Auctions As Threatened - wishywashi

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Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m usually fencesit on AO3 but this is my second AAT sign up, under the name wishywashi!

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! 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 creator 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.

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.
• cannibalism or vore
• necrophilia (ghost sex is fine)
• sounding
• rimming
• bodily waste
• spitting
• including spit as lube, but oral is fine
• car crashes/traffic violence
• car crashes: also includes buses, trucks, other similar roadway 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)
• detailed or graphic descriptions/depictions of wounds, medical procedures, torture, etc.
• Lots of blood is fine, mention of specific injuries are fine.
• Writing: 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.
• Art: Cuts, wounds and blood are fine; I would prefer no detail beyond that. No muscle, viscera, gore or exposed bones.
• corrective rape
• unrequested noncon
• casefics where characters investigate cases involving OC victims being sexually assaulted are fine, but still DNW noncon porn in those cases
• anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
• incest (mentions of canonical incest are fine)
• sex scenes with underage (under 18) characters
• feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
• permanent noncanonical character death of requested characters
• the rotting undead/zombies
• magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
• unrequested crossovers
• 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.
• real-world politics, crimes, and current events
• unrequested trans headcanons, narratives focused on transitioning, transphobia or gender dysphoria as sources of hurt/whump/angst

Honey Heist DNWs/clarifications

• DNW: significant permanent harm to bears
• no death, no dismemberment
• but for example they can get shot as long as they'll be ok eventually
• DNW: sex/romance
• DNW clarification: killing/maiming human characters is definitely fine, although I still DNW it to be graphic.

The Devil Wears Prada DNWs

• DNW: fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship with anyone but each other — but I don't need Andy and Miranda to stay together and I don't need you to explicitly break up any of the canon het ships if you're writing something set before Andy breaks up with her boyfriend/before Miranda's divorce

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
• Actions: carrying (bridal, piggyback, fireman carry, that no-homo superhero side hug), flying, falling, swimming, characters doing action things like kicking and flips and stabbing, hands touching, forehead kisses, leaning on each other, sleeping, playing/rough housing, cleaning/doing chores, reading/writing/drawing/doing other hobbies, sneaking, hiding, laughing, shopping.
• Things: fabric (draped, folded, ripped, etc), 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), exploration of the minutiae of a character's life (like what exactly is on their bookshelf or in their bag), fashion/clothes, glowing objects, the sky/the horizon
• 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)

Fic likes:

• Canon divergence
• Different first meeting
• Fix-it
• For Want Of A Nail — a small change shifts the outcome of canon's plot significantly
• Communication
• 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)
• Miscommunication
• 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.
• Change or reversal in relationship
• 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!
• Time travel
• 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!
• Dimension travel
• 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!
• Worldbuilding
• 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
• Plot
• 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
• Friendship and loyalty
• 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
• Hurt/comfort and angst
• 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.
• Forced proximity/(non-sexual) intimacy
• 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
• Soulbonds (but not soulmates)
• 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.
• Medically necessary touch/sex
• 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).
• somnophilia, either pre-consented to or with the sleeping character immediately into it as soon as they find out.
• these things if they do not draw blood: spanking, belting, caning, other types of impact play
• dirty talking, slut shaming, praise kink
• half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not, uniform kink with canonical uniforms
• size difference, size kink, large insertions
• unrealistic refractory periods, come inflation
• breeding kink, pregnancy (including mpreg), lactation
• 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.
• if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.

Casefic/Crime Likes

I'm not a huge fan of trying to guess the twists and turns of a mystery as it unfolds, so you can totally make that kind of casefic for me but the effort might be a little wasted. I love seeing characters plan and scheme, or correctly predict their enemies! I love when a case/mission/heist is a great excuse for competence porn, and I love it when characters are forced to team up against their will to accomplish a common goal, such as solving/committing/covering up a crime.

Cases(/etc) are a great way to explore worldbuilding and an amazing way to see characters either doing their job or getting into trouble way over their heads. Or sometimes both! I also really like it when, over the course of an investigation or something, a character has to learn something about themselves or someone they've teamed up with. Cases(/etc) that bring up interesting backstories/make characters bond! Cases(/etc) that make characters confront uncomfortable truths about themselves!

