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Likes
hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, nuanced bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, friendships, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, complicated relationships, codependency, moral complexity, long relationships, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spaking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore
Request DNWs are listed in the individual fandom sections.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
+ The ka-tet visits a barony or region of Mid-World that Roland is unfamiliar with and while they're attempting to make nice with the locals and engage in courteous diplomacy, they wind up accidentally getting hitched (with required public consummation?) or agreeing to some kind of ritual sex. Or maybe, without the "unfamiliar barony" element, they accidentally get exposed to sex pollen? I really like the idea of this happening when they either don't have their relationship figured out yet or haven't even started one (at least not as an OT3); forced sex or marriage awakening feelings and awkward pining that then have to be dealt with is totally my jam.
+ Furtive pining scenarios where Eddie and Susannah are together, each not sure what to make of their equally strong feelings for Roland, and/or Roland is on the outside looking in longingly, sure that he would be a bad choice for them to make? I love situations where characters who aren't necessarily familiar with the idea of a poly relationship--and aren't necessarily great at communication in general, or who have different cultural expectations--have to fumble their way towards realizing that yes, their feelings are returned and yes, this is an option. I could also totally go for a misunderstanding scenario where threesomes and poly marriages were a known quantity in Gilead, so Roland reflexively believes that if Eddie and Susannah never brought it up, it's obviously because they're not interested.
+ Roland is trying to court Susannah and Eddie, but cultural clashes mean that they have no clue exactly what he's doing. I'm a sucker for elaborate, archaic, symbolic courtship gestures, and I like the idea of this being part of Roland's streak of romanticism. Do they eventually crack his code? Do they impatiently seduce him in the meantime?
+ I love Jake and am happy to see him integrated into any of the stories as long as he's not part of the ship. And I'm really intrigued by how he would perceive Roland/Susannah/Eddie--(relative_ outsider POV? Do they tell him about their relationship straightforwardly, or does he have to put the clues together? Does he see it evolving before it's actually settled? What is it like being their informally adopted son/little brother in this context?
I'd also be delighted to see any getting-together or established relationship stories melded with a plot besides the relationship itself. Canon-typical adventures are always 1000% welcome here. Other than that, very random sampling of possibilities:
+ Horse ranch AU where they're all desperate and lonely people who wash up at a ranch. Maybe Susannah discovers she can still ride even after she loses her legs, so she starts taking lessons and finds she prefers a more rustic location? Eddie flees to an isolated ranch to hide out from Balazar? Basically, if Roland is a quietly lonely horse ranch owner who takes in stray people, I'm happy.
+ Time and/or dimension travel! They go back in time, maybe to the Golden Age of Gilead? Or they're in prehistoric Mid-World and have to contend with Mid-World dinosaurs or mammoths? Earth time travel where they wind up in the far future, where none of them know what they're dealing with, or in the past before any of them were alive? Are they directly interfering in their own timelines? Someone else's? Trying to change things or just trying to survive? Is it easier to travel towards the Tower if they can skip to different times or dimensions for easier passage? Are the places they're traveling through exceptionally strange, hauntingly familiar, or a mix?
+ Setting/style AU, so that instead of a Weird Western, we have Clockpunk or Cyberpunk or Planetary Romance or Solar Punk or a Space AU? Island chain AU where they have to sail across an ocean and encounter a bunch of different island civilizations on the way to the Tower? They're traveling through space, through a lot of decayed civilizations and strange planets, worrying about fuel and oxygen and navigation? Collapsed solarpunk world where Roland misses the vertical gardens and grassy, sun-powered domes of Gilead? Cyberpunk where they have to fulfill certain parts of their quest in a virtual world, with the Man in Black as a kind of recurring virus corrupting the system? Where the world is filled with leftover body-mods and even more AI? Clockpunk world full of beautiful engravings and guns that need to be wound with a key, where they sometimes have to fight clockwork robots?
Agent Carter
Peggy Carter
Peggy Carter/Dottie Underwood
Peggy Carter & Daniel Sousa & Jack Thompson
Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa/Jack Thompson
+ I'd love to see the Earth get hit by a serious crisis that Changed Everything. Apocalypse? Alien invasion? Are the characters struggling to resist, reorganize, and rebuild, or are they just struggling to survive? I love when severely altered circumstances let people grow closer--romantically or platonically--than they might have before, especially when it seems like the ordinary "rules" of interaction are suspended. Post-apocalyptic cuddling because everyone's too exhausted and skittish to sleep apart, and they have to keep warm somehow? Social norms collapsing until it's easier to make the initial leap to an OT3? To make the leap from enemies to lovers, in the case of Peggy/Dottie? Kindness and tenderness in dark situations? Yes, please.
+ Specifically for Peggy/Dottie, I adore situations like Fuck or Die, Aliens/Bad Guys Made Them Do It, sex pollen, etc. Basically, if you trap them in a high-pressure situation and make them bang, I will love it. Do they have to do it repeatedly, with their feelings and approaches adjusting over time? What are their attitudes towards it? (If it's sex pollen, is there a twist where only one of them is affected and needs the other's help?) I just really like the complicated swirl of feelings here, where they're dealing with necessity and danger and lust and a strange kind of professionalism? The sex can be awkward, painful, and uncomfortable, if you like--I love the sense of people wrestling with a bad situation and struggling to make it survivable or palatable or even--defiantly--enjoyable. How does it all affect their relationship and their feelings about each other?
+ I loved the Classic Hollywood/hardboiled vibe of S2, and it made me want to see Peggy as a PI. Maybe there's a lull between SSR and SHIELD, and Peggy (and potentially also Jack and Daniel) found a private eye business in the meantime? Or maybe things don't work out in season one, and Peggy leaves the SSR to start her own investigative firm? It would be amazing to see an enemies-to-lovers story of PI Peggy chasing down Dottie Underwood, her own personal femme fatale, in an ultimate game of one-on-one cat-and-mouse. If Peggy is with Jack and Daniel, what is it like for them to work together when they're only accountable to themselves and they don't have the backup or resources of the rest of the SSR? I'd be equally happy with comedic or more serious takes on this. Maybe it's just the uphill struggle of having to deal with endless divorce and insurance cases coupled with sexy OT3 banter, or maybe they end up in a hardboiled plot where they're unraveling a massive conspiracy? Maybe they're still working the Whitney Frost/Council of Nine case, but from this new angle? And what kind of work keeps the lights on and gets everyone paid? I can easily see Peggy being irritated by the necessity of doing some of the less exciting, less important work that's nonetheless necessary to keeping them in business, and that could lead to a lot of crankiness and fun, especially if she's clashing about it with Jack and Daniel.
+ Captivity/taken hostage together/stranded together situations are catnip for me and go so well with all these ships/friendships. Trap them in a car in the middle of a blizzard, stick them in an abandoned location, have them held and tortured (with one being tortured to get information out of another?), have them gradually become crucial to each other's universe to the point where they initially have trouble being separated when they're rescued...
