Fic In A Box 2024
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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!
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
- car crashes: also includes buses, trucks, other similar roadwar transportation vehicles.
- other forms of transit disaster are fine (eg, airplane crash, shipwreck, train derailment)
- if I'm requesting a canon set in space/scifi canons/etc, 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)
- Lots of blood is fine, mention of specific injuries are fine.
- If you start describing which exact parts of the body are now in new places, that's probably more detail than I want. Think the difference between telling me A has split B's stomach open with a sword and telling me which of B's organs are falling out.
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- I have a different DNW on this topic for my Tim&/Jason DCU Comics request; see below.
- 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
- DNW: Relationships/plot development/major worldbuilding from Boruto
- It's fine if you happen to pull a jutsu that was only used in Boruto off the Narutopedia or something — I just don't know what's going on Boruto and don't want to.
SVSSS DNWs/clarifications
- DNW: characters finding out that they're fictional
Gravity Falls DNWs/clarifications:
- car crashes/traffic violence exception: Non-graphic mention, discussion, or witnessing of car crashes/traffic violence and related topics (eg: road diets, pedestrian safety, etc) are totally fine, but I DNW any POV characters being directly involved in car crashes or traffic violence (such as being in a car involved in a crash, or being a cyclist hit by a car)
Nimona clarifications
- car crashes/traffic violence exception: mention, discussion, or witnessing of car crashes/traffic violence and related topics (eg: road diets, pedestrian safety, etc) are totally fine, but I DNW any POV characters being directly involved in car crashes or traffic violence (such as being in a car involved in a crash, or being a cyclist hit by a car)
DCU DNWs/Clarifications
- DNW: For the WB: request — focus on Gotham is the way it is because of supernatural influence. It's fine if you consider this canon/if it influences your worldbuilding choices, but I want gift(s) for these worldbuilding tags that focus on mundane/day-to-day stuff rather than big picture Because Magic worldbuilding.
- DNW: For the Tim&/Jason request — on screen sex of any kind involving characters below 18, except Tim/Jason (who can have on screen sex with each other when 16+)
- Mentions of child trafficking rings or and similar crimes is fine
- Characters over 18 finding underage Tim attractive/making sexual comments about him is fine (whether that's Jason, or bad guys, or whoever — it's fine!.)
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 or thick lines or 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
- for shippy art: 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
- for comics: location-establishing shots, some panels being borderless/having their contents spill over the panel borders, things happening in both the foreground and background, visual parallels, lyricstuck (use of songlyrics/poetry over drawn visuals)
- for landscapes: distant figures, canon scenes, cityscapes, the ocean, forests, cliff faces, objects in both the foreground and background, reflections in water, a focus on sunlight (breaking through clouds, streaming down through a thin canopy, dappled sunlight beneath a tree, shadows cast by the sun setting behind a hill). If you've drawn a particular kind of plant or an unusual species of animal into your landscape or something, I'd love to be told about that in your creator notes!
- for rooms/cityscapes: windows (with light coming out of them or light coming into them; focus on how window treatments change the quality of light; flowerboxes; shutters if the climate calls for it); pavers, stacked stone, brick; tile and mosaics; stacks of useful or discarded objects (inside: books, crumbled paper, devices or tools, half-assembled projects, toys or hobby items. outside: items used to maintain a place like shovels or brooms, boxes or packages being delivered or accepted, trash collection areas but with no gross trash please, piles of snow or raked leaves); anything that shows a pattern of use or wear like desire paths across grass or stone steps with dips worn into them. I also love obviously repurposed or renovated things.
- for maps: I mean literally genuinely any style of map, to be honest, I love maps so much. I've a particular softness for annotated maps, like ones that show a journey or where the owner has doodled a sea monster where they saw a sea monster. I love maps that are meant for navigation, maps that are made for learning about geography, and maps that are meant to convey information (eg, a map showing which streets have trees and which don't).
Fic likes:
- Canon divergence
- Different first meeting
- Fix-it
- For Want Of A Nail — a small change shifts the outcome of canon's plot siginifantly
- when A says something to B and B knows them so well that B can translate what A really meant
- when A can't bring themself to admit/ask something but it's okay because B already understands
- when A knows something is wrong/has happened to B because B deliberately did or did not do something unusual (eg, coming home to find only half the dishes washed and knowing B must have left the house in a rush; seeing B drinking coffee and knowing that means they didn't sleep the night before)
- the absolute best best BEST version of this is when two characters TRY to communicate and fail because, through no fault of their own, they each are working under wildly different baseline assumptions and do not realize it — for example because they were raised very differently and haven't realized how that impacts their point of view about the topic.
- related to the above, maybe tied with it: when characters enter an argument with such different perspectives that they don't even realize they aren't arguing about the same thing
- I usually like it when miscommunication is resolved, when people learn to understand each other. It can be really fun to drag that out for some angst or hurt/comfort though.
- realizing someone has more respect/loyalty/love for them than they had previously guessed
- thinking someone is out to get them or hates them only to realize that's not the case
- strangers to allies; team to family
- friends to lovers; friends-with-benefits to lovers; casual hook up to lovers
- enemy to caretaker; enemy to friend; enemy to lover; friends to enemies to lovers
- friends to enemies to friends; friends to FAKE ENEMIES BECAUSE SUBTERFUGE REASONS to friends
- I usually like these to end on a positive note because I have a soft nougat center that likes happy endings, but if you think you can have the requested relationship end the fic in a bad state (eg enemies, divorced/broken up) and still have the end of the fic feel hopeful/nice for both of them, I'm game to receive that fic!
- especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
- time loops
- I massively prefer travel to the past over travel to the future
- I'm not really interested in characters meeting/talking to other versions of themself.
- In canons where it makes sense for characters to be secret or have strict infosec rules, I love it when characters keep time travel secret.
- Do you want to write something where something really bad happened to the character had to go back in time to prevent the bad thing? I'm definitely into the kind of plotty fic that would result from you figuring out what happened exactly and the character's detailed plan to prevent it, but if you'd rather write something more character/relationship focused I'm so, so good with the bad terrible future being deliberately vague.
- Please see further time travel likes under the special section where i've shoved all the freeform tags I like!
- Character from canon timeline is misplaced to an alternate dimension where things are better/worse
- Character from alternate dimension where things are better/worse visits the canon timeline.
- I like it both when the dimension travel is permanent and when it's temporary. Trying to find their way home is fun, but trying to settle into their new normal also rules!
- 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
- Physical or emotional hurt
- I will die for enemy to caretaker
- I like it when the hurt is more or less solved: wounds given medical attention, hurt feelings directly addressed/soothed, poison cured, previously hurt character now certain that the worst at least is over.
- I love it when there are several layers of hurt that need to be either struggle through by the hurt character or revealed to/by the comforting character, especially when they need different kinds of or combined comfort. (For example, A thinks they're just going to help B with some light medical care but discovers B needs help with some kind of emotional hurt or B will just get hurt again and worse)
- I don't have a preference for which requested character is hurt vs comforted. Maybe both/all of them!
- See H/C likes list below for types of hurt and comfort I like.
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other
- handcuffed together; magically prevented from moving a certain distance apart
- there's only one bed; sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together; working together in enemy territory/against a common enemy
- wilderness survival; huddling for warmth; canadian shack (doesn't have to be literally in canada or literally a shack)
- force to team up to handle the same problem (eg investigation or project)
Ship likes:
Unless otherwise stated, I don't have a preference for top/bottom, dom/sub, etc.
