Holly Poly 2018 Creator Letter

Oct 20, 2018 12:55

Hi lovely author/artist/podficcer! I'm so glad you're here!



Standard likes/dislikes list:

  • Misunderstandings and miscommunication
  • Trust issues, insecurity, a non-excessive amount of woobiefication
  • Snark or banter
  • Hurt/Comfort. I like emotional more than physical, but both are good
  • Friends-to-lovers or frienemies-to-lovers
  • Polyamory of pretty much any sort, with a gold star bonus for sedoretu.
  • Crossovers are cool: Here is a list of my fandoms: http://meatball42.livejournal.com/8879.html
  • Sex is cool: Here is a list of kinks and tropes that I like, though you are under no obligtion to include any of them if you write sex: http://meatball42.livejournal.com/78471.html
  • Happy endings
  • Anything way out there. Crack or crack taken seriously is cool. Creativity is great. Give me whatever it is you've been thinking about :)


My favorite total AUs:

  • Professional workplace AUs, from a landscaping business to the UN. Massive bonus points if the author has RL experience in said setting
  • Sports AUs are my jam, especially if the writer knows the sport and goes into detail about it <3
  • Any gender-system-based worldbuildings, including ABO or D/s that's more than just kink (although just kink works fiiiiine as well)
  • Racebending AUs are not often to be found, which is sad because they are awesome!
  • Any magical realism AUs, especially those where characters are fantasy creatures; my favorite is incubus or succubus fic


Do Not Wants:
  • Instantaneous or inexplicably fast attraction/relationship/sex, unless you're intentionally going for PWP.
  • Psychological horror in the sense of torture being thoroughly described in the text, chracter dealing with trauma is fine. Extensive description of physical torture. I like H/C, but I prefer focus on the C rather than whump.
  • RPF in general, including the use of photos of actors for artworks.


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Prompts and fandoms are in no particular order.

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Bruce Banner | Hulk/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov: Clint and Bruce/Hulk's relationship is the best thing on this show to me. And the relationship between Clint and Natasha, made up as it is of duty, betrayal, hate, romance? Super awesome. Basically anything for this ship will make me very happy.
Natasha and Bruce|Hulk get trapped in a cave-in and the team has to- very carefully- get them out. Predictably, Clint loses his shit. Underground, however, Bruce|Hulk and Natasha have a real conversation for the first time.
Natasha is surprised (not that she lets it show) when she joins the team to be the recipient of two shovel talks: a loud, angry, green one, and a quiet one that sounds more like begging her to treat Clint right. Clearly, she must take control of the situation.
Clint's new boyfriend and his old girlfriend are both willing to share, mainly because Clint annoyed them into it.
If you write any sedoretu with these characters, including Mockingbird or an imagined EMH!Betty,  you get first dibs on my firstborn.

Bruce Banner/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov: Same as above. Personally, I view EMH Bruce and Hulk as one person who has some sort of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but however you see that duality working out, and choose to write it, is fine by me.

James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Tony Stark: The MCU fandom has a lot of tropes that they tend to use for these combinations of ships: Up All Night to Get Bucky, Stony where Tony thinks Steve will break up with him when Bucky shows up, ABO, Tony fixing the arm. I'd love to see any MCU-type tropes for this ship tried out on this universe, with its different backstory for Bucky and different characterization for the characters. On a different note, these three have been through various shit in this 'verse. Any sort of H/C will be much appreciated. I like woobifying charcaters, though not excessively. Prompts:
Soulmark AUs are A+
Stony divide over Tony's concern that the Winter Soldier is a threat and Steve's desire to save him.
Tony helps Steve out with the search for Bucky and it takes an unexpected turn.
Post-Winter Soldier recuperation at the Avengers Mansion- interactions with different teammates, does the Soldier become an Avenger? How does that go in the field?
Bucky lays down some hard facts so Tony will stop blaming himself for Emperor Stark and for not literally being a seer.
Steve has to be strong for the team, but he does have doubts, and it's good to get them off his chest with people he trusts.
Tony is determined to give Steve and Bucky a fantastic Christmas for their first not-brainwashed holiday in the 21st century. (optional: Steve is disappointed by consumerism over piety, and Bucky is Jewish)

James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Steve Rogers/Tony Stark: I have never seen this ship prompted, but I like it! Although I don't personally see a significant characterization difference in Rhodey during his three episodes on EMH from his characterization in the MCU, Tony and Steve do have quite different characterization between canons. I think that a less prickly Tony and a more open-minded Steve might bring in some possibilities for this OT3 that wouldn't exist in the MCU.
Who better to show around a newly defrosted Captain America than a current military man? At least, that's what Rhodey desperately argues when the Avengers retrieve Steve.
How would any scene, episode, or storyline be different if Rhodey had moved into the Mansion/joined the team?

