Every Woman Exchange (2018)
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scioscribeThis is my first time doing this exchange--I've got a blend of old and new favorites here I'm really excited about. I hope you find something here that’s of interest to you, but you’ve already delighted me by wanting to write one of these characters/relationships at all. ODAO, so feel free to go your own way on this and disregard anything here that’s not helpful to you. And again, thanks, and I hope you have a great exchange. If you want to get a general sense of me, I’m scioscribe on Tumblr and on AO3.
Likes
opposites attract, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, friends-to-enemies, lovers-to-enemies, friends-to-lovers, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fix-its, sympathetic 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, ambiguously intense relationships, found family, first-time stories, betrayal with reconciliation, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationship, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, power couples, worldbuilding, magical realism, undercover work, loyalty, identity porn, costume porn, complicated relationships, codependency, morally gray characters, moral complexity, long relationships that go through a lot of changes, unconventional uses of superpowers, canon-divergence AUs
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
Sex Likes/Kinks
BDSM, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/consent play/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, oral fixations, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, talking during sex, emotional sex, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or depressing), 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, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
mundane AUs, ageplay, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, hospitalization, knotting, scat, vore
Deadpool
Fic or Art
Optional ships: Ellie/Yukio
Domino
I would love to see Domino discovering her powers and slowly figuring out how they work. At what point does she start realizing that this is more than ordinary good luck? How does she make use of it before she joins up with X-Force? How does her luckiness work with her terrible childhood in the mutant reformatory school? What is her life like in general?
Domino as a luck sink--her powers work by pulling good luck out of the air around her and warping everyone else’s probabilities. This is Deadpool, so go as darkly comedic with this as you like. Including people winding up in woodchippers.
Domino winds up inheriting a bunch of the kids rescued from the school, but not deliberately--they just won’t leave her alone. She’s trying to be unflappable about it. I like the idea of them trying to get her to teach them things and her trying to cobble together a lesson plan despite the fact that her own powers happen automatically.
Just general mushy stuff about Domino having a found family in X-Force. I like sappy stuff with messed-up people, so all the found family tropes are adorable for this bunch: birthday parties, movie nights, sleepovers, getting defensive over each other, etc.
Art: Domino portraits--I love her hair, the white mark around her eye, and her badass costuming. Domino and anything luck-associated: scratch-offs, casinos, four-leaf clovers. Domino surrounded by mutant teenagers. Cartoony Domino hanging out with X-Force.
Ellie Phimister & Yukio
I love surly/chipper ships and I’d adore seeing how these two first started flirting and falling for each other. Did they like each other immediately, or did they have to warm up to each other first? First date? First kiss? First romantic/sexy use of powers?
Mutual admiration--Yukio really liking Ellie's more butch style and Ellie liking Yukio’s hair, etc.
Future-fic! There are so many things I’d like to see them doing. Trip to Japan? Awkwardly meeting each other’s families?
My Girlfriend’s Back and You’re Gonna Be in Trouble: dramatic rescues, dramatic foilings of douchery, aggressive and bloodily violent bouts of revenge enacted by one on behalf of the other.
They make use of the time travel device themselves and hop around in time picking fights, entertaining each other, and changing history in sometimes immense ways (while being pretty blase about it).
Art: Cute kissing, dancing, and hugging. The two of them in period costume, using Cable’s time travel device. Ellie playing with Yukio’s hair, Yukio admiring Ellie’s muscles. The two of them hanging out with X-Force. Prom or a wedding.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Fic
Optional ships: Nebula/Mantis, Gamora/Peter, and fucked-up, dysfunctional Gamora/Nebula
Gamora & Nebula
Early backstory! We saw Gamora’s “adoption” in Infinity War, but what was Nebula’s like? Did she ever have any kind of stable background? What were their early days together like? How did they start identifying as sisters, and was that identification consistent or fluctuating?
Assassination missions and wars the two of them were in together before Gamora split from Thanos. They were obviously still somewhat close--close enough for Gamora to confide in Nebula about finding the Soul Stone--but the resentment had still had years to fester. How did they interact with each other then? How did they respond to Thanos’s ideology and plans? What was the practical business of their survival? And I’m always all for weird hurt/comfort and Gamora fixing up Nebula, including the body modifications, after a battle or things like having to wipe away the blood of the people your loved one has killed.
AU where they manage to initially escape Thanos/manage to kill Thanos together and roam around the universe having morally ambiguous bloodthirsty adventures and trying to figure out how to solve their problems without violence. (Or at least without much violence.) And I’d love to see Nebula with the Guardians in any capacity, whether that’s in an AU in this scenario or her just staying with them after GotG Vol. 2.
When they’re in a good or semi-good place with each other, I prefer their relationship platonic, but when it’s bad--like with their more antagonistic vibe in Vol. 1, I ship them. Fucked-up shippy things I like for them: post-battle sex to unwind/decompress, complete confusion about what normal family relationships look like and whether or not they count as a family, body horror, body appreciation, angry sex, Nebula in unrequited love or thinking her love is unrequited… Really anything that deals with their tangled history, rivalry, reluctant attachment, fucked-up family situation, etc. would be great.
Mantis & Nebula
I’d love it if Mantis had tagged along with Nebula when Nebula left to hunt down Thanos--maybe she volunteers, or maybe Nebula sees that her powers could be enough of an advantage that they’d outweigh any annoyance. Basically any snapshot of grudging tolerance turning into friendship or love as Mantis’s innocence and Nebula’s cynicism bounce off each other.
