Pinch hits #10 and #11 - both claimed

[morbane]

The deadline has passed; we have a couple of extensions and two pinch hits.

These pinch hits are due at 5pm EDT / 9pm UTC on June 1 (see what time that is for you). Please reply to this post if you can claim one - comments are screened. Thanks!


Pinch hit #10 - CLAIMED
Request 1 by Minutia_R
The Shrine / An Argument - Fleet Foxes (Music Video)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

What this looks like to me is that the ungulate is the sole survivor of a massacre, and they are on a quest to avenge their people, and the wolf and humanoids and serpent-creatures are their enemies. I'd love to see the whole background of that fleshed out, especially the ungulate’s relationship with the creature whose severed head they lick at the beginning--were they lovers or parent and child or comrades or rivals or what? The whole bit after the serpent pulls the ungulate down into the water is ambiguous and full of possibilities, too. Is it a vision the ungulate sees while drowning, and what does it mean? Who is the humanoid who emerges from the ungulate’s body after it’s ripped apart--another representation/form of the ungulate’s personality, or a separate person altogether? I am intrigued by the idea that, whoever they are, they're the one telling the story. Does the way it ends mean triumph or failure for the ungulate, or some combination of both?

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 2 by Minutia_R
Oleander - Sarah Harmer (Song)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

Is the narrator of this song singing to a woman, or to a houseplant? If you just look at the words, it might be a houseplant--but it's a houseplant she's got weirdly intense feelings towards. I like to think that this is the story of a human woman and her nature-spirit ex-girlfriend who she would like to get back together with. I like the sense that the narrator has realized and learned from the mistakes that she made the first time around, and I would be interested in either a happy or bittersweet ending.

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 3 by Minutia_R
The End is the Beginning - Two Steps From Hell (Song)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

I really like the weird and epic feel of this song, the sense of the vast scale of the worldbuilding and the tragedy. It might be a story of an attempt at colonizing a new planet that went wrong, the ensuing conflict, and the return to space of the survivors? On the other hand, the dancing dead remind me of the Cherokee myth of the deluge, with its own cataclysmic themes.

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 4 by Minutia_R
Howlin' Bones - Hannah Aldridge (Song)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

I like to think that the narrator of this song is an actual malevolent supernatural entity--maybe even the capital-D Devil?--or a necromancer, and that the interlocutor thinks he's gotten the better of her in some bargain, but is about to discover how mistaken he is. I really enjoy the Weird West feel of it, and the contrast between the intimate scale of the events (with the repeated references to "this town") and the possibly cosmic powers of the narrator.

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 5 by Minutia_R
Rich in Love - Colin Linden (Song)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

This seems like a song about a mortal/standard human in a relationship with a fairy? Or other supernatural creature? Who has to go on a dream quest to his lover from some sort of supernatural malady. I really like the mythological and fairy-tale resonances of it--it brings to mind stories like Orpheus and Eurydice and the Twelve Dancing Princessess. I'm curious about the nature of the trouble that the lover is having, what the mortal finds in the dream world, and how it ends for them--in tragedy, in a break-up, in a successful (and perhaps mutual) rescue?

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 6 by Minutia_R
Mean Well - Dear Reader (Music Video)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

The lyrics suggest someone suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, or an experiment of Mad Science abandoned by their creator. I really dig the old-timey monster-movie aesthetic of the video, and the juxtaposition of the creepy and the mundane; the jerky and repetitive images might hint at the narrator being somehow unglued in time, stuck in a time loop or plagued by visions of the future/past? I'm interested in the relationship between the narrator and the individual they're addressing, and also about the people/other creatures attached to the "eyes everywhere" and if, in fact, they mean well.

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Request 7 by Minutia_R
Sweet Jezebel - Mean Mary (Song)
Fanfic

DNW:

-Fic longer than 5k words or so
-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/interactive/game-style fic
-Body image issues. I don’t mind brief mentions but please don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on a character hating their body.
-It-was-only-a-dream type endings
-Sounding
-Infantilization
-That thing where one or more of the people involved doesn’t know what sex is or realize they’re having it
-Religion kink--like, naughty nuns and priests and what have you (Sex with gods/while being a god is OK though)
-One partner calling out another’s name during orgasm

I am here for hot woman-on-demonic-guitar action, although if you wanted to give Jezebel an alternate humanoid form for smut purposes, that would be cool too. Shipping aside, I'm wondering about Jezebel's point of view on this--how does she feel about being a temptation, to be used and heroically cast aside? What's her relationship with the mysterious Devil-like stranger? Like I said above, I'm not really interested in an interpretation where all these events are a hallucination of some kind--even if the narrator's life seemingly picks up where it left off, I'd like to see some indication that the events of the song are real on some level, and that the narrator and Jezebel made some kind of lasting impression on each other, even if they never see each other again. Alternatively, I'd be intrigued by a scenario where they were somehow reunited, for better or for worse.

Letter: http://minutia-r.dreamwidth.org/58074.html


Pinch hit #11 - CLAIMED
Request 1 by weakinteraction
Signal - TWICE (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 2 by weakinteraction
Fly High - Dreamcatcher (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 3 by weakinteraction
Bad at Love - Halsey (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 4 by weakinteraction
Confident - Demi Lovato (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 5 by weakinteraction
... Ready For It? - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 6 by weakinteraction
Bad Blood - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Request 7 by weakinteraction
Venus Fly - Grimes ft. Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Fanart, Fanfic

In general, I'll be happy with anything inspired by the video (that doesn't hit my DNWs) -- I have no strong preferences as far as things like POV, tense, art format, etc. go, and if you find yourself feeling experimental, I would encourage you to go for it.

 

Things I like

• Sci-fi/fantasy action/adventure -- characters going about their business in a world filled with things that don't exist in the real world. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic settings are particularly appealing to me at the moment.
  


• Worldbuilding -- could be incorporated into the above, obviously, but to be honest: if some tiny aspect of the video intrigues you? Write me 1000 words/draw me a diagram of in-universe meta about it and I'll be over the moon.
  


• Femslash -- particular dynamics I like: loyalty kink, battle couples, enemies-with-benefits, enemies-to-lovers (via a "reluctant allies" stage?)

DNWs: AUs (except canon-divergent AUs), pregnancy/kidfic, non-canonical major character death, breathplay, watersports, bloodplay, vore, scat, emetophilia, violent non-con, incest, underage


Treats are welcome at the collection.

Works will be revealed at 5pm EDT / 9pm UTC on June 2nd.