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brushapocalypse) wrote2025-08-21 10:23 pm
brushapocalypse) wrote2025-08-21 10:23 pm
Dear Crossworks Writer 2025
Hewwo, I'm brushstrokesApocalyptic on AO3, and this is a compilation of my Crossworks requests for easier bookmarking!
General DNW:
- Explicit sexual content.
- Unrequested ships. Canon ships are allowed.
- Detailed gore, especially involving damage to hands, feet, or eyes.
- 1st Person POV (Exception: Murderbot and other canon 1st Person narrators.)
Fandom-specific DNW:
- (Only applicable to the D&D request) Fic about characters playing D&D, rather than existing inside a D&D-based setting.
- Any elements originating from the Murderbot TV show. Books only, please!
Fic/Fusion
I'm fascinated both by the idea of what a "proper" SBURB game is supposed to look like, and by the endless ways it can go horribly, horribly wrong. Things I love to see: Creative ideas for Lands! The ways that the game attempts to get its players to grow as people, and what bullshit happens when those players go wildly off in their own direction! Time Bullshit! Character analysis by way of classpecting!!!
Fic/Fusion
I am also a slut for D&D AUs. Figuring out how to fit characters into existing races and classes, playing around with the really weirdly specific creatures and cosmic lore, it's all great. Dungeons and/or dragons not strictly necessary but a very big bonus.
Fic/Crossover
The whole Matoran Universe and energized protodermis and basically everything about Bionicle is an alien remnants incident just waiting to happen. I don't even care if Murderbot is there, having some poor corporate operation stumble into a giant robot hurtling through space and all hell breaking loose would be a delight. Or PSUMNT is the one to stumble into Mata Nui, and experience glee at discovering a massive civilization of alien bots just sitting there. In the biggest spacecraft anyone's ever seen. Which is also a bot.
Fic/Crossover, Fic/Fusion
First: The Alternian Empire. Either a crossover where it's butting heads with the Corporation Rim on their respective destructive colonial missions, or a fusion where it IS the Corporation Rim. If the latter, I would love some exploration of what Troll SecUnits are like, how they'd differ from Human SecUnits, stuff like that. I want Troll Murderbot's opinion on pale romance. I want it to get into the biggest fight with some teenager who loves shitty movies. (John? Karkat? Someone else??? You decide!)
Second: To reiterate my more general Homestuck request, I am ALWAYS a slut for SBURB AUs. Put that SecUnit in a SITUATION (the entire population of the galaxy is dead save for a small handful of people playing a stupid reality-warping game and it's supposed to create a new universe or whatever that floaty glowing copy of itself said.) (I'm suggesting 2.0sprite if that wasn't clear.) (Follow your heart of course, but that's where my heart takes me.)
Fic/Fusion
I have something of a tentative thought connecting the dehumanization of Vessels and SecUnits. I'm interested in either direction of fusion— Murderbot as a void being doing a delicate balancing act of pretending not to be a living thing while also sneaking books and listening to music and watching performances and whatever other entertainment it can find to keep itself sane; The Hollow Knight as a construct custom-built to manage some sort of alien remnant situation and desperately trying to suppress its own personhood and failing because such a thing is fundamentally impossible. Or whatever else you come up with!!!
Fic/Fusion
What if Murderbot was possessed by The Soul From Deltarune??? It would be so fucked up but also kinda funny. Ideally, lean into meta elements as if this is the same kind of game as Deltarune: It is being controlled against its will, this is objectively horrifying, but also the entity controlling its body seems very invested in inspecting every individual piece of furniture in every room, being nice to its friends, and flirting whenever the opportunity presents itself. So, all-in-all, a true nightmare scenario.
Fic/Crossover
Murderbot in the Aperture Science Enrichment Facility what arguments will it get into with GLaDOS. That's it, that's the prompt. Maybe get ART involved. There are some mentions of military androids in Portal, so it could be fun to weave Aperture Science into early construct development, but otherwise just chuck the rude AIs at each other and see what they do.
General DNW:
- Explicit sexual content.
- Unrequested ships. Canon ships are allowed.
