Chocolate Box

[fencesit]

Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m @fencesit.ao3 on AO3! I'm requesting all fic for this exchange.

You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! I very much desperately want everything I've requested, I've just had more time to request some things than others.

And: please don't feel like you need to follow one of my prompts to keep from disappointing me. I've provided all the information below in an attempt to help my writer feel confident in producing a gift for me, but if prompts and extra details don't work for you then feel free to ignore them.

I'm up for recursive fic of my own fic or recursive of gifts I've received in the past (assuming you have the author's permission). I couldn't think of any art stuff I particularly wanted this time around, but I'd be open to art treats if you want! I should have art likes below somewhere.

Navigation:

• DNW
• Likes
• Naruto
• The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

DNW:

• unrequested AUs (canon divergence is okay)
• cannibalism or vore
• necrophilia (ghost sex is fine)
• PWP
• sounding
• rimming
• bodily waste
• suicide/suicidal ideation
• vehicle accidents
• detailed or graphic descriptions/depictions of wounds, medical procedures, torture, etc.
• unrequested noncon
• anal tearing or other serious injury during sex
• incest (I think I prompt brothers sharing a single spouse once or twice, and a) that's obviously fine and b) they can both fuck the spouse at the same time if you want, just please limit their sexual contact with each other to, preferably, zero.)
• dissociation, which includes:
  • derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
  • depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
  • If you're writing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with a, actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay as long as the situation is clear to the reader, even if the character doesn't know.
• sex scenes with underage (under 18) characters
  • I don't mind underage characters having consensual sex with each other off-screen, I just don't want M or E rated descriptions of those events.
• Permanent non-canonical character death
  • anyone can die as many times as you want if it's going to be fixed via time travel or other means.
• the rotting undead/zombies
  • magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
  • Special SVSSS note: TLJ vaguely falls under this umbrella I guess? Please gently skip over too many details about that whole situation if he appears in your fic.
• Fandom-specific DNWs (also listed with individual fandom info below)
  • Scum Villain: (and other forms of magic-/chemical-/whatever-induced lust); Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu (or Original LBH/original SQQ, or any combo thereof) shipfic; other characters knowing/finding out about SQQ or SQH's transmigration.
  • Naruto: Boruto content; background Uzumaki Mito ships besides Mito/Hashirama
  • The Devil Wears Prada: fantasy or sci-fi elements; fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship (I don't need Andy and Miranda to explicitly get together or stay together and I don't need you to explicitly break up any of the canon het ships if you're writing something set before Andy breaks up with her boyfriend/before Miranda's divorce, but I don't want a story about one of them leaving the other to be happy with someone else.)

Likes

Fic likes:

• Canon divergence
• slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
• time travel
  • especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
  • time loops
  • see my Past Imperfect letter!
• dimension travel (eg from the canon timeline to a divergent timeline)
• 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 & angst
  • huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
  • character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
  • character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
  • usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
  • cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example: "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved, "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
  • aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
  • injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
  • lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
  • hands too shaky to complete task
  • forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
• forced (non-sexual) intimacy
  • characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
  • handcuffed together
  • sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
  • captured together, working together in enemy territory
• unconventional formats/POVs
  • 5+1
  • drabble series
  • outsider POV
  • second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
  • I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
  • I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
  • I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
• magic (in already-fantastic settings)
  • curses
  • garbage-tier magical items
  • extra senses
  • worldbuilding around learning/doing magic

Ship likes:

• Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.
• Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
• Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
• Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
• Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
• Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
• When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.

Smut likes

I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?

There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so:

• Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
• Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
• anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, toys
• overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
• bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
• praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
• magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
• clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
• hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
• size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
• pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
• for noncon: humiliation, bruises/rough sex, manipulation, forced feminization (of men or women!), public/group sex, X made them do it
• probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.

Art likes

• soft colors, and also specifically moss green and all shades of purple, especially for slice-of-life and domestic pictures
• lineless art and thick lines and messy lines!
• dramatic lighting, especially if the moment is tense or dangerous
• cartoony styles
• 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

Naruto

AO3 matching tag: Naruto

Fandom note: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain, although if your story idea depends on late canon stuff or if you really love it, I'm not opposed to receiving it!

