saiditallbefore

Dear Writer,

I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know there are some characters/pairings that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!

I am open to extra treats.

I’m saiditallbefore on AO3.

All of my requests are for DC comics subfandoms, so if you need additional inspiration, please feel free to check out the DC comics tag on my tumblr.

( General likes and DNWs )

( Justice League International )

( The Question )

( Spirit World )

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Dear Writer,

I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know there are some pairings that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!

I am open to extra treats.

I’m saiditallbefore on AO3.

( General likes and DNWs )

( Dark Matter )

( Doctor Aphra )

( Nv Er Hong )

( Scholomance )



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Dear Creator,

I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know there are some pairings that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!

I am open to extra treats.

Do not feel like you have to include every character I have requested in my gift; I'm totally cool with you just focusing on one or two of the characters I've requested.

I’m saiditallbefore on AO3.

Things I like:

• Competency


• Outsider POV


• Hurt/Comfort


• Friends-to-Lovers


• Enemies-to-Lovers


• Families of Choice


• Angst with a happy ending


• Pretend dating or secretly dating


• Casefic


• Porn with plot


• Happy or happy-for-now endings


• Heists (ex: Leverage, Ocean’s 11)


• Language barriers


• Timeloops


• Loyalty kink


• Time travel, dimension travel/dimension hopping


• Stranded together/forced to work together


• Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience


• Fpreg (especially in conjunction with arranged marriage, etc.)


• Ghost sex


• Non-mundane AUs (ex: Regency, dragon riders, fantasy, state-mandated ghost hunters)


• Stargazing


• Kissing in the rain

Smut Likes:

• Bondage


• Phone sex


• Dom/sub


• Cunnilingus


• Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional)


• Orgasm denial


• Hate sex


• Object insertion (vaginal only)


• Nipple play


• Spanking


• Vaginal fisting

DNWs:

• Unrequested on-screen character death


• Unprompted crossovers or fusions


• Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon


• Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK)


• Brainwashing/mental horror/fucking around inside people's minds


• Focus on unrequested pairings


• Breathplay


• Anal sex


• Homophobia


• Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it)


• Putting nuclear family labels ("mom"/"dad"/"child"/etc) on found family relationships

A League of Their Own (TV)

Max Chapman, Lupe Garcia, Greta Gill, Carson Shaw
Ships: Carson/Greta, Greta/Jo, Lupe/Jess, Carson/Max, Max/Esther. Honestly you could probably sell me on any f/f ship with these characters, so if there's a rare pair featuring one of my requested characters that you're dying to write about, go for it!

Fandom-specific notes: Period-typical and canon-typical homophobia and racism are okay, although I would prefer for them not to be the focus. I also really love baseball, so if you also love baseball and want to include lots of baseball details, go for it! (But if you don't love baseball, feel free to elide over it and focus on the character interactions.)

Feel free to include whichever other characters from the show that you want!

I love Max so so so much. I really love her odd, tentative friendship with Carson, where they're both aware of all the things standing between them, but still bond over baseball. They've seen each other at their worst, and they know each other's secrets, but it's easier in some ways because they're not part of each other's lives outside of baseball and their secrets. Do they ever see each other again? Maybe Carson finds herself somewhere Max is playing? I also really love her relationship with Clance; they love each other so much, even when they don't always understand each other, and they're so supportive of each others' dreams. I'd love to see what happens to them next! Tell me about their letters and phone calls when Max is on the road. When does Max find out Clance is pregnant? I love he instant chemistry with Esther when they meet at Bert's party. I also really like how they react when they find out about each other's baseball aspirations! Max is jealous, but she's self-aware enough to realize when she's being unfair-- and Esther wants Max to have her shot, even knowing that it might jeopardize her own standing. What is life like on the road with the All-Stars?

Lupe took a while to grow on me. At first, I was really put off by her attitude and how determined she was to do everything by herself. But I grew to really like her as she opened up, and by the end of the show she was one of my favorites. She's got a really warm heart under her prickly exterior, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't keep the rest of the team at arms' length. I love her friendship with Jess, and how secure she is in her own identity. I absolutely cried when she told Esti about her daughter. I'd love to see what happens to her next! Does she keep in touch with Esti and Jess or any of the others? Does she come back the next year to play again?