Mutual protectiveness in a dangerous situation; rescues. Mantis being surprisingly badass, or imitating Nebula in order to pass as badass; Nebula being surprised by the inferno of rage she feels when something bad happens to Mantis.
Hurt/comfort with Mantis dealing with Nebula’s feelings--when Nebula allows Mantis to touch her at all--and Nebula’s body mods, or with Nebula dealing with Mantis’s history with Ego. As well as, of course, any sickness or injury sustained in a fight/accident.
Shippy takes on all of the above are more than welcome! I’d also love to see virginity loss with the two of them--virgin!Mantis or virgin!Mantis and virgin!Nebula (because I can see her not having gotten around to it, given the life she’d been leading and her feelings of separation from her own body). And sex with heightened feelings. And Nebula, in a Nebula-ish way, telling Mantis that she’s beautiful.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Fic
Optional ships: Homura/Madoka, Sayaka/Kyouko, Homura/Mami, Homura/Kyouko
Tomoe Mami
Mami’s brittle serenity is fascinating to me. She’s suffered so much and is carrying around so much guilt and loneliness, and she just keeps burying it under kindness and attempted perfection. I’d love to see her in the aftermath of the crash and her parents’ deaths, developing this particular (and not entirely healthy) coping mechanism. What was her relationship with Kyubey like, since she viewed him as an ally? How did she wind up getting that apartment?
I really like her interactions with the other girls--the big sister role she tries to take, the overwhelming relief she feels at having Madoka partner with her, her wary appraisal of Homura. It would be great to see any other encounters she had with them across the other timelines. Mami/anyone welcome here.
Anything to do with Mami’s wish. What if she had wished for all of them to live? What if Kyubey had orchestrated the crash and Mami had later found out? What if the circumstances of her wish had been completely different, and her resulting powers were different as well?
Mami becoming a witch as opposed to dying in combat. What would her labyrinth look like? Would she have any kind of sense of self or perspective left, and what would it be, after she’d been reduced to just despair and bitterness?
Akemi Homura & Sakura Kyouko
Anything to do with their attempted partnership: the development of their friendship/some kind of weary romance or attraction across the timelines, where only Homura remembers what’s happened to them before? Shared fights and hurt/comfort afterwards?
Tension rising up between them as Homura’s total focus on Madoka starts to conflict with either Kyouko’s sense of self-preservation or her growing relationship with Sayaka? In addition to loving enemies-to-friends/lovers, I also love friends/lovers-to-enemies, so something messy and tragic where they have a good alliance but it falls horribly apart would be great.
Two battle-hardened girls having an unexpected pause in which they get to enjoy something sweet or childish; just lots of bittersweetness and a delicate moment of joy or contentment.
Miki Sayaka & Sakura Kyouko
I love how their relationship complicates Sayaka’s black-and-white idealism and restores some of Kyouko’s ability to care about the world around her, so I’d love anything that just dealt with a moment of that transformation. Sayaka reaches out to a hungry Kyouko and buys her food so Kyouko doesn’t have to steal it? Kyouko follows Sayaka’s lead to help out in a situation that doesn’t even involve witches?
Kyouko convinces Sayaka to skip school for the day. She tells her they’re going witch-hunting, but actually winds up taking her all over the city just to spend time with her, partly as a joke, partly out of a genuine desire for her company. Sayaka gradually clues in.
Kyouko winds up spending the day with Sayaka’s normal family and normal life. Does it go relatively well? Wind up being painful? What does Sayaka’s family think of her?
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Fic
Optional ships: Qi’ra/Enfys Nest, Qi’ra/Val, Qi’ra/Han, Qi’ra/Dryden Voss
Qi’ra
What awful things did she do in order to escape Corellia and rise so high in Crimson Dawn? I’m all for creepy, emotionally complicated Qi’ra/Dryden dubcon, but also for murders, torture, hostile takeovers, etc. Give me her learning how to act in cold blood in order to survive and her trying to deal with the guilt that comes with it.
Similarly, what about her rise and reign after the movie ends? What makes her decide to stay with Crimson Dawn instead of escaping with Han? How much does she genuinely want that power, and how much is she simply afraid to plunge herself back into a hand-to-mouth life? What is her relationship with Maul like? What kind of crime lord does she make?
Qi’ra enjoying luxury after her upbringing on Corellia. Just general decadence porn, both creepy and fulfilling. How does she develop her tastes?
Qi’ra and sex: fumbling first-time sex with Han on Corellia, dubcon with Dryden (maybe with the sexual playing field complicating their power dynamics?), post-movie victory sex and masterminded dubcon of her own.
Backstory with Lady Proxima and their complicated, horrible relationship of debt and fear and manipulative love. Lady Proxima being oddly fond of Qi’ra in her own awful way, Qi’ra sometimes being reluctantly loyal, Lady Proxima teaching her about power.
Qi’ra and Val and Beckett, in any interactions they had pre-movie when Val and Beckett were working with Crimson Dawn. Mentorship between Val and Qi’ra, Qi’ra/Val/Beckett, Qi’ra appreciating their rougher style in contrast to the glossy world she now lives in.
