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fiachairecht) wrote2018-10-26 08:41 am
fiachairecht) wrote2018-10-26 08:41 am
holly poly 2018 - wip
Letter will be finished by end of day Tuesday 30 October Wednesday 31 October, I don't have an excuse for this, though if you go through the tags I've written about most before. Sorry for the wait.
Hello friend, it is time for threesomes both soft and spooky (sometimes both at once!) and 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. Unless specifically noted below, I don't tend to have V-shaped vs triad preferences for these ships, so whatever configuration you like is great even if I didn't prompt it specifically. 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 houses 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; feelings about embodiment and iconography; epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, 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; 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.
General: I am here for the vampires and the witches and the weird fey horror stuff, mostly! Drusilla was an early formative favourite of mine and I am here for anything where she gets to have a good time. Darkfic - including Wishverse - encouraged. Drusilla/Spike can be included as an also-extant ship alongside the requested Dru threesomes, but I'd rather he not play a huge role in those relationships. Character-turned-into-a-vampire fic does not fall under my character death DNW.
Fandom-specific DNW: Xander (including Wishverse Xander) or any ships involving him, Giles/Jenny.
Drusilla/Faith/Tara: I like fics where Tara's concern about her demon-blood end up being founded and Something Happens - I'm super not picky on specifics, but I can see her going to Faith or Drusilla looking for help (or Dru 'gifting' her with her own version of help). Established Faith/Tara that takes a turn for angst after Faith gets captured/turned/seduced by Drusilla? Faith and Tara in LA running into Drusilla there?
Drusilla/Willow/Faith: I love the idea of Faith working for Drusilla instead of the Mayor, trying to convince Willow to join her. The collision of the friendship-politicking around Buffy, combined with Dru's desire for little dolls - so good. Willow trying to turn Drusilla, getting in way over her head, and Faith trying to rescue her (perhaps only to find that she doesn't want rescuing at all?
Drusilla/Willow/Wishverse Willow: I'm super curious how prime!Willow would react to Wishverse!Willow if Dru had captured/turned her earlier (vampire Willow is excellent, two vampire Willows is even better :3). What if Wishverse!Willow stayed in our universe, or survived longer after returning to hers, or if she took Willow and Dru with her? Wishverse was an interesting spin on a villains-win 'verse - would Drusilla have been happy with it? Vampiric power struggles and lots of adoring obsession, basically.
Allura Vysoren/Cassandra de Rolo/Kima: Older marrieds bringing a third younger partner in to teach/comfort her is my very favourite trope, but don't be afraid to go darker - vampire!Cass Queen of Whitestone who wants to turn + control the two other most powerful people in the city is also amazing.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan/Delilah Briarwood: 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 Raishan, to death. Delilah and Cassandra as co-queens and their loyal dragon living in the Alabaster Sierras. Delilah sending Cassandra on a hunt to kill Raishan, and Cass betraying Delilah to team up with Raishan. A Briarwoods-come-later AU where Delilah has to deal with both Queen Cassandra and her secretly-a-dragon advisor. Delilah deciding it was more important to keep Cassandra than to please Vecna, and joining the fight against Thordak. Raishan bringing Cassandra Delilah as a present to prove her loyalty. Just ... all the glorious fucked-up politics and queens and dragons and gods, yknow? Feel free to OT4 them with Vex.
Delilah Briarwood/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: God-aspiring Raishan + god-serving Delilah + god-doubting Allura is My Everything. AU where Allura's party sealed Raishan rather than Thordak, and it's her Delilah's trying to free. Captured Allura + Delilah's clone being forced to help Raishan ascend to godhood. Delilah and Allura watching their demigod lover battle Vecna. Tell me stories about witches, is my main ask for them - Allura can be dark or not, involved with Kima or not, as makes sense for your story.
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. I love Changeling: The Lost AUs always, and am super interested in the AU where Raishan was Keyleth's Keeper and Allura is trying to rescue her.
Keyleth/Raishan/Anna Ripley: I love Keyleth-meets-Raishan-first AUs and Keyleth-and-Ripley-in-the-Shadowfell-after-the-Whitestone-arc AUs, so anything in either of those would be great! Keyleth's impulsiveness and Ripley's pragmatism make for a brilliant contrast, and combined with Raishan's vanity I just ... I love.
