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Dear RarePair Author Writer
May. 10th, 2024 03:44 pmDear 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/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!
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 styles 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!
Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)
Victoria “Tori” Stewart/Olivia Sanderson
Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. I’m also a fan of worldbuilding/mixed media, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive and TOTALLY ship Olivia/Tori– fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The other/previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet tho they are on my list).
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read (and am actually rereading) the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married live goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL.
Sense and Sensibility – 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) or even North and South and/or Bridgerton for Lady Whistledown-esque society pages.
Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley
Let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for the little found family of survivors at the end of the movie 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 them 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 for these lovelies will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley! 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.
Crossover Fandom
Sansa Stark (ISOIAF)/Aragorn (LOTR)
I’ve been in a “ship Sansa with people who treat her like a queen” mood, and this crossover pairing has SO MUCH potential. I think I’d prefer it set in one world or the other, but I have read some awesome “slip from one universe to another fic” if that’s really what you are in the mood to write. Regardless of how you get them together, I would prefer no bashing of Arwen as she is glorious – she just isn’t meant to be with Aragorn for this exchange lol. But yeah, Sansa deserved SO MUCH BETTER, and Aragorn is one of my early (probably too early honestly) fantasy crushes. Oh! I also think I would prefer Sansa to be human in either world, but yeah, other than that – run amok! Courtly love! Political shenanigans that a king must deal with no matter than he still feels more like a Ranger! Letters between an arranged marriage! Sansa serving and caring for her people during a war (whichever war you decide on)! I’m just fascinated by the thought of these two – I look forward to seeing what you write!
And that’s it for my requests this year! If you made it this far, you are amazing. And regardless, I am super excited about whatever you write for me!
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/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!
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 styles 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!
Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)
Victoria “Tori” Stewart/Olivia Sanderson
Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. I’m also a fan of worldbuilding/mixed media, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive and TOTALLY ship Olivia/Tori– fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The other/previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet tho they are on my list).
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Hale, John Thornton
Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read (and am actually rereading) the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married live goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL.
Sense and Sensibility – 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) or even North and South and/or Bridgerton for Lady Whistledown-esque society pages.
Aliens (1986)
Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley
Let’s be honest, I am 100% solely in this fandom for the little found family of survivors at the end of the movie 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 them 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 for these lovelies will thrill me. And yes, I happily welcome smut for Hicks and Ripley! 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.
Crossover Fandom
Sansa Stark (ISOIAF)/Aragorn (LOTR)
I’ve been in a “ship Sansa with people who treat her like a queen” mood, and this crossover pairing has SO MUCH potential. I think I’d prefer it set in one world or the other, but I have read some awesome “slip from one universe to another fic” if that’s really what you are in the mood to write. Regardless of how you get them together, I would prefer no bashing of Arwen as she is glorious – she just isn’t meant to be with Aragorn for this exchange lol. But yeah, Sansa deserved SO MUCH BETTER, and Aragorn is one of my early (probably too early honestly) fantasy crushes. Oh! I also think I would prefer Sansa to be human in either world, but yeah, other than that – run amok! Courtly love! Political shenanigans that a king must deal with no matter than he still feels more like a Ranger! Letters between an arranged marriage! Sansa serving and caring for her people during a war (whichever war you decide on)! I’m just fascinated by the thought of these two – I look forward to seeing what you write!
And that’s it for my requests this year! If you made it this far, you are amazing. And regardless, I am super excited about whatever you write for me!
