Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I am
within_a_dream on AO3, and you can read my previous letters here if you want to see some of my previous exchange requests! I have requested fic for all fandoms and art for Baldur’s Gate, Leverage, Bridgerton, and Downton Abbey. I welcome art treats for any of my requested fandoms, but I felt the other fandoms had freeforms that would be difficult to convey in a single piece of art.
DNWs
- Non-canon pregnancy
- Trans characters having PIV sex (other vaginal penetration, use of penises, post-bottom-surgery-or-magical-equivalent PIV are all fine!)
- AUs I DNW: Modern/mundane AUs, omegaverse, BDSM AU, soulmate AUs (soulbonds are fine!), no-homophobia AUs for settings that in canon have homophobia
General Likes
- I love all tenses and POVs!
- Fic about canonical children, Accidental Child Acquisition of OC children (especially for characters who are not at all parental and have no idea what to do with kids)
- Casefic, with a loose definition of "case" that encompasses mysteries for mystery fandoms, paranormal investigations for fantasy canons, espionage for spy canons, etc
- Ghost stories! Particular favorites include the "ghostly hitchhiker" urban legend and the setup where characters need to spend the night in a haunted house for Reasons
- Recovery or aftermath – of canonical traumatic events or noncanonical torture, rape, murder attempts, etc
- Whump, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort
- 5+1 fics
- Epistolary fic
- Trans headcanons/character-is-trans AUs
- Internal or external homophobia
Art Likes
- I love any art styles and media!
- Ships sharing each other’s clothes
- Disheveled characters (whether from fights or sex or anything else)
- Clothing/costume porn
- Clothed/unclothed, or discrepancies in level of dress, for shippy art
- Limited color palettes
- Blood, bruises, marks
Smut Likes
- Feel free to include any of your favorite kinks if you are writing or drawing me smut! My only squicks are in my DNWs – anything else goes.
- Any and all sex acts (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, frottage, intercrural, fisting, double penetration, sounding, etc) are great! I have no top/bottom or dom/sub preferences.
- My favorite words for genitals are cock and cunt, but I have no objections to whatever you’d like to use
- Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella. I am especially into unnegotiated or undernegotiated kink, and characters falling into kinky dynamics or things they enjoy (especially with the younger characters). I have no dom/sub preferences
- I would love noncon for any of my requested characters or fandoms – if you want to know more about what I like in dubcon or noncon I have a general list of kinks and tropes here in my Consent Issues letter. I generally prefer noncon with an OC or canonical antagonist as the rapist, and "fuck or die" setups between my requested characters are also great!
- Roleplay – I am into both serious roleplay and goofy scenarios that the characters can’t quite take seriously, and I am especially fond of rape roleplay/consensual non-consent
- Group sex, orgies, and gangbangs
- Gunplay, especially fucking someone with a gun
- Watersports – I am mostly into it for humiliation or marking aspects, and am neutral about drinking piss (and would prefer if any drinking happens it’s someone having their mouth pissed in directly rather than just drinking a glass of pee/etc)
9-1-1
Fanfic, Solo: Eddie Diaz
Tags: Sexuality Realization Due To A Friend Coming Out
Recent episodes have renewed my craving for gay Eddie - I'm cool with him being another sexuality as well for this prompt, but I'm especially fond of him realizing he's gay when he and Buck talk about Buck's bisexuality and he realizes that a) he, much like Buck, has been assuming that all guys think about how attractive other guys are and that is not the case, and b) unlike Buck, he's not actually sure he's like, sexually attracted to women. (Please don't demonize his past girlfriends though! I'd prefer a take where they were decent people, Eddie's just coming to some realizations about himself and how he feels about women.) Possibly this could include Eddie asking questions about Buck's sexuality that initially come across as biphobic, but are really him coming to a realization about his own feelings about his relationships with women. Gen or Eddie/any male character/s are great! (Please don't bash Tommy if you end up doing Buck/Eddie sans Tommy though!)
The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
Fanfic, Gladys Russell & Oscar van Rhijn (Gilded Age)
Tags: lavender marriage
So I just desperately want a canon-divergence AU where Gladys realizes she’s a lesbian and she and Oscar get married so they can both live their dream gay lives in NYC without Gladys’s mom stifling her. Does Gladys end up saying something revealing to Oscar when he’s courting her? Does Oscar just have good gaydar? Does Oscar have an attack of conscience and come out to Gladys, and she's like, "oh, that's an option? I think....I might be attracted to women" and now Oscar has accidentally made himself responsible for shepherding Gladys through her gay awakening? Does Gladys come out to her dad and he decides that he’s going to find his daughter the perfect gay husband if it’s the last thing he does? Do you have another idea for how this marriage happens? Go wild, I just lovelovelove lavender marriages and want anything that runs with this premise.
Downton Abbey
Fanfic/Fanart, Solo: Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey), Thomas Barrow/Edward Courtenay (Downton Abbey), Thomas Barrow/Guy Dexter (Downton Abbey), Thomas Barrow/Original Male Character (Downton Abbey)
Tags: Finding Queer Community, Internalized Homophobia, Queer Character Escapes Traumatic Past and Finds Friends
I would just really love to see Thomas find a queer community and friends, and/or a boyfriend. You can jump off the other gay characters he meets in either of the movies, or OCs, or anything else you’d like! I would also love to see him get to go to gay clubs, bars, gathering places, etc. You're welcome to ship Thomas with other men as well, with a few exceptions: I'm not big on Thomas/Jimmy and I don't want Thomas and the Duke getting back together after they break up. If you go shippy, I especially love Thomas learning to let himself be loved, and the shock of having a relationship with someone who puts him first and cares about him.