Enfys Nest & Qi’ra
Enemies-to-friends or enemies-to-lovers! Or at least enemies-to-it’s-complicated. I love the idea of Qi’ra going along with helping Enfys Nest once and then becoming the head of the organization that’s one of her main enemies--does she plan on subtly steering Crimson Dawn to aid the Rebellion again? I love double-agent stories, so it would be fascinating to see Qi’ra acting as a mole within her own organization. Or are they going to have to face off as foes once more?
Any kind of post-movie forced proximity situation. Maybe they wind up stranded together after a job gone wrong? Or Enfys goes undercover at a party, not realizing that Qi’ra has taken over Crimson Dawn, and they recognize each other and have to decide what to do about that?
Moral conflicts on both ends. Maybe Enfys thinks she can approach Qi’ra about something that would aid the Rebellion, but Qi’ra is less interested in power restructuring now that she’s the one in power? Maybe they have a tentative alliance/friendship/romance, but Qi’ra knows she’s about to shatter it by doing something Enfys will be completely horrified by? Or Enfys is gearing up to do something that will destroy Crimson Dawn and has to decide whether or not she wants Qi’ra to go down with it, or if she can even avoid that?
Sex, strength porn, sexy dueling, costume porn, clothed sex, etc.
Thor
Fic
Optional ships: Val/Hela, Val/Sif, Val/Bruce, Val/Bruce/Thor, Val/Loki, Val/Topaz, Val/OFC
Valkyrie
Anything set in her Valkyrie days. Did she go by Brunnhilde then? What was life like for the Valkyries? If they were sworn to protect the throne, were they used in regular battle, or mostly as a kind of elite palace guard or home defense? How did she feel about Asgard’s history of conquest? I’d love to see just a day in her life back then.
Val on Sakaar. Did she wind up in a chair presented to the Grandmaster originally, or did she reach his court in some other way? How did she wind up working for him? I love his tempestuous fondness for her and that little kiss on the cheek she gives him, so it would just be great to see anything from their relationship. She seems amused by him and marginally loyal to him--how did that develop? Did she ever have a better relationship with Topaz?
Anything centered on Val in an imaginary post-Ragnarok time where Infinity War doesn’t happen. I’d adore anything with her interacting with the rest of the ship and gradually forging relationships and figuring out what her role in Thor’s court is going to be.
Infinity War-era Val has taken an escape pod of Asgardian refugees. Are they still headed for Earth? Did some of them die in the Snappening? Does she find Sif? What does she do now that she’s technically in charge of all that remains of her world?
Anything at all shippy or porny with the above ships--I’d prefer some feelings to be involved, even if they’re complicated ones. Unless it’s Val/Topaz, in which case I’m totally down with hate-sex.
Hela
As with Val, I’d love anything pre-movie. What was she like at the height of her powers and the height of Asgard’s reign? We never really get to see her happy, but clearly she and Odin were once partners in destruction, with her at his right hand: what was their relationship like? Did she know Frigga, and how did they get along? What did she relish about conquest--just the killing? Or did she like actually ruling, too?
Hela in her prison--what did she do with her time? Was there anything for her to occupy her mind with? I’d love any take on what all those centuries were like for her.
Hela Wins AU, as dark as you’d like and diverging at whatever point you’d like. Does she somehow get her brothers, or at least one of them, on her side, or imprison them? Does enough of Asgard remember and love her to decide to serve her? Or does she rule over a heap of ashes, alone with Skurge, slowly spreading out across the universe? What happens when she tries to conquer Earth?
I never get tired of redemption stories. What if Hela had tried to lose her taste for death and had been there to see her brothers grow up? What if she’d had at least something of a change of heart in her prison? What if her punishment hadn’t been imprisonment but being, like Thor, depowered and sent to Midgard? Or Jotunheim?
What does it mean for Hela to be the goddess of death?
Valkyrie & Hela
I’m becoming a broken record on this, but seriously, anything pre-movies that involve the two of them interacting before Hela’s banishment. Hookups or conversations on the battlefield, Val as Hela’s general, the two of them as childhood friends, loyalty kink, anything with worldbuilding.
What if Val had gotten banished with Hela, intentionally or by mistake (getting stuck there because she was left for dead)? Or what if they’d been banished to another location, with a depowered Hela and Val acting as her guard/warden?
What if Hela had fallen to Sakaar too? How would Val react to seeing her again, with no notice, after all those years? Would the Grandmaster have enough power to keep Hela relatively restrained (maybe as his new champion), putting her and Val in a position where they would be forced to interact? Give me everything that happens after they can’t immediately kill each other.
I ship them a lot, so I’d love any kind of romance or porn with them. In addition to all of the above, maybe arranged marriage between the princess and her Valkyrie? Hela becomes queen with Val as her “knight”? Ideological conflicts that the two of them try to work out in bed?
Twin Peaks
Fic
Optional ships: Audrey/Cooper, Audrey/Laura, Margaret/Hawk, Denise/Tammy, Tammy/Albert, Tammy/Gordon
Audrey Horne
Any kind of AU that disregards the ending of season two and spins off from there. I loved the interest she showed in the idea of women agents with the DEA, so I’m totally into DEA Agent Audrey Horne, but also private eye Audrey, actress Audrey, FBI Audrey, hotel owner Audrey, and so on. And it would be great to see her getting to stretch her wings and interact with the broader world, too--going off to college or any kind of career and finding Lynchian strangeness wherever she goes.