Keyleth/Vex'ahlia/Delilah Briarwood: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death it's me. I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Keyleth and Vex find her and punish her. Or maybe Delilah captures one of them and learns how far the other will go to keep her safe. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces Keyleth and Vex to help her. Marquesian adventures - what if they found her while looking for the cloak? Dark AU where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant and Keyleth tries to rescue her.
Keyleth/Vax'ildan/Allura Vysoren: Vax 'useless devotional sub' ildan on his knees for two of the most powerful women in his life, yes please, though I am also up for a Vax/Keyleth + Keyleth/Allura V-shape. I especially like Allura teaching Keyleth how to properly dom Vax (magic restraints a huge plus) but non-smutty adventures/early bonding, or established Keyleth/Allura + Allura encouraging her to explore what a Thing with Vax would be is also excellent.
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.
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! Any of the prompts in the Goblin Market section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.
Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura: I'm totally happy to get a V-shaped OT3 or a triad, whichever you feel is best for your story. I am weak for Jeanie-come-back-wrong fic: vampire, ghost, goblin-girl, whatever - I love the idea that the grass doesn't grow on her grave because she's not there to help it grow. I am also intrigued by the kill-you-to-love-you elements of the poem - perhaps the sisters killed Jeanie together for some reason? That thing in the Silmarillion where Luthien steals Thuringwethil's skin and wears it as a cape? That for any of the girls (...this poem is one of my gore requests). Body horror - one or two or three of them slowly turning into goblin-fruit trees. Jeanie coming back as the owner of a goblin-fruit stall. The three of them in a Sith AU ft Force ghosts? The three of them as sentient evil spaceships in love. Something that plays with the strength of obsession and the horror of knowledge. Letters the sisters write to dead!Jeanie, and the ghost!Jeanie that ends up literally rising from the pages.
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. Changeling: The Lost, vampire, and Sith Academy AUs gleefully accepted here, and any of the prompts in the PaHR section of my darkest night letter can be used here as well.
Hester/Dianne/Miranda: Fucked-up mentorship tropes with bonus fey creature Miranda, what could go wrong? Nothing, is the answer, nothing could go wrong. I'd like something that plays with her wildness, the ways in which she's sometimes not-quite-there but at the same time is everywhere in people's thoughts (ghost!Miranda?).
Hester/Dianne/Greta: Okay mostly I see this as Hester somehow working her way into an established Dianne/Greta but like ... anything. I will take anything. Hester watching the other two have sex, Dianne as Hester's slightly-more-loyal right hand convincing Greta she belongs with them and nowhere else as the school falls apart, banshee!Greta and vampire!Hester and Dianne torn between them ... like I said. Love-through-horror.
Hester/Dianne/Irma: Two words: interrogation scenes. The different ways in which Hester and Dianne go about trying to get information out of Irma, the idea that they were all in some way rejected by the Rock (Irma who was given back, Dianne who never felt a call, and Hester who was left for dead) even as they were the three seemingly the most privileged, the most society-central (with the implication that that's why they're outcasts as far as the Rock is concerned) and how they all try to cope with that - nnhh, all the angst please, and the world's most useless comfort!sex. The way Dianne initially tries to stand between Irma and Hester to protect Irma, and slowly gets convinced to cede more and more ground as Irma shuts her out was one of my favourite things to watch all show, and I'd love something that digs into the heart of that dynamic.
Hester/Greta/Marion: Hester knew about Greta's sexuality when she hired her and even approved of Greta and Marion in her own odd, I-still-need-to-control-this way, and I'd love something that digs more deeply into her feelings on that relationship. I especially like the idea of Greta as the centre of a V-shaped threesome, maintaining two utterly inappropriate relationships but unwilling to deny her desires - and encouraged to maintain them by her partners, who are aware of the dangers but less caring? How would Marion and Hester interact as Greta's girlfriends rather than/in addition to as headmaster-and-student?
Tolkien's Legendarium
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. I am mostly after weird fy stuff here, but don't feel that your fic has to be all doom and gloom - moments of levity, happy trios dealing with supernatural things (happy trios murdering other things :D) are also excellent!
