Fic In A Box Letter 2020

[withinadream]

Medium prompts finished, ship/character prompts coming by evening Sept 1.

Thank you for creating for me! I'm within_a_dream on AO3, and I have a tag of previous letters if you want to see more of my requests/get a better idea of what I like.

I’m requesting fic and art for all canons, fanvids for all of my visual fandoms, as well as various other media. For all canons, I’m requesting any length of fic. One 10k fic is great, many smaller fics are also great! The same goes for art – one long comic is great, as are many small doodles, or anything in between. I’ve tried to give prompts suitable to both ends of the spectrum, but if you want more detail on anything, please feel free to ask through the mods!

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DNWs
General Likes
Art Likes
Smut Likes
Band Sinister – KJ Charles
Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly
England Series – KJ Charles
Green Men series – KJ Charles
Society of Gentlemen – KJ Charles
Stanton and Barling – EM Powell
The Old Guard (Movie)
Lewis (TV)
Dogs of Berlin (TV)

DNWs

• Pregnancy/childbirth – canon pregnancies are fine in written works, as are plots with children that imply characters have been pregnant in the past, but I’d prefer not to see pregnant characters in art and I’d prefer no vivid descriptions of pregnancy or related conditions/side effects like morning sickness, cravings, etc


• Modern/mundane AUs


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


• Permanent removal of genitals (temporary is fine!)


• Kinks: oviposition, inflation, 24/7 D/s, breeding kink, stuffing/feederism


• Onscreen sex with preteen characters (CSA or sex offscreen is fine!)


• Permanent unrequested character death


• Cocktail recipe DNWs: Beer or wine, grapefruit, savory cocktails like Bloody Marys, spicy ingredients like peppers

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


• Internal or external homophobia


• Outsider POV

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)

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Band Sinister - K. J. Charles

Characters/Ships

• Amanda Frisby & Guy Frisby (Band Sinister) – I love these siblings so much!!! I would love to see more of their time together pre-canon, or how their relationship might change (or not) post-canon. I love how protective and supportive Guy is of Amanda and would love to see the two of the m talking about her novel as she’s writing it and pitching it to publishers. Would also love to see the two of them get to know each other’s SOs more after the events of the novel, or getting to spend time outside of Yarlcote. Or perhaps the two of them writing to each other post-canon now that they’re spending more time apart than they probably ever have before.


• Amanda Frisby & Lord Corvin (Band Sinister) - I just want to see these two interact more, they seem like they would get along like a house on fire and Corvin would be a valuable resource for Amanda’s writing (although I’m sure many of his stories would be far too scandalous to be written into her novels unedited). I would really love to see Corvin serve as Amanda’s introduction to the wider world after she’s spent most of her life trapped in her home, possibly to Guy’s dismay. And I so want to see more of Corvin and Amanda talking about her first novel!


• Amanda Frisby & The Murder (Band Sinister) - The glimpses we got of Amanda’s interactions with everyone in the book were so much fun, and I want to see more of her interacting with anyone or everyone! John giving her art lessons, Corvin talking to her about her writing, talking science with Harry and Sheridan...I’d love to see how the other characters’ relationships with Amanda change over time, too – when do they get comfortable enough around her to make dirty jokes, for example? How long does it take for Amanda to feel entirely at home among them?


• Amanda Frisby/David Martelo (Band Sinister) - I want to see more of their married life! Amanda bouncing plot troubles off of David and borrowing him to work out if an action she wants to describe is physically plausible, David coming home from an exhausting day at work and Amanda comforting him, Amanda getting used to the freedom of being away from Yarlcote for the first time since her season. And I am very interested in Amanda’s conversion to Judaism, and would love to see more about that, or just about her and David celebrating holidays together or something similar.


• Lord Corvin/Guy Frisby/John Raven/Philip Rookwood (The Murder) - I would love to see their first few weeks/months/whatever post-book learning how they fit together. I’m totally down for fluff, but also for a bit of angst with Guy feeling insecure about his place in such a long-running relationship, Corvin and/or John feeling insecure about Philip being enthralled enough with his new beau that he leaves them behind, Philip worrying about balancing his relationships with the other three, etc. Porn-wise I would so love to see their first time having sex all together, especially if it’s Guy who initiates the foursome. I also so want to see Guy’s horizons being broadened, in all senses! I’d love to see him getting to experience more of England or possibly going abroad, and also getting to try new thigns sexually. Also – any of the characters giving Guy erotic literature! He deserves better than surreptitiously gathered unexpurgated Latin texts.

