embraidery

ao3 username: embraidery 

Hello!! I am so excited to see what you create and I hope you're excited and inspired by what I have to suggest, but if you aren't, I trust you to come up with something all your own (that doesn't violate any DNWs).

Just a general note, you're more than welcome to combine all 3 fandoms from one request into one work. 

I'd love to see characters from both/all canons in the fic you write and as much of a fusion between worlds as you want to do!

General Likes: playing with/cutting hair, platonic intimacy,  isolated settings like caves/underground/on a ship (dunno why), there was only one bed, friends to lovers, banter, new crush/relationship energy, f/f relationships, characters playing with gender, mythology and folk tales, fluff, gift-giving, cuddling, doing ordinary things together (studying, grocery shopping), canon-divergent AUs, missing scenes, sensory details that bring the scene to life, winter and autumn, distinct sense of place, chosen/found family, hand kisses

Opt-Ins: gender/sexuality headcanons, epistolary fic (letters/emails etc), 2nd person POV, nonlinear storytelling, minor character death

General DNWs: sexual content beyond implication (totally fine to say people sleep together, making out is also fine), graphic descriptions of violence/injury, non/dub-con, major character death (except for Hunger Games/Scythe)

Request One: Binti Series, Wayfarers Series, Skybreaker

What I love about Binti: interspecies communication and relations, Binti's strong ties to her family and culture, mathematics and magic

What I love about Wayfarer: interspecies communication and relations (!!), feather (found) families (especially the Wayfarer crew), questions around making decisions for someone else, developing a sense of self (Pepper and Sidra), the modding community and their dedication to creating a life that works for them. Hopepunk

What I love about Skybreaker: exploration of a dangerous environment, quick thinking, the tension between different motivations and desires in a crew, risking everything to save your crew members

Note: I haven't read the third Wayfarer book yet, though I probably will by the time Crossworks reveals. If it's as much about people, communication, love, etc as the first two, I'm happy for you to use it as the basis for this work! (Same for the fourth and fifth, though I’m unlikely to have read them by the time works are revealed.)

As you can tell, I am all about communication, especially between species! The moment when the little Aandrisks meet Rosemary and they're trying to be careful but they grab her boobs -- oh, I loved that. Rosemary and Sissix negotiating their relationship. Pepper and Sidra communicating about how best to help Sidra acclimate to having a body. 

Equally I'm about communication with yourself in terms of who you are and what you want. I've already talked about Wayfarer, so I'll relate this to Binti: Binti negotiating her cultural values versus her desire to learn, and how she navigates expressing her culture when she's so far from home.

Skybreaker's there for the exploration and thriller elements! I love the idea of exploring a broken-down airship (or spaceship, if you go that direction!) in a dangerous situation with limited resources. 

Suggestions 

• Binti's transferred into an artificial body after the events of her last book, needs to get used to that (Pepper and Sidra crossover?)
• Exploring an abandoned airship/spaceship with your choice of crew (possibly a crew drawn from multiple books?)
• What if Binti's ship was attacked not by Meduse, but by a species from the Wayfarer trilogy? Or she's on an airship bound for a university somewhere and the airship is attacked by aerozoans? Less of an interspecies thing there and more of a survival thing, I guess! Unless aerozoan language can be translated by Binti's device!! *waggles eyebrows*
• After some sort of dangerous money-making venture, Nadira's able to make her own way out in the world -- what does she do? Study at Oomza? Join the fringes of the modder community, or a spaceship crew like the Wayfarer's?

Cluster-specific DNWs: The Matt/Kate/Nadira love triangle subplot; if they're in your story, whether Matt dates one of them, both of them, none of them, or whatever (I'd even ship Kate/Nadira tbh), please have it be amicable. Also please don't exotify Nadira the way the author does with her always smelling of sandalwood etc. Don't use the g-slur for Romani people.

Request Two: Binti series, Wayfarers Series, Pacific Rim

What I love about Binti: interspecies communication and relations, Binti's strong ties to her family and culture, mathematics and magic

What I love about Wayfarer: interspecies communication and relations (!!), feather (found) families (especially the Wayfarer crew), questions around making decisions for someone else, developing a sense of self (Pepper and Sidra), the modding community and their dedication to creating a life that works for them. Hopepunk.

