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Not Primetime Dear Author Letter 2016
Dear author person:
You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.
Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these awesome ladies in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I just love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as again I love these women, but don’t let that scare you off.
If none of the prompts/like list work for you, feel free to ignore them.
The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.
No Thanks: Slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, character death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), characters de-aged during the story (if you make one of the characters a child, make them “canon” children for that story if that makes sense), A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, amnesia fics, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage, gender swap, teacher/student stories, or focus on drug abuse or alcoholism. Regarding incest – I have exactly two sibling pairings that work there for me and I haven’t requested either fandom for this exchange, so please avoid that. Also, no parent/child pairings. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (enjoyed them in the past - just not in the mood this year).
For M-rated fics, for triggering reasons I have to shy away from knife play/blood play/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual connotation even including spanking/flogging.
Yes Please!: Post-apocalypse fic, slice of life/domestic fic, epistolary stories, teamfics, found family, crossovers, AUs (particularly coffee shop, Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions), outsider POVs, supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, OT3s, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, fics where characters have kids and are adorable parents, 5 and 1 style fics.
I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a clear top ordering their bottom around, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.
NOTE: I am VERY picky about my slash pairings and usually prefer Het except for a few exceptions. If you are a slasher and not a fan of the pairings suggested below, please go the gen route. I know my requests are often pretty shippy, but I am ALWAYS good with friend/found family fics.
Billy Bones – Black Sails (TV) I recently discovered this show and proceeded to binge watch everything there was for it in under two weeks. It is utterly brilliantly written, and I love everything about it. While all the characters are fantastic, Billy was a clear fave for me with his steady loyalty to his brothers despite the world having kicked him in the teeth on a regular basis. Totally a Hufflepuff, and I can’t help but love that. (It doesn’t hurt that Tom Hopper is gorgeous and 6’5” and I would climb him like a tree). I also was utterly enchanted with “literate pirate storyteller with bonus quill feather” that we got later in the series – as a writer, it was a bulletproof guarantee that I’d latch on to his character hard.
Mostly, I’d love to see Billy actually have a good day for this fic – seriously he has a hell of a time of it in the series, and I’d like to see something go his way for a change. Shipping wise, my faves are Billy/Abigail Ashe and Billy/Charles Vane (though please limit the dub con/non con elements that could crop up for this pairing), but I’m actually not a fan of Billy/James Flint. If you aren’t a shipper, asexual!Billy would be fantastic as would gen. I’d be especially interested to see him interact with any of the show’s fantastic ladies – he shares very little screen time with them in the series, so I’d be intrigued how a conversation might go between him and Abigail, Anne, Idelle, Miranda, Madi, or Max, perhaps. Basically, let him talk to a lady – he’s allowed LOL.
Hercules Hansen – Pacific Rim I enjoyed basically the entire cast of this movie, but really Herc’s who I’m focused on for this exchange. Something about Max Martini just kept my attention no matter who was on screen with him, and considering the gorgeous cast, that’s saying a helluva lot.
That said, I would LOVE some het-smut for him if you fancy that as there is very little to be found for him. Pairing wise, I’m good with his canon wife Angela (everybody lives much? *grin*), Mako, or even trio’d up with the Kaidanosky couple and/or Mako and Raleigh together. Hell, I’d be thrilled with a semi-anonymous OC too! Just make him the focus of attention please.
Also, if you want to go the cannon character deaths route, I really would love to see him get some kind of closure and healing after the film, whether on his own, or with Raleigh and Mako supporting him as friends (or even as lovers). Also, we know we’re getting a sequel at some point – what do you think would happen for Herc if that movie hits? Does he dive back into the battle as a pilot or help to lead a renewed Shatter Dome? Or does he wrestle with returning at all? Basically, I’d just like Herc as the focus of a fic that ends up on at least a hopeful if not outwardly happy note.
