fencesit

Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3!

You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! 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.

sickfic
cannibalism
vore
bodily waste
necrophilia
sounding
rimming
spitting

including spit as lube, but other mentions of saliva are fine

anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
incest
sex scenes with characters under 16

feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though

suicide/suicidal ideation
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 don't need to be specifically requested, but still DNW noncon porn in those cases

permanent noncanonical character death of requested characters
the rotting undead/zombies

magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine

crossovers (except for Crossover Fandom requests, see below)

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.

real-world politics, crimes, and current events
unrequested trans headcanons, narratives focused on transitioning, transphobia/gender dysphoria/homphobia as sources of hurt/whump/angst

Honey Heist DNWs

significant permanent harm to bears (no death, no dismemberment, but for example they can get shot as long as they'll be ok eventually), sex/romance

Naruto DNWs/clarifications

Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto

DCU Clarifications

incest clarification: If I've requested a ship or listed it as of-interest in my WB: tag sections, I don't consider it incest for the purposes of this DNW.

Blue Castle DNWs

Requested characters with non-human parts (wings, horns, tails, cat ears, for example -- but knots are fine)
Requested characters as partially-human, partially-animal species (mermaids, centaurs, or werewolves that don't fully transform into a 4-legged wolf, for example)

Crossover Fandom DNWs

My usual crossover DNW is waived for Crossover Fandom, of course. However, I only want crossovers that match my relationship-field tags on this request and am not requesting you combine any tags or create crossovers with my non-crossover requests.

I DNW:

Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto
Characters finding out that they're fictional
Borrowing worldbuilding details or characters from non-requested canons, even if it's very minor.

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: biting, scratching, 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:

Art:

Medium Opt-In: Art - Comics
Medium Opt-In: Art - Conspiracy Board
Medium Opt-In: Art - Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Comic
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic
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 Social Media

Writing:

Fanfiction, of course
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Legal Documents
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe True Crime Podcast Transcript

Puzzles:

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Logic Grid Puzzle
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Murdle

Reddit:

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Highly Upvoted Reddit Comment And Comment's Context
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/AmITheAsshole Post (Post + Replies)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/HobbyDrama Post (Post + Replies)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/IAmA AMA (Post + Questions + Replies)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/Legaladvice Post (Post + Replies)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)

TTRPG:

Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG Supplement
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG rule

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 Crime Content.

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.

Dress-up game: BEAR(S) WEARING OUTFITS!!! I'd be pleased both with the canonical outfits and with new outfits. Hats are a must. If there's a crown, I would love a Burger-King style papercrown with "Borger King" on it for this-was-a-joke-in-a-HH-game-I-played reasons. I'd love HoneyCon as a background. I'd love if I could accessorize with crime scene tape. I think a bear with a Sherlock hat and pipe would be swell.
Isometric rooms: What if isometric HoneyCon con floor? :D Or any other location with honey crime. I'd love a "before a bear came in here to do honey crime" and "after a bear came in here to do honey crime" isometric rooms pair.
Conspiracy board: A human who's trying to prove or solve bear crime? A bear trying to track down their own stolen honey? I want red string and at least one pic of a bear, hopefully a bear in a hat.

Other mediums:

Newspaper, magazine, true crime podcast transcript: obviously I would love for these to be about some kind of bear-related honey crime.
Academic publication, legal documents: Not all bears can get off scot free, and if bears are being arrested someone is writing legal stuff about them and someone else is writing academic stuff about that legal stuff.
Reddit: Posts from bears, posts about bears, posts from bears who are pretending not to be bears, beekeeper hobby drama about bears doing honey crime, AITA posts from bears who fucked up a big honey heist, AMA from a bear who consults with TV shows and movies about how to accurately portray the honey crime underworld, guy who let bears steal some honey because they were cute asking for help on r/Legaladvice.
TTRPG: I'm really looking forward to playing the Christmas expansion this winter and a friend of mine made a Vacation themed Honey Heist over the summer that was really fun to play. What other kinds of shenanigans could bears get up to? I'm interested in new places to rob (A rich apiarist's house? A farmer's market? A local Honey Festival? An art gallery with some kind of uses-real-honey art that could be stolen? A Bee Scout summer camp full of kids?) or new crimes to do and even new hats and clothes to wear! Or maybe new heist roles, like counterfeiters and fences, or maybe a ruleset and supplements for playing a bunch of bear detectives! To be honest I just love playing bear-themed games, because I like bears, so I am open to lots of stuff. If you're inventing new mechanics, simpler is better than complex for me.

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. On the other hand, if you have an idea involving Kaguya or Obito or etc that you think absolutely slaps, I'm definitely willing to give it a try!

Requested ships:

Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Madara

Requested medium:

Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
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?)

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!

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.

Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section at the bottom of this letter because I just had a lot to say about it.

Requested relationships:

Tim Drake & Jason Todd
Tim Drake/Jason Todd
Solo: Mrs. McIlvaine
WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family
WB: Gotham City Building Code
WB: Gotham Wedding Industry

Requested mediums for non-WB tags:

Fanfiction

Requested mediums for WB tags:

Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Logic Grid Puzzle
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Murdle
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author

General Batman Likes/Prompts

It seemed kind of silly to try and work all of this into every Batman-related section in this letter so here is a special section that applies to my comics requests and to the crossovers. You can also find some casefic/crime likes in my likes section.

Fanon/Characterization

Generally speaking, I'm at worst ambivalent about most common fanon in this fandom, and the fanon I'm not into isn't usually something I dislike enough to keep me from enjoying a fic that's otherwise crafted with care. I'm going to spare us both from me trying to provide a comprehensive list, but if you want to know my opinion on something specific, please feel free to ask via the mod!