Mediums

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


• Medium Opt-In: 'A Softer World' style art: I just really love the Softer World style, and would love to see it for my fandoms! You can take the words from existing comics or make your own.


• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. (I am not sure if cocktails were really a thing during this era, but feel free to ignore that if you wish.) Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes – there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Fan letters – so Amanda and John would both be good fits for receiving fan mail, and I would love to see
  
• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card – I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: Playing Card – I just love the style of playing cards and would love to see the characters as face cards, and/or a themed card back for the fandom. For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me since it would be hard to includes the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: Podfic – I have read and enjoyed every single fic in the fandom tag, although I’m not sure if all of the authors allow podfic of their works


• Medium Opt-In: Epistolary – I would love any and all takes on any of my requested characters/ships writing to each other or to other characters. Corvin, John, and/or Philip keeping up with each other or other members of the Murder? Amanda and Guy writing to each other now that they don’t live together anymore, or Amanda and Corvin corresponding over her latest novel? Amanda writing to other authors? (If you’ve read Wanted, a Gentleman, a crossover where Amanda and Theodore Swann end up corresponding would be very fun!) One thing I like about historical epistolary fic with queer ships is watching how the characters write around or allude to their relationships without flat-out committing them to paper (or perhaps some of these characters would not care and would full-on sext each other by post!)

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Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly

Characters/Ships

• Ayasha January/Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January) – AU where Ayasha survives and both she and Ben return to New Orleans together? Ayasha somehow comes back to life? Rose ends up in Paris? Go with whatever setup you’d like to bring these three together, I would just so love to see this triad be a thing. I’ve been thinking for a while about an AU that steals the premise from Blithe Spirit, where Ben and Rose hire a medium for a séance as part of an investigation but whoops, turns out the medium is legit and now Ben’s first wife is hanging around as a ghost. (Presumably it would go a lot better than in the original play, Ayasha doesn’t seem like the type to want to break up Ben’s new marriage)


• Ayasha January/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January) – my first thought here is an AU where Ayasha is the one who survives the cholera epidemic in place of Ben, and travels back to New Orleans perhaps as an attempt to feel closer to him. But you could use any setup you’d like! I feel like both Ayasha and Rose have a lot in common, both having rebelled against what their family wanted of them and both being very skilled in their chosen fields. I just want to see anything with them interacting/in love!


• Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/Hannibal Sefton (Benjamin January) - I love the friendship dynamic of these three in the books, and I’d love anything that expands that dynamic to a romantic relationship. I’d love to see how the three of them ended up as a triad, or any events of the books reexamined from a shippy perspective. I’d also love to see them doing science or making music or solving mysteries together, or hurt/comfort (either stemming from one of the times any of them is injured or traumatized in the books, or an original incident). Id Pro Quo made me want a "character/s travel to the Underworld to save their loved one" fic where Hannibal dies and Ben and/or Rose have to go and save him in an Orpheus-and-Eurydice-style rescue, if you want to run with that!


• Chloë Viellard/Dominique Viellard (Benjamin January) - I’d love a first time fic, showing how these two came to like each other or love each other (or their first kiss or first time having sex). I also headcanon Minou as very into ridiculous sexy roleplay, and I’d love to see her trying to talk Chloë into joining her in this. I’d also love to see the two of them interacting with Charmian.


• Olympe Corbier & Benjamin January (Benjamin January) – Please give me all the sibling interactions! I am very interested in seeing more of these two prior to Ben leaving for France, and/or how their relationship changed when Ben returned. I would also love to see Olympe helping with an investigation (her connections in the voodoo community are the obvious route to take there, but you can go with anything!) I also really enjoy seeing Ben interacting with Olympe’s religion, and would love to see something along those lines.


• Olympe Corbier & Benjamin January & Dominique Viellard (Benjamin January) – I just really want to see all three of the January siblings interacting! I’m not sure we see much in canon of how close Minou and Olympe were pre-canon, and of course Ben barely knew Minou, so I’d love to see all three of them together once Ben returns to New Orleans, gradually getting to (re-)know each other. And perhaps solving mysteries together! Minou and Olympe both have skill sets and connections that could come in very handy for Ben (and have on different occasions in the books) and I would love to see a case that brings all three of them to work together.

Mediums

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


• Medium Opt-In: Recipe Book – I saw this and immediately thought of what sorts of recipes all of the characters would have, and what notes they might leave on a recipe book. Perhaps it starts as a gift from Gabriel and all the members of the ship comment on and modify their favorite recipes. Historical recipes are really fun, but don’t feel like you have to do a ton of research for this if you don’t want to!


