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. Please feel free to include anything I don’t DNW – I have very few kink/smut turnoffs (and they’re all in my DNWs), I’ll enjoy pretty much every plot or trope that you feel goes along with my requested ships, and I’m fine with any other ships in addition to my requested ships

DNWs

Unrequested pregnancy

Unrequested modern AUs

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

Oviposition

Smut with prepubescent characters – no need to declare age in the narrative, I just don’t kink on extreme underage and would prefer characters to be older. Flashbacks to younger ages or CSA are welcome

General Likes

I love all tenses and POVs!

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 characters/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)

Benjamin January Mysteries – Barbara Hambly

Characters/Ships

Benjamin January & Abishag Shaw & Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January)

Benjamin January & Hannibal Sefton & Abishag Shaw & Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January)

Benjamin January & Hannibal Sefton & Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January)

Benjamin January/Hannibal Sefton/Abishag Shaw/Rose Vitrac January (Benjamin January)

Benjamin January/Rose Vitrac January/Hannibal Sefton (Benjamin January)

Freeforms

ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex, ALL: Soulbond Makes Characters Temporarily Bodyswap Involuntarily – I am obsessed with bodyswaps! Especially in a setting like this where pretending to be each other while bodyswapped has such high stakes and such different social rules. And I also love bodyswaps that are triggered by sex and/or can only be reversed with sex – I am especially into fucking while bodyswapped and all of the fun things that gives the characters to explore.

ALL: Character plays a game with Death in exchange for their/somebody else's life, All: Journey to the Underworld to Resurrect Loved One - folklore/mythology AUs just fit so well with this canon in my opinion…For the first tag, maybe Olympe has a ceremony that allows someone to journey to the underworld, and they’re not sure if it will actually work or not but they’ve got nothing less to lose. And for the second, any game is great, or you could bend the tag a bit and do a ‘Devil Went Down To Georgia’-style competition with Hannibal or Ben

ALL: Genderswap to all female cast - I am down for deep-digging explorations of how things would change if one or more male characters were women, genderbending as an excuse for hot women/femslash, or anything in between!

ALL: Ghost Whisperers AU - I don’t have a preference for which character is the ghost whisperer, I’d just love to see how it interacts with solving murders (or just any of my requested characters interacting with ghosts in general). And it’s always fun to see Ben and Rose’s skeptical mindsets come up against something that science can’t explain

ALL: Jazz Age AU - Ben and Hannibal are New Orleans musicians, so we’re halfway here already! Just gotta shift canon forward a century or so

All: Old Guard-Style Immortality - I’d really love to see you choose different time periods for each of the characters to have gained their immortality. A plot idea that you can run with or ignore: I’m picturing Ben’s first death being of cholera in Paris, and when he returns to life and Ayasha does not, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to New Orleans and having dreams of three strangers...

ALL: Pirate AU - I don’t even have a plot in mind, I just love pirates so much and would love to see Ben & friends sailing the high seas

ALL: Songs/Music inherently hold Magic - I love how the series portrays music, and I’d love to see some music-based magic however you want to portray it

ALL: Weird West AU - perhaps Ben as a frontier doctor and Shaw as a sheriff? Maybe characters get caught up in a murder investigation or bounty hunt?

Queen’s Thief – Megan Whalen Turner

Characters/Ships

Attolia/Eddis/Eugenides/Sophos (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Attolia/Eugenides (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Attolia/Eugenides/Costis Ormentiedes (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Attolia/Eugenides/Kamet/Costis Ormentiedes (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Attolia/Eugenides/Relius (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Kamet/Costis Ormentiedes (Queen's Thief - MWT)

Relius/Teleus (Queen's Thief – MWT)

Freeforms

ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex, ALL: Soulbond Makes Characters Temporarily Bodyswap Involuntarily – with all of the political maneuvering in the books, I would love to see characters have to cope with pretending to be each other until they can reverse it, and trying to avoid causing diplomatic crises. I also love sex while bodyswapped, and with the disability narratives in the series, I think you could do something really interesting with bodyswaps there too.

