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Dear HetSwap Letter
Jul. 20th, 2020 09:01 amDear HetSwap Gifter,
Whee it’s that time again! I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to sign up, but I just couldn’t resist because this is always such a fun exchange. And just FYI – the fact that you signed up to write for one of my fave fandoms and pairings is a HUGE part of that fun. So yeah, please don’t stress, OK? My letters are notoriously long because I like to babble, but really just know that as long as my DNWs are avoided, I’m going to be thrilled to get something for any of my requests!
AO3 Name: hiddencait
Other Profiles: dreamwidth - also hiddencait
General DNWs: 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/aged back up 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, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism, beastiality, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs – I’ve liked them in the past but just am not in the mood for them this round.
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, including spanking/flogging.
General Likes: Crossovers between requested fandoms, AUs (particularly Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, Hogwarts Professors, and Pacific Rim fusions), post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, outsider POVs, supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, 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 top ordering their bottom around w/o humiliation/humiliating language, 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.
Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing.
Fanvid Specific: I’ve never specifically requested fanvids before, so I’m not sure what all would be helpful, but I figured I’d at least get you a list of music/artists I love if that helps – otherwise, anything for these pairings would be awesome! My current faves (this tends to change but these are faves at the moment LOL) are Imagine Dragons, Florence + The Machine, Sara Bareilles, P!nk, Counting Crows, The Civil Wars, X Ambassadors, The Goo Goo Dolls, Rag’n’Bone Man, and Matchbox Twenty (or Rob Thomas as a solo artist). That should give you lots of options, I think – hopefully they inspire you!
Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum
Prompts: 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.
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom
Prompts: It took me a while to realize how much I like this pairing, but Neville has such KINDNESS to him, as well as that strength and courage buried deep by his overbearing (and likely abusive if you read between the lines) relatives. Plus these two are the “un-Gryffindor” Gryffindors of their year – the ones everyone thinks should have been in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, the ones that don’t really fit in. And I think they could balance really well together that way! I’d love canon AUs for these two, maybe with Neville being the one to invite her to the Yule Ball before Viktor could or to Slughorn’s Christmas party. Or maybe Neville courting her traditionally as you know he was likely raised to do properly as the heir to his line? I’d also really enjoy EWE Post series Hogwarts Professors romance for these two as well!
Kong: Skull Island
Pairing James Conrad/Mason Weaver
Prompts: Oh yeah, I shipped it. I shipped it HARD. Honestly, I’ve never quite gotten the appeal of Tom Hiddleston, but oh holy hells this movie convinced me! Conrad and Weaver’s chemistry was fantastic, and I loved how well they worked together. My competency kink was definitely tingling every single scene they had together. I think what I really want is post-movie fic for this one. Do they drift apart and find their way back to each other during another strange creature related incident? Do they join Monarch & get read into the Godzilla insanity? Just give me these two confident badasses together facing the world after learning that it was so much bigger in some places than they ever knew.
MCU
Pairing: Darcy Lewis/Loki
Prompts: I did mention Tom Hiddleston is now on my crush list right? LOLOLOL Darcy has always been one of my fave characters – she’s sarcastic and fairly unflappable in the face of weird with her tazer in hand, and who can help loving a girl who’s instinct when the Destroyer comes is to make sure the pet store animals are safe? She can easily be the fandom little black dress, but I think Loki in particular is a great match for her. Note: I do want a redeemable/attempting to atone Loki here – I am not game for a “so dark and twisted he is abusive in a relationship” Loki, and consent is important to me, so I am not game for him seducing her for any reason other than because she’s awesome and he wants her. Please remember non-con/dubcon are in my DNWs. But otherwise yeah, Darcy snarking Loki into feelings despite himself is becoming a fave of mine, whether you do so via canon AUs where he is sent to Earth in exile after the first Thor movie to learn his lesson, or after the Avengers with folks having figured out he was coerced/possibly enspelled by Thanos. Anything like that would be a blast!
Crossovers
Pairing: Faith Lehane/John Wick
Prompts: Faith was baby’s first bisexual crush so SO hard, and her mix of broken and strong as hell really gets me right in the feels. I wouldn’t have come up with this pairing on my own, but I can really see them being a strong match – both deadly but with a core of giving a shit about people, often despite themselves. Really I’d love to see them being badass and loving dogs – is that too much to ask? Maybe Faith takes a break from Slaying in the Continental and they encounter each other. Maybe she’s one of John’s long long list of people he’s worked with in the past (as I imagine Slayers may age a bit slower than folks would expect)?
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Elliot Spenser
Prompts: I’ll admit I hesitated on this one – the Leverage OT3 is always a blast, but pre-Hardison & Parker, I could see Eliot and Buffy having a helluva connection. Competency kink abounds right her for sure! Did they meet through his twin over at Wolfram and Hart? Was it that time in “insert town/country here” that neither of them want to go into detail about to any of their friends? Did he cook for her?
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Richard B. Riddick
Prompts: Off these two are predators in the best of ways. I do normally prefer for this pairing for it to be set in Riddick’s verse with Buffy either having been in cryo for centuries or just plain immortal due to all of the everything, but it could be cool too to see what a Hellmouth Riddick might be. Mostly this is another competency kink crossover pairing for me, though this one with a decided edge of blood to it. Give me flirting via kicking each other’s ass, and Buffy’s solid devotion to trying to defend crashing into the edge’s of Riddick’s determination not to give a shit about anyone (that let’s be real almost always fails with at least a couple people lol).
