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Dear Author:

Thanks for checking out my letter! I've included some general notes about my preferences up front, some detailed prompts and thoughts about each of my requested characters, and then a big list of "Things I Generally Like in Fic" at the very end.

The big picture: Overall, I am open to fic of any rating, and including any AO3 Archive Warning if appropriate to the story. When prompting for romantic pairings or shippy content I'm happy to receive (but in no way require) sexual content. I permit and welcome treats of any kind.

Elly Conway | Rachel Kylle | Gaby Teller | Brienne of Tarth | General Likes and Preferences

Elly Conway | Rachel Kylle

Elly Conway, perma-tired and people-avoidant 43 year old cat lady wearing mom jeans and a cardigan while having writer's block about Henry Cavill characters, are you, in fact, me?

I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this film, absurd as it is. Feel free to lean into the absurdity and the meta-ness of it, but I’m also equally happy to play the trope train of it straight, because I loved every cliched beat. Anything you want to create related to Elly | Rachel would be very welcome.

DNW:
*Non-canonical Major Character Death (Temporary character death is always OK and one of my likes.)
*Attributing canon relationships with men to compulsory heterosexuality or otherwise explicitly contradicting the possibility of the requested character being bisexual (canon divergence where the canon relationships don’t exist in the first place is OK, including only f/f relationships is OK)

Preferred Ships: I definitely enjoy the Elly/Aidan romcom thing (he is so incredibly pathetic (affectionate) for her, Sam Rockwell has sad wet dog vibes down pat), but I am extremely interested in exploring her implied relationships/flirtations/“things” with Saba and or LaGrange as well. Gen with literally anybody else in the cast, including “Mom and Dad” are very welcome, too.

Pre-canon, pre-Elly ideas:
*The early days of her partnership with Aidan and/or Keira, or mission fic. What was Rachel like then? How did they get on?
*What exactly happened in Mogadishu between her and Aidan, and was it romantic from the get-go, or was it fuckbuddies to lovers, or something else entirely?
*Saba al-Badr definitely implied that they had a thing. And if the meeting with LaGrange was anything like the version in the book, Rachel is bisexual as hell. What were either of those interactions like?

During the “5 years”:
*Was the Division totally blindsided by the popularity of the books or what? It seems like that kind of publicity would have been much more of a problem for them than if she’d lived at home with mom and dad and self-published.
*Love the idea of Elly having vague, angsty feelings of discontent about something being missing in her life that she can’t quite put her finger on at any point during those 5 years. There’s a lot of ground to dig in with Elly fighting the fake memories (and self-doubt) when she has the inexplicable feeling that she should be out having the adventures she’s writing about.
*Vogler drafted Elly’s diaries to get her writing - did she outline the character of Argylle, too? Who defined him as, well, him, and did Elly go back and forth about wanting to write a female protagonist in her novels, but get talked out of it? (Feel free to ignore that last “1 year later” scene at the very end, same for the mid-credit scene, if you go this route.)
*Her interactions with fans seem so incredibly exhausting for her! Is that something the Division is explicitly manipulating alongside her anxiety and panic attacks (seems likely) or is there more to it?

Canon and post-canon:
*Any kind of missing scene that digs into how Elly was feeling at any point in the film that we didn’t actually see. I’m particularly curious about the time she would have spent getting ready for the mission to go to Saba’s palace at Alfie’s place. Did the whole cosplay aspect of it freak her out or kinda thrill her a bit? Maybe she had a pep talk with Argylle in a mirror? Maybe Aidan or Alfie had to talk her through more nerves?
*How much does she ultimately decide to remain Elly Conway? Just to get the final book published? Just as a pen name, or as more than that? How does she wrestle with being both Elly and Rachel?
*Anything about how her relationship with Aidan has changed and that they’re going to be different people now given everything that happened, and negotiating that reality, for good and ill.
*What’s next for her? Back to the spy game? Another series of books? Taking time away from it all for a bit? Becoming someone else entirely? (Again, feel free to ignore the thing that happens at the “1 year later” scene if you like, or play with it in a way that doesn’t have to be consistent with the mid-credit scene.)

Art (everything above is also fair game as a prompt, but also):
Elly cuddling Alfie the Cat!
Anything playing with identity issues, such as Elly looking in a mirror and seeing Rachel instead of herself or Argylle, or something blurring the lines between the fantasy of the books and the reality. (My pet headcanon is that half of the movie is this already beyond even the appearances by Argylle himself - the colorful gunfight dance and the oil slick ice skating murder party in particular seem like we’re getting a highly fictionalized view of what went down, to say the least. The infrared views were showing standard gunfight action, not a dance party!)

Gaby Teller

Gaby Teller

Abandoned by her father, picked up by a potentially very dangerous spymaster, and dealing with two barely-cooperating “top spies” with apparently more ego than sense, Gaby manages a lot over the course of the film, and keeps her eyes on the target. Like a lot of “the girl” characters in spy films she exists in the narrative mostly for the guys’ stories, but I like anything that explores what she wants, thinks, or feels in her situation.

DNW:
*Non-canonical Major Character Death (Temporary character death is always OK and one of my likes.)
*Attributing canon relationships with men to compulsory heterosexuality or otherwise explicitly contradicting the possibility of the requested character being bisexual (canon divergence where the canon relationships don’t exist in the first place is OK, including only f/f relationships is OK)

Preferred Ships: The OT3 (Gaby/Illya/Napoleon) is my main ship for this fandom, but I love her individually with either of them, and am also intrigued by Gaby/Waverly. Gaby/Victoria and Gaby/Alexander (or Gaby/Victoria/Alexander) for darker AUs has potential as well. Gen with any of them are also very much of interest.

Prompts

Pre-canon:
Anything about Gaby’s youth in Berlin. How much did she know about her father, off in the US working for the government while she lived through the post-war privation, her mother died, and she ended up with a foster family? What was her childhood like, and how did it shape her attitudes so that when Waverly came calling she said “yes”?

How did Waverly recruit her? Anything about that interaction and how it went down would be fantastic.

Canon divergence where Uncle Rudi found her and took her in as a child, even as he was still an unhinged henchman torturer for fascist baddies. Does she end up coming to the events of the film in a very different way? Does she work for the Vinciguerras, too? Victoria seems to find her somewhat amusing, and I could imagine a very terrifying mentorship situation happening there.

Film events:

Any missing scene or canon divergence of events you might choose to concoct. Gaby makes a bit of an attempt to get close to Alexander Vinciguerra at the party - what might that have looked like if she had more opportunity before Illya trampled on it?

A character study/deep dive regarding her apparent feelings for Illya. How much of it is performance, how much of it is earnest, and how much of it is deeply frustrating to her? How complicated is her affection for a staunchly Soviet son of Mother Russia, given her life in Berlin?

Post-canon:

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely only the second meaningful time in her life post-film if they head to Istanbul as implied; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Alternately, she leaves the spy game after she’s fulfilled her obligations (whatever they might be) to Waverly, and does something else entirely. I could see her skills finding use in a number of other contexts. Does she get dragged back into espionage at some point?

Eventually Gaby and Napoleon have a conversation about her giving him up to the Vinciguerras, which led to his torture. (I don’t request this to see Gaby self-flagellate over her choices, and I don’t think there’s much evidence that Solo seriously holds it against her, but I do like the idea that there is tension there that would need to be worked out at some point if they’re going to continue working together.) Maybe they talk, maybe they fight, maybe they get drunk together, maybe they fuck about it, your call.

On a mission her partner(s) is/are somehow incapacitated and/or presumed dead and she has to finish the job all on her own, or she’s sent on a solo mission without backup, and things get hard.

Waverly’s mentorship as a potentially very double-edged sword. I am a bit weak for the idea that over time he wants her to be his successor, but that’s a hell of a lot of responsibility.

Years down the line, Gaby post-retirement, whatever that might look like. How might she view the way politics and global events have changed the world up to the modern era? What role might she have played in it? The idea of looking back on a life well-lived (?) is always interesting.

Art (everything above is also fair game as a prompt, but also):
Gaby developing her own sense of style (versus being dressed by Illya, however stylish his choices) is really interesting to me. If you want to play with mid-60s fashion for her, go nuts!

Brienne of Tarth

Book Brienne has been my fandom fave for literal decades at this point, and Gwendoline Christie’s Brienne in Game of Thrones is a different character from the book but embodied her so well. I have a huge number of issues with the way that the show panned out overall but very few specific to her character arc. She is the perfect mirror held up to Westerosi knighthood and she shows every way it is lacking by being a truer knight than any of the rest.

DNW:
*Non-canonical Major Character Death (Temporary character death is always OK and one of my likes.)
*Attributing canon relationships with men to compulsory heterosexuality or otherwise explicitly contradicting the possibility of the requested character being bisexual (canon divergence where the canon relationships don’t exist in the first place is OK, including only f/f relationships is OK)

Preferred Ships: Brienne/Jaime, Brienne/Margaery, Brienne/Sansa, Brienne & Pod

Prompts:

A historical look back on Ser Brienne of Tarth, Lord Captain of the Kingsguard (potentially written in the style of Fire & Blood with conflicting viewpoints!) would be very cool.

I am always happy to devour fic that has Brienne/Jaime work out differently. Messy and complicated and even ugly, sure, but basically everything that happened after he knighted her (a top-3 moment of my fandom life was seeing that on screen) was something of a disaster! Let her stop him from going, let him survive somehow, even successfully fleeing with Cersei. Give them the opportunity to find one another again and work out better!

Brienne at Highgarden, somehow, among the Tyrells. I always found Margaery’s (and Olenna’s) appreciation of Brienne as being very much curiosity on their part about how she could benefit them, but I could also see something more meaningful and mutual developing. The Tyrells very much look out for themselves but appreciate those who serve them, and I could see an unconventional but true knight becoming something special in the heart of chivalrous Westeros. I like the idea of Margaery/Brienne, with any tone from sweet to political to kinky, or even to Brienne marrying Loras to give him cover while she and Margaery run the show.

Brienne’s fierce protection of Sansa becoming something more intimate. Loyalty, baby! Alternately, an AU where she remains at Sansa’s side in the North as her Queensguard and doesn’t return to Westeros, and how she would fare in that world.

I always love Brienne mentoring Pod, and Pod in turn helping Brienne. Their relationship is one of my top platonic relationships in the show, and something from Pod’s POV would be really welcome!

Lately I’ve been really curious about Brienne in a time loop. I know time loops/time travel/fix-it plots are popular in Game of Thrones fandom, but Brienne’s utterly fierce devotion to rightness would be so interesting to explore in that context. I’d leave it up to you the point of the loop or time travel (and am open to her traveling even back to pre-canon history rather than within the frame of canon).

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, etc)
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 caring for another person in h/c, and/or the traumatic headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain and angst 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. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (with some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

General Likes and Preferences For Fanworks

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, etc)
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (with some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Author:

Thanks for checking out my letter! I've included some general notes about my preferences up front, some detailed prompts and thoughts about each of my requested fandoms, and then a big list of "Things I Generally Like in Fic" at the very end. Please note that I'm a regular participant in fanfic exchanges and so I had a lot of this already written up - don't feel you have to read every word or stick closely to the prompts given if you're inspired differently! This is very much "Optional Details Are Optional" per Yuletide tradition; I'll be happy with whatever you create.

Overall, I am open to fic of any rating, and including any AO3 Archive Warning if appropriate to the story. When prompting for romantic pairings or shippy content I'm happy to receive (but in no way require) sexual content. I permit and welcome treats of any kind.

Ladyhawke (1985) | The Wheel of Time (TV) | The Young Riders (TV) | General Likes and Preferences

Ladyhawke (1985)
Isabeau d'Anjou, Philippe Gaston, Etienne Navarre

What I like about canon: I unironically love every silly minute of this film and the totally 80s soundtrack. The story of star-crossed lovers helped in their quest to defeat the curse hanging over their heads by the most unlikely of thieves is charming, and the notion that the lovers grew as fond of their friend as one another, in the end, makes me very happy.

Prompts:
Soulmate AU: In the film it's Philippe's clever mix of half truths and inspiration that keep Isabeau and Navarre from losing heart in their quest. It seems like they have been cursed for years and not making much headway in trying to break the curse, even though Navarre is sure he knows how. Maybe that's because they specifically needed Philippe as their missing "piece" as their soulmate just as much as they are each other's, and they realize that along the way. How might that have changed the way things played out?

As an extension of what occurs in the film, Philippe as a "go between" having moments (romantic, tender, sexy, kinky) with Isabeau and Navarre individually as the cursed lovers use him to physically send messages to one another (with or without Philippe's embelishments!)

Post-canon: Isabeau and Philippe have to team up to rescue Navarre from some threat against which their combined wit and way with words is most effective.

The Young Riders (TV)
Louise "Lou" McCloud, The Kid, Jimmy Hickock

What I like about the canon: This ridiculous show was the first thing I wrote fanfic for as a frantic 10 year old. Attractive people, check. Horses, check. Sweeping romantic period drama, check. The whole "girl with a fake nmae pretending to be a boy" and "boy who won't give his own name but seems willing to die for her" thing was catnip, and then everyone else got in on the secret and scruffy Jimmy's interest in Lou and open conflict with Kid flirted with all the most messy elements of a love triangle. Whew! Anyway, this stuff still apparently has a desperate hold on my id 30 years later, and here we are.

Prompts:

Post-canon offers a lot of possibilities. What did the three of them get up to during and after Civil War? Where did they go? How did Lou adjust to being a wife and no longer wearing men's clothes - or did she not stop? How did Kid deal with his own conflicted feelings about his upbringing in Virginia? Jimmy Hickok would (historically) become a hard-fighting, hard-drinking Civil War veteran who was involved in reckless shootouts quite often - what would happen if he showed up 5 years post-series on the Kid and Lou's doorstep?

Alternately, the awkward first time that the three of them hooked up while still riding for the Pony Express. Perhaps one day Kid and Jimmy's conflict boils over into something a little sexier and Lou is surprisingly into it.

Literally any trope I have listed in my likes below would be welcome, especially (but not only) hurt/comfort, whump, cuddling for warmth, bedsharing. Seriously, all the classics are my bread and butter for this show. Hurt someone and conjure a storm so they have to take refuge in a cabin, or have them sharing a bed due to Circumstances - I'm all over it.

On a more platonic note, I am 100% here for A Very Special Christmas Episode With The Young Riders. Teaspoon and/or Emma and/or Rachel is super serious about Christmas, or they find some kind of reason to celebrate the spirit of the season all together. Reminiscing about childhood Christmases past, and hopes for the future. Fluff up to my eyeballs, give it to me.

The Wheel of Time (TV)
Alanna Mosvani, Ihvon, Maksim

What I like about this canon: The Wheel of Time books were foundational to my appreciation for fantasy literature, and despite their many flaws, I will always think of them fondly. That said, I think the show is doing an incredible, fun adaptatation of the material and I cannot wait to see what they do with it next. In the books I found Alanna interesting but often more of a plot device than a developed character, and her relationship with her Warders (Ihvon and Owein in the books, instead of Maksim) similarly unexplored. I find her (and them) much more intriguing in the TV adaptation.

Prompts:

How exactly did Alanna come to bond both men, and how did their romantic relationship follow from it? Or was the order a little different? Relatedly - Maksim says he became a warder because fell in love with a Warder, and Ihvon says because he fell in love with an Aes Sedai. How did they negotiate those complicated emotions early on, and how has the balance of the relationship changed since then, if it has? "Things are messy before they are perfect," Alanna says. I would love to see some mess!

Or, tell me about some adventure they had pre-series, perhaps against the Shadow, defending against a Trolloc raid, or in the Borderlands.

Alanna seems incredibly solicitous of Moiraine's needs; do her Warders fully agree with the depth of the friendship between the Aes Sedai?

What role might the trio play in the future of the series? If you're familiar with book canon, you know that Alanna is likely to become even more prominent of a character in the future. I don't think it likely that the show will follow all of the beats of the books (thank god) but if you want to guess at how these particular versions of the characters might experience some of those events, I would welcome it!

