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2026 Books, Post 5
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lady_ragnellIt's that time again! Had some good ones and some medium ones and some forgettable ones, as usual.
Sunward by William Alexander
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Gnomon by Luchia Dertien
An Admirer by Megan Derr
The Crystal Tree by Louise Platt Hauck
Take Back Magic by Casey Blair
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid
Taji From Beyond the Rings by R. Cooper
The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada illus. Tsukasa Abe
That's all for this time! I've got some travel upcoming, so probably there will be some airplane books coming up soon.
Sunward by William Alexander
A really interesting sci fi novella that I wanted more of when it was done! A spaceship courier who raises AIs (the current LLM kind of "AI" is briefly referenced but these AIs are the more traditional sci fi sort, I'm continuing to be fascinated by the ways AI in sci fi is going to change and bend around the general distaste by authors for LLMs, someone's going to be able to write a banger dissertation on this shift in a few years) loses one, and goes on a tour of the previous ones she's raised to try to bring her back when it's thought to be impossible, and also AIs are being shut down or effectively lobotomized due to plot events. I liked this a lot! Still chewing over it.
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
I've seen this mentioned around, and it is a good history of textiles for the layperson! The chapters could sometimes lose focus, but that's a small quibble. I learned things about fiber, I learned things about history, I learned things about fiber history! I feel like this review is coming off like I didn't like it, when I really did! I just don't have anything to say about it, it's an oft-recced work for people who are interested in fibercrafts and their history, and I can see why.
Gnomon by Luchia Dertien
So, I loved this Les Mis fic back in the day! Dark and fun and angsty and thrilling. And everything that was in the fic is in the origfic version! But, uh. Everything that was in the fic is in the origfic version. There were, I think, two flashbacks inserted into this book, and I think Eponine and Courfeyrac were conflated into one character, and a few character backstory details were changed, but other than that ... the character names were changed. But unfortunately, that just made it a reread of a beloved fic no longer available on the AO3 where I had to go the annoying extra step of find-replacing everybody's names in my head. The thing with publishing fanfic is that you have to go in and add more character depth, because when the love interest in this story is Enjolras, one has the depth of canon and fanon to add to him and understand him better, but when the love interest is Delaurier, there's less of that softening sympathy so I was screaming at "Renaire" to get out in a way I wasn't in the fic. And also when you are publishing specifically Les Mis fanfic, you have GOT to condense your Amis. When writing fic they have to be there, if you're just missing Bossuet or Feuilly people will wonder why, but in a supposedly original work? They have GOT to be combined, or it's just a bunch of barely-there characters. Anyway, there were a lot of small changes that could have been made to make this stand alone better, and I'm sad that the distraction of this made it both an unsatisfying fic reread and an unsatisfying novel read.
An Admirer by Megan Derr
One of Derr's early and indulgent works, and thus one I enjoyed more than some of her more serious recent ones! Overworked mage student starts getting secret admirer gifts and also interacting with a warrior student who he's having some sparks with, and there's a little twist on the expected beat that made me do a surprise grin. I could have dealt with it being longer, but that was just because I read this on a sleepy day and I wanted more indulgence!
The Crystal Tree by Louise Platt Hauck
A family member's got a fondness for novels of this era (1935), so I grabbed this for her in a vintage shop and read it myself. If you've got a high tolerance for things that are Products Of Their Time, I did have fun with this, but I do know that's a MASSIVE caveat. Particularly there's one black character who sure is written in dialect Badly, and also some very serious ableism going on (in a mid-book twist, our heroine is a sole support of a family who her father's bad investments ruined, including their young lady daughter who is painted as having a disability that's essentially learned helplessness, and who is spoiled, vain, and manipulative. It's not great). However, I was also rather charmed by the fact that this is in many ways a found family story well before one thinks of that as a thing! Young woman wishes to rent a house but can't afford it, is advised to advertise for roommates, finds another young lady and two young men and an older lady to chaperone them, nesting and drama ensues. I am fairly sure I have read this fanfiction before, and if I haven't, I might have to write it if I can find the right fandom.
Take Back Magic by Casey Blair
Blair can be a bit uneven for me--I'd say her writing skill is always about the same, to be clear, it's just that sometimes she writes things I'm super into and sometimes she writes things I'm meh about, and her writing isn't good enough to change my mind on the things I'm less into (though it's still good! Just takes particularly good writing to make me have patience for subgenres I don't often do). So, this was urban-ish fantasy, which isn't always my jam, though the portal fantasy aspects DID work for me. I'm likely to read the rest of the series, but not super quickly or anything, just as I think of it.
