Libby

High Adrenaline Letter 2026

2026-03-01T01:23:31Z

Thanks for reading my letter! Please don't be put off if I have more ideas for one ship/character than another - I can promise I am equally enthusiastic about all the ideas I've put down here! Also, my account is open for treats! My AO3 is platinum_firebird.

LIKES:

pining

friends to lovers

having 'casual' sex while secretly pining

adventures and casefic

plotty fic

hurt/comfort

helping someone with an injury while pining

presumed dead

praise kink

dirty talk

first times

virginity kink

breeding kink

desperate sex

handholding

angst with a happy ending

sex pollen

omegaverse

loyalty kink

slow burn

bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)

found family

lush description of landscapes/settings

worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL

scat/watersports

24/7 dom/sub relationships

de-aging

incest

underage with anyone 14 or under

knifeplay

age regression

parasites

non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)

vore

anal tearing/bleeding

modern AU

high school AU
main character death

Attack On Titan

Moblit Berner/Hange Zoë

I love their madcap scientist/exasperated realist dynamic, but I can’t help but think that under his sensible exterior, Moblit matches her freak in a way that makes him a perfect partner. I would love to see either Hange discovering this, or Outsider POV where someone else realises Moblit isn’t as straight-laced as he appears to be.
I would LOVE anything that digs deeper into their titan research! I would love to see a Moblit who’s also very enthusiastic about discovering titan secrets, he just has more respect for operational safety and knows how to play it cool in front of people who think it’s ‘weird.’
I would love to see either an AU where they both survive or where they reunite in the afterlife!
Or the Make Me Cry prompt: Hange searching the battlefield to see if she can find anything remaining of Moblit to take home to bury.

Onyankopon/Hange Zoë

I just love anything about Hange’s endless curiosity meeting the boundless things to learn in the outside world, and Onyankopon having fun as her guide!
There’s one fanart I saw of them ages ago riding a Vespa, which gave me the idea of them exploring a city together!
In the quiet moments, what bits of Paradis culture and society does Hange show him? What insights/stories/information about his own culture does Onyankopon give back?
In an AU where Hange survives, how do they work out their relationship post the end of the world?
I would love Onyankopon taking Hange to his country and showing her the sights, too!

Reiner Braun/Jean Kirstein

Bring me pain and focus on how the betrayal/reveal of Reiner’s true motivation hurts for Jean
I live for these two tentatively figuring their relationship out post-canon, after everything they’ve been through. I love them both being oblivious to the fact that the whole thing was romantic until post-Rumbling! Then wondering how on earth they could’ve missed it.
I feel like these two are the type to make absolutely everyone around them miserable by awkwardly dancing around each other xD
They weren’t nominated but I am always down for more Reiner & Gabi relationship and her take on his love life!

Jean Kirstein/Hange Zoe
Levi Ackerman/Jean Kirstein

Lumping these together bc I have similar ideas for them!

Pre the timeskip, I find the idea of Jean grappling with a devastating one-sided crush on one (or both) of his COs absolutely hilarious! They’re older, hotter, amazingly competent, so cool… Starry-eyed Jean is very funny to me xD I would prefer neither Hange or Levi reciprocate when Jean is underage, but feel free to have them notice and either tactfully ignore it or let him down gently (does Hange even notice? Have either of them had to deal with this before?)
Post-canon, I love the idea of older, wiser Jean being either Hange or Levi’s scandalously young boyfriend xD (I think both of them are supposed to be mid-to-late 30s post timeskip, but feel free to make them 40+ if you want xD) This could go with the teenage crush, or it could be a new thing. What brings them together? I love relationships where the characters think “we shouldn’t” but can’t resist anyway. I also love a dynamic where the older character has a mild-to-bad complex about being “old and tired and undesirable now” (especially Levi after he got so beat up in the final season!) that meets the younger character’s “I am uncontrollably horny for you.” xD

Erwin Smith/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith

I love any combo of these three!!

Exploring how they come together and learn how to work together: hell yes
Exploring how they go from colleagues to lovers: also hell yes
I will gladly take PWP/nothing but porn if you want to go that direction!
I’m obsessed with people looking at him from afar thinking Erwin is Mr Dashing Handsome Prince Charming etc. and getting closer only to discover no, He Is Insane (affectionate).
For LeviHan specifically: pegging, or bondage with Levi being the one tied up…. hell yeah
For Eruri specifically: I love exploration of how far Levi is willing to go for Erwin and where Erwin’s lines are for what he’ll ask from Levi - I imagine he has some flexible ones and some that are ironclad, and it would be interesting to see where they differ on those. Alternately, what makes these two have a serious disagreement, and how do they smooth things out again?
Erwin strikes me as a person who is Always On, always playing 5D chess in his head, even asleep. Let either Hange or Levi or both distract him from All Of That for a little while (give this poor man a break).

Eren Yeager & Hange Zoë

The shift in their relationship from her yapping about titans all night and Eren humouring her, to their titan tests together, to that moment in the cell in the final season where he grabs her - it all makes me oh so happy and then so sad. I would love anything that explores their changing relationship over the years.
How does he feel about her in the end? Is he torn up at her death, or did he legitimately grow to resent her? (I am up for either interpretation! Make me cry!)
Did he speak to her in the Paths at some point like he did to Armin?

Hitch Dreyse/Annie Leonhart

I love their dynamic and I would love to see how it progresses post-canon after All That. It's going to be a hell of a reunion after Annie left like that and she got mixed up in Saving The World, and I am so here for all the complicated feelings and the lack of trust warring with the fact that this might finally be an opportunity to be somewhat somewhere sort of on the same side? Or at least a similar agenda? Or maybe Hitch has gone full on New Eldian Empire as a method of self preservation and they're cruelly on different sides yet again?
If Hitch had been there when Armin and the others arrived, would she have gone with them and Annie? What if she did?

Star Wars: Visions Vol 2

I absolutely loved these characters and their stories! What I would really love is to see where they go next.

Daal - Absolutely fascinated by the possibilities of who Daal could become as a Sith. I'm really into Sith who don't turn into one-note moustache twirling villains, and nuanced takes on the Dark Side. What does she learn from the Sith, and how does she put it into practice? What kind of Sith does she become? Does she ever go back for her friends? If so, does she find them, or have they moved on - or has tragedy struck? I think it would be fascinating to see Daal the full-fledged Sith reunite with her old friends, or to see her faced with the choice of whether or not to recruit her own apprentice. As I said above, I'm totally up for weird Force stuff or digging deeper into the magical side of the Force!

Aau - I loved Aau oh so much and I would love to see her become a Jedi! I would love to see anything from her training or her as a full Jedi. Or maybe something about her exploring the galaxy? Would love to see how she grows in confidence and confronts the challenges of the wider galaxy. Always up for more odd or fun Force goings on!

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä, Worldbuilding

- I would love some worldbuilding for the people and groups in this world - how does the world work? The valley where Nausicaä lives? What are the other countries/human settlements, how do they interact with each other?

- I absolutely love the way the history of this world is remembered and immortalised in the tapestry that we're shown in the opening credits. I would love something that digs into the meaning behind any of those images, what people remember and/or are taught about them, or about the ancient world in general. What knowledge has survived, been passed down, or been rediscovered?

- I would love to see more of Nausicaä's adventures and explorations of the forest and the world outside the valley, whether that's before or after canon. Seeing post-canon Nausicaä grow into a champion for responsibly exploring the legacy left by the ancient world would be amazing.

- I'm also so here for the amazing flora! Any exploration of that, and how the jungle works, would be awesome. Or Nausicaä somehow reconnecting with or learning more about the Ohm, later in life?

Star Wars: Thrawn Series

Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto, 1: Eli Vanto

I am happy for you to go with what the Ahsoka series laid out as Thrawn’s fate (going to another galaxy and enlisting the Night Sisters to get back etc) or if you want to do something different (or haven’t seen the show) go for it! Also, feel free to bring in characters from other bits of Star Wars, especially Rebels or Andor characters! I also requested Eli on his own bc he's my fave, so feel free to do any of the relevant prompts (e.g. Force sensitive Eli) with him on his own or with a big focus on just him!

Fandom-specific ship DNWs: Eli/Vah'nya, Eli/Ronan, Eli/Ar'alani, Thrawn/Ar'alani
Ships I like: One sided Enoch->Thrawn (obsessive and weird flavour), love Kallus/Eli where they're terrible for each other and have a terrible break-up, Eli/Clone!Thrawn (see below), Ar'alani/basically any woman somewhere near her age, Thalias/Samakro.

Anything post-Rebels, either with Thrawn trying to deal with getting blasted off into unknown space and get back, or with Eli dealing with it. Does Eli go looking for him, or is something keeping him in the Ascendancy and he just has to try and accept the reality of Thrawn being gone? Anything with Eli reluctantly accepting Thrawn being gone and mourning him would be great, especially if Thrawn then reappears.
Eli having to get into some kind of arranged politic marriage and Thrawn appearing at just the right moment to Crash The Wedding!
Any kind of worldbuilding for the Ascendancy or Lysatra. Maybe they go visit Lysatra and Eli’s parents? Or they visit Thrawn’s homeworld/family? Or they have a day together on Csilla/Lysatra/some other Chiss world?
I also love plotty things, so anything with these two solving a case or mystery or going on a mission like they do in canon would be amazing. Murder mystery? The royal machinations of a particular planet? Imperial politics? Catching smugglers and/or rebels? Anything.
I ship them a lot so would love to get shipfic of any kind, any of the above prompts + ship would be amazing. For specifically shipfic, I love pretty much anything, especially with Thrawn being the instigator. I love the trope of Chiss fraternization laws/social rules differing from humans, and how the two of them cope with that. Also marriage proposals/accidental marriage/arranged marriage would make my day, I love marriage tropes.
Instead of joining an Imperial Academy, Eli ends up becoming a bounty hunter? Maybe something happens to his family/their business, which means he needs a quick way to make money? How does he meet Thrawn in this AU? Does Thrawn become a bounty hunter with him? Or maybe as an Imperial officer, Thrawn works with Eli the bounty hunter to track down rebels/other fugitives?
On a similar note - space pirate Eli? Maybe Imperial!Thrawn trying to chase down Space Pirate!Eli?
I would absolutely love anything with Eli being Force-sensitive. How does he hide it? Why did he still join the Empire if he knew? Does he know exactly what his strange abilities are? How do they get revealed to Thrawn? Maybe they get revealed, and Eli has to go on the run?
Alternately, Force-sensitive Eli was discovered by the Empire and recruited as an Inquisitor, and that’s how he ends up meeting Imperial officer Thrawn? Maybe they become partners like in canon, only Eli is on an equal or maybe even greater level rank-wise than Thrawn, since he’s an Inquisitor. Inquisitor!Eli helping Grand Admiral Thrawn hunt down the Ghost crew during Rebels would be amazing!
Eli dealing with the fallout of what happened in the first season of the Ahsoka show - what does he think about Thrawn coming back? And at the head of a zombie stormtrooper army? And possibly aiming to become the ‘Heir to the Empire’? Has Thrawn given up on the Ascendancy - or has he heard through the Night Mothers’ connection to Morgan that something terrible happened to it because of the Grysk?
In Legends canon, Thrawn had a clone - if you wanted to do something with clone!Thrawn that fits the new canon timeline, go wild! How, when, and why did he get created? Where is he? Maybe Eli finds him while the original Thrawn is lost, and they develop a complicated relationship? Does the clone have Thrawn’s memories, or is he entirely his own person? Feel free to do Eli/clone!Thrawn, or Thrawn/Eli/clone!Thrawn if you’d like! (And I would not object to him being called Thraawn, if you so desire xD)
Somehow, these two and/or the Chimaera crew get drafted via Yularen into working with the ISB, in which they meet Dedra, Partagaz, and the whole ISB crew we meet in Andor. How does that go?
I adore horror stories in space, so I would love to see Eli and Thrawn dealing with something like that. Feel free to have it be a horror story occurring in the Star Wars universe, or make it an AU. (I was thinking of Alien-style creature horror when I wrote this (and I would LOVE any kind of Alien!AU) but feel free to go where your heart takes you for this!) Regarding my main character death DNW: this still applies for Eli and Thrawn, but for this horror request only, I am okay with other named/major characters (e.g. Faro, Yularen, etc.) dying.

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Candy Hearts Letter 2026

2026-01-07T21:03:43Z

LIKES:

pining

friends to lovers

having 'casual' sex while secretly pining

adventures and casefic

plotty fic

hurt/comfort

helping someone with an injury while pining

presumed dead

praise kink

dirty talk

first times

virginity kink

breeding kink

desperate sex

handholding

angst with a happy ending

sex pollen

omegaverse

loyalty kink

slow burn

bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)

found family

lush description of landscapes/settings

worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL

scat/watersports

24/7 dom/sub relationships

de-aging

incest

underage with anyone 14 or under

knifeplay

age regression

parasites

non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)

vore

anal tearing/bleeding

modern AU

high school AU

Moblit Berner/Hange Zoë

I love their madcap scientist/exasperated realist dynamic, but I can’t help but think that under his sensible exterior, Moblit matches her freak in a way that makes him a perfect partner. I would love to see either Hange discovering this, or Outsider POV where someone else realises Moblit isn’t as straight-laced as he appears to be.
I would LOVE anything that digs deeper into their titan research! I would love to see a Moblit who’s also very enthusiastic about discovering titan secrets, he just has more respect for operational safety and knows how to play it cool in front of people who think it’s ‘weird.’
I would love to see either an AU where they both survive or where they reunite in the afterlife!
Or the Make Me Cry prompt: Hange searching the battlefield to see if she can find anything remaining of Moblit to take home to bury.

Onyankopon/Hange Zoë

I just love anything about Hange’s endless curiosity meeting the boundless things to learn in the outside world, and Onyankopon having fun as her guide!
There’s one fanart I saw of them ages ago riding a Vespa, which gave me the idea of them exploring a city together!
In the quiet moments, what bits of Paradis culture and society does Hange show him? What insights/stories/information about his own culture does Onyankopon give back?
In an AU where Hange survives, how do they work out their relationship post the end of the world?
I would love Onyankopon taking Hange to his country and showing her the sights, too!

Reiner Braun/Jean Kirstein

Bring me pain and focus on how the betrayal/reveal of Reiner’s true motivation hurts for Jean
I live for these two tentatively figuring their relationship out post-canon, after everything they’ve been through. I love them both being oblivious to the fact that the whole thing was romantic until post-Rumbling! Then wondering how on earth they could’ve missed it.
I feel like these two are the type to make absolutely everyone around them miserable by awkwardly dancing around each other xD
They weren’t nominated but I am always down for more Reiner & Gabi relationship and her take on his love life!

Jean Kirstein/Hange Zoe
Levi Ackerman/Jean Kirstein

Lumping these together bc I have similar ideas for them!

Pre the timeskip, I find the idea of Jean grappling with a devastating one-sided crush on one (or both) of his COs absolutely hilarious! They’re older, hotter, amazingly competent, so cool… Starry-eyed Jean is very funny to me xD I would prefer neither Hange or Levi reciprocate when Jean is underage, but feel free to have them notice and either tactfully ignore it or let him down gently (does Hange even notice? Have either of them had to deal with this before?)
Post-canon, I love the idea of older, wiser Jean being either Hange or Levi’s scandalously young boyfriend xD (I think both of them are supposed to be mid-to-late 30s post timeskip, but feel free to make them 40+ if you want xD) This could go with the teenage crush, or it could be a new thing. What brings them together? I love relationships where the characters think “we shouldn’t” but can’t resist anyway. I also love a dynamic where the older character has a mild-to-bad complex about being “old and tired and undesirable now” (especially Levi after he got so beat up in the final season!) that meets the younger character’s “I am uncontrollably horny for you.” xD

Erwin Smith/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Hange Zoë
Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith

I love any combo of these three!!

Exploring how they come together and learn how to work together: hell yes
Exploring how they go from colleagues to lovers: also hell yes
I will gladly take PWP/nothing but porn if you want to go that direction!
I’m obsessed with people looking at him from afar thinking Erwin is Mr Dashing Handsome Prince Charming etc. and getting closer only to discover no, He Is Insane (affectionate).
For LeviHan specifically: pegging, or bondage with Levi being the one tied up…. hell yeah
For Eruri specifically: I love exploration of how far Levi is willing to go for Erwin and where Erwin’s lines are for what he’ll ask from Levi - I imagine he has some flexible ones and some that are ironclad, and it would be interesting to see where they differ on those. Alternately, what makes these two have a serious disagreement, and how do they smooth things out again?
Erwin strikes me as a person who is Always On, always playing 5D chess in his head, even asleep. Let either Hange or Levi or both distract him from All Of That for a little while (give this poor man a break).

Armin Arlert & Jean Kirstein & Connie Springer & Reiner Braun & Annie Leonhart & Pieck Finger

This group looks ripe for Post Canon Shenanigans! Would love to see anything about them recovering from saving the world; rebuilding themselves, their relationships, and the world in the wake of unprecedented disaster.
I always find it hilarious when characters who are still in the tentative stage of rebuilding trust get thrust into some absurd or silly situation and are forced to work together to deal with it!
Consider: Cuddle Pile. (Feel free to add any combo of Levi, Gabi, Falco, and Onyankopon to this!)

Sasha Blouse & Jean Kirstein & Connie Springer

They are my fave platonic trio! Honestly, just them getting up to some silly antics together would make my day.
Anything about how their friendship develops and they become ride-or-die for each other over the years!
I had this hilarious idea of the three of them each suspecting the other has a crush on them, and doing a silly dance of teenage awkwardness trying to figure out who has crushes on who and how to let them down gently - only to realise that they’re all 100% in agreement about nothing romantic ever happening between them.
I kinda HC Connie as aroace, so him working that out would be cute! Maybe Jean and Sasha swap confessions about their crushes (happy to have any pairing aside from Jean/Mikasa) and Connie realises he doesn't have a crush on anyone... and has never had one.

Levi Ackerman & Mikasa Ackerman
Kenny Ackerman & Levi Ackerman

I always feel like the show didn’t linger enough on Levi’s feelings in the wake of the reveal that Kenny was his uncle and that he was related to Mikasa. I would love to see Levi and Mikasa deal with that!
Always here for any exploration of Kenny’s complicated mess of feelings surrounding Kuchel and Levi. What does he really feel like, seeing the adult Levi after all this time? I always wondered whether his line about “I think I know why you joined the Scouts” meant he’d been watching Levi’s career/life from the shadows and thinking about him.
Also always here for canon divergence AUs where Kenny sticks around for longer/takes on the dad role for real. What would it take to make him stay?
Also any AU where any combo of Levi and Mikasa and Kenny live together/Mikasa and Levi grow up together/they know Kenny their whole lives.
Bonus Eruri prompt: Whatever Levi and Kenny's relationship is, I find it hilarious if Kenny Does Not Approve of Levi being in a relationship with Erwin. This is especially funny to me if Levi and Kenny are enemies, and Kenny takes time away from their fight etc. to make his Disapproval known (*cough* especially if he implies Levi inherited Kuchel's terrible taste in men...)

Eren Yeager & Hange Zoë

The shift in their relationship from her yapping about titans all night and Eren humouring her, to their titan tests together, to that moment in the cell in the final season where he grabs her - it all makes me oh so happy and then so sad. I would love anything that explores their changing relationship over the years.
How does he feel about her in the end? Is he torn up at her death, or did he legitimately grow to resent her? (I am up for either interpretation! Make me cry!)
Did he speak to her in the Paths at some point like he did to Armin?

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Yuletide Letter 2025

2025-10-24T20:53:14Z

Thanks for reading my letter! Please don't be put off if I have more ideas for one ship/character than another - I have been requesting some for a long time, and I can promise I am equally enthusiastic about all the ideas I've put down here! Also, my account is open for treats! My AO3 is platinum_firebird.

LIKES:

pining

friends to lovers

having 'casual' sex while secretly pining

adventures and casefic

plotty fic

hurt/comfort

helping someone with an injury while pining

presumed dead

praise kink

dirty talk

first times

virginity kink

breeding kink

desperate sex

handholding

angst with a happy ending

sex pollen

omegaverse

loyalty kink

slow burn

bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)

found family

lush description of landscapes/settings

worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL

scat/watersports

24/7 dom/sub relationships

de-aging

incest

underage with anyone under 15

knifeplay

age regression

parasites

non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)

vore

anal tearing/bleeding

modern AU

high school AU

Star Wars: Visions Vol 2
Toul, Loi'e, Daal, Aau the Korban

I absolutely loved all four of these characters and their stories! What I would really love for all four of them is to see where they go next.

Toul - I would love to see Toul staying together with Ara and having adventures together. I would be equally happy for you to ship them together or have them stay best friends! I would love to see Toul deepening his knowledge as a Jedi, and for Ara to reconcile or learn more about her own heritage. How do they continue to help the Jedi against the Sith? I'm fully on board with any weird Force shenanigans or magic you want to throw in!

Loi'e - Desperate to see her continued attempts to reunite and reconcile with her son! I imagine it'll be a difficult, painful process, but hopefully worth it. I would also love to see the continued actions of her and her band in aid of the Rebellion! Or maybe rebuilding efforts once the war against the Empire is won?

Daal - Absolutely fascinated by the possibilities of who Daal could become as a Sith. I'm really into Sith who don't turn into one-note moustache twirling villains, and nuanced takes on the Dark Side. What does she learn from the Sith, and how does she put it into practice? What kind of Sith does she become? Does she ever go back for her friends? If so, does she find them, or have they moved on - or has tragedy struck? I think it would be fascinating to see Daal the full-fledged Sith reunite with her old friends, or to see her faced with the choice of whether or not to recruit her own apprentice. As I said above, I'm totally up for weird Force stuff or digging deeper into the magical side of the Force!

Aau - I loved Aau oh so much and I would love to see her become a Jedi! I would love to see anything from her training or her as a full Jedi. Or maybe something about her exploring the galaxy? Would love to see how she grows in confidence and confronts the challenges of the wider galaxy. Always up for more odd or fun Force goings on!

Kyle Murchison Booth Stories

Kyle Murchison Booth, John Pelham Ratcliffe

I love the classic horror stories vibe of this canon, and all its creepiness, and how much Booth resents and fears being caught up in all of it. I also love how he's genre-savvy most of the time, with his general knowledge about ghosts/demons/the supernatural, even when he’s also very afraid.

Prompts:

- Just any case-fic, ghost story, or monster-of-the-week type story! Take your favourite type of ghost story, or folklore creature/monster, and have Booth encounter it!

- Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.

- Post-canon for A Theory of Haunting - Booth visiting Alexis? Or I would also love to see an AU where Alexis didn't have a nervous breakdown as in canon - what does he do next? Does Booth see him again? Maybe another Alexis & Booth ghost adventure? I loved how Alexis was confident about his abilities but came to work with Booth - maybe Booth becoming a somewhat unwilling mentor figure?

- I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit! Awkward flirting/first times? Get togethers? Casefic with a romantic element? I'd love all of that.

- If you wanted to go for smut I would love that! Either fluffy/romantic between Ratcliffe/Booth or Booth/OMC, or I would also be very into non- or dub-con between Booth and an antagonistic OMC, especially if the OMC is monstrous somehow! (Non-con DNW doesn't apply for this particular prompt!)

Fandom Specific DNWs:

- Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!)

- Ivo Balthasar on-screen or in an on-screen relationship with Booth. I don't mind their relationship playing out as it did in canon, and I also would love to see Booth remembering what happened and healing from it, but I don't want any story where they meet again somehow, or an AU that gets them together.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä

- I would love some worldbuilding for the people and groups in this world - how does the world work? The valley where Nausicaä lives? What are the other countries/human settlements, how do they interact with each other?

- I absolutely love the way the history of this world is remembered and immortalised in the tapestry that we're shown in the opening credits. I would love something that digs into the meaning behind any of those images, what people remember and/or are taught about them, or about the ancient world in general. What knowledge has survived, been passed down, or been rediscovered?

- I would love to see more of Nausicaä's adventures and explorations of the forest and the world outside the valley, whether that's before or after canon. Seeing post-canon Nausicaä grow into a champion for responsibly exploring the legacy left by the ancient world would be amazing.

- I'm also so here for the amazing flora! Any exploration of that, and how the jungle works, would be awesome. Or Nausicaä somehow reconnecting with or learning more about the Ohm, later in life?

Campaign

I picked any - I'm happy with any character from the tagset!

- Just more silly canon-esque Shenanigans would be perfect for me, no matter who the character(s) are! Whether it's a missing scene from the podcast timeline, or something during the time before the show, or post-canon - any setting would be great! Just any of them having wild and wacky adventures :D This is one of my all time favourite podcasts so like, literally anything about these guys would be awesome!

- Post-canon Mynock crew holiday shenanigans on Elo - I'm sad we never got the Campaign Beach Episode, and I think that should be fixed! I vaguely remember a mention of them possibly running a resort there (I think in the final Binbon & Jubna episode? It's been a while since I listened to that) so how did that happen?

- Alternately, if you wanted to go in a different post-canon direction, I would be totally cool with that! Take the Mynock to your favourite Star Wars location and let loose the havoc xD I would also be super interested in the characters meeting up with other NPCs from the show again, like Talon or Rendezvous, and/or any other canon characters you think it'd be funny for these guys to meet.

- Maybe the Mynock crew finally get back to the actual Rebellion?

- Possible hijinks of a post-canon arc where they actually follow through on dropping Nemo off with Zara?

- Or a post-canon arc where they have to get D20 back from Kamino, including a lot of wrangling with the Empire and angst for Bacta over going back to his "homeworld"? (This podcast happened before certain things happened in Bad Batch, so you can either go with that canon or handwave it).

- Either post-canon idea above, but from the perspective of the Bluebird crew?

- Or maybe the Bluebirds get their own post-canon adventure?

- For shipping, I like Zero/Blue, Tryst/Bacta, Sneak/Tubaik, Lyn/hot women, and Tryst/the most unadvisable person you can think of xD (I don't mind Tryst/Aava or Bacta/Rendezvous or Bacta/Sian being a thing, I just don't actively ship them and would prefer these ships not be the focus of the story).

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Gus Balfour

Jack Miller

I love everything about this book, from the plot to the setting to the characters to the horror. Go as scary as you like with your fic, I will love it! I love Jack and his prickly exterior that hides a softer centre, and how determined he is to not let everybody else down and to complete their task out on the island. I love how he’s either not really aware of being in love with Gus at first, or tries to hide it in his written journals. I love how Gus is like an action hero but doesn’t seem to realise it, and he’s just so earnest and well-meaning despite sometimes putting his foot in his mouth.

Prompts:

- Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?

- I would love some post-canon AU feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.

- I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)

- I would also love any AU that transposes these characters and their situation to a different setting while keeping the isolated, creepy vibe of canon! Maybe the middle of the wilderness? On top of a mountain? On the bottom of the sea? In space?

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

Thanks for reading, and Happy Yuletide!

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FFFX Letter 2025

2025-09-10T19:24:40Z

pining
friends to lovers
having 'casual' sex while secretly pining
adventures and casefic
plotty fic
hurt/comfort
helping someone with an injury while pining
presumed dead
praise kink
dirty talk
first times
virginity kink
breeding kink
desperate sex
handholding
angst with a happy ending
sex pollen
omegaverse
loyalty kink
slow burn
bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)
found family
lush description of landscapes/settings
worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 dom/sub relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
parasites
non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding
modern AU
high school AU

The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)

Char: Creator's Choice of Thorin Oakenshield's Company (Hobbit Movies)

I would absolutely love a deeper dive into whichever of the dwarves from Thorin’s Company most interests you! Where were they born? What were their parents and home life like? What did they do before the Quest? Why did they decide to go on the Quest? What do they do after it?

