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fencesit
Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3!
You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! I very much desperately want everything I've requested, I've just had more time to request some things than others.
And: please don't feel like you need to follow one of my prompts to keep from disappointing me. I've provided all the information below in an attempt to help my writer feel confident in producing a gift for me, but if prompts and extra details don't work for you then feel free to ignore them.
ALSO I know that this letter is really long. Please just skip sections that don't interest you!
I'm up for recursive fic of my own fic or recursive of gifts I've received in the past (assuming you have the author's permission).
DNW:
- unrequested AUs
- canon divergence is okay
- I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators
- Something like "Airplane-bro made a cultivation otome game instead of writing a cultivation stallion novel" or "Konoha was never founded" in Naruto — I consider those technically canon divergence rather than straight AUs.
- including spit as lube, but oral is fine
- specifically I would like to avoid car crashes and anything that resembles them.
- other forms of transit disaster are fine (eg, airplane crash or shipwreck)
- if I'm requesting a canon set in space, spaceship crashes are fine as long as the ships are more like airplanes or cruise ships (long term, chartered, lots of people) than they're like cars (daily commute, 1-4 people, etc).
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
- depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
- Typically dissociation shows up as reaction to stress or trauma where the character experiencing it feels disconnected in some way from their emotions, their body, reality, etc; sometimes the character acts on autopilot.
- If you're writing/drawing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with an actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay.
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- including using characters from other canons as stand-ins for OCs, even if the character or their appearance in the fic is very minor.
- including borrowing worldbuilding/magic systems/artifacts/alien races/etc.
- definitely fine for characters to know about or reference anything you think it's reasonable for them to have consumed as media, e.g. modern mundane characters have probably heard of Star Wars.
Naruto DNWs/clarifications
- Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto
SVSSS DNWs/clarifications
- characters finding out that they're fictional
- the rotting undead/zombies clarification: TLJ kind of falls into this category but I love him and he can definitely show up even where I haven't specifically requested him! Please gently skirt around any gross details about his poor sad plant body — mentions of his limbs falling off are fine, but description of why exactly they won't stay attached is best left implied.
The Adventure Zone clarifications
- the rotting undead/zombies clarification: All the undead stuff that shows up in canon is totally fine, including Lich King Gordie.
The Devil Wears Prada DNWs
- fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship with a man — but I don't need Andy and Miranda to stay together and I don't need you to explicitly break up any of the canon het ships if you're writing something set before Andy breaks up with her boyfriend/before Miranda's divorce
Nimona clarifications
- suicide/suicidal ideation clarification: Nimona's canonical, uh, problems and actions are just fine to mention as long as you don't add additional attempts past the one in the movie.
Likes
Art likes
- soft colors, and also specifically moss green and all shades of purple, especially for slice-of-life and domestic scenes
- black and white or greyscale
- lineless art and thick lines and messy lines!
- dramatic lighting, especially if the moment is tense or dangerous
- cartoony styles and realistic styles!
- movement and foreshortening
- crosshatching, stippling, visible brushstrokes, and other techniques that let me see what the artist physically did with their pencil/brush/digital equivalent
- that thing where it's all back and white or greyscale except for one (1) color
- art that explores the minutiae of a character's life, like what exactly is on their bookshelf or in their bag
- hands touching, forehead kisses, focus on hair (blowing in the wind, being braided, being combed, bun/ponytails for characters who usually wear it down and wearing it loose for characters who usually wear it up), carrying (bridal, piggyback, fireman carry, that no-homo superhero side hug), flying, falling, swimming, characters doing action things like kicking and flips and stabbing
Fic likes:
- Canon divergence
- slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
- time travel
- especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
- time loops
- see my Past Imperfect letter!
- fake/fantasy politics/science and explorations of systems/relationships (eg magic systems, fictional governments or economies, the local gossip network)
- character backstory, noodle incidents, references to past canon or noncanon events, a sense of history between two (or more) characters
- vivid/specific details that relate to things like where a character is, what that location is used for, why, and how the character feels about it
- casefic/missionfic
- investigations/mysteries
- characters with specific goals or problems to solve (finding some treasure, getting a glass of water, murdering their nemesis)
- monster/murder/crime-of-the-week type plots
- the enemy of my enemy is my friend
- making friends under unusual circumstances
- A being uncertain of or surprised by how deep B's loyalty runs
- found family
- friends reconnecting after being out of contact for a long time
- signs of familiarity/intimacy, like knowing each other's habits really well or feeling comfortable touching them/being touched in a society where that's notable
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone isn't sticking out, blood loss....pretty much anything non-permanent and not too gorey or with the gore skimmed over. special mention for Naruto-esque eye loss where it's traumatic and bad but the eye can just be put back in if they find a good medic.
- also as implied by my DNWs I'm not a big fan of sickfic but I love huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
- poisonings and venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- in terms of emotional hurt: self esteem issues and unexpected mercy! Special mention for everything below.
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
- character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
- usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
- cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example: "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved, "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
- aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
- injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
- lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
- hands too shaky to complete task
- forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
- handcuffed together
- sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together, working together in enemy territory
- 5+1
- drabble series
- outsider POV
- second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
- I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
- I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
- I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
- curses
- garbage-tier magical items
- extra senses
- worldbuilding around learning/doing magic
Ship likes:
- Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.
- Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
- Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
- Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
- Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
- Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
- When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.
Smut likes
I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?
There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so:
- Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
- Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
- anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, toys
- overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
- bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
- praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
- magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
- clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
- hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
- size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
- pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
- probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.
Marriage likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Misunderstandings and surprises!