Besides stuff listed in this section, anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too! Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated and pre-relationship 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.
My favorite thing to see in any ship fic (ok, gen fic too, but let's focus) is any kind of conflict, tension, or change. These are all related/arguably the same thing, but there are a lot of different flavors you might prefer as a creator, so here are a few thoughts:
Conflict
Specifically (since this is the ship likes section) conflict between the ship or about how the ship feels for each other. I do love plotty fics with other kinds of conflict, though, like the ship working against a third party.
Consider:
- A and B are on opposite sides of a fight/political issue, or have opposing ideological views/morals/ethics; they might come to a compromise, agree to disagree, or one might convince the other over to their side of things
- One of them is in love, or thinks they should fuck, or thinks they should get married for politics; the other isn't in love/doesn't want to fuck/isn't wild about arranged political marriages. Fight!!! (Or seduce!!!) (Or both!!!!) until they get together.
- Everything A knows about B, or everything A has been taught about how the world works, says falling in love with B is a bad idea. They're sure they're only going to get their heart broken, or they're sure it will get them killed, and so on — so they fight their own feelings every step of the way.
Tension
Tension usually comes from conflict, but it's really about suspense. Will [good thing] happen? Will [bad thing] happen? Give characters things they're afraid might happen — make them full of dread and worry. Or give them things they want desperately — make them full of hope and anticipation.
Consider:
- Can A trust B, or will B betray them? Will B kill A, like B has threatened/attempted in the past, or will this time be different?
- Can B be honest with A, or will A hate them once A knows the truth?
- Should A confess to B? Does B want romance, or only sex? Will B get tired of A — can A keep B's interest?
- Will A and B have sex, or is their relationship not there yet? Will A be able to restrain themself from fucking B on the nearest stable surface, or will A lose control of their desire? Will A be able to make sex good for B, or will A disappoint? Will B let A make the sex tender and romantic, or will B rebuff A's more tender feelings? Will B let A make the sex kinky/rough/etc, or is that a step too far for A?
Change
A lot of the time change in a shipfic can come from resolving the conflict/tension. Like, enemies->conflict resolved->now they're lovers) but I also love it when characters in a ship learn new things about each other (so the "change" is a change in prospective, because they have new information), or when a character's experiences have changed how they relate to the other person in the fic (which could either be a plotty conflict/source of tension or a resolution to the conflict/tension!).
Consider:
- A's always thought B hates them, but suddenly they learn something that makes them think that might not be the case.
- A can tell something bad happened to B recently, tries to figure out what it was, gains new perspective on who B is while investigating, and therefore falls in love
- A and B are strangers at the start of the story, but lovers by the end of it
Ship tropes:
Marriage
Honestly marriage is just my forced proximity like but turned up to 11. I love how being married changes how society interacts with a character — suddenly their reputations are linked, their attendance at social events expected together, etc. I mean, I love a marriage fic that struggles with the physical proximity of it (sharing a bed, sharing a house) but the social aspect of being kind of unable to escape your spouse even when not physically together is so, so delicious. I also love how many marriage tropes force characters to consider (or commit to) spending their whole lives together without even knowing each other. That places a lot of pressure on a relationship, and forces characters into perhaps treating each other differently than they otherwise might have.
I have a bunch of specific marriage freeforms in a list below but some of my favorites are...
- Marriage of convenience
- Forced marriage
- Arranged marriage
- Accidental marriage (especially magically enforced)
- A helping their new spouse B settle into a new household/new culture
Forced shippy proximity/sexual intimacy
My favorite thing of all is when both characters are forced into it but both secretly want it, or are glad to have an excuse, or start out upset but eventually decide it's not that bad/was actually useful/they actually liked it.
I especially like when A and B would never normally expect to be forced together like this, when they have to go to help to the person of last resort/to a person who they think hates them.
Specifics:
- Fake dating/marriage for plot/action/politics reasons
- I want the stakes to be higher than "mom won't stop asking me when I'll find an SO" and the higher the better
- kissing so the bad guys won't notice us, fake married so we can investigate this murder, etc
- unable to move a certain distance apart
- feeling each other's emotion
- accidental soulbond forming because they felt the exact same thing at the exact same moment.
- magic poison that will kill them if they're not fucked/brought to orgasm on the regular
- sex pollen & sex pollen aftermath
- characters cursed to feel pain if they stop touching
- for magic reasons touch starvation is now literal so they'll die if they're not touched enough
Jealousy/obsession/possessiveness where the object of it doesn't mind or is really into it
- Especially great when it comes with protectiveness
- Love it when the object of jealousy/possessiveness/etc is reassured by it
- A and B both equally obsessed with each other
Smut likes
I don't expect/need smut in my shipfic, but if you like writing shipfic with smut, here is the section for you! \o/
When I like smut, it's because the sex the characters are having is complicated by something beyond just physical attraction/wanting to make each other feel good/wanting to orgasm. It's not that I don't like those things as an aspect of smut, but what's most important to me is definitely that there's something else going on.
That other thing going on might be something like...
- extremely emotionally charged sex, like when characters start a physical fight that turns into sex, or start fucking because it's the only way to comfort each other, or think this is the last time they'll be able to get together. Sex as an emotional catalyst; sex as a force of change in a relationship; sex as the only allowable form of comfort/intimacy.
- dubcon, where one or both of them try to pretend they don't want it but are both really into it by the end. Fuck-or-die, coercion, undernegotiated kink, blackmailed into it by a third party, A mistakenly believes they're being threatened into sex by B
- sex as plot, like where the characters start off as fuckbuddies but end up actually dating/in love, or one character needs to be dominated or fucked by the other for medical reasons or mental health reasons or contrived plot reasons.
I wouldn't say that shipfic that builds up to the ship having sex and then fairly immediately ends is a dislike, because it's not like I haven't read fics with that kind of plot that I enjoyed. I'm interested/invested in sex scenes that have a narrative purpose and are solving, complicating, or directly resolving the conflict/tension in the fic. If the tension in the fic has been about "A hopes B will fall in love with him" and B says he loves A before they fuck, then the plot sometimes feels like it's all wrapped up before they get undressed. Maybe instead they can fuck before B confesses (so A can wonder if it's just sex between them) or earlier A can worry that B won't find him attractive (so B can show A how hot A is during the sex) or something like that.
Anyway, you're probably also here for a list of kinks and other specifics. I have no preference about what words you use for bodyparts — I like it when they fit the POV character's narration/voice, so that's up to you to decide.
I'm willing to read an extremely wide range of kinks/sex acts if the rest of the fic is otherwise very related to my interest, but here are some for you to consider including:
- anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercrural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, 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
- domination/submission
- gentle or rough, pre-negotiated or not.
- I love when characters accidentally/spontaneously discover that they want to submit to their partner(s).
- it's hot for characters to talk about making kids, to try to get pregnant, or to actually be pregnant, but I'm not interested in birth or childcare
- no preference for how mpregnancy works, how the baby would eventually get out, etc.
Hurt/comfort likes!
