Chocolate Box 2022
As ever, thank you for writing for me! Above all, I want you to write something you’re excited about, and if you have an idea already feel free to ignore this letter and run with it; I will be delighted with anything that focuses on my ships and avoids DNWs. But if you want more info to provide inspiration, read on!
DNW: Anal sex. Smut involving non-sexual body fluids (except blood; bloodplay is great). Infidelity in closed relationships (consensual non-monogamy is great). Humiliation humor (humiliation kink is fine). Unrelenting angst or bleak endings (bittersweet is fine).
General Likes: Flirtation. Teasing. Banter. Snark, affectionate or not. Loyalty. Competence. Anything involving dance. Worldbuilding. Fairytale elements. Slice of life/domesticity/quiet moments. Manipulation, hidden agendas, and power games. Uneasy alliances. Strong characters having moments of weakness, and being able put down their armor and lean on those closest to them. Family interactions. Good friends being there for each other. Character-driven stories. Strong females. Focus on female characters. Realistic relationships, where people have flaws and not everything's perfect but they work things out anyway. Pairings of where both characters are dominant types and how they make it work. Strong personalities clashing and how they find a balance. Romances that stress trust, support, equality, and deep friendship. Relationships that overcome a bad beginning to make things work. Developing relationships. Friends-to-lovers, FWB-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers, and most especially reluctant-allies-to-lovers. Missing scenes, pre- and post-canon scenes, and canon-divergence AUs. I love fic of all ratings and focuses: anything from steamy smut to more subtly hot suggestiveness and flirtation to drama and adventure to low-rated sweet romance would be delightful. I’m happy with PWP as long as there are interesting things going on with character dynamics and/or emotions.
Smut-specific Likes: “Overwhelmed by passion” and “forced into something they secretly want” varieties of dub-con (especially when involving tropes along the lines of sex pollen, heat/rut, fuck or die), D/s dynamics (maledom/femsub preferred), bratty subs, manipulation and power games, spontaneous and/or under-negotiated kink, kink exploration, BDSM (especially in more psychological than physical varieties), aftercare, angry sex and arguments devolving into sex, sex as competition, strugglefucking, rape roleplay, bondage, knifeplay, biting, scratching, sensation play, cock worship, breast worship, fingering, fisting, blowjobs, facials, creampies and comeplay, vampire menstrual cunnilingus, finger sucking, grinding, passionate sex, playful sex, comfort sex, somnophilia, experience gaps, first times, established relationships, vulnerability, tenderness, pining, porn with feelings
Open To: Any level of consent from enthusiastic to extremely dubious. Underage sex as long as all characters are at least teenagers and understand what they’re about (15-16ish is about the edge of my comfort zone). Impregnation, pregnancy, and kidfic. Setting-change AUs. Crossovers between any of my requested canons or with any fandom I’ve written in the past. First or second-person POV (as a stylistic choice; no Readerfic please). Unusual or experimental writing styles. Art treats.
Fandom-specific likes and prompts below:
Black Jewels
Daemon/Jaenelle, Lucivar/Marian
Both these pairings are among my oldest OTPs. My favorite things about the Black Jewels universe are the worldbuilding, the focus on everyday life and quiet moments amongst tumultuous, world-changing events, and how hot the romances were. I'd love sweet slice of life fic, I'd love something that explores the dangerousness and moral greyness of the characters, I'd love unapologetic smut (the whole Rut thing in particular gets me right in the id). I'd also love an AU where Daemon makes it to Kaeleer during Heir to the Shadows.
I also love the family/found family dynamics in this series. I'd be happy with fic that's exclusively focused on one or both pairings, but I'd also be very happy with the inclusion of more characters from the SaDiablo family or the coven and the boyos (Surreal, Karla, and Saetan are particular favorites).
I was honestly rather disappointed with the direction that the series went in the post-Kaeleer's Heart books, especially Twilight's Dawn; feel free to ignore them if you so choose. (I particularly always kind of hoped for a scenario where Jaenelle took back the Ebony.)
Buffyverse
Buffy/Angel
My favorite battle couple and hurt/comfort ship. I love how they're the only ones strong enough to keep up with each other, and the only ones who really understand and accept each other's darkness, and how they're able to give each other a space where they can let their guard down and be vulnerable. I love their tenderness and protectiveness of each other and their appreciation for each other’s competence as well as their incredible chemistry and passion.