+ What if Peggy had never tried to remake herself as the compliant daughter, and she had instead disguised herself as Michael to join the war as a soldier? (Maybe Michael was injured somehow and couldn't join up himself? Or maybe she disguises herself as another relative. Or maybe it just works out For Reasons.) What would it be like for her to be perceived as a man and not have to fight to get respect? What is she able to accomplish? How would her friends and fellow soldiers react to finding out the truth? If she first meets Dottie while she's disguised as a man, does Dottie see through the disguise at once, or is she fooled too? How is the tension--sexual and otherwise--between them affected by the disguise, by the permission it might unconsciously grant Peggy and by the different social perceptions they'd encounter? Does Dottie decide to disguise herself too? (If you also just want to give me 10k of Peggy/Dottie porn with them in suits in demi-monde bars, I'm here for it.) Does Peggy serve with Daniel and/or Jack, and do they help her keep her secret? Is her experience in active combat dirtier and worse than it was with the Howling Commandos… or does she wind up being a part of them anyway, just from a different angle? What's her relationship with Steve like? What does she plan to do after the war? And if she has to step out of disguise, what's that transition like for her?
+ Totally optional Buffyverse fusion/AU: Peggy the Vampire Slayer! Maybe she'd been told that she was a Slayer, but she'd tried to resist the call and just get married instead, but then Michael's death made her get in the game and start slaying Nazi vampires. Did Daniel or Jack get assigned to be her Watcher once she made it to the States? Did both of them get assigned, since the Council correctly estimated she'd be hard to manage? I'd love to see them get pulled, Giles-like, into being completely on her side in defiance of the Council. Is Dottie a vampire? Does she have a soul, or is she just gradually deciding to resist--or at least temper--her more murderous impulses? Spike-style chip that makes her decide to team up with Peggy, since she can't hurt humans anymore? I really like the idea of Peggy's commitment to her own morality and perceptions in this kind of situation: when does she decide to kill vampires/monsters and when does she spare them? Does she start out with a more black-and-white view and then gradually color in some shades of gray?
The Defenders
Ward Meachum & Colleen Wing
+ Bodyguard AU! Sometime in or before S1, the Hand instructs Colleen to take up work as Ward's bodyguard, and Harold forces Ward to go along with it. I love the idea of them being sort of unwillingly foisted off on each other, with eventual prickly fondness for each other kind of sneaking up on them as they spend more time together. They're both being used by people who claim to love them, and they relate to that in interestingly different ways, because Ward is aware of (at least some of) Harold's toxicity but more shaped by it and fucked-up about it and Colleen is superficially fine but primed to be devastated by finding out the truth about Bakuto and the Hand. I'd love to see how they could potentially help and support each other through this. How does Colleen react to gradually realizing the truth about Harold's treatment of his son? How does Ward react to Colleen's cage fights and financial problems and her entanglement with the Hand?
+ Similarly playing off their different backgrounds with the Hand and with being used as tools, I'd love to see something where one or both of them have to effectively go undercover as their own former identity--where Colleen has to pretend to still be a loyal servant of the Hand or Ward has to (around Danny, for maximum angst?) pretend to still be at his season one levels of assholeishness. What situation do they wind up in that one or both of them has to do this, and they have to kind of look out for each other? Is anyone else in on it, or is everything angstier--and their emotional investment with each other higher--because the other is the only one who knows the whole truth? What kind of trouble do they get into during the masquerade?
+ Colleen wants to extract one of her former students from the Hand, and for some reason she needs Ward's help to do it? I'm really interested in anything that deals with Colleen's feelings about having unknowingly funneled kids into an organization of diabolical ninjas.
+ Forced proximity of any kind would delight me. Stranded together in some remote location? Held captive together and forced to cooperate/support each other to survive, escape, or eke out a little bit of comfort? They have such an interestingly prickly relationship, with both of them being more strongly connected to Danny, and so it fascinates me to see them have to develop an actual connection of their own without him necessarily being there to play mediator. I love it when characters who didn't go into a situation liking each other all that much still wind up being loyal to and protective of each other not even just out of ethics but out of actual personal regard. I eat any and all hurt/comfort up with a spoon, so definitely feel free to make any captivity scenario as OTT as you like. "Each day you must choose which one of you gets tortured," "I'll torture one of you to get information out of the other," noncon of the h/c "earn food for you and your cellmate via sex with Terrible Guard," etc.
+ AU where they meet as traumatized teens? Colleen realizes the Hand are manipulating her and escapes, but she runs into a young Ward whose dad has just died--and come back--and the two of them wind up relying on each other/helping each other/becoming friends? I also just realized that this could lead to all kinds of fun simultaneously angsty and comedic setups where Colleen and Ward are sort of platonically co-raising Joy, which would also delight me. And I have a weakness for troubled teen/runaway AUs in general, so anything along these lines, in whatever scenario you can work up, would be A+.
+ Danny gets mind-controlled/possessed by Harold's ghost/possessed by an evil spirit/etc. and Ward and Colleen have to work together to get him back to normal. (Maybe the Fist left him--but something else moved in.) I love the possibilities here. Do they know immediately that something's wrong with him, or do they have to piece it together slowly from out-of-character behavior? Do they have to compare notes on how he's been acting? Has he hurt one of them or someone else? Give me any kind of Colleen and Ward strategizing about how to save the person they both care about--especially in a kind of tangled situation that maybe means they have to take him down first--and I'll be delighted.
MASH
MASH 4077 Staff
BJ Hunnicutt & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce & Charles Emerson Winchester III
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce/Charles Emerson Winchester III
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
I'm okay with whoever you want to include for the "staff" grouping, from whatever era--this is really a case of "I love everyone in this bar." I'm also great with all possible platonic relationships and a ton of different ships, outside of the Hawkeye/Charles mentioned above: I also love Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/BJ/Peg, Hawkeye/Margaret, Hawkeye/Trapper, Anyone/Kellye, and Charles/Klinger, and I'm okay with anything as a background ship.
+ Some of my favorite episodes are where the 4077--or any subsection of them--has to deal with some kind of high-stress, pressure-cooker situation, like being short on supplies, in the middle of horrible weather, hit with ceaseless casualties, etc. Anything like that would be a total delight. If it's a subsection of characters, there's also always the option of stranding them somewhere, including behind enemy lines. I love the way the characters tend to rise to the occasion for each other and their patients, so I'd love to see them trying hard to stay calm for each other, comfort each other, etc. (Hawkeye sharing his blanket with Margaret in "Aid Station," with hers still between them so she doesn't mistake it for a come-on she has to rebuff, is one of my absolute favorite bits--anything like that, with just quiet gestures of support, is lovely.) Do they wind up having to "hurry up and wait" in a kind of stalled terror, trying to play games or talk to keep each other from going crazy? "Comrades in Arms," but Hawkeye and Charles impulsively hook up and then have to figure out how to deal with it? Probably doing so very badly at first?
