Fandom 5K Letter
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Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3
Likes
General
I’m a fan of romance, adventure (especially quests!), casefic, plotty fic, fluff, gen, world-building and character studies. I am happy with any rating and any tone, from fluffy curtain fic down to pretty dark stuff. I usually prefer at least a bittersweet ending, though (unless otherwise specified). I love fics that are realistic and I love stuff that’s tropey as all get out; go wild.
Some themes/tropes I really love include: characters fighting against/changing fate, everything about survival (what it means, how it changes you, the lengths you went to), the pressures and struggles of leadership, two people against the world together, found family anything, harsh/beautiful (or harshly beautiful) physical landscapes, gifts or gestures with intense or very personal meanings, anything where characters just get one another, characters who grapple with becoming evil or doing evil deeds, villains who believe they’re in the right, villains who just don’t care about morality, characters who are determined hope will prevail above all else, characters who really feel the weight of their heritage/someone's legacy and a pressure to live up to that.
I am also very into AUs and fusions, including: fantasy (urban, high, whatever), post-apocalypse, sci-fi/space, superpowers, Pacific Rim fusions, reincarnation, royal/arranged marriage
Relationship Themed Trope Likes
Seemingly Unrequited Pining, Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings, Battle Couple, Everyone Can See It, Like An Old Married Couple
Porn Likes
I really love porn that’s about the characters and centres their relationship. Emotionally charged, desperate, I-need-you-it-can’t-wait sex is fantastic! Sex that’s the culmination of a slow burn and/or a really intense bout of UST is my absolute jam. I’m pretty vanilla when it comes to things like BDSM, so anything beyond blindfolds and tying up wrists is a no-go for me. I’m not really into dom/sub dynamics, but a bit of dirty talk is great. A bit of rough sex – hair-pulling, pushing up against walls, scratching/biting, not being 100% gentle all the time is also very good ;) I'm also always down with xeno and human/non-human sex!
DNWs
Scat + watersports, incest, underage, character-bashing, non-con, strict BDSM relationships, de-aging, humiliation
The Silmarillion
Caranthir
- How did he set up his kingdom? Worldbuilding – how do things work there, what are the people like, what’s trade like?
- Caranthir’s alliance with the dwarves – how did it come about? Is he really as disdainful of them as the narration in the Silm makes him out to be?
- What is it like for him after the Nirnaeth?
- What are his thoughts and feelings in the run-up to and during the attack on Doriath?
Tuor/Voronwë
- How does their relationship grow through their journey to Gondolin?
- Canon divergence where Voronwë is the elf Tuor falls for and marries rather than Idril?
- Does Voronwë survive the fall of Gondolin?
- Canon divergence where Túrin notices them at the Pools – what happens next?
Maedhros
- Maedhros setting up Himring – how does he decide on the spot, build the castle, etc? Are there people in the land of Himring aside from the Noldor whom he has to convince to live under his rule?
- Anything about his alliance with the dwarves and how it happens, especially Maedhros visiting a dwarven city
- Anything character-study-ish about the progression of his life from the arrival in Beleriand through founding and losing his own kingdom, to the Kinslayings and finally his own death
Star Wars
Anakin/Obi-Wan
- I’d love anything about them going on a mission – maybe having to go undercover as criminals doing an opportunistic heist?
- Something about the progression of their secret relationship? Both knowing it goes against their vows as Jedi but being unable to deny it?
- Obi-Wan has a homeworld somewhere – maybe something from that homeworld finally finds him or becomes a problem for him? Maybe he is chosen to negotiate with the leaders of his homeworld who’re thinking about joining the Separatists?
- Any kind of canon divergence AU – what would’ve happened if this did or didn’t happen, etc. I particularly love Sith!Obi-Wan AUs, or AUs where Anakin didn’t fall at the end of ROTS, but the Republic still became the Empire.