I loved Greta right from the start, but I also love how she's so much more than she appears at first. She pretends it's all easy for her, that she's that pretty and flirtatious and charming without any effort, but it's all to cover up her deep insecurities. The instant chemistry between Greta and Carson was just fantastic. Things aren't easy for them: they're scared, they're angry, and circumstances get in the way, but they care deeply for each other. Each of them was exactly what the other needed, right at that moment in time. What happens if (when) they reunite next season? Or what about an AU where Carson follows Greta to New York, or they both go to LA together? I also really love her relationship with Jo. I really love the weight of their shared history and their plans for the future, especially when Jo (correctly!) accuses Greta of running away every time she gets scared and dragging Jo along with her. Do they reunite after the end of the season? Does Jo go to New York, or does she go west? They both alluded to some of their past misadventures; I'd love to hear more!

As for Carson, I adore her journey as she unexpectedly finds herself-- both as she discovers her own queerness and meets other queer women, and as she comes into herself as a baseball player and coach. I'd love to see where she goes next, what she does with this newfound confidence as she strikes out on her own. I'd also love to see more of her coaching, or her relationships with the other women on the team, as well as any of the prompts including her from my sections on Greta and Max.

Carnival Row

Tourmaline Larou, Vignette Stonemoss
Ships: Rycroft/Vignette, Tourmaline/Vignette, Rycroft/Vignette/Tourmaline

Fanfom-specific notes: I'm interested in the war only in how it affects the characters; I'm not interested in a narrative focused too much on the minutia of the war itself.

For Tourmaline: Pre-canon, during canon, post-canon... I'm interested in all of it. She was a Poet Laureate back in Tirnanoc; what did that look like? We saw her in a flashback just before she ended up in The Burgue; what was it like for her when she first arrived there? What is she going to do now that fae have all been segregated on Carnival Row-- and there's no more human customers at the Tetterby?

I get the impression that she's still in love with Vignette, and has been all along. How does she feel about seeing Vignette again? How does she feel about seeing Vignette and Philo together? I'd also be interested in seeing her having a relationship with an OFC or a female canon character.

She and Vignette were lovers at one point, and I get the impression that Tourmaline is still in love with Vignette. How did they first meet-- maybe their paths crossed because of their work? (I can imagine a Poet Laureate might have reason to visit the greatest library in Tirnanoc.) Or maybe an AU where something more sparks between them once Vignette arrives in The Burgue?

For Vignette: Once again, pre-canon, during canon, post-canon... I'm interested in all of it. We see a bit of her life back in Tirnanoc, when she was a librarian. Tell me more about that! Or maybe about her years sparrowhawking, and when she thought Philo was dead. I'm also interested in what happens to her next, and about her work with the Black Raven.

Please no ships for Vignette except with Philo or Tourmaline.

I didn't expect to be as into Philo/Vignette as I am, but I absolutely love them. Philo can be kind of a dumbass about relationships, but he generally means well. I also like that although he's initially presented as the only human who really cares about the fae, we quickly realize that he has his own deeply personal reasons for caring about what happens to fae in The Burgue.

I also love Vignette's deep devotion to Philo, including marking herself as a widow when she believes he's dead, and her rage when she discovers that he lied. I love the lengths they are willing to go to for one another. I'd also be interested in an AU where the two of them actually get out of The Burgue in the season finale. What happens to them next?

I'm also open to either a V with Vignette at the center or an ot3. Everything from the last two requests applies here. Maybe when all three are stuck on Carnival Row together, Vignette realizes that she still has feelings for both of them?

I'm also interested in how Tourmaline and Philo feel about each other. They know each other from Tirnanoc, and they're on somewhat friendly terms in The Burgue, but do they have a deeper friendship beyond that?

Dark Matter

Two
Ships: Two/Android, Two/Nyx

Fandom-specific notes: My usual DNW for brainwashing/mental horror/fucking around inside people's minds doesn't apply to the canon-typical memory fuckery. DNW putting nuclear family labels on any crew-as-family dynamics (aka no referring to Two as the mom of the crew or whatever). I'm not really interested in anything set pre-canon, but of course complications arising from their pasts is always fun.

I love this group of criminal misfits. I love that they're dysfunctional and don't get along half the time but are also willing to go to extreme lengths for each other. I love that they fuck up and keep fucking up and sometimes those choices and mistakes are fixable (Six) and sometimes they really aren't (Four). I love how conflicted our original crew members are about the people they used to be, and the ways they try to differentiate themselves. I like that when most of our characters see glimpses of the people they used to be, they're angry and upset and want to do better. No one on the Raza is ever under the impression that they're heroes, but they do their best with what they're given. I also really just love the themes that run throughout the show of autonomy and choosing your own destiny.