Physical hurt
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone, blood loss, gunshots wounds in canons with guns....pretty much anything non-permanent (or which you feel safe handwaving with canon's level of medical attention)
- poisonings or venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- hands too shaky to complete task; forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
Emotional hurt & angst
- self esteem issues; thinking no one loves/wants them; legitimately being in a situation where that's true at the start of the fic
- isolating themself; thinking they're not good enough for friends/family; thinking they don't deserve to have good things happen to them
- touch starvation; going a long time without talking to anyone
- (normal) starvation; food insecurity
- not knowing who to trust; fear of or actual betrayal
- 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
Comfort
- Medical attention! I am not really bothered by medical accuracy or handwaving of exact details, although I like characters taking others' injuries seriously and definitely don't mind the narrative doing so as well...and I like a lot of the incidental things that come with medical attention, like:
- Character giving medical attention paying close attention to not hurting injured character more than necessary
- Injured character being relieved someone they've been fighting with cares that they're hurt
- Injured character waking up to someone sitting vigil
- For characters who commit or witness a lot of violence, I love it when giving or receiving physical touch feels or legitimately is dangerous
- I love it when characters can't immediately relax or trust kind touches
- Having someone hear them out about something after multiple people have been too busy or interested to listen
- Having someone believe they're telling the truth when other(s) have accused them of lying
- Telling someone their boundaries, or things they don't like, or other important information...and then having the boundaries respected, the things they don't like avoided, the important information remembered.
- After they've given up hope, or from a source they never considered
- Expecting to be hindered or scolded, only to be asked, "What do you need?"
- Someone notices they're struggling and assists them without asking, or making them pay upfront, or even expecting a favor in return
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)
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
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
Requested medium:
- Fanfiction, obviously.
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Gifts In This Fandom (W/ Permission!)
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
For fic remixes of my fic, I'm happy to get remixes that change the ship, so please feel free to browse all of my Naruto fic, not just the ones for my requested relationships.
For recursive fic of my fic, I'd prefer not to get fic that breaks up the main ship. Please feel free to borrow the worldbuilding/premise of any of my Naruto fics, though! (for example, maybe seen and unseen, in which the Uchiha are a clan of ghost hunters?)
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!
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Fandom note: I'm pretty sure I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.
Requested relationships:
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (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. 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), SXY/TLJ, MBJ/SQH, SJ/LQG, and SY/LQG. I would be open to various forms of poly if you want to add a third into my requested ship. I'm not interested in stories primarily about cheating.
Requested mediums:
- Fic, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Gifts In This Fandom (W/ Permission!)
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
For fic remixes of my fic, I'm happy to get remixes that change the ship, so please feel free to browse all of my Naruto fic, not just the ones for my requested relationships.
For recursive fic of my fic, I'd prefer not to get fic that breaks up the main ship. Please feel free to borrow the worldbuilding/premise of any of my SVSSS fics, though!
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 — For example, what if 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 SQH 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.
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.
Gravity Falls
Fandom note: I haven't read Book of Bill, so I'd prefer nothing based on that book/no spoilers if possible, and I hope since I'm not directly requesting and particular characters it won't be a problem!
If it is a problem — say, because the prompts below accidentally hit some Book of Bill nail on the head by accident — then I'd like to reassure you that not being spoiled for the book is really a mild preference. I would rather you create something you're happy with that you feel works with canon as you understand it than make you awkwardly tip toe around the contents of a book I might not buy until next year.
Shipping: I would prefer gen fic, but canon-typical levels of crushes or mentions of canon romantic relationships are fine. You are welcome to consider Bill/Ford a canon relationship, although (re: not having read Book of Bill yet) I'm not interested in fic focused on their relationship.
Requested relationships:
- WB: Zoning/Development/Urban Design in Gravity Falls (Gravity Falls)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction, obviously.
- Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Bureaucratic Paperwork
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook Page(s)
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Spread
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe McMansion Hell Post
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Article
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scrapbook
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Travel Literature
- Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: City
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Newspaper Article
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Highly Upvoted Reddit Comment And Comment's Context
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
In the cuts below I've expanded on what I'm interested in for the WB: tag i've requested, but if you're looking to write fic/make a comic and want to know what kind of plots I'd love to see the WB: tag worked into, here are some suggestions:
- Robbie (reluctantly, possibly at Wendy's insistence) shows Dipper and Mabel how to bike around Gravity Falls safely.
- Stan's car gets blown up by aliens, possessed by Bill Cipher, stolen by Steve the Giant Tree-like Behemoth, etc — now the Pines family suddenly needs to figure out how to get around Gravity Falls without a car. How hard is it to get around without a car, given Gravity Falls' development pattern?
- What's changed the most about Gravity Falls while Ford was away? How does he feel about it?
- A new developer wants to build small apartment buildings, townhouses, or maybe even a large apartment building in Gravity Falls OR the town's city planner wants to eliminate parking minimums/single family zoning/make some other change. Bud Gleeful and Stan Pines both show up to argue against these changes, but Bud Gleeful (a used car salesman!) gets to speak first and Stan just hates him so much that he can't help but spitefully switch to giving his support for the changes proposed, much to everyone's shock.
- The Pines family, Soos, and Wendy set up a booth full of wonderful attractions at a festival in downtown Gravity Falls. Maybe it's a Summerween Festival, or a festival in celebration of a favorite local food, or a completely new Gravity Falls holiday/tradition you've invented?
...or feel free to draw from my likes list! I'd be really happy to get a plotty or (platonic) relationship-focused work that also looks into any of the worldbuilding topics below.
WB: Zoning/Development/Urban Design in Gravity Falls (Gravity Falls)
I love thinking about zoning, development, and urban design so much. And I also really love worldbuilding focused on places! Obviously this can be a complex topic, so first while I'm obviously very enthusiastic about the topics at hand, I'm not an expert and I'm not expecting you to be either. I just want something that explores how this place is put together and why!
I love Gravity Falls' rural character, and I'm excited to see that reflected in its urban form: lots of car-oriented uses, parking minimums, and long distances between destinations. Oh, also, you know, the way it's on cursed land that an alien ship carved through that one time and it's surrounded by magic and stuff. SO many interesting angles! Such as:
- Bikes: I love thinking about Robbie getting around on his bike — and I think we see Mabel and maybe Wendy on bikes as well at some point? — and how maybe traffic is just so low around Gravity Falls as long as you're on the back roads that tourists don't take that it's safe enough to bike around. Or maybe part of the town's tourist draw is a biking culture - an enduring love of bikes could totally be a holdover from a time before cars. Maybe the town has some weird laws on the books about it? I would also love anything where Gravity Falls is implementing bike lanes!
- Zoning ordinances: Speaking of weird laws, what are the rules in Gravity Falls about zoning and building? Many small towns are against development, and some towns as small as Gravity Falls is don't even have any zoning rules whatsoever. Does Gravity Falls have zoning, or some other type of land use rule, or is a free-for-all? Which uses are allowed where, and are any of them unusual?
- Development/economy: We see business turnover in Gravity Falls' downtown in the past (mattress store to laser tag, I think?) and see a variety of other businesses across Gravity Falls: a bar, a theater, a used car lot, minigolf, an abandoned convenience store, a grocery store, an arcade. How much do people in Gravity Falls have to go elsewhere for shopping? Is the town trying to attract more national chains, or is the town more focused on attracting tourists with niche shops and extremely local offerings? We see Gravity Falls through the eyes of the Pines twins — what kind of businesses exist around Gravity Falls that children wouldn't be interested in/notice/consider relevant? Also, Dusk 2 Dawn seems to have sat empty/abandoned for about two decades. Why? Because of the haunting? Is that a common problem in Gravity Falls redevelopment?