Requested medium: fanfiction

Requested ships:

• Hatake Kakashi/Hoshigaki Kisame (Naruto)
• Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
• Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito (Naruto)

Shipping note: I do like both Hashirama/Mito and Hashirama/Madara as background pairings! I DNW any other Mito pairings as background ships, however, so if she’s not with Hashirama and you’re not writing a fic focused on Mito/Tobirama, please have her be single and loving it or still living in Uzushio or something.

Hatake Kakashi/Hoshigaki Kisame

What I like about this ship is that Kakashi and Kisame have obvious points of tension, but none of it feels particularly insurmountable or personal. I mean, ok, that whole "capturing Naruto" thing is a sticking point, but Kisame never manages it and no one dies (mostly) so them working through it feels interesting rather than impossible. I also think that both of them are people who value loyalty very highly and are, in their own ways, disillusioned with the village system...but obviously have chosen very different paths. Also, Kakashi is a sad dog man and Kisame is a big fighty shark dude and I just love them both?

Also also I guess I will say that I really love ships between dangerous people who have little reason to trust each other, so two extremely strong, suspicious ninja from different villages coming to trust and then even like each other goes straight to my id, and so does any ongoing tension over their loyalties and stuff!

Ship likes:

• I like Kakashi whumped more than Kisame, but either or both is fine
• physical or emotional h/c
• enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or enemies-to-coworkers/teammates-to-lovers
• bottom!Kakashi if you want to write anal (not a deal breaker, just a preference!)
• battle couple
• forced to team up via unusual circumstances
• meeting in captivity

Timelines: In terms of character timelines I'm open to pretty much everything! I really like Kisame as a missing nin and I think his time with the Akatsuki is really interesting, but I also really like Kirigakure worldbuilding and all of the characters associated with it, so something set before Kisame leaves or in a universe where he didn't would be good too! For Kakashi, basically the same thing — I love canon him and I would love canon divergent him — although I'm not very interested in fics where Kakashi is Hokage.

Previous requests: This is a relatively new request for me, so I've mostly requested it in flash exchanges! The prompts below are therefore all new because I assume if you want time travel prompts you will go to my Past Imperfect letter. Here are links:

• Past Imperfect 2019 (ok, this is currently happening, but will be over by the time Chocolate Box reveals happen, so...)
• If lists of freeforms works better for you than direct prompts, here's a post that lists what I've requested for them in freeform exchanges.

Prompts:

• Enemies forced to work together —
  • Konoha sends Kakashi for a mission where he has to work alongside Kisame and Kakashi can't help but eventually get his teamwork feels all over Kisame. Maybe the mission is prolonged or reoccuring?
  • Captured by a third party or caught in a seal trap; anything where they're in acute, undeniable danger and must either put everything else aside to work together or die.
  • The ninja equivalent of handcuffed together! Like...caught by Orochimaru and experimented on so now they can't be more than [a small amount of distance] from each other? Or something else! I'd just love to see Kakashi and Kisame do some good old fashioned prolonged teamwork. And fall in love. Maybe some kissing. No pressure.
• AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked.
• Missing nin Kakashi — Maybe he assassinated Hiruzen like Danzō wanted and Danzō turned around and, you know, labeled him a criminal? Maybe Kakashi is sent to infiltrate Akatsuki instead of Itachi?
• Kakashi saves Kisame — they've been working together for awhile completely professionally but each knowing the other would most likely turn on them under the right circumstances. Kakashi takes the first step, pushing them towards something more, when he refuses to leave Kisame behind even though staging a rescue puts Kakashi at substantially more risk than just leaving him behind.
• Kisame saves Kakashi — I mean, obviously I love Kakashi being the one to instigate, but what would it take Kisame to be the one to stick his neck out for Kakashi?

Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara

I love both of these characters and I'd be thrilled with basically anything for them! Tobirama and Madara have a really interesting contrast (eg, Tobirama is logical, keeps his emotions locked down, has a strong leaning towards analysis and systems...and meanwhile Madara is like a big huge hot mess of All The Feelings) and the fact that they were probably raised very differently and definitely raised on opposite sides of a longstanding conflict is hella good. Their thoughts on the village, their approaches to problem solving, and even probably their very fundamental belief systems are extremely different and that's the kind fo thing that can lead to really interesting tension. What they do have in common (Hashirama, losing brothers, wanting to protect their clans, each at some point in some way genuinely believing in Konoha, probably PTSD from the whole child soldier thing) makes for an interesting foundation to build a relationship.

