Pinch Hits 31-33, return of PH 5, new fandoms for PH 7 (and repost of 4, 7, 9, 11, 14-17, 19-20, 23, 28)

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PH 4 - 6k - DCU (Comics), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Foyle's War, POKEMON Detective Pikachu (2019), The Trollenberg Terror (1958)

Request 1 by FleetSparrow
DCU (Comics)

Relationships:

Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)
Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)
Solo: Dick Grayson (DC Comics)
Solo: Selina Kyle (DC Comics)
Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne (DC Comics)
Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)
Bane/Selina Kyle (DC Comics)
Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne/Damian Wayne (DC Comics)
Bane/Dick Grayson (DC Comics)
Helena Bertinelli/Dick Grayson (DC Comics)
Selina Kyle (DC Comics)/Thomas Wayne (DC Flashpoint)
Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd (DC Comics)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse (with one exception), scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

Likes: slice of life, casefic, found family, noncon, darkfic, blackmail to punish lover, anything

I'm really easy to please in this fandom. Anything is good for me as long as it's not a DNW. I prefer Dick and/or Selina as the receiving end of any badness.

Prefer bottom Dick in pairings, especially when paired with women. For Bruce/Selina/Dick, I'm good with Selina being in the middle, or any configuration (Bruce in the middle, maybe?) that seems fun for you.

Also, I'm super into Bruce and Damian competing for Dick's affection, rn, so if you want to do something with that route, that's cool. This is also my only omegaverse exception, because omega!Dick vs alpha!Waynes is good food. I especially love tough omegas and I'm-not-your-breeding-hole feistiness during heats.

Prefer fluff and lighter fare for "&" requests and light or darkfic for the "/" requests.

Request 2 by FleetSparrow
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)

Relationships:

Jounouchi Katsuya/Kaiba Seto/Kaiba Mokuba (YGO DM)
Solo: Kaiba Seto (YGO DM)
Kaiba Seto/Yami Yuugi (YGO DM)
Kaiba Seto/Mutou Yuugi (YGO DM)
Kaiba Seto/Atem (YGO DM)
Kaiba Mokuba/Kaiba Seto (YGO DM)
Kaiba Gozaburo/Kaiba Seto/Kaiba Mokuba (YGO DM)
Kaiba Gozaburo/Kaiba Seto (YGO DM)
Jounouchi Katsuya/Kaiba Seto (YGO DM)
Bakura Ryou/Kaiba Seto (YGO DM)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse, scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

Love trans man Seto and Ryou. (But cis is fine if you're uncomfy writing that.)

Bottom Seto is my jam and jelly, so go for it. I'm good with anything from light fluff to dark and disturbing. Noncon is always fine, especially when Gozaburo is involved.

Prefer the Japanese names over dub names.

Request 3 by FleetSparrow
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Relationships:

WB: Any (MST3K)
Clayton Forrester & TV's Frank & Torgo (MST3K)
Gypsy & Mike Nelson & Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo (MST3K)
Crow T. Robot/Tom Servo (MST3K)
Clayton Forrester/TV's Frank (MST3K)
Clayton Forrester & Pearl Forrester (MST3K)
Cambot & Gypsy & Mike Nelson & Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo (MST3K)
Mike Nelson & Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo (MST3K)
Bobo/Brain Guy/Pearl Forrester (MST3K)

Opt-Ins: Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse, scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

This one is pure fun. I'd prefer any "/" pairings to stay out of smut territory. Basically, for MST3K, if it feels like it fits the show, go for it.

Request 4 by FleetSparrow
Foyle's War

Relationships:

Andrew Foyle/Christopher Foyle/Rex Talbot (Foyle's War)
Christopher Foyle/Rex Talbot (Foyle's War)
Andrew Foyle/Rex Talbot (Foyle's War)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse, scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

This is the one my death DNW can waver. As much as I desperately want Rex to live and be happy, I'm super in love with the idea of ghost!Rex and possible visitations/possessions.

Request 5 by FleetSparrow
POKEMON Detective Pikachu (2019)

Relationships:

Detective Pikachu & Tim Goodman (Detective Pikachu)
WB: Any (Detective Pikachu)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse, scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

Prefer something with worldbuilding in it, but like, just imagine if Tim had to investigate more with our little talking Pikachu. More adventures, more fun!

Request 6 by FleetSparrow
The Trollenberg Terror (1958)

Relationships:

Alan Brooks/Philip Truscott (Trollenberg Terror)
WB: Any (The Trollenberg Terror (1958))

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium

DNW: mpreg, omegaverse, scat, watersports, gore (like limbs coming off, guts out, etc.), main character death (unless requested)

Ah, the romance! The adventure! Set during or around the film is fine, but also maybe globetrotting investigating other alien phenomena.

PH 5 - 6k - Blaseball (Video Game), Boondock Saints (Movies), Fake AH Crew & Related Fakesverse Groups, Hogan's Heroes, Campaign (Podcast)

Request 1 by flowersforgraves
Blaseball (Video Game)

Relationships:

WB: Any (Blaseball)
Any Canonical Blaseball Player & Any of their Current or Former Teammate(s) (Blaseball)
Any Mexico City Wild Wings Player(s) & Any Mexico City Wild Wings Player(s) (Blaseball)
Any Chicago Firefighters Player(s) & Any Chicago Firefighters Player(s) (Blaseball)
WB: Weather Events (Blaseball)
Solo: Any Current or Former Mexico City Wild Wings Player (Blaseball)
Solo: Any Current or Former Chicago Firefighters Player (Blaseball)
WB: The Hall of Flame (Blaseball)

Opt-Ins:

you can find past letters where I request this canon at my DW page if you'd like more info! I haven't yet decided if I'll be writing a letter specifically for this exchange.

If I've requested a / ship, I'd also be interested in an ambiguous relationship between those characters or a & relationship between those characters!

