281. DEAR yuletide WRITER.

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Dear yuletide creator,

I'm buries and finnicks.

This is my second year of Yuletide. This letter will give you tl;dr level of detail regarding my likes, dislikes, and prompts. I've included prompts to help you have an idea of what I like, but please take what you like from this and don't feel like you have to take my prompts at face value. As long as it doesn't hit a DNW, I'm going to enjoy it!

If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them via the mods. I welcome treats and am open to receiving art, drabbles and smut (and Crueltide for selected fandoms). (I have likes/dislikes in my letter for these.)

Thank you for creating for me! ♥

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL NOTES

LIKES
Fic likes • Drabble likes • Smut likes • Dark likes • Dubcon/Noncon likes • Art likes

DISLIKES (DO NOT WANTS)
Fic dislikes • Dark dislikes • Smut dislikes • Art dislikes

MINI-CHALLENGES
Yuleporn • Wrapping paper • Drabbles • Season's Treatings • Crueltide (for YOU and Ready or Not)

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REQUESTS

HAWKEYE (COMICS)
Requested: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Lucky

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (TV)
Requested: Charles-Haden Savage, Mabel Mora, Oliver Putnam, Oscar Torres, Theo Dimas (I selected any.)

YOU (TV)
Requested: Joe Goldberg, Love Quinn

ENOLA HOLMES (MOVIES)
Requested: Enola Holmes, Viscount Tewkesbury

LITTLE WOMEN 2019 (MOVIES)
Requested: Amy March, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence

READY OR NOT (MOVIES)
Requested: Daniel Le Domas, Grace Le Domas

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GENERAL NOTES

I like works of all ratings—Gen to Explicit. (Explicit doesn't need to be for explicit smut.)

I'm open to any length of work—just a little over the minimum to three times over the minimum. Write the length that best suits the story you want to tell.

Have fun with the POV! I'd love to receive second or third person for fic. I have a preference for third person limited. I'm not a big fan of first person outside of epistolary sections (unless it's Joe Goldberg).

If something in my letter sparks an idea (as long as it's not a DNW), please go for it. If I don't want something for a specific canon that's in my letter, I will say so in my sign up as part of the canon DNWs.

I'd love to receive unconventional works in and outside of unconventional works exchanges. If you'd like to incorporate that, I love in-universe documents that fit the canon setting such as mission reports, character profiles, news articles, social media, letters, diary entries, journal entries, character sketch books, etc.

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LIKES

Canon divergences that have a foot in canon.

• What ifs
  
  • What if someone made a different decision?
    
  • What if this thing in canon didn't happen? (i.e. Character A didn't die. Character B didn't obtain an object and so now there's an opportunity to explore a relationship with Character A. Character C didn't come to town, so Character A and Character B were able to form a relationship. Character A decided to stick with Character B. Character A decided to pursue Character B. Character A and Character B are thrown together in a situation that was avoided in canon.)
    
  • What if X person didn't die? What if one of the requested characters saved the other?
    
  • What if it was a different character in that position? (i.e. Requested character was involved in the scene instead of X. Requested character was in danger instead of Y.) What would they have done differently?

• Filling in the blanks
  
  • What happened between episode X and episode Y?
    
  • What happened between seasons/ books?
    
  • What happened after the canon ended?
    
  • What happened after this pivotal plot point was dropped?
    
  • How did two characters get together?
    
  • Did two characters talk more about their disagreement?

• Fixing up canon's mistakes.
  
  • What happens when Character A doesn't die?
    
  • What happens when Character B isn't character assassinated?
    
  • What happens when you don't remove Character A from the narrative?
    
  • What happens when you don't drop this piece of world building and bringing requested character back to life/ back into the foray?

• Future fics/ post-canon.
  
  • What happens a year later? 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
    
  • Are the requested characters still together? Do they get together? What are they doing in the future?

Requested alternate universes:

• Apocalypse
  
  • Zombies (can be because of a virus as long as it doesn't skirt the DNW)
  
  
  • Bombs fall
  
  
  • Aliens invade ala Independence Day
  
  
  • It just happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Time travel (I'm happy for reasons for time travel in a non-time travel canon is "Just because", "Science", "Magic", or any other reason you can think of).
  
  • Time loop (someone's powers or it's just the way the mechanics of a spell)
    
  • Groundhog day
    
  • Back to the Future (someone goes back in time, someone goes forward in time)
    
  • Stuck in a loop until they learn their lesson

• Temporary power swaps where superhero becomes human and a human becomes a superhero. Temporary power gains where everyday human has powers that disappear by the story's end.

