Candy Hearts 2024

[withinadream]

Thank you for writing and/or drawing for me! 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.

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. Trans characters, trans headcanons, and trans AUs always welcome. I enjoy aromantic, no-romo, friends-with benefits takes on ships and characters with unusual or nontypical attitudes towards romance (although I prefer for historical characters not to explicitly use the word aromantic). 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

DNWs

• Pregnancy, childbirth, oviposition - 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. Exception for Queen's Thief – works set during canon pregnancies or involving miscarriage-related h/c are welcome.


• Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine! Trans men post-phalloplasty using their dicks and trans women post-vaginoplasty using their vaginas also welcome.


• Unrequested noncon with a ship member as the perpetrator - past or onscreen noncon with an OC, or fuck-or-die/etc between my requested ships are always fine, as is one character being possessed and the thing doing the possessing using their body to noncon the other ship member/s


• AUs I DNW: Modern/mundane AUs, soulmate AUs (soulbonds are welcome!), BDSM AUs (regular BDSM is fine, I just don’t want the engrained/biological dom/sub roles), omegaverse (characters from non-human species having heats/ruts and knotting are both welcome, I just don’t want the alpha/omega/etc biological roles)

Fic Likes

Fic 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


• Always-a-woman AUs (cis or trans women welcome!)


• Trans headcanons, trans characters, character-is-trans AUs


• Aromantic, noromo, etc relationships


• Internal or external homophobia

Art Likes

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

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)

Baldur’s Gate 3

Baldur’s Gate 3

I don’t have a specific Tav or Durge I’m attached to – feel free to use your own! I do prefer a specific Tav rather than leaving them vague. Any race/class/background/etc is great. Also feel free to add any background ships you like.

Fandom-specific DNWs

• Asexual Astarion (he doesn’t have to have sex during the fanwork, I just don’t want him explicitly or implicitly identifying as asexual)


• Mystra portrayed as grooming Gale or having started their relationship when he was underage (I love Mystra/Gale as a toxic/bad relationship otherwise! And other underage sex or characters being groomed is welcome too)

Ships

• Astarion & Any of Astarion's Spawn Siblings (BG3) – I’m fascinated by the relationship between Cazador’s spawn! Pre-canon (and feel free to go heavy on the whump/torture/etc), during canon when their paths intersect, or adjusting to a post-Cazador life post-canon is all great! I especially love a dynamic where they don’t exactly like each other (especially after everything Cazador has forced them to do to each other and the way he’s pitted them against each other) but they’re also the only ones who understand what they’ve gone through


• Astarion/Any of Astarion's Spawn Siblings (BG3) – Everything for the gen version still goes! I love Cazador forcing the spawn to rape each other, (probably fucked-up) relationships forming between the spawn during captivity, and post-canon setups where they end up together because they’re the only ones who understand each other, and/or learning how to have relationships with each other now that Cazador is gone for good.


• Gale & Rolan (BG3) – I just think Rolan should get to learn magic from someone who’s less of an asshole than Lorroakan! I would also love Rolan mentioning Lorroakan’s abuse to Gale thinking it’s normal among master-apprentice relationships and Gale being like “um wtf no he should not be treating you like that!” (And if you want to add in Lorroakan sexually abusing/raping Rolan, I also love that)


• Laezel & Hatched Githyanki Egg (BG3) – okay so I saw someone mention the possibility of the egg you can steal from the creche hatching and leaving Lae’zel with a kid, and I will love any and all kidfic/art that you want to do of Lae’zel and a baby or older child Githyanki! But if you want to get more angsty and Thematic about it, I also think there’s a lot of potential in Lae’zel, once she’s charged with raising a child, trying to figure out what it actually means to be gith now that she knows the truth about Vlaaketh, and what parts of her upbringing she wants to continue vs which parts she doesn’t want to pass on to a new generation. Any romantic Lae’zel ships you want to include are also welcome, although I have a special soft spot for all the origin characters +/- Tav in a polycule