DNW:
> pregnancy (brief mentions are fine if it's canon, otherwise no mention please)
> soulbond or soulmate anything (telepathic or pain-sharing bonds are fine if canon)
> explicit sex involving under-15s (referenced is fine)
> setting change AUs (does not apply to art)
> bathroom stuff as kink (scat, watersports, emeto = no; sickfic = yes)
> a canon character of one binary gender transitioning / genderswapped to the other binary gender
> unless specifically prompted: sexual violence primarily targeting transgender characters and/or characters of color (forced to watch, threatened, noncon within a group setting w/ multiple victims, or consensual painplay are all fine)
> Canon-atypical language describing gender or orientation (ex: a character from the 1940s describing themself with modern terms)
> intimacy (especially romance) that develops between one character becoming reliant on the other, e.g., a romance developing between a disabled character & their caretaker
> unless specifically requested, child characters (including canon ones)
> heavy soundscaping in podfic (occasional sound effects or voice distortion effects are okay)
> baby!Baby as a major character (fs!Baby, Baby Ruthless, or other versions of Baby are okay to include as major characters and baby!Baby appearing is also okay)
> Tillman Henderson as a major character in a Firefighters or Wings-centric work (it's okay if he's the one you want to focus on for the "any canonical character" prompt, but I don't really want him taking over the story for a FF or WW work)
> undeath for characters who are not canonically undead, including living characters or OCs plotting to raise them from the dead (events of s24 notwithstanding; any whole-team incin/necros are fine to include no matter what)
> bringing Released characters back into Blaseball after their Release (brief appearances immediately post-Hall Stars is okay)

Likes:
> strong non-romantic relationships!
> sex without romance
> queer headcanons (including trans/nonbinary, aro, ace, and others)
> autistic & otherwise neurodivergent characters (including headcanons)
> nonsexual / nonromantic sleeping together
> hurt-comfort
> unconditional loyalty
> atmospheric / experimental styles
> second-person POV
> abuse (not between requested ship characters) / trauma recovery
> touch-starved characters
> crying
> bruises / possessive markings
> collars
> noncon (not between requested ship characters)
> missionfic

Request 2 by flowersforgraves
Boondock Saints (Movies)

Relationships:

Connor MacManus & Murphy MacManus & Roméo (BDS)
Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus (BDS)
Connor MacManus & Murphy MacManus (BDS)
Solo: Roméo (BDS)
Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus/Roméo (BDS)

Opt-Ins:

you can find past letters where I request this canon at my DW page if you'd like more info! I haven't yet decided if I'll be writing a letter specifically for this exchange.

DNW:
> pregnancy (brief mentions are fine if it's canon, otherwise no mention please)
> soulbond or soulmate anything (telepathic or pain-sharing bonds are fine if canon)
> explicit sex involving under-15s (referenced is fine)
> setting change AUs (does not apply to art)
> bathroom stuff as kink (scat, watersports, emeto = no; sickfic = yes)
> a canon character of one binary gender transitioning / genderswapped to the other binary gender
> unless specifically prompted: sexual violence primarily targeting transgender characters and/or characters of color (forced to watch, threatened, noncon within a group setting w/ multiple victims, or consensual painplay are all fine)
> Canon-atypical language describing gender or orientation (ex: a character from the 1940s describing themself with modern terms)
> intimacy (especially romance) that develops between one character becoming reliant on the other, e.g., a romance developing between a disabled character & their caretaker
> unless specifically requested, child characters (including canon ones)
> heavy soundscaping in podfic (occasional sound effects or voice distortion effects are okay)
> one (but not both) of the twins dying (both dead is fine, I just don't want them separated)
> deliberate noncon/abuse between the twins (forced to rape, accidental boundary crossing, undernegotiated kink, etc are all A-OK)
> Roméo finding out about an incestuous relationship between the twins and reacting permanently negatively (shock, disbelief, denial, etc are okay, I just don't want it to permanently ruin his relationship with the twins)

Request 3 by flowersforgraves
Fake AH Crew & Related Fakesverse Groups

Relationships:

Ky & Any Fake AH Crew Member (Fakesverse)
Any Fake AH Crew Member(s) & Any Fake AH Crew Member(s) (Fakesverse)
Solo: Creator's Choice of Fake RT Associate (Fakesverse)
Jeremy Dooley & Michael Jones (Fakesverse)
Trevor Collins & Alfredo Diaz (Fakesverse)
Solo: Matt Bragg (Fakesverse)
Solo: Fiona Nova (Fakesverse)
Solo: Alfredo Diaz (Fakesverse)
Matt Bragg & Trevor Collins & Jeremy Dooley (Fakesverse)
Matt Bragg & Tom Fawkes (Fakesverse)
Matt Bragg & Jeremy Dooley (Fakesverse)
Lindsay Tuggey Jones/Fiona Nova (Fakesverse)
Jeremy Dooley/Geoff Ramsey (Fakesverse)
Jeremy Dooley & Bruce Greene (Fakesverse)
Jack Pattillo/Geoff Ramsey (Fakesverse)
ChilledChaos & GaLmHD & Tom Fawkes & ZeRoyalViking (Fakesverse)
Alfredo Diaz & Fiona Nova (Fakesverse)
Geoff Ramsey & Elyse Willems (Fakesverse)
Jack Pattillo & Elyse Willems (Fakesverse)
Any FakeHaus Member(s) & Any FakeHaus Member(s) (Fakesverse)

Opt-Ins:

you can find past letters where I request this canon at my DW page if you'd like more info! I haven't yet decided if I'll be writing a letter specifically for this exchange.

If I've requested a / ship, I'd also be interested in an ambiguous relationship between those characters or a & relationship between those characters!

DNW:
> pregnancy (brief mentions are fine if it's canon, otherwise no mention please)
> soulbond or soulmate anything (telepathic or pain-sharing bonds are fine if canon)
> explicit sex involving under-15s (referenced is fine)
> setting change AUs (does not apply to art)
> bathroom stuff as kink (scat, watersports, emeto = no; sickfic = yes)
> a canon character of one binary gender transitioning / genderswapped to the other binary gender
> unless specifically prompted: sexual violence primarily targeting transgender characters and/or characters of color (forced to watch, threatened, noncon within a group setting w/ multiple victims, or consensual painplay are all fine)
> Canon-atypical language describing gender or orientation (ex: a character from the 1940s describing themself with modern terms)
> intimacy (especially romance) that develops between one character becoming reliant on the other, e.g., a romance developing between a disabled character & their caretaker
> unless specifically requested, child characters (including canon ones)
> heavy soundscaping in podfic (occasional sound effects or voice distortion effects are okay)
> in-fiction references to the rl sexual abuse and manipulation allegations and other circumstances surrounding Ryan Haywood's departure from AH (I'm okay with him not being mentioned, being a minor player in the work, or having never been part of the crew. I just don't want a fic about, e.g., Vagabond/Ryan getting kicked out of the crew for abusing fans)
> m!Jack (you don't need to specify gender or make gender a focus, but I treat this less as 'RPF in the GTA universe' and more as 'roleplayed characters influenced by real people')
> Fakes heist/operation deliberately targeting an organization of primarily marginalized people (incl non-Christian religious groups)

Request 4 by flowersforgraves
Hogan's Heroes

Relationships:

Helga & Hilda (Hogan's Heroes)
Solo: James Kinchloe (Hogan's Heroes)
Robert Hogan & James Kinchloe (Hogan's Heroes)
Richard Baker & James Kinchloe (Hogan's Heroes)
Louis LeBeau & Peter Newkirk (Hogan's Heroes)
Louis LeBeau & Hans Schultz (Hogan's Heroes)
Andrew Carter & Louis LeBeau & Peter Newkirk (Hogan's Heroes)
Andrew Carter & Robert Hogan & James Kinchloe & Louis LeBeau & Peter Newkirk (Hogan's Heroes)
Robert Hogan/Peter Newkirk (Hogan's Heroes)
Robert Hogan/James Kinchloe (Hogan's Heroes)

Opt-Ins:

you can find past letters where I request this canon at my DW page if you'd like more info! I haven't yet decided if I'll be writing a letter specifically for this exchange.

