Jain

Thanks very much for participating in this exchange and writing for me! Particularly relevant to Yuletide: I don't want any Christmas/Christianity-themed fic, regardless of the characters' canonical religions. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag. Have fun, and I'm sure I'll love whatever you end up creating!

For your reference: I'm Jain on AO3.

( The Angel of the Crows, Green Men, Iskryne, The Lie Tree, Sun Moon Dust )

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I'm Jain on AO3. Trick or Treat is one of my favorite exchanges, and I'm very excited to be participating in it again. I hope you have a lot of fun, too!

My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a bonus gift. General art likes: clothing porn, especially pretty 19th/early 20th century dresses and nice suits; nudity/sex scenes; autumnal landscapes; candlelight and firelight; ghosts; magic.

You may ignore my Treat/Trick preferences for all my fandoms except The Room Video Games; I don't want anything too lighthearted or optimistic for that fandom.

Particularly relevant to this exchange: I like ghosts, witches, vampires, and werewolves, and do not want non-canonical zombies. Regarding Treats, I like anything from G-rated fluff to hardcore porn, but don't care for PWPs; I like some sort of character and/or relationship development along with my smut. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag.

Also, some of my prompts below are much longer than others. Please don't read into this! Every single fandom, character, and ship I've requested would be an absolute joy for me to receive, even if I don't have as much to say about some of them.

( Books of the Raksura, Green Men, James Asher, The Lie Tree, Lynes and Mathey, The Magnus Archives, The Price of Meat, The Room Video Games, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street )

Thanks so much for writing for me! Some of my prompts are longer than others this year, but rest assured that I'd be equally delighted to receive any one of my requested ships. You can browse my general kinks and squicks post and my fic exchanges tag if you want more details. I hope you have lots of fun, and I look forward to seeing what you create!

My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a treat. (General art likes: clothing porn, especially pretty 19th/early 20th century dresses and nice suits; nudity/sex scenes; snowy landscapes; candlelight and firelight; magic.)

( Books of the Raksura, Green Men, Iskryne, Lynes and Mathey, The Magnus Archives, The Raven and the Reindeer )

Thanks very much for participating in this exchange and writing for me! Particularly relevant to Yuletide: I don't want any Christmas/Christianity-themed fic, regardless of the characters' canonical religions. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag. Have fun, and I'm sure I'll love whatever you end up creating!

For your reference: I'm Jain on AO3. Also, here are my comments to the Yuleporn and the Wrapping Paper challenge posts.

( The Bone Key, Hexworld, James Asher, Lynes and Mathey, The Magnus Archives, The Queen's Thief )

Thanks so much for writing for me! Some of my prompts are longer than others this year, but rest assured that I'd be equally delighted to receive any one of my requested ships. You can browse my general kinks and squicks post and my fic exchanges tag if you want more details. I hope you have lots of fun, and I look forward to seeing what you create!

My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a treat. (General art likes: clothing porn, especially pretty 19th/early 20th century dresses and nice suits; nudity/sex scenes; snowy landscapes; candlelight and firelight.)

( The Bone Key, The Goblin Emperor, Integrate, James Asher, Lynes and Mathey, The Queen's Thief, The Raven and the Reindeer, The Turner Series )

Your main fandom of the year?
Tiny book fandoms again. And Stardew Valley.

Your favorite film watched this year?
Wonder Woman

Your favorite book read this year?
Spectred Isle by K. J. Charles, Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly, The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
"C'Est La Vie" - Khaled

Your favorite TV show of the year?
Nothing new. I've been rewatching a lot of Murdoch Mysteries and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Your favorite journaling community of the year?
None, really.