The Magnus Archives
Jon/Elias
- Anything to do with the Watcher’s Crown! Literally anything about Elias tempting Jon into helping him perform the ritual, and what happens to them both if they actually manage to get it to work, would be so amazing. Jon’s fatal flaw is his curiosity, so something playing on the fact that he can’t stay away from Elias and the answers he holds, and the things he’s planning, and the power he has, etc. What does a world after the Watcher’s Crown look like?
- Porn porn porn, whether consensual or dubcon. Is part of getting answers out of Elias having to sleep with him? Does a Jon who’s tempted to the dark side find Elias irresistible – or maybe it’s Elias who can’t keep his hands off Jon? I would really like it not to be total noncon on either part, especially if Elias makes a point that he wouldn’t force Jon into anything because he actually values Jon. Also praise kink, claiming sex, possessive sex – any of these would be amazing, either on their own or combined with a more plotty prompt.
Martin/Mike
- How do these two meet and why? Is it a random encounter, or does one go looking for the other? This can be a canon divergence where Daisy didn’t kill Mike, or maybe he manages to come back from the dead somehow? Does he seek out the Institute for revenge/answers and find Martin? Or maybe Martin finds him for some reason? Perhaps something set during one of the earlier seasons, with Martin seeking out Avatars for some reason? What do they do once they’ve found each other – does one need the others help for some reason?
Original Work
Blind Prince/Prince’s Guard | Bastard Prince
- I love the idea of dual, conflicting loyalties suggested here. When were the bastard prince’s dynasty overthrown – was it recent or not? How does he feel about the crown prince and his part in it? Maybe he joins up as a guard to get close to the prince – maybe to assassinate him – but ends up falling for him instead? I would love if the prince didn’t know the guard was a bastard from another dynasty – whether the prince’s guard lets on is up to you.
- Or maybe the guard has only just discovered his heritage, and isn’t sure what to do about it? I would love for him to be super protective of the crown prince, and maybe conflicted about having a relationship with him.
Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Male Adviser and Childhood Friend
- Maybe the adviser has been trying to make himself a name away from the royal family for a while, but comes back to support his best friend in his royal role?
- Maybe something he's been doing/somewhere he's been has given him his more practical perspective that contrasts with his idealistic prince who's never really seen much of the world outside the palace/books? How do they balance their viewpoints and start working together to move their country forward - and how do they admit they're in love?
- Perhaps something about how the prince is trying to move things forward too fast or without working to get other factions in the government on side, and how the adviser is trying to rein him in before he accidentally causes some kind of scandal/rebellion
- I’m always here for anything about a more jaded, sceptical character being awed by a more idealistic character’s sense of hope and determination (even if they also think they’re naïve), so anything including that would be amazing.
Male Fire God/New King Who Marries Him In What He Assumed To Be A Symbolic Ceremony
- I’d love to know why this ceremony comes about, and why the new king assumed it was only symbolic?
- Is it something done for every monarch, but the fire god has never actually claimed any of them as his spouse before?
- Has the King somehow become the monarch of a country/people whose culture he doesn’t know well, and that’s why he assumed this was only symbolic?
- What happens to show him that this is very much not a symbolic ceremony, and what does being a fire god’s husband entail? Wedding night consummation would be amazing, especially if the fire god has some very non-human traits and the king is very much out of his depth but unexpectedly into it. (Also, he’s a fire god, so – temperature play?)
Male Superhero/His Male Supervillain Nemesis Who Has Amnesia
- How did the supervillain get amnesia – through something medical, weird science, magic even? Does the superhero not know how long it will last, or is it something that lasts a certain number of days?
- Perhaps the hero starts out trying to use the amnesia to his advantage, maybe trying to find out if the supervillain can remember enough to lead him to his secret lair or something, but ends up won over by the supervillain’s vulnerability and helplessness.
- Maybe there’s some conflicting feelings because they used to be on the same side, or maybe the hero has been trying to win the villain over to his side for a long while now, and it’s finally worked in a monkey-paw-ish way?
