late with waffles!

Hello! I've decided to forgo specific prompts for this exchange, but below are my DNWs with clarifications and a likes list. I really love everything I've requested and will be pleased as heck with whatever I get. Thank you!

( DNWs )

( Likes )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! A few notes:

• Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
• Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!

( DNWs )

( Likes )

Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen

( Yamashiro Aoba/Mitarashi Anko )

( Sai )

( Morino Ibiki & Nara Shikako (DoS) )

Crossover Fandom (Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen/Naruto)

( Mitarashi Anko (DoS) & Momochi Zabuza (Naruto) )

( Nara Shikako (Dreaming of Sunshine) & Nara Shikaku (Naruto) )

Crossover Fandom (Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen/The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)

( Solo: Nara Shikako (DoS) in SVSSS + Nara Shikako (DoS) & Luo Binghe (SVSSS) )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! A few notes:

• I'm a slow commenter, so please don't panic if it takes awhile for me to comment. I will try to set aside extra time in case I get something super long, but I really can't promise anything.
• Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
• Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!

( DNWs )

( Likes )

( Art/Comic likes )

( Dreaming of Sunshine + Dreaming of Sunshine/Naruto Crossover )

( Person of Interest )

( Natsume's Book of Friends )

( Yu Yu Hakusho )

( Crossover Fandom: Natsume's Book of Friends/Yu Yu Hakusho )

( Naruto )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! I'm wafflelate A few notes:

• I'm a slow commenter, so please don't panic if it takes awhile for me to comment.
• Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
• Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!
• Also lol despite coming up with the idea for this exchange I am fumbling my way through formatting this letter so..sorry if it's janky!

( DNW )

( Likes )

( Request 1 )

( Request 2 )

( Request 3 )

( Request 4 )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! A few notes:

• I'm a slow commenter, so please don't panic if it takes awhile for me to comment.
• Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
• Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!

( DNWs )

( Likes! )

( Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (and DoS/Naruto crossovers!) )

( Whose Allegiance Is Ruled By Experience (+ DoS Crossovers) )

( Sanitize (+ Crossovers) )

Hello, thank you for reading my letter! A few notes:

• I'm a slow commenter and modding makes me extra slow, so please don't panic if it takes awhile for me to comment.
• Some things will have more prompts than others but that doesn't mean I want anything more or less than anything else.
• Although I try to provide a lot of prompts please don't feel like you need to write one of them! I think prompts make it easier to see where I'm coming from/how I'm approaching the tag, but this letter is not a final summation of all the fic plots I could possibly enjoy. Whatever you come up with will be great!

DNWs

• Suicide, suicidal ideation, mentions of suicide, implied suicide, the word suicide
  • You may find yourself in a situation where you're writing, say, one character staying behind to fight so that their teammates can escape. Please focus on their determination to save their comrades, live as long as possible, and maybe just maybe succeed without dying no matter how slim the chances are.
  • Or, since I've requested Hidan and probably mentioned Jashinists and time loops, you might find yourself writing a character who seeks/experiences temporary death to achieve some goal. Temporary character death is fine, but please have them killed by other people rather than killing themselves.
• dissociation/depersonalization from the POV of the person experiencing it, including Nara being in the black
  • examples include characters not feeling real, not feeling connected to their body, feeling like they're viewing a scene from the third person while someone else moves their body.
  • Exceptions to the above:
    • obviously there are canon characters who can do that kind of thing to themselves/other people because of their cool powers.
    • characters having a literal out-of-body experience because of magic ninja bullshit is fine.
    • characters literally not being in control of their bodies because of magic ninja bullshit is fine.
  • What I DNW is dissociation and the like as a reaction to stress/trauma. If it's enemy action to be resisted and fought against, go for it.
  • I know being in the black is some magic ninja bullshit but I DNW it because it's still like, a character's internal stress response. Showing Nara in the black from an outside POV is fine.
• first person POV except in Animorphs fics
• characters meeting other versions of themselves on-screen
• Nara Shikako having her reincarnation status revealed
• Nara Shikako being pregnant, married, or having sex even off screen.
• Unrequested AUs that change the setting, replace the magic system, or significantly change the society the characters live in.
  • So, no to: mundane AUs, IN SPACE AUs, fantasy AUs, soulmate AUs, etc, unless directly requested.
  • But yes to: canon divergence, alternate timelines, For Want Of A Nail
• car crashes or people being hit by cars (a fender-bender or airplane crash would be fine though)
• permanent death of requested characters
• Incorporating significant chunks of Boruto stuff.