- Swap Meet: In the episode with the Hand Witch, we see the Pines go to the local swap meet! To me, this seems like the closest Gravity Falls has to a farmer's market (since the area doesn't seem particularly farm focused?) and is probably the way very new businesses come up from the local community. Where does the swap meet occur? Has there been any push to formalize, relocate, or otherwise change the swap meet to make it more appealing to tourists (assuming tourism is the biggest industry in Gravity Falls)? For that last question, I'm particularly thinking about the pop up shops inside of sheds in Muskegon, Michigan in 2018.
- Pioneer Day: In "Irrational Treasure" we see the Pioneer Day festival! This is a one-day event that's probably mostly for the locals and consists of reversible changes to the streetscape, but I wonder if the town's commitment to reenacting 1863 every year has had any noticeable impact on the urban form of Gravity Falls. For example, has it helped keep some of the old buildings around? The history buffs of Gravity Falls seem extremely dedicated, given the huge museum the town has, and I'm sure the Northwests have been sticking their noses into all kinds of town plans over the years.
- Woodstick music festival: In "The Love God" we see the Woodstick music festival. Where does the festival take place — does Gravity Falls have a dedicated festival grounds, and if so what other things is it used for? Also, it seems like there'd be so many people at the festival that there's no way there would be enough hotels for them all no matter how tourism focused the town is. Are there campgrounds at or nearby the festival locations?
- Development constraints: Gravity Falls is surrounded by steep cliffs and lots of forest; much of it looks like difficult terrain to level and build on, or even access. Also like, the forest is magical and there's at least one section of land that's on top of a giant alien spaceship and there seems to be extensive cave systems under at least some of the area...is greenfield development (building on previously unbuilt land) particularly hard in Gravity Falls, and if so how has that influenced the development patterns? Also, is any part of the forest around Gravity Falls a state park or otherwise managed park land?
- The Society of the Blind Eye: I know there's a WB tag for these guys but I'm actually obsessed with their impact on and possible control over development/zoning in Gravity Falls, and also curious about what structures might have existed before or in addition to the Society of the Blind Eye that might have kept the secrets of Gravity Falls contained, and ways in which the Society might have gunked that up by going around erasing people's memories. For example, is the planning department in Gravity Falls charged with making sure no one builds into the extra weird part of the forest? What would happen if the Society erased the city planner's memory of all the weird stuff in Gravity Falls?
- Literally anything else you can think of!!!! My interest in this topic is vast and deep. If you have thoughts I have interest. If you love a particular background character I love them too. If you love a certain time period that's my favorite as well.
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine - Spoon
Fandom note: You can listen to this song here or read the lyrics here. The song's narrator sings about a part they really want in a fictional play.
Requested relationships:
- Eddie/The Duke
Shipping note: If you want to also include the Queen as an ex, a love rival, a third participant in a complex poly relationship, etc, then that's also fine!
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Adaptation Concept Art
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Fictional Adaptation Artifacts
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- (prompts for the opt-ins as well as fic below!)
Eddie/The Duke
This song has really captured my interest since the first time I heard it. I love that Eddie:
- swordfights the duke AND the queen
- makes love to the duke
- kidnaps the queen
- has a dramatic death scene
I also really love the way the narrator uses Eddie as escapism from his situation (being stuck inside with Sydenham's chorea, watching the news) and the way the narrator interprets Eddie as a heroic but probably misunderstood figure in the world of "The Stranger Dance", which seems to have a plot full of twists and turns!
Prompts:
- Monsieur Valentine is a separate character: he has a coat, boots, and a "black heart machine", as well as two very distinct sides. Does the black heart machine make Eddie and then the Queen act like villains, which is why there's so much swordfighting/kidnapping going on? What are the "two sides" of Monsieur Valentine?
- Monsieur Valentine is someone else: Maybe Eddie is Eddie Valentine, and part of what makes his dramatic death scene so interesting is that it's when his "two sides" are finally revealed. Or maybe Msr. Valentine is the Duke! Or the Queen!
- Making love to the Duke: I desperately want to believe that the events listed in the song are in roughly chronological order, because I'd love for Eddie/the Duke to be enemies to lovers, on account of how I'm a sucker for enemies to lovers. How do they get there? Is it super complicated? Is it doomed? Whether or not one of them is Msr. Valentine in what you write, I'd love to see something where they're in love/making love but aren't totally honest with each other, don't know each other as well as they think they do, are misunderstanding each other....or even where they have those problems, fix them, and then fall into bed together.
- Narrator transmigrates: Since the song is really about the narrator imagining that they're Eddie, I can't help but think about a fic where the Narrator is Eddie, and gets to "perform" the part they've always wanted most in an incredibly real way.
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics, Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- If you're doing a comic, I would like a comic that juxtaposes the song lyrics with visuals just as much as I'd enjoy a traditional narrative-format comic.
- I'd also be interested in a comic showing the narrator's experience of imagining the play, seeing a performance, getting to actually play Eddie, etc — the bar for hitting the Eddie/Duke ship is essentially on the floor, like, the narrator could watch actors on the stage playing Eddie and the Duke do a romantic scene and that'd count for me in a comic! If you have the narrator playing Eddie on stage or something, I'm also happy to receive an Eddie/Actor Playing The Duke comic.
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!
Shipping note: I'd prefer either Ambrosius/Ballister or fic not focused on a romantic relationship. A fic with an OC/OC relationship would be neat, too!
Requested ship(s):
- WB: Cars/Street Design/Car Infrastructure in the City (Nimona Movie)
- WB: Micromobility in the City (Nimona Movie)
- WB: Public Transportation in the City (Nimona Movie)
- WB: Zoning/Development/Urban Design in the City (Nimona Movie)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Fanart
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Social Media
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Accommodation Review
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Article
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Official Workplace Documentation
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Social Media
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: City
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Newspaper Article
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Tabloid Article
In the cuts below I've expanded on what I'm interested in for each WB: tag i've requested, but if you're looking to write fic/draw a comic and want to know what kind of plots I'd love to see the WB: tags worked into, here are some suggestions:
- Ballister (and Nimona, if you want!) has to do a heist for reasons to prove his innocence/get supplies/whatever other reason. The heist requires that he travel across the city via various means. Maybe there's a chase scene!
- Pre-canon, Nimona attends some kind of community outreach meeting about zoning, or a new subway line, or something like that. She causes problems on purpose.
- Post-canon, Ballister and Ambrosius have to decide where to live together! Nimona comes along to give important opinions about all the neighborhoods and condos/apartments they consider.
- If you're doing this in a visual medium I would LOVE something that mimics the look of HGTV/interior design shows, AD celebrity home tours, architectural magazine spreads, etc.
...or feel free to draw from my likes list! I'd be really happy to get plotty or shippy works that also looks into any of the worldbuilding topics below.
WB: Zoning/Development/Urban Design in the City (Nimona Movie)
I love thinking about zoning, development, and urban design so much. And I also really love worldbuilding focused on places! Obviously this can be a complex topic, so first while I'm obviously very enthusiastic about the topics at hand, I'm not an expert and I'm not expecting you to be either. I just want something that explores how this place is put together and why!
The city is an incredible setting, I'm in love with it and absolutely obsessed with the combination of medieval style and modern city stuff, and I'd love to know more about how the city came to be the way it is and how it functions!