• Soulmates
  
  • Name on wrists
    
  • Countdown tattoo
    
  • You just fucking know

• Amnesia
  
  • One character has amnesia and can't remember their relationship

Character studies. Deep dives into characters psyches. What makes a character tick? Unpacking their trauma. Letting them cope realistically to a situation rather than have it brushed under the rug.

Cheating/ infidelity where the cheating happens between the two characters requested.

Complicated relationships. Enemies to lovers. Enemies to friends to lovers. Friends to lovers. Enemy lovers.

Coping with trauma. Exploration of trauma. Recovery from trauma. Healthy and/or unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Emotional and physical vulnerability and intimacy. Consent when touching.

Epistolary. Letter writing (sent and unsent). Diary entries, journal entries, articles written by journalistic characters. Emails—funny subject lines, funny email addresses, not using the work email for only non-personal things. Revealing feelings. Hiding angst. Detailing trauma. Using writing as a way to cope with trauma. Passive aggressively leaving notes. Leaving notes because we keep missing one another. Post its.

Established relationships like friendships, romantic relationships, sexual relationships between the requested characters. I also love budding relationships and ones where they like one another but are too scared and/or stupid to act on it or they believe the other person so doesn't like them.

Fake dating. Fake marriage.

First time having sex, dating, kissing.

Gen relationships such as found family, blood family, friendships.

Happy/ hopeful ending.

Humour. Banter. Snark.

Hurt/comfort.

• Helping recovery from trauma whether it's mental, emotional or physical.

• Emotional.
  
  • Grief. (I do love grief stories where grief isn't completely gone by the end of the story.)
    
  • PTSD. (Nightmares. Being triggered. Breathing hard. Losing focus. Feeling unsafe. Fight or flight reflex.)

• Physical:
  
  • Stitching up a wound. Taking care of someone who's sick. Sprained ankle. Concussions. Bruises. Broken bones. Blood loss.

Miscommunication. Characters speaking around what they mean. Words having double meanings. Characters misinterpret one another due to their own insecurities or personal baggage. One character is too blunt or the other one tries to beat around the bush which leads to misunderstandings.

Casefic. Mission fic. Picking up an artefact. Robbing someone. Ocean's 11 kind of heist. The Mummy-type object hunting and curse activating. (I do not need the focus to be on the mission but if you like writing that, go for it!)

Pining. A pines for B who has no idea. A pines for B and B pines for A. I prefer it to be resolved by the end of the fic, but also love the journey and tropes it encourages.

Female pregnancy, including abortion (chosen by the character, not forced upon them) and miscarriage as long as it's dealt with sensitively. Women who long for pregnancy, women who don't wish to be pregnant. Discomfort in pregnancy. Enjoying it.

Road trips. Sleeping in the car together. Stopping at motels and hotels. Travelling with no destination in mind.

Sharing a bed. Cuddling for warmth. The bed's only suited for one person. Comforting during nightmares. Someone sleeps naked. Sharing body heat.

Slow burn UST.

Smut. Explicit smut. Non-explicit smut. Focusing on the sex itself. Focusing on character emotions and intimacy. Even when it's dubcon/noncon, I love seeing the focus on character emotions and connections/disconnections.

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DRABBLE LIKES

I love drabbles (100, 200, 300 words) and drabble series and sequences. I'm happy for any series/sequences to be all of one length (i.e. made up only of 100 words) or of varying lengths (i.e. one drabble is 100 words, the next 200, the following 100, etc.)

I love character studies that delve deep into a facet of the character, whether it's purely introspection or dialogue-focused.

I love sequences where a series of scenes create a story.

I like all ratings for drabbles.

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SMUT LIKES

Terminology etc.

• I prefer terminology such as "clit, cock, cunt, dick" and don't mind "pussy". I prefer "come" over "cum".
  
• Feel free to be as dirty as you like. I don't mind fade to black as long as it's not in a smut-centric exchange.
  
• For smut-centric exchanges, I'm all for PWP where it's a straight-up sex scene or if you want to do some groundwork and give me something that's 1k build-up, go for it. Wherever your smutty heart takes you!

Age difference (i.e. 16yo with 21yo; 23yo with 45yo; etc.). The youngest age is 16.

Anal, female receiving (except when a male is being pegged). Anal fingering, anal penetration.

Barebacking. Condoms.

Bathing.

Begging.

Biting.

Bloodplay with vampires. Menstrual sex (doesn't have to be with vampires). Blood drinking with vampires. Using blood as lube with vampires. If characters are beaten up, having sex covered in blood.

Body worship.

Breast worship. Tit fucking.

Choking—consensual or dubiously consensual. Can include choking while giving a blowjob.

