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fiachairecht) wrote2018-08-12 11:10 pm
fiachairecht) wrote2018-08-12 11:10 pm
femslashex 2018
Hello friend, I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this, I am also @kimaracretak on tumblr (where I am only intermittently active but may have some thoughts on some of these canons/ships), 8tracks and playmoss (for #aesthetic takes on some of these canons/ships), and AO3, where I have a small but reflective of things I like collection of bookmarks.
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
If you are writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors, the Force as one of said horrors that would like to eat you because it loves you, Force users as literal cosmic bodies; feelings about embodiment and iconography; epistoloary fics and IF; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, and Star Wars Sith AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; porn as character work.
Things what I like, smut edition;
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of the Force and lightsabers (and of magic and weapons more generally), one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Things what I do not want;
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine unless otherwise specified); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex and associated kinks like feeding; a/b/o; tropey aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; eye- and feet-related gore; first-person pov; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16s.
Critical Role
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). I like fics that take into account mechanical D&D limitations (e.g. characters saying they need to rest before doing any more magic) but DNW characters using the actual real-world terms (e.g. characters saying they're 'out of spell slots'). I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you incorporated relevant ones for the requested characters (special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, but, yknow, go wild!).
Fandom-specific DNW: Campaign 1: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as mentions, ace!Keyleth, Sylas involved in Cassandra/Delilah sex. Campaign 2: Molly/Caleb, resurrected!Molly (he's dead it's done Clay turned him into tea I am tired).
Keyleth/Raishan: I’m obsessed with these vicious near-immortal sorceresses. There’s the potential for anything, from hatesex to philosophical arguments, to the reluctant ‘.....shit we grew old together and you’re the only one left who knows everything about me’ realisation. Polymorph/shapeshifting/wildshape sex is good. I like Keyleth domming Raishan if you're playing with D/s elements. There's so much to play with here with obsession and similarity and mirroring (either Keyleth or Raishan turning into each other during sex is um. The Best.) and honestly, feel free to go anywhere with this. I like Keyleth's anger and the amount of pleasure Raishan takes in winding her up. For this pairing, if you want to write a Raishan redemption arc, I would completely here for it. I love alternate meeting AUs, or AUs where Raishan chose to infiltrate the Air Ashari in addition to/instead of the Fire Ashari. Raishan-survives AUs are also excellent, whether she survives as herself or as a dracolich/demigod/etc. Raishan using murder to flirt with Keyleth. Raishan coming back from the dead cured of her disease but Wrong(tm) in some other way. Keyleth and Raishan take a trip to the Feywild for Reasons. Loyalty kink stemming from obsession - once every couple decades they try, genuinely, to kill each other, but somehow never quite manage to do it (because they have Feelings) (it takes them like 300 years to figure it out) (they're dumb I adore them).
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair (Allura was unconscious twice! So much of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth!), and tbh I'm mostly thinking of the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning (Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan optional but encouraged if you're so inclined). I love alternate-meeting ideas: Allura falling in with Raishan while looking for ways to raise her friends who died fighting Thordak, Raishan picking Keyleth up early in her Aramente and Allura fighting to get her protege back. Keyleth being torn between two mentors, Raishan being obsessed with Allura's hoard of knowledge and Keyleth's life. In canonverse, Raishan in search of godhood with two of the most godless characters in the show as her means of ascension, nhh, I love. Don't soften Raishan unnecessarily (a lot of these scenarios have a lot of dubcon sex potential and I'm here for that) but also don't make her Cartoonishly Evil. Dark!Keyleth and Dark!Allura (and fics where either/both of them slowly turn darker over the course of the story) are great.
Raishan/The Raven Queen: The one bit of campaign guide canon I am incredibly wedded to is the 'familiar spirit' flying back to her forest lair and oh my gods do I wanna know what happened between Raishan and the Raven Queen to make that possible. What bargain did she make, what (who?) did she promise, how was she changed? Or in a world where Raishan won, does she try to convince the Raven Queen to heal/spare her? Raishan's in such a strange place where she fights so hard against fate and yet in the fight ends up surrendering and I want to read everything about that. What exactly was Raishan's curse, and how does the Raven Queen feel about it? Dracolich!Raishan visits the Shadowfell, hatesex potentially ensues. Ascended god!Raishan tries to figure out her place in the pantheon, the Raven Queen helps (or hinders).
Keyleth/Raishan/The Raven Queen: I have Feelings(tm) about druids and fate and how Keyleth canonically ended campaign 1 as a weird semi-immortal semi-in love with the Raven Queen, and how druidic interpretations of curses and lifecycles come up against the realities of the world. I'd love something that works with the 'winter' aspect of the Raven Queen's portfolio - fate and death get a lot of attention but that much less so, and it goes wonderfully with Keyleth and her summer storms and Raishan's slow autumnal decay.
