Crossworks Letter 2020

[withinadream]

I'm so sorry this took so long to put up! I'll be happy with anything you started to create for me before reading my prompts, should that apply.

Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I’m within_a_dream on AO3 and I have a tag of previous letters on this journal if you want to take a look at some of my previous requests.

I’m requesting fic and art for all fandom combinations, and crossovers only for all fandom combinations.

Please feel free to write or draw literally anything you’d like (barring my DNWs, of course)! I’m the multiest of multishippers and I have very few tropes or plots that I dislike. I’m very excited to see what ships you come up with.

DNWs:

• Pregnancy/childbirth


• Trans characters having PIV sex (other vaginal penetration or use of dicks is fine!)


• Oviposition


• Characters under 15 in ships – no need to state the age in the narrative, just don’t make them obviously under 15. Canonical relationships are an exception to this!

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


• 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. I have no dom/sub preferences


• Noncon is always welcome – 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 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)

I’ve tried my best to take the dates canon occurred into account in both my requested crossovers and my prompts, but I will be honest with you, dear creator, I have no head for dates at all. Feel free to bend dates or move fandoms forward or back in time to accommodate my requests, or to do some time travel.

Group 1: The Terror (TV 2018), The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Blake & Avery Series - M. J. Carter, Ravenous (1999)

• The Terror/The Magnus Archives: Okay, I realize we’ve already gotten a statement that mentions the Franklin expedition. But I desperately want a work that takes The Terror’s version of what happened to the expedition and mix it with Magnus Archives canon. Does Hickey fall in with the Slaughter around when he mutinees and starts murdering people? Is Tuunbaq a manifestation of one of the Fears? Alternatively, do the Fears come to the Arctic along with the expedition, and Silna and the Tuunbaq end up fighting against them? Does someone track Crozier down to take his statement? (I’d also be down with an AU where anyone else survives and gives a statement.) Or perhaps Jonah Magnus or another Avatar is involved in the expedition and using it to attempt a ritual or do research into the Fears


• The Terror/Blake & Avery: I would love to see Blake and/or Avery meeting any of the cast of The Terror in London! Hickey does a crime they have to solve, Goodsir helps them examine a body, they have to hobnob with Franklin or Fitzjames or Crozier? Or perhaps Helen ends up friends with Sophia Cracroft (Helen comforting Sophia after the disappearance of the expedition would be delightful!)


• The Terror/Ravenous: Yes, the location don’t line up well at all. But I could not resist combining the two historical cannibalism canons I know! My first thought here was a Hickey & Ives team-up. Two amoral cannibals doing murders together – a match made in heaven, or perhaps hell. Some of the Terror cast on an expedition on the American West instead of in the Arctic would also be fun! For this particular combo, I would also enjoy a fusion, putting characters from Ravenous on the Erebus and Terror or characters from the Terror in the plot of Ravenous.


• The Magnus Archives/Blake & Avery: the impetus for this crossover came from a single line in The Devil’s Feast, in which it’s mentioned that the Reform Club is next to the Carlton Club, designed by Robert Smirke. This crossover is basically canon! Okay, perhaps not, but I would love to see Blake and Avery embroiled in Jonah Magnus and company’s lives. Perhaps a murder makes them cross paths, or something strange happens at the Carlton Club due to Smirke’s work and Blake and Avery end up investigating it by request of Alexis Soyer and/or Mattie.


• The Magnus Archives/Ravenous: Okay so Ives is clearly associated with the Slaughter (or perhaps the Flesh on account of the cannibalism?) And perhaps Boyd experienced the Slaughter himself during his time in the army? I’d love to see a statement fic placing Ives in the mythos of The Magnus Archives. The 19th century cast of TMA crossing paths with characters from Ravenous would also be great fun!


• Blake & Avery/Ravenous: My first thought here is Blake traveling to America post-Devil’s Feast and ending up either investigating or involved in the events of Ravenous. Feel free to send Avery along as well! I don’t have as many specific ideas but any way you smash these two sets of characters together would be a joy!

Group 2: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), England Series - K. J. Charles

• Man From UNCLE (2015)/England Series: I would be very interested in both crossovers where you move the Man from UNCLE characters back to the 1900s, or the England series characters forward to the 1960s, or just have them meet in the 1960s when the England series cast is older. I just really want to see these two groups of spies (or spy-adjacent characters in the case of Fen and Pat) meet! Maybe the UNCLE spies need to collaborate with Daniel and Archie, or they’re both trying to investigate and/or steal the same thing and end up in a game of spy vs spy. Maybe an English mission for UNCLE leads to them running into Pat and Fen, or perhaps Pat and Fen have also been recruiting as spies.

