Dear YT writer!
I'm super happy you are writing for me! Yay, we have fandoms in common and you love the same people I do -- this is wonderful! Because of that, I'm pretty sure I will be a very happy recipient, just because I will have a gift story in a fandom I love. I'm terrible at giving prompts, I really am, so if you'd really love some actualfax prompts, have the mods ping me and I will do my best!
You might notice a strange similarity to my requests. I have loved all my requested fandoms for a long time, and have even requested them before, but this year I have been so utterly obsessed with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (well, and the first movie, too) that I can't even see anything else, so I've chosen Cap2-adjacent fandoms -- stuff with Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans. SebStan's been ruining my life for years, and now Chris Evans is too. I hate them. I love them. Hate them. Love them. Sister! Daughter! Ahem. Anyway. What this means, dear author, is that for the first time in my life I'm reading crossovery things. So if you want to cross any of these characters over with someone from another adjacent fandom, or someone else, or even write an OC, that's cool, as long as the focus is on the YT character. If you'd like to know what fandoms I'm into, you can see a lot of that in my tags on my journals
General stuff about me: I'm open to angst and romance and humor and slash and het and gen, character studies or long plotty stuff, fluff or darker. This year, I'd kind of prefer not to have anything really grimdark, though, but if that's where your story goes, I'm not the kind of person who'd freak out about it. But I've been battling depression, and so stuff that's going to make me more depressed might not be the healthiest thing. I love first times and falling in love, friendships, relationships between people who are equals. Stuff I don't like includes BDSM/anything particularly kink-oriented, non-con in any way, emotional abuse, any sort of animal harm, kid/baby fic, and all that stuff that's kind of AU-y like wingfic and ABO or other things I try never to know about. I tend to hew pretty closely toward canon. Also, two of my fandoms involve twins this year, and I'm a twin, so I'm kind of sensitive to the way twins are often misrepresented in media--a little homework about twins and what we're really like would go a long way if you end up writing either TJ or Jack with their twins.
I'm going to steal heavily from Dorinda for this part of my likes list: I love slash if I can get it, but for me slash doesn't automatically equal porn. For me it's about the depth of the bond between the characters, the discovery of a startling and unexpected intimacy. I don't have anything against sex scenes (I love them!), but I prefer if a sex scene has a reason to exist within its story. (And honestly, the same can be said for het for me as well.)
Some of the tropes and approaches I enjoy: right now, I really love hopeful endings, words that camouflage deeper/unspoken meanings, protectiveness, worry, extreme competence (with honest weakness), hurt/comfort, chosen families, partners against the world, nurturing via food/drink/warmth. Don't be afraid of classic frameworks if you like 'em! I mentioned hurt/comfort, but I also won't turn up my nose at Having to Share a Bed, Huddling for Warmth, Pretend Couple, situations where one suffers or sacrifices for the other, rescues, stranded somewhere (idyllic or non-), etc.
Political Animals
TJ is the only character I chose here because he's the one I really care about. I'd love to see him getting healthier, or being happy, either on his own or with someone else. I'd love to see him discovering his own inner strength, his goodness. I don't mind him interacting with anyone else on the series, but I think that his family is kind of bad for him (with the exception of his grandmother) generally, and I really wouldn't want to see him with Sean at all. If you feel like crossing him over with someone from another fandom, that could be cool--maybe he convinces Colin from What's Your Number? to switch teams, or Nick from Push, or hell even meets Steve Rogers at the White House or something when his mom becomes president. Or maybe he meets someone like Tim Gutterson from Justified. Who knows! The power of TJ is great. He just doesn't know it yet.
Kings
Once again, I chose just SebStan's character from a series where he plays the conflicted, abused gay scion of a political family. Whee. I never much liked how they portrayed Jack on the show, because of how they flip-flopped on his character so much, and man, I hated that ending for him. I'd really prefer not to have too much of either his father or his mother, especially Silas, because what a freaking bastard. What I'd love is to see Jack figuring out on his own who he is, and learning to live with that, either on his own or with help from someone else. I was never much of a David fan, he did nothing for me, but I could see an alliance between them after the show ended, I could see them loving each other either as friends or romantically, the way they did in the bible. Or I could see him becoming closer to Michelle, or just going off on his own, back to being a soldier prince. I loved him as a soldier, absolutely loved him, and a story focused on that could be fantastic. But mainly I'd love for the focus to be on Jack, because he's a character archetype I adore and I don't think the series did right by him in any way.
The Losers
Aw, who doesn't love Jake? I don't want to meet that person! I'd love something fun and shenanigansy for him, something that brings out his competence and craziness at the same time. I'm totally open to slash with him and Cougar, or him and anyone else, and he could even cross over with someone (I wonder what the hell Jake would do with Bucky Barnes or TJ Hammond, you know?). And though I didn't include them in the request, if you were wishing you could write Clay or Roque, too, I love them both and I'd be happy to have them along. Everybody into the pool as well!