- Zoning ordinances/land use: There seems to be a lot of park land set aside inside the wall of the city (which seems REALLY big) but also a really, really dense land use pattern in the parts of the city that we see. In fact, there seems to be so much park land/undeveloped land that the well where Nimona met Gloreth and the tower that Ballister hides out in are abandoned or forgotten, fenced off and full of junk. Does the city control land use and density by controlling all land in something like Hong Kong's system? Also, what kinds of things are people able to build by right and what needs special approval? How does that chance in different parts of the city? I don't think that the city would have the kind of zoning most American cities have where uses (residentail, commercial/office, industrial) are completely separated, but the city must have heavy industry somewhere, right?
- Municipal decoration/vegetation + farming: There's a SERIOUS lack of street trees and other flora in the city -- for example in that scene where Nimona turns into a dragon you can see that in front of the castle there's these huge grass medians in the plaza, but no trees! The urban heat island effect must hit the city super hard. Is the lack of trees because of the flying vehicles, or some other reason? Also, like, were does all the food come from? In the scene in the marketplace (when they're kidnapping the squire) there's a chicken, so it seems that some amount of livestock is fine to have deep in the city, but surely if there are like...cows or pigs or sheep they're kept somewhere else, right? And there must be crop farms -- are they at the edges of the city, like between the city and the wall wherever there's not random woodlands?
- Advertisements/billboards/news: Many of the billboards are electronic, but we see at least one billboard being painted over so not all of them are. We also see electronic newstands with holographic displays and news+wanted posters displayed on various electronic screens around the city, plus we see that the government can put an alert through them and has a big intelligence operation with lots of cameras. Obviously I'm interested in this in general, but specifically from an urban design perspective, I'm wondering what kinds of requirements people have to allow electronic billboards on their buildings, and if the government mandates security cameras in public spaces. Also, if there's any consideration given to how much the electronic billboards light the streets!
- Pedestrian connectivity/aesthetics: The higher income areas seem to be marked by pedestrian plazas and manicured grass lawns. We also see some sketchier areas where the streets are narrower and seem less well-lit. Both of them seem to emphasize vertical pedestrian connections -- the market has a straight up escalator, while we see an elevated walkway of some kind in the sketcher area. Does the city's urban design emphasize a 3D street design for more public spaces, sort of like Calgary's +15? Or is the city actually on pretty un-flat terrain, and how does that effect urban design?
- Architecture: I really loved the way the directors talk about designing the city in this article https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/06/nimona-directors-discuss-their-celebration-of-shape-shifters-and-rule-breakers-new-trailer/ and I'd love to know more! The city seems to have a REALLY strong connection to its history. Is that mandated by the crown, or are architects in the city just really really into the past?
- Other favorite things: Who decides things/makes rules? Who can make exceptions? How hard is it to lease or build out a new space for a new business? What does housing look like -- is it expensive, are there a lot of renters, is it socialized? What different neighborhoods are there, and what makes them distinct? What kind of city infrastructure is there and how well is it maintained?
WB: Cars/Street Design/Car Infrastructure in the City (Nimona Movie)
I have so, SO many thoughts about the cars(car-like-things) in this movie. Safe streets are a particular passion of mine and I think a lot about how car infastructure works (or doesn't) so I haven't stopped thinking about the cars in this movie since I first saw it.
Obviously I have a lot of specific prompts below but the thing that really struck me is that it's a super dense city with seemly pretty good public transit, so why are there so many cars and wide, empty roads? I know that technically the answer is that it's because like, people who live in a car-dependent society made this, but in-universe it's been driving me wild that this walled city has so many cars! They couldn't possibly have the kind of suburban sprawl that our cities have because it's walled. We also don't see any parking lots. Where are the cars stored? Where are all these people driving to and from? Why are there so many cars that some of them have to fly in big sky roads? These questions keep me up at night.
- Cars as carriages: There's an interior shot of one of the cars during the monster alert that shows an interior of one of the flying cars and it's definitely set up on the inside like a carriage, with a "coach man" sitting in a separate section. This might be because the cars was one of the taxis we see in other shots in the movie, but the Director's flying car seems to have a separate driving space too because we don't see who's driving it and Ambrosius talks to the car like there's someone in there to hurry up and fly the Director to safety. Did the flying cars evolve more directly from carriages in the city? Is being someone's personal driver/coachman still a common job? Are the cars like the one that Ballister stole a new-fangled tech because they don't even provide the option of someone else driving for you?
- Economics/status: This movie has some really interesting threads to tug about people's differing socio-economic statuses and fame, and I'm suuuper interested in any socio-economic factors in car ownership. In America it costs something like $9,000 USD on average each year to have a car, and that number goes up for SURE if you live in a city where you might also need to rent space to store your car of course. We don't see anything that looks like it might be long-term street parking (just some cars parked mid-air in the market, I think, which doesn't seem like it's probably a long term storage option) so if someone's got a car they probably have to own or lease a space to park it, not to mention operating costs, plus potentially hiring a driver! Who owns cars? Are there flying work vehicles that serve the same basic function as a truck?
- Ground-level infrastructure: We see several really wide streets, some of them four lanes wide, but also some narrow streets with super tight lanes. In the scene where Nimona and Ballister are entering the subway, we get this look at a ground-level T intersection where the corners are SUPER rounded, like rounded enough that you could take the corner without slowing down even a tiny little bit, and the crosswalks aren't set back much from the intersection so it would be really easy for a car to whip around a corner and hit someone in the crosswalk (both because of the speed at which they can turn and because they won't be hitting the crosswalk at a roughly 90 degree angle). But on the other hand, the lanes look only just wide enough for the cars, so maybe that and all the pedestrian activity keeps speeds relatively slow on that kind of road? But on the third mutant hand, there's definitely at least a handful of four lane roads that look really straight and have huge clear zones which means they'd be really hard to cross even without people whipping around corners. What does pedestrian safety look like? How does it change in different areas? Are some places better designed/maintained?
- Flying car infrastructure: The flying road situation is fascinating. Do drivers have a display that shows them where the road is? The car Ballister steals doesn't seem to be location locked or anything, he's able to just fly it away and land in a sketchy alley, so how often to impaired drivers stray out of their flying car lane? Also, is there a big problem with speeding? In real life roads, people go faster when they're driving on a straight load without a lot of stuff around (because it feels safer if there's less to run into) so is speeding a problem for flying cars? Also, fascinated by the really tall tunnels for flying cars, the fact that we get shots of a bridge where people are both driving on the bridge and flying in lanes over it (why do they need a bridge if cars can fly?) and the rooftop drop off street that we see the Director use!
- Street closures: The Glorodome in the opening shot seems to have a road all around it, but there are pedestrians everywhere so the road seems to be closed down for the event. I think we also see that people are protesting in the big street that leads up to the Gloreth statue in the back end of the movie, which is why Nimona is free to rampage down the street without stepping on cars the whole way? I'd love to know what the process is for getting a street closed to ground traffic, if -places are ever clsed to air traffic, how the traffic in the rest of the city reacts to street closures, and so on!
- Other favorite things: I love pedestrianized areas, road diets, and people working together to make their streets better and safer. I think it'd be neat if the city has superblocks like Barcelona.
