phoenixfalls

Dear Chocolatier,

Thank you so much for offering to create something for me! I’m pretty easy to please, so if nothing in this letter sparks your imagination, or if you already have an idea of what you want to create, please feel free to ignore the below.

Gen tropes I love: Loyalty kink, long (complicated) histories, casual physical intimacy, gen kink, casefic/mysteries, shared secrets, hurt/comfort (that doesn’t slide into whump), travel themes (road trips, stranded somewhere, airport lounges, hotels). Common slash tropes reimagined platonically.

Shippy tropes I love: First times, developing relationships, PWPs, polyamory, friends-to-lovers, kink, kink & relationship negotiation, animal transformation, arranged marriage, trope subversion, mixed-orientation relationships, loyalty kink, iron woobies, stoic pining, travel themes (road trips, stranded somewhere, airport lounges, hotels). Common slash tropes reimagined for femslash and poly ships.

Kinks I love: Non-penetrative sex, masturbation, switching, coming in pants/coming untouched. Orgasm delay/denial/control and edging. Marking, possessiveness, tattoos, collars, special items of jewelry &/or clothing, clothes-sharing. Voyeurism/exhibitionism, semi-public sex. Watersports. Somnophilia. Cross-dressing. Non-sexual kink. Non-romantic kink relationships. In terms of BDSM I like D/s and S/M, blood play, breath play, fire play, gun play, knife play, scarification, wax play, praise kink & service. I can enjoy impact play and bondage but they aren’t my favorites, and I prefer improvised implements to a well-stocked toy chest.

And those categories are just for ease of navigation – feel free to mix from the shippy/gen/kink categories as you like, no matter what you’re creating for me!

Elementary: Thomas Gregson & Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
I have long had many Joan & Gregson feelings (see this tumblr post) and in the wake of the season 6 finale, I need ALL the fic exploring how Gregson & Joan & Sherlock move forward. Please do not demonize Gregson to do this! Joan & Sherlock went to some effort to protect him/his decision, and I'd like fic that similarly respects that.

Flashpoint: Ed Lane/Greg Parker, Ed Lane/Sophie Lane/Greg Parker
I love Ed & Greg's relationship on the show, and would love for it to have turned shippy at any point in their long, rich history together -- happy pre-canon fic, happy post-canon fic, angsty fic set during a point either of the marriages was on the rocks, relieved we-almost-died friends-with-benefits after a case, etc.

I also love the Lane marriage, how Sophie was never demonized for needing Ed and Ed eventually figured out how to be there for Sophie and remain on the team. I like to think their relationship is strong enough to bring a third into the fold, maybe when Greg's pulling himself out of the bottle, or after he gets shot and has to retire from the SRU.

Person of Interest: Lionel Fusco/John Reese, Lionel Fusco & Sameen Shaw, John Reese/Sameen Shaw
I just love these three characters a lot, okay!

For Fusco/Reese, it's their always-prickly, by turns intense and teasing, relationship, and I'm game for all sorts of fic for them. Something dark and dubconny early in the show, Reese hating how he sees himself in Fusco, Fusco feeling somewhat coerced; something post-Carter’s death, them taking comfort in each other; some kind of post-canon fix-it.

For Fusco & Shaw, it's their odd couple friendship, how much they respect each other and care for each other in understated ways. They've clearly worked to understand each other, and keep each other's vulnerabilities in mind in ways other characters don't. I'd love to see any more instances of that sort of caring, either sometime during canon or afterward.

For Reese/Shaw, it's all the Mayhem Twins shenanigans! I like their competitiveness, the way they poke at each other but never in a way that hits any place truly vulnerable, the way they clearly get each other at their cores. Would love reluctant friends-with-benefits, or case-made-them-do-it, or just some physical stress relief. Also, size!kink galore!

Stargate: Ronon Dex/Teyla Emmagen/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard; Ronon Dex & Teal'c, Teyla Emmagen & Teal'c
I love the SGA team and would love any exploration of how they'd work romantically/sexually -- classic aliens-made-them-do-it, bonding while stranded on a planet without a stargate, cultural differences lead to sexy times; really any of the classic Stargate tropes would delight me. Feel free to include or handwave away canon love interests; I just want the focus to be on the team.

I also adore Teal'c and would love to see more (for Ronon) or any (for Teyla) interaction between him and the Pegasus galaxy characters. Bonding over being the aliens on a team of Tau'ri; or alternately, exploring how their cultures are just as alien to each other as they are to the Tau'ri. And if you feel shippy vibes, I am also not averse to Ronon/Teal'c or Teal'c/Teyla!

Somewhere around 2 1/2 months ago, remixrevival went live. I am just now getting around to posting about my fic because of Reasons. (Reasons being mostly work, and also weird brain things.)

So! I ended up writing two remix fics, one in a new-to-me fandom (Stargate Atlantis) and one in a perennial favorite (Elementary). I've been slowly making my way through the vastness of Stargate (I watched Atlantis first, after reading a bunch of fic as is my general pattern, and then I needed MOAR STARGATE so I bought all ten seasons of SG-1. I'm currently on season 5.) and offered only Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, figuring if I wanted to write one of my usual fandoms I'd just treat it. Which I then had time to do! So it all worked out.

For my assignment I received a very prolific Stargate author, mific, and had a wonderful time reading through their back catalog, and then a terrible time trying to narrow down what I wanted to remix of theirs. So many options! Going in so many different directions! With lots of different relationships! And options to remix both fic and art! For a while I was trying to something very experimental for me, gen teamfic with deaged characters and actual action-y plot; sadly, it was too far out of my comfort zone and fizzled, so then I turned to my tried and true fic-writing love: PWP. I ended up remixing mific's D.I.Y., in which Rodney called himself the "Einstein of masturbation," into:

Title: D.I.Y (The Observer Effect Remix)
Author: phoenixfalls
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Word Count: 1,789
Rating: Explicit
Tags: PWP, Masturbation, Bad Sex, followed by, Better Sex
Summary:
“So instead of actually having sex tonight, you’re saying you want me to watch you jerk off?”
Link: On AO3

Once that was turned in, I set my sights on Remix Madness. amindamazed/hophophop had put thrown their fic into the ring to be remixed, and I spent several fun hours going back through it trying to decide what I might like to take out for a spin. Eventually I couldn't resist upending their huddling for warmth/hypothermia fic Under the Circumstances into a hyperthermia fic, and so was born:

Title: Under the Circumstances (The Global Warming Remix)
Author: phoenixfalls
Fandom: Elementary
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
Word Count: 1,285
Rating: General Audiences
Tags: Heat Stroke, Forced to Share a Shower, Shower or Die
Summary:
Day three of a record breaking heat wave, there is an incident.
Link: On AO3

I had a lot of fun with the writing part of Remix Revival. On the other end of the exchange, I ended up going out to pinch hit, and then when the fics were revealed, I discovered that heyjupiter had taken my 150 word Pepper/Natasha vampire AU ficlet "And Turn" and expanded it into over 15k of vampire AU + high school AU (Twilight!AU, specifically) + undercover spy shenanigans. I was completely bowled over!

So all in all, a very successful Remix Revival.