Let Me Introduce You!

Aug. 24th, 2025 12:34 am
[personal profile] stillturningout
Hello and thanks for checking out one of my fandoms! Glad to have you here! I have requested for almost everything here other than Uncontrolled Love, so if you want inspiration feel free to check past requests: https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything/username/Alicelikesgravity?groupby=fandom




Your options:


TV Shows/Games/Movies:

 




Titans TV


Now for this one I have three excerpts for you.
You can either choose to watch
  • Dick Grayson (a wonderful character and the protagonist of the show)
  • my favorite Gar (a very charming shapeshifter)
  • or Titans s2
The show has a (minor) change in direction between the two seasons. While the first 2/3rs of season 1 is gritty detective + superhero show, season 2 and onwards are more traditionally super hero + character development. Which is why I suggest parts of s2, this is my recommendation if you wanna see the live-action Titans from the original Teen Titans animated show.
Soft content warning: lightly gritty show with some dark supernatural elements
First thing to watch
S1 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH44Z0QwrWQ
S2 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLmDgzFwLiA

Depending on what you liked I have the previous three recommendations (the following are pirate lins)

No preference/Garfield Logan
This is the most fragmented due to paralell story lines occuring in the background

  1. Start with ep 4:https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/4
  2. Then ep 5: https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/5 start at 3:16 until 3:50, then 4:53 until 11:35. then 15:19 to 21:00 then 32:54 until 33:58
  3. Then ep 6: https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/6 18:53 to 19:37
  4. Then ep 7: https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/7 6:40 until 10:02 then 11:23 until the end
Content warning for ep 7; hospital/asylum settings; contains things like intubation and non-consensual medical procedures

S1/Dick Grayson preference
  1. Watch episode 1:https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/1
  2. And episode 2:https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/2
  3. You can choose to watch until 13:44 of episode 3: https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/1/3 round out the 2 hours but you don't have to:)
S2 preference
  1. Start episode 1 at 47:19 https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/2/1
  2. Then episode 2 https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/2/2
  3. And episode 3 https://xprime.tv/watch/75450/2/3


Hamilton - Miranda


The musical is 160 minutes; and since I want you to get to the end we're taking liberties re: which songs are getting cut to make the 120

If you have a preference to listening to the musical rather than watching it feel free to listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtCikwLdHs
I personally have a preference if you watch it:
(pirate link): https://fmoviesto.cc/movie/hamilton-2020-full-62097

Watch until 15:12, then from 18:22 to 20:10, then from 23:59 until 48:38 then from 54:51 until 1:51:58, from 1:52:54 to 2:04:00, then 2:14:32 until 2:27:00.

The songs you're skipping:
  • The Schulyer Sisters
  • You'll Be Back
  • Ten Dual Commandments
  • Meet Me Inside
  • That Would Be Enough
  • I Know Him
  • Blow Us All Away
  • Stay Alive (Reprise)
  • Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story
What you'd be skipping is introduction of the female characters, the king's song (who is a side char), another king song, fight scene with mostly minor characters, a child arc, and the final song.
DNW: on screen F/M, infidelity mention, mentions of real-life crimes commited by their real-life counterparts.



Fellow Travelers (TV)


Fellow Travelers is a miniseries centered on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s.

After a chance encounter in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller and Timothy Laughlin start a volatile romance that spans "the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves".

The first two episodes together are two hours
Episode 1 here: https://xprime.tv/watch/216089/1/1
Episode 2 here: https://xprime.tv/watch/216089/1/2




Hades (Video Game 2018)

Ah, Hades... A truly incredible action-roguelite unlike anything before.Feel free to buy and play the game yourself but story unlocks real slowly so I have some mandatory watching.

First! My favorite ship: Achilles/Patroclus (with my second favorite ship being Achilles/Patroclus/Zagreus)

  1. Here's 20 minutes of their beautiful storyline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7FWky4jh0
  2. Here's a playlist of all the dialogue, please watch the first 6. It does contain quite some spoilers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGTV5aJsZoI&list=PLkZAOKEAZlFDogWGwKckJXk94rdtGdNR8&index=1
  3. Should you wish to avoid spoilers, you can watch this instead, to approximately 1.5 hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmMCzvLs9E
Otherwise playing the game for 1.5 hours will count as equivalent as well.

My recommendation is 30 minutes gameplay and 60 minutes of the dialogue to truly catch the story

DNW: F/M ships, Achilles/Zagreus without Patroclus (Zag/Patroclus is encouraged though)



Nimona (2023)

Also a bit of a short movie; 99 minutes :)
Nimona is on Youtube: but supposedly this is a promotional stunt and will only be up for a week; in any case here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CFWTYFRlw

(pirate link:) https://fmoviesto.cc/movie/nimona-2023-full-97855

DNW: on-screen F/M, NSFW
 




Dragon Age: Absolution (Cartoon)


Dragon Age: Absolution follows Miriam; an escaped slave in a high fantasy world (the Dragon Age Universe) who has to return to the place that enslaved her as a favor to somewhere else.

