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fencesit
Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3!
You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! I very much desperately want everything I've requested, I've just had more time to request some things than others.
And: please don't feel like you need to follow one of my prompts to keep from disappointing me. I've provided all the information below in an attempt to help my writer feel confident in producing a gift for me, but if prompts and extra details don't work for you then feel free to ignore them.
I'm up for recursive fic of my own fic or recursive of gifts I've received in the past (assuming you have the author's permission).
DNW:
- unrequested AUs
- canon divergence is okay
- I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators
- Something like "Airplane-bro made a cultivation otome game instead of writing a cultivation stallion novel" or "Konoha was never founded" in Naruto — I consider those technically canon divergence rather than straight AUs.
- including spit as lube, but oral is fine
- please see Gravity Falls section for clarification.
- please see The Adventure Zone section for clarification.
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- please see Strange Trails section for clarification
- derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
- depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
- Typically dissociation shows up as reaction to stress or trauma where the character experiencing it feels disconnected in some way from their emotions, their body, reality, etc; sometimes the character acts on autopilot.
- If you're writing/drawing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with an actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay.
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- please see SVSSS section for clarification notes.
- please see The Adventure Zone section for clarification.
- please see Strange Trails section for clarification
- including using characters from other canons as stand-ins for OCs, even if the character or their appearance in the fic is very minor.
- including borrowing worldbuilding/magic systems/artifacts/alien races/etc.
- definitely fine for characters to know about or reference anything you think it's reasonable for them to have consumed as media, e.g. modern mundane characters have probably heard of Star Wars.
- please see Gravity Falls section for clarification.
Naruto DNWs/clarifications
- Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto
SVSSS DNWs/clarifications
- characters finding out that they're fictional
- the rotting undead/zombies clarification: TLJ kind of falls into this category but I love him and he can definitely show up even where I haven't specifically requested him! Please gently skirt around any gross details about his poor sad plant body — mentions of his limbs falling off are fine, but description of why exactly they won't stay attached is best left implied.
Gravity Falls clarifications:
- vehicle accidents: the Stanmobile appears perfectly fine for the entire season and Honeypants is already up to learning about traffic lights in that clip, so I prefer to believe that Honeypants is canonically an extremely safe driver. It's okay if various characters are worried about Honeypants crashing, as long as Honeypants doesn't crash. Swerving around the road, accidentally going off road, etc are also all fine as long as the car and the people in it remain okay.
- crack: I realize several things I'm requesting in Gravity Falls are pretty ridiculous! I don't want anything less serious than canon, and am really into characters and their feelings being taken seriously by the narrative even if the premise is really silly. Crack taken seriously is generally fine.
The Adventure Zone clarifications
- unrequested noncon clarification: I'm opting in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start. Please note I have specifically DNW'd corrective rape, though.
- the rotting undead/zombies clarification: All the undead stuff that shows up in canon is totally fine, including Lich King Gordie.
Strange Trails DNWs/clarifications
- character death: It's fine for any character to die in this fandom!
- the rotting undead/zombies: Given the subject matter of the album, any kind of undead is fine, but I would appreciate very light details on anything gross going on with them.
The Devil Wears Prada DNWs/clarifications
- fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship with a man — 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.
Crossover Fandom DNWs/clarifications
- any mention of Shane from Stardew Valley
Likes
Art likes
- soft colors, and also specifically moss green and all shades of purple, especially for slice-of-life and domestic scenes
- black and white or greyscale
- lineless art and thick lines and messy lines!
- dramatic lighting, especially if the moment is tense or dangerous
- cartoony styles and realistic styles!
- movement and foreshortening
- crosshatching, stippling, visible brushstrokes, and other techniques that let me see what the artist physically did with their pencil/brush/digital equivalent
- that thing where it's all back and white or greyscale except for one (1) color
- art that explores the minutiae of a character's life, like what exactly is on their bookshelf or in their bag
- hands touching, forehead kisses, focus on hair (blowing in the wind, being braided, being combed, bun/ponytails for characters who usually wear it down and wearing it loose for characters who usually wear it up), carrying (bridal, piggyback, fireman carry, that no-homo superhero side hug), flying, falling, swimming, characters doing action things like kicking and flips and stabbing
Fic likes:
- Canon divergence
- slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
- time travel
- especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
- time loops
- see my Past Imperfect letter!
- fake/fantasy politics/science and explorations of systems/relationships (eg magic systems, fictional governments or economies, the local gossip network)
- character backstory, noodle incidents, references to past canon or noncanon events, a sense of history between two (or more) characters
- vivid/specific details that relate to things like where a character is, what that location is used for, why, and how the character feels about it
- casefic/missionfic
- investigations/mysteries
- characters with specific goals or problems to solve (finding some treasure, getting a glass of water, murdering their nemesis)
- monster/murder/crime-of-the-week type plots
- the enemy of my enemy is my friend
- making friends under unusual circumstances
- A being uncertain of or surprised by how deep B's loyalty runs
- found family
- friends reconnecting after being out of contact for a long time
- signs of familiarity/intimacy, like knowing each other's habits really well or feeling comfortable touching them/being touched in a society where that's notable
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone isn't sticking out, blood loss....pretty much anything non-permanent and not too gorey or with the gore skimmed over. special mention for Naruto-esque eye loss where it's traumatic and bad but the eye can just be put back in if they find a good medic.
- also as implied by my DNWs I'm not a big fan of sickfic but I love huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
- poisonings and venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- in terms of emotional hurt: self esteem issues and unexpected mercy! Special mention for everything below.
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
- character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
- usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
- cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example: "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved, "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
- aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
- injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
- lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
- hands too shaky to complete task
- forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
- handcuffed together
- sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together, working together in enemy territory
- 5+1
- drabble series
- outsider POV
- second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
- I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
- I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
- I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
- curses
- garbage-tier magical items
- extra senses
- worldbuilding around learning/doing magic
Ship likes:
- Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.
- Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
- Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
- Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
- Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
- Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
- When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.
Smut likes
I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?
There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so:
- Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
- Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
- anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, toys
- overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
- bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
- praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
- magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
- clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
- hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
- size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
- pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
- probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.
Marriage likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Misunderstandings and surprises!
- Accidental Marriage due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
- Accidental/unexpected soulbond is cultural equivalent of marriage
- Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
- Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (but they aren't! or not anymore at least lol)
- Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival
- Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling
- Mistakenly Thinking Your Spouse Hates You
- Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
- Arranged marriage to end conflict
- Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
- Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
- Marrying Someone You Don't Like to Save Them From a Worse Fate
- Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
- Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
- Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
- Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
- Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
- Divorced Arranged Marriage Spouse must Marry Back Into The Family
- Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
- Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
- Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse
- Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
- Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
- Marriage to Satisfy Life-Debt / Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Character Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Family Won't Pay Bride Price/Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
- If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
- If Character A Can't Have Their Loved One They'll Marry Younger Sibling B (& Fall In Love With B)
Horror Likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
- Aftermath of Torture
- Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
- Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation
- Betraying Someone to Save Them from a Worse Fate
- Building layout changes sometimes
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked
- character convinced there will be no rescue
- Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
- Characters are all alone in the middle of nowhere with no one able to help
- Fucking around with the Ouija Board was a bad idea
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
- Mannequins That Move When a Character Looks Away
- People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
- Physically impossible spaces/buildings
- Principle of object permanence is violated
- Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
- Seen only out of the corner of your eye
- Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
- Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
- Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
- Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
- Time Travel - Character(s) Learn Dark Secret They Didn't Know at the Time
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
- Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs and at the Mercy of Someone They Don't Trust
Time travel Likes!
