Dear RarePair 2023 Writer Letter
Jun. 7th, 2023 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Dear RarePair Writer,
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 fandoms and pairings in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I 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 fandoms and tend to babble, but don’t let that scare you off. Honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing! Note: I do have more prompts for the Stargate SG1 request, but that’s only because I recycled some of it from a previous exchange. I definitely love all of these fandoms equally – no matter how much or little I have in their section!
The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.
DNW: I’m really more into fluff/happy/angst-with-a-happy-ending fics than darker subject matter, so most of my DNWs are on the angstier subject matter side: infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character major character death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, incest, or Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.
For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.
Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domesticfic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs/fusions (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, and 5 and 1 style fics.
For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: 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.
Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing. I love all of these characters, so would happily accept one pair meeting another or even the pairs themselves mixed and matched beyond the people they’re requested with. The only caveat is that I do tend to prefer het or femmeslash, so please keep that in mind.
Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!
Bridgerton (TV)
Benedict Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
Y’all I don’t even go here *headdesk* This is one that a fandom friend completely won me over to with a really stunning fic (for a fandom I haven’t even watch – why why do I let my writer friends do this to me??? LOLOL), and now I just want more of it. Give me all the mutual respect between creatives and Penelope figuring out there’s a Bridgerton who isn’t afraid for it to be known he’s attracted to her. Seriously, the girl is stunning – give the curvy girl some love! BTW I know I mention it above, but I really love for this to remain in the Regency (ish lol) world of the show as opposed to any modern AUs.
Chronicles of Riddick Verse
Richard B. Riddick/Original Character(s)
Oof, this is legit one of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). In any case, I am a SHIP RIDDICK WITH SO MANY THINGS kind of person, though I do prefer them to be female or femme non-binary type folks. But beyond that feel free to go wild. Is it another Furyan he stumbles on? A regular human who’s going through hell and finds a monster to drag her out of it? A bounty hunter who changes her mind? Riddick is another I’m gave for a crossover pairing with if you wish as well. Really as long as my gender preferences are followed, I’m good to go!
Pride and Prejudice
Catherine Bennet/Original Male Character; Colonel Fitzwilliam/Charlotte Lucas; Colonel Fitzwilliam/Jane Bennet
Y’all, I love Jane Austen fanfiction – I even happily buy some of the published ones. My faves tho are the ones focusing on the side characters as opposed to the main couples, and MAN this exchange gives me the opportunity to ask for some fun ones! All of the above four characters always deserved better than what the book gave them in my opinion, and I’m thrilled to see how you can get them to their happily ever afters. I’m legitimately fine with any of these pairings – just let them be happy at the end and give me the lovely Regency setting!
Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson/Sha’re; Daniel Jackson/Janet Fraiser
Oh Daniel my darling Daniel-in-Distress, polyglot extroidinaire, kind to the bones, still trying desperately to hold on to that wonder at the universe and archeology, I SWEAR! I won’t lie, he is 90% of my love for these two requests, but I do adore both ladies as well, I promise LOL. But yeah, Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel and his lady love (whichever you choose) a Good DayTM – bless him I don’t think the man has really RESTED since the series started, even after coming back from the dead multiple times. Just give them something relaxing and domestic and fluffy and romantic and non-life threatening please lol. 2) Academia woes! We know he has all the PhDs ever & generally you need to publish or attend conferences etc to keep up your identity in the academic world. I know the Stargate Program makes this… exciting to manage. So how do they manage it? Give me a medical conference with Daniel as Janet’s arm candy or an archeology conference with folks very confused by Daniel’s pretty wife’s fluency when she “doesn’t have a degree or experience.” LOL 3) Sha’re Lives AU – how is she saved or is she never taken? What would the pair of them be like with the SGC in that case? Would he or she still be on a gate team or would they have a more on-site role? I would want them with the SGC tho as opposed to just on Abydos. 4) Related LOL Janet Lives AU – throw her into the mix of Season 9 & 10 (whether in place of Vala and/or Caroline or just in addition to them, I care not which). Both actors really felt these two should be shipped, and how can I argue? Basically just let Janet climb Daniel like a tree. Height kink for the win!
Welp that’s all I’ve got! I hope it inspired you and that you have fun writing for me! *massive hugs*