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Filling prompts at Three Sentence Ficathon are always a lot of fun, but especially this year! Post 4 is still open to new prompts until around midnight PST on February 9th.

My fills below:

Fallen London

any, any, sexy tiger backup dancers

There had, of course, been something of an outcry when people started talking of reviving the Coilheart Games, given the whole unpleasant business of the Sixth Coil...but then again, it had been four years since the last Games, and every expert in London swore that the Sixth Coil showed no signs of breaking its seal, and whatever else you could say for the previous Games, it certainly had been good for intra-Neath cooperation (and the officials, who at least had enough sense not to trust any event in the height of false-summer, promised that they'd move the Games to false-spring instead), and so despite their never-quite-ending grumbling, the Londoners gathered into the newly-rebuilt stands, placed their bets and cheered their favorite teams, and kept an eye on the darkest and shakiest corners of the Neath just in case.

As it turned out, the most sensational part of the new Games came not from a resurgent Fingerking or some new fight for London's survival, but from Port Carnelian's contribution to the reimagined Tournament of the Imagination: the glossy-furred, well-built tigers gyrating in perfect coordination behind the Striped Chanteuse. Mr. Huffam's headline the next day described the wave of fainting from the particularly sensitive Surface visitors in the audience; later, scholars would blame their sinuous motions for the ruin of at least four young rakes, a new school of poetry, and two assassination attempts in the Foreign Office...but that's another story.

Hadestown

Any, Any, I love you. I want us both to eat well.

Orpheus never has had a head for figures, but Eurydice's done all the calculating - cost of living, average wages, caloric requirements per individual.

There's no way they'll make it, she thinks, not unless they start eating each other instead, and while she would give her very flesh to Orpheus and he to her, she's willing to take a chance on another way.

It's one less burden on him while he finishes his song, she tells herself, right before she tells him goodbye and starts on the trek to Hadestown.

Harlots

Harlots, Charlotte & Lucy, flowers

Even since Charlotte began her trade, she has been showered in more flowers than she can count - violets and daffodils, lilacs and camellias, bouquet after bouquet of red roses.

You are truly a rose, a fresh bloom, a lily that needs no gilding, the men tell her, and Charlotte privately wonders whether they think about their compliments at all before they say them. Lucy would be better suited for the flowers, little Lucy who has not yet learned to hide her heart - she could fit among all these soft petals like a shepherdess in her field, but Charlotte is too much a creature of the city to feel anything but suffocated by all this nature.

Her mother, practical as always, gives her pitchers of water to refill the flower vases and reminds her what clever girls do with gifts from promising culls and potential keepers. Accordingly, she puts yet another set of the dull red roses from Sir Howard on prominent display on her vanity, writes to thank Lord Repton for the camellias and asks Lucy about a sketch of the flowers on her note, and learns to accept everything from humble daisies to brilliant orchids with a charming smile.

But in some quiet late mornings, when Charlotte is nearly choking on the sweetness of flowers, she sneaks a few blooms from their vases and steals to Lucy's room - "will you put one in my hair?" her little sister asks, and Charlotte puts on a scowl and says "very well, but just this once, sprat," as she always does, her fingers already twining blossoms into Lucy's braids as the scowl breaks into a smile.

MASH

MASH (TV), Margaret, a small indulgence

In the bottom drawer of Margaret's nightstand, she has a dozen bottles of nail polish. They come in sunset pinks and sunrise yellows, in royal purple and robin's-egg blue and six different types of red - a rainbow's worth of colors and then some, almost searingly bright against all the olive drab.

No matter what fresh hell is pressing on the 4077th, Margaret tries finding moments to sit down with her personal rainbow and paint her toenails in neat, even, calming strokes; it's a small enough indulgence, she reasons, and if some sniper's bullet finds her, by God, they're going to lay her in the ground with nice-looking toes.


MASH (TV), Frank, the one thing he's good at

Contrary to what those reprobates in the Swamp might think, Margaret's not blind to Frank's faults - she's subtly guided his scalpel in the OR and talked him through his tantrums too much for that.

What Frank's good at is believing - believing in rules and discipline when everyone else mocks them for it, believing in the Army when no one else is this outfit does. And he believes in her, nodding at her suggestions with wide earnest eyes and trusting her to run the 4077th beside him with that same steadfast and unblinking belief, and for that alone, she can love him.


any, any, trying to hold an orgy but the participants keep getting distracted

In hindsight, it had taken a surprisingly long time for Hawkeye and Trapper to announce plans for the First And Hopefully Only Annual 4077th Orgy and General Bacchanalia - six months and some change into the war, after two weeks with no casualties but also nothing else to break up the monotony, on a weekend where Frank and ("unfortunately," Trapper sighed) Hot Lips were off at a medical conference and Father Mulcahy was on R&R. It was, Hawkeye enthused, going to be an unprecedented dive into the deep end of depravity, featuring a blindfolded Korean four-piece band (all the way from Seoul and bribed with ungodly amounts of booze), an all-naked dress code in the room stuffed wall-to-wall with mattresses, and real champagne and steaks rerouted from General Mitchell's personal shipment.

It certainly turned out to be a notorious party, maybe quite not the way Hawkeye and Trapper hoped but still something of a success - sure, the mattresses didn't get much use after one of the band members spilled his champagne and dropped his cigarette and set the whole room on fire, and they had to deploy poor Radar to keep Mulcahy distracted when he came back from R&R early...but everybody agreed that the steaks had been fantastic and the real highlight of the party, at least until General Mitchell showed up with four MPs in tow...

Measure for Measure

any, any nun or nun adjacent character, religious guilt

The Duke has given her an hour to think over his proposal and prepare her answer, and so Isabella kneels before the convent's altar, the familiar prayers feeling heavy on her tongue.

Her actions in the past few days have been a series of almosts - almost good, almost right, the betrothed lovers all reunited and the broken promises restored, and yet it has not happened through lawful mercy or open justice but by sordid bargains and false friars and lies told in the dark.

She has had to compromise and compromise again - for her brother's life, for her own vocation, for justice in Vienna - and she wonders, now, if she even has a place among the votarists of Saint Clare anymore, if what she's done has already left her soul too stained for true holiness.

A Song of Ice and Fire

any, any, funeral

Once she's finished arranging the body inside the shallow-bottomed boat, she pushes the boat out only waist-deep in the river before lighting it with her torch - the proper way would be with a flaming arrow, she remembers, but the only weapons Arya has on her are the daggers, the ones she had just cleaned of Stoneheart's blood.

I didn't like archery anyway, she thinks, settling on the riverbank to watch the boat burn, kicking her feet aimlessly in the water like she had when she was small and her mother had been teaching her to swim in the godswoods' pools ("you really are half a trout!" her mother had once said, laughing, as little Arya took off paddling across the pool, and Arya now bites her lip at the stab of memory).