(sorry these are all Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Time Travel Fix-It
- Peggy Sue (Mental Time Travel to Past - Replacing Past Self)
- Altering Canon or Backstory
- Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
- Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
- fixing one's own mistakes
- Time travel to save a friend or loved one
- Trying To Change The Timeline By Saving Someone
- Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help
- Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass
- Time Traveling To A Different Time Than The One You Meant To Travel To
- Attempted Time Travel Sends Character To Another World Instead
- Time Travel Fix-It - Time Traveler Fixes Things By Accident
- Time travel inadvertently reveals past secret
- Accidental Time Travel To The Past
- One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected
- Falling in love/making friends with a past version of an enemy
- Enemies Travel Back In Time Together
- Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
- Unexpectedly Living With The Consequences Of Actions During Final Loop
- Groundhog Peggy Sue
- Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop
- Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop
- Looping character trying to save another character's life
- Time loop where character makes things worse before making them better
- Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created
- Time Travel To The Past Destroys Original Timeline
- Can't Time Travel To A Time You're Already Alive In
- Adjusting to a Different Era
- Outsider POV Of Strange Events Caused By Time Travel
- Outsider POV Of Time Traveler(s)
- Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption
- Introducing Advanced Technology/Medicine/Sanitation to the Past
Naruto
AO3 matching tag: Naruto
Fandom note: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain and/or ignore most of the end of the series and just let ninja be ninja.
Requested medium:
- Fic
Requested ships:
- Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
- Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito (Naruto)
- Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna (Naruto)
- Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
- Hatake Kakashi/Hoshigaki Kisame (Naruto)
Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
This ship has just SUCH good potential for tension, conflict, politics, and iddy, iddy goodness. They're from two warring clans! They're at the center in a crazy shift in ideology and warfare! Listen, I could gush about them forever.
Tobirama and Madara have a really interesting contrast (eg, Tobirama 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 of thing that can lead to really interesting tension. What they do have in common (Hashirama, losing brothers, wanting to protect their clans, each at some point in some way genuinely believing in Konoha, probably PTSD from the whole child soldier thing) makes for an interesting foundation to build a relationship.
I'd love something that explores how hard it is for them to trust each other, especially when vulnerable. Any kind of focus on ninja being cautious, dangerous, suspicious, sneaky, and etc.I don't need/want them to be grimdark edgelords who assassinate kids once a week or anything, but just kind of...a general awareness that they've been at war their whole lives against the kind of enemies who use illusions, poison, infiltration, subtle manipulation, and any other means necessary to achieve their goals! I love that shit.
Ship likes:
- either or both whumped
- physical or emotional h/c
- enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
- 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 — I am also into fics where they very grudgingly start to work together by the end!)
- 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. The world is your oyster. I'm somewhat less interested in anything set after Madara leaves the village, but only because I like happy endings; if you think you can make it work please go for it.
Prompts:
- forced to work together — hired by the same person, imprisoned together by bloodline thieves, trapped in a time loop
- arranged marriage — arranged well before founding to stop the war between their clans (in which case Tobirama is basically a hostage!) or arranged after peace to facilitate the founding of the village (in which case Tobirama is slightly less of a hostage) or arranged after founding in an attempt to unify the village. (Maybe Izuna is dead and it's a really rocky road to getting the ship together. Maybe Izuna is alive and hating every minute of this.)
- Tobirama travels back in time and, knowing that killing Izuna ultimately caused more problems than it solved, decides to try out a different solution.
- Madara travels back in time and figures Tobirama won't kill Izuna if Madara manages to seduce him first.
- Izuna dies in a manner unrelated to the Senju — don't get me wrong, I'm fine with Izuna being alive or with him being dead the way he canonically died, but also Madara's grief is really delicious and I would love a fic that explores it with this ship without having the awkward "and also, Tobirama did the killing" part of things.
- 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. 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.
Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito
I started thinking about these two as a ship because it was nice to imagine Tobirama getting to be with someone who shares his interest in seals, and it seems like a nice direction to go to explore Mito's character! And the more I thought about it the more I wanted it, especially because of the delicious potential for misunderstandings and drama and tension.
When it comes to dealing with Mito's marriage to Hashirama, I am okay with (but don't kink on) infidelity, or Hashirama could be dead (earlier than in canon or otherwise), or Hashirama could be gay for Madara, or Hashirama and Mito could have an open relationship, or Hashirama and Tobirama could both be married to Mito at the same time. Or whatever! Live your dreams.
Timelines: Before Mito comes to the Senju, after Mito comes to the Senju, pre-village construction, post-village construction... I have no preferences although it'd be nice if Mito and Tobirama could be 18 or older. Don't be afraid to make them much older, like during Tobirama's tenure as Nidaime!
Things I'd like to see explored about Mito:
- Did/does she want to get married to Hashirama? Did/does she want to get married at all?
- How does she feel about the village before/during/after its construction? Who first told her about it? How much did she help with its construction?
- Does she miss Uzushiogakure? Does she play her part in clan and international politics?
- How hard is it for her to become adjusted to living with the Senju? How hard is it for them to become adjusted to her? Do her expectations line up with reality?
- How does Mito feel about the Uchiha?
Things I'd like to see explored about Tobirama:
- How does Tobirama feel about having another accomplished seal master around? Has he ever had so much opportunity to talk about seals before?
- Do he and Mito use the same kind of sealing (maybe Tobirama was taught by the Uzumaki/from Uzumaki materials?) or do they use different sealing techniques (like maybe Tobirama is self-taught?)?
- Does Tobirama desperately want a relationship but think he can't have one? Does he think he doesn't want one until he meets Mito? What do other people assume he thinks about sex/romance and are they right?
- If Mito isn't a kunoichi (or, hasn't frequently fought/taken missions) how does Tobirama feel about being involved with her? — does he consider her vulnerable despite her sealing abilities?
Other Prompts:
- AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Grief over Hashirama would work, but connecting over something else would be great too! I'd also be interested in seeing this link grow slowly as they become more in sync instead of snapping into place suddenly — a manifestation of their emotional intimacy that they can't ignore.
- 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.
- 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.
Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna
I love how much these two hate each other and I especially love that Izuna was committed enough to hating the Senju that he literally died over it. Izuna was clearly, I think, a man of conviction and focus, and Tobirama had to match him on the battlefield and with strategy. It seems to me that Izuna and Tobbirama were probably similar in a lot of ways (suspicious, non-idealist younger brothers!) but I'm also interested in the ways they were probably different! Is Izuna a social butterfly where Tobirama is a shut-in? Does Izuna's temper run hot where Tobirama's runs cold? Does Izuna excel at quickly-adjusted tactics where Tobirama is more for long term strategy? There are so many directions for exploring their characters to go and I would love to see what you'll do with them.