• Wyll/Any Character (BG3) – I love Wyll! If you have a favorite Wyll ship and a plot you’ve been dying to write/image you’ve been dying to draw, please take this as carte blanche to do so. I love post-transformation Wyll getting used to his new appearance (and perhaps some xeno with his new body if you’re leaning smut!), Wyll being a big damn hero and rescuing people/doing the right thing even when it will put him in danger, and angst/whump about his pact with Mizora. If you want to go in a noncon/rape aftermath-and/or-recovery direction, I love the idea of Mizora being Wyll’s first sexual experience (can be dubcon or noncon) and his not wanting to sleep with characters until marriage as a trauma reaction to that

Crossovers

Crossovers

• Lord Hawthorn/Alan Ross (Last Binding)/Dominic Frey/Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen),
  Lord Hawthorn/Alan Ross (Last Binding) & Dominic Frey/Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen), Alan Ross (Last Binding) & Silas Mason (Society of Gentlemen) – I love these two CNC-loving historical romance couples and I think they should meet up! I realize the timelines don’t at all match up, so feel free to transport one couple to the setting of the other series, just set your work in a nebulous setting with no specifics as to era, or do whatever else you’d like to get them to meet up (time travel?). I would love to see them having sex, talking to each other (about their shared sexy interest or otherwise), or an AU where Silas is Alan’s printer

Last Binding

Last Binding series – Freya Marston

In general for this series, I love magical worldbuilding, looks at what the future holds after the big changes in the last book, outsider POVs on the relationships I’ve requested, and the ships/characters interacting with each other (and if you want to add characters or combine ships together for some threesomes/foursomes/orgies, that is also very welcome!)

Ships

• Lord Hawthorn | Jack Alston/Alan Ross – I love the dynamic between these two, I love the betrayal and reconciliation, I love the complications the wealth gap brings, I love that Hawthorn has been reading Ross’s smut before they even meet. I would love to see more post-canon with them (especially with Ross’s family actually ending up at Hawthorn’s estate and Hawthorn interacting with them), more sex scenes and the roleplay they might get up to, or Ross making Hawthorn help him with plotting out or blocking out scenes for his erotica


• Maud Blyth/Violet Debenham – these two have the f/f dynamic of my dreams! I love Maud’s inexperience but determination to try Everything, and Violet’s guardedness and how she gradually opens up, and the way they resolve their fights by fucking it out. I’d love to see more of them interacting post-canon now that they’re in a more normal environment than the whole “fighting against evil wizards to prevent the End Of The Magical World” and how their relationship might change, more of Maud and Violet exploring sex and kinks together (whether or not they end up actually liking those kinks), or more medium shenanigans (regular ghost conversations, or I have a weird desire for Maud and Violet to have a threesome with a ghost). If you’re doing smut, I am especially fond of genderfucky roleplay with one or both of them acting as a man for the scenario, especially with Violet’s acting skills, and anal play. And you know the scene where Hawthorn walks in on them in the third book? I would love to see what they were doing!


• Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey – one of my favorite things about these two is that Robin is so impressed by Edwin and his magic, and how that’s so at odds with how Edwin has been seen his entire life. I also really loved the contrast between how they see each other and how other characters see them, and I think outsider POVs for these two are especially fun. I would love more of Edwin’s magical research (especially post-canon now that magic has changed so much!) and more of the two of them interacting with Penhallick. (Also the vines in Restless Truth made me want some sexy intentional vine bondage during sex, or other sex involving Edwin interfacing with Penhallick). Also! More of Maud interacting with Robin and Edwin!