+ I also always love anything with hurt/comfort, physical or emotional. Overwhelm them, exhaust them, get them sick, inflict loss on them, whump them, etc., and I will adore it. Is the whole camp felled by the flu again, like in "Carry On, Hawkeye"? I love scenarios where people have to keep on slogging on even though they're sick and exhausted. Is one of them hurt and in a vulnerable situation, like Hawkeye's temporary blindness? I love it when a character gets hit hard by an ailment or injury that could be innocuous or only mildly annoying to someone else but is a huge deal to them for some particular reason. A hand injury for a surgeon? Loss of voice for Hawkeye, a guy whose already tenuous okayness depends on being able to talk and joke? Something non-jokey really winds up humiliating Charles? I also have an h/c soft spot for characters having some kind of past trauma casually revealed to their friends by someone else, if that sparks any ideas.
+ One of them gets amnesia, and one/any/all of the other characters have to help them deal with it and get their memories back? (There can just be a travel shutdown preventing them from being evacuated to a real hospital or you can just handwave why they're being treated at the 4077 if it goes on for a longer period of time. I'll go with it.) I like characters being surprised/bemused/disturbed by news of their past actions, and I also love it whenever people without their memories react differently to things than the people around them. And tonal shifts are great, too--if everyone's initially sure that the amnesia will pass quickly, I can see there being some light good-natured pranking/misleading the person going on, even just to cope with the worry, and then things gradually getting more serious.
+ I'm always interested in what happens to everyone after the war. How do they deal with being home? Do they struggle with any degree of PTSD? What's it like to spend so much--and such intense--time with a group of people and then be separated from them? (I'd prefer it if they kept in touch and didn't all completely drift apart, but "learning to deal with long-distance friendships" and ongoing strings of visits are great.) I'd love to see a reunion--or a collection of several reunions over the years--since we know BJ and Peg have a talent for putting together those kinds of parties; I'd be happy to just see a bunch of the characters having a long night together, getting drunk and reminiscing and talking about their new lives and having unexpected moments with each other.
+ War photographer/journalist AU. I love the idea of these characters as war photojournalists--they're seeing all the same bloody aftermath (and possibly far more action) but their responsibility towards it has shifted, and they're supposed to document and bear witness rather than interfere and heal. Can they stop themselves from getting actively involved? How does the violence they see wear on them? How do they feel about their supposed need to stay uninvolved? What's it like when some of them are cooped up together in some dangerous situation, stuck waiting it out in a combination of boredom and terror? (An excellent hook-up environment.) I also just love professional details, so if you know about photography--and anything you know about photography would be more than I know, for what it's worth--please feel free to throw in all the process-oriented details you want. Tell me about the characters' different styles and preferences and the different magazines/papers/sources they work for. Or I'd love to see how they move on after the war and slowly get back in touch with their art from a different angle--what do they choose to photograph then?
I also have a variety of AU Exchange and Hurt/Comfort Exchange requests for this fandom, and I'd love to see anything for those prompts.
Star Trek: The Original Series
T'Pring/Nyota Uhura
Janice Rand/Nyota Uhura
Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura
Mirror T'Pring/Mirror Nyota Uhura
Mirror Janice Rand/Mirror Nyota Uhura
Mirror Christine Chapel/Mirror Nyota Uhura
For Mirrorverse ships, I totally welcome darkness and dubcon, but I would like there to at least eventually be feelings on both sides, even if those feelings are weird and twisted-up and, say, express themselves through murder sprees. "I was going to poison you but I changed my mind" is a totally acceptable love confession.
+ Maybe Starfleet frowns on fraternization in ranks but lets you bring a spouse on board, leading to a high number of mail order spouses and marriages of convenience? Does Uhura decide she wants a wife at the same time T'Pring decides she wants to get off Vulcan, or Chapel intends to go searching for her fiance? (Romantic angst of the "oh, no, I'm not supposed to be falling in love with this person/I'm lying to someone I'm falling in love with") variety totally welcome, especially for that last one.) Or, if you want to lean into Rand's tie-in novel background as a former slave, is marriage maybe the only way Uhura can rescue her? In the Mirrorverse, this mail order system can be as skeevy and unethical as you like, with possible coercion and mutual mistrust. Does T'Pring order a wife, and this is the only way for Uhura to get out of a bad shipboard situation? (Maybe it's better to go with the devil you don't know.)
+ Related to the above, I also really dig arranged marriages, and it seems like an especially good trope for Uhura/T'Pring. Maybe diplomatically arranged cross-cultural marriages are common in the Federation as a way to encourage understanding? Or maybe the T'Pring/Uhura match is one that's hastily fixed up to deal with Spock's engagement? Do they get to meet and talk first, or do they marry as virtual strangers to each other? I'm good with this being set on either the Enterprise or Vulcan--I can see Uhura wanting to spend time on Vulcan and being interested in the culture. Is it an AU where Earth and Vulcan have a touchier relationship, and Uhura and T'Pring are supposed to bridge the gap? If it's in the Mirrorverse, is there a sort of held-at-knifepoint diplomacy going on, where one of them is acting as a kind of hostage for someone else's good behavior, and there's just a thin veneer of civility? Mirrorverse Bluebeard fusion, where one marries the other only to discover a whole past full of dead/cryogenically frozen/otherwise "disappeared" wives?
+ Persuasion-style AU! I'm so here for a setup of a heartbroken, noble, pining Uhura who was rejected by the woman she loves--really because Rand/Chapel/T'Pring wanted to give her a chance to thrive in Starfleet and advance via the long missions that might get in the way of a marriage. Now she's Lt. Uhura--or Captain, if you want to advance her still further!--and she's been reunited with her lost love. But can they reconnect? (Yes. Yes, they can.) I just love all the angsty pining possibilities here on both sides. And in a Mirrorverse variation, there's something so strangely touching about people pining when they probably resent it deeply--that's the kind of softness that can get you killed. Mirror Uhura simultaneously wanting to rekindle a romance but also being unable to resist being cruel or manipulative to her love interest, who is equally vicious and equally pining, would be great.
+ Mirrorverse Captain Uhura takes a "captain's woman." Dubcon commences and a slow build of complex, possessive, resentful, attracted, dark loyalty kink feelings build. I'd love to see Uhura enjoying flaunting her prize--and the prize at least eventually enjoying being flaunted and maybe wanting to show off Uhura in her own social sphere--and to see them either gradually get to a relationship between equals or stay in a dysfunctional-but-intoxicating I-own-you kind of arrangement.
+ Sex pollen/pon farr/aliens made them do it. I love everything about this. Uhura and Rand or Uhura and Chapel land on an alien planet that's having strange weather and--whoops--sex pollen ensues, with them having to figure out what the aftermath means? Aliens (the Platonians? or any aliens) require that they participate in some kind of ritual sex--do they go along with it relatively willingly, figuring that it's just part of the job? Or is it something they're coerced into to save their lives or the lives of some of their crewmates? Does Spock have to go to Vulcan in "Amok Time" not because of his own pon farr but because of T'Pring's, and Uhura winds up taking his place? I love people in required-sex situations struggling to make the best of it, trying to work out things like whether or not it's better or just more awkward if they're tender as opposed to clinical, and dealing with the aftermath--it's all hot, but I'm also really interested in the non-smutty details, too, if you don't want to write the actual sex.