Oth: Worldbuilding (Hobbit Movies)

This is your ticket to pick whatever bit of The Hobbit canon you think is most interesting and write a story fleshing it out! Erebor? Dale? The Iron Hills? Dwarven guilds, or marriage customs? Lake Town’s economy? Smaug and the other dragons of the North? Go wild.
(Also feel free to include copious amounts of worldbuilding along with any of the other character/relationship tags!)

Char: Sigrid (Hobbit Movies)

I’d be super interested in anything from Sigrid’s life! Pick any point you’d want to look at her story and go for it!
Maybe what her life is like before the dwarves arrive? I would love to see something about Lake Town as it was before the reclaiming of Erebor, and what it was like to live there/grow up there.
And afterwards - rebuilding Dale, becoming a princess. It’s a huge adjustment!
I would be totally down for a fic where Sigrid has to make an arranged match, and how that goes. Who does she pick, from what kingdom/group? (I am a sucker for arranged-marriage-to-love stories!)
I would also be really interested in a story where something happens to her older brother and she has to deal with being Crown Princess/Queen (depending on when this happens).

Sigrid & Tauriel & Tilda (Hobbit Movies)

I imagine these three might get to know each other after the Battle of Five Armies, once everything has calmed down. They have a lot to deal with – losing her home and position for Tauriel, and losing their home and gaining a new one and becoming princesses for Sigrid and Tilda. Do they bond over their massive change in circumstances? Does Dale take Tauriel in, or does she just appear to live in the surrounding area, and no one knows what she’s doing, exactly?
I would absolutely love them bonding over something, and Tauriel perhaps teaching them some sort of skills, or perhaps a look at how their relationship grows and changes as the years pass? Perhaps Tauriel stays in Dale and they become close friends, or she comes and goes and they all only see each other rarely? I would also totally be up for an AU where something happens to Sigrid’s older brother and she has to become the Queen, and Tauriel helps her and Tilda with that.
Feel free to go in depth about rebuilding Dale and Erebor and the challenges inherent in that!

Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)

Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto (SW: Thrawn)

Anything post-Rebels, either with Thrawn trying to deal with getting blasted off into unknown space and get back, or with Eli dealing with it. Does Eli go looking for him, or is something keeping him in the Ascendancy and he just has to try and accept the reality of Thrawn being gone? Anything with Eli reluctantly accepting Thrawn being gone and mourning him would be great, especially if Thrawn then reappears.
Eli having to get into some kind of arranged politic marriage and Thrawn appearing at just the right moment to Crash The Wedding!
Any kind of worldbuilding for the Ascendancy or Lysatra. Maybe they go visit Lysatra and Eli’s parents? Or they visit Thrawn’s homeworld/family? Or they have a day together on Csilla/Lysatra/some other Chiss world?
I also love plotty things, so anything with these two solving a case or mystery or going on a mission like they do in canon would be amazing. Murder mystery? The royal machinations of a particular planet? Imperial politics? Catching smugglers and/or rebels? Anything.
I ship them a lot so would love to get shipfic of any kind, any of the above prompts + ship would be amazing. For specifically shipfic, I love pretty much anything, especially with Thrawn being the instigator. I love the trope of Chiss fraternization laws/social rules differing from humans, and how the two of them cope with that. Also marriage proposals/accidental marriage/arranged marriage would make my day, I love marriage tropes.
Instead of joining an Imperial Academy, Eli ends up becoming a bounty hunter? Maybe something happens to his family/their business, which means he needs a quick way to make money? How does he meet Thrawn in this AU? Does Thrawn become a bounty hunter with him? Or maybe as an Imperial officer, Thrawn works with Eli the bounty hunter to track down rebels/other fugitives?
On a similar note - space pirate Eli? Maybe Imperial!Thrawn trying to chase down Space Pirate!Eli?
I would absolutely love anything with Eli being Force-sensitive. How does he hide it? Why did he still join the Empire if he knew? Does he know exactly what his strange abilities are? How do they get revealed to Thrawn? Maybe they get revealed, and Eli has to go on the run?
Alternately, Force-sensitive Eli was discovered by the Empire and recruited as an Inquisitor, and that’s how he ends up meeting Imperial officer Thrawn? Maybe they become partners like in canon, only Eli is on an equal or maybe even greater level rank-wise than Thrawn, since he’s an Inquisitor. Inquisitor!Eli helping Grand Admiral Thrawn hunt down the Ghost crew during Rebels would be amazing!
Eli dealing with the fallout of what happened in the first season of the Ahsoka show - what does he think about Thrawn coming back? And at the head of a zombie stormtrooper army? And possibly aiming to become the ‘Heir to the Empire’? Has Thrawn given up on the Ascendancy - or has he heard through the Night Mothers’ connection to Morgan that something terrible happened to it because of the Grysk?
In Legends canon, Thrawn had a clone - if you wanted to do something with clone!Thrawn that fits the new canon timeline, go wild! How, when, and why did he get created? Where is he? Maybe Eli finds him while the original Thrawn is lost, and they develop a complicated relationship? Does the clone have Thrawn’s memories, or is he entirely his own person? Feel free to do Eli/clone!Thrawn, or Thrawn/Eli/clone!Thrawn if you’d like! (And I would not object to him being called Thraawn, if you so desire xD)
Somehow, these two and/or the Chimaera crew get drafted via Yularen into working with the ISB, in which they meet Dedra, Partagaz, and the whole ISB crew we meet in Andor. How does that go?
I adore horror stories in space, so I would love to see Eli and Thrawn dealing with something like that. Feel free to have it be a horror story occurring in the Star Wars universe, or make it an AU. (I was thinking of Alien-style creature horror when I wrote this (and I would LOVE any kind of Alien!AU) but feel free to go where your heart takes you for this!) Regarding my main character death DNW: this still applies for Eli and Thrawn, but for this horror request only, I am okay with other named/major characters (e.g. Faro, Yularen, etc.) dying.

Star Wars: Ahsoka (TV)

Shin Hati/Sabine Wren (SW Ahsoka)

Fandom Specific DNW: For this, please no background and/or past Sabine/Ahsoka. I like them a lot as a platonic, master and disciple, mentor and protégée relationship, though, if you’d like to include that!

Not a DNW, but a preference: I admit I’m not the biggest fan of the Force Senstive!Sabine idea they went with in the show. I kind of like the idea of her being only mildly Force Sensitive, and she considers it another tool in her arsenal alongside all the Mandalorian weapons/techniques she already has, or a mental discipline thing (i.e. the meditation) rather than changing up her entire life/fighting style, or ‘becoming a Jedi’, etc.

I just wanna see what happens next for these two! We love lesbians who want to kill each other xD
How do they both deal with being on a completely alien planet in an entirely new galaxy?
How do they deal with the people on the planet?
I would love to see the ways they come back together - through fighting, or maybe something forces them together in a situation where they can’t fight/have to work together?
Multiple fights, which neither of them wins, lead to more understanding, or a moment where they want to learn more about each other, instead of just fighting all the time?
Attempts to somehow get back to their own galaxy?
Or, alternatively, attempts to get somewhere else in this new galaxy and explore what’s going on there?
Dealing with whatever Weird Force Shenanigans are going on on Peridea together?

二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

Luo Fenghua/Nangong Xu | Xu Shuanglin (2HA)

The ultimate tragic shizun/disciple pair!

NGX realising he’s in love with shizun and setting about seducing him and LFH reluctantly being seduced against his better judgement… chef’s kiss. I don’t mind this going into dubcon territory (NGX taking advantage of a drunk LFH? NGX intentionally dosing himself or his shizun with some kind of sex pollen?) so long as its clear LFH wants to fuck NGX but he’s holding back bc of societal pressure/expectation.
LFH standing up for NGX when he’s accused of stealing his brother’s techniques. Why? What changes? Does LFH leave the sect with NGX?
Alternately, NGX kidnapping LFH when he leaves the sect. Do people come after them? Where do they go? Would be very into lots of anger and hurt feelings between them bc NGX feels betrayed while LFH thinks his disciple is dishonest. Would also be VERY into noncon here with NGX taking advantage of his prisoner, especially if it starts out angry and betrayed but gets more gentle and tender bc he’s still pathetically in love with shizun.
NGX does manage to resurrect LFH on the night of Nangong Si’s failed wedding. How the hell does that go? I can’t imagine LFH is thrilled about having been consigned to hell and torment just so NGX would have a chance of reviving him. NGX taking him back to Mount Jiao? Would be down for angsty noncon here.
Added to the above scenario, if that goes down and NGX still dies as in canon and LFH survives until post-canon, I can’t help but think his relationship with Ye Wangxi would be reeeally interesting. Reluctant father feels?

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)

Oth: Worldbuilding (Genshin Impact)

I’m a huge lore nerd so you can go wild on this!!! I love all the history that Tevyat has - how the ruins of older civilisations are scattered everywhere, and the more we learn, the more I feel like this world is very much post-apocalyptic - maybe post-several apocalypses! If you wanted to dig into an older civilisation, a different time period, or explore how those things affect the modern world of Tevyat, I would be 100% down for that!

Diluc/Jean/Kaeya (Genshin Impact)

This ship is such a tangle of complicated relationships, and I would love to see them detangle that and work out that they work better together!
I feel like this ship is a prime target for arranged marriage shenanigans! Maybe a ‘uniting the ancient houses’ marriage between Diluc and Jean - do they go through with it? Or maybe Diluc breaks it off when his dad dies? Or he thinks that would be dishonourable and goes through with it, even though his dad isn’t around to enforce it? How do they work out how to bring Kaeya into that? I’m so here for ‘person outside the marriage pining for both people in it, while both people in the marriage pine for the same person outside it.’
100% in love with the idea of Kaeya learning to trust again with Jean after he and Diluc fall out, and then she helps them come back together.
Also ngl, I think the smut would be smoking! Will 100% take 10k of smut for this ship. When I first saw it in the tagset I had this vision of Kaeya fucking Diluc’s ass while Diluc ate Jean out. I feel like Diluc also just needs to be pegged… tied up and pegged/fucked, even… honestly, bully him xD Also, using visions during sex??

Xiao | Alatus/Zhongli (Genshin Impact)

The slave who thinks of himself only as a weapon/honourable master who saves him and wants him to have his own personhood and agency dynamic is So Good. Them working out that relationship immediately after Zhongli kills Xiao’s old master will always be catnip for me!
Anything with getting together somehow after thousands of years of stupid pining. I will ALWAYS be into that!
The ending of the Chasm quest was everything, and a little TLC after that, or a discussion about what Xiao found, would be awesome. I live for the Xiao angst about the other yaksha and what happened to them, and I imagine that time in the Chasm would've brought all that back. I would also love to see Zhongli's perspective on his relationships with the yaksha and his feelings about their deaths!
I am always into PWP in this ship - after a lot of pining? Zhongli being very hesitant, knowing how Xiao's previous master abused him? Scenarios where non-con was part of Xiao's previous master-servant relationship and he assumes that'll carry over here, leading to sex that he initiates because he thinks it's expected and all the consent issues around that are catnip to me - as is Xiao realising somehow that he's legitimately in love with Zhongli and being unsure how to handle that, and Zhongli realising that Xiao didn't just approach him out of legitimate desire and having to grapple with that.
I would also love a scenario where Xiao's master actually didn't abuse him sexually, but Zhongli assumes they did, and holds back for that reason, and they have to clear the misunderstanding up.
I would also love them having a first time years later when they've figured that whole agency and personhood thing out! I have this vague idea of going hard on the luxury kink here, maybe with Zhongli having some very fancy apartment in Liyue harbour with all the luxuries, beautiful silk robes for them, etc.
Dragon!Zhongli, especially during sex (monsterfucker vibes ftw).

The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Azaghâl & Maedhros (Silmarillion)

So Maedhros meets this intriguing, honourable, fierce dwarf king. What’s an elf to do except ask him if he wants to hang ou- I mean, make an alliance with him?
I’d love anything exploring cultural differences, what the dwarven cities of the First Age are like, and how Maedhros and Azaghâl hammer out the details of their alliance.
Elves visiting the dwarven cities would be amazing! Any and all First Age Dwarven worldbuilding!
Expansion on Azaghâl and his background and literally everything about him?

Caranthir/Haleth of the Haladin (Silmarillion)

I love characters who step up when things look hopeless and there’s no one else left. Something detailing the siege against the orcs and how Haleth deals with it would be amazing!
I also love the idea that Caranthir is so taken with this mortal woman and her bravery that he offers to give her people part of his own land within a pretty short time of meeting her. I’d love to know more about their short time together, how they (I imagine somewhat warily) get to know one another, and whether they express their feelings or leave things tragically unsaid.
Or an AU where Haleth and her people stay? How does their relationship progress? And if they do get together, obviously Caranthir will long outlive her – how do they deal with that?
Or maybe there’s an AU where they meet again somehow, once Haleth has settled with her people elsewhere?

Char: Caranthir (Silmarillion)

I would really love something set in Beleriand, when Caranthir is a lord in his own right with his own land. How does Thargelion run? How did he set up his kingdom? 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? Having to leave Thargelion, knowing all his hard work and the place he loved has been destroyed? Living with his brothers again?
What are his thoughts and feelings in the run-up to and during the attack on Doriath?

Char: Maedhros (Silmarillion)

Probably my favourite character in the Silmarillion, if I'm being honest! I love characters who struggle with legacy, and that's something I think Maedhros struggles with in spades. How does he deal with what his father did, his family did, he did?
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!
Perhaps a fic about a cosy winter or cool summer at Himring?
I also ship him pretty hard with Fingon! Though I didn’t have enough specific ideas to request them on their own, I would love Fingon/Maedhros included in any capacity!
I also love his complicated relationship with Maglor and the twins at the end of it all (more on that below!)

Char: Original Elf Follower of the Sons of Feanor (Silmarillion)

Feel free to make up whatever kind of backstory you like for this character - is this someone who’s been a follower since Valinor and left the Blessed Land with them, or someone who they met in Beleriand? I am fascinated by how the Noldor interacted with the Sindar/Silvan/Avari elves whom they met in Beleriand when they returned, if that sparks any ideas! How long do they follow the sons of Feanor - to the end? Do they fall in battle? Do they decide they can’t follow them into another kinslaying? Is this person even a warrior at all, or do they do something completely different? I would be very interested to see the perspective of followers of the Sons of Feanor who aren’t warriors, and therefore aren’t kinslayers, but get tarred with the same brush anyway.

Elrond Peredhel & Maedhros (Silmarillion)

I prefer to see Maedhros as not hostile to Elrond and Elros, though whether he considers himself their adoptive father like Maglor does or not is up to you.
I saw a theory after the first Hobbit movie came out that Elrond had learnt Ancient Dwarvish from Maedhros (since Maedhros had had that alliance with Azaghal) so something about that would be super sweet!
Anything dealing with the changing relationship between them, from hostage/captive all the way to Maglor’s (and Maedhros’?) foster-son. Why does Mae decide to take Elrond and Elros hostage (or agree when Maglor does it)?

Maedhros & Maglor (Silmarillion)

I mentioned I love Maedhros above, and I love the different interpretations people have of Maglor. People often tend to see him as the quiet, calm one, but is he? I think his closest relationship is with Maedhros, so exploring their relationship and how it changes over the years would be great. I also love their complicated relationship at the end of the story, when they’re the only two left after everything they’ve been through. How do they deal with all that, and how they’ve changed?

Oth: Worldbuilding (Silmarillion)

This is your ticket to pick whatever bit of The Silm canon/world you think is most interesting and write a story fleshing it out! (The only place I’d be less excited to see is Menegroth and/or Thingol, though I would definitely be interested in places in Doriath that are less well trodden/away from the capital).
(Also feel free to include copious amounts of worldbuilding along with any of the other character/relationship tags!)

Star Wars: Rebels

Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios (SW Rebels)

What’s that first conversation like after they rescue Kallus from Thrawn? The Ghost crew are understandably reluctant about believing Kallus is Fulcrum or treating him like part of the team at first, but now here he is looking like he's been through the wringer... Does Zeb help patch him up? Maybe they talk through how Kallus actually ended up becoming a spy?
How do these two admit that they’ve fallen for each other? What kind of things do they get up to during the war? I am a sucker for pining, so these two risking life and limb helping the Rebellion while pining for each other would make me very happy. Any sort of Rebel adventures plus pining would be absolute catnip for me!
Post-OT, where are these two in the budding New Republic? The end of Rebels showed us Zeb taking Kallus to the new Lasat homeworld, so what's that trip like? Are they together at that point and Zeb is introducing Kal to the family? Or is that when they realise they're something more than friends? What kind of jobs do they get in the New Republic, and what other kind of stuff do they get up to? We know Zeb is a pilot and helps Din and Grogu, so where is Kallus during that?
Very up for anything xeno/PWP. Has Kallus even had sex with a non-human before? Has Zeb ever slept with a human, for that matter? What's it like with all that fur? Does Zeb have some kind of odd alien junk to deal with? Go wild ;)
Would be very down with them interacting with Andor characters like Vel, Melshi, Kleya, Bix, Wilmon, Cinta, and of course Cassian himself!

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FFFX Letter 2024

2024-08-12T00:41:36Z

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

LIKES:

pining

friends to lovers

having 'casual' sex while secretly pining

adventures and casefic

plotty fic

hurt/comfort

helping someone with an injury while pining

presumed dead

praise kink

dirty talk

first times

virginity kink

breeding kink

desperate sex

handholding

angst with a happy ending

sex pollen

omegaverse

loyalty kink

slow burn

bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)

found family

lush description of landscapes/settings

worldbuilding

DNWs

ABDL

scat/watersports

24/7 dom/sub relationships

de-aging

incest

underage with anyone under 15

knifeplay

age regression

parasites

non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)

vore

anal tearing/bleeding

modern AU (unless requested)

high school AU

main character death

They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost

Ning Tiance/Shen Jianguo (They All Say I've Met A Ghost)

I just love how these two are very opposites attract, and how they’re so interested in each other’s world. I absolutely love how Shen Jianguo attributes his all his good qualities to what he’s studied and the texts/philosophies he’s read, but really you get the sense he’s just naturally a great person. I love how he shows that all the time when dealing with the ghost students and when dealing with the sect disciples trying to bully him.

- I would love to see more of how Shen Jianguo fits into the Sect. What is living there like for him? How does the Sect work in the modern day, with making most of its money through being a natural beauty spot? I would love to see what SJG teaches his students and how his influence works on them.

- I would also love Ning Tiance and Shen Jianguo having to solve ghostly problems or deal with a casefic type story. Is SJG even stronger now he knows about ghosts and can use his own skills and knowledge of how ghosts work? I think he probably is xD

- So Ning Tiance can’t have sex with anyone until his yang power is strong enough to be split… so what do he and SJG get up to that isn’t technically sex but is definitely pushing the borderline? Maybe a 5 times they “didn’t have sex” (heavy petting? Mutual masturbation?) and the one time they finally did.

- Related to above, maybe just the night they finally get to “split Ning Tiance’s yang soul,” whatever they involves. Maybe there’s a ceremony associated with it?

Crossover

Mo Ran (ErHa) & Luo Binghe (SVSSS)

I just think these two have a lot in common (in love with shizun, great cooks, dead mom trauma, “am I a monster” trauma, demonic lineage, both with an evil(ish) alter ego/previous incarnation) and I would love to see how they interact. I think Binghe could really use more friends – especially a friend who has also been through hell and who Binghe can trust is 100% uninterested in SQQ. I would love any story where they bond – especially if they start out like two snarly dogs wary of each other but something forces them to bond, and they genuinely make a connection.

- They both have a 5 year period where their shizun is dead – maybe they meet and bond during this time? Mo Ran getting inbetween a clash between Binghe and Liu Qingge, or trying to mediate? (I would not mind if they had some angsty “I miss my dead shizun” sex so long as Ranwan and Bingqiu remain endgame).

- Exchanging “how to fuck your shizun” tips? xD

- Something’s happened to SQQ & CWN and these two have to team up for a rescue? Genuinely making a connection and bonding over shared worry for shizun/husband? (I didn’t request CWN & SQQ separately but I would LOVE if you wrote some kind of switching POV where MR & LBH are mounting a rescue while SQQ & CWN are effecting an escape).

- LBH thinking Mo-zongshi is such a goody two shoes… until he switches to being Taxian-jun and LBH Realises Some Things.

- The Gate of Space and Time that creates portals between worlds is a forbidden technique in Mo Ran’s world, so how does he react to LBH’s dimension-travelling portal-creating sword?

Liu Qingge (SVSSS) & Mu Qing (TGCF)

Liu Qingge (SVSSS)/Mu Qing (TGCF)

I just love the idea of LQG worshipping MQ as his martial god, whether its purely platonic or becomes something sexy.

- How does LQG end up becoming MQ’s worshipper? Is it something he was introduced to as a child, or something he came to as an adult? What does worshipping involve for him?

- How does MQ take notice of him?

- Can’t help but think MQ might think someone like LQG would be better off worshipping someone like QYZ, but LQG is definitely the type to doggedly stick to his guns

- MQ giving LQG power to help him defeat (or try to defeat) LBH in those five years SQQ is dead?

- MQ appointing LQG as a deputy general?

- LQG lovingly topping his god? I’m here for all the worship and reverence. Maybe with a touch of forbidden fruit type feeling? Is it looked down on to have an affair with a believer/a deputy?

Ning Yingying (SVSSS)/Ye Wangxi (ErHa)

Ye Wangxi is basically alone without friends, family or Sect by the end of the novel. Though she seems to be taking it as well as can be, that still has to be super hard, and she must be carrying a lot of scars and trauma. Enter Ning Yingying, who’s no longer stuck in a harem and is a confident, smart, and probably out having adventures in the world. I feel like these two meeting could be good and fun for both of them!

- Would love to see these two meeting and getting to know each other – or kicking ass together, or solving a mystery, something like that.

- Slowly revealing their crazy backstories to each other!

- Maybe an AU where Cang Qiong Mountain are a smaller sect in the world of 2HA and NYY has heard of YWX and is a bit starstruck to meet this legend! Then she realises how many scars her adventures have left on YWX.

- Or if YWX somehow manages to end up in the SVSSS world (natural portal? Somehow gets transported there instead of the 2.0 2HA world after hopping back through that final Gate of Space and Time?) and meets NYY. How does YWX feel about being in another world? Maybe a little relieved, that she doesn’t have to face the scruntiny of her original world and she can make a fresh start, away from the lingering memories of Nangong Si and her stepfather?

2HA

Chu Wanning/Mo Ran (ErHa)

Ngl I relate to both of these two in how they try and fail to understand each other/other people and fail miserably and fuck things up. I love that they have to work so much to get their happy ending but fuck it they get it!!

- Yes, I will take just 10k of pure PWP with these two, go wild xD

- These two getting into random hijinks and shenanigans post-canon is my everything, whether they’re more serious like trapping rogue spirits and solving mysteries or more silly. Honestly post-canon comedy would be hilarious for them!

- Would love anything about Ranwan integrating into their local community in Nanping post-canon. Just the local villagers and their two weird pet cultivators!

- Love the implication that both Mo-zongshi and TXJ want to become the uncontested champion(s) of the pig-breeding world. I would 100% take 10k words of animal husbandry competition shenanigans.

- MR suing that one merchant who’s selling magic dildos based on his dick for illegal use of his likeness.

- Anything with MR dealing with the revelation of his demonic heritage? Or that heritage showing up in more obvious ways? (I am 100% a certified monsterfucker if you want to go there).

- God/devil (or demon) AU. How would they relate if they were such polar opposites? 2HA alludes to this heaven vs demons stuff going on in the ancient days of the timeline, so could be fun to bring those vibes in? Ranwan loving each other from opposite sides of the war? Either one imprisoned by the other? (God!CWN imprisoned by demon!MR is super hot and mirrors Chu Fei/TXJ but demon!MR imprisoned by god!CWN who can’t stop coming back to talk to him where he’s imprisoned… demon!MR who teases god!CWN about the potential of taking advantage of his prisoner…yum)

- I would absolutely love a modern cultivation, office comedy, organised crime, in space, urban fantasy, or sports AU for these two! Or any non-mundane AU (think like sentinel/guide, post-apocalyptic, magic, etc.) (Not interested in school/university, musician, or military/cop AUs for these two).

Luo Fenghua/Nangong Xu | Xu Shuanglin (ErHa)

The ultimate tragic shizun/disciple pair. Oh how many tears have been shed! Of course I (mostly) want AUs where they bang.

- NGX realising he’s in love with shizun and setting about seducing him and LFH reluctantly being seduced against his better judgement… chef’s kiss. I don’t mind this going into dubcon territory (NGX taking advantage of a drunk LFH? NGX intentionally dosing himself or his shizun with some kind of sex pollen?) so long as its clear LFH wants to fuck NGX but he’s holding back bc of societal pressure/expectation.

- LFH standing up for NGX when he’s accused of stealing his bro’s techniques. Why? What changes? Does LFH leave the sect with NGX?

- Alternately, NGX kidnapping LFH when he leaves the sect. Do people come after them? Where do they go? Would be very into lots of anger and hurt feelings between them bc NGX feels betrayed while LFH thinks his disciple is dishonest. Would also be VERY into noncon here with NGX taking advantage of his prisoner, especially if it starts out angry and betrayed but gets more gentle and tender bc he’s still pathetically in love with shizun.

- NGX does manage to resurrect LFH on the night of Nangong Si’s failed wedding. How the hell does that go? I can’t imagine LFH is thrilled about having been consigned to hell and torment just so NGX would have a chance of reviving him. NGX taking him back to Mount Jiao? Would be down for angsty noncon here.

- Added to the above scenario, if that goes down and NGX still dies as in canon and LFH survives until post-canon, I can’t help but think his relationship with Ye Wangxi would be reeeally interesting. Reluctant father feels?

Older Mei Hanxue/Xue Meng (ErHa)

Older Mei Hanxue/Younger Mei Hanxue/Xue Meng (ErHa)

Younger Mei Hanxue/Xue Meng (ErHa)

- Again, I will happily take 10k of porn here. Bratty sub!Xue Meng being lovingly railed into the mattress by one or both of the Mei bros until he can’t think straight? Yes please.

- Would love something exploring the different ways Xue Meng interacts with each brother, teasing vs insulting. Xue Meng realising he’s into them despite the way they keep messing with him and being horrified and frustrated at himself is brilliant.

- Any of these three together doing comedic post-canon adventures/hijinks in the vein of the blind dates extra would make me so happy.

- Alternately, they actually have to face a serious post-canon Situation together and solve it and for some reason others like Chu Wanning and Jiang Xi can’t help. Xue Meng only realising he’s into either one of them or both when they get their serious game faces on is also a very fun flavour.

- Xue Meng cross-dressing for real bc Mei Hanxue(s) deserve it.

- Arranged Marriage AU – their parents are friends, so maybe they arrange it? Maybe in an AU where Mei Hanxues’ mother survives and befriends Wang Chuqing? Which brother does Xue Meng end up betrothed to, and how do they all feel about it? I love arranged marriage stories where they start out hating the idea but fall in love overtime (I am a sucker for a slow burn). I also love the “my spouse only acts nice bc we’re married, they could never really love me bc we were forced into marriage” angst.

- I’m also super interested in what 0.5 Xue Meng/Mei Hanxue(s) were getting up to after TXJ was resurrected. I feel like they basically lived through an apocalypse, with that many people getting killed for the bridge to the demon door. How did they cope and keep each other going? By the end of it they’re ready to just be done and throw themselves into the flood, so this is your carte blanche to go as dark as you want (I opt into gore and horror and general fucked up shit for this one and waive my noncon and main character death DNWs, so long as there’s no noncon between Xue Meng and Mei Hanxue(s)). How did they build the Black Tortoise defence array thing – how did they even get the idea?

Wang Chuqing/Xue Zhengyong (ErHa)

- I will take any exploration of how the whole Xue Zhengyong finding Wang Chuqing & Mengmeng and bringing them back to the Sect went down.

