The 2021 Optional Reader Request Post

[brightknightie]

We're playing challenge-style in our 2021 fkficfest game. Yet many of us love gifting! Some writers find reader requests inspiring.

Let's give our 2021 game optional treating. That is:

• No matching. No claiming. No promises.
• If you, as a reader, would like to let a writer perhaps gift you a story in this year's game...
• Reply on this post with what kinds of things you like to read.

1. <strong>Some preferred characters:</strong> [names] 2. <strong>Some preferred relationship types:</strong> [for example: gen, m/f, f/f, m/m, canonical relationships, non-canonical relationships, familial relationships, etc.] 3. <strong>Some preferred themes, tropes & elements:</strong> [for example: happy endings, self-sacrifice, first meetings, flying, mysteries, romance, post-series, historical, humor, AUs, Nick regaining mortality, etc.] 4. <strong>A few disliked themes, tropes, or elements, if any:</strong> [for example: explicit sex, second-person narration, main character death, etc.] 5. <strong>Some preferred crossovers, if any:</strong> [series/work titles] 6. <strong>Scenarios/Dear Author Letter, if any:</strong> [link]


Important: Any FK fan may share a request (not only people planning to write). No writer is obliged to fill any request. Every fkficfest story must use at least one of the common prompts. Recipients should acknowledge any stories gifted to them.

Letting someone write a story for you could be a gift from you!

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Brightknightie's reader request 2021

[brightknightie]

1. Some preferred characters: Nick, Urs, Schanke, Tracy, Janette, Stonetree, Feliks, almost any one-shot mortal character (like Lisa, Rebecca, Emily, Magda, Bernice, etc.)

2. Some preferred relationship types: gen tends to be my favorite, often with powerful friendships or a work-focused angle; for romance, I particularly like Nick/Urs (as stronger for each other than either alone), and separately also enjoy Nick/Janette (as witnesses to each other's truths)

3. Some preferred themes, tropes & elements: I especially love stories with the tone of first season, full of strong contrasts, but trending toward hope and light, and grappling with humanity and grace. The metaphors were strong in first season (and the vampires were few). I like stories where Nick is working toward his distant goal of regaining humanity, perhaps getting blocked, tired, or off track from his efforts, and having to try again. I love "the girl or the cup"-type scenarios where he has to give up a means to mortality to choose a higher humanity. I like procedurals that dish up a metaphor or moral. Tragedy is good, too. And history!

4. A few disliked themes, tropes, or elements, if any: Please no pro-evil or pro-vampire interpretations. No need to exceed a PG-13/TV14 rating. And please no mpreg or other "crackfic."

5. Some preferred crossovers, if any: Crossovers don't tend to be my favorites. But if you happen to be the writer born to cross FK with Young Blades or Mercy Street or Rurouni Kenshin...?

6. Scenarios/Dear Author Letter, if any: https://brightknightie.dreamwidth.org/111802.html

Thank you!