Group 3: Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French, The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

• Dublin Murder Squad series – Tana French/The Magnus Archives: My first thought here is a reimagining of one of the books that places the Dublin Murder Squad characters in contact with one of the Entities, or perhaps a new mystery. I love any and all of the DMS characters, so I have no preference for which set you pick! Maybe Cassie’s doppelganger is a botched attempt by the Stranger instead of her spoilery canon identity? Maybe the animal in the Spains’ walls is a manifestation of the Hunt? Maybe whatever made Rob’s friends disappear in the woods is connected to the Fears (and maybe he remains touched by it in a TMA-typical way)? Or, I’d love to see characters from the Archives meet any of the DMS detectives. Maybe Gertrude’s path crosses theirs while she’s tracking an Avatar or Ritual into Ireland, or maybe one of them meets Melanie in a "weirdass events at my job ruined my life" support group?

Group 4: Vienna Blood (TV), The Alienist (TV), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

• Vienna Blood/The Alienist: These take place in roughly the same time and I so desperately want the characters to meet. My first thought is an exchange of letters between Max and Laszlo discussing some psychological theory or perhaps a particularly interesting killer one of the m has apprehended. It would also be delightful to see the two casts team up to solve a crime – I am open to any excuse you would like to use to get the Alienist team to Vienna or the Vienna Blood cast to New York. I’d love to see Max and Laszlo having a very animated discussion on their theories of psychology, or Oskar and John commiserating over their colleagues.


• Vienna Blood/The Magnus Archives: I would really love Max and Oskar coming into contact with one of the Fears, especially on a case. I feel like both of them would be really reluctant to admit something supernatural was happening, and it would be really fun to see their slow journey to acceptance. And Vienna Blood is in an awkward place too late to meet the Jonah Magnus gang (although of course Jonah is hanging around in some body or another) and too early to meet the main cast, but if you want to throw in some characters from TMA however you’d like to do it, I would definitely welcome it!


• The Alienist/The Magnus Archives: I feel like The Alienist is halfway to horror already, and the cast facing down a killer motivated by one of the Fears would be really fun! This is another one where I find the Alienist characters’ logic and reason to be really interesting when combined with supernatural happenings, and I’d love to see how Laszlo, Sara, or John (or the Isaacsons!) face down a supernatural threat. My first thought is a cult starting in NYC that’s tied to one of the Fears (maybe some murders/human sacrifices?) I’d also love to see an autopsy of a corpse that has some serious Fear-related anomalies (especially in art).

Group 5: England Series - K. J. Charles, Green Men Series - K. J. Charles, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

• England series/Green Men series: I would really love to see Archie and Daniel, or Pat and Fen, interact with the magical world set up in the Green Men series, or Saul and Randolph, or the other characters, cross paths with some non-magical spies. It would be interesting to see how the department Daniel works for might interact with the magical bureaucracy we see in Green Men! You could set this during either book’s timeline, although I’d be especially excited to see how World War I changes Archie and Daniel. I could also see Daniel and Randolph hooking up sometime pre-both of their relationships (although I’m not sure if the ages would work out) or knowing each other through their respective queer social circles. I have fewer prompts for Pat and Fen meeting the Green Men gang, but I would still very much enjoy it! (Especially if Pat gets the opportunity to shoot something supernatural.)


• England series/Rivers of London: The timelines don’t line ups as well for this one, but I’m down for older England series characters meeting Nightingale, England series characters interacting with the magical system or magical creatures and/or genius locii set up in Rivers of London, time travel, or AUs taking Archie/Daniel or Pat/Fen to the present or Nightingale and Peter to the turn of the century. I’d love a spy mission, shooting competition, house party, etc. that somehow intersects with the demimonde, or perhaps Nightingale meeting the England characters through gay clubs/social gatherings


• England Series/The Magnus Archives: I would so love to see either of the main couples face down an eldritch terror! Maybe Archie and Daniel cross paths with one of the Fears through their work, or Pat and Fen notice something strange happening to one of their friends. If you want to bring the characters a little bit into the future, we do see some World War I material in The Magnus Archives that it could be fun to throw the England characters into!


• Green Men series/The Magnus Archives: The folk horror world of Green Men seems like it could mesh well with the worldbuilding of The Magnus Archives. Was de Mandeville an Avatar? Was the government experimenting with harnessing the Fears for warfare instead of/in addition to what they pulled with magic? Are the Glydes a family like the Lucases with a legacy of serving one of the Fears? Did Barnie and Max’s tentacles from from a Fear?


• Rivers of London/The Magnus Archives: I find it so interesting to see how these two different worlds could mesh. My first thought is the Folly liaising with the Institute for some reason. Or perhaps Julia and Trevor run into Peter and Nightingale while hunting vampires! I could also see the Faceless Man serving one of the Fears – my first thoughts are the Stranger or the Flesh, but I’m not married to any particular one if you have something different in mind! Also, any of the characters from the Archives meeting Peter and Nightingale and having a "shit, magic is real?!?" moment.