If I've requested a / ship, I'd also be interested in an ambiguous relationship between those characters or a & relationship between those characters!

DNW:
> pregnancy (brief mentions are fine if it's canon, otherwise no mention please)
> soulbond or soulmate anything (telepathic or pain-sharing bonds are fine if canon)
> explicit sex involving under-15s (referenced is fine)
> setting change AUs (does not apply to art)
> bathroom stuff as kink (scat, watersports, emeto = no; sickfic = yes)
> a canon character of one binary gender transitioning / genderswapped to the other binary gender
> unless specifically prompted: sexual violence primarily targeting transgender characters and/or characters of color (forced to watch, threatened, noncon within a group setting w/ multiple victims, or consensual painplay are all fine)
> Canon-atypical language describing gender or orientation (ex: a character from the 1940s describing themself with modern terms)
> intimacy (especially romance) that develops between one character becoming reliant on the other, e.g., a romance developing between a disabled character & their caretaker
> unless specifically requested, child characters (including canon ones)
> heavy soundscaping in podfic (occasional sound effects or voice distortion effects are okay)
> racist violence directed at Kinch and/or Baker (referencing period-typical attitudes or thoughts = okay, slurs or physical violence = not okay)
> focus on homophobia for the / ships: no need to make the characters unreasonably accepting, but I don't want the focus to be on angst about attraction to men (and especially racialized homophobia regarding Kinch/Hogan)
> Hogan/Klink

Request 5 by flowersforgraves
Campaign (Podcast)

Relationships:

Aava Arek & Zero (Campaign)
Aava Arek & Leenik Geelo (Campaign)
Aava Arek/Lyntel'luroon (Campaign)
Solo: Agent Zero (Campaign)
CT-1776 | Bacta & Leenik Geelo & Lyntel'luroon & Trystan "Tryst" Valentine (Campaign)
Any Bluebird Crew Member(s) & Any Bluebird Crew Member(s) (Campaign)
Any Mynock Crew Member(s) & Any Mynock Crew Member(s) (Campaign)

Opt-Ins:

you can find past letters where I request this canon at my DW page if you'd like more info! I haven't yet decided if I'll be writing a letter specifically for this exchange.

If I've requested a / ship, I'd also be interested in an ambiguous relationship between those characters or a & relationship between those characters!

DNW:
> pregnancy (brief mentions are fine if it's canon, otherwise no mention please)
> soulbond or soulmate anything (telepathic or pain-sharing bonds are fine if canon)
> explicit sex involving under-15s (referenced is fine)
> setting change AUs (does not apply to art)
> bathroom stuff as kink (scat, watersports, emeto = no; sickfic = yes)
> a canon character of one binary gender transitioning / genderswapped to the other binary gender
> unless specifically prompted: sexual violence primarily targeting transgender characters and/or characters of color (forced to watch, threatened, noncon within a group setting w/ multiple victims, or consensual painplay are all fine)
> Canon-atypical language describing gender or orientation (ex: a character from the 1940s describing themself with modern terms)
> intimacy (especially romance) that develops between one character becoming reliant on the other, e.g., a romance developing between a disabled character & their caretaker
> unless specifically requested, child characters (including canon ones) -- it is okay to mention Tamlin, but please don't focus on him
> heavy soundscaping in podfic (occasional sound effects or voice distortion effects are okay)
> Mynock crew willingly working for the Empire (forced or alt-future visions like Tryst's in that Life Day Special are okay)

PH 7 - 9k - 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, Star Trek: The Original Series, 狄仁杰之通天帝国 | Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Request 1 by Grayswandir (gothic_gray)
鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984)

Relationships:

Hong-hei Emperor/Wai Siu-bou (DoMD 1984)
Hong-hei Emperor & Wai Siu-bou (DoMD 1984)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Screenplay, Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative, Medium Opt In: Writing - Unreliable Narrator

Likes:

Some of my favorite things to see in fic are hurt/comfort, loyalty, conflict, angst, secrets and masks, adventures, disasters, darkness, iron woobies, platonic intimacy, humor, complicated relationships, time and change, memory, pining, and worldbuilding elements related to places, cultures, and histories.

More details, canon links, etc., are in my letter!

Thoughts and Prompts

One thing I love about this show is how well-meaning and yet deeply flawed both of the main characters are, and the continual strain of politics on their friendship. There are some intense loyalty tropes here, right alongside a lot of deception and mutual distrust and conflict. I love seeing how they struggle to sustain the fiction of an equal friendship in spite of the massive power imbalance between them, and how it becomes increasingly difficult to make out how much of what they show each other is genuine and how much is performance.

I basically love every single canon interaction between these two, so if you just want to expand on a scene or event that happened, or a different version of an event that happened, or a different time when the same thing happened again, or whatever, those are all great. :) I like the fluffy scenes where they’re just fooling around or getting up to mischief together; I like the darker scenes where their trust issues, identity issues, or power-dynamic issues take the foreground.

Prompts:

• These two come from very different worlds, and I love seeing them try to connect, successfully or not. I’d love to see a story about some instance of this — e.g. maybe Wai Siu-bou is willing to let the Emperor give him some basic reading/writing lessons, or teach him to play chess? Or, on the other side, maybe the Emperor is willing to let Wai Siu-bou get him drunk, or teach him to play dice?

• So there’s that one scene where Wai Siu-bou rushes to the Emperor’s room in the middle of the night, and the Emperor tells the guards to let him in, and then invites him to sleep there. Does Wai Siu-bou ever take him up on this offer? (I mean, it’s hardly the only time these two end up staying up late together in the Emperor’s quarters — especially since it looks like Wai Siu-bou, as the Emperor’s personal attendant, ends up at least temporarily with duties like helping him dress and undress...)

