Heat Fic Summer Dear Author Letter
Hello, Dear Author! I am so excited for this exchange! I feel like it was made for me! (Incidentally, if anyone's interested, signups are open until noon May 3rd.)
I'm requesting like 8 fandoms for this, so I'll try to keep this reasonably brief. Here are some general likes and dislikes:
Likes: Casual intimacy, fraught intimacy, hard-earned intimacy, competence, small bossy tops and big happy bottoms, messy friendships, kissing, cuddling, cyborgs, curses, magic, intimate platonic friendship, sex as character study, consent issues/negotiation under difficult circumstances (dub-con), difficult conversations (esp. about issues of reproductive autonomy), deep friendship + sex that doesn't = romance, deep friendship + sex that absolutely does turn into romance, hopeful endings, queer a/b/o or D/s dynamics, and subverted a/b/o or D/s dynamics.
DNWs: rape/non-con, extreme angst/darkness, unexamined power differences between characters/emotional manipulation, total fluff or crack, infidelity, un-requested non-canon ships, pregnancy fic, totally non-canon AUs like high school/college/coffee shop, etc, unhopeful endings.
I tend not to like the more traditional a/b/o dynamics, like that alphas are bigger than omegas or pushier or meaner, etc. but I'm not going to get super picky. Basically, as long as the power dynamics of the heat!fic are part of the story and not assumed/unexamined, I'm excited!
NOTES: sign-up is in no particular order, certainly not order of preference. Also, if there is a fic you've been dying to write that has nothing to do with the prompts below, write the fic of your heart (with my DNWs in mind pls) and I'm sure I will love it!! Also, if anyone wants to use these as prompt ideas for any fic, not part of the exchange, feel free :) I probably will.
1. Knives Out:
- Marta Cabrera/in heat!Ransom Drysdale;
- in heat!Ransom Drysdale/in heat!Marta Cabrera;
- beta!Marta Cabrera/omega!Ransom Drysdale;
- alpha!Marta Cabrera/omega!Ransom Drysdale
Look, it's entirely possible that the reason I'm invested in Ransom Drysdale is that he's Chris Evans and Chris Evans plays Ransom just WAITING and HOPING for Marta to fuck him up. I have no shame.
Give me Ransom released to her custody because his heat comes on in prison, and he needs help to make it through safely, and she's the contact he lists.
Or how about accidentally bonded Marta and Ransom?
Or he induces a heat and gets them bonded so they can't be separated, so he can't go to jail?
YUM.
Whatever you decide, Marta should be in charge, and Ransom should love/hate it. And/or they're both obsessed with each other and they both love/hate it. This ship is fucked up; it's fine if the fic is fucked up.
2. Spider-Man (Tom Holland movie:
- Peter Parker/sp!Tony Stark;
- Peter Parker/in heat!Tony Stark;
- sp!Peter Parker/sp!Tony Stark
My favorite thing about these two is the balance of power, and how Peter asserts himself with Tony, when he's so much younger but with arguably more power. My second favorite thing is Peter's relentless optimism and resilience :) Given the chance to help Tony through something like getting dosed with sex pollen or heat, he would jump at it.
I'm especially interested in a Tony lives!Endgame AU where they're both a little older/wiser/more tired. (Please have Peter be over 18 but not older than 25.) Maybe Tony has had time to digest Peter's feelings for him, and Peter is resigned to the torch he carries.
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- alpha!Jyn Erso/omega!Cassian Andor;
- in heat!Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso;
- omega!Jyn Erson/omega!Cassian Andor
- ; Cassian Andor/in heat!Jyn Erso
I have such deep Jyn x Cassian feelings, but I never had much desire to read or write fic for them because I feel like their canon arc is so perfect. But! Heat fic is the perfect opportunity to drag their story onto a different track. Or not! Feel free to have their encounter directly lead to their survival or make their end all the more tragic. Maybe they go through a heat together and bond because they know they won't survive their mission and they want to know what it feels like. (But then, whoops, they do survive!) Whatever you decide, just remember that Cassian is gorgeous in his sadness, and all will be well.
4. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn):
In heat!Harleen Quinzel/Dinah Lance; sp!Harleen Quinzel/Dinah Lance; in heat!Harleen Quinzel/Helena Bertinelli
I really love how resilient Harley is and how brittle at the same time. For so much of the movie, she's hanging on by a thread, so I kind of really want to see how heat or sex pollen might push her over some edge and how Helena or Dinah would help her through that. We know she falls in love too easy/with the wrong people, so what does she do when faced with somebody who could actually be good for her?
5. MCU:
sp!Natasha Romanov/Steve Rogers; Natasha Romanov/sp!Steve Rogers; omega!Natasha Romanov/omega!Tony Stark; Natasha Romanov/in heat!Tony Stark; omega!Natasha Romanov/alpha!Peter Parker
Natasha Romanov is my forever-love, and I ship Tony/Nat and Steve/Nat like crazy because I deeply enjoy thinking about all three of them figuring out how to be Real People together, whether that involves romance or not. Basically my feelings for these three are: "Not Every Love Story Is a Romance." Heat fic is an opportunity to show just how far they would go for each other.
I threw in Peter/Nat because how fun would that be?!?!
Also, if you want to have this be a Saving-Nat or Bring-Nat-Back fic, go for it. I am, however, completely unspoiled for the Black Widow movie, and would like to keep it that way.
6. Elementary:
sp!Sherlock Holmes/sp!Joan Watson; sp!Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson; In heat!Sherlock Holmes/Marcus Bell; In heat!Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson; In heat!Joan Watson/Sherlock Holmes; In heat!Joan Watson/In heat!Sherlock Holmes
I'm getting caught up with this show right now (haven't seen S7 yet) and I am still so in love with the depth of Joan and Sherlock's relationship. They are another of my "Not Every Love Story Is a Romance" ships, so I would love any exploration of how a surprise or routine heat or sex pollen event (lol) fits into their lives. Are they completely thrown off because sex has never been part of their friendship, or does this fit in naturally as something they would do for each other? How does the dynamic change when it's Joan vs Sherlock who's affected? Also, I love Marcus, so feel free to throw him in if you like :)
7. Black Panther:
- In heat!Erik Killmonger/T'Challa;
- In heat!T'Challa/Erik Killmonger;
- Alpha!T'Challa/Omega!Erik Killmonger;
- Alpha!Erik Killmonger/Omega!T'Challa
By this point in my letter it will come as no surprise that I am all about the power dynamics with heat tropes, and probably no relationship is more about who's got the power than T'Challa/Erik. Making either one vulnerable to the other is just *chef kiss*. That said, I'm not about the straight-up non-con or hate sex. They're cousins, and they're both entirely convinced of their righteousness, yet they also recognize the righteousness of the other, much as it pains them. For these two, I'm most interested in how this changes their relationship--how it is damaged and/or healed.
8. Thor movies:
In heat!Thor/Valkyrie; sp!Thor/sp!Loki
I just really love the idea of Thor going to Valkyriefor help, and him seeing it as a perfectly viable, reasonable option, and her seeing it as this overwhelming gesture of trust, and maybe Thor already had a thing for Val, but he's Not Going There, because that's not fair, and Thor is King now, so he has to be fair, while Val quietly freaks the fuck out over how important this is to feel so trusted and valued, and her already-intense loyalty to Thor is ratcheted up to 9000. *ahem*
Also, Thor/Loki sex pollen, because why not. Maybe it's the kick in the pants they need to sort themselves out.