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid
A fantasy romance that, thank goodness, did not read as Romantasy. It is a bit patchy, though! Things I liked: the ~vibe, the romance between the hero and the heroine, the reveals of things as they came out, the concepts around the religion (thanks to my D&D game I'm a huge sucker for Sainthood Shit). Things I liked less: worldbuilding not really gone into in any depth, some reveals that felt a bit cheap, massive powerful cultural structural force dismantled by one (1) act of arson and the death of one (1) bad guy. Also, oh boy, there sure were some anachronisms. This was clearly meant to be a Medieval fantasy, but it was one where the narrative used a metaphor about a time bomb, with indoor plumbing including hot water, and where organs and I think even pianos existed. Removing any of those would not have taken much effort and would not have thrown me out of the story! Overall I'll be looking out for more from Reid, though, I suspect she's the sort who might improve with more seasoning as opposed to get worse now that she's not a debut author and doesn't have time to iterate extra drafts of things. (Truly it's a hard balance to strike.)
Taji From Beyond the Rings by R. Cooper
I always mean to read more Cooper, and when I discovered that they had a sci fi romance, I had to dive in! This one was a lot of fun, very tropey, some worldbuliding, some politics, some Romance, overall a good time if you like your sci fi romances rather indulgent and with a good amount of Action on the side. I will say that throughout I was deeply stressed by the way our viewpoint character kept processing through high-stakes political and linguistic problems just ... in public. In front of enemies. And getting accusatory about it quite often. It was a character choice by Cooper, and the character was only embassy staff because he was dragged into it when the previous staff was killed, but damn, nobody gave this man even a LITTLE bit of political training, including his boss who he's theoretically assisting but mostly actually hampering for most of this book. However, the difficulties of translation of cultural concepts in this book were SO fun for me.
The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel
Sci fi novella about a group of people who want to be the first to see rain on Mars. This one was interesting! I enjoyed the format (long-form article/essay by one of the people on the trip, interspersing narrative of the trip with the narratives of a few people and why they chose to come along), and some review on the cover said it felt Chaucer-ian and it's not too far off the vibe, really. I will say that a few of the backstories felt samey in kind of a weird way for such a short novella? But maybe the point of that is a bit that "the kind of person who wants to go on this kind of mad expedition is likely to be a burnout from a previous life with some trauma around drugs, family, and/or religion," so I might be being unkind to Kressel there. Anyway, I had some food poisoning and a stressful day yesterday and this was the perfect evening antidote to it.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada illus. Tsukasa Abe
Manga (actually the first I've read!), and a gift from a friend who knows I'm into D&D! This was quiet and sweet, and I like stories that deal in various ways with elvish lifespans and this is all about that, which is cool! I don't have a ton to say about it, because a volume of manga can be lovely but also because of the illustrations doesn't take a ton of time to get through. I'm always hesitant to buy graphic novels and manga because they take me so little time to read in comparison to the money one spends on them, but I do hear this one's being released as an anime so maybe I ought to check it out?
That's all for this time! I've got some travel upcoming, so probably there will be some airplane books coming up soon.
May. 3rd, 2026 10:43 pm
April books
littlerhymesDungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Batman: Under the Red Hood - Judd Winick et al
Hornblower and the Atropos - C. S. Forester
Helm - Sarah Hall
Common Goal - Rachel Reid
Role Model - Rachel Reid
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
( books )
Batman: Under the Red Hood - Judd Winick et al
Hornblower and the Atropos - C. S. Forester
Helm - Sarah Hall
Common Goal - Rachel Reid
Role Model - Rachel Reid
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
( books )
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May. 2nd, 2026 11:47 am
Brief Update
marthawellsA week ago I got back from Japan where I was a guest at HALCon, an annual SF/F convention held in the Kawasaki International Center, and it was awesome. (Though right now I am still dead from jet-lag.) The convention itself was great, I walked to so many cool people, and was treated to so much good food. The Japanese edition of System Collapse translated by Naoya Nakamura had won the Seiun Award, and they presented me with that, which was also awesome.
Afterward we went down to Kamakura, which was the seat of the first Shogunate, and saw the Great Buddha https://www.kotoku-in.jp/en/ and two other Buddhist temples, one in a bamboo grove, and a huge Shinto Shrine. It was an incredible trip and I'm so glad I went.
Tour dates for Platform Decay, the next Murderbot novel:
https://us.macmillan.com/tours/martha-wells-platform-decay/
Afterward we went down to Kamakura, which was the seat of the first Shogunate, and saw the Great Buddha https://www.kotoku-in.jp/en/ and two other Buddhist temples, one in a bamboo grove, and a huge Shinto Shrine. It was an incredible trip and I'm so glad I went.