Below are some crimes and crime settings I would enjoy. Please adjust these for "would that exist in canon?"-ness — I wrote these originally for Batman casefic reasons, so they're pretty focused on real-world laws and places, but for secondary world canons like Naruto not all of this stuff would exist/be relevant. Land of Fire doesn't have McMansions specifically, for example, but I would still love a fic where Naruto characters do or investigate crime in a huge, poorly constructed house, and I'd love to hear your thoughts about why Land of Fire might have big terrible houses like that!

Crimes

I've got nothing against a fic that uses established villains, but maybe you're looking to branch out! I'm pretty into the idea of getting a fic with some more mundane detective work, smaller crimes, and little injustices that get to be solved by our heroes. Or, you know, our heroes could...commit some of these crimes!

• Insurance fraud
• Mail crimes (porch pirates, sure, or a case that involves someone deliberately withholding/stealing someone's normal mail, or a case that involves sending threatening letters)
• Wage theft
• Tree law violations (eg, someone cuts down a tree that isn't on their property)
• Embezzlement (especially if it's from a source that a requested character has cause to care about)
• Stalking (for creepy sex reasons? for intimidation reasons? for well-intentioned but hey-this-still-freaked-me-out reasons?)
• Harassment (sexual or otherwise)
• Illegal gambling
• Bribery
• Counterfeiting
• Product tampering
• Corporate espionage
• Fish & Wildlife violations (eg, hunting out of season)
• Murder or serious violence in genuine self-defense
• Building code violations (from "uh oh, they built this wrong" to "hey wait this building should have been made ADA compliant!")
• Smuggling/illegal ownership of mundane non-drug and non-firearm things — for example food delivery workers buying super cheap importing electric bikes with batteries that don't meet required- by-law safety standards, or illegal aftermarket window tinting on cars.
• Destruction/vandalism of art in a museum, gallery, public installation, or private home

Probably not all of these can carry a full casefic all on their own, but they could be an inciting incident! I like it when investigations snowball because characters don't mind their own business. For example, character sticks his nose into wage theft at a diner -> oops that was the tip of the iceberg and now he's embroiled in an investigation about [much worse crime].

Also, there are some crimes that I'm kind of interested in seeing tackled/mentioned, but I'm a little worried that the resulting fic will be a huge bummer — for example, civil rights violations, voter suppression, and police brutality. For these kinds of crimes, if you include them, I would really like justice to be served as completely as possible. For example, I definitely don't want to ask you to ignore that police often behave badly in various ways, right, but also real life is so depressing and I would love for my gift to be some kind of escape.

Also also, here's a list of crimes that you might need me to opt-into: rape/sexual abuse (of original characters only, unless otherwise requested), child abuse/neglect, human trafficking, all kinds of drug-related stuff, domestic violence, dog fighting, kidnapping, hostage situations, bombings (including via mail), assassination, terrorism (if because of issues not related to real world politics).

Settings

I love a good abandoned warehouse as much as the next person (seriously, you can just use a warehouse for Crime Locations™) but here are some non-abandoned warehouse locations where crimes or crime investigating could happen!

• An empty big box store, or a usually-empty big box store that's about to be/is currently/just recently was used as a Spirit Halloween location.
• Department of Transportation snowplow storage facility
• Off-season recreation or hospitality location (I think abandoned amusement parks are a little too common, though. Maybe something like: ski resort in the summer, sleepaway camp during the school year, kayak rental business during the winter)
• Housing development left incomplete due to personal, local, or national misfortune
• Empty McMansion, possibly already falling apart due to poor construction
• Off-season farmer's market location
• An ice rink, or other sports recreation facility, maybe currently not in use because the government cut funding, the private owners were threatened, the villain of the story faked a need for asbestos removal, etc.
• A stone and tile store, especially the section where they have lots of countertop slabs stacked up for storage and display
• A landscaping business, especially one with lots of piles of rocks lying around
• A woodworking shop, or factory that deals with wood products, or a lumberyard
• An infrequently-used Gotham convention center
• A very minor historical landmark (for example, the house of some famous Gothamite — perhaps it's been turned into a small museum!)
• A wedding venue, or related site (the bridal suite of a hotel; the kitchens of a defunct catering business; a beautiful room often rented out for receptions)
• Knock off Chuck-E Cheese (with animatronics please?? :D)
• Academic facilities such as sheds adjacent to sports fields, dormitories or academic buildings currently empty in preparation for a remodel, sheds adjacent to sports fields, littled-used or off limits underground passages between adjacent buildings, archival space, or places facilitating the study of biology and related fields (eg, botanical gardens, barns/kennels, greenhouses)