Stargate
General: I didn't really enjoy seasons 4 & 5 of Atlantis, with the exception of Keller's presence and a couple bits of wraith lore, so would prefer nothing that relies too much on that part of canon. Fey things and sentient cities are love, human exceptionalism and campy things are boring to me, old gods and half-gods and the promises and compromises made to survive in the Pegasus galaxy delight me. Canon-divergence AUs, especially Wraith Queen Teyla/Asuran Queen Elizabeth/Independent-from-Earth Atlantis, are love (all three in one fic or just one). Sentient Atlantis, whether as a worldbuilding detail or as a major plot point, will always make me happy.
Elizabeth/Teyla/Kate: I am largely interested in ways to save Kate, tbh - the city, a nanite-ified Elizabeth, Teyla, the Wraith, or something else entirely. I love moments of quiet bonding, conversations that are not Really about feelings but are also Definitely about feelings. There are spooky things under the ocean and I would like to see the women encounter them! Anything that involves vampires, because SPACE VAMPIRES improve all things (maybe the Wraith civil war is about blood Wraith vs life-force Wraith? What would the Masquerade look like on Atlantis, especially if the leader and the psychologist were both Kindred?).
Star Wars
General: Any of the AUs from this year's AUEx letter are fair game, including the setting-change ones. I've read Bloodline, Phasma, and Leia: Princess of Alderaan, seen Rebels and some of TCW, and play SWTOR & KOTOR2, but that's about as far as my canon or legends EU knowledge goes. Use/ignore elements of them as you wish, and if you borrow from elsewhere let me know so I know what to read next :D Force-sensitive Amilyn per Laura Dern's interview would be amazing, but also just the vaguely-witchy like in PoA is fine too. AUs where one or both of the twins were raised by Rebellion founder Padmé or Dark Empress/Sith Lord Padmé, or one or both of the twins are Sith/Jedi, are always gleefully accepted. I ship Rey/Kylo and Finn/Rose and am happy to see them as background relationships in compatible requests. Always-a-girl!Kylo is great in any fic where Kylo's plot-relevant. I'm thoroughly indifferent to Han/Leia so feel free to presume it never happened/open marriage/amicable divorce/Han's death as is convenient.
Fandom-specific DNW: Poe, Kylo-bashing, references to/acknowledgment of Amilyn's death (set fic with her pre-TLJ or have her survive the events of the movie in as much or as little detail as you like).
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Rey: This is my Dream ot3, honestly. I'm equally into eldritch Force-creatures Leia and Rey and Amilyn (or just vaguely-witchy Amilyn) and softer comfort fic. Let Rey finally get the love and attention she deserves from Leia and Amilyn. Maybe Rey saves Amilyn from the Supremacy and the three of them get a post-Crait reunion. Lightsaber practice is a good trope, especially since, knowing that Laura Dern had to go pew pew every time she shot a blaster, I now have to believe that Amilyn makes lightsaber noises whenever she and Leia and Rey practice. Force-sensitive Amilyn means all three of them have so much to discover together, but in a more general sense I am so here for anything and everything that leans into the mentorship aspect of their relationships with each other. Inappropriate uses of the Force/lightsabers highly encouraged in shipfic! If you want to go AU, Jedi/Sith!AUs are always interesting - Leia or Amilyn (or both!) take Rey as their padawan, Amilyn and Rey try to bring Sith!Leia back to the light side, etc - as are Nightsister!Rey ones. Missionfic/worldbuilding - maybe they're exploring an old base, or an abandoned wreck and finding cool spooky shit. Trapped together and working to survive. Rey initially feeling awkward for intruding on a pre-existing relationship but ultimately being reassured she has a place (I actually don't have a preference between established relationship vs get-together fic for them).