Clothed sex. One person clothed, the other person naked. Both clothed. Half-clothed. Costume kink, uniform kink. Lingerie. Using ties for binds. Scarves for blindfolds. Using silks for teasing.

Cockwarming—anal, vagina, mouth.

Come as lube. Facials. Coming in pants. Coming on someone. Creampie.

Consent. Seeking consent during a scene. Consent kink. Consent being the focus between characters who have trauma from nonconsensual acts.

Dirty talk.

Dubious consent. Someone in power manipulating the other person into saying yes. Someone's emotionally distraught. Misleading someone without correcting them on the truth.

Edging.

Emotionally charged sex. Gimme those emotions.mp3, Mariah!

Fail sex where people stumble. Someone comes too early. The woman can't come from penetration. Someone isn't as confident as they wish to be and it results in poor dirty talk.

Gaping (from anal/vaginal penetration).

Hair pulling during sex. Playing with hair.

Hands. Holding hands, kissing fingers. Gentle hands, rough hands. Big hands, small hands. Rough fingers.

Inexperienced partner with experienced parter. Experienced woman with inexperienced woman. Experienced woman with inexperienced man. Experienced man with inexperienced woman. Virginity loss, although I'd prefer that virginity isn't seen as a defining character trait of a character unless it's set in a dubcon situation where it's used to manipulate or goad the inexperienced partner on.

Light bondage: blindfolds, collars, handcuffed to bed or piece of furniture, tied up.

Light dom/sub. Getting off on power and control rather than pleasure. Also: getting off on pleasing one another. I love dom/sub where a character takes on the dominant role and tries to help their partner get out of their head. I prefer the mental side of this with a heavy focus on a character who either is intense about control or often gives their control to others and needing to trust your partner. "Sir" and "Ma'am", even status titles i.e. "king", "queen", "princess", "prince", "captain", etc. for characters with those titles.

Masturbation. Mutual masturbation. Instructing someone on getting off. Masturbating together. Trying to get someone off through masturbation. Showing someone how to masturbate.

Manhandling. Roughly moving partner around. Throwing them (not violently) against a wall, over a table, onto the bed, pushing them down.

Non-penetrative sex. Dry humping, frottage, grinding, coming in pants. Pillow humping. Grinding on thighs. Handjobs. Scissoring.

Oral sex: Blowjobs, cunnilingus, deepthroating (consensual and dubiously consensual), face fucking (consensual and dubiously consensual).

Orgasm control and denial. Multiple orgasms. Coming over and over. Magically inclined to keep coming. Exhaustion and soreness from coming. You don't need to portray this with 100% realism.

Overstimulation. Clit sensitivity. Nipple sensitivity. Cock sensitivity.

Pegging. Woman pegging man. Woman pegging other woman—anal or vaginal.

Penetration. Vaginal penetration. Anal penetration. Penetration in two holes. Double penetration in one hole. Double penetration in two holes. Triple penetration. Object penetration.

Power imbalance.

Pregnancy sex. Risk of pregnancy. Belly kink associated with pregnant belly.

Public sex or semi-public sex. Fingering under the table. Giving head underneath the table. Fucking in alleyways or back of shops. Car sex including giving head and fingering.

Roleplay: power imbalance scenarios, pretending situations are dubiously consensual, playing out fantasies, etc.

Rough sex. Hair pulling, biting, eager sex. Fighting/sparring as foreplay.

Sex in places such as shower, car, classroom. Against walls, chair sex, table sex.

Sex pollen! Losing control of themselves due to desire. Being overcome with the need to fuck. One character is hit with a huge dose of it and the other one is unaffected. Unable to experience any relief from the need to fuck until they've come. Unable to come until partner has come and perhaps partner doesn't orgasm easily. Unable to break the pollen until a specific sex act has been performed. Characters are so consumed with the idea they need to fuck even though the pollen's a lite version. Pollen wears off when the partner's come multiple times. Or characters believe it's sex pollen but really they're just finally giving into being horny fuckers.

Size differences. Strength differences. Height differences. Big cocks, large breasts.

Somnophilia. Consensual somnophilia. Dubiously consensual somnophilia. Woken up via oral sex or being fucked. Pretending to be asleep while partner fucks them. Sex while half-asleep.

Spanking. Spanking with hand. Spanking with an object. Bent over a table, bent over a knee. Spanking for punishment.

Tenderness during sex. Hand holding. Kissing. Kissing cunt/cock.

Threesomes and moresomes. Gangbang (preference is woman in the centre). Spitroasting. Sloppy seconds (preference is woman being in this role).

Vocal sex. Unable to stay quiet. One person wants to try and stay quiet while the other disregards that and wants them to be loud.