I’m really interested in her relationship with her father--her need for her to love him, the way he both values her as a partner and doesn’t entirely trust her, and how hard it would be for them to move past what happened in One-Eyed Jack’s and from Audrey’s knowledge of his affair with Laura.
Withdrawal/recovery and hurt/comfort after her experience at One-Eyed Jack’s.
I’m familiar with the secondary canon about her life in the twenty-five year gap and while I’m fine with leaving that out--happier, more fulfilling lives all around!--I’d also be really interested in her perspective on Richard, the rape and her pregnancy, her career, her marriage, etc. Alternately, I’m fine with “Audrey never woke up from her coma” and stories exploring her dream life.
Anything that has her colliding with the more otherworldly parts of the show, like her being the one taken to the Black Lodge, her having visions of Laura or dreams of the Red Room, her perception of reality in a story consistent with Twin Peaks: The Return. A post-season two AU where she isn’t hurt as badly, realizes Cooper isn’t Cooper, and sets out to get him back from the Black Lodge?
I love Audrey/Cooper and Audrey/Laura and would welcome shipfic along those lines. I tend to get really romantic about Audrey/Cooper and would prefer a happy ending for them, even if they go through a lot to get it; that would be great with Audrey/Laura, too--an AU where the two of them leave Twin Peaks to get Laura away from BOB?--but I’m also okay with darker and sadder outcomes there. Dancing, first kisses, AUs, virginity loss, cherry stem knots, fake dating/marriage that becomes real, cuddling for warmth, bedsharing, etc.
Laura Palmer
Any kind of fix-it that lets her live and start to heal. Seriously, any. Fire Walk With Me broke my heart into a thousand pieces and I just want to see Laura getting to be happy. Is she able to run away and escape BOB that way? Able to kill him (and deal with that costing her her father)?
Anything set in her nightmarish last days, all hallucinatory and terrifying.
A look at the few choices she’s able to make--how she winds up choosing to work for One-Eyed Jack’s, how she gets Bobby to start dealing for Leo, what comfort or valuable friction she finds in her relationships with Bobby and James, her view of her friendship of Donna and her desire to keep Donna protected, and/or her work with Audrey’s brother.
Laura dies and goes into a heavenly afterlife and finds some peace and happiness. / Laura dies and goes into the complex backdrop of the Red Room and the Black and White Lodges, interacting with the Giant and MIKE, interacting with the real imprisoned Cooper, developing some kind of power of her own as a metaphysical force.
Any of the above Audrey/Laura prompts I mentioned, including the specific AU of the two of them running away together. But I’d also love to see Laura dragging Audrey into the dark underbelly of Twin Peaks.
Denise Bryson
Denise’s rise to power! I’d love to see her climbing the ranks, and I love the idea that her friendship/mentorship with Gordon helped give her important support during that time, and that she was able to somewhat return the favor once she’s Chief of Staff. She covers a lot of ground in the years between the two series and I’d just love to see any snapshot of that.
I love her friendship with Cooper, and it would be great to see them getting to hang out a little more in Twin Peaks, drinking, watching each other’s backs, being loyal to each other, and doing fun undercover operations.
Pre-canon story exploring Denise’s on-the-job realization of who she was and what she wanted and her starting to be open with both herself and the FBI.
Denise is initially skeptical about Gordon using Tammy for such an important job but is willing to take it on faith that Tammy’s as good as Gordon says she is, so I like the idea of the two of them gradually becoming friends or lovers--they would make a great power couple, with Tammy’s all-in attitude to the Blue Rose cases getting off-set by Denise’s practicality. Long-distance dating while Tammy is on the road or in Twin Peaks? Phone sex?
Margaret “The Log Lady” Lanterman
Basically anything set between the series. Her relationship with Hawk seems to have strengthened a lot--and I do totally ship them, in a very melancholy and wistfully sweet way--and I’d love the follow how that developed and how the Sheriff’s Department learned to rely on her information more.
How does Margaret perceive the log? Is it ever a burden to her? What’s it like to have to haul it around all day, and how much of her active attention does it require? How does she feel about her life in Twin Peaks?
What about when she first started relying upon the log? Did she respect its significance right away and know that was happening to her was real, or did she require convincing? How did she transition into the well-known village eccentric?
Her passing along the log’s message to Major Briggs is one of my favorite bits of the series, and I’d love to see her interact with him more or interact with Bobby after his father’s death. I like the idea that she might gradually accumulate a group of people who took her seriously and believed in her abilities and that she would try to look out for them.
Tamara “Tammy” Preston
I loved the Tammy & Gordon & Albert & Diane roadshow, and I’d just get a huge kick out of anything set while they’re all traveling: eating at fancy restaurants and bad diners, making conversation, falling asleep on each other’s shoulders on planes, gossiping, and getting to know each other.
How did Tammy and Gordon meet, and what inspired him to take her seriously from the get-go?
Tammy Preston: newest Blue Rose agent. Anything with her investigating additional strange cases. I love her enthusiasm and willingness to go along with everything they have to deal with--the way she can both respond with cobra-like quickness when she needs to pull a gun on the Diane tulpa and the way she can get so excited by the fact that she just saw a real tulpa. Mini-casefiles of her looking into Twin Peaks or other mysterious occurrences would be very welcome. And it would be great to see her following in Cooper’s footsteps and getting and more and more into the mystical side of things, maybe to the point where Albert and Gordon worried about her.