• I love all the scenes where either character gets very protective or solicitous about the other one, and as you may have guessed from my "likes" list, h/c is one of my favorite tropes, so basically I’ll be delighted with any excuse you can come up with for one or the other of these two to be in some kind of distress — physical, emotional, mundane or fantastical, however plausible or implausible. Honestly my all-time favorite fanfic trope is just your standard run-of-the-mill h/c setup where one character is ill or injured and the other one helps them recover or just stays with them while they weather it out. Plot totally optional. The Emperor is ill and summons Wai Siu-bou to his room because he wants company/diversion? The Emperor finds out Wai Siu-bou is injured and pays him a visit in his quarters? The Emperor accidentally hurts Wai Siu-bou during a wrestling match? Wai Siu-bou finds out the Emperor hasn't been sleeping well and wants to help?

• I feel like there are potentially any number of "trapped together" plots just waiting to happen here, what with our heroes regularly sneaking around together all over the palace compound, especially at night. It might be fun to see them sneak around just for the adventure of it, for once?

• I’d love to see a post-canon reunion between these two, maybe many years later, when they’re older and have lived very separate lives. Maybe Wai Siu-bou ends up in some new crisis or under arrest, and the Emperor gets wind of it and decides to intervene? How would they react to seeing each other again? How estranged would they be, or how naturally would they fall back into familiarity? How easy, or difficult, would it be for them to separate again?

• Wai Siu-bou seems really proud of his massage-giving skills, and rather eager to try them out on the Emperor — who, for his own part, doesn’t seem all that resistant to the idea (except maybe insofar as they happened to be outside and potentially in public view at the time). Further development on this topic?

Do-Not-Wants:

❌ Explicit sexual content (non-explicit is fine)
❌ AU (canon divergence is fine, genre-typical magical elements are fine)
❌ Crossover or fusion with an unrelated canon
❌ Focus on unrequested pairings (mentioning them is fine)
❌ Non-canon pet names like "baby," "honey," etc. (canon nicknames/diminutives are fine)

Letter: http://www.onlyfiction.net/letters/letter_fiab2021.html

Request 2 by Grayswandir (gothic_gray)
鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha

Relationships:

Kangxi/Wei Xiaobao (The Deer and the Cauldron)
Kangxi & Wei Xiaobao (The Deer and the Cauldron)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative, Medium Opt In: Writing - Unreliable Narrator

Likes:

More details, canon links, etc., are in my letter!

Thoughts and Prompts

• I’d love to see what sort of mischief these two usually get up to when they’re not busy dealing with palace intrigue or national politics. They apparently spend time together in the Upper Library nearly every day, and the Emperor also seems to rather frequently invite Wei Xiaobao into his private quarters. What are they up to?

• It’s noted repeatedly that the Emperor dislikes being cooped up in the palace and envies Wei Xiaobao’s freedom. Meanwhile, Wei Xiaobao seems to have no trouble at all smuggling people into or out of the palace gates even in broad daylight, as long as he can dress them up as eunuchs or guards or whatever. Would he consider trying to smuggle the Emperor himself out for a few hours, in pursuit of some adventure, or just for a visit to town? Would the Emperor be tempted by such a possibility?

• Sort of reversing the above: there’s a scene where Wei Xiaobao has a talk with a eunuch in the kitchens and hears that as a rule of the palace, no "rare or unusual food" can be offered to any of the imperial family (because "if one of them were to suffer the slightest little sickness after eating it, it would be off with our heads"); the eunuch says he's worried that the Emperor has "the curiosity of youth" and might be perilously attracted to foreign and exotic experiences. Now, granted, what Wei Xiaobao is actually up to is a lot worse than anything the eunuch suspects — but regardless of that, this whole exchange kind of makes me want to see him actually sneaking exotic food (or really any other forbidden/exciting thing) into the palace for the Emperor (who as usual has to rely on his street-urchin friend to supply the adventures his attendants keep trying to protect him from).

• On a similar note, just in general I’d love to see instances of Wei Xiaobao corrupting the Emperor with low-class or forbidden amusements, e.g. gambling, cursing/obscenities, drinking, ribald storytelling, sneaking around the palace, etc. With whatever result, really.

• So, the wrestling scenes in this novel certainly involve a lot of, uh, entanglement and mutual gazing? And mutual obsession? E.g. "For both boys their daily [wrestling] bouts became something of an addiction: if they missed a day they became positively unwell." Which, apart from being a hard-to-resist shipping invitation, also suggests that they did, at least occasionally, miss a day, with... like, actual health consequences? I confess I want to know more about all of this.

• It would be great to see some kind of hurt/comfort between these two, or any variation on the trope. They seem well set up for it. Kangxi, in spite of being very controlled and dignified in front of everyone else, often gets quite emotional around Wei Xiaobao, and seems to generally look to him for support when he has any problems. Wei Xiaobao also has his own sources of angst, and on top of that he spends like 80% of the novel in some condition of recent injury or under the influence of some kind of poison.

Do-Not-Wants:

Letter: http://www.onlyfiction.net/letters/letter_fiab2021.html

Request 3 by Grayswandir (gothic_gray)
鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha

Relationships:

WB: Any (The Deer and the Cauldron)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork, Medium Opt In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook, Medium Opt In: Writing - Field Report, Medium Opt In: Writing - In-Universe Essay, Medium Opt In: Writing - Legal Documents, Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt In: Writing - Diary Entry, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Type of Essay, Medium Opt In: Art - Any Technical Drawing, Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

Likes:

I'd love to see worldbuilding related to places, cultures, histories, people, objects, or scenes in this canon. :D More details, canon links, etc., are in my letter!

Thoughts and Prompts

• I love the historical aspects of the novel, and am not at all familiar with this period of Chinese history otherwise, so any kind of historical details you can introduce into a fanwork would be amazing, whether that means sketches of period-typical costuming, architectural details or floorplans, a hierarchy of court titles, dice game rules, or a meta discussion of anachronisms in some particular scene or plot arc. In short, if you’re someone who has historical knowledge about 17th-century China and would enjoy putting it into some kind of fanwork format, please do!

• I’m also happy to get completely fictional worldbuilding! There are a lot of events and objects that get hints of backstory but are never fully explained in the novel. For example, what exactly is the history behind the impenetrable vest that Wei Xaobao acquires from among Oboi’s possessions? Or the seemingly magical knife? What’s the story with the German priest Schall, whose life the Emperor says he saved when he was ten years old? Backstory about Hai Dafu and the Old Emperor’s retreat to the mountains? What happened to the scholars from the opening chapter?

• Sort of combining the above, I’d love to see fanworks in the form of “historical” documents that treat the canon as history, whether from a post-canon or canon-concurrent timeframe — e.g. a memorial to the throne from Cao Yin, a page from a history text, or something like information cards from a museum display of artifacts from the events of the novel (Wu Sangui’s marble screen, the golden bowl Shi Lang gives Wei Xiaobao, the crystal dice the Emperor sends as a gift, etc.). Or other kinds of documents? Folk ballads about Chen Jinnan? The imperial doctor’s medical report on Dolong after his stabbing?

