Dear Fic in a Box Creator (2022)

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Thank you so much for creating something for me! I've included prompts in case they're helpful—I have more for some fandoms than for others, but that's just because of what I could think up or because of how many different relationships/mediums I was requesting; I'd be delighted to receive anything for any of these requests and am already so excited to open my gift box. <3

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hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers (or friends), friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, moral complexity, 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, complicated relationships, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, 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, made them do it, noncon-related hurt/comfort, rape recovery, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements, both linear and nonlinear storytelling

Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include unless otherwise noted.

General Sex Likes/Kinks

clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, rimming, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spanking (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, voyeurism, 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, scat, bestiality, necrophilia

Biggles Series - W. E. Johns

Algy Lacey & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Erich von Stalhein
James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Marie Janis/Erich von Stalhein

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The incredible enemies-to-friends (-to-lovers?) slow burn between Biggles and von Stalhein is 100% my jam. I really love enemies recognizing honor, courage, and skill in each other, and Biggles and von Stalhein not only do that, they get amazingly weird about it. There's so much catnippy mutual admiration and fascination, and I love that no matter how many times they clash, Biggles never gives up on the idea that von Stalhein is not only salvageable as an officer and a gentleman but is also a kind of friend-in-waiting.

Marie is a lovely addition to all of the above. The three of them have such a great, complex, emotionally fraught history that spans so much time and deals with so many rich conflicts of loyalty and feeling, and I can't believe they basically get a cozy domestic ending. So much potential for pining and angst and the satisfaction of the three of them gradually working out that they can really have this kind of relationship.

With Algy and von Stalhein, I love the uniquely weird dynamic of them both being significantly invested in Biggles and—at first—only really caring about each other as an extension of caring about him … with a lot of very understandable antipathy and mistrust on Algy's part, since von Stalhein spends several decades trying to kill them. I'm really interested in how they might, if thrown together, find themselves developing more of a relationship and maybe even some tentative trust or connection.

Fandom-specific DNW: Period- and canon-typical racism. Anything set during WWII or referencing Nazis (regardless of when the story is set). Just let me believe von Stalhein was covertly working as a double-agent for the Allies during that period.

* Sometime after von Stalhein takes refuge in England, he drops off the radar, and Biggles has to try to find him—either because he's worried on his own or because he's reluctantly conscripted into the government's attempt to keep track of him. It turns out he didn't leave of his own free will: there's something more sinister going on, whether that's supernatural or mundane. Conversely, Algy and the others wind up needing von Stalhein's help finding a mysteriously missing Biggles, for whatever reason?

* After Biggles Looks Back, von Stalhein assumes that Biggles and Marie will want to be together and that if he has a function in all this, it's to be the one to take all the risks so that they can have their happy ending. Biggles and Marie, however, don't want him to bow out of the picture. Maybe they even try to rekindle their romance at first and are puzzled as to why it feels curiously incomplete ….

* Instead of the Sakhalin rescue … Algy is on some kind of solo mission when he comes across an extremely damaged or mistreated von Stalhein. He can't get in touch with Biggles, so he has to make the call on his own, and he knows what Biggles's reaction would be if he left von Stalhein like this. Cue an extremely reluctant, testy rescue. I'm also interested in any scenarios where von Stalhein has to rescue Algy. Maybe it's post-Hatchet, and Algy's been captured by some of von Stalhein's old associates or soldiers of fortune familiar with von Stalhein's reputation, so it only makes sense to send EvS undercover to rescue him. Or maybe it's while they're enemies, and von Stalhein is angrily baffled that apparently he's scuppering his whole life because somehow this doesn't seem like fair play and he knows how Biggles would react to him letting Algy die?

* Brainwashing! The Soviets try to mentally program von Stalhein into unquestioning loyalty? Someone captures Biggles and/or Algy and tries to brainwash them into performing some kind of assassination or turning into spies? Marie dealing with the aftermath of hypnosis techniques meant to convince her to divulge information? I love characters struggling with the idea that their own minds are untrustworthy or having to fight off programmed impulses to, say, hurt the people they care about—and the other people are taking a huge risk still being around them. Plus the hurt/comfort elements of trying to slowly help someone get used to being human again!

* Take them on a long sea voyage where they'll have plenty of time penned up with each other, either for serious reasons or for the sheer dissonance of their often strange, intense lives now involving a lot more polite dinners and invitations to play bridge. Maybe there's a mystery on the ship that they'll have to solve, or a crisis they'll have to avert? I'm equally down for anything from "heroism and mutual worrying and competence porn in the midst of evacuating a sinking ship" to "dammit, he looks very good in his dinner jacket."

* I appreciate how weird the books can get, and I'm down with them getting even weirder. A barrage of supernatural, science fictional, and far-fetched situations and tropes I'd love: hunted for sport by a psychopath, flying through the Bermuda triangle, weird experiments result in weird talents (Biggles Develops Telekinesis?), werewolves, arranged marriage/political marriage, time loops, shipwrecked on a deserted island, someone gets de-aged, and undercover as a couple (including two people out of the Biggles/Marie/EvS trio having to pretend to be a couple, much to the other's potential angst).

* This is also a great fandom for hurt/comfort, and I have a barrage of tropes I'd love, with any character as the hurt party: character who believes they'll be tortured/killed begs for mercy for someone else, character bargains themselves to a captor so that they can get bandages or medicine for another character, character with injured hands needs help with task, character insists on completing mission despite injuries, malaria, fever, delirium, nonconned in front of other characters, hallucinations, overwhelming and suddenly acquired telepathy, and life-saving soulbonding. (And more! I adore h/c of all stripes.)



Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill

Canonical or non-canonical abuse/noncon of characters under sixteen can be mentioned/referenced, I just don't want graphic, blow-by-blow descriptions.

Solo: megan

None of the eves manage their awful world better than megan—but she’s spent her whole life mastering one very particular and very defined social environment, and at the end of the novel, she’s moving into an entirely new one. She’s “married” to a boy who dislikes her and whose social standing is dependent upon the patronage of his demanding and abusive father. She’s been trying to win, but what happens after she does? I’m really interested in what happens to the perfect winner and survivor once the nature of the competition has radically changed, and what happens to the “high school bully” after she grows up. I've gotten an awesome take on this before, but I'd still love more.

* If you want to include Darwin, what is the megan/Darwin marriage like? Incredibly bleak and unhappy, occasionally bittersweet, eventually surprisingly amiable? Does he continue to visit brothels, and if so, how does she feel about it? They offer an especially dark and riveting take on arranged marriages that gives high-stakes drama to the smallest of romantic or sexual interactions, so any look at the process of them becoming more familiar and intimate with each other, whether they end up liking each other or not, would be great.

* Social standing and worldbuilding! How does megan, the queen of the School, fare in the adult world of the companions? What’s her daily life like? Does she have any friends, or does the competition remain cutthroat even after the “victory” of being chosen? What are her obligations as Darwin’s companion?

* Nightmarish pregnancy/fertility scenarios. Is the pressure on immediately for her to start having sons? What is she like as a mother and how does she think of her children? Or does all her Machiavellian scheming hit a wall when she and Darwin have trouble conceiving? Would she risk a discreet affair in case she might have better luck with someone else? If there are no children, will she be put aside sooner, or even sent to the basement?

* How does she deal with the Judge? Play the obliging, charming daughter-in-law? Gradually grow defensive of Darwin? Given what we see with the Father and isabel, it would be utterly unsurprising if the Judge pressured Darwin to choose megan because he wanted access to her himself; given how cutthroat she can be, it would also be unsurprising if she welcomed that or even pursued it on her own. If so, does she find it damaging, whether or not she’s capable of recognizing that? Or is she just a winner in search of another winner?

* megan is unapologetically vicious throughout the whole novel, but she’s also a seventeen year-old locked in a competition that will determine the rest of her life. She’ll die young, but she’ll grow up a little first, and I’d love to check in on her as she matures, whether she begins to develop regrets and a conscience or just responds to different challenges. Does she ever look back on what happened with freida and isabel and feel differently about it?

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That "any in-universe documents" bit really is inclusive—I just mentioned ones that stood out to me as having a lot of potential for this fandom, but I'd be happy to see anything that strikes your fancy. Likewise, art is a welcome addition to anything writing-based, and vice-versa. I know the eves canonically can't read, so I'm happy to take any text as a representation of whatever their accompanying audio would be.

Obviously most of these have implied m/f relationships built in, and I'd also love to see all the secret and fraught f/f and m/m relationships that aren't as stamped out as the Zones think.

* Companions: The eves have lived such a carefully orchestrated, cloistered life at the School, and now they're suddenly completely stripped of their lifelong environment and thrown into an entirely new situation. And they've gone from being controlled by a mostly toxic group dynamic to being effectively owned by one person they don't know very well. Please tell me everything about what that's like. Show me the awkward early-days transitions of companionship, the horrible weight of unknown expectations, "happy" companions who believe this is as good as life could possibly get, companions who struggle to manage their new lives, etc. What kinds of relationships do they form with their husbands and sons? To what extent do they stay in touch with their friends, and how do they make new ones? What's it like to be nearing your termination date?

* Concubines: I'm really interested in the group of girls we see who passionately set their sights on being concubines, especially with freida thinking that megan is wrong: they aren't making the best of a bad situation, they genuinely prefer this to companionship. Is one of the advantages just getting to stay in close quarters with their friends? Does this let them build better relationships with each other? Once they get a little older, do they still feel relieved about the earlier termination date? How do they feel about the "game" we see Darwin playing, where they're remotely controlled and directed through acts they don't remember? Do they secretly remember them after all? What is their daily life like? Are there any "specialist" concubines who are encouraged to get fat for customers who like that? (Stuffing/feederism/weight gain is okay for this one--I'd actually like seeing the weird push and pull between "finally getting to indulge in a bunch of sensory pleasure" and "this is not at at all what I'm 'supposed' to look like.")

* Chastities: We know the chastities get less respect and far less luxury--even down to not being able to "waste" medical supplies on themselves--and that they're expected to run through self-sacrificing vows multiple times a day. But they also get uncensored internet, relative freedom from expectations, and a natural life span. I'd love to see something set from their point-of-view, as they have to watch these girls go through the School year after year. How often is it just completely depressing? What attachments do they develop, and do they manage to keep any of them up? (We do see that Darwin's mother sent chastity-magdalena a gift, which has always stayed with me.) What kinds of things do they learn once no one cares if they're "too smart" anymore? How do they feel about regurgitating the prescribed lessons designed at preparing the eves for a path they themselves didn't take? What's the balance of contentment and jealousy?

* Inheritants: I would love to see what life is like for the Inheritants. We know they grow up with their own kinds of rankings and social codes, even as they have vastly more freedom, and I'm curious what their families and early educations look like under this weird, status-obsessed system. And I'd love to see how they think and feel about the eves and the lead-up to the Ceremony. Are they nervous? Surprised by what the girls are really like? Do they expect them to be glossy perfection and then find glimpses of normal human messiness, or are any of them secretly hoping for actual connection and kind of disappointed to find girls who have all been molded into the same shape? What are the pressures of choosing a companion, and how much emotional weight do they really put on the relationship, when they know they'll almost certainly outlive her and get a second one?

