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teleidoplexDear Author,
Thank you in advance for writing something especially for me! I've tried to keep things as open as possible while still giving you prompts that might lead to chewy goodness, but if you have an idea for a fic that you've been burning to write, please ignore all my suggestions and write that instead. As long as you avoid my don'ts, I prefer to get a fic that someone enjoyed writing to something where they had to backbend to please some random suggestion of mine.
I love all of these fandoms (I've written at least one fic in each of them), so a fic in any one of them would make me extremely happy!
1. Fandom: Ouran High School Host Club
Requested Pairing(s): Hitachiin Hikaru/Hitachiin Kaoru; Ootori Kyouya/Suoh Tamaki; Kasanoda Ritsu/Sendou Tetsuya
Favorite Genre(s): Romance/smut, casefic, costume fic, tropey Ouran hijinks
Ratings: PG to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: I love this show for the way it plays with tropes and expectations, so anything tropey (or anything that deconstructs tropes) would be right up my alley. I tend to prefer get-together fics as opposed to established-relationship stuff -- I like seeing how the sausage(fest?) gets made. How does this pair get over the obstacles that the show threw in their way. How do they learn that they complement each other (or, in the case of the Hitachiin twins, how does that shift from brotherly love to brotherly lurrrrve).
I love Haruhi, but I've always read them as genderqueer asexual. I don't mind their inclusion at all as a friend helping their doofy buddies realize they're in love, but I don't really ship them as a part of any of these pairings.
Some possible prompts:
Club shenanigans around a costume day or activity. Feel free to bring in other canon characters if you want. I love the way the whole group interacts as a zany, sometimes oblivious family.
For Tamaki and Kyouya, it can be about all the behind-the-scenes machinations Kyouya has to go through to make Tamaki's vision a reality, and Tamaki finally recognizing that Kyouya does it out of love. I love Tamaki's weird mommy/daddy thing he's got with Kyouya, and the way that Kyouya plays along with it, but I also wouldn't mind seeing Kyouya smack some realization into Tamaki -- or to see Tamaki have one of his weird, emotionally insightful moments.
For Hikaru/Kaoru, it can be some sort of secondary competition or prank that ends up backfiring on them or going too far. With these two, I kind of love the idea that as they grow further as separate individuals, that is what helps them to find new meaning in their relationship. I would love some sort of fic where their play goes too far and they are both in denial until they can't lie to themselves anymore.
For Ritsu/Tetsuya, it can just be how awkward it is for Ritsu, and Tetsuya helps him out. Alternatively, I'd love to see more about the rival syndicates, maybe with Tetsuya getting a mission to sabotage the Kasanodas and having to choose his loyalty again.
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2. Fandom: Nirvana in Fire
Requested Pairing(s): Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Xiao Jingyan; Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Mu Nihuang/Xiao Jingyan; Xiao Jingrui/Yan Yujin; Consort Chen/Consort Jing; Lie Zhanying/Xiao Jingyan; Mu Nihuang & Xia Dong
Favorite Genre(s): Romance/smut, casefic, fix-it, pre-canon, post-canon; Jianghu adventures!
Ratings: G to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: Oh man, this show. I watched it last year and loved it, but I didn't really fall into the fandom until this past Yuletide -- and then I fell hard. I just finished one of the fan translations of the novel (well, as much as has been translated), so feel free to bring in novel canon if you want to work with that. I'm familiar with both.
I'm not caught up with NiF2, so for now I'd say focus on the first series.
Possible prompts for MCS/JY or MCS/MNH/JY include fixit fic. I'd also love pre-canon stuff that shows them as teenagers, maybe working out their dynamic. If you're feeling ambitious, even end-of-show stuff intercut with flashbacks to give us context. If you're feeling tropey, I adore identity porn and shenanigans. For these guys, the Jianghu aspects offer a lot of opportunities for sex-pollen and fuck-or-die scenarios. If you go the threesome route, I'm very interested in the dynamics of Nihuang and Jingyan's relationship with and without MCS. How do they work things out?