- Accidental Marriage due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
- Accidental/unexpected soulbond is cultural equivalent of marriage
- Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
- Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (but they aren't! or not anymore at least lol)
- Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival
- Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling
- Mistakenly Thinking Your Spouse Hates You
- Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
- Arranged marriage to end conflict
- Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
- Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
- Marrying Someone You Don't Like to Save Them From a Worse Fate
- Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
- Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
- Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
- Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
- Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
- Divorced Arranged Marriage Spouse must Marry Back Into The Family
- Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
- Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
- Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse
- Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
- Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
- Marriage to Satisfy Life-Debt / Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Character Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Family Won't Pay Bride Price/Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
- If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
- If Character A Can't Have Their Loved One They'll Marry Younger Sibling B (& Fall In Love With B)
Horror Likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
- Aftermath of Torture
- Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
- Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation
- Betraying Someone to Save Them from a Worse Fate
- Building layout changes sometimes
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked
- character convinced there will be no rescue
- Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
- Characters are all alone in the middle of nowhere with no one able to help
- Fucking around with the Ouija Board was a bad idea
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
- Mannequins That Move When a Character Looks Away
- People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
- Physically impossible spaces/buildings
- Principle of object permanence is violated
- Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
- Seen only out of the corner of your eye
- Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
- Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
- Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
- Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
- Time Travel - Character(s) Learn Dark Secret They Didn't Know at the Time
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
- Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs and at the Mercy of Someone They Don't Trust
Time travel Likes!
(sorry these are all Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Time Travel Fix-It
- Peggy Sue (Mental Time Travel to Past - Replacing Past Self)
- Altering Canon or Backstory
- Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
- Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
- fixing one's own mistakes
- Time travel to save a friend or loved one
- Trying To Change The Timeline By Saving Someone
- Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help
- Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass
- Time Traveling To A Different Time Than The One You Meant To Travel To
- Attempted Time Travel Sends Character To Another World Instead
- Time Travel Fix-It - Time Traveler Fixes Things By Accident
- Time travel inadvertently reveals past secret
- Accidental Time Travel To The Past
- One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected
- Falling in love/making friends with a past version of an enemy
- Enemies Travel Back In Time Together
- Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
- Unexpectedly Living With The Consequences Of Actions During Final Loop
- Groundhog Peggy Sue
- Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop
- Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop
- Looping character trying to save another character's life
- Time loop where character makes things worse before making them better
- Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created
- Time Travel To The Past Destroys Original Timeline
- Can't Time Travel To A Time You're Already Alive In
- Adjusting to a Different Era
- Outsider POV Of Strange Events Caused By Time Travel
- Outsider POV Of Time Traveler(s)
- Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption
- Introducing Advanced Technology/Medicine/Sanitation to the Past
Naruto
AO3 matching tag: Naruto
Fandom note: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain and/or ignore most of the end of the series and just let ninja be ninja.
Requested ships:
- Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
- Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Madara
- Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi
- Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna
- Senju Tobirama & Uzumaki Mito
- Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito
Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
This ship has just SUCH good potential for tension, conflict, politics, and iddy, iddy goodness. They're from two warring clans! They're at the center in a crazy shift in ideology and warfare! Listen, I could gush about them forever.
Tobirama and Madara have a really interesting contrast (eg, Tobirama has a strong leaning towards analysis and systems...and meanwhile Madara is like a big huge hot mess of All The Feelings) and the fact that they were probably raised very differently and definitely raised on opposite sides of a longstanding conflict is hella good. Their thoughts on the village, their approaches to problem solving, and even probably their very fundamental belief systems are extremely different and that's the kind of thing that can lead to really interesting tension. What they do have in common (Hashirama, losing brothers, wanting to protect their clans, each at some point in some way genuinely believing in Konoha, probably PTSD from the whole child soldier thing) makes for an interesting foundation to build a relationship.
I'd love something that explores how hard it is for them to trust each other, especially when vulnerable. Any kind of focus on ninja being cautious, dangerous, suspicious, sneaky, and etc.I don't need/want them to be grimdark edgelords who assassinate kids once a week or anything, but just kind of...a general awareness that they've been at war their whole lives against the kind of enemies who use illusions, poison, infiltration, subtle manipulation, and any other means necessary to achieve their goals! I love that shit.
Ship likes:
- either or both whumped
- physical or emotional h/c
- enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
- either or both of them being socially isolated from their respective clans
- either or both of them having poor marriage prospects despite their status/power
- a slow building of trust and intimacy, especially around being physically vulnerable, sharing potential weaknesses re: their clans, and Tobirama making eye contact with Madara's Sharingan
Timelines: I definitely like things set before the village comes together, in AUs where Izuna lived to see the village come together, or in relatively canon-compliant situations where Tobirama killed Izuna. The world is your oyster. I'm somewhat less interested in anything set after Madara leaves the village, but only because I like happy endings; if you think you can make it work please go for it.
Prompts:
- forced to work together — hired by the same person, imprisoned together by bloodline thieves, trapped in a time loop. stranded far from home in an inhospitable wilderness
- arranged marriage — arranged well before founding to stop the war between their clans (in which case Tobirama is basically a hostage!) or arranged after peace to facilitate the founding of the village (in which case Tobirama is slightly less of a hostage) or arranged after founding in an attempt to unify the village. (Maybe Izuna is dead and it's a really rocky road to getting the ship together. Maybe Izuna is alive and hating every minute of this.)
- Tobirama travels back in time and, knowing that killing Izuna ultimately caused more problems than it solved, decides to try out a different solution.
- Madara travels back in time and figures Tobirama won't kill Izuna if Madara manages to seduce him first.
- Izuna dies in a manner unrelated to the Senju — don't get me wrong, I'm fine with Izuna being alive or with him being dead the way he canonically died, but also Madara's grief is really delicious and I would love a fic that explores it with this ship without having the awkward "and also, Tobirama did the killing" part of things.
- For politics reasons, Madara and Tobirama keep running into each other in places where they can't afford to fight. A third party they both have reason to believe is a significant threat leads them into an enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend relationship that eventually develops into something more.
- Unexpected rescue; unexpected mercy — Tobirama and Madara are enemies, but they both have significant relationships with Hashirama, who wants peace between their clans. What if one of them is given the option to leave the other to die but instead performs a (possibly ill-advised rescue)? What if one of them had the chance to kill or imprison the other, but decided not to?