* Minor characters: I'd also love worldbuilding through some of the minor supporting characters we see and hear about: the hosts of The Chit-Chat Show with the companion-concubine tension, agyness settling into her new and longed-for role as a chastity, Darwin's mother living in the shadows of her two predecessors and trying to make her son into a good person, chastity-magdalena and her vocation and kindness, the celebrities we see like the slutz or kate (famous women in a world not designed for them), etc.?

* Medium opt-ins: Feel free to go wild with these. This book's fucked-up worldbuilding seems like the perfect chance to design some dystopian beauty product ad campaigns or TV show promos or hellish advice columns. Chat correspondence transcripts between a chastity and a new companion? Articles and interviews following up on famous eves? Serious academic studies of what happened with isabel and/or freida or of any of the horrible premises we see, like the adultery punishment or the forbidden love before marriage? Or someone advocating that maybe they teach women to read after all? Voice diary of a Concubine? Basically, any of these can either stand on their own or be used for any of the above prompts, and I'll love it.



Cam

Solo: Alice Ackerman
Solo: Fake Lola
Alice Ackerman/Fake Lola

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I love all the layers of thoughtful unease in this movie, from the trippy horror of having your own online identity stripped away from you--to the point where you're watching yourself on-screen, doing things you've never done and saying things you've never said--to the intense creepiness of being stalked to the science fictional deepfake digital clones that don't recognize their original models to the fear of having your secrets publicly revealed to sexual anxieties and the awfulness of having people dismiss your concerns and fears. I also just really like detailed portraits of different professions, so I love seeing how Alice managed her performances and career--what kind of shows she did, her ambitions, her professional connections, her boundary-pushing branding, etc. And Alice is such a terrific protagonist: resourceful, intuitive, weird, brave, vulnerable, and fiercely devoted to her own principles and boundaries. I'm also really intrigued by Fake Lola, especially with the possibility of her developing a kind of sentience.

* I'd love a look at how Alice got started as Lola. Did she come up with her rules before she ever opened her account, or did she work them out over time? How did she develop her penchant/brand for weird, extreme shows with simulated violence? And I love how we see her keeping a record of gimmicks she's used for individual shows, judging whether or not they've been successful, so I'd love to see more of that, too: her brainstorming, her successes and failures, her adjustments. How does she start forming connections (and rivalries, in Princess's case) with the other women working on FreeGirlsLive?

* AU where there's a different explanation for what's going on with the theft of Alice's account? The part where "Lola" is taking her audience on a tour of her house is so chilling in how it just eviscerates Alice's sense of privacy and really emphasizes how wrong all this is--it feels so sinister. What if the Fake Lola were some kind of supernatural force targeting her, instead of a digital clone? Is she a ghost of some sort? A suppressed manifestation of Alice herself? Some kind of totally inhuman force that just chooses to embody itself this way for some reason?

* AU where Alice and Fake Lola manage to form some kind of alliance to take on the people behind the deepfakes or to take on abusive clients?

* Is Fake Lola the same "person" as, say, the Baby digital construct, or does she have a unique experience of the world? It could be really cool to see her either interacting with the other simulations--maybe in one of those joint shows--or otherwise being all of these constructs simultaneously.

* Fake Lola lives on as a kind of digital ghost post-deletion. Does she develop an obsession with Alice after all that, and manage to find her new account and become an avid client? And what kind of ghost is she--malevolent, sexually intrigued, neutral, friendly, all of the above simultaneously or at different stages?

* Alice rebuilds her career, refusing to be knocked down for good--but she's still working with FreeGirlsLive, and the same problem could easily happen again. What's it like trying to work her way up the ratings ladder again with that shadow always hanging over her? Does she stay focused on her shows, or does she make it part of her mission to track down and enact (possibly murderous) revenge on whoever was responsible for all this?

* The deepfake digital clones become a common, pernicious part of the internet, eventually becoming a kind of online folklore that Alice or Lola has to contend with (obviously from very different perspectives). What kind of additional spring up around or about these true tales of stolen identity? Does it get hard for even Alice and Lola to tell the difference between fake accounts and real ones, and what does that mean?

* I'm totally here for Fake Lola's POV on her part of the movie and everything going on behind the scenes, with either a seemingly human perspective--that sometimes feels a weird dissonance about everything--or a fascinatingly alien AI one. How does she start gaining awareness? What is her perspective like? Does she develop emotions and preferences? From her perspective, is Alice/Teapot horrifying for deleting her? How does she feel about her interactions with her viewers?

* Alice gets a smart house/Alexa/whatever. This is a bad idea, especially when Fake Lola gets involved (maybe Demon Seed-style). Or maybe the deepfake originators hack her house in revenge for her getting one over on them, and Lola actually manages to help her in some way?

* Medium opt-ins: I love the idea of seeing, say, Lola's channel's reaction to the Alice/Lola/Teapot exchange and the discussion that might happen afterwards (elsewhere, since Alice deletes the channel). Any kind of tone would be great. And the Reddit formats would be fantastic for post-movie fic where Alice is, say, considering suing FreeGirlsLive or volunteering to take questions about her cam-work. Or maybe Fake Lola starts out with "I'm a cam girl, AMA" and it slowly turns into "I'm fledgling AI, AMA."



Joyeux Noël | Merry Christmas

Lt. Audebert & Lt. Horstmayer
Lt. Audebert/Lt. Horstmayer

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Surprising connections between characters who are supposed to be enemies, mutual recognition of honor and decency, characters taking huge risks for each other, coming together across the lines, historical context, a wintry landscape, the potential for some amazing pining … this movie is total catnip for me. The movie has a tight time-span, and I definitely don't need the story set within that! I also love canon-divergence AUs, setups where they meet earlier during the war (including under wildly different circumstances), AUs where for some reason they're able to continue in an odd status quo truce for at least a few days longer, post-canon stories, and big-picture AUs like "an alien invasion during WWI forces all the countries to work together" or "their countries have a mutual enemy in Ruritania." I'm happy to hand-wave logistics here.