The flame consumes enough of boat and body so that Stoneheart will never rise again, but as the fire starts to gutter out Arya approaches the charred boat and starts collecting bones - Catelyn was a Tully of Riverrun but she was also a Stark of Winterfell, and Arya is going to bring her, finally, home.


any, any, dark lady, white knight

Cersei has taken to wearing black since Robert died, Jaime notices - it might have been mistaken for a widow's devotion, but Jaime recognizes what his sister looks like radiant with satisfaction and knows better.

Jaime himself has taken to wearing the white armor since he returned to King's Landing; it makes people whisper harder when they see him gleaming and spotless all in white beside his black-clad sister, and he tries to quiet the part of him that tells him he is not worthy of the armor at all.

None of it matters in the deepest parts of the night, when the black dress and white armor fall away to to reveal pale naked skin, and Jaime's world dissolves into the green of their eyes and the gold of their hair and their lips gleaming red, Lannister red.


Any, Any F/M Ship, "Breathe, my dear."

"Breathe, my dear," she told him just before they entered their first harvest feast together. Ned had taken to lordship well, all things considered, but opening banquets had never been comfortable to him the way it had been to Brandon; Cat, though, had been leading feasts ever since her mother died, and over the years she knew Ned had been watching her, learning when to guide and when to let her take the lead, taking this strange dance they'd been thrust into and making it their own.

Ned kept her hand tight in his own - his hands always surprised her, so warm for a man who thrived on cold - and kissed her gently, and let her lead him into the great hall where their duties waited.


ASoIaF, Joyeuse Erenford, familiar

The lands of House Erenford lie on the Green Fork a few miles north of the Twins, on marshland choked with reeds - an unhealthy and unfruitful place, people say, but Joyeuse spent her whole life there until sixteen, and she has learned to love the soft ground beneath her feet and the heavy stillness of the air.

The Twins is anything but quiet, she realizes quickly - nothing here feels like home, and especially not the squeals and screams of her new squabbling family and the constant jabs of elbows and knees rushing in the too-crowded halls with absolutely no care for who they're touching (and the hands, gods, the hands of her husband and - but she cannot think about it, just squeezes her eyes shut and concentrates on the feeling of her daughter in her arms instead, while listening to stories of Freys steadily falling dead outside the castle walls).

She takes her daughter and a horse the night her husband dies - she doubts her stepfamily will grieve her going any more than they've grieved their many already dead - and when she's finally returned to heron calls in her ears and sticky mud beneath her boots, she takes a breath of familiar air and feels finally at peace.


Any fandom with dragons, Any, The dragon and its pet.

The maesters wrote that Nettles had tamed Sheepstealer, but this was a lie; Sheepstealer had lived too wild for too long to ever accept a rider who thought herself his master, and Nettles never tried. She brought him sheep every day instead, nice and fresh and plump, and she joked to the sailors at Hull that the dragon had trained her to do his bidding more than she'd ever trained the dragon.

The first time Sheepstealer glanced up from the huge ram she'd brought him to devour and and instead nudged her playfully with his snout, she knew good and well what it meant - that she belonged to the dragon now, that the dragon had figured her to be someone worth keeping.


ASoIaF, any, heart-tree

Sometimes, when Cat finds Ned at his prayers, he asks her to stay with him for a while. The godswood still is not Cat's place - she never feels more southron than she does here - but Ned's low voice and solemn eyes reassure her that she is welcome here, and the heart-tree's gaze feels kinder when she nods and kneels beside him.

Ned's gods, she has learned, do not expect the ritual and ceremony that hers do; their presence fades into the quiet of the woods as Cat and Ned share their worries and make wishes for their children and (every once in a while) sleep, cushioned by furs and fallen weirwood leaves and warmed by each other's arms.


ASoIaF, any Targaryen, mourn

Harrenhal suits her - stark and bleak as a tombstone, too cold for tears. Here, Rhaena looks out her bedroom window and sees the God's Eye stretching out to the field where her brother plummeted to his death; she lights candles in the sept while whispering the names of her murdered friends and lost lovers and the child who's disappearing more and more beneath a septa's robes; she feels the godswood's cool breezes on her face and wonders where the winds scattered her daughter's ashes.

Harrenhal is haunted, but so is Rhaena, and Harrenhal's ghosts are easier to live with than her own.

Star Wars

any, any, brother doesn't mean 'my father's son'

"I wish we'd had the same father," Leia tells Luke once.

She feels his confused amusement as soon as she says that, but she's too wistful and too drunk to bristle much about it. They'd both had maybe one or two more nogs than sensible and she'd just finished telling him how her father had taught her to climb trees out in the mountain forests of Alderaan; she's not sure whether it's the drink or the memories that are making images and emotions flow through their connection more than usual, but she knows he can feel what had been in her mind when she'd told him that wish - a shared childhood in the palace, getting into scrapes together and getting their father's scoldings and hugs together afterward, Bail Organa watching over and guiding his twins as they grew as a family.

Luke never knew her father, and she is not Luke's father's child (and neither is he, no matter what he says, she thinks fiercely and privately, he's not Vader's in the ways that matter) and despite it all Luke's still her brother. He's her brother, and it feels right that he's her brother, and so the family they've decided to be matters more than blood or memories or family history or anything else, but - "I just wish sometimes, that's all," she says, shrugging, as Luke shifts slightly closer to her on the couch and she catches a half-smile and some wistful flickers of imagination from him, something that makes her think he might wish sometimes too.

"Yeah, it would've been good," he finally replies, and nudges her shoulder with his, and asks for another story about her father.


any, any, it's not my blood

It hadn't been her smoothest fight, not by a long shot - the Wild Karrde was going to take days to repair even with the crew scavenging parts from the pirates' cruiser, and while they hadn't lost any cargo to the pirates or to the firefight, that last detonator had sent enough gore flying that Mara absolutely dripped blood when she caught up with Karrde again. "None of it's mine," she informed him crisply, handing him the datachip with the pirates' most lucrative stolen codes and trying to ignore the tackiness of the drying blood between her fingers.

Karrde took the chip without appearing to even notice Mara's bloody fingerprints on it - a professional as always, she thought, but when he met her eyes again she thought she felt something shift through the Force she was trying hard not to use nowadays. Like in his never-ending evaluations and calculations he saw some new possibility for her, something she'd earned for herself completely apart from anything she'd been before. "Aves told me this captain rigged up a shower in his quarters with real water," Karrde said, pocketing the datachip, "and with all due respect, Jade, you look like you could use it - why don't you go clean up and we'll debrief afterward?"

Mara can't help a small smile as she thanks Karrde and goes to hunt down her shower - a sonic would be more practical, and she might scold herself later for the waste of water, but now more than ever she's liking the idea of a fresh start.