- I would love if the hero falls hard for the villain, even knowing that they might at any moment revert to their enemy. I would love if the hero has super conflicting feelings about having sex with the villain while they have amnesia, even if the villain wants to, because he knows the villain would never consent if he didn’t have amnesia.
- Maybe he sticks it out, and refuses to have sex with him until he has his memory back, and that’s what makes the villain stop and revaluate the hero?
- Or maybe he can’t resist it, and when the villain gets his memories back, he remembers how tender and loving the hero was to him, and has super conflicting feelings for his own?
- I’m assuming the villain eventually gets rid of his amnesia, but maybe he doesn’t – what happens then?
Monstrous Cursed Prince/Young Man Who Takes Refuge In Seemingly Abandoned Castle
- Obviously this is based on Beauty and the Beast, so if you want to stick quite closely to any version of that tale that you like, whether it’s the Disney version or an older version, I will love it (I love all versions of this type of story!). Or maybe you want to do something rather different? You can make this fluffy or somewhat darker – maybe the monstrous prince is just a bit grumpy, or maybe his form is legitimately terrifying, and it takes a while for the teen runaway to feel anything other than abject terror when he steps into the room.
- But what is so bad that the teen runaway would rather stay in the castle with the monster?
- Why was the prince cursed?
- Is there a way to break the curse, or is he stuck forever?
- If you’d like to include porn, I would love if the curse has to be broken by both love and sex. I just really want the runaway to have hot, perhaps rough, perhaps more romantic sex with the monstrous prince he’s come to find inexplicably attractive.
Regretful Former Bully/Former Victim He Accidently Falls For
- How bad was the bullying, and why did the bully do it?
- Under what circumstances do they reunite, and how do they both react at first? Do either of them try to bring up the past?
- How does the bully end up falling for his former victim? How do they keep encountering each other?
- Maybe the former victim is sure they’ll never get to be more than somewhat-warm acquaintances, but he ends up falling for the former bully against his will…
Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3
Likes
General
I’m a fan of romance, adventure (especially quests!), casefic, plotty fic, fluff, gen, world-building and character studies. I am happy with any rating and any tone, from fluffy curtain fic down to pretty dark stuff. I usually prefer at least a bittersweet ending, though (unless otherwise specified). I love fics that are realistic and I love stuff that’s tropey as all get out; go wild.
Some themes/tropes I really love include: characters fighting against/changing fate, everything about survival (what it means, how it changes you, the lengths you went to), the pressures and struggles of leadership, two people against the world together, found family anything, harsh/beautiful (or harshly beautiful) physical landscapes, gifts or gestures with intense or very personal meanings, anything where characters just get one another, characters who grapple with becoming evil or doing evil deeds, villains who believe they’re in the right, villains who just don’t care about morality, characters who are determined hope will prevail above all else, characters who really feel the weight of their heritage/someone's legacy and a pressure to live up to that.
I am also very into AUs and fusions, including: fantasy (urban, high, whatever), post-apocalypse, sci-fi/space, superpowers, Pacific Rim fusions, reincarnation, royal/arranged marriage
Relationship Themed Trope Likes
Seemingly Unrequited Pining, Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings, Battle Couple, Everyone Can See It, Like An Old Married Couple
Porn Likes
I really love porn that’s about the characters and centres their relationship. Emotionally charged, desperate, I-need-you-it-can’t-wait sex is fantastic! Sex that’s the culmination of a slow burn and/or a really intense bout of UST is my absolute jam. I’m pretty vanilla when it comes to things like BDSM, so anything beyond blindfolds and tying up wrists is a no-go for me. I’m not really into dom/sub dynamics, but a bit of dirty talk is great. A bit of rough sex – hair-pulling, pushing up against walls, scratching/biting, not being 100% gentle all the time is also very good ;) I'm also always down with xeno and human/non-human sex!