Anything shippy: I really like Tammy/Gordon, Tammy/Albert, and Tammy/Denise, and I’d love to see flirtation and developing relationships there. Phone sex while Tammy is traveling, hotel room sex with room service afterwards, nights out at bars, worrying about each other, etc.
Likes
opposites attract, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends, friends-to-enemies, lovers-to-enemies, friends-to-lovers, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, fix-its, sympathetic 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, ambiguously intense relationships, found family, first-time stories, betrayal with reconciliation, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationship, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, power couples, worldbuilding, magical realism, undercover work, loyalty, identity porn, costume porn, complicated relationships, codependency, morally gray characters, moral complexity, long relationships that go through a lot of changes, unconventional uses of superpowers, canon-divergence AUs
Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.
Sex Likes/Kinks
BDSM, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/consent play/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, oral fixations, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, talking during sex, emotional sex, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or depressing), 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, marking/bruising/biting
DNW
mundane AUs, ageplay, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, hospitalization, knotting, scat, vore
Deadpool
Fic or Art
Optional ships: Ellie/Yukio
Domino
I would love to see Domino discovering her powers and slowly figuring out how they work. At what point does she start realizing that this is more than ordinary good luck? How does she make use of it before she joins up with X-Force? How does her luckiness work with her terrible childhood in the mutant reformatory school? What is her life like in general?
Domino as a luck sink--her powers work by pulling good luck out of the air around her and warping everyone else’s probabilities. This is Deadpool, so go as darkly comedic with this as you like. Including people winding up in woodchippers.
Domino winds up inheriting a bunch of the kids rescued from the school, but not deliberately--they just won’t leave her alone. She’s trying to be unflappable about it. I like the idea of them trying to get her to teach them things and her trying to cobble together a lesson plan despite the fact that her own powers happen automatically.
Just general mushy stuff about Domino having a found family in X-Force. I like sappy stuff with messed-up people, so all the found family tropes are adorable for this bunch: birthday parties, movie nights, sleepovers, getting defensive over each other, etc.
Art: Domino portraits--I love her hair, the white mark around her eye, and her badass costuming. Domino and anything luck-associated: scratch-offs, casinos, four-leaf clovers. Domino surrounded by mutant teenagers. Cartoony Domino hanging out with X-Force.
Ellie Phimister & Yukio
I love surly/chipper ships and I’d adore seeing how these two first started flirting and falling for each other. Did they like each other immediately, or did they have to warm up to each other first? First date? First kiss? First romantic/sexy use of powers?
Mutual admiration--Yukio really liking Ellie's more butch style and Ellie liking Yukio’s hair, etc.
Future-fic! There are so many things I’d like to see them doing. Trip to Japan? Awkwardly meeting each other’s families?
My Girlfriend’s Back and You’re Gonna Be in Trouble: dramatic rescues, dramatic foilings of douchery, aggressive and bloodily violent bouts of revenge enacted by one on behalf of the other.
They make use of the time travel device themselves and hop around in time picking fights, entertaining each other, and changing history in sometimes immense ways (while being pretty blase about it).
Art: Cute kissing, dancing, and hugging. The two of them in period costume, using Cable’s time travel device. Ellie playing with Yukio’s hair, Yukio admiring Ellie’s muscles. The two of them hanging out with X-Force. Prom or a wedding.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Fic
Optional ships: Nebula/Mantis, Gamora/Peter, and fucked-up, dysfunctional Gamora/Nebula
Gamora & Nebula
Early backstory! We saw Gamora’s “adoption” in Infinity War, but what was Nebula’s like? Did she ever have any kind of stable background? What were their early days together like? How did they start identifying as sisters, and was that identification consistent or fluctuating?
Assassination missions and wars the two of them were in together before Gamora split from Thanos. They were obviously still somewhat close--close enough for Gamora to confide in Nebula about finding the Soul Stone--but the resentment had still had years to fester. How did they interact with each other then? How did they respond to Thanos’s ideology and plans? What was the practical business of their survival? And I’m always all for weird hurt/comfort and Gamora fixing up Nebula, including the body modifications, after a battle or things like having to wipe away the blood of the people your loved one has killed.
AU where they manage to initially escape Thanos/manage to kill Thanos together and roam around the universe having morally ambiguous bloodthirsty adventures and trying to figure out how to solve their problems without violence. (Or at least without much violence.) And I’d love to see Nebula with the Guardians in any capacity, whether that’s in an AU in this scenario or her just staying with them after GotG Vol. 2.
When they’re in a good or semi-good place with each other, I prefer their relationship platonic, but when it’s bad--like with their more antagonistic vibe in Vol. 1, I ship them. Fucked-up shippy things I like for them: post-battle sex to unwind/decompress, complete confusion about what normal family relationships look like and whether or not they count as a family, body horror, body appreciation, angry sex, Nebula in unrequited love or thinking her love is unrequited… Really anything that deals with their tangled history, rivalry, reluctant attachment, fucked-up family situation, etc. would be great.
Mantis & Nebula
I’d love it if Mantis had tagged along with Nebula when Nebula left to hunt down Thanos--maybe she volunteers, or maybe Nebula sees that her powers could be enough of an advantage that they’d outweigh any annoyance. Basically any snapshot of grudging tolerance turning into friendship or love as Mantis’s innocence and Nebula’s cynicism bounce off each other.