I read a wide variety of fic and like multiple interpretations of these characters! Nothing below is comprehensive, but instead just me wanting to mention some things you might only want to give if they're opted-in. If you're already set on your characterization and fanon opinions, then I encourage you to just skip this part. Ultimately, I'm most excited for your take on these characters and their relationships.

Click here for thoughts on characterization/fanon if you want that

Tim: I love it when Tim is sharp and confident, and I also like it when his life is soooo hard and he is so, so sad. I'm not bothered by popular fanon that rearranges his family situation to be really sucky and neglectful, but I also like it when they were okay-but-not-great parents. I like it when Damian's treatment of Tim and Tim losing Robin and so on are a major source of pain and angst for Tim, including when he leaves or tries to leave the batfamily because of it, but I also super enjoy when Tim and Damian (and Dick!) have reconciled. I'm into Tim having low self worth as a source of hurt for hurt/comfort because that's just really iddy to be honest, but I also love when Tim has a really thick skin and doesn't want or need approval from anyone else because he knows he's right/capable/skilled. I'm kind of into Tim having bad self preservation instincts, but my actual favorite is when he's absolutely 100% competent enough to pull off his insane, risky-sounding plans...and usually the trouble comes from his plans going too well. My fave Tim interpretations often give Tim very high walls and very guarded and very controlled, so when he does break down or show weaknesses it feels extra juicy. I'm not really into Tim being a coffee addict, but if he is going to get like 7 shots of espresso into a single drink I would love to see the other people at the coffee shop get annoyed at how fucking long that would take.

Jason: I'm ambivalent about Pit Madness —Jason could have a magic sickness that's like a partial possession, or he could just have some extra trouble regulating his emotions because of the Lazarus Pit exposure, or he could just be traumatized and emotionally fucked. Whatever works for you! I like it when Jason is working his way back into the batfamily and I also like it when he's at odds with them for both philosophical and personal reasons; I like a Red Hood who still kills a bunch and a Red Hood who's gradually become nonlethal. I like it when Jason feels a connection to Crime Alley and wants to protect it. It's okay when Jason is a great cook who loves making food and is amazing at it, but I'd actually be really charmed with a fic that shows him struggling with life skills he didn't get to develop between being a homeless child, having a butler, being dead, etc.

What I would love most of all is detective!Jason, especially post-Death. How does he use his Batman training as Red Hood? What kind of investigative tools does he carry on his person? I'm also interested in his ability to do long-term planning and maneuver his enemies into specific actions (eg, knowing he could wind Black Mask up enough to break the Joker out). It's really iddy as fuck that Jason is a big buff fighty guy who kicks ass, but it's even MORE iddy that he's smart and trained in more than just violence.

Bruce: I'm here for pretty much anything from Bruce being a good dad who makes honest mistakes to him being an absolutely terrible parent who stops just short of deliberate abuse. I don't find "Bruce is abusive and wrong for letting any minors be vigilantes ever" very compelling because I think it kind of goes against the conceit of the canon (which is that, you know, superheroes doing violence is helpful and good) but I'm definitely into other explorations of how he's failed his kids in large or small ways, if that's relevant to what you want to write. Or he can just be trying his best and mostly succeeding! Make this batfamily as functional or dysfunctional as you want. Oh, also, if you're really not that into Bruce being Tim/Jason/etc's dad and like him more as a mentor figure for either/both of them, that's also fine.

Talia: i don't have many strong preferences about Jason's relationship with Talia except that if they have had sex I usually prefer that it be portrayed in a negative light (although it's definitely okay if Jason doesn't realize how fucked up it was). Otherwise, Talia could be Jason's real good mom or totally evil and manipulative or something nice and complex in between!

Dick: To be honest, what I would most love is for no one to find it surprising that "Dick" is a name people can have. Also, feel free to give him a non-cop job, I guess.

Worldbuilding

If it works with the story you want to tell, I'd love an emphasis on:

cover stories
information security
contingencies
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 like it when being a vigilante is something treated with weight, when it's dangerous and requires caution. I'm not really into grimdark settings, I don't want things to be hopeless or full of misery, and I definitely don't mind comic book logic (such as, the idea that glasses are enough to keep Superman's identity secret, lol) but I like the tension of things not being too easy and I love the implied competence of the Batfamily being really great at what they do despite significant challenges. Like, if being a vigilante were easy, everyone would be doing it, so it's really great to read a fic where it's hard work.

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 sitting here like, "I love worldbuilding, wish this section were longer!" then you're in luck because if you scroll down there are sections for my requested worldbuilding tags babbling about those!

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.

If you're writing hurt/comfort, I have no preference for who is hurt vs comforted. I tend to enjoy stories about adults and teenagers more than children, but I've definitely enjoyed fics about pre-Robin Tim being a little boy detective before — generally, I just need characters to have agency to stick their noses in things and get in trouble.

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 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 kills in self defense, or to save Jason's life. He and Jason work together to cover up the murder.
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. Tim helps Jason investigate/defeat/steal from/etc his terrible evil teacher du jour.
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/investigate whatever it is without undermining Red Hood's reputation. (For the purposes of fulfilling the & tag, I'd be satisfied with a fic where Tim does this without Jason's permission and just thinks about Jason a lot and learns a lot about Jason and then Jason shows up at the end for one scene, but I'd also enjoy Tim doing it with Jason's permission and calling him with updates all the time.)

Tim Drake/Jason Todd

Enemies to lovers, vigilante coworkers to lovers, strangers to lovers, fuck buddies to lovers, friends 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.
One of them needs a +1 for some kind of undercover/investigative work that will involve a lot of fake dating nonsense or other forced intimacy. The other 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 him instead, etc.