No knowledge needed of Dragon Age, and the show is considered independent from the games.

If you like elves, or queer relationship or cool fights in combination with the others, or even if you are the kind who says "I can fix him" this show might be up your alley

My favorite ship is Fairbanks/Roland and I'd be happy for anything Roland, especially gen.

Dragon Age Absolution is on Netflix, a total of 8 episodes but for me you only need to watch the first two.

You can find the show here:
https://ww4.fmovies.co/film/dragon-age-absolution-season-1-1630854561/ Click at the bottom to change the episode count

Dragon Age II



This is Dragon Age II, the irony of this game is that I actually ship two characters who can't get together in game, which are Fenris/Anders.

You can see what you think of them yourself :)

The main character is Hawke, a player insert, I would prefer if you wrote them as male :)

Here are all Anders' cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg1e5HQ3vvg
Here are all Fenris' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzj2SjLRLw

Anders/Fenris video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6Rm4yDKJ0
Second Anders/Fenris video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIbGqfZM1Zw
Anders & Fenris dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcKmd0pMlU

Should finish just under 2 hours :D

DNW: F/M ships, non-con, Fenris/Hawke (though Fenris/Anders/Hawke is great)

 

 

Uncontrolled Love (Movies)



    Open to fic and art treats!

    CW: sexual harassment/assault (twice)? between main (M/M) pairing, male MC almost gets non-conned by gangsters, homophobia?

    This is a set of two movies (plus alternate endings due to china's anti-gay ban; it circumvents it :) this was early in the design of the ban so there is real on purpose kissing on-screen ) it lives rent free in my head because I love it but uhm... yeah it's problematic kdsjflksjfl

    How problematic? Well if you were around for 2005 Yaoi, you have a pretty good idea.

    Is it romantic? Definitely, but do not squint your eyes too much at the power imbalance, abuse of power, one MC getting yelled at by the other, etc etc. I promise it's better than I'm making it sound, I just don't want anyone to get triggered :)

    The first movie is until 1:10:44, after that it's credits. Then just watch until 49 minutes (or like 5 more if u wanna see their relationship, and if u wanna see the lady's plotline develop watch till the end.)

    The playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDwLnwWG6k&list=PLy5w5Zsc63sKdFjDa39bNvT5lECiI3qK-

    DNW: F/M, a deep delve into why the relationship is problematic
    Please don't gift me podfic (I won't be able to listen to it)

Wheeeeeeeee!

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:41 am
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I have officially reached that time of year when I have tons of energy for doing stuff. I'm focusing much of that towards trying to get remotely back into shape after The Events. But also I'm writing a bunch of short things, as planned, and it's a ton of fun!

Here's where things stand at the moment:
  • Exchanges due in July/August ([community profile] fandom5k, [community profile] caseficexchange, [community profile] nonconex, [community profile] justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash, hAPPy birthday flash, [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles, FightingAsForeplayFlash + mystery pinch-hits and treats): FightingAsForeplayFlash, new exciting flash! In honor of Fighting As Foreplay becoming a canonical AO3 tag, which I was not aware of, but now I need to go back through my fics and tag pretty much everything with it. 😝 I jumped on this one so fast I was the first to sign up! One of my most beloved tropes! ❤️ The last potential thing that could be added to July/August is Jump Scare Flash Exchange: we'll see if I want to jump on someone's prompts for that. Otherwise, my slate is now set through end of August. I've moved [community profile] enemiestoloversex to the Sept/Oct bucket, because I did not finish it, alas, last week. I'm currently at 16/16: I've been writing tons of short assignments/PHs/treats. It's fun, let's see how much further I get by next week! My goal is to write as many short things as I'm inspired to.

  • [community profile] fandom5k has now revealed! Here's what I wrote:

    • My assignment was: See No Evil: Hannibal/Will married post-fall, with a new serial killer stalking Will. Horrible murder husbands being horrible (yet also sweet)!

    • Then I picked up a PH: Meddlesome: Father Brown/Flambeau for Father Brown (2013). These two are SO MUCH FUN to write! The repartee and the flirting! Seriously, I had an absolute ball rewatching all the Flambeau episodes, and I was glad to get a chance to write these two because they are so amazing together.

  • Exchanges due in September/October ([community profile] enemiestoloversex, [profile] cuppajoexhange, + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future sign-ups): New category! I've signed up for Cuppa Joe and expect my assignment in a couple days! So I'm saying I'm officially at 0/2, with my goal to make some progress on one of those assignments this week. I also need to sign up for [community profile] sexpollenplus and [community profile] ficinabox, both of which I definitely want to do. I debating [community profile] rarepairexchange and [community profile] let_me_introduce_you, but am currently disinclined for both.

  • Upcoming potential exchanges: [community profile] fffx, I need to nominate for (although that one has a loooooong cycle). I will look at the requests for [community profile] fandomgiftbasket when those come out, but likely will not sign up. Much further out are: [personal profile] amperslashexchange, [community profile] au5k & [community profile] highadrenalineexchange.