Tour dates for Platform Decay, the next Murderbot novel:
https://us.macmillan.com/tours/martha-wells-platform-decay/
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May. 1st, 2026 10:47 pm
Doodle4Doodle 2026 - Dear Artist Letter - Annapods
annapodsHi! I'm Anna, she/they. Annapods on ao3, discord, bsky, tumblr. Don’t hesitate to ask me questions through the mods or whichever channel is allowed for this event.
Thanks for checking out my letter! It’s mostly a mirror of my Ao3 requests with some additional information. If you’d like even more ideas, you can check out my letters for other exchanges on Dreamwidth.
All ideas here are free to a good home, in whole or in parts. If you do end up creating something but not gifting it to me, I’d really appreciate a link, but no pressure.
My DMs are open if you’d like to chat about potential collabs outside of this event! I usually do pod-together as a podficcer, I’ve been wanting to try collabing on a comic for a while, and in general, I’m down to brainstorm and see where it goes.
If you have five minutes, please help me improve my future letters!
Last edits: 12 May 2026 - added a few tags and prompts
Opt-ins
As long as you keep my DNWs in mind and respect the rules of the event, please don't worry too much about how you interpret my request. But just in case, here is a pretty exhaustive list of opt-ins!
I don’t care about sticking to the specific canon tag I requested. Feel free to mix elements from other adaptations, base yourself on the book only, use fannon, or whatever else.
Any rating is welcome, for both violence and sex.
Alluding to characters rather than drawing them is fine, I would consider that a valid fill of my requests. Similarly, characters in a slash ("/") relationship do not have to be kissing, having sex, etc, for it to count. As long as there's nothing that actively goes against that interpretation, I will recontextualize based on the tags, summary, etc.
I’m very into experimental or non-traditional formats, please only worry about what the exchange will let you do, not what I wouldn’t want to opt in to!
I’d be delighted by a gift inspired by or based on one of my own works! My blanket permission statement basically boils down to go wild as long as you make sure any other creators involved are okay with it. However, if you create something based on a fic I podficced, and not the podfic itself, then please do not use the inspired-by function to link your work to my podfic. The difference can be hard to measure, but in general you can ask yourself: are you inspired by the parts I had control over, like the acting choices, editing, freetalk, cover art style, etc? Or are you inspired by the story itself?
I'm also open to receiving gifts based on your own or other people's stuff, as long as the gift can stand on its own, without me having to check out the work that inspired it. This can be done through a note summarizing the context, or even just the tags or summary if they're informational enough.
Likes
Here are some of the things I like most in art and fanworks in general. You can treat them as extra prompts!
Non-traditional formats
I love non-traditional formats. I just think they’re neat and I want to explore all the possibilities. As long as it's allowed by the exchange, go for it! A few examples below.“Low" effort works: uninked sketches, simplified art styles, diagrammatic/iconic representations, …
Playing around with media: social media elements, fancy html/css coding, pixelart, animations, …
High concept works: abstract styles, calligraphy, …
In-universe content: documents, media and social media, recipes or instructions whether disguised as fiction or not,… I particularly love to see in-universe fandom content! Fake merch, ads, fanart, …
Special mention to interactive or usable content, anything that is printable or playable or usable in whatever way will be an immediate hit.
Things that were a personal challenge for you
That format exploration extends to simply trying new things! Trying out a new medium or a new way to do things, mixing techniques, taking a gamble, ... I will appreciate the attempt even if the results don't meet all your expectations.If you want to take it literally, I do like the idea of a personal challenge. Set your own goal and try to reach it! It can be silly, like drawing a doodle with only circles, or serious, like working on it a little bit every day, or just personal, like using those brand-new crayons you were gifted years ago.
Strong, coherent styles or inspirations
I love works with strong, coherent styles or inspirations. This could mean a lot of different things, and does not presume any skill level or difficulty! Once again, as long as it fits the rules of the exchange, you're good.A few examples: a meme, a recipe blog picture, a pinup calendar spread, an xkcd comic, a fake romance book cover, impressionism, gothic architecture, sketching studies, a children's illustrated storybook, infomercials, …
I'll love all of these even more if you include some information on what/why/how you made a work. I’m curious! Timelapses, concept sketches, research notes, … This is extra extra optional.
Casual intimacy, domesticity
I like cozy scenes, lighthearted group shenanigans, everyday mundanity, art pieces that evoke a bright or warm mood.Hugging really tight, cuddling or puppy piles, hand holding, forehead or cheek kisses, … I love to see the physicality of it, and also it just makes me melt.