For Jingrui and Yujin, omg, I just want to cuddle them like puppies. Anything before, during, or after canon would be fantastic. I feel like you could go a little lighter with these two, so Jianghu shenanigans would be fun, or Miao Yin court. Maybe Prince Ji or Gong Yu (or both) realizes what nobody else is willing to admit and intervenes to get these two crazy kids together. For smaller things, maybe just their reaction when Jingrui returns from Southern Chu, or when they're reunited after going off to battle.
For Consorts Chen and Jing, I'm very interested in takes on why Jing entered the Inner Palace. I feel like Jing's smart. She could have avoided the eye of the Emperor or ducked his interest, but she didn't. Why did she choose to allow herself to be trapped (I mean, for Consort Chen, obvs, but I want details!)
For Zhanyin and Jingyan, I just love how Zhanyin is always there, and how he tries to smooth things out with MCS when everything goes pear-shaped. He's obviously so devoted to Jingyan, I'd love to see Jingyan recognize and appreciate that -- maybe in response to the whole 'the higher you climb, the more alone you'll be' thing that he starts to realize near the end. Maybe Zhanyin comforts Jingyan when everyone else is lying to him and Jingyan knows it, or when MCS is being shifty and won't talk to him as Lin Shu. One thing I'd prefer to avoid if you end up writing this pairing is Zhanyin being treated as a replacement for LS/MCS. I'd like for Jingyan to value him as his own person.
Finally, I'd love to see friendship adventures with Xia Dong & Mu Nihuang. Maybe Xia Dong ropes Nihuang into helping her with a case, or they have to do some covert intrigue before a battle, or there's some thing they need to do in Jianghu. Gimme Lady Investigator capers and shenanigans!
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3. Fandom: Dragon Age
Requested Pairing(s): Fenris/Dorian Pavus; Alistair/Cullen Rutherford; Anders/Fenris; Fenris/Male Hawke; Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus
Favorite Genre(s): Conflict Romance/smut, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, hurt/comfort, side-adventures
Ratings: PG to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: I love this game for its conflicts, and these pairings to me are all about the conflict.
For Fenris and Dorian, obviously you've got the double layer of magic and tevinter class issues. I love this because there is no easy solution, so it's always something they need to be negotiating. I'd love to see some of that. I also like the idea that Fenris and Dorian met while Fenris was still in Tevinter, maybe even that Leto and Dorian met and had a thing, and then years later Fenris and Dorian meet again during the Inquisition.
For Fenris/Anders, there's the magic and the whole abomination thing. I'm a huge fan of Anders/Justice being drawn to/turned on by the lyrium tattoos, maybe even as a shame-kink that Fenris discovers and/or maybe as something where only Anders can relieve the pain.
Alistair and Cullen is a little different, but there's the Solana stuff (if the Warden was a female mage) between them, and also just the whole thing of Alistair understanding the Templar mindset and training, but he got out before he really experienced it or took lyrium. I feel like Cullen would have conflicting feels about that. I'd love to see them forced into a situation where they had to break open and talk about these things, with a huge side of h/c :D Maybe Cullen gets sucked into the Fade during Adamant and Alistair has to rescue him from a desire demon (or he has to rescue Alistair?), or maybe right after the events of the Kinloch tower from the first game, Alistair tries to help.
For the Male Hawke, I prefer snarky mage and rivalmance with Fenris. I'm fairly open on this, including missing scenes, Tevinter AU, post-canon (including Inquisition stuff, though I'd prefer not to lose Hawke to the Fade unless it means Fenris has to go after him because woooo lyrium tattoos or something. As with the mention above, I love playing with the tattoos. Something doing with Seheron and the Qunari would also be cool.
