Chocolate Box Letter 2022

[withinadream]

Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I’ve requested fic and art for all of my fandoms. 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 both fic and art for all fandoms.

This is a long letter, but don't take that to mean I'll only be happy with a long fic or intricate art! I'm just very wordy when it comes to my fandoms. Prompts have been Frankensteined together from years of letters, so the length of prompt means nothing except that I've been requesting that ship for longer! And feel free to grab prompts from previous letters if you want – my DNWs have changed over the years, but my general likes and fandom prompts pretty much haven’t.

If I don’t DNW a ship, feel free to include it in the background of a gift, I have very few NoTPs. Also feel free to include multiple requested ships in a gift or make any relationships poly. I’m also down for any amount of character death, graphic violence, and/or noncon.

Don’t feel bound to my prompts if none of them catch your interest – I’ll be happy with anything about my ships that doesn’t contain my DNWs!

DNWs

• Pregnancy, childbirth - mentions of canonical pregnancy are fine, but I don’t want art showing visibly pregnant characters or fics going into detail about pregnancy, related medical concerns, h/c related to pregnancy, etc. Exceptions for Bridgerton and Call the Midwife listed with the canons!


• Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine!


• Explicit monogamy - I'm fine with my two-person ships being the only ship in the work, and I don't need anyone to be explicitly poly, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other or that they're not poly


• Kinks I DNW - Oviposition, breeding kink, stuffing/feederism (other types of belly kink not focused on large weight gain are fine! I'd just like the character to start out chubby/fat rather than gaining weight as part of a kink)

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)

Band Sinister – KJ Charles

• 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.


• Amanda Frisby/David Martelo/Lord Corvin (Band Sinister) – Last year there was an OW ship, Crown Princess Who Was A Starving Writer In Her Former Life/Faraway King Who's A Fan Of Her Books, and I keep thinking about Princess/Faraway King/Princess’s or King’s Advisor as an AU for Amanda/Corvin/David respectively. I also want to see more Amanda & Corvin (and Amanda & Murder) interactions in a canon setting, and David being a little exasperated and a lot endeared by the antics Amanda and Corvin get up to is a great dynamic. I would also love smut with Amanda enthusiastically enlisting Corvin to help David explain to her and demonstrate all of these sex acts she’s heard vague whispers about


• Guy Frisby/John Raven/Lord Corvin/Philip Rookwood (Band Sinister) - I’m especially into Philip/John/Corvin introducing Guy to all sorts of exciting aspects of London society now that Guy isn’t trapped in Yarlcote. I would also love to see some Guy/etc & Amanda interaction. Pornwise I would love to see more of the others introducing Guy to exciting new sex acts/etc, or lending him erotic literature.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.

Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly

• Abishag Shaw/Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January Mysteries) - Shaw is so closed-off in canon, I really want to see him opening up and getting romantically involved with Ben and Rose. I'd love to see how they get together (do Rose and Ben set out to seduce Shaw? Does Shaw unexpectedly kiss Ben?), hurt/comfort with Shaw injured on the job and Ben and Rose insisting on him resting up, or Shaw interacting with the January kids.
  


• Benjamin January/Hannibal Sefton/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January Mysteries) - 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).
  


• Ayasha January/Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January Mysteries) - 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)


• Chloë Viellard/Dominique Viellard (Benjamin January) - This is the Benjamin January femslash ship of my heart! 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. You are also welcome to include Henri, but as I don’t have any specific prompts for him I would feel bad requesting that threesome specifically.
  

England Series – KJ Charles

• Archie Curtis/Daniel de 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 noncon or rape recovery, I have prompts in my Consent Issues letter!
  


• Fenella Carruth/Patricia Merton (England Series – KJC) - 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.
  

Society of Gentlemen – KJ Charles

• 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 board games together and talking, Silas’s staunch convictions vs Cyprian’s careful apoliticalness. Perhaps one of them helping the other out of a sticky situation, or Silas giving David book recommendations. If you are into Cyprian whump/noncon, I have some prompts at my Consent Issues letter and would love to see Silas being the person Cyprian goes to after said whump.
  


• Dominic Frey/Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen) - I am always here for more smut about them. Would love to see them trying out new kinks together. I’m also very into political debate between them, or exchanging and discussing books. If you are into Dom whump/noncon, I have some prompts in my Consent Issues letter and would love to see Silas’s reaction to any of those prompts happening.
  


• Francis Webster/Gabriel Ashleigh (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 letters. Also, angsty noncon prompt – what if Maltravers rapes Francis in front of Ash or vice versa, or makes them fuck each other in front of him, after finding the letter or after the Ricardians take their revenge on him?
  