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Larma D'Acy: I really love this as Leia and her two most trusted lovers/confidants, especially considering that in canon she handpicked D'Acy and then D'Acy followed Amilyn without question, and I'd like that dynamic to be preserved in whatever you write. D'Acy's recruitment to the Resistance (possibly it was an Amilyn-and-Leia joint effort?), how she worked with Leia and Amilyn in the beginning, political arguments, missions they went on. Or something post-TLJ where they all help each other heal.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Paige Tico: I would love a TLJ rewrite where Poe doesn't disobey orders, Paige doesn't have to die, Kylo is a bit faster freezing the shots headed for the bridge, and an Actual Plan without the fucked-up timeline is made. Things pre- or post-movie are equally great, though for this ship I'd like all three of them to be alive, no Force ghosts. Dynamics-wise, if you go shippy I tend to think of this as Paige being welcomed into established Amilyn/Leia, but feel free to explore any other dynamic that you'd like! I also think this in particular is a fun pairing to explore outsider POVs with.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Carise Sindian: Carise makes everything gloriously fucked up and I want alll the politics tbh. Maybe she tries to get to Leia by seducing Amilyn? Something, anything, with pretending to be a couple/undercover shenanigans. Costume parties, masquerades, FORCE-CHOKING, two of them conspiring to wreck the other. Sex in the Senate buildings (one interrupting the other two, or all three together). Sith AU where Leia and Amilyn are part of Carise's new First Order. Roleswap AU where Carise is the Rebel senator and Leia is the Sith empress-in-waiting and Amilyn is ... on either side, actually.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Mon Mothma: I'm kinda blanking on anything specific I want beyond mentorship feelings, honestly. I like the fucked-up angst of Mon seeing so much of Padmé in Leia, and the struggling of building the New Republic.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Jyn Erso: This is my favourite 'complete opposites cannot help be drawn to each other' but with three ladies instead of two, so I really just want to read anything about them. First meetings, missionfic, character studies, Amilyn dyeing her lovers' hair, Imperial!Jyn running into the Resistance and having an 'oh no they're hot' moment. Feel free to make Jyn also an Imperial if that works with the Sith!Leia AUs! Maybe they're co-queens of dark!Alderaan and Amilyn's the Gatalentan ambassador that they slowly turn. Or in the Amilyn-survives-TLJ AU, she and Leia go to meet up with a Jyn who survived Rogue One and has a place where the rest of the Resistance can shelter. New Republic spymaster Jyn gets recruited to the Resistance. AU where Luke turns dark, and Jyn and Amilyn help her bring him back. The three of them finding each other in a Changeling: The Lost motley. Something about the wound in the Force where Alderaan used to be, or creepy lakes on Gatalenta. I love everything about anger-as-love and the ways in which they could wind up supporting each other, but I also love their hard journey to that point.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Hera Syndulla: I have been thinking a lot about Amilyn and Hera's twin jumps to hyperspace in front of Very Big Enemy Ships/Stations and decided that I would really love them to both be Leia's Rebellion (or Resistance-era!) pilot girlfriends who are also each other's girlfriends. Rescue missions and spooky things always welcome, but that's about it for specific prompts, though, I'd be happy to read anything else about them that doesn't hit my DNWs!
Hello friend, it is time for threesomes both soft and spooky (sometimes both at once!) and 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. Unless specifically noted below, I don't tend to have V-shaped vs triad preferences for these ships, so whatever configuration you like is great even if I didn't prompt it specifically. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Things what I like;
Things what I like, smut edition;
Things what I do not want;
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
General: I am here for the vampires and the witches and the weird fey horror stuff, mostly! Drusilla was an early formative favourite of mine and I am here for anything where she gets to have a good time. Darkfic - including Wishverse - encouraged. Drusilla/Spike can be included as an also-extant ship alongside the requested Dru threesomes, but I'd rather he not play a huge role in those relationships. Character-turned-into-a-vampire fic does not fall under my character death DNW.
Fandom-specific DNW: Xander (including Wishverse Xander) or any ships involving him, Giles/Jenny.
Drusilla/Faith/Tara: I like fics where Tara's concern about her demon-blood end up being founded and Something Happens - I'm super not picky on specifics, but I can see her going to Faith or Drusilla looking for help (or Dru 'gifting' her with her own version of help). Established Faith/Tara that takes a turn for angst after Faith gets captured/turned/seduced by Drusilla? Faith and Tara in LA running into Drusilla there?
Drusilla/Willow/Faith: I love the idea of Faith working for Drusilla instead of the Mayor, trying to convince Willow to join her. The collision of the friendship-politicking around Buffy, combined with Dru's desire for little dolls - so good. Willow trying to turn Drusilla, getting in way over her head, and Faith trying to rescue her (perhaps only to find that she doesn't want rescuing at all?
Drusilla/Willow/Wishverse Willow: I'm super curious how prime!Willow would react to Wishverse!Willow if Dru had captured/turned her earlier (vampire Willow is excellent, two vampire Willows is even better :3). What if Wishverse!Willow stayed in our universe, or survived longer after returning to hers, or if she took Willow and Dru with her? Wishverse was an interesting spin on a villains-win 'verse - would Drusilla have been happy with it? Vampiric power struggles and lots of adoring obsession, basically.