Raishan/Anna Ripley/Delilah Briarwood: I firmly believe that Raishan was headed towards having a collection of witchy ladies in canon and I fully support giving her said collection in fic. Whether they're trying to raise Vecna or save Raishan (or both!) or something completely else, there's so many fascinating dimensions of trust and magic to work with here and I want to know everything about them. Ripley dealing with Raishan instead of Orthax. Queens-of-Whitestone Anna and Delilah making friends with the dragon who lives in the forest nearby.
Delilah Briarwood/Cassandra de Rolo: Cassandra as daughter/sacrifice/future Lady is endlessly fascinating to me. How cruel did she grow under the Briarwoods? Did she even mind? I'd love to see Delilah slowly introducing Cassandra to magic, to Vecna, to death. I really love the idea that Delilah might have killed and resurrected Cassandra more than once during their years together, all the better to prepare her to be a sacrifice to an Undying King. Whitestone as a semi-sentient city torn between two masters. Alternate takes on the Grey Hunt, anything involving vampire!Cassandra, Cassandra learning to manipulate her manipulator, AU where Cassandra chooses the Briarwoods for real during the ziggurat battle, AU where Whitestone was never retaken, and Delilah and Cassandra rule together. Cass/Delilah sex (dubcon or consensual) is definitely okay as long as she's 16+ and Sylas isn't involved - I like the disconnect between Delilah seeing her as a daughter but Cass seeing her more as a mentor/queen, and can see powerplay and D/s dynamics going either way.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan: Consider: Dark Queen Cassandra regnant in Whitestone with Raishan as her trusted advisor. Or Raishan proving she can be a better mother/lady than Delilah. Cassandra allying with Raishan because it feels right to finally say yes to something like this, and Raishan understands how possessive she feels towards Whitestone. Raishan making a new lair in the forests by Whitestone and Cassandra stumbling upon her sometime post-canon.
Cassandra de Rolo/Vex'ahlia: So, one of my favourite headcanons for Cass is that the Briarwoods turned her at some point during the years they held Whitestone. Fic exploring vampire!Cass is more than welcome, but not a requirement. Other ideas: Vex training Cassandra (archery lessons turning sexy?), stories of alternate Grey Hunts (I was a little bit underwhelmed by what the hunt actually turned out to be), fey fairy tale elements (the princess and her knight, Whitestone’s fey queen and her captured ranger ... for this pairing I would actually be interested in just a straight-up fairytale!au), Vex distracting Cass from paperwork, Whitestone history and what it means for Vex to build a home there, something about the horror of Fenthras turning corpses into trees.
Vex'ahlia/Keyleth: I love them so! I love that they're sweet and messy and dark and complicated and that they challenge each other in very necessary ways. I would be happy with most things for them tbh, so here are some specifics: sex pollen (reactions can be established relationship 'this is hilarious' or mutual pining 'we wanted it but not like this' or anywhere in between), post-canon Vex settles in Zephra with Keyleth. flying lessons, Keyleth goes with Vex on the Grey Render hunt during the missing year and all the camping out together is the relationship catalyst, Raven Queen's Champion!Vex tries to reconcile her new status with her relationship with Keyleth, Keyleth makes an offering in the tomb instead of Percy, World Tree Guardian!Keyleth/Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex are WEIRD IMMORTALS IN LOVE together. I know I said no permadeath above but uh. You know Keyleth's dream where she's semi-dead and also a tree? And how Fenthras makes trees grow out of corpses? Vex + Fenthras accidentally (or, in a dark!AU, on purpose) turning Keyleth into a semi-alive corpse tree? 100/10 excellent does not fall under that DNW.
The Raven Queen/Vex: I would like any and all Raven Queen Champion Vex fics please and thank you. She was already a champion in most everything but name in canon and I'm really interested to see how she might make that explicit. Maybe she does go kill Orcus, post-canon; maybe she visits Vax in the Shadowfell and slowly learns more about who exactly his Lady is. For this especially don't worry about 'traditional' shippiness - anything about the messy knots of hate and love and service and devotion they're tied in is excellent. Feel free to OT3 them with Keyleth or Vax.
