Fic In A Box Creator Letter

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Overview: I welcome fanworks of all ratings, with any warning. I enjoy fics with sexual content for romantic or sexual pairings, but it's not necessary. My only blanket DNW is: No Modern AUs and No "No Magic" AUs (for fandoms with canonical magic). Below the fandom-specific prompts you'll find a list of my general likes. Feel free to ignore any of the prompts and latch onto any of my general trope, AU, hurt/comfort, or sex likes if they spark your creativity.

In addition to fanfic and fanart of any kind, I'm interest in in-universe documents. I give some examples of in-universe documents that strike me as good fits for each fandom, but please feel free to think outside of those boxes if you are so inspired!

Game of Thrones (TV)
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)

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My forever OTP since I first read A Storm of Swords nearly 20 years ago. Show-version Jaime and Brienne are different than the books, obviously, but there was a lot that was wonderfully satisfying about their relationship on screen. Jaime knighting Brienne and the consummation of their relationship was wonderful and everything I could have hoped for...but everything that happened after that was less so.

Prompts:
FIX IT. Give me the canon divergence that makes Jaime's sad-sack "yeah guess I'm just that terrible and I have to go die with Cersei, peace out" end disappear. I'm game for pain, I'm game for hard-earned happy endings, I'm game for Jaime and Brienne not even living happily ever after, but I want something more satisfying than the show provided, please. Alternately, they get a happy ending of sorts, but some new threat comes along (maybe 10 years down the line while they're wrangling a couple kids) and they have to pick up their swords and armor once more.

In-universe AUs. Stuff like Soulmates, role reversal, gender swap, arranged marriage, etc, are always interesting! 

I'm also open to creative fic formats. Epistolary would work well for them given an AU where Jaime flees Westeros, with or without Cersei. (I have no problem with Jaime/Cersei featuring in any gift.)

Alternately, a History of Ser Brienne of Tarth, the First Female Knight of Westeros (with as many "inconsistencies" or "artistic license" moments as you like) written by a Maester generations later in the vein of Fire & Blood would be fascinating.

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (MUNCLE 2015)

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My perfect threesome of messy bisexual spies - I think the quote on a gifset of the three of them I saw recently perfectly sums up my feelings: "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." [LINK] Individually they are disasters, together they somehow function enough to save each other and the day.

Prompts:
Getting together while saving the world - whether it's the end-of-the-movie teased Istanbul affair or another future mission, let them figure out their feelings and get together while kicking the ass of fascists. Hurt/comfort, enforced intimacy while on the mission, and other tropey nonsense a plus!

Also welcome - if you'd prefer to do several shorter fics vs a long one, glimpses of each individual relationship (Gaby and Illya, Illya and Napoleon, Napoleon and Gaby) would also be interesting! Maybe "times the other two had to save the third" or "times the other two had to go undercover together", etc. Outsider's POV - Waverly, Sanders, Oleg, or another UNCLE agent - would also be interesting!

I'm game for ALL of the in-universe content for this fandom - things like mission reports, debriefings, transcripts of interviews, etc. The same mission from three different POVs would be interesting! Feel free, if you're familiar with the TV show canon, to use elements of that worldbuilding if you like - UNCLE headquarters in New York, the notion that the bad guy fascists are an organization called THRUSH, that sort of thing, but also feel free to make up your own!

As this fandom is a perennial request for me, you can also check out my past letters for prompts - I'm game for anything with them.

[LINK] to past MUNCLE 2015 letters.

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Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Abigail Bellweather & Petra Bellweather (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Abigail Bellweather & Raelle Collar & Tally Craven (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Anacostia Quartermaine/Berryessa Tansey (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Solo: Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem)

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I love the wild worldbuilding of this show, and all of the interesting, complicated protagonists. For romantic relationships I am primarily interested in the older characters - Anacostia/Sgt. Tansey, and Sarah Alder/Any non-student - but I'm fine with any romantic ships among the younger protagonists, canon or not, being in the background of any fic.

