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Yay Summer Swap!

Fandoms I like, with notes, in no particular order:

Young Wizards - tiny fandom of my heeaaaaart. I love them so much. So much. So so so much. All of them. Everyone. In every time and place.
Vorkosigan - I have many many feelings about everyone: Miles, Cordelia, Aral, Ekaterin, Gregor, Simon, Elena, Kareen, Alys, Ivan, Taura, Tej, Laisa, Ethan, Bothari, Elli, Dono, Jole… Everyone. They are my darlings. All of them should have everything they deserve, with everything that entails.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - I love everyone except Blackwall, whom I'm afraid I don't have much patience for. Krem and Harding are also excellent, should you want to go in this direction.
Guardian - I know that this might be a bit more of a stretch, but if you're interested, there's some lovely fic for this tiny, beautiful, sometimes quite silly show. I mostly ship Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, but so does the show :D
Scum Villain's Self Saving System - I love this entirely nutty canon to itty bitty bits. Here for Luo Binghe/Shen Qinqiu and Mobei-Jun/Shan Qinghua
Murderbot - ALL THE FOUND FAMILY ALL THE TIME
Nine Worlds Series - look I know this is a long shot and most of the canon is literal doorstoppers and have some issues but I love them and I don't care. Surprisingly, less here for the h/c and more for the fluff (I know, I'm surprised too!)

Additional non-fandom-specific things I love:
  • Unusual formats (twitfic! Not!fic! Epistolary! Recipes! Journaling!)
  • Slice-of-life
  • AUs (Murderbot but if everyone has daemons! Scum Villain but it's Dungeons and Dragons! Vorkosigan but the Imperium is a condominium HOA!) (I don't think any of these exist but if you want to oral-not!fic something BE MY GUEST I WOULD LOVE IT)
  • Character study 
  • Playing with the medium (sound effects! Music! Free talk!)

Look, it's been a long-ass month year multiple years decade I'd rather not receive angst. I'm not saying that I'm only interested in marshmallow fluff, and a few short moments of angst are ok, but I'd like for the overall tone to be on the happy side. More specific squicks/triggers include:

no-escape situations (either real or metaphorical – eg backed into a corner, despair, suicidal ideation, variations on "you have nowhere (else) to go", "no one will believe you")
dub- or non-con
misunderstandings/miscommunication as a plot device
chase scenes 
major character death
Power imbalance
Scat/watersports/necrophilia
honestly please just stay away from anything that gets iffy in a mental-health way. If you're not sure, please please please ask - comment here anonymously or as the mods to pass it along.

Have fun!

(Look I know this is basically the same as my last few letters but in my defense I don't switch fandoms so much as accumulate them, like a snowball)
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Title: Ariadne
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] philomytha
Reader: [personal profile] kalakirya
Fandom: Vorkosigan
Pairings: Alys/Simon
Rating: general audiences
Summary: Alys leads Simon out of a maze.
content notes: none
Length: 00:11:36
text at AO3



download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)
kalakirya: (Default)
Hiya

Fandoms I like, with notes, in no particular order:

  • Murderbot - *grabby hands*. especially here for funky formatting, but really here for anything.
  • Vorkosigan - I have many many feelings about everyone: Miles, Cordelia, Aral, Ekaterin, Gregor, Simon, Elena, Kareen, Alys, Ivan, Taura, Tej, Laisa, Ethan, Bothari, Elli, Dono, Jole… Everyone. They are my darlings. All of them should have everything they deserve, with everything that entails.
  • Young Wizards - tiny fandom of my heeaaaaart. I love them so much. So much. So so so much. All of them. Everyone. In every time and place.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition - I love everyone except Blackwall, whom I'm afraid I don't have much patience for. Krem and Harding are also excellent, should you want to go in this direction.
  • Guardian - I know that this might be a bit more of a stretch, but if you're interested, there's some lovely fic for this tiny, beautiful, sometimes quite silly show. I mostly ship Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei, but so does the show :D
  • MDZS/CQL - it's a fandom juggernaut right now, but I do love it so! Mostly here for LWJ, WWX, JYL, WQ, WN, and LSZ.  [Will spell this out later)
  • Scum Villain - much more of a long shot, but i can dream! Especially here for SQH/MBJ
  • The Old Guard - Especially here for Nile-focused and Joe-and-Nicky focused. Not here for Booker except as background, though.
 
Things I'm particularly into:
  • slice-of-life
  • funky formatting
  • AUs
  • epistolary
  • fluff

I'm going to depart a bit from what I've said in past years, because I've had a very, very long year, and say explicitly that I'd rather not receive angst. I'm not saying that I'm only interested in marshmallow fluff, and a few short moments of angst are ok, but I'd like for the overall tone to be on the happy side. More specific squicks/triggers include:

  • no-escape situations (either real or metaphorical – eg backed into a corner, despair, suicidal ideation, variations on "you have nowhere (else) to go", "no one will believe you")
  • dub- or non-con
  • misunderstandings/miscommunication as a plot device
  • chase scenes 
  • major character death
  • honestly please just stay away from anything that gets iffy in a mental-health way. If you're not sure, please please please ask - comment here anonymously or as the mods to pass it along.

Have fun <3
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Title: start getting real
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] azurewaxwing
Reader: [personal profile] kalakirya
Fandom: The Untamed/MDZS
Pairings: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary:

“Did you break the ward to come in?” Lan Wangji asks, point-blank. He has his sword out and pointed at Wei Wuxian, no bothering with niceties like hello I’m Lan Wangji, and you are?

Wei Wuxian eyes the sword, but doesn’t react. He keeps lazing back on the roof, casually drinking his wine, as if this is the usual way he meets new people. (And maybe it is! I don’t know your life, Wei Wuxian!)

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian meet on Season 8 of The Cultivation World. Ouyang Zizhen writes the recaps.

content notes: none
Length: 02:09:17
text at AO3



download as an mp3 (many thanks to paraka <3)
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Title: Bright New Futures That We've Seen
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] frith_in_thorns
Reader: [personal profile] kalakirya
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Pairings: Seven of Nine & Kathryn Janeway
Rating: general audiences
Summary: Several months after returning to Earth, Kathryn Janeway visits Seven's first command.
content notes: none
Length: 0:16:53
text at AO3



download as an mp3 download as a podbook (many thanks to paraka <3)

cover by me!




Title: Schematics
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] cosmic_llin
Reader: [personal profile] kalakirya
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Pairings: B'Elanna Torres & Kathryn Janeway
Rating: general audiences
Summary: B'Elanna gets to know the captain a bit better.
content notes: none
Length: 0:07:35
text at AO3



download as an mp3 download as a podbook (many thanks to paraka <3)

cover by me!




both of these were recorded for [archiveofourown.org profile] melsheartsthings as part of the waybackexchange 2019 <3