• Rivers of London/Green Men: Listen I just want to see these two sets of wizards interact. I’m down for older Green Men series characters meeting Nightingale, Green Men series characters interacting with the magical system or magical creatures and/or genius locii set up in Rivers of London, time travel, or AUs taking the Green Men cast to the present or Nightingale and Peter to interwar London. We don’t see a ton of Green Men-style magic, but it seems like it could slot right into Rivers of London worldbuilding. I’m especially interested, if you go the worldbuilding route, to see how the ritual Randolph endured would mesh with Rivers of London magic (and/or what Nightingale and Peter would think of it), or how the magical rift caused by World War I would impact the worldbuilding of Rivers of London

Group 6: The Magnificent Seven (2016), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV), Timeless (TV 2016)

• Magnificent Seven/Legends of Tomorrow, Magnificent Seven/Timeless: I would just really love to see either of my time travel canons end up in Rose Creek. Maybe Bogue is connected to Rittenhouse or one of the various Legends of Tomorrow villains, and the team has to assist the Seven in taking him down? Maybe they meet one of the Mag 7 characters pre-canon or the survivors (or the whole team in an everyone-lives AU) postcanon during a mission? Maybe Sara hooks up with Emma?


• Legends of Tomorrow/Timeless: It would be so much fun to see two time-traveling teams collide during a mission, especially if they are both trying to hide from the other cast that they’re time travelers. I’d also love to see how you think the Legends of Tomorrow worldbuilding and Timeless worldbuilding would intersect! Do the Legends know about Rittenhouse? Is Rittenhouse in league with demons or supervillains? Do the two shows actually take place in separate universes and the Legends cross over to the Timeless universe for some reason?

Hannibal (TV), Killing Eve (TV 2018), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

• Hannibal/Killing Eve: Despite the similarities in the canons, Hannibal and Villanelle are complete opposites, and I’d love to see them interact. I feel like they would loathe each other – Villanelle is incredibly rude (thinks Hannibal), and Hannibal is a stick in the mud (thinks Villanelle). Or I’d love to see them admiring and/or examining each other’s kills and trying to figure out who the other is! And Will and Eve interacting could also be great fun – a support group for normal people who have fallen in love with assassins, haha.


• Hannibal/The Magnus Archives: Hannibal seems like a great fit for an Avatar, or someone otherwise connected with the Fears. The surreal and artistic horror/gore on the show lends itself well to a crossover with The Magnus Archives, I think. My first thought for Hannibal is the Flesh, but feel free to go in another direction if you’d like! Mason Verger feels very Flesh-y too, and it would be funny if they were two opposed servants of the Flesh. Any of the killers of the week could be paired to different Fears either, or an OC killer. I’d also love to see Will interacting with some cosmic horror, because of course we need to torture him even more than canon already does! And with the procedural elements in canon, I’d love to see any of the characters interact with the Institute in a professional capacity, or you could have them meet any of the TMA cast in another way.


• Killing Eve/The Magnus Archives: Villanelle lends herself less obviously to any Fear in my opinion, but I’d still love to see her as an Avatar. My first thought is that her chaos might lend itself to the Spiral, or her personality seems well-suited to the Slaughter, but go wild! I’d also love to see Villanelle and/or Eve come across one of the Fears during the course of canon, or perhaps Eve’s investigation comes into contact with the Institute for some reason.

Band Sinister - K. J. Charles, Society of Gentlemen - K. J. Charles, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV)

• Band Sinister/Society of Gentlemen: The Murder and the Ricardians are such opposites, I would absolutely love to see them interact. Maybe the Ricardians get invited to a Murder party for Reasons, or their paths cross due to blackmail or politics or another canon-typical plotline? (I have read the one crossover that exists on AO3, and it is lovely, and I want 10 million more.) You can ignore the timelines to have both canons take place at the same time if you like, or keep canon timelines in place. I’d love to see Silas (and perhaps Dom) getting to talk politics with the Murder. I feel like Richard would absolutely loathe the Murder, and I’d love to see him coming to an understanding with them (or not!) Harry seems like he would have a great time at a Murder party, although I’m not sure Julius would, haha! I also have a deep desire for Dom to get gangbanged by the Murder, if you want to do something porny.


• Band Sinister/Legends of Tomorrow, Society of Gentlemen/Legends of Tomorrow: I would love to see the Legends have to infiltrate either group as part of a mission. Maybe one of the KJ Charles characters finds an artifact that the Legends have to retrieve (perhaps Silas comes across an enchanted book, or Harry and Sheridan find something they shouldn’t have on a dig), or a villain tries to get in good with either group for some reason. Any of the Legends having to go undercover as a couple and/or undercover as gay to get in the door would be really fun!