Beth Greene, Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead (TV) – Typical me to fall for a pairing LONG after one of them has been killed off on screen (this is what happens when I’m waiting to binge watch seasons on Netflix – le sigh). But yeah, Beth/Daryl (or Beth & Daryl if you don’t want to go the shippy route) had such a fantastic connection. I’d love anything with these two as long as they are both alive and well and as happy as is possible at the end of the world. Anything from fixit fics of any kind saving her life whether by stopping the abduction in the first place or having her escape the hospital or even complete AUs where zombies never existed could be fantastic (fave AUs are listed in my Like List btw).
Frank Castle, Karen Page – Daredevil (TV) OK for real, if Netflix wanted me to ship Karen/Matt, they should have kept Frank off screen, because holy HELLS that chemistry. It was a little ridiculous, and I want so much more of it. They were both just so fascinated by each other – the dynamic is so fraught with so many bad ideas, but I can’t help but wanting all of it. Karen as the investigative reporter just hits all of my competency buttons (her interactions with Ellison were surprise faves for me), and Frank, oh bless him Frank – his very dark, very wry stealth sense of humor got me every time, and I just ACHED for him. While yeah, I ship the hell out of these two, gen/friendship fic would definitely be welcome, though I’d prefer they weren’t dating other people in the background.
Ashley Magnus, Henry Foss – Sanctuary (TV) This show was just a laundry list of all the things I love best in fic, from the badass ladies, to the cryptids/Abnormals, to the Steampunk details showing up in Helen’s history and all of Henry’s tech. Just too much fun!
This is definitely another one where I ship it like Fedex. All through the first season I hoped this pairing might end up happening. Henry was so blatantly crushing on his young buddy, but never pushed at her, and I really liked that aspect to their relationship. Plus I thought they made a really interesting partnership with her being the one physically stronger at first glance, but only because he chose not to embrace the physical side of his shape shifting. Plus courtship through fun weaponry just made me smile like a loon. I’d been good with a pre-Ashley’s abduction fic or an AU where she survived or was found alive. Mostly I just want to see these two being adorable together.
Don’t be too intimidated by the overly-shippy prompts, though. I’d be great with Abnormal Hunter!Bros with these two, as well.
You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.
Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these awesome ladies in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I just love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any shape and size. I know this letter is ridiculously long as again I love these women, but don’t let that scare you off.
If none of the prompts/like list work for you, feel free to ignore them.
The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.
No Thanks: Slave worlds, demon-possession, mind control, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, character death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), characters de-aged during the story (if you make one of the characters a child, make them “canon” children for that story if that makes sense), A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, amnesia fics, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage, gender swap, teacher/student stories, or focus on drug abuse or alcoholism. Regarding incest – I have exactly two sibling pairings that work there for me and I haven’t requested either fandom for this exchange, so please avoid that. Also, no parent/child pairings. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (enjoyed them in the past - just not in the mood this year).
For M-rated fics, for triggering reasons I have to shy away from knife play/blood play/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual connotation even including spanking/flogging.
Yes Please!: Post-apocalypse fic, slice of life/domestic fic, epistolary stories, teamfics, found family, crossovers, AUs (particularly coffee shop, Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions), outsider POVs, supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, OT3s, fixit fics to bring back killed off characters, fics where characters have kids and are adorable parents, 5 and 1 style fics.
I’m definitely OK with an M-rating, and for smutty fics, I particularly love dirty talk, a clear top ordering their bottom around, hair-pulling, restraint i.e.: ropes/shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.
NOTE: I am VERY picky about my slash pairings and usually prefer Het except for a few exceptions. If you are a slasher and not a fan of the pairings suggested below, please go the gen route. I know my requests are often pretty shippy, but I am ALWAYS good with friend/found family fics.
Billy Bones – Black Sails (TV) I recently discovered this show and proceeded to binge watch everything there was for it in under two weeks. It is utterly brilliantly written, and I love everything about it. While all the characters are fantastic, Billy was a clear fave for me with his steady loyalty to his brothers despite the world having kicked him in the teeth on a regular basis. Totally a Hufflepuff, and I can’t help but love that. (It doesn’t hurt that Tom Hopper is gorgeous and 6’5” and I would climb him like a tree). I also was utterly enchanted with “literate pirate storyteller with bonus quill feather” that we got later in the series – as a writer, it was a bulletproof guarantee that I’d latch on to his character hard.