Starsky & Hutch
Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky
+ Casefic! I love it when a case acts as some kind of catalyst in a relationship, whether that's helping to kickstart it or level it up from a friends-with-benefits pretext to something more openly romantic, and I also love established relationship casefic stories where the relationship helps give them support or comfort or much-needed levity through something dark and difficult. Some casefic/episode-like details I especially love: grimy-but-energetic seventies atmosphere, the sense of there being an acceptable level of low-key illegality and hustling to get by, supporting characters with their own potentially sympathetic agendas, Starsky and Hutch showing compassion for down-and-out people and people who often get treated as a "problem" (addicts, sex workers, people with mental illnesses, etc.), return of guest stars from episodes, criminal organizations and hierarchies, untouchable (or seemingly untouchable) wealthy kingpins/CEOs, criminals who still have some kind of code, weird crimes like stealing something that doesn't seem valuable at first, etc.
+ I am so here for all the pining and yearning, whether that's before any kind of explicit relationship happens or post-sex, with one or both of them thinking the other doesn't want the same thing/doesn't want something more permanent or romantic. I also love scenarios where two people are hooking up and one person thinks they're dating and the other thinks he's hopelessly pining during a friends-with-benefits situation. What makes them realize what's going on or decide to take the first step? Is it something relatively ordinary--just a flash of epiphany during a low-key moment--or do they need some kind of dramatic catalyst, like going undercover in a gay bar/undercover as gay generally or like being stuck in some high-tension situation or stranded in the middle of nowhere? Is there a dramatic pre-death confession of love that they both then awkwardly survive and have to figure out?
+ I also love established relationship stories, especially with them dealing with some kind of outside problem or tricky situation. Real-life kinds of hurdles and awkward situations are great here. They go to visit one of their families for the holidays and have to deal with awkwardness and/or tension? Starsky's mother gets old enough to need some help, and Starsky has to work out how to handle the situation--whether she should come live with him, what that means for him and Hutch, how it's all going to come together financially, etc.? Something happens to Hutch's sister, and Hutch--and by extension Starsky--has to look after her kids for a while? I also adore situations where the couple has been overworked and stretched thin for a while, and they really want to get away and spend some time together, but things keep coming up and piling on, until they finally manage to get some time to themselves. Or one partner wants to do something special for the other, as a gesture/birthday present/anniversary gift, but circumstances keep getting in the way and irritatingly foiling their plans.
+ Any and all hurt/comfort, whether that's stemming from believable situations (or aftermaths/expansions of episodes) or from something completely over-the-top. If you come up with a situation but then worry that it's too contrived, rest assured, I will eat it up with a spoon. Just do bad things to one or both of them and let them comfort each other, and I will love it. Random sampling of favorite scenarios: "I thought you were dead," nightmares/lingering trauma/PTSD, migraines, "I'll torture you to hurt/get info from him," revelation of past trauma, one gets hurt protecting the other, noncon, "I'll trade you sex for his rescue," exhaustion, delusions/fever, and rescue. But seriously, anything.
+ I also love supernatural/fantasy/SF elements being added in, whether the characters are struggling to grapple with the fact that this is even possible or whether it's already part of their world and they can take it in stride (or anything in between). Time loops? To stop one of them from dying or to force one of them to confess their feelings? Some kind of curse? One of them starts seeing ghosts or moves into a new house/apartment that's haunted, making him think he's losing his mind? A criminal they're tracking down turns out to be something far worse and far weirder? Apocalypse or alien invasion?
Thoroughbreds
Amanda/Lily
+ AU where they don’t try again after the first murder attempt falls through and Lily gets sent to Brookmore after all… and Amanda, as a fellow Girl With Severe Behavioral Problems, follows. (I got an excellent version of this for Yuletide a few years ago, but there are so many possibilities here and I love all of them.) Give me the two of them rooming together and developing a dysfunctional, codependent, and oddly touching relationship. Lily needing Amanda as an unchangeable bedrock to deal with all the social upheaval. Mutual protectiveness and fucked-up loyalty kink, especially if the school turns out to be a nightmare.
+ Tim kills Mark, but Mark hangs around as a vengeful ghost? I’d love to see Lily and Amanda try to deal with a haunted house--it would just be so deliciously Gothic. Does Lily just start trying to find excuses to stay at Amanda’s? (Does she admit right away that she knows what’s happening, or does it become one more secret?) How would Amanda’s rigorous practicality match up against the paranormal? I’m good with this as either a slightly surreal/magical realist take or out-and-out horror.
+ Ambiguous, unsettling hangouts. I love the way their conversations can drift into strangeness, whether that’s Amanda teaching Lily the technique or the two of them practicing holding their breath and Amanda having to scoop Lily up off the floor of the pool when she starts drowning, and I’d love to see anything along those lines… just dark, bittersweet moments where they cross over from the ordinary into something weird that breaks social norms. And this works ridiculously well for shipping, too. That scene in the pool! I’d love to see them having a romantic/sexual moment that just sort of sneaks up on them, and maybe having a whole relationship that they don’t talk about but that just sort of exists sometimes.
+ Longing, possessiveness, and intimacy. Lily secretly getting off a little on Amanda’s comparatively-unwashed scent, and liking that while not at all liking that she likes it. Amanda being as matter-of-fact about kink experimentation as she is about everything else. Fooling around in the pool or on expensive furniture, especially if there’s a taboo element to it (like it belonging to Mark). Wearing each other’s clothes. Clothed sex, wall sex, pool sex, Amanda’s weird tangents during sex, marking/biting/bruising. Possessiveness. If you want to write 10k of porn and emotional weirdness, I'm totally here for it.
+ AU where the Brookmore threat doesn’t make all the tensions come to a head, and things maybe have the chance to resolve a little more peacefully? It would be interesting to see Amanda and Lily trying to rebuild their lives with no murderous shortcuts--Lily in public school this time? Lily and Amanda dating? Amanda eventually successfully Steve Jobsing her way through life with Lily at her side?
+ They kill Mark together, or Lily kills Mark but then has second thoughts about framing Amanda for it, and then the two of them have to go on the run together or cover up the murder some other way? I love tense road trips, so I would totally just read about the two of them bumming around the country trying to make it by without getting caught, sleeping in cheap hotels that Lily hates, and figuring out what to do for money. And I’d also love to see them trying to manage a different kind of story about what happened--would they try to frame someone else? Say that it was self-defense? How would the aftermath play out? Do they wind up getting used to murder as a problem-solving strategy and kill more people along the way?
+ Post-canon developments. Did Lily really throw the letter away without reading it? I’d love to see future-fic where Amanda finally comes home and the two of them reunite in some form--all the uncertainty and instability on both sides, the huge difference between their lives, etc. I’m good with either eventual tentative happiness here, bittersweetness, ambiguity, reunion sex, one of them killing the other, or all of the above.
+ Mark’s murder seems perfectly calibrated to become at least a brief media sensation, and I’d love to see any “found documents" post-canon fic made up of courtroom testimony, news reports, social media discussion, reviews of the inevitable Lifetime movie, etc., or fic that featured Amanda and/or Lily reacting to the way the case explodes and to possible speculation about the nature of their relationship.