- I am fucking bananas for city planning details. What if they had to work together to plat Konoha? Or discuss building codes and civilian vs ninja traffic priorities? And then they fell in love????
- Characters team up to investigate something — I would love something spooky or nonspooky where they go on a mission and have to figure out a mystery, find a killer, track down drug traffickers, investigate the recent rise in littering and jaywalking...you know, whatever! As far as paranormal/supernatural things go I would love a ghost but a spirit or demon or whatever would be cool too.
- Madara is injured or poisoned and Tobirama knows that Hashirama would want him to help.
- Tobirama is undercover somewhere for some reason and runs into Madara...who for some reason plays along with Tobirama's ruse.
- Dimension travel — One of them takes a trip to a strange place. A verse where Tobirama died and Izuna lived? A verse where peace never happened? A verse where the Senju formed the village but the Uchiha didn't join?
- Enemies to allies/friends — any of these excellent freeforms: Enemies Forced To Work Together, Enemies to Allies - Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together, Exciting People You Meet In Prison, Former Enemies Stranded Far From Home Become Friends
- learning to trust each other — speaking of after the village is founded! Clans full of child soldiers trying to form a new society of fellow child soldiers with whom they've been in a bloody war as long as anyone can remember is a GREAT way to explore how/if ninja ever really trust each other. I mean, or set it before the village and have them need to trust each other to get through a join mission. Anything along these lines would be so delicious.
Uchiha Madara/Haruno Sakura
What I really like about this ship is a chance to explore the Warring Clans Era (or the village founding era!) in comparison to the future that Sakura comes from. Konoha winds up with a lot of problems, but I think it's also probably an inconceivably improved situation compared to the Warring Clans experience, and I really love the idea of Madara as a worn-down idealist who thinks even peace with the Senju might not be possible meeting — and falling in love with! — Sakura, who not only knows peace is possible but who probably had lots of ideas about how to improve the Konoha of the future!
I also think this ship has a ton of great potential for tension and trust issues, assuming Sakura made it far enough into the events of canon to meet Madara as an enemy. Also, if you want to make Madara sad or hurt, and maybe make Sakura OP or emphasize her crazy good future healing skills, I would be very into that.
I would prefer that Sakura and Madara be roughly the same age (like, both teenagers) or at least both roughly adults even if one is older.
Worldbuilding I would love to see explored:
- What's Madara's reputation like in the Warring Clans Era? How do clans besides the Senju view the Uchiha?
- How does Sakura's medical knowledge differ from the medical knowledge of the era? How did having access to the knowledge of many clans and village-supported research influence medical knowledge in Konoha?
- How do Sakura's combat techniques differ from the common techniques of the era? How does her knowledge about chakra, strategy, etc match up to what the Uchiha know? Would also love something that touches on Sakura being raised in relative peacetime.
- Sakura grew up in a place where she had close friends in lots of different clans and she was encouraged to make strong bonds of friendship with them. What kind of societal norms (especially in relation to personal space, food sharing, gossiping, technique sharing, shows of trust) did she grow up with that are different from the societal norms of the Warring Clans Era?
Prompts:
- Stuck in the past alone, Sakura needs to make a living while she waits for the village to be founded/start accepting random citizen applications, but taking missions without a clan is a terrible idea...so she works as a healer instead. This somehow brings her in contact with Madara.
- Stuck in the past with a Konoha comrade of your choosing, Sakura is brought into a clan by her teammate! When it becomes clear that an arranged marriage would really smooth the clan's entry into Konoha, Sakura volunteers to be the bride...only to really regret it when the groom turns out to be Madara.
- Madara is captured by bloodline thieves! Sakura rescues him.
- Sakura's goal for coming back to the past was to preemptively murder Uchiha Madara. Unfortunately, she's now met pre-going-crazy Madara and he's hot and sympathetic and wants kids to stop fucking dying unnecessarily and, oops, murder is looking less and less like a good solution...
- The village has been founded! Sakura can finally join! It turns out it's really weird for her to be in Konoha as it's coming together, and extra weird for there to be so many Uchiha around, and double extra weird to keep turning the corner and finding Uchiha Madara standing around talking to people.
- Uchiha Izuna is dying and won't let a Senju heal him...but Sakura conveniently isn't a Senju!
Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi
Sometimes when I think about Kisame I just get so emotional!!!! Especially when I think about him being sad Itachi was dead as he himself was dying oh my god ;-; he was so loyal and also a big fighty shark person who just wanted to kick ass and have people tell him the truth and I wish he and Itachi could have gotten a happy ending, especially because I am also frequently devastated when thinking about Itachi. I love that they their professional relationship working together for the Akatsuki developed into a real friendship (or....more? :DDD) and gosh I would just like to roll around in some fic for them!!
Also definitely this paragraph from the Kisame/Kakashi section applies to this ship too: I really love ships between dangerous people who have little reason to trust each other, so two extremely strong, suspicious ninja from different villages coming to trust and then even like each other goes straight to my id, and so does any ongoing tension over their loyalties and stuff!
To be clear I am requesting both the / and the & version of the ship because I don't have any preference for how shippy what I get is. Friends/allies/frenemies would all be just as neat! I just like it when they interact.
Ship likes:
- either or both whumped
- physical or emotional h/c
- enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or enemies-to-coworkers/teammates-to-lovers (you might be sensing a pattern at this point in the letter)
- bottom!Itachi if you want to write anal (not a deal breaker, just a preference!)
- battle couple
- Kisame being a lil afraid of Itachi and a lot turned on by it
Timelines: I love Itachi and Kisame working together as missing nin, but I also really like Kirigakure worldbuilding and all of the characters associated with it, so something set before Kisame leaves or in a universe where he didn't would be good too! A no-Uchiha massacre AU (or an AU where it happened but differently!) on top of any of the other AUs I'm requesting would be swell, too. Whenever you set the fic, I definitely don't want any shippy parts when Itachi is still under 18; feel free to age him up or simply set things when Itachi is older.