The Sleeping Soldier – Aster Glenn Gray

The Sleeping Soldier – Aster Glenn Gray

• Russell Krause/Caleb O'Connor – I am so into time travel and I want all the fanworks about Russell exploring the 20th century and the two of them working through their respective relationship hangups together. I’d love the two of them exploring the gay scene together, sickfic with Russell getting to see more of the miracles of modern-ish medicine (the bit in the book where he was convinced he was going to die of strep was very good to me), Caleb’s further history research/time in academia (and perhaps using Russell as a secret source), or Russell working past his sodomy hangups to have fun with anal sex


• Russell Krause/Michael Lynn/Caleb O'Connor – Listen. They should have a threesome. I don’t even have more prompts than that (other than adding Michael into any of the Russell/Caleb prompts above), I just think it would be fun! Especially if it was connected to the sodomy exploration or exploring the 60s gay scene.

Queen’s Thief – Megan Whalen Turner

Queen’s Thief – Megan Whalen Turner

Fandom-specific DNW - Attolia or Eddis having PIV sex with anyone who isn't their husbands, unless they're already pregnant at the time. Any other type of sex is fine, I just get irrationally worried about the line of succession if someone else could have possibly knocked them up!

DNW exception: works set during canon pregnancies or involving miscarriage-related h/c are welcome.

Ships

• Attolia | Irene/Eddis | Helen/Eugenides/Sophos - Return of the Thief made me desperately want all of the monarchs in a poly relationship. Perhaps something with Attolia, Eddis, and Sophos back home worrying about Gen, or them all reuniting after their victory. I also really love the idea that they can be themselves rather than their ruler identities around each other.


• Pheris Erondites & Eugenides, Pheris Erondites & Relius, Pheris Erondites & Kamet – I just love Pheris and his role in the narrative so much! He had such a horrific childhood, and I would really like to see him get to relax and heal post-canon. And like, the whole book is about his life in the palace adjusting to no longer being under the thumb of and hiding from his abusive family, but I always enjoy more along those lines. And while life at the palace is certainly BETTER than with his family, he's still trapped in the middle of political machinations and adult concerns that he doesn't entirely understand, and I'd love to see how that compares and contrasts to his time with his family. As well as how the war affects him, and how his relationships with the characters I selected change as he grows up! And then some specific prompts for the individual relationships:


• Pheris Erondites & Eugenides (Queen's Thief) – I just really want to see more of them together post-canon, or something from Gen's point of view during canon. I love their relationship in canon, with Gen recognizing Pheris's true self and rescuing him from his family, but also having to involve him in the war and being harsh with him because of it.


• Pheris Erondites & Kamet (Queen's Thief) - I really love the tutoring and relationship we see in canon and I want to see more of it! Either something set during canon or something post-canon where we see how their relationship develops as Pheris grows into adulthood. I love Relius pushing for Pheris to learn useful things while still rewarding him with mathematics in canon, and I am just very emotional about Pheris having a good mentor


• Pheris Erondites & Relius (Queen's Thief) - I really love the tutoring and relationship we see in canon and I want to see more of it! Either something set during canon or something post-canon where we see how their relationship develops as Pheris grows into adulthood. I love Relius pushing for Pheris to learn useful things while still rewarding him with mathematics in canon, and I am just very emotional about Pheris having a good mentor


• Attolia | Irene/Eugenides/Costis Ormentiedes - 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).


• Attolia | Irene/Eugenides/Kamet/Costis Ormentiedes - I just love combining all my favorite ships, and I'd love to see how this would change the Attolia/Gen/Costis and Kamet/Costis dynamics, assuming you're going for a union of two established ships. I really love the Kamet&Gen dynamic in canon, perhaps it's a scheme by Gen that brings all four of them together.


• Attolia | Irene/Eugenides/Relius (Queen's Thief) - The platonic relationship we see in the books already fascinates me (the loyalty kink! The intersection of personal and political relationships!), and I’m so here for making it explicitly romantic. I’m especially interested in Relius’s imprisonment and the aftermath, but I’d also be into pre-canon Irene/Relius that grows to incorporate Eugenides (as an Irene-centered V or a triad), or pretty much anything involving this ship. I’m also really into the mess that results from tangling duties as a monarch with personal feelings.