• I’d be interested to see journals, memoirs, or letters from minor characters who live in the palace complex (including random unnamed guards or eunuchs or maids), or other people who might be privy to information we don’t get in the novel. This could tie into worldbuilding about particular locations or items or processes (the workings of the Imperial Catering Department, the assortment of weird poisons in Hai Dafu’s medical box) or it could be an outsider-viewpoint angle for looking at either the Emperor or Wei Xiaobao (or their relationship, if you want to blend this request with my pairing requests—but I’m totally fine with just a perspective on one or the other of them individually, too).

• If by chance you’re just reading this prompt list because there’s some particular unconventional medium that you wanted to try out and you’re wondering if you could do it for this fandom, then I’d say as long as it fits the canon setting in some way (i.e. doesn’t require some kind of extravagant AU to make sense), go for it!

Do-Not-Wants:

Letter: http://www.onlyfiction.net/letters/letter_fiab2021.html

Request 4 by Grayswandir (gothic_gray)
Star Trek: The Original Series

Relationships:

James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek TOS)
James T. Kirk & Spock (Star Trek TOS)
James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock (Star Trek TOS)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Screenplay, Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative

LIKES:

Please see my letter for more details! Some of my favorite things to see in fic are hurt/comfort, loyalty, conflict, angst, secrets and masks, adventures, disasters, darkness, iron woobies, platonic intimacy, humor, complicated relationships, time and change, memory, pining, and worldbuilding elements related to places, cultures, and histories.

For this fandom, I’m very happy with both slash and gen takes on Kirk and Spock’s relationship, or with Kirk-Spock-McCoy as a suspiciously-intense-gen sort of OT3. I love Kirk being a mess—the times when he gets overconfident and it bites him in the ass, when he doubts himself or questions his own motives or fears he’s losing control, when he gets reckless and Spock or McCoy has to step in and do damage control. I love the continual tug-of-war between reason and feeling, as it plays out both externally between Spock and McCoy and internally for all three of them.

I love all the moral ambiguity and dubious choices on the show, and Kirk’s relentless obsession with the idea that mankind “wasn’t meant for paradise” but for challenge and struggle. I love Spock being eminently Vulcan, or trying hard to be Vulcan under difficult conditions, or being maybe not actually as Vulcan as he thinks. I love McCoy sputtering over either or both of them being idiots.

I also love pretty much any ridiculous plot device that results in Spock collapsing and Kirk holding him up or carrying him around. Vice versa is also good. Variations involving McCoy—also good!

PROMPTS:

• As far as hurt/comfort goes, I’ll take whatever you’ve got, whether it’s canon-typical crack-taken-seriously (giant brain-cell viruses! zapped by sentient electrical forcefields!) or something more realistic or slice-of-life (Kirk angsting over perceived personal failures or past traumas, Spock emphatically Not Angsting and definitely not having illogical human emotions or identity crises, McCoy having to practically force medical attention on his superior officers who think they’re indestructible, any of them hiding injury/illness because there’s a crisis going on and they can’t step down from their posts right now...)

• Relatedly, anything with Kirk having to make hard moral choices or reflect on them, conflict between official responsibilities and personal relationships, handling disasters, losing control of the ship... basically whatever you want to arrange to give him a hard time.

• I'd love to see some kind of Lovecraftian cosmic horror take (or Borgesian dark-magical-realism take, or whatever) on this fandom. Surely if there’s anywhere you’re going to find truly eldritch and alien abominations, or utterly mind-destroying unfathomable otherness, that place is in space. I’d be up for the whole crew (or any subset thereof) being part of this.

• For more of a slash focus, maybe something with Kirk and Spock navigating their rather different personal needs, emotional and otherwise. One of the things I really enjoy on the show is how both of them seem so highly attuned to each other despite their differences, and how far each of them seems willing to accommodate the other, even if it doesn’t come naturally. But I’d also be interested to see times when these efforts failed, or times it went too far and became uncomfortable for the party doing the accommodating.

• Sort of related to the above, I like the idea of exploring the interspecies nature of their relationship from Spock’s viewpoint, with Kirk as the one who seems “alien” and difficult to fathom. Granted, Spock grew up with a (very) human mother—but it does seem like his upbringing was essentially Vulcan, and there are at least moments when Kirk appears to be a genuine enigma to him. (The reverse, with Kirk having feelings about Spock’s alienness, is great too.)

• Post-original-series, the end of the five-year mission: the Enterprise is no longer Kirk’s ship, his crew is being split up/decommissioned, Spock is going back to Vulcan (WHY?)... I can’t help thinking Kirk would not handle any of this very well. How does it play out? (Unhappy/ambiguous endings are totally fine, though by no means required.)

DO-NOT-WANTS:

❌ Explicit sexual content (non-explicit is fine)
❌ AU (canon divergence is fine)
❌ Crossover or fusion, including with the AOS/reboot films
❌ Unrequested pairings of canon characters (unless canonical)
❌ Non-canon pet names like "baby," "honey," etc.

Letter: http://www.onlyfiction.net/letters/letter_fiab2021.html

Request 5 by Grayswandir (gothic_gray)
狄仁杰之通天帝国 | Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Relationships:

Solo: 狄仁傑 | Di Renjie (Detective Dee)
WB: Any (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting

LIKES:

Please see my letter! Some of my favorite things to see in fic are hurt/comfort, loyalty, conflict, angst, secrets and masks, adventures, disasters, darkness, iron woobies, platonic intimacy, humor, complicated relationships, time and change, memory, pining, and worldbuilding elements related to places, cultures, and histories.

THOUGHTS/PROMPTS:

• I really love the idea of the Phantom Bazaar, and was disappointed that we see so little of it in the film. Spooky underground city, caves, underground rivers, Stygian ferryman, creepy magical black-market bazaar, all in an ancient wuxia setting with shape-shifting and monsters... I want a whole miniseries just about this. Anyway, I’d be happy to see any story or other media that further develops the Underground City, whether in terms of its physical features or its culture, inhabitants, visitors, merchandise, history, etc. It seems like Di Renjie is already pretty familiar with the place, but we never hear anything about why. What brought him there before?

• More specifically, I’d love to see a post-canon story about Di Renjie living in the Phantom Bazaar. Is there any hope that he can be cured? Is Wang experimenting to try to cure him? What is Di Renjie doing in the meantime? Has he retired? Is he still solving mysteries? Is Wang teaching him the ways of transfiguration?

