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LIKES
These are just some general likes - I definitely know some of the fandoms I've selected don't fit with these themes, so I've tried to be extra specific with my ODAO in those cases!
* Character studies! Tell me how the character got to this point! How they got PAST that point! The first time they did this thing and if they'd ever do that thing again? What are they like when they're older or younger?
* Quests and adventures: especially when said quest helps the characters figure out something about themselves along the way. I love road trips a lot.
* Romance: I'm a romantic fool, so I love all sorts of silly tropey ship-related things, including baby acquisition fic and road trips. Baby and kidfic is also fun.
* Futurefic and pre-canon fic!
* Casefic and team dynamics
* Well written horror.
* More tropes and aus: Accidental baby acquisition, fairy tale aus, huddling for warmth, kid fic, canon divergence aus, college aus, different first meeting aus, fairy tale aus, historical aus, medieval aus, band aus, magical realism aus, comedy of errors, coming of age, coming out, courtship, crack, crimefighting, earn your happy ending, found families, drunk confessions, fables, family, fix-it (where applicable), ghosts, time loops, getting together, holidays, home exchanges, IN SPACE!, language of love, love confessions, loyalty, polyamory, family dynamics (including exploration of sibling and parent-child dynamics), post-canon, pre-canon, outsider povs, reincarnation, rescue missions, group soulbonds (depending on canon), snowed in, soulmates and soulmate identifying marks, stranded, time travel fix-its, trapped in an elevator, true love's kiss, undercover missions, vacations gone awry and zombie apocalypse.
* Smut Tropes: spanking, anal, threesomes, cunnilingus, friends to lovers, double/multiple penetration, toys, strap-ons, loyalty kink, masturbation/mutual masturbation, pwp, wall sex, porn with plot (depending on plot deets).
* If you know more than one of the canons we match on, I'd love to see a crossover between any of these properties!
* Friendship dynamics and people sticking up for one another.
DISLIKES:
I'll still read just about anything but scat, sex between underage partners and nonconsensual sexual activity that's not plot-driven.
I've given you a bunch of different crossover/fusion options, in case you want to cross over just two of the fandoms or all three I'm giving.
FANDOM: The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. This show all but screams for adventure fic. Make it as outlandish, serious or cracky as you like - the show did the same thing after all. I like stories about Brisco and Bowler's friendship - do things change between them as they get older? How do they deal with being, say, fifty on the trail with families back home? Give me childhood tales or backstories! Tell me about Dixie's life out on the road, singing in various establishments - what does she do, and what kind of adventures confront her? And what does Comet think and feel as he endures all kinds of adventures? What does he feel about his various human friends - and enemies?
Pairings I like if you choose romance: Brisco/Dixie, Brisco/Bowler, Brisco/Dixie/Bowler
Fandom: Brooklyn Nine-Nine: There's nothing I love better in this fandom than over-the-top silliness, team-building dynamics and the show's sense of found family. I also love watching the team's blood family learn to like and accept the team. Give me a road trip out of state where the squad has to share a Winnebago to get to a police convention. Imagine them snowed in at the station, or stuck in a hostage situation.
Shipwise, I like Kevin/Holt and Rosa/Anyone.
Fandom: Burn Notice: I need post-series fics about Jesse and Sam kicking ass as private detectives, or Michael struggling to come to terms with the silence and semi-isolation of the Irish wilderness, or even a fix-it for almost everything that happens after and just before Nate gets shot. The team coming back together would be my ideal notion but if they must stay separate then that's the way it has to be. Show us what would have happened had Michael taken a different fork in the road; ended up staying in Miami and working as a detective, or if he'd never left life as a spy. Give me Fall of Sam Axe expansion fic; give me little moments of bonding and camaraderie that sealed their friendship. Give me partnership soulmate tropes. Give me humor and action and flash, the show's best parts, without the waterlogged angst of the last two seasons.
Pairings: Sam/Fi; Sam/Mike/Fi, Jesse/Sam, Maddie/Sam, Jesse/Fiona
Fandom: Evil Dead This is a franchise I adore and would be thrilled to receive anything from. Give me present-day Ash; give me post-Deadites modern day Ash. Give me them finding an orphaned baby and dealing with the repercussions of raising it. Give me Sheila bending time, or Sheila trying to keep things together after Ash's departure. I have every single knight!Sheila feeling in the world and I'm not afraid about talking nonstop about it. Tell me about Ash and Cheryl's childhood together; does it extend into her afterlife? Any and all AU Cheryl things would thrill me. Give me Annie in all of her intelligent glory; give me some missing scenes. Ash is a clear case of earning your own happy ending. What if he'd met Annie or Sheila at a different time?
