Dear Author (Holly Poly 2020)
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coaldustcanary Hi there,
Thanks for checking out my letter. This is my first year participating in Holly Poly, though I have several OT3s both in my currently active fandoms and in longstanding fandoms of my heart.
General Preferences: I am overall open to receiving fic or art of any rating, including violent or sexually explicit content. I am OK with any AO3 required warning if appropriate to the fic or art.
Prompts for each of my ships below. Note that some prompts are re-purposed from past signups, especially for some of my perennial requests. Even if I've received fic based on those prompts before, repeating it here definitely means I still want more content based on those prompts!
At the end of the letter is a big list of prompted likes and preferences - do feel free to ignore my fandom-specific prompts and dive into one of those likes if it gives you any ideas.
Fandoms in alphabetical order:
Ladyhawke (1985)
Etienne Navarre/Isabeau d'Anjou/Philippe Gaston
What happens after the film? I don't buy that Philippe goes off on his own with Imperius and leaves the Great Lovers to their reunion...at least not permanently. I really like the idea that Navarre and Isabeau realize something is missing after a time relishing their freedom from the curse, and seek out their most loyal of friends eventually.
The three of them spending a winter together, or huddling up against miserable weather, is also very charming for either fic or art.
DNW: modern setting (more explicit fantasy setting or magic besides the curse - like soulmates or the like - is fine)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
Gaby Teller/Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo
My primary fandom home these days is MUNCLE movie fandom, and I never tire of these three getting together and figuring out their professional and personal partnerships all at once. Mission fic is great, but so is slice-of-life downtime off the job - maybe something set around a winter holiday like New Year's Day, or Solo conning his partners into appreciation of a "Western" Christmas tradition.
Huddling for warmth/only one bed/staving off hypothermia/snowed in stuff is my catnip. Declarations of feelings due to serious injury or hurt/comfort scenarios, too.
I am open to lots of ways for them to be a trio, but I'm particularly fond of Napoleon Solo, "womanizing" self-absorbed criminal, selflessly trying to avoid getting in the way of Gaby and Illya's relationship despite his feelings for both of them (because as much as he appreciates himself, he doesn't think he'd be any good for them, and besides, they don't feel that way about him) or even trying to set them up and failing miserably. Because they both want him, too.
DNW: non-spy AU. (though canon divergence where they end up retiring together or casefic where they're undercover doing something else is fine! also adding magic or making the setting weirder a la magical realism is good, I just want them to be 60s cold war spies, too.)
(You can see all of my past letters requesting this fandom under the tag MUNCLE 2015, feel free to go with anything.)
Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder/Biddies
Anacostia Quartermaine/Petra Bellweather/Sarah Alder
For Alder/Biddies: what is the general's relationship like with them? How intimate must it be for her very life to be sustained by their sacrifice! How do they perform magic together? What does it feel like, and how does it connect them?
For Anacostia/Petra/Alder, I'm thinking power-play magic involving intense rituals - maybe sex, too? Perhaps the most advanced battle magics require deep intimacy, or at least performing it, whether or not there are emotions involved.
DNW: No Magic AU.
Once Upon a Time (TV)
Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan/Milah
I remain really, really mad about what happened to Milah. It was extremely unfair. What might have happened if she'd returned from the Underworld with Killian and Emma? (Like, besides kicking Rumple's ass six ways from Sunday.)
Alternately, an Enchanted Forest AU where princess Emma ends up in a relationship with a pair of dastardly pirates would be fantastic!
DNW: Modern AU.
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Dirk/Kris/Talia (Valdemar)
Thanks for checking out my letter. This is my first year participating in Holly Poly, though I have several OT3s both in my currently active fandoms and in longstanding fandoms of my heart.
General Preferences: I am overall open to receiving fic or art of any rating, including violent or sexually explicit content. I am OK with any AO3 required warning if appropriate to the fic or art.
Prompts for each of my ships below. Note that some prompts are re-purposed from past signups, especially for some of my perennial requests. Even if I've received fic based on those prompts before, repeating it here definitely means I still want more content based on those prompts!
At the end of the letter is a big list of prompted likes and preferences - do feel free to ignore my fandom-specific prompts and dive into one of those likes if it gives you any ideas.
Fandoms in alphabetical order:
Ladyhawke (1985)
Etienne Navarre/Isabeau d'Anjou/Philippe Gaston
What happens after the film? I don't buy that Philippe goes off on his own with Imperius and leaves the Great Lovers to their reunion...at least not permanently. I really like the idea that Navarre and Isabeau realize something is missing after a time relishing their freedom from the curse, and seek out their most loyal of friends eventually.