• Medium Opt-In: Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic, Medium Opt-In: Remix - Art Remix of my Fic – I haven’t written fic for all of these ships, but I have for some. Please feel free to go wild with your remix!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. (I am not sure if cocktails were really a thing during this era, but feel free to ignore that if you wish.) Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents – really anything would be great here! The characters’ letters to each other, Ben or Hannibal’s music, scientific notes, clothing patterns for Ayasha...


• Medium Opt-In: Epistolary – I would love any and all takes on any of my requested characters/ships writing to each other or to other characters. Did Olympe and Benjamin write to each other when Ben first went to France? Love letters for romantic ships are always fun, and for historical queer ships one thing I find interesting is seeing how characters write around or allude to their relationships without stating things flat-out. In general I’m just really interested in what you think any of the characters’ writing styles would be in correspondence.


• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card - I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: Podfic – I have read and enjoyed every single fic in the fandom tag, although I’m not sure if all of the authors allow podfic of their works (I have blanket permission if you would like to podfic one of mine!)

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England Series – KJ Charles

Characters/ships

• Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva (England Series) - I love everything about their dynamic in the book: their differing skillsets, Daniel’s experience/Archie’s inexperience with sex, and the potential for a future doing espionage together. I would love something set post-canon with them working together if you are inclined to write/draw some spying. I would also love a look into the quieter moments of their post-book life, maybe Archie reading Daniel’s poetry or Daniel introducing Archie to his friends/the queer scene. Also if you are down for porn, I know there are one or two takes on Archie’s first time bottoming out there but I always want more of that. And if you want to write some rape recovery, I have prompts in my Consent Issues letter!


• Fenella Carruth/Patricia Merton (England Series) - I am very into the idea of Fen and Pat running a bit of an investigative agency, and would love to see some casefic/art to that effect. I also loved Pat teaching Fen to shoot and would love to see more of them shooting together, and/or some gunkink porn. And I would love to see their perspectives on the events of Think of England! Also, their relationship allows for so many lovely moments of quiet intimacy and I would love to see them dressing/undressing each other, doing each other’s hair, etc.

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


• Medium Opt-In: Mission Report – I will love anything that gives me more espionage for this fandom! I especially love the comedy potential of a dry rendition of events that went totally wrong, potentially with marginalia from the characters that’s less formal. And for Fen/Pat, if you want to get them in on the mission report I love AUs where they also get recruited as spies.


• Medium Opt-In: Playing Card - I just love the style of playing cards and would love to see the characters as face cards, and/or a themed card back for the fandom. For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me, as is putting both characters on the same card


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card - I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: Disciplinary Report – listen I just want to see more of what Daniel and Archie get up to post-canon, and the myriad ways they could end up disciplined. For Pat and Fen, you could do something set at school (especially for Fen) or any jobs, or have an AU where they are also spies!


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


• Medium Opt-In: 'A Softer World' style art - I just really love the Softer World style, and would love to see it for my fandoms! You can take the words from existing comics or make your own.


• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: Podfic – I have read and enjoyed every single fic in the fandom tag, although I’m not sure if all of the authors allow podfic of their works

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Green Men series – KJ Charles

Characters/ships

• Hugh Barnaby/Max Isaacs (Green Men) -I was so intrigued by these two in the book, and I want so many more fanworks about them! I love their tragic noncon-experimentation past, and their friendship, and would love a gift set any time from the war to the book’s events and beyond. I would love to see them ending up seeking solace in each other during the war. I’d also love to see a post-war fanwork with them comforting each other through the bad episodes that the book alludes to. Pornwise, I would especially love to see something sexy involving their powers, especially as a reclamation of this thng that was forced on them.


• Randolph Glyde/Saul Lazenby (Green Men) - I want to see so much more of their life together after the book. I am especially interested in seeing takes on Saul learning more about his new role/abilities and this hidden world he’s fallen into. I’d also love to see some domesticity with these two, especially Saul being so happy that he can be open about himself and his relationship with Randolph when he’s at home. Hurt/comfort with one of them being injured in the line of duty is also amazing. I’d also love some fic/art further post-canon with Randolph and Saul recruiting apprentices to their current roles. Also, perhaps some accidental child adoption after they come across a (potentially supernatural) orphan or two?

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes -there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


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


• Medium Opt-In: Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic, Medium Opt-In: Remix - Art Remix of my Fic – I admittedly only have one fic so far in this fandom, but I wanted to open up this option anyway in case any of you are a fan of tentacle porn!