Voyeurism. Inviting someone to watch. A third party watches on and instructs. Cuckolding.

Women taking charge. Men being dominant. Women topping from the bottom, especially women who aren't as sexually confident.

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DARK LIKES

Emotional manipulation, psychological manipulation. Manipulative characters getting to actually be manipulative without being watered down.

Kidnapping. Gaslighting. Stockholm Syndrome. I love the focus on the psychological toll of being in a strange place with someone and trying to outwit them more than the actual act of kidnapping.

Stockholm Syndrome caused by manipulation, kidnapping, isolating character.

Mind control performed by characters capable of magic.

Tapping into a character's more darker tendencies.

Using sex as a bargaining chip. Character feels as though they owe their captor sex. Captor not dissuading victim from not bargaining with sex. Sex to save someone's life, even if that life isn't actually in danger.

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DUBCON/NONCON LIKES

A note on dubcon and noncon: I'm fine with receiving either. For noncon, I'd like to avoid violent rape wherein violent such as slapping, hitting, etc. is used to overpower someone. I prefer dubcon and noncon to have an emotional manipulation element to it.

Aggressive sex followed by aftercare.

Anal penetration as an act of dominance.

Blackmail into sex. Agree to have sex to protect another character. Agree to have sex to prove obedience. Huddling for warmth turns into dubious consensual sex.

Forced to beg for orgasm. Forced or tricked into threesome/moresome (preference is woman).

Forced to kneel. Forced into position to give easier access.

Being mind controlled, struggling with the ramifications of mind control. False memories. Character A mind controls Character B into believing that they are Character C who they would consensually have sex with. Amnesia and someone taking advantage of the memory gaps.

Under-negotiated kink. Non-negotiated kink (as long as it's not a DNW). Penetration in the wrong hole. Agree to oral but penetration still happens.

Surprise penetration during frottage. Just the tip but cock or object fully inserted.

Sex magic. Cursed to want cock or cunt. Cursed with constant need for sex. Obedience curses.

Sex rituals. Needing to have sex to create or break a curse. Whether the curse actually exists is up to you.

Setting changes that fit in with canon world (i.e. fundamentals of canon are not changed drastically): Auctioned to the highest bidder. Subs are assigned to Dom.

Unaroused partners. Unwilling arousal.

Vampires: Blood drinking, being used as a blood bag. Dubiously consensual or nonconsensual blood drinking. Being covered in blood. Bloodplay. Using blood as lube in lieu of actual arousal.

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ART LIKES

Bright colours. Bold colours. Soft colours. Bold lines. I like warm colours, cool colours, colours that belong in the same colour palette/tone, colours that clash together.

Greyscale. Grey with a colour or two as an accent.

Black and white. Black and white with a colour as an accent.

Digital art. Charcoal. Ink. Marker. Colour pencils. Pencil/ink sketching. Painting. Watercolour.

Comics.

Character portrait.

Tarot cards.

Gen content. Sexual content.

Animals: Cats, dogs, horses, dragons, butterflies, lions, tigers, birds.

• Poses:
  
  • Holding hands.
  
  
  • Requested characters (or one of them) petting a cat or dog.
  
  
  • Forehead kisses.
  
  
  • Kneeling.
  
  
  • Hugging.
  
  
  • Bridal carry.
  
  
  • Sparring (with weapons or hand-to-hand).
  
  
  • Going for a bush walk.

• Activities:
  
  • Riding a bike—separate bikes or dual.
  
  
  • Ice-skating during winter or summer.
  
  
  • Roller-blading.
  
  
  • Walking the dog.
  
  
  • Petting the cat.
  
  
  • Gardening.
  
  
  • Displays of magic. Magic users. Brewing a potion. Reading a magical book.
  
  
  • Bathing/ washing. In bathtub or shower. In lake.
  
  
  • Carrying. Piggyback ride.
  
  
  • Reading a book. Studying.
  
  
  • Witches. Witch hats. Cauldron brewing. Flying on broomstick. Cat familiars.

• Outfits:
  
  • Fancy ballgowns. Men in smart-looking tuxedos.
  
  
  • Jewellery: bangles, watches, necklaces, hair clips, rings.
  
  
  • Sharing clothes. Wearing oversized shirt or jumper.
  
  
  • Superhero outfits.
  
  
  • Masquerade.
  
  
  • Sports jacket.

• Emotion:
  
  • Looking devious/scheming.
  
  
  • Peaceful/relaxing moments: Head on shoulder. Forehead resting against the back of head. One character wrapping their arm around the other.
  
  
  • Laughing.
  
  
  • One character comforting the other: Sitting beside them. Holding them. Lying together in bed.
  