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, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!). Vampire!Cassandra is a welcome AU for any of these ships. Allura Vysoren/Cassandra de Rolo/Kima: Older marrieds bringing a third younger partner in to teach/comfort her is my very favourite trope, but don't be afraid to go darker - vampire!Cass Queen of Whitestone who wants to turn + control the two other most powerful people in the city is also amazing.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan/Delilah Briarwood: 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 Raishan, to death. Delilah and Cassandra as co-queens and their loyal dragon living in the Alabaster Sierras. Delilah sending Cassandra on a hunt to kill Raishan, and Cass betraying Delilah to team up with Raishan. A Briarwoods-come-later AU where Delilah has to deal with both Queen Cassandra and her secretly-a-dragon advisor. Delilah deciding it was more important to keep Cassandra than to please Vecna, and joining the fight against Thordak. Raishan bringing Cassandra Delilah as a present to prove her loyalty. Just ... all the glorious fucked-up politics and queens and dragons and gods, yknow? Feel free to OT4 them with Vex.
Delilah Briarwood/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: God-aspiring Raishan + god-serving Delilah + god-doubting Allura is My Everything. AU where Allura's party sealed Raishan rather than Thordak, and it's her Delilah's trying to free. Captured Allura + Delilah's clone being forced to help Raishan ascend to godhood. Delilah and Allura watching their demigod lover battle Vecna. Tell me stories about witches, is my main ask for them - Allura can be dark or not, involved with Kima or not, as makes sense for your story.
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. I love Changeling: The Lost AUs always, and am super interested in the AU where Raishan was Keyleth's Keeper and Allura is trying to rescue her.
Keyleth/Raishan/Anna Ripley: I love Keyleth-meets-Raishan-first AUs and Keyleth-and-Ripley-in-the-Shadowfell-after-the-Whitestone-arc AUs, so anything in either of those would be great! Keyleth's impulsiveness and Ripley's pragmatism make for a brilliant contrast, and combined with Raishan's vanity I just ... I love.
Keyleth/Vex'ahlia/Delilah Briarwood: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death it's me. I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Keyleth and Vex find her and punish her. Or maybe Delilah captures one of them and learns how far the other will go to keep her safe. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces Keyleth and Vex to help her. Marquesian adventures - what if they found her while looking for the cloak? Dark AU where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant and Keyleth tries to rescue her.
Keyleth/Vax'ildan/Allura Vysoren: Vax 'useless devotional sub' ildan on his knees for two of the most powerful women in his life, yes please, though I am also up for a Vax/Keyleth + Keyleth/Allura V-shape. I especially like Allura teaching Keyleth how to properly dom Vax (magic restraints a huge plus) but non-smutty adventures/early bonding, or established Keyleth/Allura + Allura encouraging her to explore what a Thing with Vax would be is also excellent.
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.
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
General: The poem is relatively short and here for easy reference, or if you are feeling unenthused about the request of mine you initially matched on and want to do something different. I love the way the poem plays with obsession and adoration and change and how people are dragged into and out of the weird spaces between life and death. I am also 100% here for an IN SPACE AU for this poem, so if you too would like a goblin market IN SPACE feel free to run with that! Any of the prompts in the Goblin Market section of my Darkest Night letter this year are fair game, including the setting-change AU ones. I am fine with permadeath of any of the requested characters here.
Jeanie/Lizzie/Laura: I'm totally happy to get a V-shaped OT3 or a triad, whichever you feel is best for your story. I am weak for Jeanie-come-back-wrong fic: vampire, ghost, goblin-girl, whatever - I love the idea that the grass doesn't grow on her grave because she's not there to help it grow. I am also intrigued by the kill-you-to-love-you elements of the poem - perhaps the sisters killed Jeanie together for some reason? That thing in the Silmarillion where Luthien steals Thuringwethil's skin and wears it as a cape? That for any of the girls (...this poem is one of my gore requests). Body horror - one or two or three of them slowly turning into goblin-fruit trees. Jeanie coming back as the owner of a goblin-fruit stall. The three of them in a Sith AU ft Force ghosts? The three of them as sentient evil spaceships in love. Something that plays with the strength of obsession and the horror of knowledge. Letters the sisters write to dead!Jeanie, and the ghost!Jeanie that ends up literally rising from the pages.