Marvel 616

Rumiko Fujikawa/Steve Rogers/Tony Stark: I love Rumiko and thought she was really great for Tony, while they lasted. She was a breath of fresh air and relaxation when things had been getting too dark and stressful. She reminded him to loosen up, and wasn't afraid to be stubborn and demand what she wanted. Meanwhile, both Tony and Steve at different points play the self-sacrificing, job-comes-first attitude and are all manly and straight-backed, while having their no-homo all over the place. I think that this mix of personalities- dedication and flexibility and stubbornness and passion and love for life- could really servce to make all of them more stable and happier. I'd love get-together here, or someone supporting the others or offering advice or even just backrubs during a difficult time. The difficulties of a three-way relationship as public figures would be interesting, or you can go the other way, with a universe where threesomes are the norm, and have them work to fit their weirdo jobs and what they actually want in with society's expectations of relationships. I also would like to see Rumiko get some credit for the certain difficulties of putting up with these two in an enclosed space.

James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov: I have such huge fluffy feelings for this ship, which is really hard what with the angst they attract/generate for themselves. I'd really like something H/C for this ship, since the most recent thing I read for them was the Clint/Bucky teamup in Tales of Suspense, where Natasha summarily ditched Clint and invited Bucky to join her on her revenge spree. So anything set after that, trying to recover the relationships, would be fantastic. Otherwise, fluff or domestic fic would also be cool, or if you have some other plotty or tropey thing you like. My favorite things here would be an actual OT3, a get-together or them overcoming an obstacle in their relationship, or just them palling around, being domestic and not getting into fights and petting Liho a lot. Feel free to pull in other storylines, make work conflict or anything, or have a really strenuous disagreement about birthdays/holidays/anniversaries or what color the curtains should be. Angst is fine, these guys do have it in spades, honestly, but I like a lot of C for characters who get a lot of H. Complete AU or canon AU, or fusions, anything goes here.
Required mention that sedoretu fic workes for literally every ship out there :)))

James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov: Most of what I know about Natasha is from the Black Widow Comics, most of what I know about Bucky is from there, Civil War, and the recent stuff with Kobik, and most of what I have on Steve comes from Stony meta readings of various comics. What I mean by this is that I love these characters individually, but I haven't read them together much, so while my prompts may be a bit ishy, I'm going to love whatever you write because I do love these characters. Natasha and Bucky's relationship is so sweet, in spite of everything, and I think that Steve might be a lot more stable if he had some strong support more consistently at his back. These three would be a powerhouse.
Steve and Bucky are open about their relationship, at least within their tight-knit community. Natasha doesn't want anyone to know she's involved, too.
Natasha's apartment is the place they both go to let everything else float away.
"So when's it my turn to be Captain America?"
Any Steve-focused H/C. Poor baby's had a rough few runs these last couple of years.
It's only with his lovers that Bucky's playful side comes out.
Natasha's amnesia storyline: She remembers being in a relationship wth Steve, but not with Bucky.
AU where these three rule/govern the superhero community as a triumvirate.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Shades Alvarez/Mariah Dillard/Darius "Comanche" Jones: Ahhhhhh, so many feels. While I loved the way the show handled Cmanche's betrayal and the way it shook up Shades' world, I do wonder how things might have worked out if it had gone differently. Maybe something spurred Comanche to confess to Shades before he figured it out himself- Shades and Mariah had a big argument and he thought he had an in, or Captain Ridenhour did something hinky and lost Comanche's confidence. Mariah is possessive, but I could also see her viewing Shades and Comanche's relationship as an opportunity for some power play. I'm not super interested in this as a three-way relationship, more of a V on Shades, but if you can make it work, feel free to convince me otherwise! I don't necessarily need to see all of them in the story, if you want to just write a scene or a set of drabbles or something.
Art prompts: Fire, bullets, light of day, alcohol

W'Kabi/Okoye/T'Challa/Nakia & Nakia/Okoye/T'Challa/W'Kabi: These are the same ship, but it made it into the tagset twice, so I snagged both! I would adoooooore a sedoretu format for this ship, but if you're not familiar or it isn't your thing, any type of polymaory would work out here. Is a four-person relationship the norm in Wakanda? Or are the two couples quietly together behind the scenes? How did it start? How does it work with all of their different roles? Do they ever come into conflict? How do they feel about having children? How do their different perspectives on Wakanda's role in the world affect their relationships? Anything about them working together as lovers and friends, or as collegial political actors would be amazing. Or like a 4+1 about their pets, anything that gives me more Okoye&Rhinos is fine by me <3
Art prompts: Rhinoooos, bedtime, sharing is caring, dinner