Two is one of my absolute favorites in this show. She's willing to step up and lead when the rest of the crew can't get their act together, and she keeps their respect throughout the show. I love her journey to discover her dark past, and her insistence that she's not Rebecca or Portia, but Two. I love that she's the ultimate badass-- not just because of her nanites, but because of her willpower. She's fiercely protective of her ship and her crew, even when she's at odds with them, and I love how willing she always is to sacrifice herself for them.

I would love more canon-typical adventures, which in this canon could mean almost anything. Heists, time travel, time loops, alternate universes, zombies, space battles... it's all canon and I love it all. I'd also like canon-divergent AUs: what if One and/or Sarah and/or Nyx and/or Six lived? What if Four didn't reintegrate his memories? There's also a lot of room for missing scenes and moments, and the finale left some threads unresolved. There's an alien threat still out there (and inside of Two), both Five and Two have long-lost family members, Three is a prisoner of Portia Lin, and a looming android revolt. What happens next?

First Kill

Calliope Burns, Juliette Fairmont, Elinor Fairmont
Ships: Calliope/Juliette, Elinor/OFC, Elinor/Juliette

I love Calliope and Juliette. I love how sweet Juliette is, and that she's less naive than she originally appears. I love that she's determined not to be a monster, but how she's completely willing to throw Elinor under the bus and have her sent to prison or to bite Theo when she feels it's for the best. I also love how determined and confident Calliope is, and how much she loves her family, and her struggles with whether or not to see Juliette and her family as monsters.

I'd love to see something that picks up after the ending, and shows where the two of them go from there. How can Cal forgive Juliette for biting Theo? Are the two of them still connected? What is Oliver planning, and what will it mean for the two of them and the rest of the town? I'd also be interested in an AU where Calliope and Juliette actually do run away. Where do they go? How do their families react?

I also really love Elinor, in all her terrible glory, and I'd love to see her continue to girlboss gatekeep gaslight her way through even more obstacles. What does she do next? Does she turn the tables on Oliver somehow, or has she finally gotten hers? What happens next time she and Juliette see each other? I'd also be interested in Elinor either seducing someone for her own purposes or getting into a real relationship and finding herself falling for someone. I'd also be into some dubcon-y Elinor/Juliette (maybe when Elinor is trying to show Juliette what being a vampire is all about?)

I also really love the worldbuilding in this show. I think the mythology for vampires is really cool, and I liked the glimpses we got of the Guild and of other Legacy vampires. I also really love that monsters aren't secret from the general public! Feel free to also delve into the Fairmont and Burns family dynamics and into the ways the two families intersect.

Wheel of Time

Moiraine Damodred, Nynaeve al'Meara
Ships: Moiraine/Siuan, Nynaeve/Egwene, Nynaeve/Lan, Moiraine/Lan, Moiraine/Lan/Nynaeve, Moiraine/Nynaeve

Fandom-specific note: I am a show-only fan, so please do not hinge any fanworks around knowledge from the books.

Nynaeve and Moiraine are my standout favorites, but please feel free to include any of the other characters we've met!

Moiraine is a shady bitch and I absolutely love that about her. It's completely understandable-- she's been spending 20 years looking for the next Dragon Reborn! But even though her motives are generally pure, she still spends a lot of time pushing people around or manipulating them. (Again, to be clear, I love that for her.) I'm really interested in how she feels about that. Does she feel conflicted? I'm also really fascinated by her relationship with Siuan: they clearly love each other, but their duties keep them apart. I'd love to see more stolen moments between them. Or her relationship with Lan: he's the only other person who knows all her secrets, and she knows his. I love their chemistry on the show, and I'd love to see more of their years on the road, with only each other for company. I'm also really interested in her relationships with the Edmond's Field Five. Most of them don't really trust her, and she gives them very little reason to.

I'd also love something set post S1! What does she do now that she's cut off from the One Power? Where does she go, now that she's been exiled from Tar Valon? She agreed to lie and say Rand died; is she worried that her deception might be found out?

I also absolutely adore Nynaeve. I love how protective she is of the people she cares about, and that she refuses to be afraid of things that should definitely scare her. She's such a badass! Tracking Lan and Moiraine, threatening Lan with her dagger, healing Lan and everyone else, healing Egwene at the battle of Fal Dara... I love her so much. I'd love anything about her: maybe what she's feeling after she left home to bring Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene back, and now Rand and Mat are gone? Or more of her and Moiraine butting heads? Or maybe she gets accepted into the Aes Sedai, but she still doesn't really trust any of them? Or missing scenes, or her relationship with Lan or honestly anything that comes to mind for you.