Likes

• Casefic, mission fic, murder mysteries
• minor characters
• worldbuilding
• in-universe documentation
• like mission reports or textbooks (but not really works told via letters)
• canon compliant fics (like episode tags, missing scenes, etc)
• backstory exploration
• unlikely friendships (friendship in general!)
• enemies to friends, enemies to allies, enemies to since-you've-had-a-rough-day-already-I-won't-try-to-stab-you-this-times
• angst
• hurt/comfort
• protectiveness
• time travel
• canon divergence
• garbage-tier magical items
• detailed setting description
• Gentle spooks and horror — you can find more specifics in my Trick or Treat letter!

Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen

Aburame Shino (DoS) & Nara Shikako (DoS)

Freeforms:

• Loyalty - Everyday loyalty proves to be extraordinary under epic circumstances
• Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
• DoS: The Many Gardens of Shikabane-hime AU

First of all, Shino is great. Second of all, he promised to protect Shikako from spiders and anything that brings that up will please me so greatly.

They could go on a mission together? They could train together? They could work on a project together?

An AU/canon divergence where Shino gets to save the day! Like maybe the Grass kidnapping is successful, but Shino had a kikaichu on Shikako so they're able to find her. Or go even more AU — an AU where Shikako was taken into ROOT when they were young and years later Shino is the only one who recognizes her because Bug Reasons, so he's able to help her? (I definitely don't want Shikako to be helpless, she never is, but! I want Shino to have a chance to shine ok...)

Also I feel like Shino is the #1 person who's ride or die for Shikako without Shikako having ANY clue and I love that. I'd love some kind of situation where she's like...committing treason or time/dimension traveling or something and she needs Shino's help or at least his silence and Shino is just 100% there for it above and beyond her expectations.

Or maybe the other way around! It would be very cool to see a dimension-traveling Shikako be an unlikely friend/ally for Shino.

As far as time loops go, I'm just really interested in the idea of Shino and Shikako having to team up and work through one together. Maybe a seal trap they set off while on a mission together? Or, Shino is the one actually looping and needs to get Shikako to help him across a bunch of different loops...basically I like timeloops where the characters have to work together to undo it!

Hatake Kakashi & Nara Shikako

Freeforms:

• Loyalty - Everyday loyalty proves to be extraordinary under epic circumstances
• Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
• DoS: The Many Gardens of Shikabane-hime AU
• Time Loop

Kakashi and Shikako's relationship is one of my favorite parts of DoS! Watching Shikako slowly learn to decipher him has been wonderful and their conversations are some of my absolute favorites.

I know that we're all pretty aware that Kakashi's loyalty to his students is extraordinary but I would just LOVE anything where we get to see Kakashi taking it to extremes. Like, committing treason at the drop of a hat without question! Helping Shikako go missing nin! Searching for her long after she's been declared KIA! Meeting an alternate universe Shikako and being like "...yes you still count as my student, how can I help you." And I'd also love anything that explores how Shikako feels exactly the same way — would go to exactly the same extreme lengths for Kakashi — and I wonder if Kakashi really realizes that, you know?

In terms of dimension travel/Gardens, I would enjoy pretty much anything. In either case I would enjoy Shikako and Kakashi meeting AU versions of themselves or traveling together! I like dimension travel stories where the characters have to stay and where they get to go home pretty evenly. It'd be interesting to see something where Shikako and Kakashi are the same age!

Also, in terms if my "No AUs" DNW, I will opt-in to any societal change AU that can be easily extrapolated from the Warring Clans Era state of things where there are still ninja — a No Villages AU, say, would be fine!