What I love about Pacific Rim: THE DRIFT. The drift the driftthedriftthedriftthedr okay you get it. Raleigh and Mako’s connection and their duel to prove their compatibility. The different relationships all the pairs/triplets have to each other. Hopepunk, saturated colours, alien science. 

Note: I’ve only seen the first Pac Rim film!

Suggestions

• Characters from Binti and/or Wayfarers in the drift. What is an interspecies drift like, especially with an Aeulon, who communicate with colours?
• There are space kaiju and everyone’s gotta suit up to save the world (Wayfarers or Binti fusion)
• Raleigh and Mako on board the Wayfarer? Newt as a modder? Hermann is adjacent to the modder community but super against the riskier mods?
• Even something sleazy about Hannibal Chau profiting off alien species from Binti or Wayfarers’ worlds would be cool, haha.

Cluster-specific DNWs: Chuck and Herc Hansen, Newt/Hermann

Request Three: Critical Role season 2, Song of the Lioness, Wayfarer Trilogy

What I love about  Critical Role: coming together with a diverse group of strangers, growing to trust each other, deciding to become better people. Fjord, Molly, Beau, Yasha, Caleb

What I love about Song of the Lioness: Gender fuckery, secrets, knights (especially lady knights), Alanna working hard to accomplish her dreams, selfish magic users, Shang warriors, stubbornness, conflicting desires and goals, duty. Alanna, Raoul, Jonathan

What I love about Wayfarer: interspecies communication and relations (!!), feather (found) families (especially the Wayfarer crew), questions around making decisions for someone else, developing a sense of self (Pepper and Sidra), the modding community and their dedication to creating a life that works for them. Hopepunk. The Wayfarer crew, Pepper and Blue, those modder siblings (Noah and Bear? are those the names?)

Note: I haven't read the third Wayfarer book yet, though I probably will by the time Crossworks reveals. If it's as much about people, communication, love, etc as the first two, I'm happy for you to use it as the basis for this work! (Same for the fourth and fifth, though I’m unlikely to have read them by the time works are revealed.)

Suggestions:

• Alanna (SoL) &/Beau (CR), whatever form that takes -- friends, dating, friends with benefits, on-and-off as they're both wandering around the country. I love ladies who can fight, your honour!! I especially like Beau as a Shang warrior, or a failed Shang warrior
• Caleb studies magic with Thom -- are they friends? Rivals? What's Caleb's relationship to Duke Roger and does he get in on the plan? Alternatively, Thom studies magic with Caleb under Ikithon.
• Molly's part of a modder community from Wayfarer. Are tieflings an alien species in that world, or is Molly a different species in this one? What kind of electronic mods does he go for? Alternately, translate his storyline with dying and waking up a new person to him being AI and being rebooted. Either way -- I wanna see him on a journey of self-discovery or in a comfortable place once he's figured out what that is. 
• Alanna's determined to make it in a very difficult vocation -- what would that vocation be in Wayfarer or Critical Role? What would Thom's be? Alternately, what would Alanna's divine guidance look like in either of those worlds?

Cluster-specific DNWs: Alanna/George


Request Four: Scythe, Hunger Games

What I like about Scythe: Citra and Rowan's journey from being horrified at the idea of being a Scythe to accepting it, the way their Scythe mentors shape their growth as people and as Scythes, philosophy of life and death, them negotiating being pitted against each other, their complicated relationship, the thin line between a utopia and a dystopia. Citra, Rowan, Scythe Faraday, Scythe Curie

Note: I’ve only read Scythe and about half of Thundercloud; haven’t even touched the last book. No spoilers, please!

What I like about Hunger Games: societal impact on individuals, making sacrifices, Katniss and Peeta's evolving relationship (including fake relationship), conflicting ideas about the best way to run a revolution. Katniss, Peeta, Cinna, Finnick, Rue

This one's all about societal impact on kids/teens who have to make tough decisions. 