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, etc)
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (with some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Thanks for checking out my letter! I've included some general notes about my preferences up front, some detailed prompts and thoughts about each of my requested fandoms, and then a big list of "Things I Generally Like in Fic" at the very end. I am generally very easy to please and welcome just about any kind of gift you think I might like if my specific prompts don't grab you.

Overall, I am open to fic or art of any rating, and including any AO3 Archive Warning if appropriate to the story. When prompting for romantic pairings or shippy content I'm happy to receive (but in no way require) explicit sexual content.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) | Once Upon a Time (TV) | Ladyhawke (1985) | General Likes and Preferences

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

What I like about canon: I only saw this film for the first time in late 2018 and I fell for it (and three ridiculous spies and their complicated relationship) very hard. The film has beautiful people, beautiful cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and a perfect soundtrack. It combines multiple strains of classic tropey relationship development: enemies to colleagues to friends (to lovers?) for all three of them, plus the great fake engagement between Illya and Gaby, the rivals to friends competition and one-upmanship between Illya and Napoleon, and then multiple big damn rescues (Napoleon rescuing Illya from drowning, Illya rescuing Napoleon from the electric chair, and then Napoleon and Illya both rescuing Gaby from the Vinciguerras). And all of it against a fun, iconic 60s setting backdrop, serving to set up the idea of them working together as a team for the forseeable future.

Prompts:

I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big fucking rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

Five times fics - whether a time loop caused by a mad scientist's machine, or due to drug/exhaustion hallucinations the same scenario plays out different ways, or a bunch of different themed incidents on different missions - are always good!

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that either differs from the one they share or reinforces feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both in the process.

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely only the second meaningful time in her life post-film; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third. (Doing a "three times" variation of this including scenarios where each pair has to save the third would be fun.)

Wild AU premises that seem interesting: supernatural elements, magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their unconventional relationship, or even just their feelings for one another - and tries to deal with the problem alone. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do, but again, any of them would fit here.)

Post-retirement future fic - what might they get up to once they're too old to be in the field? What if injuries take one or more of them out of the game even earlier? What if they end up being pulled back to their respective agencies but only meet again by chance 10, 15, or 20 years post-movie?

Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby are the main ships of the fandom besides the trio, but I find Gaby/Napoleon really intriguing - a fic where they believe Illya to be dead, or he's somehow out of their reach (a prisoner, gravely injured, on a mission that they can't interfere in without huge risk) and they hook up out of grief or fear or even in anger would be interesting. (And then they go rescue Illya, right?)

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

Speaking of Victoria, if you're inspired to write any kind of "case fic" I think she is a fabulous villain and would love anything with her as the antagonist of the piece, trying to get her revenge on Napoleon and/or the trio!

DNW: Permanent character death of requested characters. (Temporary death or other characters believing character to be dead is great!)

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, and the like. even if it's not a setting where I know the canon I will probably be into it if it involves talking or psychic animals)
time loops/Groundhog Day premise (via magic or weird science or no explanation whatsoever - I'm fine with situations where only one character in the ship is looping or a ship loops together, either is good)
undercover antics and/or identity porn - undercover fake married, friends/partners/lovers having to pretend to be enemies for the job or politics, 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 and 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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 necessity of physical proximity when caring for another person in h/c, and/or the traumatic headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain and angst the whumped character (and also often the caregiver) 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. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (With some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy. The stab victim can still have a little blow job, as a treat!)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Thanks for checking out my letter! I've included some general notes about my preferences up front, some detailed prompts and thoughts about each of my requested fandoms, and then a big list of "Things I Generally Like in Fic" at the very end. I am generally very easy to please and welcome just about any kind of gift you think I might like if my specific prompts don't grab you.

Please note that I'm very enthusiastic about all of my nominated ships, but some are ships I request in just about every exchange I participate in while others are totally new, so there are vastly differing amounts of prompts for some requests below.

Overall, I am open to fic or art of any rating, and including any AO3 Archive Warning if appropriate to the story. When prompting for romantic pairings or shippy content I'm happy to receive (but in no way require) explicit sexual content.

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

What I like about the canon: Very attractive people in an interesting fantasy setting taking themselves just seriously enough for the show to be a blast. I'm looking forward to S2 very much and will have consumed it by the time this exchange reveals; feel free to incorporate it into your work but also feel free to ignore it if you prefer.

Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer is my default OT3 for this fandom. Whenever there is a strong-but-vulnerable hero with a fierce female love interest AND a charismatic best friend/sidekick/friendly rival my mind immediately leaps to "but what if the love interest and the friend team up to absolutely wreck the hero?" and my imagination has not really left this general vicinity since I first watched the show. Please feel free to give me Yennefer and Jaskier teaming up somehow (not necessarily romantically, at least at first) and deciding the best thing for them and for Geralt is for them to share...Geralt. A few ideas:

Yennefer hears "Her Sweet Kiss" performed and takes it as a compliment (while maybe also hearing Jaskier's jealousy in it loud and clear) and seeks him out to see if he'll write more songs about her. They team up in a very entrepreneurial way and Geralt isn't sure if he's relieved that they're not sniping at one another constantly or very, very afraid. (Or maybe more than a little turned on?)

Alternately, it looks like Yennefer spends time as a prisoner of Nilfgard per the teasers for S2 - maybe Jaskier *also* winds up as a prisoner and they have to team up to survive and help out when Geralt inevitably comes to rescue them!

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).

Geralt/Istredd/Yennefer is super-intriguing to me. I've not read the books, but I've heard Istredd therein characterized as very jealous of Geralt/Yennefer and combative with Geralt. I'd much rather go with the more laid-back show characterization of Istredd, who seems to have largely moved on from his infatuation from Yennefer...but has he really? Ideas:

Sex magic of some kind that Yen and Istredd have to peform, and somehow Geralt's nature can power or amplify the magic.

Istredd gets curious about this Geralt dude and how he's managed to capture Yennefer's interest for so long, and he decides he needs to know more - much more - about him.

Geralt and Yennefer need some knowledge or magical item that Istredd possesses, and either he Needs to be Convinced to share, or drives a hard bargain.

Sex pollen or magic gone awry!

DNW: Permanent character death of requested characters. (Temporary death or other characters believing character to be dead is great!) Mundane/No Magic AU. (Modern with magic is fine.)

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

I only saw this film for the first time in late 2018 and I fell for it (and three ridiculous spies and their complicated relationship) very hard. The film has beautiful people, beautiful cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and a perfect soundtrack. It combines multiple strains of classic tropey relationship development: enemies to colleagues to friends (to lovers?) for all three of them, plus the great fake engagement between Illya and Gaby, the rivals to friends competition and one-upmanship between Illya and Napoleon, and then multiple big damn rescues (Napoleon rescuing Illya from drowning, Illya rescuing Napoleon from the electric chair, and then Napoleon and Illya both rescuing Gaby from the Vinciguerras). And all of it against a fun, iconic 60s setting backdrop, serving to set up the idea of them working together as a team for the forseeable future.

Prompts:

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both in the process.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third. (Doing a "three times" variation of this including scenarios where each pair has to save the third would be fun.)

Wild AU premises that seem interesting: supernatural elements, magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

Once Upon a Time (TV)
Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Milah/Emma Swan

What I like about the canon: A ridiculous show, but one with so much narrative potential that sometimes got used to good effect but was often squandered. I liked the canon Hook/Emma romance well enough, but felt that the show mishandled a lot of things, but none so badly as Milah's death and lack of happy ending.

Prompts:

I am always game for Enchanted Forest AUs where pirates Killian and Milah deal with Princess Emma, whether kidnapping her for ransom, dealing with her as a stowaway, or planning to deliver her to the Evil Queen. Role swaps or reversals in this setting would also be very welcome!

Canon Divergence options where Milah ends up in Storybrooke would be wonderful - she could be there from the start somehow (Rumple didn't kill her, just trapped her somehow?) or have come back during one of the various re-applications of the Curse. I would love her and Emma becoming friends and bonding over shared experiences; I think they could have been amazing together.

Killian and Emma somehow manage to bring Milah back to life or at least rescue her from the River of Souls via unintentional sex magic.

Soulbond AU. Milah and Killian were soulmates. When he realizes Emma is also his soulmate, he thinks he's the luckiest man in any world there is. When, in the Underworld, Emma and Milah realize they're soulmates as well, things become both more clear and a lot more confusing.

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
Stannis Baratheon/Salladhor Saan/Davos Seaworth
Stannis Baratheon/Oberyn Martell/Davos Seaworth

Why I like this canon: Book-verse Stannis/Davos has been one of my immediate "damn, these two and the loyalty" insta-OTPs since I first read the books. Their dynamic is so fascinating, I love the idea of other characters being pulled into their orbit and seeing how it affects them as well as the character pulled in their wake. Please note that while I also prompt Game of Thrones ships, I want book-canon characterization/appearance for these characters. I'm also fine with Stannis's and Davos's wives existing as in canon, or being dead, or just not mentioned, but would prefer they not play significant roles in the fic.

For Stannis/Salladhor/Davos, I really like the idea of Davos being pulled between these two men, the prince and the pirate, and his long-standing affection and loyalty to each as a man in the middle. I also think Stannis complains about Salla being a consummate pirate in his dealings, but also despite his stiff-necked opinions on such things, has an appreciation for Salla's cleverness and loyalty to Davos.

I could really see Salla being a "trusted third" brought into the bedroom of Stannis and Davos to fulfill a fantasy, or what one or both of them believe is a fantasy the other has.

I like Stannis as King canon divergence, with Davos as his Hand and Salla as his Master of Ships, with talk of governance or war turning to something else entirely as passions flame high!

For Stannis/Oberyn/Davos, I want Oberyn brazenly seducing Stannis, Davos, or both. Maybe he's surprised when seducing one inspires the jealousy of the other, or maybe that was his intention all along - either way he's fine with it, why choose one or the other when both is just as good?

I'm also open to a Westeros where same-sex marriage is a thing (and am really interested in any worldbuilding details around such arrangements, such as kinship issues, inheritance, fostering, and adoption, etc) and Stannis and Oberyn are engaged or married, but Stannis still carries a torch for his loyal knight Davos. Maybe three-way marraiges are even allowed, but Davos's low birth is a problem for the Seven Kingdoms as a whole even if both Stannis and Oberyn don't share that opinion. Maybe Oberyn encourages his husband to go for it, if he can watch, or potentially participate.

DNW: Permanent character death of requested characters. (Temporary death or other characters believing character to be dead is great!) Modern mundane AU.

Game of Thrones (TV)
Tyrion Lannister/Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen
Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell

I've been thinking a lot about Tyrion lately, so both of these ships just jumped out at me. As a long-time fan of the books, the show in turns satisfied me deeply and made me want to throw things. Dinklage's Tyrion was one of the highlights for me, despite the mess the final season turned into. I'm interested in a lot of different approaches to these ships.

For Tyrion/Jon/Dany I really loved how much Tyrion and Jon seemed to truly be in awe of Dany...until they weren't. I respect the actors, but the writing never sold me on the "well, now we have to kill her, she's beyond saving". Well, what if they'd tried? I don't really feel like they did anything but make sad faces and lecture the woman, while pulling the very shit she was worried about behind her back. Sigh. Show me something of that loyalty, those feelings, that seemed to be between these three early on but got washed out so easily.

Alternately, I am definitely interested in a Dany back from the dead somehow who is caught between her desire for vengeance and those feelings still.

I'm very interested in canon divergence where Viserion isn't taken by the White Walkers and Tyrion becomes a dragonrider. Jon and Tyrion as Dany's husbands a la Aegon, Visenya, and Rhaenys would be a lot of fun.

For Tyrion/Sansa/Margaery a hundred different canon divergence options suggest themselves. I love options where Sansa and Tyrion remain married (whether happily or very unhappily or - best yet - somewhere between the two) and Margaery becomes part of their relationship. In a canon divergence where Joffrey lives just long enough for Margaery to get pregnant and become Queen Regnant for her infant child and Tyrion isn't framed for Joffrey's murder, the three of them becoming a King's Landing Power Throuple would be a fascinating political intrigue and I'm very much here for it!

Alternately, Sansa and Tyrion both end up hiding in Highgarden in a canon divergence, and Margaery ends up becoming close to them both. I really like the notion of Margaery following up on her implication that Tyrion is far from the worst sort of husband Sansa might have with her own sort of admiration for the man. Maybe she helps Sansa see what's worth respecting, if not loving, in him.

But for these ships I'm really, really open for whatever strikes your fancy - surprise me!

DNW: Permanent character death of requested characters. (Temporary death or other characters believing character to be dead is great! Dany coming back from the dead is also A-OK!) Modern mundane AU.

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, and the like. even if it's not a setting where I know the canon I will probably be into it if it involves talking or psychic animals)
time loops/Groundhog Day premise (via magic or weird science or no explanation whatsoever - I'm fine with situations where only one character in the ship is looping or a ship loops together, either is good)
undercover antics and/or identity porn - undercover fake married, friends/partners/lovers having to pretend to be enemies for the job or politics, 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 and 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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (With some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy. The stab victim can still have a little blow job, as a treat!)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Author:

Thanks for checking out my letter! I've included some general notes about my preferences up front, some detailed prompts and thoughts about each of my requested fandoms, and then a big list of "Things I Generally Like in Fic" at the very end. Please note that I'm a regular participant in fanfic exchanges and so I had a lot of this already written up - don't feel you have to read every word or stick closely to the prompts given if you're inspired differently! I am generally very easy to please.

Overall, I am open to fic of any rating, and including any AO3 Archive Warning if appropriate to the story. When prompting for romantic pairings or shippy content I'm happy to receive (but in no way require) sexual content.

Enola Holmes (2020)
Edith Grayston & Sherlock Holmes

I received a wonderful gift for this fandom last year focusing on Enola and Sherlock's complicated familial relationship, so I thought I'd prompt for a different sort of relationship this year. I quite loved the brief scene between Edith and Sherlock in canon; Edith reads Sherlock so easily and thoroughly and is so utterly done with his nonsense from the first moment of their interaction. He, in turn, makes a half-hearted attempt at making a veiled threat but mostly looks totally chagrinned from Edith's first words back because she's summed him up accurately and the total wasn't all that impressive. It's rather as if they had a brief round of verbal sparring over a tea set and Edith left Sherlock metaphorically flat on his back on the mat.

I am very curious about the ways in which they might connect again either through Enola or Eudoria. Enola seems ready to set herself up independently in London and do her own thing, while Eudora seems ready, now that her youngest fledgling has left the nest, to devote herself entirely to the cause of women's suffrage. Edith seems a likely contact for Enola in the future, as well as a possible co-conspirator with Eudoria. Sherlock, on the other hand, seems amused by Enola's antics and possibly perturbed by whatever political activism Eudoria might be contemplating. I could see Edith and Sherlock teaming up to assist either Enola or Eudoria, to try to find them after something goes wrong, or even for Edith to work against Sherlock to keep him from interfering in Enola or Eudoria's work.

I'm amused by the idea of Sherlock deciding to regularly stop into the tea shop on increasingly transparent pretenses, ostensibly to learn more about Edith and her connection to his mother and sister, but increasingly because he's so intrigued by Edith herself.

I do ship them, primarily in a "she tells him off, he's unexpectedly charmed by the accuracy of her verbal barbs" sort of way, where they might challenge and annoy (and turn on) one another in the future.

Likes for this fandom and characters: Banter, case fic, winning each other over the hard way, grudgingly teaming up, sparring (verbally or physically), disguise/undercover work, chance meetings/meetings in unexpected circumstances,

DNW: Incest, death or harm to young (under 13) children (Enola and/or Tewky getting into trouble or peril is good, though!)

Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder & Worldbuilding

Note for this fandom: Please feel free to treat this as Sarah Alder OR Worldbuilding if you wish - Alder can feature very minimally in the fic, and anything you might write about Alder is very likely to include Worldbuildling content I'd be interested to see.