For time loops, I like timeloops where the characters have to work together to undo it! Shikako or Kakashi or both in the time loop sounds great — I'd be particularly interested for Kakashi to be the one looping and to be surprised at Shikako taking the time loop think 100% in stride.

Anko Mitarashi & Nara Shikako
Nara Shikako & Yamashiro Aoba (DoS)

Freeforms:

• DoS: Anko Goes On The Hot Springs Mission Instead of Aoba
• DoS: Aoba Lives
• Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline

Anko and Aoba used to go on Intel missions together, so she's definitely capable of taking the mission with Shikako instead, and I'd love to see how Shikako and Anko handle things compared to Shikako and Aoba. Would they stick together? Would Anko have a better time fighting off the Jashinists? Would having the Snake contract save Anko the way Shikako's summoning contract saved her? How would the events post-Hot Springs play out differently?

Aoba and Shikako or Anko and Shikako go on a mission and, whoops, uh, they end up in the past. Queue a debate about whether or not to come clean with Tsunade, or Hiruzen, or Minato? (Or maybe they go father back, and Shikako has to get them both into the Warring Clans Era pre-village Nara Clan?

I'd also love to see anything with Aoba being alive. Some ideas, but feel free to go wild:

• Aoba's reaction to or involvement in events that happened after his death, like the hospital attack, the Mist exams, or the Police Arc.
• Instead of Anko seeking out Shikako to talk to her in the graveyard about how Aoba would have been happy she got out, maybe Anko and Shikako talk about something else?
• Aoba and Anko celebrating Anko's promotion to jōnin

Hoshigaki Kisame & Nara Shikako (DoS)

Freeforms:

• Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
• Enemies Forced To Work Together
• Exciting People You Meet In Prison
• Former Enemies Stranded Far From Home Become Friends
• Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve A Problem Together
• Unexpected Mercy
• Usually Powerful Character is Rendered Powerless
• DoS: Further Reincarnation
• DoS: The Many Gardens of Shikabane-hime AU

We've seen almost none of Kisame in DoS but I really really love him and I'd just love to get something where he and Shikako interact! I love enemies interacting and becoming friends or even just temporary allies, and I love enemies who learn to understand/respect/even like each other without ending up on the same side. Like — I would be into circumstances conspiring for them to be friends, obviously, but I am also down for them to still try to kill each other, if you want!

If they become good friends without significant canon divergence, I'd enjoy some focus on the tension and problems inherent in Shikako becoming friends with a missing nin who's been working with Itachi to take the Kyūbi from Naruto. Like at minimum that's extremely awkward, right? But I would also be interested in canon divergence! Maybe Kisame comes back to Mist for some reason (what reason?) or maybe Kisame and Zabuza roleswap and Team 7 runs into Kisame in Land of Wave.

In terms of dimension travel, I have no preference for Gardens fic or non-Gardens fic — whatever you want! What I like about dimension travel is A) canon divergence obviously and B) the way it makes it easier for characters to take more radical actions because they don't have to think about politics or the mission so much, just about what's right, what's safe, and what will help them get home.

For further reincarnation, maybe something where Shikako finds herself reborn in Mist after living as Nara Shikako and gets involved in the rebellion or something?

In terms of characters being powerless and unexpected mercy... Kisame is a very peculiar person with a very interesting set of morals and of course Shikako is very prone to mercy, so I think I could see those freeforms going either way. I'd be interested in one of them rendering the other helpless (eg, Shikako seals Kisame's chakra and then has to figure out what to do with him) or in the helplessness being imposed by some third party (eg, Kisame stumbles across a poisoned Shikako).

I think the other freeforms are pretty what-it-says-on-the-tin!

