of Dust, and equally feel free to ignore it.
- Ships I like: Lyra/Will; Baruch/Balthamos; Lord Asriel/Marisa Coulter as background; Mary Malone/Female Characters (except Lyra).

General Likes
Missing scenes | Exploring new places | Mutual pining | Protectiveness, hurt/comfort | Competence kink | Strong sense of place | Complicated relationships with family, home, faith. | Friends-to-lovers | Complications of inhuman/human relationships | Slow-burn | Trauma recovery | Tenderness and gentle touching (hair stroking, hand holding, face touches, all that stuff.) | Banter and snark | Non-mundane AUs (setting change or canon divergence) | Setting change AUs I like: steampunk, solarpunk, historical, fantasy | Time travel and time loops | 5 times fic / 5+1 fic | Women in leadership positions, working with/against other women | Mission fic | Fixing/building things together

DNWs
Non-con | Mpreg | BDSM | Incest | Watersports & scat | Underage | Teenager (under-18)/adult romance and sex | Omegaverse | Sex pollen | Unrequested non-canon ships | Medical kink (meaning: explicitly kinking on medical treatment, doctor/patient relationship, use of medical equipment. Feelings and attraction developing during hurt/comfort, wound care, etc., are fine.) | Readerfic | Character bashing (characters can be critical of others, particularly if canon-compliant, but I don't like characters being made to be villains when they aren't meant to be.) | Pre-relationship that doesn't go beyond that

Fandom-specific Likes
- Such a vivid sense of place
- Music - both Ben and Hannibal being talented musicians is catnip to me
- Navigating the complex social strictures of New Orleans society
- Ben's relationship with his very different sisters
- The way Ben and Hannibal look out for one another and rely on one another
- Both Ben and Hannibal are total woobies but in very different ways - Ben is a true iron woobie, stoic until he can't be stoic any more, while Hannibal is often frail, ill and struggling, but trying to put a good face on it. There's so much space for hurt/comfort for these two.
- Anytime Ben and Hannibal quote Shakespeare or poetry at one another I am delighted.
- Ben's fascinating mix of kindness, deep anger, complicated spirituality, and how he carries such trauma and grief but is still so pragmatic about facing any problems and still finds such love and enjoyment in life.
- Hannibal suffers so much from his addiction and illness, but he's got this lightness and gentleness about him.
- Rose's scientific mind and her studies, and how coolly calm and logical she is in her approach to the world.
- Rose cross-dressing.
- Ships I like: Ben/Rose, Ben/Ayesha, Ben/Hannibal, Ben/Hannibal/Rose

Note
I've not managed to read beyond Good Man Friday yet, so I would appreciate no spoilers for the later books - thanks! <3

Note: This series is 8 1-hour episodes available on Disney+. Promo post here.

General Likes
Missing scenes | Exploring new places | Mutual pining | Protectiveness, hurt/comfort | Competence kink | Strong sense of place | Complicated relationships with family, home, faith. | Friends-to-lovers | Complications of inhuman/human relationships | Slow-burn | Trauma recovery | Tenderness and gentle touching (hair stroking, hand holding, face touches, all that stuff.) | Banter and snark | Non-mundane AUs (setting change or canon divergence) | Setting change AUs I like: steampunk, solarpunk, historical, fantasy | Time travel and time loops | 5 times fic / 5+1 fic | Women in leadership positions, working with/against other women | Mission fic | Fixing/building things together

DNWs
Non-con | Mpreg | BDSM | Incest | Watersports & scat | Underage | Teenager (under-18)/adult romance and sex | Omegaverse | Sex pollen | Unrequested non-canon ships | Medical kink (meaning: explicitly kinking on medical treatment, doctor/patient relationship, use of medical equipment. Feelings and attraction developing during hurt/comfort, wound care, etc., are fine.) | Readerfic | Character bashing (characters can be critical of others, particularly if canon-compliant, but I don't like characters being made to be villains when they aren't meant to be.) | Pre-relationship that doesn't go beyond that

Fandom-specific Likes
This show somehow doesn't have a fandom so I would love anything! Feel free to include any other characters from the show, so long as the focus is on the requested character/s.