Prompts:
For the Bellweather Unit trio, how will they come back together post S1 after the events of the finale? How deeply has their faith in the military generally and Alder specifically been shaken? What if they teamed up with Petra to try to double down on the coup attempt against Alder somehow? What if they work with Anacostia to infiltrate the Spree? Alternately, have each of the three learn about the others' backgrounds and very different experiences. Maybe they travel to the Cession, or Tally's mother's commune, in addition to the High Atlantic culture we saw in the wedding episode.

For Abigail & Petra, what was Abigail's experience as a young debutante of the High Atlantic witches like? What does it mean to be of powerful lineage in terms of expectations and politics?

For Anacostia/Sgt. Tansey I *loved* their conversation reminiscing about past Beltanes. What were they like when they were younger? Did they maybe hook up at Beltane just for the ritual, or was there real feeling there?

For Sarah Alder, literally anything at any point in history that you want to explore is fair game. What does leadership really mean for Sarah Alder? She strikes me as a complex, gray character who makes what she thinks are good choices for all, but that may only be good choices for her and her power. How did the first Biddies come to sacrifice themselves for her? How did she choose the first soldiers to serve with her, like Abigail's Bellweather ancestor? How did other nations besides the US develop their own witch militaries, and what relationships does she have with leaders, witch and non-witch, military and civilian, in other places? (Characters to ship with Alder, if you're interested - Petra Bellweather, Anacostia Quartermaine, or President Wade. Any non-student character is fine if you're so moved!)

As far as in-universe documents are concerned, I like the idea of alternate history documentation - anything from a history report written by a Fort Salem cadet to an academic article focusing on Alder, military culture, witch culture, witch family lineage, or anything else that would flesh out the setting.

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The Witcher (TV)
Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (Witcher TV)

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I really enjoyed this show and I am very fond of the strong relationships that Geralt has with both Jaskier and Yennefer. We really saw the relationship with Jaskier develop into something deep despite their harsh parting in episode 6; at the same time we didn't get to see as much of the relationship with Yennefer develop, but I was totally sold on their connection to one another in that same episode - Geralt's ease and Yen's honesty said a lot.

(I am only marginally familiar with the video game series and not at all with the books directly, though I've picked up a bit by osmosis. I am spoiled for various book-canon plot points with regard to Ciri's connection to Nilfgard, etc, so feel free to incorporate such canon if you like, but also sticking totally to TV canon is great.)

I would really like Jaskier and Yennefer to dial down the sniping and realize that they really could be one another's favorite kind of bitch. (And then mutually, lovingly top the hell out of Geralt, ahem.) I'm also open to works focusing on a V-shaped relationship, where Jaskier and Yen both have a relationship with Geralt but aren't romantically attached. (Honestly, that...feels like canon to me, really.)

Prompts:
Post S1, Jaskier and Yennefer run into one another before either one sees Geralt again under whatever circumstances you can imagine. Maybe they help each other get ahead of some angry Nilfgardians, or recognize one another while trying to lay low, and they grudgingly team up, and decide to stay that way until they can find Geralt and his Child Surprise. (I quite like Ciri and she can feature heavily if you choose!)

Canon divergence with a comic edge: Yennefer finds out about "Her Sweet Kiss" sometime before the events of episode 6...and takes it as a compliment. So much so that she seeks out Jaskier to write more songs about her. Geralt is Confused and Concerned.

Feel free to play with the notion of a single event told from different perspectives (Geralt, Yen, and Jaskier - and maybe Ciri, too?) or Ciri's outsider POV on the three of them (she's very clever and I would be intrigued to see how she sizes up both Yen and Jaskier).

As for in-universe documentation, go wild. Annotations of Jaskier's song lyrics, parodies of Jaskier's songs, or academic treatises/research on Witcher magic, culture, or the like all strike me as interesting ideas!

[LINK] to past Witcher letters (includes prompts for Jaskier/Geralt, Yen/Geralt, and Jaskier/Yen/Geralt).