Prompts
- Met while captured together — Maybe Akatsuki doesn't exist for some reason (something something [handwaves] Orochimaru managed to kill Madara and/or Pein before Itachi could join?) so they're just two missing nin who whoops get captured at the same time and then have to work together!
- timeloop where one or both of them make it worse before making it better — or just a regular timeloop, or just regular time travel, but I am really feeling this kind!
- no village AU — The Uchiha are a powerful, famous clan. Kisame has always wanted to fight an Uchiha, but this meeting isn't going exactly how he'd expected it would.
Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna
Izuna was so against peace and so unwilling to trust Hashirama that he literally died for it so I would LOVE to see him be Like That with Hashirama. Maybe they do a sort of enemies-to-friends thing where Izuna realizes he's wrong...or maybe Izuna remains staunchly certain that Hashirama is his enemy! I would honestly enjoy either. Overall any kind of focus on how terrifying Hashirama is to other ninja/Izuna in particular would be wonderful, as well as any look at the sort of general suspicion and caution required in the warring clans era! Like, is it hard for Hashirama to trust Izuna? Is helping Izuna a difficult choice, despite Hashirama's dream?
I would enjoy anything from Hashirama and Izuna becoming friends despite Izuna's best efforts to Hashirama having to injure or kill Izuna for the sake of the village, so really go where your heart takes you!
Timeline: Pretty much anything would be good, pre- or post-village founding, but I usually like for characters to be 12 or older just because I don't find children very interesting to read about? On the other hand they're off being child soldiers at that age, so maybe it'd be good! I trust you.
Prompts:
- Okay hear me out Hashirama rescuing Izuna from people trying to steal his eyes.
- Or both of them captured and having to escape together.
- Izuna could be injured and Hashirama could heal him whether he likes it or not.
- Hashirama defeating Izuna in a fight or capturing him and izuna being surprised by how well Hashirama treats him/by Hashirama keeping him alive at all.
- Any situation where they have to collaborate.
- Any situation where Izuna is forced to trust/rely on Hashirama or has not worry about Hashirama taking advantage of some weakness.
- ...sorry this is so short! I've basically just requested it for two freeform exchanges so I don't have a good prompts list built up yet. You can read the Gen Freeform Exchange prompts here and the Hurt/Comfort Exchange prompts here.
Senju Tobirama&/Uzumaki Mito
I started thinking about these two as a ship because it was nice to imagine Tobirama getting to be with someone who shares his interest in seals, and it seems like a nice direction to go to explore Mito's character! And the more I thought about it the more I wanted it, especially because of the delicious potential for misunderstandings and drama and tension.
When it comes to dealing with Mito's marriage to Hashirama, I am okay with (but don't kink on) infidelity, or Hashirama could be dead (earlier than in canon or otherwise), or Hashirama could be gay for Madara, or Hashirama and Mito could have an open relationship, or Hashirama and Tobirama could both be married to Mito at the same time. Or whatever! Live your dreams.
Of course, I would also be really into gen fic for them too!! I can't really bare to write a new section for them — it would basically just be an edited version of the above and most of the "Things I'd like to see explored" sections below, which I hope will work for you!
Timelines: Before Mito comes to the Senju, after Mito comes to the Senju, pre-village construction, post-village construction... I have no preferences although it'd be nice if Mito and Tobirama could be 18 or older. Don't be afraid to make them much older, like during Tobirama's tenure as Nidaime!
Things I'd like to see explored about Mito:
- Did/does she want to get married to Hashirama? Did/does she want to get married at all?
- How does she feel about the village before/during/after its construction? Who first told her about it? How much did she help with its construction?
- Does she miss Uzushiogakure? Does she play her part in clan and international politics?
- How hard is it for her to become adjusted to living with the Senju? How hard is it for them to become adjusted to her? Do her expectations line up with reality?
- How does Mito feel about the Uchiha?
Things I'd like to see explored about Tobirama:
- How does Tobirama feel about having another accomplished seal master around? Has he ever had so much opportunity to talk about seals before?
- Do he and Mito use the same kind of sealing (maybe Tobirama was taught by the Uzumaki/from Uzumaki materials?) or do they use different sealing techniques (like maybe Tobirama is self-taught?)?
- Does Tobirama desperately want a relationship but think he can't have one? Does he think he doesn't want one until he meets Mito? What do other people assume he thinks about sex/romance and are they right?
- If Mito isn't a kunoichi (or, hasn't frequently fought/taken missions) how does Tobirama feel about being involved with her? — does he consider her vulnerable despite her sealing abilities?
Other Prompts:
- AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Grief over Hashirama would work, but connecting over something else would be great too! I'd also be interested in seeing this link grow slowly as they become more in sync instead of snapping into place suddenly — a manifestation of their emotional intimacy that they can't ignore.
- Sex pollen — Tobirama comes back from a mission sex pollened (or drugged-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, or chakra-sick-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, whatever) and Mito steps up to help him out.
- Maybe it's conventional for married-in wives to help their brother-in-laws like this, maybe it isn't.
- Maybe Hashirama suggests it or maybe he's off on important business and the decision falls completely to Mito.
- Maybe Tobirama is relieved and grateful, maybe he fears Hashirama's wrath. Maybe it has to be Mito because no one else is willing...or maybe it doesn't have to be Mito but she insists.
- I'd prefer Tobirama to end up really into the sex even if he doesn't start out that way.
- I'm way more interested in guilt on Tobirama's part for fucking his brother's wife than I am for guilt on Mito's part for sleeping with someone other than his husband, but I'll take both or either!
- Femdom absolutely welcome.
- Maybe Tobirama’s mission pay over the years has mostly gone into the fund to get Hashirama a good wife? Maybe the Uzumaki find this out and Mito thinks she gets to pick between Hashirama and Tobirama? Maybe Mito finds out that that's why Tobirama isn't so much as engaged even years later?
- Mito accidentally falls in love with Tobirama during her engagement to Hashirama, something which Tobirama is maybe 100% oblivious about. She has to move carefully to switch her arranged marriage from Hashirama to Tobirama without insulting the Senju.
