Off-switch

Hello Yuletide Author!

I’m happy we matched. I'm Clocketpatch here and on Ao3

Other than my DNWs, I’m good with almost anything, so, if you already have an idea for a fic feel free to write away. I am open to pure gen, kinky sex, and anything in-between. I'm also okay with IF and other unconventional formats like poems, letters, art, and drabble collections if you want to be experimental.

 

DNWS:

• Mental illness as a plot point. If a character feels down or gets anxious and needs a hug, that’s fine, but I don't want to read detailed descriptions of suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, drug treatments or therapy sessions
• Explicit fic for characters under 18
• Mommy/Daddy kink
• Covid-19 (fictional plagues are fine)

 

Likes:

• Friends having adventures
• People who aren't friends having adventures and bonding along the way anyways
• Descriptions of food/cooking
• Moral grey areas
• Optimism
• Magic
• Redemption arcs
• Sex pollen/ possession/ mind control type tropes
• Physical Hurt/Comfort
• People getting tied up or held down (for sexy times, or because they've been captured by the villain of the week. It's all good)
  
• Small women domming strong men
• Playing with hair or fur, grooming or styling, or pulling in the right circumstances
• That trope with the Too-Heroic character who does something self-sacrificing to save a friend/the world, and then needs to be saved themselves
• Dinosaurs! Especially small, obscure, and fluffy ones (I don't know how mononykus, yi qi, or ornithomimus fit into any of these fandoms, well, except for the obvious one, but I'd love to find out!)
• And, it probably goes without saying given my requests, but: Worldbuilding! I love stories that fill in background details and expose hidden corners that were only hinted at in canon.

 

 

The Broken Earth Series

What it is:

 An amazing scifi/fantasy trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. You can find it on Amazon or at your local library. I'm not going to try to summarize it, because the story spans millennia. It's one of the best trilogies I've ever read though. Hands down.

Characters requested:

ANY

Characters nominated:

Damaya | Essun | Syenite, Hjarka Leadership Castrima, Tonkee Innovator Dibars, Worldbuilding, Alabaster, Innon

Fandom specific DNW:

Woobifying or forgiving Schaffa. I like redemption arcs, but I do not want one for this character. He is evil personified, and even when he gets "better" he is still the very definition of creepy.

Prompts:

I would love fic set while Syenite, Albastor, and Innon are living in Meov or an AU where the Guardians never find them and they can just continue living there, being happy, and raising Corundum.
 
More backstory for Tonkee and what she was up to between when Syenite and her met as children and when they met again on the road at the end of the world. How are transpeople regarded in this world? Essun seemed mildly surprised, but not shocked by Tonkee's gender. It's just a fact to her, like hair or eye color (except, these are never just facts because in this world every descriptor is charged). Tonkee hinted that the Equatorial culture she grew up in was less accepting, but (and maybe I'm reading the text wrong) it felt like it was more of a marriage politics thing and that Tonkee's obsessive drive for knowledge may have been the bigger problem. Anyway, she's such an interesting intersection of things: she was rich and privileged and educated, but she gave it up to be commless and follow her curiosity. She's also one of the only people in the world who looks up, and I wonder what that's like, for Tonkee to understand the importance of the obelisks and the sky and the stars when everyone else thinks it's a just giant waste of time. 

Worldbuilding for Castrima. Who built it? What was it meant for originally? And, just daily life for people in Castrima Under. OR their lives after they settle in Rennanis and the rifting stops. 

How do you rebuild a world?

And worldbuilding, any worldbuilding. You could write me a story of OCs living in the Stillness a millenia before or after the events of the books and I would eat it up with a spoon. There are so many past Seasons and Dead Civ ruins waiting to be explored. There is Schaffa's past and the lives of those who survived The Shattering. There's the first Fulcrum and the origins of Stonelore and the caste system. There's whatever trapped Hoa in an obelisk. There's all the Old Sanze politics. There's whatever is going on in the Antarctics. There are probably other hidden comms like Meov and Castrima where Orogenes are celebrated, or at least tolerated.

And there's the future, because I want to hear about how Nassun's great, great, great grandchild are happy and open Orogenes in a world without Seasons where Orogeney is neither necessary nor dangerous, but just is.

And finally, I'd love to hear more about Essun and Alabaster's afterlife as Stone Eaters. How they adapt to their new bodies and rediscover each other. Their relationships with Hoa, Antimony and other Stone Eaters. Do they recover enough of themselves in time to speak with Nassum or Learna or Tonkee or Hjarka or anyone they knew before their transformation?

Super extra option detail: I liked the third-person format of the books and the gradual reveal of who was narrating and who to. If you want to play with this to tell stories of the past or present that aren't in the books, I think that would be really neat.