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General Likes and Preferences

Setting tropes and AU premises I Love:

• canon divergence/"what if" AUs - I love butterfly effect, "change one thing" AUs especially!
• soulmates and soul bonds - and soulmate subversion, and soulmates played dark or strange - feel free to play it straight but I also love characters choosing someone(s) other than a soulmate, or the notion of soulmates being as much trouble as they are a joy. The worldbuilding would be wild in a world where soulmates are A Thing - I love exploring the effects of that, and the ambiguous bits of such an AU.
• battle couples/trios - ties neatly into competency kink and loyalty kink sexual likes, but non-sexual love and romance among folks who fight together is A+ also
• magical aus (give non-magical characters/canons magic - telepathy, mind magic, arcane magic, spellcasting. Though many of the canons I tend to like have magic of some kind, feel free to go on a worldbuilding dive into what any of my non-magical canon requests might look like if magic was real.)
• alternate magical system AUs (keep the canon magic, but make it different somehow)
• time loops/Groundhog Day premise (via magic or weird science or no explanation whatsoever)
• undercover antics and/or identity porn - undercover fake married, partners or lovers undercover as enemies, or characters having overlapping complex arrangements of fake identities are all good
• future fic and "next gen" fic (about children of canonical characters as older teens or adults)
• ghosts, communicating with the dead (via magic or weird science)
• enemies to lovers
• werewolves and other were-creatures/animal shapeshifters - tying into magical AUs, I like "everyone's a werewolf" or some kind of magical critter AUs, or just one particular character being "other"
• sharing a bed (sexual, romantic, or platonic) - enforced intimacy!
• huddling for warmth - more enforced intimacy!
  
• trapped in a cabin in a blizzard - are you seeing the trend about enforced intimacy?!
• Hurt/Comfort - see the whole section on this trope below

Hurt/Comfort & Whump Favorites (note that the "comfort" can be sexual, romantic, or platonic)

The thing I really like the most about h/c and whump is the intimacy of it all. The deeply intimate nature of caring for another person in h/c, and/or the headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain the whumped character goes through are absolutely my personal catnip.
 

Hurt and Whump Preferences:

• torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Torture that leads to chronic injury/pain, mild-to-moderate debilitation over time or permanently, or psychological trauma are the sorts of things I want to see for this kind of hurt. I'm less interested in super-severe injury, amputation, or mindbreak-levels of torture.
• sleep deprivation/exhaustion
• noble self-sacrifice - risking harm or death (by performing a noble last stand, or being a distraction, or playing the honeypot, or offering yourself up for torture/assault) to spare others punishment or to allow them to escape
• drugging
• hallucinations
• characters forced to watch others being hurt
  

Comfort Preferences:

• hair touching/running fingers through hair
• helping others with personal care - hair washing, injury tending, etc
• small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, etc
• sex (with reasonable consideration for the seriousness of the hurt!)

Sex tropes I Love:

• dubcon - specifically in situations when both/all parties are consenting under duress due to outside forces, such as "sex pollen", "bad guys made them do it", or character(s) consenting to spare another character from having to do so. This can lead to a positive outcome - admitting feelings, strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience - or a negative outcome - angst, the end of a relationship/partnership, tragedy - or something ambiguous.
• bondage - particularly of stoic or restrained characters getting tied up and absolutely wrecked
• first time sex - both first time sex ever or first time performing a particular sex act for a character if there's a reasonable characterization of said character as inexperienced, and also first time sex with a particular partner - I tend to prefer getting together over established relationship unless otherwise requested
• sex magic
• pegging (both f/m and f/f)
• praise kink - particularly of stoic and/or damaged characters unused to and undone by praise
  
• casual physical intimacy between partners - falling asleep on partner's shoulder, cuddling, spooning, etc., especially of characters not used to casual physical intimacy becoming comfortable with it - this could include both characters who have lots of casual sex but not much casual cuddling, or characters who are touch starved or anything in between
• begging during sex ("please!")
• sex as an emotional outlet in the wake of tragedy or grief - friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
• Dominance/submission (if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested)
• sex between platonic friends 
• competence kink
• threesomes
  
• loyalty kink