WB: Micromobility in the City (Nimona Movie)
Micromobility is things like bikes, scooters, skateboards, and other individual/small means of conveyance that travel at relatively slow speeds. The only thing we see close to this in the movie is the flying things that the knights zip around on, which are both clearly replacements for horses but also more closely related to motorcycles than bikes. However, the city has cars and subways and more than enough technology to have bikes or something!
- Infrastructure (or lack thereof): We don't see any bike lanes, obviously. If you want to stick strictly with what we see, then do people using whatever kinds of bikes/scooters/hoverboards are around have to ether use the sidewalk or the street, the way it is in a lot of real-life cities? Is it frowned on or even illegal to use them on one of those two places? If you don't want to stick with there being absolutely no infrastructure then, well, I just love bike lanes and would have happy to see them lol.
- Accessibility concerns: In real-life places with lots of bike paths, the bike paths are SUPER useful to people in wheelchairs and mobility scooters. Even in places without bike lanes, there are usually curb cuts (that thing where the curb slopes down to the road level so wheelchairs/strollers/other things with wheels aren't stopped by the curb) or in really good situations the intersection is actually raised to the level of the sidewalk! Why aren't there curb cuts??? Maybe wheelchairs and strollers and even whatever kind of bike things they have actually just float?
- Hover brooms: Okay, I'm just saying. I'm just saying. The entire city is SO themed. What if instead of having bikes or scooters, they have e-brooms that they sit on and float around on? And there are sporty ones you sit astride with a leg on each side, but also casual cruising ones that you sit side-saddle on? And the reason there's no curb cuts or even ground lanes for these things is that they fly above pedestrians or something? I mean, that definitely brings its own kind of danger because falling off a broom 6-8 feet up possibly into traffic would be way worse than just falling off a bike, but no one in this society seems super worried about safety, so. Also, it would be really cute for kids to use hover-brooms to pretend to be knights of the realm.
WB: Public Transportation in the City (Nimona Movie)
YESSSS PUBLIC TRANSIT!!!!!!!!! I love public transport and I was super charmed by the NYC-style subway we saw in the movie. I am vibrating to know more about every aspect of it. If you're considering doing art, I would go insane for art of the characters using transit.
- Level of service/frequency: The subway seems pretty well connected and the headways don't seem too long, but what kind of service do various stations see at various times of day? Some subways in big cities come every three minutes, but I'm not sure that the subway Nimona and Ballister take is that frequent, especially since there don't seem to be that many people around, but they also don't need to look up a schedule so it must come often enough that they can be sure the next train will be along soon-ish, right?
- Cost/funding: We see people swipe cards to get into the subway! How costly is it? How is it funded? Is it well funded, or does the government skimp on it?
- Stations and lines: We get a pretty good view of the subway map and there are lots of lines! Ballister and Nimona take the blue line I think, from "Vanquisher Station" to the Marketplace. What are the other lines like? Are all of the stations that nice? Why did Vanquisher station only have an escalator and not, you know, any sign of an elevator -- do people in mobility aids just hover down the escalator? Also, are there any really big, beautiful train stations in the places where lots of lines cross over?
- Elevated tracks: We see at least one elevated subway line! Are some of the tracks elevated the whole way, or just elevated in certain places? Why?
- Other kinds of transit: We only see subways/light rail in the movie and none of the streets seem specifically set up for bus lanes (and the narrow street I mentioned in the WB: Cars section doesn't even seem to have room for a bus to navigate) but if you want to throw in additional kinds of public transport I'm super into that. Maybe there are streets we didn't see that have Bus Rapid Transit, or maybe there are trolleys or street cars, or maybe the river has ferries?
past tense sorrows - Tavina
Fandom note: You can read this fandom here on AO3. This is a short story written for the Original Work tag Woman Obligated To Marry Her Sister's Widower/Her Sister's Abused Husband and is full of delicious hurt/comfort with some light politics and historical setting.
Requested relationships:
- Gongye Ci/Jiang Paifeng/Qiao Wan (past tense sorrows - Tavina)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
Gongye Ci/Jiang Paifeng/Qiao Wan
I really loved the slow creep towards being really together that past tense sorrows gave us for Qiao Wan and Gongye Ci, but I walked away from this story absolutely obsessed with Jiang Paifeng's small but impactful role. I love that Paifeng "knows what it is like to be at someone's mercy" and that he's so intensely, deliberately silent except when he really needs to say things. I can't stop thinking about his long and implied history with Qiao Wan, a past shared together where they've each saved each other's lives and have, I think, proven their loyalty and trustworthiness to each other via action rather than words. I love that Gongye Ci initially is so scared of Paifeng — worrying about him wearing a sword, thinking "how easily those hands could break bones" — but later their relationship grows enough that Paifeng tells him about how kind Qiao Wan is. I even love Paifeng's past as a mistreated house servant, and wonder if he's of any particular help with whatever adjustment Qiao Wan needs to make to the dukedom's household after taking over management from whatever steward her sister had put in charge.
I would love anything that explores Gongye Ci's tension and fear, or Qiao Wan and Jiang Paifeng's quiet loyalty and devotion, or otherwise investigates all the stuff between Paifeng and the other two that we're given glimpses of.
In terms of ship dynamics, I'm really happy to be ultra flexible, but I do love that Qiao Wan has the social power in the relationship, that she's a duke so it's her position that matters in society.
I think Qiao Wan could be read as someone who's been very hurt and very busy on account of the raised-like-a-weapon thing and has therefore only realized she wants romance and/or sex at the end of the story, but I think she could also be read as some kind of aro-ace without making the original story's ending any less wonderful or heartwarming.
I would definitely enjoy a fic where:
- all three of them are equally romantically and sexually involved with each other
- all three of them are involved romantically but only Gongye Ci and Jiang Paifeng are involved sexually
- Qiao Wan is also involved sexually but is more interested for the sake of her partners than herself
- Qiao Wan is involved and enthused sexually but cannot parse any difference between friendship vs romance
- ...or any other set up you can think up, poly or QPP or otherwise!
Ideally, tension in the story will come from the complicated politics, the less than ideal power dynamics, the extremely different upbringings they've all had, and so on rather than, say, homophobia or anyone struggling to accept how Qiao Wan does or doesn't feel about sex or romance, if you decide to go that route. They could be perhaps surprised, nervous, or confused? It's totally alright if it gives some pause, or if you think the Empire or Bagu at large wouldn't be chill about whatever kind of relationship(s) you give them, but I'm not interested in major angst about it. past tense sorrows does a really beautiful job unpacking how Qiao Wan and Gongye Ci feel and shows them treating each other with empathy and kindness, and wanting to learn & accept each other as they are, which is a vibe I'd love to see brought to any recursive works.
Prompts:
- What's going on with Jiang Paifeng's employment? How does he feel about being in the capital? I think even as of the end of past tense sorrows, he's still technically under the employ of the military, but acting as a body servant for Qiao Wan. I think it's a really interesting dynamic that he's not actually her servant — so he could leave any time — but I wonder if that ever feels kind of precarious to him? It kind of seems like he hasn't settled into an official, permanent position by the end of past tense sorrows, so I'd love to see a fic where he gets that.
- What's going on with all the servants? A bunch of them mistreated, beat, and starved Gongye Ci (on Qiao Yun's orders, but still) yet we don't see if there are any consequences or changes to the household staffing after Qiao Wan takes over as Duke. I think it does kind of make sense that we don't see Qiao Wan punish them, since it's not like they could have told her sister no when ordered to beat Gongye Ci, but on the other hand surely Gongye Ci won't be feeling super safe in Qiao Wan's household if all the people who mistreated him are still around all the time, right?