My smut likes kind of extend from that: an emphasis on pleasure and sensations, on bodies, overstimulation, solo sex, …
Telling a story through art
I love art that builds a story whether it's the aftermath, the setup, or whatever. Feel free to use the tags, summary, dialogue, etc! I do count them as part of it.A few examples: the contents of someone's bag. Who are they? Is it what they always have on them, or for a special occasion? What does each item say about them and the situation? A room. Who is usually in it? What do they use it for? Is it set up for a specific thing, are there traces of what recently happened, does it reveal any habits or character traits? A vignette of the setup, or the aftermath. First meeting or unforeseen event? Signs of what happened, of how the characters felt? Comics of whatever length. Humourous, surprising, or anything else.
How would you encapsulate the premise of a whole story or essay in a single illustration? Meta disguised as in-universe documents, concept art for AUs and canon divergences, annotated sketches…
Varied bodies and faces
While I’m fine with sticking to your own style or to canon’s, I also love more realistic ranges of variation! In skin color, body shape and age, but also just people not being perfect. Fat rolls, wrinkles, strong noses, bad posture, clothes that don’t fit or don’t flatter, expressive grimaces, …Fandoms, tags and prompts
Fandoms and tags are in alphabetical order, not order of preference. Prompts are also in random order. Those prompts are meant as helpful starting points but they're completely optional, you can remix them however you like or completely ignore them.
365 Fresh - Triple H (Music Video)
Fandom notes
This is a 5 minutes music video in which three strangers, each fleeing from their own problems, find themselves with a stolen car full of cash and go on a road trip/bender.Hui is in trouble with a gang, Hyuna kills a guy who was trying to rape her, E'Dawn has mental health and potentially substance abuse issues and is trying to kill himself. There's drinking, smoking, and implied sex (Hyuna and E'Dawn, but at one point they all wake up in the same bed, great OT3 vibes!) The police catches up to them and they jump off the expressway together.
In real life, Triple H was a somewhat short lived project group featuring Hyuna, her secret boyfriend E'Dawn and his group leader and friend Hui. Lots of stuff happened since then. If you know (or want to learn) about it, feel free to take inspiration from it, but it's not required.
Tags
Kim Hyojong | E'Dawn (365 Fresh)Group: Kim Hyojong | E'Dawn & Kim Hyuna & Lee Hwitaek | Hui (365 Fresh)
Group: Kim Hyojong | E'Dawn/Kim Hyuna/Lee Hwitaek | Hui (365 Fresh)
Group: Kim Hyojong | E'Dawn/Kim Hyuna & Lee Hwitaek | Hui (365 Fresh)
Kim Hyuna (365 Fresh)
Lee Hwitaek | Hui (365 Fresh)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Location in South Korea (365 Fresh)
Prompts
Alternate universes! Are they planning a heist? Are they all service industry workers who hate their jobs? Is Hui a mafia boss, E'Dawn the son of a politician, or Hyuna a serial killer? Etc etc etc.E’Dawn and Hyuna ganging up on Hui. Teasing him (kissing his cheeks? holding his hands?), fucking him together, sleeping with him in the middle…
The MV makes it look like everything goes so fast, but what about the slow, quiet moments of the day/night?
That picture of Audra McDonald, Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Snapshots of their bender! Social media, polaroid or otherwise.
This statue from Haeundae Beach, Jung-dong, Busan.
This fan-made mix shows their various stage outfits really well. Lots of vintage fits! And here is the choreography.
Bright, over-saturated colors, for example this palette.
The bar after their bender, a hotel room, the car on a seaside road, …
Skinny dipping in the ocean, Hyuna’s bright hair in the wind, laughter and seagulls.
Among Us (Video Game)
Fandom notes
You can download and play the game on PC or mobile, or you can watch a few walkthroughs on Youtube.Don't worry about the special roles, the core of it is "werewolves game but in space": one or more imposters are hiding among a spacecrew. While the crewmates are busy fixing their ship/etc, the imposters are sneaking around, sabotaging stuff and killing crewmates. The crewmates can vote to eject people they suspect of being an imposter into space. The crewmates win if they get rid of all the imposters or fix everything there is to fix, the imposters win if they manage to kill enough crewmates or induce a critical failure. Players who get killed turn into ghosts, with limited possible interactions.
For a better explanation of the rules, as well as descriptions of the additional roles/powers crewmates can have, or each map's functionalities, see the wikipedia article or the fandom wikia!
I’m fine with the canonical maps and gimmicks, I’m also fine with just using the premise! As long as at one point there is or was a crew of some kind and an alien hidden among them, it fits.
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Crewmate (Among Us)Group: Crewmate & Imposter (Among Us)
Group: Crewmate/Imposter (Among Us)
Group: Impostor & Impostor (Among Us)
Group: Impostor/Impostor (Among Us)
Group: Crewmate/Original Alien Plant (Among Us)
Original Alien Plant (Among Us)
Impostor (Among Us)
Setting: MIRA HQ (Among Us)
Setting: Polus (Among Us)
Setting: The Airship (Among Us)
Setting: The Fungle (Among Us)
Setting: The Skeld (Among Us)
Prompts
I'm fine with the graphic style of the game, and I'm also fine with taking it in whatever other direction you'd like, up to and including getting rid of the color-coded suits for a more realistic look. If you’d like some inspiration on that end of the spectrum, take a loog at Nasa’s images here or here!Landscape studies! Living spaces! An annotated map with zoomed in details every here and there? Space ships, terraforming, … Space!