- Hashirama is busy with something so Tobirama is sent to pick Mito up and escort her to the Senju/the wedding venue. Mito spends the whole trip thinking Tobirama is her husband-to-be.
- Mito and Tobirama are forced to marry and both think it will go terribly, but grow to like each other
- Mito picks Tobirama as the best out of what she thinks are a lot of bad options
- they’re drawn together by shared grief
- one of them has been silently in love with the other, or they’ve both silently been in love with each other, and now they finally have a chance to confess their feelings and be together.
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
AO3 matching tag: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Fandom note: I'm pretty sure I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.
Requested relationships:
- Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua & Tianlang-jun (SVSSS)
Shipping: I don't mind references to LBH/SQQ, but I would prefer to avoid having it be a major part of any story because it's easy to find content for. In terms of mixing and matching my requested relationships, please feel free to include multiple gen relationships and/or several gen relationships plus one of my romantic ships. If you are writing a story that would benefit from being able to mention it, I also like YQY/Shen Jiu — especially when it's unresolved or one-sided — and am a big fan of SXY/TLJ.
General SVSSS prompts
There are some things I always want in every SVSSS fic and it seemed easier to list them here than to repeat them in every section!
- Exploration of Airplane's shitty worldbuilding brought to life. What holes has the System filled in surprising ways? How often to characters from later plots show up earlier on account of being real people now? Do the various mcguffins that LBH runs into in PIDW turn up and cause problems? Also, I'm really into background details about how things work, including the sects, An Ding specifically, the demon economy, what it means for MBJ to be the Demon King of the North, etc.
- Exploration of Airplane's shitty wife plots. Dumb, dramatic, unresolved, full of gratuitous fucking, plagued by soap opera levels of drama and overrun with people who don't have two brain cells to rub together...it's a really great way to work in tropes, a really great way to bring up PIDW, and even a wonderful source of conflict!
- Exploration of Airplane's exciting flora and fauna. All of the monsters in SVSSS are SO cool and I would love to see more of them! How are their parts used? Are some of them native and others have wandered over from the demon realm? Are any of them nice, or kept as pets?
- Alternate universe - role swap — the peak lords are demons and the demons are human cultivators.
- Alternate universe - different PIDW — Airplane was developing an indie video game instead of writing a novel. Was it supposed to be a gay dating sim but whoops Airplane could only get funding for terrible het content? A farming/mining/resource management sim but all the NPC relationship drama kept getting in the way? An open world RPG but Airplane didn't have the money to develop any of the story branches besides the marry-lots-of-wives-and-torture-a-dude bad ending that whoops everyone thought was a good ending?
- Canon divergence - different transmigration — Airplane or SY or both transmigrate into different bodies, at different times, etc.
- Canon divergence - fix it — literally any kind of fix it even if it has nothing to do with the requested relationship. Eg, if you want to have LQG and SJ get together in a series of events that happens to swerve into fixing SXY's death, I am so 100% there for that. Bonus if time travel.
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt— I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and I think that this is exactly the kind of convoluted trope Airplane-bro would have written in for wife #450 without necessarily thinking through the consequences. For this canon, a cultural thing or a magic thing would be equally fine with me, because I think it's very interesting when it's cultural (especially if sometimes life debts can be satisfied in other ways but in this particular case it has to be marriage for some reason!) but I also think there's plenty of room in the canon worldbuilding to make it a You're Now Married Because Magic Says So sort of thing.
Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu | Shen Qingqiu
I love that LQG mistakenly thinks SQQ tried to kill him and SQQ knows that LQG thinks that and never apparently tried to clarify it. SQQ is honestly the very definition of getting in his own way and meanwhile LQG doesn't see him clearly at all, so the idea of them having to work that shit out is absolute gold. I'm a big fan of LQG having to reconsider everything he knows about SQQ and of SQQ learning to gradually settle the fuck down and lower just a tiny bit of his guardwalls that keep everyone metaphorically ten feet away at knifepoint even (especially) when they're trying to help. An exploration of their differing life experiences/socio-economic classes before or even after entering the sect would be especially welcome.
Also, I really love SJ h/c if you want to sprinkle that on but I would prefer minimum amounts of focus on the torture SJ goes through in PIDW — references on level with canon are fine, though, and it's great motivation for time travel! I just don't find it narratively very interesting and also am pretty squeamish.
Prompts:
- AU where life debts have to be paid and one way to pay them is marriage.
- Casefic! Solving a murder or tracking down the source of a garbage tier magical item or curse is a great time for bonding.
- LQG is injured/poisoned/trapped/captured on a mission. To his surprise, SQQ doesn't leave him behind.
- Alternate first meeting — LQG and SJ meet before YQY brings SJ to Cang Qiong, or SJ comes to Cang Qiong under different circumstances that either make him less bitter or make it harder for LQG to misunderstand him.
- As a punishment for being unable to get along, LQG and SJ are forced to work together on a research project, co-teaching younger disciples, or a long and boring series of missions that quickly snowballs to something exciting and dangerous.
- LQG time travels into his own younger body and, being more knowledgeable and mature, finds that SJ comes off way different than the blackhearted villain LQG saw the first time around.
Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
I love Shang Qinghua so much and as much as I love Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun, my favorite part of the Airplane extras was 100% the mission to the haunted well. What a disaster team! I love them! The Cang Qiong Peak Lords are politically powerful and a very formidable force and ride-or-die for each other...but emotionally speaking they're also a MESS and I am so here for it. None of these people understand each other. None of these people like each other, I'm pretty sure. I just want to read more about them being simultaneously the tops of their respective fields and also complete trainwrecks.
For Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua specifically, I'm really interested in how SQH knows way, way more about SQQ than SQQ would ever expect or want him to know, and how for years and years SQH looks at SQQ and things "I know how you die" but doesn't think he can stop it. I really loved that part in the Airplane Extras where SQH tries just a *little* to avert LQG's death by giving SQQ weird advice and I'd love to see him step up his interventions more and more, pushing against the boundaries set by the System, until he actually maybe succeeds. And makes a friend! Maybe.
