Rare Pair Fest
Hello, lovely person! I know I'll love whatever you create!
Things I Like:
- Canon! I nominate things because I love the canon worlds, and while I realize some of these will need divergences to work, I want to read about these particular characters.
- That said, feel free to write pre- or post-canon (especially where noted!) and fill in the gaps of canon
- I also love competency.
- Tropes: secretly dating, pretend dating, friends-to-lovers, 5+1, families of choice
- Femmeslash
- I'm ok with mature or explicit sexual content for this exchange, but I don't want the entire fic to be porn.
- If you make art, I'll probably love it! I'm not artistic at all myself, so I love seeing what other people can do. I don't have any strong preferences in art styles- I promise that as long as you can draw more than a stick figure, I will be impressed!
Do Not Wants:
- PWPs, though porn with plot is usually okay
- non-canon AUs
- non-con
- extreme violence
- character death
- crossovers
- brainwashing/mental horror
Ella Enchanted
Fanfic, Fanart
Prince Charmont/Ella
I LOVE Ella Enchanted. It is my go-to book for whenenver I'm feeling down. I love Ella's resliance and self-reliance, I love the setting, I love Char, and I love to hate Lucinda.
I really want to see something about Char and Ella post-canon. Ella as Court Linguist! Adjusting to life with Char's family! If you've read Fairest, maybe Char and Ella on a trip to Ayortha and meeting with Aza and Ijori. Or Arieda visiting the palace! Or just lots of domesticity where Char and Ella talk to parrots and feed centaurs and slide down stair-rails.
As for fanart, I would love any number of things! Maybe one of the shippy scenes from the book, like their first meeting or them feeding apples to the centaurs at the menagerie or them dancing together at the ball? Or an older Char and Ella interacting with their children.
(I'd really prefer not to recieve anything with porn for this canon.)
Gravity Falls
Fanfic
Pacifica Northwest/Mabel Pines
This show is absolutely charming. I love the setting, I love the twins' relationship and their relationship with Grunkle Stan, and I love the plots. Mabel is far and away my favorite character- It's so enjoyable to see a dorky tween girl on tv without being madeover or being the butt of any jokes. She's sweet and she's just a lot of fun. I also really like Pacifica, especially the more we get to know her; it's pretty clear that her family life is pretty messed up and that she's nowhere near as happy a person as Mabel is. On the other hand, I loved seeing her move towards being a better person in Northwest Mansion Mystery.
I'd like to see the girls solving a mystery on their own! Or maybe getting into a fight over a boy, then realizing the boy wasn't who they were jealous of at all. (Feel free to substitute anything for the boy here- some sort of award, an outfit, anything.) Maybe Pacifica dates Dipper at first as an unconscious replacement for Mabel and it makes everyone uncomfortable? I like all the characters in Gravity Falls so feel free to use whoever you want as secondary characters here.
(I'd really prefer not to recieve anything with porn for this canon.)
Life
Fanfic
Charlie Crews/Dani Reese
I love this show and it ended way too soon. I'd love post-canon fic- something about what happens next. Which one of them realizes they have feelings first? Does Charlie talk about it through cryptic Zen sayings? Does Dani sit him down to have a talk about professionalism? Do they realize it at the worst time possible? How would they work as a couple, rather than just as partners- Charlie pretends he has it all together, but he's deeply fucked-up and angry, and Dani knows it, because she is, too.
Reese/Tidwell is my NOTP here. Feel free to include him in the fic as a secondary character, but I'd rather you didn't refer to the two of them in a relationship.
Lost
Fanfic, Fanart
Hugo Reyes/Libby Smith, Sayid Jarrah/Shannon Rutherford
Lost is one of my all-time favorite shows, and Hurley is, of course, one of my favorite characters. He's funny, he's interesting, he never crossed the moral event horizon. I was really sad that he and Libby never got a real chance on the show. We don't know very much about her (unless you know something I don't...) but she seemed really sweet. What if she had lived? How would their relationship had progressed? What about their relationship in the flash sideways verse- tell me more about how that progresses.
I actually really love Shannon. She's selfish and snobbish, but she's got a good heart, deep down. Really deep down. But I like her because she knows how to get what she wants, even if it means manipulating people. And I like Sayid, even though I don't like all of his actions. He tries to be a good person and fails, and I find that compelling. I'd love to see something about what they're thinking during their relationship in canon: Sayid was looking for Nadia before this; does he feel like he's betraying her? What about Shannon: we know she's used her boyfriends to scam Boone out of his money, that she and Boone slept together at least once, and that she lived in Paris for a couple years with a guy who had a kid. Is Sayid completely opposite of who she'd normally go for, or since her dad died and left all his money to her stepmom, does she date older guys for their money? I'd also love canon-divergence fics for this- I was super upset when Shannon died. It felt like a cheap shot, and fix-it would be great.
Crossovers
Fanfic, Fanart
Susan Pevensie/Erik Lensherr
I've written fic for this pairing already, but I would love more! I'm going to quote AdaptationDecay (the original Susan/Magneto shipper) here:
They have so much in common, although you wouldn't think so at first glance. They're both practical, intelligent, charismatic and inflexible. They were prepared to cut all ties with their nearest and dearest when asked to pursue a dream which they considered dangerously at odds with observable reality. They both had their entire families wiped out in horrible circumstances. They're so in control and so utterly damaged.
Also they're about the same age and have both done quite a bit of travelling, so you have a window of about sixty years and multiple continents where they could potentially meet each other! ( x)
I would love any number of things with these two! Something where Susan is a mutant, or something where Erik and Susan meet in old age after a great many years of adventures, or something where the two go on an adventure of some kind together. An action fic would be wonderful, but so would slice-of-life!
I'm going to borrow a couple of AdaptationDecay's art prompts here, since they're great and I can't get them out of my head: Fake cover art for a non-existent crossover comic, maybe? Or something cool with maps, maybe? I always loved looking at the maps at the front of the Narnia books and with both Susan and Erik being so well travelled it might be cool to do a map showing their respective journeys and marking where those journeys cross.
Jonathan of Conte/Susan Pevensie
I nominated this ship on a whim, mostly because I want ALL the Susan crackships. HOWEVER, I'd love to see something where Susan magically gets transported to Tortall and ends up meeting Jonathan. It's canon that he likes strong women, and I imagine Susan would win over the court quite easily, though she'd have to get used to how it was different from Narnia. (She and Daine might get along splendidly.) I'd love to see Susan, magically transported to Tortall, and reacting with more grace and aplomb than Jon expects.
For art, something where Jon is showing Susan around, or they are at some sort of formal event- a feast or a ball- would be wonderful.