• Casefic! This could be post-canon (maybe Di Renjie has been cured, or maybe he’s just working at night and/or remotely from within the Phantom Bazaar), or it could be canon-concurrent, if you want to expand on the case that he solves during the film (or have him on some other side case at the same time, or whatever). Magic and monsters are canon here, so mythical or horror-tending mysteries are welcome!

• Please tell me why Di Renjie has so many hats. (I love all of them.)

• If you've seen the prequels, pre-canon fic, whether casefic or otherwise, would be great too. Di Renjie (with or without Shatuo) must have had plenty of other adventures during the ~12 years between the end of the second prequel and being charged with treason. I'm open to his relationship with Shatuo as either platonic or slash, if you want to keep them together.

• Following from that last thought, one idea in particular: In the second prequel, Di Renjie develops some kind of mysterious illness that is never explained, and never really relevant to anything. When asked about it at the end of the film, he says it’s caused by a "demon" inside him. (The way the final battle plays out might lead one to infer that an internal "demon" must be a metaphor for hatred, but there’s never any indication that Di Renjie hates anyone, so... ???) Anyway, whenever Di Renjie has any kind of serious bout of this mystery illness, Shatuo has to look after him, which is an invitation to h/c if I ever saw one. How is Di ultimately cured?

DO-NOT-WANTS:

Letter: http://www.onlyfiction.net/letters/letter_fiab2021.html

PH 9 - 10k - Universal Century Gundam, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Gintama, Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Request 1 by Iserlohna
Universal Century Gundam

Relationships:

Char Aznable/Amuro Ray/Lalah Sune (UC Gundam)
Char Aznable/Amuro Ray (UC Gundam)
Kamille Bidan/Amuro Ray (UC Gundam)
Sayla Mass/Amuro Ray (UC Gundam)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In

DNWs: AUs apart from canon divergence, cannibalism/vore, bodily fluids (apart from sexual fluids, sweat and light blood), explicit underage porn, ageplay, D/s, A/B/O (where not specifically mentioned in the prompts/fandom details), breath play,.

Letter: http://iserlohna.dreamwidth.org/749.html

Request 2 by Iserlohna
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Relationships:

Walter von Schonkopf/Yang Wen-li (LOGH)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic

Letter: http://iserlohna.dreamwidth.org/749.html

Request 3 by Iserlohna
Gintama

Relationships:

Hijikata Toshirou/Sakata Gintoki (Gintama)
Kagura & Sakata Gintoki & Shimura Shinpachi (Gintama)

Opt-Ins: Medium Opt In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In

Letter: http://iserlohna.dreamwidth.org/749.html

Request 4 by Iserlohna
Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Relationships:

Squall Leonhart/Cloud Strife (D:FF)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In

Letter: http://iserlohna.dreamwidth.org/749.html

PH 11 - 10k - NOS4A2 (TV 2019), Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom

Request 1 by LittleRaven
NOS4A2 (TV 2019)

Relationships:

Solo: Vic McQueen (NOS4A2)

Opt-Ins: Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Art - Tapestry, Medium Opt In: Art - Drawn - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Drawn - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook, Medium Opt In: Video - Fanvid, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Gifset, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In

Likes:

Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys. Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones. Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.

More things I enjoy: fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, illustrated fic, poetry, epistolary, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, road trips, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love, politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming, Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing, scars, suspense, undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, growling, blindfolding, chains, trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other, spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing, loneliness, connecting to the force together, mutual pining, dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters, us against the world, ghosts, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, rule 63'ing male characters (where they were always a girl), 5+1 stories, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, learning new skills, gothic romance

DNWs:

bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost); mpreg; detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia; noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o,bestiality, oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, anal tearing, ass to mouth; rule 63’ing female characters; body horror, explicit torture, permanently physically damaging torture, maiming, mutilating; animal harm, animal death; bashing of characters or ships; unrequited love (except if prompted, or if it's only unrequited in a characters' head); permanent breakups unless prompted; focus on requested characters in unrequested/unprompted ships, non-canon unrequested ships, unrequested/unprompted poly/open relationships; stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship; AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested/in list of likes); underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+); ageplay/infantilization; unrequested/unprompted humiliation; sexuality/gender headcanons; coronavirus; incest (unless prompted/requested), selfcest (unless prompted/requested); necrophilia; vore; insects, arachnids; the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good)

Letter: http://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/61557.html

Request 2 by LittleRaven
Crossover Fandom

Relationships:

Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV)/Buffy Summers (Buffyverse TV)
Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV) & Buffy Summers (Buffyverse)
Solo: Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV) in Buffyverse TV
Solo: Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV) in Silent Hill (2006)

Likes:

DNWs:

Letter: http://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/61557.html

Request 3 by LittleRaven
Crossover Fandom

Relationships:

Spock (Star Trek TOS/DSC)/Buffy Summers (Buffyverse)
Spock (Star Trek TOS/DSC)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)

Likes:

DNWs:

Letter: http://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/61557.html

PH 14 - 10k - Ski Jumping RPF, เดือนเกี้ยวเดือน | 2 Moons The Series (TV) RPF, My So-Called Life

Request 1 by Mary_the_gardener
Ski Jumping RPF

Relationships:

WB: Any (Ski Jumping RPF)
Solo: Daniel-André Tande (Ski Jumping RPF)
Ryoyu Kobayashi/Naoki Nakamura (Ski Jumping RPF)
Ryoyu Kobayashi/Daniel-André Tande (Ski Jumping RPF)

Opt-Ins: Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Social Media

DNWS:
- romantic marriage proposals and weddings,
- MPreg
- prolonged and repeated adultery
- ABO
- Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general
- Royalty AUs

General likes:

angst, genfic, character study, crack fics, songfics, texting fics, interactive fiction, fake dating, mutual or onesided pining, hopelessly oblivious characters, open or vague endings, unhappy endings, misunderstandings and miscommunication, metaphors, introspection and internal monologues, unusual POVs, hurt no comfort, time travelling, time jumps and messed up timelines, missing scenes, questioning of one's principles, epiphanies, cooking and food vlogs, historical AUs, carnival and masquerade balls, flirting, doppelganger stories and uncanny circumstances, recovery from physical injuries or only partial recovery and how one mentally deals with it, flowers metaphors or similes or anything that has to do with flowers in general, extra bonus if it's daffodils or wisteria.

Fandom Prompts:

I have a really soft spot for Daniel and almost as much for Ryoyu. Do I ship them together? Absolutely. But I also love a cliché roommates Naoki/Ryoyu - I mean, they have been roommates!!

A good idea about that last ship came to me some time ago when Nao posted a story pic with Tatsunao: Naoki involuntarily messing up with the Kobayashi family. Something like he's crushing on Roy and spending time with Tatsu, who listens to his love ramblings; Roy misunderstands and gets jealous. Extra kudos for bringing into the picture Yuka and Junshiro too!