DNWs
Scat + watersports, incest, underage, character-bashing, non-con, strict BDSM relationships, de-aging, humiliation
The Silmarillion
Caranthir
- How did he set up his kingdom? Worldbuilding – how do things work there, what are the people like, what’s trade like?
- Caranthir’s alliance with the dwarves – how did it come about? Is he really as disdainful of them as the narration in the Silm makes him out to be?
- What is it like for him after the Nirnaeth?
- What are his thoughts and feelings in the run-up to and during the attack on Doriath?
Tuor/Voronwë
- How does their relationship grow through their journey to Gondolin?
- Canon divergence where Voronwë is the elf Tuor falls for and marries rather than Idril?
- Does Voronwë survive the fall of Gondolin?
- Canon divergence where Túrin notices them at the Pools – what happens next?
Maedhros
- Maedhros setting up Himring – how does he decide on the spot, build the castle, etc? Are there people in the land of Himring aside from the Noldor whom he has to convince to live under his rule?
- Anything about his alliance with the dwarves and how it happens, especially Maedhros visiting a dwarven city
- Anything character-study-ish about the progression of his life from the arrival in Beleriand through founding and losing his own kingdom, to the Kinslayings and finally his own death
Star Wars
Anakin/Obi-Wan
- I’d love anything about them going on a mission – maybe having to go undercover as criminals doing an opportunistic heist?
- Something about the progression of their secret relationship? Both knowing it goes against their vows as Jedi but being unable to deny it?
- Obi-Wan has a homeworld somewhere – maybe something from that homeworld finally finds him or becomes a problem for him? Maybe he is chosen to negotiate with the leaders of his homeworld who’re thinking about joining the Separatists?
- Any kind of canon divergence AU – what would’ve happened if this did or didn’t happen, etc. I particularly love Sith!Obi-Wan AUs, or AUs where Anakin didn’t fall at the end of ROTS, but the Republic still became the Empire.
The Magnus Archives
Jon/Elias
- Anything to do with the Watcher’s Crown! Literally anything about Elias tempting Jon into helping him perform the ritual, and what happens to them both if they actually manage to get it to work, would be so amazing. Jon’s fatal flaw is his curiosity, so something playing on the fact that he can’t stay away from Elias and the answers he holds, and the things he’s planning, and the power he has, etc. What does a world after the Watcher’s Crown look like?
- Porn porn porn, whether consensual or dubcon. Is part of getting answers out of Elias having to sleep with him? Does a Jon who’s tempted to the dark side find Elias irresistible – or maybe it’s Elias who can’t keep his hands off Jon? I would really like it not to be total noncon on either part, especially if Elias makes a point that he wouldn’t force Jon into anything because he actually values Jon. Also praise kink, claiming sex, possessive sex – any of these would be amazing, either on their own or combined with a more plotty prompt.
Martin/Mike
- How do these two meet and why? Is it a random encounter, or does one go looking for the other? This can be a canon divergence where Daisy didn’t kill Mike, or maybe he manages to come back from the dead somehow? Does he seek out the Institute for revenge/answers and find Martin? Or maybe Martin finds him for some reason? Perhaps something set during one of the earlier seasons, with Martin seeking out Avatars for some reason? What do they do once they’ve found each other – does one need the others help for some reason?
Original Work
Blind Prince/Prince’s Guard | Bastard Prince
- I love the idea of dual, conflicting loyalties suggested here. When were the bastard prince’s dynasty overthrown – was it recent or not? How does he feel about the crown prince and his part in it? Maybe he joins up as a guard to get close to the prince – maybe to assassinate him – but ends up falling for him instead? I would love if the prince didn’t know the guard was a bastard from another dynasty – whether the prince’s guard lets on is up to you.
- Or maybe the guard has only just discovered his heritage, and isn’t sure what to do about it? I would love for him to be super protective of the crown prince, and maybe conflicted about having a relationship with him.
Idealistic Emotional Prince/His More Practical Male Adviser and Childhood Friend
- Maybe the adviser has been trying to make himself a name away from the royal family for a while, but comes back to support his best friend in his royal role?