• Kamet/Costis Ormentiedes (Queen's Thief) - The culture clash between these two, Kamet adapting to life as a freedman, the sharing of myths and legends, Costis's mediocre Medean...there's nothing I don't love about these two and I desperately want more shippy content for them in my life. I'd love to see Kamet telling Costis more legends, how a romantic relationship would develop in parallel to the events in TaT, or what the two of them get up to during or after Return of the Thief (especially the war from their point of view!)


• Relius/Teleus (Queen's Thief) - I love what we see of their relationship in the books, and just really want more about them. Us seeing their relationship only from an outsider POV leaves lots of room for explorations of canon events from Relius or Teleus's POV, and I would also love to see more of their jobs. I'm also really into the relationship dynamic of Relius having many lovers and Teleus only having Relius, and would love to see something about Relius continuously returning to Teleus (or perhaps something smutty with Teleus fucking Relius after Relius comes back from another lover)

Doctrine of Labyrinths – Sarah Monette

Doctrine of Labyrinths – Sarah Monette

• Kay Brightmore/Felix Harrowgate (Doctrine of Labyrinths) – Hello to the person who’s nommed this ship in a few exchanges! You’ve intrigued me, I keep mulling the ship over and I want to see them together. If you have a fanwork concept, please feel free to run with it! If you want more prompts, I really love ships with a culture clash, and the different attitudes towards sexuality and also towards magic are especially interesting to me. I also love post-canon works, and I want to see Felix adjust to a new country and a new life, and Kay adjusting to his disability


• Mildmay Foxe/Any Male Character - All I want is to see Mildmay’s 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). Mildmay’s shame about his intelligence and scar and speech difficulties and limp made me love him so much, and I would love to see a lover who maybe helps him work through some of that self-hatred. I also really love his storytelling and endless history/folklore knowledge!! And Mildmay noncon is always welcome, with rapists of any gender (caveat – I’d prefer Felix not be the rapist, unless it’s a fuck-or-die situation with Felix being forced).


• Mildmay Foxe & Felix Harrowgate – (if you want to take any of the ideas here and make them Mildmay/Felix for my Mildmay/Any Man prompt above, feel free!) I love the way we see their relationship grow through the books, and how much better of a place they’re in by the end of the books (of course, since it’s Felix and Mildmay, they’re both still kinda fucked up), and something set anywhere along that spectrum is great. The obligation d’ame is very fun, and fanworks featuring it are fun! I also love the ghost elements of the book, and would love to see the two of them facing down more ghosts together! Also anything with trauma aftermath and/or recovery, whether it involves one of them comforting the other or them antagonizing each other further.

Band Sinister – KJ Charles

Band Sinister – KJ Charles

• Amanda Frisby/David Martelo- 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/Any Character – listen I just really love Amanda getting to have a fun and sexy time post-marriage to make up for her pre-marriage life, including through threesomes (or moresomes)! This can be a sexual arrangement or Amanda and/or David falling in love with someone or someones, and I’m also down for crossover characters, historical figures, and Ocs


• Lord Corvin/Amanda Frisby/David Martelo - There's an original works ship that's been nominated for several multifandom exchanges, 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.


• Amanda Frisby & Lord Corvin, Lord Corvin/Amanda Frisby – I feel like Amanda and Corvin would get along like a house on fire and I really want to see more of them interacting! I love Corvin being Amanda’s biggest fan in regards to her novels, and I’d love her using him as a beta reader or asking for advice on plots or sex scenes. And for the / ship, I am fascinated by an AU where Corvin ends up marrying Amanda in a verse where she’s a little more ruined by her stay, and how that would turn out. Or a canon compliant take with the Martelos having an open relationship and Amanda and Corvin hooking up!

