Dear Writer: Fandom 5k 2019
Mar. 30th, 2019 07:20 pmGeneral Likes: strong loyalty, trust, friendship, characters being protective of other characters, platonic love, platonic touching, hurt/comfort with an emphasis on the comfort, found family, characters being nerds, damaging thoughts proven wrong, vulnerability, asexual characters (especially when they are still in positive romantic relationships), characters being BAMF, witty banter, whump, happy or hopeful endings, redemption arcs
Hurt Likes: Touch-starved, being strong for too long and breaking, low self-esteem, sleep deprivation,
Really bad hurt likes (please don't give me any of these without following up with comfort): human experimentation, body modification/body horror, past torture/abuse, mental health problems, misplaced trust, PTSD, past revealed without permission, self harm (only if it's realistic and not glorified)
Trope Likes: Soulmates/soulmarks, A/B/O (especially non-sexual), guide/sentinal, found family, canon-divergence, de-aging/age regression, fix-it, hurt/comfort, past revealed, secret identity revealed, character doesn't know how to be loved so other character(s) set out to fix that, character is smarter than they let people think
Note on relationship requests: As a general rule, a "/" relationship can always be written as an "&" relationship, but, unless stated otherwise in the individual prompt, an "&" can never be written as a "/".
With any of these prompts, genre is not really a big issue. I'm not huge into horror or paranormal, but anything else is free game. I'd prefer a hopeful, if not happy, ending, but, other than that, I'm not a picky reader. I love whatever, whether I laughed, melted, or bawled. Some of the prompt are longer than others, but don't take that as a sign of which ones I want more. Feel free to ignore the extra prompts I give too if you have something else you want to write. Have fun!
Fandoms: Links to previous letters at the bottom
Chronicles of Narnia
Fandom-specific DNWs: Aslan Bashing! (that's a really big one), vilification of Susan or any of the other (good) main characters, any sexual content
Fandom-specific Likes: Narnia comes to our world, redemption/forgiveness
Note on the Last Battle: I don't mind the ending. My beliefs don't quite match up, but I'm able to extend the fantasy element to include the afterlife as well. So, if you are so inclined, you could write a story including the train crash and its aftermath, either from the perspective of those in Aslan's Country or from Susan's perspective as the one left behind. HOWEVER, I know a lot of people are uncomfortable with the ending and would rather act like it didn't happen. This is fine as well. Whether you want to write a fix-it or you just want to ignore it and set your story later and leave the different ending ambiguous, anything is fine with me.
Emeth/Tirian
Susan Pevensie
MCU
Fandom-specific DNWs: vilification of any requested characters, any acknowledgment of Infinity War unless it's as a complete fix-it
Fandom-specific Likes: redemption, enemies - friends (- lovers), jotunn!Loki, brilliant!Tony, Carol Danvers starring as herself
I love all the requested characters, so feel free to go forth as you wish with them. If you want more direction, though, check out the other letters I linked at the bottom of this one.
Tony Stark
Carol Danvers
Loki & Peter Parker
Loki/Tony Stark
Loki/Bucky
Tony Stark/Bucky
Carol Danvers & Tony Stark
Carol Danvers & Talos
Star Trek: AOS
Fandom-specific DNWs: Dead Pike, focus on Into Darkness,
Fandom-specific Likes: Genius and/or underestimated Kirk is one of my all time favorites. The relationship between Kirk and/or Spock and/or McCoy is another one of my favorite things, no matter how you spin it. I'm a fan of Christopher Pike being a father figure for Kirk.
Note: I only requested platonic relationships for this fandom, but that's because I am in the mood for the found family feels right now. Feel free to include romantic relationships as long as you don't lose focus of the initial request. My favorite relationships, as stated above, are any combination of Kirk, Spock, and Bones, but I also like other combinations that include at least one of those three, any combinations of the rest of the main crew, as well as Pike in a relationship with Boyce or Number One.
James T. Kirk & Christopher Pike
James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Into the Spider-verse
Fandom-specific DNWs: sexual content, relationship that weren't already well established in the movie (you can include May/Olivia if you want to)
Fandom-specific Likes: secret identity revealed, Jefferson knowing Miles is Spider-Man without a big reveal, Miles stressing about the big reveal for nothing, Jefferson having no idea that it's Miles under the mask, Jefferson growing to like Spider-Man without knowing about Miles, Jefferson telling Spider-Man about his amazing son Miles, Jefferson finding out because Spider-Man gets hurt/captured, Miles revealing himself because Jefferson gets hurt/compromised, basically just give me some good old fashioned father/son love, seasoned with angst for taste.
Miles Morales & Jefferson Morales
Hogan's Heroes
Fandom-specific DNWs: master/slave situation, betrayal,
Fandom-specific Likes: terrible secret-keeping, feel free to go a little ooc,
Colonel Robert Hogan/Colonel Wilhelm Klink: How did they get together? Why did they stay together? How did they keep it a secret? Did they keep it a secret? How much does Klink know? What happens after the war?
Rise of the Guardians
Fandom-specific DNWs: death
Fandom-specific Likes: Jack has scars (mental or physical) from his time alone that the movie didn't show, redeemable Pitch Black, Bunnymund learns a lesson, found family, baby pookas, Jack as an eternal child (according to the guardians' magic), lots of hurt (as long as there is comfort too)
Jack Frost/Pitch Black
Jack Frost/E. Aster Bunnymund
Jack Frost & Guardians
Jack Frost
Original Works
Fandom-specific DNWs: unhappy endings, ending with dislike between requested characters
Fandom-specific Likes: happy endings, overcoming obstacles, clever solutions to difficult situations, subverting the norms
For all of these I want the story to end with a positive relationship between the requested characters. I don't care too much how you get there, as long as that's the result. You can take a more loose interpretation of my general DNWs with these as long as you get the specific DNWs and tag the others so I know what I'm getting into.
Human/Deity
Woman Who Can Create Soulbonds
Human Explorer On Alien Planet/Parasitic Lifeform Which Ate And Took The Place Of A Bodypart
Merperson/Pirate
Human/Monster
Human/Alien
Rich Male Aristocrat/Lower Class Husband Forced into Marrying Him
Male Fire God/New King Who Marries Him In What He Assumed To Be A Symbolic Ceremony
Crossovers
Fandom-specific DNWs: If I requested a fandom separately, look at my DNWs for that fandom, NO ASLAN BASHING
Fandom-specific Likes: second chances, learning to forgive yourself, learning to be loved, finding a new purpose
Peggy Carter (Agent Carter)/Susan Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)
Boromir (Lord of the Rings)/Susan Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)
James “Bucky” Barnes (MCU)/Edmund Pevensie (Narnia)
James "Bucky" Barnes (MCU)/Rilian (Narnia)
Here are some past letters and the fandoms they are helpful for. Keep in mind that different exchanges involve different requests; if there seem to be contradictions, always default back to this letter.
Hurt/Comfort Exchange: (MCU, Star Trek: AOS, Rise of the Guardians)
Crossovering 2018: (Crossover Fandom)
Narnia Fic Exchange: (Chronicles of Narnia)
AU Exchange: (Narnia, MCU, Crossovers)