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Likes
hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, nuanced bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, friendships, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, complicated relationships, codependency, moral complexity, long relationships, werewolves with pack dynamics, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
General Sex Likes/Kinks
clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spaking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, knotting, scat, bestiality, vore
Request DNWs are listed in the individual fandom sections.
Dark Tower - Stephen King
Eddie Dean/Susannah Dean/Roland Deschain
+ The ka-tet visits a barony or region of Mid-World that Roland is unfamiliar with and while they're attempting to make nice with the locals and engage in courteous diplomacy, they wind up accidentally getting hitched (with required public consummation?) or agreeing to some kind of ritual sex. Or maybe, without the "unfamiliar barony" element, they accidentally get exposed to sex pollen? I really like the idea of this happening when they either don't have their relationship figured out yet or haven't even started one (at least not as an OT3); forced sex or marriage awakening feelings and awkward pining that then have to be dealt with is totally my jam.
+ Furtive pining scenarios where Eddie and Susannah are together, each not sure what to make of their equally strong feelings for Roland, and/or Roland is on the outside looking in longingly, sure that he would be a bad choice for them to make? I love situations where characters who aren't necessarily familiar with the idea of a poly relationship--and aren't necessarily great at communication in general, or who have different cultural expectations--have to fumble their way towards realizing that yes, their feelings are returned and yes, this is an option. I could also totally go for a misunderstanding scenario where threesomes and poly marriages were a known quantity in Gilead, so Roland reflexively believes that if Eddie and Susannah never brought it up, it's obviously because they're not interested.
+ Roland is trying to court Susannah and Eddie, but cultural clashes mean that they have no clue exactly what he's doing. I'm a sucker for elaborate, archaic, symbolic courtship gestures, and I like the idea of this being part of Roland's streak of romanticism. Do they eventually crack his code? Do they impatiently seduce him in the meantime?
+ I love Jake and am happy to see him integrated into any of the stories as long as he's not part of the ship. And I'm really intrigued by how he would perceive Roland/Susannah/Eddie--(relative_ outsider POV? Do they tell him about their relationship straightforwardly, or does he have to put the clues together? Does he see it evolving before it's actually settled? What is it like being their informally adopted son/little brother in this context?
I'd also be delighted to see any getting-together or established relationship stories melded with a plot besides the relationship itself. Canon-typical adventures are always 1000% welcome here. Other than that, very random sampling of possibilities:
+ Horse ranch AU where they're all desperate and lonely people who wash up at a ranch. Maybe Susannah discovers she can still ride even after she loses her legs, so she starts taking lessons and finds she prefers a more rustic location? Eddie flees to an isolated ranch to hide out from Balazar? Basically, if Roland is a quietly lonely horse ranch owner who takes in stray people, I'm happy.
+ Time and/or dimension travel! They go back in time, maybe to the Golden Age of Gilead? Or they're in prehistoric Mid-World and have to contend with Mid-World dinosaurs or mammoths? Earth time travel where they wind up in the far future, where none of them know what they're dealing with, or in the past before any of them were alive? Are they directly interfering in their own timelines? Someone else's? Trying to change things or just trying to survive? Is it easier to travel towards the Tower if they can skip to different times or dimensions for easier passage? Are the places they're traveling through exceptionally strange, hauntingly familiar, or a mix?
+ Setting/style AU, so that instead of a Weird Western, we have Clockpunk or Cyberpunk or Planetary Romance or Solar Punk or a Space AU? Island chain AU where they have to sail across an ocean and encounter a bunch of different island civilizations on the way to the Tower? They're traveling through space, through a lot of decayed civilizations and strange planets, worrying about fuel and oxygen and navigation? Collapsed solarpunk world where Roland misses the vertical gardens and grassy, sun-powered domes of Gilead? Cyberpunk where they have to fulfill certain parts of their quest in a virtual world, with the Man in Black as a kind of recurring virus corrupting the system? Where the world is filled with leftover body-mods and even more AI? Clockpunk world full of beautiful engravings and guns that need to be wound with a key, where they sometimes have to fight clockwork robots?
Agent Carter
Peggy Carter
Peggy Carter/Dottie Underwood
Peggy Carter & Daniel Sousa & Jack Thompson
Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa/Jack Thompson
+ I'd love to see the Earth get hit by a serious crisis that Changed Everything. Apocalypse? Alien invasion? Are the characters struggling to resist, reorganize, and rebuild, or are they just struggling to survive? I love when severely altered circumstances let people grow closer--romantically or platonically--than they might have before, especially when it seems like the ordinary "rules" of interaction are suspended. Post-apocalyptic cuddling because everyone's too exhausted and skittish to sleep apart, and they have to keep warm somehow? Social norms collapsing until it's easier to make the initial leap to an OT3? To make the leap from enemies to lovers, in the case of Peggy/Dottie? Kindness and tenderness in dark situations? Yes, please.
+ Specifically for Peggy/Dottie, I adore situations like Fuck or Die, Aliens/Bad Guys Made Them Do It, sex pollen, etc. Basically, if you trap them in a high-pressure situation and make them bang, I will love it. Do they have to do it repeatedly, with their feelings and approaches adjusting over time? What are their attitudes towards it? (If it's sex pollen, is there a twist where only one of them is affected and needs the other's help?) I just really like the complicated swirl of feelings here, where they're dealing with necessity and danger and lust and a strange kind of professionalism? The sex can be awkward, painful, and uncomfortable, if you like--I love the sense of people wrestling with a bad situation and struggling to make it survivable or palatable or even--defiantly--enjoyable. How does it all affect their relationship and their feelings about each other?
+ I loved the Classic Hollywood/hardboiled vibe of S2, and it made me want to see Peggy as a PI. Maybe there's a lull between SSR and SHIELD, and Peggy (and potentially also Jack and Daniel) found a private eye business in the meantime? Or maybe things don't work out in season one, and Peggy leaves the SSR to start her own investigative firm? It would be amazing to see an enemies-to-lovers story of PI Peggy chasing down Dottie Underwood, her own personal femme fatale, in an ultimate game of one-on-one cat-and-mouse. If Peggy is with Jack and Daniel, what is it like for them to work together when they're only accountable to themselves and they don't have the backup or resources of the rest of the SSR? I'd be equally happy with comedic or more serious takes on this. Maybe it's just the uphill struggle of having to deal with endless divorce and insurance cases coupled with sexy OT3 banter, or maybe they end up in a hardboiled plot where they're unraveling a massive conspiracy? Maybe they're still working the Whitney Frost/Council of Nine case, but from this new angle? And what kind of work keeps the lights on and gets everyone paid? I can easily see Peggy being irritated by the necessity of doing some of the less exciting, less important work that's nonetheless necessary to keeping them in business, and that could lead to a lot of crankiness and fun, especially if she's clashing about it with Jack and Daniel.
+ Captivity/taken hostage together/stranded together situations are catnip for me and go so well with all these ships/friendships. Trap them in a car in the middle of a blizzard, stick them in an abandoned location, have them held and tortured (with one being tortured to get information out of another?), have them gradually become crucial to each other's universe to the point where they initially have trouble being separated when they're rescued...