- How Chuqing slowly falls in love with Zhengyong instead. I’m here for all the healing and second chance at love! I don’t expect everything at Sisheng was perfect for her/them, but I think it’s even more interesting if they find a way to harmony with each other despite that.

- What would their kids have been like if Madam Wang had been able to have more children? What is Xue Meng like as an older brother? Does more kids result in a slightly less spoiled XM since he isn’t receiving all his parents’ attention all the time?

- Any take on the moment where these two tried to save Mei Hanxue’s mother, whether you follow canon or do an AU where she survives. If the latter, I think mother Mei and Chuqing becoming close would be really interesting.

SVSSS

Liǔ Qīnggē/Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS)

- Any scenario in which Liu Qingge gets sex pollened by whatever crazy plot devices exist in the PIDW world and these two have to help him out by fucking him a lot (and it leads to feelings). It’s a classic but I love it!

- Omega!Liu Qingge going into heat and Beta!Shen Qingqiu and Alpha!Luo Binghe helping him through it (optional but I would love if this leads to pregnancy where LQG angsts about keeping the child but does and it leads to a relationship between these three)

- Somehow LBH and SQQ work out that LQG has Feelings, and make attempts to woo him (and all the hilarity that would involve)

- I believe I saw someone else suggest Binghe seducing LQG “for SQQ” and just. Yes. All of that. Every variation xD Especially if it ends with this threesome.

- BingLiuShen breeding kink! SQQ and LBH fucking LQ and kinking off getting him/her pregnant. LQ unexpectedly finding he/she is kinking off the idea as well. Don't care if it's trans!LQ, fem!LQ, or maybe omegaverse, so long as it's possible LQ could be expected to get pregnant by having unprotected sex and does so anyway. SQQ and LBH both insisting on fucking LQG an equal amount of times bc they want equal chance of being the baby daddy? Or some plot device that means the baby is all three of theirs? I’ll take all of it. Related, would love pregnancy sex between these three with pregnant!LQG.

- Arranged marriage AU where the two most beautiful cultivators from Cang Qiong are given as husbands to Demon Emperor Luo Binghe? LBH the demon lord marrying two human spouses to end a war between humans and demons maybe? And now he has to woo his two new husbands?

- Binghe getting both his husbands pregnant (or wives if you’re doing fem!Bingliushen). Even better if they only mean for one person to be pregnant and accidentally they both are. Even better if LQG insisted it should be SQQ getting pregnant bc he’s still insecure about his place in this relationship and then he’s the one who accidentally gets pregnant first.

Liǔ Qīnggē/Yáng Yīxuán (SVSSS)

Puppy disciple who just adores his gorgeous, amazing shizun, no matter his flaws xD Love the conflict for the disciple between what they’re supposed to be (respectful, platonic) and the feelings they can’t help for their teacher, and similar on the shizun’s end.

- YYX working out he has feelings for LQG and having to deal with that. Struggling against his feelings before something makes him snap.

- YYX intending to just platonically console a heart-broken LQG after Bingqiu go off together, but it turns into something romantic. LQG unsure about a second romance but he Can’t Help Faling In Love.

- Honestly I would also love 10k of porn with LQG getting fucked stupid by his hopelessly devoted disciple (service top YYX?)

- Something Makes Them Do It leads to an Accidental Pregnancy that LQG decides to keep for some reason, leading to slow burn growth of feelings over the nine months. And some more fucking. For the health of the baby. Or something 😉

Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū/Yuè Qīngyuán (SVSSS)

I just desperately want these two get their happy ending somehow. Ideally I wouldn’t like Shen Jiu’s character and deeds shied away from, but I am very happy for you to present nuance in his character and interrogate what he’s really like, as we see and hear a lot about him from biased sources.

- Where did Shen Jiu go when Shen Yuan took over the body of Shen Qingqiu? Would love Shen Jiu getting his own body somehow – maybe he gets a plant body? How does he feel about that? Or Shen Jiu getting shunted into some other body and having to work out who and where he is? Does something make him go back to Cang Qiong? Or does he meet YQY again somehow?

- Related to the above – Shen Yuan taking Shen Jiu’s body sent his soul to the underworld, so now YQY has to go on a quest to get him back.

- Obsessed with the idea of these two mutually baby-trapping each other. “Qi-ge is too honourable to force me out if I have his child” vs “I’ll have the perfect excuse to keep Xiao Jiu here and keep him comfortable and safe if he’s carrying my child” xD Don’t really care how Shen Jiu gets pregnant, whether its an Airplane-style plot device, trans!SJ, omegaverse, whatever. I just want these two engaging in silly baby-trapping shenanigans and then being surprised when the other one isn’t horrified. Is fine with it, in fact. Happy, even. And of course I would love them to eventually get over their issues… but its great if they fuck a few more times first. For the health of the baby or something xD

TGCF

Ban Yue/Pei Xiu (Tian Guan Ci Fu - MXTX)

Here for the cute childhood friends to lovers vibes - here for all the cute vibes actually - especially if they play with the fact that their history is literally anything but cute. How do you square the rush of first love and cute childhood friends angle with the whole murdering an entire city plan?

- I would love anything about their relationship between Little Pei's ascension and the events of the novel while Ban Yue was stuck in the city with only Keemo and the others for company. Do they talk?

- Anything set after Pei's banishment. Love the idea of these two teaming up and knocking some heads together!

- Pei Su pining!! I will take any variation of this.

- Also Pei Su's angst when he thinks Ban Yue is dead - the shock of that moment he sees her body hanging on that pole? Maybe flashbacks to that in the midst of a post-canon get-together?

- What if a food tour across the land?? (So Pei Su doesn't die from anymore of Ban Yue's cooking, and maybe she can learn from someone who isn't as horrific at cooking as Xie Lian?)

Feng Xin/Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu - MXTX)

Definitely my "I love them so much I just want anything" pairing. I love characters who have a lot of walls up who just can't keep up the charade once they're in bed, which strikes me very in character for MQ. Any feelings realisation, I will love it. Also they're basically the gods of sexually-charged sparring so go ham on that!

- Angsty angry porn with feelings maybe? They're a prime target for pining while fucking (bc they’ll only admit they have feelings under extreme duress).

- Any kind of sex pollen or similar plot where they have to fuck or die but they're so angry about it (and secretly hating themselves for enjoying it?) Also if you'd like to add pregnancy: I would love MQ secretly being in love with FX, getting pregnant after the sex pollen sex, seeing this as his only chance to have something with FX, or with him trying to pretend that nothing happened but being forced to confront it bc he's pregnant (idk how pregnancy works when you're a god but I would prefer if any potential kids are going to be immortal too so there's no angst there)

- Something with some of Mu Qing's complicated feelings about Xie Lian being influenced by the fact he thinks Feng Xin is in love with him? (But he isn't, actually) (or he was, but he isn't any more)

- Fucking to settle an argument… only these two would do this xD It only makes sense to them but they are very serious about it (don’t worry about the fact that this becomes the way they settle all their arguments…)

- Again, I will be super happy with 10k of porn here xD

(I think MQ is supposed to be on the same 'fuck and instantly lose your powers' cultivation path as Xie Lian, but I'd prefer it if you handwaved that for this)

Mu Qing/Pei Ming (Tian Guan Ci Fu - MXTX)

- If ever there was a pairing for 10k of porn… xD I just think it would be cute if MQ decided to change his cultivation path to something that doesn’t forbid sex and he christens that change by banging the sex god xD PM being perfectly happy to lead a gorgeous virgin through his first time 😉

- Xie Lian’s paired off with Hua Cheng, Feng Xin is reconnecting with Jian Lan – is it any wonder Mu Qing is suddenly feeling a bit left out and lonely? Enter Pei Ming, who’s suddenly seeing MQ in a new light… Show me Pei Ming’s struggles to make MQ believe he’s legitimately into him! How does he act when he’s actually in love? (Also would die for XL and FX’s reactions to this pairing xD)

- Totally optional but if you’re interested in FengQing: PM isn’t interested in romance (or is maybe is Aro) but is interested in getting his silly fellow martial gods together. Dating MQ to prompt FX into action? Fucking MQ to prompt FX into action? Fucking MQ when he knows FX is about to walk in so he can invite FX to join them? Convincing both of them into a threesome?

Lang Qianqiu/Qi Rong (Tian Guan Ci Fu - MXTX)

- I just love enemies-to-lovers! I would love them to somehow be forced into close enough proximity that they angrily realise the other is hot, oh no! They could find a way to reconcile, maybe, or at least understand each other a little better - I think Qi Rong has always felt like the unwanted one (not without reason), so having someone obsessed with him, even for a bad reason, might seem addictive to him. And Lang Qianqiu has been holding onto his pain over his family for so long, so any way to settle that even a little seems long overdue! Employ any plot device or trope to get them to be more honest with each other (truth spell?) and I will just eat it up.

- Dub/noncon (the line can be as blurry as you'd like) where they both pretend they're not into it? Or I could see Qi Rong mocking Lang Qianqiu for being into it/getting hard while riding his dick in a way that makes it obvious that he is 100% into it too.

- Qi Rong comes back somehow post-canon, and is incensed to find out that that IDIOT Lang Qianqiu is looking after HIS son! He has to take him back immediately! Meanwhile, Lang Qianqiu has become really fond of Guzi, and can't contemplate giving him back to an immoral, flesh-eating ghost like Qi Rong. Que an (often literal) custody battle! I would love if this goes on so long that they just get used to each other, and their bickering is more like a very violent old married couple as they both actually try to do their best to raise Guzi. Maybe they realise something's gone sideways when Guzi refers to them both as his dads?? Also would love to see older!cultivator!Guzi here if you'd like to include that.

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Yuletide Letter 2023

2023-10-17T16:01:28Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!!

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

LIKES:

pining
friends to lovers
having 'casual' sex while secretly pining
adventures and casefic
plotty fic
hurt/comfort
helping someone with an injury while pining
presumed dead
praise kink
dirty talk
first times
virginity kink
breeding kink
desperate sex
handholding
angst with a happy ending
sex pollen
a/b/o
loyalty kink
slow burn
bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)
found family
lush description of landscapes/settings
worldbuilding

DNWs:

ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 dom/sub relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
parasites
non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding
modern AU
high school AU
main character death

Campaign

I picked any - I'm happy with any character from the tagset!

- Just more silly canon-esque Shenanigans would be perfect for me, no matter who the character(s) are! Whether it's a missing scene from the podcast timeline, or something during the time before the show, or post-canon - any setting would be great! Just any of them having wild and wacky adventures :D This is one of my all time favourite podcasts so like, literally anything about these guys would be awesome!

- Post-canon Mynock crew holiday shenanigans on Elo - I'm sad we never got the Campaign Beach Episode, and I think that should be fixed! I vaguely remember a mention of them possibly running a resort there (I think in the final Binbon & Jubna episode? It's been a while since I listened to that) so how did that happen?

- Alternately, if you wanted to go in a different post-canon direction, I would be totally cool with that! Take the Mynock or Bluebird crews, or Sneak & Tubaik's horde of bounty hunters, to your favourite Star Wars location and let loose the havoc xD I would also be super interested in the characters meeting up with other NPCs from the show again, like Talon or Rendezvous, and/or any other canon characters you think it'd be funny for these guys to meet.

- Maybe the Mynock crew finally get back to the actual Rebellion?

- Possible hijinks of a post-canon arc where they actually follow through on dropping Nemo off with Zara?

- Or a post-canon arc where they have to get D20 back from Kamino, including a lot of wrangling with the Empire and angst for Bacta over going back to his "homeworld"?

- Or either post-canon idea above, but from the perspective of the Bluebird crew?

- Or maybe the Bluebirds get their own post-canon adventure?

- I'm always here for Zeblue shennanigans/getting together/porn!

- For Sneak & Tubaik, I am also super interested in post-canon relationship development and what they get up to!

- I'm also really interested in pre-canon Sneak & Tubaik as well - how did they meet and start their bounty hunting empire? And I'm honestly really interested in the daily ins and outs of running a huge bounty hunting operation plus merch business!

- For shipping, I like Zero/Blue, Tryst/Bacta, Sneak/Tubaik, Lyn/hot women, and Tryst/the most unadvisable person you can think of xD (I don't mind Tryst/Aava or Bacta/Rendezvous or Bacta/Sian being a thing, I just don't actively ship them and would prefer these ships not be the focus of the story).

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Gus Balfour
Jack Miller

I love everything about this book, from the plot to the setting to the characters to the horror. Go as scary as you like with your fic, I will love it! I love Jack and his prickly exterior that hides a softer centre, and how determined he is to not let everybody else down and to complete their task out on the island. I love how he’s either not really aware of being in love with Gus at first, or tries to hide it in his written journals. I love how Gus is like an action hero but doesn’t seem to realise it, and he’s just so earnest and well-meaning despite sometimes putting his foot in his mouth.

Prompts:

- Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?

- I would love some post-canon AU feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.

- I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)

- I would also love any AU that transposes these characters and their situation to a different setting while keeping the isolated, creepy vibe of canon! Maybe the middle of the wilderness? On top of a mountain? On the bottom of the sea? In space?

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth

Kyle Murchison Booth

I love the classic horror stories vibe of this canon, and all its creepiness, and how much Booth resents and fears being caught up in all of it. I also love how he's genre-savvy most of the time, with his general knowledge about ghosts/demons/the supernatural, even when he’s also very afraid. I love the other characters in these stories and would love for people like Ratcliffe, Starkweather, Claudia, Alexis, etc. to turn up as well!

Prompts:

- Just any case-fic, ghost story, or monster-of-the-week type story! Take your favourite type of ghost story, or folklore creature/monster, and have Booth encounter it!

- Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.

- Post-canon for A Theory of Haunting - Booth visiting Alexis? Or I would also love to see an AU where Alexis didn't have a nervous breakdown as in canon - what does he do next? Does Booth see him again? Maybe another Alexis & Booth ghost adventure? I loved how Alexis was confident about his abilities but came to work with Booth - maybe Booth becoming a somewhat unwilling mentor figure?

- I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit! Awkward flirting/first times? Get togethers? Casefic with a romantic element? I'd love all of that.

- If you wanted to go for smut I would love that! Either fluffy/romantic between Ratcliffe/Booth or Booth/OMC, or I would also be very into non- or dub-con between Booth and an antagonistic OMC, especially if the OMC is monstrous somehow! (Non-con DNW doesn't apply for this particular prompt!)

Fandom Specific DNWs:
- Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!)
- Ivo Balthasar on-screen or in an on-screen relationship with Booth. I don't mind their relationship playing out as it did in canon, and I also would love to see Booth remembering what happened and healing from it, but I don't want any story where they meet again somehow, or an AU that gets them together.

Andor

Leida Mothma
Dedra Meero

- For Leida, I'd love to see what life is like for her as the daughter of a rich and important senator. When did she start to feel resentful of her mother? What's school and her social life like on Coruscant? Does she miss Chandrila, or does Coruscant feel like her home? Why does she feel drawn to the Chandrilan traditions like getting married super early? Does it have something to do with her not living on Chandrila? And what do those traditions entail? (The way the show presented it gave me tradwife vibes, and I'd be happy for you to explore how those ideas would interact with the world of Star Wars, but I would also be happy for you to make it different or weird in a completely different direction).

- I would also be super interested in seeing an older Leida. What happens to her when Mon finally joins the Rebellion full-time? Does she go with her? Does she stay and profess loyalty to the Empire - and is that loyalty 100%? If she goes through with the marriage set up at the end of Season One, how does that develop? Does she end up resenting the marriage like Mon, or does it work out against the odds?

- For Dedra, I would love to know more about her background. Where did she come from? What were her family like? What was her childhood like? How did she end up joining the ISB, and how did she rise? Partagaz says she came "from enforcement", so what was her previous position like, and how did she transfer to supervision?

- Where do she and Syril go from the end of the season? How does her view on him change? I'd be down for their fucked-up love story xD I would also love to see him achieving his dream of joining the ISB and him and Dedra as co-workers. Are they terrible, or terrifying? (Or both?)

- Totally optional but if you've watched Rebels, I would love something about her meeting or working with Kallus. In a similar vein, if you've read the Thrawn novels, I would absolutely love to see her meeting Thrawn and/or Eli Vanto - or maybe all of these people meeting, and having to solve something for the Empire?

Thanks for reading, and Happy Yuletide!!

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Yuletide Letter 2022

2022-10-20T14:27:02Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!!

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

NB: I am happy with you not using all the characters in my requests for Campaign, Thalasso Hobbyer and The Bone Key, but not for The Yin-Yang Master, Dark Matter, and Cthulu Mythos.

LIKES:

DNWs:

ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 dom/sub relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding
main character death

Campaign

I left the character field blank here - feel free to write about anyone nominated/any of the crew or characters from the show!

- Just more of their silly canon-esque Shenanigans would be perfect for me! Whether it's a missing scene from the podcast timeline, or something during the time they were travelling together before the show, or post-canon - any setting would be great! Just them having wild and wacky adventures :D This is one of my all time favourite podcasts so like, literally anything about these guys would be awesome!

- Post-canon holiday shenanigans on Elo - I'm sad we never got the Campaign Beach Episode, and I think that should be fixed! I vaguely remember a mention of them possibly running a resort there (I think in the final Binbon & Jubna episode? It's been a while since I listened to that) so how did that happen?

- Alternately, if you wanted to go in a different post-canon direction, I would be totally cool with that! Take the crew to your favourite Star Wars location and let loose the havoc xD I would also be super interested in the characters meeting up with other NPCs from the show again, like Talon or Rendezvous or Aava, and/or any other canon characters you think it'd be funny for these guys to meet. Maybe they finally get back to the actual Rebellion?

- Post-canon arc where they have to get D20 back from Kamino, including a lot of wrangling with the Empire and angst for Bacta over going back to his "homeworld"?

- If you'd like to include shipping, I like Zero/Blue, any combo of Tryst/Bacta/Leenik, Lyn/hot women, Tryst/the most unadvisable person you can think of xD

What Is It And Where To Find It: An actual play podcast! You can find almost every episode on Spotify, and it should also be wherever you usually listen to podcasts!

阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master

Bo Ya
Qing Ming

- I loved their enemies-to-friends dynamic in the movie, and I'd love to see them take that final step to being lovers!

- Anything where they fix some kind of supernatural problem/defeat some kind of creature while also pining/getting together would be awesome!

- I absolutely loved that first fight between the two of them, so maybe some sexy sparring?

- Building on the above suggestion, I had this sort of vaguely identity porn-ish idea of one of them (probably Qing Ming) disguising himself to fight with the other without them knowing who it is. Eventually the other works it out, but they probably keep pretending they don't know out of amusement. Or maybe they're both pretending they don't know just for the fun of it?

What Is It And Where To Find It: This is a standalone movie, and it's on Netflix as The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Gus Balfour
Jack Miller

I love everything about this book, from the plot to the setting to the characters to the horror. Go as scary as you like with your fic, I will love it! I love Jack and his prickly exterior that hides a softer centre, and how determined he is to not let everybody else down and to complete their task out on the island. I love how he’s either not really aware of being in love with Gus at first, or tries to hide it in his written journals. I love how Gus is like an action hero but doesn’t seem to realise it, and he’s just so earnest and well-meaning despite sometimes putting his foot in his mouth.

Prompts:

- Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?
- I would love some post-canon AU feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.
- I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

What Is It And Where To Find It: A short standalone novel (about 250 pages in my copy), should be available wherever you buy books!

Thalasso Hobbyer

Guardian of The Castle of Silence
Guardian of The Forgotten Shrine
Guardian of The Well That Never Runs Dry

I absolutely love the little worlds that these pieces create, and I would love to know anything more about them!

For each place - how was it built? Who lived there while it was inhabited? How did it come to be abandoned? How did the Guardian come to be there - were they there before the people left, or did they move in afterward? I would love to see how either the people who originally inhabited the structure or those who come exploring afterward interact with each guardian.

The Forgotten Shrine - Feel free to dig into the story given in the video description if you like, about the man who intended to commit suicide by jumping into the ocean at the shrine. What's his story? Why did he want to die, and why did he pick such an odd location to do it? Why did the shrine guardian save him? What does he do afterward? Perhaps he goes back to try and revive the shrine as a form of thanks to the guardian? Or go completely in your own direction with this - I would be interested in knowing how this shrine came to be, where it is, and maybe something about someone re-discovering it/wanting to revive it.

The Well That Never Runs Dry - Again, feel free to use the description in the video or not. Is the creature in the well really the incarnation of a god? Does the water there really heal the sick? Perhaps someone has gone on a pilgrimage/desperate quest to get the water to help heal someone important to them? And who originally discovered the well and its properties? Were they led to it by the god/guardian? Do you have to pass some kind of test in order to get the well water?

The Castle of Silence - In the video he says he envisions the Guardian as a "servant waiting for the King's triumphal return", and I love the idea of the heir to this kingdom? bloodline? castle? coming back and discovering this terrifying monster - who isn't actually so terrifying, really, because they've been a friend of this person's family for hundreds of years. So who is this person and what are they the heir to? Why do they have to reclaim it? How do they relate to this monster that's potentially hundreds or thousands of years old now?

What Is It And Where To Find It: This is Thalasso Hobbyer's youtube channel, where you can find all three videos

The Bone Key - Sarah Monette

John Pelham Ratcliffe
Kyle Murchison Booth

I love the horror stories and creepiness of this canon, and how much Booth resents and fears being caught up in all of it. I also love how he seems pretty genre-savvy most of the time, with his general knowledge about ghosts/demons/the supernatural, even when he’s also very afraid. I loved Ratcliffe because he’s the kind of person who’s clearly made himself better and grown out of the nastier person he used to be, and also because he was so instantly down with the idea of the supernatural and instantly coming up with practical ways to solve the situation.

Prompts:

- Just any case-fic or monster-of-the-week type story, whether Ratcliffe turns up or if it’s just Booth alone like in the short stories
- Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.
- I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit! Awkward flirting/first times? Get togethers? Casefic with a romantic element? I'd love all of that.
- If you wanted to go for smut I would love that! Either fluffy/romantic between Ratcliffe/Booth or Booth/OMC, or I would also be very into non- or dub-con between Booth and an antagonistic OMC, especially if the OMC is monstrous somehow! (Non-con DNW doesn't apply for this particular request!)

Fandom Specific DNWs: Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!)

What Is It And Where To Find It: A standalone book of connected short stories, should be available to buy wherever you get books!

Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft

Nyarlathotep
Randolph Carter

Prompts:
- Maybe Nyarlathotep decides to keep Carter instead of sending him off into the sky at the end of Dreamquest?
- Nyarlathotep trying to gain influence/control over Carter, or claim his soul/corrupts him somehow?
- Maybe Nyarlathotep gets close to Carter in the guise of someone Carter trusts, or someone he meets and begins to trust/fall for, and only reveals his true nature much later (maybe just as they're starting to have sex, if you're willing to include smut?)
- If you're willing to go for xeno/eldritch porn with these two I will take anything honestly, especially if Nyarlathotep gloats about having Carter in his clutches/in such a vulnerable position. Would absolutely be up for non- or dub-con in this request! (Noncon DNW doesn't apply!)

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FFFX Letter 2022

2022-08-10T16:24:03Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!!

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

LIKES:
pining
friends to lovers
having 'casual' sex while secretly pining
adventures and casefic
plotty fic
hurt/comfort
helping someone with an injury while pining
presumed dead
praise kink
dirty talk
first times
virginity kink
breeding kink
desperate sex
handholding
angst with a happy ending
sex pollen
a/b/o
loyalty kink
slow burn
bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)
found family
lush description of landscapes/settings
worldbuilding

DNWs:
ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 dom/sub relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
non-con (unless requested- dubcon of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind is good!)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding
main character death

Fandom-Specific DNWs:
Genshin:
Zhongli/Tartaglia
Xiao/Venti
Star Wars:
Anything from the Sequel Trilogy
Anything from the old Legends EU that happened post-ROTJ
Male!Revan

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

- I’d love anything about them going on a mission – maybe having to go undercover as criminals doing an opportunistic heist? Pose as politicians or royalty? The classic fake married? These two roleplaying for a mission is just so fun to me!

- For a shippy prompt, something about the progression of their secret relationship? Both knowing it goes against their vows as Jedi but being unable to deny it? How much convincing does it take for Obi-Wan to go against the Jedi Code? Is it the stress of war and battle that finally makes Obi-Wan lax with the Code, and something happens?

- Alternately, ugly pining leading into Anakin -> Vader somehow would be Peak Tragedy and I'm very here for 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? Anakin comes along and gets to see Obi-Wan in this new setting, maybe including a meeting with the family he barely remembers?

- 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, or if Anakin goes dark but manages to keep hold of Obi-Wan. Or AUs where the Republic became the Empire much earlier? Or maybe Obi-Wan & Anakin in a different era, like at the time Revan was around? (I haven't read any High Republic stuff so I'd prefer not then unless I don't need to know anything about THR). Or perhaps Anakin and Obi-Wan doing a different job, like if they're space pirates or hyperspace explorers?

Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

My prequels OT3! Literally anything about these three will bring me joy. This has been my OT3 of OT3s for AGES.

- I really really wish we had more Obi-Wan/Padmé interaction in canon; seriously, they almost never interact with each other at all! That should clearly be fixed. What about an AU where Obi-Wan/Padmé becomes a thing first somehow? Maybe they don't find Anakin until later? Or Obi-Wan leaves the Jedi after the battle on Naboo?

- Fic where they all realize (slowly or not) that they're in love and they come to terms with it and work it out between them would be everything. Or maybe Padmé and Anakin convincing/seducing Obi-Wan into their relationship? The horrors of war making Obi-Wan's stance on some areas of the Jedi Code lax? An AU where the existence of the OT3 saves Anakin from the Dark Side?

- AUs of any type? Padmé lives AUs? Different occupations AUs, like space pirates or hyperspace trailblazers, or setting up a life together on a froniter planet? AUs where Anakin doesn't fall but the Empire becomes a thing anyway? AUs where one or both of Anakin and Obi-Wan are Sith - or a mirrorverse AU where all three are fabulously Dark and Evil?

- Or go with canon and make it heart-wrenching, with Obi-Wan losing both of them without even telling them that he loved them, and he ends up alone and angsting on Tatooine.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker

- Somehow Vader and/or the Empire learn about Luke & Leia thanks to the events of the show, so Obi-Wan has to go on the run with both twins! I absolutely love Leia and Obi-Wan's interactions in the show, and the bond they built, so seeing more of that would be amazing. I'd also love to see him building a similar bond with Luke, and starting to see his parents in Luke just like he does with Leia. I'm also obsessed with the idea of what Luke and Leia's relationship would've been like if they knew each other much earlier and knew they were siblings from the start! These three forming a little family together on the run from the Empire would just be so cute!

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Vader

- Obi-Wan doesn't leave Vader again at the end of the show - however you want that to go. Does he somehow manage to build on that little flicker of Anakin when Vader says "I'm not your failure"? Or does he decide it's kinder to release Anakin from this torture? Feel free to make this Very Angsty (this idea is an exception to my main character death DNW).

- Canon divergence where Obi-Wan has to go on the run from Vader for longer? A long game of cat and mouse and several more angsty fights? How does it end - with Obi-Wan finally escaping? With Anakin turning back to the light? With Vader finally capturing Obi-Wan and keeping him locked up in his Mustafar Despair Castle forever and ever?

- These two having a force bond through which they can talk to each other or see visions of each other throughout the events of the series would be amazing! Being able to feel each other's pain and still torturing/injuring the other person anyway? Obi-Wan seeing Vader with the suit off and finally realising the full extent of the damage? Vader going crazy at having Obi-Wan invade every part of him and he can't push him out?