Ship likes:

• either or both whumped
• physical or emotional h/c
• enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
• forced intimacy (nonsexual or sexual!)
• bottom!Tobirama if you want to write anal (not a deal breaker, just a preference!)
• Izuna as an antagonist (including Izuna nonconning Tobirama and/or trying to murder him, although he doesn't have to be that antagonistic)
• Either or both of them being socially isolated from their respective clans
• Either or both of them having poor marriage prospects despite their status/power

Timelines: I definitely like things set before the village comes together, in AUs where Izuna lived to see the village come together, or in relatively canon-compliant situations where Tobirama killed Izuna. Or Izuna died in some other way! Or the village never came together! The world is your oyster. I'm somewhat less interested in anything set after Madara leaves the village, but only because I like happy endings; if you think you can make it work please go for it.

Previous requests: This is my Naruto OTP so I've requested it a lot and have lots of prompts and still want them all! The prompts below are partially grabbed from previous requests and partially new. If you want more prompts, follow these links:

• Hurt/Comfort Ex 2019
• Just Married 2019
• AU Ex 2019
• Past Imperfect 2019 (ok, this is currently happening, but will be over by the time Chocolate Box reveals happen, so...)
• If lists of freeforms works better for you than direct prompts, here's a post that lists what I've requested for them in freeform exchanges.

Prompts:

• Enemies forced to work together — hired by the same very rich or important person. Maybe even the Daimyō? Someone who can afford to have them both work for him and who Tobirama and Madara can't afford to piss off. Maybe they have to sleep in the same room. Maybe they have to fight for their lives back to back. Maybe one of them needs to be rescued, or protected, and the other one steps up to do it because of their joint connection to Hashirama. Maybe, somehow, there's some identity porn.
• AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Maybe both of them accidentally yearn for the village to be true. Maybe both of them see Hashirama die/almost die. Maybe
• Arranged marriage — Hashirama decides that Tobirama should marry into the Uchiha to seal the peace. Or, maybe, decides that a Senju should marry an Uchiha and then is very surprised when Madara actually wants Tobirama. Maybe Izuna is dead and it's a really rocky road to getting the ship together. Maybe Izuna is alive and hating every minute of this. I'm okay with Madara and Izuna sharing Tobirama in the most awkward spouseshare EVER if you want, too, but it's definitely not necessary. Just an option! For added tension! And maybe a marriage night threesome.
• Levirate marriage — Tobirama was in an arranged marriage to Izuna (which was a terrible idea) who is now dead (which Tobirama definitely wasn't involved in, he promises) and now the marriage defaults to Madara.
• Timeloop — One of them is in a timeloop and takes forever to ask the other one for help, and then maybe takes forever convincing the other one to help. Either or both of them in a time loop that has something to do with Izuna's death. Or: Tobirama has been looping for as long as he can remember and he's so tired, tired enough to finally refuse to fight because nothing else has worked.
• Huddling for warmth — While visiting a cold climate — the mountains between Land of Fire and Land of Lightning? The northern, mountainous stretch of the Land of Wind? — one of them saves the other from freezing to death.
• Taking a mission together — After the village comes together,an Uchiha child goes missing and Tobirama and Madara have to work together to find and rescue them.
• Bloodline thieves — Bloodline theives make AMAZING antagonists, especially for pre-village stuff, because they can make these two work together :D so anything with them would be great. People trying to steal the Sharingan from Madara is obvious, but I'd also take bloodline thieves capturing Tobirama under the mistaken assumption that either A) he has the mokuton or B) his red lines are a powerful bloodline. Or maybe the aftermath of Tobirama rescuing Izuna from bloodline theives and Madara is ssssoooo thankful? :D :D :D
• Fem!Tobirama welcome — I like my female Tobirama just as sharp and analytical and powerful and controlled as my male Tobiramas. "Tobira" or "Tobirama" works for me. A female Tobirama who's publicly pretended to be male is also welcome!

Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito

I started thinking about this ship because it was nice to imagine Tobirama getting to be with someone who shares his interest in seals, and it seems like a nice direction to go to explore Mito's character! And the more I thought about it the more I wanted it, especially because of the delicious potential for misunderstandings and drama and tension.

When it comes to dealing with Mito's marriage to Hashirama, I am okay with (but don't kink on) infidelity, or Hashirama could be dead (earlier than in canon or otherwise), or Hashirama could be gay for Madara, or Hashirama and Mito could have an open relationship, or Hashirama and Tobirama could both be married to Mito at the same time. Or whatever! Live your dreams.

