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fishdipHello, my AO3 username is Rhizophora, and thank you for writing for me! If you have any questions to pass through the mods I am more than happy to answer. Basically: I love my teeny fandoms, and I will adore anything you care to write for them minding DNWs.
Any rating/pairing you care to write would be excellent. I enjoy a wide variety of things, including but not limited to fluff, angst, smut, hurt/comfort, canon-typical violence, aliens, xeno, bodily transformation, wholesome romance, humor, utter misery, women supporting women, and darker/toxic romance. I'm fine with pregnancy (including mpreg for non-human characters/modified human characters), parenthood, and family themes. I'm happy with putting characters through abuse as long as there is a happy ending--or, at least, the possibility of an eventual happy ending!
General DNWs Noncon/sexual violence against women, on-screen domestic violence (mentions are ok), portrayal of women as helpless victims, women's bodies portrayed as unpleasant/nasty, child abuse, explicit underage, scat, main character death, unrequested gender headcanons (i.e. cis characters should remain cis and agender characters should remain agender), 1st or 2nd person, poetry (snippets are fine), unrequested AUs, no-hope endings, miscarriage/abortion, traumatic childbirth/PPD (please note that I'm fine with realistically unpleasant portrayals of childbirth; I am specifically DNWing intense and lingering mental/physical trauma linked to childbirth), unhappy endings.
Characters requested: Any
What I love about this fandom:
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Characters requested: Wikus van der Merwe (I've only requested Wikus because I would be delighted to see him paired with Christopher, Tania, both, or neither!)
What I love about this fandom: I am grossly in love with this film. The worldbuilding is soooooo so good, and the moments of dark humor are excellent. I adore Wikus's devotion to Tania and the dissonance there--that Wikus can treat her so gently and still seems to hold next to zero compassion for the prawns. Horrific body transformations fascinate me, and I love how hilariously awful Wikus's situation is. Wikus's slow shift from self-interest to the willingness to self-sacrifice towards the end is lovely. I also love stories (like this one) where the protagonist is forced to choose from a set of terrible options, with no obvious easy solution.
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• Hi it's me, a big gross shipper, and I would die for Wikus/Christopher. I feel like there are several angles you could approach this from. Maybe they knew each other pre-canon (there's that comment Wikus tosses in about Christopher always being a little sharper than the rest, so obviously they've met before...). Maybe he really was "obsessed with them" as a colleague puts it? He definitely seems very geeky about them in the film. I can't imagine any pre-canon relationship between Wikus and Chris would be particularly healthy at first given the power differential, so feel free to lean into that. A relationship that starts during canon as Wikus transforms would be wonderful, too! Lots of self-loathing from poor tortured Wikus maybe. Maybe Chris is trying to comfort him and it ends up horribly (depending on your perspective haha). Or maybe Wikus ends up escaping with him after all? What happens then?
• Wikus & Christopher: yes I like them as friends too. Missing scenes from canon would be fantastic! I'd love to see more about Wikus's transformation and maybe some of Chris's point of view and thoughts on Wikus. It had to be tough cooperating with someone who a) started off in MNU and b) ruined Chris's plan to get his kid off-world. I'd love a good brotp here. Maybe they escape together, or maybe Chris comes back for him? How did they manage to sneak out of D9 and back into Joburg to break into MNU, anyways?
• Wikus/Tania: ok yes I love them too. I love how gooshy they are for each other, and how Tania is still defiantly hoping that Wikus will come back. She's got to know that he's fully prawn by the time she gives that interview, and just how disgusted the world in general would be, but she's quite unashamed about showing off her collection of Wikus's things. I would absolutely love Wikus and Tania meeting again after he's transformed and seeing the agonizing awkwardness (and hopefully, you know, eventual smuttiness, though that's up to you) of that meeting. Does she catch him leaving another gift? Does she take a job with MNU and end up tracking him down? Is it a purely accidental meeting? SIDE NOTE: there is an ultrasound on the wall of Tania's little shrine to Wikus. Feel free to ignore it as though it doesn't exist, or include Wikus having a kid he hasn't met, orrrrr hey maybe it's a weird xeno baby she's currently pregnant with???
• If none of the above appeal to you, I'd be happy with pretty much any further exploration of the film/setting as long as Wikus is involved. He spent quite some time being tormented with those medical experiments; reading more about that would be neat. I'd also like missing canon scenes of him scrounging around District 9, or completing his horrific transformation, or dodging prawns or, hey, stealing clothes off the line in Joburg. Sneaking around post-transformation and adjusting to his new perspective on humanity would be neat, too. Creeping through his old neighborhood to leave that flower at Tania's door? Idk, anything! Alternately, an AU where space explorer Wikus meets Chris out in the galaxy would be interesting!
Fandom-specific DNWs: No-hope endings! I don't mind taking fic in a very dark direction (it'd be hard to avoid in this fandom tbh), but I want at least a glimmer of hope at the end. Tania being hopelessly disgusted by prawn Wikus is also a DNW, as is Wikus shipped with anyone not Chris or Tania. Finally, I would like to DNW pure fluff in this fandom; fic on the fluffy side is totally fine, but I'd like there to be at least some conflict/angst mixed in.
Fandom-specific notes: There's a lot of fanon in District 9 and different takes based on the deleted material, the promotional material, etc. I don't mind if you stick to fanon, ignore it, or deviate from it with your own interpretations! It would be neat if you incorporated more South African culture/Afrikaans language (a prawn version of Heritage Day or braaing would kill me off fhdlkfs) but that's purely optional.