 

Centaurworld

What it is:

A bizarre Netflix cartoon that I can't stop watching

Characters requested:

ANY
 

Characters nominated:

 Horse, Woman, Rider, Wammawink, Worldbuilding, Nowhere King

Prompts:

I really enjoy the goofy magic and surrealism of this world. I want more. I want everyone's backstories. How did Wammawink find her herd of misfits?

What is it like to live in Centaurworld? What other types of Centaurs are there? WHY is everything a centaur? Was it always like this? Were there dinosaur centaurs? Did Centaurworld always have magic and spells and random musical numbers? Did these thing ever exist in the real world as well?

Why did The War start? Who is the Nowhere King? How is he linked to the woman? Were they a horse & rider pair once? Are they some kind of timewarped version of Horse and Rider?

Random adventures! For Horse and Rider before the series starts, for Wammawink and her herd, for Horse in Centaurworld, for the Tiny Versions Shot Out of Hooves.

Because what happens to all of the Tiny Versions anyways? Do they have Tiny Civilizations and Tiny Adventures? Do they plot Tiny Revenge on their creators?

Also, feel comfortable inserting Comfortable Doug wherever you see fit.

Kid Cosmic

What it is:

A heart warming Netflix cartoon about a young boy who finds cosmic stones which grant super powers. He gives them to his grandpa, his friends, and his cat. Together they defend the Earth from aliens. They're really bad at it.

Characters requested:

ANY

Characters nominated:

 Jo, Papa G, Tuna Sandwich, Erodius the Planet Killer

Prompts:

I want backstory for Papa G, because he clearly has one.

I want to see Jo going on adventures, becoming a confident leader, and causing portal shenanigans. I also want to see her get a girlfriend because I head canon that a little bit.

I want to see Tuna Sandwich going about his life both as a cat being a cat, and as a talking cat superhero. I also want to see him having long conversations with Papa G and Stuck Chuck late at night.

I want to know what Erodius's motivation actually is. Is it even sentient???

I want adventures with the whole gang and world-building for Mo's Oasis both in space and on Earth. I want to know how many stones of power there are and what other strange powers they impart.

Primal

What it is:

A hyper violent adult cartoon by Genndy Tartakovky that aired on Adult Swim. It has cavemen, and witches, and dinosaurs, and zombies, and zombie dinosaurs, and rivers made of snakes. It is absolutely bonkers, but in a good way.

Characters requested:

ANY
 

Characters nominated:

Spear, Fang, Mira, Worldbuilding

Prompts:

Spear and Fang having adventures. Spear and Fang AND Mira having adventures. Mira teaching Spear to speak. Mira's backstory. Where is she from? Why was she enslaved? What was she captured for? Where was she taken?

And worldbuilding. So much worldbuilding. What happened to make this world? Is it the past? The future? An alternative universe? A mad experiment gone wrong? The result of science or witchcraft?

I think one of the coolest things about this series is its minimalist use of dialogue; how it tells stories through action and body language, and shows that friendships transcend words.

PUI PUI モルカー | Pui Pui Molcar

What it is:

They're Guineapigs but also cars, they're Molcars! The whole series is on Netflix and you can watch it in under 20 minutes. There are also some commercials and bits of tie-in content on youtube, but essentially it's all stop motion Guineapig cars squeak-squeak-squeaking away. There's no language  barrier to watching this because the entire soundtrack is squeaks.

Characters requested:

ANY
 

Characters nominated:

Hamburger Vendor Molcar, Worldbuilding, Treasure Hunter Molcar, Time Traveler Molcar

Prompts:

Extra adventures for Treasure Hunter Molcar and Time Travel Molcar. Did Time Traveler Molcar and its people accidentally make molcars evolve? How does Hamburge Vendor Molcar feel about the Zombie molcars? Why are there zombie molcars? Are the people worried about this?

Molcar culture in general. What kind of special molcar architecture exists. How do people feel about their molcars. Do they regard them as sentient?  How do you get baby molcars? Do people buy molcars? Adopt them? Are they assigned? Are there any people who don't have molcars? Or molcars who don't have people? Do molcars have any choice about who they live with? If they have an awful person (who feeds them trash for example) can they run away and get a new person? If a molcar gets sick does it go to a garage, a vet, or a hospital?

What about other animals? Do the tiny cats actually pose a threat to molcars? Are there tiny Guinea pigs? Are some molcars Skinnypigs? Do the other Molcars make fun of them? Are there Capybaras? How big are they? Are they molbuses?

But mostly:  HOW DO THE PEOPLE GET INSIDE THE MOLCARS??? And can the molcars feel or interact with the people in their stomachs? Do people drive the molcars, or do the molcar just kind of know where to go? Do all of the molcars have people inside of them? What about the zombie molcar? 

