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Holly Poly 2015
Nov. 4th, 2015 02:36 pmThank you for writing or drawing for me! I’m within_a_dream on AO3, and I have a tag of previous exchange letters if you’d like to get a better idea of my interests. (A note: I’ve requested either fic or art for all of my ships, but I’d be happy with extra treats of any of the types allowed by the fest.)
My only DNW is pregnancy/childbirth. I’m fine with mentions of characters being pregnant or having kids, but would prefer no detailed descriptions of pregnancy (e.g. morning sickness/other complications, the baby kicking, sex while pregnant) or childbirth.
I’m good with anywhere from fluff to everyone-dies angst, and any levels of gore or sexual explicitness. Most of my prompts default to a triad instead of a V, but feel free to switch up those dynamics if you’d like! I’m pretty flexible in terms of relationship configurations.
General likes include: hurt/comfort, babysitting/Accidental Baby Acquisition/characters spending time with canonical children, sexuality angst (especially if it’s resolved by makeouts/etc.), 5+1 fics, supernatural AUs (ghosts, zombies, fairies, or whatever else you’d like to throw in)
Porn-type likes include: Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella (especially with historical characters accidentally discovering that they like a kink), sex or sexy roleplay going hilariously wrong, sex pollen, crossdressing, oral sex and masturbation as the main event
I've tried to include both fic-geared prompts and art-geared prompts, but I'm not an artist, so apologies if I didn't succeed! Feel free to leave comments (anon or not) with questions if you'd like to get a better idea of what I like in art.
Benjamin January mysteries
Chloë Viellard/Dominique Viellard/Henri Viellard
This relationship has fascinated me since we met Chloë. We saw a bit of Chloë and Minou interacting in Wet Grave, but I’d love to see more, as well as how Henri plays into things. How do the three of them negotiate their relationship (or do they just never discuss it?) I tend to ship this as a V, with Minou involved with both Chloë and Henri, and Chloë a lesbian who’s only married to Henri for convenience’s sake, but if you favor having Chloë and Henri romantically and/or sexually involved, I’m also down with that!
I’d love to see Chloë and Henri’s wedding and wedding night, perhaps compared or contrasted with Chloë/Minou, Henri/Minou, or all three of them together.
If you’ve read Good Man Friday, there’s a scene which made me decide that Minou is fond of ridiculous, overexaggerated sexy roleplay…do
with that what you will.
I’d also love to see domesticity with the three of them, perhaps spending an afternoon reading and/or spending time with Charmian.
Les Miserables- All Media Types
A lot of my ships don’t meet in canon. Feel free to take whatever route you’d like to get around that—everyone lives and/or post-Seine AU, some people live AU, Cosette meets the Amis sooner AU, modern AU, whatever you’d like!
Cosette Fauchelevent/Grantaire/Marius Pontmercy
I may be sailing this ship all by myself. But hear me out—you have Cosette and Marius, surprisingly fluffy and innocent given their pasts, and then you throw in cynical, sarcastic Grantaire. I love the idea of Grantaire “corrupting” them both—either in a sexual sort of way, or just making them forget about propriety for a while. Picture the Pontmercys taking Grantaire to dinner with Gillenormand, and the absolute disaster that would result. Or picture Marius and/or Cosette at a meeting of Les Amis, and Grantaire finding ways to distract them that infuriate everyone. Imagine Grantaire goading Marius on some philosophical topic or other until finally Marius responds, and Grantaire is thrilled that Pontmercy has grown a spine. Or imagine Grantaire deciding to try out his oratory on Cosette, and finding that she’s a keen and well-read conversationalist.
In addition to the prompts above, you could show me how they end up together, if any of them feels guilty about their relationship setup (and how they overcome said guilt), how Grantaire fits into the Pontmercys’ marriage, and/or Grantaire interacting with future Pontmercy children.
Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy/Éponine Thénardier
I like this ship as either very fluffy or very angsty. (Or both, if you want to combine them!) Fluff-wise, if you want to create an AU where Éponine survives the barricades, or do some domestic scenes with the three of them (and perhaps a kid or kids?), that would be lovely!
Angst-wise, I’d really like to see an exploration of how they end up getting together and working through all of their baggage. Cosette and Éponine both have a lot of shit to work through from their childhoods, and Marius is not quite sure what’s going on and also feeling anxious about the relationship (because what doesn’t Marius feel anxious about?), and I’d love to see the three of them brought to an emotional resolution.
Courfeyrac/Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy
My favorite configuration of this triad is established Marius/Courfeyrac when they’re roommates (with some nervous guilt on Marius’s part and a failure to notice this guilt on Courfeyrac’s part). Then Marius meets Cosette, he’s worried he’ll have to leave Courfeyrac forever, and then someone explains polyamory to him. (Bonus points if this is canon-era: it doesn’t have to be at all historically accurate if you’re worried, but I’m always a sucker for historical sexuality angst.)