"What kind of fake dating/forced intimacy nonsense setting would you enjoy?" I hear you asking! Well...

BDSM club
Reality TV or gameshow where for reasons they need to come off as married or dating
Some crime ring situation where having a date is desirable
Couple's retreat suspected of being a funnel for cult membership

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 doing it, either under a civilian identity or (for some reason) as 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.
Jason is being targeted by someone, and Tim finds out. He doesn't think Jason will trust his intel, so he sets out to investigate/protect Jason in secret.
Tim goes missing. He and Jason have been working together closely, so his deadman's switch contingency plan is set to alert Jason that he needs to be checked on.
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 into 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!)

Because reasons, one of them has to fuck/otherwise violate other...or watch others do worse. Depending on your preference:

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.

Mrs. McIlvaine (DCU)

Okay, listen. Listen. Mrs. Mac is a really minor character and pretty much never shows up with her canon characterization in fic. And just like I say about a lot of other things in my fanon likes/preferences at the beginning of this section, I'm pretty much okay with most popular Batman fanon, although I would also love her canon characterization. I found this tumblr post (which you should be able to read even without an account) that summarizes fanon vs canon if you need a refresher.

You can write about fanon Mrs. Mac, or canon Mrs. Mac, or canon-Mrs. Mac-based-solely-on-that-tumblr-post, or you could get crazy and invent new fanon (suggestions for this below), whatever you're into. I'm requesting this because there's a fine and upstanding tradition of nosy old ladies in the mystery/procedural genre, and I think Mrs. Mac deserves her time to shine. I'm not here to fuss over details, I'm here to see an old lady commit, cover up, and/or investigate crime(s).

It's important to me that Mrs. Mac have lots of agency and lots of things that she's competent at. I'd still be into her getting into trouble and needing to be rescued (her skillset doesn't need to include being an escape artist or kicking ass) but for example I'd love to see emphasis put on her being very organized, very detail-oriented, extremely practiced at various kinds of social interactions, great at keeping her head during alarming circumstances, etc etc etc. If things are going to go wrong for her, I'm more interested in seeing it be because she succeeded too well or couldn't possibly have had all the information she needs, rather than a result of her experiencing bad luck or making stupid decisions.

Mrs. Mac can be trans, if that interests you! I'd be most interested in her being happy with whatever level of transition she's at — I really like trans characters who are happy where they're at. In addition to just liking old trans characters, I really enjoy the fun extra backstories and character details that Mrs. Mac being trans might open up, as well as being interested in how it would probably change the way she relates to the world. It would be really neat if Mrs. Mac transitioned later in life after doing some kind of traditionally masculine job, because then when she's investigating stuff she could, like, use her knowledge of the years she spend working that job to help her! Of course, it would still be fine if you don't make her trans and she just happened to have previously held a job in a male dominated field! But I think a really interesting character arc for Mrs. Mac could be that she set aside [traditionally masculine job/interests] when she transitioned, and now many years later she's really happy with where she's at and slowly realizes that she can still [like fixing cars/be a hardboiled detective/etc] and it doesn't invalidate that she's still Mrs. Mac.

In addition to the stuff below I'd also be into works that touch on:

Mrs. Mac's canonical warm relationship with Jack and Dana OR Mrs. Mac's fanon unwarm relationship with Jack and Janet
Logistics of housekeeping for a very rich family (including: Does Mrs. Mac supervise landscapers and repair men? Does she work closely with the Drakes' personal shopper, if they have one, or with any personal assistant(s)?)
Whether the Drakes are new money or old money, and what the wealth difference is between the Drakes and Bruce,
Mrs. Mac's relationship with Tim...but specifically I'd be interested in something that touches on Tim's grief and how canon!Mrs. Mac might comfort him about that, since god he seems like he needs it.
Loyalty vs pragmatism when it comes Mrs. Mac being an employee. In the comics, Tim and Jack give her extra money from selling Tim's car so she can go home, which is honestly beyond what she probably reasonably expected. I'm always interested in the struggle between forming a close personal relationship and keeping in mind professional standards and realistic expectations for what an employer/employee does and doesn't owe, especially when the personal relationship does manage to overcome the professional hurdles. I'd love to see something where either the Drakes prove how much they care for Mrs. Mac before she leaves their lives forever or where Mrs. Mac is the one who shows how much she cares.

Additional alternative character interpretations for your consideration/amusement:

Mrs. Mac has a long and shocking criminal background, but either retired into housekeeping so she could stay busy without all that stress or had to start a new life (as a housekeeper) to hide from her many, many criminal enemies and/or the law,
Mrs. Mac was secretly a vigilante for awhile in her youth — not with the tech and masks and drama that Batman favors, but something simpler, less technically complex and maybe more impulsive. Worldbuilding often seems to act like Bruce doing what he's doing is basically unprecedented, but there could be a long history of people engaging in vigilante justice!
Mrs. Mac used to be a private detective, or someone else who had reason to solve lots and lots of crime.
Mrs. Mac is a mystery or true crime writer.
Mrs. Mac apparently canonically prefers taking Amtrack over flying. Could it be that Mrs. Mac...likes trains? :D Maybe she's a trainspotter. Maybe she used to work on a train.

It's my preference that Mrs. Mac genuinely care about (or at least have no specific ill-will towards) Tim...or at least that she end the fic that way. She could totally start out all "bah, kids these days!" and then come to realize that Tim's pretty great by the end of the fic if that's a character arc that interests you.