Prompts:
- SQH accidentally or on purpose switches places with YQY during whatever situation led to YQY and SJ's canonical reunion. SJ still saves his life — or SQH manages to dodge! — and then SQH has to convince SJ to come to Cang Qiong.
- On a joint mission, SQH recognizes that the people who called on them for help are entering into the very beginning of some future horribly tragic wife plot. He insists on getting involved. SQQ is not happy.
- Canon divergence: SQH figures out how to weaponize SQQ's spiteful, vicious nature against the Huan Hua Palace Master early on and accidentally solves the plot by arranging for SQQ and the Palace Master to be enemies. (MBJ is very impressed, probably.)
- SY doesn't transmigrate, things go terribly wrong, and SQH decides to travel back to the past to fix things. Somehow.
- SQQ's terrible reputation ultimately became a really big problem for SQQ and for the sect, so SQH starts fixing it. SQQ notices.
Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
....a separate section for the / ship, yes! This is kind of a ridiculous ship and definitely a disaster waiting to happen BUT ALSO...it makes sense. SQQ is cold, scary, prideful, and beautiful! Meanwhile SQH gave up on having any dignity well before he and SQQ met, doesn't really care if other people are dignified, is surprisingly competent when he's not being an idiot or playing dead like a coward, and knows so many things. This would be the weirdest fuckbuddies and/or romance ever, but I think it would work! At least for awhile! Maybe in secret!
For this ship I'm definitely okay with them not being serious about each other and/or breaking up by the end of the fic, although if you want to try and get them to some kind of happy ending I definitely wouldn't complain.
Prompts:
- Tropey nonsense — handcuffed together, there's only one bed, accidental soulbonds, huddling for warmth, etc!
- SQQ needs a dual cultivation partner for medical reasons or something and picks SQH under the (completely correct) assumption that he'll at least be able to bully SQH around. But then, oh no, he catches...the feelings.
- I would love something that explored Shang Qinghua's public reputation, and especially if he has any kind of reputation for pulling strings and manipulating things (surely someone eventually figures out that he sabotaged the previous An Ding Head Disciple?) or else something where SQQ travels back in time from a PIDW-y verse and finds that SQH is...different from how he remembered.
- All Peak Lords need to symbolically marry another Peak Lord and SQQ picks SQH in a moment of spite and panic when it looks like he might get stuck with YQY.
Shang Qinghua & Tianlang-jun (SVSSS)
I can't stop thinking about a canon divergence where SQH has to face the fact that TLJ exists and is a real, actual dude who doesn't deserve the shit hand the plot dealt to him and then is [hand waves System away] somehow maybe able to intervene! Or not — I'd actually also be interested in a fic exploring how doomed TLJ is and how bad SQH feels about it but how much he can't do anything about it. So you know, dealer's choice! Overall, though, I really love that TLJ is dramatic and into humans and gets seemingly betrayed and SQH like....invented this guy (and all of this guy's problems!) and then set him aside when people wanted smut instead of plot.
Prompts:
- They thought no one was coming; got rescued by unexpected person — I'm imagining SQH rescuing TLJ from that whole being-pinned-under-a-mountain thing, but honestly TLJ rescuing SQH from literally anything would also be choice.
- Would love something where SQH using his meta knowledge to fix things up and specifically treats TLJ kindly/fairly because he knows TLJ is, underneath the scary demon stuff, kind of a fluff ball.
- Injured Character Can't Complete Rescue Mission Without Help From Unlikely Source
- Legendary figure turns out to be a complete dork in person
The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
AO3 matching tag: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
Fandom note: I've listened to all of this podcast but not to any of the Maximum Fun bonus content. Also, I'm not interested in stuff that doesn't come from TAZ: Graduation for this exchange.
Requested relationships:
- Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction, obviously.
- Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting
- Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
- Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
- Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Ink
- Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
- Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
- Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Map: Any
- Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Map: Drawn or CC-Licensed Map + Annotations Or Map Related Notes
- Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure
Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
The shippy vibes of these two in the back end of the show is OFF THE CHARTS. I really love both characters individually (Fitzroy is such a bundle of insecurity and ambition! Gray is so arrogant and mercurial!) but together???? Every conversation they have is gold, I think because they both talk like polite business rivals despite all the attempted murder, threats of war, etc. They're enemies and it's delicious but they're not exactly personally invested in hating each other — they just happen to be on opposite sides! And when they stop being on opposite sides they become "best friends"! Also Fitzroy is 6'4" (after his magical growth spurt!) and Gray is 12' and I am so here for that size difference.
In terms of what I am specifically hoping for out of my gift for these two, I would really enjoy any flavor of these two interacting! I want to know more about Gray's demon culture and his blue-orange morality (war is for "blood, and chaos, and conflict, and victory" apparently!) and I'd love to see more of Fitzroy being kind of a scumbag but not, like, a down with murder scumbag. Graduation's worldbuilding is really fascinating to me, and I'd enjoy getting to see more of the world (or of Gray's hell dimension!) and I'd enjoy something set pre-, during, or post-canon!
I know that via WOG Fitzroy is asexual, and if you want to write him asexual then I'm into that! I'm not really into most asexuality-focused narratives, but I'm definitely fine with a read of this ship where Fitzroy only feels romantic attraction or even where they're in a QPR — a story that focuses on emotional intimacy would really hit the spot for me and I'm honestly such a complete sucker for gen that I'd be pretty satisfied with anything that had Fitzroy and Gray interacting a bunch.
On the other hand, if you don't want to write Fitzroy as asexual then I am 100% on board with that, too. I've left my smut likes section the way I usually leave it because it does apply for everything else I've requested, but for this ship I would actually love for Gray to fuck Fitzroy in a wide variety of situations! I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start. Please note I have specifically DNW'd corrective rape, though.
Below I have some specific prompts, but I'm so crazy invested in this ship that I want to emphasize that basically anything is fine! Please feel free to scrounge through my general likes.