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Vader & Leia Organa

- The events of the show somehow turn Vader back to the light and he goes on the run with Obi-Wan and Leia because the Emperor's coming after them? Would love Obi-Wan and Vader trying to build their relationship back into something resembling... well, maybe healthy is too optimistic xD But I'd love them grappling with all the hurts the past have given them, arguing and maybe considering running/going back to the Empire/turning the other over to the Empire, but eventually coming back to try again. And all of this with Leia as probably an increasing exasperated spectator and voice of reason! You know your life is bad when you're getting relationship advice from your ten year old xD

- Alternately, dark!AU where Vader wins and brings both Obi-Wan and Leia back to his Despair Castle. Obi-Wan will be locked up forever and (sexily?) tortured, Leia will probably get everything she demands (sweets and late bedtimes FOREVER). Love the "in love with your captor and can't help it no matter how bad they treat you/how much you also despise them" vibe for Vader/Obi-Wan, and any exploration of their relationship. Maybe so much time together finally gives them time to Talk? Alternately, it would be fun to see Vader actually have some idea of How To Parent (he will never admit to reading parenting help books, but Leia has her suspicions). (You can disregard my non-con DNW for this prompt - I have no idea how sad angsty noncon for this ship would work with the suit, but go wild! Also re: torture, you can have Vader fuck Obi-Wan up with burns/beatings etc., I'd just ask it doesn't go into irreparable harm like amputations or eye torture etc.)

- For both these prompts, feel free to add in Luke as well - or leave him on Tatooine, and perhaps explore what a Leia raised in either of these situations would think of her brother when they finally meet up later?

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Biggs Darklighter/Luke Skywalker

- Maybe them being together on Tatooine, and Luke being heartbroken that Biggs will be leaving for the Imperial Academy without him leads to Luke sneaking off-planet to go with him? I'd love to see these two trying to navigate this new world together, and realising that all the big dreams they had aren't really playing out in reality. Something leads Biggs to leave the Empire and join the Rebellion, so maybe it goes double when both he and Luke are there? I would also love if someone clocks the name "Skywalker" and starts wondering... or maybe even if Vader himself turns up and Luke has no idea why this terrifying person is so interested in him. Maybe Biggs helps him escape in that case?

- I’d love if Biggs survived and these two went on some kind of adventure together in the years between ANH and ESB! There's so much potential in those years. I love Rebel shenanigans and missionfic, so that and these two pining or realising they have feelings would be awesome!

Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader

- Vader chasing Luke down across the years, from Vader's perspective. I'd love to see his thought processes, a growing love for Luke fighting with his self-denial about why he really wants to connect with his son. The events of ROTJ from Vader's perspective!!

- Vader!Lives! How on earth does Luke square that with the Rebellion - or does he? Do he and Vader just leave, to find a place where they can heal and work things out as father and son? I can't imagine Luke not letting Leia know at some point, so how does he convince his sister not to come after them with the Alliance forces - or maybe he doesn't? Vader and Luke on the run from everybody while also trying to sort out the whole father&son thing would be amazing.

Luke Skywalker/Han Solo

- Here's Han Solo, the hot, mysterious, confident older man who's a rogue and a smuggler who sweeps in right when Luke needs him to save the day at the end of ANH - how could Luke not have a huge crush on him? But I also just love slick, confident rogue Han Solo being completely bowled over by the strength of his crush on ray-of-sunshine Luke, and not knowing what to do with himself over it. How long do these two dance around each other before something finally happens? I'm here for all the pining, all the realisations that this is more than a crush/lust, all the tension-filled missions where the fact that they could lose each other in one second is always hanging over them, and yet they haven't yet taken that next step... Meanwhile everyone around them is tearing their hair out and screaming "just snog already"

- Post-canon Luke encountering serious obstacles on the road to setting up a new Jedi Order, and Han keeps saying he's not interested in this Force mumbo-jumbo, but he hasn't left yet, and he keeps going above and beyond to help Luke out, and hey, if Luke is imagining what it would be like to live together permanently like this, well, Han hasn't left yet! It could happen! Meanwhile Han is trying to convince himself to admit he wants to stay and maybe wants to be more than friends but he can't spit it out so he keeps coming up with all these random expensive and/or hard to find things Luke needs instead of saying anything xD

- I love the idea of various AUs for these two, especially different first meetings AUs. Maybe Han pulls Luke into smuggling with him somehow? Luke keeps protesting that he needs to get back to his aunt and uncle, but he doesn't seem all that eager to leave... Or maybe Luke is picked up as a slave somehow, and Han inadvertently ends up freeing him? Luke is very grateful, and Han knows he should take him back home and not make this weird, but Luke doesn't seem to be in any hurry to leave...

Star Wars: Rebels

Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios

- What’s that first conversation like after they rescue Kallus from Thrawn? The Ghost crew are understandably reluctant about believing Kallus is Fulcrum or treating him like part of the team at first, but now here he is looking like he's been through the wringer... Does Zeb help patch him up? Maybe they talk through how Kallus actually ended up becoming a spy?

- How do these two admit that they’ve fallen for each other? What kind of things do they get up to during the war? I am a sucker for pining so these two risking life and limb helping the Rebellion while pining for each other would make me very happy. Any sort of Rebel adventures plus pining would be absolute catnip for me!

- Post-OT, where are these two in the budding New Republic? The end of Rebels showed us Zeb taking Kallus to the new Lasat homeworld, so what's that trip like? Are they together at that point and Zeb is introducing Kal to the family? Or is that when they realise they're something more than friends? What kind of jobs do they get in the New Republic, and what other kind of stuff do they get up to?

- Very up for anything xeno/PWP. Has Kallus even had sex with a non-human before? Has Zeb ever slept with a human, for that matter? What's it like with all that fur? Does Zeb have some kind of odd alien junk to deal with? Go wild ;)

Campaign

CT-1776 | Bacta & Leenik Geelo & Lyntel'luroon & Trystan "Tryst" Valentine
CT-1776 | Bacta & Leenik Geelo & Trystan "Tryst" Valentine

- Just more of their silly canon-esque Shenanigans would be perfect for me! Whether it's a missing scene from the podcast timeline, or something during the time they were travelling together before the show, or post-canon - any setting would be great! Just them having wild and wacky adventures :D This is one of my all time favourite podcasts so like, literally anything about these guys would be awesome!

- Post-canon holiday shenanigans on Elo - I'm sad we never got the Campaign Beach Episode, and I think that should be fixed! I vaguely remember a mention of them possibly running a resort there (I think in the final Binbon & Jubna episode? It's been a while since I listened to that) so how did that happen?

- Alternately, if you wanted to go in a different post-canon direction, I would be totally cool with that! Take the crew to your favourite Star Wars location and let loose the havoc xD I would also be super interested in the characters meeting up with other NPCs from the show again, like Talon or Rendezvous or Aava, and/or any other canon characters you think it'd be funny for these guys to meet. Maybe they finally get back to the actual Rebellion?

- Post-canon arc where they have to get D20 back from Kamino, including a lot of wrangling with the Empire and angst for Bacta over going back to his "homeworld"?

Genshin Impact

Xiao & Shenhe

- The thought of Shenhe the lone human growing up among all these otherworldly adepti is fascinating to me, and I'd love to see what that childhood was like. Xiao would arguably be one of the most terrifying and/or aloof adepti for this human to meet, so what happens when she does? I wouldn't mind seeing a Shenhe of any age for this relationship. Maybe she actually manages to impress him somewhat with her skills? Or he's taken by surprise by the strength of her anger and ferocity? Or Shenhe is surprised by a soft moment from the legendary Conqueror of Demons?

- The idea of Xiao having to rescue bby!Shenhe is great to me, especially if he somehow has to be responsible for her for some length of time.

- Or I'd also love something that brings him and teenage!Shenhe together - maybe defending a mountain village from demons? Xiao would assure he could handle it alone, but Shenhe isn't about to stand aside and risk people getting hurt.

- Alternately for something more in the timeline of the game, these two attempting to do some very human activity in Liyue Harbour to try and get closer to the human world - how does it go? Do they fail miserably at being normal (almost certainly) but do they enjoy themselves anyway? (Feel free to have cameo appearances from other Liyue characters here)

- Most adepti can make their own realms/domains, so does Xiao have one? What does it look like? What happens when Shenhe goes there?

Xiao/Zhongli

- The slave who thinks of himself only as a weapon/honourable master who saves him and wants him to have his own personhood and agency dynamic is So Good. Them working out that relationship immediately post-Zhongli-killing-Xiao's-old-master will always be catnip for me!

- Anything with getting together somehow after thousands years of stupid pining. I will ALWAYS be into that!

- An adventure from a lesser known part of Liyue's history? Maybe they need to solve some problem, and they end up doing it so effectively that it doesn't even make it into Liyue's history books?

- The ending of the Chasm quest was everything, and a little TLC after that, or discussion about what Xiao found, would be awesome. I live for the Xiao angst about the other yaksha and what happened to them, and I imagine that time in the Chasm would've brought all that back. I would also love to see Zhongli's perspective on his relationships with the yaksha and his feelings about their deaths!

- I am always into PWP in this ship - after a lot of pining? Zhongli being very hesitant knowing how Xiao's previous master abused him? Scenarios where non-con was part of Xiao's previous master-servant relationship and he assumes that'll carry over here, leading to sex that he initiates because he thinks it's expected and all the consent issues around that are catnip to me - as is Xiao realising somehow that he's legitimately in love with Zhongli and being unsure how to handle that, and Zhongli realising that Xiao didn't just approach him out of legit desire and having to grapple with that.

- I would also love a scenario where Xiao's master actually didn't abuse him sexually, but Zhongli assumes they did, and holds back for that reason, and they have to clear the misunderstanding up.

- I would also love them having a first time years later when they've figured that whole agency and personhood thing out! I have this vague idea of going hard on the luxury kink here, maybe with Zhongli having some very fancy apartment in Liyue harbour with all the luxuries, beautiful silk robes for them, etc.

Xiao/Zhongli & Childe

- I would love a dynamic where Childe is constantly trying to win Zhongli's respect while Zhongli kind of bullies him and/or is mean or even cruel to him in return, all while still being 100% loving and attentive and caring to Xiao. Very much a dynamic of "I've known/loved Xiao for 2000 years, I met you a couple months ago, why do you think you're special?" I'd love Childe managing to prove why he's special - either to Zhongli directly, or maybe somehow him impressing Xiao is the way to earn Zhongli's respect? I also love the idea of Childe wanting to fight Zhongli (he's the oldest Archon! Of course Childe wants to fight!), Zhongli absolutely destroying him, and Childe still being willing to get up for round two xD Maybe after realising Childe really is serious, Zhongli tells him to fight some of the other adepti first to train? Xiao & Childe Mountain Training Expedition would be Epic! I love the idea of an unstoppable force (Childe's determination to win) meeting an immovable object (Zhongli/Xiao's thousands of years of combat experience and divine power) xD

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Yuletide Letter 2021

2021-10-20T14:28:19Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter and Happy Yuletide!!

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

NB: I am happy with you not using all the characters in each of my requests, except The Yin-Yang Master.

LIKES:

pining
friends to lovers
having 'casual' sex while secretly pining
adventures and casefic
plotty fic
hurt/comfort
helping someone with an injury while pining
presumed dead
praise kink
dirty talk
first times
virginity kink
breeding kink
desperate sex
handholding
angst with a happy ending
sex pollen
a/b/o
mpreg
loyalty kink
slow burn
bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)
found family
lush description of landscapes/settings
worldbuilding

DNWs:

ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 BDSM relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
non-con (unless requested- dubcon is fine, especially of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding
main character death (except for Thin Air)

阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master

Bo Ya
Qing Ming

- I loved their enemies-to-friends dynamic in the movie, and I'd love to see them take that final step to being lovers!

- Anything where they fix some kind of supernatural problem/defeat some kind of creature while also pining/getting together would be awesome!

- I absolutely loved that first fight between the two of them, so maybe some sexy sparring?

- Building on the above suggestion, I had this sort of vaguely identity porn-ish idea of one of them (probably Qing Ming) disguising himself to fight with the other without them knowing who it is. Eventually the other works it out, but they probably keep pretending they don't know out of amusement. Or maybe they're both pretending they don't know just for the fun of it?

What Is It And Where To Find It: This is a standalone movie, and it's on Netflix as The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Algernon "Algie" Carlisle
Gus Balfour
Jack Miller (Dark Matter)

Prompts:

Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?
I would love some post-canon AU feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.
I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)
I would also enjoy seeing how things would be different if Algie had managed to make it back to Gruhuken after taking Gus to the doctor. Would he and Jack be at each other’s throats constantly or would they come to understand each other? What would it take to take them to admit to their sightings of the ghost, and how would they deal with it together?

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

What Is It And Where To Find It: A short standalone novel (about 250 pages in my copy), should be available wherever you buy books!

Thin Air

Arthur Ward
Stephen Pearce

Just like Dark Matter, I love the horror and creepiness of this book! What happened to Arthur Ward got to me in such a deep, visceral way, and it made me obsessed with this book!

- Maybe something from Arthur-the-ghost's point of view? What's it like, being stuck in that form, on that mountain, never able to let go? Has he haunted anyone else? Killed anyone else?
- Or maybe the Lyell expedition from Arthur's point of view - right to the bitter end?
- Maybe Stephen going back to the mountain - what on earth is enough to tempt him back there? Maybe he meets someone who claims to be an exorcist, who says they can lay Arthur's spirit to rest - and that Kits might be lingering there too, so Stephen feels duty-bound to go help his brother? What is it like for Stephen to return and face the ghost again? Is he stronger this time, or just as helpless in the face of it's anger? Is Kits really trapped there too? Does Garrard come with him again? Does someone die again - and is it Stephen this time? (Full permission to have main character death here if that's what you'd like to do!)
- Or maybe someone else goes up the mountain and experiences the haunting? I would love to see the haunting from an original character's perspective - maybe a modern climber? Or building on that, maybe this climber is an exorcist, and they manage to lay Arthur's spirit to rest? A lot of people die on mountains, so is this person someone who goes around exorcising ghosts from many different mountains?

What Is It And Where To Find It: Also a short standalone novel, should be available wherever you buy books!

Thalasso Hobbyer

Guardian of The Castle of Silence
Guardian of The Forgotten Shrine
Guardian of The Well That Never Runs Dry
Worldbuilding

I absolutely love the little worlds that these pieces create, and I would love to know anything more about them!

For each place - how was it built? Who lived there while it was inhabited? How did it come to be abandoned? How did the Guardian come to be there - were they there before the people left, or did they move in afterward? I would love to see how either the people who originally inhabited the structure or those who come exploring afterward interact with each guardian.

The Forgotten Shrine - Feel free to dig into the story given in the video description if you like, about the man who intended to commit suicide by jumping into the ocean at the shrine. What's his story? Why did he want to die, and why did he pick such an odd location to do it? Why did the shrine guardian save him? What does he do afterward? Perhaps he goes back to try and revive the shrine as a form of thanks to the guardian? Or go completely in your own direction with this - I would be interested in knowing how this shrine came to be, where it is, and maybe something about someone re-discovering it/wanting to revive it.

The Well That Never Runs Dry - Again, feel free to use the description in the video or not. Is the creature in the well really the incarnation of a god? Does the water there really heal the sick? Perhaps someone has gone on a pilgrimage/desperate quest to get the water to help heal someone important to them? And who originally discovered the well and its properties? Were they led to it by the god/guardian? Do you have to pass some kind of test in order to get the well water?

The Castle of Silence - In the video he says he envisions the Guardian as a "servant waiting for the King's triumphal return", and I love the idea of the heir to this kingdom? bloodline? castle? coming back and discovering this terrifying monster - who isn't actually so terrifying, really, because they've been a friend of this person's family for hundreds of years. So who is this person and what are they the heir to? Why do they have to reclaim it? How do they relate to this monster that's potentially hundreds or thousands of years old now?

What Is It And Where To Find It: This is Thalasso Hobbyer's youtube channel, where you can find all three videos

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FFFX Letter 2021

2021-07-30T23:09:52Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!

Links: I'm platinum_firebird on AO3

LIKES:

pining
friends to lovers
having 'casual' sex while secretly pining
adventures and casefic
plotty fic
hurt/comfort
helping someone with an injury while pining
presumed dead
praise kink
dirty talk
first times
virginity kink
breeding kink
desperate sex
handholding
angst with a happy ending
sex pollen
a/b/o
mpreg
loyalty kink
slow burn
bittersweet to happy endings (unless otherwise indicated)
found family
lush description of landscapes/settings
worldbuilding

DNWs:

ABDL
scat/watersports
24/7 BDSM relationships
de-aging
incest
underage with anyone under 15
knifeplay
age regression
non-con (unless requested- dubcon is fine, especially of the sex pollen/fuck or die kind)
vore
anal tearing/bleeding

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Liu Mingyan/Sha Hualing
- Sha Hualing saw Liu Mingyan's face without her veil and now she can't stop thinking about her, ugh, she's so annoying and beautiful and virtuous and strong and honourable-

- Liu Mingyan doesn't mean to keep swooping in and saving Sha Hualing from all these dangerous situations, but she always seems to run into the demon girl when she's in trouble (this is 100% intentional on SHL's part, and LMY may or may not eventually figure that out)

- SHL follows LMY around, is cute and mischievous, and LMY thinks of her as sort of cute and harmless - until she sees SHL in full badass demoness mode for whatever reason and has an 'oh no she's hot (and scary)' moment

- Any kind of situation that forces them to team up!

Luo Binghe/Liu Qingge/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

- Any scenario in which Liu Qingge gets sex pollened by whatever crazy plot devices exist in the PIDW world and these two have to help him out by fucking him a lot (and it leads to feelings)

- Omega!Liu Qingge going into heat and Beta!Shen Qingqiu and Alpha!Luo Binghe helping him through it - maybe with this leading to mpreg where LQG angsts about keeping the child but does and it leads to a relationship between these three

- Somehow LBH and SQQ work out that LQG has Feelings, and make attempts to woo him (and all the hilarity that would involve)

- LBH/LGQ/SQQ arranged marriage somehow - LBH the demon lord marrying two human spouses to end a war between humans and demons maybe? And now he has to woo his two new husbands?

Original Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū

- Anything with Bing-ge coming back to steal SQQ away and keep him in domestic bliss in his harem back in his world (regardless of SQQ's feelings on the matter) would be amazing. Does SQQ find a way to escape, or is he stuck there forever?

- Bing-ge going hard on the Intimacy and treating SQQ like his lover, and SQQ trying not to respond - but he's in love with LBH, and even if this is a different LBH, still... Complicated feelings from both sides would be A+++!

- I love the idea of Bing-ge trying to convince SQQ to stay with him and abandon Bing-mei through the power of hot sex!! The more the better! You can definitely include noncon here - anything from very gentle to rough enough to leave marks/bruises, but I would strongly prefer no broken bones or large amounts of blood (small cuts/scratches that break the skin = good, stab wounds = bad)

- If he's stuck there for a long period of time, how does SQQ interact with the harem? What do the harem members think of him?

Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Ban Yue/Pei Su
- Post-canon adventures? Post-canon adventures where they get together?? Honestly any post-canon fic where these two get together would be amazing

- Pei Su pining!!

- Also Pei Su's angst when he thinks Ban Yue is dead - the shock of that moment he sees her body hanging on that pole? Maybe flashbacks to that in the midst of a post-canon get-together?

- What if a food tour across the land?? (So Pei Su doesn't die from anymore of Ban Yue's cooking, and maybe she can learn from someone who isn't as horrific at cooking as Xie Lian?)

Feng Xin/Mu Qing

- Any kind of sex pollen or similar plot where they have to fuck or die but they're so angry about it (and secretly hating themselves for enjoying it?) Also if you'd like to add MPreg: I would love MQ secretly being in love with FX, getting mpregnant after the sex pollen sex, seeing this as his only chance to have something with FX, or with him trying to pretend that nothing happened but being forced to confront it bc he's pregnant (idk how pregnancy works when you're a god but I would prefer if any potential kids are going to be immortal too so there's no angst there)

- Mu Qing secretly touch-starved (because who has he got to touch him/be physically close to him?)

- Accidental parenting together (whether it's mpreg or they just find a random baby)

- As far as I remember we never saw what happened to Mu Qing's mother, so maybe something with Mu Qing looking after her after everything went down? Or years later, he's acting weird about something and when Feng Xin finally gets to the bottom of it he turns out to be visiting his mother's grave or something

- Something with some of Mu Qing's complicated feelings about Xie Lian being influenced by the fact he thinks Feng Xin is in love with him? (But he isn't, actually) (or he was, but he isn't any more)

- I would also love to see something that deals with who MQ and/or FX's subordinates are, what they're like, how they interact with their generals (maybe some outsider POV on FX/MQ?)

(I think MQ is supposed to be on the same 'fuck and instantly lose your powers' cultivation path as Xie Lian, but I'd prefer it if you handwaved that for this)

He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan
- The long, slow road to reconciliation - how does it happen? What hurdles do they have to overcome to get there? What does He Xuan do now he doesn't have his grand revenge plot to act out? What does Shi Qingxuan do now he's no longer a god?

- A canon divergence AU of some kind where He Xuan ascended as he was meant to, and ended up becoming friends/lovers with Shi Qingxuan somehow anyway?

- HX keeps SQX on the island as his prisoner after killing his brother, and they have a complicated relationship (would definitely be up for some sad angsty noncon if you'd like to go there!) Maybe HX eventually agrees to let SQX go? Or they end up reconciling somehow? I would love some kind of exploration of their complicated feelings - how they both think they should hate the other, but can't help loving them still. I would definitely be into SQX deciding to stay with HX in the end even if HX never apologies or their relationship remains dubconny, because SQX is still in love with him and where else does he have to go now anyway?

Lang Qianqiu/Qi Rong
- I just love enemies-to-lovers! I would love them to somehow be forced into close enough proximity that they angrily realise the other is hot, oh no! They could find a way to reconcile, maybe, or at least understand each other a little better - I think Qi Rong has always felt like the unwanted one (not without reason), so having someone obsessed with him, even for a bad reason, might seem addictive to him. And Lang Qianqiu has been holding onto his pain over his family for so long, so any way to settle that even a little seems long overdue! Employ any plot device or trope to get them to be more honest with each other (truth spell?) and I will just eat it up.

- Dub/noncon (the line can be as blurry as you'd like) where they both pretend they're not into it? Or I could see Qi Rong mocking Lang Qianqiu for being into it/getting hard while riding his dick in a way that makes it obvious that he is 100% into it too.

- Qi Rong comes back somehow post-canon, and is incensed to find out that that IDIOT Lang Qianqiu is looking after HIS son! He has to take him back immediately! Meanwhile, Lang Qianqiu has become really fond of Guzi, and can't contemplate giving him back to an immoral, flesh-eating ghost like Qi Rong. Que an (often literal) custody battle! I would love if this goes on so long that they just get used to each other, and their bickering is more like a very violent old married couple as they both actually try to do their best to raise Guzi. Maybe they realise something's gone sideways when Guzi refers to them both as his dads?? Also would love to see older!cultivator!Guzi here if you'd like to include that.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

Chu Wanning/Taxian-jun

- Any expansion on their canon dynamic, I am totally fine with straight-up PWP here where Taxian-Jun does bad things to Chu Wanning and they both pretend they're not in love/obsessed (obviously my noncon DNW is very much not applicable here!)

- Breeding kink, whether it leads to actual pregnancy or it's just dirty talk, is A+++

- CWN gets pregnant (can be A/B/O or just an AU where Mpreg can happen, up to you) and Taxian-Jun is kinda obsessed with/incredibly into him being pregnant, getting him pregnant, having sex with him while he's pregnant, etc.

- I love the idea of CWN getting pregnant and keeping the kid, and either this prompts him not to sacrifice himself (and whatever fallout that entails) or he still goes through with the sacrifice and he and MR die, leaving the kid to be raised by someone else (a very angsty Xue Meng?)

Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Jin Ling/Lan Sizhui
- Post-canon get together of some sort?

- Night hunts with such heavy UST that even the monsters can feel it!

- One of them works out their feelings before the other and heavy pining ensues

- The two of them going on a long journey together/becoming wandering cultivators together for a while?

Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen

- Somehow they get a happy ending and ride off into the sunset??

- I would love anything about how they met or that contrasts their different backgrounds

- Would love anything about their travels and the kind of night hunts they do - full supernatural casefic would be awesome!

- Any worldbuilding at all about what kind of interesting/weird stuff goes on at Baoshan Sanren's immortal mountain would be amazing

- I would love any scenario in which they're pining and then end up being forced by heats/sex pollen etc to have sex. Like, the 'technically this is dubcon but we both wanted it so bad even though we couldn't admit it' kind of sex ;)

Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master

Bo Ya/Qing Ming
- I loved their enemies-to-friends dynamic in the movie, and I'd love to see them take that final step to being lovers!

- Anything where they fix some kind of supernatural problem/defeat some kind of creature while also pining/getting together would be awesome!

- I absolutely loved that first fight between the two of them, so maybe some sexy sparring?

- Building on the above suggestion, I had this sort of vaguely identity porn-ish idea of one of them (probably Qing Ming) disguising himself to fight with the other without them knowing who it is. Eventually the other works it out, but they probably keep pretending they don't know out of amusement. Or maybe they're both pretending they don't know just for the fun of it?

Genshin Impact

Bennett/Razor
- Adventures out in the wilderness! Anything with these two doing some (maybe inadvisably dangerous) adventuring together would be awesome!

- Related to the above, I love the way the world of Genshin is littered with the ruins of more ancient societies, that feeling of standing on history and empires continually rising and falling in this world. These two exploring an ancient ruin and maybe finding something weird would be amazing

- Would love to see a timeskip to older versions of them and what they're like. Maybe Razor has learnt a bit more about human society, but he's still a wolf boy at heart? Maybe Bennett has gotten to the point where he can anticipate when his bad luck will strike a little more/how to get around it - maybe he's even using it to his advantage somehow?

- Any sort of get together would be amazing! I could go for it after a timeskip, maybe when they've had a few previous relationships which eventually lead them to work out it's the other they like - or as a first crush type thing, where they have to work out what this strange new set of feelings are.

Chongyun & Xiao
- Love a mentor/mentee dynamic that is VERY grudging on Xiao's behalf (or at least, he would like Chongyun to think it's very grudging)

- Fighting demons together!

- Maybe an older Chongyun post a timeskip gives Xiao some feelings about being immortal/never getting older? Would love any exploration of Xiao's feelings about being immortal

- Most adepti can make their own realms/domains, so does Xiao have one? What does it look like?

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Yuletide Letter 2020

2020-10-17T11:02:52Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!

Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3

For all my requests, I'm fine with not all of the requested characters appearing; feel free to mix and match and include whoever fits the story best. In fact, for the Southern Reach and Laputa, I'm happy with you not including any of the requested characters/using OCs if you want to write worldbuilding!

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.

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, character-bashing, non-con, lifestyle BDSM relationships, de-aging, ABDL

Fandoms

The Southern Reach Trilogy

The Psychologist
Whitby Allen

I admit that most of what I want out of this fandom is the weirdness, the strangeness, the lowkey horror of Area X. If you want to write something worldbuilding-y that doesn’t even mention the requested characters, that would be fine with me.