I like gen and Audebert/Horstmayer (and all potential shades of ambiguity in between). For Audebert/Horstmayer, if their wives are mentioned, I'd prefer them to be fine with the relationship, either in a general poly way, an "under the circumstances, it's fine for you to find comfort where you can" way, or some "it's okay because it's this specific person you have feelings for" way. I'm also fine with it mostly going unmentioned as long as there's not angst about cheating/lying that specifically implies that they know their wives wouldn't be fine with it. Threesomes, foursomes, or other poly relationships among the two couples are also totally fine.

* An accidental soulbond forms between the two of them over the course of the movie, and it makes it difficult and painful for the two of them to be apart. Are they able to meet up again during the war to take the edge off? Can they talk to each other or exchange feelings/visions through the bond, so that they're connected even over vast distances, and they can comfort each other through the horrors of war? Dream-sharing? Are soulbonds a known quantity, and their countries desperately want to break theirs because it doesn't fit with wartime enmity? Are they distrusted because of it? Imprisoned?

* Sex pollen in the trenches! Maybe it's a natural phenomenon, maybe it's an experimental weapon, but either way, it leaves them frantically in need of sex and skin contact, and they're only willing to be that vulnerable with each other? Repression, fumbling, touch starvation, sensory overload? Is this how they meet, or is this an AU where they have more time with each other at the front after they get to know each other?

* Quiet, elegiac ghost story where one of them dies in the war but continues to visit the other intermittently anyway, or shows up at some key moment to save the other's life? Maybe it's one of those cases where they have a seemingly normal interaction or reunion, with just a trace of wistfulness, and then one of them finds out the other is already dead and this was a bit of unresolved business he was taking care of?

* A monster is stalking the trenches, and it doesn't care what uniforms people are wearing, so the men have to band together across the lines to fight it off or hunt it down? Tense stakeouts in the snowy darkness, bonding while waiting to see if they'll be attacked; hurt/comfort after monster attacks; separated from their armies because one of them gets dragged off by the monster and the other follows; "Saving you is a dangerous mission but I'm going to do it anyway." Ice monsters, monsters made of mustard gas, monsters made of the bodies of the dead, monsters embodying the pointlessness of the war?

* These two are great for hurt/comfort, and I'm good with either of them as the hurt character (or both!). I'd love anything in that vein, but some specific tropes/prompts I like for them include fever, character not realizing how badly they're hurt until they collapse, injured or ill while stranded with the enemy, one of them begging for mercy for the other, bargaining themselves to their captor for medicine/bandages for the other character, protectiveness, refusing to leave someone's side, and tender sex because of some kind of injury.

* Any kind of apocalypse—extreme weather, zombies, alien invasion, whatever: anything that can get Horstmayer and Audebert on the run together, fighting to survive, sleeping close, and encountering extreme situations. I love the idea of them realizing that normalcy has slipped away and that this sort of gives them permission to be close with each other in a way they weren't allowed to be before.

* Opt-in mediums: An academic paper about the Christmas truce explores some historical record of the Horstmayer-Audebert relationship, romantic or platonic? I'd love to see people trying to interpret their relationship and whatever way it might extend after the course of the movie. The two of them somehow manage to write letters to each other during the war, or—more plausibly—write to each other after the war, winding up in a regular correspondence? One of them keeps a journal, so we see his impression of their meeting and of the aftermath and maybe how much he thinks about the other while they're apart, as well as how he deals with his own situation?



The Perfection

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wells/Charlotte Willmore

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Lizzie and Charlotte have incredible chemistry, and I love how their relationship has such a weird blend of genuine loyalty and care… and for-your-own-good gaslighting and forced amputation and obsession and identity blurring. Charlotte feels like an escaped Brontë character, with this vibe of simultaneous fragility and danger, and Lizzie starts off seeming more normal only to wind up becoming stranger and more brutal. I'd love anything that digs into their fucked-up, promising complexity.

* I'm so curious about what happens post-canon. Do Charlotte and Lizzie become dark, off-kilter vigilantes, seeking out rapists and abusers and brutally murdering them? Do they somehow manage to take over the school and start running it together, becoming the new faces of Bachoff? Does that just mean trying to deprogram some of the top students?

* An alternate, darker version of them taking control of the school, with the two of them falling into their own kind of worship of the Perfection even in Anton's absence? Can they fully shake what they were taught, or do they find themselves repeating bits of that behavior even when they don't want to?

* I'd love full-on supernatural horror, too. I spent a lot of time thinking there might turn out to actually be some kind of cosmic force they were worshiping (and sacrificing to) that embodied a kind of musical/artistic perfection, and I'd be very happy to see this as a literal Lovecraftian cult that Charlotte and Lizzie wind up inheriting. Do they know how to deal with the force they might have just offended? Does it require them to do anything? Do they give the bodies to it as an offering? What does any of this look like--how they serve it, how they move forward, how they potentially try to defeat or contain it, etc.?

* What if that threatened virus/zombie outbreak from the beginning was real, and Charlotte's plans go awry because she and Lizzie are stuck in the middle of an apocalypse? Are they still in China, or do they have to take an uncomfortable, destined-to-explode refuge at Bachoff?

* More Gothic horror, just because the house is so perfect for it. The lingering ghosts of Anton, Paloma, Theis, and Geoffrey? A murderous student who's already been indoctrinated into the previous way of doing things? (I always welcome creepy children.) Past students seeking revenge for Anton? Alternately, I'll take other kinds of horror, too--what if that threatened virus/zombie outbreak from the beginning turns out to be real?