Vex/Zahra: Look, I know I'm into a lot of witchy horror in all my other requests (and, lbr, I would love witchy horror for Vex/Zahra, I mean, Vex has a broom and Zahra's lowkey married to the moon), but for these two .... I'd also love just fun cheerful adventures with them being old married hunters who adore each other. Also, I can never read too many fics using the Sunken Tomb as their getting-together point, or, in the AU where Vex and Zahra were both cheerfully single up til Vecna, that as their get-together moment as well (Kash is welcome to hang around as Zahra's grumpy little brother but I don't really ship him with Zahra.) Feel free to OT3 them with Keyleth.Beauregard/Ophelia Mardun: Honestly? Beau wants to get fucked by the hot tiefling lady and I think fandom has a responsibility to indulge her. Spanking, humiliation, riding crops, clothing kink, hair bondage (Ophelia has 'ankle length hair' Matthew Why but also. It would be a shame if that wasn't taken advantage of.), etc. Even without sex sub!Beau + terrifyingly competent!Ophelia is an excellent dynamic that I cannot get enough of (Beau is more confident than she thinks but lbr No One is on Ophelia's level). Any iteration of 'stranded and must work together' or undercover as a couple. Slightly dubcon-y sex for a favour is excellent as long as that favour isn't resurrecting Molly. I don't know where canon is going wrt Ophelia/The Gentleman, but since it's clearly an open relationship on his part if it is A Relationship I'd like it to be uncomplicatedly open for Ophelia as well.
General: I never saw s7 and have no interest in it, so I'd prefer nothing that relies too heavily on that canon. I much preferred TGW doing legal stories to political stories (the endless identical campaigns were honestly starting to bore me by the end, sorry) and if you do casefic/plotty things I'd prefer legal ones to political ones (with an exception for Maddie fic).
Fandom-specific DNW: Cary or Cary/Kalinda even as mentions, Elsbeth/Josh.
Rayna Hecht/Elsbeth Tascioni: I wish we'd seen so much more of them! Arguing a case, setting up their office together, interviewing potential private investigators, Rayna comforting Elsbeth after Alicia plays dirty in court, learning from each other, going out for drinks leads to relationship evolution, h/c fic ... really I'm not entirely sure what I want for them except MORE. Established relationship/getting together/post-canon are all equally good!
Alicia Florrick/Maddie Hayward: Maddie wins AU! What does she win? Anything. Everything. Maddie was one of the first real challenges to the Saint Alicia framework and I think she was necessary and important and ultimately done slightly dirty by the show. I would love Governor!Maddie trying to juggle the Alicia-Diane-Supreme Court situation. Complicated messy hatesex is good, both of them somewhat mourning the fact that they couldn't be friends while telling each other it's better that they're not (I still kinda think that Maddie genuinely wanted to be friends, but I also like the idea that neither of them are sure if she was genuine). How does Alicia try to fit loving (or hating!) Maddie into her 'Saint Alicia' framework? What flaws in that does Maddie see that others more invested in helping Alicia keep it up don't?
Diane Lockhart/Kalinda Sharma: My absolute everything wrt loyalty/competency kink. Kalinda had an entire notebook just for Diane Things! (I would love a whole fic that's just the contents of Kalinda's Diane Notebook, honestly). Mentorship, care, how messy things get trying to navigate the power differential of a boss/employee relationship when Kalinda is such a nontraditional employee. First meetings, remembering Will, post-canon happyish ending (I'm indifferent to Diane/Kurt, feel free to ignore it, and haven't seen The Good Fight).
Lana Delaney/Kalinda Sharma: Gods, give them the world. I've never forgiven Cary for outing Lana to her boss, and if you want to pretend that never happened I am more than fine with it. I'd love post-canon catharsis for them - maybe they try living together, maybe they find other ways to have a relationship. Something about their cat-and-mouse games from the earlier seasons would also be great - casefic, investigations, deals for information. Kalinda showing affection in ways other than speaking, things Kalinda has written about Lana in her journals. The ways in which they turn protecting each other into something beneficial rather than smothering.
Kalinda Sharma/Jenna Villette: Oh Jenna, she's another one I desperately wish we'd seen more of. She was with Kalinda during one of the worst periods of her life when Will died, and then she just? Entirely disappeared? I thought for a while that she was blackmailed/coerced into working for Damian and was expecting Kalinda to figure that out and try to get her away from him, and I'd love that AU. H/c post-Will's death, post-canon Jenna reflecting on her relationship with Kalinda.
General: I dropped out of the active fandom for this ages ago, and am definitely more of an early-seasons fan (i.e. up to Casey leaving the first time), but if you want to set it somewhere more recent in the timeline, that's cool too! I'm up for anything, from long plotty casefic to office pwp. SVU has a really particular sort of mood, a cold comfort that's not quite bleak and not quite hopeful, and I'm really interested in the ways in which the female lawyers & judges negotiate their particular vocabularies of justice and care. I've seen Conviction but didn't really like it (especially the random guy they gave Alex), so would rather you avoid it. If you want to write Alex/Casey/Liz as an OT3, feel absolutely free.