I’d love to see missing scenes from their time together in canon, or an AU where things turn out differently for them, or finding a path together post-canon. I feel like the Buffyverse is a canon that lends itself to tropeyness, so feel free to lean in to that if you’d like. (Trapped together? Sex pollen? Bodyswap or genderswap? Go wild!) Mostly I’d just like to see them get some happiness for a change, since canon gave them more than enough angst and heartache for several lifetimes.
Angel/Buffy/Faith
I’ve come away from canon with the impression that there are exactly two people with the capacity to really be an equal partner to Buffy, to help her carry the weight of her responsibilities and to understand her darkness without dragging her down into it; I want her to have both of them. By the end of the series, every relationship between these three carries so much old pain and baggage but also such strength of love and loyalty, and I’d love to see how they deal with their history and move forward to forge something new post-canon. A BtVS s3 setting could also be fun, because I definitely get the impression that Faith is super envious of Buffy and Angel’s relationship and somewhat confused about which of them she wants more, and I’d love to see what happens in an AU where she doesn’t get shut out. Or a kinky threesome take on Enemies, because the sexual tension in that scene is through the roof. I love this OT3 as a true triad, but I’ve also been having a lot of feels lately about a romantic V dynamic with queerplatonic Angel&Faith.
Dragonriders of Pern
F'lar, Lessa, and Kylara are my disaster OT3 and I ship them in any and every combination. Give me banter, politics and mindgames, maybe a bit of fluff; I just want to see the ways their personalities bounce off each other. Particularly in Dragonflight-era, I see all three of them as manipulative, ethically-challenged disaster humans who are highly competent at achieving their goals but struggle to act like actual people, and I love them as much for their flaws as their strengths. Dub-con, power games, and D/s dynamics are especially welcome for this fandom.
F'lar/Lessa
These two are eternal faves and I love basically every flavor of their relationship, from the early days when everything’s a mess of consent issues and power imbalances and unresolved trauma to their uneasy alliance and pseudo-political-marriage dynamic and slowly gaining respect and affection in the process of trying to manipulate their way around each other to the deeply devoted power couple they eventually become. I’d love to see missing scenes from Dragonflight, or the development of their relationship during the years between Dragonflight and Dragonquest, or something later on. Give me power struggles and conflicting plots. Give me fluff. Give me snark and banter. Give me being visionaries or making clever plans to thwart political enemies. Give me Lessa and Mnementh ganging up on F’lar. (Bonus points for Ramoth and Mnementh being awesome and/or cute. I have an especial fondness for Mnementh’s snarky commentary and unsolicited advice.)
Lessa/Kylara
I’m really interested in the way Kylara is written as a foil to Lessa in Dragonflight; they’re two strong-willed women with a lot in common, almost dark mirrors of each other. I’d love to see a scenario where they learn to see past their differences and gain more understanding and respect for each other. I’m also amused by how irrationally jealous Lessa gets about Kylara, and would be very interested in fic where that’s caused not by her being possessive of F’lar but by an interest in Kylara that she doesn’t want to acknowledge (or maybe some of both).
F'lar/Kylara
I would love to see the AU where Kylara becomes Benden's Senior Weyrwoman - maybe Jaxom doesn't survive so Lessa refuses to leave Ruatha and Kylara is the one to Impress Ramoth, or maybe Lessa doesn't make it back from the Oldtime, or maybe you think of some other way this might come about. Does Kylara eventually rise above her self-interest and build a real partnership with F'lar? Does she fail to do so and they despise each other by the end? (Either way, I suspect the getting there would be quite a tumultuous ride, a battle of wills as epic as ever Lessa and F'lar were, and probably would have involved a whole lot of kinky hatesex.)
F'lar/Lessa/Kylara
My ridiculous niche OT3. Particularly in Dragonflight-era, I see all three of them as manipulative, ethically-challenged disaster humans who are highly competent at achieving their goals but struggle to act like actual people; I love them as much for their flaws as their strengths, and am forever intrigued by the ways their personalities interact. What would a world where their politicking and power plays led to some sort of three-way relationship look like?