Prompts:
- If you're going to do art, I'd enjoy any hair/eye/skin color for Fitzroy! What's important to me about his appearance are his canonically tight pants and how tiny he'd look next to Gray.
- Something with the Ring of Truth or the True Sight Lenses! I love all the little magic things that TAZ PCs pick up during campaigns, and always yearn to see them used more. In the case of the Ring of Truth I would particularly like to see it used in a romantic or sexual context to let them really trust each other (...or to highlight how much they don't trust each other!)
- Canon divergence — Fitzroy does end up joining Gray's side the way Gray planned, or he does get all the materials he was supposed to get from Goodcastle, or Chaos' plan doesn't kick off until the Thundermen are out of school and floundering around as young professionals!
- Something set in that possible future where Fitzroy is His Royal Highness, The Thunder King and Lightning Lord, Fitzroy Maplecourt, The Storm Bringer...or something where Fitzroy really does get thrown forward in time and has to cope with that life. Like, what's Gray up to in that universe? Things probably went terribly for him, right?
- Post-canon get together. Gray wants someone to come make his next war campaign interesting, maybe, and has even picked out enemies he thinks Fitzroy wouldn't object to killing! Now he just needs to convince Fitzroy that this is a good idea, isn't a trap, will be fun, won't end with him being fed to Hellhounds, etc.
- The above prompt but also this is a classic, deeply romantic demon courting technique that ends up working weirdly well on Fitzroy.
- I don't require Gray to have exciting genitalia if you're going to write him fucking Fitzroy, but I am open to knots, pinecone dick, and anything else you think demons should definitely have.
- ...come to think of it, please also give Fitzroy whatever kind of genitalia you think would best facilitate him being fucked, if you're writing him being fucked! Again, if you want to stick with normal anal sex then that's fine and I won't be disappointed, but it seems worth it to mention you can live your, uh, genital dreams.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
AO3 matching tag: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Fandom note: I just love this movie so much. I could (and do) watch it over and over again.
Requested medium: fanfiction
Requested ship(s):
- Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs
Shipping note: I'm fine with Andrea's canon relationships with Andrea/Nate or Andrea/Christian being mentioned/dealt with, and ditto for Miranda's canon husband, but please note my DNW for this fandom.
Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs
Every time I watch this movie I walk away from it thinking that Miranda and Andy should have gotten together. I mean, I'm also always relieved for Andy when she quits, but still. There's so much meat still on the bone, by which I mean I'm INCREDIBLY thirsty for this ship.
What really, really interests me about Miranda/Andy as a ship is that the movie presents us with this absolutely brilliant view of Andy getting completely and totally wrapped up in the personality, service, and worldview of this older, powerful, respected, intimidating woman who holds Andy to incredibly high but at first seemingly bizarre standards. Andy compromises and sacrifices her friendships, her relationship, her free time, her sense (or lackthereof) of style... her very concept of herself as someone who's above fashion, above being concerned with aesthetics only, above...people like Miranda. Eventually Andy decides she doesn't want to live the kind of life Miranda is dragging her towards, doesn't want to sacrifice herself or others, but just because she's not interested in the cutthroat world of being Miranda Priestly's assistant doesn't mean she's actually free of her respect, appreciation, of fascination with Miranda, you know? Being Miranda's assistant absolutely, irrevocably changed her even though she tries to quit and go back to her old life.
I'd love stuff set during canon dealing with Andy being dragged further and further into Miranda's orbit and loving it and feeling that jolt of tension and excitement and lust when Miranda's checking her out giving her outfit an approving look, but I'd love something set post-canon!
For things set while Andy is still working with Miranda, I'd love an exploration of the power imbalance between them. I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start.
For things set after Andy quits, I'd love to see them coming back together more as equals, renegotiating boundaries and learning to relate to each other outside the workplace. It'd be cool to see them strike up a friendship that deepens, but also excellent to see them fall straight into a romantic or sexual relationship. Whatever floats your boat!
Setting: I really love New York City as a setting, and would love NYC details, especially about transportation, city infrastructure, and city planning stuff! Also, I don't care what year you set your fic in; it's not important to me that the setting be authentic early 00's NYC so don't feel like you have to do a deep dive into what technology was like at the time or anything. I would strongly prefer no focus on the pandemic, national politics, etc.
Prompts:
- Canon compliant missing scenes —
- Any canon compliant/canon adjacent missing scenes from either of their points of view focusing on their changing relationship.
- While she's still working at Runway, Andy disagrees with Miranda about something and wins the argument for once.
- Was Miranda happy to be taking Andy instead of Emily to Paris?
- Miranda stops Andy from going on her date with Christian by taking Andy out to dinner / Miranda takes Andy to the fancy restaurant she intended to go to with her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
- Emily doesn't end up in the hospital and goes to Paris. How long does Andy stay at Runway?
- Andy comes to work at Runway a little later in her career as a writer.
- Andy is date raped by Christian (during the Paris trip or before; whatever works for you) and gets support from Miranda.
- Miranda seeks Andy out. Maybe Runway needs an article written and Andy has been doing incredible work, which gives Miranda the opportunity to reach out to her. Maybe Andy wins an award or something and Miranda calls to congratulate her and finds herself inviting Andy out to dinner with her in celebration.
- Andy seeks Miranda out. Maybe just to thank her for the incredible recommendation. Maybe Miranda's in the news again (her ex-husband has said some terrible-sounding things on the record about their failed marriage?) and someone from Andy's paper needs to interview Miranda, so Andy volunteers.
- They meet again by chance. They're at the same party and Andy is so gorgeous and Miranda just can't help but look at her differently now that Andy is no longer her employee and has a solid footing in her career of choice. Andy is sent to cover Paris fashion week and runs into Miranda.
- Miranda is, you know, a REALLY different person as a lover than she is as a boss, so actually setting and maintaining boundaries isn't a problem but Miranda being constantly busy with work is now a problem for Andy from the other direction? Or maybe something else. Oh my god I have so many feelings. I need a bulleted list.