I am obsessed with the setting of this fandom and the richness of the alternate history and alternate universe that it sets up, and about which we know so frustratingly little. ANYTHING you want to tell me about your ideas for this world would be like water on parched soil for me. A few ideas, but do not limit yourself:

I'm really curious about the Imperatrix and the whole witch "breeding program" - and how the heck she specifically (unlike every other witch we see) is not under Alder's authority. How did that happen? How has she lost track of so many witch lines? Is this cultural myopia or is something specifically sinister going on with her or her office? Are there similar programs in other countries? Relatedly, what are "Matrifocal Compounds" (like where Tally grew up) besides women-only spaces? The Imperatrix seemed very unimpressed by her background - was it just that her mother received a dispensation not to serve, or something else? Are non-military witches like Tally's mother leading Mother Goddess cults in California?

What's up with male witches? They seem capable of performing magic, albeit more low-powered than what women can do. We finally learn in S2 that the child of a male witch and a non-witch can never be a witch, while a female witch's children are always witches, which explains the firm hand placed on arranged marriages, but why don't male witches seem to be part of military units beyond something of an auxillary flirtaton force?

Interviews with the showrunners have suggested that Sarah Alder's first and closest companions after the Salem Accords were previously enslaved witches, and seemed to strongly imply that most of High Atlantic society descends from former slaves, which is pretty fascinating! What would that have meant for society, both army and civilian?

What does the rest of the world's witch population/agreements look like? The Salem Accords seem to be a US thing - what about the UK, Russia, India, and other nations we briefly see members of

The Cession's existence is really interesting - what is it's relationship to the United States and to the Salem Accords? Are Native American/American Indian witches exempt from the Salem Accords? It seems to be something of a safe haven for witches who aren't entirely enthused about army life and a lot of Dodgers, but there are also many army veterans there, like Quinn. Non-Native people seem to live here, and obviously Raelle was still conscripted and Alder sent the army there a few times, but it does seem like there might be political considerations that mean that some "outsiders" are there and are at least tolerated, and possibly welcome.

For Alder herself, I'm very interested in any glimpse of her history - the actual Salem Accords, the early years of the military (perhaps with an early Bellweather ancestor at her right hand), any of the various conflicts throughout history, more about the Liberian conflict and "martyrdom" and what inspired Nicte Batan to create the Spree. I love her relationships with Petra, Anacostia, and Tally, if you'd like to explore any of them as colleagues, enemies, or lovers. I'd also be really interested to see any kind of further exploration of her connection to her Biddies, and how that magic (apparently from Native American witches) came to preserve her immortality. I love her complexity, and the sorts of factors that come into play besides the effective immortality to remain leader of what seems to be the most powerful military in the world.

DNW: death or harm to young (under 13) children

New World (Video Game)
Worldbuilding

This is my wildcard of a prompt, and will be pretty vague - this game is weird. It's an incredibly well-designed MMO from a gameplay standpoint - they've made missteps, but the gameplay overall is well-balanced and engaging. But the lore, to be frank, is a nonsensical mess. You expect me to believe that this is taking place in the 17th century in the REAL WORLD and there are castaways and sailors and pirates from Europe, Africa and Asia have washed up on this creepy magical island and EVERYONE has just ignored all political and cultural difference and teamed up without a blink?

Look, I understand why the game doesn't touch the politics of the setting with a ten-foot pole: by it's nature the game is already disturbingly framed as a colonialism narrative because they erased Native American references from the game as a "solution" to the Unfortunate Implications, which honestly just kind of made it worse. Apparently the game developers wanted this to be "the world stumbles upon the legend of Atlantis and puts aside conflict to survive the bigger threat" but kept faceplanting into the fact that Age of Sail/Age of Exploration narratives can't be divorced from racism and colonialism very easily. But it doesn't make sense.

That said: Tell me any kind of story you like about this world and how it became a terrifying magical cesspit of demons and undead. Go weird. Go meta. Go critical. Whatever floats your boat! (And sends it hurtling into a jagged shoreline of a weird magical island.)

DNW: death or harm to young (under 13) children

Rotkäppchen | Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)
Little Red Riding Hood

As a huge fan of wolves and werewolves in mythology, I love this fairy tale to no end. I am interested in any kind of retelling, angle, prequel or sequel of the tale (and feel free to use versions other than Grimm as your inspiration if you wish) and a focus on Red herself.

I'm a huge fan of anything where Red is just as Big and Bad as the wolf in her own way (or maybe even the same way). The Wolf may be an ally or enemy, same for the Woodcutter, but I'm interested in any kind of fic or art where Red is mostly standing on her own two (or four) feet, and the tale isn't quite the way it's usually told. Lighthearted or dark, comic or totally serious, whatever seems interesting, go for it!

I like any kind of play with the metaphors of Red, well, wearing Red, or going on a dangerous journey alone, or what the battling Woodcutter and Wolf represent, or speculation about why Red's visiting her grandmother in the first place, or what makes her such an appealing target of the wolf.

DNW: Incest, death or harm to young (under 13) children

The Wicker Man (1973)
Lord Summerisle

This movie is chilling and strange and engaging and not a little terrifying, and I have been in love since the first time I saw it years ago. I am fascinated by the character of Lord Summerisle--his easy confidence and powerful charm--and would be happy to receive any fic that focuses on him as a character. Despite him having quite considerable monologue opportunities in the film to lay out the whole of his belief and viewpoint to Sergeant Howie, I still feel like he's a bit of a mystery.

What would happen if, as the Fool warned, in a future year the crops fail once more and only a lordly sacrifice will do? How would it happen? How would he feel about it? Is he as ready for that to happen as he says he is?
Something exploring Summerisle's youth or how he became a figure imbued with authority and trusted in his role as both ruling lord and High Priest would be interesting, too.
What's his relationship with Miss Rose like? Obviously they are High Priest and High Priestess and there are symbolic roles they both fulfill, but they seem to have a very intimate and loving relationship beyond that as well.
Alternately, his relationship with other members of the community such as Willow MacGreagor or the young man he "introduces" to her (how did he come to honor Willow as an embodiment of Aphrodite?), or perhaps how he came to choose Rowan Morrison to serve in her particular role would be interesting ideas to explore.
I would also love to see an expansion on his interaction with Sergeant Howie - what if they'd had more time to talk during Howie's escalating investigation? What if Summerisle, recognizing that Willow would not be a proper temptation for the Fool to resist, had attempted to seduce Howie himself? Every time I watch the movie I half wonder if Summerisle sized Howie up and thought he would be too tempting and too likely to succeed if he made a move on the man, and they really needed the sacrifice...

DNW: death of young (under 13) children (for this fandom, canonically tangential things like Howie believing that Rowan was going to be a sacrifice or even more elaborate schemes to make him believe she was dead are fine, just no actual "on screen" deaths in the fic)

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, etc)
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (with some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Thank you for checking out my letter! I am opening myself up to fic of any length and whatever you might wish to create in other requested mediums for this exchange. I am good with works of any rating and welcome (but in no way expect or require) sexual content for romantic/sexual ship prompts. Below you will find some brief comments on what I like about each requested fandom and character or ship as well as some prompts for each request, and then a huge list of general likes at the end. A few fandoms and ships have specific DNWs, those are listed with each fandom. Don't feel bound by my prompts in this letter if you think you have an idea for something I will like based on my big likes list or prompts I've made previously in other exchanges.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) | Motherland:Fort Salem (TV) | John Wick (Movies) | Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey | General Likes and Preferences

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)

Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller
Worldbuilding

I only saw this film for the first time in late 2018 and I fell for it (and three ridiculous spies and their complicated relationship) very hard. The film has beautiful people, beautiful cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and a perfect soundtrack. It combines multiple strains of classic tropey relationship development: enemies to colleagues to friends (to lovers?) for all three of them, plus the great fake engagement between Illya and Gaby, the rivals to friends competition and one-upmanship between Illya and Napoleon, and then multiple big damn rescues (Napoleon rescuing Illya from drowning, Illya rescuing Napoleon from the electric chair, and then Napoleon and Illya both rescuing Gaby from the Vinciguerras). And all of it against a fun, iconic 60s setting backdrop, serving to set up the idea of them working together as a team for the forseeable future.

Prompts:

I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big fucking rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

Five times fics - whether a time loop caused by a mad scientist's machine, or due to drug/exhaustion hallucinations the same scenario plays out different ways, or a bunch of different themed incidents on different missions - are always good!

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that either differs from the one they share or reinforces feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both in the process.

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely only the second meaningful time in her life post-film; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third. (Doing a "three times" variation of this including scenarios where each pair has to save the third would be fun.)

Wild AU premises that seem interesting: supernatural/magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their unconventional relationship, or even just their feelings for one another - and tries to deal with the problem alone. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do.)

Post-retirement future fic - what might they get up to once they're too old to be in the field? What if injuries take one or more of them out of the game even earlier? What if they end up being pulled back to their respective agencies but only meet again by chance 10, 15, or 20 years post-movie?

Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby are the main ships of the fandom besides the trio, but I find Gaby/Napoleon really intriguing - a fic where they believe Illya to be dead, or he's somehow out of their reach (a prisoner, gravely injured, on a mission that they can't interfere in without huge risk) and they hook up out of grief or fear or even in anger would be interesting. (And then they go rescue Illya, right?)

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

DNW: Characters under 16 having sex. (References to past events are fine.) Modern Mundane AU. Permanent major character death. (Temporary death and/or believing another character is dead for a time is fine, though.) Total downer endings. Focus on Raelle/Scylla. (References/background existence of the relationship is fine, and the presence of either or both characters in the fanwork is also very welcome.)

John Wick (Movies)

Worldbuilding

These films are somehow exactly what would happen if you measured out a hearty few cups of my fascination for detailed "hidden world" worldbuilding, stirred in my heart-eyes love for Keanu Reeves, baked it up as a cake, and then frosted it with extremely sexy gratuitous violence and topped it with a puppy. These movies are just so freaking fun that they never get old for me.

Prompts:

Worldbuilding! Feel free to give me something from John's past or future that showcases how weird and wonderful the assassin-world of the films might be, set anywhere you think might be interesting. I'm always curious about what Continental Hotels other than New York and Rome might look like, how the various supporting figures (Charon, the Sommelier, the various other contacts for weapons, money, armor, resources, and the like that John comes into contact with) fit into the world or came to be there in the first place.

I'm also really intrigued by the use of metaphor/code, such as the exchange between John and the Sommelier in Rome about wine that was not at all about wine. The very blurry line between the "hidden world" and the "real world" - at no time during either film any of the more public acts of violence particularly shocking to onlookers - they certainly try to get out of the way, and there are muffled shrieks a time or two, but how is it that all of this happens with absolutely no intervention by the authorities? (Certainly Jimmy is in the know, but are all law enforcement? Are the films set in a universe where there's general awareness and acceptance that conflict between the powers that be are handled via assassination? Could there be magic involved? Sometimes I wonder when watching the films if there's some kind of power inherent in being an assassin who's a member of the underground world that allows them to hide in plain sight...)

Anything that digs into the notion of The High Table further is interesting, too. Implied textual evidence in the films suggests that only major organized crime institutions/families have claim to a seat at it - how did they get them in the first place, and how did those disparate families/groups ever agree to such a thing? There's a subtle implication, too, that the High Table is a very "old world" institution and that the "new world" doesn't have much power - why not, when so much organized crime came to the Americas alongside immigrants, including John himself?

Art: Of any character, OC, or significant location from the films would be welcome. Graphic violence is OK, but please nothing sexually explicit.

In-universe documents: Records kept in the book of blood oaths, a police report by Jimmy or another cop "in the know", other records kept by the High Table

DNW: Characters under 16 having sex. (References to past underage sex are fine.) Setting change AUs with the exception of adding magic or creeping horror elements to the canon setting. Canon divergence is also fine. Animal death. (Do not kill the dog, please. Major Character Death is fine for this fandom otherwise.)

Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey

Worldbuilding

With the announcement that the Valdemar books are being adapted for television, I've been feeling very nostalgic for this world. Valdemar was my first real fandom - I recieved Mercedes Lackey fan club newsletters in the mid 90s - and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I love the setting, despite (or perhaps because of) all it's melodrama and silliness.

Prompts: I'm mostly interested in stories that poke at expectations and understandings of the world presented in the book without going really grim-dark. Outsider's perspective on Valdemar and the Heralds. I particularly enjoyed Alberich, Kerowyn, and other non-Herald's more clear-eyed view the strengths and weaknesses of Valdemar's systems.

On the flip side, from the inside, what about a story about a member of the Valdemaran royal family who isn't Chosen, either due to a lack of Gift or the Companions deciding that they had some more important purpose in a different role?

The books imply that prospective Monarch's Own sometimes have "unbonded Choosings" and only *really* Bond with the Grove Born Companion when they take office. (When Jisa is a child in the Last Herald-Mage books Vanyel implies this could be her future, and it's not clear if it didn't happen for political (keeping her out of the line of succession) or practical (Randale wouldn't live long, anyway) reasons.) But... what would that be like, and in what circumstances might it happen? How would the "temporary Companion" feel about it?

Similarly, what happens when an adult Herald is tapped as the next Monarch's Own? Was their bond with their existing Companion not real? Would the Companions argue about it?

In general I'm curious about Companion interpersonal interaction. They are definitely implied to have human-like conflicts and prejudices. How does that play out? Do they chastise one another for breaking the rules? How?

For what it's worth, besides Alberich and Kerowyn some of my favorite characters are Talia and Dirk, Kris, Selenay, and Skif. From Vanyel's time, I am fond of him, Savil, as well as Randale, Shavri, and Jisa. But any characters not in my DNWs are fair game, as are OCs both from within and outside of Valdemar.

Sun/Shadow:

Link to the lyrics of all of the Sun & Shadow music here: http://www.goldenboughmusic.com/music/SunShadow/SunShadow.htm

The legend within the story, the one that Lackey swore she'd never actually write about - but I'm intrigued. We know that "officially" Sun and Shadow were cursed, eventually found magic to undo the curse but instead used it to free an heir of Valdemar from an evil mage and lost their chance to beat the curse, and were eventually chosen by Companions to become Heralds, which then (because Companion Magic, presumably) caused them to be freed from the curse.

But...is that really how it went down?

In addition to a direct take on the legend, I would also be game for any fic in the Valdemar setting that touches on the ballads themselves and doesn't directly include the prompted characters - a Bard character working on their own variation of the legend in song or poetry, an archivist trying to find the real history in the legend, a pair of starcrossed lovers somewhere else in the universe of the books relating to the great tragic love of Sun and Shadow.

I'd also be interested in a very meta take involving "Herald-Archivist Myste" (Mercedes Lackey's extremely transparent self-insert, gods love her) writing about (critiquing?) the ballads and the history if that's your interest.

Art: Love art that riffs off any of my prompts above or general likes. Any and all styles welcome, and it need not be overtly shippy.

In-universe documents/academic reports: Anything by Collegium researchers, Herald scholars (or Archivists), Bards, out-Kingdom mages or scholars traveling in Valdemar (or working off second and third-hand reports...), etc, would be great!

DNW: Characters under 16 having sex. (References to past underage sex are fine.) Focus on any of the characters from the books where Mags or his children are protagonists. I have not read these books (Collegium Chronicles/Family of Spies) so I'm not interested in any extension of their stories. However, the founding of the Collegia is of interest to me, so focus on a story in that time period with Original Characters is fine! (Mention of canonical characters from the Mags books is fine.)

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)
fairy tale AUs
daemon AUs (or any other "sentient animal companion" magic settings - Valdemar's Companions, Chronicles of the Cheysuli's lir, the "Animalled" of Beukes' Zoo City, witch familiars, etc)
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 caring for another person in h/c, and/or the traumatic headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain and angst 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. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
sex (with some consideration for the seriousness of the hurt, but I do not expect medical accuracy)

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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and fingering/handjobs, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Thank you for checking out my letter! I am requesting both fic and comics, and am open to a single 10k fic or two 5k fics, as well as a single 10 page comic or two 5 page comics at your discretion. I am good with works of any rating and welcome (but in no way expect or require) sexual content for romantic/sexual ship prompts. Below you will find some brief comments on what I like about each requested fandom and character or ship as well as some prompts for each request, and then a huge list of general likes at the end. A few fandoms and ships have specific DNWs, those are listed with each fandom. Don't feel bound by my prompts in this letter if you think you have an idea for something I will like based on my big likes list or prompts I've made previously in other exchanges.

