Dear Creator (Ships Crossing 2024)

Dear Creator,

Hello! I am also primeideal on Ao3. I am requesting fic for all combos, or also art for Animorphs/Farscape. Treats are enabled on my Ao3 account. I have many previous dear author letters from which much of this is copied, pasted, and endlessly rewritten.

Art likes:
black and white art
bright/bold colors
traditional or digital art
objects that represent/are strongly associated with characters
fantastic/speculative worldbuilding elements
in-universe artifacts/sketches that the characters might have drawn

Fic likes:

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-interactive fiction--I prefer formats like Twine to open-ended parsers.

-happy endings

-sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama; I'm fine with character death!)

General DNWs:

-explicit sex (but fade-to-black or innuendo is fine)

-underage characters having sex (see note for Dune)

-rape/noncon

-second person POV (in "normal" prose, happy with it in IF or the like)
-eye trauma

-neopronouns

-moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)

-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (Marco flirts with the governor of California: fine; Marco flirts with the governor and this is a metaphor for the Newsom administration: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

-themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"

Animorphs/Pitch

Mike Lawson/Rachel

I feel like the Animorphs' hometown is plausibly San Diego (ocean+big zoo+various California hints), Mike used to be married to a sports journalist named Rachel in San Diego...if you screw with the timelines enough, it could happen. Feel free to weave in any other characters from either fandom. And having them break-up or divorce is fine too, as long as they are or were together for part of the narrative.

 

General fic ideas:

 

-They're each used to being the center of attention and it's a nice break when the spotlight is on their partner instead

-People give Mike a hard time when Ginny steals the spotlight and Rachel is just like "it's about time"

-Rachel starts dating Mike as a rebound from Tobias/to get away from the war and is surprised when real feelings develop

-if you want to have Rachel Patrick be a different character from Animorphs Rachel, a broadcast/news report the former puts on about "oh man my ex Has A Type"

Animorphs/Farscape

Alloran & Bialar Crais & Talyn
Aximil & Rygel
Elfangor & Zhaan

I'm kind of imagining this in the pre-canon/spinoff timeframe for Animorphs, but if you want to bring in the main cast and/or other characters, that would be great. Any interactions between these fandoms would be fun.

Alloran & Crais & Talyn: disaster antiheroes with their cute ships. <I named this sexy inanimate object after my beautiful wife!> "Aww, that's so sweet. Uh, my disgraced former subordinate named this traumatized child after her dead dad." <Bro.> "Bro." If you want to bring in Esplin and the Yeerks, maybe they're involved somehow with Scorpius' mind chips?

Aximili & Rygel: let them enjoy food and eating things. How does being a military "Prince" compare to being a hereditary "Dominar"? Is Ax disgusted by Rygel's cowardice, or does he inspire Rygel to be a better teammate? What are the instincts like when you morph Hynerian?

Elfangor & Zhaan: beautiful blue friends! (I think this could be a fun juxtaposition for art.) Do they commiserate over their past struggles, or wind up mentoring younger allies together? Do they ever have to "share unity"? (I don't really see these two as a long-term / ship, but something like Zhaan & John's canon interactions would be cool.)

Dune/Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rey/Alia Atreides

Okay, look. They're both from desert worlds. They both are precociously magically gifted. They both have evil grandfathers, who they murder with their powers. Alia is haunted by her ancestors, including the grandfather who she murdered. Rey is "all the Jedi" and seems to have survived the encounter with Palpatine, despite his ominous "strike me down..." villain monologuing. What I'm saying is, they should get together. No preferences for whether it's more in the Star Wars galaxy or the Dune galaxy or a mix of the two! Prefer if Alia is aged up/it's made clear that she's mentally an adult.

 

What do their different schools of magic have to teach each other? Does Rey's influence help pull Alia out of the darkness? Or is Rey more haunted, post-Episode IX, than she lets on? What does Rey think of Fremen water discipline, or Alia think of Niima Outpost?

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All of this is optional, feel free to use as little or as much as is useful. Thank you for creating for me!