• Medium Opt-In: Mission Report – I could see them keeping records of investigations and such now that manifestations are increasing post-war. I would love to see a mission report detailing any case the gang might end up taking on! Seeing the different record-keeping styles of the different characters could be really fun. I also just really love both casefic and unusual fic formats, so anything you do for this will make me happy!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents – Research on supernatural creatures, ghosts, folklore, etc? Letters the characters write to each other when apart? Personal journals? Medical records or experiment notes on Barney and Max? Feel free to go with something else if you have other ideas!


• Medium Opt-In: Playing Card - I just love the style of playing cards and would love to see the characters as face cards, and/or a themed card back for the fandom. For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me, as is putting both characters on the same card


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card - I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: Original Fan Music – I would really love to hear any music that either of these ships inspires you to make! Something inspired by British folk music or World War I-era music might be fun given the book’s setting and worldbuilding, but any genre/style/instrumentation is great!


• Medium Opt-In: 'A Softer World' style art - I just really love the Softer World style, and would love to see it for my fandoms! You can take the words from existing comics or make your own.


• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.

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Society of Gentlemen – KJ Charles

Characters/Ships

• David Cyprian & Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen) - I loved what we saw of their friendship in the series and I want so much more! Playing backgammon together and talking, Silas’s staunch convictions vs Cyprian’s careful apoliticalness (and perhaps the two of them finding more ideological common ground than either of them expected). Perhaps one of them helping the other out of a sticky situation, or Silas grudgingly helping with one of David’s schemes.


• David Cyprian/Lord Maltravers (Society of Gentlemen) - The beating and Cyprian’s subsequent feelings of powerlessness in A Gentleman’s Position were a+ and also made me crave noncon/dubcon between Maltravers and Cyprian. Does Maltravers’ attack turn into rape? Does David have to seduce and/or have sex with Maltravers to sell the con? Bonus points for Cyprian hiding what happened from everyone


• David Cyprian/Richard Vane (Society of Gentlemen) - First off, if you have read Gilded Cage, I am so here for fic/art about the character details revealed there. Otherwise I just want more Cyprian/Richard! Visiting the Continent together, growing old together, maybe Richard trying to give David gifts and David not feeling quite comfortable receiving the kinds of expensive gifts Richard can afford to give him


• Dominic Frey/Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen) -I love all of their canonical kinks and sex scenes, and any smut along those lines would make me very happy. I would also be very into Silas organizing a gangbang for Dom (feel free to cross over with other K.J. Charles books, with or without changing timelines to make them fit together, or bring in OCs). I’d also love to see them reading and discussing more books together, or talking about political events during or post-canon. If you’d like to write some Dom angst or hurt/comfort, I will direct you to my Nonconathon letter.


• Gabriel Ashleigh/Francis Webster (Society of Gentlemen) - I love these two, and am very sad we only got a novella that was exclusively about them. I love Ash’s golden-retriever-like personality and how it interacts with Francis’s more reserved demeanor, and I want to see all the fanworks about them! I know it’s been done in a few fics already, but I would especially love to see their reaction to Maltravers getting his hands on Ash’s letter, or the letter itself! I’d also love to see them traveling together/touring the Continent post-canon!


• Julius Norreys/Harry Vane (Society of Gentlemen) - Anything about them is lovely, really. I would love to see more about their trip to the Continent, or more struggles Harry might have reconciling his past with his current identity as nobility. I also read a great fic where they have a threesome and it left me wanting allllll the fanworks about them having threeways – with an OC or another character or whoever you’d like. The two of them exploring kinks together would also be delightful. Also, Harry committing Crimes Against Fashion and Julius’s subsequent exasperation.


• Will Quex/Jonathan Shakespeare (Society of Gentlemen) - They are my absolute fave side characters and I want to know so much more about them! How did they meet? How did they start Quex’s? What’s their POVs on the events of the series?


• Will Quex/Jonathan Shakespeare/Any Character(s) (Society of Gentlemen) – I really love that these two canonically have threesomes and I would love to see them together with a character/s of your choice (including OCs, crossover characters, or historical figures!) Will/Jonathan/Silas(/Dom) and Will/Jonathan/Cyprian as mentioned in the books are great, but seriously go wild with who you pick for the other character/s.

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


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


• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. (I am not sure if cocktails were really a thing during this era, but feel free to ignore that if you wish.) Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: Playing Card - I just love the style of playing cards and would love to see the characters as face cards, and/or a themed card back for the fandom. For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me, as is putting both characters on the same card


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card - I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents - A Private Miscellany was an absolute delight, and I so want more epistolary fic for this fandom. Characters writing to each other and alluding to events! More sartorial shenanigans! I’d also love to see something like Silas’s writing, or maybe a series of gifted books with inscriptions between Silas and Dom or Dom and Richard. Or really anything else you can think of!