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Dear Yuletider,

I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know this letter got a little long, and there are some canons that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character or canon, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!

Please don’t feel like you have to include all of my requested characters.

I’m saiditallbefore on AO3.

Things I like:

• Competency (being really good at Their Thing)


• Outsider POV


• Hurt/Comfort


• Friends-to-Lovers


• Enemies-to-Lovers


• Families of Choice


• Angst with a happy ending


• Pretend dating or secretly dating


• Casefic


• Porn with plot


• Happy or happy-for-now endings


• Heists (ex: Leverage, Ocean’s 11)


• Sedoretu


• Language barriers


• Timeloops


• Loyalty kink


• Time travel, dimension travel/dimension hopping


• Stranded together/forced to work together


• Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience


• Fpreg (especially in conjunction with arranged marriage, etc.)


• Ghost sex


• Non-mundane AUs (ex: Regency, dragon riders, fantasy, state-mandated ghost hunters)


• Stargazing


• Kissing in the rain

Smut Likes:
Porn is welcome for all ships I’ve requested, unless otherwise specified.

• Bondage


• Phone sex


• Dom/sub


• Cunnilingus


• Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional)


• Orgasm denial


• Hate sex


• Object insertion (vaginal only)


• Nipple play


• Spanking

See below for more specific prompts!

DNWs:

• Unrequested on-screen character death


• Unprompted crossovers or fusions


• Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon


• Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK)


• Brainwashing/mental horror


• Focus on unrequested pairings


• Breathplay


• Blowjobs


• Anal sex


• Homophobia


• Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it)

Kelsey's 100 Baby Challenge

Characters: Brielle Impiccishmay, Chelsea Impiccishmay, Kasey Impiccishmay, Gavin McIntosh

I've gotten weirdly into this series this year (found on YouTube here)-- it's a fairly common challenge in the Sims community, but Kelsey's playstyle is fun and the situations her Sims find themselves in are delightfully absurd.

Brielle is the only one of the children in the tagset, but I'm totally okay with including any of the others if you feel moved to do so. I have seen all the 100 Baby spinoff series (Olive, Brielle, Vampire Twins, Ginny & Willow, and Strangerville), if you want to draw from those.

Something that plays with the game mechanics would be interesting-- do Chelsea or Kasey ever feel like someone out there is controlling them? Or compelling them to go out and make babies? It could also be interesting to have something written from the POV of one of the ghosts that has hung around the family! Gavin no longer haunts the Impiccishmays, but what was it like for him when he was around? (Especially because he was never actually a baby daddy?) Or maybe something from Chelsea or even Harry's perspective as a ghost-- what is it like to be around their family as a ghost? Or some sort of creeping horror about exactly what it's like in the Impiccishmay Baby Factory? Or just a day in the life of the Impiccishmay household?

Little Women

Characters: Josie Brooke, Nan Harding, Dan Kean, Bess Laurence
My Ships: Josie/Nan, Josie/Dan, Josie/Bess, Josie/OFC, Nan/Dan, Nan/Bess, Nan/OFC, Dan/Bess

Earlier this year I re-read Little Men and Jo's Boys, the last two books in the Little Women series, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about the possibilities for these four characters-- probably my favorite four characters in the series. The books are available for free through Project Gutenberg here: Little Men and Jo's Boys.

This series is one of my long-time comfort reads. I love going back and revisiting all the characters at Plumfield, and these four are some of my favorites. As you can see, I ship them in just about every permutation, and I would love anything you want to give me about them-- I love domestic stories, similar to canon, but I'd also love fun and tropey stories if that's where you're leaning!

I love Josie's ambition, and her drive to be an actress. She's very sensible about it, but she refuses to give up as long as there's the slimmest chance that she might be able to make it. I would love to see anything about her and her theater career. I'd love to see how she might navigate the world of theater-- possibly with a more experienced actress by her side to help her?

Nan has always been one of my favorites-- we get to see her as a young child and as an adult, and I love seeing how she changes. I also love how driven and ambitious she is, and how sure she is about what she wants. Not only is she determined to become a surgeon, but she's also a suffragette! Honestly, I'd love anything about Nan and her drive to become a reformer, as well as her relationships with the others.