But really, I'll take anything, those are such a rareship!! Ryoyu is just COOL, and Naoki and Daniel are the purest rays of sunshine ever, always smiling and taking time to make the others smile around them too (do we need to talk about that one time in June when Naoki did a joined insta live just because he had an hunch Roy was feeling lonely and wanted to cheer him up? That was absolutely golden). I just love ski jumping a lot and love even more the friendship and the shenanigans between the athletes get up to...

Request 2 by Mary_the_gardener
เดือนเกี้ยวเดือน | 2 Moons The Series (TV) RPF

Relationships:

Joong Archen Aydin/Nine Kornchid Boonsathitpakdee (2 Moons RPF)

Opt-Ins: Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium, Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Social Media

DNWS:
- romantic marriage proposals and weddings,
- MPreg
- prolonged and repeated adultery
- ABO
- Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general
- Royalty AUs

General likes:

Fandom Prompts:

I just can't wrap my head around how is it possible that there's so little fics about these two. I don't get attached to thai BL ships easily, but J9 are special! I honestly just want some more canon compliant fics, and no, there's never too many roommates fics. Give me all the roomates ficssss. Am I being too bold? I'm sorry, I have a lot of feelings ahah. But even if you want to dewlve on othes aspects of their relationship it's fine, I just think what they have makes for great fic material!

Request 3 by Mary_the_gardener
My So-Called Life

Relationships:

WB: Any (My So-Called Life)
Corey Helfrick/Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez (My So-Called Life)
Solo: Jordan Catalano (My So-Called Life)
Solo: Tino (My So-Called Life)
Rayanne Graff/Brian Krakow (My So-Called Life)
Jordan Catalano/Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Opt-Ins: Medium Opt In: Writing - Any Nominated Writing Medium, Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In, Medium Opt In: Audio - FST (Fan Soundtrack)

DNWS:
- romantic marriage proposals and weddings,
- MPreg
- prolonged and repeated adultery
- ABO
- Mafia AUs and Darkfic in general
- Royalty AUs

General likes:

Fandom prompts:

I'm ok with mostly anything, but lately I've been particularly interested into what goes on in Jordan's brain and I would really love to read something from his POV! Even an AU would be great, there's not nearly enough of them in this fandom! And if you need some ideas, here's a couple of prompts:

-Future fic

-Pre-canon of the the first time Angela saw Jordan and fell for him

-What goes on in Jordan's brain when he first speaks with Angela at that party and later when he sees her getting in the police's car.

-Fic about Jordan's background and family that does not involve domestic violence or drinking

-Patty's thoughts and impressions on Jordan

-Some Jordan-Shane-Tino time

On other ships... I absolutely refuse to believe the Rickie/Corey ship never sailed! Like, come on please, give them a future!!!!

And Rayanne/Brian... it has moments in canon, ok? Like when Brian is ogling her legs as she shaves, or the hotline thing.... The two of them are so very different, but I'm sure, digging a little, it's easy to find shared struggles. I'd love to see something about them discovering that common ground and boding over it!

PH 15 - 10k - Different for Girls (1996), Dark Matter (TV), The Exorcist (TV), The Umbrella Academy (TV), Wallander (UK TV)

Request 1 by Mimm
Different for Girls (1996)

Relationships:

Kim Foyle/Paul Prentice (Different for Girls 1996)
Karl Foyle & Paul Prentice (Different for Girls 1996)

Opt-Ins:

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

DNW:
- noncon/rape between ship characters
- death of ship characters (temporary, presumed or faked for angsty plot reasons are great)
- bestiality
- A/B/O
- D/s
- daddy/mommy kink
- focus on pets, kids or pregnancy
- scat, emetophilia, watersports
- recreational drug use (getting drugged as an act of violence is good)
- AUs that drastically change the setting (coffeeshops, college, band, etc.)
- underage (teens with teens is fine, otherwise 15-ish and up)
- unrequested poly or trans fic
- ship characters as asexual or aromantic

My letter will include a long list of general likes.

I nominated two ships but they're basically the same at different points in time. I'm using pronoun 'him' for Karl because I assume she thought she was a he based on what she says about thinking she was gay. I don't mean to misgender her. You're free to use whatever pronoun you prefer.

Karl Foyle & Paul Prentice

I love how the movie begins, with Prentice being the protective knight in shining armor and Karl so obviously in love with him. I'd love to see more of their school years, their friendship, how they were around each other, how they spent their time in and outside school. Did they get in trouble? How was young Kim/Karl in comparison to adult Kim? Prentice thought Karl was gay, so did Karl. Did that ever show in their interactions? Was Prentice attracted to him at all? I'd also be fine with friendship & angsty one-sided pining from Karl's side here. How did they lose contact and how did they feel about it during those years?

Kim Foyle/Paul Prentice

They're adorable together. Prentice is a mess, he doesn't stop to think things over instead of acting, and he doesn't really hide what he's thinking or feeling even when it'll get him in trouble. Kim is the opposite, cool and more closed, keeping her feelings to herself so she won't accidentally do something "wrong". I like how they complement each other and how, after they meet, they both start to change. How does their life together continue? Kim's obviously more relaxed and more her true self, while Prentice is a tiny bit more adult. Maybe. :D How are they with their friends, how do they deal with outsiders, what are their future plans, what adventures do they have?

Also, now that I'm more grown up than I was when I first saw this, I noticed I love her relationship with her sister and her brother-in-law a lot. So they're ok to show up, too.

Letter: http://mimm.dreamwidth.org/10950.html

Request 2 by Mimm
Dark Matter (TV)

Relationships:

Teku Fonsei/Four | Ryo Tetsuda (Dark Matter TV)
Teku Fonsei & Four | Ryo Tetsuda (Dark Matter TV)

Opt-Ins:

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

My letter will include a long list of general likes.

This show is just an endless source of joy. And ships! So many ships. As usual, I could've added about ten here, but I wanted to focus on Teku because on every rewatch I keep wanting more of him and the show won't deliver. He seems like such an interesting guy, a mentor, a teacher, a confidant, a friend, and lots of other things.

I'd happily take anything that focuses on his and Ryo's relationship. Something from years ago when Ryo was young and still training, surrounded by a bunch of people that shouldn't be trusted, Teku being one who he does value and trust. Some missing scenes during canon, from either POV, could be fun. And post-canon, yes please! I would love to know how their relationship develops, whether they're friends or allies or enemies or everything at once. Or maybe a canon divergence where they meet when Ryo's Four, lacking all his memories?