Prompts:

I would love something that expands on one of the previous expeditions and what happened to them – especially that mysterious, disastrous first expedition. What really happened? What was it like to be on that expedition, or one of the following expeditions?
I’m also into the body horror aspects of this canon; the kind of changes the biologist and others go through, and what it’s like to transform into an animal or, in the biologist’s case, pretty much an eldritch horror. Something focusing on how the experience feels, whether the person changing accepts or challenges what’s happening to them, etc., would be great.
There’s also the fact that Area X has expanded, and possibly will keep expanding indefinitely. I’d love a fic from the point of view of someone in the outside world in a scenario when the expansion of Area X becomes too big for Central to hide anymore, and the general public become aware that a potentially apocalyptic event is slowly creeping closer. I’d love a fic in which Area X has pretty much engulfed the entire world, and only a small outpost is left of the “normal” world where certain people hide. Maybe this is where Grace and the Biologist finally arrive? Perhaps there’s a reason that little piece is left – or maybe they’re all living on borrowed time, just waiting for the day when Area X swallows them up for good?
Whitby + The Psychologist: I’m intrigued by their unsanctioned trip together into Area X, and all the weirdness that went on. What exactly happened? Did the real Whitby come back? And what made the Psychologist want to choose him in the first place? And something following the psychologist through her years at the Southern Reach would be really interesting – what is it like, being responsible for sending all those people out to die? How does she cope? I’m also interested in her relationship with Grace, whether shippy or not, and how they handle life at the Southern Reach together. If you’d be interested in writing events in Annihilation from the psychologist’s point of view that would be really interesting – what pushes her to force the anthropologist to her death? What does she do between that and seeing the biologist coming from the lighthouse and falling to her death?

Fandom Specific DNW: Whitby/The Psychologist

The Bone Key - Sarah Monette

Claudia Coburn
John Pelham Ratcliffe
Kyle Murchison Booth

I love the horror stories and creepiness of this canon, and how much Booth resents and fears being caught up in all of it. I also love how he seems pretty genre-savvy most of the time, with his general knowledge about ghosts/demons/the supernatural, even when he’s also very afraid. I loved Ratcliffe because he’s the kind of person who’s clearly made himself better and grown out of the nastier person he used to be, and also because he was so instantly down with the idea of the supernatural and instantly coming up with practical ways to solve the situation. I love Claudia’s attitude to things, that she seems happy working at the museum and bucking gender norms, and just her entire character, really!

Prompts:

The three of them meet somehow? I feel like the three of them would make a very effective supernatural-hunting team!
Just any case-fic or monster-of-the-week type story, whether Ratcliffe and Claudia turn up or if it’s just Booth alone like in the short stories
Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.
I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit!

Fandom Specific DNWs: Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!), Claudia/Ratcliffe

Cells At Work

Red Blood Cell AE3803

White Blood Cell U-1146

This canon is just super cute, and I find the way it envisions the inside of the body and all the cells really fun! I just love the tone of canon, so anything vaguely sticking to that would be amazing.

Prompts:

·       Any more worldbuilding for what the inside of the body looks like, and what weird hijinks everyone gets up to. Maybe this poor person has another injury/disease and we see the effects on everyone inside the body?
·       I love Red Blood Cell getting lost and White Blood Cell having to guide her back to the right path, but it would be hilarious if for once they were both lost!
·       I never thought I’d end up shipping cells, but dammit, I do. Anything shippy for these two would be amazing! Slacking off work for a while to be together? A romantic moment interrupted by the sudden appearance of germs? Going about their daily lives while pining super obviously? (I would die for pining fic)

Laputa

Pazu

Sheeta

I absolutely love all the worldbuilding and the mystery about the people who came before/built Laputa in this canon!

Prompts:

· I’ve always been obsessed with the animation that accompanies the opening credits, with the development of airships into huge flying machines and castles like Laputa, but then somehow they’re forced back to the ground again. Literally any worldbuilding about this history and how it affects the world that Sheeta and Pazu live in would be amazing – we see all the seemingly abandoned mining operations when they’re running from the pirates in the beginning, so are there places like that littered all over? Do people remember the history where their ancestors flew great castles through the sky, or has it mostly been forgotten/repressed?
· What about Pazu and Sheeta? What do they do at the end of the movie? Where do they end up? And what do they do when they grow up? I do ship them, but I'm also totally fine with this being gen. Combined with the previous prompt, maybe they go exploring looking for more relics of the old world? Maybe they find one of the huge downed airships that we see people coming out of at the end of the title sequence?

Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)

Eli Vanto (Thrawn 2017)
Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Thrawn 2017)

The new Thrawn series has been my favourite of the new Star Wars EU books, I love these two and the bond they build. I love Thrawn’s complexity in the novels, how he has no compunctions about working for the Empire, but how he feels it’s important to treat the people under his command with respect and dignity. And what is going on with his loyalties to the Empire and the Ascendancy, exactly? (I think ultimately he’s loyal to the Ascendancy, but I could definitely be open to fic presenting him another way!) And I love that we get to see Eli grow over the course of the novels, especially the first one, but also that he still has some ways to go by the end of the trilogy. I love how he starts off being resentful of Thrawn and then moves to admiring him and wanting his approval so much.

Prompts:

Anything post-Rebels, either with Thrawn trying to deal with getting blasted off into unknown space and get back, or with Eli dealing with it. Does Eli go looking for him, or is something keeping him in the Ascendancy and he just has to try and accept the reality of Thrawn being gone? Anything with Eli reluctantly accepting Thrawn being gone and mourning him would be great, especially if Thrawn then reappears. Also Eli going to look for him! (Feel free to make this shippy or not)
I would be really interested in something post-canon that puts them on an equal footing – maybe Eli leaves the military for some reason, or Thrawn doesn’t rejoin the military, or is reinstated at the same rank as Eli? Maybe the impending civil war in the Ascendancy/war with the Grysk means Eli gets promoted fast because the Chiss are running out of competent officers to promote? Whatever way it happens, I would be really interested in seeing them interact when military ranks either no longer apply or they’re on equal terms rank-wise. How do they deal with it?
Any kind of worldbuilding for the Ascendancy or Lysatra. Maybe they go visit Lysatra and Eli’s parents? Or they visit Thrawn’s homeworld/family? Or they have a day together on Csilla/Lysatra/some other Chiss world? (If you’ve read Outbound Flight/know about Thrass, I would love him to be included, and what his relationship is like with Eli or Thrawn or both)
I also love plotty things, so anything with these two solving a case or mystery or going on a mission like they do in canon would be amazing. Murder mystery? The royal machinations of a particular planet? Imperial politics? Catching smugglers and/or rebels? Anything.
This might be a slightly random prompt, but I loved Thrawn and Vader’s interactions in Alliances, so I would LOVE an AU where Vader lives and goes into hiding in Ascendancy/ends up in Ascendancy somehow. The continuing adventures of Redeemed!Vader and Ascendancy!Thrawn! (And how even when redeemed, Thrawn still sets Vader’s teeth on edge). How would Eli react to Vader? And would Luke come with Vader to the Ascendancy? If he does, what does he think of it? Do he and Eli get along? What does Luke think of Thrawn? (If you wanted to do Luke/Eli I would be totally on board)
I ship them a lot so would love to get shipfic of any kind, any of the above prompts + ship would be amazing. For specifically shipfic, I love pretty much anything, especially with Thrawn being the instigator. I love the trope of Chiss fraternization laws/social rules differing from humans, and how the two of them cope with that. Also marriage proposals/accidental marriage/arranged marriage would make my day, I love marriage tropes.
Feel free to bring in characters from other bits of Star Wars like e.g. Rebels characters.

Thanks for reading, and Happy Yuletide!

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AU Exchange Letter

2020-07-06T17:32:28Z

Group: Female Revan (SW: KOTOR) & Anakin Skywalker (SWPT)

ALL: Alternate Ending AU,

ALL: Canon Divergence AU,

All: Character deals with a canonical difficult situation better than in canon,

All: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies,

All: Time Travel Fix-It,

ALL: Time Travel to the Future,

Star Wars: Anakin Skywalker Doesn't Turn to the Dark Side,

SW: Character Haunted By A Force Ghost,

SW: The Republic Never Falls

I just love the idea of Anakin and Revan meeting somehow! I don’t mind if she actually time travels physically into the future or Anakin somehow gets haunted by her Force Ghost. I really like the Grey Jedi/neither really Light or Dark Jedi interpretation of Revan, and I think with her experiences of the Dark and Light sides and balancing them, she could really help Anakin with his troubles. I would love to see an AU where her influence means he doesn’t Fall and become Vader! Maybe she helps him defeat Sidious? Or alternately, if Revan is still Dark, maybe she encourages Anakin to turn Dark and then helps him overthrow Sidious and become the Emperor himself?

Group: Luke Skywalker (SWOT) & Vader (SWOT) & Thrawn (SW: Thrawn) & Eli Vanto (SW: Thrawn)

Group: Luke Skywalker (SWOT)/Eli Vanto (SW: Thrawn)

ALL: Alternate Ending AU

ALL: Canon Character Death Evaded

ALL: Canon Divergence AU

ALL: Enemies forced to work together

ALL: Finding Peace/An End to the War

ALL: On the Run

All: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

So I loved Thrawn and Vader’s interactions in Alliances, so I would LOVE an AU where Vader lives and goes into hiding in Ascendancy/ends up in Ascendancy somehow. The continuing adventures of Redeemed!Vader and Ascendancy!Thrawn! (And how even when he’s back to being on the Light Side, Vader still lowkey wants to strangle Thrawn). How would Eli react to Vader? And presumably Luke would come with Vader to the Ascendancy? What does he think of it? Do he and Eli get along? What does Luke think of Thrawn? How does Luke explain it all to the people he’s leaving behind, if he does at all? Do they search for him? Do they all try to get away from their pasts by signing up to start building a settlement on some new planet the Chiss have discovered and are beginning to colonise? Also I would love Luke having a slightly inconvenient crush on Eli, and how the other two react to that!

Group: Cere Junda (SW: Fallen Order) & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (SWST)

Group: Cal Kestis (SW: Fallen Order)/Luke Skywalker (SWOT)

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

ALL: Canon Divergence AU

ALL: Disastrous Camping Trip AU

ALL: Finding Peace/An End to the War

ALL: Found Family

ALL: Married with cats

All: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies

SWST: Light Side Ben Solo

I would love to see Cere and Cal surviving into the post-ROTJ era! With Cere and Ben, I feel like given her brush with using the Dark Side, she might be able to help him with his struggle and help him against Snoke. Maybe Cere’s guidance helps Ben avoid the Dark Side altogether - or maybe she teaches him to shut himself off from the Force so that Snoke can’t get to him? I would be interested in Ben intentionally rejecting the Force and perhaps following in either of his parents’ footsteps, and maybe later learning to reopen himself despite his fear of Snoke? Or maybe he feels more comfortable reopening himself to the Force later, when he thinks he can stand up to Snoke? Or maybe he just swears off the Force entirely! I would interested in an exploration of any option.

I am so here for Luke meeting Cal and having an ‘oh no he’s hot’ moment. Maybe the two of them are rebuilding the Jedi Order together, which helps them deal with their trauma from the war? Maybe they (and Cere & Ben) are building the new Jedi Temple on some lost, abandoned, or newly discovered world? Maybe they set up on Bogano, as Cere and Cal originally intended? Maybe they all go on a disastrous camping trip together while they’re scouting locations for the Jedi Temple? I would just love Luke and Cal slowly coming together, maybe with some leftover ‘Jedi shouldn’t date’ guilt on Cal’s side.

Group: Qi'ra (SW: Solo)/Trilla Suduri | Second Sister (SW: Fallen Order)

Group: Enfys Nest (SW: Solo)/Trilla Suduri | Second Sister (SW: Fallen Order)

ALL: Bounty Hunters AU

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

All: canon character death didn't happen AU

ALL: Character and enemy must work together to save the world

ALL: Enemies forced to work together

ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac on a spaceship

ALL: Finding Peace/An End to the War

ALL: Hyperspace test pilot AU

ALL: Requested character(s) are stuck on a deserted island post-apocalypse/post-canon

ALL: Southern Reach Fusion

ALL: Space Outlaws AU

ALL: Space Pirates AU

ALL: Space Smugglers AU

ALL: The Scar AU (China Mieville)

ALL: Trapped Alone on an Alien World

SWOT: The Empire wins

ALL: Annihilation AU

If set in canon, I would love to see something where Trilla doesn’t die, and instead gets away from the Empire to meet one of these girls. Maybe Qi’ra draws her into her crime syndicate? Or Enfys tries to convince her to join her rebels? I would also love AUs where they’re space pirates or hyperspace test pilots in the canon universe even if the events of canon never happened - maybe the Empire never rose? Maybe their lives just took completely different turns? Or maybe Trilla survives and the Empire wins! This could be quite dark if Enfys is her prisoner - maybe she finds herself taking pity on this woman she’s supposed to be torturing? Or maybe she works with Qi’ra to further the Empire’s interests? Or maybe with the Rebels out of the way, the Empire starts cracking down on the crime syndicates? As for an Annihilation/Southern Reach AU, you could make that a complete setting change AU or have the Shimmer/Area X appear somewhere in the Star Wars universe. I’m just down for the complete oddness and weirdness of the original canon! For The Scar AU, who are they on the floating city, and what are their lives like? Do they even come from/live on the city?

Group: Alexsandr Kallus (SW: Rebels)/Eli Vanto (SW: Thrawn)

ALL: Characters Were In A Relationship But Broke Up Pre-Canon

ALL: Characters who knew one another long ago unexpectedly reunite for an adventure

ALL: Different First Meeting - Mistaken for a Hooker and Goes With It

ALL: Disastrous Camping Trip AU

ALL: Hyperspace test pilot AU

ALL: Space Outlaws AU

ALL: Space Pirates AU

With Pre-Canon here I’m thinking probably Pre-Rebels canon. They both know Yularen, so maybe he introduced them – was he attempting to play matchmaker with two of his protégés? Was it a one-time thing, maybe a hook-up while on Coruscant or on a mission, or maybe they dated for a while and it didn’t work out? I would love to see the two of them reuniting for an adventure with this backstory - maybe dealing with a disastrous camping trip as sniping exes? Or alternately, if they’re space pirates/outlaws/hyperspace pilots, I would be up for them being together or still being grouchy exes. How did they end up in those roles, anyway, and how are they different in personality from how they are in canon? Or for the different first meeting - exactly what situation do they meet in that Kallus mistakes Eli for a hooker, and why does he go along with it? How does that play out later? (Also I highkey ship Eli with Thrawn, so him having broken up with Kallus for Thrawn and/or Kallus’ suspicions about his feelings for Thrawn being a key reason they broke up would be awesome. I also love Kallus/Zeb if you want to incorporate that!)

Group: Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (SWST)

ALL: Canon Divergence AU

ALL: Character comes into an inheritance with strange conditions

ALL: Different First Meeting - Met Via Matchmaking Service

ALL: Space Smugglers AU

SWST: Ben Solo never joined the Dark Side

SWST: Force Sensitive Armitage Hux

SWST: Light Side Ben Solo

I would love an AU where Ben didn’t turn Dark and the First Order never existed, so Armitage and Ben meet in the Republic somewhere and catch feelings for each other. Maybe Hux’s dad was arrested by the New Republic and he was raised by his mother, or by Maratelle (I imagine those would be very different circumstances!). Maybe Ben swears off using the Force and becomes a bit of a scoundrel like Han, and Hux meets him through some kind of con/escape from authorities/other shenanigans? Or they meet via a matchmaking service, neither knowing exactly who the other is and that they might already know each other? Or Hux is force sensitive, and he comes to train with Luke and meets Ben? Are they rivals in the new Jedi Order? Or maybe they’re both involved in politics? For the coming into a strange inheritance tag, maybe Brendol dies and Armitage inherits something weird, something that either complicates his relationship with Ben or pushes them into meeting for the first time?

Group: Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto (SW: Thrawn)

ALL: Annihilation AU

You could make this a complete setting change AU or have the Shimmer/Area X appear somewhere in the Star Wars universe. I’m just down for the complete oddness and weirdness of the original canon!

ALL: Bounty Hunters AU

ALL: Space Pirates AU

Instead of joining an Imperial Academy, Eli ends up becoming a bounty hunter? Or maybe something happens to his family/their business, which means he needs a quick way to make money? How does he meet Thrawn in this instance? Does Thrawn become a bounty hunter/pirate with him, or maybe Imperial!Thrawn is trying to chase down Space Pirate!Eli? Or maybe as an Imperial officer, Thrawn works with Eli the bounty hunter?

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

Maybe post-canon, these two ‘retire’ to start building a new Chiss colony? Or maybe the events of canon never happened, and they’re both looking for a fresh start?

SW: Eli Vanto is Force Sensitive

ALL: Sith AU

I would absolutely love anything with Eli being Force-sensitive. How does he hide it? Why did he still join the Empire if he knew? Does he know exactly what his strange abilities are? How do they get revealed to Thrawn? Maybe they get revealed and Eli has to go on the run? Alternately, Force sensitive Eli was discovered by the Empire and recruited as an Inquisitor, and that’s how he ends up meeting Imperial officer Thrawn? Maybe they become partners like in canon, only Eli is on an equal or maybe even greater level rank-wise than Thrawn, since he’s an Inquisitor. Inquisitor!Eli helping Grand Admiral Thrawn hunt down the Ghost crew during Rebels would be amazing.

ALL: Characters in arranged marriage AU catch feelings

ALL: Future Arranged Spouses are Forbidden To Meet But Able To Study One Another's Hobbies

How do these two end up being in an arranged marriage? Maybe some Empire/Ascendancy alliance thing? Maybe an AU where Lysatra has ties to the Ascendancy, and Eli’s family see this as a way to expand their trading empire? I would love them both dutifully going along with it and unexpectedly catching feelings. Also, I love the idea of them trying to glean information through their hobbies, and how they actually line up with the person they finally meet.

ALL: characters meet earlier than in canon,

ALL: Different First Meeting - Captured by Slavers

ALL: Different First Meeting - Mistaken for a Hooker and Goes With It

All: Space Hooker AU

Maybe in this AU, Chiss are captured as slaves by people in Wild Space? Or Chiss take humans as slaves? You could combine this with the space pirates AU, and maybe space pirate Eli breaks Thrawn and the other Chiss slaves out? I also love the idea of their first meeting being Thrawn mistaking Eli for a hooker - or Eli actually being a hooker, and how he got there!

ALL: Dungeons & Dragons setting

I have no idea what classes or races they’d be, but these two as part of a DnD adventuring party sounds like a recipe for hilarity!

ALL: Snowed in at a Haunted Hotel

Mystery-solving! I don’t mind whether this happens within the canon universe or in a setting change AU, the key for me here is these two Holmes-and-Watson-ing their way into finding out that the hotel is haunted, and maybe by whom?

Group: Rex/Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)

Group: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)

Group: Padmé Amidala & Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (SW: TCW)

Group: Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (SW: TCW)

ALL: Alignment Swap AU

All the good guys as bad guys and the bad guys as good guys! These characters being Sith/evil while going up against people like Palpatine, who’re now good, would be my absolute jam!

ALL: Annihilation AU

You could make this a complete setting change AU or have the Shimmer/Area X appear somewhere in the Star Wars universe. I’m just down for the complete oddness and weirdness of the original canon!

ALL: Bounty Hunters AU

ALL: Space Pirates AU

ALL: Sky Pirates/Skyfarers AU

These guys as a crew of bounty hunters or space/sky pirates would be amazing. Or some of them are bounty hunters chasing the space pirates, maybe? I would be totally down for Rex and/or Obi-Wan being some kind of galactic law enforcement who get tempted by the others into a life of crime and/or bounty hunting!

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

ALL: Disastrous Camping Trip AU

I love the idea of these guys all moving to some new frontier planet together, bonding through working and surviving together, and all the trials and troubles that setting up a new colony brings. Found family ftw? Also, I’m thinking maybe this disastrous camping trip could happen while they’re exploring the new world?

ALL: Dungeons & Dragons setting

Padmé, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and Rex as a DnD adventuring party sounds like absolute gold. What missions do they get sent on? What hijinks do they get up to? I have no preference as to classes/whether some of them are different DnD races, so go wild with that!

ALL: Howl's Moving Castle AU

Honestly Anakin has the right kind of chaotic energy to be Howl, and he’s a Force prodigy in canon, so he’s a magic prodigy here? And Obi-Wan is a very disgruntled Sophie. I could see Ahsoka as Markel, and maybe Padmé is a kind of Witch of the Wastes type figure, except she’s super competent and in the end Anakin and Obi-Wan fall for her too? (I’m mostly familiar with movie-verse, so I’d prefer if you stick to that).

ALL: Hyperspace test pilot AU

These guys as a hyperspace exploration crew! Where do they go, and what do they find? Do they have some near-misses? Does their hyperdrive malfunction?

ALL: Ocean's Eleven-esque heist

I would love for this to be in-universe, maybe combined with the space pirates AU?

Group: Luke Skywalker/Han Solo (SWOT)

ALL: Alternate First Meetings

All: Arranged marriage to prevent extradition or incarceration

ALL: Characters in arranged marriage AU catch feelings

ALL: characters meet earlier than in canon

Maybe Tatooine has a system where you can save someone from execution by marrying them? Luke takes pity on Han and saves him, but now they’re married and he has to explain the whole thing to his aunt and uncle? And he thought he just married this guy to save him, but oh no he’s really hot, and he has his own ship…

ALL: Annihilation AU

You could make this a complete setting change AU or have the Shimmer/Area X appear somewhere in the Star Wars universe. I’m just down for the complete oddness and weirdness of the original canon!

All: Bodyguard AU

I’m here for aaaaall the bodyguard falling for his charge tropes. I’d love to know how Han manages to get hired as a bodyguard and why Luke is in need of guarding. As Vader’s son? As the last Jedi ever? I just love the forbidden relationship aspect and the falling for someone you shouldn’t thing!

ALL: Space Pirates AU

ALL: Sky Pirates/Skyfarers AU

I mean, Han is kinda a space pirate already, but I love the idea of him pulling Luke into it. This could go with the alternate first meetings tag, and maybe Luke runs away with Han to be a space pirate before the events of ANH can happen? Or something similar, but in a non-sci-fi world with sky pirates?

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

I love the idea of these two moving to some new frontier planet and meeting each other, bonding through working and surviving together, and all the trials and troubles that setting up a new colony brings. I could see Luke being eager for adventure and getting it through this instead of joining an Imperial Academy, while Han is just looking for a fresh start, maybe still holding onto some guilt about his past that at first makes him unsure about getting into a relationship with Luke?

ALL: Different First Meeting - Captured by Slavers

ALL: Different First Meeting - Mistaken for a Hooker and Goes With It

All: Space Hooker AU

Maybe Han gets tricked into agreeing to smuggle slaves, and Luke is one of them? They go on the run together when Han lets the slaves go? Or maybe Han mistakes Luke for a hooker on Tatooine and Luke goes with it for whatever reason - maybe he’s feeling like doing something stupid and rebellious? Maybe he just wants to sleep with a hot guy? Or maybe something’s happened to his aunt and uncle and he needs some way to make money now?

SW: Luke and Leia raised by Darth Vader

How do Luke and Han meet in this AU? Is Han a prisoner or something similar? Maybe he accidentally winds up with something Luke/Vader need, and Luke is trying to convince him to part with the information/location of whatever it is? Or maybe Han manages to stick it out and become an Imperial officer in this AU, and he works with Luke, and they have a forbidden secret relationship? I’m down for Luke maybe wanting to pursue the light side, or being totally dark side in this AU.

Group: Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi (Haikyuu!!)

ALL: Annihilation AU

The Shimmer/Area X appears somewhere in Japan? I’m just down for the complete oddness and weirdness of the original canon!

All: Bodyguard AU

I’m here for aaaaall the bodyguard falling for his charge tropes. I’d love to know how Daichi manages to get hired as a bodyguard and why Suga is in need of guarding. I just love the forbidden relationship aspect and the falling for someone you shouldn’t thing!

ALL: Building a settlement on a frontier planet

ALL: Character is a Witcher

Daichi as a Witcher and Suga as a sorcerer? Or maybe both of them as Witchers, either who grew up together, or who come from different schools? I would just love to see how they fit in this world, and maybe some monster-hunting together!

ALL: Dungeons & Dragons setting

These two probably make a pretty good DnD twosome, and maybe they join up with other members of the cast for missions that need a bigger adventuring party? I don’t have any preferences for classes/races for these two, so go wild with that!

ALL: Hyperspace test pilot AU

These guys as a two-man hyperspace exploration crew! Where do they go, and what do they find? Do they have some near-misses? Does their hyperdrive malfunction?

ALL: Japanese Mythology AU

ALL: Youkai AU

Tengu AU? I would love for this to go into the creepy or weird side of Japanese mythology, especially if they’re tengu, given the tengu’s association with war and battle. What is it like, being a mythological creature? Or maybe only one of them is, and they fall in love somehow?

ALL: Magic Shop AU

I could totally see Suga running the magic shop, and I would love the day-to-day tribulations and troubles and also joys of running the shop - one of which is Daichi finding an excuse to visit, maybe?

ALL: Military Scifi AU

I would love these guys in any kind of military sci-fi AU. Which planets do they come from? Why did they decide to join the military? What positions are they in, and what missions do they go on? Day-to-day life on a big spaceship or at a military installation, either in space or on a strange alien world, would be amazing.

ALL: Space Pirates AU

I just love everything about this idea. What kind of heists/crimes do they get up to? Are they Robin Hood-style outlaws or are they in it purely for themselves? What’s their ship like? Who do they work with?

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Just Married 2020 Letter

2020-05-25T22:03:19Z

Marrying someone to prevent someone else doing so

Marrying to save someone from an arranged political marriage

Mostly I’m thinking Eli is being pressured to marry someone - like, maybe it’s a political marriage that will advance his position in Chiss society? But he’d rather not, thanks. A “convenient” marriage to Thrawn seems like a great way to avoid that…

Crashing A Wedding So Character Can Marry One Of The Participants Instead

About to Marry Someone Else But Dead Previous Spouse is Actually Alive

Thrawn finally coming back from being lost who-knows-where just in time to crash Eli’s politically-motivated wedding, because clearly he’s the only one who can marry Eli.

Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out By Someone Else

This is such an interesting concept to me. Who has marriage contracts - the Chiss? The Empire? Who does the money get paid to? Maybe this is a thing on Lysatra?

Accidental Engagement - Didn't Know Item Was Traditional Betrothal Gift

Proposal Recipient misunderstands due to cultural differences

This could go either way - but where there are two different cultures, there are ample opportunities for misunderstandings ;)

Clash of customs/culture around wedding/marriage

I’m thinking here that maybe Lysatran and Chiss wedding ceremonies differ in some big way, which is pretty hard to reconcile. Maybe they just end up having to have two wedding ceremonies?

Breaking Up A Betrothal To Marry Someone Your Family Doesn't Approve Of

Family disapproves of marriage

Couple Getting Married Is Scandalous to Polite Society

This could go either way, what with the Chiss being generally xenophobic, and the Lysatran legends/rumours about Chiss. I’d love to see either of them breaking off an engagement to pursue their marriage to each other - maybe Eli has gone back to Lysatra, and breaks off an arranged marriage set up for him there when Thrawn finally reappears? Or the “family” is this case is more like the people supporting him in the Ascendancy (like, Ar’alani, etc.) whom he pisses off by breaking off a politically advantageous marriage. Or maybe it’s Thrawn pissing off his family/clan by wanting to marry the outsider? Whichever way you pick, it’s probably ample material for a scandal.

Getting Married to Extend Legal Rights/Protections to Partner

Marrying Thrawn gives Eli rights and protections in the Ascendancy, maybe?

Marriage by Winning Ritual Combat Against Potential Spouse

I feel like this could definitely be a Chiss thing, though it would be fun to see it from either culture.

Nobody Believes They Married For Love

I mean… it’s Thrawn. He’s pretty famous for playing things close to his chest. Plus, if you add their dynamic from being commander/subordinate in the Empire, it would be plausible for people to believe Eli married Thrawn for political advantage.

Someone is a bridezilla and it's not the bride

~~It’s Thrass~~

Honestly, this is such a hilarious tag, and as long as you can make it work in character, I don’t mind who it is. Just, someone is super invested in this wedding being amazing, to the point where Eli is seriously considering elopement.

Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have

I can definitely see this being Eli, given his seeming insecurity about his relationship with Thrawn in the last book, but making it Thrawn would also be super interesting to me.

Wedding Night Reveals That New Spouse Has Tentacles

I mean, does this even need explanation? ;) Eli has come this far, a few tentacles aren’t going to put him off now xD

Luke Skywalker/Han Solo (SWOT)

Character thinks proposal was rejected but other person misunderstood

Serious proposal is assumed to be a joke

Luke assumes it was a joke - Han would never want to marry him, right? - and Han is like, sure, totally understandable that Luke doesn’t want to marry a guy like me, I’ll just never speak of this again.

Characters Platonically Marry for the Benefits But Don't Count on Falling in Love

Married for the Tax Benefits

Marrying for Visa and Immigration Purposes

Getting Married to Extend Legal Rights/Protections to Partner

These two get platonically married for some reason - like, married couples get benefits in the New Republic? Getting married to Luke gives Han the right to a fair trial? Maybe one of them needs to get married or they get deported - Luke does come from Tatooine, technically, which has been outside Republic space for a long time - but then, oh no, feelings…

Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival

One of them is on death’s door, so the other marries them so they can legally inherit their possessions or something? Then, oh, they’re miraculously saved! And still married…

Marrying someone to prevent someone else doing so

Fake Marriage to Fend Off Unwanted Suitors

Surely Luke Skywalker, Only Jedi In The Galaxy, is considered a Catch? (Or maybe, since he’s a General now, Han is too). Either way, pretending to be married, or in fact actually being married, is a great way to fend off those pesky suitors.

Undercover as Married Couple on Alien Planet While Mutually Pining Openly and Aggressively

Marriage as part of a con

Part of a Rebel mission, maybe?

Character Volunteers to Marry Condemned Criminal to Save Them from Punishment

Not sure how this would fit in canon, but it could make a great canon divergence AU - maybe Han is condemned to die on Tatooine, but Luke saves him with the offer of marriage, out of the goodness of his heart?

Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have

I could see either of them not believing the other would marry them in a hundred years, though it would be especially iddy to me if it were Han. I just want them to angst about it.

Pact to Marry if Both Single at a Certain Age

This was a joke when they first brought it up, but being a Rebel/rebuilding the New Republic/the Jedi Order doesn’t leave a lot of time for dating, and now they’re at those ages…

Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian (ME Trilogy)

beach wedding

destination wedding

Outdoor Wedding

Wedding on the beach? Wedding in a forest clearing, or a meadow, etc.? I could see these guys picking a holiday planet, and making it into a week-long thing. You only get married once, right? (Plus, a high-profile wedding would be great for a holiday planet’s post-Reaper tourist industry…)

Wedding Cake Tasting & Decoration Selection

Wedding Fluff

Wedding Menu Tasting

Wedding Planning

Wedding Toasts

Wedding Venue Touring

Getting Joyfully Hammered at Your Wedding Ceremony

opening wedding gifts

Alien Marriage Traditions

Wedding fluff, basically. How do these guys plan their wedding? Are they in agreement on the theme/colours/location, etc., or are there some disagreements? How do two different cultures factor into that?

Family Heirlooms Passed Down For Engagement/Wedding

Matching tattoos to signify marriage bond

The matching tattoos could definitely be Shep getting the Turian family tattoos, or them both getting a human-style tattoo - or both? And what kind of family heirlooms might either side of the family pass down?

Honeymoon

Because these two deserve a chance to finally relax - preferably alone.

Bachelor(ette) Party Shenanigans

We know what they got up to in the Citadel DLC - that-but-a-bachelor(ette)-party would be amazing

Someone is a bridezilla and it's not the bride

This is such a hilarious tag, and there’s so many options here. One of their friends? A family member? Someone wants this wedding to be perfect, because these two deserve it, goddammit.

Proposal after a near death experience

Proposal attempts keep being thwarted by circumstances

Blurting Out Proposal Unplanned

A comedy where Garrus keeps attempting to pop the question and keeps getting thwarted would be hilarious here - and maybe he finally just blurts it out after they almost die?

Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (SWPT)

destination wedding

Outdoor Wedding

Padmé and Anakin’s wedding in canon was an outdoor wedding - was that a coincidence? Naboo tradition? Also I could totally see them making this wedding a production, which could totally include making it a week-long thing on a destination planet.

Over The Top Wedding

Wedding Cake Tasting & Decoration Selection

Wedding Menu Tasting

Wedding Planning

Wedding traditions

Wedding Venue Touring

Crying With Happiness During Wedding

All the wedding planning and fluff. This wedding is going to be a PRODUCTION, there’s a lot of prep involved in that. If Padmé and Anakin’s secret wedding happened as in canon, then maybe this is a re-run for both of them, so they’re going all out?

Ridiculously Elaborate Wedding Dress

I mean, it’s Padmé. Enough said.

Clash of customs/culture around wedding/marriage

This is three people bringing in all their combined assumptions, customs and traditions about marriage from three different backgrounds - there’s bound to be clashes somewhere.

Character Acts Like Engagement Was Accidental But Knew Exactly What They Were Doing

Anakin Skywalker? Intentionally getting engaged to his two favourite people in the galaxy? What a scandalous accusation!

Marriage Required to Carry Out Secret Mission

Undercover as Married Couple on Alien Planet While Mutually Pining Openly and Aggressively

Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining

These three + mission fic is such catnip to me, especially when combined with going undercover as married.

Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have

ALL THE ANGST. I could especially see this being Anakin, but Obi-Wan would be even more likely to never believe he could go against the Jedi to have a marriage, so… (If you’ve seen the Clone Wars, maybe it’s a vision like Yoda saw, of the happy Jedi Temple?)

Marrying a Second Person Because You Assumed Your Spouse Was Dead But It Turns Out They're Not

Don’t care who the combo is here, but Obi-Wan/Padmé getting married and Anakin presumed dead could really interesting here, given Anakin’s suspicious in the ROTS novel that Obi-Wan and Padmé were together behind his back.

Amajiki Tamaki/Toogata Mirio (BnHA)

Character A Enters Fake Marriage While Secretly Pining for Character B

Obviously Fake Marriage Leads To Third Party Realizing Their Feelings For Half the Couple

One of them has to pretend to be married for some kind of mission/catching a villain, which is uncomfortable for them, given their feelings. But for the other (maybe they’re like, running surveillance? Maybe the pretending-to-be-married one has a wire and the other is listening?) it’s an uncomfortable realisation of, hmm, maybe this jealousy means something…

Fake Marriage for PR Reasons

Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings

Being in a steady marriage is good for their image, maybe? Or the wedding will be a big event, raising their profile?

Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings

Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining

Your classic pretending to be married for a mission, oh no feelings, would be amazing :D

Marriage Allows Spouses to Share Mutant or Magical Powers

As a weird side-effect of marriage, Mirio now has Tamaki’s quirk?

Proposal attempts keep being thwarted by circumstances

Blurting Out Proposal Unplanned

Proposal after a near death experience

Honestly I think the idea of Mirio trying to set up the best proposal ever and it constantly going wrong without Tamaki even realising what’s happening would be hilarious (maybe with Nejire/Deku etc. helping him/commiserating with him when it goes wrong). Then, after all that planning, Mirio just blurts it out (maybe after a near-death experience?)

Character Is Convinced They're Terrible Spouse Material Until They Get Multiple Proposals

Because Tamaki lacks self-confidence, but he is a Catch (Mirio, from the sidelines: oh no). Up to you whether proposals are from random people/OCs/named characters.

Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling

Serious proposal is assumed to be a joke

Mostly I see it being Tamaki thinking it’s a fling/assuming it’s a joke (probably because Mirio jumps from "we’re dating" to "we should get married" too fast for a normal person, lol)

Pact to Marry if Both Single at a Certain Age

I just love the “whoops, this was a joke when we first brought it up, but now we’re actually those ages…” trope. I mean, being a hero doesn’t leave a lot of time for dating…

Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have

ALL THE ANGST. I don’t mind one of them is trapped (maybe they both are at the same time?) so long as there’s angst.

Truth serum induces unexpected proposal

Truth serum is such a great superhero trope, and unexpected proposal is even better! Like, whoever's getting proposed to really wasn't expecting that to be the truth that got told.

Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov (YoI)

Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky (YoI)

Crying With Happiness During Wedding

Elaborate Descriptions of Wedding Food

First Dance at a Wedding

Friends giving wedding gifts

Getting Joyfully Hammered at Your Wedding Ceremony

opening wedding gifts

Wedding Reception

Wedding Toasts

All the wedding tropes/fluff!!

Over The Top Wedding

Wedding Cake Tasting & Decoration Selection

Wedding Menu Tasting

Wedding Planning

Wedding Venue Touring

I can see Yuuri/Victor both being in agreement about having a Big Wedding. Maybe Otabek needs a bit of encouragement, but hey, if it makes Yuri happy…

Honeymoon

Honestly, just a chance for them to have a fluffy holiday/guilt-free break from work/training/diet regimes!

Bachelor(ette) Party Shenanigans

We know what happens when Yuuri drinks…

Pact to Marry if Both Single at a Certain Age

I feel like this a thing Yuri and Otabek maybe joked about (or Yuuri and Victor, in a canon divergence AU), but skating doesn’t leave a lot of time for dating, and now they’re those ages…

Blurting Out Proposal Unplanned

Proposal attempts keep being thwarted by circumstances

A comedy where someone’s attempts to proposal just keep getting stopped/disrupted? Do they keep coming up with more complicated, extravagant ones? Do they come up with simpler ones, only for those to be thwarted too? Do they just blurt it out because god, they want to get it out somehow.

Joke proposal is treated seriously

I could honestly see any of them accidentally taking a joke proposal seriously, and the comedic fallout (Yuuri is definitely freaking out). I mean, they were just joking, but the other person seems into it, so now they have to put their money where their mouth is…

New King/His Cruel Older Brother's Widowed Husband (Original Work)

Arranged Marriage - Spouse as Hostage for their Family/People's Good Behavior,

Marriage for purposes of political diplomacy

Maybe the Widowed Husband was a hostage, so that’s why the New King has to quickly marry him? Or his marriage to older brother represented some kind of link between countries, or was the basis for a trade deal, etc…. So they have to get married to ensure that continues.

Cross-Species Marriage

I was thinking maybe the Widowed Husband is like, elven/half-elven? Or if in a sci-fi setting, an alien?

Elaborate Courtship

Formal Courtship and Proposal

Even if they need to get married in a hurry, there are certain courtship/proposal customs that must be observed. Bonus if it feels incredibly awkward because one of them has already gone through this, or if it stirs up bad memories.

Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party

Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else

Marrying someone to prevent someone else doing so

Maybe New King likes his brother’s widow so much he can’t bear the thought of him having to marry this objectionable third party?

Magical Marriage Required to Bring Prosperity and Growth to Ruined Land

And maybe the previous King’s marriage did nothing, because he was cruel to his husband? (Possible B plot about someone having offed the brother because the marriage wasn’t working out, and that was detrimental to the whole country?)

Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive

Bonus if Widowed Husband has a lot of nerves about being married again, figuring it’ll be just like before.

Arranged Marriage - mutual pining between spouses

Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation

Mutual Not-Actually-Unrequited Pining for Spouse

Just. So much pining. But New King doesn’t want to push, he knows what his brother’s relationship was like, and Widowed Husband thinks the New King just married him for X reason, so he wouldn’t accept his feelings…

Lonely But Principled Prince/Prince He Believes Doesn't Want to Marry Him

Arranged Marriage - Spouse as Hostage for their Family/People's Good Behavior

Arranged marriage to end conflict

Getting Married To Avert A War

Political marriage to enemy that turns to love

It’s obvious why the other prince doesn’t want to get married - they’re enemies! But maybe the Lonely Prince’s honourable, principled ways bring the other prince around…

Character A Proposes Marriage to Save Character B's Life

The lonely prince has principles, and letting the other prince die would violate them - even if they have to get married against his will to save the other prince’s life, it’s better than being dead, right?

Arranged Marriage Between People Who Knew Each Other Under False Names As Children

betrothed as children

I’m so intrigued by why they might have known each other under false names - were their countries enemies? Also, being betrothed as children but never really meeting again until the other prince arrives for their wedding, is it any wonder the other prince is not into this? Lonely prince thinks he must have been resenting the idea of marrying him since he was a child…

Character A Thought Character B Was Dead/Gone Forever Until Arranged Marriage To B

Lonely prince thought other prince was dead, but then he pops up out of the woodwork? Or maybe the other prince thought the lonely prince was dead, and lonely prince is sure he thought “good riddance” about that, and is now super angry they have to get married instead.

Formal Courtship and Proposal

Since lonely prince is convinced the other prince doesn’t want to marry him, this is probably very awkward. But he has principles, so he’ll do what’s expected of him.

Marriage to Break Curse

Marriage to Break Curse But It Doesn't Work

Clearly the other prince resents having to get married for a practical reason like curse-breaking rather than love - and even worse if it doesn’t actually work! (Maybe they need to be in love for it to work?) (Also would be amazing if the lonely prince is somehow objectionable because he’s cursed, thus why he thinks the other prince is so resentful of having to marry him).

Marriage by Winning Ritual Combat Against Potential Spouse

The lonely prince can never be sure his fiancé actually wants to marry him, because it all came down to who had the lucky day on the field of combat, and that happened to be him.

Suitors Must Compete For Love Interest’s Hand In Marriage

Maybe the lonely prince entered because he was expected to, not actually expecting to win, but he surprisingly did? Maybe he beat the person he assumed was the other prince’s preferred suitor?

Ezra Bridger & Sabine Wren (Star Wars: Rebels)

Accidental Engagement - Didn't Know Item Was Traditional Betrothal Gift

Cultural differences? Or one of them gives a gift which is seen by others, who assume it’s a betrothal gift?

Aliens Think They're Married

They need to work with these aliens for some Rebel mission, but having to deal with them assuming they’re married is the worst. Hopefully Hera, Kanan and Zeb never hear about this.

Pact to Marry if Both Single at a Certain Age

That awkward moment you reach that same age - maybe if Sabine finds Ezra after she goes looking for him? - and you have to be like, actually…maybe not.

Pretending to be married while undercover

Undercover as Married

Marriage as part of a con

This is probably about as convincing as Hondo claiming he’s not in it for the money. Hilarious fails and bad acting as they try and convince others of their “marriage” would be amazing.

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Yuletide Letter 2019

2019-10-27T16:15:33Z

Fandoms

The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley

Merrick Tremayne
Raphael (The Bedlam Stacks

I just love the feeling of magic and wonder and discovery in this book, and how odd and dangerous but also magical and homely Bedlam is. I love how the setting seems very much like our world, but just one step to the left, where these magical things can exist just like they’re normal, everyday occurrences for the people who’ve been living with them all their lives.

Prompts:

Anything more set in Bedlam and the jungle around it, anything about what makes the town tick and the daily life of the inhabitants there, especially through Merrick’s foreign eyes
ANYTHING about the floating city, it was SO COOL and we only saw brief snatches of it since it came in right at the end. What’s life like there? Maybe something post-canon with these two navigating their way around life there? How do you cope with the altitude when you haven’t lived there all your life? Literally any worldbuilding about the floating city would be amazing.
Something about Raphael’s thoughts on comparing Merrick’s grandfather and Merrick himself? They seem to be two pretty different people, and Raphael’s still clearly holding a lot of sorrow and remorse about missing Merrick’s grandfather leaving, and I’m really interested in the parallels between them and what Raphael thinks about that.
I would be happy with gen where these two mean a lot to each other as friends, but I would also love anything shippy. Combine the above prompts with the ship? Something about them working out their relationship post-canon? Working out how to bang a living statue? I’m here for it.

The Bone Key - Sarah Monette

Claudia Coburn
John Pelham Ratcliffe
Kyle Murchison Booth

Prompts:

The three of them meet somehow? I feel like the three of them would make a very effective supernatural-hunting team!
Just any case-fic or monster-of-the-week type story, whether Ratcliffe and Claudia turn up or if it’s just Booth alone like in the short stories
Vampires. I love vampires, and Booth’s already encountered werewolves, so why not their (supposed) natural enemies? A very hot vampire gentleman flirting with and menacing Booth would be ideal.
I do ship Booth/Ratcliffe so feel free to go there in any way you see fit!

Fandom Specific DNWs: Booth/any female character or OC (shipping him with a male OC is fine and encouraged though!), Claudia/Ratcliffe

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Algernon "Algie" Carlisle
Gus Balfour
Jack Miller (Dark Matter)

Prompts:

Any kind of Gus Lives!AU. Maybe Jack manages to save him right at the end?
I would love some post-canon feels where Gus and Jack work out they’re into each other and how to go forward with their lives.
I would absolutely love if by some circumstance Algie had to leave Gruhuken sometime after they arrived (perhaps he’s the one who gets appendicitis?) which leaves Gus and Jack on their own confronting the monster. Would love if this included any sort of huddling for warmth/Canadian shack type tropes, or saving one another from the monster, or helping each other hold onto their sanity when they think they’re going mad. And I would love if Algie came in at the eleventh hour to save them just like in canon (but no one dies please!)
I would also enjoy seeing how things would be different if Algie had managed to make it back to Gruhuken after taking Gus to the doctor. Would he and Jack be at each other’s throats constantly or would they come to understand each other? What would it take to take them to admit to their sightings of the ghost, and how would they deal with it together?
For a much sadder prompt, it’s clear from Algie’s letter at the beginning that he and Jack bonded after the events at Gruhuken, and I would love to see some of that. Mourning Gus together? Going to his funeral? Make it sad!

Fandom Specific DNW: Isaak dying or any bad things happening to him.

Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)

Eli Vanto (Thrawn 2017)
Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Thrawn 2017)

Prompts:

Anything post-Rebels, either with Thrawn trying to deal with getting blasted off into unknown space and get back, or with Eli dealing with it. Does Eli go looking for him, or is something keeping him in the Ascendancy and he just has to try and accept the reality of Thrawn being gone? Anything with Eli reluctantly accepting Thrawn being gone and mourning him would be great, especially if Thrawn then reappears. Also Eli going to look for him! (Feel free to make this shippy or not)
I would be really interested in something post-canon that puts them on an equal footing – maybe Eli leaves the military for some reason, or Thrawn doesn’t rejoin the military, or is reinstated at the same rank as Eli? Maybe the impending civil war in the Ascendancy/war with the Grysk means Eli gets promoted fast because the Chiss are running out of competent officers to promote? Whatever way it happens, I would be really interested in seeing them interact when military ranks either no longer apply or they’re on equal terms rank-wise. How do they deal with it?
Any kind of worldbuilding for the Ascendancy or Lysatra. Maybe they go visit Lysatra and Eli’s parents? Or they visit Thrawn’s homeworld/family? Or they have a day together on Csilla/Lysatra/some other Chiss world? (If you’ve read Outbound Flight/know about Thrass, I would love him to be included, and what his relationship is like with Eli or Thrawn or both)
I also love plotty things, so anything with these two solving a case or mystery or going on a mission like they do in canon would be amazing. Murder mystery? The royal machinations of a particular planet? Imperial politics? Catching smugglers and/or rebels? Anything.
This might be a slightly random prompt, but I loved Thrawn and Vader’s interactions in Alliances, so I would LOVE an AU where Vader lives and goes into hiding in Ascendancy/ends up in Ascendancy somehow. The continuing adventures of Redeemed!Vader and Ascendancy!Thrawn! (And how even when redeemed, Thrawn still sets Vader’s teeth on edge). How would Eli react to Vader? And would Luke come with Vader to the Ascendancy? If he does, what does he think of it? Do he and Eli get along? What does Luke think of Thrawn? (If you wanted to do Luke/Eli I would be totally on board)
I ship them a lot so would love to get shipfic of any kind, any of the above prompts + ship would be amazing. For specifically shipfic, I love pretty much anything, especially with Thrawn being the instigator. I love the trope of Chiss fraternization laws/social rules differing from humans, and how the two of them cope with that. Also marriage proposals/accidental marriage/arranged marriage would make my day, I love marriage tropes.
I haven’t requested any other characters in the tagset because I didn’t have specific prompts about them, but I like them all and would love any of them to show up in fic. Also feel free to bring in characters from other bits of Star Wars like e.g. Rebels characters.

Thanks for reading, and Happy Yuletide!

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Star Wars Rares Letter

2019-09-22T16:43:19Z

My first thought here was a sedoratu. I think this is the only ship I’ve ever had that sedoratu would work for and I’d be really stoked to see it (if you don’t know what sedoratu is, see here: https://bemusedlybespectacled.tumblr.com/post/141332914501/wtf-is-a-sedoretu). It could be a Chiss marriage thing, or it could easily be a tradition from Lysatra or Karyn’s homeworld. But how would they end up there, how would they end up getting married, and how would they all feel about it? I’d be really interested in seeing how whoever in the pairing ends up being the outsider to that marriage system reacts to the whole thing. I don’t mind who you want to put in which positions in the sedoratu, or if you want to respect the rules in regards to certain pairings not sleeping together, or have them ignore that part.

Otherwise, I’m just really interested in the logistics of these four together. How does it happen? Is it squeezed in somewhere during the timeline of Treason, or do they all end up meeting again some time after that, possibly post-Original Trilogy? Or maybe in a canon divergent AU where circumstances cause them to meet?

2. Pik/Eli Vanto/Waffle

Sex pollen? They have to do it to keep their cover? Basically, Eli in the middle of two big, hot dudes = perfect. Feel free to go PWP on this one. Or for something more plotty, maybe the three of them meet again, during or post Original Trilogy? Maybe Pik and Waffle have to try to work out who they are without the Empire to give meaning to their lives?

3. Thrass | Mitth'ras'safis/Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto

Again, Eli between two dudes = perfect. This can be totally PWP if you’re game. For more plotty ideas, maybe brother/brother incest is normal in Chiss society, and Eli has to deal with the fact that Thrass is expected to be a part of their relationship/marriage/etc., both by society and/or by Thrawn? Or maybe he and Thrass grow close while they’re searching for Thrawn after he disappears, and then have to reconcile that with their relationships with Thrawn when they finally find him?

4. Antoc Merrick/Luke Skywalker

I’m primarily thinking this would happen in a fix-it canon divergence AU where Merrick didn’t die during Rogue One, but I’d be open to them meeting some other way! I would love Luke having what he thinks is a hopeless crush on this handsome, honourable older guy who’s an amazing pilot, thinking he has no chance, only to discover that actually…maybe he does! Maybe Merrick is assigned to help teach him some piloting tips and tricks? Maybe Merrick is the one leading the charge against the Death Star? I would love them both pining, thinking there’s no way it could work out, only to discover it can. Would love Merrick worrying that Luke’s too young for him or how others will see them, but Luke doesn’t really care.

5. Biggs Darklighter/Luke Skywalker

Maybe them being together on Tatooine and Luke being heartbroken that Biggs will be leaving for the Imperial Academy without him? A romantic reunion in the Rebellion? Or maybe they hadn’t been together on Tatooine, but their reunion on Yavin becomes an unexpected hook-up? Maybe Biggs survives and they see how they go from there? I’d love if Biggs survived and these two went on some kind of adventure together in the years between ANH and ESB.

6. Brierly Ronan/Eli Vanto

I’d be really into hatefucking for this pairing, or maybe reluctantly getting to know each other. They’re probably two of the very few (or maybe the only two) humans in the Ascendancy, so maybe sticking together for familiarity turns into something more? Ronan’s there to try and covertly hunt Chiss “Jedi”, so I’d love if they become enemies For Real when Ronan tries to have one of the Chiss Force Sensitives killed/tries to kill one of them himself. Maybe they had a fling and then have to confront each other now that they’re really trying to kill one another?

7. Carth Onasi/Female Revan

You can go Light side or Dark side Revan for this pairing. Either way I’d love something about how they slowly get to know each other over the game, and why Carth is drawn to her though he tries not to be. How does the reveal that she’s Revan affect them, both if she’s light or if she dark? If you go Light side, I’d love something about how they pick up the pieces after the events of the game, maybe with Revan going back to Coruscant to talk to the Order? Maybe Carth reconnecting with Dustil, and how Revan features in that? How do they begin to build a life together? What are their goals and wants now they’ve defeated Malak? Feel free to handwave Revan going off to the Sith Empire etc. If you go Dark side, how does Carth survive in Revan’s new empire? Is he her prisoner, and she’s trying to convince him onto her side? Maybe he tries to work with her so he can curb her more Sithly tendencies, or thinks he can bring her Empire down from within? Maybe he leads the resistance against her? I would love him being so in love with her that he overlooks some of her worse qualities, or him being determined that he can bring her back from the Dark Side.

8. CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura

I ship these two like burning, and anything you can give me would be amazing. Developing feelings, the feelings of guilt over those feelings, relief and also guilt when/if they finally act on those feelings. I’d love something about the growing bond between them and how they come to be so close, and maybe how hesitant they are about admitting to those feelings before they do. Smoking hot ‘we shouldn’t but we are and no one can find out’ smut would be amazing too.

9. CT-7567 | Rex/Ahsoka Tano

These two are great together and I’d love anything that was more of their badassery and banter. Siege of Mandalore stuff is welcome, especially if you go AU and have them run off together to avoid the Empire! Or just some developing relationship stuff while they're working together during the war? A mission with just them together? I would love an AU where Rex decides to leave with Ahsoka when she leaves the Jedi, whether he has the Republic’s blessing somehow or not. And I would LOVE some kind of Darksiders/Mirrorverse/Evilverse AU where they’re both bad guys in some way. Ahsoka is a Sith and Rex works for her or is her right hand man? Maybe they’re space pirates? (NB: On my underage DNW, I would like any smut to be when Ahsoka is 16+)

10 Firmus Piett/Darth Vader

How do you end up getting feelings for the scariest person in the galaxy? What is it that makes Piett attracted to Vader? Is it all one-sided on Piett’s end, or maybe there’s something about him that makes Vader interested/drawn to him? I love Vader being reluctantly unwilling to hurt or discard certain people under his command that he gets attached to, no matter how he’d deny it if asked. Does it stay unsaid, or is there a moment where they admit to it? Maybe they get stranded together?

11 Lorana Jinzler/Thrass | Mitth'ras'safis

I’d be happy for you to go with canon or a fix-it AU here. Something angsty with them bonding or comforting each other before the end would be great if you go canon compliant. For a fix-it AU, something about them dealing with Outbound Flight’s crash and getting back to the Ascendancy/Republic would be great. I would love Lorana falling for Thrass and then being torn between staying in the Ascendancy or going back to the Republic, especially if she can’t bring herself to admit that’s the reason and finds any other excuse to stay. Also I would love Lorana and Outbound Flight being incorporated into the New EU canon somehow! If you go smut for this pairing, I kinda imagine Lorana is still a virgin, so hesitant and gentle first times fic would be amazing.

12 Null-11 | Ordo Skirata/Besany Wennen

I would love something about a post-canon Besany who’s had some arms training and can now kick ass and take names. Maybe she goes on an espionage mission similar to her stuff in canon? Or I’d love her being really good at fighting in any way, really. I just want her to kick some Imperial ass while Ordo is like “that’s my wife and she is perfect”.

13 Padmé Amidala/Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo

Maybe that moment from Alliances where Thrawn leaves in the courtyard happens, but Padmé goes with him for some reason? If you’re prepared to go angsty, maybe Anakin dies somehow (or it appears that he died) and Thrawn convinces Padmé she needs to go with him? Maybe they go back to the Ascendancy together, or Thrawn takes Padmé back to the Republic? Either way, an angsty hook-up would be great. Or maybe an AU where Padmé survives and they meet while she’s with the Rebellion and he’s with the Empire? Cat and mouse games between them?