Pairings: Ash/Sheila, Ash/Sheila/Annie, Annie/Ash, Ash/Linda
Fandom: Galavant: There's absolutely nothing I dislike about this show. The characters? The setting? The songs? The humor? The relationships? All are perfect; I just want a little more of everything! Or maybe some radical aus?
Like: Imagine some worldbuilding that explains how the show's kingdoms ended up divvied up the way they did. Maybe a Game of Thrones-style parody filled with semi-serious manipulation?
To recycle some prompts: Show me how Madalena thinks, what her decision-making process looks like, and how she's dealing with her partnership with Gareth. Tell me of Isabella or Sid's childhoods, contrast them with Galavant's. Fork in the road AU where Isabella and Gal ended up betrothed, or where they're friendly enemies on the tourney circuit? Richard and Gal as buddies, exiled and having adventures. How did Sid end up assigned to be Gal's vassal, anyway? A high school or college AU where class president Isabella has to herd prom king Richard, prom princess Madalena, jock Gal and yearbook supervisor and av club master Sid into helping her with a task? Isabella, Gal and Sid must rule the kingdom together and soulmated hijinks ensue? Isabella and Gal find a baby at the monastery and the head monk insists they take the baby with them to a priory nearby?
Feel free to include any of the show's characters, I genuinely love every single one on this show.
Preferred Pairings, if desired: Sid/Isabella/Galavant, Galavant/Isabella, Sid/Isabella, early!series!Richard/Madalena or Galavant/Madalena, Madalena/Isabella.
Fandom: How I Met Your Mother: This is one of my favorite fix-it fandoms, mostly because of that ending, partially because of Tracey's death, partially because I cannot accept that that's how Lily, Robin and Barney/Robin ended up! So if you like the ending of canon feel free to set your fic earlier in it or in an AU (I particularly like the idea of a noir AU with Robin as the detective and Barney or Lily as the client).
IF you'd like to fix canon, I'd like something along the lines of Tracey living, Robin never getting and staying so hung up on Ted, Barney and Robin getting back together, there not being a rebound baby (or Robin having difficulties WITH the existence of the baby, because she was always conflicted about kids), Lily getting to have a life AND Italy AND her family with Marshall. How about an alternate way Ted met Tracey, or a Time-travel AU that fixes it?
If not, I love Robin. I love Lily. I love Tracey. I love BrOTP. I love character studies. I love drunken confessions, fluff, and ridiculouslessness with these great characters.
Prefered Parings, if desired: Lily/Marshall, Robin/Barney, Ted/Tracey, Ted/Marshall, Robin/Lily
Fandom: Labyrinth: Sarah is a very early heroine of mine; I love her bravery, her sense of imagination. What sort of woman did she grow up to be? What's her relationship with Toby like now that they're grown up? Do they ever go back to the Labyrinth? Does Sarah ever see her friends again? What is Jareth's world like without her, and does he ever try to make contact with Sarah again? What sort of person does Toby grow up to be, does he believe his sister's story of the Labyrinth and Jareth? Or is he as starry-eyed as Sarah used to be? Give me some world building, if you care.
When I saw the tags associated with the fandom, my heart skipped a beat at the very idea of a vampire slayer AU - just imagine vamp!Jareth and slayer!Sarah bantering in an endless circle over time. But I'd really like anything adventurey, anything driven by a frenemy situation with Jareth, or just simply a good character study of Sarah.
Preferred pairings, if desired: none, please
Fandom: Little Women - Louisa May Alcott: This one is a comfort food fandom for me, though not to the extreme that I can't imagine wildly different AUs springing from it. I'd love to see anything from an extreme canon AU, like the March sisters becoming magical girls and overthrowing evil, to vamp slaying Marches stalking Walden Pond to keep evil from infiltrating Concord. Anything simple, too, like a fork in the road AU, a simple family vacation fic, or a futurefic about Amy, Jo and Meg as mothers trying to fill Marmee's enormous shoes. I feel like Meg tends to be underutilized, so anything about her would be lovely. Too, I would love to see who Teddy is without the girls. But Jo is also my heart and my absolute favorite, so a character study focusing on her would mean everything to me. My only caveat is that Marchcest really isn't my cup of tea.