Alien plants in the style of botanical drawings?
NASA’s space tourism posters.
Vents! Interior decor by a particularly enterprising impostor, a playable maze, a cut view like a hamster habitat, …
Monsters and body horror and gore? The tongue kill in particular
Tentacles… hentai…
DCU (Comics)
Fandom notes
This fandom has a lot of found family, hurt/comfort, and characters being very competent!If you’re new to the fandom and would like to get into canon, here is a comics starter guide, here is the Wayne Family Adventures, a lighthearted take on the Batfamily, and here are summaries with comics reading orders that include Tim, Kon and Damian among others, and also some advice on movies/animated shows/etc. This doesn’t cover all the characters I requested, and I can’t say anything about the quality of the advice, but you can easily find more guides, compilations on Youtube, etc.
Tags
Alfred Pennyworth (DC Comics)Cassandra Cain (DC Comics)
Group: Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel (DC Comics)
Group: Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)
Group: Tim Drake/Damian Wayne (DCU Comics)
Group: Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent (DCU Comics)
Group: Tim Drake/Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Kon-El | Conner Kent (DCU Comics)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (DCU Comics)
Pamela Isley (DC Comics)
Selina Kyle (DC Comics)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (DCU Comics)
Tim Drake (DCU Comics)
Prompts
Landscape/location studies. Gargoyles, city scapes, … Alfred the cat taking a stroll around Gotham? Maps, old or new?All the animals at the Kent’s farm!
Plant sprite Ivy who lives in Harley's clinic's flower pots.
Selina and cats. At home, on a rooftop, at the shelter, …
Catsonas of various vigilantes!
Have you heard of the Hawkeye Initiative?
Dynamic poses and hero costumes!
Domesticity. I love found family and domestic scenes will make me melt. Breakfast spreads, shenanigans at HQ or at home, pyjamas, …
The Batburger menu. How many puns can you come up with?
icarus - ARTMS (Music Video)
Fandom notes
A high concept 15 minutes long video with a lot going on! Missing girls trapped in a digital reality, angels being hunted, broken promises, making deals with witches, underground clubs, …The girls blend together and everything is a metaphor, so it's more inspiration fodder than a well-defined story and universe. If you'd like more material, or if it's all too vague, I'd recommend watching the Virtual Angel and Birth MVs and some random analysis videos, but this is optional. I'm not attached to any specific interpretation.
Content warnings for bird hunting and animal cruelty, missing person case, death by fall. Very slight horror vibes at times, way more present in Birth.
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Any Character (icarus)Group: Any Character/Any Character (icarus)
Choi Yerim | Choerry (icarus)
Group: Cho Haseul & Choi Yerim | Choerry & Jeon Heejin & Jeong Jinsol | Jinsoul & Kim Jungeun | Kim Lip (icarus)
Group: Cho Haseul/Choi Yerim | Choerry/Jeon Heejin/Jeong Jinsol | Jinsoul/Kim Jungeun | Kim Lip (icarus)
Jeon Heejin (icarus)
Jeong Jinsol | Jinsoul (icarus)
Kim Jungeun | Kim Lip (icarus)
Missing girl (icarus)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (icarus)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (icarus)
Prompts
The 2000’s are back, baby! Outfits, accessories, … The contents of one of the girls’ bag, maybe?On the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got Jinsoul armored and armed in her rooftop garden of crosses. I can imagine her riding into battle on a white horse, or battling the light entity like in some kind of painting of old.
In combination with the Virtual Angel MV, magical girls!
Angels are loosing their homes, being shot down, ... The Birth MV/song also fits that vibe very well. So, a group of angry teenagers/young adults down on their luck trying to find their place? Loitering on the streets, ripping up their jeans, sleeping during lectures, ...?
Five girls missing, trapped in the TV... supernatural/horror? Persona 4 AU?
Storybook illustrations!!
Wings. Fake wings, real wings, actual birds, whatever, just wings.
Movement study? The dance part of the icarus video should give you some lovely stills, with flowy fabrics, long hair flying around, and very dramatic poses!
KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
Fandom notes
Here is a primer from back when the show was airing. How they summarize it: "KinnPorsche is a [now finished airing] Thai BL and it is THE sexy mafia AU. Second son (and heir) of the mob Kinn falls in love with disaster bodyguard and casual streetfighter Porsche and many sexy gun fights, horny gazes, and deep emotional pangs ensue.” Content notes for sex, violence, and some consent issues.On top of Kinn and Porsche, there are two side couples. Vegas, Kinn’s cousin, fan of torture and full of daddy issues, kidnaps and bonds with Pete, a main family bodygard who also has daddy issues. Chay, Porsche’s cute little brother, gets to meet his favorite singer Kim, except Kim is actually Kinn’s youngest brother. Very different vibes to all three pairings!
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Group: Khun Tankhun Theerapanyakun & Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun & Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)Group: Macau Theerapanyakun & Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham/Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porsche Pachara Kittisawat & Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porsche Pachara Kittisawat/Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porsche Pachara Kittisawat/Tae Taechin Lerttravinont/Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat/Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat & Macau Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Group: Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat & Porsche Pachara Kittisawat (KinnPorsche)
Khun Tankhun Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Macau Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham (KinnPorsche)
Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat (KinnPorsche)
Porsche Pachara Kittisawat (KinnPorsche)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (KinnPorsche)
Tae Taechin Lerttravinont (KinnPorsche)
Theerapanyakun Family Bodyguards (KinnPorsche: The Series)
Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun (KinnPorsche)
Prompts
Once again, outfits!! So many pretty outfits! From canon or real life fashion or your own imagination. Actually, what would a Wik photoshoot look like? A Tankhun one? Tae?Location studies! If you want to stay accurate here are guides but vibes are also great.
It cracks me up that Kim is an influencer/wannabe idol/whatever he is, and I love seeing that aspect of canon pushed further. Is there official merch? Pictures of him meeting random fans on the streets? Music videos?
The show has some gorgeous lighting, and color in general! So here is an optional challenge: use a still from the show to build a color palette.
Bodyguard memes. I know they’re not supposed to have smartphones but imagine!
Porsche as an actual merman.
Naruto (Anime & Manga)
Fandom notes
I don’t have a primer for this fandom, please send me a link if you have one?I’m not going to mention all time periods or characters in my ideas, but feel free to mix it up!
Tags
Creator's Choice of Hidden Village (Naruto)Creator's Choice of Ninja (Naruto)
Creator's Choice of Summon (Naruto)
Group: Haruno Sakura/Yamanaka Ino (Naruto)
Group: Hatake Kakashi's Ninken Pack (Naruto)
group: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka (Naruto)
Group: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna (Naruto)
Group: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
Group: Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara/Uzumaki Mito (Naruto)
Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
Hatake Kakashi (Naruto)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (Naruto)
Senju Tobirama (Naruto)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (Naruto)
Uchiha Izuna (Naruto)
Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
Uchiha Shisui (Naruto)
Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto)
Prompts
(Pseudo-)historical settings and clothing and architecture are amazing! Mixing modern and traditional elements is also great!Speaking of clothing, I’m in love with Kaga Yuzen patterns.
Shinobi interacting with summons! Summons in general tbh. Also, I love the idea of someone being raised by summons or nin animals. I don’t know who, but someone. Do they have physical animal traits? Inconvenient animal instincts? Trouble with normal, human things?
You could just make me a guided tour of one of the canonical locations and I'd love it.
Childrens storybook or folklore of one of the clans, villages, or whatever.
Clones are the perfect occasion for selfcest!
Action shots of obliterating Danzo. Actually, cool jutsu in general! Dynamic poses! Weaponry!
The illustrations of an in-universe instruction manual?
Remember those unintentionally homoerotic soviet-era propaganda posters? What would be the equivalent in this fandom?
내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic)
Fandom notes
You can read the first season of the webcomic here for free with an account. The second season just started but you’ll have to look elsewhere for that. For the webnovel, see this guide. Here is a bunch of funny edits without context.I've only read the webcomic (and fic and a few wikia articles), but please don't worry about spoilers! I can rely on context clues or look it up.
Portals to dungeons full of monsters start to appear in our world, and some people awaken abilities that allow them to fight those monsters, setting up guilds to raid dungeons and a whole economy around dungeon and monster materials. Han Yoojin's brother, Yoohyun, who he basically raised, awakens as a powerful S-rank and seemingly leaves him behind to a miserable life as an F-rank hunter. Except that when something goes wrong in a dungeon, Yoohyun sacrifices himself to save Yoojin! Granted a wish by defeating the dungeon, Yoojin decides to go back to the past, reconcile with Yoohyun, and live a quieter life. Then he realises that he now has the ability to help others reach better skills and ranks, starts collecting S-rank hunters and raising baby monsters while still F-rank himself, and gets embroiled in a plan to save the universe.