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Stanton & Barling – EM Powell

Characters/Ships

• Aelred Barling/Hugo Stanton (Stanton & Barling) - I am so in love with these two and I want all the fic/art about them! More of them investigating murders together is very welcome, especially incorporating some details about how different the idea of justice in their time was from what we would consider justice. I’m really into either or both of them being anxious about the relationship, shown either through pining pre-relationship or doubts during the relationship. Barling only has one pretty horrible relationship, and that plus his internalized homophobia is an obvious recipe for angst. On the other side, I could see Stanton having plenty of experience with women but none with men, and being nervous about messing things up. I would also love hurt/comfort, especially with one of them injured on a case (I’d especially love to see Barling being uncharacteristically soft with an injured Stanton, or Stanton forcing an injured Barling to rest).

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanart


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


• Medium Opt-In: Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic, Medium Opt-In: Remix - Art Remix of my Fic – please feel free to go wild with your remix! I will enjoy literally any take on any of my fics for this fandom


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The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

For this fandom I DNW parent/child dynamics between Nile and the other immortals.

Feel free to keep Andy mortal or re-immortalize her, and to keep Booker exiled or welcome him back into the team. I didn’t specifically request Joe/Nicky because there are already so many wonderful fanworks about them, but you are welcome to include the ship in gifts.

I haven’t read the comics, and I prefer movie appearances and characterization where they diverge, but feel free to use any details from the comics you’d like as long as you don’t directly contradict movie canon.

In general, feel free to set works during any era, and to cross over with any fandoms! Especially historical fandoms. You can check out my AO3 or ask through the mods if you want to see if I’m familiar with a fandom, but feel free to throw in cameos from any fandoms even if I don’t know them.

Characters/Ships

• Solo: Andy – I am so incredibly fascinated by how old Andy is. If we go by comics canon, she’s been alive for over six centuries! She has seen so many empires rise and fall! She was probably around when Proto-Indo-European was spoken! What does living that long do to someone? I also love her relationship with the other immortals (past and present) and love all possible Andy ships and friendships. And adjusting to being mortal again! (Or possibly a fanwork showing how she regains her immortality.)


• Solo: Booker – I love sad sack Booker and his relationship to his family and his status as the baby of the group (until Nile arrives). I can’t remember if this is movie canon or just comics, but him getting hanged for desertion and just left there resurrecting for days is so deliciously angsty and I’m here for any and all fanworks exploring that. And I’d be really into Booker having Strong Opinions about Napoleonic France, and expressing those in forum wars or strongly-worded letters to academics or something similar.


• Solo: James Copley – Copley’s grief is so compelling to me and I’d love fanworks focused on it. I am also really into his research into the immortals and I would love to see any insight into his research. I also really want to see him interacting with the immortals!


• Solo: Joe – I love Joe so much and I want to see everything about his life through the centuries! Also I would love to see him whumped, and then potentially comforted by Nicky and the team. Much like Booker, I would love to see him having Strong Opinions about medieval Middle Eastern scholarship, and whatever way you think he might express those opinions. Also Joe writing poetry! There are already some great fics with his poetry about Nicky being discovered but I always want more of that.


• Solo: Nicky – I am repeating myself a bit here, but Nicky having Strong Opinions about medieval Christianity and/or theology in general, and arguing with people online and/or academics about it. And literally any smut is great but I am especially fond of top!Nicky


• Solo: Nile Freeman – I love Nile as the outsider POV on this whole situation and I would really love to see her adjusting to life as an immortal. I’d also love to see what sort of ‘culture’ clashes could come up living with people who are centuries old, pre-canon works about her relationships with her friends/fellow soldiers, something about her meeting up with her family post-immortality (listen I know it didn’t go well for Booker but who says it won’t go better for Nile?), Nile learning new languages and fighting techniques and getting to travel the world.


• Solo: Quynh – we see so little of Quynh in the movie but she is so fascinating! I want to see her life prior to the ocean, or what she does when she gets free. There is so much to adjust to after 500 years have passed – I would love to see Quynh adjusting to modern technology, etc. Quynh rejoining the group is great, Quynh Trash Party where she tortures and/or noncons whichever characters you’d like is also great. Also Quynh finding out Andy is mortal! (Possibly by grievously wounding and/or killing her)


• Andy & Booker & Nile Freeman & Joe & Nicky – Team fanworks! Team fanworks! I just want everyone hanging out together or going on missions together or reminiscing about their past.