Doomsday Books – KJ Charles

Doomsday Books – KJ Charles

• Laura Colefax/Odo d'Aumesty – I ended this series so unexpectedly fond of Odo, and I want to see his life post-canon! For people who don’t remember, Laura is his fiancee, the daughter of the curate he asks for help with his investigation. Based on absolutely nothing, I assume Laura and her father have a good relationship, and I’d love to see Odo’s feelings about joining like, an actually functional and loving family. I want to see the two of them nerding out about history together. I am totally down for smut and would especially love to see them doing some incredibly nerdy and intricate roleplay (possibly with one of them getting derailed correcting the other on historical inaccuracies), or something genderfucky with Odo roleplaying as a woman and/or Laura as a man


• Lord Corvin/Luke Doomsday - I was so excited when Corvin popped up as a prior employer of Luke’s, and I want any and all fic about Luke working as Corvin’s secretary and hooking up with Corvin (plus or minus more of the Murder if you wanna add people to the ship!) I’d also love Corvin coming back into Luke’s life post-canon, and feel free to add Rufus to the ship in that case.


• Rufus d'Aumesty/Luke Doomsday – I love these two so much will enjoy anything shippy and/or smutty about them. I love the roleplay aspects of their sex scenes in the book and would love to see them exploring further scenarios! (What if they fucked in the Mithraean temple to help Luke overcome his bad memories of almost dying...) I also love the care Luke takes with accommodating Rufus’s dyslexia, and would love to see more of them running the estate together with their complementary skillsets.


• Berengaria d'Aumesty/Emily Doomsday – I would love to see how they got together! We see just enough of their relationship in the book to make me fall in love with them, but not nearly enough to satisfy me. I also would love to see more about Berengaria’s art and Emily modeling for her. Also, what does Emily think of Berry’s art? Is she also big into art, and they have conversations about theory and stuff, or does she just love her girlfriend’s stuff and not care so much about art in general? Emily discovering an interest and learning more about art theory/history/etc would be very fun. Also! Post-canon fic/art about the aftermath of canon! Berry has learned some very horrible things about her parents, and is also completely free from their influence for the first time! That’s a lot to deal with!


• Joss Doomsday/Gareth Inglis - I love Gareth/Joss and am down for anything you want to write/draw about them! Pre-canon looks at their relationship and/or how they met, post-canon, fluff, fights they’ve had, smut...I am also very into the inner workings of estates and would love to see more of Gareth getting used to being a baronet and taking over from his father, and Joss continuing with his responsibilities as a Doomsday, and how those two might intersect. Also, what happens with them and their relationships with Luke in between books!

Darlene Series - caroline_easom (Web Series)

Darlene Series - caroline_easom (Web Series)

You can watch the canon here: it’s a ~40 minute Tiktok compilation on Youtube about a woman leaving her restrictive, cultlike fundamentalist Christian family to live with her girlfriend.

Ships

• Brittany/Darlene (Darlene Series) - I am so into Darlene getting out of her restrictive family life and getting to live her best life with her girlfriend! Show me the movies, books, events, food, etc her girlfriend introduces her to. If you want to do smut, I am very here for Darlene getting to explore sex with her girlfriend, whether its' pure fluff, angst (maybe involving panic attacks or other anxiety at having sex at all, having sex with a woman, etc), or anything in between.


• Darlene & Librarian (Darlene Series) – I want to see more of Darlene exploring her employment, education, etc options and the librarian helping her! I’m also very into moments where Darlene says something thinking it’s a Totally Normal Experience or common knowledge and then the librarian’s reaction showing her otherwise. Also! Darlene discovering her own skills and that there are things she can do that are uncommon and impressive!


• Darlene & Divinity (Darlene Series) – We only see Darlene and Divinity interact on the day Darlene rescues Divinity from the forced marriage, and I really want to see how their relationship develops as they’re both out from their father’s control. Perhaps Darlene feels pressure to be a good big sister and have her shit together for Divinity. And Darlene has gone a lot farther in terms of deconstructing from her upbringing – I’d love to see conflicts arise from that, with Divinity still deeper into their religious beliefs. Also, we don’t see very much of the aftermath of Darlene coming out to Divinity, and I’d love to see more of that, however you want to have Divinity react!