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
• injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
• lying so that the other will accept comfort or help

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
• Cuddles, hugs, arms over the shoulder, hair pets, other nice touches especially when unexpected
• ...but if the canon setting or the characters' canon relationship means touching would be unusual, I love when that's emphasized or even a significant barrier to recieving comfort
• 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
• Being listened to
• 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.
• Being given help
• 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
• Conflict and overcoming conflict!
• 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 As Political Tool!
• 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
• Second marriages and/or trauma recovery with the help of a spouse!
• 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
• Other iddy shit!
• 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
• Mishaps & Complications
• 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
• Enemies
• 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
• Time Loop
• 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
• Misc.
• 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

Honey Heist - Grant Howitt (Roleplaying Game)

Fandom note: Honey Heist is a single-page TTRPG available here on itch.io for pay-what-you-want from the creator. Players create bears with various crime specialties who try to rob honey from a honey convention. It's definitely not necessary to play Honey Heist to make a fanwork for it; anything not included in the itch.io download is just made up by the players or DM for each session.

Requested ships:

• Solo: Original Bear Character (Honey Heist)

Requested medium:

• Comic
• Fanart
• Medium: Fanart ‎- Sticker Sheet
• Medium: Fanart ‎- User Icons - 300

Solo: Original Bear Character (Honey Heist)

Let me just start by saying: I really really love bears, and I especially love looking at cute bears, and I especially especially love cute drawings of bears wearing clothes. If you can draw a bear (you definitely can if you're considering filling this request, I can sense it) then I am going to love whatever comic you draw SO much. because it will have at least one bear in it. I am super easy to please on the "comics with a bear" front.

With that in mind, below are some notes about what kind of Original Bear casecomic you could make, but these are suggestions. I will love all bears and that is a threat.

Bear basics:

• I don't have a bear gender preference. Pronouns are less of a big deal in comics, though so maybe this won't come up! If you do need to pick pronouns, pick whatever. I'm also fine with human characters using "it" for animals.
• Type of bear!
• I have a slight preference for grizzly bears, but if you are artistically drawn to the look of another type of bear, then I will still get to look at some kind of bear which is pure bear profit for me.
• If you're doing a crew of criminal bears, then I would welcome the inclusion of a honey badger (which the game really implies are honorary bears, presumably for due to their rage and love of honey? Feel free to explore this fascinating worldbuilding in your comics, I guess. Can other types of animals be bears if they feel enough combined lust for violence and honey?)
• If using the criminal bear categories and such sounds fun to you, I'm into that! If you just want to draw something about bears stealing honey from humans without thinking about the Honey Heist game mechanics, I'm also into that! You can also keep or discard the HoneyCon setting, too.
• I'm not specifically interested in an in-depth bear character study or exploration of bear friendship or romance or anything for this request. I'm looking for bears thinking about crime, doing crime, preventing crime, investigating crime, and so on. Action! Chaos! Goofs! Silly worldbuilding! If you start to love your Original Bear Character and their feels and relationships then I'm sure I'll be thrilled to also love them, but also you don't have to go out of your way to include that. I'll be very happy with Funny Bear Casecomic.

Bear personalities:

• A smoothtalkin' bear who fits in so, so good with humans! Too good. Somehow, they have found themself in charge of Honey Security, or perhaps the entire Honey Con. Is this the perfect opportunity for crime — an accidental success that they'd be a fool not to capitalize on! — or are they torn between their honeylust and their professional ethics?
• A rookie criminal bear who does not understand human laws. They just got here from the forest. If someone wanted them not to take this honey, surely it would be much harder to abscond with.
• A hacker bear. They've been scamming honey online for years, but this is their first in-person crime.
• An artist bear. Eating honey is so pedestrian and old fashioned; this bear instead uses it to create abstract art that humans just absolutely love to put on display at museums and galleries. They even source their honey legally! But unfortunately the world is just as full of crime as it's full of bears, and this bear can't avoid crime happening near/to/because of them no matter how above board their latest installation is.
• A detective bear. Who knew reading all those human murder mysteries would be so useful! Getting paid to solve mysteries has really helped support their honey habit. They'll crack this latest honey heist just like all the ones before it.
• ...or: A fake detective bear. Humans will believe anything! Sure, yes, they're totally here to investigate the attempted break-in last night. They're definitely going to figure out who was trying to get that honey. And then they're going to snatch they honey for themselves while everyone's distracted!!

