Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

That makes some sense. I'm not really into fanfic as a category, though some specific examples of it can be very fine. The nice thing about fanfic requests as I've seen them is that it's much easier to say, "I'd love a story about character X and character Y in setting Z" or "doing activity Q" or whatever. I like stories, but, "Write me a story! Some of the characters should be female, unless they aren't!" is not very easy as prompts go. And most of the people of whom I have specific requests are people I've very carefully not been begging to finish their books, because books take the time they take, and nobody deliberately leaves books unfinished to taunt me.

That I know of. Hmmmmmmm.