Ring Fit Adventure

What it is:

A Nintendo Switch workout game with some strange innuendo going on. "Your sweat is so shiny and beautiful!" = a real and frequent quote. There are playthroughs on youtube.

Characters requested:

 ANY

Characters nominated:

Ring, Tipp, Dragaux, Player Character

Prompts:

Ring/Dragaux. I ship it. The internet ships it. Tell me more about it, and their backstory, and if you want to build a persona for Player Character and throw them into the mix too I won't complain. You can use the ponytailed or short haired version, or both, I have no preference.

Honestly, how does Player Character feel about this whole exercise to kill monsters thing? Is Ring grooming them? Who betrayed who.

And about Ring... I play the game in both French and English and the voice actor is VERY different (I'm fairly certain the French voice actor also plays the voice of Miraculous Ladybug). I see ring as genderless, but I'm open to other interpretations. There's also the fact that their character design looks very much like a sex toy with a face, so take that as you will...

As for Tipp... what is his place in this world? What does he do when he's not stretching with you? Does he live in the worlds of RingFit Adventure, or somewhere else? Does he have a family? Is he married to WiiFit Trainer? Inquiring minds want to know.
 

 

Greetings fellow world-builder! I hope you have a fun time with your assignment. Please do not be intimidated by my letter. You can skip all of it except for the DNWs if you prefer. I just enjoy writing letters and hope that some part of it ends up being helpful. Go where your inspiration inspires and do not feel constrained by my random wittering!

You can use any or no characters, or original characters for any of these prompts. I am fine with receiving fic, art, or meta for all of my requests. Plot is completely optional. I'd be thrilled with in-universe trip advisor reviews or something similar. I am also fine with receiving things like IF or vids or experimental poetry if that is the way your muse is taking you. I love podfic, but ask that you have authorship or permission from the author for any fic you use (you have blanket permission from me, but I don't know that I have many that fit this exchange).

 DNW:

NSFW art, underage, non-con, incest, fic focusing on the symptoms or medical treatment of mental illness
 

World-building likes:

• Architecture, especially if it is specialized for a specific task or environment
• Ecology and ecosystems (for example: why are all the animals in Jumanji carnivorous?)
• How people are affected by the culture/society they grew up in, for good or bad
• Explanations of the in-universe rules of physics/magic
• Food and cooking.
• Politics

General likes:

• Moral grey areas
• Optimism
• Redemption arcs
• Hurt/Comfort
• Bondage (from consensual scarves with a partner, to someone getting tied up and threatened by a villain)  

Art likes:

• Architectural plans or schematics
• Maps, ranging from realistic to "Here be Dragons"
• Extreme close-ups
• Feathered dinosaurs

 

( Doctor Who )

 

 

 

I seem to recall that I'm not the only one on my flist attempting to brush up on French. I came across these delightful 80s videos which are perfect for filling that gap between learning vocab and actually being able to understand people talking to you:

http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html

Unfortunately, they only seem to be available to stream in the US and Canada. Also, there is a creepy mime. Also, I get the distinct impression I'm going to come out of watching these sounding like a character in a French tv show from the 80s. But otherwise they are very good, and hopefully helpful!

Even though I really need to do something with my tic_tac_woe card before starting a new bingo, hc_bingo is like crack to me and I can never refuse it when it calls. Maybe this will be the year when I manage to finally chase down the elusive 25 in 1 achievement. The prompts are very nice. I'm thinking maybe something about the Twelfth Doctor's extended stay on Earth?

( My hc_bingo card )

Speaking of Twelve... I was wondering if there would be any interest in having an exchange or fic fest at the end of this series?

I have no idea what that had to do with crop rotation.

 

( Spoilers. So many spoilers. )

 

 

It made me do exactly what it said on the tin.

Also, highly amused by the episode extra included by itunes where Moffat and Capaldi discuss not understanding how to use emojis and replying to texts using them with randomly selected symbols.

A vertical art bingo has been achieved for my h/c bingo card! Fair warning, there are some large images under those cuts. I think they all fit the prompts well, though Isolation is a bit surreal and abstract, and Homesickness probably only makes sense to me. I was thinking of a time when I was homesick while painting it, and a time in my life that I miss sometimes in a way that feels more like homesickness than nostalgia.

( Magical Trouble )
( Apocalypse )
( Arena )
( Isolation )
( Homesickness )

I remember seeing a Doctor/Clara vid set to Bastille's Pompeii a few months ago. I think it was rec'd by someone on lj, but I'm not entirely certain. In any case, I am now unable to find said video. If anyone know where it's got to I would be very grateful.