Any, any, wet hair

"Believe me, you don't want to see what it looks like if I don't comb it wet," Leia tells Han, lifting a handful of hair off her shoulder and attacking it with the same look of concentration she got when she calculated nav coordinates, and when she glances at Han again in the mirror this cramped 'fresher suddenly feels even smaller than normal.

It had been a couple of days since they'd kissed and Han's still figuring out what that means for them now, exactly; it's still two and a half weeks to Bespin and no sane betting man would take any chances while they're stuck together for so long with no way out, but right now Leia's standing in his 'fresher in a robe she borrowed from him with her hair down around her shoulders, and Han had never liked figuring the odds anyway.

"Want some help?" he asks, and right when he's about to call the mission a failure and head back to the cockpit, Leia raises her eyebrow and quirks up her lips and offers him her comb.


Star Wars, Leia & Luke, alternate first meeting

She finds him in the aftermath of a Rebel attack on an Imperial supply depot, following the smoking wreck of his X-wing after she shot out its lower left S-foil; he must know exactly who she is (well, she thinks, maybe not exactly who she is, how they're really related) when she touches down in the jungle clearing, because as she emerges from her TIE he tenses up and shakes his sweat-soaked hair out of his face and jabs his just-ignited lightsaber toward her - stang, his footing is absolutely awful, he must barely knows how to use it.

There's some tickle of familiarity in her mind, she realizes as she ignites her own blade, some long-ago bond that hasn't quite broken yet; she prods at the connection like a tender bruise as she takes her first swing at him and he wheels clumsily backwards, and she wonders if he notices her frustration spiking at just how much training he still needs before he can be any kind of useful to her.

But still, he can be taught, and if he can be taught he can become an ally, and if she can make an ally of him they will have the power to overthrow the Emperor and all his whims and cruelties (the way she no longer believes Father ever will) and remake the Empire in her own design.


Star Wars, Han/Leia/Luke, My hand was the one you reached for / All throughout the Great War

They've all touched each other easily, right from the start - Han's hand covering Luke's and guiding him on exactly which lever to hold while the Falcon wobbles through hyperspace, Luke's hand finding Leia's and holding tight while they run from stormtroopers, Leia's hands and Han's catching each other after their victory hugs and holding on as long as possible as if daring each other to be the first to let go.

(Their hands find each other in darker, quieter moments too, in celebration after Yavin and exhaustion on Hoth and comfort on the anniversaries of Alderaan's destruction, and in all the little moments of victory and despair and sheer need to connect to someone and something real in the middle of a war).

It should be different, now that the war is over and all the truths are known, but as they sit on an Ewok bridge and watch the victory fires burning down below, they glance down at Han's left fingers entwined with Leia's and his right fingers looped around Luke's hand and burst out laughing at how, maybe, this part of them doesn't have to change after all.


any, any, they're more like guidelines

Chewie's better than Han at rules - which isn't saying much, granted, but even in the tightest spots Chewie can and will remind Han of things like "the deflector shield isn't built to take that kind of fire, Han" and "you don't have many parsecs before that black hole sucks the ship in, Han" or in this case, "you know that you can't overload the hyperdrive without cracking it, right, Han?".

"Yeah, I know," Han replies, handing Chewie the hydrospanner, "but trust me, okay?"

And Chewie, despite his better judgment, does; as Han punches the hyperdrive and they shoot into lightspeed just ahead of the Imperial cruiser, he thinks that where he and Han and this improbable boltbucket of a ship is concerned, the rules are more like guidelines anyway.

Stardew Valley

any, any, A scheme to raise giant squid in the sewers.

"I still don't know how she got down here, exactly," Krobus said, "but she likes the slimejacks - she even said she might bring her family here and we could catch a new line of products for the store - do you think there's too much competition in the market for deep-sea fish around here?"

The farmer - quite unusually for them - stood completely quiet and stock-still beside Krobus, breathing more and quicker than humans normally did in a sewer; when Krobus followed their stare across the sewer-muck, he saw a huge sucker-lined arm rise through the sewer-steam and undulate languorously at them.

"She likes it when we wave back to her," Krobus said cheerfully as he wiggled his hands towards the squid, and after another, deeper breath, the farmer slowly lifted their own hand and joined in.

A Streetcar Named Desire

any, any, cherry soda

The kid gives her a weird look when she comes to the soda fountain for her cherry soda; at first she apologizes, wondering if she grabbed his drink by mistake, but then he tightens his fingers around his own cherry soda and clutches it closer - then blinks again, loosens his grip - then cocks his head, like whatever ghost he's seen looking at her has already fled and there's only a vaguely benevolent curiosity left behind.

"Ma'am," he says softly, "are you all right?"

A wonderful question, she thinks, one she's been asking herself ever since Blanche went to the asylum - but Eunice is watching the baby and Stanley will be home from the poker game in a few hours and asking herself questions will only land her right beside Blanche in a matching straitjacket, so she smiles weakly, and takes a sip of her soda, and musters up all her gracious girlhood manners and assures the young man that she's perfectly all right, thank you ever so much for asking.

Tortall

Tortall, Kel/Yuki, dance

Yuki had been the one to teach Kel the dance of the fans, years ago when they were young girls - a beautiful sparring game where two dancers weave gracefully around each other, their shukusens flicking open delicately and slicing the air with the beat of the music, and the dancers' pride is in how fluidly they move and how closely they can flash the shukusens toward their partner without the blades breaking the skin and without either of them ever flinching.

They resume the dance when Yuki comes to Tortall, but it has new dangers now that they are grown women, and new meanings too; Kel has to watch herself so that she doesn't bring down the full power and force of her knight's training while she dances, and it's somehow harder as she watches Yuki too, who lingers teasingly too long on the downbeat and crinkles her eyes when the shukusen whistles close to her ears and takes every moment to duck and dart around Kel so that Kel feels her body's warmth around her for every moment of the dance.

They end the dance without either of them cutting the other but with their arms twined and their chests pressed close together; the shukusens flick closed but Kel feels that the dance is not yet over, and when they lean in to press their lips together, neither of them ever flinch.

Hello, creator!

I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too.

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General Likes and DNWs

General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Hair care, washing, and styling as bonding
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Five + one things structure

General art likes
I love a wide range of art styles, so I don't have much of a preference there. For art-specific prompts:
Wearing your nicest outfits for a formal event (and getting those formal clothes messed up if/when the event goes sideways)
Helping someone get dressed, because of an injury or complicated clothes
Fight scenes, especially being already battered and bruised but still squaring up to continue the fight
Dancing, well or badly
Sneaking into a place you shouldn't be

General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon.)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)

Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.

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Columbo

Requested tags: Columbo, Lieutenant Columbo and Dog the Dog

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

About the canon:

I'm so very fond of this canon. It's very enjoyable watching both the elaborate murder plots and Columbo deftly unraveling them in his own seemingly-unassuming way. Plus the bond between man and dog!