Preferred pairings, if desired: Jo/Laurie, Jo/Frederich, Amy/Laurie.
Fandom: The Middleman (TV) I love Wendy so very much, I love the Middleman, I love driven Lacey and Noser being Noser. I want as many found family shenanigans and road trips and power outages and camping trips all while FIGHTING THE FORCES OF WRONG FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD!one I'd love something as zingy and out there as the show itself. If you focus on Lacey and Wendy's friendship or Wendy's parnership with the Middleman I assure you I'll love every bit of it!
Preferred pairings, if desired: canon pairings only please.
Fandom: Steven Universe: I love this beautiful, touching, funny little story, and my favorite thing about the canon is the depth of feeling contained in it - and the silliness that it can paradoxically bring forth.
As you can see by my tags, I love family fluff for this fandom as much as I love adventure and family bonding; that could mean a road trip out of Beach City, or that might mean trip to another universe, or it might mean a trip through time. I selected a bunch of time loop/time travel tropes because I could imagine Steven and Connie accidentally stumbling on a portal to another time, a past time. Or the same happening to Amethyst, who wouldn't give a darn about the complexities and issues, because at least she gets to have fun.
As for Rose and Pearl, you could write them as / or & for me; I completely see Pearl as in love with Rose, but if the story demands platonic or one-sided worship, feel free to run with that (see: medieval au, knight!Pearl and queen!Rose, perhaps?). How does Pearl manage to let go of her feelings for Rose and transmute them into something else? Does she ever? How did she come to admire/worship her so? And since Rose is at such a narrative removal - tell me how she feels about all of this. I want more Rose, period, even though the show's been giving us more of her lately.
Otherwise, I love the gems bonding with Steven. I love Steven trying to teach them the basics about human customs and holidays. I love the feeling of warmth that extends through Greg and draws him into their world.
My big request is that, if you're writing Steven and Connie as a romantic couple, that you NOT write smut, even if you age them up.
Preferred Pairings, if desired: Steven & Connie, Ruby/Sapphire, Pearl/Rose, Greg/Rose
LIKES
These are just some general likes - I definitely know some of the fandoms I've selected don't fit with these themes, so I've tried to be extra specific with my ODAO in those cases!
* Character studies! Tell me how the character got to this point! How they got PAST that point! The first time they did this thing and if they'd ever do that thing again? What are they like when they're older or younger?
* Quests and adventures: especially when said quest helps the characters figure out something about themselves along the way. I love road trips a lot.
* Romance: I'm a romantic fool, so I love all sorts of silly tropey ship-related things, including baby acquisition fic and road trips. Baby and kidfic is also fun.
* Futurefic and pre-canon fic!
* Casefic and team dynamics
* Well written horror.
* More tropes and aus: Accidental baby acquisition, fairy tale aus, huddling for warmth, kid fic, canon divergence aus, college aus, different first meeting aus, fairy tale aus, historical aus, medieval aus, band aus, magical realism aus, comedy of errors, coming of age, coming out, courtship, crack, crimefighting, earn your happy ending, found families, drunk confessions, fables, family, fix-it (where applicable), ghosts, time loops, getting together, holidays, home exchanges, IN SPACE!, language of love, love confessions, loyalty, polyamory, family dynamics (including exploration of sibling and parent-child dynamics), post-canon, pre-canon, outsider povs, reincarnation, rescue missions, group soulbonds (depending on canon), snowed in, soulmates and soulmate identifying marks, stranded, time travel fix-its, trapped in an elevator, true love's kiss, undercover missions, vacations gone awry and zombie apocalypse.
* Smut Tropes: spanking, anal, threesomes, cunnilingus, friends to lovers, double/multiple penetration, toys, strap-ons, loyalty kink, masturbation/mutual masturbation, pwp, wall sex, porn with plot (depending on plot deets).
* If you know more than one of the canons we match on, I'd love to see a crossover between any of these properties!
* Friendship dynamics and people sticking up for one another.
DISLIKES:
I'll still read just about anything but scat, sex between underage partners and nonconsensual sexual activity that's not plot-driven.
I've given you a bunch of different crossover/fusion options, in case you want to cross over just two of the fandoms or all three I'm giving.
FANDOM: The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. This show all but screams for adventure fic. Make it as outlandish, serious or cracky as you like - the show did the same thing after all. I like stories about Brisco and Bowler's friendship - do things change between them as they get older? How do they deal with being, say, fifty on the trail with families back home? Give me childhood tales or backstories! Tell me about Dixie's life out on the road, singing in various establishments - what does she do, and what kind of adventures confront her? And what does Comet think and feel as he endures all kinds of adventures? What does he feel about his various human friends - and enemies?
Pairings I like if you choose romance: Brisco/Dixie, Brisco/Bowler, Brisco/Dixie/Bowler
Fandom: Brooklyn Nine-Nine: There's nothing I love better in this fandom than over-the-top silliness, team-building dynamics and the show's sense of found family. I also love watching the team's blood family learn to like and accept the team. Give me a road trip out of state where the squad has to share a Winnebago to get to a police convention. Imagine them snowed in at the station, or stuck in a hostage situation.
Shipwise, I like Kevin/Holt and Rosa/Anyone.
Fandom: Burn Notice: I need post-series fics about Jesse and Sam kicking ass as private detectives, or Michael struggling to come to terms with the silence and semi-isolation of the Irish wilderness, or even a fix-it for almost everything that happens after and just before Nate gets shot. The team coming back together would be my ideal notion but if they must stay separate then that's the way it has to be. Show us what would have happened had Michael taken a different fork in the road; ended up staying in Miami and working as a detective, or if he'd never left life as a spy. Give me Fall of Sam Axe expansion fic; give me little moments of bonding and camaraderie that sealed their friendship. Give me partnership soulmate tropes. Give me humor and action and flash, the show's best parts, without the waterlogged angst of the last two seasons.
Pairings: Sam/Fi; Sam/Mike/Fi, Jesse/Sam, Maddie/Sam, Jesse/Fiona
Fandom: Evil Dead This is a franchise I adore and would be thrilled to receive anything from. Give me present-day Ash; give me post-Deadites modern day Ash. Give me them finding an orphaned baby and dealing with the repercussions of raising it. Give me Sheila bending time, or Sheila trying to keep things together after Ash's departure. I have every single knight!Sheila feeling in the world and I'm not afraid about talking nonstop about it. Tell me about Ash and Cheryl's childhood together; does it extend into her afterlife? Any and all AU Cheryl things would thrill me. Give me Annie in all of her intelligent glory; give me some missing scenes. Ash is a clear case of earning your own happy ending. What if he'd met Annie or Sheila at a different time?
Pairings: Ash/Sheila, Ash/Sheila/Annie, Annie/Ash, Ash/Linda
Fandom: Galavant: There's absolutely nothing I dislike about this show. The characters? The setting? The songs? The humor? The relationships? All are perfect; I just want a little more of everything! Or maybe some radical aus?
Like: Imagine some worldbuilding that explains how the show's kingdoms ended up divvied up the way they did. Maybe a Game of Thrones-style parody filled with semi-serious manipulation?
To recycle some prompts: Show me how Madalena thinks, what her decision-making process looks like, and how she's dealing with her partnership with Gareth. Tell me of Isabella or Sid's childhoods, contrast them with Galavant's. Fork in the road AU where Isabella and Gal ended up betrothed, or where they're friendly enemies on the tourney circuit? Richard and Gal as buddies, exiled and having adventures. How did Sid end up assigned to be Gal's vassal, anyway? A high school or college AU where class president Isabella has to herd prom king Richard, prom princess Madalena, jock Gal and yearbook supervisor and av club master Sid into helping her with a task? Isabella, Gal and Sid must rule the kingdom together and soulmated hijinks ensue? Isabella and Gal find a baby at the monastery and the head monk insists they take the baby with them to a priory nearby?
Feel free to include any of the show's characters, I genuinely love every single one on this show.
Preferred Pairings, if desired: Sid/Isabella/Galavant, Galavant/Isabella, Sid/Isabella, early!series!Richard/Madalena or Galavant/Madalena, Madalena/Isabella.
Fandom: How I Met Your Mother: This is one of my favorite fix-it fandoms, mostly because of that ending, partially because of Tracey's death, partially because I cannot accept that that's how Lily, Robin and Barney/Robin ended up! So if you like the ending of canon feel free to set your fic earlier in it or in an AU (I particularly like the idea of a noir AU with Robin as the detective and Barney or Lily as the client).