Mostly, I’d love to see Billy actually have a good day for this fic – seriously he has a hell of a time of it in the series, and I’d like to see something go his way for a change. Shipping wise, my faves are Billy/Abigail Ashe and Billy/Charles Vane (though please limit the dub con/non con elements that could crop up for this pairing), but I’m actually not a fan of Billy/James Flint. If you aren’t a shipper, asexual!Billy would be fantastic as would gen. I’d be especially interested to see him interact with any of the show’s fantastic ladies – he shares very little screen time with them in the series, so I’d be intrigued how a conversation might go between him and Abigail, Anne, Idelle, Miranda, Madi, or Max, perhaps. Basically, let him talk to a lady – he’s allowed LOL.
Hercules Hansen – Pacific Rim I enjoyed basically the entire cast of this movie, but really Herc’s who I’m focused on for this exchange. Something about Max Martini just kept my attention no matter who was on screen with him, and considering the gorgeous cast, that’s saying a helluva lot.
That said, I would LOVE some het-smut for him if you fancy that as there is very little to be found for him. Pairing wise, I’m good with his canon wife Angela (everybody lives much? *grin*), Mako, or even trio’d up with the Kaidanosky couple and/or Mako and Raleigh together. Hell, I’d be thrilled with a semi-anonymous OC too! Just make him the focus of attention please.
Also, if you want to go the cannon character deaths route, I really would love to see him get some kind of closure and healing after the film, whether on his own, or with Raleigh and Mako supporting him as friends (or even as lovers). Also, we know we’re getting a sequel at some point – what do you think would happen for Herc if that movie hits? Does he dive back into the battle as a pilot or help to lead a renewed Shatter Dome? Or does he wrestle with returning at all? Basically, I’d just like Herc as the focus of a fic that ends up on at least a hopeful if not outwardly happy note.
Beth Greene, Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead (TV) – Typical me to fall for a pairing LONG after one of them has been killed off on screen (this is what happens when I’m waiting to binge watch seasons on Netflix – le sigh). But yeah, Beth/Daryl (or Beth & Daryl if you don’t want to go the shippy route) had such a fantastic connection. I’d love anything with these two as long as they are both alive and well and as happy as is possible at the end of the world. Anything from fixit fics of any kind saving her life whether by stopping the abduction in the first place or having her escape the hospital or even complete AUs where zombies never existed could be fantastic (fave AUs are listed in my Like List btw).
Frank Castle, Karen Page – Daredevil (TV) OK for real, if Netflix wanted me to ship Karen/Matt, they should have kept Frank off screen, because holy HELLS that chemistry. It was a little ridiculous, and I want so much more of it. They were both just so fascinated by each other – the dynamic is so fraught with so many bad ideas, but I can’t help but wanting all of it. Karen as the investigative reporter just hits all of my competency buttons (her interactions with Ellison were surprise faves for me), and Frank, oh bless him Frank – his very dark, very wry stealth sense of humor got me every time, and I just ACHED for him. While yeah, I ship the hell out of these two, gen/friendship fic would definitely be welcome, though I’d prefer they weren’t dating other people in the background.
Ashley Magnus, Henry Foss – Sanctuary (TV) This show was just a laundry list of all the things I love best in fic, from the badass ladies, to the cryptids/Abnormals, to the Steampunk details showing up in Helen’s history and all of Henry’s tech. Just too much fun!
This is definitely another one where I ship it like Fedex. All through the first season I hoped this pairing might end up happening. Henry was so blatantly crushing on his young buddy, but never pushed at her, and I really liked that aspect to their relationship. Plus I thought they made a really interesting partnership with her being the one physically stronger at first glance, but only because he chose not to embrace the physical side of his shape shifting. Plus courtship through fun weaponry just made me smile like a loon. I’d been good with a pre-Ashley’s abduction fic or an AU where she survived or was found alive. Mostly I just want to see these two being adorable together.
Don’t be too intimidated by the overly-shippy prompts, though. I’d be great with Abnormal Hunter!Bros with these two, as well.