* I could also see some canon-divergences. What if Charlotte's mom hadn't gotten sick until after she'd had some time to get to know Lizzie, and she'd wound up running away and taking Lizzie with her? What if her mom had died sooner and she'd come back earlier on to wage a different kind of war on the school? Or a role-reversal, maybe, where Charlotte is the one who stayed with Anton and Paloma, and Lizzie wound up having to leave the school for some reason, only to come back years later--I'd love to see her starting off with the same motives (revenge, desire to save Charlotte, growing love) but playing them out in very different ways. Or I could also totally just go for a long-game road-trip through China, with the two of them deepening their relationship and Charlotte trying to change Lizzie's mind in more subtle ways.

* Random assortment of mini-prompts: music metaphors/musical structures for stories, Lizzie and Charlotte's relationship to music, their duets, consensual stump insertion, sex games that edge into being deeply unhealthy therapy, joyous sex all about emotion and experience/inexperience and tenderness and maybe kink discovery, porn in general, becoming composers, Charlotte having trouble dealing with the world after spending years as a virtual shut-in.

* A Softer World opt-in: There are so many fantastic A Softer World strips about passionate love that's also a really bad idea/out-of-control/messed-up/etc. in a way that really strikes me as having a Lizzie/Charlotte vibe. So much attraction and obsession and genuine caring and liking--and so many twisted directions. (I'm good with either actual A Softer World text or you coming up with A Softer Pastiche captions.)



Re-Animator

Daniel Cain/Herbert West

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Re-Animator is such a goofy, gory delight, and it hit me with so many unexpected feelings, especially in the first movie. It's so funny and frequently, delightfully over-the-top while still taking its characters' emotions seriously, and I love the intensity and weirdness of the Herbert-Dan relationship and would be happy with anything that gave me more of that. I really like them being mutually emotionally tied up with each other and having this bizarre loyalty kink and sense of teamwork. And their lives lend themselves to so much horror, h/c, and pining, all of which I adore.

Fandom-specific DNW: Beyond Re-Animator canon.

* More horror is enthusiastically welcome. They awaken or otherwise attract the attention of some kind of eldritch entity? They're snowbound in a haunted hotel? Quietly tragic horror where Dan slowly realizes that he's Herbert's most successful resurrection because Herbert couldn't stand to let him go even though he's come back slightly wrong? Herbert dies at the end of the first movie but sporadically makes ghostly appearances in Dan's life to protect him, bug him about working on the reagent, and just generally be in love with him? Chased and hurt by monsters and/or zombies or trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse? Herbert conquers death via chemically engineered vampirism?

* I love the idea that Herbert succumbs to Hill's hypnosis with particular ease, which of course would disconcert him. Maybe he asks Dan to hypnotize him a few times so he can get become more adept at breaking free of that kind of control, and they wind up getting really into it was a kind of unconventional (and deeply ill-advised) D/s and/or consensual somnophilia-adjacent thing? I just really like the idea of Herbert finding that he inexplicably likes being temporarily under Dan's control and trying to justify this in very scientific terms while Dan is also grappling with it from his side, liking the protectiveness but sort of being afraid of all the power? Relatedly, I am also 100% down for this as a kind of weird trauma recovery with Hill having previously nonconned a hypnotized Herbert. (I am in general very fond of non-Dan dudes sexually menacing Herbert West, so that's always fine to include.)

* Sex pollen-like reagent fumes: a natural hazard of scientific work. I am so here for these two hooking up under a chemical influence and then having to decide what to do about it, possibly with the twist that this really does happen pretty regularly and, say, Dan catches himself being disappointed that it happened once while he was gone and Herbert just wound up jerking off the whole time.

* Any and all hurt/comfort, with either hurt, blended with any of the above prompts or on their own. Maybe one of them gets hypnotized/mind-controlled into hurting the other, resulting in a heaping helping of angst with the h/c? Maybe one of them has to perform emergency surgery on the other without any anesthesia? One of them hurt protecting the other? Injured hands mean the other requires assistance? Intense levels of protectiveness? Captured and experimented on by scientists who make Herbert look principled and reasonable in comparison? H/c-infused body horror of Herbert's experiments making them werewolves or giving them wings? Delirium or some kind of altered state makes Herbert irrationally convinced that Dan is an imposter, and Dan has to try to prove his identity and maybe keep Herbert calm until whatever's affecting him can wear off?

* Very weird slices of domestic life--in Peru, in the Bride of Re-Animator mortuary, or anywhere else. Scrambling eggs on one burner while reagent bubbles on another! Really bizarre Christmases with Herbert West! Dan trying to give him a birthday present! Lazy morning sex!

* Herbert temporarily gets amnesia, and Dan is faced with the extremely weird and awkward task of having to explain Herbert to himself. I'd also just love a glimpse of what a "blank" Herbert's personality is like without his specific memories and how he reacts to Dan, and Dan maybe guiltily having a soft spot for a more emotionally open amnesiac Herbert but also being eager to get his Herbert back …. Or if Dan gets amnesia, how on earth would Herbert explain him to himself? What would be Herbert's reaction to a Dan stripped of his Dan-ness?

* Opt-ins: Fake book cover! I'd love to see these two drawn in the style of an old-fashioned pulp novel cover, like vintage horror and science fiction paperbacks … or vintage queer lit that has them looking at each other significantly or touching in suggestive ways to clue readers into the book's content? A Softer World strip about obsessive, passionate love that's also possibly a bad idea or at least a weird idea? One that just tackles the odder side of their lives, or evokes the movie's sense of humor? (I'm good with either actual A Softer World text or you coming up with A Softer Pastiche captions.)