+ What if Peggy had never tried to remake herself as the compliant daughter, and she had instead disguised herself as Michael to join the war as a soldier? (Maybe Michael was injured somehow and couldn't join up himself? Or maybe she disguises herself as another relative. Or maybe it just works out For Reasons.) What would it be like for her to be perceived as a man and not have to fight to get respect? What is she able to accomplish? How would her friends and fellow soldiers react to finding out the truth? If she first meets Dottie while she's disguised as a man, does Dottie see through the disguise at once, or is she fooled too? How is the tension--sexual and otherwise--between them affected by the disguise, by the permission it might unconsciously grant Peggy and by the different social perceptions they'd encounter? Does Dottie decide to disguise herself too? (If you also just want to give me 10k of Peggy/Dottie porn with them in suits in demi-monde bars, I'm here for it.) Does Peggy serve with Daniel and/or Jack, and do they help her keep her secret? Is her experience in active combat dirtier and worse than it was with the Howling Commandos… or does she wind up being a part of them anyway, just from a different angle? What's her relationship with Steve like? What does she plan to do after the war? And if she has to step out of disguise, what's that transition like for her?
+ Totally optional Buffyverse fusion/AU: Peggy the Vampire Slayer! Maybe she'd been told that she was a Slayer, but she'd tried to resist the call and just get married instead, but then Michael's death made her get in the game and start slaying Nazi vampires. Did Daniel or Jack get assigned to be her Watcher once she made it to the States? Did both of them get assigned, since the Council correctly estimated she'd be hard to manage? I'd love to see them get pulled, Giles-like, into being completely on her side in defiance of the Council. Is Dottie a vampire? Does she have a soul, or is she just gradually deciding to resist--or at least temper--her more murderous impulses? Spike-style chip that makes her decide to team up with Peggy, since she can't hurt humans anymore? I really like the idea of Peggy's commitment to her own morality and perceptions in this kind of situation: when does she decide to kill vampires/monsters and when does she spare them? Does she start out with a more black-and-white view and then gradually color in some shades of gray?
The Defenders
Ward Meachum & Colleen Wing
+ Bodyguard AU! Sometime in or before S1, the Hand instructs Colleen to take up work as Ward's bodyguard, and Harold forces Ward to go along with it. I love the idea of them being sort of unwillingly foisted off on each other, with eventual prickly fondness for each other kind of sneaking up on them as they spend more time together. They're both being used by people who claim to love them, and they relate to that in interestingly different ways, because Ward is aware of (at least some of) Harold's toxicity but more shaped by it and fucked-up about it and Colleen is superficially fine but primed to be devastated by finding out the truth about Bakuto and the Hand. I'd love to see how they could potentially help and support each other through this. How does Colleen react to gradually realizing the truth about Harold's treatment of his son? How does Ward react to Colleen's cage fights and financial problems and her entanglement with the Hand?
+ Similarly playing off their different backgrounds with the Hand and with being used as tools, I'd love to see something where one or both of them have to effectively go undercover as their own former identity--where Colleen has to pretend to still be a loyal servant of the Hand or Ward has to (around Danny, for maximum angst?) pretend to still be at his season one levels of assholeishness. What situation do they wind up in that one or both of them has to do this, and they have to kind of look out for each other? Is anyone else in on it, or is everything angstier--and their emotional investment with each other higher--because the other is the only one who knows the whole truth? What kind of trouble do they get into during the masquerade?
+ Colleen wants to extract one of her former students from the Hand, and for some reason she needs Ward's help to do it? I'm really interested in anything that deals with Colleen's feelings about having unknowingly funneled kids into an organization of diabolical ninjas.
+ Forced proximity of any kind would delight me. Stranded together in some remote location? Held captive together and forced to cooperate/support each other to survive, escape, or eke out a little bit of comfort? They have such an interestingly prickly relationship, with both of them being more strongly connected to Danny, and so it fascinates me to see them have to develop an actual connection of their own without him necessarily being there to play mediator. I love it when characters who didn't go into a situation liking each other all that much still wind up being loyal to and protective of each other not even just out of ethics but out of actual personal regard. I eat any and all hurt/comfort up with a spoon, so definitely feel free to make any captivity scenario as OTT as you like. "Each day you must choose which one of you gets tortured," "I'll torture one of you to get information out of the other," noncon of the h/c "earn food for you and your cellmate via sex with Terrible Guard," etc.
+ AU where they meet as traumatized teens? Colleen realizes the Hand are manipulating her and escapes, but she runs into a young Ward whose dad has just died--and come back--and the two of them wind up relying on each other/helping each other/becoming friends? I also just realized that this could lead to all kinds of fun simultaneously angsty and comedic setups where Colleen and Ward are sort of platonically co-raising Joy, which would also delight me. And I have a weakness for troubled teen/runaway AUs in general, so anything along these lines, in whatever scenario you can work up, would be A+.
+ Danny gets mind-controlled/possessed by Harold's ghost/possessed by an evil spirit/etc. and Ward and Colleen have to work together to get him back to normal. (Maybe the Fist left him--but something else moved in.) I love the possibilities here. Do they know immediately that something's wrong with him, or do they have to piece it together slowly from out-of-character behavior? Do they have to compare notes on how he's been acting? Has he hurt one of them or someone else? Give me any kind of Colleen and Ward strategizing about how to save the person they both care about--especially in a kind of tangled situation that maybe means they have to take him down first--and I'll be delighted.
MASH
MASH 4077 Staff
BJ Hunnicutt & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce & Charles Emerson Winchester III
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce/Charles Emerson Winchester III
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
I'm okay with whoever you want to include for the "staff" grouping, from whatever era--this is really a case of "I love everyone in this bar." I'm also great with all possible platonic relationships and a ton of different ships, outside of the Hawkeye/Charles mentioned above: I also love Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/BJ/Peg, Hawkeye/Margaret, Hawkeye/Trapper, Anyone/Kellye, and Charles/Klinger, and I'm okay with anything as a background ship.
+ Some of my favorite episodes are where the 4077--or any subsection of them--has to deal with some kind of high-stress, pressure-cooker situation, like being short on supplies, in the middle of horrible weather, hit with ceaseless casualties, etc. Anything like that would be a total delight. If it's a subsection of characters, there's also always the option of stranding them somewhere, including behind enemy lines. I love the way the characters tend to rise to the occasion for each other and their patients, so I'd love to see them trying hard to stay calm for each other, comfort each other, etc. (Hawkeye sharing his blanket with Margaret in "Aid Station," with hers still between them so she doesn't mistake it for a come-on she has to rebuff, is one of my absolute favorite bits--anything like that, with just quiet gestures of support, is lovely.) Do they wind up having to "hurry up and wait" in a kind of stalled terror, trying to play games or talk to keep each other from going crazy? "Comrades in Arms," but Hawkeye and Charles impulsively hook up and then have to figure out how to deal with it? Probably doing so very badly at first?