- What's going on with the estate/the politics? I don't particularly need deep political drama if you're not up for that, but it's mentioned that Qiao Yun had a steward taking care of the estate and wasn't great at other Duke stuff. Qiao Wan takes her duties very seriously, cares intensely for the people under her charge, and has a deep well of kindness. I would love to see how that all translates to her sorting out things in the estate or in the realm of politics. What changes does she make? What messes does she sort out? What are her priorities? What causes does she support?
- The opportunity for PROTECTIVENESS and LOYALTY KINK are off the fucking charts. Could one of them save the others from an assassination attempt? Could I get more scenes of Qiao Wan sticking up for Gongye Ci in public? Maybe I could learn some details about how Jiang Paifeng has saved Qiao Wan's life in the past?
- What if NICE THINGS happen to Gongye Ci? Potentially even nice things that let him reconnect a little with who he used to be (well, the parts of himself he wants to keep) such as getting back into old hobbies, trying out new hobbies, being introduced to delicious foods popular in the capital, getting to somehow introduce Qiao Wan and Jiang Paifeng to food/traditions from Bagu, or getting to hear from/meet up with his family/friends?
- I'm also kind of dying to see a scene where Qiao Wan arranges for Gongye Ci to get a whole new wardrobe because it kind of seems like A) he needs that and B) he would enjoy dressing more fancy than Qiao Wan if he were allowed to pick out his own clothes. It would be so great for him to get a bunch of new clothes he feels good about wearing, considering his fears in past tense sorrows that Qiao Wan might deliberately humiliate him in public via clothing choices.
DCU (Comics)
Fandom note: I'm very new to reading DC Comics, but don't care about spoilers for comics or other Batman media. I don't have a particular favorite (or hated, lol) continuity at this point, so whatever you're most interested in is fine. Feel free to give me recs! I'm not really interested in any of the various live action Batman adaptations or any of the video games, but I also don't need anything you make me to be carefully scoured to remove references to non-comics things.
Requested relationships:
- Request 1:
- Tim Drake & Jason Todd
- Tim Drake/Jason Todd
- WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family (DCU Comics)
- WB: Gotham City Building Code (DCU Comics)
Requested mediums for Tim & Jason, Tim/Jason:
- Fanfiction, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Fanart
- Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread
- Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
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- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Fanart
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Spreadsheet
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Internet Forum Posts
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Mission Report
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Newspaper Article
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Tabloid Article
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Highly Upvoted Reddit Comment And Comment's Context
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)
Requested mediums for WB tags:
- Fanfiction, obviously
- Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
- Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
- Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
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- Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
- Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: In-Universe Tourism Artifact
- (Also I tagged a bunch of in-universe tags I'm particularly interested in that are covered by the above tags!)
Tim Drake & Jason Todd
Obviously you will see below that I ship these two, but I'm also interested in a really broad range of potential gen works about them. Enemies! Strangers! Family! Weird co-workers! Maybe several of those at the same time/in the same fic! I'm interested in works in which they get along and in which they don't. They could know each other well, or know each other hardly at all, or know each other just well enough to misunderstand each other. (Okay, if you've read my likes, then you know I would LOVE IT if they misunderstand each other.)
I usually like works where the characters end the work feeling at least a little more positive about each other than they ended, but if you are super into writing something where they totally fail to actually improve their relationship, go for it. Ultimately, I'm excited for your take on these characters and their relationship.
Also, this isn't specifically Tim or Jason related, but if it works with the story you want to tell, I'd love an emphasis on cover stories, information security, contingencies, and whatever other stuff you can come up with about the logistics of vigilanteism — or crime lording, depending on what Jason is up to! I'd love a story where being so emotionally charged, apathetic, or otherwise compromised that you use a fellow vigilante's real name out in the field is treated as a huge deal, even when other very pressing things are going on. I'd also love something that touches on the interpersonal aspects of being a vigilante, especially in Gotham compared to outside of it: what kind of standards are there for professionalism between vigilantes in Gotham vs heroes elsewhere in the world? How does working with a fellow Bat/Bat-trained hero differ from working with other people?
If you're writing hurt/comfort, I have no preference for who is hurt vs comforted.
Prompts:
- Tim is framed for murder in his civilian identity. For reasons (media attention? everyone else is out of Gotham? everyone else thinks Tim really did it?) Jason is the only one who can clear Tim's name.
- Jason and Tim meet overseas during Jason's Lost Days training travel, either before Tim debuts as Robin (maybe his training goes even more awry than it does in canon?) or in an AU where Tim isn't Robin and is overseas for other reasons.
- When Jason slowly starts working with other vigilantes in Gotham, no one expects Tim to work with Jason...except, of course, for Tim.
- It's hard to make solid contingency plans against Jason because it's impossible to guess what he learned during the years he was off being supposedly dead and using all of Talia's resources to get training. Tim starts asking Jason for input on various cases to figure out what kind of training Jason actually has.
- The Red Hood has a lot of enemies in Gotham and overseas, and Jason isn't yet getting along with the Bats. When one of those enemies successfully corners or captures Jason, he's surprised to be helped/rescued by Tim.
- Jason kills someone to save Tim from murder, torture, and/or rape...in some circumstances where it might actually get pinned on Jason's civilian identity. Tim helps cover it up.
- Tim travels back in time to stop the end of the world, or some other terrible event. Knowing that his plan to stop whatever it is will require crossing a lot of lines, Tim decides Jason is the only Bat he can ask for help.
- Jason travels back in time and arrives just before, during, or just after the Titans Tower fight.
- While Jason is out of town, Tim notices something going wrong with one of the operations Jason runs/on one of the streets Jason has control of. Tim seeks to stop/fix/unfuck whatever it is without undermining Red Hood's reputation.
Tim Drake/Jason Todd
Enemies to lovers, vigilante coworkers to lovers, strangers to lovers, fuck buddies to lovers — I am very simple, I just want something where their relationship starts one way and then changes massively, or where they're lovers but struggling to adjust to the new status quo.
It's literally so delicious that Jason's tried to kill Tim multiple times, especially combined with Tim being so invested in Batman and Robin from a young age. I love those panels in Lost Days where Jason has put up pictures of Tim-as-Robin up on his wall. I'd love to see more obsession from either or both of them, and especially I would love to see that obsession manifesting as hatred/anger/other negative emotions at the beginning of a story, only to become more positive by the end.
I'd love to see a story where one of them argues the other over onto their side of the murder-or-jail debate. I'd love to see a story where one of them fears they'll be betrayed or otherwise hurt by the other. I'd love to see them chose to rely on each other, or be forced to do so due to circumstances.
If you're writing hurt/comfort, I have no preference for who is hurt vs comforted. If you're writing sex, I have no preference about who does what to who. I don't consider this ship incest for the purposes of my incest DNW, but also wouldn't mind a shippy story where they consider each other brothers/talk about being family if you're into that. Given their canon age difference, I'm comfortable with Tim and Jason having sex as long as Tim is at least 16.
Prompts:
- Anything from my Jason & Tim prompts above!
- Both of them need to stake out the same place several nights in a row, but there's one one very small place to hide while performing surveillance. Both of them need to be there, for Reasons. The forced intimacy ratchets up the tension between them — and maybe Jason needs a little extra help staying grounded in such a claustrophobic space.
