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Dear Spacer Letter - Space Swap 2024
Feb. 16th, 2024 09:03 pmMy general preferences letter is here.
My DNW: unrequested mundane AU | female characters in fridges | non-con | violent dub-con | graphic violence | gore | graphic sexual violence | cruelty/death to animals | cruelty/death to children | requested character death | unrelieved grimdark | bigotry by the good guys | first or second POV | reader fic | ABO | soulbonds | wildly OOC in a non-cracky way
TREATS, YES PLEASE!
Crossover Fandom
Adam | He-Man (He-Man MOTU 1983)/Castaspella (She-Ra 1985)
Allura (Voltron Lion Force 1984) & Sarek (TOS)
Romelle (Voltron Lion Force 1984) & La'an Noonien-Singh (SNW)
Marlena Glenn (He-Man MOTU 1983) & La'an Noonien-Singh (SNW)
Marlena Glenn (He-Man MOTU 1983) & Christopher Pike (SNW)
Marlena Glenn (He-Man MOTU 1983) & Amanda Grayson (TOS)
Adam | He-Man (He-Man MOTU 1983) & La'an Noonien-Singh (SNW)
So these could all be played super straight and serious or cracky.
Adam/Castaspella – I just love the vibe these two have with each other, how Adam doesn’t have to hide on Eternia.
Voltron & Star Trek: I just feel like this could be interesting. For Allura & Sarek, something diplomatic? For Romelle & La’an, I feel like these two have a lot in common (trauma, anyone) and could be fun.
So in case it’s not obvious, Queen Marlena in He-Man is my favorite character AND she’s an astronaut and she would probably enjoy meeting this crew. Marlena and Amanda could trade some advice? Do they know who she is? Is Starfleet from a different Earth? Just roll with it.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
La'an Noonien-Singh & Khan Noonien-Singh (ST:SNW)
Sam Kirk & La'an Noonien-Singh (ST:SNW)
La'an Noonien-Singh & Erica Ortegas & Sam Kirk & Joseph M'Benga (ST:SNW)
Joseph M'Benga & La'an Noonien-Singh (ST:SNW)
James T. Kirk/La'an Noonien-Singh (ST:SNW)
s2e03 Alternate Universe James T. Kirk/La'an Noonien-Singh (ST: SNW)
Christopher Pike/Una Chin-Riley (ST:SNW)
Nyota Uhura & La'an Noonien-Singh (ST:SNW)Fanfiction
Worldbuilding: Life on United Earth Fleet Enterprise (ST:SNW)
Worldbuilding: What Happened in the Alternate Timeline before S1E10 (ST:SNW)
So of all the new Trek things, this is my favorite. I love La'an way more than I thought I would, especially with Kirk. Also a diehard Pike/Number One shipper.
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I'm current on Season 2, and very interested in Season 2 specific stories! Especially what happens after To Be Continued. WHAT DO YOU MEAN “TO BE CONTINUED”?
I am personally on the SNW doesn’t have to lead to our TOS train – I am totally okay with assuming it spins out/plays out differently. If you want to get inspired by TOS episodes, go right ahead.
In retrospect, I think La’an & Khan are misplaced in the tag set (also in Star Trek crossover) but go ahead and put him in.
La’an & Sam: Interested in how they interact. Play it into La’an wanting to weasel out more info about James or not. Also, when does Sam realize he is never getting away from little brother?
Erica & M'Benga & Sam & La'an: What happens after the end of S2E10? – So once we realized what had happened, my only thought was how the Gorn captured themselves the wrong group of people… How does that work out for them? Feel free to include people developing coping mechanisms that aren’t the healthiest (if M’Benga channeled the Elysian Kingdom I would be there for that). Obviously want this crew to live.
La’an & M’Benga – Interested in how these 2 are working through their trauma together and separately, love the sparring partner bit. Also, La’an totally knows what went down in S2E8. And she understands the final line of that episode. Some broken things can’t be fixed, only maintained. That’s a super good take on the PTSD issue, honestly – as a veteran.