Timelines: Before Mito comes to the Senju, after Mito comes to the Senju, pre-village construction, post-village construction... I have no preferences although it'd be nice if Mito and Tobirama could be 18 or older. Don't be afraid to make them much older, like during Tobirama's tenure as Nidaime!

Previous requests: I've only requested this for Just Married and all of those prompts are reproduced below, plus a few extra.

Things I'd like to see explored about Mito:

• Did/does she want to get married to Hashirama? Did/does she want to get married at all?
• How does she feel about the village before/during/after its construction? Who first told her about it? How much did she help with its construction?
• Does she miss Uzushiogakure? Does she play her part in clan and international politics?
• How hard is it for her to become adjusted to living with the Senju? How hard is it for them to become adjusted to her? Do her expectations line up with reality?
• How does Mito feel about the Uchiha?

Things I'd like to see explored about Tobirama:

• How does Tobirama feel about having another accomplished seal master around? Has he ever had so much opportunity to talk about seals before?
• Do he and Mito use the same kind of sealing (maybe Tobirama was taught by the Uzumaki/from Uzumaki materials?) or do they use different sealing techniques (like maybe Tobirama is self-taught?)?
• Does Tobirama desperately want a relationship but think he can't have one? Does he think he doesn't want one until he meets Mito? What do other people assume he thinks about sex/romance and are they right?
• If Mito isn't a kunoichi (or, hasn't frequently fought/taken missions) how does Tobirama feel about being involved with her? — does he consider her vulnerable despite her sealing abilities?

Other Prompts:

• AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Grief over Hashirama would work, but connecting over something else would be great too! I'd also be interested in seeing this link grow slowly as they become more in sync instead of snapping into place suddenly — a manifestation of their emotional intimacy that they can't ignore.
• Sex pollen — Tobirama comes back from a mission sex pollened (or drugged-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, or chakra-sick-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, whatever) and Mito steps up to help him out.
  • Maybe it's conventional for married-in wives to help their brother-in-laws like this, maybe it isn't.
  • Maybe Hashirama suggests it or maybe he's off on important business and the decision falls completely to Mito.
  • Maybe Tobirama is relieved and grateful, maybe he fears Hashirama's wrath. Maybe it has to be Mito because no one else is willing...or maybe it doesn't have to be Mito but she insists.
  • I'd prefer Tobirama to end up really into the sex even if he doesn't start out that way.
  • I'm way more interested in guilt on Tobirama's part for fucking his brother's wife than I am for guilt on Mito's part for sleeping with someone other than his husband, but I'll take both or either!
  • Femdom absolutely welcome.
• Arranged marriage — I’ve always assumed that Mito and Hashirama’s marriage was arranged and also that Mito probably had a super expensive bride price.
  • Maybe Tobirama’s mission pay over the years has mostly gone into the fund to get Hashirama a good wife? Maybe the Uzumaki find this out and Mito thinks she gets to pick between Hashirama and Tobirama? Maybe Mito finds out that that's why Tobirama isn't so much as engaged even years later?
  • Mito accidentally falls in love with Tobirama during her engagement to Hashirama, something which Tobirama is maybe 100% oblivious about. She has to move carefully to switch her arranged marriage from Hashirama to Tobirama without insulting the Senju.
  • Hashirama is busy with something so Tobirama is sent to pick Mito up and escort her to the Senju/the wedding venue. Mito spends the whole trip thinking Tobirama is her husband-to-be.
• Levirate marriage — Since Mito’s bride price was so expensive/the Uzushio–Senju is so important, Mito isn’t allowed to go back to Uzushio if Hashirama dies or divorces her. She has to be married to a Senju, maybe one as closely related to Hashirama as possible. I would enjoy pretty much any variation on this, including but not limited to:
  • Mito and Tobirama are forced to marry and both think it will go terribly, but grow to like each other
  • Mito picks Tobirama as the best out of what she thinks are a lot of bad options
  • they’re drawn together by shared grief
  • one of them has been silently in love with the other, or they’ve both silently been in love with each other, and now they finally have a chance to confess their feelings and be together.
• Fem!Tobirama welcome — I like my female Tobirama just as sharp and analytical and powerful and controlled as my male Tobiramas. "Tobira" or "Tobirama" works for me. A female Tobirama who's publicly pretended to be male is also welcome!

