Playlist Exchange Letter 2023

[meikuree]

Hi there, and thanks so much for creating for me! I'm really easy to please and omnivorous in taste, so feel free to take this chance to write something fun, or dust off that fic/art draft at the bottom of your drawer. I'm meikuree on Tumblr and meikuree on AO3, and you can read my past exchange letters here. All requests are for fic and art.

I figure that the song prompts speak for themselves here, but I've listed general likes and specific lyrics that stood out to me, where I have them, in case you want direction. In general, please create to your heart’s content — you could give me things like epistolary fic, atmospheric light-on-plot vignettes, or AUs inspired by the songs, whatever, and I'd gobble it up.

I’m open to treats, including late or very late ones!

General Likes

• gen, f/f, fic and art of all ratings
• nuanced, intense, or unconventional relationships between women
  
  • relationships ambiguous or difficult to define
  • love or loyalty, mingled with resentment, etc. complex feelings in general!
  • codependency, manipulation, (inverted) power dynamics
• morally grey/ambiguous queer women
• mentor/protege dynamics
• pre-canon, post-canon, canon-divergence AUs
• banter, humour, worldbuilding, character studies, missing scenes, hurt/comfort, silly concepts played straight, crack treated seriously
• hopeful/melancholic moods, second and third person POV, 5+1 times (and similar), unusual prose styles or structures (e.g., non-linear narratives, interview formats, genre pastiche, etc.)
• friendship, dilemmas, worldview clashes, physical intimacy, reunions
• competence, confidence; ‘fish out of water’ scenarios
• confrontations, emotional repression, unhealthy coping mechanisms
• history, endurance, beauty amidst bleakness and cruelty, ruins and remnants (literally and metaphorically)
• dreams, liminal places, hauntings, fractured identities, surrealism, magical realism, absurdism
• tragedy, loss, grief/mourning; stories about living with loss
• psychological/existential horror; body horror, close and unsentimental descriptions of pain, pain as an axis for transformation or self-knowledge, the weirdness of having a body
• romanticised cannibalism, incongruous domesticity, unexpected tenderness, Faustian bargains, ethics, material culture, characters denied catharsis
• road-trips, greenery and NATURE, water bodies, hair-washing, bathtubs, politics mixed in with the mundane and everyday
• monstrosity, monstrous women

 
Art Likes

I like a wide variety of styles; browsing my art tags here and here might be useful inspiration (general content warnings apply). Some specific visual likes:

• art in your own style; I like seeing people's unique styles/approaches.
• art nouveau, tarot, post-impressionist styles, symbolism and motifs (especially geometric or natural)
• atmosphere, moodiness, analogue feel, seeing partial slices of characters or scenes
• constellations, cosmos, planets, water imagery; characters suspended in air, space, water, etc.
• gouache, watercolour, ink styles
• remixes of historical paintings or media (e.g., Leyendecker, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec paintings, etc.)
• bestiaries, illustrations with text, incorporation of poetry or quotes (whether as inspiration or in the art itself)
• light and shadow, dramatic contrasts, minimalism, sketches, studies
• interiors, personalised environments or backgrounds, sunlight, coziness
• portraits, quiet actions/scenes: characters doing anything, even if simple (e.g., studying the surroundings, drinking tea, resting on each other)
• sensuality or eroticism: implication, gesture, contact, spines, hands, gloves, cuddling or embraces
• intensity, horror, anger, beautifully grotesque things, bandages, bloodied faces or noses, characters holding onto each other for support or their waist
• use of complementary colours for contrast (examples here)
• memes, canon parodies, cats/kittens

NSFW Likes

• character study via porn
• choking or breathplay
• dubious consent (e.g., due to power imbalances, identity issues, "fuck or die" scenarios, codependency, altered mental states)
• finger sucking
• oral sex and/or fingering
• recreational drug use during sex
• clothing kinks, partly clothed sex
• focus on hands, wrists, necks
• friends/enemies with benefits
• painplay, consensual pain/violence (especially if characters get off on it)
• sexual fantasies and masturbation
• sex with feelings (whether repressed, intense, or uncomfortable)
• sex described in unconventional ways (preferably in line with the tone of canon)
• erotic body horror; sex that reads mildly or a lot like body horror due to things like altered mental states, dissociation, embodiment issues, or in-universe reasons