La'an/James: AU or continuation of what we’ve seen – after all we know Carol and Kirk don’t work out…. I lean towards the AU though. Interested in seeing how his Tarsus 4 background plays in. What Happened in the Alternate Timeline before S1E10 would also be a great place for La’an and James to hook up again…
La'an /UEF James: I would be very into a S2E3 AU where he does not die and comes back with her (feel free to play on the scene she imagines in S2 E9 where he is holding out his hand because damn intensity I’ll take him!). Maybe they aren’t quite finished yet?
Pike/Una: I ship these two so hard. I am a lifelong shipper for these two. Hook me up with some thing good – sweet and/or sexy! I’ve been a Pike/Number One shipper since the first time I saw The Cage (in the 90s, I think) and I want to see how these two would play it. I’m totally here for an AU after the comet episode (they’re so close why didn’t you kiss?). They need a clue brick.
La'an & Nyota: Ladies night out or badass mission time? Either/both
Any combining any and all of these is just fine!
So let’s talk about Season 2 peeps! The Hippocratic Oath is fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps and throats! Yay Una is back! No, they’re still pushing the Pike/Batel thing (I am not into it, it is not my thing, why does she never eat the fabulous food?). La’an and star-crossed doomed time-travel love. I fly the ship (on Alpha shift). Why is Spock eating bacon? Why is Sam Kirk suddenly missing from the cleanest science lab in history? We finally meet the real Kirk! Kirk meets Spock (and Uhura doesn’t know this is her life for the next 50 years). Cartoon crossover! M’Benga gets away with murder (and can we please leave the PTSD crew ALONE?). All systems stable! Why are we singing? Who’s going to be Gorn chow? WHAT DO YOU MEAN “TO BE CONTINUED”?
I am personally on the SNW doesn’t have to lead to our TOS train – I am totally okay with assuming it spins out/plays out differently. If you want to get inspired by TOS episodes, go right ahead. I kind of wish that they had called the Gorn something else, because I feel like it would make things stronger.
Just inject it into my veins. After sitting out several of the newer shows, I dove into this one and please just give me more more more. I think the things I REALLY want to know is, what all was happening in that alternate timeline before we got dropped into it.
If you’d like to play with the La’an meets Khan in Space Seed with La’an/James, I am here for it.
I really love this new show, although I am wondering about continuity but NOT REALLY CARING I LOVE THIS CREW.
I haveread the comic, it was okay.
So this is obviously the one I have the most thoughts on, but don’t feel weird if we didn’t match on it. I’ve been creating for this one quite a bit lately, so it’s just on my mind more.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983 Cartoon)
Randor/Marlena (MOTU 1983)
Marlena & Adam | He-Man (MOTU 1983)
Man-at-Arms & Marlena (MOTU 1983)
Marlena (MOTU 1983)
Sorceress of Castle Grayskull/Man-at-Arms (MOTU 1983)
Worldbuilding: Eternia makes contact with Earth (MOTU 1983)
Worldbuilding: Earth Space Rover lands on Eternia (MOTU 1983)
Worldbuilding: Constellations of Eternia (MOTU 1983)
Crazy, I know - He-Man in an outer space exchange...except it totally fits here. If you didn't guess by the Crossover tag, I'm a huge Queen Marlena fan.
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So I was sort of expecting to have to defend this one, because He-Man and Space Swap? But the facts are pretty clear.
Marlena Glenn is an astronaut from Earth who crashes on Eternia, falls for the king, and never goes home. Oh yeah, and her kids are superheroes.
There is an episode where Eternia and Earth make contact, but it's not the best. So give me a better one! Maybe some sort of rover/probe/space machine ends up on Eternia (yes, I would totally love a happy ending for a little space machine whose battery is running low and it's dark) and this leads to them making contact? I'd love to see Marlena at least visit home, or have vistors from home, or somehow open up communications.
I especially like the little space machines. Man-at-Arms could fix and improve it! I would also love the idea that Earth has been looking for Marlena. I'd also love a hint of the two of them sharing mechanical skills?
