Dear Fic In A Box Creator,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user graveexcitement). I'm so excited to do ficinabox again! :D Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

Do Not Wants:
-Non-con. (To clarify: I don't want non-con but I like some dub-con, like sex pollen or other mind-altering substances.)
-Bathroom kinks (watersports/piss kink, scat, etc.)

( Likes/favorite tropes )

( (Fandoms: Crossover Fandom (Imperial Radch & Modao Zushi), Dangan Ronpa, The Magnus Archives, Zero Escape) )

I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave

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Dear Stork Swap Author,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user graveexcitement). I'm super excited for storkswap! It's like, the exchange I never knew I needed. Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional and the freeform tags are kind of prompts in and of themselves; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

All requests are for fanfiction. For mpreg, I like stories where the pregnant character is a trans man; I also enjoy cis mpreg, or A/B/O.

( Do Not Wants )

( Likes/favored tropes )

( (Fandoms: Modao Zushi, The Magnus Archives, Zero Escape) )

I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave

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Dear Yuletide Author,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user graveexcitement). Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

The length of my prompts may vary between my requested fandoms, especially in places where I've been able to reuse prompts from previous exchanges. Don't worry — if I requested a fandom, I want it just as much as I want the other fandoms here, regardless of prompt length!

Do Not Wants:
-I'm not interested in smut for this exchange.

( Likes/favored tropes )

( (Fandoms: Among Us, Hollow Knight, Mother of Learning, Zero Escape) )

I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave

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about a week ago, my hollow knight obsession met the obstacle of a boss fight i'm stuck on (Traitor Lord), but! my brother finally came back to playing zero escape, so most of my game time has been watching him play. a few highlights:

"have any of y’all uncultured fucks played zero escape?” — my brother to his friends

the rest are spoilery: ( virtue's last reward spoilers )

he finished Virtue's Last Reward yesterday and has played like, the very first scene of Zero Time Dilemma, haha.

did last minute christmas shopping yesterday; found stuff for all the family members who will actually be here on christmas itself (several more will be arriving on the 28th, and i don't have their stuff yet but i'll either order it or go shopping again on thursday.)

speaking of extended family members, i'm gonna come out as trans to my grandma tomorrow and the others when they arrive later this week. because now that i'm out to my immediate family and they call me the right name most of the time, i no longer want to be closeted in my own house. so that'll be a little awkward/stressful, but it had to happen eventually. might as well be now.

also. seeing presents addressed to my new name has made me unbelievably happy. the euphoria makes up for any stress. (fingers crossed lmao)

Dear Prime Time Player,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user graveExcitement (arachnids)). Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

The length of my prompts may vary between my requested fandoms and requested ships, especially in places where I've been able to reuse prompts from previous exchanges. Don't worry - if I requested a ship, I want it just as much as I want the other ships here, regardless of prompt length!

Also, in case anyone was trying to look at this letter before May 3rd, sorry! Got distracted >.>

Do Not Wants:
-Non-con. (To clarify: I don't want non-con but I am fine with some dub-con, like sex pollen or other mind-altering substances.)
-Watersports/scat.

( Likes/favored tropes )

( (Fandoms: Danganronpa, Hypnosis Mic, The Umbrella Academy, Zero Escape) )

I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave

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so i started watching a LP of VLR (because that's what i do with games i like, i watch other people play them), and i just realized...( zero escape: VLR spoilers )

Dear Chocolatier,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user graveExcitement (arachnids)), and I'm super excited to be doing Chocolate Box for the third time! Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

The length of my prompts may vary between my requested fandoms and requested ships, especially in places where I've been able to reuse prompts from previous exchanges. Don't worry - if I requested a ship, I want it just as much as I want the other ships here, regardless of prompt length!

Do Not Wants:
-Non-con. (To clarify: I don't want non-con but I am fine with some dub-con, like sex pollen or other mind-altering substances.)
-Watersports/scat.

( Likes/favored tropes )
( (Fandoms: Boku no Hero Academia, Danganronpa, New Danganronpa V3, Zero Escape) )

I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave

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this should surprise no one, but it's time for more zero time dilemma. spoilers ahoy!

before i jump in to the game, i'm going to try and collect my thoughts/theories/curiosities.

( thoughts & theories (ZTD spoilers) )

...and of course, once i got all that written up, i got distracted by playing minecraft with my friends. (and after all that deliberation on whether to play zero escape or be with pals, too...)

ok now to like... try to actually... play the game... maybe??
( gameplay (ZTD spoilers) )

good night, y'all.

i am on a roll this week in bandori! full combo'd expert Silhouette just now. it's not a song i usually play, which is why it's neat when people in multiplayer pick songs that aren't played that often. (you know, instead of FUWA-FUWA TIME for the eight thousandth time. no, i'm not salty, why do you ask?) i also just played Goka! Gokai!? Phantom Thief! on expert for the first time, and while i did barely manage to clear it, i was going what the fuck is going on the whole time.

anyhow, back to zero escape.

( zero time dilemma spoilers )

anyhow. going to bed shortly. had a good christmas -- my younger brother got Super Smash Bros Ultimate, so me and my siblings played that for a few hours earlier. it's fun! we didn't open all of our presents, though, as my grandma and aunt are flying in later today, so we decided to hold off on opening the presents from them til they get here. so later today (since it's already 7am now lmao) we'll have christmas part 2: electric boogaloo. hopefully i'll be awake and not completely sleep deprived. lmao.

(this is becoming a pattern for me with zero escape. after my last final a few weeks ago i came home and played Virtue's Last Reward, and then i kept playing for the next eleven or so hours, give or take, because i was finally at the point where i was Figuring Out All The Things.)

anyways!! this has gone on long enough! i'll actually sleep now.

this week in bandori i got full combos on expert for B.O.F. and Koi wa Chaos no Shimobenari, so i am officially marking this week up as a Success. now if only i could get a full combo on expert PICO!!!... that's the dream.

bandori (aka BanG Dream!) is the only rhythm game i play these days, because i got fed up with love live. it's funny, because as a kid i was always rotten at DDR, guitar hero, rock band, etc. turns out i can be decent at rhythm games if i get to tap the notes directly on my phone! so over the last year or so i've been playing some phone rhythm games -- first love live, then bandori (and i highly prefer bandori for a variety of reasons), and i've been slowly improving. at this point i can clear pretty much all but the most difficult songs on expert -- it's cool to be able to look back and remember "oh yeah, back in april i was still struggling with some of these songs on hard, but now i can do most of them on expert!"

also, i mostly play this game for the game and not the story (even tho i've heard it's got a p good story), but Kaoru is my #1 fave and today i joined a multiplayer lobby, saw that someone's username was "Kaoru is worst girl," and immediately left that lobby, because how dare you >:(

the other night i commissioned cactuskhee for a sketch commission of Snake from 999 (the first Zero Escape game), and i love it so much, i'm making it my new default icon. Snake has rapidly become one of my top favorite characters, along with Ouma Kokichi (NDRv3) and Aizawa Shouta (BNHA). i'm not sure what, if anything, those 3 faves say about me as a person, but they're def the characters who have most thoroughly lodged themselves in my heart/brain in the last year or so.

speaking of zero escape, i'm several hours into Zero Time Dilemma and, as to be expected, my intrigue is growing. "Life is truly unfair" seems to be Zero's running catchphrase here, and i am very curious to find out what that's about.