Nakia (Black Panther)/Okoye/T'Challa: Three gorgeous people with strong personalities, what's not to love? I'd love pretty much anything for this ship- how they got together, as pairs or as a triad, anything pre- or post-movie, AUs, kidfic, anything.
A love triangle nearly ended in tears.
Traditionally, the Queen of Wakanda is selected from the Dora Milaje.
What is public knowledge in Wakanda must be a secret abroad. This isn't nearly as easy as it is simple.
Someone tried to play matchmaker, and it didn't work the way they intended.
Art prompts: Dinner in Korea, sparring, flowers, traditional tribe color scheme

James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov/Tony Stark: I love when people put Tony and Natasha together because they are complex characters whose relationship could go so many ways depending on their circumstances. I love Natasha and Bucky in the comics, and I really like all the Stuckony fic I've read. That being said, I realize you have a limited amount of canon interaction to work with here, so really anything you come up with for this ship will be great. I have a few prompts which you can modify as you wish, but if they don't inspire you, anything H/C, fluffy, or even just chilling out and talking or playing a board game will make me happy. Bonus points for Steve being approving if it's fluffy, but if it's not feel no need. You can accept Civil War or completely ignore it and start with 'After SHIELD fell, they brought Bucky to Avengers Tower after a week of hide-and-seek.'
The Soldier is put on trial, and Natasha and Tony are the only Avengers allowed to see/guard him. They try to make it as not-traumatic as possible. Up to you if Bucky turned himself in or not, and how Steve feels about all this.
Natasha and Tony haven't told anyone on the team that they've tentatively started a relationship, which is complicated when Bucky announces he and Natasha used to be in love- which she doesn't remember at all.
Natasha and Bucky are sickeningly sweet in love, but they are for some reason willing to put up with Tony moping around them after he and Pepper break up for the last time. Then, for some reason, they decide to be more proactive in making him happy.
Any modern AU would also make me squee all around town. I have this idea where Natasha is a professional Secret Shopper, anything with that would be amazing.
Sedoretu with Pepper?
Art: Fighting, court, downtime, any Asian restaurant style meal, any No-Power AU setting.

Bruce Banner/Hulk/Valkyrie: Prior to Ragnorak, I would have considered Bruce and Hulk pretty much the same person, just presented differently, but this movie displayed a signficant departure from previous characterizations and seemed to present a schism betweeen the two personalities. For the record, when I nommed this ship, I was envisioning a V-shaped threesome based on Valkyrie, not anything shipping Bruce and Hulk directly together. I'm interested either in a) a post-Ragnorak fic, canon-compliant with IW or not, that has the three people navigating frienships and/or romantic relationships while Bruce and Hulk try to deal with their changed situation, or b) a complete AU, in any setting you like, where Bruce and Hulk are two personalities of someone with Dissociaative Identity Disorder. Or, c) just go crazy with anything you think would be cool. Maybe Valkyrie came to Earth in the first place instead of Thor and has been there the whole time, idk. If you like this ship, I'll probably like whatever you write.
Art prompts: Fighting for fun, new and improved armor, chilling in a hot tub

James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark/Sam Wilson: Three of my fav characters. I can see this developing a few different ways. Tony and Rhodey have obvs been friends for ages, but who met Sam first? Was it Tony, making him new wings and developing a crush that he blabbed about to Rhodey months before Rhodey could be back in the country? Or did Rhodey meet Sam first on the second Avengers team? Did someone get jealous? All three of them together or a V is fine with me. Bonus points if it's not immediately smooth sailing. Did they all bond over flying? What's it like when one or two of them are in a fight?
Art prompts: Flying together, living the Manhattan high life, well-dressed men, uniform

James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Laura Barton/Natasha Romanov: For this ship, I would loooove to see something sedoretu, but if you don't know what that is or it's not your thing, any sort of polyamory would be cool. I'm a fan of a Farm!Threesome established idea where Bucky's reappearance (canon-compliant or not, w/e) shakes things up. I would also like a fic where Laura is an Avenger too. Really anything would be cool, I like all of these characters so it would be pretty hard to disappoint me with this ship. Hell, something where any two are University professors and one couple is just arriving in the area would be great. Or, established Clint/Natasha decides to branch out. Any formulation of poy is fine by me, don't feel constrained at all!
Art ptompts: Peace, gardening, swimming, cooking, thematic four color scheme

Thanks so much in advance for your efforts, creator! I hope you have as much fun working on your project as I'm sure I will seeing it!

~Meatball

category: challenge letter, prompts: 616, prompts: poly, challenge: other challenge, prompts: mcu, prompts: avengers, prompts: emh, prompts: ship

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