Prompts:

Something is going on between Bruce Wayne and Tim. Jack says it's nothing to worry about, but Mrs. Mac just can't let it go. She's going to find out, and if it's as bad as she thinks it might be...maybe she'll do something drastic.
Tim has gone missing. Mrs. Mac has the skills to find him, and no way to know that Batman is already on the case.
Mrs. Mac fucking kills the Joker. Does she plan it out? Is it a crime of opportunity, or maybe done in defense of herself or Tim (or Robin, who she doesn't know is Tim?)? Does she try and succeed in covering it up? Maybe you'd be interested in writing about a court case where she's being tried for murdering him!
Some non-Mrs. Mac person hired by the Drakes (eg: a private chef, a driver, a contractor redoing the kitchen, a gardener/landscaper, etc.) is up to no good! Mrs. Mac sets out to find proof, but gets into a lot more trouble than expected.
Something from Mrs. Mac's mysterious past catches up to her. She tries to hide it; Tim (+ Jack?) try to figure it out.
Mrs. Mac finds out that Tim is Robin instead of Jack. Does she agree to keep it secret from Jack? Does she accept that it's a mistake she has to let Tim make, only to one day find herself on a desperate, self-assigned mission to help Robin when no one else can?
In his civilian ID, Tim kills someone in self defense (or in defense of Mrs. Mac's life). She helps him cover it up. Maybe she even helps him hide it from Batman.
Assuming you're willing to shove the canon timeline aside: Jason decides to scope out Tim's home prior to the Titan's Tower fight. Mrs. Mac notices, but what could Red Hood be casing the house for?
Mrs. Mac loves her job, but she can't stop herself from being curious about her employers. She discovers that Jack (and/or Janet, depending on how you feel about the canon timeline) is doing something illegal that she finds morally repulsive. She decides she must gather evidence, and then figure out how who to give it to.
Mrs. Mac solves a crime aboard an Amtrak train. Maybe Tim (and Jack and Dana?) is travelling with her for reasons and they solve it together, or maybe Mrs. Mac is travelling alone. She could call Tim to ask him trivia questions relevant to her investigation! Or Robin could coincidentally end up already involved in the crime!
After Jack dies, Mrs. Mac hears (From Tim? Via tabloids? From Dana?) that Tim has gone to live with "his Uncle." but...Tim does not have an uncle. Right? Surely she'd know if there was an uncle. Mrs. Mac investigates.

Please feel free to use a non-Mrs. Mac POV (for example, Tim or Bruce or Alfred) as long as the fic is still about Mrs. Mac. I have an obvious bias towards it being about Mrs. Mac doing/covering up/investigating/being suspected of crime. but an outside POV of Tim and Mrs. Mac's relationship with no crime would also be nice!

WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family (DCU Comics)

I'm so fascinated by the contrast between the Wayne's public lives, the Wayne's private lives, and the Wayne's uh, batlives — 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? 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, Bruce/Dick, Dick/Tim, Dick/Jason, Tim/Jason, Dick/Kori, Jason/Roy, Jason/Kori, Jason/Kori/Roy, Tim/Kon, Tim/Steph. 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. If you have a different ship in mind, I will enjoy anything as long as the public opinions/rumors are juicy and delicious.

WB: Gotham City Building Code (DCU Comics)

Hey. HEY. 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 vigilantes 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), public transit, micromobility (bikes, etc).

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!

WB: Gotham Wedding Industry (DCU Comics)

People must get married in Gotham. What does that look like? And let me be honest with you: I'm a freak for event planning details and I yearn for works that really get into the horrible weeds of what it takes to plan and pull off a wedding in, of all places, Gotham.

Here are some things to consider:

Wedding venues: In the real world, finding a venue can be really hard and expensive, but at least it doesn't involve assessing how safe it would be if there was a Scarecrow attack or something. I'd of course love to learn in general about the kinds of wedding venues are available in Gotham (a botanic garden? museum? zoo? Wayne Manor? a nice park? other manors/purpose built venues? hotel ballrooms? spas/resorts/casinos/the Iceberg Lounge?) but also about Gotham-specific wedding venue considerations. Is it difficult to get a permit to host an outdoor wedding? Are the security deposits crazy?
Wedding security: Usually people only have security at a wedding if they're super famous or if they expect someone they know personally to make trouble. Occasionally venues have security to deal with wedding crashers. Is the Gotham wedding security industry fucking insane, though? Are there intense guest checks to be let into the wedding? Do some segments of Gotham's population consider a foregone conclusion that guests will come armed and ready to take out anyone who attempts to interrupt the wedding?
Florals: The floral industry is nuts, but I feel like it must be extra nuts in Gotham. Flowers are largely imported, which is probably a great cover for various illegal activity. Is it a lot cheaper to get some imported flowers at Gotham's flower market compared to, say, NYC's, because the cost of importing the flowers is subsidized by the drugs or guns or whatever that are being secretly imported along with the florals? Or, is it a lot harder to get flowers in Gotham in general because they don't have a substantial flower market for crime-related reasons? (Maybe they used to have one, but then Batman busted it for drug smuggling or whatever, and now everyone's really fucking salty at Batman about ruining their cheap florals?) I am interested in details about how florals can be made more environmentally friendly, but I'm not super interested in Poison Ivy trashing a wedding for their big floral display—I think she has bigger fish to fry.
Rentals: Okay first of all, I enjoy thinking about how rental companies that provide glassware and tables and chairs and such to events where a vigilante is likely to get thrown around the room or throw other people around the room probably factor that shit into their pricing/security deposit. But also, are there any Gotham-specific rental things to consider? Like, do people rent gas masks for their guests just in case (maybe for their out-of-town guests) or do photobooth rental places never include hats?
Wedding planning: What kind of potential problems do wedding planners in Gotham need to be aware of and have contingencies for that wedding planners outside of Gotham generally don't need to worry about?