+ I also always love anything with hurt/comfort, physical or emotional. Overwhelm them, exhaust them, get them sick, inflict loss on them, whump them, etc., and I will adore it. Is the whole camp felled by the flu again, like in "Carry On, Hawkeye"? I love scenarios where people have to keep on slogging on even though they're sick and exhausted. Is one of them hurt and in a vulnerable situation, like Hawkeye's temporary blindness? I love it when a character gets hit hard by an ailment or injury that could be innocuous or only mildly annoying to someone else but is a huge deal to them for some particular reason. A hand injury for a surgeon? Loss of voice for Hawkeye, a guy whose already tenuous okayness depends on being able to talk and joke? Something non-jokey really winds up humiliating Charles? I also have an h/c soft spot for characters having some kind of past trauma casually revealed to their friends by someone else, if that sparks any ideas.
+ One of them gets amnesia, and one/any/all of the other characters have to help them deal with it and get their memories back? (There can just be a travel shutdown preventing them from being evacuated to a real hospital or you can just handwave why they're being treated at the 4077 if it goes on for a longer period of time. I'll go with it.) I like characters being surprised/bemused/disturbed by news of their past actions, and I also love it whenever people without their memories react differently to things than the people around them. And tonal shifts are great, too--if everyone's initially sure that the amnesia will pass quickly, I can see there being some light good-natured pranking/misleading the person going on, even just to cope with the worry, and then things gradually getting more serious.
+ I'm always interested in what happens to everyone after the war. How do they deal with being home? Do they struggle with any degree of PTSD? What's it like to spend so much--and such intense--time with a group of people and then be separated from them? (I'd prefer it if they kept in touch and didn't all completely drift apart, but "learning to deal with long-distance friendships" and ongoing strings of visits are great.) I'd love to see a reunion--or a collection of several reunions over the years--since we know BJ and Peg have a talent for putting together those kinds of parties; I'd be happy to just see a bunch of the characters having a long night together, getting drunk and reminiscing and talking about their new lives and having unexpected moments with each other.
+ War photographer/journalist AU. I love the idea of these characters as war photojournalists--they're seeing all the same bloody aftermath (and possibly far more action) but their responsibility towards it has shifted, and they're supposed to document and bear witness rather than interfere and heal. Can they stop themselves from getting actively involved? How does the violence they see wear on them? How do they feel about their supposed need to stay uninvolved? What's it like when some of them are cooped up together in some dangerous situation, stuck waiting it out in a combination of boredom and terror? (An excellent hook-up environment.) I also just love professional details, so if you know about photography--and anything you know about photography would be more than I know, for what it's worth--please feel free to throw in all the process-oriented details you want. Tell me about the characters' different styles and preferences and the different magazines/papers/sources they work for. Or I'd love to see how they move on after the war and slowly get back in touch with their art from a different angle--what do they choose to photograph then?
I also have a variety of AU Exchange and Hurt/Comfort Exchange requests for this fandom, and I'd love to see anything for those prompts.
Star Trek: The Original Series
T'Pring/Nyota Uhura
Janice Rand/Nyota Uhura
Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura
Mirror T'Pring/Mirror Nyota Uhura
Mirror Janice Rand/Mirror Nyota Uhura
Mirror Christine Chapel/Mirror Nyota Uhura
For Mirrorverse ships, I totally welcome darkness and dubcon, but I would like there to at least eventually be feelings on both sides, even if those feelings are weird and twisted-up and, say, express themselves through murder sprees. "I was going to poison you but I changed my mind" is a totally acceptable love confession.
+ Maybe Starfleet frowns on fraternization in ranks but lets you bring a spouse on board, leading to a high number of mail order spouses and marriages of convenience? Does Uhura decide she wants a wife at the same time T'Pring decides she wants to get off Vulcan, or Chapel intends to go searching for her fiance? (Romantic angst of the "oh, no, I'm not supposed to be falling in love with this person/I'm lying to someone I'm falling in love with") variety totally welcome, especially for that last one.) Or, if you want to lean into Rand's tie-in novel background as a former slave, is marriage maybe the only way Uhura can rescue her? In the Mirrorverse, this mail order system can be as skeevy and unethical as you like, with possible coercion and mutual mistrust. Does T'Pring order a wife, and this is the only way for Uhura to get out of a bad shipboard situation? (Maybe it's better to go with the devil you don't know.)
+ Related to the above, I also really dig arranged marriages, and it seems like an especially good trope for Uhura/T'Pring. Maybe diplomatically arranged cross-cultural marriages are common in the Federation as a way to encourage understanding? Or maybe the T'Pring/Uhura match is one that's hastily fixed up to deal with Spock's engagement? Do they get to meet and talk first, or do they marry as virtual strangers to each other? I'm good with this being set on either the Enterprise or Vulcan--I can see Uhura wanting to spend time on Vulcan and being interested in the culture. Is it an AU where Earth and Vulcan have a touchier relationship, and Uhura and T'Pring are supposed to bridge the gap? If it's in the Mirrorverse, is there a sort of held-at-knifepoint diplomacy going on, where one of them is acting as a kind of hostage for someone else's good behavior, and there's just a thin veneer of civility? Mirrorverse Bluebeard fusion, where one marries the other only to discover a whole past full of dead/cryogenically frozen/otherwise "disappeared" wives?
+ Persuasion-style AU! I'm so here for a setup of a heartbroken, noble, pining Uhura who was rejected by the woman she loves--really because Rand/Chapel/T'Pring wanted to give her a chance to thrive in Starfleet and advance via the long missions that might get in the way of a marriage. Now she's Lt. Uhura--or Captain, if you want to advance her still further!--and she's been reunited with her lost love. But can they reconnect? (Yes. Yes, they can.) I just love all the angsty pining possibilities here on both sides. And in a Mirrorverse variation, there's something so strangely touching about people pining when they probably resent it deeply--that's the kind of softness that can get you killed. Mirror Uhura simultaneously wanting to rekindle a romance but also being unable to resist being cruel or manipulative to her love interest, who is equally vicious and equally pining, would be great.
+ Mirrorverse Captain Uhura takes a "captain's woman." Dubcon commences and a slow build of complex, possessive, resentful, attracted, dark loyalty kink feelings build. I'd love to see Uhura enjoying flaunting her prize--and the prize at least eventually enjoying being flaunted and maybe wanting to show off Uhura in her own social sphere--and to see them either gradually get to a relationship between equals or stay in a dysfunctional-but-intoxicating I-own-you kind of arrangement.
+ Sex pollen/pon farr/aliens made them do it. I love everything about this. Uhura and Rand or Uhura and Chapel land on an alien planet that's having strange weather and--whoops--sex pollen ensues, with them having to figure out what the aftermath means? Aliens (the Platonians? or any aliens) require that they participate in some kind of ritual sex--do they go along with it relatively willingly, figuring that it's just part of the job? Or is it something they're coerced into to save their lives or the lives of some of their crewmates? Does Spock have to go to Vulcan in "Amok Time" not because of his own pon farr but because of T'Pring's, and Uhura winds up taking his place? I love people in required-sex situations struggling to make the best of it, trying to work out things like whether or not it's better or just more awkward if they're tender as opposed to clinical, and dealing with the aftermath--it's all hot, but I'm also really interested in the non-smutty details, too, if you don't want to write the actual sex.