Also, I'm not opposed to a fic where they don't hate each other, but I would really really love a sense that it was a hard-earned truce. I love that Warring Clans Era ninja lead dangerous, violent lives and I love that Izuna distrusted the Senju so much he died that horrible death, so I prefer not to see all that suspicion and caution swept away so easily. Even if they've grudgingly begun to work together and even maybe respect each other, I am very very into them each being ready for the other to try and kill them at any point.
Prompts:
- Anything from their childhood/teen years: fighting each other on the battlefield, working against each other on missions, regrettably running into each other at some Daimyō's palace or somewhere else where they can't afford to throw down.
- Izuna lives and continues to seek to prevent the village from coming together. Tobirama really doesn't appreciate this.
- The village comes together despite Izuna's best efforts. Izuna now has to live with it, but at least he can make everything as hard for Tobirama as possible, who in turn makes everything difficult for Izuna.
- Pre- or post-Konoha's founding, Izuna and Tobirama are captured and forced to work together, much to their displeasure.
- Pre-Konoha's founding, Tobirama is captured by the Uchiha. Izuna is in charge of making sure Tobirama doesn't escape.
- Dimension travel — Tobirama visits a universe where he died instead of Izuna? Izuna visits a universe where he died from something non-Senju related, peace happened, and it's going great?
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 techniques differ from the common techniques of the era? How does her knowledge about chakra, strategy, etc match up to what the Uchiha know? Would also love something that touches on Sakura being raised in relative peacetime.
- Sakura grew up in a place where she had close friends in lots of different clans and she was encouraged to make strong bonds of friendship with them. What kind of societal norms (especially in relation to personal space, food sharing, gossiping, technique sharing, shows of trust) did she grow up with that are different from the societal norms of the Warring Clans Era?
Prompts:
- Stuck in the past alone, Sakura needs to make a living while she waits for the village to be founded/start accepting random citizen applications, but taking missions without a clan is a terrible idea...so she works as a healer instead. This somehow brings her in contact with Madara.
- Stuck in the past with a Konoha comrade of your choosing, Sakura is brought into a clan by her teammate! When it becomes clear that an arranged marriage would really smooth the clan's entry into Konoha, Sakura volunteers to be the bride...only to really regret it when the groom turns out to be Madara.
- Madara is captured by bloodline thieves! Sakura rescues him.
- Sakura's goal for coming back to the past was to preemptively murder Uchiha Madara. Unfortunately, she's now met pre-going-crazy Madara and he's hot and sympathetic and wants kids to stop fucking dying unnecessarily and, oops, murder is looking less and less like a good solution...
- The village has been founded! Sakura can finally join! It turns out it's really weird for her to be in Konoha as it's coming together, and extra weird for there to be so many Uchiha around, and double extra weird to keep turning the corner and finding *Uchiha Madara* standing around talking to people.
- Uchiha Izuna is dying and won't let a Senju heal him...but Sakura conveniently isn't a Senju!
Hoshigaki Kisame/Hatake Kakashi
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.
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.
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 mediums:
- Fic
Requested relationships:
- Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu | Shen Qingqiu (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua & Tianlang-jun (SVSSS)
Shipping: I don't mind references to LBH/SQQ, but I would prefer to avoid having it be a major part of any story because it's easy to find content for. In terms of mixing and matching my requested relationships, please feel free to include multiple gen relationships and/or several gen relationships and one of my romantic ships. If you are writing a story that would benefit from being able to mention it, I also like YQY/Shen Jiu — especially when it's unresolved or one-sided — and am a big fan of SXY/TLJ.
General SVSSS prompts
There are some things I always want in every SVSSS fic and it seemed easier to list them here than to repeat them in every section!
- Exploration of Airplane's shitty worldbuilding brought to life. What holes has the System filled in surprising ways? How often to characters from later plots show up earlier on account of being real people now? Do the various mcguffins that LBH runs into in PIDW turn up and cause problems? Also, I'm really into background details about how things work, including the sects, An Ding specifically, the demon economy, what it means for MBJ to be the Demon King of the North, etc.
- Exploration of Airplane's shitty wife plots. Dumb, dramatic, unresolved, full of gratuitous fucking, plagued by soap opera levels of drama and overrun with people who don't have two brain cells to rub together...it's a really great way to work in tropes, a really great way to bring up PIDW, and even a wonderful source of conflict!
- Exploration of Airplane's exciting flora and fauna. All of the monsters in SVSSS are SO cool and I would love to see more of them! How are their parts used? Are some of them native and others have wandered over from the demon realm? Are any of them nice, or kept as pets?
- Alternate universe - role swap — the peak lords are demons and the demons are human cultivators.
- Alternate universe - different PIDW — Airplane was developing an indie video game instead of writing a novel. Was it supposed to be a gay dating sim but whoops Airplane could only get funding for terrible het content? A farming/mining/resource management sim but all the NPC relationship drama kept getting in the way? An open world RPG but Airplane didn't have the money to develop any of the story branches besides the marry-lots-of-wives-and-torture-a-dude bad ending that whoops everyone thought was a good ending?
- Canon divergence - different transmigration — Airplane or SY or both transmigrate into different bodies, at different times, etc.
- Canon divergence - fix it — literally any kind of fix it even if it has nothing to do with the requested relationship. Eg, if you want to have LQG and SJ get together in a series of events that happens to swerve into fixing SXY's death, I am so 100% there for that. Bonus if time travel.
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt— I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and I think that this is exactly the kind of convoluted trope Airplane-bro would have written in for wife #450 without necessarily thinking through the consequences. For this canon, a cultural thing or a magic thing would be equally fine with me, because I think it's very interesting when it's cultural (especially if sometimes life debts can be satisfied in other ways but in this particular case it has to be marriage for some reason!) but I also think there's plenty of room in the canon worldbuilding to make it a You're Now Married Because Magic Says So sort of thing.
Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu | Shen Qingqiu
I love that LQG mistakenly thinks SQQ tried to kill him and SQQ knows that LQG thinks that and never apparently tried to clarify it. SQQ is honestly the very definition of getting in his own way and meanwhile LQG doesn't see him clearly at all, so the idea of them having to work that shit out is absolute gold. I'm a big fan of LQG having to reconsider everything he knows about SQQ and of SQQ learning to gradually settle the fuck down and lower just a tiny bit of his guardwalls that keep everyone metaphorically ten feet away at knifepoint even (especially) when they're trying to help. An exploration of their differing life experiences/socio-economic classes before or even after entering the sect would be especially welcome.
Also, I really love SJ h/c if you want to sprinkle that on but I would prefer minimum amounts of focus on the torture SJ goes through in PIDW — references on level with canon are fine, though, and it's great motivation for time travel! I just don't find it narratively very interesting and also am pretty squeamish.
Prompts:
- AU where life debts have to be paid and one way to pay them is marriage.
- Casefic! Solving a murder or tracking down the source of a garbage tier magical item or curse is a great time for bonding.