Please don't take the relative length of each section below as a comment on my enthusiasm for any particular fandom or ship - two of the requested ships are ones I very frequently request in a variety of exchanges, while others are newer to me so I don't have quite as many prompts, but I am very excited about all of these possible options!

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)

Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller

I only saw this film for the first time in late 2018 and I fell for it (and three ridiculous spies and their complicated relationship) very hard. The film has beautiful people, beautiful cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and a perfect soundtrack. It combines multiple strains of classic tropey relationship development: enemies to colleagues to friends (to lovers?) for all three of them, plus the great fake engagement between Illya and Gaby, the rivals to friends competition and one-upmanship between Illya and Napoleon, and then multiple big damn rescues (Napoleon rescuing Illya from drowning, Illya rescuing Napoleon from the electric chair, and then Napoleon and Illya both rescuing Gaby from the Vinciguerras). And all of it against a fun, iconic 60s setting backdrop, serving to set up the idea of them working together as a team for the forseeable future.

Prompts:

I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big fucking rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

Five times fics - whether a time loop caused by a mad scientist's machine, or due to drug/exhaustion hallucinations the same scenario plays out different ways, or a bunch of different themed incidents on different missions - are always good!

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that either differs from the one they share or reinforces feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both in the process.

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely only the second meaningful time in her life post-film; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third. (Doing a "three times" variation of this including scenarios where each pair has to save the third would be fun.)

Wild AU premises that seem interesting: supernatural/magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their unconventional relationship, or even just their feelings for one another - and tries to deal with the problem alone. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do.)

Post-retirement future fic - what might they get up to once they're too old to be in the field? What if injuries take one or more of them out of the game even earlier? What if they end up being pulled back to their respective agencies but only meet again by chance 10, 15, or 20 years post-movie?

Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby are the main ships of the fandom besides the trio, but I find Gaby/Napoleon really intriguing - a fic where they believe Illya to be dead, or he's somehow out of their reach (a prisoner, gravely injured, on a mission that they can't interfere in without huge risk) and they hook up out of grief or fear or even in anger would be interesting. (And then they go rescue Illya, right?)

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

Dubcon scenarios like sex pollen, bad guys make them do it, having to have sex to keep their cover with one another or others are always interesting and welcome for these three (or any two of the three, as long as the overall/end ship is the trio) especially if it leads to major angst. Napoleon being extremely blasé about sex-for-the-job (even when it's only marginally consensual) in ways that unsettle his partners is a favorite trope of mine. (His slightly-strained insistence that he tried exhausting Victoria, presumably via marathon sex, in the film and his "womanizer" diagnosis hints at a lot that I'm curious about.)

Speaking of Victoria, if you're inspired to write any kind of "case fic" I think she is a fabulous villain and would love anything with her as the antagonist of the piece, trying to get her revenge on Napoleon and/or the trio!

Fandom specific DNW: Modern Mundane AUs. Permanent major character death. (Temporary death and/or believing another character is dead for a time is fine, though.) Total downer endings. Endgame Illya/Gaby or Illya/Napoleon without the third character involved. (Established Illya/Gaby that becomes Illya/Gaby/Napoleon is fine!)

Game of Thrones (TV)

Oberyn Martell/Ellaria Sand/Sansa Stark

Game of Thrones was a very strange fandom experience for me: I've been a fan of the ASOIAF books since not long after A Game of Thrones was published in the late 90s, so it was a trip to see it all play out with a big budget on HBO. In particular, I really enjoyed the casting of Indira Varma as Ellaria and Pedro Pascal as Oberyn immensely and they went from characters of whom I was fond to beloved favorites, even knowing exactly where their plotline was headed, alas. I am intrigued by the idea of crossing the fascinating (and sadly underdeveloped) Dorne setting with Sansa's journey toward political acumen and "playing the game" as well. I can see a lot of different ways to set up this relationship - please choose whichever you find the most interesting!

Prompts:

I am a huge fan of butterfly effect canon divergence for the intricate Westeros setting, especially considering how many seemingly "minor" things end up causing a cascading effect in the political and martial conflicts in the series. Joffrey's death and Sansa's flight from King's Landing is a fascinating place to play with the notion of alternate outcomes - what if Oberyn and Ellaria's plan to make war on the Lannisters saw them deciding that stealing Sansa out from under the Lions' noses to be a more interesting play than getting involved in Tyrion's trial? I could particularly see Ellaria trying to convince Oberyn to play a longer game, and being more interested in what having Sansa with them in Dorne could allow them to accomplish.

I'm also interested in other setups to get Sansa to Dorne or at least involved in Dornish circles - might a desperate Ned (who perhaps discovered the Lannister plot before a formal Sansa/Joffrey betrothal announcement) or a King Robb in need of allies betroth Sansa to Oberyn in order to bring House Martell on as allies against the Lannister threat? Or, in a slightly altered timeline, might Hand of the King Tyrion have sent Sansa as a companion to Myrcella in Dorne to get her away from the capitol and potential threats? (I'm fine with her being married to Tyrion still in this setup, and her becoming a paramour to Ellaria and Oberyn anyway.)

I'm interested in what Sansa would make of Dornish customs and culture, and how she might relate to Oberyn and Ellaria's daughters. I don't expect she would be Shocked and Apalled at the differences, and I'd like it to be more than "Sansa is Girly and Repressed while Dornish Women are Liberated," but Sunspear seems to be a very different sort of court to King's Landing (or even Winterfell) and I'm wondering how she would fare there with her particular strengths and weaknesses.

Whether as a wife or as a paramour to Oberyn, Sansa being taught about sex and intimacy by Ellaria could be fun. Particularly as a wife, having a legitimate child might be seen as one way to make sure the bond between the North and Dorne is secure, especially given that Sansa might be considered Robb's heir at certain points in the timeline - trying to have a child, or dealing with pregnancy and childbirth might be another interesting angle.

I would be open to a lot of AUs in semi-canon or canon divergent settings - soulmates (any two of the three are soulmates, or all three of them are together), daemons, magic (magic is common in Westeros, or nobility have magic related to their sigils or their historic seats, or the events of the series lead to characters gaining magic) or other vaguely supernatural additions to Westeros are all great.

DNW: Modern Mundane AU. Permanent major character death. (Temporary death and/or believing another character is dead for a time is fine, though.) Total downer endings. (Bittersweet is fine.) Explicitly depicting Sansa as younger than 16. (I am fine with her relative youth compared to Oberyn and Ellaria to be brought up in the narrative, especially given that they have children together her age, but feel free to handwave or vague-up the timeline as necessary to say she's at least late teens at minimum.)

The Witcher (TV)

Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer

Note for this fandom on new canon: Season 2 of The Witcher will premier on Netflix during the long writing period for this exchange. Please feel free to incorporate S2 in your work if you wish, but also feel free to ignore it entirely. I will definitely have consumed S2 by the time this exchange reveals.

I did not initially watch The Witcher with particularly high expectations - fun medieval-set swords and sorcery and Henry Cavill's ass in leather pants seemed like it would be a fun, non-serious return on investment of my time. I really ended up finding it an engaging world, and I love Geralt's relationships with both Yennefer and Jaskier immensely. I am fine with the relationship depicted as hinging on Geralt with Jaskier and Yennefer being "frenemies" rather than lovers, but I also like when Jaskier and Yennefer have a relationship as well.

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!)

Alternately, it looks like Yennefer spends time as a prisoner of Nilfgard per the teasers for S2 - maybe Jaskier *also* winds up as a prisoner and they have to team up to survive and help out when Geralt inevitably comes to rescue them!

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 (and maybe a little turned on...)

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).

I'm very open to just about every kind of AU besides modern & mundane - modern with magic is fine, alternate magical systems are intriguing, other fantasy and sci fi settings are very welcome (sudden idea - Valdemar setting, if you're familiar - Geralt as a Herald and Roach as a Companion, Jaskier as a Bard with the Gift, Yennefer as an out-Kingdom mage or Herald-Mage), or whatever quirky idea seems interesting to you.

If there's sexual content in the fic, I am particularly fond of Geralt getting taken care of and being topped lovingly by either or both of the others, as well as banter and general lightheartedness.

DNW: Modern Mundane AU. Permanent major character death. (Temporary death and/or believing another character is dead for a time is fine, though.) Total downer endings.

John Wick (Movies)

John Wick & John Wick's Unnamed Dog
or
John Wick

These films are somehow exactly what would happen if you measured out a hearty few cups of my fascination for detailed "hidden world" worldbuilding, stirred in my heart-eyes love for Keanu Reeves, baked it up as a cake, and then frosted it with extremely sexy gratuitous violence and topped it with a puppy. These movies are just so freaking fun that they never get old for me. Because my primary fascination with the fandom is through John Wick as a character moving through a complex world and how that world itself bends around him, I'm prompting the solo character and gen ship (because puppy). But! I also ship him with literally everyone he meets in all three films and am fine with a gift that includes shippy content as well. (Some of my favorites include Gianna, Cassian, and/or Charon, but when I say everyone I mean it.)

Prompts:

Worldbuilding! Feel free to give me something from John's past or future that showcases how weird and wonderful the assassin-world of the films might be, set anywhere you think might be interesting. I'm always curious about what Continental Hotels other than New York and Rome might look like, how the various supporting figures (Charon, the Sommelier, the various other contacts for weapons, money, armor, resources, and the like that John comes into contact with) fit into the world or came to be there in the first place.

I'm also really intrigued by the use of metaphor/code, such as the exchange between John and the Sommelier in Rome about wine that was not at all about wine. The very blurry line between the "hidden world" and the "real world" - at no time during either film any of the more public acts of violence particularly shocking to onlookers - they certainly try to get out of the way, and there are muffled shrieks a time or two, but how is it that all of this happens with absolutely no intervention by the authorities? (Certainly Jimmy is in the know, but are all law enforcement? Are the films set in a universe where there's general awareness and acceptance that conflict between the powers that be are handled via assassination? Could there be magic involved? Sometimes I wonder when watching the films if there's some kind of power inherent in being an assassin who's a member of the underground world that allows them to hide in plain sight...)

Anything that digs into the notion of The High Table further is interesting, too. Implied textual evidence in the films suggests that only major organized crime institutions/families have claim to a seat at it - how did they get them in the first place, and how did those disparate families/groups ever agree to such a thing? There's a subtle implication, too, that the High Table is a very "old world" institution and that the "new world" doesn't have much power - why not, when so much organized crime came to the Americas alongside immigrants, including John himself?

"Be seeing you, John" from Viggo Tarasov and "Be seeing you, John" signed by Ares at their deaths - while this was likely just a more reserved "see you in hell" sort of send-off...what if it wasn't? What if John is haunted by the ghosts of all his kills? Besides Viggo and Ares, Gianna and Santino's ghosts might be particularly difficult to deal with for him.

Fandom-specific DNWs: Setting change AUs with the exception of adding magic or creeping horror elements to the canon setting. Canon divergence is also fine. Animal death. (Do not kill the dog, please. Major Character Death is fine for this fandom otherwise.)

Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey

Worldbuilding

With the announcement that the Valdemar books are being adapted for television, I've been feeling very nostalgic for this world. Valdemar was my first real fandom - I recieved Mercedes Lackey fan club newsletters in the mid 90s - and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I love the setting, despite (or perhaps because of) all it's melodrama and silliness.

Prompts: I'm mostly interested in stories that poke at expectations and understandings of the world presented in the book without going really grim-dark. Outsider's perspective on Valdemar and the Heralds. I particularly enjoyed Alberich, Kerowyn, and other non-Herald's more clear-eyed view the strengths and weaknesses of Valdemar's systems.

On the flip side, from the inside, what about a story about a member of the Valdemaran royal family who isn't Chosen, either due to a lack of Gift or the Companions deciding that they had some more important purpose in a different role?

The books imply that prospective Monarch's Own sometimes have "unbonded Choosings" and only *really* Bond with the Grove Born Companion when they take office. (When Jisa is a child in the Last Herald-Mage books Vanyel implies this could be her future, and it's not clear if it didn't happen for political (keeping her out of the line of succession) or practical (Randale wouldn't live long, anyway) reasons.) But... what would that be like, and in what circumstances might it happen? How would the "temporary Companion" feel about it?

Similarly, what happens when an adult Herald is tapped as the next Monarch's Own? Was their bond with their existing Companion not real? Would the Companions argue about it?

In general I'm curious about Companion interpersonal interaction. They are definitely implied to have human-like conflicts and prejudices. How does that play out? Do they chastise one another for breaking the rules? How?

For what it's worth, besides Alberich and Kerowyn some of my favorite characters are Talia and Dirk, Kris, Selenay, and Skif. From Vanyel's time, I am fond of him, Savil, as well as Randale, Shavri, and Jisa. But any characters not in my DNWs are fair game, as are OCs both from within and outside of Valdemar.

DNW: Focus on any of the characters from the books where Mags or his children are protagonists. I have not read these books (Collegium Chronicles/Family of Spies) so I'm not interested in any extension of their stories. However, the founding of the Collegia is of interest to me, so focus on a story in that time period with Original Characters is fine! (Mention of canonical characters from the Mags books is fine.) Characters under 16 having sex.

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)
fairy tale AUs
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and manual stimulation, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator: Thanks for checking out my letter! In general I am open to fic of any rating and with any AO3 content warning. Note that if you think there's a fic concept that doesn't precisely align with a requested freeform but does include pining and you have reason to think I'd dig it based on my general likes, please go ahead and go with what inspires you.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) | Game of Thrones (TV) | The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011) | General Likes and Preferences

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

A and B are together but pine for C to join them
A B and C pine obliviously for each other
A attributes B & C's flirting to cultural differences
Character A knows B pines for C but provides emotional support and companionship
Character A pining silently so Characters B & C won't feel guilty for not returning their affections
Character A pining for B believes B/C relationship would be better for B and encourages it
Character C Pines For Characters A & B Who Are Together - Leads to Polyamory
Pining while trapped together
Pining while stuck in a time loop
Pining while tending someone's wounds
Pining while sharing a bed
Trying to Ignore Feelings While Forced to Work in Close Quarters With Person of Their Affection
Pining silently due to worry it will ruin working relationship
Undercover as a Couple While Pining
Rescue Mission while Pining
Sex While Pining - Something Made Them Do It
Pining while imprisoned

I really love my three favorite ridiculous spies as lovers and/or found family, saving the world from fascism and pulling each other out of trouble just as much as they drag each other into it. Note that while I prompted my two go-to pining arrangements--everybody pining, and Napoleon pining for established (or what he believes to be established) Gaby/Illya--I'm also very happy to receive a gift where Illya and/or Gaby is the one pining. I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big damn rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

Dubcon scenarios like sex pollen, bad guys make them do it, having to have sex to keep their cover with one another or others are always interesting and welcome, especially if it leads to major angst and heightens the intensity of the pining. Napoleon being extremely blasé about sex-for-the-job (even when it's only marginally consensual) in ways that unsettle his partners is a favorite trope of mine. (His slightly-strained insistence that he tried exhausting Victoria, presumably via marathon sex, in the film and his "womanizer" diagnosis hints at a lot that I'm curious about.)

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that brings up feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both. Pining leads to cross-cultural communication issues and misunderstandings.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third while trying to manage their feelings.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their pining - and tries to deal with the problem alone while agonizing over it all the while. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do.)

Wound tending, assisting with grooming like shaving or hair washing (for undercover work, or due to injury), and other close-quarters while pining tropes are definitely welcome.

Game of Thrones (TV)
Yara Greyjoy/Daenerys Targaryen

Character pines for someone they think is dead
Character pines for someone who is dead
Starcrossed Lovers
Physical Intimacy While Pining
A pines for B while B swears fealty to A
Pining while away at sea
Pining While Riding Behind Love Interest on a Horse/Motorcycle
Pining while sharing a bath
Pining while sparring
Pining while stuck in a time loop
Still-Pining Character Raises/Looks After Child of a Deceased Love Interest

I really like the idea of Yara pining for Dany and What Might Have been. I'm perfectly OK with Dany being dead and staying dead, but Yara's yearning spurring her to come up with ways to revive her, or creating some kind of canon divergence to save her are very excellent as well. I liked that they challenged one another and saw one another as equals, but also were able to let down their guard and crack a few flirty jokes with one another during their first meeting. They're both so intense, and while Yara often plays at humor and has a certain performative disdain for serious feelings, I love imagining her absolutely wrecked by Dany.