I’d also love something with Courfeyrac present during the Pontmercys’ wedding night (either a Courf-lives AU or a ghost AU, or anything else you can think of). Or Courfeyrac (dandy that he is) dressing Marius and Cosette up for a night on the town. Cosette is thrilled, Marius…not so much.
Grantaire/Joly/Bossuet Laigle/Musichetta
Best-friends-turned-lovers is a great dynamic, and please picture the chaos these four could create. It would be marvelous. I tend to think of this as established J/B/M adding Grantaire, but I could also see established J/B introducing their new mistress to their friend-with-benefits Grantaire. I’d love to see something about them getting together, or domesticity/a date night.
More specific prompts: maybe they get wildly drunk and the next morning have to reconstruct their doings the previous night, a la The Hangover? Maybe Musichetta decides to put all of her boyfriends in dresses?
Javert/Montparnasse/Jean Valjean
This is another ship-of…well, not one, but very few. Someone requested this in a Les Mis exchange a few years ago, and I’ve been stuck on it ever since. They’d have the most interesting and hilarious dynamics—Montparnasse initially just wanting to con the both of them, Valjean wanting to help Montparnasse live a more upright life, Javert torn between wanting to protect Valjean from a clearly dangerous criminal and his guilty boner for Montparnasse—and I’d love to see how they get from there to an actual relationship.
In my opinion, this would be an especially great ship for Accidental Baby Acquisition or related tropes (Valjean would be great with babies, the others…not so much). I’m also fond of Javert as either a conflicted sadist or a conflicted masochist, but too guilty to act out those desires with Valjean. Montparnasse could serve as a willing and convenient proxy at first, until Valjean figures out what’s going on and they all talk about their kinks.
It would also be fun to see them spending a relaxing evening at home together, maybe with a humorous twist. I’m picturing Valjean reading, and Javert and Montparnasse both bored out of their minds, but go wherever the prompt takes you!
The Queen’s Thief series
Attolia/Costis/Eugenides
One of my favorite things about this ship is the power imbalance. Costis very clearly views Attolia and Eugenides as monarchs rather than humans, which would make his relationship with them very interesting indeed? Who invites him to bed? Do they prefer to order him around, or let him take charge? If you want to get into D/s dynamics, I have a vague headcanon that Gen is a stubborn and mouthy sub—although things with Irene are complicated now because of their history, of course (maybe that’s where Costis comes in!). I’d love to see the same themes of overcoming power imbalance in non-porny works as well
I’d also love to see more of Attolia and Costis interacting, if you’d like. We see a fair bit of Gen and Costis interacting in The King Of Attolia, but I’d love to see Costis and Irene talk, especially involved in this romantic relationship (whether as a triad or two sides of a V).
If you’re willing to delve into canon politics, I’d also love to see Gen and/or Irene training Costis for an important mission.
Original Work
(Note that I've only requested fic here for my main gift, but as in all the other fandoms, I'd love to receive treats of any medium.) I've got no preferences for gender of any of the characters, unless I specified.
Deity/Deity/Mortal
First of all, feel free to choose from any existing pantheon, or create your own. My only request is if that you make the mortal a woman or nonbinary, that at least one of the gods is a woman or nonbinary as well.
The main draw for me here is the power imbalance, either played straight (awestruck mortal taken as a lover by a pair of gods) or subverted (mortal manages to get the better of the gods in some way, or proves more equal to the gods than they'd anticipated). I'm also interested in how the relationship got started, which could play into worldbuilding if you'd like--is the mortal a priest/ess, or a sacrifice, or something else? How involved are the gods in human life? Is the mortal a staunch believer, or were they a firm atheist before meeting the gods? Either way, the interplay of their beliefs with the reality of what the gods are like could make for an interesting story.
Faerie/Husband/Wife
Once again, if you're interested in worldbuilding, I'd be fascinated by the setup of this relationship. How did the married couple meet this faerie? Was it some sort of summoning ritual? Did they move into a house that was, unbeknownst to them, near a door to Faerieland? Or was it something else?
I'd also love to see the clash between human sensibilities and faerie morals. (This could be especially fun in a historical setting, but I'd imagine that even in modern times, faeries view things quite a bit differently from humans.)
Pirate Brother/Pirate Sister/Captured Maiden
I'm down with incest if you'd like the brother and sister to be romantically involved, or I'd also love a non-incestuous configuration with both siblings involved with the maiden.
I'd rather not have noncon between the pirates and the maiden. I would be fine with dubcon of the "maiden feels she should object, but secretly wants to make out with the pirates" variety.