  
  • Crying by themselves. Crying and being comforted. Crying in front of a mirror. Crying in bed.
  
  
  • Pensive.
  
  
  • Happy.

• Mood:
  
  • Romance.
  
  
  • Angst.
  
  
  • Fluff.
  
  
  • Melancholic.
  
  
  • Spooky/creepy.
  
  
  • Christmas (either wintery Christmas or summery Christmas (I experience the latter).
  
  
  • Valentine's Day.
  
  
  • New Year's Eve.
  
  
  • Halloween.
  
  
  • Mother's Day/Father's Day.

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GENERAL DISLIKES

First person POV unless it's requested Joe Goldberg or epistolary. I'd like to avoid receiving it as the primary narrative POV.

Animal abuse or cruelty. I'd prefer this to be excluded even if it's a canonical event.

AUs such as:

• Unrequested setting changes such as space, regency, and medieval that aren't created from time travelling. If the new setting is treated as always being the canon setting, I'd like to opt-out of it.


• Unrequested changing a character's species.


• Mundane aus such as coffee shop (or any shop), everyone's in high school, everyone is a musician, superpowered characters were never given their superpowers and thus don't exist in a superpower canon.


• Different first-meets.


• Any unrequested AUs. I like my AUs to exist in the canon as we know it.

Character bashing wherein the focus on a particular character is only extremely negative, i.e. they're consistently put down for the sake of advancing the requested relationship with it made very clear that they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I'm happy for character studies on these characters and for negative traits and decisions to be mentioned/discussed and those be the reasons why a relationship breakdown happens (some people do make shitty decisions, after all!), but I'd prefer that they be nuanced and fair and not be passionate putdowns. (For instance, if X lies to Requested Character and Requested Character feels they can never trust them again, that's fine!)

Deathfic where a requested character dies and it's an unhappy ending. I'm okay with secondary characters dying. I'm okay with a requested character who has died being dead and exploring death as long as they are not killed and have an unhappy ending in the fic. (Exploring purgatory/what comes after death is fine.) I'm okay with canonically dead characters being dead as long as the fic isn't killing them.

Extreme underage. I prefer anything that features someone 16 years and older.

References to terminal illnesses and COVID unless it's a part of the canon.

Unrequested genderswaps and sexuality headcanons.

Unrequested permanent changes to a character's species. Generally when I prompt it, I like it to be temporary.

Unrequested ships being the main focus. Acknowledgement of canon ships or past ships is fine. Background ships is A-OK. If the ship isn't one of my requested ships or a canon ship, please don't include it.

Violent rape. I'd prefer to avoid receiving anything noncon where the victim is slapped, hit, thrown violently around, etc. Manhandling is fine.

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DARK DISLIKES

Animal cruelty, mutilation, etc.

Apocalypse: COVID-19. If you want to do an apocalypse that is virus-based, as long as it isn't COVID-19 (I'm happy for a fictional virus), I'm all good.

Body horror/mutilation. (If you need an idea of what is too much for me, Saw II onwards.) I'm okay with people getting physically hurt and bleeding, but I want to opt out of receiving loss of limbs and eye gore etc.

Eye trauma.

Permanent character death of requested characters (unless otherwise requested). Other characters are all good! (If I requested a character that isn't in the pairing you selected to write, kill 'em!)

Permanent monster transformations. Cool with a character temporarily being a werewolf. This is excepted if the character is canonically a monster i.e. werewolf.

Medical horror involving using instruments to torture someone (I'm fine if it leads up to it and then it doesn't happen).

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SMUT DISLIKES

A/B/O.

Daddy/mommy kink.

Mpreg.

Mutilation, vore.

Scat. Vomit.

Tentacles.

Unrequested noncon. Sexual violence, including violent rape.

Watersports or any bathroom play.

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ART DISLIKES

Any animal abuse.

Detailed images of spiders.

Explicit wounds like torn skin and guts, including eye trauma. I'm cool with a lot of blood.

Explicit vomit.

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HAWKEYE (COMICS)

CHARACTERS: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Lucky.

Ships: Clint/Kate, Lucky/Walks. (I do like Clint/Bobbi if you don't want to write Clint/Kate as a ship and want to include a ship.)

DNWs: A gift that focuses solely on how Lucky lost his eye. I'm happy for references and acknowledgement of his abuse, but I'd like to opt out of receiving any graphic depictions of it. I'd like to opt out of receiving any art that depicts his trauma.

— For a more updated version of the comics I'm familiar with, you can check out this post.

You do not have to include all the characters.

