KJC Exchange Spring 2024

[withinadream]

Thank you for writing 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’d prefer that my main gift be a fic, but I welcome art or podfic treats (including podfics of my own fic).

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 character-is-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! Length of prompts is 0% an indication of what I want more and 100% just a function of what ships I’ve requested before/have previous prompts to pull from.

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.


• 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


• Breaking up canon ships, canon ships cheating on each other - my preferred way to handle canon ships for my noncanon ship requests is to either have it be an open relationship or simply not mentioning the canon ship/s


• 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

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 (or mix it up and make the spies face something supernatural, the wizards solve a murder, 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

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


• Anal sex for everyone, but especially m/f and f/f anal


• 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)

Whump Likes

• For sickfic, I’m good with anything from the common cold to deadly diseases. Just make my requested hurt character/s miserable and I will be happy! Historically-accurate medical care for my historical canons is very welcome, but not necessary


• Torture – I’m especially fond of beatings, whipping, and broken bones


• Fevers, especially making confessions of emotion while feverish and not thinking clearly


• Characters feeling guilty about needing care


• Characters not wanting to stop and rest despite their injuries and/or mental state


• Anxiety or panic attacks

Rape/Noncon/Rape Recovery Likes

• Graphic/onscreen noncon is very welcome, as is a gift that only includes the aftermath and/or recovery!


• Any aggressor/victim gender combos are great!


• You know how so many KJC characters have horrible older brothers and/or fathers? Just feel free to add sexual abuse and/or rape to any of those relationships


• Characters blaming themselves for the rape


• Characters hiding the rape from their friends/loved ones until they accidentally reveal it by completely breaking down


• I am totally down for aroused or unaroused victims


• Aggressors praising the victims, especially in a condescending way


• Aggressors cutting or branding words into the victim, especially insults or marks of property


• Bruises, cuts, blood (especially bleeding from the nose or mouth), visible injuries


• Forced bestiality (with the victim being penetrated)


• Victims killing their aggressor/s during or after the rape

Last Binding/Society of Gentlemen Crossover

• Alan Ross (Last Binding) & Silas Mason, Lord Hawthorn/Alan Ross (Last Binding) & Dominic Frey/Silas Mason, Lord Hawthorn/Alan Ross (Last Binding)/Dominic Frey/Silas Mason - 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

Gentle Art of Fortune-Hunting

• Alice Fenwick/Marianne Loxleigh – I really thought the book was gonna end with these two kissing! Since it didn’t, I turn to fanworks. I’d love to see them having fun on the Continent (sexy fun or otherwise), running a con together for whatever reason you can come up with, Alice being excited about math, Alice and Marianne’s letters home to Hart and Robin (perhaps contrasted with showing the bits they didn’t put in the letters).

Think of England

• Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva & Henry Curtis/Captain Good – I am a sucker for “meet the family” stories, and I also love the idea that Archie was raised by his gay uncles and yet was still baffled to discover that he himself is gay. (Did he know they were a couple, or is he figuring it out during the course of this story? Either is good with me.) I also love Daniel being nervous to meet Archie’s family (although I’d like it if they end up getting along well).

Doomsday Books

• 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!


• Joss Doomsday/Gareth Inglis & Luke Doomsday – I just want to see more of Luke’s relationship with Joss and Gareth, especially between books. I loved how Gareth was able to relate to Luke, and seeing Joss try to do better by Luke. I’d love to see Luke writing letters home from school, or visiting on school breaks, and I’d also like to see Luke returning to Gareth and Joss after his last disastrous pre-Rufus secretarial position.


• 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


• Odo D'Aumesty/Luke Doomsday, Odo D'Aumesty/Rufus D'Aumesty/Luke Doomsday – okay, so my main prompt here is “Odo praise kink”. I think Odo should fuck someone who says nice things about him and get very flustered about it. Also, imagining Odo in the middle of Luke and Rufus’s droit du seigneur roleplays is very fun to me. Odo being surprisingly good at sex when it plays to his historical interests, or alternatively Odo bringing up historical accuracy criticisms of the roleplay scenario. If you have another vision for these ships, go wild! I just really want Odo happiness and/or Odo sex comedy.


• Lord Corvin & Rufus D'Aumesty, The Murder & Rufus D'Aumesty – so like, Rufus doesn’t have a ton of Society Friends now that he’s an earl, and Luke knows the Murder, some of whom are also nobility...Luke should make an introduction. Rufus at a Murder party, Rufus getting estate management tips from Philip, Rufus scandalizing the neighbors with his friendships, or anything else you can come up with!