Prompts

- (Columbo) We only really see Columbo on a case, and the information he gives about his life outside his work varies greatly on the suspects he's trying to corner. Is there any truth to any of the stories he weaves? Any slice-of-life or Columbo tailing a more "ordinary" case would be lovely.

- (Columbo & Dog) I'd like to see a case from Dog's point of view! Maybe Dog is trying to help his master by seeking out crucial clues, or maybe Dog has a canine case of his own that intersects with Columbo's mystery-of-the-week. (This would work very well with interactive fiction, if that's something you're interested in).

M*A*S*H

Requested tags: Margaret Houlihan, Maxwell Klinger, Father Francis Mulcahy, Charles Emerson Winchester III

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

About the canon:

This is one of my oldest fandoms, and I have such affection for all the weird and wonderful people at the 4077th. I love the humor and seeing all these strong personalities play off of each other, and I love the times when they do their best to find light in the midst of the horrific situation they're living in.

Canon-specific DNWs: Any non-canon ships involving Radar, Colonel Potter, or Henry Blake, and any shipping that breaks up BJ/Peg (although adding others into their relationship is great). I am completely happy with any other ships, though - f/f, f/m, m/m, polyamorous, whatever you like!

Prompts

- (Any) Canon-typical shenanigans in general - prank wars, Klinger's Section 8/escape attempts, all the little events that they come up with to try to stave off boredom. Alternatively, canon-typical serious moments and explorations of trauma would be excellent as well; in particular, this canon is inherently good for the "taking care of a wounded friend" hurt/comfort scenario. Just anything you loved about the series, I'd be glad to see a fic version of it.

- (Any) All of the above episode-typical moments, but also with the ICOR paperwork that Radar or Klinger had to fill out after various camp goings-on. The canon promo post also reminded me of how fun a Choose Your Own Adventure format could be for this fandom - following one of the characters through a typical day at the 4077th, or through a deluge of wounded, or accompanying a patient to camp or to a different MASH unit, or trying to get much-needed supplies. I always liked episodes like Point of View or Life Time that did something unusual with the format, and I'd enjoy seeing something along those lines here, too!

- (Margaret) Margaret has a spine of steel and a huge amount of volatile emotions and vulnerability that she has no idea how to express. I really liked the episodes where she ended up alone with one or two others, especially in a forced-proximity situation, because that's where her conflict between being strong and acknowledging her emotional needs seemed the most evident. Maybe she's trapped somewhere (on the road, at an aid station, in that cave from the CAVE episode) with one of the other characters and needs to make her way back to camp while relying on the other person?

- (Klinger) Klinger always has some scheme running, and I'd enjoy seeing any of them, particularly where they intersect with his knowledge of fashion and tailoring. I also somewhat see all his different plans and tricks as a way of getting his mind off where he is and why he's there. How did he pull of putting together that fancy wardrobe and elaborate disguises? I also liked the episode Dear Uncle Abdul and would love seeing him describe the events of the 4077th to his massive family in epistolary form. (In addition, I don't have any particular gender headcanons wrt Klinger, but I'm good with seeing Klinger playing around with gender and gendered expectations both deliberately and by accident).

- (Mulcahy) Command has sent an order that all personnel need to be trained in self-defense, and Mulcahy finds himself head teacher of the 4077th's impromptu boxing academy. Sure, he likes being needed, but he didn't expect to be needed for this, and between his new students' reluctance and his own unsureness of his purpose and capabilities he's not sure he's up for the challenge. How does he manage the situation? Do they ever have to make use of their training?

- (Any) They're sent away to a medical conference in Seoul or Tokyo. What happens - irritation over room sharing? Wild times at local establishments? An encounter with a visiting general (Klinger’s pulling a wild scheme, Mulcahy’s polite but questioning, Charles is schmoozing to try to get out of the 4077th, and it's probably one of Margaret's exes)? Bonding with each other while incredibly drunk? Kissing/hooking up while incredibly drunk?

- (Klinger, Mulcahy) The camp or the orphanage desperately needs supplies, and one or both of them wheel and deal with the black marketeers to get what they need while dodging suspicious MPs. I like seeing their guile at work!

- (Charles) I really enjoy Charles' relationship to music, how he sees it as his solace and uses it to both carve out an oasis for himself (while annoying his tentmates) and to comfort those who share his passion. I'd like to see Charles learning a new instrument, or teaching music to others, or bonding with patients or other hospital staff over music. Or possibly one of his own compositions?

- (Charles) I find it interesting that he and Hawkeye and Trapper would have lived in Boston in overlapping time periods, and it's likely that they would have still gone to Boston sometimes for work-related reasons even after the war ended. It would be cool to see Charles continuing to run into the people from the 4077 in Boston post-war and eventually start trying to see each other on purpose, because like it or not they're one of the few people around who Gets It, and the push-and-pull of rivalry and respect between them (and possibly the romantic/sexual sparks)

Star Wars

Requested tags: C-3PO & R2-D2, C-3PO & R2-D2 & Darth Vader, Leia Organa/Han Solo, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo, Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian & Chewbacca

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3

About the canon:

This is another of my oldest fandoms! I love all the risks that Our Heroes take to help/save the others (even when there seems to be a betrayal, they always come back and do whatever they can to make things right), and it makes for sound camaraderie that makes their adventures so fun to watch. The worldbuilding is a great genre-hodgepodge of sheer pulpy nonsense with room for both fun antics and genuinely touching moments.

I'm familiar with various aspects of both the Disney canon universe and the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. Feel free to draw on whatever version of canon you want and to mix them together if it makes sense for what you're creating! Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. Finally, if you're writing Leia/Luke/Han or Leia/Lando/Han I'm happy with it both as a full triad or as a Han-centric V, depending on your preferences.

Prompts

- (Any) An adventure story about going on the hunt for a MacGuffin, including mysterious clues and booby traps and narrow escapes from The Bad Guys. Making blatant Indiana Jones references using Han is encouraged. (I'd also be very here for this kind of story in a Choose Your Own Adventure format).

- (Any) An undercover mission! Han and Leia (+ Lando or Luke) pretending to be married/actually getting married to maintain cover, Luke having to resort to the Force at the worst possible time, Chewie actually bringing one or more of the others in as "prisoners" rather than him having to pretend to be the captured one for once...

- (Any) I really like one-or-both-twins-are-raised-by-Vader-as-his-Sith-apprentice(s) AUs and even Empress-Padmé-and-her-heir(s) AUs. How do all of the characters' relationships change in a world where that happened?

- (C-3PO & R2-D2) They're always on the edge of whatever drama is happening among the main characters, and I'd love the opportunity to see them at center stage! Anything with their own POV on the events of the movies would be great, or maybe an exploration of their lives in between the prequels and the original trilogy? Maybe Threepio and Artoo go on their own mission for the Rebellion!

