Yuletide Letter 2024
Oct. 16th, 2024 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
withinadreamThank 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! 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 characters, and I’m fine with any ships or friendships involving my requested characters. Length of prompts is not a reflection of which fandoms I want more! I have treats enabled and am happy to receive them.
DNWs
- Unrequested pregnancy
- Omegaverse
- Modern/mundane AUs
- AUs of my historical canons with no homophobia/where queer marriage exists/etc
- Fics that are entirely poetry rather than prose
- Trans characters having PIV sex (other vaginal penetration or use of dicks is fine!)
- Death of my requested characters (deaths of other characters are totally fine)
General 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)
The Sleeping Soldier – Aster Glenn Gray
Characters
- Russel Krause
- I love Caleb and Russel/Caleb as well, but I’m only requesting Russel to leave room for less relationship-focused works about Russel getting used to the 1960s
- I am so into time travel stories where someone from the past travels forward in time, and this canon was like made in a lab for me. I want so many fics about Russel’s experiences in the 1960s! Talking with his classmates or teachers, reacting to books or movies, what he does after college, or anything else you might like to write
- I’m also really into the impact of realizing everyone you knew when you were alive is dead now, and would love some more angst along those lines (or perhaps Russel’s POV on the time he goes missing from the graveyard)
- Russel getting sick and thinking it’s much more serious than it is (because it would have been more serious in the 19th century) was also very enjoyable, and I’d love some sickfic exploring other illnesses or injuries he could acquire that have new and/or improved treatments in the 1960s
- I love Russel/Caleb, and the preconceptions they both bring to the relationship and have to work through, and I want any and all shipfic you want to write about them!
- Russel and Caleb exploring more of the gay scene would be very fun
- If you’re in a smutty mood, I’d also love to see Russel working through his hangups about sodomy through assplay and anal sex. I would also love a Russel/Caleb/Michael threesome, related to sodomy exploration or not!
Charm of Magpies
I’ve read all of Charles’ other books, and would enjoy crossovers with any of those books/series. The Doomsday Books seem particularly suited for a crossover since both series have scenes set in Romney Marsh (and why is the marsh such a magical dead zone?), but I’m down for any combo, and I’d also be into any of the characters from other books in an AU where they’re practitioners or otherwise involved in the magical world.
Characters
- Crispin Tredarloe & Ned Hall
- 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).
- Relationship fic in general! Smut is very welcome (especially smut involving magic – perhaps incorporating drawing-on-skin kink), the two of them being domestic together, planning out their future and spending their new salary...
- I would love to see more magical worldbuilding! I love how Crispin has nonstandard magic, and I love that Ned is a newcomer to this world, and I want to see more about them using their abilities and learning how to work well together.
- In my most recent reread, Ned’s passion for protecting non-magical people from practitioners really struck me, and I’d love to see him agitating for change with how the Justiciars deal with non-magical victims.
- Somewhat relatedly, I’d love to see Ned getting more comfortable with magic
- 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).
Queen’s Thief
I’m very behind on books, so I haven’t read Moira’s Pen yet. Is Pheris in it? I’m not sure, but feel free to use or discard any MP details about Pheris or any other characters in your fic.
Characters
- Pheris
- If you want to write whump or h/c, I have a lot of specific tropes in my Trauma Exchange letter, and here’s my general request: I fell so in love with Pheris during Return of the Thief, and I want endless fanworks about him, especially post-canon. 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!!
- As a fellow math nerd, I love how much Pheris loves math, as well as his enthusiasm for other subjects. I want to see anything about his studies that you want to write!
- I also really love the variety of disabled and chronically ill characters in the book, and I would love to see fic about Pheris’s disability and/or how he relates to the other disabled/etc characters in canon. I loved seeing the accommodations he got in canon and would love to see more about him doing his job as a baron in the future, and what accommodations might look like there (as well as how people react to him)
- I love his relationships with Eugenides and Kamet and Relius and how they all genuinely care for him but are also considering politics and the Greater Good in their interactions to various degrees, and I’d love to see how those relationships might grow and change post-canon.
- If you want to get shippy with Pheris post-canon, feel free!
Darlene Series - caroline_easom (Web Series)
I watched this fandom via Youtube compilation, located here.
Characters
- Darlene
- 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
- I also love Darlene helping her sister and mother, and would love fic about her going up against her father and/or helping her relatives adjust to life outside of their religion! (The compilation I watched stopped at Darlene's mother telling her to follow the money, so if there are further Tiktoks I missed where Darlene actually does take down her father, forgive the prompt redundancy)
- I would be very into fic exploring Darlene's adjustment period to life after fundamentalism - guilt, learning how to do things she's never experienced before, what her therapy sessions look like, gaining job skills/taking her GED/maybe taking classes
- If you want to write 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
Society of Gentlemen – KJ Charles
Characters
- Will Quex & Jon Shakespeare
- I so desperately want backstory fic for these two. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? How did they end up running Quex’s? What was Will’s life like between leaving his family and the beginning of the books?
- Will and/or Jon POV on the events of the books would be very fun. I love that they’re in the background snarking about the gentlemen and occasionally helping Silas and David, and I’d love to see any of the big (or small) events of SoG through their eyes
- So I love threesomes and I love that Will and Jon are canonically into threesomes, and I would love to see more smut about this, whether that’s with Cyprian, with Silas (+/- Dom), or with other characters or OCs of your choice (feel free to bring in some crossover characters for porn purposes as well! I’ve read all of KJC’s other books if any of her characters strike your fancy, but I’m down for literally any fandom for this crossover prompt, even if I haven’t heard of it)
- I’d also really love smut of the two of them alone!
- Really, I just want more fic about these two somewhat minor characters who have stolen my heart. So if you have a Will & Jon story you’ve been dying to tell, hit me with it and I will love it
The Soldiering Life - The Decemberists (Song)
Characters
- Narrator & Narrator’s Brother-In-Arms
- I love fic for songs because there’s so little to work with, and I love seeing how different people piece together all of the little hints in the lyrics of who these characters are. We have the narrator, and his “Bowery tough” comrade – is there a class difference here? The narrator seems to be enjoying the war – is it because his pre-war life was just that shitty, is it because of his blooming love for his brother-in-arms, is it something else?
- In general, I love World War I stories, so anything you want to run with regarding these two and their relationship in the trenches would be lovely
- I would also love a post-war fic showing what becomes of them and their relationship, and how that relationship changes once they’re back in the ‘real world’. (I am down for some relationship struggles but I would prefer they still remain friends/lovers in the end!) I’d also love to see either or both of them coping with physical or mental war wounds – again, feel free to follow your own muse, but if you want more guidance I’d enjoy shell shock or an amputation/loss of limb. I'm also interested in Harold Gillies' work with plastic surgery for facial injuries in WW1, but I have no idea if connecting him to our American soldiers from the song is stretching historical plausibility too much or not
- Look, I am here for the homoerotic soldiers, so if you want to go for pure romance or smut, I am not opposed at all