Oh my god, Clint and Kate are incredible in Fraction's comic! I love Kate so much—I love that she's so hopeless but she always means well and tries to do the right thing. I like how Clint is someone who is the same way, but he's a little more jaded than Kate who bursts with optimism. I like how Kate doesn't put up with Clint's shit and calls him out on being a shitty person, and I like how she challenges him to be better simply by holding her own against him and knowing when she deserves better.

I really love Clint's humour and how hopeless he is. I would love to receive something that includes Clint who is deaf or hard of hearing. I felt like the comic did such a great job capturing Clint's POV after he was attacked and would love to see a continuation of that exploration.

I ship them and also like them as friends. If you choose to make them gen, I do love Clint/Bobbi in the comics, too.

Let's talk the best character ever: Lucky.

I love animals and I love Lucky. There isn't really too much to say other than he's cute, he's the best, he's the most awesome superhero, and I think that he deserves all the walks in the world!

Given that he has one eye and has a bit of a trauma-filled backstory in the Fraction comics, I'm happy for any gifts to explore his past as long as there isn't any graphic animal abuse depictions. References to it is all okay, but I'd prefer it not to be the focus of the work (i.e. it's all about Lucky losing his eye).

I also refuse to accept his ending in Fraction's comic since??? Only happiness for Lucky!

PROMPTS:

Lucky goes for a walk. What does he see? Who does he meet?

Dressing up Lucky for the holidays. How well does this go?

Ghost hunting.

Lucky helps another dog.

Lucky helps Kate sort out her closet.

Kate's favourite shoe goes missing. How does Lucky find it?

What happens when Lucky finds himself in an alternate universe? (What if he ends up in DCU?)

Clint gives Kate a special trick arrow. Is it an anniversary arrow (for relationship or friendship? National Friend Day exists!)

The building is haunted.

What if Kate touches a cursed object and reawakens some monster from its slumber?

What if Madame Masque comes after Kate again?

Clint or Kate get hurt and the other tries to take care of them.

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ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (TV)

Characters: Charles Haden-Savage, Mabel Mora, Oliver Putnam, Oscar Torres, Theo Dimas. (I requested any.)

Ships: Mabel/Oscar, Mabel/Theo.

DNWS: Fic establishing these couples: Alice/Mabel, Theo/Oscar, Charles/Oliver, and any Charles/Oliver/Mabel combinations.

You do not have to include all the characters.

I LOVE this show. I love Oliver. I love how the trio works so well together. I love the humour and how everyone in the Arconia is such a unique character themselves. I particularly loved season one and how it was so intricately tied to Mabel's past and let us see into the history of the Arconia.

I'd love something that shows how well these three work together as a cohesive and sometimes questionable unit. Their chemistry is insane and I absolutely love how they all just gel together so well. (I've rewatched season one so many times it's not even funny.) I'm up for something dark, something goofy and not serious, and something that toes that line.

I really liked Mabel/Oscar and what drew me to them was their shared past. I'm a sucker for the trope of "We knew each other pre-series so we're going to drop these crumbs of 'Oh, hey, he's always had the hots for me and I've always known!' and trauma". I was really disappointed that they retconned the significant of that romantic relationship.

I also really like the chemistry between Mabel and Theo. I'd love to see more of them and how they could work together. I feel like they've both grown up with parents who want the best for them but worry way too much and stifle them.

PROMPTS:

Of course, they solve a murder.

So, Oliver wants to start doing some marketing. How spectacularly does this go? What do their posters look like? Does he ask Mabel to design the business cards? What do they name themselves?

Winnie's found at the reception area of the Arconia. Let's solve why she wasn't in Oliver's apartment.

Missing scenes between Mabel and Oscar pre-show. Did Mabel know he had a crush on her? How bad was it? Did Zoe know?

What if Mabel and Theo slowly bond over him teaching her sign language?

What if Mabel told Theo she didn't blame him for Zoe's death?

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YOU (TV)

CHARACTERS: Joe Goldberg, Love Quinn.

Ships: Joe/Love.

Notes on DNWs: I'm cool if you want to kill Joe. I've been waiting to request YOU because I want to see this man get his comeuppance! Please note that my first person POV DNW does not apply to requested Joe Goldberg. ;)

You do not have to include all the characters.

I just want to see Joe get his comeuppance. He's such a perfect depiction of toxic masculinity and I find Penn plays him so perfectly. He's so charming and suave and just someone who I feel thinks he's untouchable. I also find it hilarious he thinks he's invisible when he wears his cap.

What I found really compelling about Love was the fact that she believes in what she's doing. She believes she's looking after those she cares about. She loves intensely and that can be a killer.