- LQG is injured/poisoned/trapped/captured on a mission. To his surprise, SQQ doesn't leave him behind.
- Alternate first meeting — LQG and SJ meet before YQY brings SJ to Cang Qiong, or SJ comes to Cang Qiong under different circumstances that either make him less bitter or make it harder for LQG to misunderstand him.
- As a punishment for being unable to get along, LQG and SJ are forced to work together on a research project, co-teaching younger disciples, or a long and boring series of missions that quickly snowballs to something exciting and dangerous.
- LQG time travels into his own younger body and, being more knowledgeable and mature, finds that SJ comes off way different than the blackhearted villain LQG saw the first time around.
Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
I love Shang Qinghua so much and as much as I love Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun, my favorite part of the Airplane extras was 100% the mission to the haunted well. What a disaster team! I love them! The Cang Qiong Peak Lords are politically powerful and a very formidable force and ride-or-die for each other...but emotionally speaking they're also a MESS and I am so here for it. None of these people understand each other. None of these people like each other, I'm pretty sure. I just want to read more about them being simultaneously the tops of their respective fields and also complete trainwrecks.
For Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua specifically, I'm really interested in how SQH knows way, way more about SQQ than SQQ would ever expect or want him to know, and how for years and years SQH looks at SQQ and things "I know how you die" but doesn't think he can stop it. I really loved that part in the Airplane Extras where SQH tries just a *little* to avert LQG's death by giving SQQ weird advice and I'd love to see him step up his interventions more and more, pushing against the boundaries set by the System, until he actually maybe succeeds. And makes a friend! Maybe.
Prompts:
- SQH accidentally or on purpose switches places with YQY during whatever situation led to YQY and SJ's canonical reunion. SJ still saves his life — or SQH manages to dodge! — and then SQH has to convince SJ to come to Cang Qiong.
- On a joint mission, SQH recognizes that the people who called on them for help are entering into the very beginning of some future horribly tragic wife plot. He insists on getting involved. SQQ is not happy.
- Canon divergence: SQH figures out how to weaponize SQQ's spiteful, vicious nature against the Huan Hua Palace Master early on and accidentally solves the plot by arranging for SQQ and the Palace Master to be enemies. (MBJ is very impressed, probably.)
- SY doesn't transmigrate, things go terribly wrong, and SQH decides to travel back to the past to fix things. Somehow.
- SQQ's terrible reputation ultimately became a really big problem for SQQ and for the sect, so SQH starts fixing it. SQQ notices.
Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
....a separate section for the / ship, yes! This is kind of a ridiculous ship and definitely a disaster waiting to happen BUT ALSO...it makes sense. SQQ is cold, scary, prideful, and beautiful! Meanwhile SQH gave up on having any dignity well before he and SQQ met, doesn't really care if other people are dignified, is surprisingly competent when he's not being an idiot or playing dead like a coward, and knows so many things. This would be the weirdest fuckbuddies and/or romance ever, but I think it would work! At least for awhile! Maybe in secret!
For this ship I'm definitely okay with them not being serious about each other and/or breaking up by the end of the fic, although if you want to try and get them to some kind of happy ending I definitely wouldn't complain.
Prompts:
- Tropey nonsense — handcuffed together, there's only one bed, accidental soulbonds, huddling for warmth, etc!
- SQQ needs a dual cultivation partner for medical reasons or something and picks SQH under the (completely correct) assumption that he'll at least be able to bully SQH around. But then, oh no, he catches...the feelings.
- I would love something that explored Shang Qinghua's public reputation, and especially if he has any kind of reputation for pulling strings and manipulating things (surely someone eventually figures out that he sabotaged the previous An Ding Head Disciple?) or else something where SQQ travels back in time from a PIDW-y verse and finds that SQH is...different from how he remembered.
- All Peak Lords need to symbolically marry another Peak Lord and SQQ picks SQH in a moment of spite and panic when it looks like he might get stuck with YQY.
Shang Qinghua &/ Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu (Scum Villain)
I think my favorite thing about these two is that I'm absolutely certain that they're friends but I'm not totally sure that either of them realize it because they're both really caught up in everything that's happening with the plot of the book whenever we see them interact in canon, except for that part in the Airplane extras where SQH like...interrupts SQQ's honeymoon. But they have so much in common, and SQQ is technically SQH's biggest fan, and I would just love to see them go on some kind of adventure together.
Overall I think it's kind of a shame that they didn't meet until the Immortal Alliance Conference, because it means SQH missed out on the more lighthearted years of SQQ's transmigration and also they missed out on the ability to collaborate in an attempt to make their transmigration experience less of a disaster...and when they do finally meet, they've got all the baggage of LBH going into the Endless Abyss and SQQ's oncoming, seemingly unavoidable horrific death between them...but also SVSSS isn't a serious enough book to have really explored in-depth what the weight of that future would have done to their developing relationship. Don't get me wrong, I love what we got! But damn I want more.
As a / ship, I'm really interested in the ways they might start to become more intimate that stem from their shared modern China/internet nerd culture. Shang Qinghua has had a lot more time to adapt (and therefore more time to miss what he had in his last life!) while Shen Yuan is struggling to stand in Shen Qingqiu's feet without being busted for, like, possession or whatever. There are lots of ways they could connect, and I'd be especially interested in them coming to terms (individually or together) with everyone around them being fully realized people rather than characters.
Also: I am interested in things that take place in part or entirely pre-transmigration, particularly anything that touches on PIDW's fandom culture, although I don't have any specific prompts for that below.
Prompts:
- Canon compliant-ish missing scene(s): in canon we see them go on an adventure and meet ZZL so that SQQ can grow himself a plant body, but I would love to see an adventure they went on while LBH was in the Abyss that canon didn't show us! Just something where SQQ is devastated that LBH is suffering in the Endless Abyss, and trying not to think too much about what it will be like when he comes out all blackened, and SQH is trying to help without actually having to do something horrible like, uh, directly address SQQ's emotions? A good ol' find-the-McGuffin plot or locate-rare-animals plot or something would be a nice backdrop for exploring the early days of their acquaintance, you know!
- Canon divergence: YQY decides that SQQ definitely can't go on that skinner mission alone so early after recovering. SQH is the only Peak Lord available to go with him.
- While out and about on sect business, they come across one of the wife plots that Airplane accidentally left unfinished when he rushed to have LBH marry and fuck some poor local beauty. SQQ insists that they MUST solve the crime/resolve the issue/find the McGuffin/otherwise bring closure to this awful plotline that SQH inflicted on these people.
- Alternate universe: SQH discovers that things he writes still have an impact on the world. He immediately seeks out SQQ for
support during his panic attackadvice in the realms of both literature and ethics.
Group: Shang Qinghua & Tianlang-jun (SVSSS)
I can't stop thinking about a canon divergence where SQH has to face the fact that TLJ exists and is a real, actual dude who doesn't deserve the shit hand the plot dealt to him and then is [hand waves System away] somehow maybe able to intervene! Or not — I'd actually also be interested in a fic exploring how doomed TLJ is and how bad SQH feels about it but how much he can't do anything about it. So you know, dealer's choice! Overall, though, I really love that TLJ is dramatic and into humans and gets seemingly betrayed and SQH like....invented this guy (and all of this guy's problems!) and then set him aside when people wanted smut instead of plot.