Visual things:

• Montage of bear trying on different outfits (either the ones you can roll for in Honey Heist or other clothing options, but I am really into the idea that the crown from the game is a paper crown from a Burger King knockoff called Borger King)
• Detailed heist breakdown panel
• Quick costume change!
• Fooling a human by putting on just a hat. (Outside POV of this definitely funny, but also consider giving us a glimpse into human POV where all the Bear Details get blurred out or go greyscale and the human focuses only on the hat??)
• Visualization of the CRIMINAL and BEAR meters! Showing them giving into FRUSTRATION or GREED!
• Bee/honeycomb and flower motifs if you need to fill extra space, draw wallpaper, decide on a pattern for a dress, etc.
• If you're using the HoneyCon setting:
• I'd love to see the branding for the con, I'd love to see the bear(s) rampage through the artist's alley, I'd love to see people cosplaying bee/honey-related things in the background, and I'd love to see both realistic and absurd bee/honey-related products and companies.
• Also I know it would probably make more sense for HoneyCon to be an industry event with no artist alley or cosplaying but like, consider that I would just find it really funny if it was a fan convention for honey haha.
• Although, on the other hand, leaning in to it being very Serious Honey Business For Serious Honey People with lots of suits and a drab grey business-y convention center would, probably, enhance the funnyness of goddamn bears trying to do crime.
• User icon: I would love a bear icon! I'd really enjoy if it could be really colorful, especially if it has lots of purple (the AAT Dreamwidth theme would honestly provide an amazing color palette). I'd be especially pleased with a bear wearing a Borger King crown, or eating honey
• Sticker sheet: I have a black waterbottle I'd love to decorate. Maybe a crew of criminal bears, or a criminal bear I could surround by a bunch of bee/honey stickers? A detective bee, some honey bear prints, and then a bear feasting on stolen honey?

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
• Comics

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!

For this ship in particular, I love the drama and tension of the song lyrics, the possible class differences (the duke is a duke! is Eddie even nobility?), the canonical lovemaking, and the chance for lots of action and misunderstandings and drama and so on.

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.
• Comics:
• 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 Narrator-Playing-Eddie/Actor Playing The Duke comic.
• I love action shorts of characters and would love to see the kidnapping and swordfightin'!
• I'd love visuals of the black heart machine

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Fandom note: I just love this movie so much. I could (and do) watch it over and over again.

Requested mediums:

• fanfiction
• fanvid

Requested ship(s):

• Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs

Shipping note: I'm fine with Andrea's canon relationships with Andrea/Nate or Andrea/Christian being mentioned/dealt with/happening at the same time as Miranda/Andrea, and ditto for Miranda's canon husband. I'm not really interesting in plots centered around cheating, as it isn't very iddy to me, but it also doesn't upset me, so if you've got an idea that otherwise seems to hit my id but involves some relationship mess, i'm all for it. The only thing I don't want (as mentioned in my DNW) is Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canonical SOs or starting new relationships with anyone but each other.

Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs

Every time I watch this movie I walk away from it thinking that Miranda and Andy should have gotten together. I mean, I'm also always relieved for Andy when she quits, but still. There's so much meat still on the bone, by which I mean I'm INCREDIBLY thirsty for this ship.

What really, really interests me about Miranda/Andy as a ship is that the movie presents us with this absolutely brilliant view of Andy getting completely and totally wrapped up in the personality, service, and worldview of this older, powerful, respected, intimidating woman who holds Andy to incredibly high but at first seemingly bizarre standards. Andy compromises and sacrifices her friendships, her relationship, her free time, her sense (or lackthereof) of style... her very concept of herself as someone who's above fashion, above being concerned with aesthetics only, above...people like Miranda.

The movie does this wonderful balancing act between Andy and Miranda getting to know each other while also showing Miranda's frankly horrible dysfunction. I love her coldness, I love how demanding she is, I love how controlling she is, I love how sharp and sure of herself Miranda is — and I love it even more with the contrast of how blindsided she is by her divorce.

I wouldn't say that what draws me to Miranda/Andy is, exactly, the fact that Miranda could very easily be an abusive partner, and I definitely don't think that that's what was up with her divorce. But I do think that Miranda would have to work really hard to be a good partner, and I find that really intriguing. Could she put the work in? Would she? I'm not really into relationships "fixing" people (and honestly, I don't think anything could turn Miranda into a nice boss or a friendly business associate, lol) but sometimes in relationships people do put in the work to really soften their edges enough to meet the other person halfway, because they care. I think that'd be a really interesting struggle for Miranda!