Mutual protectiveness in a dangerous situation; rescues. Mantis being surprisingly badass, or imitating Nebula in order to pass as badass; Nebula being surprised by the inferno of rage she feels when something bad happens to Mantis.
Hurt/comfort with Mantis dealing with Nebula’s feelings--when Nebula allows Mantis to touch her at all--and Nebula’s body mods, or with Nebula dealing with Mantis’s history with Ego. As well as, of course, any sickness or injury sustained in a fight/accident.
Shippy takes on all of the above are more than welcome! I’d also love to see virginity loss with the two of them--virgin!Mantis or virgin!Mantis and virgin!Nebula (because I can see her not having gotten around to it, given the life she’d been leading and her feelings of separation from her own body). And sex with heightened feelings. And Nebula, in a Nebula-ish way, telling Mantis that she’s beautiful.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Fic
Optional ships: Homura/Madoka, Sayaka/Kyouko, Homura/Mami, Homura/Kyouko
Tomoe Mami
Mami’s brittle serenity is fascinating to me. She’s suffered so much and is carrying around so much guilt and loneliness, and she just keeps burying it under kindness and attempted perfection. I’d love to see her in the aftermath of the crash and her parents’ deaths, developing this particular (and not entirely healthy) coping mechanism. What was her relationship with Kyubey like, since she viewed him as an ally? How did she wind up getting that apartment?
I really like her interactions with the other girls--the big sister role she tries to take, the overwhelming relief she feels at having Madoka partner with her, her wary appraisal of Homura. It would be great to see any other encounters she had with them across the other timelines. Mami/anyone welcome here.
Anything to do with Mami’s wish. What if she had wished for all of them to live? What if Kyubey had orchestrated the crash and Mami had later found out? What if the circumstances of her wish had been completely different, and her resulting powers were different as well?
Mami becoming a witch as opposed to dying in combat. What would her labyrinth look like? Would she have any kind of sense of self or perspective left, and what would it be, after she’d been reduced to just despair and bitterness?
Akemi Homura & Sakura Kyouko
Anything to do with their attempted partnership: the development of their friendship/some kind of weary romance or attraction across the timelines, where only Homura remembers what’s happened to them before? Shared fights and hurt/comfort afterwards?
Tension rising up between them as Homura’s total focus on Madoka starts to conflict with either Kyouko’s sense of self-preservation or her growing relationship with Sayaka? In addition to loving enemies-to-friends/lovers, I also love friends/lovers-to-enemies, so something messy and tragic where they have a good alliance but it falls horribly apart would be great.
Two battle-hardened girls having an unexpected pause in which they get to enjoy something sweet or childish; just lots of bittersweetness and a delicate moment of joy or contentment.
Miki Sayaka & Sakura Kyouko
I love how their relationship complicates Sayaka’s black-and-white idealism and restores some of Kyouko’s ability to care about the world around her, so I’d love anything that just dealt with a moment of that transformation. Sayaka reaches out to a hungry Kyouko and buys her food so Kyouko doesn’t have to steal it? Kyouko follows Sayaka’s lead to help out in a situation that doesn’t even involve witches?
Kyouko convinces Sayaka to skip school for the day. She tells her they’re going witch-hunting, but actually winds up taking her all over the city just to spend time with her, partly as a joke, partly out of a genuine desire for her company. Sayaka gradually clues in.
Kyouko winds up spending the day with Sayaka’s normal family and normal life. Does it go relatively well? Wind up being painful? What does Sayaka’s family think of her?
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Fic
Optional ships: Qi’ra/Enfys Nest, Qi’ra/Val, Qi’ra/Han, Qi’ra/Dryden Voss
Qi’ra
What awful things did she do in order to escape Corellia and rise so high in Crimson Dawn? I’m all for creepy, emotionally complicated Qi’ra/Dryden dubcon, but also for murders, torture, hostile takeovers, etc. Give me her learning how to act in cold blood in order to survive and her trying to deal with the guilt that comes with it.
Similarly, what about her rise and reign after the movie ends? What makes her decide to stay with Crimson Dawn instead of escaping with Han? How much does she genuinely want that power, and how much is she simply afraid to plunge herself back into a hand-to-mouth life? What is her relationship with Maul like? What kind of crime lord does she make?
Qi’ra enjoying luxury after her upbringing on Corellia. Just general decadence porn, both creepy and fulfilling. How does she develop her tastes?
Qi’ra and sex: fumbling first-time sex with Han on Corellia, dubcon with Dryden (maybe with the sexual playing field complicating their power dynamics?), post-movie victory sex and masterminded dubcon of her own.
Backstory with Lady Proxima and their complicated, horrible relationship of debt and fear and manipulative love. Lady Proxima being oddly fond of Qi’ra in her own awful way, Qi’ra sometimes being reluctantly loyal, Lady Proxima teaching her about power.
Qi’ra and Val and Beckett, in any interactions they had pre-movie when Val and Beckett were working with Crimson Dawn. Mentorship between Val and Qi’ra, Qi’ra/Val/Beckett, Qi’ra appreciating their rougher style in contrast to the glossy world she now lives in.
Enfys Nest & Qi’ra
Enemies-to-friends or enemies-to-lovers! Or at least enemies-to-it’s-complicated. I love the idea of Qi’ra going along with helping Enfys Nest once and then becoming the head of the organization that’s one of her main enemies--does she plan on subtly steering Crimson Dawn to aid the Rebellion again? I love double-agent stories, so it would be fascinating to see Qi’ra acting as a mole within her own organization. Or are they going to have to face off as foes once more?