- (C-3PO & R2-D2 & Darth Vader) There's just a lot of potential for comedy and drama and dramatic irony here. How could the droids come into Vader's possession - capture, being bought, maybe they never left Vader's service in the first place? How do they handle life behind Imperial lines, and what sort of tasks does Vader ask of them? How does Vader relate to them, as Vader and as the memory of Anakin?

- (Leia & Luke, Leia/Han, Leia & Luke & Han, Leia/Luke/Han, Lando/Leia/Han) At the last minute, Tarkin decides against destroying Alderaan. How does Alderaan's survival impact the development of the Rebellion, as well as the relationships among the characters? I'm also very here for Queen Leia stories.

- (Leia & Luke) Anything that goes into their Force connection - feeling it before they realize what it is (maybe showing up in each other's dreams, or as each other's "imaginary friends" as small children) or using it to better learn how to use the Force and understand each other after they know. Also, Leia sharing her memories of Padmé with Luke.

- (Leia & Luke) I love any and all moments of Leia getting Jedi training, and I'd love to see more of that! How does she approach her powers? In what ways does she work well with Luke's teaching, and in what ways does she feel a conflict with it? How does she react when she's using her powers for the first time? I'm also great with a role-reversal where Leia's the Jedi teaching Luke.

- (Leia & Luke & Han or Leia/Luke/Han) Anything about the time period in between ANH and ESB, where Leia is grieving her planet and Luke is adjusting to commanding a squadron and Han is insisting that no, really, he's going to leave any day now. They're already close even by the end of ANH, having bound together in life-or-death situations, but how does their relationship develop and grow in the relatively mundane times?

- (Leia & Luke & Han or Leia/Luke/Han) I always see Han as being just a little weirded out by the whole Force thing, no matter how long he knows Luke and Leia. How does he handle both of their growing powers, and how does it change their relationships?

- (Leia/Han or Lando/Leia/Han) They manage to keep Han from getting frozen in carbonite, but Luke is captured instead. How do they work together to save him and keep the Rebellion running while also grappling with their feelings for one another?

- (Leia/Han or Lando/Leia/Han) In ROTJ, they have a lot of time to come to an understanding about their relationship on the way from Tatooine back to the fleet - or just celebrate getting Han back.

- (Lando & Chewie) Anything about their time together between ESB and ROTJ, having to rely on each other to find Han while repairing broken trust and processing how they've both changed since the last time they were working together.

- (Lando & Chewie) Sometime during the Rebellion, Chewie recruits Lando's help to liberate Kashyyyk from Imperial control. How do they try to pull it off? Any sort of elaborate schemes or cons would be awesome here.

- (Any) Any of the other prompts, but in the style of an after-the-fact mission report or other Rebellion internal communication. Maybe every member of the mission has a conflicting story about what exactly happened? Maybe it's all the requisition and order forms Han filled out trying to get new parts every time something on the Falcon stops working?

A Song of Ice and Fire

Requested tags: Catelyn Tully Stark/Ned Stark, Oberyn Martell/Ellaria Sand

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

About the canon:

With Cat/Ned, I love the canon story of them building a life together and slowly falling in love. Neither of them expected to marry the other and their marriage got off to a rocky start, to say the least, but through a combination of natural compatibility and working to understand each other, they created one of the strongest marriages in the canon and became the loves of each other's lives. The chapter in AGOT where they're pulling each other close all the time during their meeting in King's Landing demonstrates just how much comfort they find in each other, and they both spend a lot of their page time just wanting to be back home and back together.

For Ellaria/Oberyn, they both have such strong personalities that it's fun to see them sparking off with each other. Neither of them are bound by the social conventions of Westeros and are determined to get what they want, and I like the idea of them forging their own path together. They also differ in interesting ways, too - Oberyn spends his canon appearance driven by revenge while Ellaria's biggest moment in the series is a speech on the futility of revenge, and yet they have a very obvious respect and love for each other despite their differences. (With this couple, I'm also great with adding in other people, as long as it conforms to my DNWs).

Prompts

- (Ned/Cat) I'd love to see takes on their early married life as they get to know each other and learn to trust and depend on each other. This includes things like early awkward conversations and even more awkward sex in Riverrun, slice-of-life in Winterfell, learning to make the sex less awkward and eventually actually good, raising their children or discovering a pregnancy, and exchanging letters during Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. (A note on Jon: Jon's presence in Winterfell is obviously a major part of the development of Ned and Cat's marriage - handle it as much or as little as you'd like, I just ask you to be as fair as possible to each of the characters involved and to have Jon as the result of R+L=J).

- (Ned/Cat) I would also be interested in seeing Ned and Cat in a canon-divergence AU but still marrying for political reasons - maybe Edmure is a girl and Cat is heiress to Riverrun marrying second son Ned, or this is a world where Brandon and Catelyn manage to get married and have a child before his death and Ned marries his brother's widow to help secure Brandon's child's rulership of Winterfell.

- (Oberyn/Ellaria) What was their original courtship like? How did they first meet, and how did they seduce each other into becoming dedicated partners? Any background on Ellaria would also be very welcome, since we know so little of what her life was like pre-Oberyn.

- (Oberyn/Ellaria) I'm also really interested in the period of time between the Rebellion and the start of canon, where Oberyn and Ellaria are building their family together and Oberyn is making plans for vengeance. Was Ellaria present for the deal Oberyn signed with Willem Darry in Braavos, and even if she wasn't, what did she think of it (Doran says that Ellaria didn't know about it, but I'm willing to believe he's wrong especially for fic purposes)? What was it like raising the Sand Snakes?

Dear creator,

I'm so excited to see what you're creating! I hope you have fun with your assignment.

Prompts are here if you want them, but I'm happy with seeing your own take on the tags or the dream fic you've always wanted to write but haven't had a chance to yet. For this exchange especially, I love the idea of rarepairs and wildly off-the-wall ships, although I'll also be happy with your tried-and-true favorites as well. If you're thinking that this character is too weird or obscure or in-the-background to pair the LBD off with - trust me, they aren't. (And with the background characters, while I'm not opting into complete OCs I'm completely happy if you take a character who's basically just a name or a face in canon, flesh them out, and pair them with my LBD).

Please contact me though the mods if you have any questions or concerns. I'm also sincereously on AO3.

General Likes and DNWS

General Likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Encounters with the supernatural, particularly ghosts
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Mind control/possession (and resisting mind control/possession)
Five + one things structure

General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon)
Underage under 15 (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)

Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.