Any kind of canon divergence that has Yara as Dany's right hand woman or that plays on concepts of loyalty (heck yeah loyalty kink) and sworn oaths is very sexy.

Alternately, Yara as Dany's teacher in all things hand-to-hand combat leading to a lot of close physical proximity would be great. Either attending the other in a bath, perhaps when recovering from injury or magic bringing Dany back to life.

Note that for the "Still-Pining Character Raises/Looks After Child of a Deceased Love Interest" any kind of canon divergence where Dany does have a child is fine; the identity of the father can be anyone you like. Alternately, it could be Drogon. (Honestly, the idea of Yara pining for Dany while trying to "look after" Drogon would be really interesting, whatever that might mean!)

The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval

A attributes B's flirting to cultural differences
Character expects to be hurt because their pining was revealed
Pined-for character reveals feelings to pining character while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining while being shaved
Pining while having wounds tended
Pining while imprisoned
Pining While Riding Behind Love Interest on a Horse/Motorcycle
Pining while stranded in the wilderness
Pining while tending someone's wounds
Pining while trapped together
Pining while sharing a bath
Pining While Sleeping on Love Interest's Bed

Ah, these two. The whole movie is really just about their intense eye contact (or sometimes the significant lack thereof) and inexplicably all-encompassing willingness to do anything for the other and it's honestly a delight. I don't have a preference between a during-canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, or totally AU setting. I really like the notion of either or both of them being in intense circumstances (from pain or sickness or drink or drugs) and unwillingly admitting to Feelings. With the interaction of the power dynamic (even after Esca is no longer officially Marcus's slave) this could be really fascinating (and potentially terrifying) for them both. I also am always here for "well here we are, we're really physically close for totally normal and necessary reasons" while absolutely overcome with strong feelings and agonizing certainty they're not requited. (But they are, obvs.) To me this really fits with the way they kind of constantly dance between extreme softness for one another and anger right on the edge of violence.

Also totally here for the slightly comedic "cultural misunderstandings" trope. (Feel free to totally make shit up, I'm not expecting historical accuracy, here!)

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)
fairy tale AUs
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and manual stimulation, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Below you'll find my big list of preferences when it comes to fic and art. Don't feel obliged to include anything from this list, but if you need some ideas, inspriation, or an idea of what I'd like, dig in!

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)
fairy tale AUs
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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and manual stimulation, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Thanks for checking out my letter! In general I am open to fic or art of any rating and with any AO3 content warning.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) | The Witcher (TV) | A Song of Ice and Fire - G.R.R.M | General Likes and Preferences

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)

Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller
Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller

I really love my three favorite ridiculous spies as lovers and/or found family, saving the world from fascism and pulling each other out of trouble just as much as they drag each other into it. I'm also prompting the rarepair side of the trio in Napoleon/Gaby, because there's just so much less content for them than Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby.

For the fandom in general:

I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big fucking rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

Dubcon scenarios like sex pollen, bad guys make them do it, having to have sex to keep their cover with one another or others are always interesting and welcome, especially if it leads to major angst. Napoleon being extremely blasé about sex-for-the-job (even when it's only marginally consensual) in ways that unsettle his partners is a favorite trope of mine. (His slightly-strained insistence that he tried exhausting Victoria, presumably via marathon sex, in the film and his "womanizer" diagnosis hints at a lot that I'm curious about.)

For the OT3:

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that either differs from the one they share or reinforces feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both.

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely the first meaningful time in her life post-film; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third.

Outsider's POV from Waverly. Whether as his snarky, immediately post-canon self or as a more genial and tolerant boss down the line or somewhere in between, what's his impression of his very strange trio of spies? Why would he have made his move to keep them together after the chaos of Rome? What does he see in them? How does he feel about them growing closer, perhaps beyond what is particularly safe during the Cold War, or even just considering their line of work?

Wild AU premises: supernatural/magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their unconventional relationship, or even just their feelings - and tries to deal with the problem alone. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do.)

Post-retirement future fic - what might they get up to once they're too old to be in the field? What if injuries take one or more of them out of the game even earlier? What if they end up being pulled back to their respective agencies but only meet again by chance 10, 15, or 20 years post-movie?

For Gaby/Napoleon:

Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby are the main ships of the fandom besides the trio, but I find Gaby/Napoleon really intriguing. I think they are very alike in some ways - Illya's "issues" are very much text in the film as Napoleon proverbially upends his baggage on the table at their first sit-down meeting - but Napoleon and Gaby are both messy characters, too.

A fic where they believe Illya to be dead, or he's somehow out of their reach (a prisoner, gravely injured, on a mission that they can't interfere in without huge risk) and they hook up out of grief or fear or even in anger would be interesting.

Either or both of them trying to seduce the other that first night in Berlin would be delightful.

Finally, as this fandom is a perennial request for me, you can peruse all of my previous letters for further prompts - all MUNCLE 2015 letters - in addition to what's prompted above.

The Witcher (TV)
Yennefer/Geralt

I love these goddamned star-crossed, bone headed, emotionally wrecked idiots and their love so much. I was admittedly dubious that the show would be able to hook me on their relationship considering that they only have two episodes together, really, but it was enough. Between the way they immediately were able to surprise and effectively snark one another under wild circumstances but also find some moments of real connection I was won over. (Yen took one look at that ass and decided what the life-and-death situation called for was tighter leather pants.) The by-turns furious and tender interaction in 1x06 and their parting doomed me utterly. I love that they're messy and often at cross purposes. I love that they call each other out on their shit constantly. I love that the matter of the djinn complicates their relationship and throws into question what is "real" about it. I really, really love that they did the whole battle couple thing, complete with mid-fight kiss, because that's a huge weakness of mine and it was extremely hot. I am intensely curious about where S2 will take them, and about whatever you might choose to create about them.

Some ideas:

Any kind of S2 speculation is welcome. I have not been following spoilers closely but I'm not bothered by them and I know they're out there - if you want to take filming spoilers and hints and shape them into a story about how Geralt (and Ciri!) meet up with Yennefer again, I am hungry for it! Alternately, fuck the spoilers and speculation and do your own thing.

Speaking of Ciri, I adore her and I am intensely curious as to how Yen will relate to her and to Ciri's relationship with Geralt, especially since Yen was so quick to point out Geralt's avoidance of the Child Surprise issue. And Ciri, too, seems curious about Yennefer, since something (her own magic, perhaps?) clued her in within literal seconds of meeting Geralt that Yennefer is someone important to him!

Maybe Geralt seeks out Yennefer to help him with Ciri's magical abilities, feeling out of his depth.

I am also eager to see a missing scene of some kind of adventure Geralt and Yennefer shared between 1x05 and 1x06. Maybe they teamed up to slay a monster, maybe they were competing for some kind of magical resource or bounty, or maybe they got involved in some messy court politics. Hell, maybe they both just showed up at one of Jaskier's concerts and were by turns being snippy and flirty all night over drinks before stumbling off to argue and/or bang in a broom closet! (Jaskier is sotired of their bullshit.)

Speaking of Jaskier, I am a fan and I am fine with Jaskier/Geralt being a thing as well, though I'd prefer the story didn't focus on rivalry or jealousy between Yennefer and Jaskier. (They can totally be snippy and somewhat adversarial with one another as per canon, I just don't want the story to revolve around a love triangle.)

If you're interested in writing porn, well. I do like to see Yennefer thoroughly topping the hell out of Geralt. My fondness for pegging might be relevant here as well, just saying! I also like them being very tender with one another as we saw in the tent scene in 1x06.

I would be very curious to see either of them taking care of the other, in any context.

I'm also open to all kinds of AUs for this fandom. A soulbond AU is almost bordering on canon, depending on how you interpret the djinn wish stuff, but feel free to dig into that more. I'm open to a modern AU if you really want to dig into some aspect of their relationship or the way in which they move in the world that doesn't need the magical, medieval setting.

Some kind of premise (a curse or spell?) that strips them both of their powers would be extremely interesting - anything that forces them to vulnerability around each other is A+.

"If I ever dreamed of being something other than I am, it was too long ago to remember." That line of Geralt's really gave me a gut punch - maybe, due to magic, he and Yennefer get an opportunity to experience that kind of alternate path? A curse or hallucination or the like that has them living together in domestic bliss, with a family, even, and what those versions of themselves might be like (and how they might realize the illusion is not real).

For the record I have not read the books and am only marginally familiar with the video games, but I know the major arcs and plot spoilers (why Nilfgaard is trying to capture Ciri, how the books end, etc) so if you want to incorporate any of that, feel free, just realize it might go over my head.

A Song of Ice and Fire - G.R.R.M.

Davos Seaworth/Stannis Baratheon
Rhaenys Targaryen/Robb Stark

I like both canon divergence and quirky AUs (fairy tale, space, western, werewolves, soulmates, Daemons/animal companions, etc) for these ships, but am less interested in modern "mundane" AUs with school/work settings. I love political machinations and arranged marriages (it's fine to handwave a Westeros with same-sex marriages for this purpose, and I love any kind of worldbuilding that might go along with that) and also the consequences of breaking a political arranged marriage in favor of a love match. Canon divergence where the ship is ruling Westeros as the ultimate power couple is as welcome as futures where they are on the run in Essos or fighting for a doomed cause.

Davos/Stannis:

Hello, Loyalty Kink! I love deeply flawed but noble and righteous Stannis inspiring loyalty in good right-hand-man Davos. I am always intrigued by how Davos came to be so devoted to his lord, either seeing it happen or getting in his head is always a treat. (His POV chapters are some of my favorite in the books.)

Once his maimed hand had healed, how did Davos manage to serve Stannis in their earliest years together? I personally lean toward Davos being a solid decade older than Stannis, so here's this 18 year old Stannis, half-starved from the siege and run ragged from trying to keep his men safe, and this upjumped smuggler who's canonically got to be at least 5 or 6 years older, if not likely more, who is just slotted into life as a lord and knight. What kinds of things did Davos learn from Stannis about how to move in lordly circles? What kinds of things did Stannis learn from Davos about life for a man from Flea Bottom? (Or about sex - pretty sure Davos was *much* more sexually experienced than Stannis at that time. I would not be surprised if Stannis was totally inexperienced at that point, in fact.)

Fantasy AU idea: Animal companions/Daemons. There are certain animals that are "highborn" and certain animals that just aren't, and whatever Davos has as an animal companion is considered very silly among the lordly set. But Stannis (and his stag/doe/other animal of your choice) become very defensive of Davos and his animal, whatever it is.

Rhaenys/Robb:

I have a lot of feelings about Rhaenys Targaryen, ngl. Obviously she died so young in canon that we don't know who she would have been, but I think it's so interesting to come up with ways in which she might have survived into the era of the books, and pairing her with Robb feels like an interesting extension and reversal of some of the Lyanna/Rhaegar "legend" story beats. At the same time, I've come to be very fond of Robb through rereads of Cat's POV chapters. I want them to be good for each other!

While many presume that the boy claiming to be Prince Aegon is a fake, what if Varys was able to successfully spirit little Rhaenys out of King's Landing, and it's Rhaenys who leads the Golden Company in an invasion of Westeros in the wake of Robert's death circa A Game of Thrones? Perhaps, despite history, she might be inclined to allow the Northern Rebels to be her allies.

Alternately, Robert's Rebellion fails, but Aerys is prevented from taking total revenge on the rebels by Rhaegar - how might a Princess Rhaenys react to realizing she's fallen for the son of one of the leaders of the great rebellion against her family? (The role of Lyanna and R+L=J in this is totally up to you.)

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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 and Whump Preferences:

torture - I'm generally interested in the emotions and sensory elements more than the gore here. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and manual stimulation, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

Dear Creator:

Bless your heart - may it make it through the next two weeks safely! Considering the challenge ahead, I want to make clear that I am extremely flexible regarding the gift you might choose to create, with extremely minimal fandom-specific DNWs listed for each fandom below. Beyond avoiding those, while I hope my prompts and big list of likes inspires you, please feel free to create...from your heart. *ba-dum-tiss*

I'm opting into art as well for any of these prompts.

You'll probably note two things about my letter if you read all the way through. One is that all my requests include Henry Cavill characters. (I have no excuse or explanation for this.) The other is that I have the most prompts for MUNCLE 2015, fewer for The Witcher, and fewer still for Enola Holmes. This is not an indication of my excitement or desire to receive fic in any particular fandom, just the length of time I've been in the fandom and/or requesting it in exchanges.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015) | The Witcher (TV) | Enola Holmes (2020) | General Likes and Preferences

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

I really love my three favorite ridiculous spies as lovers and/or found family, saving the world from fascism and pulling each other out of trouble just as much as they drag each other into it.

I live for tropey setups that push them into intimate situations and "oh. oh." realizations about how they feel about one another. Injuries in the line of duty, snowbound in a cabin, hurt/comfort, self-sacrifice (particularly when Napoleon Solo, Mr. Supposedly Always Looking Out For #1, does something very stupid and dangerous to save one or both of his partners, though I like this trope for any of the three of them), big fucking rescues (just like in the movie!), truth serum or other drugs, sharing a bed, etc. I particularly enjoy when they're trying very hard to focus on the extremely important world-saving case and/or punching Nazis but they keep getting distracted by how incredibly inconvenient their attraction to/affection for their partners has become.

Five times fics - whether a time loop caused by a mad scientist's machine, or due to drug/exhaustion hallucinations the same scenario plays out different ways, or a bunch of different themed incidents on different missions - are always good!

Undercover antics - I love the notion of the three of them all doing a mission with different covers (that might know each other or not) and having to play a dynamic that either differs from the one they share or reinforces feelings they're trying to ignore. For example, on a future mission it's Napoleon and Gaby playing at being engaged or married, and Illya "realizes" they're perfect for one another and tries (miserably) to "back off" much to his partners' confusion.

Napoleon does his best to matchmake Illya and Gaby and catches extremely inconvenient feelings for them both.

As an UNCLE agent Gaby will be traveling outside of Germany for likely the first meaningful time in her life post-film; she's also significantly younger and less experienced than Illya and Napoleon per their end-of-film dossiers. Despite getting one over on the CIA's best and the KGB's finest in the film, perhaps she has uncertainty about choosing the spy's life (maybe Illya and/or Napoleon even grimly encourage her to get out while she can) and she has to actively decide to stay with UNCLE (and her partners) when given the opportunity to do something different.

Any two of the three have to team up to rescue the third. (Doing a "three times" variation of this including scenarios where each pair has to save the third would be fun.)

Outsider's POV from Waverly. Whether as his snarky, immediately post-canon self or as a more genial and tolerant boss down the line or somewhere in between, what's his impression of his very strange trio of spies? Why would he have made his move to keep them together after the chaos of Rome? What does he see in them? How does he feel about them growing closer, perhaps beyond what is particularly safe during the Cold War, or even just considering their line of work?

Wild AU premises: supernatural/magical realism, a world where magic is known and they all have it, or space opera/sci-fi settings all sound like fun.

One of the trio gets blackmailed - perhaps with evidence of their unconventional relationship, or even just their feelings - and tries to deal with the problem alone. (I could particularly see this being the sort of thing Illya would do.)

Post-retirement future fic - what might they get up to once they're too old to be in the field? What if injuries take one or more of them out of the game even earlier? What if they end up being pulled back to their respective agencies but only meet again by chance 10, 15, or 20 years post-movie?

Illya/Napoleon and Illya/Gaby are the main ships of the fandom besides the trio, but I find Gaby/Napoleon really intriguing - a fic where they believe Illya to be dead, or he's somehow out of their reach (a prisoner, gravely injured, on a mission that they can't interfere in without huge risk) and they hook up out of grief or fear or even in anger would be interesting. (And then they go rescue Illya, right?)