Alexandra Cabot/Casey Novak: I love the brief moments they had together and I want more, especially without witness protection hanging over Alex's head. Let her pass on advice and information and connections, let Casey have a sympathetic peer when things get too rough at work.
Alexandra Cabot/Elizabeth Donnelly: A version of Conviction where Alex's relationship is with Liz instead of that guy, AU where she never goes into witness protection, roleswap (Judge!Alex and ADA!Liz).
Elizabeth Donnelly/Casey Novak: I always want to read more about Casey leaving and coming back, the ways in which Liz supports her.
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
If you are writing shipfic, I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Things what I like;
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors, the Force as one of said horrors that would like to eat you because it loves you, Force users as literal cosmic bodies; feelings about embodiment and iconography; epistoloary fics and IF; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, and Star Wars Sith AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; porn as character work.
Things what I like, smut edition;
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of the Force and lightsabers (and of magic and weapons more generally), one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Things what I do not want;
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine unless otherwise specified); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex and associated kinks like feeding; a/b/o; tropey aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; eye- and feet-related gore; first-person pov; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16s.
Critical Role
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). I like fics that take into account mechanical D&D limitations (e.g. characters saying they need to rest before doing any more magic) but DNW characters using the actual real-world terms (e.g. characters saying they're 'out of spell slots'). I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you incorporated relevant ones for the requested characters (special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, but, yknow, go wild!).
Fandom-specific DNW: Campaign 1: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as mentions, ace!Keyleth, Sylas involved in Cassandra/Delilah sex. Campaign 2: Molly/Caleb, resurrected!Molly (he's dead it's done Clay turned him into tea I am tired).
Keyleth/Raishan: I’m obsessed with these vicious near-immortal sorceresses. There’s the potential for anything, from hatesex to philosophical arguments, to the reluctant ‘.....shit we grew old together and you’re the only one left who knows everything about me’ realisation. Polymorph/shapeshifting/wildshape sex is good. I like Keyleth domming Raishan if you're playing with D/s elements. There's so much to play with here with obsession and similarity and mirroring (either Keyleth or Raishan turning into each other during sex is um. The Best.) and honestly, feel free to go anywhere with this. I like Keyleth's anger and the amount of pleasure Raishan takes in winding her up. For this pairing, if you want to write a Raishan redemption arc, I would completely here for it. I love alternate meeting AUs, or AUs where Raishan chose to infiltrate the Air Ashari in addition to/instead of the Fire Ashari. Raishan-survives AUs are also excellent, whether she survives as herself or as a dracolich/demigod/etc. Raishan using murder to flirt with Keyleth. Raishan coming back from the dead cured of her disease but Wrong(tm) in some other way. Keyleth and Raishan take a trip to the Feywild for Reasons. Loyalty kink stemming from obsession - once every couple decades they try, genuinely, to kill each other, but somehow never quite manage to do it (because they have Feelings) (it takes them like 300 years to figure it out) (they're dumb I adore them).
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair (Allura was unconscious twice! So much of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth!), and tbh I'm mostly thinking of the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning (Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan optional but encouraged if you're so inclined). I love alternate-meeting ideas: Allura falling in with Raishan while looking for ways to raise her friends who died fighting Thordak, Raishan picking Keyleth up early in her Aramente and Allura fighting to get her protege back. Keyleth being torn between two mentors, Raishan being obsessed with Allura's hoard of knowledge and Keyleth's life. In canonverse, Raishan in search of godhood with two of the most godless characters in the show as her means of ascension, nhh, I love. Don't soften Raishan unnecessarily (a lot of these scenarios have a lot of dubcon sex potential and I'm here for that) but also don't make her Cartoonishly Evil. Dark!Keyleth and Dark!Allura (and fics where either/both of them slowly turn darker over the course of the story) are great.
Raishan/The Raven Queen: The one bit of campaign guide canon I am incredibly wedded to is the 'familiar spirit' flying back to her forest lair and oh my gods do I wanna know what happened between Raishan and the Raven Queen to make that possible. What bargain did she make, what (who?) did she promise, how was she changed? Or in a world where Raishan won, does she try to convince the Raven Queen to heal/spare her? Raishan's in such a strange place where she fights so hard against fate and yet in the fight ends up surrendering and I want to read everything about that. What exactly was Raishan's curse, and how does the Raven Queen feel about it? Dracolich!Raishan visits the Shadowfell, hatesex potentially ensues. Ascended god!Raishan tries to figure out her place in the pantheon, the Raven Queen helps (or hinders).