* Psychological evaluation: I love the idea of one or both of them undergoing some kind of psych eval in the aftermath of a mysterious incident (maybe one the psychologist doesn't even know the full, bizarre scale of?). I want to see someone confronted with their odd devotion to each other, Herbert's arrogance and manic intensity, Dan's inexplicable willingness to go along with all this, their loyalty, and their seemingly bizarre beliefs about the dead coming back to life. Are they already together? Do they know they have feelings for each other, or does the psychologist just deduce that? What can we tell about their lives from this kind of outsider POV?



Thor

Heimdall/Loki/Valkyrie

I particularly love post-Ragnarok AUs for this, with the Agardians traveling across the galaxy and looking for a new home—maybe on Earth, maybe not—and having both adventures and the petty headaches of small-scale shipboard governance related to resupplying and morale. High-stakes situations in weird settings and mundane but telling incidents are all great. And Heimdall/Loki/Valkyrie has such delicious potential for a complicated, prickly relationship that could turn out very intense and surprisingly steady. There are so many things I love about them: slow-burn trust, ambivalence, fondness, loyalty/fealty kink, scorching hot sex, chivalry, complex histories, different priorities and different relationships to Asgard as a whole, serious personal issues (at least with Val and Loki), heroism (reluctant or otherwise), and humor even in dark situations. I also love the whole Ragnarok ensemble and would be delighted to see any of them.

Fandom-specific DNW: Heimdall and Loki's deaths in Infinity War—plus the deaths of the other Asgardians—unless they come back. Loki show canon.

* Space adventures! Adventures with hurt/comfort! Adventures with the three of them each having to contribute something useful to the cause, with the necessary teamwork and cooperation bringing them closer together! (Stranding them on an alien planet or in some other isolated scenario is always welcome.)

* Ritual sex, ritual soulbonding, ritual sex that leads to soulbonding. One of them has to have unwanted ritual sex with someone else/multiple someones, and the others have more feelings about it than they want to.

* Any kind of post-Ragnarok marriage that is in some way for the sake of Asgard. Everyone likes a wedding, so marrying off a prince seems like a good way to boost everyone's mood, but it's okay, it's just a ceremony (and possibly a public consummation--also good for mood-boosting) ... until the soul bond or the feelings set in. I love characters thinking they can get away with not taking something seriously only for them to then be proven disastrously wrong about that.

* One of them is dealing with something supernatural--seeing ghosts, an eldritch space abomination, grave and dark magic, etc.--and needs help from the others. Are they already together? Is this something that helps get them together? Helps them realize/develop feelings?

* A near-death experience—the ship is falling towards a black hole, they think they're all about to die in battle, whatever—leads to either a declaration of feelings or some frantic "we're about to die" banging, and then they all live and have to figure out what to do about this.

* Time travel: Loki time travels back to the old days of Asgard and runs into a younger Heimdall and Valkyrie, who don’t know him. / Heimdall and Loki travel back in time and run into a younger Valkyrie. / Any of them travel back in time within the timeline of the movies and encounter pre-Ragnarok Loki, either pre- or post-Thor 1. How do they make sense of these past versions of each other? Are there any surprises? Is anyone running into a past version of themselves, and if so, how do they feel about it? Does a relationship actually happen between characters in different timelines?

* I’m really interested in the different walls that have to come down here and the different allowances that have to be made--and the nuances in those, for that matter: Heimdall has up-close and personal experience with the fallout of Loki’s past actions, while Val doesn’t… but he also seems more willing to cast those aside (“Welcome home” <3). Val has less immediate knowledge but more wariness. And how do she and Heimdall feel about each other? Were they ever on Asgard at the same time? If so, does Val not like that Heimdall stayed and kept Asgard’s secrets? Does he not like that she left?

* It's traditional for suitors to compete for a prince's hand, and holding onto Asgardian traditions seems really important right now, so Val or Heimdall winds up resigned to a contest to win the dubious pleasure of marrying Loki. Are the three of them already in a relationship, and is this part of their actual desire to seal the deal? Are Val and Heimdall together, and this is how they face up to or develop burgeoning feelings about Loki? Can they win as a team, or does one of them technically have to defeat the other, and if so, how do they feel about it? Does the competition start out as a way to boost morale, and they just wind up trying to make sure Loki gets a good option? (Partly so he won't murder a new spouse he doesn't like?) Who else is competing, and is there any serious danger that things might go wrong and someone else might win, heightening the stakes? Or is it comedic and bizarre? Does Loki help them cheat, with or without their knowledge?

* Slice-of-life get-togethers: I'd love to just watch their feelings change as they deal with ordinary life, too. I've prompted some possible catalysts, but I also just love emotionally realistic and "quieter" stories that give their feelings time to change and also gives them space to evolve as individual characters.



Evil

David Acosta & Kristen Bouchard & Ben Shakir
David Acosta/Kristen Bouchard/Ben Shakir

Length Opt-In: 500 minimum words per fic
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
Medium Opt In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt In: Writing - Reddit: Highly Upvoted/Gilded Reddit Comment And The Comment's Context
Medium Opt In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/IAmA AMA (Post + Questions + Replies)
Medium Opt In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/Relationships Post (Post + Replies)

This show's gift for combining absolutely batshit, over-the-top elements with unnerving horror and character development and interaction makes me so happy. I love how often their cases are a complex mishmash of logical explanations, unresolvable ambiguities, and hard-to-dismiss but unprovable personal experiences. Kristen, David, and Ben have such excellent rapport and chemistry; their relationship feels both lived-in and comfortable and sometimes crackling with tension. I love their different worldviews and how they keep on having respect and affection for each other throughout a lot of tense disagreements about what approach to take.