I'm not specifically looking for shipfic (the fact that people are getting married/in relationships can be background information to the foreground wedding industry stuff) but you can definitely write shipfic if that's how you'd like to explore this worldbuilding topic. Details about which ships I might enjoy are at the end of this section.

Prompts:

A crime occurs at a wedding — the venue is a museum and the wedding turns out to be a ruse for a HEIST? the wedding turns into a MURDER MYSTERY? the floral displays are FULL OF SECRET SMUGGLED DRUGS that were sent along to the wedding accidentally and now the importer is trying to recover them, by force if necessary?
Vigilantes go undercover! Maybe as wedding guests investigating something, maybe they pose as an engaged couple to investigate a venue or vendor, maybe they get fake married undercover to further their investigation or ruse.
Vigilantes invited to weddings under their civilian identities — maybe they spend the whole time kind of wishing the event had worse security so that they could fight crime instead of making small talk, maybe they actually do uncover/prevent/investigate a crime. I would also love to see a vigilante use their highly trained crime fightin' skills to solve lower stakes wedding problems.
A wedding planner struggles to keep an Arkham break out from totally fucking their carefully prepared timeline. They know that a large, expensive party like theirs makes them a likely target for an attack and they're absolutely willing to shoot the first escapee to try anything in the face to get the happy couple down the isle in time for their sunset portrait session.
Suggested Reddit post titles:

How do I invite Batman to my wedding?
Gothamites, why does the dress code for my cousin's Gotham wedding require gas masks?
What's the worst wedding you've ever attended in Gotham?
AITA for cheering when Batgirl punched my MIL?

Please feel free to use any of my marriage likes that don't involve a complete AU (i.e. I am interested in Gotham's canon setting with Batman and lots of crime because I am requesting worldbuilding—but I don't mind you switching up society a little as long as the crime fightin' is roughly the same!).

Also, I love wedding drama almost as much as I like thinking about event planning. Give me a bridezilla, a group of too-drunk groomsmen, a lost ring, an insane mother of the groom, etc etc etc.

Related topics I'd be pleased to see touched on:

Wedding traditions: I won't be disappointed by a work about a typical American East Coast het wedding, but please feel free to mix it up! On the fictional side, seeing alien wedding traditions incorporated if you're doing a marriage with an alien canon character would be swell. On the non-fictional side, I'd welcome an exploration of queer weddings (and the queer wedding industry!) or the inclusion of wedding traditions from elsewhere if that's what you're familiar with/interested in.
Gotham wedding etiquette! How you plan a wedding is extremely linked to what etiquette you need to follow and the general culture around weddings — the marriage is for the couple, but a wedding is an event for the guests, so how the guests expect to dress, eat, and party is important! Is it polite for guests to come armed or unarmed? Are you expected to bring your physical invitation to lower the chances of criminal wedding crashers?
Outside POV of Gotham: Is it expected that the couple will do anything in particular for out-of-town guests? Do people ever have destination weddings in Gotham because it's cheap and keeps the guest list down?
Outside POV of the Waynes: People in fics are always having the Waynes attend galas but there should FOR SURE be a summer wedding circuit among Gotham's wealthy, what's that like? Also, what if Wayne Manor is a much sought after wedding venue?

Character/relationship notes: I'm fine with a focus on OCs or canon characters.

If you do want to write about canon characters getting married, I would enjoy reading about: Bruce/Clark, Bruce/Selina, Bruce/Talia, Bruce/Dick, Dick/Babs, Slade/Dick, Dick/Jason, Dick/Tim, Jason/Tim, Dick/Kori, Jason/Roy, Jason/Kori, Jason/Kori/Roy, Tim/Kon. If you have a different ship in mind, I'll enjoy anything as long as the wedding industry./wedding planning process is examined very closely.

If you're writing about a wedding with OCs, I have no preference for the gender of those involved and I would welcome trans/nonbinary OCs.

Crossover Fandom - DCU/Leverage

Fandom note:

Leverage: I'm most interested in something set during or after the original show, but I do like the new show too.
DCU: 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.
Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section in my DCU (Comics) section, and a crime likes section in my Likes section if you need more ideas!

Requested relationships:

Eliot Spencer (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Eliot Spencer (Leverage) & Jason Todd (Red Hood: Lost Days)
Parker (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU Comics)
Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Tim Drake (DCU)

Requested medium:

Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author

Other notes:

Setting-wise, I'm most interested in works where the Leverage crew has always existed the same universe as Batman.
Background Parker/Hardison or Eliot/Parker/Hardison welcome! I really like these ships, but didn't want to bake it into the tag and make a creator have to fit it in, since I'll enjoy totally gen interactions too.
I'd prefer that Parker and Hardison stay unpowered and instead just be very, very competent. If you want to give Eliot some kind of understated meta power (healing factor, extra strong, enhanced senses) then I could be into that, although I'm also okay with him just being very good at punching people.

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU)

I'm really interested in the way the Leverage crew's turn from selfish lives of crime (and, in Eliot's case, violence) to helping people would interact with Jason's whole...everything. Like, the street kid → Robin → assassin training → crime lord who beheads people → antihero trajectory of it all! I'd love to see them grappling with each others' morals and life experiences. Also, I'd love to see them interact professionally, with Jason as Robin or as Red Hood — ideally working together, but they could start as enemies! Also, I'm really interested in the Leverage characters reacting to how young Jason is for most of the Robin/assassin training/early crime lordin' things.