Prompts:
- They thought no one was coming; got rescued by unexpected person — I'm imagining SQH rescuing TLJ from that whole being-pinned-under-a-mountain thing, but honestly TLJ rescuing SQH from literally anything would also be choice.
- Would love something where SQH using his meta knowledge to fix things up and specifically treats TLJ kindly/fairly because he knows TLJ is, underneath the scary demon stuff, kind of a fluff ball.
- Injured Character Can't Complete Rescue Mission Without Help From Unlikely Source
- Legendary figure turns out to be a complete dork in person
Gravity Falls
AO3 matching tag: Gravity Falls
Fandom note: I think I've seen/read most of the extra content for Gravity Falls, so if you want to write something that incorporates things from the web shorts or something that's fine! If you end up basing your work on something it turns out I haven't seen, I'm fine with that too.
Requested relationships:
- Hand Witch & Multi-Bear (Gravity Falls)
- Hand Witch & Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)
- Multi-Bear & Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)
- Honeypants | Bear that Stan Taught to Drive & Dipper Pines & Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)
Requested mediums:
- Fic
- Art
Shipping: Mentions of canon ships/crushes and canon-typical levels of romance would be fine. Also, I would love for Hand Witch's romantic life to come up, actually! Maybe things worked out with that hot hiker.
Hand Witch & Multi-Bear
I really love to imagine these two as friends, because they seem to live on the same mountain! They're at least neighbors in a very general sense even if they don't literally live on the same mountain, and they're both noticeably lonely in their episodes. Also Multi-Bear gives off huge "shops for deals at the swap meet" vibes, imo.
Things I'm interested to know about Multi-Bear:
- Was he ever at one time A) a single bear or B) multiple bears but separately in a bunch of different, not-connected bear bodies with a hive mind?
- How did he get into BABBA? Like both on a character backstory/emotional level and also on a logistical level?
- How did his beef with the Manotaurs start?
- What other forest denizens does he know?
Things I'm interested to know about Hand Witch:
- When and why did she start selling watches at the Swap Meet?
- Does she have anything to do with Poolcheck's hook hand?
- Can she only curse hands, or is it just like...a specialization?
- How do things go with that handsome hiker? What have her previous relationships been like?
- Are there other witches around Gravity Falls?
Prompts:
- Their first meeting! Was it several decades ago and Hand Witch was still an old crone but dressed for the era? Was Multi-Bear a cub? Were the Manotaurs giving him a hard time? There are many options and all of them would be delightful. Please feel free to drag in other Gravity Falls denizens.
- Maybe you don't like writing about characters meeting for the first time or establishing a new friendship! (Or, maybe you're an artist who really wants to draw their canon designs!) In that case, I'd love something set mid-friendship. Like an established relationship fic, but for pals! Multibear could help Hand Witch run her swapmeet stall! Hand Witch could get them BABBA tickets! They could trash-talk the Manotaurs together! They could have HOA disagreements with fellow neighbors! In terms of art I would be over the moon with literally any drawing of them in the same place doing anything.
- Maybe you don't think they're friends (maybe you'd prefer, I don't know, terse neighbors? Enemies? Only know each other via the local Mountain Owners Association?) and I'd be into that, too. Explore the mountain and the forest around it! Tell me more about Multi-Bear (was he once several single bears?) or about how Hand Witch's powers work (can she only curse hands?) or whatever else comes to mind!
- There's something new and bad in the forest or on the mountain. They have to team up (maybe with other characters, if you want) to figure out what it is and what to do about it.
- One of them travels back in time; they decide the other is the only person in the past that they can trust.
Hand Witch & Mabel
I really really loved that Mabel solved the problem of Stan's Hands being stolen by treating Hand Witch's problems as serious and worthy of empathy! Obviously it is bad that Hand Witch jumps straight to cursing people's hands off — she's definitely got that dangerous fairy tale bad witch energy and I love it! — but she also was lonely and once Mabel used the power of friendship on her she becomes a very relatable and sad person and I'm really into that. Also, I just love that Mabel is always willing to try to understand people and take them seriously even when other people on the show would dismiss them. It's great!
Prompts:
- Every summer, Mabel climbs up the mountain at least once to check in on Hand Witch. They catch up and chat about boys.
- The summer after canon, Mabel starts attending the swap meet either as part of a summer job helping someone else or to sell her own creations.
- Mabel learns magic from Hand Witch. Maybe specifically hand-related magic, maybe all different kinds of magic because Mabel is too young to pick a specialty (and/or, Hand Witch doesn't want younger, cuter competition)
- Mabel and Hand Witch go to Ikea together. Or a flea market!
Multi-Bear & Dipper
I deeply love Multi-Bear as a counterexample to the Manotaurs' toxic masculinity and I would LOVE to see more of Multi-Bear being a role model for Dipper. I think it's clear, of course, that Dipper ends the show really looking up to both of his Grunkles...but I think Stan and Ford are never going to be comfortable with emotions and listening to BABBA and deconstructing harmful ideas about masculinity, you know? Plus as great as the episode with Multi-Bear was, I think it left some stuff on the table — I'd like to see Dipper hanging out with someone who doesn't think violence is an adequate solution to conflicts, and I'd like to see an exploration of the fact that the Manotaurs sent a child to murder Multi-Bear. That's a really interesting level of conflict! Dipper was briefly drawn into thinking that that was okay! I realize that this literal actual children's show couldn't stop to look at how fucked up that is, but maybe in fanworks I can live my dreams?
Prompts:
- Every summer, Dipper climbs up the mountain at least once to check in on Multi-Bear. They catch up and chat about BABBA.
- Something following up on Weirdmageddon, because Multi-Bear was one of the refugees in the Mystery Shack. When things started going weird and terrible, did he head straight to Dipper's house? Do people know him as Dipper's Bear Friend? Does he help the Pines stay on the look out for weird stuff that needs dealt with?
- Anything that follows up with the conflict with the Manotaurs. Are things better or worse after Weirdmageddon? If things are worse, does Multi-Bear have to move? How does Dipper help?
Honeypants & Dipper & Mabel
Honeypants is the bear that Stan is teaching to drive in season one episode 14 during that section about the truth-telling teeth. Here is a 55 second refresher:
Transparently, I am requesting Honeypants because I fucking love bears. They're my favorite animal. All shows should have more bears in them. I wish there was a bear in ever fic. This is also why I request Multi-Bear so much. Please indulge my love of bears!!!
...But I am also asking for Honeypants because! Look at what a good driver he or she is! Sure, they swerve around the road a bunch, but do they go off the road? or crash? no! Honeypants is wearing their seatbelt, looking straight ahead, doing their best! Only chewing on the seatbelt after coming to a full and complete stop! This bear is doing so good, probably better than when I was learning to drive as a teenager, and I love and support them.
(Also, it's definitely possible that Honeypants is just a term of endearment from Stan and not the bear's actual name? Feel free to name the bear! And pick pronouns!)