I really love Penn and Victoria's chemistry and I wish that we had seen their relationship play out a little differently in season three. While I found Love's end tragic, I really did love that she took matters into her own hands in the end. I felt that in the final scene, she really showed who she was and what she was capable of—and I liked that she was a woman who was capable of outsmarting Joe. (I kind of found it unbelievable that Joe was just that good and was able to be one step ahead of her. I mean, he wears that stupid baseball cap!)

I was really disappointed that season three didn't end with Love killing Joe and breaking his misogynistic cycle. I honestly thought that would've been great karma.

I've read the first book and haven't read any more in this series. If you're a book reader and want to include some things from the books to flesh things out, please feel free to do so! (I've heard the books and show differ greatly now.)

PROMPTS:

Love haunts Joe.

What if Love wasn't pregnant? How does she keep Joe from killing her?

What if Love faked her death?

What if the reveal regarding Love planting a herb that could paralyse Joe was actually hinted at earlier? What if Love was a little bit more of a subtle mastermind and Joe, being Joe, was none the wiser?

Considering that these two just wanted to kind of kill each other in the end, what if they actually did make attempts and those attempts were always foiled?

How does Love feel when she realises Joe is, well… Joe? Does she think of him as her true mirror? What if she was disgusted by what he did?

What if Candace didn't die and she was more of a threat to Joe? How does he handle having a ghost come back from his past?

Give me toxic love!!! Give me psychological warfare!!! Give me toxicity!

The show has shown us that Joe tends to be turned off when the woman he's put on a pedestal shows a flaw. What if Love caught onto this and presented herself as utterly perfect?

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ENOLA HOLMES (MOVIES)

CHARACTERS: Enola Holmes, Viscount Tewkesbury.

Ships: Enola/Tewkesbury.

I didn't expect to love these two when I watched the film. I really enjoyed their chemistry and how Tewkesbury was very hearteyes over Enola while Enola tried to keep her head in the game and in her newspaper articles. I really love how the film didn't force a romance and that it settled for a hand kiss instead. Their chemistry is fantastic together and I'm so looking forward to seeing Tewkesbury and Enola in the second film.

What I love about Enola is how she's so brash and brave and how she's so sarcastic, too. She's dynamic on the screen. I really like how smart she is and that she can make mistakes. I love that she has an ego and that she gives into arrogance every now and then.

I love Tewkesbury because he seems like he's a complete flip of what you should expect of a man in that era. I like how he's sweet and gentle and a lot softer in comparison to Enola. I really like his fondness for flowers, how he's so resourceful in nature despite being rich and most likely spoiled, and how he's someone who doesn't let status deter him from getting his hands dirty.

I will be watching Enola Holmes 2 when it comes out, so please feel free to write me anything based on that movie if it suits!

PROMPTS:

They solve a murder or robbery. Give me casefic!

Tewkesbury leaves Enola messages in flowers. Does she know what they mean?

What if Enola left messages for Tewkesbury in flowers? Does he take her seriously?

They have to pretend to be a couple. Is it so that Tewkesbury can avoid being stampeded by the women at a function? Is it for a case?

Jealous Tewkesbury.

Jealous Enola.

Enola decides to leave riddles in the newspaper for Sherlock to solve. Or perhaps Sherlock does it to make sure Enola's all right.

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LITTLE WOMEN (MOVIES)

CHARACTERS: Amy March, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence.

Ships: Amy/Laurie.

DNWs: Laurie/Jo. I'm happy for it to cause a roadblock for Amy wherein she doesn't want to believe Laurie actually loves her. I'd like to opt out of Laurie/Jo as an established relationship.

I fell head first for these two when Amy read Laurie's ass for filth in Europe. I really love how their relationship feels mature—Amy seems to ground Laurie in a way that brings him comfort and Laurie sees Amy for the woman she is and nothing less. I really enjoyed their chemistry in the movie—I liked how he looked at her, I loved their banter, and I enjoyed how Amy, despite her feelings, isn't gentle with Laurie. She tells it like it is, even if it's the truth that will hurt him. They capture one of my favourite dynamics—the boy who trips over himself and the woman who trips him.

I particularly really loved Amy. I loved how she was unapologetically herself, even if that meant that she seemed like a brat. I love that she grew up into a woman who understood her place in society and who craved more but allowed herself to want something that her family never let themselves have. I like that she understood Aunt March's perspective and adopted it as her own, and how she wanted more in life but was willing to try and get it in an acceptable roundabout way.

I personally feel like Laurie would allow her to have what she wants because he's had so much taken from him, too. He wouldn't stifle Amy's independence or be intimidated by it but would nurture it.

