RarePair Madness Dear Author Letter 2021

Dear 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 I tend to babble and want to offer as much inspiration as possible, but don’t let that scare you off.

DNW:  Infertility/miscarriage; Covid; slave worlds; possession/mind control; prostitution; noncom/dubcon; requested character death; non-canon infidelity; love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up); A/B/O; gangster/mob/noir settings; Modern AUs that remove canon SFF elements; amnesia; loss of limb/amputations; mpreg; gender swap; teacher/student relationships; focus on drug abuse/alcoholism; or non-canon sibling incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs (Unless the source material for the fandom is in 1st person – then go for it!).  

 
For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play (only in a sexual context – canon action scene type violence is fine); embarrassment/mocking of a Sub by their Dom; scat and/or watersports; rape-as-fantasy-scenes; and any kind of direct blow in a sexual connotation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Competency kink, post-apocalypse; slice of life/domestic fic; epistolary/found documents style stories; found family dynamics; crossovers between requested fandoms; crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series; AUs (particularly Regency, Black Jewels trilogy verse, steampunk, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusions); outsider POVs; supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc.; fixit fics to bring back killed off characters; and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rated fics, I particularly love dirty talk; Dom/Sub dynamic (Service Dom and Service Sub a plus); a Dom ordering their Sub around; hair-pulling; restraint i.e.: ropes/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 always game for stories that crossover any of my requested fandoms/characters if crossovers are your thing!

 

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 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. 4. Really just Abigail climbing Billy like a tree because smut is always acceptable.

Abigail Ashe/Charles Vane
Abigail was raised a gentlewoman but clearly a little 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 intrigued 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. Also pirate!Abigail would definitely be something I’d enjoy for this pairing for sure!

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? All I really ask is that Abigail not be sidelined while Billy and Charles get together/are together. A couple at the start that then adds the third in before the end of the story is great - but I really want the trio as the focus. Otherwise, no specific details for this one, though I do have one prompt I’ve been craving forever: 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 chore of the story.  

 

Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum
My fave pairing for this fandom, no lie! I’d love epistolary romances for these two complete with letters if that’s your thing, or Canon AUs where they end up together either earlier in the series or after the war. Intelligent and athletic Viktor being utterly smitten with the brilliant woman he sees in Hermione. (Note: I do headcanon Viktor as 17 during the Tournament and Hermione being almost 16 due to her early birthday making her a year older than her year mates AND the essentially extra year she lived thanks to the time turner. I am not game for a 14 year old and an 18 year old.) No Harry bashing please - I like his and Hermione's friendship too much for that. Ron bashing is at your discretion.

 

Crossover Fandoms

Daniel Jackson/Faith Lehane
Confession: Daniel Jackson is pretty much my little black dress across MULTIPLE fandoms at this point though I rarely remember to request him oddly enough LOL. So he will be in several of these requests LOL. But to start off: I’ve seen some awesome Buffy/SG1 crossovers, but lately realized I’ve seen very few (if any) with my all time fave Buffy character, Faith Lehane. I think she and Daniel could be a very intriguing pairing for sure, and there are so many ways for Faith to be thrown in to Daniel’s path on this world or another.

Daniel Jackson/Darcy Lewis
Hey look it’s one of my OTHER multi-fandom little black dresses in the snarky and fabulous Darcy Lewis. I love that she speaks fluent sarcasm, can translate for researchers into real people speech (I have done this in my day jobs so I know how hard it actually is LOL), and bonus is impressively unflappable when dealing with otherworldly beings and shenanigans. Seriously, Darcy would be an asset to SGC – just possibly not one everyone would recognize the value of up front. But Daniel – he tends to notice potential in people even if he is easily distracted by his work. I’d love to see Darcy pull him out of the shell he’s built around himself romantically, much like Vala did in the series… only with more attention to Daniel actually CONSENTING whereas Vala seemed to steamroll right over his refusals lol.

 

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 
Colonel Brandon, Eleanor Dashwood

This pairing is one that fandom totally sold me on. Eleanor and Brandon really do feel like a better match than the ones they got, with a quiet glorious competence and respect between them that I could see growing into a strong, contented marriage. It might be a quieter love than one with Marianne involved, but that doesn’t mean it would be any less strong (honestly in my opinion I think that would be a stronger relationship!). I definitely do want shippyness for this fandom if possible 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. This is another that I’d be especially game for crossovers for, especially with other Austin stories (Pride & Prejudice and Sanditon are my other faves) or the other fandoms requested here.

 

Northmen: A Viking Saga 

Asbjorn/Inghean

Tom Hopper pulled me into this teeny tiny fandom after Black Sails moved him to the top of my fandom boyfriend list. I gotta admit, it’s such a terrible movie objectively, but it totally appeals to my love of questionable action movies. We get all the Tom Hopper biceps you might hope for in his character (and the lead) Asbjorn, though sadly he never takes the shirt completely off. As the leader of the exiled and shipwrecked Vikings, he’s awesomely competent and has mad chemistry with the female lead (the only one in the entire film sadly), Inghean. She is a Scottish princess the Vikings kidnap in hopes of ransom only to discover her father prefers to see her dead than pay for her safe return. She also is the source of the one fantasy element in the film: an earth sense that warns her when the group is in danger. All in all, I just desperately want a post-movie fic with these two. The movie ended so very abruptly, and there was so much more of the story hanging. How do they all survive the long boat? Do they ever find safety? Is it at the Viking encampment they hoped to find? Does Inghean’s earth sense end up more under control or cause people to see her as a witch? Will Inghean and Asbjorn EVER do more than stare at each other longingly? 

 

 

Whew that’s it, I think! I’m impressed if you managed to read through all of this ridiculously long letter, but I appreciate it if you did and I’m so so excited to see what you come up with!