Prompts:

One of the requested Leverage crew owes Talia Al Ghul a favor; she cashes it in to get Jason training from one of them, or maybe travel paperwork from Hardison.
Jason investigates this new teacher Talia has sent him to, or maybe the Leverage crew investigates him, or maybe Jason gets wrapped up in whatever the Leverage crew are doing. Possibly, the Leverage crew could recognize that this kid REALLY looks like Bruce Wayne's supposedly dead kid.
The Leverage crew is asked to help get Sheila Haywood arrested, but everything starts to go wrong when the fucking Joker shows up. They're not even near Gotham!
Someone feeds the Leverage crew a false story about being mistreated by Bruce Wayne/his company, including maybe implying that Bruce Wayne is abusing his new, formerly homeless adopted son Jason. Maybe it's a really solid lie and they have to uncover the truth, or maybe they immediately know they're being lied to but still investigate or run a con to figure out why. Also, you know, do a wellfare check on Jason. Just in case.
In the middle of a job, the fucking Red Hood shows up! The Leverage crew initially thinks this is a disaster...but maybe they have an unexpected ally in Jason, if he can work out what they're doing?
Catwoman as a point of contact between Jason and the Leverage crew — she puts Jason in contact with them when he needs help with something, or she contacts him on their behalf when they need help. Maybe Eliot is hurt and the team needs a fill-in hitter. Maybe Jason has found a complex crime ring of some kind, and can't take it down without a crew. Maybe one or multiple Leverage team members have been captured and need rescuing, and the non-captured ones are scrambling to find back up. (Selina is welcome to come along with Jason if that works with your plot and you're interested in writing her! Or you could leave her out and have Jason and the Leverage crew reach out for help in some other way.)

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Tim Drake (DCU)

I kind of feel like Tim would be unusually delighted by what the Leverage team gets up to, and I also feel like they'd make some pretty untrue assumptions about Timothy Drake, and that just seems so delicious to me. I also think Tim would make a great Mastermind and, professionally speaking, would be very interested to know that a team like the Leverage team exists.

Something i really yearn for in Batman fic is more works where white collar crime is relevant, or basically anything where the crime that's being solved/stopped is more complex than muggings/physical assault, trafficking, and various gang stuff. Not that I dislike those things (and not that I don't understand why some crime fightin' is easier to put into the background of fics than others) but I think Tim's computer focus and openness to unorthodox methods of problem solving and inability to keep his nose out of other people's very interesting business would make him a really natural fit for a Leverage-type plot! The Leverage crew often ends up getting people arrested, after all.

Prompts:

The Leverage crew is asked to run a job against Drake Industries. Maybe Jack and Janet are the marks, or maybe it's someone else in the company. Tim gets involved...or maybe Tim is the one who asked them for help!
Tim runs into the Leverage crew while he's on his Brucequest. Maybe they recognize him while he's coincidentally somewhere they're running a job, and they look into why Brucie Wayne's adopted son is all the way overseas, alone. Maybe he runs into them as Red Robin while breaking into a place. Maybe Eliot clocks the assassin trio stalking them, and then the Leverage crew winds up helping Tim complete his search for Bruce without getting sucked into Ra's Al Ghul's whole..thing.
Tim notices the Leverage crew running a con either in Gotham or when he's elsewhere on a business trip.
Tim investigates a crime that leads him to the Leverage crew. He must ascertain whether this is a normal crew of criminals who he should stop, or if they really are doing good and count as vigilantes.
A job the Leverage crew is doing suddenly takes a this-needs-professional-vigilante-help turn (for example, because it involves a supervillain) and for some reason Tim is the vigilante it's easiest to contact.
The Leverage crew was already a little in over their heads with their current job busting some kind of illegal auction, but then, uh oh, Robin is put up for auction. They have to figure out how to save him, and hope Robin won't turn around and try to arrest them after they manage it.

Crossover Fandom - Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

Fandom note:

X-Men comics: I have a deep love of the ugly 90s art in old X-Men comics and have read a lot of Gambit comics, but I'm not really fussed about if you have or not. Feel free to draw on the animated show! I'm not interested in the live action movies.

If you'd like to dip your toes in very lightly, I really like Uncanny X-Men #350 (Remy gets abandoned to die in Antarctica after a dark secret from his past is revealed! feat. 90s art) and X-Men Origins: Gambit (Remy tries to get married and fucks it up bad) - the later is definitely the easiest to jump into being, of course, an origin story.
DCU: 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.
Also, there's a Batman likes/prompts section in my DCU (Comics) section, and a crime likes section in my Likes section if you need more ideas!

Requested medium:

Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author

Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

Remy is like a connaisseur of bad romance decisions and I would love to see him make some of those at Tim. A plotty fic where they just flirt at each other, a tropey shipfic, a casefic with strong romance subplot...whatever's so good, I just want to see them interact!

Tim and Remy could be strangers that become friends, enemies that turn into allies, acquaintances who suddenly find themselves with opposite goals, or whatever other combo you think would be interesting! I like a lot of tension and change in my ships, so ideally they'll start one way and end another. I'm also interested in miscommunication based on Tim and Remy coming from very different backgrounds/looking at problems with very different problem-solving methods.

In terms of canon timelines (if comics canons could even be said to have those lol):

On Tim's end I'm particularly interested in fic set during his Brucequest or while he's Red Robin.
I'm not super interested in fics set while Tim is Robin unless at the very end of that time just because, like, I would like to have my shippy goggles on even if you write gen, and that will be hard for me to do if Tim is like 14.
On Remy's end, I really like post-Antarctica fics (fics set after Uncanny X-Men #350 and before Remy rejoins the X-Men later) or fic set before Remy joins the X-Men at all, but I'm open to other timelines too.
I am really, really not fussed about Exact Comics Timeline Accuracy, so you can just go with your heart on ages, order of events, which characters are doing exactly what, etc.