Dorian/Bull is all about the Teviner/Qunari conflict of course, but I feel like the game only touched on the surface of those conflicts. I'd love something where one of them comforts the other after Dorian meets his dad or Bull goes Tal Vashoth. Chargers adventures (maybe having to infiltrate Tevinter) would also be great fun.
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As for more general notes:
Things That Are my Crack: Relationship development seamlessly woven into plot. I love plot on its own and I love romance on its own, but I feel like they both elevate each other when they progress together. A romance that develops between two (or more) well-rounded individuals who have to come together and overcome their differences to achieve a mutual goal is... pretty much the best ever.
Things That Are Yay: Shippyness! Banter! Plot! (Casefic, etc. If you have the time and energy -- I know it can be a lot of work.) Fic that could fit into canon; Drama, up to and including aaaaaangst; Witty humor; Porn, especially if the characters have important character conversations/development and/or banter during sex; Verbal power games with consensual physical interactions/sex; Science and Magic; Time-travel (especially closed-system time travel); Identity Porn
Things That Are A-okay: violence, up to a point (see below); Dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die sort (but not drunk!sex); Non-explicit sex; AUs of the "what if this event went differently?" sort; Inclusion of nominated characters I didn't request; Inclusion of canonical characters who haven't been nominated; Original characters as needed for the story; Most tenses, narrative formats, etc.
Things That Are Meh: straight-up character introspection; Nonfiction-style worldbuilding; First person unless that is how the canon is written; unnecessary epithets (i.e., please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character).
DNWs: Second person PoV; radical AUs like coffee shop, genderswaps (unless specifically requested), mpreg, a/b/o, etc.; "Five Things"-type stories; Domestic or slice-of-life fics where nothing happens; Requested characters having only a cameo in the story, unless otherwise specified in the prompt; Gross-out humor or silliness; Non-Con or drunk!sex (but dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die type is okay); Humiliation; Torture porn, especially with female victims.
***
I'm kitsunealyc on AO3, so feel free to look at what I've got there if you need more data on what I like. And above all: have fun!
Thank you in advance for writing something especially for me! I've tried to keep things as open as possible while still giving you prompts that might lead to chewy goodness, but if you have an idea for a fic that you've been burning to write, please ignore all my suggestions and write that instead. As long as you avoid my don'ts, I prefer to get a fic that someone enjoyed writing to something where they had to backbend to please some random suggestion of mine.
I love all of these fandoms (I've written at least one fic in each of them), so a fic in any one of them would make me extremely happy!
1. Fandom: Ouran High School Host Club
Requested Pairing(s): Hitachiin Hikaru/Hitachiin Kaoru; Ootori Kyouya/Suoh Tamaki; Kasanoda Ritsu/Sendou Tetsuya
Favorite Genre(s): Romance/smut, casefic, costume fic, tropey Ouran hijinks
Ratings: PG to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: I love this show for the way it plays with tropes and expectations, so anything tropey (or anything that deconstructs tropes) would be right up my alley. I tend to prefer get-together fics as opposed to established-relationship stuff -- I like seeing how the sausage(fest?) gets made. How does this pair get over the obstacles that the show threw in their way. How do they learn that they complement each other (or, in the case of the Hitachiin twins, how does that shift from brotherly love to brotherly lurrrrve).
I love Haruhi, but I've always read them as genderqueer asexual. I don't mind their inclusion at all as a friend helping their doofy buddies realize they're in love, but I don't really ship them as a part of any of these pairings.
Some possible prompts:
Club shenanigans around a costume day or activity. Feel free to bring in other canon characters if you want. I love the way the whole group interacts as a zany, sometimes oblivious family.
For Tamaki and Kyouya, it can be about all the behind-the-scenes machinations Kyouya has to go through to make Tamaki's vision a reality, and Tamaki finally recognizing that Kyouya does it out of love. I love Tamaki's weird mommy/daddy thing he's got with Kyouya, and the way that Kyouya plays along with it, but I also wouldn't mind seeing Kyouya smack some realization into Tamaki -- or to see Tamaki have one of his weird, emotionally insightful moments.