I'm also good with David/Kristen and Kristen/Andy in gen fics. (If it's David/Kristen/Ben, please just give Kristen and Andy an amicable, if potentially still sad, break-up, at least by the time they've really kicked off a relationship with each other. Likewise, I'm fine with David either reconciling his relationship with his vocation in his own way or with ceasing to be a priest, but I'd rather he not completely renounce everything; the ongoing differences in how the three of them see the world are especially cool to me.) And I think the whole ensemble is terrific, so any other significant platonic character relationships are also great.

* Casefic (or a snippet of casefic) in general would be excellent, whether the resolution is supernatural, human, or a mixture of both (or people making things look supernatural). I especially like their weirder cases and incidents that aren't demon-related, like the Haunted Girl VR game, the "Pudsy's Christmas" video, Brenda at the girl's Halloween party, David and Kristen at David's father's party, the Elevator Game, the totally-not-Amazon zombies, the "weight of the soul" experiment, the seemingly haunted road, the cursed stock tip, etc.. I'd love to see them investigating a new incident, whether the focus is on the trio, just one of them, or on Ben and Karima.

* Going off the above—there's really no kind of horror I wouldn't love to see them encountering or exploring: Haunted houses and hotels. Creepy small towns with peculiar rituals where everyone is friendly but strangers tend to disappear. Viral videos and creepypasta with suspicious origins. Past cases come back in a horrible fashion, like a return of the nurse from Room 320. Nightmares and nightmare-sharing. Dark prophetic dreams. Character Has the Creeping Sensation Things Are No Longer Real. Techno-horror. Possessed technology. The fabric of reality is thinner than we thought, and there are strange things underneath. Terrifying time loops. Creepy forests and deserts. Creepy submarines. Isolated settings: snowbound, stuck in a torrential downpour, etc. Haunted dolls. Haunted ventriloquist dummies.

* The three of them wind up soulbonded, either accidentally or intentionally. Maybe soulbonds are the weird thing in one of their cases, and they wind up "testing" whether or not they're real and getting very surprised by the results … and potentially even more surprised when they don't want to get rid of the connection once they've gotten used to it? I'd love to see them sharing each other's emotions and being really in-tune with each other and maybe needing proximity/touch/sex.

* Zombie apocalypse or any other huge, world-shattering event that leaves the characters clinging to each other as all they have left in a terrifying and risky world. Maybe they're traveling around, protecting each other and their families, and trying to do good where they can? (Post-apocalyptic work for assessors?)

* All the speed-bumps and pining and little romantic gestures that come with transitioning a three-person friendship to a romance that's made even more complicated by family and religion and maybe their combined uncertainty that this is something they could realistically do and have it work out. Plus, there's a lot of potential for different insecurities that they could be comforted for, like David feeling awkward about Ben being closer with the girls (at least at first) or Ben feeling like the David/Kristen relationship is more intense and therefore more "real" than whatever they have with him.

* In addition to regular gen and regular ship, I also really love weird, smarm-like, boundary-blurring stories for the three of them, where none of them are completely clear on exactly how they'd define their relationship and they have plausible deniability that lets Kristen slip into this while she's still married and lets David have this kind of closeness without technically breaking his vows.

* Mutual support! I just want them all showing up for each other, like at David's amazing pre-ordination "bachelor" party. Give me the three of them watching Ben's episode of the ghost-hunting show together or throwing birthday parties for each other or looking after Kristen's daughters or all being at one of David's dad's parties.

* Sex pollen! Just have them all bang in an induced haze and feel weird about it but also basically happy. Maybe this is what gets them all to consider a real relationship with each other, when they'd maybe never gotten that far before. Is it a one-off, or do Kristen and Ben persuade David that he can keep his faith, his assessor job, and his role in combating capital-E Evil without becoming/staying a priest, so he can still be with them?

* One of them stumbles into horror in their off-hours, and they have to do a private investigation of some weird phenomena that one of them has to be vulnerable enough to open up to the others about, or one of them starts remembering some repressed past horror from their years before and needs help exploring and processing it.

* Any kind of hurt/comfort, either for canonical hurts or invented ones. All three of them face such great physical and emotional whump in the episodes, and I love it, but I'd also love to see the comfort in the aftermath of some of the things they've had to deal with. I also love things like two of them thinking the third is dead (or one of them alone and thinking the other two are dead), "hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid," them risking themselves for each other, stranded in the wilderness or an isolated and hopeless setting/situation, washing hurt character's hair/helping them bathe, co-sleeping and dealing with nightmares and night terrors, and having tender sex because of injuries.

* S3 spoilers: I'd love to see some plotty exploration of where things could go from the end of season three, so I am 100% here for stories dealing with things like Leland fathering a child through a surrogate and Kristen's stolen egg, Andy's amnesia/brainwashing and new gift for seeing demons, Kurt's descent into darkness, etc. It would be great to watch the characters tackle these kinds of huge issues, investigating and trying to cope with them.

* Dress-up game: I love the costuming on this show so much. David's strong sweater game! Kristen's coats! Ben's denim jackets! Basically every episode has me exclaiming over how great they look, and I would welcome the chance to play dress-up with them.

* A Softer World: I feel like they're a really good match for all the many strips about love and friendship and strangeness and conflicting emotions. I love the rhythm of the captions and the way fannish ASW works can imply so much story and feeling.(I'm good with either actual A Softer World text or you coming up with A Softer Pastiche captions.)

* Fanvid: I love all kinds of music—I've discovered a lot of great songs through fanvids, but I'm also totally good with "frequently vidded" songs, so don't worry about whether or not something gets used a lot! I feel like these three might be an especially good fit for songs that evoke a lot of pining or intimacy—or the loneliness that comes from wanting more intimacy—and also for atmospheric, horror-tinged songs full of unease, but I'm really here for anything.