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MASH

Requested LBDs:
Margaret Houlihan, Maxwell Klinger

Requested Ship Configurations:
LBD/F
LBD/M
LBD/F/M

Ship DNWs:
LBD/Colonel Potter
LBD/BJ Hunnicutt
LBD/Radar O'Reilly

Additional Details:

- I love Margaret's spine of steel and her moments of vulnerability, her anger and her compassion, and above all her fierce sense of purpose. I really liked the episodes where she ended up alone with one or two others, especially in a forced-proximity situation - maybe she's trapped somewhere (on the road, at an aid station, in that cave from the CAVE episode) with one of the other characters and needs to make her way back to camp while relying on the other person? Or maybe we can see a different side of Margaret away from camp - in the present at Seoul or Tokyo, or in the past as she becomes the person we see onscreen, or in the future when she's readjusting to being a devoted Army nurse without a war.

- Klinger's such a fun character; he's always got some scheme running! He also has a remarkable ability to adapt, which I think would make him fit so well with so many of the characters in this show. I'd like to see him working with one of the other characters to pull off some scam and falling for them a bit in the process, or escaping a dangerous situation - black marketeers? angry MPs? - alongside the character of your choice.

Stardew Valley

Requested LBDs:
Abigail, Elliott, Haley, Leah, Krobus, Wizard | M. Rasmodius

Requested Ship Configurations:
Any configuration for Abigail, Elliott, Krobus, and the Wizard
For Haley and Leah:
LBD/F
LBD/O
LBD/F/F
LBD/F/O
The one ship opt-in for Haley and Leah outside these categories is Haley/Krobus.
For all requested LBDs, I am also opting into Rule 63 versions of non-LBD characters for this canon.

Ship DNWs:
LBD/The Farmer

Additional Details:

- Abigail has some amazing determination and a good sense of adventure! I'd enjoy seeing her finding a new adventure exploring the valley alongside your chosen character(s), or something with Abigail and the character(s) discovering her magical potential.

- Elliott's voice is one of my favorites - I love how he speaks about the world and the people he's living among, and I think he's especially good for introspection. I like the idea of him finding inspiration for his writing in all the weirdness of the valley alongside the character(s) of your choice; I'd also be super interested in seeing epistolary fic or failed drafts of his book through which he figures out his relationships.

- Krobus is so sweet and so alien, with a big heart. He has obvious reasons to be wary of the people around him, but I love to see him learning about the human world from the other characters and him teaching them about the world of the magical beings in return.

- The Wizard's got a fascinating past to explore and a lot of fun knowledge to explore behind his standoffish demeanor. Maybe the Wizard teams up with the character(s) for a difficult magical experiment! I'd also be interested to see an exploration of his past relationship(s) and their fallout, or him embarking on a new affair among the townsfolk and all the drama that entails...

- Haley has a lovely soft side under her initial snobbishness, and I love seeing her hidden depths come out almost despite herself. Anything that goes into her photography hobby would be great - maybe the chosen character(s) become her model(s)? Or perhaps she has to recruit someone's help to find something she's lost, all while internally protesting that she isn't really that interested in spending time with them, this is just for practical purposes...

- Leah's down-to-earth practicality and increasing self-confidence are awesome. She also has a wonderful connection to the valley - maybe she gets caught up in the magical side alongside the chosen character(s) while exploring it for her art?

Tortall

Requested LBDs:
Kyprioth

Requested Ship Configurations:
Any!

Ship DNWs:
None.

Additional Details:

One thing I like about Kyprioth is that he's infinitely changeable, a clever and funny and often-ruthless trickster who exists entirely according to his own priorities. I love the idea of him among the raka of the Kyprish Islands, guiding and cajoling and seducing everyone from the queens to the commoners to get what he wants. I'm also interested in his interactions with the rest of the Tortallan-universe pantheon - pairing up with them to scheme against their mutual enemies, having wild flings with them, winning and losing sexy bets with them?

Hello, creator!

I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too. A large portion of this letter is also copied from past letters, and I would definitely welcome anything inspired by any of my letters for previous exchanges.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.

General Likes and DNWs

General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Canon divergence
Bickering, friendly and not-so-much
Introspection
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Complicated women, and complicated relationships between complicated women
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation (and giving into it)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents
Five + one things structure

General art likes
I love a wide range of art styles, so I don't have much of a preference there. For art/comic-specific prompts:
Learning how to dance
Sneaking into a place they're not supposed to be
Characters using weapons
Anything in a stained glass style!

General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of any requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples of both are acceptable, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Fic devoted primarily to examining real-world issues/-isms (please don't feel that you have to avoid them, but I'd rather they not be the entirety of what the work is about)
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
For both fic and art, please keep the level of violence at about what it is in canon.

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Graceling Realm

Requested tags: Brigan/Fire, Brocker/Roen, Cansrel & Fire

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork, Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication; Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives; Medium Opt In: Writing - Theatre Script - Play

About the canon:

I love all the complicated relationship among the characters, and how questions of legacy weigh down on all of them. So much of Fire's storyline is coming to terms with how much she is and isn't her father's daughter, with all of the characters having to pick up the pieces of Nax's and Cansrel's misrule and figure out how to grieve and move forward, on top of managing political and military crises. There's also a huge theme about duty to the realm vs. individual needs that forms a core to Brigan's character and is a big part of him and Fire bonding and eventually falling in love.

Prompts

- (Brigan/Fire) I'd love to see developments of their post-canon life, including Brigan adjusting to no longer being actively at war, Fire interacting with Brigan's family and other Dellian nobles at court, and both of them raising Hanna.

- (Brigan/Fire) It must take Fire a while to get used to losing some of her fingers, and I'd enjoy seeing her recovery from that wound with Brigan's help, especially drawing parallels between her injuries and Brigan's scars and wounds, both physical and psychological. The two of them recognizing a kindred spirit and shouldering the burdens of their individual duties and legacies is a big part of what draws me to the pair, and I like seeing them find comfort in each other.

- (Brocker/Roen) Backstory of their relationship during Nax's reign - how did they meet? What moments added together to make them fall in love, and what moment was it when they decided to cross the line and become lovers? What about Brigan's conception, or the aftermath of the discovery of the affair? Complex Dellian politics and complex feelings about adultery are a bonus.

- (Brocker/Roen) Post-canon, they actually have the chance to be together, but now there's the weight of history they have to deal with. They both have pretty settled individual lives at this point and they've never had a relationship without the specter of political danger hanging over them before, but they still clearly have affection for each other after all this time. How does their relationship grow and change? I'd also like to see them trying to rework their relationship with Brigan, given that he now knows the truth.

- (Cansrel & Fire) I found their relationship in the backstory fascinating, given how Fire loves her father and appreciates that there's someone else out there who can understand what it means to be a monster but also fears and hates what he chooses to do with their mind-control powers (and also fears what she can become if she ever misuses the powers like Cansrel does). On Cansrel's side, Fire is literally the only exception to his need to control and destroy everything around him. I'd love to see more examples of them interacting as Fire grows up. (This could also work with 5+1 things structure - five gifts that Cansrel gave Fire and one she gave him, five lessons Cansrel gave Fire and one she learned without him meaning to, etc.)