Original Work
Fanfic, Historical Gay Man & Historical Lesbian (OW)
So I really love lavender marriages. Feel free to include m/m and f/f ships in addition to the gen pairing here, or m/nb or f/nb ships, or have either of the characters be nonbinary rather than a man or a woman, the key thing is just that I want the married couple to not be attracted to each other and to pass as an m/f marriage in a homophobic environment. I'd especially love it if they're long-term friends who decide on a marriage. Literally any historical era and country is great with me - I love learning about people's favorite historical periods! If you're stuck on a decision, I like Regency and medieval eras, but really, anything is great.
Fanfic/Fanart, Alec Hardison/Parker (Leverage)Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer (Leverage)Sophie Devereaux & Alec Hardison & Parker & Eliot Spencer (Leverage)
Tags: Everyone is Trans
I am just really in love with the various headcanons I've seen about the Leverage team being trans. I've requested relationship tags that include all the characters I especially love to see as trans, but feel free to include any other characters (in platonic or romantic/sexual contexts) from OG Leverage or Redemption, cis or trans. I'd prefer the characters to be the genders they are in canon (so like, Alec & Eliot as trans men, Sophie & Parker as trans women) or nonbinary, rather than having their canon gender be their ASAB. You can do an origin story for any of the characters' transitions, a work where they're doing canon-typical heists and incidentally everyone is trans, or anything in between! Perhaps they're working a case involving trans people being wronged or conned, if you want a plot idea - scammy HRT service, transphobic business, etc. But really just run with Leverage + trans and I will love it!
Band Sinister – KJ Charles
Fanfic, Lord Corvin/Mr. Dent, Lord Corvin/Original Country Vicar
Lord Corvin/Country Curate – so there’s an excerpt of a potential Corvin novel on the KJC Facebook group that has haunted me with a desire for fic since I read it. If you don’t have access, no worries, the important bit is that it’s set post-Band Sinister and contains John Raven telling Corvin that he absolutely should not fuck the curate of Wrayton Magna and Corvin being like “but what if I fuck him anyway~”. Corvin’s description of the curate: The new curate’s not bad, in a gloomy sort of way. A face like funereal architecture of the more magnificent sort. I say this as a compliment, you understand. Please give me this story! If you want my even more niche thoughts, I think it would be very fun if the curate had a previous gay relationship that fell apart because he’s aromantic and couldn’t reciprocate his lover’s romantic feelings, and then meets Corvin and has his horizons of what relationships can be broadened (and also stops hating himself for not being able to be what the past lover wanted/needed).
Lord Corvin/Mr. Dent – Basically just take my Corvin/Country Curate prompt but make it Mr. Dent. Idk if it’s what was intended, but the description of a gloomy-looking curate sounded familiar, and if you roll with the aro4aro subprompt, it could add some interesting flavor for Dent agreeing to marry Amanda on Aunt Beatrice’s say-so. Dent joining in on some Murder gatherings and Guy and/or Amanda recognizing him would be very fun, as would Dent standing up to and/or scandalizing Beatrice on Corvin’s urging/with Corvin’s support.
Baldur’s Gate
Fanfic, Solo: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Gale (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Solo: Wyll Ravengard (Baldur's Gate)
Tags: Magic Used as a Transition Aid
I really love seeing what transition can look like in fantasy universes, and I would love to see any or all of my requested characters as trans (no preference as to what gender they are in your fanwork!) Magic opening up more granular or possibly even non-human options for body mods and transition is great, looks at how different cultures we see in the game view transition is great, characters realizing they're trans is great, seeing the actual use of magic as the full plot of the work is great!
Fandom-specific DNW:
Mystra portrayed as grooming Gale or having started their relationship when he was underage (I love Mystra/Gale as a toxic/bad relationship otherwise! And other underage sex or characters being groomed is welcome too.)
Bridgerton (TV)
Fanfic/Fanart, Simon Basset/Daphne Bridgerton
Tags: Trans Male Character
So first off - what if Simon is a trans man? I've been toying with this AU since watching the first season. I love the extra dimension it would add to Simon insisting he'll never marry, and what it might do to the Simon/Daphne plot. Perhaps the whole marriage thing happens without Simon and Daphne having a chance to talk about his gender, or he doesn't tell her, and she has no idea that he's any different from cis men due to her extreme naivete; or perhaps he tells her he's trans, but again due to her extreme naivete, she doesn't realize exactly what that means and he doesn't realize that she doesn't realize until she tearfully tells him she thinks she's infertile.
And if you would prefer Daphne as trans - Daphne, as the perfect woman who everyone else aspires to be, realizing "she's" actually a man is a very compelling story to me, and I'd love to see how he comes to this realization and where he goes from there. Social transition would be pretty impossible with how well-known the couple is, so maybe they move off to a foreign country where Daphne can live as he pleases? Maybe Daphne is fine appearing in girlmode for a few social engagements and living how he wants at home otherwise? If you want to do t4t Simon/Daphne, Simon coming out to Daphne being Daphne's point of gender realization would be very fun.
Band Sinister – KJ Charles
Fanfic, Lord Corvin/Any Character
Another Corvin prompt - I just want to see more of him having sexy aromantic fun! Any canon character, OC, or crossover character (either from a canon set around Band Sinister's era or transplanted to Band Sinister's setting) is great. Corvin agreeing to "ruin" someone as we hear mentioned in canon would be delightful, Corvin joining in for sex with either of the Frisbys' canon relationships is great, literally anything else is great too! Corvin is truly Living The Dream, and I just want to see anything you want to write about it!