I'd love to see a maiden who expects brutal treatment at the hands of the pirates, but soon finds that they're actually very kind (and very attractive). A maiden who purposefully gets "captured" by the pirates to avoid, say, an arranged marriage would also be fun. If you're okay with writing porn, I'd love virginity kink with the maiden being debauched by the pirates.
My only DNW is pregnancy/childbirth. I’m fine with mentions of characters being pregnant or having kids, but would prefer no detailed descriptions of pregnancy (e.g. morning sickness/other complications, the baby kicking, sex while pregnant) or childbirth.
I’m good with anywhere from fluff to everyone-dies angst, and any levels of gore or sexual explicitness. Most of my prompts default to a triad instead of a V, but feel free to switch up those dynamics if you’d like! I’m pretty flexible in terms of relationship configurations.
General likes include: hurt/comfort, babysitting/Accidental Baby Acquisition/characters spending time with canonical children, sexuality angst (especially if it’s resolved by makeouts/etc.), 5+1 fics, supernatural AUs (ghosts, zombies, fairies, or whatever else you’d like to throw in)
Porn-type likes include: Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella (especially with historical characters accidentally discovering that they like a kink), sex or sexy roleplay going hilariously wrong, sex pollen, crossdressing, oral sex and masturbation as the main event
I've tried to include both fic-geared prompts and art-geared prompts, but I'm not an artist, so apologies if I didn't succeed! Feel free to leave comments (anon or not) with questions if you'd like to get a better idea of what I like in art.
Benjamin January mysteries
Chloë Viellard/Dominique Viellard/Henri Viellard
This relationship has fascinated me since we met Chloë. We saw a bit of Chloë and Minou interacting in Wet Grave, but I’d love to see more, as well as how Henri plays into things. How do the three of them negotiate their relationship (or do they just never discuss it?) I tend to ship this as a V, with Minou involved with both Chloë and Henri, and Chloë a lesbian who’s only married to Henri for convenience’s sake, but if you favor having Chloë and Henri romantically and/or sexually involved, I’m also down with that!
I’d love to see Chloë and Henri’s wedding and wedding night, perhaps compared or contrasted with Chloë/Minou, Henri/Minou, or all three of them together.
If you’ve read Good Man Friday, there’s a scene which made me decide that Minou is fond of ridiculous, overexaggerated sexy roleplay…do
with that what you will.
I’d also love to see domesticity with the three of them, perhaps spending an afternoon reading and/or spending time with Charmian.
Les Miserables- All Media Types
A lot of my ships don’t meet in canon. Feel free to take whatever route you’d like to get around that—everyone lives and/or post-Seine AU, some people live AU, Cosette meets the Amis sooner AU, modern AU, whatever you’d like!
Cosette Fauchelevent/Grantaire/Marius Pontmercy
I may be sailing this ship all by myself. But hear me out—you have Cosette and Marius, surprisingly fluffy and innocent given their pasts, and then you throw in cynical, sarcastic Grantaire. I love the idea of Grantaire “corrupting” them both—either in a sexual sort of way, or just making them forget about propriety for a while. Picture the Pontmercys taking Grantaire to dinner with Gillenormand, and the absolute disaster that would result. Or picture Marius and/or Cosette at a meeting of Les Amis, and Grantaire finding ways to distract them that infuriate everyone. Imagine Grantaire goading Marius on some philosophical topic or other until finally Marius responds, and Grantaire is thrilled that Pontmercy has grown a spine. Or imagine Grantaire deciding to try out his oratory on Cosette, and finding that she’s a keen and well-read conversationalist.
In addition to the prompts above, you could show me how they end up together, if any of them feels guilty about their relationship setup (and how they overcome said guilt), how Grantaire fits into the Pontmercys’ marriage, and/or Grantaire interacting with future Pontmercy children.
Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy/Éponine Thénardier
I like this ship as either very fluffy or very angsty. (Or both, if you want to combine them!) Fluff-wise, if you want to create an AU where Éponine survives the barricades, or do some domestic scenes with the three of them (and perhaps a kid or kids?), that would be lovely!
Angst-wise, I’d really like to see an exploration of how they end up getting together and working through all of their baggage. Cosette and Éponine both have a lot of shit to work through from their childhoods, and Marius is not quite sure what’s going on and also feeling anxious about the relationship (because what doesn’t Marius feel anxious about?), and I’d love to see the three of them brought to an emotional resolution.
Courfeyrac/Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy
My favorite configuration of this triad is established Marius/Courfeyrac when they’re roommates (with some nervous guilt on Marius’s part and a failure to notice this guilt on Courfeyrac’s part). Then Marius meets Cosette, he’s worried he’ll have to leave Courfeyrac forever, and then someone explains polyamory to him. (Bonus points if this is canon-era: it doesn’t have to be at all historically accurate if you’re worried, but I’m always a sucker for historical sexuality angst.)