Crossover Fandom (Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen/Naruto)

Mitarashi Anko (DoS) & Momochi Zabuza (Naruto)

Freeforms:

• Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
• Time Travel - Mercy Killing Your Original Timeline & Creating A Better New One
• Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
• Undercover - Enemies have to corroborate each other's cover
• Dimension travel to a significantly diverged timeline
• Enemies to Allies - Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
• Injured Character Can't Complete Rescue Mission Without Help From Unlikely Source
• Team Up to Rescue Another Character
• Unexpected Mercy
• Usually Powerful Character is Rendered Powerless

Alright. Okay. Listen. Listen. We don't actually see Anko and Zabuza them interacting during the Mist arc, but they must have, right? Anko got to see Zabuza being a teacher and learn he's in charge of the Mist academy and probably shit talk him about her team being awesome. Maybe they're not friends but they're not not friends! Plus absolutely everyone probably knows all of the details about the Land of Wave mission because that was such a fuck up of mission intel.

...what I'm saying is, Anko is uniquely positioned to meet Naruto!Zabuza and be like, "Hey, it's that guy who's great with kids!", which is in my opinion a really really interesting set up for character interactions. \o/

So, okay:

• No preference for who goes in which direction or in what manner.
• Anko throws herself back in time but whoops lands in a universe without Shikako where everything is sucky — but at least she can bust Tazuna and get herself assigned to go to Wave where she can try to help their future alliance with Mist along?
• Anko needs help rescuing one or more of her kids (or her kids need help rescuing her) and Zabuza gets roped into it, maybe while being mistaken for DoS!Zabuza.
• Zabuza needs help rescuing Haku and Anko is happy to help.
• Zabuza's been contracted to assassinate someone and is undercover trying to make that happen...and for some reason this Konoha ninja is helping him.
• Zabuza's been contracted to assassinate someone and Anko's been assigned to a similar mission and insists they work together.
• Anko is the one undercover and she's trying to kill Gatou; Zabuza helps.
• Anko and Zabuza are sent back in time to try and avert a terrible future, but the time travel technique is misaimed so A) Anko ends up in a universe with no Shikako and B) when she goes to make contact with Zabuza he has no clue who she is or what she wants.
• Zabuza is powerless or at Anko's mercy and she helps/spares him because she knows they could be friends and it'd be better for him to live and overhaul Mist's education system.

Person of Interest

Lionel Fusco & Creator's Choice of Canon Character(s) (POI)

Solo: Lionel Fusco (POI)

Freeforms:

• Aftermath of a Case
• Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
• Awkward Conversations with People You Tried to Kill
• Awkward Conversations With Someone You Wronged In The Past
• POI - Lionel Fusco Saves The Day
• POV Outsider
• Case Fic

Fusco is my favorite character on TV ever and I would just love anything about him! His redemption arc is so wonderful and his interactions with other characters are always fantastic.

Fusco is pretty sure he's 100% exactly perfectly the wrong member of the team to be stuck in this time loop trying to save [character of your choice], but he's not a quitter. He's going to get this right. (Or: Fusco peggy sue time travels back to an earlier point in his life. It's up to him to help change things! He has to save everyone! This is so much pressure!!!)

Instead of falling in with HR, Fusco meets Finch or Reese some other way. Or go even more AU! He could meet Shaw or ROOT at a different time! I love canon divergence AUs so go wild.

What's it like for Fusco to try and help numbers alone? Post-series welcome!

We see Fusco have plenty of awkward conversations with people he tried to kill or wronged and honestly I eat them up with a spoon you can't go wrong.

What do other people think about Fusco? What does Fusco think about other people?

Gravity Falls

Solo: Stan Pines

Dipper Pines & Ford Pines & Mabel Pines & Stan Pines

Dipper Pines & Stan Pines

Mabel Pines & Stan Pines

Freeforms:

• Case Fic
• Characters Teaching Each Other New Skills
• Characters Team Up To Investigate Something Paranormal/Supernatural
• Chased by Ghosts
• Crimes & Criminals
• Supernatural Elements
• vanishing hitchhiker
• Worldbuilding

This is one of my favorite shows ever! I would really love:

• canon-typical adventures ranging anywhere from silly teenage hijinx to genuinely life-threatening danger
• anything that explores the worldbuilding
• works that show characters bonding through shared adventure/trauma

I've picked four of my favorite characters and I'd love to see them teamed up with each other or with other people!