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Thick as Thieves was practically everything I wanted from a Queen's Thief installment.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Still no Black Widow movie. (I need to get a new source of disappointment. :-P )

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Deret Beshelar, Costis Ormentiedes, Kamet, Daniel da Silva

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Cordelia Frost, Minna Markham

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
The Engelsfors Trilogy, The Great Library, The Invisible Library, Shades of Magic, Six of Crows

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Black Panther, Armistice - Lara Elena Donnelly, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee

Thanks so much for writing for me! I really enjoyed participating in Trick or Treat last year and am looking forward to doing so again. I hope you have a lot of fun, too!

My signup requests are all for fic, but I'm happy to receive art as a bonus gift.

With one exception, I have a strong preference for Tricks that either 1) use supernatural horror tropes in a non-horrific fashion, e.g. werewolves who retain their humanity while shifted, or 2) involve scary supernatural threats that are soundly defeated by the protagonists for a happy ending. The one exception is Dark Matter, where I'd prefer canon-level horror.

Particularly relevant to this exchange: I like werewolves, ghosts, and witches; am generally disinterested in vampires but can be persuaded if the fic is awesome; and do not want zombies. Regarding Treats, I like anything from G-rated fluff to hardcore porn, but don't care for PWPs; I like some sort of character and/or relationship development along with my smut. If you want further details on my fic preferences, you can check out my general fic kinks and squicks post or browse my fic exchanges tag.

( The Bone Key, Dark Matter, The Eagle, Hexworld, Integrate, Lynes and Mathey, The Queen's Thief, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street )

What I just finished

The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher. Great retelling of "The Snow Queen" that gives the fairy tale some interesting new twists while preserving the heart of the story. The descriptions of snow and ice are particularly well done and a pleasure to read at this time of year. Also contains lesbians, as all Snow Queen retellings should. :-) Possible Yuletide fandom.

"Zapped" by Sherwood Smith. I know Smith can write a good story, but this novelette is a hot mess. The science fictional subplot involving teens with unusual powers raises way more questions than it answers and doesn't really go anywhere; the sexuality subplot is anvilicious; the story talks down to its teen audience; and the ending is unsatisfying. If it were five times longer and comprehensively re-edited, then it might be worth reading, but as it is, no.

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell. A supermarket chain is trying to expand into a small English town, and the community is divided in their response. Yet this debate is only the public face of a high-stakes struggle between good and evil. Excellent characterizations and very neat plotting elevate a moderately interesting premise into a great story.

Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal. The ending's a lot more open-ended than I typically prefer, and yet I really enjoyed this one. The biggest draw for me is the worldbuilding. In a hyper-connected future, the protagonist finds herself unexpectedly cut off from the cloud while traveling, and Kowal does a really nice job of imagining the various subtle and not-so-subtle responses the protagonist would have to her unprecedented experience.

The actual plot...is weird and a bit dreamlike and very ambiguous. I'll have to reread this one someday, though I don't know if rereading it will make me hate it or like it even more.


What I'm reading now

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson


What I'm reading next

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

Your main fandom of the year?
Would "tiny book fandoms" count? (Primarily, but not limited to, Frontier Wolf, The Goblin Emperor, K. J. Charles, Lynes and Mathey, The Queen's Thief, and The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.)

Your favorite film watched this year?
Ghostbusters

Your favorite book read this year?
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge and Integrate by Thea Hayworth

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
"Try Everything" by Shakira

Your favorite TV show of the year?
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Your favorite journaling community of the year?
mm_library

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Tentacle shark aliens! Less cryptically: Integrate is the xeno m/m sci-fi buddy cop mystery story of my dreams. (I only wish there were a hundred stories like it.)

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Still no Black Widow movie.

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Deret Beshelar, Costis Ormentiedes, Daniel da Silva

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Cordelia Frost, Erin Gilbert, Amy Santiago

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Captive Prince, The Engelsfors Trilogy, The Great Library, The Invisible Library, Shades of Magic, Six of Crows, Wayfarers

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Thick as Thieves - Megan Whalen Turner, Sins of the Cities series - K. J. Charles, The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley, Pale Guardian - Barbara Hambly