• Andy & Booker & Joe & Nicky & Nile & Quynh – Everything above, but also Quynh rejoining the team!!!


• Andy/Nile Freeman – Listen their first fight scene was like everything I want out of my femslash ships. I love the age/experience gap, but also that there might be some things Nile can show Andy about the modern world, or remind her about being mortal. Nile lovingly tending to Andy’s wounds is also great!


• Andy/Quynh – I want alllll the pre-canon works for these two. Two ancient warriors travelling the plains together is like, an amazing ship dynamic. I am also very into the language barrier, and would love to see them learning each other’s languages when they first meet. Exploring new lands together is also great, as is sex in the blood of their enemies.


• Andy/Nicky/Joe/Nile/Booker – I just want the whole team in a big tangled polyamorous relationship. Gangbangs, orgies, casual kisses after battles, different characters pairing up at different times, whichever direction you’d like to go!


• Andy/Nicky/Joe/Nile/Booker/Quynh – see above, but with Quynh added into the mix after she returns from the ocean. I’d love to see her readjusting to the world and to the new dynamics among the group now that there are two new members and she’s been gone for so long.


• Andy/Nicky/Joe/Quynh – I am especially thinking pre-canon with this, with the four of them hooking up/etc while traveling together. I’d love to see how the group initially comes together, or just snapshots from their life pre-Quynh’s disappearance.


• Any Immortal & Any Historical Figure, Any Immortal/Any Historical Figure – listen I just want to see some fic/art/other fanworks showing any of my requested characters interacting with historical figures. We know Andy apparently hooked up with Rodin, did she have flings with any other artists? Have Joe and Nicky had a string of threesomes/moresomes over the centuries? Did Booker have a Big Bi Awakening with some turn of the century poet? Please feel free to use Quynh or Lykon as well if you would like!


• Booker/James Copley – I would really love to see Booker and Copley growing close post-Booker’s exile, with Copley perhaps keeping an eye on him and that turning into something more. I would love to see them opening up about their grief to each other, or something about Booker angry with himself for caring about another mortal after how things with his family turned out


• Joe/Nicky/James Copley – listen, Copley has been spending a lot of time over the years carefully chronicling the lives of the immortals. Maybe he’s developed a crush. Maybe he spends late nights in front of his conspiracy board fantasizing about being the filling in a Joe and Nicky sandwich. Maybe his wishes come to fruition?


• Nile Freeman/Quynh – I realize they have literally never met but I am so into the potential here! I would love to see Quynh returning and her and Nile falling for each other (monogamous or a poly relationship with Andy are both welcome!) Nile helping Quynh learn how modern technology works and to adjust to life above water in general. Or in a completely different tack, Quynh coming out of the ocean as an evil mastermind and taking Nile captive – I love some good f/f dubcon or noncon, and I could see a dynamic where Quynh hates the rest of the group for abandoning her and continuing to take in new immortals, and takes and tortures Nile as revenge.

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from various eras the characters have lived through would also be fun!


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• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: Playing Card - I just love the style of playing cards and would love to see the characters as face cards, and/or a themed card back for the fandom. For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me, as is putting both characters on the same card


• Medium Opt-In: Tarot Card - I really love seeing what cards you would place any given character as! For the ships, one card for each individual character is more than shippy enough for me if you’d prefer that to including the whole ship on a single card.


• Medium Opt-In: 'A Softer World' style art - I just really love the Softer World style, and would love to see it for my fandoms! You can take the words from existing comics or make your own.


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents – letters to each other during times they’re apart? Journals, notes, or diaries? Copley’s files? Anything else you can think of is great as well!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Psychological Evaluation Report – okay so listen I just so want to see what a psychologist would make of any of these characters. Quynh or Booker seem like the obvious choices but any of the characters are good! Does the person conducting the evaluation know about the immortality? (If so, how do they find someone who can be trusted?) What flavors of messed up are any of the characters after living through centuries of horrible deaths?


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Academic Publication – there’s already a few great fics out there about the characters interacting with academic publications about themselves, but I want so many more. Does someone write a paper on Joe’s poetry, or the legends surrounding Andromache and Quynh? Does someone find documentation of an Asian woman being killed in English witch trials and research it? Does Nicky’s name come up in research on the Crusades? Or any of the characters reading and having Opinions on any academic publications, possibly through snarky annotations, would be delightful (I feel like Booker probably has a lot of opinions on Napoleon, for one).