For Hikaru/Kaoru, it can be some sort of secondary competition or prank that ends up backfiring on them or going too far. With these two, I kind of love the idea that as they grow further as separate individuals, that is what helps them to find new meaning in their relationship. I would love some sort of fic where their play goes too far and they are both in denial until they can't lie to themselves anymore.
For Ritsu/Tetsuya, it can just be how awkward it is for Ritsu, and Tetsuya helps him out. Alternatively, I'd love to see more about the rival syndicates, maybe with Tetsuya getting a mission to sabotage the Kasanodas and having to choose his loyalty again.
***
2. Fandom: Nirvana in Fire
Requested Pairing(s): Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Xiao Jingyan; Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Mu Nihuang/Xiao Jingyan; Xiao Jingrui/Yan Yujin; Consort Chen/Consort Jing; Lie Zhanying/Xiao Jingyan; Mu Nihuang & Xia Dong
Favorite Genre(s): Romance/smut, casefic, fix-it, pre-canon, post-canon; Jianghu adventures!
Ratings: G to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: Oh man, this show. I watched it last year and loved it, but I didn't really fall into the fandom until this past Yuletide -- and then I fell hard. I just finished one of the fan translations of the novel (well, as much as has been translated), so feel free to bring in novel canon if you want to work with that. I'm familiar with both.
I'm not caught up with NiF2, so for now I'd say focus on the first series.
Possible prompts for MCS/JY or MCS/MNH/JY include fixit fic. I'd also love pre-canon stuff that shows them as teenagers, maybe working out their dynamic. If you're feeling ambitious, even end-of-show stuff intercut with flashbacks to give us context. If you're feeling tropey, I adore identity porn and shenanigans. For these guys, the Jianghu aspects offer a lot of opportunities for sex-pollen and fuck-or-die scenarios. If you go the threesome route, I'm very interested in the dynamics of Nihuang and Jingyan's relationship with and without MCS. How do they work things out?
For Jingrui and Yujin, omg, I just want to cuddle them like puppies. Anything before, during, or after canon would be fantastic. I feel like you could go a little lighter with these two, so Jianghu shenanigans would be fun, or Miao Yin court. Maybe Prince Ji or Gong Yu (or both) realizes what nobody else is willing to admit and intervenes to get these two crazy kids together. For smaller things, maybe just their reaction when Jingrui returns from Southern Chu, or when they're reunited after going off to battle.
For Consorts Chen and Jing, I'm very interested in takes on why Jing entered the Inner Palace. I feel like Jing's smart. She could have avoided the eye of the Emperor or ducked his interest, but she didn't. Why did she choose to allow herself to be trapped (I mean, for Consort Chen, obvs, but I want details!)
For Zhanyin and Jingyan, I just love how Zhanyin is always there, and how he tries to smooth things out with MCS when everything goes pear-shaped. He's obviously so devoted to Jingyan, I'd love to see Jingyan recognize and appreciate that -- maybe in response to the whole 'the higher you climb, the more alone you'll be' thing that he starts to realize near the end. Maybe Zhanyin comforts Jingyan when everyone else is lying to him and Jingyan knows it, or when MCS is being shifty and won't talk to him as Lin Shu. One thing I'd prefer to avoid if you end up writing this pairing is Zhanyin being treated as a replacement for LS/MCS. I'd like for Jingyan to value him as his own person.
Finally, I'd love to see friendship adventures with Xia Dong & Mu Nihuang. Maybe Xia Dong ropes Nihuang into helping her with a case, or they have to do some covert intrigue before a battle, or there's some thing they need to do in Jianghu. Gimme Lady Investigator capers and shenanigans!
