dear once_upon_fic author

[alexseanchai]

AO3 name is EllieMurasaki but please gift the fic to the AlexSeanchai pseud (I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make the DW code behave re AO3 pseuds).

First, a bit about what I like: Ladies being awesome. Bechdel passing. People of color being awesome. Queer people being awesome. Trans and nonbinary characters being awesome. Femslash, het, slash, poly, gen. Porn, pornless shippy fic, gen. (Obviously I am not asking you to provide all my likes at once.) Competence kink. Nonperfect people having nonperfect relationships (whether familial, platonic, romantic, or sexual) but all parties are good people trying to make the relationship work as best they know how. Ordinary people caught in extraordinary events. Worldbuilding! If you're leaning porny: bondage, body modification, endurance, nipple play (okay, really breast play, but kink_wiki doesn't have a tag for that), sensation play, temperature play, impact play with the emphasis on play, toys toys toys, soft sensuous things, and writing. And if you're leaning porny but not sure who to lean porny with, I like femslash best.

Things I dislike: Underage. Non-con. Anything sexy involving eating or excreting (though if you want to write food porn in the sense of conveying what a tasty meal the characters are having, go to town). Disrespectful treatment of [insert marginalized group here]. Cross-generational sexual and/or romantic relationships, though if an involved character does not, in my head, have an age, then it won't bother me as long as all the involved characters are clearly adult. I can't really explain any better than that; this makes about as much sense to me as it does to you. Sorry about that. (For purposes related to this request, deities stop having an age once they hit maturity.)



Specifics:

Metis | Theogony - Hesiod (Hellenistic Religion and Folklore)

So. What woulda happened if Metis's son by Zeus had actually been born? How would Athena have played into it—and whose side would Metis have taken, her son's or her lover's?


The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy (Fairy Tale)

I'm basically looking for a rewrite of this story where the trans-male-ness of the title character is acknowledged throughout, except perhaps by his father. Feel free to elaborate on any parts you particularly like or to play with the setting. (For some reason the words 'coffeeshop AU' are in my head but I dunno how that would work.)


Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | East of the Sun and West of the Moon

So where's the leading lady's consent to all this? How would it have played out if the bear-prince had been honest with her from the jump?


La Belle et la Bête | Beauty and the Beast

ALL THE AUS.

You know, I hardly ever get to see the sisters' PoV of Beauty's absence?


The Story of Yuki-Onna - Lafcadio Hearn (Fairy Tale)

Why, having once meant to kill Minokichi, did Yuki-onna disguise herself to marry him? Why, on hearing him tell about meeting her at eighteen, did she flee instead of killing him like she'd said she would? What was their home life like?


Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot | Snow-white and Rose-red (Fairy Tale)

ALL THE AUS. This story hardly ever gets AUed!


The Nahua Creation Myth (Aztec Religion)

What did Xochiquetzal think about being kidnapped by Tezcatlipoca (yes I realize not nommed), what did she think about Tlaloc's fury afterwards, and what especially did she think of Quetzalcoatl's means of resolving things?


Hymn to Aphrodite - Sappho

Coffeeshop AU? Library AU? Straightforward telling of the events surrounding the writing of the hymn? *hopeful face*