Keyleth/Raishan/The Raven Queen: I have Feelings(tm) about druids and fate and how Keyleth canonically ended campaign 1 as a weird semi-immortal semi-in love with the Raven Queen, and how druidic interpretations of curses and lifecycles come up against the realities of the world. I'd love something that works with the 'winter' aspect of the Raven Queen's portfolio - fate and death get a lot of attention but that much less so, and it goes wonderfully with Keyleth and her summer storms and Raishan's slow autumnal decay.
Raishan/Anna Ripley/Delilah Briarwood: I firmly believe that Raishan was headed towards having a collection of witchy ladies in canon and I fully support giving her said collection in fic. Whether they're trying to raise Vecna or save Raishan (or both!) or something completely else, there's so many fascinating dimensions of trust and magic to work with here and I want to know everything about them. Ripley dealing with Raishan instead of Orthax. Queens-of-Whitestone Anna and Delilah making friends with the dragon who lives in the forest nearby.
Delilah Briarwood/Cassandra de Rolo: Cassandra as daughter/sacrifice/future Lady is endlessly fascinating to me. How cruel did she grow under the Briarwoods? Did she even mind? I'd love to see Delilah slowly introducing Cassandra to magic, to Vecna, to death. I really love the idea that Delilah might have killed and resurrected Cassandra more than once during their years together, all the better to prepare her to be a sacrifice to an Undying King. Whitestone as a semi-sentient city torn between two masters. Alternate takes on the Grey Hunt, anything involving vampire!Cassandra, Cassandra learning to manipulate her manipulator, AU where Cassandra chooses the Briarwoods for real during the ziggurat battle, AU where Whitestone was never retaken, and Delilah and Cassandra rule together. Cass/Delilah sex (dubcon or consensual) is definitely okay as long as she's 16+ and Sylas isn't involved - I like the disconnect between Delilah seeing her as a daughter but Cass seeing her more as a mentor/queen, and can see powerplay and D/s dynamics going either way.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan: Consider: Dark Queen Cassandra regnant in Whitestone with Raishan as her trusted advisor. Or Raishan proving she can be a better mother/lady than Delilah. Cassandra allying with Raishan because it feels right to finally say yes to something like this, and Raishan understands how possessive she feels towards Whitestone. Raishan making a new lair in the forests by Whitestone and Cassandra stumbling upon her sometime post-canon.
Cassandra de Rolo/Vex'ahlia: So, one of my favourite headcanons for Cass is that the Briarwoods turned her at some point during the years they held Whitestone. Fic exploring vampire!Cass is more than welcome, but not a requirement. Other ideas: Vex training Cassandra (archery lessons turning sexy?), stories of alternate Grey Hunts (I was a little bit underwhelmed by what the hunt actually turned out to be), fey fairy tale elements (the princess and her knight, Whitestone’s fey queen and her captured ranger ... for this pairing I would actually be interested in just a straight-up fairytale!au), Vex distracting Cass from paperwork, Whitestone history and what it means for Vex to build a home there, something about the horror of Fenthras turning corpses into trees.
Vex'ahlia/Keyleth: I love them so! I love that they're sweet and messy and dark and complicated and that they challenge each other in very necessary ways. I would be happy with most things for them tbh, so here are some specifics: sex pollen (reactions can be established relationship 'this is hilarious' or mutual pining 'we wanted it but not like this' or anywhere in between), post-canon Vex settles in Zephra with Keyleth. flying lessons, Keyleth goes with Vex on the Grey Render hunt during the missing year and all the camping out together is the relationship catalyst, Raven Queen's Champion!Vex tries to reconcile her new status with her relationship with Keyleth, Keyleth makes an offering in the tomb instead of Percy, World Tree Guardian!Keyleth/Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex are WEIRD IMMORTALS IN LOVE together. I know I said no permadeath above but uh. You know Keyleth's dream where she's semi-dead and also a tree? And how Fenthras makes trees grow out of corpses? Vex + Fenthras accidentally (or, in a dark!AU, on purpose) turning Keyleth into a semi-alive corpse tree? 100/10 excellent does not fall under that DNW.
The Raven Queen/Vex: I would like any and all Raven Queen Champion Vex fics please and thank you. She was already a champion in most everything but name in canon and I'm really interested to see how she might make that explicit. Maybe she does go kill Orcus, post-canon; maybe she visits Vax in the Shadowfell and slowly learns more about who exactly his Lady is. For this especially don't worry about 'traditional' shippiness - anything about the messy knots of hate and love and service and devotion they're tied in is excellent. Feel free to OT3 them with Keyleth or Vax.