- Maybe something he's been doing/somewhere he's been has given him his more practical perspective that contrasts with his idealistic prince who's never really seen much of the world outside the palace/books? How do they balance their viewpoints and start working together to move their country forward - and how do they admit they're in love?
- Perhaps something about how the prince is trying to move things forward too fast or without working to get other factions in the government on side, and how the adviser is trying to rein him in before he accidentally causes some kind of scandal/rebellion
- I’m always here for anything about a more jaded, sceptical character being awed by a more idealistic character’s sense of hope and determination (even if they also think they’re naïve), so anything including that would be amazing.
Male Fire God/New King Who Marries Him In What He Assumed To Be A Symbolic Ceremony
- I’d love to know why this ceremony comes about, and why the new king assumed it was only symbolic?
- Is it something done for every monarch, but the fire god has never actually claimed any of them as his spouse before?
- Has the King somehow become the monarch of a country/people whose culture he doesn’t know well, and that’s why he assumed this was only symbolic?
- What happens to show him that this is very much not a symbolic ceremony, and what does being a fire god’s husband entail? Wedding night consummation would be amazing, especially if the fire god has some very non-human traits and the king is very much out of his depth but unexpectedly into it. (Also, he’s a fire god, so – temperature play?)
Male Superhero/His Male Supervillain Nemesis Who Has Amnesia
- How did the supervillain get amnesia – through something medical, weird science, magic even? Does the superhero not know how long it will last, or is it something that lasts a certain number of days?
- Perhaps the hero starts out trying to use the amnesia to his advantage, maybe trying to find out if the supervillain can remember enough to lead him to his secret lair or something, but ends up won over by the supervillain’s vulnerability and helplessness.
- Maybe there’s some conflicting feelings because they used to be on the same side, or maybe the hero has been trying to win the villain over to his side for a long while now, and it’s finally worked in a monkey-paw-ish way?
- I would love if the hero falls hard for the villain, even knowing that they might at any moment revert to their enemy. I would love if the hero has super conflicting feelings about having sex with the villain while they have amnesia, even if the villain wants to, because he knows the villain would never consent if he didn’t have amnesia.
- Maybe he sticks it out, and refuses to have sex with him until he has his memory back, and that’s what makes the villain stop and revaluate the hero?
- Or maybe he can’t resist it, and when the villain gets his memories back, he remembers how tender and loving the hero was to him, and has super conflicting feelings for his own?
- I’m assuming the villain eventually gets rid of his amnesia, but maybe he doesn’t – what happens then?
Monstrous Cursed Prince/Young Man Who Takes Refuge In Seemingly Abandoned Castle
- Obviously this is based on Beauty and the Beast, so if you want to stick quite closely to any version of that tale that you like, whether it’s the Disney version or an older version, I will love it (I love all versions of this type of story!). Or maybe you want to do something rather different? You can make this fluffy or somewhat darker – maybe the monstrous prince is just a bit grumpy, or maybe his form is legitimately terrifying, and it takes a while for the teen runaway to feel anything other than abject terror when he steps into the room.
- But what is so bad that the teen runaway would rather stay in the castle with the monster?
- Why was the prince cursed?
- Is there a way to break the curse, or is he stuck forever?
- If you’d like to include porn, I would love if the curse has to be broken by both love and sex. I just really want the runaway to have hot, perhaps rough, perhaps more romantic sex with the monstrous prince he’s come to find inexplicably attractive.
Regretful Former Bully/Former Victim He Accidently Falls For
- How bad was the bullying, and why did the bully do it?
- Under what circumstances do they reunite, and how do they both react at first? Do either of them try to bring up the past?
- How does the bully end up falling for his former victim? How do they keep encountering each other?
- Maybe the former victim is sure they’ll never get to be more than somewhat-warm acquaintances, but he ends up falling for the former bully against his will…
