Fannish fun

I am very excited to be part of ITPE again this year and am looking forward to listening to whatever you have in store for me :)

Things I like: humor/banter/hijinks, found family, team/family feels, sibling relationships, friendship, cooking/baking, kidfic, accidental baby acquisition, accidental marriage, fake marriage/marriage of convenience (...that leads to FEELINGS), fluff, happy endings, hurt/comfort where the focus is heavily weighted in favor of the comfort, women being awesome, pining (with eventual resolution), asexual and demisexual characters, music.

Things I don't like (or am not in the mood for in this exchange): infidelity, permanent major character death, gore, humiliation as a central theme or kink, focus on substance use or abuse, body dysmorphia, high school or college AUs, dementia as a theme or plot point, extreme focus on grief as the central tone of the podfic, non-happy endings, current-day medical field AUs, significant non-canonical age gaps in romantic pairings, power imbalance in romantic/sexually involved characters as a theme/kink, teacher/student pairings/themes (unless specifically noted for the fandom), noncon

In the event you want to look outside canon/the canon timeline...
AUs & additional fic types that I like: soulmate AUs, cooking/baking/chef/coffee shop AUs, Among Us livestreams, Youtuber/TikToker AUs, fix-it fics, everybody lives/nobody dies AUs, outside POV, podcast AUs.

Additional: I am open to both traditional and non-traditional formats, filk, and meta. I welcome repods. I welcome all ratings from gen to explicit. I welcome gen, f/f, f/m, m/m pairings and moresomes.

Fandoms I'd enjoy receiving podfic in:
(characters, pairings, and other info are for additional inspiration and not intended as restrictions unless a specific request is noted)

The Murderbot Diaries - love the found family and friendship themes for this fandom, as well as Murderbot's sarcasm; I'm not particularly shippy for this fandom unless its a canonical ship in the background like Mensah and her marital partners.
Hell's Belles (TikTok series by sea.ya.later): Gen, Lily/Bel, Penny/Greg, Ruggy/Angel, Sariah/Asmodeus, Judy/James
The Mandalorian - found family and accidental baby acquisition FTW; not particularly shippy in this fandom with somewhat of an exception for Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker
Hazbin Hotel: Gen, Charlie/Vaggie, Lucifer/Alastor (esp. with asexual/demisexual Alastor), Rosie/Alastor (esp. with asexual/demisexual Alastor) Carmilla/Zestial
The Untamed/CQL/MDZS - Love sibling feels in this fandom (Yunmeng trio, Jades of Lan, Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue, Wen siblings, Jin Zixuan and Jin Guangyao when they are nice to/supportive of each other and Jin Guangyao isn't a murderous jerk), love an Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies style AU and fix-it fics, if canon timeline then I love Yunmeng brothers reconciliation. A non-exhaustive list of ships: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli/happiness (literally ship her with both no one and with anyone who loves and supports her, but especially Jin Zixuan, Nie Mingjue or Lan Xichen), Nie Mingjue/LanXichen/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue/Wen Qing
Red, White, & Royal Blue - love both book and movie versions, Alex/Henry, Zahra/Shaan, June/Nora/Pez (aka Percy) (all three or in any combination)
Star Wars Sequels - Finn/Poe Dameron/Rey (and any combination within that, but especially love them as a trio, both shippy and friendship), Luke & Leia sibling feels (omg what I wouldn't give for sibling reconciliation and getting to actually SEE and SUPPORT each other in person), I have zero interest in Kylo Ren in any capacity.
Star Wars Original Trilogy - Leia.  Leia, Leia, Leia. Leia/Han, Leia & Luke, Leia/Han/Luke, Leia/Boba Fett. In conclusion: Leia. (Also love Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade/Leia Organa or Mara & Leia if we are going into Legends territory)
Star Wars Prequels/Clone Wars - Obi-wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker/Padme Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Cody, hijinks and shenanigans
Yuri on Ice - Gen, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Star Trek AOS: I multiship in this fandom pretty enthusiastically, but always have a special place for Kirk/McCoy.
Rogue One - Just... make it happy and not hurty, somehow, please.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Once again: Leia
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Sibling feels! Lizzie/Darcy, Jane/Bing Lee, Lydia/confidence and happiness
Welcome to Night Vale - General Night Vale weirdness and shenanigans

I love tea. I find the process of preparing a pot of loose leaf therapeutic and relaxing, an experience I never would have imagines before being introduced to the world of tea-beyond-red-rose-teabags. Learning about and trying new teas has definitely been a pleasant journey to embark on.

Some of my favorites are...

1. Pink Cherry Cider from the Green Teahouse


2. Bamboozled from David's Tea


3. Blueberry Bliss from Teavana


4. English Caramel from Tea + Absinthe

So I have had quite the busy/crazy early weekend (major preparation for a LARP feast I assist in the throwing of on Saturday, so Thursday through the wee hours of Sunday were rather hectic), and then the crash afterwards which wound up with me relaxing on Sunday, sleeping a full night through sunday night, and then STILL doing far more napping than being awake today. And even in the few awake periods today, I wasn't exactly operating with all cylinders.

I am hoping that this is just my body's way of recovering lost energy and such, rather than the early stages of the death-blargh that everyone and their brother seem to have developed and are readily sharing with everyone they know.

Anyways, I need to do a few days of happiness catch-up, starting off with a few of the recipes that were prepared for the feast the other day.

( Oreo truffles )

( Spinach and Artichoke Mac and Cheese )

( Onion focaccia bread )

I spend SO MUCH of my chill time idly watching youtube videos as my way to wind down. Here are a few of my favorite Youtube channels and an example of the nifty vids you can find there.

( Youtubin'? )

A few of the movies that I am looking forward to...

( Movie posters or mockups )

I enjoy gifs, macros, photos... anything that will get me to crack a smile after a long day. Here are some of the gif or gifsets that I enjoy quite a lot.

( Gifs! )

OMG, what have I done? Am I really semi-committing to writing at least one thing this year?

( The card )

Here, have some songs that I adore and have been listening to over and over again...

( Mooooosic )

Share some of your favs, if you so desire. I would love to hear them.

"Educational" videos


( Videos )

I loved The Avengers.

Loved.

More than I can express properly in text, even. It led me to finally seeing and adoring Iron Man and Captain America, and appreciating Thor more than I had when I saw it the first time without realizing it was connected to anything. It is even making me consider watching the Hulk movie at some point. It has also opened me to new fic, art, vids, etc.

I have basically been diving into a sea of Avengers fanstuff nearly exclusively for months. This was entirely uncharted territory for me, having zero prior knowledge or exposure to this fandom.

I also love cleolinda and her Movies in Fifteen Minutes over at m15m. Always good for a chuckle and reliable in brightening my day.

What do you get when you put these things together?

The Avengers in Fifteen Minutes

And a very happy me.

An excerpt from the work can be found below:

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If anyone has suggestions for fic, vids, art, etc, I would love any and all recs. I ship pretty much everyone with everyone and love gen too. I could also use some suggestions for avengers/marvel LJ icons, so help in that area would also be fabulous :)