• Medium Opt-In: Mission Report – You can take or leave this setup, but I am imagining Copley wanting them to start writing mission reports post-movie for documentation purposes. Nile is on board, the rest of the team not so much. I would love to see what writing style you think any character/s would have, and/or who is Absolutely Done with mission reports and completely half-asses it. Also I want to see what missions they go on post-movie!


• Medium Opt-In: Recipe Book – The team seems to put a decent amount of effort into cooking, and I would love to see a recipe book they’ve created filled with their favorite recipes from different regions and eras. Possibly with notes about who likes what, or arguments in the margins about how much garlic or chili or cinnamon or whatever to put in.


• Medium Opt-In: Disciplinary Report – This is another thing I could see Copley instituting and everyone (except possibly Nile) being very annoyed about. Booker is an obvious choice (perhaps an AU where he isn’t exiled but they put the incident and his punishment on his ~permanent record~), but I’d love to see what the rest of the team would get up to as well!


• Medium Opt-In: Reddit Text Post (Any Subreddit) – Any of the other nominated subreddits are great, but honestly I just want to see any or all of the characters on Reddit in any capacity. AITA or r/relationships posts where they are trying to write around the details of the incident (whatever you’d like that incident to be) but keep letting weird details slip and the other posters get incredibly suspicious! Joe being an avid poster on medieval Middle Eastern history on r/askhistorians but occasionally getting in trouble for uncited statements where the citation would be "I lived through it"! Booker making friends on Reddit during his exile! Any of the team hanging out in a historian’s AMA and asking very pointed questions critiquing their research! Any other subreddit you like and want to insert the characters into!


• Medium Opt-In: Fanvid – I like any style of music, so feel free to go with anything for your music choice! (Although anything water-themed for Quynh would be especially fun.) I’m not super familiar with vidding, but I especially love vids with fast and rhythmic cuts and I would love any story you want to tell for any of my requested characters/ships. I’m also totally here for pulling footage from other canons the actors have appeared in if you want

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Lewis (TV)

Characters/Ships

• James Hathaway/Robert Lewis (Lewis TV) – Listen this show is so shippy and I want all the Lewis/Hathaway fanworks. I really enjoy casefic/art/etc, and would love to see in-universe-document-based works telling the story of a case they tackled in canon or an original case. This is also such a great ship for old-school shippy tropes: undercover as a couple, Canadian shack, literally any flavor of whump, anything else you have been hankering to write/draw/etc! I also love mutual pining with Lewis thinking he’s far too old for Hathaway and Hathaway thinking Lewis is firmly straight. (I also really enjoy takes on Lewis where he’s had relationships with men prior to his marriage, although anything else is also good.)

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop.


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• Medium Opt-In: Fanvid - I like any style of music, so feel free to go with anything for your music choice! I’m not super familiar with vidding, but I especially love vids with fast and rhythmic cuts and I would love any story you want to tell.


• Medium Opt-In: Reddit Text Post (Any Subreddit) – I just so want to see either of the characters on Reddit, on any subreddit you wish. Hathaway venting or asking for advice about his massive crush on Lewis? Lewis trying to figure out how one asks a man who happens to be your subordinate and also quite a bit younger than you out? Either of them posting about office conflicts on AITA? One of them recognizing the other’s account? Or anything else you like!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Psychological Evaluation Report – I am especially into using the report as an unusual format of whump, where we see the aftermath of a canonical or noncanonical traumatic event on either or both of the characters. I’m very into noncon if you want to do something like that, or both of them have definitely had things happen to them in canon that might necessitate a psychological evaluation. It would be especially fun to see the character/s being evaluated accidentally let slip a few details of their what they think are unrequited feelings about the other half of the ship.

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Dogs of Berlin

Characters/Ships

• Erol Birkan/Kurt Grimmer (Dogs of Berlin) -I loved the relationship between Erol and Kurt in canon, and I desperately want shippy works about them. I can see Kurt vehemently insisting he’s straight up until (and after) he kisses Erol in a closet in the office, and Erol making him actually admit what he wants. (As for Erol’s canonical relationship, I’m good with infidelity, an open relationship, AUs where Erol doesn’t have a boyfriend, or just not mentioning Guido. Same for Kurt's relationships, although infidelity seems the most likely in his case.) Casefic/art/etc is always great!


