kalakirya

Hello there, friend!

I'm in a bit of a fandom lull right now, so I'm only asking for a few fandoms this year - but I'm sure whatever you make will make me smile. I’m @reena-jenkins.bsky.social‬ on BlueSky, reena_jenkins on AO3, @reena_jenkins@mastodon.social on mastodon, and reena-jenkins on tumblr. Here's what I'm asking for as listed in semi-order of preference (AKA what I’d love the very, very, very most to the things I'd also love the very most, except I really really would like something Stranger Things or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood this year if you have it in you):


STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
Specifically, the first video game (aka "KOTOR") featuring Revan.

Specifically specifically, female Revan-centric stories.

Further specifically, the interaction between:

- Revan and HK-47 (murder buddies!)

- Revan and Mission (mentoring! crime family bonding! Mission never knew Revan before the amnesia so it's a whole "You love me for ME" thing)

- Revan and Bastilla (you fucked with my head but we have a soul-deep connection. Does delving into that connection make me as bad as you?)

- Revan and Malak (pre-canon DEEP EMOTIONAL FORCE CONNECTION WHILE STANDING UP FOR A CAUSE AND LEADING SOLDIERS AND BREAKING AWAY FROM ALL WE'VE EVER KNOWN ONLY TO SHATTER INTO BROKEN VERSIONS OF OURSELVES PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER).

I don't know why the heartfelt amnesiac with a traumatic backstory just gets me every time, but.....this particular story is So Good For Me like that. I am in love with the Pending Doom and trauma of the Mandalorian Wars era, the Sith War era, and the KOTOR 1 timeline. (I know very little about Revan's storyline in SWTOR, and I don't really care to.)

I would also happily accept Mando Wars era stories that deal with KOTOR II characters, like Meetra, Kreia, and Bao-Dur. I don't know the full story of the KOTOR II game, though, so pre-canon is preferable.

(If you’re looking for fic and stymied by how short the BP Authors list is for this fandom, you could hit up revanchxst, nymja, or basketofnovas on AO3 - they’re all podfic-friendly/blanket permission people. OR you could repod one of the KOTOR fics I’ve already recorded, and I would be a very happy clam.)

STRANGER THINGS

I have been in Stranger Things fandom since just before ITPE 2022, and I've seen everything except Season 1 (I started my Stranger Things journey with Season 4 and worked backwards, but Season 3 is absolutely my fave of them all). I have strong Steve Harrington feelings (don't we all), and the t-shirt to match. Things I would love to hear about:

- gen fic centered on Steve & Dustin or Steve & The Party, because I am personally targeted by Reluctant Babysitter Adopts All The Children

• Steve & Robin sharing the brain cell and getting into Shenanigans (possibly life after high school? possibly dealing with their co-trauma? )
• Eddie/Chrissy (WHYYYYYY AM I LIKE THIS? WHY IS MY FIRST SHIP IN 36 HOURS THE TWO KIDS WHO ONLY TALK FOR 6 MINUTES IN THE WHOLE SHOW? AND THEN THEY BOTH DIEEEEEEEEEEE. AU Where Chrissy Lives And Is A Self-Rescuing Cheerleader and I will give you a crisp high-five, please)
• Steve/Eddie (Eddie has a type, and that type falls into the Prep category.)
• Eddie/Chrissy/Steve
• the Stranger Things equivalent of Case Fic/Monster of the Week
• Max Mayfield
• fic where any of the Party has powers/is secretly a Number
• I will tentatively accept Steve/Billy if it's along the lines of "oh Fuck the Upside Down got me fucked up and now i have to re-organize my entire life in the aftermath and This Is How You Grow As A Person" or if it's murder husbands.
• TIME LOOOOOPS

Fullmetal Alchemist (:Brotherhood, or All Media Types)
 - I have not read the manga, I have not seen the live-action, and I haven't watched the 2003 OG anime in any significant way since I was a high school babysitter and the family I sat for had Cartoon Network's Adult Swim mumbleteen years ago. I have not seen Conquerer of Shamballa but I know the broad strokes. I don't particularly care about spoilers, and I'm totally fine googling anything I'm unfamiliar with in fic if necessary. 

 - I very recently watched the whole of FMA:B in consecutive order with deliberate intention, and it awakened long-dormant (ie, pre-my time in fandom-on-the-internet) feelings about the Brothers Elric. I will take Ed/Roy, I will take Ed/Winry, I will take Ed/Ling, I will take 500 scoops of Al/Mei with sprinkles of Xiao-Mei, Panda In The Big City on top. Riza/Roy is delicious, Rebecca Catalina/Havoc/Breda is my crackship for the ages based entirely on just that single photo in the end credits of FMA:B, and I live for every possible futurefic permutation of arm/no arm/alchemy/no alchemy. Pretty much the only thing I'm not down for is fic that disregards Al's importance to Ed, or otherwise minimizes his impact on the story - if it gives vibes of Al as a Sexy Lamp, I'm not likely to enjoy the story, no matter how engaging the rest of the fic concept is. 
 