The three of them spending a winter together, or huddling up against miserable weather, is also very charming for either fic or art.
DNW: modern setting (more explicit fantasy setting or magic besides the curse - like soulmates or the like - is fine)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
Gaby Teller/Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo
My primary fandom home these days is MUNCLE movie fandom, and I never tire of these three getting together and figuring out their professional and personal partnerships all at once. Mission fic is great, but so is slice-of-life downtime off the job - maybe something set around a winter holiday like New Year's Day, or Solo conning his partners into appreciation of a "Western" Christmas tradition.
Huddling for warmth/only one bed/staving off hypothermia/snowed in stuff is my catnip. Declarations of feelings due to serious injury or hurt/comfort scenarios, too.
I am open to lots of ways for them to be a trio, but I'm particularly fond of Napoleon Solo, "womanizing" self-absorbed criminal, selflessly trying to avoid getting in the way of Gaby and Illya's relationship despite his feelings for both of them (because as much as he appreciates himself, he doesn't think he'd be any good for them, and besides, they don't feel that way about him) or even trying to set them up and failing miserably. Because they both want him, too.
DNW: non-spy AU. (though canon divergence where they end up retiring together or casefic where they're undercover doing something else is fine! also adding magic or making the setting weirder a la magical realism is good, I just want them to be 60s cold war spies, too.)
(You can see all of my past letters requesting this fandom under the tag MUNCLE 2015, feel free to go with anything.)
Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder/Biddies
Anacostia Quartermaine/Petra Bellweather/Sarah Alder
For Alder/Biddies: what is the general's relationship like with them? How intimate must it be for her very life to be sustained by their sacrifice! How do they perform magic together? What does it feel like, and how does it connect them?
For Anacostia/Petra/Alder, I'm thinking power-play magic involving intense rituals - maybe sex, too? Perhaps the most advanced battle magics require deep intimacy, or at least performing it, whether or not there are emotions involved.
DNW: No Magic AU.
Once Upon a Time (TV)
Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan/Milah
I remain really, really mad about what happened to Milah. It was extremely unfair. What might have happened if she'd returned from the Underworld with Killian and Emma? (Like, besides kicking Rumple's ass six ways from Sunday.)
Alternately, an Enchanted Forest AU where princess Emma ends up in a relationship with a pair of dastardly pirates would be fantastic!
DNW: Modern AU.
Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Dirk/Kris/Talia (Valdemar)
Feel free to go canon divergence with this--somehow the three of them get together prior to Talia and Kris's ill-fated journey to Hardorn somehow. Maybe Dirk wasn't off mentoring Skif and got sent their way while Talia and Kris were on circuit and the separate complicated things between Talia and Kris and Talia and Dirk get pulled into the light abruptly.
Alternately, fix-it: Kris doesn't die, Dirk somehow Fetches both Kris and Talia back from Hardorn, and then pulls a noble sacrifice because he wants to leave his Best Friend and Epic Crush to their perfect love, not realizing the relationship is much more complicated than that (and they need him, too).
DNW: Modern AU.
The Witcher (TV)
DNW: Modern AU.
The Witcher (TV)
Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier/Yennefer of Vengerberg (Witcher TV)
At some point post-S1, Ciri has a Mom and Two Dads who somehow get over their interpersonal strife for her sake. (Honestly, an outsider's perspective from Ciri would be great.)
I am always game for fic where Yennefer and Jaskier team up to lovingly top the hell out of Geralt because someone needs to take care of the big idiot so the other two bury the hatchet to see that it gets done.
Alternately, Geralt is confused, scared, and a liiiitle aroused when Jaskier and Yennefer end up teaming up without him for some reason.
DNW: None (This is the fandom I am open to Modern AUs for if you're interested.)
General Likes and Preferences
Setting tropes and AU premises I Love:
At some point post-S1, Ciri has a Mom and Two Dads who somehow get over their interpersonal strife for her sake. (Honestly, an outsider's perspective from Ciri would be great.)
I am always game for fic where Yennefer and Jaskier team up to lovingly top the hell out of Geralt because someone needs to take care of the big idiot so the other two bury the hatchet to see that it gets done.
Alternately, Geralt is confused, scared, and a liiiitle aroused when Jaskier and Yennefer end up teaming up without him for some reason.
DNW: None (This is the fandom I am open to Modern AUs for if you're interested.)
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
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