• Erol Birkan/Kurt Grimmer/Guido Mack (Dogs of Berlin) - Feel free to repurpose anything from the Erol/Kurt prompts here. I would love to see Erol talking about his obnoxious colleague ad nauseum until Guido proposes that Erol may, in fact, be crushing on Kurt. Guido getting slowly or not-so-slowly sucked into Erol's work would be a very fun dynamic too!


• Paula Grimmer/Sabine Ludar (Dogs of Berlin) - From the moment they first interacted I have wanted them to hook up, and it is criminal that the fandom is so small that no fanworks about these two exist! I would love some identity porn where they make out/hook up/whatever before Paula knows who Bine is, and possibly the moment Paula finds out. I’d also love to see Paula dealing with her trauma over being attacked by reenacting it in sex and/or kink – no preference for whether she’s casting herself as the victim or the perpetrator in this roleplay

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Working some German music in or making the playlist entirely German would be fun too!


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• Medium Opt-In: Cocktail Recipes - I nommed this thinking of cocktails inspired by characters/ships, but I realized post-nominations that it could be taken as cocktail recipes that the characters have collected and possibly annotated, and I would also enjoy that! For the former, I really enjoy themed cocktails and would love to see anything inspired by this fandom! For ships, I am down for one cocktail that encompasses the whole grouping, or a group of cocktails themed after each of the members of the ship. I have pretty broad tastes, so as long as you avoid my cocktail DNWs you can go wild! For the latter, I really love in-universe writing and would love to see what you think the characters would drink. Snarky comments about each others’ tastes in drinks are very welcome.


• Medium Opt-In: Fanvid - I like any style of music, so feel free to go with anything for your music choice! I’m not super familiar with vidding, but I especially love vids with fast and rhythmic cuts and I would love any story you want to tell about any of these ships.


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents – notes on a case? Journal or diary entries? A log of how Paula’s store is doing that occasionally hints at more personal matters? Or anything else you’d like to do!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Psychological Evaluation Report - I am especially into using the report as an unusual format of whump, where we see the aftermath of a canonical or noncanonical traumatic event on either or both of the characters. I’m very into noncon if you want to do something like that, especially rape related to a case for Erol or Kurt. Or Paula has canonically had a traumatic event happen to her, so something focused on her beating could be fun!


• Medium Opt-In: Disciplinary Report – This would work best for Kurt or Erol, I’d love to see a disciplinary report on canon happenings or something you think they’d do post-canon. Paula writing up a reprimand for Bine would also be really fun!


• Medium Opt-In: 'A Softer World' style art - I just really love the Softer World style, and would love to see it for my fandoms! You can take the words from existing comics or make your own.

Vienna Blood

Characters/Ships

• Max Liebermann/Oskar Rheinhardt (Vienna Blood) - I love the dynamic between Max and Oskar, everywhere from the beginning antagonism to their friendship by the end of the season. I’d love to see them kiss or otherwise admit their feelings after a particularly stressful moment on the job. Max applying his studies to the cases or himself or Oskar. I am also very into readings/portrayals of Max as gay, where part of his difficulties with his relationship with his fiancee is that he’s not interested in women and just hasn’t figured that out yet

Mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Fanmixes - there are no genres of music I dislike, although I’m especially fond of country, folk, rap, and hip-hop. Something that incorporates music from canon era would also be fun!


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• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Academic Publication – I am thinking here about a paper Max ends up writing about a case, or a paper he references for a case and/or annotates for his studies. Or maybe he’s doing a deep dive into homosexuality-related papers for Reasons (the reasons are he’s in love with Oskar)


• Medium Opt-In: Fanvid - I like any style of music, so feel free to go with anything for your music choice! I’m not super familiar with vidding, but I especially love vids with fast and rhythmic cuts and I would love any story you want to tell about this ship.


• Medium Opt-In: Mission Report – I want to see a report on one of the cases they investigate! Either one from canon or a case you make up. If you go the latter route I am especially fond of Undercover As Gay/A Couple and would love to see a case report on that (possibly with some gaps in the timeline where some highly unprofessional shippy activities occurred)


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Personal Documents – Journals or diary entries? Case notes? Max’s notes from his studies? Surreptitious love letters? Or anything else you’d like!


• Medium Opt-In: In-Universe Psychological Evaluation Report - I am especially into using the report as an unusual format of whump, where we see the aftermath of a canonical or noncanonical traumatic event on either or both of the characters. I’m very into noncon if you want to do something like that, or both of them have definitely had things happen to them in canon that might necessitate a psychological evaluation. It would be especially fun if the readers can see the character/s being evaluated hinting at their feelings for the other party, even if the evaluator doesn’t pick up on it.

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