Will Darling Adventures – KJ Charles

• Maisie Jones/Phoebe Stevens-Prince (Will Darling) - I am so in love with these two, and I dearly hope we get a spin-off nove somedayl. And plenty of fanworks! I am very into Maisie assuming Phoebe is straight and that her pining will be forever unrequited, only to have Phoebe casually mention an ex-girlfriend (perhaps during her campaign to make sure Maisie is all right with queer people during book 2). Phoebe and Maisie bonding over clothes design is also delightful. Maisie designing dresses for Phoebe, or perhaps lingerie for Phoebe, and perhaps getting jealous of the men who will see Phoebe in them/take them off of Phoebe. Maisie and Phoebe dealing with the aftermath of various series events would also be very great! Phoebe is going to have a very bad time, and Maisie didn’t get off super easily either; they’re going to have a lot to deal with.


• Will Darling/Kim Secretan – I love these two so much!! Would love to see any and all espionage activity you can imagine them doing together, as well as some downtime (perhaps working at Will's shop, or of course having sex). I am always a fan of fuck or die or a honeytrap mission (with either Kim or Will as the honeytrap) with an OC. Maybe the two of them visiting Maisie and Phoebe in Paris?I'd also love to see them visiting a gay club together. Also! Either of them in a dress (perhaps designed by Maisie?)

Doctrine of Labyrinths – Sarah Monette

• Felix/Mildmay – Do we spend the whole series hearing how much this relationship wouldn’t work? Yes. Do I still desperately want fanworks about it? Also yes. Anywhere along the timeline from something horribly dysfunctional at the beginning of their relationship to something set post-canon when they might actually have a chance at a semi-functional relationship is great! I’m also good with Mildmay discovering feelings for Felix or him never reciprocating Felix’s feelings but sex still happening for Reasons. Mildmay would definitely be very weak for praise kink and I would love to see Felix take advantage of that. A fuck or die scenario would be great fun (I could see Mildmay thinking “die” is the better option but Felix making them go for “fuck”).



• Kay Brightmore/Mildmay Foxe (Doctrine of Labyrinths) - Okay I loved their first interactions in Corambis (face-touching! Mildmay reading to Kay!) and I really want to see them fall for each other. The cultural differences in how sexuality is viewed seem like they could lead to a fun ship dynamic, with Kay feeling more guilty about the romantic feelings and Mildmay feeling more guilty about the sex. And I would just really love to see more of them interacting post-canon, and both of them ending up happier!



• Mildmay Foxe/Original Male Character (Doctrine of Labyrinths - Monette) - Poly relationships also welcome!. I just desperately want Mildmay having a Big Bisexual Janus Awakening. His insistence that he’s not molly seems very tied to his past with Kholkis and I would love to see him having a trauma reaction to realizing he’s attracted to/in love with a man. I’d also love to see someone force him to lie back and enjoy himself in bed instead of being so giving (which also seems tied to his past, so you could go hurt/comfort and/or traumatic backstory exploration with that too).

Vienna Blood (TV)

• Max Liebermann/Oskar Rheinhardt (Vienna Blood (TV)) - 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 is also great. Undercover as a couple/as gay would be so good for this canon! I'd also love to see either character having to crossdress for Reasons and realizing they and/or the other ship member has a kink for it. 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

Call the Midwife

This fandom is an exception to my pregnancy DNW. I am fine with canonical pregnancies of characters in my ships, as well as pregnant patients.

• Kevin McNulty/Patrick Turner/Shelagh Turner (Call the Midwife) – so hear me out: what if, after his drug addiction comes to a head, Kevin moves in with the Turners to recover or after he's gone to rehab? And what if all three of them start falling in love with each other, possibly with a hefty side of guilt about loving someone else on the Turners' part and potentially breaking up a marriage on Kevin's part? And possibly Kevin ends up working with Patrick after all?


• Millicent Higgins/Phyllis Crane (Call the Midwife) - I love the friendship these two have going in the show, and I desperately want them to date. That dinner they had together in the one Christmas special? Peak romance. I'd love to see Nurse Crane learning some Punjabi from Miss Higgins. Collaborating on midwifery/medical work or specific patients is also great!
  
• Sister Frances/Trixie Franklin (Call the Midwife), Nancy Corrigan/Sister Frances (Call the Midwife) – I just think Sister Frances should have little a lesbian fling, as a treat. You know her thing in the latest season about understanding modern/secular culture better? What if she asks Nancy or Trixie for help...and kissing ensues...Any amount of religious angst on Frances's part, from 'none' to '110% angst by volume', is great.


• Sister Evangelina/Sister Julienne/Sister Monica Joan (Call the Midwife) – nun triad! I love the relationship these three have in canon and I think it would be very fun if they were all also in love and/or sleeping together. Something pre-canon would be very fun: there's so much shared history to work with! Would love to see glimpses of them throughout the years. Something during canon is also great! And I am very down for grief fic/art based on canonical or non-canonical deaths.