What I like about it: humor and angst, found family, wish-fulfillment without being a power fantasy
Tags
Bak Yerim (S-Classes that I Raised)Creator's Choice of Monster (S-Classes that I Raised)
Creator's Choice of S-Class Hunter (S-Classes that I Raised)
Group: Han Yoojin/Song Taewon (S-Classes that I Raised)
Group: Han Yoojin/Song Taewon/Sung Hyunjae (S-Classes that I Raised)
Group: Han Yoojin/Sung Hyunjae (S-Classes that I Raised)
Group: Song Taewon/Sung Hyunjae (S-Classes that I Raised)
Han Yoohyun (S-Classes that I Raised)
Han Yoojin (S-Classes that I Raised)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (S-Classes that I Raised)
Peace (S-Classes that I Raised)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (S-Classes that I Raised)
Song Taewon (S-Classes that I Raised)
Sung Hyunjae (S-Classes that I Raised)
Yoo Myeongwoo (S-Classes that I Raised)
Prompts
Peace!! When I was reading the webcomic, everytime he was on the page I zoomed in on his widdle face. I love him so much. Shenanigans, slice of life, random portraits of Him, just. Yes.More generally, dungeons and monsters and magic, oh my!
Dressing in each other’s clothes. Han Yoojin and Sung Hyunjae, Yoojin and Yoohyun, Yerim raiding everyone else’s closet, …
In general, I love domestic scenes. Shenanigans while eating together! Being menaces at the swimming pool! Etc etc.
Song Taewon getting bullied by Sung Hyunjae... more and/or he deserves to go ape shit and/or he needs Han Yoojin to defend him? To be clear I mean that in any sense including sexually.
Social media memes on the strange mating rituals of Han Yoojin and basically every single S rank he encounters.
S-class charity calendar.
Han Yoojin covered in pretty magical items. Spoil that man rotten!
While looking for jewelry inspiration I found this beautiful 19th century brooch, Schiaparelli’s lungs necklace that looks kind of like an inverted tree, and also a store/brand that sells chainmail body jewelry
데뷔 못 하면 죽는 병 걸림 - 백덕수 | Debut or Die - Baek Deoksoo
Fandom notes
Debut or Die is a webcomic/webnovel in which a random guy has to become an idol because of a transmigration system. It's rooted in Korean fan culture (lots of social media elements, recurring fan characters, ...), the characters are endearing, and I was surprised how many jokes/one-off mentions grabbed my attention as potential fanwork fodder.Here are an unofficial site for the webcomic, the official webcomic and the official webnovel. Annoyingly, tapas requires an account and only gives you one free webcomic chapter per day and one free webnovel chapter every 3 hours. I haven't managed to find any other translation of the novel online, let me know if you do?
I've only read the webcomic (and fic and a few wikia articles), but please don't worry about spoilers! I can rely on context clues or look it up.
Tags
Creator’s Choice of TeSTAR Member (Debut or Die)Group: Creator’s Choice of TeSTAR Member/TeSTAR Member (Debut or Die)
Group: Jiwon/Kim Yeonjoo (Debut or Die)
Group: Original Park Moondae & Park Moondae | Ryu Gunwoo (Debut or Die)
Group: Original Park Moondae/Park Moondae | Ryu Gunwoo (Debut or Die)
Jiwon (Debut or Die)
Kim Yeonjoo (Debut or Die)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (Debut or Die)
Object: Creator's Choice of Fake Album (Debut or Die)
Object: Creator's Choice of Fake Merch (Debut or Die)
Object: Creator's Choice of Fake Stage Outfit (Debut or Die)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (Debut or Die)
Setting: TeSTAR Dormitory (Debut or Die)
Prompts
I love how much of the fanbase we get to see in canon, be it social media posts, actual fan characters, or Moondae's imagination. I will of course gobble up any and all social media posts, memes, multimedia elements, in-universe fanworks, …Cute group antics!! Getting to know each other better while dealing with the lack of privacy at the start? Coming up with hairbrained schemes and shenanigans later on when they're comfortable? Company-mandated """fun"""? Yes!
The fan village was so cute and I wouldn't mind a hundred more pages of it. On that topic, I’m completely okay with chibi art or drawings of the mascots (see the wikia for a reference of who is what), it would actually be very on point for this fandom.
I love fake in-universe content: merch and album packaging, stage outfits and concepts, stills from music videos or show appearances, MV sets, Moondae’s power points, …
What does the dorm actually look like? You’re never going to make me believe it’s that tidy.
The official group colors are Pantone 521C, 707C and 1205C, as referenced in chapter 84 of the manhwa. Wanna try something with that?
Casual! Physical! Affection! Cheek or forehead kisses, handholding (I know most people don’t like drawing hands for some reason but hands study with accessories that identify who it is would be so neat!), cuddling, puppy piles, mutual skincare or hairbraiding or whatever, munching on shoulders and arms, …
Character study or even a whole story through the contents of someone’s bag at a particular time.