  • Nothing to report on Femslash Salad Bar...

  • I'm now on the second half of BNHA S5! Bakugo continues to be the gift that keeps on giving, entertainment-wise. Blowing villains up 30 minutes after getting his provisional license! He is the dumbest (strangely smart) permanently angry boy ever written, and I love him to bits. Hoping to get through another good chunk of this show this week; it's far and away my new obsession now!

  • Wen Guan by Qi Xiao Huangshu is still slow going, but I am plugging away (very slowly).

  • Nothing in my library queue came up last week. 😭 Maybe next week?

  • Holy shit, it's already nearing the end of August! Starting sometime in September through end of October, I'll do my annual "consume interesting new-to-me horror canons" thing I do every Halloween. I need to check through the potentials I added to my list throughout the year (and the ones I didn't get to last year) and start plotting this out.


Goals for this week: 1) Write some fun short things for [profile] seasonofdrabbles and various flash exchanges, 2) Make some progress on my 1 in-progress assignment for Sept/Oct, 3) Sign up for Sex Pollen Plus & FIAB, 4) Watch a lot of BNHA, 5) Make some progress on Wen Guan (probably slow progress, lol).

Short Staffed

Aug. 11th, 2025 07:50 am
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Hmmm... The instant the one project let up at work, the other one has kicked in. I having Feelings(TM) about the PM of this second project, who has zero sense of proper urgency and also doesn't seem to understand what is happening with this project. It is not a good combo. Ah well, it's more 'daily statuses and meetings' although unfortunately for the group that's NOT behind schedule. Yay, work!

On a happier note, here's fandon stuff:
  • Exchanges due in July/August ([community profile] fandom5k, [community profile] caseficexchange, [community profile] nonconex, [community profile] justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash, [community profile] enemiestoloversex, hAPPy birthday flash, [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): I finished one of the two things! (And the one whose deadline was pending.) The other is not done, but I'm really hoping to get the bulk of it done today. The reason for that is this: My fics have been running long lately. Part of that is the assignments/prompts I'm picking, and part of it is bad estimation on my part. So I really want to finish this last assignment (which will, indeed, go long over the minimum word count) and then focus on trying to write short things for the rest of the month. This is a sensible goal since I've signed up to hAPPy birthday flash & [profile] seasonofdrabbles sign-ups close today: both things where I can write many short treats! So that is my goal: at least two weeks of short-fic & drabbles and nothing too hefty, to give myself a solid writing challenge. We'll see how it goes! Numbers-wise, I am at 8/11 (finished 1 fic, and added 1 assignment for hAPPy birthday flash). However, hAPPy birthday & [profile] seasonofdrabbles assignments won't come out until later this week, so really I only have 1 thing I can write at the moment (beyond potential treats, of course). So my goals are to get as close to finished on the 1 thing today, and then write as many short things for those two exchanges as possible. We'll see how many I get!

  • More July/August reveals: I pinch-hit for [community profile] epidemfic and wrote more of Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan from Guardian - priest being horny for each other: A Cure for the Common Cold. No notes, these two continue to be a delight to write!

  • Upcoming potential exchanges: Nominations are ongoing for [community profile] ficinabox, [profile] cuppajoexhange, [community profile] rarepairexchange & [community profile] sexpollenplus, and PiningForYou Flash. Of those, PiningForYou Flash is the only one that would be in August, but it fits my August theme of short fics, so if someone I can write for signs up for it, I'll give it a go! The others are all for my Sept/Oct docket. Also starting up in August are: [community profile] fffx, [community profile] let_me_introduce_you & [community profile] fandomgiftbasket. Way, way out (past the Sept/Oct timeframe) are: [community profile] au5k & [community profile] highadrenalineexchange.

  • Nothing for Femslash Salad Bar, yet again...

  • The later half of S4 of BNHA is much more to my liking! Also lol forever at Bakugo's suggestion of beating up the ringleader (of kindergartners!), stringing him up, and making the other children throw rocks at him! I feel like for any problem, there are 3 types of solutions: sensible solutions, not-so-sensible solutions, and batshit-violent-Bakugo solutions. 🤣 Hoping to get through a good chunk of this this week! I am very eager to get all caught up.

  • I have not gotten much further on Wen Guan by Qi Xiao Huangshu. It's going to be slow-going for a while, unless it starts to catch my attention. I'm still going to try, though.

  • Some things on my library hold queue - namely the remaining books in The Goblin Emperor and The Locked Tomb - are slowly working their way up the list. My guess is that I might get at least one of them before August is out. Fingers crossed!


Goals for this week: 1) Finish my last assignment TODAY (or at least get it majority done, so I can ignore it until September), 2) Write short things! As many as I can think of, as many as I can! Try to go on a short-treat spree!, 3) Watch lots of BNHA, 4) Plod my way through Wen Guan more, hopefully so that it'll start to get good.
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