So yeah, that’s my requests this year! Some I’ve requested in the past and others that just sound awesome this year. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Whee it’s that time again! I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to sign up, but I just couldn’t resist because this is always such a fun exchange. And just FYI – the fact that you signed up to write for one of my fave fandoms and pairings is a HUGE part of that fun. So yeah, please don’t stress, OK? My letters are notoriously long because I like to babble, but really just know that as long as my DNWs are avoided, I’m going to be thrilled to get something for any of my requests!
AO3 Name: hiddencait
Other Profiles: dreamwidth - also hiddencait
General DNWs: 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/aged back up 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, focus on drug abuse/alcoholism, beastiality, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs – I’ve liked them in the past but just am not in the mood for them this round.
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, including spanking/flogging.
General Likes: Crossovers between requested fandoms, AUs (particularly Black Jewels trilogy, daemons, steampunk/neo-Victorian, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, Hogwarts Professors, and Pacific Rim fusions), post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, outsider POVs, supernatural elements, badass chicks and men who respect/lust after them for it, 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 top ordering their bottom around w/o humiliation/humiliating language, 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.
Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing.
Fanvid Specific: I’ve never specifically requested fanvids before, so I’m not sure what all would be helpful, but I figured I’d at least get you a list of music/artists I love if that helps – otherwise, anything for these pairings would be awesome! My current faves (this tends to change but these are faves at the moment LOL) are Imagine Dragons, Florence + The Machine, Sara Bareilles, P!nk, Counting Crows, The Civil Wars, X Ambassadors, The Goo Goo Dolls, Rag’n’Bone Man, and Matchbox Twenty (or Rob Thomas as a solo artist). That should give you lots of options, I think – hopefully they inspire you!
Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum
Prompts: 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.
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom
Prompts: It took me a while to realize how much I like this pairing, but Neville has such KINDNESS to him, as well as that strength and courage buried deep by his overbearing (and likely abusive if you read between the lines) relatives. Plus these two are the “un-Gryffindor” Gryffindors of their year – the ones everyone thinks should have been in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, the ones that don’t really fit in. And I think they could balance really well together that way! I’d love canon AUs for these two, maybe with Neville being the one to invite her to the Yule Ball before Viktor could or to Slughorn’s Christmas party. Or maybe Neville courting her traditionally as you know he was likely raised to do properly as the heir to his line? I’d also really enjoy EWE Post series Hogwarts Professors romance for these two as well!
Kong: Skull Island
Pairing James Conrad/Mason Weaver
Prompts: Oh yeah, I shipped it. I shipped it HARD. Honestly, I’ve never quite gotten the appeal of Tom Hiddleston, but oh holy hells this movie convinced me! Conrad and Weaver’s chemistry was fantastic, and I loved how well they worked together. My competency kink was definitely tingling every single scene they had together. I think what I really want is post-movie fic for this one. Do they drift apart and find their way back to each other during another strange creature related incident? Do they join Monarch & get read into the Godzilla insanity? Just give me these two confident badasses together facing the world after learning that it was so much bigger in some places than they ever knew.
MCU
Pairing: Darcy Lewis/Loki
Prompts: I did mention Tom Hiddleston is now on my crush list right? LOLOLOL Darcy has always been one of my fave characters – she’s sarcastic and fairly unflappable in the face of weird with her tazer in hand, and who can help loving a girl who’s instinct when the Destroyer comes is to make sure the pet store animals are safe? She can easily be the fandom little black dress, but I think Loki in particular is a great match for her. Note: I do want a redeemable/attempting to atone Loki here – I am not game for a “so dark and twisted he is abusive in a relationship” Loki, and consent is important to me, so I am not game for him seducing her for any reason other than because she’s awesome and he wants her. Please remember non-con/dubcon are in my DNWs. But otherwise yeah, Darcy snarking Loki into feelings despite himself is becoming a fave of mine, whether you do so via canon AUs where he is sent to Earth in exile after the first Thor movie to learn his lesson, or after the Avengers with folks having figured out he was coerced/possibly enspelled by Thanos. Anything like that would be a blast!
Crossovers
Pairing: Faith Lehane/John Wick
Prompts: Faith was baby’s first bisexual crush so SO hard, and her mix of broken and strong as hell really gets me right in the feels. I wouldn’t have come up with this pairing on my own, but I can really see them being a strong match – both deadly but with a core of giving a shit about people, often despite themselves. Really I’d love to see them being badass and loving dogs – is that too much to ask? Maybe Faith takes a break from Slaying in the Continental and they encounter each other. Maybe she’s one of John’s long long list of people he’s worked with in the past (as I imagine Slayers may age a bit slower than folks would expect)?
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Elliot Spenser
Prompts: I’ll admit I hesitated on this one – the Leverage OT3 is always a blast, but pre-Hardison & Parker, I could see Eliot and Buffy having a helluva connection. Competency kink abounds right her for sure! Did they meet through his twin over at Wolfram and Hart? Was it that time in “insert town/country here” that neither of them want to go into detail about to any of their friends? Did he cook for her?
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Richard B. Riddick
Prompts: Off these two are predators in the best of ways. I do normally prefer for this pairing for it to be set in Riddick’s verse with Buffy either having been in cryo for centuries or just plain immortal due to all of the everything, but it could be cool too to see what a Hellmouth Riddick might be. Mostly this is another competency kink crossover pairing for me, though this one with a decided edge of blood to it. Give me flirting via kicking each other’s ass, and Buffy’s solid devotion to trying to defend crashing into the edge’s of Riddick’s determination not to give a shit about anyone (that let’s be real almost always fails with at least a couple people lol).
So yeah, that’s my requests this year! Some I’ve requested in the past and others that just sound awesome this year. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