Nimona (2023)
AO3 matching tag: Nimona (2023)
Fandom note: I have and love the graphic novel. Where movie canon contradicts the graphic novel, I'd prefer movie canon for this request, but if you want to use stuff from the comic to fill in gaps then that'd be swell. If you haven't read the comic, then don't worry about it!
Requested medium: fanfiction
Requested ship(s):
- Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona 2023)
- Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin & Nimona (Nimona 2023)
- Ballister Boldheart & Nimona (Nimona 2023)
- Ambrosius Goldenloin & Nimona (Nimona 2023)
Shipping note: As Ambrosius and Ballister are canonically in a romantic relationship, pretty much any fic where they interact and don't spend time no homoing each other will absolutely count as shipfic for me, even if they're too busy being knights or overthrowing the government to kiss. Not that I am opposed to them kissing, haha.
Ballister/Ambrosius
I knew I'd ship this and that it was canon before I saw the movie but I came out of my first screening absolutely rabid. This ship has EVERYTHING? Childhood friends to lovers to enemies to lovers! Class differences! Nachos!!!
I'd love to know how these two got together, but I'd also be extremely happy with an established relationship fic. I really, really love fics that have some kind of tension or understandable misunderstanding — if you're writing something set during canon you'll have delicious tension out your ears, of course, but if you're writing something pre- or post-canon then how about something exploring their class differences, wedding expectations, Ambrosius's family obligations, PR concerns, or Fantasy Sci-Fi Politics?
I doubt the m/m relationship aspect is a problem at all, but for tension...is Ballister's lack of family and status as a commoner a problem? Is their relationship a secret to the general public? How do the events of canon change their relationship?
As far as misunderstandings go...does Ballister's commoner background mean he and Ambrosius aren't always automatically on the same page because they grew up in such different situations with such different expectations? Does Ambrosius's family have any etiquette expectations or general traditions that Ballister might not know about? Maybe they could have a conversation that each of them takes a different meaning from! Or if you're interested in post-canon, perhaps Ambrosius is hesitant to jump right back into their relationship because he assumes Ballister has doubts (because arm chopping is not a love language, and also that delicious part where Ambrosius was like "Are u gonna kill me?" and Ballister was like WOW, YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL) while meanwhile Ballister is down an arm, needs to finish rehabbing his public image, and has a new daughter-who-is-sometimes-a-shark.
Whatever you decide to do, though, I'm sure I'll be thrilled with it!
Setting: I'm kind of obsessed with urban planning and transportation, so if you'd like to indulge me with worldbuilding about the city's subway, cars, pedestrian infrastructure, board of zoning appeals, street tree maintenance, etc...I would be absolutely over the moon. In particular the fact that they have cars kind of bothers me. Is the city not well-covered in public transportation?? In my head all of the cars are perfectly absolutely safe for urban settings, but I would love to know what kind of policies and engineering go into that. Are they unable to go above a certain speed? Are they unable to float close enough to the ground to hit people? And while I'm thinking about the cars, how many people have cars and if it's a lot of them where are all the cars stored?? A walled city has an extreme premium on space and a bunch of it seems to be given over to park space, but that just makes the wide street leading up to Gloreth's statue even more bizarre.
& Nimona relationships
I love Nimona sooooo much and I'm just gonna group the rest of my relationships here because they're really about wanting to see Nimona interact more with people because I love her. Also quick pronoun note: I've been using she/her for Nimona since ND Stevenson first started posting the Nimona comic and that's what I'll stick with in this letter, but I also deeply deeply love the nonbinary rep of this movie. I'd love a fic where you switch up Nimona's pronouns based on Nimona's shape at the time, but I'd equally love a fic that just uses they/them for Nimona if that's what you'd like to write!!
Nimona's place in society is so, so interesting and I love how traumatized she is. I love her loneliness, her search for a place to fit in, and the fact that she latched on to Ballister because at last there was someone who was as hated as she was. Had she ever tried that before, with some other previous #1 Most Wanted guy? She seemed really concerned that Ballister would reject her after seeing her powers, and super surprised when he started to show actual concern for her, which was super delicious btw.
I'm also interested in hearing what kinds of things Nimona might have gotten up to in the city before meeting up with Ballister. No one knew a monster was still around so presumably she was being much more subtle — is she single-handedly responsible for 50% of the graffiti in the city or anything? Has she made friends with other down-on-their-luck people who she ultimately couldn't trust with her secret? Are Ballister and Ambrosius going to be walking down the street with Nimona in animal form some day and someone's gonna be like OH, IT'S MY FAVORITE STRAY DOG about her?
If you like canon divergence, alternate first meetings, and time travel, let me just look at you with my big, big eyes and make a pleading face that you cannot turn down. What might have happened if Ambrosius had been framed for something and become hated by everyone - would he and Nimona have gotten along? What if Nimona and Ballister met before he got into knight training? What if Ballister and/or Ambrosius somehow (/handwave) go back in time and can protect Nimona from Gloreth's village?
Finally, what does Nimona get up to after the events of the movie? How well does her integration into society go? Does Ballister officially adopt her, or officially take her on as his squire or something? Do she and Ballister and Ambrosius go on any fun adventures?
Setting: I'm kind of obsessed with urban planning and transportation, so if you'd like to indulge me with worldbuilding about the city's subway, cars, pedestrian infrastructure, board of zoning appeals, street tree maintenance, etc...I would be absolutely over the moon. In particular the fact that they have cars kind of bothers me. Is the city not well-covered in public transportation?? In my head all of the cars are perfectly absolutely safe for urban settings, but I would love to know what kind of policies and engineering go into that. Are they unable to go above a certain speed? Are they unable to float close enough to the ground to hit people? And while I'm thinking about the cars, how many people have cars and if it's a lot of them where are all the cars stored?? A walled city has an extreme premium on space and a bunch of it seems to be given over to park space, but that just makes the wide street leading up to Gloreth's statue even more bizarre.