Starsky & Hutch
Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky
+ Casefic! I love it when a case acts as some kind of catalyst in a relationship, whether that's helping to kickstart it or level it up from a friends-with-benefits pretext to something more openly romantic, and I also love established relationship casefic stories where the relationship helps give them support or comfort or much-needed levity through something dark and difficult. Some casefic/episode-like details I especially love: grimy-but-energetic seventies atmosphere, the sense of there being an acceptable level of low-key illegality and hustling to get by, supporting characters with their own potentially sympathetic agendas, Starsky and Hutch showing compassion for down-and-out people and people who often get treated as a "problem" (addicts, sex workers, people with mental illnesses, etc.), return of guest stars from episodes, criminal organizations and hierarchies, untouchable (or seemingly untouchable) wealthy kingpins/CEOs, criminals who still have some kind of code, weird crimes like stealing something that doesn't seem valuable at first, etc.
+ I am so here for all the pining and yearning, whether that's before any kind of explicit relationship happens or post-sex, with one or both of them thinking the other doesn't want the same thing/doesn't want something more permanent or romantic. I also love scenarios where two people are hooking up and one person thinks they're dating and the other thinks he's hopelessly pining during a friends-with-benefits situation. What makes them realize what's going on or decide to take the first step? Is it something relatively ordinary--just a flash of epiphany during a low-key moment--or do they need some kind of dramatic catalyst, like going undercover in a gay bar/undercover as gay generally or like being stuck in some high-tension situation or stranded in the middle of nowhere? Is there a dramatic pre-death confession of love that they both then awkwardly survive and have to figure out?
+ I also love established relationship stories, especially with them dealing with some kind of outside problem or tricky situation. Real-life kinds of hurdles and awkward situations are great here. They go to visit one of their families for the holidays and have to deal with awkwardness and/or tension? Starsky's mother gets old enough to need some help, and Starsky has to work out how to handle the situation--whether she should come live with him, what that means for him and Hutch, how it's all going to come together financially, etc.? Something happens to Hutch's sister, and Hutch--and by extension Starsky--has to look after her kids for a while? I also adore situations where the couple has been overworked and stretched thin for a while, and they really want to get away and spend some time together, but things keep coming up and piling on, until they finally manage to get some time to themselves. Or one partner wants to do something special for the other, as a gesture/birthday present/anniversary gift, but circumstances keep getting in the way and irritatingly foiling their plans.
+ Any and all hurt/comfort, whether that's stemming from believable situations (or aftermaths/expansions of episodes) or from something completely over-the-top. If you come up with a situation but then worry that it's too contrived, rest assured, I will eat it up with a spoon. Just do bad things to one or both of them and let them comfort each other, and I will love it. Random sampling of favorite scenarios: "I thought you were dead," nightmares/lingering trauma/PTSD, migraines, "I'll torture you to hurt/get info from him," revelation of past trauma, one gets hurt protecting the other, noncon, "I'll trade you sex for his rescue," exhaustion, delusions/fever, and rescue. But seriously, anything.
+ I also love supernatural/fantasy/SF elements being added in, whether the characters are struggling to grapple with the fact that this is even possible or whether it's already part of their world and they can take it in stride (or anything in between). Time loops? To stop one of them from dying or to force one of them to confess their feelings? Some kind of curse? One of them starts seeing ghosts or moves into a new house/apartment that's haunted, making him think he's losing his mind? A criminal they're tracking down turns out to be something far worse and far weirder? Apocalypse or alien invasion?
Thoroughbreds
Amanda/Lily
+ AU where they don’t try again after the first murder attempt falls through and Lily gets sent to Brookmore after all… and Amanda, as a fellow Girl With Severe Behavioral Problems, follows. (I got an excellent version of this for Yuletide a few years ago, but there are so many possibilities here and I love all of them.) Give me the two of them rooming together and developing a dysfunctional, codependent, and oddly touching relationship. Lily needing Amanda as an unchangeable bedrock to deal with all the social upheaval. Mutual protectiveness and fucked-up loyalty kink, especially if the school turns out to be a nightmare.
+ Tim kills Mark, but Mark hangs around as a vengeful ghost? I’d love to see Lily and Amanda try to deal with a haunted house--it would just be so deliciously Gothic. Does Lily just start trying to find excuses to stay at Amanda’s? (Does she admit right away that she knows what’s happening, or does it become one more secret?) How would Amanda’s rigorous practicality match up against the paranormal? I’m good with this as either a slightly surreal/magical realist take or out-and-out horror.
+ Ambiguous, unsettling hangouts. I love the way their conversations can drift into strangeness, whether that’s Amanda teaching Lily the technique or the two of them practicing holding their breath and Amanda having to scoop Lily up off the floor of the pool when she starts drowning, and I’d love to see anything along those lines… just dark, bittersweet moments where they cross over from the ordinary into something weird that breaks social norms. And this works ridiculously well for shipping, too. That scene in the pool! I’d love to see them having a romantic/sexual moment that just sort of sneaks up on them, and maybe having a whole relationship that they don’t talk about but that just sort of exists sometimes.
+ Longing, possessiveness, and intimacy. Lily secretly getting off a little on Amanda’s comparatively-unwashed scent, and liking that while not at all liking that she likes it. Amanda being as matter-of-fact about kink experimentation as she is about everything else. Fooling around in the pool or on expensive furniture, especially if there’s a taboo element to it (like it belonging to Mark). Wearing each other’s clothes. Clothed sex, wall sex, pool sex, Amanda’s weird tangents during sex, marking/biting/bruising. Possessiveness. If you want to write 10k of porn and emotional weirdness, I'm totally here for it.
+ AU where the Brookmore threat doesn’t make all the tensions come to a head, and things maybe have the chance to resolve a little more peacefully? It would be interesting to see Amanda and Lily trying to rebuild their lives with no murderous shortcuts--Lily in public school this time? Lily and Amanda dating? Amanda eventually successfully Steve Jobsing her way through life with Lily at her side?
+ They kill Mark together, or Lily kills Mark but then has second thoughts about framing Amanda for it, and then the two of them have to go on the run together or cover up the murder some other way? I love tense road trips, so I would totally just read about the two of them bumming around the country trying to make it by without getting caught, sleeping in cheap hotels that Lily hates, and figuring out what to do for money. And I’d also love to see them trying to manage a different kind of story about what happened--would they try to frame someone else? Say that it was self-defense? How would the aftermath play out? Do they wind up getting used to murder as a problem-solving strategy and kill more people along the way?
+ Post-canon developments. Did Lily really throw the letter away without reading it? I’d love to see future-fic where Amanda finally comes home and the two of them reunite in some form--all the uncertainty and instability on both sides, the huge difference between their lives, etc. I’m good with either eventual tentative happiness here, bittersweetness, ambiguity, reunion sex, one of them killing the other, or all of the above.
+ Mark’s murder seems perfectly calibrated to become at least a brief media sensation, and I’d love to see any “found documents" post-canon fic made up of courtroom testimony, news reports, social media discussion, reviews of the inevitable Lifetime movie, etc., or fic that featured Amanda and/or Lily reacting to the way the case explodes and to possible speculation about the nature of their relationship.