Vex/Zahra: Look, I know I'm into a lot of witchy horror in all my other requests (and, lbr, I would love witchy horror for Vex/Zahra, I mean, Vex has a broom and Zahra's lowkey married to the moon), but for these two .... I'd also love just fun cheerful adventures with them being old married hunters who adore each other. Also, I can never read too many fics using the Sunken Tomb as their getting-together point, or, in the AU where Vex and Zahra were both cheerfully single up til Vecna, that as their get-together moment as well (Kash is welcome to hang around as Zahra's grumpy little brother but I don't really ship him with Zahra.) Feel free to OT3 them with Keyleth.Beauregard/Ophelia Mardun: Honestly? Beau wants to get fucked by the hot tiefling lady and I think fandom has a responsibility to indulge her. Spanking, humiliation, riding crops, clothing kink, hair bondage (Ophelia has 'ankle length hair' Matthew Why but also. It would be a shame if that wasn't taken advantage of.), etc. Even without sex sub!Beau + terrifyingly competent!Ophelia is an excellent dynamic that I cannot get enough of (Beau is more confident than she thinks but lbr No One is on Ophelia's level). Any iteration of 'stranded and must work together' or undercover as a couple. Slightly dubcon-y sex for a favour is excellent as long as that favour isn't resurrecting Molly. I don't know where canon is going wrt Ophelia/The Gentleman, but since it's clearly an open relationship on his part if it is A Relationship I'd like it to be uncomplicatedly open for Ophelia as well.
The Good Wife
General: I never saw s7 and have no interest in it, so I'd prefer nothing that relies too heavily on that canon. I much preferred TGW doing legal stories to political stories (the endless identical campaigns were honestly starting to bore me by the end, sorry) and if you do casefic/plotty things I'd prefer legal ones to political ones (with an exception for Maddie fic).
Fandom-specific DNW: Cary or Cary/Kalinda even as mentions, Elsbeth/Josh.
Rayna Hecht/Elsbeth Tascioni: I wish we'd seen so much more of them! Arguing a case, setting up their office together, interviewing potential private investigators, Rayna comforting Elsbeth after Alicia plays dirty in court, learning from each other, going out for drinks leads to relationship evolution, h/c fic ... really I'm not entirely sure what I want for them except MORE. Established relationship/getting together/post-canon are all equally good!
Alicia Florrick/Maddie Hayward: Maddie wins AU! What does she win? Anything. Everything. Maddie was one of the first real challenges to the Saint Alicia framework and I think she was necessary and important and ultimately done slightly dirty by the show. I would love Governor!Maddie trying to juggle the Alicia-Diane-Supreme Court situation. Complicated messy hatesex is good, both of them somewhat mourning the fact that they couldn't be friends while telling each other it's better that they're not (I still kinda think that Maddie genuinely wanted to be friends, but I also like the idea that neither of them are sure if she was genuine). How does Alicia try to fit loving (or hating!) Maddie into her 'Saint Alicia' framework? What flaws in that does Maddie see that others more invested in helping Alicia keep it up don't?
Diane Lockhart/Kalinda Sharma: My absolute everything wrt loyalty/competency kink. Kalinda had an entire notebook just for Diane Things! (I would love a whole fic that's just the contents of Kalinda's Diane Notebook, honestly). Mentorship, care, how messy things get trying to navigate the power differential of a boss/employee relationship when Kalinda is such a nontraditional employee. First meetings, remembering Will, post-canon happyish ending (I'm indifferent to Diane/Kurt, feel free to ignore it, and haven't seen The Good Fight).
Lana Delaney/Kalinda Sharma: Gods, give them the world. I've never forgiven Cary for outing Lana to her boss, and if you want to pretend that never happened I am more than fine with it. I'd love post-canon catharsis for them - maybe they try living together, maybe they find other ways to have a relationship. Something about their cat-and-mouse games from the earlier seasons would also be great - casefic, investigations, deals for information. Kalinda showing affection in ways other than speaking, things Kalinda has written about Lana in her journals. The ways in which they turn protecting each other into something beneficial rather than smothering.
Kalinda Sharma/Jenna Villette: Oh Jenna, she's another one I desperately wish we'd seen more of. She was with Kalinda during one of the worst periods of her life when Will died, and then she just? Entirely disappeared? I thought for a while that she was blackmailed/coerced into working for Damian and was expecting Kalinda to figure that out and try to get her away from him, and I'd love that AU. H/c post-Will's death, post-canon Jenna reflecting on her relationship with Kalinda.