All: Journey to the Underworld to Resurrect Loved One – I would so love to see this prompt working with the mythology of canon. We already get Ennikar and Immakuk in the underworld in canon, or you could draw on other mythologies for the underworld.

ALL: Pirate AU – I love pirates, and I love any AU that makes my fave characters into pirates! You can go into transferring the plot of the series to a pirate setting, or just go for swashbuckling vibes. (Gen would be a great pirate captain, I think.)

ALL: Weird West AU – I also love Weird West settings! Again, it’s fun to see the plot of the series transferred to a new setting, or just gunslinging vibes.

Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette

Characters/Ships

Mildmay Foxe & Felix Harrowgate (DoL)

Mildmay Foxe/Felix Harrowgate (DoL)

Solo: Mildmay Foxe (DoL)

I enjoy every ship with Mildmay and/or Felix, so feel free to go wild with ships if you’d like! Don’t feel bound to stick to Mildmay/Felix.

Freeforms

ALL: Bodyswap, ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex,ALL: Soulbond Allows Characters To Bodyswap At Will – If you’ve been reading all my requests, you may have noticed that I love bodyswaps. This can be between Mildmay and Felix, or between either of them and another character. The soulbond could be the obligation d’ame or another soulbond. Would bodyswapping mean Mildmay-in-Felix’s-body can now do magic and Felix-in-Mildmay’s-body can’t?

ALL: Community College AU - Perhaps the small college is the Corambis analogue in Felix’s exile in this universe. Felix loves teaching, and I’d love to see him still teaching in a modern AU. I’d love to see what reasons you’d come up with for Mildmay having to come along with him. How did Kay and/or Mildmay get injured in this AU, and how do they feel about their disabilities? Are all of the characters professors? What subjects do they teach? And honestly I’d love to see how any of the characters’ backstories would translate to a modern AU; don’t feel obligated if you don’t find this sort of thing fun to write, but I’d love to see what you come up with.

DoL: Mildmay is not nearly as straight as he keeps insisting – whoever nommed this, you are a fan after my own heart. I just have a lot of feelings about Mildmay’s repeated insistence that he’s not molly combined with the flashbacks we get to his time with Kolkhis where she threatens to send him to a brothel if he’s turning molly when he doesn’t perform well enough in bed. I just want him to have a Big ~~Bisexual~~ Janus Realization, with any man in canon (although I am especially partial Kay, Simon, and Felix), or with an OC.

DoL: Mildmay takes offer to teach at Corambis school – I just want Mildmay to realize that he’s smart and his skills have value :,( You can go full worldbuilding and show me one of his lectures, or explore who he meets and how he interacts with his audience

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Characters/Ships

Cosette Fauchelevent/Grantaire/Marius Pontmercy (Les Mis Book)

Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy (Les Mis Book)

Courfeyrac/Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy (Les Mis Book)

Any other polyships that include Marius and Cosette are also welcome!

Freeforms

ALL: Bodyswap That Can Only Be Reversed With Sex – I love bodyswaps, I love sex while bodyswapped, I love characters perhaps having to pretend to be each other for a bit until they have time to fuck again to reverse the swap (or maybe they don’t realize that’s how to reverse it, but decide they might as well have sex anyway)

All: Changeling AU – I really love changelings, and I think it would be very fun if Cosette and/or Marius was a changeling! Just add some weird fairy magic into canon – they’re both already the sort of character who would fit well into a changeling role

ALL: Genderswap to all female cast - I am down for deep-digging explorations of how things would change if one or more male characters were women, genderbending as an excuse for hot women/femslash, or anything in between!

All: Journey to the Underworld to Resurrect Loved One – so many dead loved ones to choose from!

ALL: Pirate AU – I love pirates, and would love some swashbuckling fic/art of my requested ships. You could convert the July Revolution into a naval battle against the French government (or another government) or just make something with piratey vibes.

All: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies – I think it would be nice if Marius had some friends left after his marriage, and/or if Valjean got to spend more time with his daughter and her new husband! If you’re resurrecting any of the Amis, feel free to go ham on post-revolution trauma