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. Changeling: The Lost, vampire, and Sith Academy AUs gleefully accepted here, and any of the prompts in the PaHR section of my darkest night letter can be used here as well.
Hester/Dianne/Miranda: Fucked-up mentorship tropes with bonus fey creature Miranda, what could go wrong? Nothing, is the answer, nothing could go wrong. I'd like something that plays with her wildness, the ways in which she's sometimes not-quite-there but at the same time is everywhere in people's thoughts (ghost!Miranda?).
Hester/Dianne/Greta: Okay mostly I see this as Hester somehow working her way into an established Dianne/Greta but like ... anything. I will take anything. Hester watching the other two have sex, Dianne as Hester's slightly-more-loyal right hand convincing Greta she belongs with them and nowhere else as the school falls apart, banshee!Greta and vampire!Hester and Dianne torn between them ... like I said. Love-through-horror.
Hester/Dianne/Irma: Two words: interrogation scenes. The different ways in which Hester and Dianne go about trying to get information out of Irma, the idea that they were all in some way rejected by the Rock (Irma who was given back, Dianne who never felt a call, and Hester who was left for dead) even as they were the three seemingly the most privileged, the most society-central (with the implication that that's why they're outcasts as far as the Rock is concerned) and how they all try to cope with that - nnhh, all the angst please, and the world's most useless comfort!sex. The way Dianne initially tries to stand between Irma and Hester to protect Irma, and slowly gets convinced to cede more and more ground as Irma shuts her out was one of my favourite things to watch all show, and I'd love something that digs into the heart of that dynamic.
Hester/Greta/Marion: Hester knew about Greta's sexuality when she hired her and even approved of Greta and Marion in her own odd, I-still-need-to-control-this way, and I'd love something that digs more deeply into her feelings on that relationship. I especially like the idea of Greta as the centre of a V-shaped threesome, maintaining two utterly inappropriate relationships but unwilling to deny her desires - and encouraged to maintain them by her partners, who are aware of the dangers but less caring? How would Marion and Hester interact as Greta's girlfriends rather than/in addition to as headmaster-and-student?
Tolkien's Legendarium
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. I am mostly after weird fy stuff here, but don't feel that your fic has to be all doom and gloom - moments of levity, happy trios dealing with supernatural things (happy trios murdering other things :D) are also excellent!
Stargate
Elizabeth/Teyla/Kate: I am largely interested in ways to save Kate, tbh - the city, a nanite-ified Elizabeth, Teyla, the Wraith, or something else entirely. I love moments of quiet bonding, conversations that are not Really about feelings but are also Definitely about feelings. There are spooky things under the ocean and I would like to see the women encounter them! Anything that involves vampires, because SPACE VAMPIRES improve all things (maybe the Wraith civil war is about blood Wraith vs life-force Wraith? What would the Masquerade look like on Atlantis, especially if the leader and the psychologist were both Kindred?).
Star Wars
General: Any of the AUs from this year's AUEx letter are fair game, including the setting-change ones. I've read Bloodline, Phasma, and Leia: Princess of Alderaan, seen Rebels and some of TCW, and play SWTOR & KOTOR2, but that's about as far as my canon or legends EU knowledge goes. Use/ignore elements of them as you wish, and if you borrow from elsewhere let me know so I know what to read next :D Force-sensitive Amilyn per Laura Dern's interview would be amazing, but also just the vaguely-witchy like in PoA is fine too. AUs where one or both of the twins were raised by Rebellion founder Padmé or Dark Empress/Sith Lord Padmé, or one or both of the twins are Sith/Jedi, are always gleefully accepted. I ship Rey/Kylo and Finn/Rose and am happy to see them as background relationships in compatible requests. Always-a-girl!Kylo is great in any fic where Kylo's plot-relevant. I'm thoroughly indifferent to Han/Leia so feel free to presume it never happened/open marriage/amicable divorce/Han's death as is convenient.
Fandom-specific DNW: Poe, Kylo-bashing, references to/acknowledgment of Amilyn's death (set fic with her pre-TLJ or have her survive the events of the movie in as much or as little detail as you like).