• Lord Corvin/Rufus D'Aumesty/Luke Doomsday – I don’t even have prompts here, just please give Corvin a threesome with Rufus and Luke! I was so excited to see Corvin pop up in Nobleman’s Guide, and even more excited that he and Luke had hooked up. So clearly Luke should invite Corvin back! Or feel free to combine with the above prompts and do Rufus and Luke at a Murder orgy.


• Rufus D’Aumesty & Any of his Cousins – okay so I love how when faced with the horrible D’AUmesty clan, Rufus sets about figuring out how to get along with his cousins, and I want to see his post-canon interactions with one, two, or all three of them! Meeting Odo’s fiancee, working with Fulk on the estate (listen I am such a slut for estate maintenance), talking art with Berengaria, or anything else you can think of!


• 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.

Band Sinister

• Albert "Cornelius" Scrope/Sinclair – We barely see anything about these two in canon, and the fandom is so good at fleshing out minor characters. I would love to see how they meet the Murder, how they get hired, an outsider POV on canon or made-up Murder shenanigans, or anything else you’d like to write!


• 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/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/Country Curate – so there’s an excerpt of a potential Corvin novel on the KJC Facebook group that has haunted me with a desire for fic since I read it. If you don’t have access, no worries, the important bit is that it’s set post-Band Sinister and contains John Raven telling Corvin that he absolutely should not fuck the curate of Wrayton Magna and Corvin being like “but what if I fuck him anyway~”. Corvin’s description of the curate: The new curate’s not bad, in a gloomy sort of way. A face like funereal architecture of the more magnificent sort. I say this as a compliment, you understand. Please give me this story! If you want my even more niche thoughts, I think it would be very fun if the curate had a previous gay relationship that fell apart because he’s aromantic and couldn’t reciprocate his lover’s romantic feelings, and then meets Corvin and has his horizons of what relationships can be broadened (and also stops hating himself for not being able to be what the past lover wanted/needed).


• Lord Corvin/Mr. Dent – Basically just take my Corvin/Country Curate prompt but make it Mr. Dent. Idk if it’s what was intended, but the description of a gloomy-looking curate sounded familiar, and if you roll with the aro4aro subprompt, it could add some interesting flavor for Dent agreeing to marry Amanda on Aunt Beatrice’s say-so. Dent joining in on some Murder gatherings and Guy and/or Amanda recognizing him would be very fun, as would Dent standing up to and/or scandalizing Beatrice on Corvin’s urging/with Corvin’s support.

Society of Gentleman/Band Sinister Crossover

• The Murder & The Ricardians – listen, these two queer friend groups could not be more different and I so want them to collide. Does one group need the other’s help for something? Does Corvin hear about the Ricardians and make it his life goal to get them to attend a party and/or corrupt them? Does it become a Murder/Ricardians relationship where they all have an orgy?

Society of Gentlemen

• David Cyprian & Silas Mason -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. I also love the potential for hurt/comfort here - I would love to see Silas being the first person to notice that something bad happened to David or the first person David tells, or vice versa, with it being harder to face Richard or Dom than Silas or David.


• David Cyprian/Silas Mason – everything above still goes, and really I just think it would be fun if they hooked up.


• David Cyprian & Silas Mason & Harry Vane – I love David & Silas and Silas & Harry as relationships, and I think it would be very fun to combine them and have Cyprian and Harry interact! I’m especially interested in seeing Silas’s post-canon life, or it would also be very fun to have something bad happen to Silas, and Cyprian and Harry having to work together to help him (whether that’s getting him out of trouble, helping him recover, or whatever else)


• Silas Mason & Julius Norreys – fascinated by the relationship between these two and how they get along better than anyone would expect (ie getting along at all). I’d love to see them becoming friends post-canon, and I’d also love fic where something bad happens to Harry, and Silas and Julius either end up waiting for him to recover or working together to help him get out of trouble or get revenge (or just getting revenge without telling him what they’re doing)


• Gabriel Ashleigh/Julius Norreys/Harry Vane/Francis Webster – I love pretty much all permutations on Ricardians group sex, and this is a group I don’t think I’d thought about before. With Ash and Harry getting along so well as like, the rambunctious puppies of the group, I feel like it’s not too hard to get them and their boyfriends together. Does one of these four have a specific multi-person fantasy they want to act out? Does someone want to be gangbanged? Does a card game get sexual?