Misc AU prompts: Either Lessa or Kylara (or both) Impress a different color dragon. Fax never came to power and Lessa grows up noble in a world where Ruatha is still one of the Weyr’s strongest allies. (Do F’lar and Lessa meet each other in a less antagonistic way, possibly involving silly rom-com tropes? Do Lessa and Kylara become frenemies while socializing as Lord Holders’ daughters and then run into each other post-Search and just go “You!”?) Lessa refuses Search and defies convention as Lady Holder.
Labyrinth
Jareth/Sarah
Like so many fans, I think this movie had far more sexual tension than is fair for a movie where the female lead is 16. I am very interested in fic where the Labyrinth and its king retain a hold on Sarah’s life after her adventure, and she returns on her own terms when she’s older. I’m here for all manner of belligerent sexual tension, manipulation and power struggles, and/or unexpected tenderness. Bonus points for masked balls, dark fairytale elements, and weird fae stuff.
I’d also be very into fic that’s as much about worldbuilding as it is about romance. I’d love to see parts of the Labyrinth that Sarah never explored, or the fae society that Jareth and the courtiers at the masked ball seem to belong to, or Sarah interacting with magic and magical creatures in her life in the mundane world post-canon. I’m particularly fond of the notion that in beating the Labyrinth, Sarah acquired some sort of authority over and responsibility to it, and all the possibilities that could come from that tie.
Vorkosigan Saga
Aral/Cordelia
I'm particularly interested in fic set in the Regency era, since there's such a huge timeskip between Shards of Honor/Barrayar and where the series picks back up with the Miles books, and also because of my abiding fascination with characters in positions of authority and the conflicting demands of balancing public and private lives, but honestly literally anything about these two would make me extremely happy. Please nothing set later than A Civil Campaign, as I haven’t gotten to the later books yet.
Cordelia is my favorite character in the entirety of this series and, as much as I love Miles, I kind of wish the books had stayed focused on her. My introduction to the series was one of my friends handing me the Cordelia's Honor duology and telling me, "Cordelia and Aral are everything you like in a pairing", and she was 100% correct. It's all about reluctant allies to lovers, culture clash, romance between authority figures, and strong characters who can be vulnerable with each other.
DNW: Anal sex. Smut involving non-sexual body fluids (except blood; bloodplay is great). Infidelity in closed relationships (consensual non-monogamy is great). Humiliation humor (humiliation kink is fine). Unrelenting angst or bleak endings (bittersweet is fine).
General Likes: Flirtation. Teasing. Banter. Snark, affectionate or not. Loyalty. Competence. Anything involving dance. Worldbuilding. Fairytale elements. Slice of life/domesticity/quiet moments. Manipulation, hidden agendas, and power games. Uneasy alliances. Strong characters having moments of weakness, and being able put down their armor and lean on those closest to them. Family interactions. Good friends being there for each other. Character-driven stories. Strong females. Focus on female characters. Realistic relationships, where people have flaws and not everything's perfect but they work things out anyway. Pairings of where both characters are dominant types and how they make it work. Strong personalities clashing and how they find a balance. Romances that stress trust, support, equality, and deep friendship. Relationships that overcome a bad beginning to make things work. Developing relationships. Friends-to-lovers, FWB-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers, and most especially reluctant-allies-to-lovers. Missing scenes, pre- and post-canon scenes, and canon-divergence AUs. I love fic of all ratings and focuses: anything from steamy smut to more subtly hot suggestiveness and flirtation to drama and adventure to low-rated sweet romance would be delightful. I’m happy with PWP as long as there are interesting things going on with character dynamics and/or emotions.