- (Cansrel & Fire) Fire is haunted by her father - in this case, literally. The ghost of Cansrel starts showing up - what are his goals from the afterlife (has he found out what - and who - really caused his death)? Fire has to find a way to put his spirit to rest before he can cause trouble...

- (Any) Most of these characters spend long periods of time apart from each other, and I'd love to see epistolary fics between any requested groups during their times of separation. What do they find easier to tell each other in writing? What do they find harder?

- (Any) Scholarly articles about the politics of the canon era and how the characters are seen by history. What do they understand correctly, and what do they get wrong?

- (Any) Popular literature or theatre about the characters - Fire in particular has taken on a heroic/symbolic status towards the end of the second book. Do the characters ever read it/go to see it? How would they react to it?

M*A*S*H

Requested tags: Margaret Houlihan, Kellye, Maxwell Klinger, Father Francis Mulcahy, Hawkeye Pierce/Charles Emerson Winchester III

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork, Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3, Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

About the canon:

This is one of my oldest fandoms, and I have such affection for all the weird and wonderful people at the 4077th. I love the humor and seeing all these strong personalities play off of each other, and I love the times when they do their best to find light in the midst of the horrific situation they're living in.

Canon-specific DNWs: Any non-canon ships involving Radar, Colonel Potter, or Henry Blake, and any shipping that breaks up BJ/Peg (although adding others into their relationship is great). I am completely happy with any other ships, though - f/f, f/m, m/m, polyamorous, whatever you like!

Prompts

- (Any) Canon-typical shenanigans in general - prank wars, Klinger's Section 8/escape attempts, all the little events that they come up with to try to stave off boredom. Alternatively, canon-typical serious moments and explorations of trauma would be excellent as well; in particular, this canon is inherently good for the "taking care of a wounded friend" hurt/comfort scenario. Just anything you loved about the series, I'd be glad to see a fic version of it.

- (Any) All of the above episode-typical moments, but also with the ICOR paperwork that Radar or Klinger had to fill out after various camp goings-on. A Choose Your Own Adventure format could be really fun for this fandom, too - following one of the characters through a typical day at the 4077th, or through a deluge of wounded, or accompanying a patient to camp or to a different MASH unit, or trying to get much-needed supplies. I always liked episodes like Point of View or Life Time that did something unusual with the format, and I'd enjoy seeing something along those lines here, too!

- (Kellye) Margaret is away from camp and Kellye has to take charge of the nurses during a crisis. Kellye's usually pretty easygoing and fun, and she's not used to being in charge, but she's also quick-witted and she'd be able to keep a cool head in a tense situation, if she needed to. How does she handle command? How does Margaret react once she returns?

- (Margaret) Margaret has a spine of steel and a huge amount of vulnerability that she has no idea how to express. I really liked the episodes where she ended up alone with one or two others, especially in a forced-proximity situation, because that's where her conflict between being strong and acknowledging her emotional needs seemed the most evident. Maybe she's trapped somewhere (on the road, at an aid station, in that cave from the CAVE episode) with one of the other characters and needs to make her way back to camp while relying on the other person?

- (Klinger) Klinger always has some scheme running, and I'd enjoy seeing any of them, particularly where they intersect with his knowledge of fashion and tailoring. I also somewhat see all his different plans and tricks as a way of getting his mind off where he is and why he's there. How did he pull of putting together that fancy wardrobe and elaborate disguises? I also liked the episode Dear Uncle Abdul and would love seeing him describe the events of the 4077th to his massive family in epistolary form. (In addition, I don't have any particular gender headcanons wrt Klinger, but I'm good with seeing Klinger playing around with gender and gendered expectations both deliberately and by accident).

- (Mulcahy) Command has sent an order that all personnel need to be trained in self-defense, and Mulcahy finds himself head teacher of the 4077th's impromptu boxing academy. Sure, he likes being needed, but he didn't expect to be needed for this, and between his new students' reluctance and his own unsureness of his purpose and capabilities he's not sure he's up for the challenge. How does he manage the situation? Do they ever have to make use of their training?

- (Margaret and/or Kellye and/or Hawkeye/Charles) They're sent away to a medical conference in Seoul or Tokyo. What happens - irritation over room sharing? Wild times at local establishments? An encounter with a visiting general (Kellye's cautious, Hawkeye's irreverent, Charles is schmoozing to try to get out of the 4077th, and it's probably one of Margaret's exes)? Bonding with each other while incredibly drunk? Kissing/hooking up while incredibly drunk?

- (Klinger, Mulcahy) The camp or the orphanage desperately needs supplies, and one or both of them wheel and deal with the black marketeers to get what they need while dodging suspicious MPs. I like seeing their guile at work!

- (Hawkeye/Charles) I find it interesting that they (and Trapper) would have lived in Boston in overlapping time periods, and it's likely that Hawkeye would have still gone to Boston sometimes for work-related reasons even after returning to Crabapple Cove. It would be cool to see Hawkeye and Charles continuing to run into each other in Boston post-war and eventually start trying to see each other on purpose, because like it or not they're one of the few people around who Gets It, and the push-and-pull of rivalry and respect between them turns into romantic/sexual sparks. Alternatively, all of the times that they almost met before the war, and the one time they actually do meet it's either in circumstances where they don't remember it later or don't want to acknowledge that they remember it in canon.

A Song of Ice and Fire

Requested tags: Ashara Dayne/Elia Martell, Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark, Oberyn Martell/Ellaria Sand

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Epistolary, Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

About the canon:

For Ashara/Elia, we don't get much of them in canon but what little we do is super-interesting. It's quite likely that they knew each other when they were young, before Elia's marriage, and then they had the experience of being two Dornish women in King Aerys' court once Elia married Rhaegar, both of which foster the opportunity for them to have unique understanding and support for each other. I also want any opportunity in fic for them to be something beyond the tragic dead figures they are in canon.

With Cat/Ned, I love the canon story of them building a life together and slowly falling in love. Neither of them expected to marry the other and their marriage got off to a rocky start, to say the least, but through a combination of natural compatibility and working to understand each other, they created one of the strongest marriages in the canon and became the loves of each other's lives. The chapter in AGOT where they're pulling each other close all the time during their meeting in King's Landing demonstrates just how much comfort they find in each other, and they both spend a lot of their page time just wanting to be back home and back together.

For Ellaria/Oberyn, they both have such strong personalities that it's fun to see them sparking off with each other. Neither of them are bound by the social conventions of Westeros and are determined to get what they want, and I like the idea of them forging their own path together. They also differ in interesting ways, too - Oberyn spends his canon appearance driven by revenge while Ellaria's biggest moment in the series is a speech on the futility of revenge, and yet they have a very obvious respect and love for each other despite their differences. (With this couple, I'm also great with adding in other people, as long as it conforms to my DNWs).

