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Thank you to @go-tell-the-bees who made these cover images for my big Agatha fics as part of a commission. Coven of the Covenless for the three smaller canon divergence stories and Undying Heart for the post-show sequel! (Series here)

YOU PICKED THE DEEP LORE YAY (From this ask game)

To do this properly I think you would need to bring in elements of Medieval era Japan which I know VERY LITTLE about except the basics of the Shoguns holding a lot of power within the country even though there was still nominally the emperor. So I would start by making the senshi samurai and Usagi their hidden heiress who trains alongside them.

SO with the caveat that I am actively resisting my impulse to spend a few weeks just doing research for this - here's 5 Fun Facts that would happen in a Sailor Moon Medieval AU:

I think Mamoru should be like either heir to a rival Shogun or the imperial prince who moonlights as a Samurai because I do so enjoy maintaining the Silver Millennium implication that their romance is FORBIDDEN teehee.

Usagi. cannot ride a horse. Has fallen off or been bucked by the calmest creatures. Once attempted the classic horsedrawn archery and managed to shoot her own horse in the ass.

Minako is the stand-in heiress. A ploy to protect Usagi. However she is also having an extensive on-again-off-again secret romance with Rei and this leads to hijinks. Especially when they get caught.

Chibiusa would still show up from the future. the 20th century rather than the 30th century for peak cultural references and historical allegories. Chibiusa can ride a horse perfectly.

I'm REALLY trying to make this one chapter and it is REALLY fighting me. I might cut it before the smut (I KNOW I KNOW) but I want to really savor that scene and not have it feel crammed in at the end. We'll see how it feels.

In the meantime have a couple snippets.💜💚 |💜💔

(And tell us why you've chosen those!)

Thank you for this ask! I am going to endeavor to give you all some recs with some range!

My Recs.

1. Songbird and the Reaper

This is a WIP and only the first chapter is up but once I finish Upheaval it's where im going to be spending time. It's an Agatha All Along / Hunger Games crossover except instead of pitting Agatha and Rio against eachother as fellow tributes in the Arena, it pits them against eachother and the system in positions that would be analogous to the power imbalance they have in the show. The first chapter imagines Rio as a first year games maker in the 2nd Quarter Quell and Agatha as a volunteer from 12.

Why you should read it: If you enjoy complex capitol citizens, deep diving into the corruption and devastation and exploitation that we know happens to the victors but dont ever see the curtain pulled back fully in HG canon. And if you like Victor Agatha and Junior Gamesmaker Rio flirting by discussing Agatha's murderous cleverness while descrating Rio's boss's desk (i havent posted that part yet but it is written and you can look forward to it!)

Why I am reccing it: I have planned to carry the story forward from the 50th through the 75th games to show Agatha as a mentor and Rio eventually as a head gamesmaker-by-day-rebel-sympathizer-by-night as the games become more and more corrupted and controlled by Capitol Elite. It will feature lots of other marvel/agatha characters as tributes, mentors, other victors, and some as corrupt sponsors. I want to use it to explore the stories of victors and mentors and to do a spin on the hunger games ending. And it will also have the tragedy of Nicky but with a fun surprise twist, which I'm very excited about.

2. Afterimage

An early Voyager oneshot. told Non-linearly about a what if the future Chakotay left his own message for his past self in Timeless.

Why you should read it: If you like really angsty J/C and explorations of how different versions of us can understand their counterpart very differently based on the experiences they share.

Why I am reccing it: cuz I had done a really fun thing where i tried to start and end each sequential scene with the same line so that the future would feel a bit like it was echoing into the past (like an "afterimage" that leaves its impression on your eyes after you stop looking at something)

3. Let's Do the Warp 10 Again

This is actually a collection of works in 1 AU universe that started with @maliciousalice and @baylardo 's artwork. It's a world that asks what it would have been like for Kathryn and Tom (and the triplets who dont get abandoned in their "natural habitat" this time) if the doctor had only been able to partially revert their bodies after Threshold. It's been a wicked fun idea. it's comedic at turns and serious at others and explored a lot about how it feels to be different from all your peers and to be very changed by your experiences. It inspired me to write about the art and it inspired other people to write about the art and eventually, after we had all had a roaring good time collaborating and improv-ing off each other's ideas we thought "we should put all these fics in a collection with links to the art." So we did.

Why You should read it: cuz it's a delightful bunch of stories.

Why i'm reccing it: cuz it brought me some of the best fandom friends i have 🐸❤️

4. Playing with Fire

This was one of my more experimental Kinktober entries. I cannot verify the fireplay safety protocols so don't try it at home. Its plot with smut!

Why you should read it: As much as it featured kinky sex, the story is much more about Tuvok and Kathryns friendship(with benefits) and their grief over T'Pel and Mark and later Kathryns guilt and how that impacts their play for better or (mostly) worse. It has one of the most brutal scenes i've ever done (when Kashyk arrives) which was also fun.

Why I am reccing it: Cuz it was my first foray into Kathryn/Tuvok and I think also one of my first into a poly dynamic that was deeper than a threesome.

5. Backseat Driving

A purely comedic sexy fic. Soft on the sex and high on the comedic. Sailor Moon's Haruka/Michiru/Setsuna trying to have perfectly reckless fun on their ride home and being interrupted by the Goddess of Love who will stop at nothing to get concert tickets.

Why you should read it: if you enjoy flustered sapphic thruples and agree not to try this on your local interstate.

Thank you for the asks!!!

🦄 Is there a new POV you'd like to try writing?

Narrative POV wise. i feel really comfortable with limited third past tense. i kinda want to do more with sprinkling in in-universe pieces of text (like news articles, text messages, etc)

I think what I most want to explore is unreliable POV characters where the audience knows the truth the whole time and slowly the curtain obscuring the pov characters perspective is drawn back. Or a character where the audience learns something along the way that the character themselves has been avoiding or running from and it changes how the story conflict appears.

💖 What is your primary writing goal for this year?

I think my goal is just to enjoy myself. but if i have time and feel good about it I would also like to:

Finish Upheaval

Update my oldest WIP (Age of Aquarius 2) and my second oldest WIP (Euridice)

So, uh, how about a Frankenstein AU? 🤷‍♀️

You delight me 😘

From this ask game

Agathario Frankenstein AU.

So in this world, Rio is still Death. Evanora is Dr. Frankenstein. Agatha is Frankenstein's monster

Agatha is created to be her mother's greatest achievement. A major necromancy working intended to be a body-double, an extension of Evanora. It backfires spectacularly when, from the start, Agatha displays an infuriating sense of self. Once more. the body is imperfect. In her natural form she looks less than lifelike and Evanora must exert magic to ensure she looks normal. Agatha decays, but does not age or grow. Evanora refuses to discover if her abomination can do magic.

Death should not normally permit necromancy this flagrant. But Death becomes Fascinated by this being. Where the humans see Failure, Death sees beauty. Life from Death. Becoming it's own soul by its sheer innate will to endure.

Agatha learns to steal life force in order to mimic a true human body.

Agatha, longing for companionship, begs Death to help her create Nicky. Death warns her that creating life is a risky prospect but Agatha does not listen. She siphons enough life force to remain humenesque long enough to bear a child but there is a catch. Nicky is born like her. He must drain life force to survive and he refuses to. Death takes him as a consequence. Yes theyre still so tragedy pilled.

Me: Ohh I wonder how much damage I can do to Agatha in a few minutes.

Wife: