dear secret mutant
Dear Secret Mutant,
Hello! First off, thank you for signing up--I get a lot of joy out of this exchange and I hope it makes other people in fandom as happy as it makes me.
Secondly, I know writing for the mod sucks, but I promise you the following: a) I totally won't even peek at your story until fics go live. Cross my heart; b) I am really, really, really easy to please and to write for. With the exception of the squicks that I'll list below, don't feel limited by my prompts. If something you see on my journal inspires you, or the gift itself takes you away from my original suggestion, please run with it! The prompts are there as suggestions, not a mandate. Anything with any of my favorite tropes will make me happy, even if it's not entirely in line with what I put on my sign-up.
Likes:
I love family stories more than anything. I love team-as-family and the concept of found families. (If we're talking about their actual families, I like the twins well enough, but I LOVE Lorna.) I love fluffy romance, as long as the characters stay true to themselves. I especially like established relationship, but first time and introductions are good too. I love kidfic, I like humor, I like plotty team fic, I like introspective gen fic. I love AUs and fusions, especially powered AUs and fusions. I like it when the ladies are being their awesome selves.
I'm also really into the socio-political worldbuilding that goes along with mutants, especially how those things inevitably would change in something like a modern, powered AU where mutants are more-or-less semi-accepted. (I REALLY LOVE modern, powered AUs.)
Some other favorite tropes: pretend boyfriends, size difference, AUs (powered or non-powered), domesticity, BFFs acting like BFFs, competency, teamfic, huddling for warmth, boarding school AUs, college AUs, mutant politics, and...about a gazillion other things. Feel free to browse my AO3 and LJ and latch on to any other of the millions of tropes I love. I kind of prefer, in AU scenarios, for Charles to be paraplegic, but it's really up to you and I've written and read lots of stuff where he's not, so no pressure :)
(I also like all of those things in art, obvs, though some are easier to capture than others! Also, if you feel inspired by any of the things I've written and want to illustrate a fic of mine, that is also 100% excellent and wonderful!)
Dislikes:
mpreg, Omegaverse, infidelity, non-con, the "misunderstanding" trope, character bashing, genderswap, animal and inanimate object AUs, character death, dark!fic. Angst is okay, as long as everything ends happily. Happy endings (or at least ambiguously okay, like "they can't be together because of the beach divorce, but they're still in love and steal weekends together") are kind of a must.
I generally like character-y things and fluff and people talking better than I like straight-up porn.
Characters/Pairings/Etc:
Charles/Erik is my OTP in a really creepy, cult-like, drinking-the-kool-aid way. I don't like seeing them with other people (although I don't mind references to past relationships or them being with other people before they get together AS LONG AS THEY DON'T CHEAT ON THEIR OTHER PARTNERS.). Other pairings I like: Alex/Armando, Moira/Nick Fury, Raven/Angel, Raven/Hank, Raven/Irene. The only pairing I really don't like at all is Hank/Alex, and I'm not a big fan of Moira/Sean in XMFC-verse, given I read Sean as a dumb sixteen year old boy and Moira as a badass competent lady in her mid/late-twenties.
Charles is my absolute favorite (even though I recognize he's a sanctimonious prick) and Erik and Moira are close seconds. I love Raven and Armando, too, and that rounds out my top characters. I'm also a comics fan and my heart belongs to the original five (and Ororo), so fitting in Jean, Scott, and Bobby (and Warren, to a lesser degree) or Ororo would make my day.
In general, I'm sure whatever you do will be awesome and wonderful and amazing. Please feel free to use the prompts as a jumping off point to do whatever you'd like! If you absolutely need to ask someone if I'd like something, feel free to hit up pearl_o, whom I am volunteering for this without having asked her first. ~*Friendship!*~
Have fun, Secret Mutant! :D
♥,
Kait/pocky_slash
Hello! First off, thank you for signing up--I get a lot of joy out of this exchange and I hope it makes other people in fandom as happy as it makes me.
Secondly, I know writing for the mod sucks, but I promise you the following: a) I totally won't even peek at your story until fics go live. Cross my heart; b) I am really, really, really easy to please and to write for. With the exception of the squicks that I'll list below, don't feel limited by my prompts. If something you see on my journal inspires you, or the gift itself takes you away from my original suggestion, please run with it! The prompts are there as suggestions, not a mandate. Anything with any of my favorite tropes will make me happy, even if it's not entirely in line with what I put on my sign-up.
Likes:
I love family stories more than anything. I love team-as-family and the concept of found families. (If we're talking about their actual families, I like the twins well enough, but I LOVE Lorna.) I love fluffy romance, as long as the characters stay true to themselves. I especially like established relationship, but first time and introductions are good too. I love kidfic, I like humor, I like plotty team fic, I like introspective gen fic. I love AUs and fusions, especially powered AUs and fusions. I like it when the ladies are being their awesome selves.
I'm also really into the socio-political worldbuilding that goes along with mutants, especially how those things inevitably would change in something like a modern, powered AU where mutants are more-or-less semi-accepted. (I REALLY LOVE modern, powered AUs.)
Some other favorite tropes: pretend boyfriends, size difference, AUs (powered or non-powered), domesticity, BFFs acting like BFFs, competency, teamfic, huddling for warmth, boarding school AUs, college AUs, mutant politics, and...about a gazillion other things. Feel free to browse my AO3 and LJ and latch on to any other of the millions of tropes I love. I kind of prefer, in AU scenarios, for Charles to be paraplegic, but it's really up to you and I've written and read lots of stuff where he's not, so no pressure :)
(I also like all of those things in art, obvs, though some are easier to capture than others! Also, if you feel inspired by any of the things I've written and want to illustrate a fic of mine, that is also 100% excellent and wonderful!)
Dislikes:
mpreg, Omegaverse, infidelity, non-con, the "misunderstanding" trope, character bashing, genderswap, animal and inanimate object AUs, character death, dark!fic. Angst is okay, as long as everything ends happily. Happy endings (or at least ambiguously okay, like "they can't be together because of the beach divorce, but they're still in love and steal weekends together") are kind of a must.
I generally like character-y things and fluff and people talking better than I like straight-up porn.
Characters/Pairings/Etc:
Charles/Erik is my OTP in a really creepy, cult-like, drinking-the-kool-aid way. I don't like seeing them with other people (although I don't mind references to past relationships or them being with other people before they get together AS LONG AS THEY DON'T CHEAT ON THEIR OTHER PARTNERS.). Other pairings I like: Alex/Armando, Moira/Nick Fury, Raven/Angel, Raven/Hank, Raven/Irene. The only pairing I really don't like at all is Hank/Alex, and I'm not a big fan of Moira/Sean in XMFC-verse, given I read Sean as a dumb sixteen year old boy and Moira as a badass competent lady in her mid/late-twenties.
Charles is my absolute favorite (even though I recognize he's a sanctimonious prick) and Erik and Moira are close seconds. I love Raven and Armando, too, and that rounds out my top characters. I'm also a comics fan and my heart belongs to the original five (and Ororo), so fitting in Jean, Scott, and Bobby (and Warren, to a lesser degree) or Ororo would make my day.
In general, I'm sure whatever you do will be awesome and wonderful and amazing. Please feel free to use the prompts as a jumping off point to do whatever you'd like! If you absolutely need to ask someone if I'd like something, feel free to hit up pearl_o, whom I am volunteering for this without having asked her first. ~*Friendship!*~
Have fun, Secret Mutant! :D
♥,
Kait/pocky_slash