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Hi! I'm delighted to see what you whip up, these are all tiny fandoms that I crave more from as I'm sure you know because you're here too.
General Likes
Specifically sexual DNW:
As a kid I saved up for years to get Samantha and Nellie and I still adore them. Now I’m grown up and queer and projecting heavily, and would adore to see stories with Samantha/Nellie being period queer. As you can tell, I think stories with them in love would be awesome, but I’d also be delighted with them being queer and just friends. If you’re not onboard the queer Samantha and Nellie train, I’m absolutely down for friendship shenanigans. Most of these prompts skew towards aged up characters, but having them at canon ages or not adults yet is also completely fine!
Specific DNW
Seven Kingdoms Trilogy — Kristin Cashore
Oh man this book. This BOOK. The characters I nominated are Fire and Brigan because way back when I first read the book it was such a different sort of romance. Slow and unnoticed and beautifully supportive. I still think one of my absolute favourite scenes in the world is when Fire is panicking and Brigan reaches out to her and she feels his love as a physical thing. I'm also completely enamoured with the whole monster thing, of weaponized beauty and seeing past that. And telepathy! I am a huge sucker for telepathy. Silent communication! Always being able to lean on someone! Ultimate trust and loyalty! I also was always so in love with the scene in the tent where they're at war but still are able to provide comfort and strength to each other. Also also, the whole thing where the messenger comes in and the subtext of Fire as object to people on first sight but not as object to Brigan and his enforcement of her boundaries? Listen. Listen. I read this book when I was like fifteen and it's managed to hold up ever since.
Specific DNW
Strange Angels
General Likes
- People having fun! Shenanigans! I like when characters are fond of each other and genuinely enjoy spending time with each other.
- Found family! Found family! Especially queer found family!
- Secret relationships, and the ways people still connect though they're publicly not affiliated
- Deep trust and connection and loyalty, knowing people very well and showing it
- Future fic! A few years / months after the canon, dealing with all of what just happened? Beautiful. Kid characters aged up? Hell yeah. (Though I would prefer not to have the adults become very old or dead)
- Small details! Things people are passionate about that creep into the story/narration are my JAM
- Pining. So much pining. They're all empty headed and can't tell the other person is pining after them too... haha unless?
- Established relationships where people are still deeply in love
- Angst that stays miserable — hurt/comfort is more than fine, but I'd like it to end in a happy place instead of a miserable one
- Permanent major character death, so time loops/fantasy/scifi stories that bring them back is fine as long as it doesn’t send the other characters to a really dark place
- Totally normal modern AUs (e.g. coffee shop, university, high school). All the canons this year I really love for the specifics of the setting/worldbuilding as well as the characters
- "It was all a dream!"
- Crossovers that go beyond wider canon (e.g. Kristin Cashore wider works for the Kristin Cashore? Sure! More American Girls in American Girls? Sure! Otherwise, no)
- Infidelity/cheating (being poly or having a fake spouse who's in on it doesn't count as this)
- Terminal illness, or pandemics/plagues
- Body shaming / weight as a joke
- Graphic and gratuitous violence (by which I mean, none of these fandoms are horror fandoms! Canon typical violence is fine.)
- Wedding fic
- Texting aus
- De-ageing
- Soulmates
Specifically sexual DNW:
- scat/watersports/bloodplay
- A/B/O
- daddy/mommy kink
- Okay and this is very specific and very petty, but please no sexy clothes ripping — especially in historical/quasi-historical canos, the amount of effort that goes into creating clothing even now... wow!
- tentacle sex
- Noncon
As a kid I saved up for years to get Samantha and Nellie and I still adore them. Now I’m grown up and queer and projecting heavily, and would adore to see stories with Samantha/Nellie being period queer. As you can tell, I think stories with them in love would be awesome, but I’d also be delighted with them being queer and just friends. If you’re not onboard the queer Samantha and Nellie train, I’m absolutely down for friendship shenanigans. Most of these prompts skew towards aged up characters, but having them at canon ages or not adults yet is also completely fine!