I'm requesting both & and / because I just want more of them together. Please have Ryo be at least 15-16 or so if it gets very sexual. Glimpses from his childhood are also fine.

Letter: http://mimm.dreamwidth.org/10950.html

Request 3 by Mimm
The Exorcist (TV)

Relationships:

Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne (The Exorcist)
Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega & Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne (The Exorcist)

Opt-Ins:

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

My letter will include a long list of general likes.

I felt like nominating and requesting Peter so that's what I'm doing. :) I'll borrow from some of my older sign-ups because I realized they're still pretty accurate.

Marcus is my favourite on this show, though I very much enjoy the other main characters & many of the side characters as well (regardless of season). And I want him to be happy. Life's been too rough for him and he deserves some comfort and quiet and lots and lots of cuddles. Love his total disregard for personal space, and the way he can flirt with just about everything that moves. :D And I love the way he uses his hands. To touch, to express things, to console. I don't always have a hand thing but when I do I have it bad.

I ship Marcus with both Tomas and Peter, so these ships make sense to me. Just Marcus and Peter together? Fantastic! Marcus not being able to decide and neither Tomas or Peter being opposed to it? Both. Both is good. Or maybe one ends in break-up (amicable preferred, I don't want anything nasty between them, or maybe there's a death - in this case you can ignore my death DNW, but only in this case) during the story and another begins. Or maybe there are two parallel timelines with both? Something else? I'm not picky here.

Anything during canon or post-canon would be welcome. Continuing the business, travelling, trying to fix things and find peace. Quitting and settling down to do something else, not quite knowing what and how because it's so foreign. I want Marcus to have someone to share it all with, whether it's one person or two.

Feel free to go wherever you want with the religious aspects, whether it's all nice and by the book, something dark and twisted and dirtybadwrong, or something else entirely. You can't offend me, I assure you, and nothing's too blasphemous for me.

Letter: http://mimm.dreamwidth.org/10950.html

Request 4 by Mimm
The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Relationships:

Diego Hargreeves/Grace Hargreeves (TUA)
Number Five/Luther Hargreeves (TUA)

Opt-Ins:

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

My letter will include a long list of general likes.

This show is fun and wonderful and unexpected, and the cast is great, right down to the side characters. I love these siblings (and their robot mother and even their father in all his terrible heartlessness), so choosing just a couple of ships was hard. Anyone else is welcome to show up. Mentioning canon ships is fine.

I'm not familiar with the comics so I'd prefer nothing that requires comic knowledge.

Diego Hargreeves/Grace Hargreeves (TUA)

I ship it. <3 I know my DNWs include mommy kink, but if Diego has a few mommy issues in general in the middle of all the other feels? That'd be fine. I just really don't want a sex scene with him calling her mom in the middle of it, or him kinking on her being someone who raised him. Feeling guilty and ashamed? Yes, please.

Any point during/after canon would be great, including all the canon divergence (or time travel, which on this show is just a regular Tuesday event anyway). I honestly can't think of any specific prompts, but you can't go wrong with physical hurt/comfort. Either direction, but maybe hurt Diego slightly preferred? Good for pining and trying to hide feelings he reallyreally wants to hide.

Number Five/Luther Hargreeves (TUA)

I really enjoy their relationship, and I'm so glad someone nominated a / ship here. Because I want it. :D I'm fine with pre-canon fic where they're both still teenagers (doesn't hit my underage DNW, just keep them 13+ if there's kissing), but I do have a preference for present time or post-canon as the main focus. No need to age Five up, I actually like the weirdness that comes from the fact that he's an old man who just looks so young it makes things feel a bit creepy. Five knows he's a grown-up (and then some), Luther knows he's a grown-up. I mean, Luther may question his reactions and preferences and life choices in general. :D But that's fine.

I don't even know how they'd end up together. They face something life-threatening, unite against a common enemy, get trapped and face (what they think is) a certain doom, or one of them fucks something up and the other shows up to help? Or something else. Or throw a dart at my likes list and go with whatever it happens to hit (or the one above/below), it'll be good.

Letter: http://mimm.dreamwidth.org/10950.html

Request 5 by Mimm
Wallander (UK TV)

Relationships:

Karl "Kalle" Svedberg/Kurt Wallander (Wallander UK)

Opt-Ins:

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint if I'm requesting a / ship.

My letter will include a long list of general likes.

This is one of my "Huh, I just remembered how much I used to enjoy this thing, and now I can't stop thinking about it so clearly I need to nominate it!" canons. I enjoy the entire cast a lot, so anyone is welcome to show up. Feeling like a team fic with some shippiness on the side? Great. Want to focus entirely on the ship with the rest of the cast on the side? Also great.

This ship broke my heart a bit. I want it. If you can fix it, I'd be so very happy. Maybe the team gets there in time, maybe the case goes differently, I don't care as long as Kalle stays alive for a while longer. Preferably more than a while.

Though I'd also like to read an angstier one-sided crush type of story, maybe one of their cases (feel free to make up your own) but from Kalle's POV. Doesn't have to be a case, either, could be something like a lunch break or just the two of them hanging out, talking about non-work stuff.

I'm really not picky here.

Letter: http://mimm.dreamwidth.org/10950.html

PH 16 - 8k - 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game), Death end re;Quest (Video Game), Final Fantasy XIII Series, SCARLET NEXUS (Video Game), Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Tales of the Abyss, アルノサージュ ~生まれいずる星へ祈る詩~ | Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star

Request 1 by NightsMistress
十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game)

Relationships:

Kurabe Juro & Shiba Kyuta (13 Sentinels)

Opt-Ins:

Narrative Likes: Exploration of identity and memories; Explorations of close and/or complicated emotional relationships between the character/s I requested; Adventures! I adore casefic, if you're able to write it; Flawed characters being poorly equipped to struggle against the world and do it anyway; "slice of life" stories that explore the world and the characters; Hurt/Comfort, especially when a character tries to struggle through and is surprised that other people are Not Okay With Any Of This; Isolated characters being surprised by interpersonal connections; Psychological horror, especially when it comes to people being controlled either subtly or overtly by an outside force; Down time where characters can deal with (or avoid thinking like the plague) all the terrible things that are happening to them; Characters who use flippancy or sarcasm to poorly hide how Not Okay everything is, only for this mask to crack; Things going terribly, terribly wrong.

DNWs: Porn; AUs (except for canon divergence); Pregnancy fics and omegaverse; Second-person fic; Retelling of canon scenes from a different perspective unless it is very different and part of a much larger work; Introspective character studies that take place solely inside a character's head with no interaction with another person. (Characters interacting with the entity they are sharing a body with are not part of this unless the other entity has no consciousness at all.) COVID-19 or other pandemic fic.