Or if you want to go a different route, what constellations do the Eternians see? What are their stories? (Maybe one could be the Tiger? or the Champion? or the Falcon? or Duncan's Hammer?) Is Sol visible from Eternia?
The space corridors, one of the really useful plot devices that...could have been used to send a young astronaut home? Is there one that can reach Earth? Pretty open here. Or is there a reason the Sorceress never offers that up?
I am a Man-At-Arms/Sorceress shipper.
I have seen Revelations but not the reboot, so if you want to play on that I am in. Obviously the space machine would be more of a probe than a rover, but that is Opportunity focused. I'm good with something more introspective/romantic with the constellations one, and I would enjoy seeing Marlena get a message from home or even the chance to visit.
Star Trek Crossovers - Fandom
Beverly Crusher (TNG) & Leonard "Bones" McCoy (TOS)
Elizabeth Shelby (ST NF) & Una Chin-Riley (SNW)
Geoffrey M'Benga (Vulcan Academy Murders) & Joseph M'Benga (SNW)
Jack Crusher (PIC) & Track A Jack Crusher (Q-Squared)
Jack Crusher (TNG) & Jack Crusher (PIC)
La'an Noonien-Singh (SNW) & Khan Noonien Singh (TOS)
Ael t'Rllaillieu (Rihannsu) & Christopher Pike (SNW)
Ael t'Rllaillieu (Rihannsu) & La'an Noonien-Singh (SNW)
More in letter but I love characters connecting across time and am 100000% down with cracky handwaved mechanics.
Crusher & Bones – While I have received a lovely story where he is an instructor at the Academy, I’d love a story where these two are being badasses together at their primes. I would prefer she gets sent back in time.
Elizabeth & Una (& La’an if you like) – The no fun badasses get together thru time travel. Bonus points if you work in Mac/Shelby and Una/Chris.
M’Benga & M’Benga – Versions of the same character? Relations, perhaps?
For either of the 2 Jack Crusher crossovers, anything goes?
La’an & Khan: So I would totally be down for a story where La'an is on the ship when Khan gets picked up. Up to you if we slide the event forward to Pike's time or have her on the ship, but I think it would be really interesting. I’d really be interested in how La’an handles this. Obviously there would be no BS trying to figure out who they were, whether they could trust them, but how would he react to her? I find it really intriguing. La’an being on the Enterprise when they pick up Khan (who’s clearly a known baddie) – how does that go? Maybe they don’t drop him off at Ceti Alpha V? Also sounds like a good opportunity for some La’an/James?
All SNW crossovers involving Ael: I want to see how she would interact with this crew. Obviously the timelines don’t add up but I am totally here for crazy time-travel multiverse, and if you pick Spock, contemplating how he is different from the Spock she knows is totally welcome.
Vulcan Academy Murders & IDIC Epidemic Novels - Jean Lorrah
T'Pina/Sendet (Lorrah Novels)
T'Mir/Daniel Corrigan (Lorrah Novels)
Spock/Nyota Uhura (Lorrah Novels)
Amanda Grayson & T'Mir (Lorrah Novels)
Daniel Corrigan & Amanda Grayson (Lorrah Novels)
These books are a total guilty pleasure for me, but I love the reactions and how the VSA comes off.
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Definitely here for what happens next or an AU where Sendet will NOT give up. (I don't want them to end up together but adventure times!). My teen and I are actually reading this now. I’d love an AU where Sendet continues to be trouble (I didn’t want a story solely focusing on Beau/T’Pina but feel free to let him apply himself to solving that problem!) for T’Pina.
Daniel/T’Mir – I’d love to see more of them post-canon. Do they decide to have children? How does that work? Their relationship with Amanda, together or separately?
I am interested in how either Daniel or T'Mir might use Amanda as a sounding board/friend... and maybe some pondering about how other Vulcans of her acquaintance might not marry Vulcans...
I’d be very interested in how Amanda relates to either of these two. She and Corrigan have very similar experiences, but what sort of friendship does she build with T’Mir?
Spock/Nyota – How might their relationship look after the events of the book?
