Dear FicinaBox 2023 Writer
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hiddencaitDear FicinaBox 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 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 it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for and again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.
The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.
DO NOT WANT: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing 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, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format or if for a fandom already in that POV (i.e. 1st person in Innkeeper Chronicles fic).
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/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire style a bonus! – 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 just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings.
Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!
MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins here for each of my fandom requests. I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bestiary
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scrapbook
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
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Requests:
Sense and Sensiblity – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on long before I reread the book and realized I had NO IDEA why Elinor/Brandon wasn’t the original end game. The sheer amount of mutual admiration society moments literally on the page just floors me every time I read it now LOL. And honestly, Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with their quiet glorious competence and a respect between them that I could see growing into a strong love and contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (let’s face it, I’m so gung ho for the pairing because I think instead it will be MUCH stronger). I definitely do want shippyness for this request though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other because they can’t have the person they originally wanted in Marianne or Edward. I’m honestly ambivalent about what happens to Edward, poor chap. He just never struck me as having much of a spine, and Elinor needs the kind of man who will stand up for her as opposed to just gazing at her uselessly while knowing he isn’t free to pursue her. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from other Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover – Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).
Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley, Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley & Bishop & Rebecca “Newt” Jordan
Why yes yes there is a reason I specifically nominated just this specific movie instead of the canonical Alien Quadrilogy – because let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for this little found family of survivors and this couple and their off the charts chemistry and competency kink. It’s one of my top comfort movies – full of space horror and space marines and one scared little girl who manages to live against all possible odds and an android that is far more human that the company asshole along for the ride. And then there’s Ripley – have I mentioned our lady and savior badass extroidinaire and all around incredibly gorgeous human, Ellen Ripley? There literally is nothing I don’t love about this character, holy hell. Seriously I just want these three to survive after the end of the film (3rd movie – what 3rd movie?), however you manage to do it, whether it’s rewriting the canon events of the 3rd movie to have all of them there and surviving that hell, too, or they take off for parts unknown, or continue to be hunted by Weyland-Yutani – just SOMETHING with this little quartet will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley if that floats your boat! One final little detail, the only negative of this movie was that there wasn’t enough of Jonesy the cat – I know bringing him back into the thick of things could be complicated given he was left on the station, but I’d love to see Ripley get her kitty back.
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 watched – 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. Also, epistolary elements and/or Lady Whistledown content would be a TON of fun for this one. Finally, this is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).
Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson
Oh 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 headcanon him as demisexual (on the ace spectrum and unlikely to feel sexual attraction until an emotional connection is made), so including that would be a bonus, but is not necessary (really tho, how many folks flirted with him and he legit never noticed or just bluescreened – that poor assassin who tried to hit on him was SO confused LOLOL). For SG1 pairings, the more I rewatch it, the more I’m solely in it for Daniel/Sha-re or Daniel/Janet lately, (Probably because some of the other pairings (including w/villains) are much more prevalent) though I am totally game for some Sam & Daniel brotp! Otherwise, I really love crossover pairings for him, actually, including any of the Atlantis ladies, Hermione Granger (of legal age), Faith Lehane, & Darcy Lewis, but I’m always willing to see new het crossover pairings for him if it’s a fandom I’m familiar with. I’m a multi-shipper for sure, so I’m willing to be surprised – especially with characters from some of the other fandoms here. Just please avoid noncon/dubcon for him. Also, if you are a M/M shipper for him, please go the gen route as there’s a lot of M/M out there for him and I’m not in the mood for it lately. Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel 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 him something relaxing and domestic 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, especially after his infamous presentation way back when. So how does he do so? Feel free to bring in Sam or some of the other researchers with this one, or even make it shippy: 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.” 3) Daniel goes to Atlantis for longer than a couple episodes – he deserves it! Whether he was a part of the original expedition or actually makes it there during one of the times Vala interrupts his plans, or even if things go FUBAR and the whole of SGC has to retreat from Earth to Atlantis. I just want him to get to know the city he searched so long for. I’m also definitely a fan of semi-sentient but maybe non-verbal Atlantis having her faves, and with or without the gene (though I am game for him to have gotten it post-Ascensions), Daniel could easily be one of those faves. 4) Kidfic! It may have been Michael Shanks’s fatherhood experience coming through but MAN Daniel was always so sweet when they encountered kiddos. I’d love to see him get to be a dad, adopted or otherwise. Did Oma manage to remove Shifu’s powers so he could grow up a normal kid with Daniel? Is Daniel co-parenting Cassie (shippy Janet option right there!)? Or even that little girl from Birthright – it would be a helluva culture shock for her on Earth, but you never know! Seriously, I just would love to see gooddad!Daniel here. 5) Another shippy option: 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. 6) 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!
Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
And now for Michael Shanks playing someone COMPLETELY different than above LOL. This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character hands down only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightfully attractive way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks! Oh hey I am game for twins separated by the foster system Victor Stecker-Epps and Daniel Jackson shenanigans if you are a fan of both shows – talk about a culture shock if the two ever collided!
Black Sails
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones
Let’s be honest, if you decided to write for this pairing, then you probably are already on this little rowboat of a ship with me and don’t need my spiel about these two in particular. So how about some prompts instead? 1. AU where Billy really is someone she might have known back in England. Bookish Abigail keeps buying journals & stationary at the same printer’s shop for reasons, and society ends up scandalized when the daughter of a governor forms an attachment to the son of a Leveler. 2. Billy courting Abigail be in in an AU in England or in Nassau. Is he good at it? Is he rubbish at it? Is he so painfully adorable that we (and Abigail) don’t care either way? 3. Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times! 4. Modern AU firefighter!Billy. I’ll admit I’ve written a fill for this prompt before, but I just don’t think there can be enough of it LOL. (And yes these two prompts are the exception to my ‘no Modern AUs rule lol) 5. Really just Abigail climbing Billy like a tree because smut is always acceptable.
Abigail Ashe/Charles Vane
Abigail was raised a gentlewoman, but clearly is a little more bloodthirsty and less intimidated by pirates than she should be, and that just DESTROYS ME. Her response to Vane of “Good” will never fail to be delightfully chilling, and I can see that steel in her definitely catching Charles’s attention. Without Eleanor there to blind him with their tumultuous history and sexual attention, I can see that bit of intrigue growing into a grudging respect and later into attraction. However you get them back in the same location, whether the crew finds Abigail during the sacking of Charles Town and takes her with them on the ship or if she finds her way to Nassau due to her reputation being ‘ruined’ in the eyes of society – I’m really not picky on the details. I just want to see these two together, preferably with both enthusiastically consenting. Also pirate!Abigail would definitely be something I’d enjoy for this pairing for sure! And as above: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones/Charles Vane
What can I say: my answer to any ships where I can see multiple pairings/connections of the same few folks is, of course, to just trio them all together! And hey Black Sails is a canon threesomes fandom so I think adding another OT3 just makes it even better, don’t you? No specific details for this one, though I do have several AU prompts: 1) The Walking Dead AU, preferably in the Modern universe since I’ve gotten a GLORIOUS Black Sails era zombie fic previously! I have no idea why that specific scenario sounds so fun for this trio; it just does. All other characters as survivors definitely welcome just as long as these three are the core of the story. 2) also a delight on the AU side would be a Pacific Rim AU, Black Jewels AU, or Western AU – really I don’t know why but this trio makes AUs pop into my head lol. 3) Finally, for all 3 of this fandom’s requests, I’m totally on board with the same prompt: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!
Crossover Fandoms
Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two 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). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do prefer River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River and vice versus!
Primeval
Hilary James Becker/Jess Parker
I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve been missing this ridiculously delightful pair of tol and smol and sunshine/grump. Jess Parker is just an utter delight of color and unexpected competence at her job being so often underestimated, and it’s such a great contrast to Mr. “I only wear black and something switched me from a soldier to a private security force (possibly an something with a timeline shift no one noticed oops) but overall I. Am. Very. Serious.” And thus doesn’t have time for bright and lovely Jess Parker. Not even if she thinks he has lovely hair and he brings her chocolate-without-orange when she’s brilliant which is always. Seriously I can’t with this dynamic and these two! Regarding prompts, I love me some “stranded through the anomaly” stories, and anything where Jess gets to show she’s competent in the field as well as behind her desk is also a delight! Alternately something strictly shippy be it fluffy or smutty or both, and I’ll be a happy camper. Just give me more of these two making me smile!
Welp, that’s what I’ve got. Congratulations – if you made it here, you read through the longest Dear Author letter I’ve ever written (and I regret NOTHING lol).
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 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 it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for and again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.
The only thing I do ask is that my No-Thanks list be avoided.
DO NOT WANT: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing 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, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format or if for a fandom already in that POV (i.e. 1st person in Innkeeper Chronicles fic).
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/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Regency era, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, dragon rider – either Pern or Temeraire style a bonus! – 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 just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings.
Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!
MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins here for each of my fandom requests. I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bestiary
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scrapbook
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover
Requests:
Sense and Sensiblity – Jane Austen
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on long before I reread the book and realized I had NO IDEA why Elinor/Brandon wasn’t the original end game. The sheer amount of mutual admiration society moments literally on the page just floors me every time I read it now LOL. And honestly, Elinor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with their quiet glorious competence and a respect between them that I could see growing into a strong love and contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (let’s face it, I’m so gung ho for the pairing because I think instead it will be MUCH stronger). I definitely do want shippyness for this request though it definitely can be pre-ship. I would prefer if you didn’t kill off or thoroughly ruin Marianne to make it happen, but I do want my Brandon and Eleanor to end up together and happily in love instead of the attitude that they are just “settling” for each other because they can’t have the person they originally wanted in Marianne or Edward. I’m honestly ambivalent about what happens to Edward, poor chap. He just never struck me as having much of a spine, and Elinor needs the kind of man who will stand up for her as opposed to just gazing at her uselessly while knowing he isn’t free to pursue her. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from other Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover – Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).
Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley, Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley & Bishop & Rebecca “Newt” Jordan
Why yes yes there is a reason I specifically nominated just this specific movie instead of the canonical Alien Quadrilogy – because let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for this little found family of survivors and this couple and their off the charts chemistry and competency kink. It’s one of my top comfort movies – full of space horror and space marines and one scared little girl who manages to live against all possible odds and an android that is far more human that the company asshole along for the ride. And then there’s Ripley – have I mentioned our lady and savior badass extroidinaire and all around incredibly gorgeous human, Ellen Ripley? There literally is nothing I don’t love about this character, holy hell. Seriously I just want these three to survive after the end of the film (3rd movie – what 3rd movie?), however you manage to do it, whether it’s rewriting the canon events of the 3rd movie to have all of them there and surviving that hell, too, or they take off for parts unknown, or continue to be hunted by Weyland-Yutani – just SOMETHING with this little quartet will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley if that floats your boat! One final little detail, the only negative of this movie was that there wasn’t enough of Jonesy the cat – I know bringing him back into the thick of things could be complicated given he was left on the station, but I’d love to see Ripley get her kitty back.
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 watched – 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. Also, epistolary elements and/or Lady Whistledown content would be a TON of fun for this one. Finally, this is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, and Sanditon are my other faves tho I’ve only seen S1 of the latter. Lady Whistledown’s opinion of Jane Austen couples anyone?).
Stargate SG1
Daniel Jackson
Oh 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 headcanon him as demisexual (on the ace spectrum and unlikely to feel sexual attraction until an emotional connection is made), so including that would be a bonus, but is not necessary (really tho, how many folks flirted with him and he legit never noticed or just bluescreened – that poor assassin who tried to hit on him was SO confused LOLOL). For SG1 pairings, the more I rewatch it, the more I’m solely in it for Daniel/Sha-re or Daniel/Janet lately, (Probably because some of the other pairings (including w/villains) are much more prevalent) though I am totally game for some Sam & Daniel brotp! Otherwise, I really love crossover pairings for him, actually, including any of the Atlantis ladies, Hermione Granger (of legal age), Faith Lehane, & Darcy Lewis, but I’m always willing to see new het crossover pairings for him if it’s a fandom I’m familiar with. I’m a multi-shipper for sure, so I’m willing to be surprised – especially with characters from some of the other fandoms here. Just please avoid noncon/dubcon for him. Also, if you are a M/M shipper for him, please go the gen route as there’s a lot of M/M out there for him and I’m not in the mood for it lately. Story Prompts! 1) Give Daniel 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 him something relaxing and domestic 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, especially after his infamous presentation way back when. So how does he do so? Feel free to bring in Sam or some of the other researchers with this one, or even make it shippy: 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.” 3) Daniel goes to Atlantis for longer than a couple episodes – he deserves it! Whether he was a part of the original expedition or actually makes it there during one of the times Vala interrupts his plans, or even if things go FUBAR and the whole of SGC has to retreat from Earth to Atlantis. I just want him to get to know the city he searched so long for. I’m also definitely a fan of semi-sentient but maybe non-verbal Atlantis having her faves, and with or without the gene (though I am game for him to have gotten it post-Ascensions), Daniel could easily be one of those faves. 4) Kidfic! It may have been Michael Shanks’s fatherhood experience coming through but MAN Daniel was always so sweet when they encountered kiddos. I’d love to see him get to be a dad, adopted or otherwise. Did Oma manage to remove Shifu’s powers so he could grow up a normal kid with Daniel? Is Daniel co-parenting Cassie (shippy Janet option right there!)? Or even that little girl from Birthright – it would be a helluva culture shock for her on Earth, but you never know! Seriously, I just would love to see gooddad!Daniel here. 5) Another shippy option: 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. 6) 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!
Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
And now for Michael Shanks playing someone COMPLETELY different than above LOL. This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character hands down only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightfully attractive way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks! Oh hey I am game for twins separated by the foster system Victor Stecker-Epps and Daniel Jackson shenanigans if you are a fan of both shows – talk about a culture shock if the two ever collided!
Black Sails
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones
Let’s be honest, if you decided to write for this pairing, then you probably are already on this little rowboat of a ship with me and don’t need my spiel about these two in particular. So how about some prompts instead? 1. AU where Billy really is someone she might have known back in England. Bookish Abigail keeps buying journals & stationary at the same printer’s shop for reasons, and society ends up scandalized when the daughter of a governor forms an attachment to the son of a Leveler. 2. Billy courting Abigail be in in an AU in England or in Nassau. Is he good at it? Is he rubbish at it? Is he so painfully adorable that we (and Abigail) don’t care either way? 3. Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times! 4. Modern AU firefighter!Billy. I’ll admit I’ve written a fill for this prompt before, but I just don’t think there can be enough of it LOL. (And yes these two prompts are the exception to my ‘no Modern AUs rule lol) 5. Really just Abigail climbing Billy like a tree because smut is always acceptable.
Abigail Ashe/Charles Vane
Abigail was raised a gentlewoman, but clearly is a little more bloodthirsty and less intimidated by pirates than she should be, and that just DESTROYS ME. Her response to Vane of “Good” will never fail to be delightfully chilling, and I can see that steel in her definitely catching Charles’s attention. Without Eleanor there to blind him with their tumultuous history and sexual attention, I can see that bit of intrigue growing into a grudging respect and later into attraction. However you get them back in the same location, whether the crew finds Abigail during the sacking of Charles Town and takes her with them on the ship or if she finds her way to Nassau due to her reputation being ‘ruined’ in the eyes of society – I’m really not picky on the details. I just want to see these two together, preferably with both enthusiastically consenting. Also pirate!Abigail would definitely be something I’d enjoy for this pairing for sure! And as above: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!
Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones/Charles Vane
What can I say: my answer to any ships where I can see multiple pairings/connections of the same few folks is, of course, to just trio them all together! And hey Black Sails is a canon threesomes fandom so I think adding another OT3 just makes it even better, don’t you? No specific details for this one, though I do have several AU prompts: 1) The Walking Dead AU, preferably in the Modern universe since I’ve gotten a GLORIOUS Black Sails era zombie fic previously! I have no idea why that specific scenario sounds so fun for this trio; it just does. All other characters as survivors definitely welcome just as long as these three are the core of the story. 2) also a delight on the AU side would be a Pacific Rim AU, Black Jewels AU, or Western AU – really I don’t know why but this trio makes AUs pop into my head lol. 3) Finally, for all 3 of this fandom’s requests, I’m totally on board with the same prompt: Modern AU shipwreck divers/salvagers or marine biologists! Are they cryptid hunters after deep sea mermaids ala ROLLING IN THE DEEP by Mira Grant? Are they salvaging from wrecks illegally ala piracy? Are they part of an ocean going archeological study? Basically put these folks in the water in Modern times!
Crossover Fandoms
Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two 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). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do prefer River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River and vice versus!
Primeval
Hilary James Becker/Jess Parker
I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve been missing this ridiculously delightful pair of tol and smol and sunshine/grump. Jess Parker is just an utter delight of color and unexpected competence at her job being so often underestimated, and it’s such a great contrast to Mr. “I only wear black and something switched me from a soldier to a private security force (possibly an something with a timeline shift no one noticed oops) but overall I. Am. Very. Serious.” And thus doesn’t have time for bright and lovely Jess Parker. Not even if she thinks he has lovely hair and he brings her chocolate-without-orange when she’s brilliant which is always. Seriously I can’t with this dynamic and these two! Regarding prompts, I love me some “stranded through the anomaly” stories, and anything where Jess gets to show she’s competent in the field as well as behind her desk is also a delight! Alternately something strictly shippy be it fluffy or smutty or both, and I’ll be a happy camper. Just give me more of these two making me smile!
Welp, that’s what I’ve got. Congratulations – if you made it here, you read through the longest Dear Author letter I’ve ever written (and I regret NOTHING lol).