- Samantha is absolutely the women’s suffrage type, she always struck me as the kind of kid who grows up to be a political nightmare for her relatives. Samantha (and Nellie) vs the world!
- “Ah yes Nellie is definitely my ladies maid,” says Samantha, standing in the doorway so you can’t see that Nellie’s servants quarters are dusty because Nellie’s been sleeping in Samantha’s bed because period lesbianism cloaked in the “she’s just my servant that’s why she’s always around and living with me!” excuse. Not that you have to use that exact quote, more of a #vibe suggestion.
- Samantha using her upper class position to be a radical and sneak around to help worker/suffrage/any and all social justice movements. Nellie using being overlooked to do similar things!
- Samantha or Nellie in a violet/lavender marriage (marries a queer man to keep them both safe) and life like that.
- Period queer culture and them having other queer friends, and if you want to airlift some other American Girls into the world as their queer friends that's a-okay and I would be delighted
Specific DNW
- Samantha or Nellie dying
- Writing the characters younger than canon/precanon
- Samantha or Nellie as in love with men as main aspects of the story — background relationships are okay, but I would prefer not a wingwoman sort of story.
Seven Kingdoms Trilogy — Kristin Cashore
Oh man this book. This BOOK. The characters I nominated are Fire and Brigan because way back when I first read the book it was such a different sort of romance. Slow and unnoticed and beautifully supportive. I still think one of my absolute favourite scenes in the world is when Fire is panicking and Brigan reaches out to her and she feels his love as a physical thing. I'm also completely enamoured with the whole monster thing, of weaponized beauty and seeing past that. And telepathy! I am a huge sucker for telepathy. Silent communication! Always being able to lean on someone! Ultimate trust and loyalty! I also was always so in love with the scene in the tent where they're at war but still are able to provide comfort and strength to each other. Also also, the whole thing where the messenger comes in and the subtext of Fire as object to people on first sight but not as object to Brigan and his enforcement of her boundaries? Listen. Listen. I read this book when I was like fifteen and it's managed to hold up ever since.
- Undercover mission with secret relationship. Where? *handwaves it*. Pretending to not be in love! Psychic communication! Weaponized beauty! Good shit!
- Outsider POV of people who don't understand coming to understand, or of people who only know about them separately going "oh shit DEVOTION".
- Spy shenanigans together. "Someone's coming!" they yell and scramble out the window like highly trained dumbasses clinging to the side of the building as Fire tries not to look incredibly obvious.
Specific DNW
- Fire experiencing harassment beyond what canon shows, I'm not really interested in a fic that's all about fending off assault
- Brigan and Fire breaking up for real (pretending to break up for Secret Mission Reasons? Now that is fine!)
- Old Fire and Brigan, I'm more interested in where they're at closer to the Fire timeline than Bitterblue timeline if that makes sense
Strange Angels
I read this series WAY back when and it's still stuck in my brain a bazillion years later. Unfortunate. I really like Dru, as you can tell from the nomination!
I'm open to stories with August -- having her have this sort of uncle figure who turned out to be WAY more into the whole underground community than she thought was always such a cool thing. If you want to bring other characters in, I adore Nat SO MUCH, obviously you don't have to though!
I'd love some shenanigans, some typical Dru stumbling face-first into Problems, some post or mid-canon hunting or again, just... Things Happening. Happy writing!
DNW: major character death, unending angst/unhappy endings, “it was all a dream!”, high school/coffeeshop type completely normal modern aus, cheating, body shaming, de-ageing, texting aus, wedding fic, soulmates, terminal illness, pandemics, the r-slur, canon-typical anti-Asian racism, "kidnapped by vampires" in the whump/angst way (them escaping and having fun doing it is fine!).
Delighted with treats!