IF you'd like to fix canon, I'd like something along the lines of Tracey living, Robin never getting and staying so hung up on Ted, Barney and Robin getting back together, there not being a rebound baby (or Robin having difficulties WITH the existence of the baby, because she was always conflicted about kids), Lily getting to have a life AND Italy AND her family with Marshall. How about an alternate way Ted met Tracey, or a Time-travel AU that fixes it?
If not, I love Robin. I love Lily. I love Tracey. I love BrOTP. I love character studies. I love drunken confessions, fluff, and ridiculouslessness with these great characters.
Prefered Parings, if desired: Lily/Marshall, Robin/Barney, Ted/Tracey, Ted/Marshall, Robin/Lily
Fandom: Labyrinth: Sarah is a very early heroine of mine; I love her bravery, her sense of imagination. What sort of woman did she grow up to be? What's her relationship with Toby like now that they're grown up? Do they ever go back to the Labyrinth? Does Sarah ever see her friends again? What is Jareth's world like without her, and does he ever try to make contact with Sarah again? What sort of person does Toby grow up to be, does he believe his sister's story of the Labyrinth and Jareth? Or is he as starry-eyed as Sarah used to be? Give me some world building, if you care.
When I saw the tags associated with the fandom, my heart skipped a beat at the very idea of a vampire slayer AU - just imagine vamp!Jareth and slayer!Sarah bantering in an endless circle over time. But I'd really like anything adventurey, anything driven by a frenemy situation with Jareth, or just simply a good character study of Sarah.
Preferred pairings, if desired: none, please
Fandom: Little Women - Louisa May Alcott: This one is a comfort food fandom for me, though not to the extreme that I can't imagine wildly different AUs springing from it. I'd love to see anything from an extreme canon AU, like the March sisters becoming magical girls and overthrowing evil, to vamp slaying Marches stalking Walden Pond to keep evil from infiltrating Concord. Anything simple, too, like a fork in the road AU, a simple family vacation fic, or a futurefic about Amy, Jo and Meg as mothers trying to fill Marmee's enormous shoes. I feel like Meg tends to be underutilized, so anything about her would be lovely. Too, I would love to see who Teddy is without the girls. But Jo is also my heart and my absolute favorite, so a character study focusing on her would mean everything to me. My only caveat is that Marchcest really isn't my cup of tea.
Preferred pairings, if desired: Jo/Laurie, Jo/Frederich, Amy/Laurie.
Fandom: The Middleman (TV) I love Wendy so very much, I love the Middleman, I love driven Lacey and Noser being Noser. I want as many found family shenanigans and road trips and power outages and camping trips all while FIGHTING THE FORCES OF WRONG FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD!one I'd love something as zingy and out there as the show itself. If you focus on Lacey and Wendy's friendship or Wendy's parnership with the Middleman I assure you I'll love every bit of it!
Preferred pairings, if desired: canon pairings only please.
Fandom: Steven Universe: I love this beautiful, touching, funny little story, and my favorite thing about the canon is the depth of feeling contained in it - and the silliness that it can paradoxically bring forth.
As you can see by my tags, I love family fluff for this fandom as much as I love adventure and family bonding; that could mean a road trip out of Beach City, or that might mean trip to another universe, or it might mean a trip through time. I selected a bunch of time loop/time travel tropes because I could imagine Steven and Connie accidentally stumbling on a portal to another time, a past time. Or the same happening to Amethyst, who wouldn't give a darn about the complexities and issues, because at least she gets to have fun.
As for Rose and Pearl, you could write them as / or & for me; I completely see Pearl as in love with Rose, but if the story demands platonic or one-sided worship, feel free to run with that (see: medieval au, knight!Pearl and queen!Rose, perhaps?). How does Pearl manage to let go of her feelings for Rose and transmute them into something else? Does she ever? How did she come to admire/worship her so? And since Rose is at such a narrative removal - tell me how she feels about all of this. I want more Rose, period, even though the show's been giving us more of her lately.
Otherwise, I love the gems bonding with Steven. I love Steven trying to teach them the basics about human customs and holidays. I love the feeling of warmth that extends through Greg and draws him into their world.
My big request is that, if you're writing Steven and Connie as a romantic couple, that you NOT write smut, even if you age them up.
Preferred Pairings, if desired: Steven & Connie, Ruby/Sapphire, Pearl/Rose, Greg/Rose