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

AO3 matching tag: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Fandom note: I'm pretty sure I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.

Requested medium: fanfiction

Requested ship(s):

• Liu Qingge/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu (Scum Villain)
• Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua (Scum Villain)

Fandom-specific DNWs:

• Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu (or Original LBH/Original SQQ, or any combo thereof) shipfic — including LBH's canonical crush/OLBH's canonical obsession is definitely fine, even in Liu Qingge/Shen Qingqiu fics. In Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua fics it's okay to mention that LBH and SQQ are together and discuss canon events related to that.
• Sex pollen (and other forms of magic-/chemical-/whatever-induced lust) — Love potions and truth serums are okay!
• other characters knowing/finding out about SQQ or SQH's transmigration — SQH or SQQ coming up with truth-adjacent explanations (eg, "I remember my past life." without mentioning that the past life involved PIDW) is fine!

Liu Qingge/Shen Qingqiu

Do you know what I think about all the time? I think about Liu Qingge's extremely terrible attempt to comfort Shěn Qīngqiū after Luò Bīnghé "died":

Liu Qingge was bad at words. He patted Shen Qingqiu’s shoulder: “Your disciple is gone, but you can still accept another.”

USELESS, sure, but so very very intensely endearing. Here's a dude who for years and years hated Shen Qingqiu and legit believed SQQ attempted to kill him that one time, oh my god, and now he's trying his best to provide comfort. He's bad at it because there's nothing to fight, but he's trying and I love him. The fact that he doesn't know that this SQQ isn't the SQQ he hated for so long is also just honestly delicious.

...anyway, I also like how protective LQG is of SQQ and how he's definitely hopelessly pining for nearly the entire book and how SQQ is completely oblivious to everything but should really really get a clue and that clue should be related to kissing LQG.

Timelines: Any time after Shen Yuan transmigrates is fine!

Previous requests:

• If lists of freeforms works better for you than direct prompts, here's a post that lists what I've requested for them in freeform exchanges.

Prompts:

• Canon compliant — I would be so very, very delighted by anything that handles their shifting relationship, Liǔ Qīnggē's reaction to having his life saved, Liǔ Qīnggē's thoughts on Shěn Qīngqiū sudden personality change/poisoning...these things have been written before and even gifted to me but I am so greedy for them. Oh, yeah, and the sexual tension of LQG clearing SQQ's meridians is ALWAYS welcome.
• Canon divergent —
  • LQG is poisoned by Without A Cure instead of SQQ, maybe because he's protecting SQQ.
  • SQQ accidentally spills something about LBH's trip into the abyss being his fault, including his belief that LBH is going to come back and kill him, and LQG helps.
  • LQG doesn't let SQQ go to the water prison.
  • LQG lets SQQ go to the water prison, but then has a chance to break SQQ out of it while LBH is away.
• Taking a mission/going on a trip together — I'd love to see them investigating something...or just camping. Maybe it gets cold and they have to cuddle! Maybe one of their tents gets ruined! Maybe they run into a spirit or demon that targets their real weakness: feelings.
• Wife plots — SQQ successfully avoids some major terrible unsafe plot points, but only by faceplanting directly into some sexy romance side plots. He should have known the only way to distract the world of PIDW from its plot was to visit fertility festivals/get accidently married via strange local custom/etc.

Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua (Scum Villain)

It's been so long since I loved a canon ship and what a beautiful canon ship it is. It has it all??? Miscommunication! Loyalty/fealty! Cultural differences! Class/status difference! A daring rescue! A dramatic reveal! Noodles!

I like a SQH who's too distracted by his own anxiety/fear/self-doubt/low self esteem to believe MBH sees him in any kind of positive light. I like a MBJ who is first INTENSELY confused by SQH and then unsure if he wants to act on this I'm-pathetic-please-romance-me thing SQH has apparently (???) been doing on purpose (????) and THEN a MBJ who decides he DOES want to romance SQH...but is terrible at it.

Listen what I'm saying is, when they get together they're getting on the same page and that's good, but what I love about this ship is that even when they're getting on the same page they're using wildly different editions so it's a miracle they manage it at all.

Timelines: Any point in SVSSS canon after Airplane transmigrates is wonderful.