I do very much enjoy them getting up to sexcapades in any context. Feel free to totally ignore my headcanons, but when it comes to sex my thoughts are:

Illya has incredible sub energy and a praise kink the approximate size of the sun.
Napoleon is both really full of himself and confident in bed but isn't entirely comfortable with sex that has anything to do with feelings.
Gaby can be incredibly aggressive and likes to be in charge (she tackled Illya to the ground, after all) but has a hard time letting her guard down and being in the moment.

Dubcon scenarios like sex pollen, bad guys make them do it, having to have sex to keep their cover with one another or others are always interesting and welcome for these three (or any two of the three, as long as the overall/end ship is the trio) especially if it leads to major angst. Napoleon being extremely blasé about sex-for-the-job (even when it's only marginally consensual) in ways that unsettle his partners is a favorite trope of mine. (His slightly-strained insistence that he tried exhausting Victoria, presumably via marathon sex, in the film and his "womanizer" diagnosis hints at a lot that I'm curious about.)

Finally, as this fandom is a perennial request for me, you can peruse all of my previous letters for further prompts - all MUNCLE 2015 letters - in addition to what's prompted above. There are some Napoleon/Gaby and Illya/Gaby and Napoleon/Illya prompts among them - feel free to adapt them but I only want OT3 content for this particular exchange.

Fandom specific DNW: Modern Mundane AUs. Permanent major character death. (Temporary death and/or believing another character is dead for a time is fine, though.) Total downer endings. Endgame Illya/Gaby or Illya/Napoleon without the third character involved. (Established Illya/Gaby that becomes Illya/Gaby/Napoleon is fine!)

The Witcher (TV)
Yennefer/Geralt

I love these goddamned star-crossed, bone headed, emotionally wrecked idiots and their love so much. I was admittedly dubious that the show would be able to hook me on their relationship considering that they only have two episodes together, really, but it was enough. Between the way they immediately were able to surprise and effectively snark one another under wild circumstances but also find some moments of real connection I was won over. (Yen took one look at that ass and decided what the life-and-death situation called for was tighter leather pants.) The by-turns furious and tender interaction in 1x06 and their parting doomed me utterly. I love that they're messy and often at cross purposes. I love that they call each other out on their shit constantly. I love that the matter of the djinn complicates their relationship and throws into question what is "real" about it. I really, really love that they did the whole battle couple thing, complete with mid-fight kiss, because that's a huge weakness of mine and it was extremely hot. I am intensely curious about where S2 will take them, and about whatever you might choose to create about them. Some ideas:

Any kind of S2 speculation is welcome. I have not been following spoilers closely but I'm not bothered by them and I know they're out there - if you want to take filming spoilers and hints and shape them into a story about how Geralt (and Ciri!) meet up with Yennefer again, I am hungry for it! Alternately, fuck the spoilers and speculation and do your own thing.

Speaking of Ciri, I adore her and I am intensely curious as to how Yen will relate to her and to Ciri's relationship with Geralt, especially since Yen was so quick to point out Geralt's avoidance of the Child Surprise issue. And Ciri, too, seems curious about Yennefer, since something (her own magic, perhaps?) clued her in within literal seconds of meeting Geralt that Yennefer is someone important to him!

Maybe Geralt seeks out Yennefer to help him with Ciri's magical abilities, feeling out of his depth.

I am also eager to see a missing scene of some kind of adventure Geralt and Yennefer shared between 1x05 and 1x06. Maybe they teamed up to slay a monster, maybe they were competing for some kind of magical resource or bounty, or maybe they got involved in some messy court politics. Hell, maybe they both just showed up at one of Jaskier's concerts and were by turns being snippy and flirty all night over drinks before stumbling off to argue and/or bang in a broom closet! (Jaskier is so tired of their bullshit.)

Speaking of Jaskier, I am a fan and I am fine with Jaskier/Geralt being a thing as well, though I'd prefer the story didn't focus on rivalry or jealousy between Yennefer and Jaskier. (They can totally be snippy and somewhat adversarial with one another as per canon, I just don't want the story to revolve around a love triangle.)

A "five times" fic exploring various moments in which Geralt and Yen met up and did X - fight, fuck, argue, play the hero, play the villain, etc - would be a lot of fun!

If you're interested in writing porn, well. I do like to see Yennefer thoroughly topping the hell out of Geralt. My fondness for pegging might be relevant here as well, just saying! I also like them being very tender with one another as we saw in the tent scene in 1x06.

I would be very curious to see either of them taking care of the other, in any context.

I'm also open to all kinds of AUs for this fandom. A soulbond AU is almost bordering on canon, depending on how you interpret the djinn wish stuff, but feel free to dig into that more. I'm open to a modern AU if you really want to dig into some aspect of their relationship or the way in which they move in the world that doesn't need the magical, medieval setting.

Some kind of premise (a curse or spell?) that strips them both of their powers would be extremely interesting - anything that forces them to vulnerability around each other is A+.

"If I ever dreamed of being something other than I am, it was too long ago to remember." That line of Geralt's really gave me a gut punch - maybe, due to magic, he and Yennefer get an opportunity to experience that kind of alternate path? A curse or hallucination or the like that has them living together in domestic bliss, with a family, even, and what those versions of themselves might be like (and how they might realize the illusion is not real).

For the record I have not read the books and am only marginally familiar with the video games, but I know the major arcs and plot spoilers (why Nilfgaard is trying to capture Ciri, how the books end, etc) so if you want to incorporate any of that, feel free, just realize it might go over my head.

DNW: Permanent major character death. (Temporary death or thinking someone's dead for a time is fine). Total downer endings.

Enola Holmes (2020)
Enola Holmes & Sherlock Holmes
Enola Holmes/Viscount "Tewky" Tewksbury

I'm not going to lie: I initially watched this film mostly to see how Millie Bobbie Brown would take on another I'm Not Like Other Girls role, and to appreciate Henry Cavill's curls. I ended up finding it really charming and fun, and I really hope Netflix turns it into a film series. (Honestly, I think it would have been even better as a miniseries or short series, but I understand just about everyone in it is busy with other projects.) I liked how it centered Enola's relationship with her mother, but also complicated her distant admiration for her brother's sleuthing with the realization that Sherlock, for all his skills and talents, wasn't at all sure how to deal with her. I also really enjoyed Tewky as a character and how he plays with some of the YA romance object tropes in his interactions with Enola.

Note that I haven't read the books that the film is based off of, but feel free to use some of that canon if it pleases you, I'm not worried about spoilers.

For Enola & Sherlock:

Both Enola and Sherlock continue to look into their mother's mysterious work, and keep running into one another throughout their investigations, to mixed feelings. It seems clear from the film that Eudoria is involved in suffrage movement activism that may very well turn violent - and I suspect that even as proud and fond of his sister as Sherlock is, he would not be particularly supportive of those kinds of actions. (Though, maybe he'd surprise me, I don't know!) Perhaps Enola (learning more about the Cause from Edith) and Sherlock debate about the issue and Enola tries to win him over to supporting their mother's work.

Does this Sherlock have a Watson? What's their relationship like, and how might Enola come to meet them or feel about them if they were to team up to help Sherlock at any point? (Ambiguous pronoun used on purpose, feel free to play fast and loose with the character of Dr. Watson however you like. I'm not invested in any particular variation of a Sherlock/Watson ship but if you're pulled in that direction go for it!).

Potentially riffing off the above prompt - ACD Holmes canonically had a cocaine addiction that Watson helped him overcome. (Obviously various adaptations have played with this more directly, like in Elementary.) Maybe Enola finds out that her Gifted older brother has some demons of his own?

Slice of life stuff is good, too - Sherlock attempting to convince Enola to live with him as his ward more formally (I expect she's not interested, though perhaps tempted, but it would be intriguing to see that discussion), Sherlock and Enola running into one another in an unexpected context, Sherlock and Enola competing for a particular case to the former's consternation and amusement and the latter's increasing determination.

For Enola/Tewky:

As of the film's end, it seems like Enola is very much trying to stay a step ahead of her brothers, but she does choose to meet up with Tewky and his mother and uncle, even if only briefly. Might she find herself drawn to them in some ways as a replacement family, considering her feelings of responsibility for Tewky's well-being?

Despite taking his place in the House of Lords, Tewky might be wistful for his short period of freedom again in the future - perhaps he ducks out of his responsibilities as Viscount at some point and returns to London, eager to seek out Enola again and maybe even help her with a case.

In order to gain access to high society event to solve a case, Enola leans on her connection to Tewky in one of her disguises - perhaps posing as a cousin, a ward of the family, or even his fiancée. (Whether the cousin or ward disguises are as a woman or a man is up to you, I love her penchant for stealing boys' clothes.) Oops, but he's at the same event - does he play along, or make her life a little difficult?

DNW: Incest. Mycroft featuring as the Big Bad Villain in the fic. (He can appear and be his unpleasant self, but I don't want him to be the major antagonist of the story.) Permanent major character death. (Temporary death or thinking someone's dead for a time is fine). Total downer endings.

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". Mixing and matching - werewolf and vampire, or werewolf and magical creature hunter, for example, is also a lot of fun.
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 caring for another person in h/c, and/or the traumatic headspace/emotional rollercoaster of pain and angst 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. Exhaustion, pain, lingering emotional/mental trauma and mild-to-moderate long-term physical effects are my preferences. 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
forced to watch others being hurt

Comfort Preferences:

hair touching/running fingers through hair
helping others with personal care - hair washing, shaving, injury tending
small acts of intimacy/care - preparing food, standing guard while the hurt one sleeps, sharpening the hurt one's edged weapons or cleaning their guns
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. I like all kinds of outcomes from this plot - the somewhat positive outcomes of admitting hidden feelings or strengthening a relationship after such a difficult experience; a more tragic or negative outcome such as the end of a relationship/partnership, or tragedy; or something ambiguously between the two - I'm happy with any direction unless otherwise requested in my DNWs for a particular fandom/character/ship.
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
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, such as friends grieving the loss of a mutual friend or loved one or getting over a shared bad experience
Dominance/submission (though I prefer it NOT be formalized BDSM, such as negotiating safewords and "Master/sir" address, etc. Also, if it's f/m I generally prefer the female character be dominant unless otherwise requested. For my various gender composition OT3+ ships I either don't care or will specify in the prompts.)
sex between platonic friends
competence kink
threesomes
loyalty kink
oral sex and manual stimulation, both as a precursor to vaginal or anal sex, and as its own thing

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)

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)

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:

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

Hi there,

Thanks for checking out my letter. This is my fifth year participating in Yuletide and, as always, I'm looking forward to it. This letter is organized into three parts: first are general preferences around fic, next are fandom-specific prompts and Do Not Wants, and finally is a big list of general tropes I enjoy.

General Preferences: I am overall open to receiving fic of any rating, including violent or sexually explicit content. I am OK with any AO3 required warning if appropriate to the fic. I am also open to worldbuilding fic in each of my requested fandoms this year that barely includes any requested character, if such a premise interests you.

I do not have broad DNWs (in the sense of topics that I under no circumstances want to receive in any fic) just fandom-specific preferences detailed below with each set of prompts.

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Enola Holmes (2020)
Requested Characters: Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes

I'm not going to lie: I initially watched this film mostly to see how Millie Bobbie Brown would take on another I'm Not Like Other Girls role, and to appreciate Henry Cavill's curls. I ended up finding it really charming and fun, and I really hope Netflix turns it into a film series. (Honestly, I think it would have been even better as a miniseries or short series, but I understand just about everyone in it is busy with other projects.) I liked how it centered Enola's relationship with her mother, but also complicated her distant admiration for her brother's sleuthing with the realization that Sherlock, for all his skills and talents, wasn't at all sure how to deal with her. I'd really like to see a fic set post-film that looks at that developing relationship.

Note that I haven't read the books that the film is based off of, but feel free to use some of that canon if it pleases you, I'm not worried about spoilers.

Prompts:

Both Enola and Sherlock continue to look into their mother's mysterious work, and keep running into one another throughout their investigations, to mixed feelings. It seems clear from the film that Eudoria is involved in suffrage movement activism that may very well turn violent - and I suspect that even as proud and fond of his sister as Sherlock is, he would not be particularly supportive of those kinds of actions. (Though, maybe he'd surprise me, I don't know!) Perhaps Enola (learning more about the Cause from Edith) and Sherlock debate about the issue and Enola tries to win him over to supporting their mother's work.

Does this Sherlock have a Watson? What's their relationship like, and how might Enola come to meet them or feel about them if they were to team up to help Sherlock at any point? (Ambiguous pronoun used on purpose, feel free to play fast and loose with the character of Dr. Watson however you like. I'm not invested in any particular variation of a Sherlock/Watson ship but if you're pulled in that direction go for it!).

Potentially riffing off the above prompt - ACD Holmes canonically had a cocaine addiction that Watson helped him overcome. (Obviously various adaptations have played with this more directly, like in Elementary.) Maybe Enola finds out that her Gifted older brother has some demons of his own?

Enola/Tewky is very cute (he's a good boy) and I'm fine with it being included in a fic - Sherlock seemed unbothered by the idea of their relationship, perhaps even a little amused. Whether Enola is really romantically attached to Tewky or just very protective of his helplessness or something in between, fic featuring the three of them could be interesting.

Slice of life stuff is good, too - Sherlock attempting to convince Enola to live with him as his ward more formally (I expect she's not interested, though perhaps tempted, but it would be intriguing to see that discussion), Sherlock and Enola running into one another in an unexpected context, Sherlock and Enola competing for a particular case to the former's consternation and amusement and the latter's increasing determination.

Fandom Specific DNW: Incest. Mycroft featuring as a Big Bad Villain in the fic. (He can be mentioned or even pass through, but I'd rather just ignore the big boor.)

Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Requested Characters: Anacostia Quartermaine, Berryessa Tansey

I think the worldbuilding for this show is fascinating...and full of holes screaming for further development. The alternate history is both intriguing and frustrating in its inconsistencies. I am absolutely starving for more details like the bits of history timeline we've seen in bits and pieces across the first season, and its effects on everything from global power structures to religious practices.

Prompts:

I chose Sgt. Tansey and Anacostia as my requests because they are my favorite minor and major characters, respectively, and I adored their conversation during the Beltane festivities. I would very much welcome Anacostia/Berryessa-focused fic, but I'm also okay with only one of them featuring in the fic, or neither. For a ship-focused fic, something about their pasts together (Beltane festivities when they were cadets, perhaps? or perhaps the idea that they were both fosterlings together?) or how Berryessa - as a ritualist and perhaps religious figure - might help Anacostia deal with her doubts prompted by the events of the end of S1.

Worldbuilding, religious-style: Sgt. Tansey is a "matrimonialist" - "Matrimonialist" appears to be a title and perhaps even a specific military rank - we see Sgt. Tansey on the show seem to lead both the Beltane ritual and Charvel Bellweather's marriage ceremony. With witchcraft ability being inherited and implied to come from extra-human physical development (per the ability of the Fort Salem witches to identify murder victims as witch-descendants by autopsying their vocal chords) it stands to reason that maintaining family lines is extremely significant. At the same time, there's enough witches who slip through the cracks that there were dozens of Bellweather-related victims previously unknown to the military. If there's a role that's equivalent to something between an archivist, matchmaker, and priestess devoted to keeping the family lines known and marrying well, what would that be like? What social and cultural norms would grow up around that - we see glimpses of some interesting worldbuilding around pregnancy in combat (considered an admirable thing, perhaps lucky for the baby?) and pagan-flavored temporary, contract-like marriages. Any exploration of this would be fantastic!

Worldbuilding, soldier-style: What does it mean to be a soldier - not a general and not a cadet - in the witch military? We've seen a bit of it filtered through the POV of Raelle's mother, but she had a very particular POV. What was Anacostia's experience like before she became an instructor and leader at Fort Salem? She must have had battlefield experience, but unlike most of the other adult characters on the show we don't actually hear her talk about that time much. If she has always been close to General Alder, as their relationship implies, what was that like for her? What has she seen or heard, and how does that influence the way she's made her choices re: Scylla and the Spree at the end of S1?