Prompts

- (Ashara/Elia) Pre-Rebellion, what was their life like as princess bride and lady-in-waiting? Dragonstone can be incredibly gloomy, and I imagine they spent a lot of time keeping each other's spirits up. Alternatively, what would an AU look like where they survive past 283 AC - as hostages to the Baratheon regime, as supporters to a victorious Targaryen dynasty, in Essos with Rhaenys and/or Aegon? Anything from intricate political drama to angst to fluff would be welcome.

- (Ashara/Elia) I have a major soft spot for Ruling Princess of Dorne Elia (assume Doran died/was never born/pulled a Prince of Dragonflies or some such) and I'd enjoy seeing her relationship with Ashara in that AU universe, particularly with Ashara as Elia's right hand. You can also add in another person to the relationship, especially since Elia would likely take a consort, but I like Ashara and Elia still being partners in life and in politics no matter what.

- (Ned/Cat) I'd love to see takes on their early married life as they get to know each other and learn to trust and depend on each other. This includes things like early awkward conversations and even more awkward sex in Riverrun, slice-of-life in Winterfell, learning to make the sex less awkward and eventually actually good, raising their children or discovering a pregnancy, and exchanging letters during Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. (A note on Jon: Jon's presence in Winterfell is obviously a major part of the development of Ned and Cat's marriage - handle it as much or as little as you'd like, I just ask you to be as fair as possible to each of the characters involved and to have Jon as the result of R+L=J).

- (Ned/Cat) I would also be interested in seeing Ned and Cat in a canon-divergence AU but still marrying for political reasons - maybe Edmure is a girl and Cat is heiress to Riverrun marrying second son Ned, or this is a world where Brandon and Catelyn manage to get married and have a child before his death and Ned marries his brother's widow to help secure Brandon's child's rulership of Winterfell.

- (Oberyn/Ellaria) What was their original courtship like? How did they first meet, and how did they seduce each other into becoming dedicated partners? Any background on Ellaria would also be very welcome, since we know so little of what her life was like pre-Oberyn.

- (Oberyn/Ellaria) I'm also really interested in the period of time between the Rebellion and the start of canon, where Oberyn and Ellaria are building their family together and Oberyn is making plans for vengeance. Was Ellaria present for the deal Oberyn signed with Willem Darry in Braavos, and even if she wasn't, what did she think of it (Doran says that Ellaria didn't know about it, but I'm willing to believe he's wrong especially for fic purposes)? What was it like raising the Sand Snakes?

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Requested tags: Leia Organa/Han Solo, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo, Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian & Chewbacca

Requested medium tags: Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart, Medium Opt In: Art - Comics, Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass, Medium Opt In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting, Medium Opt In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork, Medium Opt In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure, Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3, Medium Opt In: Writing - Mission Report, Medium Opt In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives

About the canon:

The OT crew, in various configurations! I love how much they're all willing to risk to help/save the others (even when there seems to be a betrayal, they always come back and do whatever they can to make things right), and it makes for sound camaraderie that makes their adventures so fun to watch. The frequent snarking and the tendency to improvise foolhardy plans for (mostly) good causes is a bonus!

I'm familiar with various aspects of both the Disney canon universe and the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. Feel free to draw on whatever version of canon you want and to mix them together if it makes sense for what you're creating! Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. Finally, if you're writing Leia/Luke/Han or Leia/Lando/Han I'm happy with it both as a full triad or as a Han-centric V, depending on your preferences.

Prompts

- (Any) An adventure story about going on the hunt for a MacGuffin, including mysterious clues and booby traps and narrow escapes from The Bad Guys. Making blatant Indiana Jones references using Han is encouraged. (I'd also be very here for this kind of story in a Choose Your Own Adventure format).

- (Any) An undercover mission! Han and Leia (+ Lando or Luke) pretending to be married/actually getting married to maintain cover, Luke having to resort to the Force at the worst possible time, Chewie actually bringing one or more of the others in as "prisoners" rather than him having to pretend to be the captured one for once...

- (Any) I really like one-or-both-twins-are-raised-by-Vader-as-his-Sith-apprentice(s) AUs and even Empress-Padmé-and-her-heir(s) AUs. How do all of the characters' relationships change in a world where that happened?

- (Leia & Luke, Leia/Han, Leia & Luke & Han, Leia/Luke/Han, Lando/Leia/Han) At the last minute, Tarkin decides against destroying Alderaan. How does Alderaan's survival impact the development of the Rebellion, as well as the relationships among the characters? I'm also very here for Queen Leia stories.

- (Leia & Luke) Anything that goes into their Force connection - feeling it before they realize what it is (maybe showing up in each other's dreams, or as each other's "imaginary friends" as small children) or using it to better learn how to use the Force and understand each other after they know. Also, Leia sharing her memories of Padmé with Luke.

- (Leia & Luke) I love any and all moments of Leia getting Jedi training, and I'd love to see more of that! How does she approach her powers? In what ways does she work well with Luke's teaching, and in what ways does she feel a conflict with it? How does she react when she's using her powers for the first time? I'm also great with a role-reversal where Leia's the Jedi teaching Luke.

- (Leia & Luke & Han or Leia/Luke/Han) Anything about the time period in between ANH and ESB, where Leia is grieving her planet and Luke is adjusting to commanding a squadron and Han is insisting that no, really, he's going to leave any day now. They're already close even by the end of ANH, having bound together in life-or-death situations, but how does their relationship develop and grow in the relatively mundane times?

- (Leia & Luke & Han or Leia/Luke/Han) I always see Han as being just a little weirded out by the whole Force thing, no matter how long he knows Luke and Leia. How does he handle both of their growing powers, and how does it change their relationships?

- (Leia/Han or Lando/Leia/Han) They manage to keep Han from getting frozen in carbonite, but Luke is captured instead. How do they work together to save him and keep the Rebellion running while also grappling with their feelings for one another?

- (Leia/Han or Lando/Leia/Han) In ROTJ, they have a lot of time to come to an understanding about their relationship on the way from Tatooine back to the fleet - or just celebrate getting Han back.

- (Lando & Chewie) Anything about their time together between ESB and ROTJ, having to rely on each other to find Han while repairing broken trust and processing how they've both changed since the last time they were working together.

- (Lando & Chewie) Sometime during the Rebellion, Chewie recruits Lando's help to liberate Kashyyyk from Imperial control. How do they try to pull it off? Any sort of elaborate schemes or cons would be awesome here.

- (Any) Any of the other prompts, but in the style of an after-the-fact mission report or other Rebellion internal communication. Maybe every member of the mission has a conflicting story about what exactly happened? Maybe it's all the requisition and order forms Han filled out trying to get new parts every time something on the Falcon stops working?