DNWs

• rape/noncon (dubcon and canon references are fine)
• explicit underage sex under 16
• genderswap
• pregnancy
• parasites/bug swarms
• mundane AUs (e.g. coffeeshop, high school AUs)
• extensive descriptions of weight gain/loss; mentions of calories
• soulmate/reincarnation AUs
• creepypasta, chatroom fic
• unrequested incest
• scat, emetophilia, watersports, ageplay, raceplay, food kinks, weight gain/stuffing kinks, spanking, A/B/O

List of Requests

The Locked Tomb Series - Tamsyn Muir
Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Ianthe Tridentarius

• You Are My Apple - Lady Lamb
• Taxidermist, Taxidermist by Lady Lamb

Dislocation, pushy persuasion
Ligament and bone, ligament and bone
Crystal structures, defects and blunders

[...] And so I reintroduce me to myself
"How do you do?" I say, "I've heard such lovely things about
Who you are and where you've been
But be in me again, yes back in me again"

• 'Concertina' - Tori Amos
• "This Hell" by Rina Sawayama
• Heretic Pride by the Mountain Goats

Coronabeth Tridentarius & Ianthe Tridentarius
Coronabeth Tridentarius/Ianthe Tridentarius

• "My Sister Says the Saddest Things" by Grimes
• You Are My Apple - Lady Lamb
• 'Concertina' - Tori Amos

Clouds descending
I'm not policing what you think and dream
I run into your thought from across the room
Just another trick, can I weather this?

• 'Suede' - Tori Amos

There are days I feel your twin: peekaboo, hiding underneath your skin
Jets are revving, yes, revving from a central source

Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
Zenin Mai & Zenin Maki
Zenin Mai/Zenin Maki

• 'Sword' - IAN SWEET
• 'mirrored heart' - FKA twigs
• "Tokyo Love Hotel" by Rina Sawayama
• Regarding Ascending the Stairs - Lady Lamb

I whispered in her ear, so sweet and sincere
But she was already dead asleep
And the ground where she lay was red, sour & stained
And I kissed her, kissed her, kissed her before I turned away

• Fast As You Can - Fiona Apple

And I'll be your girl, if you say it's a gift
And you give me some more of your drugs
I'll be your pet, if you just tell me it's a gift

• 'Concertina' - Tori Amos

I'm not policing what you think and dream
I run into your thought from across the room
Just another trick, can I weather this?
[...] The soulquake happened here in a glass world

• 'Bliss' - Tori Amos

Lately, I'm into circuitry, what it means to be made of you but not enough of you
And I wonder if you can bilocate
Is that what I taste: your supernova juice?
You know it's true, I'm part of you

• "White Knuckles" by Tegan & Sara
• 'Black Sheep' - Metric
• The Body Is A Blade - Japanese Breakfast

Try your best to feel and receive
Your body is a blade that cuts a path from day to day
 
[...] What's this place if you're not here?
Emptied the house and staged it for buying
Wave goodbye to all your things

[...] Your body is a blade that moves while your brain is writhing
Knuckled under pain, you mourn, but your blood is flowing

Zenin Maki & Zenin Mai and Maki's Mother
Zenin Mai & Zenin Mai and Maki's Mother
Zenin Mai/Zenin Mai and Maki’s Mother

• 'Mother' - Tori Amos
• "God" by Tori Amos
• 'Black Sheep' - Metric
• Après Moi by Regina Spektor

Dragon Age
Leliana/Morrigan

• 'Suede' - Tori Amos

Call me "evil", call me "tide is on your side", anything that you want
Anybody knows you can conjure anything
By the dark of the moon

• 'God' - Tori Amos
• Sisters of the Moon by Fleetwood Mac

Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Pieck Finger/Yelena

• Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
• This Is The Last Time - The National
• Valentine (What’s It Gonna Be) - Rina Sawayama
• Breezeblocks - alt-J

Pieck Finger/Annie Leonhart

• Brace - Half Waif  
• The Rifle’s Spiral - The Shins

Pieck Finger/Hange Zoë

• The Body Is A Blade - Japanese Breakfast
• Hit Me Where It Hurts - Caroline Polachek 
• Breezeblocks - alt-J

Wednesday (TV 2022)
Morticia Addams/Larissa Weems

• Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mac
• Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks
• Sisters of the Moon by Fleetwood Mac
• Winter (The Four Seasons) by Antonio Vivaldi
• "I Am Not A Robot" by Marina and the Diamonds