Fandom specific DNW: No Magic AU. Major focus on any romantic relationships between students. Background references to relationships are fine, inclusion of canon Raelle/Scylla's effect on Anacostia's work and emotional state is great, but I would prefer any relationship focus be on the adult characters I requested with each other or others.

Valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey
Requested Characters: Lythe Shadowdancer, Rothas Sunsinger

Link to the lyrics of all of the Sun & Shadow music here: http://www.goldenboughmusic.com/music/SunShadow/SunShadow.htm

The legend within the story, the one that Lackey swore she'd never actually write about - but I'm intrigued. I love the Sun and Shadow ballads in the books (I have owned the Firebird Arts and Music recordings since the 90s, I must admit) and I am always interested in seeing what others think of the legend and what might be behind it. We know that "officially" Sun and Shadow were cursed, eventually found magic to undo the curse but instead used it to free an heir of Valdemar from an evil mage and lost their chance to beat the curse, and were eventually chosen by Companions to become Heralds, which then (because Companion Magic, presumably) caused them to be freed from the curse.

But...is that really how it went down?

In addition to a direct take on the legend, I would also be game for any fic in the Valdemar setting that touches on the ballads themselves and doesn't directly include the prompted characters - a Bard character working on their own variation of the legend in song or poetry, an archivist trying to find the real history in the legend, a pair of starcrossed lovers somewhere else in the universe of the books relating to the great tragic love of Sun and Shadow.

I'd also be interested in a very meta take involving "Herald-Archivist Myste" (Mercedes Lackey's extremely transparent self-insert, gods love her) writing about (critiquing?) the ballads and the history if that's your interest.

Tonally, anything from total tragedy (they were not, in fact, saved by Companions, in the end...) to lighthearted comedy (*groan* oh god not ANOTHER Sun and Shadow ballad!) is welcome here.

XXX

And the final part of my letter is the below big list of preferred tropes. I am a pretty regular fic exchange participant and so this is my "list of likes". Not all of them will apply to every fandom or prompt, but if you're looking for some evidence of my tastes and trope preferences in fic, this might help clarify things.

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)

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

Thanks for checking out my letter.

Overview: I welcome works of any rating, with any AO3 content warning. I do not have general DNWs, but for some fandoms I have some specific preferences, detailed below. At the end of the letter is my Big List Of Stuff I Like--feel free to take your inspiration from that rather than the fandom-specific prompts.

Additionally, I really love all things Halloween/Autumn. The changing of the seasons, the harvest, spooky stuff, supernatural, magic, and monsters. Feel free to embrace the season in any response to my prompts!

I'm opting in to the Battle of the Bands challenge, and while I've requested 3 specific songs, go ahead and feel free to draw on whatever music inspires you from the tagset.

FANDOM: Africa - Toto (Song)

Last year I prompted this song and received two great fics riffing off the viral twitter post that suggested the song lyrics reference a lovesick werewolf. (Link here: https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/954767458769883136)

Feel free to take whatever inspiration in word or art you might from this song, however! The werewolf angle is delightful, but so would be a more general love story (what's the "a lot" that could "take me away from you"?), or something about magic (Why are we blessing the rains down in Africa?)

FANDOM: Work Song - Hozier (Music Video)

I love Hozier generally and this song is one of my favorites. I'm game for a take on the lyrics directly (themes of death and rebirth, redemption, whump or hurt/comfort, pining all suggest themselves rather strongly-like, that's good shit!) or the video's visuals of deeply intimate, incredibly hot dancing. (The redheaded dancer biting their partner's jaw at about 0.58 always makes me feel Some Kind Of Way when I watch the video, whew.)

FANDOM: Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon (Song)

I love Werewolves, and I tend to prefer them as a mix of urbane and feral, just like this song plays with. It's always been a favorite of mine, it's fun and playful, and art or fic about a man-about-town werewolf would be an utter blast.

FANDOM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Characters: Napoleon Solo (MUNCLE 2015) Illya Kuryakin (MUNCLE 2015) Gaby Teller (MUNCLE 2015) Alexander Waverly (MUNCLE 2015)

DNW: Modern AU (Fantasy, magic, or other setting AUs are fine, but not "generic modern era", please.)

I love my disaster bisexual spies and their snarky boss. I ship Napoleon/Illya/Gaby primarily, as well as every pairing subset of the OT3, and I also ship each of them with Waverly, if you're interested. I would also absolutely be game for fic focused on any one of them or gen team fic!

Treat fodder: Solo cooking for the others, Illya offering his couture opinions on Napoleon's suits and/or Gaby's outfits, Gaby enjoying her freedom and ability to travel outside of East Berlin, Waverly pulling his team's fat out of the fryer in the nick of time. All of them as werewolves, or vampires, or magic users, or mix and match! (I received some fun little fics in this vein last year that I loved, but I'm always game for more.)

Trick fodder: A mission gone wrong (I love whump, torture, and hurt/comfort), the team separated or enemies due to circumstances beyond their control, an uncomfortable undercover situation (maybe they have to fight or even pretend to betray one another), making hard decisions that result in losses (perhaps necessary, but hard).

FANDOM: The Witcher (TV)
Characters: Triss Merigold (The Witcher TV), Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher TV), Jaskier (The Witcher TV), Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher TV), Renfri (The Witcher TV), Ciri (The Witcher TV)

I really enjoyed this show, far more than I expected, and I'm looking forward to S2. I'm not familiar with the books or game, but if you want to incorporate worldbuilding or plot for them (I'm fairly thoroughly spoiled for major plot points) go ahead!

I ship...well, pretty much anything and everything. Triss/Yennefer, Geralt/Yennefer, Geralt/Jaskier, Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier, Geralt/Renfri. Ciri & Geralt, and Ciri & Any Other Solid Parental or Fun Uncle or Vodka Aunt figure.

In the spirit of the season, something focusing on a harvest festival would be fun - as would particularly spooky or undead monsters. Post-S1 speculation is always welcome for any character. Character studies, slice of life, or moments of levity or despair.

Triss: What's her relationship with other sorceresses like? What does she do after Sodden Hill?

Yennefer: Treat - As a change of pace, Yen is happy about something, perhaps surprised by a simple pleasure. Trick - Yen considers her own mortality, or wrestles with jealousy.

Jaskier: Treat - A young Jaskier makes his name as a bard writing about Geralt - how does that change his fortunes or experiences? Trick - As always, the argument in ep 6 leaves a lot of room for exploring the angst of a troubled relationship with Geralt, and maybe some regrets on his part.

Geralt: Treat - Reluctantly enjoying doing something fun with Ciri. (Dad!Geralt having a heart of solid marshmallow for his child surprise.) Trick - Geralt is haunted (literally or metaphorically, your call) by an old decision.

Renfri: AU where she gets to murder Stregobor, or becomes a different sort of power than the one prophesized for her.

Ciri: Getting to be a child again for 5 seconds. Meeting any of Geralt's friends for the first time and latching on to a weird found family.

FANDOM: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Characters: Booker | Sebastien le Livre (TOG 2020) Nile Freeman (TOG 2020)

Somehow I came out of this film loving all the characters but most in love with tired-of-life sadsack Booker and queen of everything Nile more than the rest. I feel like as the youngest immortals, both dogged by feelings about their families that the others don't seem to have, they share something. I found it absolutely intriguing that Nile was most ready to forgive Booker for his betrayal.

Honestly, this is a new enough fandom for me that I'm not sure exactly what I want out of fic for them, only that I want it! Anything exploring Booker's history, his post-canon exile, or canon divergence that lets him stay with the team and make amends differently is good. For Nile, adjusting to immortality, or following through and making contact with her family, or trying to test her own limits would be interesting.

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)

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

Thanks for checking out my letter.

Overview: I welcome works of any rating, with any AO3 content warning. I do not have blanket DNWs, but for some fandoms I have some specific preferences, detailed below. At the end of the letter is my Big List Of Stuff I Like--feel free to take your inspiration from that rather than the fandom-specific prompts.

Additionally, I really love all things Halloween/Autumn. The changing of the seasons, the harvest, spooky stuff, supernatural, magic, and monsters. Feel free to embrace the season in any response to my prompts!

Fandoms:

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Man From UNCLE 2015)
Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Man From UNCLE 2015)

DNW: Modern AU (No need for excruciating attention to 1960s detail, but I like the Cold War setting. Handwave fun spy gadget tech to your heart's content.)

I've nominated both my OT3 for this fandom as well as the "points" of the usual fandom relationship triangle. I love this film, I love the characters, and all told I the threesome is truly my favorite of the ships but I ship all pairing subsets.

For the OT3 I never, ever tire of whatever I can get of them. Some thematic suggestions:

Slice of life between-mission downtime around a fall holiday (enjoying Oktoberfest in Bavaria to Gaby's delight (or perhaps mixed feelings, given politics and circumstances), Solo cooking up Thanksgiving dinner for his dubious and/or critical partners)
Spooky casefic involving mad scientists or "monsters"
AUs where one or all of the trio isn't entirely human (werewolves are a favorite, but vampires, witches, psychics, etc are all good)
Trapped by weather/huddling for warmth tropefest

For the Gaby/Napoleon ship specifically:

Illya is killed/recalled to Russia/sent to prison and they hook up in his absence. Really, I am just craving some angsty, angry sex between these two, whether it's because Illya's gone and the other 2/3 of what was a trio miss him, or they were both pining and missed their chance before Illya was suddenly gone, or one had a relationship and the other didn't, whatever. I really think they're both attracted to Illya and they're actually a bit alike; I also think they'd be a total mess as a pair, and I'm curious as to what form it would take. (This prompt could also be tied into an OT3 fic if they go rescue him afterwards, find out he's not dead in the first place, or he somehow comes back to life...)
AU(?) where they hook up that first night in the Berlin "not-chic" apartment under instruction from their respective handlers.

The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

Booker | Sebastien le Livre/Nile Freeman (Old Guard 2020)
Booker | Sebastien le Livre & Nile Freeman (Old Guard 2020)

DNW: No powers/non-immortal AU.

I came out of the film wanting more of these two interacting in whatever form it might take. Booker is such a goddamn sadsack, and Nile is all at once probably the most sympathetic to Booker's particular form of angst (wanting to forgive him with a heartfelt apology, still feeling the loss of his human family) and the least tolerant of his shit, all at once since they're not family, not yet. I am not familiar with the comics the films are based on but I'm unbothered by spoilers if you want to use any of it. Prompts:

Nile pragmatically wants to learn as much as she can about the experiences of the other immortals and is unwilling to be deprived of Booker's experience, despite what the others agreed, so she seeks him out on her own time with pointed questions.
Something happens to Andy, Joe, and/or Nicky and Nile needs Booker's help.
Nile seeks out her family and afterwards she needs to confront Booker about his critical advice on the subject. (Whether it goes well, terribly, or something else for Nile is up to you.)
Epistolary: Nile and Booker communicate regularly via email or text message. (Joe, Nicky and Andy pretend not to notice.) Bonding (and/or sexting) ensues.

The Witcher (TV)

Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (Witcher TV)
Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Renfri | Shrike (Witcher TV)
Geralt of Rivia/Yennefer of Vengerberg (Witcher TV)
Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier (Witcher TV)

DNW: Modern and/or No Powers AU.

Seasonal spooky or harvest festival-themed is a plus but not necessary, here. Any adventures happening at a fair or in a haunted castle or an unsettling cornfield or the like is great. I'm not familiar with the books or video game, but I am spoiled for most major plot points so feel free to borrow from either canon as needed.

For Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer:

Any two of the three care for the third - not necessarily in a soppy way, because Geralt would still be gruff, Yen would still be brusque, and Jaskier would still be flaky - but they care for one another nonetheless.
Geralt and Yennefer team up to top and/or dom the hell out of Geralt.
"Ciri has a mom and two dads" family bonding.

For Geralt/Renfri:

AU where Renfri survives Blaviken and transfers her desire for vengeance to Geralt. It's complicated. (They still hook up from time to time.)
Renfri's ghost haunts Geralt. (More literally than the canon figurative haunting.)

For Geralt/Yennefer:

Yennefer pegs an initially-dubious but eventually very keen Geralt.
They're trapped together in some kind of cursed location until they work out (fuck out?) some of their relationship drama.
They go from arguing to Battle Couple, to the consternation of their enemies.
Geralt has to answer Ciri's question about Yennefer at the end of 1.8 - it's complicated.

For Geralt/Jaskier:

Jaskier is possessed and Geralt has to convince the entity in the bard to leave.
Geralt his seriously injured past the ability of his powers and potions to heal and Jaskier has to take care of him.
Post 1.6 the two of them are coincidentally stuck somewhere together and have to sort out their shit.
Jaskier is the top-billed entertainment at a prosperous town's harvest festival and Geralt tries to just be part of the regular audience instead of That Witcher. (It goes about as well as you'd expect.)

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)

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

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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Medium Opt-In: Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Fanart

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.

xxx

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.

xxx

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).

xxx

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)

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

Hi FFFX Author or Artist:

Thanks for taking a look at my letter! I hope these prompts inspire you, if you're so inclined. Alternately, check out my big list of beloved tropes at the end of the letter if you want to take things in a different direction. As a rule, I have no hard content-related DNWs (though I have setting-related DNWs for each fandom, below), and I welcome works of all ratings and with any warning, as appropriate. I very much enjoy and appreciate explicit sexual content in romantic/sexual relationship fics, but it's not necessary.

Fandoms

Ladyhawke (1985)
Group: Etienne Navarre/Isabeau d'Anjou/Philippe Gaston (Ladyhawke)

What I like about this canon/fandom: I unironically love every silly minute of this film and the totally 80s soundtrack. The story of star-crossed lovers helped in their quest to defeat the curse hanging over their heads by the most unlikely of thieves is charming, and the notion that the lovers grew as fond of their friend as one another, in the end, makes me very happy.

Prompts:

The Turnabout: Post-film, Philippe goes his own way, perhaps promising to visit Navarre and Isabeau in the future, but not wanting to be in the way of the reunited lovers. Unfortunately, Philippe gets caught up in his own unfortunate circumstances - perhaps something magic-infused, perhaps a curse turning him into a *literal* mouse to match his nickname. Navarre and Isabeau might be the only ones who can help him, or who would believe his story at all.

The Right Kind of Help: A three-way soulmate AU. In the film it's Philippe's clever mix of half truths and inspiration that keep Isabeau and Navarre from losing heart in their quest. It seems like they have been cursed for years and not making much headway in trying to break the curse, even though Navarre is sure he knows how. Maybe that's because they specifically needed Philippe as their missing "piece" as their soulmate just as much as they are each other's, and they realize that along the way. How might that have changed the way things played out?

DNW: Modern AU. Keep the fantasy-medieval setting please!

XXX

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

What I like about this canon/fandom: While I feel passionately that this film was utterly robbed of a sequel, it's two hours of beautifully shot, fast-paced fun with snappy dialogue that slaps a few classic tropes - fake engaged, enemies teaming up as reluctant partners against a common enemy, competitive one-upsmanship, spy-vs-spy shenanigans - on top of a trio of spies who veer wildly between highly competent and utterly useless and can't stop snarking at and saving one another. And just when these three idiots heave a sigh of relief at the end of the film, knowing that these awkward feelings for one another that have been growing over the past few days of fighting fascists can finally be put aside once they go their separate ways, they find out they're working together for the indefinite future because Alexander Waverly is a genius and a troll. I'm always asking what happens next for these three.

Prompts:
The casefic get-together: I want to see them negotiating their professional and the personal relationships at the same time against the backdrop of spy games of any kind. They're all "I work best alone" types, but now they're partners - how do they manage it? Deepening bonds via any of my preferred situational tropes or hurt/comfort scenarios would be great.

The duo to a trio: The film obviously sets up the Illya/Gaby several almost-kisses as blooming sexual tension, while Napoleon seems highly amused by their budding romance. A story in which Napoleon is somewhere between a matchmaker and a meddling thorn in their side while trying to ignore his own growing feelings for the other two would be wonderful.

