I have a bare-bones signup in for amperslashexchange, which I will try to add to over the next few days! Fandom selections are unsurprising.

Completely unrelated to that or Whumptober, I posted something new for Babylon 5 over on AO3 just now: Balance in Duty, a slightly canon-divergent missing scene for 5x06 "Strange Relations," in which I lean into the episode's completely averted presumed-dead potential.

Thank you so much for creating something for me! I'm excited to receive any of these fandoms, and I love these characters so much, I know I'll love whatever you make.

General likes: hurt/comfort, forced proximity (one bed/tent/hotel room/escape pod, etc), plotty fic, domestic fluff, angst with a hopeful ending, enemies to friends or lovers, banter, prickly bonding.

Amperslash likes: complicated relationships, characters being incredibly significant to each other even when there is no formal description of the relationship they have, emotional and physical intimacy (including things like emotion-sharing, psychic bonds), smarmy h/c, characters who aren't formally in a relationship doing relationship-type things (comfort cuddling or comfort sex, sharing domestic living arrangements or other hallmarks of being together), sex/cuddle pollen, being undercover as a couple, brief flings/friends (or enemies) with benefits, kissing, traumatized characters seeking out more than the usual amounts of physical touch or not wanting to be separated from each other; generally ambiguous closeness of any sort.

DNWs (do not want) are in the individual fandom sections.

Individual fandoms

( Babylon 5 )

( Biggles books )

( Murderbot (TV) )

You would THINK that the "Found Family" prompt would've been an absolute cakewalk for me, and yet, I couldn't get it to go anywhere, so you get another of the alt prompts today. I also found it pleasing that I managed to get the first three fills spread across all three of the fandoms I'm writing in for this particular Whumptober.

No. 3: “I look in people’s windows, transfixed by rose golden glows.”
Isolation | Candlelight | Found Family

[Alt] Deal with the Devil
Babylon 5, G'Kar, Cartagia arc; all hurt no comfort (500 wds)
Also on Tumblr.

( 500 wds under the cut )

This is one of those times when I just ran off with the prompt as inspiration and it's not actually whumpy at all. (At least not in any way except the most incredibly minor petty way.)

No. 2: “You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.”
Prophecy | Sewer | Taking Accountability

Murderbot, 380 wds, gen, could be TV-verse or bookverse somewhere post-Exit Strategy
Also posted on Tumblr.

( 380 wds under the cut )

Starting off immediately with one of the alt prompts (since I struggled with the day one prompts). I learned when I looked up the history of zipties (aka cable ties) that they were invented in the late 1950s by the aviation industry to fasten airplane wiring together. Clearly this made the choice of which character gets ziptied entirely obvious.

No. 1: “Please don’t cry”
Lamb to Slaughter | Ceremony | Beg for Forgiveness

Alt: Ziptie
Biggles books, Biggles (& Algy), gen, 600 wds
Also on Tumblr.

( 600 wds of zipties under the cut )