- Joe being simultaneously a super-competent badass and emotionally vulnerable
- The tension between Joe's past and his genuine desire for a normal life with Jules
- Jules being ready to climb Joe like a tree the minute they meet - first-time fic or early-days-in-the-relationship fic would be amazing.
- Joe/Jules domesticity
- Jules rising to the occasion when Joe's world intrudes on his own
- Officer and Joe's friendship
- Officer's lying - when is she telling the truth? Is it never? Always? Who knows!
- I ship Joe/Jules (I call him Joe in this for ease, but feel free to call him David if you prefer, or Muscle if that works best for your fic) and love platonic Joe & Officer. Jules & Officer in an AU where she survives would also be fascinating. Like Joe's suddenly brought a little sister home, except she's also a con artist.

Tag exception:
If you would prefer to write Joe/Jules I don't mind at all if Officer doesn't appear. I'm also happy for a fic to focus entirely on Joe. I do want Joe to feature.

General Likes
Missing scenes | Exploring new places | Mutual pining | Protectiveness, hurt/comfort | Competence kink | Strong sense of place | Complicated relationships with family, home, faith. | Friends-to-lovers | Complications of inhuman/human relationships | Slow-burn | Trauma recovery | Tenderness and gentle touching (hair stroking, hand holding, face touches, all that stuff.) | Banter and snark | Non-mundane AUs (setting change or canon divergence) | Setting change AUs I like: steampunk, solarpunk, historical, fantasy | Time travel and time loops | 5 times fic / 5+1 fic | Women in leadership positions, working with/against other women | Mission fic | Fixing/building things together

DNWs
Non-con | Mpreg | BDSM | Incest | Watersports & scat | Underage | Teenager (under-18)/adult romance and sex | Omegaverse | Sex pollen | Unrequested non-canon ships | Medical kink (meaning: explicitly kinking on medical treatment, doctor/patient relationship, use of medical equipment. Feelings and attraction developing during hurt/comfort, wound care, etc., are fine.) | Readerfic | Character bashing (characters can be critical of others, particularly if canon-compliant, but I don't like characters being made to be villains when they aren't meant to be.) | Pre-relationship that doesn't go beyond that | Allan/Neelie, Allan/Lydia and Ozias/Lydia

Fandom-specific Likes
- Identity porn
- All the intrigue and wild stuff of a Victorian sensation novel
- The absolute devotion and adoration that immediately springs up between Ozias and Allan
- Ozias as an iron woobie
- Allan just wants to sail his boat and travel the world - lots of opportunity for adventures
- Lydia! She is ruthless and smart and angry and honestly I feel like I understand why she was driven to the lengths she was, considering her status in the world. I would love something that digs into Lydia's psyche a little more, or an AU where she lives and can do something more with her life. Maybe she can have a wild romance with another woman who doesn't live by Victorian rules.
- I absolutely ship Ozias/Allan and would love shipfic, but I'd be delighted by canon-level close friendship.

Tag exceptions
If you just want to write about Lydia I would be absolutely fine with that. Equally, if you want to write about Allan and Ozias I don't mind if Lydia doesn't appear. I would like Ozias and Allan to appear together, though.

I'm slowly working my way through the Yuletide collection. There's some fantastic fic in the fandoms I know – have some recs!

not mine

Andor | Vel Sartha/Cinta Kaz | T-rating | 2.9k

Excellent Cinta voice, and it really digs into the tension of her relationship with Vel and their different approaches to the rebellion. I also love the links it draws between Cinta and Cassian.

moses (slow of speech and of a slow tongue)

Attack the Block/Doctor Who | Moses, The Master, The Thirteenth Doctor | T-rating | 3k

This really gets Moses as a character. He's taciturn, observant, and smart. The crossover elements work seamlessly – I've been hoping for a crossover between these two fandoms for ages and this really works.

Major Opportunity

Blackadder Goes Forth | Blackadder/Darling | T-rating | 3k

I'm envious of the character voices here – everyone is spot-on, and it really captures the absurdity of a Blackadder episode. It's genuinely very funny.

And dig for us as we have done

The Detectorists | Lance & Andy | G-rating | 3.3k

This just feels like an episode of the show. The interplay between Lance and Andy is great, and the whole thing really captures that warm, late summer vibe.

The Half-Seen Door

The Green Knight (2021)/Piranesi | Piranesi, Sixteen, Gawain | G-rating | 1k

This is written in sonnets and it's amazing. So dense with allusion and reference, with a strong sense of rhythm and rhyme that really has something to say about the characters.

The Lai of Sir Gawain

The Green Knight (2021) | Gawain/Bertilak de Hautdesert | T-rating | 3.9k

A beautiful post-canon fic that really captures the strange melancholy of the movie. The slow deepening of the central relationship is really well done.