Smut-specific Likes: “Overwhelmed by passion” and “forced into something they secretly want” varieties of dub-con (especially when involving tropes along the lines of sex pollen, heat/rut, fuck or die), D/s dynamics (maledom/femsub preferred), bratty subs, manipulation and power games, spontaneous and/or under-negotiated kink, kink exploration, BDSM (especially in more psychological than physical varieties), aftercare, angry sex and arguments devolving into sex, sex as competition, strugglefucking, rape roleplay, bondage, knifeplay, biting, scratching, sensation play, cock worship, breast worship, fingering, fisting, blowjobs, facials, creampies and comeplay, vampire menstrual cunnilingus, finger sucking, grinding, passionate sex, playful sex, comfort sex, somnophilia, experience gaps, first times, established relationships, vulnerability, tenderness, pining, porn with feelings
Open To: Any level of consent from enthusiastic to extremely dubious. Underage sex as long as all characters are at least teenagers and understand what they’re about (15-16ish is about the edge of my comfort zone). Impregnation, pregnancy, and kidfic. Setting-change AUs. Crossovers between any of my requested canons or with any fandom I’ve written in the past. First or second-person POV (as a stylistic choice; no Readerfic please). Unusual or experimental writing styles. Art treats.
Fandom-specific likes and prompts below:
Black Jewels
Daemon/Jaenelle, Lucivar/Marian
Both these pairings are among my oldest OTPs. My favorite things about the Black Jewels universe are the worldbuilding, the focus on everyday life and quiet moments amongst tumultuous, world-changing events, and how hot the romances were. I'd love sweet slice of life fic, I'd love something that explores the dangerousness and moral greyness of the characters, I'd love unapologetic smut (the whole Rut thing in particular gets me right in the id). I'd also love an AU where Daemon makes it to Kaeleer during Heir to the Shadows.
I also love the family/found family dynamics in this series. I'd be happy with fic that's exclusively focused on one or both pairings, but I'd also be very happy with the inclusion of more characters from the SaDiablo family or the coven and the boyos (Surreal, Karla, and Saetan are particular favorites).
I was honestly rather disappointed with the direction that the series went in the post-Kaeleer's Heart books, especially Twilight's Dawn; feel free to ignore them if you so choose. (I particularly always kind of hoped for a scenario where Jaenelle took back the Ebony.)
Buffyverse
Buffy/Angel
My favorite battle couple and hurt/comfort ship. I love how they're the only ones strong enough to keep up with each other, and the only ones who really understand and accept each other's darkness, and how they're able to give each other a space where they can let their guard down and be vulnerable. I love their tenderness and protectiveness of each other and their appreciation for each other’s competence as well as their incredible chemistry and passion.
I’d love to see missing scenes from their time together in canon, or an AU where things turn out differently for them, or finding a path together post-canon. I feel like the Buffyverse is a canon that lends itself to tropeyness, so feel free to lean in to that if you’d like. (Trapped together? Sex pollen? Bodyswap or genderswap? Go wild!) Mostly I’d just like to see them get some happiness for a change, since canon gave them more than enough angst and heartache for several lifetimes.
Angel/Buffy/Faith
I’ve come away from canon with the impression that there are exactly two people with the capacity to really be an equal partner to Buffy, to help her carry the weight of her responsibilities and to understand her darkness without dragging her down into it; I want her to have both of them. By the end of the series, every relationship between these three carries so much old pain and baggage but also such strength of love and loyalty, and I’d love to see how they deal with their history and move forward to forge something new post-canon. A BtVS s3 setting could also be fun, because I definitely get the impression that Faith is super envious of Buffy and Angel’s relationship and somewhat confused about which of them she wants more, and I’d love to see what happens in an AU where she doesn’t get shut out. Or a kinky threesome take on Enemies, because the sexual tension in that scene is through the roof. I love this OT3 as a true triad, but I’ve also been having a lot of feels lately about a romantic V dynamic with queerplatonic Angel&Faith.
Dragonriders of Pern
F'lar, Lessa, and Kylara are my disaster OT3 and I ship them in any and every combination. Give me banter, politics and mindgames, maybe a bit of fluff; I just want to see the ways their personalities bounce off each other. Particularly in Dragonflight-era, I see all three of them as manipulative, ethically-challenged disaster humans who are highly competent at achieving their goals but struggle to act like actual people, and I love them as much for their flaws as their strengths. Dub-con, power games, and D/s dynamics are especially welcome for this fandom.