• Chummy Browne/Cynthia Miller/Jenny Lee/Trixie Franklin (Call the Midwife) – midwife orgy, first-season edition! It was really hard to pick which group of midwives I wanted to nom/request, but I had to go back to the characters who sold me on the canon to begin with. Maybe a cocktail night or a late-night game of Truth or Dare gets romantic/sexual? Comfort after a hard delivery or any of the non-midwifery hardships would also be great. Or maybe talking about kissing/sex turns into demonstrating kissing/sex.

Bridgerton (TV)

This fandom is an exception to my pregnancy DNW. Please feel free to get Daphne pregnant or include Marina's canonical pregnancy.

• Anthony Bridgerton/Daphne Bridgerton (Bridgerton (TV)) - Anthony’s protectiveness of Daphne was very good for my incest-shipping heart. For this ship I’m totally down for one-sided/un-acted-on Anthony→Daphne as well as a two-sided ship. Anthony shooting down every suitor Daphne has and not admitting to himself that it’s because he wants Daphne all to himself? Anthony and Daphne doing everything but PIV as a way to preserve her virginity? Dubcon where Daphne doesn’t realize that what she and her brother are doing together counts as sex?


• Anthony Bridgerton/Daphne Bridgerton/Simon Basset (Bridgerton (TV)) - All of the Anthony/Daphne above still goes. I’m especially interested in how the threesome comes together. Which one of them proposes it? Maybe while Simon and Daphne are estranged, she seeks comfort in Anthony’s arms, and things get less-than-platonic. Maybe Simon and Anthony had a relationship prior to the marriage, and Daphne catches on and proposes that Anthony join them in bed. Maybe Anthony comes for a visit and ends up lurking outside of the bedroom (or the library, or the garden, or…) while Daphne and Simon bang, and that leads to a threesome. Perhaps Anthony gets Daphne pregnant as a compromise to Simon’s oath not to carry on his family line.


• Daphne Bridgerton/Eloise Bridgerton (Bridgerton (TV)) - My first thought here is Daphne explaining sex to Eloise so that Eloise doesn’t end up in the same situation she was in, and then things escalate into some hands-on demonstrations. Or perhaps Eloise corners Daphne after she gets pregnant and demands to know how it happened. The two making out/having sex pre-marriage would also be great! (There’s some great angst potential if you factor a Daphne/Eloise relationship into Daphne’s desire for and Eloise’s fear of marriage too!)


• Eloise Bridgerton/Original Female Character (Bridgerton (TV)) – I just want Eloise swept off her feet by a woman! Dashing lady rake in trousers? Opinionated bluestocking who Eloise bonds with over shared causes? Young lady she meets and hits it off with at a ball? Any other Bridgerton siblings finding out about and being supportive of the relationship (or not!) would also be very fun.


• Eloise Bridgerton/Marina Thompson/Penelope Featherington (Bridgerton (TV)) – Maybe Eloise and Penelope ask Marina how pregnancy happens, and things escalate into some hands-on lessons? Maybe the other two end up comforting Marina over her horrible suitors? Maybe Penelope and/or Eloise trying to warn Marina off of Colin ends in hatesex?


• Daphne Bridgerton/Marina Thompson (Bridgerton (TV)) – I am very in love with the idea of Marina moving in with Daphne as a solution to her pregnancy instead of pursuing Colin. After all, Daphne is a duchess, so she can somewhat shield Marina's reputation. Perhaps they make a plan to have Marina hide away for a bit and then have Daphne claim Marina's baby as her own? Maybe the two start a torrid affair when Daphne is on a break from Simon (possibly started by Daphne asking Marina about fertility or sex)? Or hatesex due to Marina's pursuit of Colin would also be fun!


• Daphne Bridgerton/Marina Thompson/Simon Basset (Bridgerton (TV)) – Everything from my Daphne/Marina prompts is also good here! If you go for Daphne hooking up with Marina while she's temporarily broken up with Simon, perhaps Simon and Daphne reconcile but Daphne is reluctant to break up with her girlfriend, and a poly V or triad ensues. The three of them slowly falling in love with each other after they agree to host Marina during her pregnancy would also be great – maybe this starts as a bargain Daphne makes to keep Marina from pursuing her brother, and so there's hostility to begin with, but they slowly grow to like and love each other.

Hit and Run – LOLO (song)

• Narrator/'You' (Hit and Run – Lolo) – I nommed the song rather than the music video because I didn't want you bound to the plot/setting of the music video, but feel free to use the music video for reference if you'd like! (CW for rape if this is your first time watching it – there's no explicit rape in the song, just the video.) I love the vibes of these two women as partners in crime, killing (? Or maybe just robbing?) men together. The narrator as a former southern belle who's become the "Queen of Hell" and the other character as a "stowaway" joining her in her life of crime is very intriguing, and I'd love to see how they met and what exactly they're doing together. I also love the visual of the narrator in bed wearing the bowtie of one of her victims. This would be especially fun in a historical setting if that's your jam! But honestly the song has really captured my imagination this past month and I'll love anything you want to write or draw using the lyrics as a jumping-off point.