Law & Order: SVU
General: I dropped out of the active fandom for this ages ago, and am definitely more of an early-seasons fan (i.e. up to Casey leaving the first time), but if you want to set it somewhere more recent in the timeline, that's cool too! I'm up for anything, from long plotty casefic to office pwp. SVU has a really particular sort of mood, a cold comfort that's not quite bleak and not quite hopeful, and I'm really interested in the ways in which the female lawyers & judges negotiate their particular vocabularies of justice and care. I've seen Conviction but didn't really like it (especially the random guy they gave Alex), so would rather you avoid it. If you want to write Alex/Casey/Liz as an OT3, feel absolutely free.
Alexandra Cabot/Casey Novak: I love the brief moments they had together and I want more, especially without witness protection hanging over Alex's head. Let her pass on advice and information and connections, let Casey have a sympathetic peer when things get too rough at work.
Alexandra Cabot/Elizabeth Donnelly: A version of Conviction where Alex's relationship is with Liz instead of that guy, AU where she never goes into witness protection, roleswap (Judge!Alex and ADA!Liz).
Elizabeth Donnelly/Casey Novak: I always want to read more about Casey leaving and coming back, the ways in which Liz supports her.
Overwatch
General: I prefer things set post-recall, especially for Ana -- let older ladies have sex and interiority! Missionfic is just as much of a delight as something more introspective. Exploration of how their powers/weapons could be used during or to facilitate sex is great (I love Moira's interest in picking people apart) and while angst and darkfic and dubcon are all encouraged, I'd rather you don't get too clinical/medical in descriptions of Moira's experiments. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker (or both! both is also good). I'm an Ana main and a Reaper secondary and play D.Va if the team needs it, in addition to the requested characters they're the only ones whose stories I really follow so please try to keep anyone else to background roles.
Ana Amari/Moira O'Deorain: Ana's sleep darts get put to creative sex-based use. Ana tries to recruit Moira back to Overwatch. Sometime post-fall but pre-recall they have 'anonymous' sex but only one knows the other's true identity. Battle adrenaline leading to sex (whether they're on the same/opposite sides). Ana's guilt over their secret relationship juxtaposed with Moira's total lack of care. Someone (preferably Amélie but I'm not picky as long as it's another female character) catches them. Moira comes back to Overwatch (or Ana somehow ends up with Talon) and they pledge their allegiance not to the organisation but to the other woman specifically. The Moira standing next to me in a spawn room once replied to Ana's idle 'if we stick together we will achieve the objective' with 'well THAT's an interesting hypothesis' and I .... would love to see something built around that exchange.
Ana Amari/Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix: The ship that got me into Overwatch! Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it. Women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me'. I have a slight preference for post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but I will love anything you write for them!
Ana Amari/Hana "D.Va" Song: I'm not entirely sure what I want from this, tbh, but there is so much potential here in Hana's enthusiasm and gameification of war running up against Ana who knows what war does to people. All of the mentorship/loyalty/competency kinks. Anything that doesn't hit my DNWs I will love.
General: This show has a thesis of 'why be a girl when you could be an eldritch horror instead' because it loves me, it really loves me. I love the bonds and the backstabbing and the love-through-horror, I love the changeling girls and the amount of respect it gives stories of self-creation. Somnophilia, mind games, and forests that probably want to eat you/have definitely eaten you encouraged for all pairings.
Hester Appleyard/Dianne de Poitiers: The hatesex, oh my gods. But also, Dianne owes so much to Hester and never quite manages to hate her, stands between Hester and the girls because she knows how easy it is to be cruel. There's an odd undercurrent of 'why aren't you better' that they both have towards each other (and themselves) and I'd love a story that lives int the lovely-awful tangled knots they tie each other into. The two of them at the rock in an AU, Dianne's recruitment/hiring.
Hester Appleyard/Dianne de Poitiers/Miranda Reid: Hello every favourite fucked-up mentorship trope, now with bonus fey creature Miranda!
Miranda Reid/Marion Quade: H/c at school after Miranda has been punished, or weird dreamy past-the-Rock scenes.
General: I haven't seen the most recent series (and am not sure I'll have seen it by reveals time) but from what I've heard neither Phyllis nor Rhona was in it much at all so ... feel free to use/disregard that canon as you wish.
Phyllis Brennan/Rhona Kelly: Honestly? I want anything. If you want to write about their reconciliation, absolutely go for it (and feel free to break my heart in the process), but if you want to write about their life before - getting together, travels around Scotland, negotiating Rhona's move, the first time Phyllis visited, meeting Phyllis' family - I would love that as well! Casefic would also be fun, whether that's adding them to book mysteries or coming up with something else.
General: I'm familiar with Norse myths/history of the era, so feel free to blend those with the canon events. I like witchy things and old gods and would prefer that if your story deals with religion/religious themes it sticks to Norse pagan themes rather than going in-depth into Christian ones. I love the show's landscapes and encourage you to take the sea/the fjords/the ships as slightly eldritch/sentient characters if you like.