- Jason needs a +1 for some kind of undercover/investigative work that will involve a lot of fake dating nonsense or other forced intimacy. Tim is the only choice, for your pick of reason(s): because he's the only one who's not busy, because he's the only one who said yes/volunteered, because through circumstances he was in exactly the right place at the right time to step into the role, because someone else bailed and sent Tim instead, because Tim was ordered to do so.
- Tim's been receiving incredibly viable, specific threats in his civilian life. He needs someone to play bodyguard until he figures out where the threat is coming from...and talks Jason into letting him hire him as the Red Hood. Jason gets a really up close and personal look at Tim's civilian life, and they grow closer as a result...much closer.
- Jason and Tim team up to take down a magic user, who hits them with some kind of forced proximity curse.
- Red Hood and Red Robin have been getting along great professionally, and maybe Tim and Jason have even had some post-patrol hook ups...and then they risk just one little civilian meet up, some photos of it get all over a tabloid that's particularly obsessed with Tim Wayne, and suddenly everyone wants to know about Tim Drake's mysterious boyfriend.
- Tim thinks he and Jason are fucking on the regular because [untrue reason]. Jason thinks [something else also untrue].
- Tim's untrue reason might be something like: because it's convenient and nothing else, because it's another way for Tim to be useful, because Jason still wants to hurt him but fucking him is more acceptable, because Jason sees it as a way to exert dominance/control over Tim
- Jason's also untrue thing might be something like: he thinks they're both genuinely in to each other but hiding it from the others because Jason's not yet getting along with anyone else, he thinks it's hate sex on Tim's part but it's not, he thinks Tim knows about his feelings for Tim and is happy to string Jason along for easy sex, he thinks Tim is testing his self-control or trying to prove Jason can be trusted.
- (Or come up with your own!)
- They're strangers, or practically strangers, or enemies, but Jason knows he'll at least leave Tim/Robin in once piece. Maybe they manage to fake it. If relevant, maybe Tim recognizes him/figures out Red Hood is Jason Todd and immediately trusts him.
- Tim would prefer this not happen, but given the alternatives it's fine. Maybe he's even subtly manipulated the situation to make sure it's Jason (who he trusts) rather than anyone else. Unfortunately, there's no reason to communicate his consent to Jason until after the fact.
- They're actually already fucking and trust each other, so the worst part is being nonconsensually watched/doing extremely unnegotiated kink.
- Someone who doesn't know the whole situation misunderstands what happened and does something like assuming Jason cornered and raped Tim for his own reasons rather than at gunpoint or whatever.
WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family (DCU Comics)
I'm so fascinated by the contrast between Bruce's public life, Bruce's private life, and Bruce's, uh, batlife — and I'd love to see something that touches on the outside POV of other people looking at the Wayne family and what they see on the surface level, how the Waynes interact with Gotham.
What do low-level employees at who work for various Wayne Enterprises companies think about the Waynes? What about various executives? How about people who run or work for charities that the Waynes donate to? People who were classmates with Bruce, or Dick, or Jason? What kind of conversations happen about the Waynes on the internet? What public image does the family try to maintain, and how much effort do they put into that? What kind of tabloid articles get written for them, what kind of interviews do they sit for, and what kind of pictures do they release officially for PR reasons?
I would love a focus on the Waynes as members of the ultra-rich, and how their real or projected-for-the-sake-of-their-cover lives are similar to or different from the lives of the ultra-rich in real life (although I'm not interested in any direct references to real people in my gifts, please) as well as the logistics of how the get stuff, get rid of stuff, and keep things clean/repaired. For example, Alfred couldn't possibly maintain the whole house alone. Does he have cleaners in on a regular schedule? Who does repairs, and what does that person think about the Waynes? Bruce must have a personal shopper, who are they and what do they think about him taking in all these kids?
I'd also love to see this tag used to explore outside POV of some dramatic happening in the Wayne family, canon or otherwise: the media circus whenever Bruce takes in a new kid, Jason coming back to life legally, or even someone in the Wayne family killing the Joker in their civilian identity (probably in self defense, but maybe in "self defense"?). If that last one, I'd enjoy detailed court drama and PR wrangling and media attention...or something a little more ground-level focused, like social media reactions, internet forum discussions, Reddit explainers, or people on the street just chatting about it.
Character/relationship notes: I don't have any preference for which Wayne(s) appear or are focused on in your work, nor for how well the Wayne(s) that appear do or don't get along — maybe they're a dysfunctional mess, maybe they're a big happy family! I'm happy with getting a work that focuses on OCs or the opinion/rumor-having of non-Wayne canon characters, even very minor ones.
If you want to create shippy content for this tag, I want it to be really focused on tabloid coverage, PR nightmares, carefully engineered civvie meet ups that build up a reliable public reason for the ship to date in public, etc. If you'd like to focus on the public aspect of a ship getting together, here's a non-exhaustive list of ships I think would be neat: Bruce/Clark, Bruce/Selina, Dick/Babs, Slade/Dick, Dick/Jason, Dick/Kori (like....they wouldn't be able to hide that she's an alien princess, right?), Jason/Roy, Jason/Kori, Jason/Kori/Roy, Jason/Tim, Tim/Kon, Tim/Steph, Steph/Cass. Multiple of these in the same work would be fine. Despite not listing any ships for them I would still be pleased with a Damian- or Duke-centric work.
WB: Gotham City Building Code (DCU Comics)
Okay listen. LISTEN TO ME. I'm clutching your face. Either Gotham has the most insane building code in the country, or it has a normal one and everyone is suffering because of it. Which do you think it is?
If it's the first, I want to know how they adjusted the building code for vigilanties grappling through the streets and villains experimenting with gas attacks and I want to know how those changes were implemented. Did Bruce lobby for it? Was it just a really popular campaign promise to say that the HVAC requirements in the Gotham City Municipal Code would be updated to require systems that can filter our fear gas for buildings over a certain size/occupancy? Also, usually new building code only applies when you build something new or renovate something old, but sometimes cities push for things to be updated or even have programs that help pay for stuff. Were any of the building code updates important enough for that? I'd also love to know who's actually qualified to do various work in Gotham and if it's either a shit ton of people/corporations (because corruption) or if it's an insanely low amount (because complex building code+economic distress).
If it's the second, yikes! What kind of problems does that cause for the public? What kinds of problems does it cause for vigilantes? Does Wayne Enterprises have its own, stricter code? Does WE (or Bruce himself) fund any charities that help people in Gotham bring their buildings up to code and then above code? What kinds of problems might people have run into while trying to get the code updated?
I would also love to know how you think the wider state of the world in the comics has impacted the building code — Gotham might use an edited version of the International Building Code or it might have its own specific code (in real life, Chicago still has its own code!) but either one might have been impacted by tech, the existence of aliens/metas, etc.
Related topics I'd be pleased to see touched on: urban planning, zoning & zoning variances, development (esp the process of getting a project approved by the city).
Character/relationship notes: I'm not interested in ship-focused fic for this tag at all. I'm fine with a focus on OCs or canon characters. As to which canon characters — the world is your oyster! Probably someone who has some connection to Gotham, but the POV of some out-of-towner trying to come to terms with Gotham's Gotham-ness could also be really good, so maybe just pick your favorite and then figure out how to make them care about building codes!