RE: my car crash DNW, the Stanmobile appears perfectly fine for the entire season and Honeypants is already up to learning about traffic lights in that clip, so I prefer to believe that Honeypants is canonically an extremely safe driver. It's okay if various characters are worried about Honeypants crashing, as long as Honeypants doesn't crash.
Prompts:
- Mabel and Dipper need to get somewhere really urgently, but neither of them have been taught to drive a real car! After some debate, they decide that their golf cart adventures are no substitute for real experience, so they get Honeypants to drive them while they take turns in the passenger seat giving directions and reminding Honeypants that red means stop. (Haha, just kidding, bears can't see the color red! That's maybe a problem.)
- It's the first day of Honeypants' life as a sideshow attraction and since Stan is busy leading tours, it's up to Dipper and Mabel to make sure Honeypants' first show goes smoothly.
- Even though Mabel stopped worrying quite so much about Stan's lies in general, in specific she did feel bad about the Seeing Eye Bear lie...so she takes Honeypants to go see Dr. Medicine, MD and get certified as a seeing eye animal companion.
- Dipper has been forced to pretend to be a sideshow attraction before and it sucked. Since Honeypants is smart enough to drive, they're probably smart enough to be unhappy with a life of looking silly to wring money from tourists. Therefore, the only thing to do is....to go ask Multi-Bear for advice? Help Honeypants get hired by the local taxi company?
- Several summers down the line, Mabel and Dipper return to Gravity Falls for the summer and find that Honeypants works as either a driving instructor or a DMV driving evaluator. And, oh, what's that? Yes, this is the summer Mabel and Dipper are supposed to learn to drive.
The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
AO3 matching tag: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
Fandom note: I've listened to all of this podcast but not to any of the Maximum Fun bonus content. Also, I'm not interested in stuff that doesn't come from TAZ: Graduation for this exchange.
Requested relationships:
- Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
Requested mediums:
- Fic
- Art
Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
The shippy vibes of these two in the back end of the show is OFF THE CHARTS. I really love both characters individually (Fitzroy is such a bundle of insecurity and ambition! Gray is so arrogant and mercurial!) but together???? Every conversation they have is gold, I think because they both talk like polite business rivals despite all the attempted murder, threats of war, etc. They're enemies and it's delicious but they're not exactly personally invested in hating each other — they just happen to be on opposite sides! And when they stop being on opposite sides they become "best friends"! Also Fitzroy is 6'4" (after his magical growth spurt!) and Gray is 12' and I am so here for that size difference.
In terms of what I am specifically hoping for out of my gift for these two, I would really enjoy any flavor of these two interacting! I want to know more about Gray's demon culture and his blue-orange morality (war is for "blood, and chaos, and conflict, and victory" apparently!) and I'd love to see more of Fitzroy being kind of a scumbag but not, like, a down with murder scumbag. Graduation's worldbuilding is really fascinating to me, and I'd enjoy getting to see more of the world (or of Gray's hell dimension!) and I'd enjoy something set pre-, during, or post-canon!
I know that via WOG Fitzroy is asexual, and if you want to write him asexual then I'm into that! I'm not really into most asexuality-focused narratives, but I'm definitely fine with a read of this ship where Fitzroy only feels romantic attraction or even where they're in a QPR — a story that focuses on emotional intimacy would really hit the spot for me and I'm honestly such a complete sucker for gen that I'd be pretty satisfied with anything that had Fitzroy and Gray interacting a bunch.
On the other hand, if you don't want to write Fitzroy as asexual then I am 100% on board with that, too. I've left my smut likes section the way I usually leave it because it does apply for everything else I've requested, but for this ship I would actually love for Gray to fuck Fitzroy in a wide variety of situations! I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start. Please note I have specifically DNW'd corrective rape, though.
Below I have some specific prompts, but I'm so crazy invested in this ship that I want to emphasize that basically anything is fine! Please feel free to scrounge through my general likes.
Prompts:
- Canon divergence — Fitzroy does end up joining Gray's side the way Gray planned, or he does get all the materials he was supposed to get from Goodcastle, or Chaos' plan doesn't kick off until the Thundermen are out of school and floundering around as young professionals!
- Something set in that possible future where Fitzroy is His Royal Highness, The Thunder King and Lightning Lord, Fitzroy Maplecourt, The Storm Bringer...or something where Fitzroy really does get thrown forward in time and has to cope with that life. Like, what's Gray up to in that universe? Things probably went terribly for him, right?
- Something with the Ring of Truth or the True Sight Lenses! I love all the little magic things that TAZ PCs pick up during campaigns, and always yearn to see them used more. In the case of the Ring of Truth I would particularly like to see it used in a romantic or sexual context to let them really trust each other (...or to highlight how much they don't trust each other!)
- Post-canon get together. Gray wants someone to come make his next war campaign interesting, maybe, and has even picked out enemies he thinks Fitzroy wouldn't object to killing! Now he just needs to convince Fitzroy that this is a good idea, isn't a trap, will be fun, won't end with him being fed to Hellhounds, etc.
- The above prompt but also this is a classic, deeply romantic demon courting technique that ends up working weirdly well on Fitzroy.
- I don't require Gray to have exciting genitalia if you're going to write him fucking Fitzroy, but I am open to knots, pinecone dick, and anything else you think demons should definitely have.
- ...come to think of it, please also give Fitzroy whatever kind of genitalia you think would best facilitate him being fucked, if you're writing him being fucked! Again, if you want to stick with normal anal sex then that's fine and I won't be disappointed, but it seems worth it to mention you can live your, uh, genital dreams.
- If you're going to do art, I'd enjoy any hair/eye/skin color for Fitzroy! What's important to me about his appearance are his canonically tight pants and how tiny he'd look next to Gray.
Harry Potter
AO3 matching tag: Harry Potter - JK Rowling
Fandom note: I would strongly prefer no details from the Fantastic Beasts movies or Pottermore and more mildly I have a soft spot for Epilogue, What Epilogue? fic, but neither of those are a deal breaker for me and you should use or discard pieces of canon as you see fit. Canon compliance in general really isn't important for me — I'm a sucker for interesting-but-definitely-not-canon HP worldbuilding, absolutely buckwild stupid but iddy HP fanon, and almost literally any common HP trope you can think of — but I also don't mind fic that rigerously adheres to canon and tries to just fill in the gaps. Both are good! Live your dreams!
Requested character(s)/ship(s):
- Harry Potter & Severus Snape (HP - JKR)
- Harry Potter & Original Wizarding World Lawyer (HP-JKR)
Requested mediums:
- Fic
Harry Potter & Severus Snape
I really love every single iddy, self-indulgent Mentor!Snape fic I've ever read and I even loved most of the Severitus challenge fics I read back in the day, so here I am to bat my eyes at you about how great it is when these two have to spend time together and (gasp) actually try to get along! I like that Snape is honestly kind of a bad person who did his best in canon but unfortunately his best was, like, *barely* adequate and ended up with him dying via snake. I like that Harry is super smart in some ways and an idiot in other ways and doesn't trust adults in generals or teachers in specific at all by the time he gets to Hogwarts, so even if Snape had been trying even harder than he did their relationship probably would have been pretty disastrous.