14 Thrass | Mitth'ras'safis/Eli Vanto

Honestly I’d just love them to meet and Eli to have an “oh no he’s hot” moment. Maybe Eli never felt any attraction to Thrawn (despite the rumours) but he does to Thrass? Maybe they somehow have to get into an arranged marriage? Maybe they grow closer while they’re searching for Thrawn or fighting the Grysk? Since Eli seems to be under Ar’alani’s patronage essentially, it would be really interesting if she and Thrass were for some reason at odds, so Eli shouldn’t really get close to him, but he finds himself drawn to Thrass anyway…

15 Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Eli Vanto

I’ll try and be more helpful than saying ‘literally anything’, but I love these two so much and I just want more. How they fall for each other, whether they say anything or not, grappling with their forbidden relationship and the possible rumours…I’m down for all of it. I also really love post-canon stuff, with Eli dealing with Thrawn’s disappearance and all the potential weird and wonderful adventures Thrawn might have in the Unknown Regions while trying to get back. Maybe Eli has been pining for Thrawn for years and now curses himself for never saying anything, now that Thrawn might be gone forever? Maybe he drops everything to go looking for him? Or maybe he stays, because he has to honour his commitments and there’s a war brewing in the Ascendancy etc., but he always thinks about Thrawn and goes to find him at the first opportunity. Or maybe Thrawn gets back by himself, only to reunite with a very changed Eli. (Reunion sex? Yes). I’m also totally down for tropes like stranded together or getting married because X etc. Or maybe an AU where they end up in completely different jobs/places in life, and how they meet under those circumstances?

Alexsandr Kallus/Eli Vanto

They both know Yularen, so maybe he introduced them – is he attempting to play matchmaker with two of his protégés? Is a one-time thing, maybe a hook-up while on Coruscant or on a mission, or maybe they dated for a while (and it presumably didn’t work out)? Them meeting after the Empire’s fall, when Kallus is a Rebel and Eli’s been with the Chiss, would be super interesting to me.

Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios

I want anything, pretty much. What’s that first conversation like after they rescue Kallus from Thrawn? How do these two admit that they’ve fallen for each other? What kind of things do they get up to during the war? I am a sucker for pining so these two risking life and limb helping the Rebellion while pining for each other would make me very happy. Also very up for anything xeno. Has Kallus even had sex with a non-human before? Has Zeb ever slept with a human, for that matter?

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Fandom 5K Letter

2019-03-30T20:59:58Z

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my letter!

Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3

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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…

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May The Fourth Letter 2019

2019-03-09T23:25:46Z

CT-7567 | Rex/Ahsoka Tano: These two are great together and I’d love anything that was more of their badassery and banter. Siege of Mandalore feels/shenanigans welcome, especially if you go AU and have them run off together to avoid the Empire! Or just some developing relationship stuff while they're working together during the war? A mission with just them together? (NB: On my underage DNW, I would like any smut to be when Ahsoka is 16+)

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano: These three make a fantastic team and I love them together. Maybe something about what Ahsoka learns from having both of them around? The three of them bonding while on downtime? Them on a mission? Anything about them on Mortis and how fucking weird it was would be aces!

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Ahsoka Tano: I want to see more of these two interacting! Maybe Ahsoka asks him about what Anakin was like as a kid/Padawan? Maybe they have to bail Anakin out of something, or he’s off on a mission alone and these two have to take care of something together?

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker: Their relationship is possibly my favourite in Star Wars. How do they bond while Anakin is a Padawan? I’m fascinated by the way their relationship changes once Anakin is knighted, and how they deal with the ongoing war. Is it the stress of war and battle that finally makes Obi-Wan lax with the Jedi Code, and something happens? How does Obi-Wan deal with the tragedy at the end of Episode Three – and what about an AU where everything went worse, or everything went better? Post-ROTS AUs of any kind are my favourite, especially if Anakin goes dark but manages to keep hold of Obi-Wan, or if Anakin remains a Jedi but the Jedi fall anyway.

Depa Billaba & Mace Windu: I’ve read Shatterpoint and the Kanan comics, so keep whichever version you like! I’d just like to see these two interact – Depa is one of the few people Mace openly cares for, so how did they become so close? What was their bond as Master and Padawan like? Maybe a mission/some hijinks they got up to as master and padawan? If you go with the Shatterpoint story, how devastating is it for Mace to see what Depa’s done, and how do they rebuild their bond – or not – afterward?

Carth Onasi/Female Revan: I love characters who are bound by/feel beholden to their duty, and Carth is this 100%. Even after everything that’s happened to him, he still believes in things, still fights for ideals. I also like how, even though the reveal that the PC is Revan shocks him for a while, he doesn’t let prejudice hold him back, and judges her on her own actions (which may confirm his prejudice if you play darkside, but since I usually play lightside this is more of a ‘he overcomes his prejudice’ story for me xD) I ship Carth/Revan pretty hard, so shipfic will always be amazing. I’d love to see something about them falling for each other slowly, both of them wondering if it’s right, what with her being a Jedi – and then that reveal comes exploding onto the scene. How on earth do they both feel after that? How do they deal with it? I’d also love some post-game fic for him and Revan. How do they begin to make it work, what with her presumably becoming a Jedi again and helping to start rebuilding the Order, and him presumably starting more involved missions for the Republic?

Carth Onasi/Female Revan & Mission Vao: How does Mission see their relationship, and how does she relate to them both/each other individually? I love the cute-but-smart-kid and older mentor vibe from Revan & Mission. I find it interesting that Mission seems to be the least bothered about the reveal that the PC is Revan – what’s her reasoning? Would she really judge anyone based on who they’d become, or is it only because Revan has been a kind and supportive presence to her that she’s fine with it? (Obviously angling for a lightside!Revan here) She seems to shake it off, but does she really feel that at peace about it? Does she really harbour no doubts about working with someone like Revan, or if she does, why does she chose not to be suspicious? Perhaps her background working with criminals makes her more forgiving of someone’s mistakes? I’d love to get some deeper introspection/character study on why she’s prepared to accept that Revan is Revan so easily. I’d love to see Revan taking her under their wing a little, maybe giving her some pointers on the ways of the universe, or discussing what both of them have learnt during their travels. Carth is clearly the uncool dad who cares about keeping Mission safe, which irritates her just as much as it warms her. I feel like Carth would try to help her out, though I feel like he gets exasperated with her easily and Mission wouldn’t be able to resist winding him up.

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Once Upon A Fic Letter 2019

2019-02-19T20:54:06Z

Prompts:

- When we meet her Marya Morevna seems like a pretty ruthless and somewhat terrifying military leader - anything that expands on that, and her life before Ivan appeared, would be amazing. Just how did she get Koschei into that cupboard in the first place?

- Ivan meeting his sisters again, being shown around their palaces, learning about their lives with their husbands? I'd also love to know about Ivan's relationship with his brothers-in-law; they go to great lengths to bring him back to life, so I'd love to know about how they care about Ivan.

- I don't think it's covered in the fairytale, so just why is Koschei called 'the Deathless'?

- Anything Ivan/Koschei; maybe Koschei manages to capture both him and Mara, and begins a campaign to seduce both husband and wife? Or maybe he kidnaps Ivan instead of Mara? Dubcon is good for this request ;)

Ivan and the Firebird and the Grey Wolf

Prompts:

- Anything Ivan/Grey Wolf. Why does the Grey Wolf help him? How does he feel after Ivan repeatedly ignores his advice and fucks things up? (And, if you wanted to have porn I would not be opposed...and if you wanted to have porn where the Wolf was not entirely human (or not human at all) I would definitely not be opposed at all ;) )

- I don't know if it's in every version, but in some versions the Grey Wolf eats Ivan's elder brothers. What's their relationship like after this? Does Ivan fear the wolf, or is he glad his brothers are gone? I imagine he might have very mixed feelings - yes, his brothers tried to kill him, but they were still his brothers. Or maybe he thanks the Wolf for killing them! I'd love to see any interpretation here.

- Elena leaving after Ivan rescues her and forging a new life for herself somewhere else, whether it's quiet or adventurous, or maybe even something to do with magic.

The Six Swans

Prompts:

- I really want to know about how the girl feels about her marriage to the King, and how she falls in love with him. Is it a slow thing, or is she just as entranced by him as he is with her? Does she worry and try to hide her strange project with the nettles? How does the King feel about having to face what he thinks is the truth, and sentence his beloved wife to death? And how do they reconcile after the end of the story? Essentially I'd love an in-depth look at what must have been a tumultuous and odd relationship.

Ocean-Born Mary

Prompts:

- How does one react, when the pirate your mother has (presumably) told you stories about appears on your doorstep offering marriage and a comfortable life?

- What does Mary think of Don Pedro, before she meets him? Has she built up an image of him in her mind? Or perhaps her mother never told her about the strange events of her birth, and this man arriving on her doorstep with his offer of marriage is a complete stranger?

- This is an age-gap ship so I would be very happy if you leant into that in some way.

- What's married life like for these two?

Thanks for reading!

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Dear Chocolatier 2019

2019-01-06T20:31:46Z

The Hobbit - All Media Types

Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield - The movie sold me on these two SO HARD. A moment of them becoming important to each other over the Quest would be great. I love the idea of Thorin being confused as to why he likes a Hobbit, of all creatures; but when he thinks harder about it, it's clear that Bilbo has so many admirable qualities. I love them both being a little hesitant about it all - a hobbit? A dwarf? (A king of dwarves at that) - but ultimately seeing what's great in one another. Obviously after the dragon sickness things change a lot, and I'd love to see something that doesn't downplay that - Thorin did threaten Bilbo's life - but something about their healing would be fantastic.

Sigrid & Tauriel - I imagine these two might get to know each other after the Battle of Five Armies, once everything has calmed down. They have a lot to deal with – losing her home and position for Tauriel, and losing her home and gaining a new one and becoming a princess for Sigrid. Do they bond over their massive change in circumstances? Does Dale take Tauriel in, or does she just appear to live in the surrounding area, and no one knows what she’s doing, exactly? I would absolutely love them bonding over something, and Tauriel perhaps teaching her some sort of skills, or perhaps a look at how their relationship grows and changes as the years pass? Perhaps Tauriel stays in Dale and they become close friends, or she comes and goes and they only see each other rarely? I would also totally be up for an AU where something happens to Sigrid’s older brother and she has to become the Queen, and Tauriel helps her with that.

The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)

Bilbo Baggins & Fíli & Kíli - I’d love to see how they become friends/important to each other! Fíli and Kíli clearly think it’s funny to tease Bilbo at the beginning of their journey – but when do they come to care about him? I’d love literally anything about their friendship. If you want to do something heartbreaking about Bilbo mourning them both that is also a-okay. Equally, I am totally up for some fix-it fic where they get to deal with everything that’s happened.

Bilbo Baggins & Thorin's Company - I love how Bilbo goes from ‘ugh dwarves’ to ‘they’re my friends and I would die for them’. Literally anything about him bonding with literally any member of the Company would be fantastic. Maybe he offers his cooking/sewing/whatever skills and everyone quickly takes him up on it? He offers support to someone in a moment of need? A member of the Company teaches him a skill he’ll need on the road? Or perhaps something about them visiting him later on when he’s back in the Shire?

The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Barahir (First Age)/Finrod Felagund | Findaráto – I dearly love all elf/man pairings, and all the angst and tropes that come with them. I love how Finrod finds the Men and seems to become their champion, so anything about how Barahir relates to him because of that would be perfect. How do they meet, get together, deal with the angst about Barahir’s mortality? And the whole Barahir saving Finrod thing? Maybe some victorious/thank-god-we’re-alive sex after that?

Caranthir | Morifinwë/Original Male Character(s) – I would really love something set in Beleriand, when Caranthir is a lord in his own right with his own land. How does that land run, what’s his relationship like with the dwarven people? It says in the Silmarillion that he looked down on them – but did he really? And who is this person he falls for, and what position do they hold, what’s their relationship to him – do they work for him, or perhaps they’re a representative of another lord/kingdom? Caranthir falling for a visiting Avari from far over the mountains would be amazing, especially if there were some culture clash elements to the story. And we know he’s famous for being prickly – how does the guy he falls for get around that to see his somewhat softer personality underneath?

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar & Finduilas Faelivrin - I'd love to know what their relationship is like. Do they like each other? Hate each other? Ignore each other? What does Finduilias think of his decision to stay behind in Nargothrond and reject his father? What leads him to that decision, and how hard is it to make? What's life like for him in Nargothrond afterward? What does he think of Turin, as a leader and as the man Finduilias loves? I’d love to see the two of them talk about Turin and possibly about Gwindor, about Turin’s rise to power and what that means for them/Nargothrond/Orodreth. I'd love to know where Celebrimbor fits in the politics of Nargothrond - whether he opposes or supports Turin's rise to power, and whether he can do anything about it if he opposes Turin. Does he get heavily involved in Nargothrond’s politics, or perhaps after the fiasco his father got into, he swears off it entirely? I imagine he ends up the leader/figurehead for the Noldor who used to follow his father/uncle who’ve remained in Nargothrond, so how does he deal with that role? Or perhaps a fix-it where they both escape Nargothrond together?

Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo - I mentioned I love characters who struggle with legacy, and that's something I think Maedhros struggles with in spades. And I love Fingon's bravery, and how he's prepared to forgive even after what happened between the two halves of his family. I think the moment that made me love him was when he set out on his quest after Maedhros, so I'd love to see his thought process as he gets ready for that, what makes him decide to do it, how he manages to sneak out of the camp and set off, all with a shippy slant (and the rescue, if you’d like to include that!) I mostly headcanon that they don’t get together until after all that has happened, so a get-together fic would be absolutely great. They must visit each other a lot in Himring/Barad Eithel, so I’d love to see what any of those visits were like. Maybe something about Maedhros comforting Fingon after his father’s death and becoming the High King, or the two of them planning the Union? Or if you want to go super angsty, Maedhros mourning Fingon’s death and the tragedy of the Nírnaeth would be amazing.

Maglor | Makalaurë/Ulmo – Maglor goes wandering off down the shore at the end of the Silmarillion – does he stay there? Does Ulmo watch him, and eventually go talk to him? What do they talk about? I would love anything that emphasises Ulmo’s strangeness, his non-humanness, and how very weird talking to a god can be. How weird is it to be communicating with something that’s alien, other, and so very strange? And how does that translate if these two eventually have a physical relationship? If you’re up for writing some very xeno/weird porn, I am very up for reading it. (Also, Ulmo is the god of the sea, so – tentacles. I would read it).

Celebrimbor/Narvi - I’m really into this pairing as ‘two grumpy smiths finally find someone they can relate to, accidentally fall in love’. I’d love anything about them getting to know each other, crafting together, and slowly and unexpectedly falling in love. How do they deal with it? Do they admit to it? Anything about culture clashes/differences between dwarves and elves would be amazing, as would Celebrimbor exploring Moria and finding out more about it from Narvi. Also maybe making things together, or for each other? I would absolutely love something in which they made jewelry for each other. Leaving each other presents of their work, secret admirer-style?

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NB: Except where specified I'd prefer M/M pairings for these. Also for all except the Big Bad/Chosen One and Avatar/Investigator ships, I'm leaning towards them being set in a high fantasy type setting.

Avatar of an eldritch god/Paranormal investigator in over their head – I’d love a cocky paranormal investigator who thinks they’re totally fooling the avatar into believing that they’re an innocent bystander/citizen/potential recruit for the cult, while the avatar knows they’re anything but. I would love the avatar playing games with the paranormal investigator, drawing them in deeper without them even realizing, and then the moment of realization for the investigator when they know they’re in over their head but can’t see a way out. If you want to include noncon or dubcon in this I would definitely be down for it, or if you want to have the avatar be angling to turn the investigator into a human sacrifice or another avatar for the god, that would be amazing. If the investigator ends up coming into contact with some aspect of the god and going mad because of it, that would be cool – I definitely don’t mind unhappy endings for this pair. I’m thinking a sort of Lovecraftian and/or small town horror vibe for this request.

Baker/Captain of the Guard - Who is the baker, and how did they set up their shop – was it inherited, or is it their dream that they’ve finally achieved? Is the Captain a regular who drops into the baker’s shop every day on their way to work to pick up breakfast, and slowly falls for the baker’s sweet charms? If you want to lean into romcom tropes for this I would be so up for it. Or maybe the baker gets involved in something criminal (either as participant, victim or an innocent bystander) and the Captain comes to talk to them about it. Maybe the Captain and the Baker have to solve a crime together?

Big bad with the flu/hero hellbent on reform via TLC - ALL THE CUTENESS. I don't mind what kind of setting you want to make this - modern, sci-fi, fantasy - or if you want to make the big bad's illness a really serious case of flu or just a mancold, I'm just here for the relentlessly optimistic hero determinedly playing out all the 'caring for the sick' tropes and the big bad being won over despite himself. I'd love if at the beginning the big bad is like a grumpy cat refusing to be coddled, but he gets so miserable that he ends up being grateful for the hero's care, and then finds himself hopelessly in love despite himself.

Female magic user losing her grip on reality/female magical weapon who keeps her sane – Magical talking weapons is one of my favourite tropes, so anything you do with this will be golden. What’s the reason and how is the magic user losing her grip on reality, and how does the magical weapon keep pulling her back from the edge? What kind of magic does the magic user practise? What’s the story behind the magic weapon’s creation, how did it come to be in the magic user’s possession, and what type of weapon is it? Does the magic user combine her magic use with using the weapon in battle – or perhaps the magic user doesn’t even see much fighting, but keeps the weapon around just because she’s so good at helping her keep hold of her sanity?

Forty-Year-Old Virgin King/His Male Knight Who Wants to Gently Deflower Him - I think this tag is incredibly sweet and I super want fluffy hurt/comforty stuff for it. Why is the king a virgin - by accident or by choice? Maybe he's been waiting for The One, and he never came along? And the knight - older or younger? I'd love for him to be helplessly in love with the king and willing to do anything for him. Maybe the king is insecure about love/having never experienced sex, and somehow admits it to the knight, who is 100% here for helping him with this particular problem. Then they have passionate, gentle, loving sex?

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? Or 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? 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 kinda into it. (Also, he’s a fire god, so – temperature play? I would be into it)

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Peter Lukas & Evan Lukas – I don’t think we know how exactly Evan and Peter were related, so – are they closely related (e.g. Evan is Peter’s nephew) or are they distant relations from the presumably extensive Lukas family? When have they met? Evan seems like the black sheep of the family while Peter seems to have followed in their footsteps, so how do they relate to each other? Maybe Evan has cut all ties with the family and Peter is sent to try and bring him back into the fold? Or Evan is still sort of on speaking terms with people, and comes back to the family house for some reason (maybe he’s dragged back for the holidays) and winds up encountering Peter and having a conversation? Or having an experience with the Lonely?

Elias Bouchard/Jonathan Sims – Elias enticing Jon down the path to getting in deep with Beholding is my favourite part of the series and anything that plays on that will be perfect for me. Anything that includes Elias leading Jon into developing his powers and/or developing his bond with Beholding would be amazing. Or maybe Elias somehow convinces Jon to break him out of prison? (I realise this will be probably be jossed by the new season but prison break fics are always my jam) I would love love something that includes Elias convincing Jon to help him perform the Watcher’s Crown, and how that goes down, and what implications it has if they succeed (or if they don’t). Also totally up for PWP for this pair, especially if Elias manages to tempt Jon into it even when Jon knows it’s a bad idea. Given how Jon reacts whenever Elias compliments him, maybe he’d be into praise kink? Or if you wanted to have Elias be a little more than human, I would be totally into that.

Martin Blackwood/Peter Lukas – Anything and everything that includes Peter creeping on Martin and being cheerily creepy would be amazing. Why has he taken a special interest in Martin, and how does it develop? If you want to write some dubcon/noncon porn for this pairing I would be super into it – Peter claiming Martin for his power rather than Beholding, maybe? Or even something consensual with Martin being self-destructive/making bad decisions and/or being weirdly into Peter despite everything. Perhaps something where Martin has to get on Peter’s good side for some reason and gets in deeper than he planned?

Mass Effect Trilogy

Note On Sheps And Endings:

I usually play a Spacer, Sole Survivor, Paragon Female Shepard. I'm flexible on the backgrounds, fairly flexible on alignment (like, don't have her kill Wrex/leave the Council to die/not cure the genophage, but she doesn't have to be a complete goody two shoes). As for endings, I usually choose Destroy, but if you want to explore another option or just handwave the whole thing, go ahead.

Female Shepard/Ashley Williams - I really want something about Ashley’s changing feelings through the series. How does she feel about the Commander who scooped her up and took her on this huge, galaxy-changing adventure? Assuming she survives Virmire, how does Shepard’s death and subsequent revival affect her? We know she can’t trust Shepard after she joins Cerberus – but that trust is restored in the third game. What does that look like from Ashley’s point of view? I’m really interested in how Ashley goes from forming a bond of trust in the first game, having it broken in the second, being wary but coming to trust Shepard again in the third. I just love these two together for what they’ve shared, what they’ve been through, and would love an exploration of that.

Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian - Oh boy, these two. I have laughed. I have cried. I don’t think I will ever stop loving this ship. I love how it goes from Shepard being the more experienced soldier who has a lot to teach in the first game, to their more equal partnership in the second after Garrus has had some bad experiences of his own. I love Garrus’ loyalty mission, and how he and Shepard are a real duo and badass team together on that mission. (If you wanted to write an AU where Shepard and Garrus were a two-man team of some kind, for any reason, whether they were both Spectres or both criminals or something else, that would be amazing! (Especially if they’re both Spectres, and meet as Spectres. I think that AU could be so cool)). And then they get separated by Shepard getting incarcerated back on Earth. What kinds of conversations do they have after the events of the Arrival DLC, and leading up to Shepard deciding to turn herself in? Do they have any contact at all during the six months Shepard’s under house arrest? Do either of them tell their families about their relationship? And what are they both feeling when they hook up again back on Menae? I’d also love to see them supporting each other through the horrors of ME3, as things escalate almost beyond Shepard’s ability to cope, and how their relationship deepens. One of my favourite tropes is when characters go from being mavericks/rebels/hotshots/relatively inexperienced and slowly develop into very experienced people who are trusted and unexpectedly given a lot of responsibility by the world at large/the people in charge, and Garrus and Shepard fit that to a T (Garrus even comments on it at one point in ME3). I would love something that explores that progression, from the mavericks in ME1 who hijacked their ship to chase aliens no one believed in, to the leaders of the charge against those aliens who’re trusted by their respective political/military leaders in the third. Alternatively, just something fun with them taking a break, maybe a dinner date, maybe some time in the Armax Arena?

Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya - I've heavily shipped Shakarian pretty much since I started their playthrough, and after Tali's loyalty mission I was shipping her and Shep really hard as well, so threesome seems like the next logical step! (Basically picture me screaming for eternity when Tali muttered that thing about a Garrus/Shep/her threesome xD) I'd love some in-depth character study of how Garrus and Tali each deal with their changing feelings for Shepard. I see both their relationships with Shepard to be more teacher/student and big sister/little sister in the first game, so how do they deal with, apart from the fact that she died and came back, the fact that they now see her in a completely different light? And you could also turn it around for Shepard; these two have matured and grown so much in the last two years - how strange is it for her to see them like this, when for her it seems as if no time has passed? How does she feel running into Tali on Freedom's Progress, right off the bat? How does she feel learning what Garrus has been up to - and in those awful moments when she thinks he's going to die? And anything from ME3 - that moment when Shep and Garrus reunite on Menae, when Tali walks into the war room - how do they fit back together again after their time apart?

Female Shepard/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya - WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL. Like literally I will never stop being gutted that this isn't a romance option for FemShep. The delivery of Tali's dialogue just after you get her cleared of treason was one of the moments that sealed it for me; her "I got better, I got you", is so sincere and sweet, while "It's fun watching you shout" definitely sounds suggestive. Tali is such a good soul and she goes through so much by Shepard's side, they go through so much together, they have such a special bond and I can't stop raving about it. All their conversations together on Rannoch make me want to cry. When Tali says "The living room window will be right here" and Shepard replies "Something you wanna tell me?" I just cannot help but think that yes, Tali wants to tell you she wants to build a house with you and settle down, but she's too shy to say it/not gonna talk about that right now because it's too distracting from the mission. What I really love about Tali is that she repeatedly comes along and supports Shepard when it would be completely understandable for her not to. In the first game there's no guarantee she'll finish her pilgrimage on Shepard's mission, but she comes anyway. In 2 Cerberus has proved itself hostile to her people, but she still comes. In 3 she's just got her entire freakin' planet back, but she still comes. For this pairing, oh man, write me anything. Write me Tali having a schoolgirl-like crush on Shep in 1, write her feelings during the two year gap when Shep is "dead" and how she deals with seeing Shep alive again, write how her loyalty mission maybe sparks deeper feelings, write about Tali going back to her people and fighting against the geth war and trying to channel Shep when acting as an admiral, write her and Shep on Rannoch during 3 or after the Reaper War if you wanna handwave the ending, write them hanging out on the Citadel or the Normandy or literally freakin' anywhere.

Thank you so much for reading my letter, and I hope you have a great exchange!

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Dear Original Works Exchange Author

2018-08-16T13:20:58Z

Hi! First of all, thanks for taking a look at my letter! I’ve tried to give a few ideas and guidelines as to what I like here, but please don’t feel the need to stick rigidly to anything. If you have a story you just feel I’ll like, please go ahead with it!

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. 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 ;)

DNWs

Scat + watersports, excessive gore (injuries happening is fine, injuries dwelt on in loving detail is not), incest, underage, character-bashing, non-con, dub-con (excluding things like sex pollen/X made them do it scenarios), strict BDSM relationships, de-aging, humiliation

Requests

Everything Else Ships

Captive to Be Sacrificed to a Foreign God/Foreign God: The idea of being ripped from your homeland and taken to a strange place to be sacrificed for a god you don't even believe in gives me the shivers. Make it dark and have the story end fatally, or make it a bit brighter and have the captive escape and/or make a deal with the god? I want to know where the captive came from, what the land they're taken to is like, and who is the god that demands blood sacrifices, and why? How does the god interact with the captive - do they take on human form, or are they some kind of eldritch horror? I've ticked noncon for this box so feel free to have that happen - or the god isn't interested in hurting the sacrifice? Maybe their worshippers have misinterpreted the signs, and the god doesn't want human sacrifices?

Prince Who Should Have Specified "Human" In Rules/Monsters Competing To Win His Hand In Marriage: I love this tag so much and I have so many questions. Why is the prince having a competition for his hand, and how do the monsters get to hear about it? Why are they interested in winning his hand? Is he set to inherit a wealthy kingdom or important magical artefact that the monsters are interested in? Or is he just really hot? Are there any humans competing against the monsters? Maybe the monsters try flirting with the prince to improve their chances? And exactly what kind of competition is it, and what do they do to win? My kingdom for some monster/prince smut, though I'd strongly prefer it to be dubcon rather than outright noncon. If a monster eventually wins the competition and the prince has to do his husbandly duty on their first night together? I'd love the prince to be terrified at first but then get into the monster-fucking against his better judgement. Make the monsters anything you want - the weirder the better!

Gen

(Can you tell there's a theme to these requests?)

Magic Sword & People who are not suitable to be king: I'm thinking perhaps people know this is the sword of the king, and having it will support their claim to kingship, but the magic sword does not support them? Or maybe the sword is the one who picks the next king, and has a strange cast of people trying to talk it into picking them? How is each person not suitable, and how does the sword tell them/get them to leave it alone? Does it eventually find the true king?

Magic Sword that has found the future king & Guy who really really doesn't want to be king: This could feasibly be combined with the prompt above - after a series of disappointments, the sword finally finds the perfect king! Except this guy is much happier where he is, thanks. How does the sword go about convincing him? Is it a comedy where the sword bugs him constantly, or maybe something darker, where the sword has some kind of power to possess it's wielder?