Anyway, though. The movie ends with Andy quitting (and going back to her boyfriend ugh shhh let's ignore that, or at least pretend they broke up again soon) but just because she's not interested in the cutthroat world of being Miranda Priestly's assistant doesn't mean she's actually free of her respect, appreciation, of fascination with Miranda, you know? Being Miranda's assistant absolutely, irrevocably changed her even though she tries to quit and go back to her old life.

I'd love stuff set during canon dealing with Andy being dragged further and further into Miranda's orbit and loving it and feeling that jolt of tension and excitement and lust when Miranda's checking her out giving her outfit an approving look, but I'd love something set post-canon!

For things set while Andy is still working with Miranda, I'd love an exploration of the power imbalance between them. I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start. I'm more interested in emotions and character growth and such than straight porn, but they can definitely fuck! Please give them lots and lots of feelings about it.

For things set after Andy quits, I'd love to see them coming back together more as equals, renegotiating boundaries and learning to relate to each other outside the workplace. It'd be cool to see them strike up a friendship that deepens, but also excellent to see them fall straight into a romantic or sexual relationship. Whatever floats your boat!

Setting: I really love New York City as a setting, and would love NYC details, especially about transportation, city infrastructure, and city planning stuff! Also, I don't care what year you set your fic in; it's not important to me that the setting be authentic early 00's NYC so don't feel like you have to do a deep dive into what technology/culture was like at the time or anything. I would strongly prefer no focus on the pandemic, national politics, etc.

Vid prompts & likes:

First: I don't need a strong shippy vibe from a vid. It's okay if what you make is more of a gen Andy & Miranda vid! You can even make something more focused on Andy or more focused on Miranda. I'll be thrilled!

I like vids that match the energy of the music they're set to! Fast cuts and lots of them for long songs, more lingering shots for slow or contemplative songs. I enjoy when cuts or actions (punches, shutting doors, setting things down, etc) match up with the beat, it's very satisfying. I am of course enamored when, if possible there's a close relationship between the literal or emotional meaning of the lyrics being sung and what's happening in the vid. I like it when scenes that happened far apart in canon are juxtaposed to emphasis some kind of relationship or shared characteristic — parallels, sure, but also something like cutting together several examples of characters helping each other in different ways, or going from a scene where they trusted each other to a scene where they betrayed each other for extra contrast! That's delicious.

In terms of specific effects, I've rarely met a vid I didn't like and would encourage you to follow your artistic vision. I don't mind added sound effects or footage taken from other sources.

In terms of music, I'd rather a song that perfectly fits than something that matches what I usually listen to, so live your dreams if you have something in mind. If you do want to know what I listen to, I frequently listen to: The Mountain Goats, Lord Huron, Regina Spektor, Talking Heads, The Oh Hellos, Frightened Rabbit, Spoon, Gregory Alan Isakov, Florence & The Machine, Paramore's After Laughter and This Is Why albums, David Byrne and St. Vincent's collab album Love This Giant.

In addition to the classic set-to-music vid format, I'd also really enjoy a constructed reality vid where there's a canon divergence or the movie ends differently or Andy and Miranda hook up or where they meet in a different way — whatever you're inspired and able to create!

Fic prompts:

