dolorosa_12: (teen wolf)
I've been cycling through despair, fury and anxiety since the EU referendum results last week, but let's put that aside to talk about happier things.

I was lucky enough to spend the weekend at a srafcon in London with [personal profile] bethankyou, M and S. We spent most of the time wandering around, hanging out in cafes and pubs, and browsing through the books at Forbidden Planet, but our visit also coincided with London Pride, and we managed to catch a bit of the parade.

I've also just finished up a couple of fic exchanges, My Old Fandom and Night on Fic Mountain, both of which were tremendous fun. Now that reveals have happened for both of them, I can share the fic I wrote and received as gifts.

For My Old Fandom, I wrote 'The Many's Gathered Choices', The Dark Is Rising gen featuring Simon Drew, Jane Drew, Barney Drew, Will Stanton and Bran Davies.

For Night on Fic Mountain I wrote 'In the Wings', a Ballet Shoes-Code Name Verity crossover, featuring Petrova Fossil, Julie Beaufort-Stuart and Maddie Brodatt.

By a strange quirk of fate, [archiveofourown.org profile] Morbane wrote both my gifts for the two exchanges.

I received 'rebound' (Sunshine; Sunshine/Constantine) for My Old Fandom, and 'Find Someone Who's Turning' (Galax Arena; Presh/Allyman) for Night on Fic Mountain.

I enjoyed both fics immensely, and had a great time participating in both exchanges, even if my assignments took me somewhat out of my comfort zone. There were lots of other great works that I found through the two exchanges, and I strongly encourage everyone to have a look through both collections and see if they find anything they like.
dolorosa_12: (emily hanna)
Thank you for writing for me!

I'm pretty easygoing about what type of fic you want to write for me. I read fic of any rating, and would be equally happy with plotty genfic or something very shippy. I read gen, femslash, het and slash, although I have a slight preference towards femslash, het, and gen that focuses on female characters. I mainly read fic to find out what happens to characters after the final page has turned or the credits have rolled, so I would particularly love to have futurefic of some kind. Don't feel you have to limit yourself to the characters I specifically mention — I'm happy with others being included if they fit with the story you want to tell.

General likes include feminism (and women's stories more broadly), found families, people with very different perspectives and/or life experiences coming together (either romantically, as friends, or as reluctant allies), human/non-human pairings, relationships with power imbalances, and characters reflecting on power and/or the reasons for their own powerlessness. My other favourite themes are dispossession and exile, and place and the way it shapes people — what do particular characters understand by 'home'? Can they return to it? Is home a place for them, or is it an age, or is it particular other people? Feel free to have a look around at my Ao3 profile as it should give you a good idea of the types of things I like to read.

Major dislikes and squicks: AUs (except in certain circumstances, which I will outline below), fusions and crossovers, excessive descriptions of bodily fluids, Mpreg, incest. I am only interested in shipfic if it focuses on the pairings I specifically mention in my prompts.



Fandom specific prompts:

Galax Arena series )

Legendsong series )

Sally Lockhart series )

Space Demons trilogy )

Sunshine )

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly within the bounds of my prompts. As long as your fic is focused on the characters I requested, I will be thrilled to receive anything you write for me.
dolorosa_12: (flight of the conchords)
I just nominated some fandoms for this exchange, which sounds as if it's right up my alley (given that 95 per cent of my fannish feeling is directed at canons of the '90s and early 2000s).

Participants can nominate up to eight fandoms, and up to twelve characters and/or relationships within those fandoms. (Due to the way Ao3 tagging works, it's impossible separate characters and relationships in an exchange of this nature, so if you want a particular relationship - pairing or platonic - you have to nominate it as if you were nominating a character, if that makes sense.) Eligible works are those with no new material produced between 31st December, 2005 and now.

Participants will need to request between 3-6 fandoms, and offer 4-10. You can write fic or create fanart. For more information, go to Ao3 or the comms at [community profile] myoldfandom or [livejournal.com profile] myoldfandom.

I'm not a mod for the exchange, but I always struggle to find out about exchanges at the point when nominations are open, and so I end up not participating. (For some reason, mods of exchanges seem to promote them after the tag set has closed, which I find baffling.) So for this reason, I'm posting about it in the hope that people who, like me, want to share the love for old, closed canons, can join the exchange and nominate stuff they want to write/draw and read.

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