F'lar/Lessa
These two are eternal faves and I love basically every flavor of their relationship, from the early days when everything’s a mess of consent issues and power imbalances and unresolved trauma to their uneasy alliance and pseudo-political-marriage dynamic and slowly gaining respect and affection in the process of trying to manipulate their way around each other to the deeply devoted power couple they eventually become. I’d love to see missing scenes from Dragonflight, or the development of their relationship during the years between Dragonflight and Dragonquest, or something later on. Give me power struggles and conflicting plots. Give me fluff. Give me snark and banter. Give me being visionaries or making clever plans to thwart political enemies. Give me Lessa and Mnementh ganging up on F’lar. (Bonus points for Ramoth and Mnementh being awesome and/or cute. I have an especial fondness for Mnementh’s snarky commentary and unsolicited advice.)
Lessa/Kylara
I’m really interested in the way Kylara is written as a foil to Lessa in Dragonflight; they’re two strong-willed women with a lot in common, almost dark mirrors of each other. I’d love to see a scenario where they learn to see past their differences and gain more understanding and respect for each other. I’m also amused by how irrationally jealous Lessa gets about Kylara, and would be very interested in fic where that’s caused not by her being possessive of F’lar but by an interest in Kylara that she doesn’t want to acknowledge (or maybe some of both).
F'lar/Kylara
I would love to see the AU where Kylara becomes Benden's Senior Weyrwoman - maybe Jaxom doesn't survive so Lessa refuses to leave Ruatha and Kylara is the one to Impress Ramoth, or maybe Lessa doesn't make it back from the Oldtime, or maybe you think of some other way this might come about. Does Kylara eventually rise above her self-interest and build a real partnership with F'lar? Does she fail to do so and they despise each other by the end? (Either way, I suspect the getting there would be quite a tumultuous ride, a battle of wills as epic as ever Lessa and F'lar were, and probably would have involved a whole lot of kinky hatesex.)
F'lar/Lessa/Kylara
My ridiculous niche OT3. Particularly in Dragonflight-era, I see all three of them as manipulative, ethically-challenged disaster humans who are highly competent at achieving their goals but struggle to act like actual people; I love them as much for their flaws as their strengths, and am forever intrigued by the ways their personalities interact. What would a world where their politicking and power plays led to some sort of three-way relationship look like?
Misc AU prompts: Either Lessa or Kylara (or both) Impress a different color dragon. Fax never came to power and Lessa grows up noble in a world where Ruatha is still one of the Weyr’s strongest allies. (Do F’lar and Lessa meet each other in a less antagonistic way, possibly involving silly rom-com tropes? Do Lessa and Kylara become frenemies while socializing as Lord Holders’ daughters and then run into each other post-Search and just go “You!”?) Lessa refuses Search and defies convention as Lady Holder.
Labyrinth
Jareth/Sarah
Like so many fans, I think this movie had far more sexual tension than is fair for a movie where the female lead is 16. I am very interested in fic where the Labyrinth and its king retain a hold on Sarah’s life after her adventure, and she returns on her own terms when she’s older. I’m here for all manner of belligerent sexual tension, manipulation and power struggles, and/or unexpected tenderness. Bonus points for masked balls, dark fairytale elements, and weird fae stuff.
I’d also be very into fic that’s as much about worldbuilding as it is about romance. I’d love to see parts of the Labyrinth that Sarah never explored, or the fae society that Jareth and the courtiers at the masked ball seem to belong to, or Sarah interacting with magic and magical creatures in her life in the mundane world post-canon. I’m particularly fond of the notion that in beating the Labyrinth, Sarah acquired some sort of authority over and responsibility to it, and all the possibilities that could come from that tie.
Vorkosigan Saga
Aral/Cordelia
I'm particularly interested in fic set in the Regency era, since there's such a huge timeskip between Shards of Honor/Barrayar and where the series picks back up with the Miles books, and also because of my abiding fascination with characters in positions of authority and the conflicting demands of balancing public and private lives, but honestly literally anything about these two would make me extremely happy. Please nothing set later than A Civil Campaign, as I haven’t gotten to the later books yet.
Cordelia is my favorite character in the entirety of this series and, as much as I love Miles, I kind of wish the books had stayed focused on her. My introduction to the series was one of my friends handing me the Cordelia's Honor duology and telling me, "Cordelia and Aral are everything you like in a pairing", and she was 100% correct. It's all about reluctant allies to lovers, culture clash, romance between authority figures, and strong characters who can be vulnerable with each other.