I’d also love something with Courfeyrac present during the Pontmercys’ wedding night (either a Courf-lives AU or a ghost AU, or anything else you can think of). Or Courfeyrac (dandy that he is) dressing Marius and Cosette up for a night on the town. Cosette is thrilled, Marius…not so much.
Grantaire/Joly/Bossuet Laigle/Musichetta
Best-friends-turned-lovers is a great dynamic, and please picture the chaos these four could create. It would be marvelous. I tend to think of this as established J/B/M adding Grantaire, but I could also see established J/B introducing their new mistress to their friend-with-benefits Grantaire. I’d love to see something about them getting together, or domesticity/a date night.
More specific prompts: maybe they get wildly drunk and the next morning have to reconstruct their doings the previous night, a la The Hangover? Maybe Musichetta decides to put all of her boyfriends in dresses?
Javert/Montparnasse/Jean Valjean
This is another ship-of…well, not one, but very few. Someone requested this in a Les Mis exchange a few years ago, and I’ve been stuck on it ever since. They’d have the most interesting and hilarious dynamics—Montparnasse initially just wanting to con the both of them, Valjean wanting to help Montparnasse live a more upright life, Javert torn between wanting to protect Valjean from a clearly dangerous criminal and his guilty boner for Montparnasse—and I’d love to see how they get from there to an actual relationship.
In my opinion, this would be an especially great ship for Accidental Baby Acquisition or related tropes (Valjean would be great with babies, the others…not so much). I’m also fond of Javert as either a conflicted sadist or a conflicted masochist, but too guilty to act out those desires with Valjean. Montparnasse could serve as a willing and convenient proxy at first, until Valjean figures out what’s going on and they all talk about their kinks.
It would also be fun to see them spending a relaxing evening at home together, maybe with a humorous twist. I’m picturing Valjean reading, and Javert and Montparnasse both bored out of their minds, but go wherever the prompt takes you!
The Queen’s Thief series
Attolia/Costis/Eugenides
One of my favorite things about this ship is the power imbalance. Costis very clearly views Attolia and Eugenides as monarchs rather than humans, which would make his relationship with them very interesting indeed? Who invites him to bed? Do they prefer to order him around, or let him take charge? If you want to get into D/s dynamics, I have a vague headcanon that Gen is a stubborn and mouthy sub—although things with Irene are complicated now because of their history, of course (maybe that’s where Costis comes in!). I’d love to see the same themes of overcoming power imbalance in non-porny works as well
I’d also love to see more of Attolia and Costis interacting, if you’d like. We see a fair bit of Gen and Costis interacting in The King Of Attolia, but I’d love to see Costis and Irene talk, especially involved in this romantic relationship (whether as a triad or two sides of a V).
If you’re willing to delve into canon politics, I’d also love to see Gen and/or Irene training Costis for an important mission.
Original Work
(Note that I've only requested fic here for my main gift, but as in all the other fandoms, I'd love to receive treats of any medium.) I've got no preferences for gender of any of the characters, unless I specified.
Deity/Deity/Mortal
First of all, feel free to choose from any existing pantheon, or create your own. My only request is if that you make the mortal a woman or nonbinary, that at least one of the gods is a woman or nonbinary as well.
The main draw for me here is the power imbalance, either played straight (awestruck mortal taken as a lover by a pair of gods) or subverted (mortal manages to get the better of the gods in some way, or proves more equal to the gods than they'd anticipated). I'm also interested in how the relationship got started, which could play into worldbuilding if you'd like--is the mortal a priest/ess, or a sacrifice, or something else? How involved are the gods in human life? Is the mortal a staunch believer, or were they a firm atheist before meeting the gods? Either way, the interplay of their beliefs with the reality of what the gods are like could make for an interesting story.
Faerie/Husband/Wife
Once again, if you're interested in worldbuilding, I'd be fascinated by the setup of this relationship. How did the married couple meet this faerie? Was it some sort of summoning ritual? Did they move into a house that was, unbeknownst to them, near a door to Faerieland? Or was it something else?
I'd also love to see the clash between human sensibilities and faerie morals. (This could be especially fun in a historical setting, but I'd imagine that even in modern times, faeries view things quite a bit differently from humans.)
Pirate Brother/Pirate Sister/Captured Maiden
I'm down with incest if you'd like the brother and sister to be romantically involved, or I'd also love a non-incestuous configuration with both siblings involved with the maiden.
I'd rather not have noncon between the pirates and the maiden. I would be fine with dubcon of the "maiden feels she should object, but secretly wants to make out with the pirates" variety.
I'd love to see a maiden who expects brutal treatment at the hands of the pirates, but soon finds that they're actually very kind (and very attractive). A maiden who purposefully gets "captured" by the pirates to avoid, say, an arranged marriage would also be fun. If you're okay with writing porn, I'd love virginity kink with the maiden being debauched by the pirates.