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Rey: This is my Dream ot3, honestly. I'm equally into eldritch Force-creatures Leia and Rey and Amilyn (or just vaguely-witchy Amilyn) and softer comfort fic. Let Rey finally get the love and attention she deserves from Leia and Amilyn. Maybe Rey saves Amilyn from the Supremacy and the three of them get a post-Crait reunion. Lightsaber practice is a good trope, especially since, knowing that Laura Dern had to go pew pew every time she shot a blaster, I now have to believe that Amilyn makes lightsaber noises whenever she and Leia and Rey practice. Force-sensitive Amilyn means all three of them have so much to discover together, but in a more general sense I am so here for anything and everything that leans into the mentorship aspect of their relationships with each other. Inappropriate uses of the Force/lightsabers highly encouraged in shipfic! If you want to go AU, Jedi/Sith!AUs are always interesting - Leia or Amilyn (or both!) take Rey as their padawan, Amilyn and Rey try to bring Sith!Leia back to the light side, etc - as are Nightsister!Rey ones. Missionfic/worldbuilding - maybe they're exploring an old base, or an abandoned wreck and finding cool spooky shit. Trapped together and working to survive. Rey initially feeling awkward for intruding on a pre-existing relationship but ultimately being reassured she has a place (I actually don't have a preference between established relationship vs get-together fic for them).
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Larma D'Acy: I really love this as Leia and her two most trusted lovers/confidants, especially considering that in canon she handpicked D'Acy and then D'Acy followed Amilyn without question, and I'd like that dynamic to be preserved in whatever you write. D'Acy's recruitment to the Resistance (possibly it was an Amilyn-and-Leia joint effort?), how she worked with Leia and Amilyn in the beginning, political arguments, missions they went on. Or something post-TLJ where they all help each other heal.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Paige Tico: I would love a TLJ rewrite where Poe doesn't disobey orders, Paige doesn't have to die, Kylo is a bit faster freezing the shots headed for the bridge, and an Actual Plan without the fucked-up timeline is made. Things pre- or post-movie are equally great, though for this ship I'd like all three of them to be alive, no Force ghosts. Dynamics-wise, if you go shippy I tend to think of this as Paige being welcomed into established Amilyn/Leia, but feel free to explore any other dynamic that you'd like! I also think this in particular is a fun pairing to explore outsider POVs with.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Carise Sindian: Carise makes everything gloriously fucked up and I want alll the politics tbh. Maybe she tries to get to Leia by seducing Amilyn? Something, anything, with pretending to be a couple/undercover shenanigans. Costume parties, masquerades, FORCE-CHOKING, two of them conspiring to wreck the other. Sex in the Senate buildings (one interrupting the other two, or all three together). Sith AU where Leia and Amilyn are part of Carise's new First Order. Roleswap AU where Carise is the Rebel senator and Leia is the Sith empress-in-waiting and Amilyn is ... on either side, actually.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Mon Mothma: I'm kinda blanking on anything specific I want beyond mentorship feelings, honestly. I like the fucked-up angst of Mon seeing so much of Padmé in Leia, and the struggling of building the New Republic.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Jyn Erso: This is my favourite 'complete opposites cannot help be drawn to each other' but with three ladies instead of two, so I really just want to read anything about them. First meetings, missionfic, character studies, Amilyn dyeing her lovers' hair, Imperial!Jyn running into the Resistance and having an 'oh no they're hot' moment. Feel free to make Jyn also an Imperial if that works with the Sith!Leia AUs! Maybe they're co-queens of dark!Alderaan and Amilyn's the Gatalentan ambassador that they slowly turn. Or in the Amilyn-survives-TLJ AU, she and Leia go to meet up with a Jyn who survived Rogue One and has a place where the rest of the Resistance can shelter. New Republic spymaster Jyn gets recruited to the Resistance. AU where Luke turns dark, and Jyn and Amilyn help her bring him back. The three of them finding each other in a Changeling: The Lost motley. Something about the wound in the Force where Alderaan used to be, or creepy lakes on Gatalenta. I love everything about anger-as-love and the ways in which they could wind up supporting each other, but I also love their hard journey to that point.
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa/Hera Syndulla: I have been thinking a lot about Amilyn and Hera's twin jumps to hyperspace in front of Very Big Enemy Ships/Stations and decided that I would really love them to both be Leia's Rebellion (or Resistance-era!) pilot girlfriends who are also each other's girlfriends. Rescue missions and spooky things always welcome, but that's about it for specific prompts, though, I'd be happy to read anything else about them that doesn't hit my DNWs!