Ships Crossing Letter 2025

[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.

Crossover-wise, I'm here fusion-style transplanting one character into the canon of the other, portal-style sending one character from their world into the world of the other (or time travel for canons both set in our world), or setting the work in some third setting.

DNWs

• Noncanonical pregnancy, any childbirth - any canonical pregnancies are fine, just don't put the actual childbirth on the page/in the art


• Oviposition


• AUs I DNW: Modern/mundane AUs (nb: if you're crossing over two canons and one is a modern nonmagical setting, you're fine to set the crossover in that canon!), omegaverse/BDSM AU/other AUs involving biologically-assigned kink roles, soulmate AUs (soulbonds are fine!), no-homophobia AUs for settings that in canon have homophobia


• Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine! PIV involving post-phalloplasty dicks or post-vaginoplasty pussies also fine!

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


• 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


• Any and all additional ships welcome, and feel free to add additional characters to my requested ships.


• Internal or external homophobia


• Trans characters, headcanons, character-is-trans AUs all very welcome

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)

Downton Abbey x CCOF

Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey)/Creator's Choice of Male Character (Creator's Choice of Different Fandom)

Give Thomas Barrow a boyfriend of your choice! Thomas is my Downton Abbey little black dress, and a fic I read where he time travels to the present day and falls for Tony Stark awakened in me an undying love for time travel stories where a character from a historical canon ends up in more modern times (and gets to enjoy the technological and social advances that have occurred since their time). If you want to send him through time or dimensions to another canon, or send his shiny new boyfriend to Downton Abbey, that would be delightful! If you want to pair him up with someone whose canon lines up with Edwardian England, that is also great! I just want him to fall in love.

Death in the Spires x Englandverse (KJ Charles)

Daniel da Silva (England series - KJ Charles) & Jem Kite (Death in the Spires), Daniel da Silva (England series - KJ Charles) & Prue Warren (Death in the Spires), Jem Kite (Death in the Spires) & Kim Secretan (Will Darling Adventures - KJ Charles), Kim Secretan (Will Darling Adventures - KJ Charles) & Prue Warren (Death in the Spires)

That's Jem or Prue interacting with Kim or Daniel, which I'm using here as a proxy for – hey wouldn't it be fun if our two mathematicians got recruited by the Private Bureau? Canon ships welcome, as are any others (although please don't break up the canon ships). I just think Jem and/or Prue should get to do an exciting job using their math skills for sneaky spy matters. Possibly this recruitment could come along with machinations to forever clear the Wonders of suspicion of Toby's murder.

Jack Reacher x Murderbot

Jack Reacher (Reacher Books or TV) & Murderbot (Murderbot Books or TV)

If you are familiar with Murderbot but not Reacher – there are 3 seasons of Reacher on Amazon Prime, and about a million books in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (but you could do fanworks without reading all of them, they're very procedural). Jack Reacher is a former soldier who now travels the country on Greyhound buses with only a toothbrush stumbling across people who he ends up saving, and he's got enough autistic energy that when I was googling Jack Reacher, Google suggested "is Jack Reacher autistic?" Strong similarities with Murderbot in other words.

If you are familiar with Reacher but not Murderbot, there is a 10-episode/5-hour Murderbot TV series on Apple+ or a book series of 8 novellas and novels, about a Security Unit (think robot with some fleshy parts and guns in its arms) in a future sci-fi setting who was controlled by a corporation and forced to defend miners and explorers on hostile planets, until it hacks itself into freedom and decides to continue with its job while watching a shit-ton of TV. Then it ends up saving a group it's assigned to guard, becomes friends with them against its will, and continues to rescue humans (also against its will). I think it and Reacher would get along well.

I'm down for putting Reacher in Murderbot's universe or Murderbot in Reacher's universe, although I only have ideas for the former because I admit trying to translate Murderbot's whole thing into a mostly-realistic modern US setting is beyond me. But if my prompt here doesn't spark your fancy, please feel free to go in an entirely different direction!

So like, what if Jack Reacher was a rogue SecUnit? I watched the latest Reacher TV season when it dropped in May and have recently been watching Murderbot and I can't stop thinking about how well Reacher would fit into the Murderbot universe as a rogue SecUnit. He travels all over the country saving people, he is very big and strong and good at combat, he is socially awkward...I'm familiar with book and TV canon for both Murderbot and Reacher, so feel free to draw from either, I just want the concept and I think it would work equally well no matter which adaptation of canon/s you choose.

Or if you want to go with something that gels a little less well with Reacher canon but could be even more interesting, Reacher as a rogue ComfortUnit that has decided he wants to rescue some people and punch others. (I'm down for it or he for Reacher's pronouns for this crossover!)