For the crossover setting, I have a slight preference for DCUverse as a setting over Marvel, but I'm open to either for sure. I think it would be easier to just yeet one character into the other character's world via dimension travel, but I'd also be interested in something like an AU where Remy is a meta thief in DCUverse or whatever. There could maybe be a neat connection between the Theives Guild/Assassins Guild situation and the League of Assassins!

PS I wrote these prompts for Casefic Exchange...you really don't need to focus on the casefic/heistfic aspect of things, although I do love casefic.

Prompts:

Somehow, Remy ends up in DCUverse!

Remy needs to figure out where he is/how to get back/what to do; maybe he does a lot of crime about it.
Tim could end up in charge of investigating where Remy came from, how to return him, how he got there, how to prevent more people from arriving, etc.
Maybe the case conclusion is that they can fix/figure out [thing that yoinked Remy to a new dimension] but, it's not possible to sent Remy home!

Tim is flying solo on his Brucequest! He needs to break into a museum or gallery or something to find Bruce-related evidence. Remy is also breaking in at the same time.

Maybe a fic focused on the heist one of them is planning, and how the other one complicates it — for example, one of them clocks the other planning their break-in at the same time and needs to figure out wtf is up with this other guy. They could meet while both scoping out the museum in person and maybe flirt over some art!
Or maybe they don't know about each other until they're in the middle of their respective break-ins. Things could go wrong in a not-caused-by-incompetence way (for example, they've both got good plans, but got in each other's way? Ra's deliberately snitches on Tim as per canon?) and they need to either A) escape and then re-plot a heist together or B) complete their already-in-progress crimes and then figure out how to get away with it together.

For reasons, Remy gets dragged into helping with Brucequest.

Maybe Tim decides things will go faster if he just hires some professional heisting help
Maybe Tim is having an ill-advised one night stand with Remy when the assassin trio (mistakenly thinking Tim is alone in his hotel room) try to blow Tim up.

Crossover Fandom- SVSSS/Naruto

Fandom note:

SVSSS: I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.
Naruto: 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. On the other hand, if you have an idea involving Kaguya or Obito or etc that you think absolutely slaps, I'm definitely willing to give it a try!

Requested relationships:

Luo Binghe (SVSSS)/Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
Luo Binghe (SVSSS) & Haruno Sakura (Naruto)

Requested medium:

Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author

Other notes:

Setting-wise, I think it probably makes most sense for Narutoverse and SVSSSverse to be different dimensions, but I'm open to other options if you think you can make them work.

Luo Binghe&/Haruno Sakura

I really don't have a preference for gen vs ship for these two because I think either could be really interesting! I'm interested in Luo Binghe getting some of that good ol' Leaf nin friendship treatment, in an older and wiser Sakura dealing with a very pretty boy she can have a more grown-up crush on, and/or in LBH hurt/comfort. I find OP Sakura power fantasies very iddy, so please feel free to lean into that if you agree — but I also really like it when a fic emphasizes that Sakura's best weapon his her big big brain. Sometimes a Sakura power fantasy can just be about her being smart as hell and I respect that. But, you know, she could also punch people. God I love Sakura.

RE ages/timelines: for the & tag, any age whether they're not useless toddlers would be great. For the / tag I'd like Sakura and Luo Binghe to be roughly the same age or both roughly adults.

Prompts:

Sakura reborn as Ning Yingying or other Cang Qiong disciple: I love reincarnation SO MUCH. I genuinely have no preference on if Sakura takes NYY's place or not — I think it would be really interesting, but I also think it'd be cool for her to be a Qian Cao disciple or something! I'm really interested in Sakura's POV of Cang Qiong, because there's no way she'll be able to keep from measuring it against Konoha, and if you like worldbuilding then please pile it on and tell me all the ways this society is strange in comparison to the Narutoverse society, I will eat that up with a spoon.
equally annoyed/threatened by the same low-stakes problem: lack of hot water for bathing at hotel/inn, murder mystery where the murderer is clearly not going to be a threat, held captive by incompetent assholes, they're both falsely accused of the same crime or related crimes and must figure out whodunnit, both massively inconvenienced by a natural disaster
equally annoyed/threatened by the same high-stakes problem: lost their powers and are in mortal danger, must navigate wilderness with limited supplies/magic, held captive by innovative assholes, lost in the Endless Abyss together, dealing with the search/rescue/other logistics following a massive natural disaster
one of them rescues the other: LBH gets to be OP in his canon so I confess I lean towards Sakura being the one to provide the rescue, but on the other hand LBH is so OP it is a little hard to imagine that he'd be injured and need help! Still, through the power of contrived Airplane plots I think anything is possible — or maybe you could just make LBH young!
Sakura being utterly untroubled by LBH's demonic heritage: given the wild things Sakura is used to her comrades and enemies being able to do in Narutoverse, I think she'd be like "huh cool a useful bloodline limit" about it, no matter how much other cultivators have told her that demons are evil or whatever. Speaking of which, I'd love Sakura's Konoha-born POV on demon society.
dubcon: I'd love for them to get caught up in some stupid horny subplot — sex pollen, fuck-or-die, rituals that can't be completed without sex, mating instincts, and so on. Sakura could be super into LBH already and glad for the excuse, or very reluctant but ultimately super turned on by it. LBH welcome to have a knot or other fun xeno genitalia things going on because of his demon heritage. My "when does it becomes too noncon?" line for this ship is that I'd like both participants to come out of the experience having ultimately had nice orgasms, not super upset that it happened, and willing to maybe fuck each other again in the future. No-No-Extremely Yes welcome.