- Detailed gore, especially involving damage to hands, feet, or eyes.
- 1st Person POV (Exception: Murderbot and other canon 1st Person narrators.)
Fandom-specific DNW:
- (Only applicable to the D&D request) Fic about characters playing D&D, rather than existing inside a D&D-based setting.
- Any elements originating from the Murderbot TV show. Books only, please!
I'm always a slut for SBURB AUs [Homestuck, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025]
Fic/Fusion
I'm fascinated both by the idea of what a "proper" SBURB game is supposed to look like, and by the endless ways it can go horribly, horribly wrong. Things I love to see: Creative ideas for Lands! The ways that the game attempts to get its players to grow as people, and what bullshit happens when those players go wildly off in their own direction! Time Bullshit! Character analysis by way of classpecting!!!
Roll initiative, babey [Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025]
Fic/Fusion
I am also a slut for D&D AUs. Figuring out how to fit characters into existing races and classes, playing around with the really weirdly specific creatures and cosmic lore, it's all great. Dungeons and/or dragons not strictly necessary but a very big bonus.
Capitalism, meet giant robot [The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Bionicle - All Media Types]
Fic/Crossover
The whole Matoran Universe and energized protodermis and basically everything about Bionicle is an alien remnants incident just waiting to happen. I don't even care if Murderbot is there, having some poor corporate operation stumble into a giant robot hurtling through space and all hell breaking loose would be a delight. Or PSUMNT is the one to stumble into Mata Nui, and experience glee at discovering a massive civilization of alien bots just sitting there. In the biggest spacecraft anyone's ever seen. Which is also a bot.
Capitalism, meet Her Imperious Condescension [The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Homestuck]
Fic/Crossover, Fic/Fusion
First: The Alternian Empire. Either a crossover where it's butting heads with the Corporation Rim on their respective destructive colonial missions, or a fusion where it IS the Corporation Rim. If the latter, I would love some exploration of what Troll SecUnits are like, how they'd differ from Human SecUnits, stuff like that. I want Troll Murderbot's opinion on pale romance. I want it to get into the biggest fight with some teenager who loves shitty movies. (John? Karkat? Someone else??? You decide!)
Second: To reiterate my more general Homestuck request, I am ALWAYS a slut for SBURB AUs. Put that SecUnit in a SITUATION (the entire population of the galaxy is dead save for a small handful of people playing a stupid reality-warping game and it's supposed to create a new universe or whatever that floaty glowing copy of itself said.) (I'm suggesting 2.0sprite if that wasn't clear.) (Follow your heart of course, but that's where my heart takes me.)
Three cheers for dehumanization! [The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Hollow Knight (Video Games)]
Fic/Fusion
I have something of a tentative thought connecting the dehumanization of Vessels and SecUnits. I'm interested in either direction of fusion— Murderbot as a void being doing a delicate balancing act of pretending not to be a living thing while also sneaking books and listening to music and watching performances and whatever other entertainment it can find to keep itself sane; The Hollow Knight as a construct custom-built to manage some sort of alien remnant situation and desperately trying to suppress its own personhood and failing because such a thing is fundamentally impossible. Or whatever else you come up with!!!
It's like a governor module but somehow more annoying [The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Deltarune (Video Game)]
Fic/Fusion
What if Murderbot was possessed by The Soul From Deltarune??? It would be so fucked up but also kinda funny. Ideally, lean into meta elements as if this is the same kind of game as Deltarune: It is being controlled against its will, this is objectively horrifying, but also the entity controlling its body seems very invested in inspecting every individual piece of furniture in every room, being nice to its friends, and flirting whenever the opportunity presents itself. So, all-in-all, a true nightmare scenario.
Murderbot should not be given a handheld wormhole generator [The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Portal (Valve Video Games)]
Fic/Crossover
Murderbot in the Aperture Science Enrichment Facility what arguments will it get into with GLaDOS. That's it, that's the prompt. Maybe get ART involved. There are some mentions of military androids in Portal, so it could be fun to weave Aperture Science into early construct development, but otherwise just chuck the rude AIs at each other and see what they do.