Self-Aware Magic Sword & Its Various Wielders Through Fantasy History: I would love a series of vignettes about who the various wielders were. Go wild with the variation! What kind of weird characters have picked up the sword, what were their goals, and did the sword want to help or hinder them? Does the sword have certain prerequisites you have to fulfil before you can wield it? Do you have to be evil or good, or an elf/orc/halfling, or royalty?

M/M (Fantasy-style)

Deposed King/Still-Loyal Knight: The loyal knight is one of my FAVOURITE tropes, especially if he/she is loyal to a powerful Queen. I really love when the reasons for someone's loyalty are explored in depth, and characters with an unshakable loyalty are fascinating. Does the person they're loyal to value their loyalty, or exploit it? I would love to see both a knight loyal to someone who deserves their devotion or to someone who takes advantage of them. What makes them endlessly loyal, and how did they get there in the first place? Or perhaps their loyalty is tested, or reaches it's limits? And the king - why was he deposed, and does he deserve it?

Forty-Year-Old Virgin King/His Male Knight Who Wants to Gently Deflower Him: I think this tag is incredibly sweet and I super want fluffy hurt/comforty stuff for it. Why is the king a virgin - by accident or by choice? Maybe he's been waiting for The One, and he never came along? And the knight - older or younger? I'd love for him to be helplessly in love with the king and willing to do anything for him. Maybe the king is insecure about love/having never experienced sex, and somehow admits it to the knight, who is 100% here for helping him with this particular problem. Then they have passionate, gentle, loving sex, y/y?

Idealistic Newly-Crowned Young Ruler/His More Practical Adviser and Childhood Friend: I'm always here for childhood friend romance! 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 new royal role? Maybe something he's been doing/somewhere he's been has given him his more practical perspective that contrasts with his idealistic king 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?

King Making an Effort Not to Pressure His New Husband/His Prince Husband Who's Very Into Him: I'd love if the King was also into his new husband, but conscious that this is an arranged marriage and with no wish to force himself onto someone. Maybe his husband gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks the King isn't attracted to him, and there's some angst before they eventually sort their feelings out? The circumstances behind their marriage would be interesting - who arranged the marriage and why? They come from different countries, so how are they different? Are their countries neighbours, or is the prince from very far away? I'd love it if the prince eventually just straight up demonstrated how into the King he is ;)

Very Attractive Knight/Gruff Male Armourer Forging His New Armour: The gruff armourer definitely doesn't have a crush on this handsome knight. Definitely not. Nope. There's no reason he's taking so long making this particular set of armour /perfect/. That's basically all I want from this prompt; the armourer falling for the pretty boy against his will, and the knight being oblivious right up until that moment he isn't (and then he's totally into it, because that armourer has a hot beard and muscles like /hot damn/) Your choice whether the armour is for serious combat or is more showy. Perhaps the armourer can also weave magic into his creations? I'd totally be up for some h/c where the knight actually gets hurt in a battle and the armourer feels guilty that he didn't make the armour good enough.

Victorious Human Warlord/Deposed Elven Prince: Human warlord forces elven prince into an arranged marriage to gain the prestige of his lineage/to gain royal status would be cool. This can either include dark noncon or have the warlord be mostly doing all this for the royal status, and then discovering he's into the prince along the way. Can these two ever make it work, even after the warlord conquered the prince's country?

M/M (Everything Else)

Regency Nobleman/Acquaintance He's Pining For Who's Fallen on Hard Times and Won't Ask for Help: How are these two acquainted and what's their relationship? How long has the nobleman been pining? Why exactly has the acquaintance fallen on hard times, and why won't he ask for help - too much pride? Embarrassed about why he's fallen on hard times? Is he in debt for something embarrassing? Does he eventually accept help, or does the nobleman force it upon him - and how does he react? How do they work things out?

Alpha/His Beta best friend who offers to "practice" sex with him in preparation for his future Omega: All the pining! How do they get to the point where the Beta makes his offer - maybe the Alpha is getting very insecure about not having found his Omega yet? I'd love if they have mind blowing sex and the Alpha begins to wonder....does he need an Omega if he has his Beta? I'd love the Alpha being worried about the Beta being able to take his knot and the Beta encouraging him to do it (and loving it).

Benevolent Vampire Who Works as a Doctor/Human Nurse Who's Just Realized His Secret: How does the nurse realize - what slip up does the doctor make? Maybe they notice a lot of little things and put them together? Or they catch the doctor helping himself to the blood bags in the hospital's cold storage? I'd love if the nurse freaks out about it and eventually gathers his courage to confront the vampire (maybe with a stake/holy water/garlic etc?) and the doctor is just amused and/or wants to reassure his friend that he has no bad intentions. How does the doctor ensure the nurse's silence?

Big bad with the flu/hero hellbent on reform via TLC: ALL THE CUTENESS. I don't mind what kind of setting you want to make this - modern, sci-fi, fantasy - or if you want to make the big bad's illness a really serious case of flu or just a mancold, I'm just here for the relentlessly optimistic hero determinedly playing out all the 'caring for the sick' tropes and the big bad being won over despite himself. I'd love if at the beginning the big bad is like a grumpy cat refusing to be coddled, but he gets so miserable that he ends up being grateful for the hero's care, and then finds himself hopelessly in love despite himself.

Snarky jaded male supervillain/Adorably optimistic male superhero: I would love the supervillain going from irritated to exasperated to fond to unwillingly but hopelessly in love. The superhero just never gives up, never stops smiling - how??? I would love the superhero being determined that they're not going to give up until the supervillain turns good and the supervillain being endlessly amazed at the superhero's optimism and stubbornness. Bonus for a supervillain who feels like he's not worthy of love and trust but craves both from the superhero anyway.

Mixed Gen & Ship

Victorious King/Son of Conquered King to be Sacrificed to His Country's God & Father Forced To Watch: My general idea for this was the victorious king nonconning the hell out of the son of the conquered king, potentially because it's required for the ritual to sacrifice him for the country's god. The victorious king being a dick about it and hurting the son while making the father (and potentially a whole crowd of people?) watch would be great. Up to you whether the son gets sacrificed at the end or if there's a twist where the god intervenes or doesn't accept the sacrifice for some reason.

Alien Queen & Male Human Captain she's trying to reward/Male Alien General she's trying to punish: So maybe the alien general was once the queen's favourite, and now resents the human captain for taking the limelight? I'd love if the human captain had been invited to stay with the queen for a while as part of the reward, and this brought him into proximity with the alien general who hangs out at her court, and their animosity somehow blossoms into attraction. What would the queen think of all that? And what's the general relationship between the aliens and humans/their governments/their cultures? What will these two do when the human captain's stay is over?

Mixed Gender Ships

Powerful Female Witch/Surly Male Werewolf Who Owes Her a Life Debt: What is the relationship between these two, and how did he end up with a life debt to her? Presumably the witch saved his life - so how, and from what? How do they get along – 'surly' suggests not entirely peacefully, but are they reluctantly working together, or do they fight before they come to an understanding? What is the witch’s magic like, and what is the werewolf transformation like?

Accidentally Double-Booked Female Prostitute/Victorian Male Rake/Closeted Victorian Gentleman: I'd love if the first two, after realizing what's happened, manage to sweet talk the latter into having a threesome with them. The closeted gentleman thought he'd rather die than admit he likes men, but maybe he's had a bit of Dutch courage before coming, and that rakish man is so attractive......Maybe the closeted gentleman was coming to the prostitute to try and prove to himself that he's not gay? And the rake is bi? I don't mind some angsting over homophobia but I'd rather it not be too serious an obstacle/take up too much of the story.

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2018-07-24T13:18:35Z

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2018-06-28T15:58:11Z

Fandom 5K Recs

2018-06-19T13:20:34Z

After some careful consideration of the archive (and a lot of fun reading!), a few recs from the Fandom5K Archive...

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Dear Rare Male Slash Exchange Author

2018-05-24T11:28:56Z

Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3

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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. 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.

Specifically relationship themed tropes: 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

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 ;) Also, anything I’ve listed as a kink in that particular ship’s section is of course up for grabs; combine and use as you like.

DNWs

Scat + watersports, excessive gore (injuries happening is fine, injuries dwelt on in loving detail is not), incest, underage, character-bashing, non-con, dub-con (excluding things like sex pollen/X made them do it scenarios), strict BDSM relationships, de-aging, humiliation

Fandoms

Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

Gus Balfour/Jack Miller

Please, this needs a fix-it! I was literally yelling at my book when Gus got pulled under the sea. Literally anything that fixes that ending would be perfect for me - maybe a fic about how Jack saves Gus from the draug? Or a getting together fic in the months after they return from Norway? Anything about their lives after they return, or perhaps a closer look at their feelings throughout the novel - we get Jack's diary, but as his final thoughts at the end hint, he may not be telling us everything when he sets things down on paper. Also, totally optional, but a canon divergence AU where Gus tells Jack about what he saw and/or they somehow end up staying at Grukuken together, just the two of them, and how they deal with the fear and the ghost, would be amazing.

The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Ereinion Gil-galad

I would love to know everything about the relationship between these two. When and how do they meet? What happened to Celebrimbor after Nargothrond was destroyed - did he go to Balar, and thus meet Gil-Galad? How does Gil-Galad deal with becoming High King of the Noldor? Perhaps his example of kingship inspires Celebrimbor to become a leader in his own right in Ost-In-Edhil? I would love a fic about Celebrimbor setting the city up, and perhaps Gil-Galad coming to visit him? And we know Gil-Galad warned Celebrimbor against Annatar, and Celebrimbor ignored him - how did that go down, and how did it change their relationship?

Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Narvi

I’m really into this pairing as ‘two grumpy smiths finally find someone they can relate to, accidentally fall in love’. I’d love anything about them getting to know each other, crafting together, and slowly and unexpectedly falling in love. How do they deal with it? Do they admit to it? Anything about culture clashes/differences between dwarves and elves would be amazing, as would Celebrimbor exploring Moria and finding out more about it from Narvi. Also maybe making things together, or for each other? I would absolutely love something in which they made jewellry for each other. Leaving each other presents of their work, secret admirer-style?

Celegorm | Turcafinwë/Oromë

I love the idea of mouthy, animal-obsessed Celegorm meeting the god of the forest - and probably being unimpressed. I would love if Orome was intrigued by this unusual young elf and impressed by his love of the natural world, so he ends up taking him under his wing - in more ways than one? ;) I would also love it if there was a focus on the inhuman nature and weirdness of Orome, especially in relation to any smut. And once Celegorm has left Valinor - does Orome ever visit Middle-Earth like he used to? Do they meet? Or perhaps Orome watches and mourns from afar as Celegorm goes further and further along his downward path? Do they meet in the Halls of Mandos after Celegorm's death, or perhaps at Dagor Dagorath? What do they say to each other? Some bittersweet smut maybe?

Maeglin | Lómion/Tuor

I would love really grumpy Maeglin/bright ray of sunshine Tuor. Why does this man keep following him around? Why does he keep trying to talk to him? To Tuor it seems obvious; he really likes Turgon and Idril, surely Maeglin must be just as cool as his family, right? I would essentially love Tuor being very curious about the prickly, stand-offish nephew of the King and determinedly following him around until Maeglin talks to him. Maeglin pretends he doesn't like it, but actually, there's something about this man...

Rog/Duilin

So Duilin is an archer, and since Rog's house is called "The House of the Hammer of Wrath", I always sort of assumed he uses a hammer? This might make them opposites who annoy each other, or maybe they're curious about someone who's so different to them? I would love one of them being curious about the other, and taking steps to get to know one another. How did the Houses of Gondolin come to be, anyway, and how did the lords get picked? When did these two first meet? Totally optional, but I have a headcanon about Rog and his family being Avari, and it would be really cool to see the culture clash between him and Duilin if you went that route.

Stand Still Stay Silent

Emil Västerström/Original Male Cleanser Character(s)

Tell me more about the Cleansers! I love the little bits of info we get in canon and I would love to see more. What's it like to be a cleanser day to day? How do you deal with the danger of it? Who is the OMC, and how does Emil meet him? Is this someone Emil met and had a casual thing with when he first joined, or perhaps a hardened, changed Emil returns from his journey into the Silent World and meets someone when he goes back to the Cleansers? I would really love to see how joining the Cleansers changed Emil, and how his journey in the Silent World changed him further, and how people notice that change when he comes back.

Lalli Hotakainen/Emil Västerström

Yeah, I ship these two a lot. I love how Emil is always concerned for Lalli, and also just casually chats to him even though Lalli can't understand a word he's saying. These two sitting down and trying to teach the other their language would be fun! Or perhaps a fic about them picking up bits and pieces of each other's language along the journey? Where they are in canon right now could open the door to some h/c stuff, or perhaps a hypothetical about how they get back to the others? I would really love them getting stuck in some kind of sticky situation together (how and when is your choice) and having to get out of it by themselves. Post-canon fic of them together somehow would also be awesome!

Reynir Árnason/Onni Hotakainen

I highkey ship this, as well! I would love Onni trying to sit Reynir down and explain some things about magic. My ideal would a fic where they finally meet in the real world! Assuming they make it home safe from their current mission, Onni will probably be waiting for them to come out of quarantine, right? A first (physical) meeting fic would be cute. Or, for an optional darker fic, what if something (potentially Tuuri's death) causes Onni to become a kade, and Reynir (with his endless enthusiasm) determines that he has to help him. I would be so here for a fic in which Reynir pursues Kade!Onni over the years, never doubting that he'll eventually come back.

Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare

Benvolio Montague/Tybalt

Another pair of star-crossed lovers in parallel to Romeo and Juliet? Or perhaps a version of the play that's just about them? How do these two end up meeting, and what's different about Benvolio that allows Tybalt to get over the fact that he's a Montague? Maybe they meet in a place where Tybalt absolutely cannot afford to start a fight and has to talk to Benvolio, and finds himself intrigued?

Benvolio Montague/Mercutio

How did these two first meet, and how do they fall in love? I would love loud, party boy Mercutio falling for the somewhat quieter and more sensible Benvolio. Does he admit to it immediately or hide it? Does Benvolio resist it? An AU where Juliet marries Mercutio as a cover would be hilarious if that's something you're into ;)

Original Work

Dashing Adventurer/Eccentric Academic

Possible ideas: the academic hires the adventurer to help them retrieve a specific artefact/excavate a site/research an old ruin? Or perhaps they're both hired by the King/Queen to look into something? The adventurer goes to the academic for knowledge, and thinks he's cute? Perhaps they meet in the library and are both instantly smitten, and the adventurer keeps coming back even though he doesn't need anything else?

Olympic Figure Skater/NHL Player

I love the idea of this pairing as clashing cultures/sports who eventually come to understand each other. Maybe they train at the same rink and are always fighting for ice time? Maybe they each just don't understand how the other's sport can be enjoyable, but watching each other makes them understand? I would love anything to do with this pair being at the Olympics - maybe they meet there, in the opening ceremony? Maybe they've known each other forever but seeing the other perform at the top level changes the way they see them? Perhaps one or both win a medal and they get together in the drunken afterparty and then have to deal with it (bonus if they sort of didn't like each other before). Basically I would love two people who kind of dislike each other's sport coming together and falling in love while growing to understand each other.

Snarky jaded supervillain/Adorably optimistic superhero

I would love the supervillain going from irritated to exasperated to fond to unwillingly but hopelessly in love. The superhero just never gives up, never stops smiling - how??? I would love the superhero being determined that they're not going to give up until the supervillain turns good and the supervillain being endlessly amazed at the superhero's optimism and stubbornness. Bonus for a supervillain who feels like he's not worthy of love and trust but craves both from the superhero anyway.

World-weary supervillain/His retired nemesis

Basically two people who stopped giving a fuck a long time ago fall in love. What happened to make them world-weary/retired? Why have they given up on the whole superhero/supervillain thing? How long has it been since they last met? I would love something where the supervillain heard rumours his nemesis had died, went to investigate, and instead found him alive and they got talking. Maybe it's a comedy piece where they're both say, on holiday or on a cruise, and they unexpectedly have to deal with each other. Just unending snark and banter and slowly coming to like each other now that they don't have unshakeable morals getting in the way (though maybe they sometimes still argue just a little).

Thanks for looking! I hope something here inspires inspiration :D

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Dear Smutswap Author 2018

2018-02-27T23:04:47Z

Links: I'm Burning_Nightingale on AO3

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General

For content, I’m absolutely fine with tooth-rotting fluff up to quite considerable angst, though if possible I’d prefer to have a bittersweet or vaguely hopeful ending. I’m fine with angst and darker themes (and have a few prompts which would work with that) but I’m not really looking for darkfic for this exchange.

This is a list of themes/tropes I really love, which may not be at all relevant to your fic (they’re not really related to smut) but may help you out in some capacity: 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.

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

DNWs

Fandoms

Critical Role

Fjord/Caleb Widogast:

Accidental Magic During Sex, Anal Sex, Casual sex leading to feelings, Comfort Sex, Competence Kink, Courtship/Wooing, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Friends to Lovers, Hair-pulling, Height Differences, Ice Play, Magic Made Them Do It, Magical Experimentation, Praise Kink, Mysteriously Appearing Shop Full Of Magic Sexual Enhancements And Naughty Spellbooks, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, sex in a cabin, Sex Magic, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, Sharing a Bed, Sharing Body Heat, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

Anything about these two getting into shenanigans (or getting dragged into shenanigans), their growing attraction, or just the culmination of that growing attraction! Some of these obviously go together quite well – e.g., ‘magical experimentation’ and ‘ice play’ – using an ice spell in bed? ‘sharing body heat’ ‘sharing a bed’ and ‘sex in a cabin’ – classic ‘Canadian shack’ fic? (Who knows what the Exandrian equivalent of Canada is!). ‘sex while injured’ ‘thank god we’re alive sex’ and ‘sex after a battle’ would all fit together for some angsty, I-can’t-believe-we-survived-that-I-need-to-admit-my-feelings type sex. Essentially I threw a load of my favourite freeform tags from the list on here and I’d love to see something about them admitting their feelings, getting into trouble (and out of it), or just simply getting it on!

Sylas Briarwood/Delilah Briarwood

Blindfolds, Blood Magic, Codependency, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, fang kink, Hair-pulling, Handcuffs, Ice Play, Magical Experimentation, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Pegging, Possessive Behavior, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Magic, Wall Sex

I want these two be their evil, ambitious selves while also being 100% in love with each other. There’s several tags about magic in there, so a fic where they experiment with what magic can do during sex would be amazing (Delilah learning and testing out new spells? Vampire powers?) (Also I can’t remember if blood magic is really a thing in DnD but, hey, this is fic, go wild xD). Maybe what sex is like after becoming a vampire? What’s new and different? Celebration sex after something goes right/they fuck someone over? Pegging in any capacity?

Zahra Hydris/Kashaw Vesh

Accidental Magic During Sex, Blindfolds, Competence Kink, Courtship/Wooing, Desk/Table Sex, Cunnilingus, Friends to Lovers, Ice Play, Pegging, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Magical Experimentation, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Sex Magic, Sex while injured, Spanking, sparring leads to sex, Wall Sex

Most of these tags, in my mind, lend themselves to PWP, so go wild with that if that’s your thing, author. All of the magical experimentation/sex magic/accidental magic your mind can make up, if that’s where you’d like to go. Honestly I’d love to see anything where these two enjoy themselves and each other (especially you Kash. Crack a smile hun xD). And like. Spanking. Zahra’s tail. I’m just saying ;) I’d also love something that involved the courtship/wooing + friends to lovers tags, since they must have had many moments alone that VM didn’t see. Falling in love fic, anyone? xD

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

CT-7567 | Rex/Ahsoka Tano

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Friends to Lovers, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Pegging, Reunion Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

I just love these two together. I love them being badasses together in any capacity, and respecting each other because of their badassery (competence kink is a huge one here). Perhaps sex after coming back from a really dangerous mission? Admitting to feelings after thinking one or the other was dead? Getting hit with sex pollen while on a mission? Going on a mission where they have to pose as a couple? Also I’m eternally sad we didn’t get to see the Siege of Mandalore arc on screen, so reunion sex there perhaps? Or admitting their feelings after everything goes down with the birth of the Empire? An AU where they run off together to fight the Empire?

Re: my underage DNW: I don’t mind if you want to disregard that here, I’d prefer you just be vague about how old anyone is. I’d also strongly prefer if fic was set towards the end of the series and beyond, or at least after Ahsoka changed to the older-looking model.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

Anal Sex, Angry Sex, Casual sex leading to feelings, Codependency, Comfort Sex, Competence Kink, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Hair-pulling, Height Differences, Possessive Behavior, Praise Kink, Rough Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex Pollen, Sex while injured, Sexual Fantasy, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex, Undercover as a Couple, Wall Sex

These two are awful and I love them, honestly. I love how they feel so deeply for each other but god, they just can not effectively communicate. Angst about being Jedi while still having feelings/sex is A++. ‘Possessive Behavior’ was a tag made for Anakin Skywalker, especially if he doesn’t really realize he’s doing it/has good intentions behind it. ‘Codependency’ is just…their entire messy relationship, really. Fic where Obi-Wan is aware this is probably not the best way of going about things, but fuck, the war is fucking up everything, he’ll deal with it later, is amazing. Mission fic is great, as is sex post- or during-mission fic. ‘Praise kink’ is on there because damn, someone needs to tell Anakin Skywalker that he’s doing a good job, okay? Someone needs to tell him. Feel free to get tropey with ‘undercover as a couple’ and ‘sex pollen’ – or have ‘casual sex leading to feelings’ get combined with ‘sex pollen’? Anything you like. Also an optional prompt: I love the idea of a canon divergence AU where the Republic becomes the Empire and yet Anakin doesn’t fall to the dark side, and he and Obi-Wan go off somewhere together, so play with that if you’d like! (Might be perfect for the ‘comfort sex’ tag).

Re: Padmé: I really like her, so I’d her not to be vilified/be the bad guy in any way. I’d love it if she and Anakin were friends, whether they had a previous relationship or not.

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Alys Karstark/Sigorn of Thenn

Courtship/Wooing, Cunnilingus, First Time, Wedding Night is Their First Time, Wedding Night Sex

This is a pretty simple request: what is their first night like? First time nerves? Cultural differences? Anything about cultural differences and/or looking past/getting over previous hatreds from their cultures on both sides would be awesome.

Re: my underage DNW: you can disregard it in this particular instance.

Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Loyalty Kink, Religious Guilt During Sex, Reunion Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex while injured, Sharing a Bed, sparring leads to sex, Thank God We're Alive Sex

So Enemies to Friends to Lovers is a big Thing for me and I love that at least the Enemies to Friends part is essentially canon for these two. Their journey from antagonistic prisoner and jailor to Jaime dropping everything to just follow Brienne into the night is like catnip for me. I’d really like for fic to be set post where we’re currently up to in canon. I don’t mind how you’d like that to look – obviously there’s the question of whatever Brienne’s up to, lying to Jaime about finding Sansa, but I’d like to think she’s not betraying him to Lady Stoneheart (please. My heart can’t take it ;_;) Feel free to deal with what happens right after Jaime goes off with her, or have the fic set further into the future – feel free to handwave some things if you want to and set it as far into the future as you want, basically. Optional idea, but I’d be really into a fic where they end up across the Narrow Sea, either because they’re running from everything, or maybe they’re somehow looking for Arya, whatever you think might get them there. The ‘sharing a bed’ tag I mostly put in for that scenario, assuming they’d be dealing with limited resources. I’ll admit I put desk/table sex in there thinking about that table in the Kingsguard tower, though I realize that might be a hard place to set it post-current canon xD Competence kink because Brienne can fight well and I think Jaime Appreciates That. For the ‘religious guilt’ tag, I think that’s mostly from Brienne’s POV, and might feed into the ‘secret relationship’ tag, though that tag might be instead because premarital sex is looked down upon in Westeros (I’m assuming they’re not married, because I don’t really see it happening, at least not in a ‘Happy Ever After get married and live in a castle somewhere’ way. A secret marriage, on the other hand? I could be down for that. A marriage where it’s just them and a priest, after they’ve fled the burning wreckage of Westeros? Definitely). Reunion sex assumes they’ve been apart for [insert reason here] – I don’t really need the details (though if you want to provide a long, detailed plot, I would be so down for it), sex after a long time apart is just my jam. Post-battle/injured/celebratory sex is also awesome, and there’s of course lots of opportunity for it in ASOIAF. ‘Sparring leads to sex’ was me specifically thinking of Brienne helping Jaime learn to fight with his left hand, which I would love to see.

Jon Connington/Rhaegar Targaryen

Anal Sex, Desk/Table Sex, Desperate Sex, Fealty, Hair Braiding, Hair Kink, Forbidden/Secret Relationships, Loyalty Kink, Manhandling/Shows of Athleticism During Sex, Religious Guilt During Sex, Sex After Fighting/Battle, Sex while injured, Sexual Fantasy, Shame in Sexual Desires, Titles/Honorifics Kink, Wall Sex

Essentially all the loyalty kink, prince/loyal knight tropes here (and hair kink, because Rhaegar’s nice hair). I like the interpretation that Rhaegar did care about the people around him, though had a tendency to obsess over something to the detriment of those people, and make bad, morally questionable decisions (see: Lyanna). Basically, I want a realistic but not entirely-an-asshole interpretation of Rhaegar. The view we get of him is often through rose-tinted glasses (at least from Jon and Dany’s POVs), but equally there must have been reasons he was well-liked, imo. I don’t really mind at what point in canon you set this. I’m basically here for all the forbidden/secret relationship tropes combined with the loyalty kink; these two putting up a façade of being nothing more than friends while fucking behind closed doors, essentially. For ‘shame in sexual desires’ I was thinking mostly of the shame of desiring someone you’re supposed to have a professional relationship with, though I wouldn’t be opposed to religious guilt being combined with it. I included ‘sexual fantasy’ because honestly if the entire fic was Jon having a very vivid fantasy/dream about Rhaegar (and feeling ashamed about it), that would be more than enough for me (and I know I said I wanted bittersweet endings, but you can pretty much disregard that for this prompt – all the unfulfilled, tragic love for this ship, I want it).

Stand Still Stay Silent

Sigrun Eide/Emil Västerström

Competence Kink, Cunnilingus, Hair-pulling, Pegging, Mentor/Protégé, Praise Kink

I see this as a relationship that matures from and builds on the mentor/protégé thing they’ve started in canon. Doesn’t necessarily have to have All The Romantic Feelings; for this ship I’m perfectly happy with them being Friends With Benefits who just have fun, enthusiastic, enjoyable sex every so often. I’d love pegging (though you don’t have to go there!), especially combined with hair-pulling, kinking off being mentor and protégé/Emil learning from older, more experienced Sigrun.

Spirited Away

Haku/Chihiro

Courtship/Wooing, Cunnilingus, Hair Braiding, Reunion Sex, Size Kink, Wall Sex, Xeno

I’d love a fic where they meet again – whether it’s Haku coming to the mortal world or Chihiro returning to the spirit world. Maybe Chihiro being some kind of go-between, between the mortal and spirit worlds? Basically I’d just love a fic with these two grown-up, meeting again (reunion sex, anyone?). I included ‘hair-braiding’ because I was thinking about the significance of Chihiro’s friends making her the hairtie, and how that could be thematically included in fic (and also obvs because I love hair braiding!).

I included the ‘size kink’ and ‘xeno’ tags because y’know, Haku is technically a dragon. If you wanted to go there…I would definitely not be opposed to that. (Sex while in dragon form? Half-dragon form? Whatever other spirit-related weirdness? Go there. Go wild). I will be equally absolutely happy with smut where Haku is in human form, so please don’t feel like you have to use the xeno prompt if you don’t want to.

And that's it! I hope this gives you something to work with, and I hope you enjoy writing your fic!

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