24 hours in the life of… through quick snapshots.
小蘑菇 - 一十四洲 | Little Mushroom - Yī Shí Sì Zhōu
Fandom notes
Little mushroom is a finished (web)novel with an unfinished (web)comic adaptation. You can find various translations online, here are a few: comic, novel (1, 2 and 3).I have only read the comic so I'm basing my pitch on that, but I'm 100% ok with content from the novel! I can parse context clues or look it up, and I’ve already spoiled myself for a lot of it.
Do you like depressing but realistically human apocalypse lore, dystopian moral dilemmas and crisis management, short glimpses of complex characters, what it means to be human or monster or something else altogether, disease outbreaks on steroids, non-human protagonists, mushrooms, maybe kind of mpreg kind of not (novel only)? This tiny fandom might be for you! While it has a happy ending, please note that there are a lot of minor character deaths.
Tags
An Ze (Little Mushroom)An Zhe (Little Mushroom)
Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Ze & An Zhe (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Ze/An Zhe (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Ze/An Zhe/Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Ze & Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Ze/Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Zhe & Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Group: An Zhe/Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Lu Feng (Little Mushroom)
Object: Creator's Choice of Canon Object (Little Mushroom)
Setting: Creator's Choice of Canon Location (Little Mushroom)
Prompts
Farming sim abyss. Just a little mushroom going around making friends (that wolf monster at the very beginning! So big and so fluffy!), decorating his cave, fighting off ants, rescuing humans...?Video games in general. Monster sheets, maps, skins, …
I feel like this fandom would be great for a duality concept. Before and after, dead and alive, human and monster, ... Maybe playing cards or overlaid pictures? Just taking conventional imagery and symbolism and turning it on its head?
You cannot kill me in a way that matters. Mushrooms, man!
I'm not sure if that Lu Feng doll gets any plot relevance later on in the story but in my heart it gets its shining moment. Humoristic comic strip? Using it as a sex toy? Something else?
What if Lu Feng took the whole mushroom back to the Lighthouse, not just his spore?
Overworked, burnt out Lu Feng stumbles upon a weird food stall that seems to magically appear and disappear in incongruous spots.
Domesticity! Sleeping in each other’s arms, Lu Feng in casual clothes, tending to each other’s wounds, cooking together, …
Tiny An Zhe living in a little mushroom house. So cute.
หัวใจไม่มีปลอม | Beauty Newbie (Thailand TV 2024)
Fandom notes
This is a somewhat typical uni love triangle with a side of intrigue, but the characters are earnest and well-intentioned in a way that I found very endearing, including in how the conflicts were handled. And there are lots of elements to latch onto!Liu, the main character, got bullied a lot for her physical appearance. Between high school and university, she gets plastic surgery and now fits beauty standards to a T. Faye is the popular queen bee of the university. She's sweet, she's pretty, she's basically perfect, except actually, she's not. Liu gets a girlcrush on her (platonic in the show but come on). Guy is the popular, awkward, earnest love interest who went to the same high school as Liu. Saint is the new neighbor who teases Liu (and Guy) and falls in love with her.
Quick content warnings for someone being blackmailed into a fake relationship, cyberbullying, stalking (including a chase at night).
All the episodes are available with subtitles on Youtube (link), but you'll probably have to use a VPN set to a SEA country.
Tags
Ann (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)Faye (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Ann & Faye (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Ann/Faye (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Liu Prima Patpimol & Faye (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Liu Prima Patpimol & Guy Karin Sayapisit & Saint (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Liu Prima Patpimol/Faye (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Group: Liu Prima Patpimol/Guy Karin Sayapisit/Saint (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Guy Karin Sayapisit (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Liu Prima Patpimol (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Saint (Beauty Newbie Thailand TV)
Prompts
Outfits! Ann and Faye in particular have strong but opposite aesthetics. You could easily go even more punk rock/grunge/scene with Ann (Avril Lavigne…) and style Faye more Disney channel or preppy or business chic/old money. But anyone, really!The boys in the skimpy outfits from the festival in episode 6? The girls in the animal suits?
Cute date night! Cheek kisses? Holding hands? Just the table dressed with food and some tealights?
This picture of bougainvillea flowers, this one of sun coming through.
Do Not Want
| Please do not include | Details and limits |
|---|---|
| Sexual or sexy content of underage characters | Allusions to teenagers having sex is fine, but please no pin-up poses or such |
| Soulmates designated by fate | Other kinds of soulbonds are fine |
| Romantic proposals and weddings | Fine if forced, arranged, political or otherwise motivated |
| Pregnancy, original child characters of canon characters | |
| Harry Potter AU or content |