Suggestions: 

• I'd like to see some other character as a trainee Scythe: Johanna, Finnick, Katniss, Peeta (oh, Peeta would be fascinating) -- actually, I think in some ways Katniss and Peeta being pitted against each other as trainees would mirror Citra and Rowan's arc, with Peeta more likely to sacrifice himself so Katniss can go on as a Scythe, but I'm here for whatever you think would happen! Feel free to play with who goes where -- Katniss being mentored by Scythe Goddard would be interesting. But how would they be different if their childhoods were different -- like if Katniss didn't have to hunt for food for her family?
• Citra and Rowan as the Tributes for their district, oh man. I imagine they'd be in a fairly wealthy district. I bet Goddard would be one of the mentors -- it's harder to imagine adapting Faraday or Curie into someone willing to train Tributes. What would an alliance between Citra and/or Rowan with Katniss and/or Peeta look like?
• Mixing up the casts -- what if Citra and Katniss were trainee Scythes or Tributes together? 
• What if District 1 with all its wealth had gotten to a point where anyone who died could be revived, like the world of Scythe? Would they ever institute such a system? Would they revive Tributes who had died in the arena?

Opting in to major character death for this one, if that’s where the story takes you. I still don’t want to see graphic descriptions of violence/injury, though stating that someone stabs someone else or whatever is fine!

Cluster-specific DNWs: Katniss/Gale, though mentions of past involvement are fine. If any of the major characters die, please don't dwell on the physical act itself. (Emotional ramifications, on the other hand, are encouraged!)

Request Five: Scythe, Six of Crows

What I like about Scythe: Citra and Rowan's journey from being horrified at the idea of being a Scythe to accepting it, the way their Scythe mentors shape their growth as people and as Scythes, philosophy of life and death, them negotiating being pitted against each other, their complicated relationship, the thin line between a utopia and a dystopia. Citra, Rowan, Scythe Faraday, Scythe Curie

Note: I’ve only read Scythe and about half of Thundercloud; haven’t even touched the last book. No spoilers, please!

What I like about Six of Crows: heist! Intricate plots! Leveraging information! Grisha magic, the distinct impact of faux-Dutch merchant culture. Inej, Nina, and Jesper are my favourite Crows; I love Nina/Inej and Jesper pining for Kaz.

This one's all about societal impact on kids/teens who have to make tough decisions. 

Suggestions: 

• I'd like to see some other character as a trainee Scythe: Inej would be fascinating as canonically she hates killing people, but maybe she’d see it as an exception? Or maybe she would still hate it, I don’t know!
• Mixing up the casts -- what if Citra and one of the Crows were trainee Scythes together? 
• What if powerful Grisha magic could bring people back to life so that the Six of Crows universe had revival centres like in Scythe? Perhaps they’d only be for the wealthy? I imagine if they had a society of Scythes it would be pretty corrupt and perhaps only go for poor kids like the Crows…

Opting in to major character death for this one, if that’s where the story takes you. I still don’t want to see graphic descriptions of violence/injury, though stating that someone stabs someone else or whatever is fine!

Cluster-specific DNWs: Kaz/Inej actually dating. If any of the major characters die, please don't dwell on the physical act itself. (Emotional ramifications, on the other hand, are encouraged!)

Request Six: Addams Family (Sonnenfeld), Anne of Green Gables

What I like about Addams Family: the kooky spookiness of it all, how much they all love each other, subverting expectations, did I mention how much they all love each other? GOMEZ, Morticia, Wednesday!

What I like about Anne: ANNE. She’s such a unique character and I love her whimsy, her stubbornness, her fearlessness, her determination to speak up, all her quirks. I like all her little adventures and scrapes and how passionate she gets about things. Also Paul Irving (my tiny gay poet son) and Philippa Gordon!

For remix revival I wrote a fic about Anne and Wednesday becoming friends based on this great fanart by facethestrange of them being adopted sisters and I just love it conceptually. But there are so many ways you can go with it — do they run a haunted house one year and Anne and her friends go through? Or an older Anne dates an Addams cousin and gets invited to a ball there? Anne and Diana get lost and knock at the Addams’ door (instead of Miss Lavendar’s)? 

Cluster-specific DNWs: Anne/Gilbert, Wednesday/Joel Glicker

Thank you so much and happy Crosscrafting!