Us against the world: What would happen, down the line, if after a few years of working for U.N.C.L.E and falling into a solid relationship as a trio either Napoleon or Illya or both were called back to their home agencies? Or, worse yet, Napoleon's deal is reneged upon and he ends up back in prison, or Illya's suspected of too much fraternizing with the enemy and is sent to a gulag. How might Gaby fight to get them back or how might they all work their way back to one another and/or U.N.C.L.E?

DNW: Modern AUs. (I'm not fussed about major attention to every 60s-era detail, and funky, hand-wavy spy gadget tech is totally fine, but I like the Cold War-era setting.)

Alternately, for this fandom feel free to check out my past letters and prompts for this fandom since it's a perennial request for me: anything there is fair game!

XXX

Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Group: Sarah Alder & Original Historical Witch Soldier(s) (M:FS)
Original Witch Character (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem)
Other: Worldbuilding (M:FS)

What I like about this canon/fandom: I think the worldbuilding for this show is fascinating...and full of holes screaming for further development. The alternate history is both intriguing and frustrating in its inconsistencies. At the same time, the total focus on female characters, including complex leaders like Sarah Alder, Petra Bellweather, Anacostia Quartermaine, Izadora, and even President Wade is really unique.

While I like all of the younger protagonists on the show and would be happy to have them featured, my main interest is in the older characters. I'm also game for focusing on an original witch in either the present day or at any point in history - such as during the Revolutionary era, any of the history-divergent world wars that are suggested to have happened, or really anything.

Prompts:

The Leader Alone: 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?

Matchmaker, Matchmaker: "Matrimonialist" appears to be a title and perhaps even a specific military rank - we see Sgt. Tansey on the show seem to lead both the Beltane ritual and Charvel Bellweather's marriage ceremony. With witchcraft ability being inherited and implied to come from extra-human physical development (per the ability of the Fort Salem witches to identify murder victims as witch-descendants by autopsying their vocal chords) it stands to reason that maintaining family lines is extremely significant. At the same time, there's enough witches who slip through the cracks that there were dozens of Bellweather-related victims previously unknown to the military. If there's a role that's equivalent to something between an archivist, matchmaker, and priestess devoted to keeping the family lines known and marrying well, what would that be like? What social and cultural norms would grow up around that - we see glimpses of some interesting worldbuilding around pregnancy in combat (considered an admirable thing, perhaps lucky for the baby?) and pagan-flavored temporary, contract-like marriages. Any exploration of this would be fantastic!

A Good Soldier: For the Original Character prompts, what is it like to be a "regular" soldier in the all-witch US military? We see cadets, and we see the top brass, but what's life like for the average witch? Besides for injury or risk to a particular family line, are their other reasons a witch might be able to leave the service? Is there a retirement age, or is it a lifetime obligation? What's life like for those somewhere between the High Atlantic upper echelons of society and, say, Raelle's disdained, rural, and Christian-flavored witchcraft. How does the rest of the US, or even the world, react to your average witch? How has witchcraft and the resulting alternate history flavored modern American society?

DNW: No Magic AU. Primary focus on a non-witch character, though non-witch supporting characters or glimpses of their views are very welcome.

XXX

Valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey
Group: Kethry & Tarma shena Tale'sedrin (Valdemar series)

What I like about this fandom: The Valdemar books were my first fandom (I was a member of the official fan club back when that meant a monthly paper newsletter came in the mail) and I remain extremely nostalgic about the books. In particular, Tarma and Kethry's Oathbound/The Oathbreakers duology and all of their short stories are some of my favorites. I would adore a work exploring one of their adventures as mercenaries (either just as a duo or part of Idra's Sunhawks mercenary company) in the vein of the short stories. Alternately, the huge gap between the end of The Oathbreakers and when they appear again in By The Sword decades later to help Kerowyn always has me curious.

Prompts:

Oathsisters against the world: Tell me a story about one of their early adventures trying to make their way in the world as oathbound sisters. Maybe Need pulled them into a complicated situation, as usual, and they're having to defend a wronged woman in dire circumstances. Maybe they have to take a job for money out of desperation and it ends up being much more complicated than advertised-how do they make it through?

The School Years: Post The Oathbreakers, Tarma and Kethry (and Jadrek) found a school where they train royal children, baby mages, wannabe mercenaries, and others, while they also start repopulating Tarma's clan. What were those years like - wrangling students and their own children, making nice with their noble neighbors, and figuring out how to settle down, for whatever that means? Tarma and Kethry (with Jadrek) scandalizing the neighbors sounds a treat.

The Dhorisha Plains Years: At other times, when they weren't schooling young royals, they were living on the Plains reviving Tale'sedrin. Five of Kethry's children became the heart of the clan - what were they like? How did they make the decision to join the clan (and what prompted Jendar and Lenore not to? We're told for Jendar it was because he wanted to be a non-shaman mage, and Kethry thinks Lenore as the baby might have felt neglected, but was that really the case?) Alternately, I'm pretty sure in By the Sword Tarma claims they had 7 children, but only 6 are ever named in various books/short stories. Is there a Kethry/Jadrek kid That Must Not Be Named for some reason?

DNW: Modern AUs.

XXX

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)

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

Dear Pine4Pine Writer:

Thanks for checking out my letter. Order below is first, some general notes about this exchange, second a list of the ships and tags I've chosen with specific prompts, and finally my general trope/kink preferences.

First, general exchange-specific notes: I don't have any hard DNWs, and I'm comfortable with fanworks of any rating. I am requesting either requited feelings or unrequited feelings for all of my chosen ships except for the MUNCLE 2015 OT3 - requited feelings only for Illya/Gaby/Napoleon, please. For the other relationships, please do feel free to make the feelings ambiguous or unrequited on the part of the non-pining character!

For freeform-matching exchanges I tend to throw out some ideas that seem interesting rather than exhaustively listing the types of fic I want to recieve. Please don't feel limited by my chosen freeforms if you have an idea that incorporates the overall exchange theme of pining and you think it fits with my general preferences or prompts.

My requests, by fandom:

Carnival Row (TV)
Tourmaline Larou/Vignette Stonemoss (Tourmaline pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

Wing Grooming
Watching Them from Afar
Character A pines for their former lover
Character A pining after brief fling years ago while Character B has moved on
Character A pining silently so Character B won't feel guilty for not returning their affections
Hurt/Comfort
Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
Character Prefers Pining For Aesthetic Reasons
Soulmate AU - A is pining B’s soulmate but B is not A's
Physical Intimacy While Pining
Trying to Ignore Feelings While Forced to Work in Close Quarters With Person of Their Affection

I quite enjoyed this show and Tourmaline is hands down my favorite character. I love her pragmatism and how it intersects with her artist's soul. I love how much she clearly loves Vignette and wants good things for her, but also thinks she's a total idiot half the time. I love that she's a sex worker who draws each and every one of her clients. I think it's clear that she canonically pines for Vignette, even though she tries to make sure Vignette has her opportunity to reunite with her Great Lost Love Philo.

Vignette and Tourmaline share close quarters and physical intimacy a lot in S1, and depending on how things go in S2 that might continue as they work together while trapped in the Row. After seeing Tourmaline's face as Vignette tried to leave with Philo I think it could be a very hard thing for her to deal with in many ways.

Game of Thrones (TV)
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (GoT) (Jaime pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

Arranged Marriage
Arranged Marriage - to other people
Character A doesn't realise they're pining
epistolary pining
Jealousy - Feeling Like They're Being Replaced and/or Unwanted
A pines for B after B refuses to kill A when they ought to
Pining while having wounds tended
Pining while huddled together for warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Pining while imprisoned

Jaime Lannister is an unbelievable dumbass (and I love him so much). Jaime/Brienne has been a ship of mine for 20 years now, and while GoT S8 was a disappointing realization of the ASOIAF story for me in some ways, some of their interaction was very satisfying for my soul.

For this ship arranged marriage tropes are always fun (to each other or other people), or post-canon AUs where they're separated and Jaime's pining from afar (Casterly Rock, Essos, prison, etc). "A pines for B after B refuses to kill A when they ought to" is in particular very "them" canonically, as is Jaime totally oblivious to his jealousy of other people who interact with Brienne.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Napoleon pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (Illya & Gaby pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller (all pining)
feelings requited ONLY

A and B are together but pine for C to join them
A B and C pine obliviously for each other
A B and C are each convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship
A attributes B & C's flirting to cultural differences
Character A pining silently so Characters B & C won't feel guilty for not returning their affections
Character C Pines For Characters A & B Who Are Together - Leads to Polyamory
Character C Pines For Characters A and B
A matchmakes B and C while pining for them both
pining for character in a relationship leads to OT3
A Pining for B also Starts Pining for B's Partner C
Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining character doused with truth serum
A & B attribute C's flirting to cultural differences
Cover story complicates hidden feelings
Pining while having wounds tended
Pining while huddled together for warmth
Pining while sharing a bed
Pining while tending someone's wounds
Pining while trapped together
Hurt/Comfort

I love these dumb disaster bisexual spies so much. I like a lot of different ways for them to come together as a trio, but I'm particularly a bit weak for Napoleon trying to either matchmake or nobly stay clear of Illya and Gaby's slap-slap-kiss relationship but being reluctantly enamored of them both. On the other hand, Illya and Gaby carefully negotiating a tentative relationship despite all their cultural and political baggage and still realizing there's something missing in the person of their too-handsome, self-assured partner and trying to figure out how to reel the playboy Napoleon before he realizes he's caught in is good stuff, too. All three of them being oblivious and ridiculous is also awesome, and the farcical notion of each believing the other two are perfect for one another would be hilarious.

Setting-wise, feel free to go with any kind of ridiculous trope that spy shenanigans might set them up for as a backdrop for sharing those feelings - blizzards, daring rescues, trapped by the bad guys, truth serum, woozy from drugs, etc.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (Napoleon pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (Illya pining)
Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo (both pining)
feelings requited or unrequited

Cover story complicates hidden feelings
Hurt/Comfort
Pining character doused with truth serum
Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pined-for character reveals feelings to pining character while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
Pining while tending someone's wounds
Pining while having wounds tended
Pining while huddled together for warmt
Pining while sharing a bed
Pining while trapped together

I saw the film first, but have been enjoying watching the show and falling for these somewhat different characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I love their effective and fond working relationship and honesty with one another, as well as their rather droll, restrained sense of humor at the same time that they're always willing to sacrifice for each other in the face of danger. I mostly chose situational prompts for these two, since spy shenanigans and THRUSH always serve as good catalysts for interpersonal drama!

General trope preferences (these are in no particular order, may not apply to all fandoms/characters/relationships and include both plot tropes and sexual acts, with my most bulletproof trope/kinks in bold, so feel free to run with one if you're inspired):

hurt/comfort (physical and/or emotional), whump, torture, soulmates and soul bonds (and soulmate subversion, and soulmates played dark or strange), sex pollen, fuck or die, dubcon (especially when one person or both/all participants are consenting only under duress due to outside circumstances, such as "bad guys/magic made them do it" or sex pollen), bondage, canon divergence/"what if" AUs, first time sex (both first time sex ever for a character and first time with particular partner(s)), sex magic, pegging, praise kink, loyalty kink, sharing a bed, huddling for warmth, falling asleep on partner's shoulder, cuddling, spooning, competitive sex games (who can make the other orgasm the fastest, who can resist orgasm the longest, who can successfully finish a task while the other partner tries to get them off or tries to entice them into sex, etc), begging during sex ("please!"), sex as an emotional outlet in the wake of tragedy or grief, battle couples/trios, magical aus (give non-magical characters/canons magic), alternate magical system AUs (keep the magic, but make it different somehow), Dominance/submission (I prefer not to read lifestyle/24-7 D/s stuff, however, and if it's het I generally prefer the female character be dominant), sex between platonic friends, future fic and "next gen" fic about children of canonical characters, ghosts, communicating with the dead (via magic or weird science), enemies to lovers, threesomes, werewolves, time loops/Groundhog Day premise, competence kink, vulnerability, undercover antics and/or identity porn, sleep deprivation/exhaustion, hair touching/running fingers through hair, helping others with personal care (hair washing, injury tending, etc), noble self-sacrifice (risking harm or death to spare others punishment or to allow them to escape)

Hi Hetswapper:

Thanks for looking at my letter. First, exchange-specific info. Second, fandom- and relationship-specific prompts. Finally, my big list of preferred tropes and kinks if you're looking for more general ideas for a fic or art.

For this exchange I have no hard DNWs and I'm comfortable receiving fic or art of any rating. I do most of my fandom social media over at Tumblr - http://coaldustcanary.tumblr.com/ - so if you want to peruse it to get a sense of what I like feel free.

Fandoms and prompts:

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller

Illya Kuryakin/Gaby Teller

Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller

What I like about the canon: Spy hijinx, snappy banter, reluctantly cooperative enemies due to international politics become friends and a weird little oddly-fond found family of sorts.

Illya/Napoleon/Gaby is my OT3 of choice these days, but I am very keen on both Illya/Gaby and (the odd couple) Napoleon/Gaby as well. Don't feel hemmed in my my prompts - I am always happy for anything for this fandom, especially tropey nonsense that fits with spy games - truth serum, sex pollen, sharing a bed (for the mission!), etc.

For art, anything that plays with the really gorgeous palette of the film would be amazing. Character-wise, either or both of the guys helping Gaby - with picking out clothes, with learning spy skills, or with a kiss or a cuddle or an orgasm would be a delight.

For the trio: In the spirit of the exchange, something that focuses on the boys' relationship with Gaby would be keen. Maybe they get competitive over teaching her about their Elite Spy Skills while trying to one-up the other, with Gaby dryly amused in the middle. (Maybe they keep trying to one-up the other in the "best in bed" department, too.)

For Illya/Gaby, I like the notion of them being undercover together like in the film on a later mission, but perhaps having to play at a different dynamic - for example, maybe months later they've begun a relationship for real, but instead of playing a loving couple in the field they have to pretend to be at each others' throats.

For Gaby/Napoleon, maybe they banged that first night in the CIA apartment in Berlin, caught between actual interest in one another and feeling obliged to mutually seduce each other for the job? Or on a more angsty note, maybe after working for UNCLE for a time Illya dies or is recalled to Russia and they end up falling into a relationship with one another in his absence.

Once Upon a Time (TV)

Wishverse Captain Hook | Detective Rogers/Evil Queen | Regina Mills

Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Milah

Requesting my rarepairs with crossed fingers for this fandom. What I like about the fandom: Female character-focused action with the menfolk as supporting players. Ridiculous excuses to throw fairy tale worldbuilding in a blender.

For Wish Hook (Rogers)/Regina, something set in Hyperion Heights in S7 or in the Enchanted Forest post-series would be great. If during the curse, I love the idea of the recovering alcoholic Rogers and bartender Roni (Regina) having a mutual understanding, and maybe a "friends with benefits" kind of arrangement. Post-series, I like the idea of Wish Hook thinking Queen of All The Realms Regina is well out of his league, but Regina misses her friend, this softer, gentler version of Hook that she's come to really love.

For Hook/Milah, give me all the high romance and adventure of their time together as pirates before Milah's death. Or some kind of AU where she's able to return to Storybrooke from the Underworld. Their lack of closure burns at my soul, to be quite frank.

The Witcher (TV)

Geralt/Yennefer (Witcher TV)

Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (Witcher TV)

What I like about this fandom: A fun and solidly entertaining show that far exceeded my low expectations. Magic and weirdness and really embracing the full fantasy setting would be great for a fic or in art.

For Geralt/Yennefer - some missing scenes from the time between episodes would be great. It's clear that Geralt and Yennefer were alternately sexing and antagonizing one another semi-regularly. Tell me about or show me Geralt and Yennefer's sexcapades or them competing (as in episode 1.6) for a magical item or resource. (It seems like that wasn't the first time something like that happened.) Or, tell me about a different time they fought together on the same side--that whole battle-couple thing was *extremely* hot and clearly they'd done something similar before... Yen pegging Geralt would be excellent if that's of interest.

For Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer - Jaskier and Yennefer realizing that they're just one another's favorite kind of bitch and lovingly ganging up on (*cough* topping *cough*) Geralt when he's being an idiot would be fun. The threesome here can absolutely be v-shaped with Geralt as the point, or it can be totally mutual all the way around.

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