Fandom-specific DNW: Requested characters converting to Christianity.
Lagertha/Siggy: They were so strong for and with each other, loyal in defiance of expectations, and they were so lovelyI'm a simple gremlin who is trash for queen-and-shieldmaiden tropes and gods could these two have delivered so perfectly if the show went slightly sideways, so I will eagerly read anything about Jarl Siggy and her beloved warrior. The two of them coming together in grief post-s1, of the possible consequences of one daughter surviving while the other doesn't. Lagertha trains Siggy to fight, or Siggy dresses Lagertha for an event. AU where Siggy rides with Lagertha at the beginning of s2. OT3ing them with Aslaug is 100% fine.
Ana Amari/Moira O'Deorain: Ana's sleep darts get put to creative sex-based use. Ana tries to recruit Moira back to Overwatch. Sometime post-fall but pre-recall they have 'anonymous' sex but only one knows the other's true identity. Battle adrenaline leading to sex (whether they're on the same/opposite sides). Ana's guilt over their secret relationship juxtaposed with Moira's total lack of care. Someone (preferably Amélie but I'm not picky as long as it's another female character) catches them. Moira comes back to Overwatch (or Ana somehow ends up with Talon) and they pledge their allegiance not to the organisation but to the other woman specifically. The Moira standing next to me in a spawn room once replied to Ana's idle 'if we stick together we will achieve the objective' with 'well THAT's an interesting hypothesis' and I .... would love to see something built around that exchange.
Ana Amari/Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix: The ship that got me into Overwatch! Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it. Women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me'. I have a slight preference for post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but I will love anything you write for them!
Ana Amari/Hana "D.Va" Song: I'm not entirely sure what I want from this, tbh, but there is so much potential here in Hana's enthusiasm and gameification of war running up against Ana who knows what war does to people. All of the mentorship/loyalty/competency kinks. Anything that doesn't hit my DNWs I will love.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV 2018)
General: This show has a thesis of 'why be a girl when you could be an eldritch horror instead' because it loves me, it really loves me. I love the bonds and the backstabbing and the love-through-horror, I love the changeling girls and the amount of respect it gives stories of self-creation. Somnophilia, mind games, and forests that probably want to eat you/have definitely eaten you encouraged for all pairings.
Hester Appleyard/Dianne de Poitiers: The hatesex, oh my gods. But also, Dianne owes so much to Hester and never quite manages to hate her, stands between Hester and the girls because she knows how easy it is to be cruel. There's an odd undercurrent of 'why aren't you better' that they both have towards each other (and themselves) and I'd love a story that lives int the lovely-awful tangled knots they tie each other into. The two of them at the rock in an AU, Dianne's recruitment/hiring.
Hester Appleyard/Dianne de Poitiers/Miranda Reid: Hello every favourite fucked-up mentorship trope, now with bonus fey creature Miranda!
Miranda Reid/Marion Quade: H/c at school after Miranda has been punished, or weird dreamy past-the-Rock scenes.
Shetland
General: I haven't seen the most recent series (and am not sure I'll have seen it by reveals time) but from what I've heard neither Phyllis nor Rhona was in it much at all so ... feel free to use/disregard that canon as you wish.
Phyllis Brennan/Rhona Kelly: Honestly? I want anything. If you want to write about their reconciliation, absolutely go for it (and feel free to break my heart in the process), but if you want to write about their life before - getting together, travels around Scotland, negotiating Rhona's move, the first time Phyllis visited, meeting Phyllis' family - I would love that as well! Casefic would also be fun, whether that's adding them to book mysteries or coming up with something else.
Vikings
General: I'm familiar with Norse myths/history of the era, so feel free to blend those with the canon events. I like witchy things and old gods and would prefer that if your story deals with religion/religious themes it sticks to Norse pagan themes rather than going in-depth into Christian ones. I love the show's landscapes and encourage you to take the sea/the fjords/the ships as slightly eldritch/sentient characters if you like.
Fandom-specific DNW: Requested characters converting to Christianity.
Lagertha/Siggy: They were so strong for and with each other, loyal in defiance of expectations, and they were so lovelyI'm a simple gremlin who is trash for queen-and-shieldmaiden tropes and gods could these two have delivered so perfectly if the show went slightly sideways, so I will eagerly read anything about Jarl Siggy and her beloved warrior. The two of them coming together in grief post-s1, of the possible consequences of one daughter surviving while the other doesn't. Lagertha trains Siggy to fight, or Siggy dresses Lagertha for an event. AU where Siggy rides with Lagertha at the beginning of s2. OT3ing them with Aslaug is 100% fine.