 - I once told my roommate, "In the FMA Stargate AU, Fort Briggs is the Atlantis post and Olivier is John Sheppard." We both agreed I was 10000% correct in this assessment.



STARGATE: ATLANTIS
I love this show, I love this team of misfit goober loser geniuses, and I want to chew on the walls of every season's unresolved plot threads. I'm reviving my love of SGA after a ~10 year hiatus from actively creating podfic in the fandom, and everything hurts (in the good way, I swear!) just as much now as it did then. Back in 2012, I did the thing I do for a lot of my fandoms, where I watch most of the show but not all of it......and finally, just before the 20th anniversary of the whole freaking show, I have successfully completed watching my way through the back half of season five and NOW I HAVE SEEN 'VEGAS' WITH MY OWN TWO EYES.

I will read whatever permutation of John/Rodney you can come up with (Modern AUs, Roleswap AUs, any one of a hundred different point-of-divergence AUs, Rodney falls first but John falls faster, John stays a bug and Rodney loves him anyway, Serial Killer/Psychopath On A Leash AUs, THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, Genderswap AUs, literally anything). I have a deep and throbbing heartboner for John/Ronon fic (John gives Ronon a safe place to rest and Ronon gives John a home to build together), a lovely and persistent comfortzone of Team OT4 in every permutation, and I can be easily swayed to just about any other Atlantis-based pairing if you try hard enough. 

- The only thing I'm not down for is John/Todd, because I don't CARE how much weird wraith sexual chemistry they give John in an interrogation room - it just doesn't do it for me. 

Fayjay's podfic of "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" has re-written my brain chemistry over the course of 14 years - literally, there are parts of that podfic I'll listen to specifically to knock myself out/fall asleep on airplanes - so if that helps you with a starting point, I'd say check out the works pages of auburn, telesilla, smilebackwards, or squaresarenotcircles on AO3. SGA has so many BP authors and it's been a joy lately to roll around in the fics I sorta-kinda-remember and then be surprised by new waves of fondness.

 

If the fandoms listed above do not spark the requisite joy, I would also love be excited to receive a podfic of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover variety, or pretty much anything DCUish (such as batfam and teen titans/young justice) - feel free to peruse my AO3 works for the best beloved pairings and tags of my heart.
 

(Because I'm feeling kinda lazy, I'm going to copy/paste a couple lists from last year's #ITPE letter.)

Things That Make Me Love This Story

-crossovers

-happy endings

-twisty or creepy endings

-dark and twisted AUs where are the good guys are serial killers or psychopaths or career criminals but you root for them anyway

-Stargate Atlantis AUs

-Sith AUs

-not!fic

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer AUs

-snappy banter

-found families

-Time Travel Fix-It fics

-vampires

-AUs where Character X never died, and then you get to see how canon gets warped by their presence

-situationally-induced cuddling

-fluff

-X-Men AUs

-High-School-Into-College AUs

-epistolary stories

-stories where Character X is a demon/Special Kid/uses their Gift for devious or scandalous affairs

-Accidental Boyfriends

-Pretend Dating

-scheming

-stories that leave you thinking and pondering and contemplating, even after it's all over

-threesomes, foursomes, moresomes (where the relationship is a Thing, not just an orgy of Guest Starring Limbs)

-werewolves

Things I Do Not Dig

-unwarned-for character death (I don't mind if you have to kill off a character in the course of your storytelling duty, but warn me ahead of time, please)

-cross-generational incest (I'm alright with incest - see all the Wincest I've recorded - but parent/child is not my thing)

-angels having any kind of sex (it throws up all kinds of Catholic Guilt flags. Interestingly, however, I have no problems at all with demons having sex)

-I can't remember the exact term, but stories where altar-boy!X (or demon!X, or doubting-his-faith!X) seduces Father Y (let's just leave the clergy out of this altogether, okay? Let's make it easy for everyone, and skip over Catholic School AUs for now, too)

-angst (I'm in this for the escapism; unless under very specific circumstances, if I wanted to be depressed I'd take my headphones off and pay attention to crappy reality)

-bestiality (of the there-is-actually-an-animal-involved-with-my-genitalia kind, not the sometimes-I'm-a-werewolf kind)

-stories that lack internal consistency (I'll spend the whole time picking apart the logic holes, instead of appreciating your performance)

-First Person POVs (though oddly enough, Second Person POVs really work for me...)

-people eating people (don't care if they're alive or dead, cannibalism squicks me out)

-stories where the Joker is "not that bad", or romanticizing the Joker/Harley relationship

Also, most authors I podfic these days have Blanket Permission - and if I've podficced more than one of their stories, chances are, I'd love to hear you read me another one. As for my podfic-listening habits, my work commute is around 45 minutes from door to desk - if you wanted to make me something that would last me an entire morning trek, I'd be super psyched. I enjoy music in podfics, as well as sound effects, if that's something you'd like to play around with. I feel comfortable listening to anything from PG to NC-17, so feel free to record whatever inspires you.

I can't wait to hear from you, new friend! Thanks so much for making me my new present - I just know it's gonna be awesome.