• Canon compliant missing scenes —
• Any canon compliant/canon adjacent missing scenes from either of their points of view focusing on their changing relationship.
• While she's still working at Runway, Andy disagrees with Miranda about something and wins the argument for once.
• Was Miranda happy to be taking Andy instead of Emily to Paris?
• Canon divergence —
• Miranda stops Andy from going on her date with Christian by taking Andy out to dinner / Miranda takes Andy to the fancy restaurant she intended to go to with her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
• Emily doesn't end up in the hospital and goes to Paris. How long does Andy stay at Runway?
• Andy comes to work at Runway a little later in her career as a writer.
• Andy is date raped by Christian (during the Paris trip or before; whatever works for you) and gets support from Miranda.
• Hurt/comfort with Miranda as the hurt party — The scene in the movie where Miranda talks about her divorce SLAYS ME every time, and I don't necessarily need anything directly related to the divorce, but like...Miranda rants a little about how she's called "dragon lady" and iirc "cold" and stuff, and I wonder if those are insecurities she has and how she deals with them when she's never ever going to stop being the driven force of nature she is.
• Hurt/comfort with Andy as the hurt party — Mostly I'm interested in seeing how Miranda gives comfort. I have this feeling that she's extremely action/solution oriented in the kind of comfort she likes to give, but maybe you feel different? Also I think we see from the movie that Miranda wouldn't actually be in the habit of comforting her employees (I mean, I find it hard to believe she comforted Emily at all ever in any way whatso ever about being hospitalized and missing the Paris trip even though Emily was obviously devastated) so something that involves Miranda grappling with the fact that she Caught Feelings™ would be great.
• Post-canon — Andy either didn't realize or didn't act on her attraction while she was working for Miranda but now they're able to reconnect as equals.
• Miranda seeks Andy out. Maybe Runway needs an article written and Andy has been doing incredible work, which gives Miranda the opportunity to reach out to her. Maybe Andy wins an award or something and Miranda calls to congratulate her and finds herself inviting Andy out to dinner with her in celebration.
• Andy seeks Miranda out. Maybe just to thank her for the incredible recommendation. Maybe Miranda's in the news again (her ex-husband has said some terrible-sounding things on the record about their failed marriage?) and someone from Andy's paper needs to interview Miranda, so Andy volunteers.
• They meet again by chance. They're at the same party and Andy is so gorgeous and Miranda just can't help but look at her differently now that Andy is no longer her employee and has a solid footing in her career of choice. Andy is sent to cover Paris fashion week and runs into Miranda.
• Miranda is, you know, a REALLY different person as a lover than she is as a boss, so actually setting and maintaining boundaries isn't a problem but Miranda being constantly busy with work is now a problem for Andy from the other direction? Or maybe something else. Oh my god I have so many feelings. I need a bulleted list.
• AUs — I love the canon setting of NYC and fashion and so on, but I'd be interested in these AUs layer overtop:
• Omegaverse (Miranda as a female alpha with a penis or pseudopenis and vagina; Andy as an omega)
• D/S as a part of society (Dom Miranda, sub Andy)
• BDSM as a biological imperative (Dom Miranda, sub Andy)

Ankles - Lucy Dacus (Music Video)

Fandom note: This is a music video where a museum security guard has to go find a painting that's come to life and return her to the museum. The song is full of longing for a relationship the speaker isn't sure she can have. You can watch it here.

Requested mediums:

• Fanfiction
• Comic
• Medium: Fanart ‎- Character Item - Character Outfit - 500
• Fanvid

Requested ship(s):

• Portrait de la Jeune Fille/Sécurité du Musée (Ankles - Lucy Dacus)

Portrait de la Jeune Fille/Sécurité du Musée

I'm absolutely fucking rabid about the combo of this music video's premise and the longing in the song, wow. I really want something that explores the relationship between the woman from the painting and the security guard. Things like...

• Does the woman from the painting run out of her frame to have wild parties (orgies?) often?
• Does the woman from the painting ever just come out to talk to the security guard, maybe at night when the museum in closed?
• How unusual is it for a painting to come to life like that? I think i'd prefer if it was at least a little unusual, so that it still feels special, but she doesn't need to be the only one. Presumably the museum knows about it. Is the security guard hired specifically to look after this painting? (She probably switches off with a nighttime security guard, in that case?)
• How long can the woman from the painting stay out of her painting, if there is a time limit? Is there a way for the woman from the painting to become human/"real"? Maybe staying out of the painting long enough would do it (in which case, is the security guard technically trapping her in the painting when returning her to the museum?) or maybe she needs to fully take off everything she wore to sit for the portrait (which is why she's still wearing some of it in the opening scene?)
• This is more about the woman from the painting but like...is it just me or is she maybe standing in front of the same kind of walls and lights that her portrait is displayed around? Could it be that this art museum like, used to be her house or something?

I'd like it if the woman from the painting and the security guard have talked at least a little here and there before she comes to bring the woman from the painting back to the museum, although they don't necessarily need to be friendly. I'm really into them longing for each other, and the security guard struggling with her duty to return the woman to the painting because of her job and her interest in the woman from the painting/desire for her to be free. The music video implies that the woman from the painting just gets to a different part of Paris, so the travel time to get her back where she's supposed to be isn't huge...maybe she does it again and again, getting farther away each time. Or maybe they just start talking afterwards, when the museum is empty. Or maybe you want to preserve the she-just-gets-back-in-the-painting-and-that's-it ending of the music video. All of these things interest me!