In terms of things for the characters to actually get up to:

• There's a ghost in the Mystery Shack and Stan has been passive aggressively ignoring its spooky bullshit for 30 years. Stop giving it attention, Dipper, that's exactly what it wants.
• I love the weird laws and lawlessness of Gravity Falls. Sherif Blubs and Deputy Durland do an honestly terrible job, Stan teaches a bear to drive, dudes can marry woodpeckers, and "pug trafficking" is illegal! Also Stan teaches the kids how to make fake money??? INCREDIBLE. This is a worldbuilding topic you can't go wrong on.
• I love seeing the kids solve problems that Ford struggled with 30 years ago, and also I wonder if Dipper and Mabel and Stan discover that Ford was bullied by any magical creatures besides the unicorns...?
• Stan picks up a vanishing hitchhiker and is extremely offended that the hitchhiker ditched before chipping in for gas.
• A magic spell goes wrong.
• Vampires don't sparkle and other disappointing truths Mabel learns during her second summer in Gravity Falls.
• One of them teaches Ford how to use Twitter.
• ...or Wikipedia.

Hi, thank you for writing for me or taking a look at my letter or whatever! I'm @wafflelate.ao3 on AO3.

Um, most people looking at this probably won't need the explanation, but in case someone isn't sure what Trick or Treat is, it's a fic exchange on AO3 and you can find this year's collection here and the dreamwidth at @trickortreatex. The prompts below are for my assigned writer and anyone else who wants to write them! If you write something you should add it to the Trick Or Treat Ex collection linked above and not tell me. There was, um, some confusion about my AU Ex letter /o\ sorry for the explanation you don't need, people who came to this letter from the exchange request summary! Back to your regularly scheduled letter.

I'm very excited to participate in ToT for the first time! It might help you to know that for all of these requests I've selected these:

• Treat - Fic
• Trick - Fic
• You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts

...and if you are going to treat me with art, wow, thank you! I do actually really love receiving art, but I wasn't up to writing prompts for two mediums.

In terms of tricks, I'm looking for both gentle spooks and mild-to-moderate scares. I am kind of squeamish about gore and I don't really like bad ends, but I love seeing characters get into and out of trouble, and in all of my canons I'm definitely okay with canon-typical levels of violence and danger, so don't be afraid to put these characters in genuinely life-threatening situations! But overall, I'd categorize 'tricks' as anything with:

• Horror
• real or fake supernatural elements
• hurt/comfort where the hurt isn't skimped on and isn't easily solved
• action scenes/mission fic/fights where the protagonist is at a severe disadvantage
• time loops that aren't any fun
• works with a focus on angst

I think it's also worth letting you know that I can be kind of a slow commenter, often because I want to read what I've received several times over the course of several days. And, when reveals for this exchange happen, I will probably be in the middle of running nominations or sign ups for a single fandom exchange, which might take up a lot of my time. I do my best to comment before the anon period is over, though.

( Likes, horror likes! )

( DNW )

( Dreaming of Sunshine )

( Naruto )

( Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate )

( Castlevania (Cartoon) )

( Gravity Falls )

( Yu Yu Hakusho )

( Person of Interest )

( Log Horizon )

This is a round-up of all the interesting remix meta and discussion I could find. All of it comes from 2004–2010, and almost all of it is therefore from livejournal and about or inspired by the 2003–2015 remix challenge We Invented the Remix...Redux. If you're wondering where to find remix these days, remixrevival should be starting up in July.

If anyone knows of any other meta or discussions that should be on this list, please link me! Surely remix meta didn't just stop in 2010, and I might have missed some LJ-era things, too.

Also, links with asterisks (*) in front are pieces I think my rolling remix participants might benefit from reading — they're the reason I went looking for meta. You can read more about rolling remixes in general here and you can find out about the Dreaming of Sunshine Rolling Remix here.

...and that's it!

Everyone needs to know that recently I've made:
( Baking List Of The Past )

Things I need to make before Christmas:
( Baking List Of The Future )

Somewhat related to the brownies I ruined, has anyone listened to all of The Bright Sessions? ( read more if you have thank u )