• James Oxley & The Ricardians, Silas Mason & The Ricardians – listen I just think the non-gentleman boyfriends should get to come to the Ricardians’ social gatherings too! Like, does Silas particularly want to come to the private rooms at Quex’s? Not really. Will he argue to the death for his (and Oxley’s once he’s in the picture) right to go there with Dom just for the principle of the matter and will Harry join in once he catches wind? Absolutely. It would be awkward at first, but I’d like to see at least some of the other Ricardians start to get along with Silas and/or Jamie by the end. I only nommed the gen versions for space, but I will not turn down a sexier take either. (Also, I have a WIP where on Jamie’s first time meeting the rest of the Ricardians, the group invites Jamie to play cards and Jamie says their bets are probably too rich for his income, and Harry panics and proposes strip pokerpicquet, if that strikes your fancy and you want to do your own version.)


• The Ricardians/The Ricardians – it would be an absolute disaster if the Ricardians had an orgy and I think they should, whether it’s of their own volition or they get dosed with sex pollen somehow or there’s a curse put on them that can only be cured through group sex and/or a gangbang or whatever other justification you want to put here

Charm of Magpies

**DNW exception: if you do a Stephen/Merrick/Lucien fic, feel free to have Merrick never end up with Jenny

• Frank Merrick/Lucien Vaudrey - Listen, I just think they should hook up at some point when they're in Shanghai together. Mutual pining is great, hurt/comfort (with either one being the hurt party) that leads to romance and/or sex is great, the two of them being friends with benefits in between Lucien's ill-advised relationships and Merrick's less-ill-advised relationships is great! The tension in the beginning of their relationship where all Merrick knows is that Lucien is a Vaudrey, and then realizing that Lucien is a much different and more fun/less rapey flavor of asshole is great. No dom/sub preference or top/bottom preference here, but I do think it would be a fun ship dynamic if Merrick is the only person Lucien wants to sub and/or bottom for.


• Stephen Day/Frank Merrick/Lucien Vaudrey - In my latest reread of the series, I kept thinking about a version of the first book where Lucien and Merrick are already together, and how the Lucien/Stephen relationship progression would change. I tend to see it as a V with Crane at the center, although I'd greatly enjoy seeing Stephen and Merrick interact more in a platonic (or not so platonic if you wanna go full triad) way. I'd prefer a work where we can see the ship eventually get to a comfortable place with each other, but starting out with jealousy on Stephen and/or Merrick's part and getting into some angst before that resolution is very welcome! (Basically the only thing I don't want is a fic that's entirely angst about how Stephen or Merrick wishes they were the only person Crane is dating)


• Ned Hall/Crispin Tredarloe - I want to see more of their future as Justiciars! Casefic investigating whatever you’d like, Crispin and Ned learning magic, Ned getting used to this new world he’s been thrust into, them interacting more with the other characters in the series (I love the contrasts we get in the series between how we see the characters when we’re in their heads for their primary books, and how they look to Crispin and Ned). Or elationship fic in general! Smut is very welcome (especially smut involving magic, and listen, these two would be perfect for writing-on-the-body kink), the two of them being domestic together, planning out their future and spending their new salary...

Lilywhite Boys

• Jerry Crozier/Templeton Lane, Jerry Crozier/Templeton Lane/Alexander "Alec" Pyne-ffoulkes – sometimes a book tells me two characters would absolutely never fuck and my mind immediately goes to “okay but what if they did? I'm especially interested in Jerry and Temp having a friends-with-benefits dynamic, where they're not In Love with each other but enjoy hooking up (or maybe they have some sort of kink relationship that they don’t necessarily conceptualize as sex). James dressing Jerry up in opals would be delightful, as would Alec and Jerry bringing in Temp for a more involved fantasy that needs a third person. The only thing I really don't want is for James' anger at Jerry in Gilded Cage to be due to sexual or romantic jealousy.

Sins of the Cities

• Justin Lazarus/Any Seance Client - As soon as Unnatural Vice mentioned Justin "playing the good boy" for clients I wanted some angst about Justin deciding to or having to sleep with clients. You can go more consensual-but-not-fun or dubcon with it, or go full noncon with it. Perhaps a client forcing themselves on Justin, and Justin not being able to say no or he'll lose a significant amount of income. Justin trying to pull himself together afterwards so he doesn't look upset in front of the kids. Justin running into this client post-canon, and perhaps Nathaniel noticing how much Justin hates this person and asking why.