Blue Castle

AO3 matching tag: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery

Fandom note: You can read this novel for free here!

Requested medium:

Fanfiction

Requested ships:

Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

Blue Castle is already full of tropey marriage-y goodness for this ship but I just really want more! I would love something canon-compliant or something canon-divergent. I really like the canon setting/time period, but I also definitely won't nitpick anything I read for anachronisms!

I really love how Valancy opens up over the course of the book first on her own and then because she has Barney's love and support. Seeing her get to bust out of her terrible life and leave her awful family behind was great! I also really like the way social classes play a part in the book, and how Valancy looks past them and past other societal pressures, and how eventually it turns out that the class divide in the relationship is actually the reverse of what everyone assumed! I also really like Barney and his insecurities and his complete inability to hear his wife praise his writing to his face, lmfao.

Freeforms I enjoy for this ship:

Arranged Marriage Contract Bought Out By Someone Else
Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
Person's Hand In Marriage Auctioned Off To Highest Bidder
Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
Family Won't Pay 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 A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Propose To Your Spouse
Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse

Other prompts:

I'm really interested in alternate ways they could have ended up married! for example...

Instead of Barney marrying her so she won't have to die while alone and miserable with her family, he could marry her to save her from having to marry someone else.

Perhaps this other person is notably and unmistakeably the kind of man who'd murder his wife, although Barney can't prove it, so he feels he must try to help Valency get out of her engagement to the man.
Perhaps this is an AU where families can auction their daughters' hand in marriage off to the highest bidder; for reasons Barney feels compelled to bid for her. (Perhaps she mentions to him her dread at being bought by some stranger!)
Perhaps this is an AU where Barney needs a wife, possibly for business reasons but maybe for magic reasons.

Or perhaps Barney could be Valency's second husband! And maybe that second husband was even worse to her than her family was.

Maybe Barney knows immediately that her first husband didn't treat her kindly, or maybe it needs to be discovered.
Maybe this is an AU where you need to secure a new husband before you can divorce your current husband (either across the board or because Valency would chance some terrible fate if she were unmarried)
Maybe Valency is a widow, and they simply fall in love — possibly they keep meeting at the bookshop, or in the woods, or so on. After all, with her first husband dead she would be free and alone for the first time.

Maybe they could meet and get married earlier!

Valency's anxiousness and depression hit her harder at a younger age; a doctor recommends sending her away to one of those seaside/lakeside spa places where you can bathe and relax etc. Barney happens to be visiting at the same time.

Also...AU settings!

I love the general setting of the book (a rural small town, with Valency's family being very proper and established in the local area) and the basic role of Valency and Barney in the book (Valency as a neglected daughter from a family that doesn't appreciate her; Barney as the son of a very rich man who's retreated into nature and art) so I don't want anything that strays too far from what the book has set up, but...

D/s as a biological imperative/part of society

Valency is a sub and has gotten more than enough (platonic) domination from her family...too much, even, and never the right kind.
Valency is a sub, but she's much neglected because her family believes only a spouse should take a sub in hand and Valency is still unmarried.
Valency is a dom and Barney is the first person to ever sub for her.
I'd be happy with something that focuses more on the emotional/SFW side of this kind of AU, but if you want to include smut then kinks/sex acts I'd be particularly interested in: praise kink, spanking, bondage, dual genitalia, PIV, anal & anal training, penetration as a form of dominance, toys worn under clothing, dom picking the sub's clothes

Omegaverse

I prefer alpha/omega pairs. I like it when everyone has dual genitalia regardless of their gender presentation.
Valency has a very late presentation as an omega — maybe neglect delayed her presentation, or maybe neglect made her presentation switch suddenly because her body was like "damn we gotta attract a better pack", or maybe she presents for a different reason. For some reason, she ends up spending her presentation heat with Barney.
In a verse where omegas are highly desired and usually the dominant partner, Barney is pretending to be an alpha or beta but is really an omega. Valency is an alpha who thinks she will die before she ever finds an omega to take her as a mate.

Like canon, but with magic

Valency is diagnosed as cursed (or is actually cursed) instead of diagnosed as with a heart problem.
Barney is secretly a wolf shifter, werewolf, magician, etc.
Magic is commonplace, even in a place like Deerwood. Of course, Valency's family has a very conservative and strict idea about what kinds of magic are acceptable, much less what kind of magic Valency should be allowed to do.

Different historical or other setting AU

It's important to me that the setting still be one where Valency marrying a man her family doesn't know/approve of is just as shocking if not more so as it is in canon.
I would love additional etiquette, societal pressures, courtship expectations, etc. I will eat that with a spoon
If you're into an accurate Regency England setting, then hell yeah, but I'll also take vaguely-European vaguely-historical if you prefer.
Or maybe... Deerwood as a remote planet in an already sparsely populated starsystem or something. A rural setting but IN SPAAACE :D What kind of space manners and space social expectations might they have in place of the 1900s rural Canada ones we see in the book?

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Honey Heist - Grant Howitt (Roleplaying Game)

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Uchiha Madara/Haruno Sakura

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Tim Drake & Jason Todd

Tim Drake/Jason Todd

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WB: Public Opinion/Rumor About The Wayne Family (DCU Comics)

WB: Gotham City Building Code (DCU Comics)

WB: Gotham Wedding Industry (DCU Comics)

Crossover Fandom - DCU/Leverage

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Jason Todd (DCU)

Eliot Spencer & Parker & Alec Hardison (Leverage) & Tim Drake (DCU)

Crossover Fandom - Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

Tim Drake (DCU)/Remy LeBeau (X-Men Comics)

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Luo Binghe&/Haruno Sakura

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Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

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