In general, I would just really love to see something that explores their relationship in a canon divergence — and if you're not into the iddy depths of Snape mentoring Harry during his Hogwarts years, I would also be really interested in an AU where Snape lives and he and Harry work together on something as adults or some kind of time travel plot where an older Harry travels back in time and hangs out with a younger Snape.
I don't have specific prompts for this relationship but please feel free to browse my general likes or refer to the embarrassingly iddy Harry Potter tropes list below if you need extra ideas!
Harry Potter & Original Wizarding World Lawyer
I just really really love it when Harry gets himself a lawyer and I do not care what kind of lawyer it is. Criminal defense? Inheritance? Estate planning? Corporate? Personal injury? Uh, tax lawyer??? It all sounds GREAT. How the heck does the wizarding world's legal system work and when will someone help Harry navigate it!
I don't have specific prompts for this relationship but please feel free to browse my general likes or refer to the embarrassingly iddy Harry Potter tropes list below if you need extra ideas!
Embarrassingly iddy Harry Potter tropes that I love in case you feel you need permission to use them:
(Important note: these are all fanon and some of them are really terrible fanon, so please know that if you read this list and shriek with horror it's okay for you to not include or even to deliberately write away from any or all of these things! If you want to write restrained or realistic or canon-focused fic in general or if you just specifically hate something I've listed below, I'm still interested in whatever Harry Potter fic you want to write.)
- Life debts have some kind of real, magical consequence.
- Magical cores are a thing and, optionally, they can be light/grey/dark aligned.
- Diagon Alley shopping spree, discovering that there's a lot more to Wizarding London
- Wards! Runes! Enchanted items! Overly-fancy trunks!
- Secret wills, wills deliberately hidden from Harry.
- Getting Sirius declared innocent.
- Blood test to determine lineage/inheritance, Gringotts account managers, secret Potter manor house, Wizengammot seats, wizarding politics in general.
- Harry buys or sues The Daily Prophet
- Any version of family magic being a Thing
- Literally every single stupid trope where Dumbledore is The Bad Guy Secretly. Like, you don't HAVE to make it stupid and you don't HAVE to even make him bad, but just FYI.
Strange Trails - Lord Huron
AO3 matching tag: Strange Trails - Lord Huron (Album)
Fandom note: I adore this album so much and I just really want whatever sparks for you from the album! You can find the album in a YouTube video here, on Spotify, and probably elsewhere. The lyrics can all be found on Genius. (Also some of the Genius stuff references comics created to go along with the album, but I'm not really interested in those!)
Requested mediums:
- fic
- art
Requested relationships:
- Buck Vernon & None (Strange Trails - LH)
- The Fool The Narrator Is Addressing In 'The Yawning Grave' & the Narrator (Strange Trails - LH)
- H.W. Justine & None (Strange Trails - LH)
- Narrator of 'Until the Night Turns'/Narrator's Beautiful Girl (Strange Trails - LH)
- Remy Fusil/La Belle Fleur Sauvage (Strange Trails - LH)
- Someone For Whom 'The Yawning Grave' Is Traditional & None (Strange Trails - LH)
Shipping note: Whatever ships you want! Anything you think is interesting. I like M/M, M/F, and F/F. Or nonbinary characters? Unknowable eldritch narrator god/your choice of character? Live your dreams!
Buck Vernon & None
Buck Vernon is listed as the narrator for Dead Man’s Hand, Fool For Love, Cursed, and Louisa.
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: the desert, the road, the sky, "the hinterlands way up north where the tall trees stand", snow, spring, Big Jim and Lily, grave digging, runes on Buck's skin and other magic imagery from "Cursed" and "Louisa".
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
- "Fool For Love" was the first song I heard off this album and any visuals from it — Buck Vernon's imagined life with Lily? His fight with Big Jim? — would be amazing.
- Lily's point of view of Fool For Love would be great — what does Buck look like to her?
- Buck's situation in Cursed seems extremely dire! How does he escape it — or is Cursed about Louisa, and Buck doesn't escape so much as eventually get too ensnared to escape? If so, maybe he could eventually be rescued by his friend the dead man?
- Also, finally Lousia! An interpretation of the song where Buck is just being hyperbolic about how much he loves and appreciates Lousia would be good, of course, but if you're up to write about something where Lousia is a literal necromancer who raised Buck from the dead following the events of Fool For Love I'd adore that.
Narrator of 'Until the Night Turns'/Narrator's Beautiful Girl
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: sunrise, heavens colliding, the visitor from the great beyond, the sign in the midnight sky, the World Ender, scenes set in moonlight during this last night before the end of the world. Also, I've always imagined that the narrator's "helluva view of the end of the world" is both of their beautiful girl and a literal good view of, presumably, the World Ender doing world ending things.
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
- I love the imagery in this song (can you tell, lmao?) and I also love the way the narrator's vision is described, so I would love scenes set during that or involving the narrator trying to explain to someone else!
- Overall I love the tone and emotion in this song, the way the narrator is resigned to the end of the world but extremely focused on being in the moment and just enjoying being able to go out on a good note. Other songs on the album focus a lot on characters who are disregarding the likely consequences of their actions (Remy in La Belle Fleur Sauvage, Buck Vernon in Fool For Love, the "fool" in The Yawning Grave, Johnnie in Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)!) but the Narrator of Until The Night Turns hasn't, as far as I can tell, directly caused the world to end — they've just received a vision that it's going to happen and now they're making the best of it in a pretty sedate way. It's great!
Remy Fusil/La Belle Fleur Sauvage
Remy Fusil is listed as the narrator of La Belle Fleur Sauvage.
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: the mountain rising up above the cloud, the sacred place on the mountain where the flower grows, mountain nature in general especially meadows, ancient ruins or long-dead flower seekers, floral motifs, the changing of seasons.
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
- Remy is on a probably doomed quest for a legendary immortal beauty! What a dumbass.
- I would love to know more about the immortal goddess this song describes and about Remy who thinks he can "pluck" her so that he can "love" her and then have her in his grave with him. I kind of suspect that this immortal lady up on her mountain will not be about that plan at all. Does Remy die? Does he get a darkened heart and phantom pains?
- I also love that this ties into other themes on the album about going to places you shouldn't go, seeing places you shouldn't see, and getting yourself into trouble via love.*
(* or, you know, """"""love"""""")
H.W. Justine & None
H.W. Justine is listed as the narrator of Frozen Pines. I don't have as many prompts for this song but It's actually my favorite on the album!
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: the mountain, moonlight as a "guide", the pines and other mountain nature stuff ("nature's shrines"!!!), a cold and pale sunrise on the mountain, "the strange light in the sky"
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
- It's just so haunting and lonely and mysterious? The isolation and uncertainty are top-notch and I would love any fic that captured those.
- I wonder who H.W. Justine/the narrator is waiting for, and what happened to them, and why all their friends are maybe dead, etc.
- My brain has been on ghosts a lot recently and this song always makes me think the narrator is maybe a ghost.
