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Shipoween 2020 Letter
Sep. 10th, 2020 11:27 pmThanks 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)
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:
The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
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:
The Witcher (TV)
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:
For Geralt/Yennefer:
For Geralt/Jaskier:
General Likes and Preferences
Setting tropes and AU premises I Love:
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)
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
- 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)
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)
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.
- 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
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