Any kind of post-movie forced proximity situation. Maybe they wind up stranded together after a job gone wrong? Or Enfys goes undercover at a party, not realizing that Qi’ra has taken over Crimson Dawn, and they recognize each other and have to decide what to do about that?
Moral conflicts on both ends. Maybe Enfys thinks she can approach Qi’ra about something that would aid the Rebellion, but Qi’ra is less interested in power restructuring now that she’s the one in power? Maybe they have a tentative alliance/friendship/romance, but Qi’ra knows she’s about to shatter it by doing something Enfys will be completely horrified by? Or Enfys is gearing up to do something that will destroy Crimson Dawn and has to decide whether or not she wants Qi’ra to go down with it, or if she can even avoid that?
Sex, strength porn, sexy dueling, costume porn, clothed sex, etc.
Thor
Fic
Optional ships: Val/Hela, Val/Sif, Val/Bruce, Val/Bruce/Thor, Val/Loki, Val/Topaz, Val/OFC
Valkyrie
Anything set in her Valkyrie days. Did she go by Brunnhilde then? What was life like for the Valkyries? If they were sworn to protect the throne, were they used in regular battle, or mostly as a kind of elite palace guard or home defense? How did she feel about Asgard’s history of conquest? I’d love to see just a day in her life back then.
Val on Sakaar. Did she wind up in a chair presented to the Grandmaster originally, or did she reach his court in some other way? How did she wind up working for him? I love his tempestuous fondness for her and that little kiss on the cheek she gives him, so it would just be great to see anything from their relationship. She seems amused by him and marginally loyal to him--how did that develop? Did she ever have a better relationship with Topaz?
Anything centered on Val in an imaginary post-Ragnarok time where Infinity War doesn’t happen. I’d adore anything with her interacting with the rest of the ship and gradually forging relationships and figuring out what her role in Thor’s court is going to be.
Infinity War-era Val has taken an escape pod of Asgardian refugees. Are they still headed for Earth? Did some of them die in the Snappening? Does she find Sif? What does she do now that she’s technically in charge of all that remains of her world?
Anything at all shippy or porny with the above ships--I’d prefer some feelings to be involved, even if they’re complicated ones. Unless it’s Val/Topaz, in which case I’m totally down with hate-sex.
Hela
As with Val, I’d love anything pre-movie. What was she like at the height of her powers and the height of Asgard’s reign? We never really get to see her happy, but clearly she and Odin were once partners in destruction, with her at his right hand: what was their relationship like? Did she know Frigga, and how did they get along? What did she relish about conquest--just the killing? Or did she like actually ruling, too?
Hela in her prison--what did she do with her time? Was there anything for her to occupy her mind with? I’d love any take on what all those centuries were like for her.
Hela Wins AU, as dark as you’d like and diverging at whatever point you’d like. Does she somehow get her brothers, or at least one of them, on her side, or imprison them? Does enough of Asgard remember and love her to decide to serve her? Or does she rule over a heap of ashes, alone with Skurge, slowly spreading out across the universe? What happens when she tries to conquer Earth?
I never get tired of redemption stories. What if Hela had tried to lose her taste for death and had been there to see her brothers grow up? What if she’d had at least something of a change of heart in her prison? What if her punishment hadn’t been imprisonment but being, like Thor, depowered and sent to Midgard? Or Jotunheim?
What does it mean for Hela to be the goddess of death?
Valkyrie & Hela
I’m becoming a broken record on this, but seriously, anything pre-movies that involve the two of them interacting before Hela’s banishment. Hookups or conversations on the battlefield, Val as Hela’s general, the two of them as childhood friends, loyalty kink, anything with worldbuilding.
What if Val had gotten banished with Hela, intentionally or by mistake (getting stuck there because she was left for dead)? Or what if they’d been banished to another location, with a depowered Hela and Val acting as her guard/warden?
What if Hela had fallen to Sakaar too? How would Val react to seeing her again, with no notice, after all those years? Would the Grandmaster have enough power to keep Hela relatively restrained (maybe as his new champion), putting her and Val in a position where they would be forced to interact? Give me everything that happens after they can’t immediately kill each other.
I ship them a lot, so I’d love any kind of romance or porn with them. In addition to all of the above, maybe arranged marriage between the princess and her Valkyrie? Hela becomes queen with Val as her “knight”? Ideological conflicts that the two of them try to work out in bed?
Twin Peaks
Fic
Optional ships: Audrey/Cooper, Audrey/Laura, Margaret/Hawk, Denise/Tammy, Tammy/Albert, Tammy/Gordon
Audrey Horne
Any kind of AU that disregards the ending of season two and spins off from there. I loved the interest she showed in the idea of women agents with the DEA, so I’m totally into DEA Agent Audrey Horne, but also private eye Audrey, actress Audrey, FBI Audrey, hotel owner Audrey, and so on. And it would be great to see her getting to stretch her wings and interact with the broader world, too--going off to college or any kind of career and finding Lynchian strangeness wherever she goes.
I’m really interested in her relationship with her father--her need for her to love him, the way he both values her as a partner and doesn’t entirely trust her, and how hard it would be for them to move past what happened in One-Eyed Jack’s and from Audrey’s knowledge of his affair with Laura.
Withdrawal/recovery and hurt/comfort after her experience at One-Eyed Jack’s.