You might notice a strange similarity to my requests. I have loved all my requested fandoms for a long time, and have even requested them before, but this year I have been so utterly obsessed with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (well, and the first movie, too) that I can't even see anything else, so I've chosen Cap2-adjacent fandoms -- stuff with Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans. SebStan's been ruining my life for years, and now Chris Evans is too. I hate them. I love them. Hate them. Love them. Sister! Daughter! Ahem. Anyway. What this means, dear author, is that for the first time in my life I'm reading crossovery things. So if you want to cross any of these characters over with someone from another adjacent fandom, or someone else, or even write an OC, that's cool, as long as the focus is on the YT character. If you'd like to know what fandoms I'm into, you can see a lot of that in my tags on my journals
General stuff about me: I'm open to angst and romance and humor and slash and het and gen, character studies or long plotty stuff, fluff or darker. This year, I'd kind of prefer not to have anything really grimdark, though, but if that's where your story goes, I'm not the kind of person who'd freak out about it. But I've been battling depression, and so stuff that's going to make me more depressed might not be the healthiest thing. I love first times and falling in love, friendships, relationships between people who are equals. Stuff I don't like includes BDSM/anything particularly kink-oriented, non-con in any way, emotional abuse, any sort of animal harm, kid/baby fic, and all that stuff that's kind of AU-y like wingfic and ABO or other things I try never to know about. I tend to hew pretty closely toward canon. Also, two of my fandoms involve twins this year, and I'm a twin, so I'm kind of sensitive to the way twins are often misrepresented in media--a little homework about twins and what we're really like would go a long way if you end up writing either TJ or Jack with their twins.
I'm going to steal heavily from Dorinda for this part of my likes list: I love slash if I can get it, but for me slash doesn't automatically equal porn. For me it's about the depth of the bond between the characters, the discovery of a startling and unexpected intimacy. I don't have anything against sex scenes (I love them!), but I prefer if a sex scene has a reason to exist within its story. (And honestly, the same can be said for het for me as well.)
Some of the tropes and approaches I enjoy: right now, I really love hopeful endings, words that camouflage deeper/unspoken meanings, protectiveness, worry, extreme competence (with honest weakness), hurt/comfort, chosen families, partners against the world, nurturing via food/drink/warmth. Don't be afraid of classic frameworks if you like 'em! I mentioned hurt/comfort, but I also won't turn up my nose at Having to Share a Bed, Huddling for Warmth, Pretend Couple, situations where one suffers or sacrifices for the other, rescues, stranded somewhere (idyllic or non-), etc.
Political Animals
TJ is the only character I chose here because he's the one I really care about. I'd love to see him getting healthier, or being happy, either on his own or with someone else. I'd love to see him discovering his own inner strength, his goodness. I don't mind him interacting with anyone else on the series, but I think that his family is kind of bad for him (with the exception of his grandmother) generally, and I really wouldn't want to see him with Sean at all. If you feel like crossing him over with someone from another fandom, that could be cool--maybe he convinces Colin from What's Your Number? to switch teams, or Nick from Push, or hell even meets Steve Rogers at the White House or something when his mom becomes president. Or maybe he meets someone like Tim Gutterson from Justified. Who knows! The power of TJ is great. He just doesn't know it yet.
Kings
Once again, I chose just SebStan's character from a series where he plays the conflicted, abused gay scion of a political family. Whee. I never much liked how they portrayed Jack on the show, because of how they flip-flopped on his character so much, and man, I hated that ending for him. I'd really prefer not to have too much of either his father or his mother, especially Silas, because what a freaking bastard. What I'd love is to see Jack figuring out on his own who he is, and learning to live with that, either on his own or with help from someone else. I was never much of a David fan, he did nothing for me, but I could see an alliance between them after the show ended, I could see them loving each other either as friends or romantically, the way they did in the bible. Or I could see him becoming closer to Michelle, or just going off on his own, back to being a soldier prince. I loved him as a soldier, absolutely loved him, and a story focused on that could be fantastic. But mainly I'd love for the focus to be on Jack, because he's a character archetype I adore and I don't think the series did right by him in any way.
The Losers
Aw, who doesn't love Jake? I don't want to meet that person! I'd love something fun and shenanigansy for him, something that brings out his competence and craziness at the same time. I'm totally open to slash with him and Cougar, or him and anyone else, and he could even cross over with someone (I wonder what the hell Jake would do with Bucky Barnes or TJ Hammond, you know?). And though I didn't include them in the request, if you were wishing you could write Clay or Roque, too, I love them both and I'd be happy to have them along. Everybody into the pool as well!