Dan is another one of my forever faves (#JusticeForDan2k19)! I love his adventures out West, and I love his relationships with the family at Plumfield-- especially his relationship with Jo. The ending to his story always bothered me; I didn't like that he was basically told that he wasn't good enough for Bess and his eventual death always struck me as really sad. But for this, I'd love anything about him with one of the other characters-- adventures back at Plumfield, or maybe they actually do go West and start Danville would be especially great.

I've always had a little bit of a hard time getting a read on Bess. In the books, she's treated a little bit like an angelic creature, who is just gracing everyone else with her presence. But I'd love something that got inside her head a little bit-- what does she want in life, besides her art? Does she ever feel like she's been put up on a pedestal and resent that? How would she navigate a conflict with parents who have an idealized image of her in their heads?

Mongolian Royalty RPF

Characters: Toregene Khatun, Fatima, Khutulun
My ships: Toregene/Fatima, Khutulun/OC

I’ll be listing some online resources and primers for the curious at the bottom of this post, but if you really want to dive deep, Jack Weatherford’s The Secret History of the Mongol Queens is super accessible and is the best English-language resource you’re going to find-- try your local library.

I’m not looking for anyone to become an expert in the subject overnight-- hell, I’m certainly not an expert! This is just fanfiction, after all. What I’ll be requesting (and hoping to write!) is fictionalized takes on events that we’re pretty sure actually happened, as well as events that never actually took place-- things that might have been. If this sounds at all interesting to you, please come play in this sandbox with me and don’t let the idea of historical research put you off! I got into this on Christmas Eve in 2017 because someone’s prompt got into my head and I couldn’t quite think of a good way to fill it...until I listened to the Missed In History podcast episode on Khutulun.

I’ve labelled the prompts for this section, as well, in case you just want to skip ahead to those.

Khutulun

If you’ve heard of any of these figures, it’s probably Khutulun. She’s relatively well-known in the Western world, for a simple reason: Marco Polo met her on his expedition (in addition to a whole bunch of other people, but the one we’re familiar with in the West is Marco Polo).

The basics: after the Mongol Empire began to fracture and collapse into civil war, Khutulun (Genghis Khan's great-great granddaughter) fought alongside her father, Kaidu Khan. She also reportedly was an amazing wrestler and would not marry a man unless he could best her at wrestling, and won 10,000+ horses from men who tried to win her hand in marriage. There’s an additional, even more unsubstantiated story about how an assassin came to Kaidu Khan’s camp, intending to kill Kaidu Khan, but Khutulun stopped him. The nameless assassin then swore his service to Kaidu Khan and stayed there for many years... eventually marrying Khutulun (without beating her in wrestling).

Prompts: Anything about Khutulun winning 10000 horses through wrestling, or about why she vowed not to marry a man who could not best her at wrestling. Or maybe something about that assassin-- how did Khutulun stop him? How did they fall in love? Was the assassin actually a man-- maybe they were really a woman (disguised or not) and that’s exactly what Khutulun was waiting for.

Primers/Resources:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/wrestler-princess
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/khutulun
https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/khutulun.htm
+footnotes and bibliographies of the above

Toregene Khatun & Fatima

I’m talking about these women together because their stories are intertwined. Warning, though: I’m not talking in detail about it here, but any in-depth discussion of these women is going to touch on some pretty nasty stuff, including torture.

Now, Toregene was married to a useless prince who became Great Khan, and she basically held the empire together. In fact, after his death, she consolidated power and remained as empress-- with her loyal servant Fatima by her side.

Notably, Fatima and Toregene shared a tent and "intimate confidences", and Toregene named Fatima queen. Does that mean they were together? Well, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to know the sexuality of any historical figure if we don’t have their own words, and historical conceptions of sex and sexuality were different than our own (although LGBTQ+ people have always existed!). None of that actually matters though, because this is fanfiction, and you are free to make shit up. And in my opinion, Toregene and Fatima are very shippy.

Their lives ended in tragedy-- they retired together in quiet, but Fatima was accused of witchcraft and executed shortly thereafter, and Toregene died of unknown causes. But while they lived, they were both pretty badass (and I totally ship them).

Prompts: Fix-it fic, where Fatima and Toregene both live out their quiet retirement in peace? Or maybe Fatima really was a witch-- and between Toregene’s political maneuvering and her own powers, they never needed to give up ruling the empire at all.