Characters requested: Maeve, Dolores
What I love about this fandom:
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Any rating/pairing you care to write would be excellent. I enjoy a wide variety of things, including but not limited to fluff, angst, smut, hurt/comfort, canon-typical violence, aliens, xeno, bodily transformation, wholesome romance, humor, utter misery, women supporting women, and darker/toxic romance. I'm fine with pregnancy (including mpreg for non-human characters/modified human characters), parenthood, and family themes. I'm happy with putting characters through abuse as long as there is a happy ending--or, at least, the possibility of an eventual happy ending!
General DNWs Noncon/sexual violence against women, on-screen domestic violence (mentions are ok), portrayal of women as helpless victims, women's bodies portrayed as unpleasant/nasty, child abuse, explicit underage, scat, main character death, unrequested gender headcanons (i.e. cis characters should remain cis and agender characters should remain agender), 1st or 2nd person, poetry (snippets are fine), unrequested AUs, no-hope endings, miscarriage/abortion, traumatic childbirth/PPD (please note that I'm fine with realistically unpleasant portrayals of childbirth; I am specifically DNWing intense and lingering mental/physical trauma linked to childbirth), unhappy endings.
The Holdfast Chronicles
Characters requested: Any
What I love about this fandom:
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District 9
Characters requested: Wikus van der Merwe (I've only requested Wikus because I would be delighted to see him paired with Christopher, Tania, both, or neither!)
What I love about this fandom: I am grossly in love with this film. The worldbuilding is soooooo so good, and the moments of dark humor are excellent. I adore Wikus's devotion to Tania and the dissonance there--that Wikus can treat her so gently and still seems to hold next to zero compassion for the prawns. Horrific body transformations fascinate me, and I love how hilariously awful Wikus's situation is. Wikus's slow shift from self-interest to the willingness to self-sacrifice towards the end is lovely. I also love stories (like this one) where the protagonist is forced to choose from a set of terrible options, with no obvious easy solution.
(Optional) Prompts:
• Hi it's me, a big gross shipper, and I would die for Wikus/Christopher. I feel like there are several angles you could approach this from. Maybe they knew each other pre-canon (there's that comment Wikus tosses in about Christopher always being a little sharper than the rest, so obviously they've met before...). Maybe he really was "obsessed with them" as a colleague puts it? He definitely seems very geeky about them in the film. I can't imagine any pre-canon relationship between Wikus and Chris would be particularly healthy at first given the power differential, so feel free to lean into that. A relationship that starts during canon as Wikus transforms would be wonderful, too! Lots of self-loathing from poor tortured Wikus maybe. Maybe Chris is trying to comfort him and it ends up horribly (depending on your perspective haha). Or maybe Wikus ends up escaping with him after all? What happens then?
• Wikus & Christopher: yes I like them as friends too. Missing scenes from canon would be fantastic! I'd love to see more about Wikus's transformation and maybe some of Chris's point of view and thoughts on Wikus. It had to be tough cooperating with someone who a) started off in MNU and b) ruined Chris's plan to get his kid off-world. I'd love a good brotp here. Maybe they escape together, or maybe Chris comes back for him? How did they manage to sneak out of D9 and back into Joburg to break into MNU, anyways?
• Wikus/Tania: ok yes I love them too. I love how gooshy they are for each other, and how Tania is still defiantly hoping that Wikus will come back. She's got to know that he's fully prawn by the time she gives that interview, and just how disgusted the world in general would be, but she's quite unashamed about showing off her collection of Wikus's things. I would absolutely love Wikus and Tania meeting again after he's transformed and seeing the agonizing awkwardness (and hopefully, you know, eventual smuttiness, though that's up to you) of that meeting. Does she catch him leaving another gift? Does she take a job with MNU and end up tracking him down? Is it a purely accidental meeting? SIDE NOTE: there is an ultrasound on the wall of Tania's little shrine to Wikus. Feel free to ignore it as though it doesn't exist, or include Wikus having a kid he hasn't met, orrrrr hey maybe it's a weird xeno baby she's currently pregnant with???
• If none of the above appeal to you, I'd be happy with pretty much any further exploration of the film/setting as long as Wikus is involved. He spent quite some time being tormented with those medical experiments; reading more about that would be neat. I'd also like missing canon scenes of him scrounging around District 9, or completing his horrific transformation, or dodging prawns or, hey, stealing clothes off the line in Joburg. Sneaking around post-transformation and adjusting to his new perspective on humanity would be neat, too. Creeping through his old neighborhood to leave that flower at Tania's door? Idk, anything! Alternately, an AU where space explorer Wikus meets Chris out in the galaxy would be interesting!
Fandom-specific DNWs: No-hope endings! I don't mind taking fic in a very dark direction (it'd be hard to avoid in this fandom tbh), but I want at least a glimmer of hope at the end. Tania being hopelessly disgusted by prawn Wikus is also a DNW, as is Wikus shipped with anyone not Chris or Tania. Finally, I would like to DNW pure fluff in this fandom; fic on the fluffy side is totally fine, but I'd like there to be at least some conflict/angst mixed in.
Fandom-specific notes: There's a lot of fanon in District 9 and different takes based on the deleted material, the promotional material, etc. I don't mind if you stick to fanon, ignore it, or deviate from it with your own interpretations! It would be neat if you incorporated more South African culture/Afrikaans language (a prawn version of Heritage Day or braaing would kill me off fhdlkfs) but that's purely optional.
Westworld
Characters requested: Maeve, Dolores
What I love about this fandom:
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