Overall I mostly want to see something where their relationship grows and changes, and i especially love how the music video does that as they travel across Paris. The scene where they go from fighting to the woman from the painting telling that cyclist off for the security guard? Amazing. I'm also really into the way the security guard is kind of acting like a servant and a protector for a big part of the movie; I love her professionalism and seeing it fall away as the lady from the painting pushes her buttons and resists going back to the museum.

Re: the lyrics and sex between them, I would really enjoy them getting close enough to fuck and even longing for and then getting the domesticity implied by the lyrics, but I'm not really fussed about sticking to the lyrics. Being yanked to the edge of the bed to be ravished does sound great, but i'm not really into biting and do not require that you like, work in doing crosswords over tea, you know? The song can be just vibes for the story the music video shows.

Visual things I would like in a comic:

• I love how the beginning of the music video is lit by the security guard's flash light, an overturned lamp, and candles. I also love the early morning light when they're out on the street and in the park.
• More stuff with the security guard helping the woman from the painting with her big dress! Like I don't know if the Paris subway has turnstiles, but if they do maybe they struggle with those?
• Details for the outfit the woman from the painting is wearing!!!
• The security guard having to help the woman from the painting back into her dress

Vid prompts:

Okay obviously, as a music video, this is like pretty much already a vid...but what if it were a different kind of vid?? I would love:

• A constructed reality vid, possibly but not necessarily using another song, where the woman from the painting doesn't go back into the painting.
• A fake romcom/movie/TV show/whatever trailer
• Constructed reality vids made to look like in-universe social media posts or museum exhibits or news segments or something to go with some in-universe documents or social media stuff.

For any type of vid, I'd love the inclusion of whatever extra footage you'd find helpful from other sources. Not just footage of Lucy Dacus and Havana Rose Liu, but also "B role" type footage of, say, Paris or art or whatever. If you're doing something that requires audio in addition to video, then drawing that from wherever is also fine.

For any type of vid, if you're going to use music besides Ankles, then I have a preference for a female singer (or instrumental!) but anything you think really fits should be fine!

Get Out - Frightened Rabbit (Music Video)

Fandom note: This is a music video where two girls have a lot of intense eye contact and fight each other and cling to each other and maybe do a magic ritual or handfasting and possibly one of them is haunting the other (figuratively, post-break up? literally, post-death?). The song is about not being able to escape loving a girl. You can watch it here.

Requested medium:

• Fanfiction
• Comic

Requested ship(s):

• Blonde Girl/Brunette Girl

Blonde Girl/Brunette Girl

I'm gonna be real with you, I'm bad at interpreting ambiguous music videos. What's really important is that I love this song and the music video is full of delicious vibes that I'd love to see explored. Things like:

• The circling. The intense eye contact and Looking At Each Other of it all
• The magic? Stuff? Possibly going on? They do some kind of ritual that's maybe a handfasting or maybe some other kind of binding. The girls touches the brunette girl in a way that seems very controlling and practiced — sure it's part of their dance fighting, but if she's literally doing that maybe it's got something to do with that ritual! And I love the spooky vibes of Brunette girl trying to kiss Blonde girl in that room full of random guys and then everyone disappears — and the brunette girl being suddenly alone at the end of the video.
• The fighting! i'm not super interested in them having 100% mundane domestic fights, especially because their fighting has a lot of dance elements to it, but I am definitely into them having a rocky relationship and them having those fights where the blonde girl pushes the brunette girl away.
• Brunette girls' jealousy and possessiveness, and how devastated she looks towards the end of the video when the blonde girl suddenly disappears and she's alone
• The implication in early points of the video that they have a fun, domestic, cozy relationship to start with — brunette girl watches blonde girl get dressed, they share a bed and a pair of ear buds, they laugh and play,
• Brunette girl putting a choker necklace — a collar basically! — on blonde girl!!

So anyway yeah. I don't know what's going on in this music video but I do love it and I'd love to see your interpretation.

Visual things I would like in a comic:

• Magic!
• Lots of important touching, especially if you can do Impactful Closeups on the lingering of hands.
• Anything that mimics or draws from the use of light in the music video, which I think is really beautiful and definitely a huge part of why I love it.
• I love the setting where they do their magic ritual and the room where they have their dance-fight in front of big stained glass windows