Resources/Primers:
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/toregene-khatun
https://web.archive.org/web/20060709022543/https://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4601
+footnotes and bibliographies of the above

Six of Crows

Characters: Inej Ghafa, Nina Zenik
My ships: Inej/Nina

I love Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom! Heists are my FAVORITE and a fantasy heist with magic and steampunk technology? EVEN BETTER! I love Inej and her quiet determination and her faith, and how she uses her trauma to find a purpose (stopping slavers!!! MY HEART). And I love Nina and her ferocity and all of her experiences with jurda parem-- and how she claws her way back from that.

I absolutely adore these two in the Six of Crow books. A lot of the fic about them tends to be on the fluffy side, and I’m not saying I want a 24/7 angstfest (or no waffles at all), but I would like a little more angst, especially with the combined weight of their Tragic Pasts! I’d love something set post-canon, with Nina signing on to join Inej in fighting slavers or Inej comforting Nina after Matthias’ death. Or pre-canon, where the two girls have a certain kind of understanding amid the Dregs. I’m cool with mentions of Nina’s canon relationship with Matthias, as long as it’s in the past.

And I’m just saying...this would be an excellent pairing for knifeplay.

If you're looking to write something a little different, I'm not particularly into the idea of Kaz/Inej as they are in canon, but I'd be really interested in how their relationship might look different if Kaz were a woman.

Steerswoman

Characters: Bel, Rowan
My ships: Rowan/Bel

I love all the characters in this series, but I’m only requesting Rowan and Bel because they’re my absolute favorites. Please feel free to include anyone else you like! (I’ve got a special soft spot for Will and his interactions with the two women, especially in light of how much he’s changed.)

I’d usually say I’m not a fan of overexplaining things like magic, but Steerswoman is the exception to the rule. I just adore every passage of Rowan figuring things out through questions, observation, and logic. The chapters in the demons’ city gives me absolute chills, and the passages where Rowan tries to learn from Will about what “magic” is through the few shared terms and analogies they have is absolutely perfect.

Even more than her logical mind, I love Rowan’s sense of honor and how strictly she adheres to the Steerswomens’ rules-- her difficulty with any form of deception, especially in the first book, only makes her more fun for me. And I love seeing her through others’ eyes: the passages from Steffie and Will’s points of view are great.

And of course, I adore Bel. She plays off of Rowan just perfectly, with a similar sense of honor but an entirely different way of expressing it. And she’s so passionate about protecting her people-- all of her people-- from outside harm. And of course, I’m a sucker for a woman with a sword. Rowan and Bel see the world entirely differently, but they work together super well.

I’d love some missing scenes! Give me some small, quiet moments when they were in the Outlands, or the time they spent together in the time in between books 3 and 4, while traveling. Or maybe an outside POV on one or both of them, or a look at what might happen next.

Unstoppable Wasp

Characters: Nadia Van Dyne, Janet Van Dyne, Ying Liu
My ships: Nadia/Ying, Nadia/Kamala, Ying/Shay

I read The Unstoppable Wasp (2017) vol. 1 & 2 earlier this year, and I loved it. I love all of the characters in the tagset (so feel free to include them!) but these three are my especial favorites.

I'm not particularly familiar with a lot of other Marvel comics, so I probably won't understand things that happen outside of this run.

This series was a delight, and I adored just about every moment of it: the superheroics! the teenage girls setting up a lab to do science! the ball Jan throws to celebrate them! their new and improved lab with sleepover rooms! Honestly, it's all just fantastic.

I love Nadia's outlook on life-- she's just so quick to embrace new experiences and new people. She leaves violence as a last resort, but she's definitely capable of kicking some ass. I'd love to see more of her being a superhero, or of her doing science with the other girls, or of her bonding with Jan, or anything, honestly.

I absolutely adore Janet. She doesn't have to have any kind of responsibility toward Nadia, but she cares about her and tries to protect her-- and she quickly ends up caring about all the other girls, too. One of my favorite scenes was when she and Nadia talked about Hank-- I don't think you need to touch on that subject any more (canon did a pretty good job!) but I'd love anything that captured what their relationship like that scene did. I'd also love Jan getting to be a superhero mentor to Nadia and Ying and any of the others that get caught up in superheroics.

Ying is both a badass and a dork and I love her. I'd love to see more of her making friends with the other girls, or experiencing the world outside the Red Room with Nadia, or doing science, or really just anything. Honestly, I really love Ying.



-saiditallbefore