***
3. Fandom: Dragon Age
Requested Pairing(s): Fenris/Dorian Pavus; Alistair/Cullen Rutherford; Anders/Fenris; Fenris/Male Hawke; Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus
Favorite Genre(s): Conflict Romance/smut, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, hurt/comfort, side-adventures
Ratings: PG to NR
Please No: non-con
Optional Details: I love this game for its conflicts, and these pairings to me are all about the conflict.
For Fenris and Dorian, obviously you've got the double layer of magic and tevinter class issues. I love this because there is no easy solution, so it's always something they need to be negotiating. I'd love to see some of that. I also like the idea that Fenris and Dorian met while Fenris was still in Tevinter, maybe even that Leto and Dorian met and had a thing, and then years later Fenris and Dorian meet again during the Inquisition.
For Fenris/Anders, there's the magic and the whole abomination thing. I'm a huge fan of Anders/Justice being drawn to/turned on by the lyrium tattoos, maybe even as a shame-kink that Fenris discovers and/or maybe as something where only Anders can relieve the pain.
Alistair and Cullen is a little different, but there's the Solana stuff (if the Warden was a female mage) between them, and also just the whole thing of Alistair understanding the Templar mindset and training, but he got out before he really experienced it or took lyrium. I feel like Cullen would have conflicting feels about that. I'd love to see them forced into a situation where they had to break open and talk about these things, with a huge side of h/c :D Maybe Cullen gets sucked into the Fade during Adamant and Alistair has to rescue him from a desire demon (or he has to rescue Alistair?), or maybe right after the events of the Kinloch tower from the first game, Alistair tries to help.
For the Male Hawke, I prefer snarky mage and rivalmance with Fenris. I'm fairly open on this, including missing scenes, Tevinter AU, post-canon (including Inquisition stuff, though I'd prefer not to lose Hawke to the Fade unless it means Fenris has to go after him because woooo lyrium tattoos or something. As with the mention above, I love playing with the tattoos. Something doing with Seheron and the Qunari would also be cool.
Dorian/Bull is all about the Teviner/Qunari conflict of course, but I feel like the game only touched on the surface of those conflicts. I'd love something where one of them comforts the other after Dorian meets his dad or Bull goes Tal Vashoth. Chargers adventures (maybe having to infiltrate Tevinter) would also be great fun.
***
As for more general notes:
Things That Are my Crack: Relationship development seamlessly woven into plot. I love plot on its own and I love romance on its own, but I feel like they both elevate each other when they progress together. A romance that develops between two (or more) well-rounded individuals who have to come together and overcome their differences to achieve a mutual goal is... pretty much the best ever.
Things That Are Yay: Shippyness! Banter! Plot! (Casefic, etc. If you have the time and energy -- I know it can be a lot of work.) Fic that could fit into canon; Drama, up to and including aaaaaangst; Witty humor; Porn, especially if the characters have important character conversations/development and/or banter during sex; Verbal power games with consensual physical interactions/sex; Science and Magic; Time-travel (especially closed-system time travel); Identity Porn
Things That Are A-okay: violence, up to a point (see below); Dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die sort (but not drunk!sex); Non-explicit sex; AUs of the "what if this event went differently?" sort; Inclusion of nominated characters I didn't request; Inclusion of canonical characters who haven't been nominated; Original characters as needed for the story; Most tenses, narrative formats, etc.
Things That Are Meh: straight-up character introspection; Nonfiction-style worldbuilding; First person unless that is how the canon is written; unnecessary epithets (i.e., please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character).
DNWs: Second person PoV; radical AUs like coffee shop, genderswaps (unless specifically requested), mpreg, a/b/o, etc.; "Five Things"-type stories; Domestic or slice-of-life fics where nothing happens; Requested characters having only a cameo in the story, unless otherwise specified in the prompt; Gross-out humor or silliness; Non-Con or drunk!sex (but dub-con of the sex-pollen and fuck-or-die type is okay); Humiliation; Torture porn, especially with female victims.
***
I'm kitsunealyc on AO3, so feel free to look at what I've got there if you need more data on what I like. And above all: have fun!