Prompts:

• Marriage — Arranged! Or for love! For love but one of them doesn't realize it! Accidental!
  • For [handwaves] Reasons, Cang Qiong must send someone to marry MBJ. Alliance marriage? Magic reasons? Whatever. There's tension. There's angst. There's eventually True Love. :D
  • MBJ's demon protection squad drags SQH out of yet another mess but whoops, he's been cursed and it can only be broken by marriage.
  • In MBJ's neck of the woods, life debts eventually transmute to marriage bonds.SQH has absolutely forgotten this canon PIDW detail.
• Alternate first meeting — I'd love for them to meet in captivity (both of them captured by the same person!) and for SQH to be integral to MBH breaking out. Or maybe MBH is the only one captured (by cultivators?) and SQH frees him.
• MBJ time/dimension travel — I love characters mentally swapping with earlier versions of themselves or alternate reality versions of themselves, or meeting alternate versions of their loved ones. In particular I'd love:
  • One unfortunate discovery MBJ makes when he goes back in time is that he can now tell when SQH is afraid of him or in real pain or both and...uh...whoops...it's all the time.
  • MBJ ends up in some situation where he has to briefly or permanently take over his alternate self's life and his alternate self has not treated SQH well. (If it's going to be a fairly brief visit then MBJ mistaking Original SQH for Airplane SQH and being horrified by PIDW is great. If it's going to be a long visit or not going to include MBJ spending time with Airplane SQH when he gets home I'd, you know, like to see MBJ and Airplane SQH's interact.)
• Wife plots —There are like, literally hundreds of them out there, lurking, just waiting to spring on unsuspecting transmigrators?? SQQ can't possibly experience all of them, so some of the sexy romance side plots show up looking for SQH.
  • I would love to read something demon politics-y especially. Maybe another demon realizes that MBJ's lover-who-he's-pretending-is-a-servant is really useful and challenges MBJ to combat over SQH or something? Or tries to sabotage/blackmail/threaten SQH to weaken MBJ?
  • Is MBJ under any pressure to have a harem?
  • Fertility festivals/strange local customs with unintentional side effects for their relationship/etc welcome.
• Angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort — Hi, you can't go wrong with this, especially if the happy ending/the comfort includes them getting together. I think I prefer hurt SQH and I think I prefer emotional hurt, but I'm open to trying something different!

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

AO3 matching tag: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

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

Requested medium: fanfiction

Requested ship(s):

• Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs

Shipping note: I'm fine with Andrea's canon relationships with Andrea/Nate or Andrea/Christian being mentioned/dealt with, and ditto for Miranda's canon husband, but please note my DNW for this fandom.

Fandom-specific DNWs:

• fantasy or sci-fi elements — I like the mundane setting of canon and would like fic that takes place there.
• fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship — I don't need Andy and Miranda to explicitly get together or stay together and I don't need you to explicitly break up any of the canon het ships if you're writing something set before Andy breaks up with her boyfriend/before Miranda's divorce, but I don't want a story about one of them leaving the other to be happy with someone else.

Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs

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

What really, really interests me about Miranda/Andy as a ship is that the movie presents us with this absolutely brilliant view of Andy getting completely and totally wrapped up in the personality, service, and worldview of this older, powerful, respected, intimidating woman who holds Andy to incredibly high but at first seemingly bizarre standards. Andy compromises and sacrifices her friendships, her relationship, her free time, her sense (or lackthereof) of style, her very concept of herself as someone who's above fashion, above being concerned with aesthetics only, above...people like Miranda. Eventually Andy decides she doesn't want to live the kind of life Miranda is dragging her towards, doesn't want to sacrifice herself or others, but just because she's not interested in the cutthroat world of being Miranda Priestly's assistant doesn't mean she's actually free of her respect, appreciation, of fascination with Miranda, you know? Being Miranda's assistant absolutely, irrevocably changed her even though she tries to quit and go back to her old life.

(This paragraph is new! I added it a couple hours after assignments went out /o\ sorry) I don't mind a little dubcon/powerplay between the two but I'm not interested in Miranda straight up nonconning Andy knowingly/on-purpose or the other way around (which should be covered by my unrequested noncon DNW!) but in case you're looking to write dubcon....generally, my preference would be for whoever's making moves to be sure the other person is into it and freely consenting (even if they aren't!) and for any breakup you might write to not be directly about any dubiously consensual things that have happened. I would therefore definitely be interested in stuff that emphasizes Miranda being a powerful and intimidating boss and Andy being her assistant or whatever, but only if either they're both kinking on it or if one (or both) of them is being forced into it by an outside power somehow.

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

Prompts:

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