* Reddit: I just feel like since it's canonical that Ben keeps getting into fights with people on the internet, "Ben's Reddit Adventures" have fantastic potential—and we've also seen David and Kristen dealing with priesthood and motherhood concerns online, so basically, the three of them should just try to run their problems and opinions by the internet and see what happens, especially since the details are so incredibly weird and specific that I feel like people would be fascinated and/or think they're making it all up. Plus, putting together touching relationship details through what they're posting on Reddit? Adorable.



The Twilight Zone

Mrs. Bronson & Norma
Mrs. Bronson/Norma

Episode: "The Midnight Sun"

* I would love stories from either the hotter world or the colder world, if you want to treat the hotter world as real. Or I'm good with stories set in the hotter world with the creeping awareness that it's all a dream creeping in. Or both worlds being real in parallel universes. Or anything. Basically, both the hotter world and the colder world are excellent, atmospheric apocalypses that I would love to see more of.

* I love their weary tenderness and a sense of being alone together at the end of the world. Taking care of each other, looking for each other, making gestures both big and small. I'm interested in all the little domestic details of life in the slow-but-steady apocalypse and this depopulated New York: whether they ever risk going outside for any real period of time, whether they eventually try to leave the building after all, how they try to stay warm (or cool) for as long as they can.

* Norma painting for Mrs. Bronson, making different hot or cold landscapes. Trying to keep the paint from freezing or melting. Norma convincing Mrs. Bronson to pose for her, clothed or nude. Mrs. Bronson learning to paint or draw too.

* Extremely bittersweet get-together fic where they both know that there's only a limited window of survival time.

* The two of them are somehow able to alternate between the hot and cold worlds, but while that gives them a little bit of comfort, it can't save them: they're always just going from one apocalypse to another. But they somehow managed to make that be enough.

* They're saved by another kind of Twilight Zone happening, like stepping into one of Norma's landscapes and having it become real around them or somehow finding that no matter how cold or hot it gets, they don't die, and they've become something otherworldly. Or there's some last-chance spaceship leaving in search of another world, and the two of them manage to get on it.

* Totally optional Twilight Zone crossover: Death comes for them, and it's either Murray Hamilton's Death from "One for the Angels" or Robert Redford's Mr. Death from "Nothing in the Dark."

Solo: Janet Tyler
Walter Smith/Janet Tyler

Episode: "Eye of the Beholder"

* I've always wanted to see more of the Community of Uggos. I'd love to see Janet starting to settle in there and, as Walter promises her, beginning to feel at home and genuinely loved for the first time in her life. I would be absolutely delighted with 10k of just Janet adjusting to her new life, dealing with everything from living on a kind of remote ugliness leper colony--one that might be in a completely different kind of climate or at a completely different level of tech/wealth than she's used to, in addition to everything else--to slowly finding her own beauty standards adjusting to developing connections and relationships.

* Maybe the new community is basically ignored by the larger dystopian society, so they aren't just relieved of the burden of being constantly scorned as hideous, they also get--even if they don't notice it right away--more opportunities to be themselves without the constant pressure to conform in every way. I'd love to see Janet trying out different options that she couldn't have explored in the outside world, from "different kinds of fashion" to "oh, lesbian sex is an option here."

* Janet eventually becoming one of the people who go to the hospitals to collect the patients who have had the maximum number of failed corrective surgeries, and how she deals with that and feels about it. Is she ever able to reconnect a little with the people from her last hospital? I'm always intrigued by the doctor who veers close to treason because he sympathizes with her so much.

* I'd also love to see Walter's POV on Janet, gen or ship, as she starts to settle in--it could be really cool to see some of her journey through his eyes.

* Janet/Walter specifically! Is a sweet slow burn? What draws them to each other? Does he actually find her attractive right away, since he's been with his own people for so long, or do they both have to get used to each other for a while before a spark really kindles? I'm also into seeing how Janet thinks of him physically at first--presumably in very unflattering terms based on very different norms--and how that might change as time goes by, but how her new beauty standards still might not match ours and her perspective still might feel alien there.

Solo: Marsha White
WB: "The After Hours" Mannequins' Department Store Life
WB: "The After Hours" Mannequins' Time as Humans
WB: Sex Among "The After Hours" Mannequins

Episode: "The After Hours"

* Please give me any and all mannequin rumspringas. Is Marsha the first mannequin who has forgotten herself in the outside world, or does that happen often enough that it's a recognized hazard? Where do they go while they're living outside the department store? Do they all use the same rotating apartment? What are some pleasures they especially enjoy as humans that they don't get to have as mannequins?

* Someone forms a relationship with a mannequin while the mannequin is taking their turn outside. Do they find out the truth? Does it become a kind of weird long-distance relationship where the other person just waits, year after year, for their mannequin's visit? Is it a bittersweet, star-crossed love where the human eventually gets married to someone else, or is a kind of touching "well, they're making it work" relationship?

* What is their life like in the department store(s)? Can any of the employees or customers ever see them move? Do they have more freedom and mobility on the ninth floor, or is it just that they have more privacy? Is that floor technically real but just for storage, or is everyone being 100% literal when they say it doesn't exist, and only the mannequins can actually access it? Do the mannequins have opinions about the clothes they model or where they stand in the store?

* Mannequin POV, just to capture the uncanniness of it. One of my favorite details is how they reflexively fall back into stationary poses when they're not actively interacting with each other, and I'd love to see more distinctly alien details like that from their perspective.

* Mannequin sex. I really ship Marsha/Scorching Hot Saleswoman Mannequin, whom you can name whatever you like, but I'm also good with original mannequin characters of any gender combination. I just want to know if the mannequins fuck, and if so, how.