I’m familiar with the secondary canon about her life in the twenty-five year gap and while I’m fine with leaving that out--happier, more fulfilling lives all around!--I’d also be really interested in her perspective on Richard, the rape and her pregnancy, her career, her marriage, etc. Alternately, I’m fine with “Audrey never woke up from her coma” and stories exploring her dream life.
Anything that has her colliding with the more otherworldly parts of the show, like her being the one taken to the Black Lodge, her having visions of Laura or dreams of the Red Room, her perception of reality in a story consistent with Twin Peaks: The Return. A post-season two AU where she isn’t hurt as badly, realizes Cooper isn’t Cooper, and sets out to get him back from the Black Lodge?
I love Audrey/Cooper and Audrey/Laura and would welcome shipfic along those lines. I tend to get really romantic about Audrey/Cooper and would prefer a happy ending for them, even if they go through a lot to get it; that would be great with Audrey/Laura, too--an AU where the two of them leave Twin Peaks to get Laura away from BOB?--but I’m also okay with darker and sadder outcomes there. Dancing, first kisses, AUs, virginity loss, cherry stem knots, fake dating/marriage that becomes real, cuddling for warmth, bedsharing, etc.
Laura Palmer
Any kind of fix-it that lets her live and start to heal. Seriously, any. Fire Walk With Me broke my heart into a thousand pieces and I just want to see Laura getting to be happy. Is she able to run away and escape BOB that way? Able to kill him (and deal with that costing her her father)?
Anything set in her nightmarish last days, all hallucinatory and terrifying.
A look at the few choices she’s able to make--how she winds up choosing to work for One-Eyed Jack’s, how she gets Bobby to start dealing for Leo, what comfort or valuable friction she finds in her relationships with Bobby and James, her view of her friendship of Donna and her desire to keep Donna protected, and/or her work with Audrey’s brother.
Laura dies and goes into a heavenly afterlife and finds some peace and happiness. / Laura dies and goes into the complex backdrop of the Red Room and the Black and White Lodges, interacting with the Giant and MIKE, interacting with the real imprisoned Cooper, developing some kind of power of her own as a metaphysical force.
Any of the above Audrey/Laura prompts I mentioned, including the specific AU of the two of them running away together. But I’d also love to see Laura dragging Audrey into the dark underbelly of Twin Peaks.
Denise Bryson
Denise’s rise to power! I’d love to see her climbing the ranks, and I love the idea that her friendship/mentorship with Gordon helped give her important support during that time, and that she was able to somewhat return the favor once she’s Chief of Staff. She covers a lot of ground in the years between the two series and I’d just love to see any snapshot of that.
I love her friendship with Cooper, and it would be great to see them getting to hang out a little more in Twin Peaks, drinking, watching each other’s backs, being loyal to each other, and doing fun undercover operations.
Pre-canon story exploring Denise’s on-the-job realization of who she was and what she wanted and her starting to be open with both herself and the FBI.
Denise is initially skeptical about Gordon using Tammy for such an important job but is willing to take it on faith that Tammy’s as good as Gordon says she is, so I like the idea of the two of them gradually becoming friends or lovers--they would make a great power couple, with Tammy’s all-in attitude to the Blue Rose cases getting off-set by Denise’s practicality. Long-distance dating while Tammy is on the road or in Twin Peaks? Phone sex?
Margaret “The Log Lady” Lanterman
Basically anything set between the series. Her relationship with Hawk seems to have strengthened a lot--and I do totally ship them, in a very melancholy and wistfully sweet way--and I’d love the follow how that developed and how the Sheriff’s Department learned to rely on her information more.
How does Margaret perceive the log? Is it ever a burden to her? What’s it like to have to haul it around all day, and how much of her active attention does it require? How does she feel about her life in Twin Peaks?
What about when she first started relying upon the log? Did she respect its significance right away and know that was happening to her was real, or did she require convincing? How did she transition into the well-known village eccentric?
Her passing along the log’s message to Major Briggs is one of my favorite bits of the series, and I’d love to see her interact with him more or interact with Bobby after his father’s death. I like the idea that she might gradually accumulate a group of people who took her seriously and believed in her abilities and that she would try to look out for them.
Tamara “Tammy” Preston
I loved the Tammy & Gordon & Albert & Diane roadshow, and I’d just get a huge kick out of anything set while they’re all traveling: eating at fancy restaurants and bad diners, making conversation, falling asleep on each other’s shoulders on planes, gossiping, and getting to know each other.
How did Tammy and Gordon meet, and what inspired him to take her seriously from the get-go?
Tammy Preston: newest Blue Rose agent. Anything with her investigating additional strange cases. I love her enthusiasm and willingness to go along with everything they have to deal with--the way she can both respond with cobra-like quickness when she needs to pull a gun on the Diane tulpa and the way she can get so excited by the fact that she just saw a real tulpa. Mini-casefiles of her looking into Twin Peaks or other mysterious occurrences would be very welcome. And it would be great to see her following in Cooper’s footsteps and getting and more and more into the mystical side of things, maybe to the point where Albert and Gordon worried about her.
Anything shippy: I really like Tammy/Gordon, Tammy/Albert, and Tammy/Denise, and I’d love to see flirtation and developing relationships there. Phone sex while Tammy is traveling, hotel room sex with room service afterwards, nights out at bars, worrying about each other, etc.