The one thing I wish we got was MORE! I wanted more of them! I wanted to see them together in Europe, with Laurie being jealous and Amy being exasperated. I wanted to see him court her and Amy actually let herself be courted. I wish we got to see more fallout from Amy saying she wouldn't play second to Jo. (I felt that was a loose end.)

PROMPTS:

Laurie's jealous of Fred. (Look, I deserved more of this.) I loved the way he would say his name and Amy would clock it.

Isn't Fred one of Laurie's good friends? What happens when, in Europe, Fred reconnects with Laurie and that makes things more difficult because of Laurie's changing relationship with Amy?

What happens when Laurie's always outside, waiting for Amy to come out of her art classes?

What if instead of getting married so quickly, Laurie courts Amy?

What if Amy was allowed to feel angry that she wasn't able to come and say goodbye to Beth? How does she lean on Laurie in her grief?

Five times Laurie was in love with Amy and the one time he acted on it.

Did Laurie write to Amy before he wound up in England?

WHAT HAPPENED IN EUROPE? I'm STARVED for content!

What's marriage like for them? Is Amy still uneasy about Jo and Laurie? How does Laurie try and settle her insecure feelings?

What if Amy went ahead and got engaged to Fred despite Laurie's declaration?

Amy draws Laurie throughout their stay in Europe.

Amy draws her family.

What if Laurie encourages Amy to work through her grief using her art?

What's Amy's relationships like with her sisters? Who is she closest to? Who sees her for who she is rather than what they need her to be? How do she and Jo get along? (One thing I'd love to see explored is why Amy felt the need to apologise to Jo when it was revealed Amy married Laurie. Does she still feel insecure? Does she feel like she took something from Jo? Is Laurie still considered "Jo's" in her mind? How does Laurie feel about all of this? I wish we got something a little more from Jo to ease Amy's insecurities.)

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READY OR NOT (MOVIE)

CHARACTERS: Daniel Le Domas, Grace Le Domas.

Ships: Daniel/Grace.

Note on DNWs: My DNW re: no deathfic doesn't apply here considering Daniel's dead. Go for it.

This movie is so fucked up. I love the psychology behind it and how people will do anything and rationalise anything to ensure that they stay in some fucked up good graces.

I really like how Grace was a Final Girl like Sidney Prescott who was in over her head and easily adapted to the fucked up situation she found herself in. I love that she struggled, that she hated what she had to do, and that she was tenacious in surviving. I really liked how Daniel was so fucked up from his childhood and his shitty family that he wasn't like them at all, but was quietly rebelling while also doing his best to not spook Grace away while trying to spook her away.

I really love their chemistry and wish we got more of them in the movie. I like how he gave off a certain vibe that worked against his desire to see Grace out of the family. I love how Grace came to trust Daniel because he was the only one who was real with her from the very beginning (even pre-movie). I love the guy who's so tired and messed up but still does the right thing despite being forced to do the wrong thing and even play along—and I love the girl who comes out of this shitty thing a little charred, but no longer as naive as she was before.

PROMPTS:

MISSING SCENES! I honestly thought there'd be more Daniel and Grace and am always severely disappointed on my rewatches that more scenes haven't magically appeared. Was Daniel playing drunk? How did he try and help her? Did Grace hide in the same room Daniel was in and he didn't alert his family?

What if that gunshot wound wasn't fatal?

What if Mr Le Bail traded one of the Le Domases souls for Daniels?

I know this fandom has a lot of timeloops, so why don't we throw in one more? What if Mr Le Bail threw Daniel and Grace into one because he wanted to see Daniel fight for himself? What if he liked Daniel and wanted him to live but wanted him to fight for it?

Another time loop idea—what if Daniel's stuck in a time loop where he just dies over and over and over again? What if he's stuck in one where no matter what happens, Grace always dies?

What if Mr Le Bail was like a genie and could grant three wishes? Are his wishes literal? Do they come with a caveat? Does he twist them around?

Mr Le Bail likes Grace… so he decides to throw her into a timeloop or alternate universe to show that Daniel was the brother that was meant for her.

What if Daniel and Grace are soulmates and their mark or bond appears after his death? What if Mr Le Bail connects their souls together so Daniel can live?

What if Grace makes a deal with Mr Le Bail to bring back Daniel? He was the only one worth a damn.

So, Daniel's dead. Bugger. What if he haunts Grace? What if that's Mr Le Bail's little gift for him?

What if Grace reluctantly uses the Le Domas fortune—but it's cursed. What if Daniel comes back to save her? (Or help her save herself!)

Grace gets thrown into an alternate universe where she's married and happy with Daniel and the family is not warped at all. (Perhaps it's like she's stuck in a simulation that's of Mr Le Bail's doing?)

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