- Sometimes I wonder if this mountain is the same mountain Remy is climbing in La Belle Fleur Sauvage.
The Fool The Narrator Is Addressing In 'The Yawning Grave' & the Narrator
This first person address of some person who's apparently SERIOUSLY fucked up has got me SO desperate to know more and I deeply hope you will indulge me in answering questions like:
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: all the nature stuff in the opening lines but ESPECIALLY birds, the "omens and all kinds of signs", the yawning grave, the evil things that are brought by the darkness.
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
- Who is the fool and what rule(s) did they break? Did they know they were breaking the rules? Did they know the consequences?
- Who and what is the narrator???? Omg. A god or spirit? A guardian of some kind? Something else entirely?
- What is the yawning grave, what kind of evil things are in the darkness, and what exactly will the reckoning entail?
- I am IN LOVE with the narrator straight up being like "I am coming for you" and very desperate to know if you think the narrator is one of the evil things being brought or if the narrator wants to stop the evil things or what.
- The narrator seems, you know, very inhuman, so I wonder if the fool simply didn't recognize the warnings and "omens and all kinds of signs"?
Someone For Whom 'The Yawning Grave' Is Traditional & None
"The Yawning Grave" is listed as traditional on the album rather than having a narrator like most of the other songs, and so of course my mind is all abuzz asking: for whom is this song traditional, and what are their other traditions like, and what do you think they're supposed to understand from a traditional song like this? (Is it possible that the song itself is some kind of warning/omen/sign?)
I'd be equally pleased to have you create some totally new characters and circumstances as I would be to have you work this request in with the other actual Strange Trails characters.
- If you're doing a comic, I would love visuals of: all the nature stuff in the opening lines but ESPECIALLY birds, the "omens and all kinds of signs", the yawning grave, the evil things that are brought by the darkness.
- Although I would of course be happy to get a standard comic with dialogue and etc, I would also be pleased to receive something where all or the majority of the text is pulled from the lyrics of the song.
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:
- fic that ends with Andy or Miranda getting back together with their canon SOs or starting a new relationship with a man — 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.
I'd love stuff set during canon dealing with Andy being dragged further and further into Miranda's orbit and loving it and feeling that jolt of tension and excitement and lust when Miranda's checking her out giving her outfit an approving look, but I'd love something set post-canon!
For things set while Andy is still working with Miranda, I'd love an exploration of the power imbalance between them. I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start.
For things set after Andy quits, I'd love to see them coming back together more as equals, renegotiating boundaries and learning to relate to each other outside the workplace. It'd be cool to see them strike up a friendship that deepens, but also excellent to see them fall straight into a romantic or sexual relationship. Whatever floats your boat!
Prompts:
- Canon compliant missing scenes —
- Any canon compliant/canon adjacent missing scenes from either of their points of view focusing on their changing relationship.
- While she's still working at Runway, Andy disagrees with Miranda about something and wins the argument for once.
- Was Miranda happy to be taking Andy instead of Emily to Paris?
- Miranda stops Andy from going on her date with Christian by taking Andy out to dinner / Miranda takes Andy to the fancy restaurant she intended to go to with her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
- Emily doesn't end up in the hospital and goes to Paris. How long does Andy stay at Runway?
- Andy comes to work at Runway a little later in her career as a writer.
- Andy is date raped by Christian (during the Paris trip or before; whatever works for you) and gets support from Miranda.
- Miranda seeks Andy out. Maybe Runway needs an article written and Andy has been doing incredible work, which gives Miranda the opportunity to reach out to her. Maybe Andy wins an award or something and Miranda calls to congratulate her and finds herself inviting Andy out to dinner with her in celebration.
- Andy seeks Miranda out. Maybe just to thank her for the incredible recommendation. Maybe Miranda's in the news again (her ex-husband has said some terrible-sounding things on the record about their failed marriage?) and someone from Andy's paper needs to interview Miranda, so Andy volunteers.
- They meet again by chance. They're at the same party and Andy is so gorgeous and Miranda just can't help but look at her differently now that Andy is no longer her employee and has a solid footing in her career of choice. Andy is sent to cover Paris fashion week and runs into Miranda.
- Miranda is, you know, a REALLY different person as a lover than she is as a boss, so actually setting and maintaining boundaries isn't a problem but Miranda being constantly busy with work is now a problem for Andy from the other direction? Or maybe something else. Oh my god I have so many feelings. I need a bulleted list.
Crossover Fandom (Stardew Valley x Dwarf Fortress, SDV x Gravity Falls)
AO3 matching tag: Crossover Fandom
Fandom note: I just think these things are neat!
Requested medium: fanfiction, fanart
Requested ship(s):
- Krobus (Stardew Valley) & Dipper Pines & Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)
- Krobus (Stardew Valley) & Dwarves (Dwarf Fortress)
- Worldbuilding (Stardew Valley) & Worldbuilding (Dwarf Fortress)
Shipping note: I would prefer gen, please.
Fandom-specific DNWs:
- any mention of Shane from Stardew Valley
Worldbuilding (Stardew Valley) & Worldbuilding (Dwarf Fortress)
Krobus (Stardew Valley) & Dwarves (Dwarf Fortress)
Dwarf Fortress has a really fascinating setting and so does Stardew Valley and I think they'd go great together!
Krobus is my favorite SDV character and also his people had that whole 1,000 year war with the dwarves so I would love something that involves Krobus specifically or shadow people in general. Did the thousand year war start because of territorial disputes, or because the DF dwarves caused the great calamity that Krobus' people went through, or for some other reason? Was there ever a time when the shadow people and the dwarves worked together? I'm also really interested in Krobus' name meaning "bridge-crosser" because it seems like that must have some kind of cultural significance! Is it a name meant to reflect Krobus' nature? Is it a job description or title as much as it is a personal name, relating in some way to how Krobus makes contact with others or does business?
If you're not feeling Krobus and the shadow people, I would welcome any other SDV characters except Shane and would definitely be interested in some kind of fusion where the PC's farm is near a Dwarf Fortress fort or where Dwarf Fortress dwarves try to take up farming or something!
I'm down for whatever written mediums interest you — documents that fit the canon setting, historical accounts, Dwarf Fortress-style logs, etc.
Krobus (Stardew Valley) & Dipper Pines & Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)
This crossover is really borne out of my need to see Dipper and Mabel make friends with weird creatures, and Krobus seems like a star candidate! They could find Krobus's shop in the Gravity Falls sewer, or get sent to Pelican Town the summer after canon, or maybe they take over a farm from the non-Pines side of the family after they get a little older. Or, maybe Stardew Valley is close-ish to Gravity Falls and they're coming through trying to ask the Wizard questions or get a grappling hook upgrade or hire Robin to work on the Mystery Shack and run into Krobus. I just like these characters and would enjoy seeing them interact!
(Also...repeated from above but if you're into some worldbuilding: I'm really interested in Krobus' name meaning "bridge-crosser" because it seems like that must have some kind of cultural significance! Is it a name meant to reflect Krobus' nature? Is it a job description or title as much as it is a personal name, relating in some way to how Krobus makes contact with others or does business?)
