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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.

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

General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Encounters with the supernatural, particularly ghosts
Characters using or attempting to use magic or other supernatural forces
Maybe-magic-maybe-mundane events
Canon divergence
Introspection
Humor
Suspense
Unreliable narrators
Dramatic irony
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 being vulnerable
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side/inner demons (and giving in)
Mind control/possession (and resisting mind control/possession)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents
Five + one things structure

General art likes
Depictions of canon rooms, houses, and landscapes (also includes maps and set designs)
Characters with bloody hands
Characters doing ordinary things with very un-ordinary things happening in the background
Symbolic imagery
Black-and-white or greyscale with pops of color
Light - from warm glows illuminating the whole space to chiaroscuro
Any art style is great!

General DNWs:
Character bashing
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
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)
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.

*Exception to the rape/noncon DNW: any ship involving Helen Vaughan.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Requested Characters: Abby Brewster, Martha Brewster, Teddy Brewster, Mortimer Brewster, Elaine Harper

Canon-specific DNWs: Canon-divergent death of any requested characters.

A classic movie with dead body shenanigans, the nicest murderers you’ll ever meet, and one very frazzled Cary Grant. What could be better for Halloween? I love the humor in this, the contrast of sweetness with horror lurking underneath (like the poisoned elderberry wine), and watching it has been a Halloween tradition for me for years.

I like Mortimer/Elaine, and I’m also happy with gen-focused works for this canon.

Prompts

- I’d love to see more of Abby and Martha’s history - how they grew up (their dad had a laboratory and seemed to be pretty wonky himself), raising Mortimer and getting to know Elaine, some of their early kills…

- With the way Teddy seamlessly blends whatever happens in his life to the life of Teddy Roosevelt and carries on his merry way, his POV on the events of the movie would be really fun to read. Also, what would it be like post-canon with him and Abby and Martha in Happydale? Do Abby and Martha find any more yellow fever victims for him to bury?

- During Mortimer and Elaine’s courtship, Abby and Martha decide to make a love potion for the lovebirds.

- Abby and Martha are throwing a Halloween party! And during the party, they find a lonely old gentleman who they think might need some of their special charity...

- Post-canon, Mortimer and Elaine just...have a house in Brooklyn with thirteen dead bodies in the basement. How do they handle that?

- The ghosts of the dead men start coming around. How do the inhabitants deal with that? Abby and Martha would probably just set out a nice tea for them, but Mortimer and Elaine would probably be less sanguine.


The Great God Pan

Requested Characters: Helen Vaughan, Rachel

I really enjoy the flashes of eldritch horror hiding under the surface, imbuing everything with this subtle sense of wrongness wherever Helen is involved. One thing that also really fascinates me is how much of the story is built on secondhand information, where Helen is as otherworldly and seductive and unknowable as Pan himself.

I enjoy Helen/Rachel (definitely does not need to end happily) and in general Helen/fucking everybody while fucking everybody up.

Prompts

- The narrators of this story are all men - we never hear from any women describing their encounters with Helen. What could some of their stories of Helen be? How would they perceive her appeal and her danger?

- For that matter, what is Helen's life like from her own perspective? How does an eldritch being even perceive the world, anyway? She can shapeshift - how did she develop this persona out of all she could have chosen? How did she choose her victims and relate to her companions? Did she just not have the power to escape at the end or did she commit suicide for her own reasons?

- Helen draws quite a number of followers in her court - what happened in their revels? I especially like the idea of a Bacchanalia-esque mystery cult forming around Helen, with all the ecstasy and horror that could entail.

- "What happened to Rachel" is one of the story's longest-running threads, and one of the ones I find most interesting. How did Rachel see Helen before going into the woods with her - with fascination, skepticism, trepidation, desire? What did Helen promise her to get Rachel to go into the woods with her? What did Rachel become when she encountered Helen and her companions in the woods? I do kind of like the idea of Rachel undergoing an eldritch transformation, maybe into Helen's Mary or maybe into something like Helen herself.

- More in-universe documents about Helen, from anyone's perspective including her own. Things like inscriptions to invoke Pan and/or Helen, or medical and police reports of victims driven to madness, or diaries of people on the periphery of Helen's wake of destruction (maybe people who'd be beneath her notice, like servants, or people who are deliberately trying to get her on their side to destroy their enemies and may be destroyed themselves).


Psycho

Requested Characters: Lila Crane, Marion Crane, Sam Loomis, Norman Bates, Mother/Norman's alter

Canon-specific DNWs: Canon-divergent deaths of Marion or Lila, or complete disappearance of Mother/Norman's alter while Norman survives. Canon deaths are fine, as is non-canonically killing off Norman or Sam.

I enjoy all the things that are not as they seem in this canon, about the sides of the characters that they hide from everyone, sometimes including themselves. There’s a lot of horror, but it’s understated and happens more in people’s heads (including those of the audience).

Shipwise I like Marion/Sam, Marion/Norman, and Sam/Norman. None of these ships have to be portrayed as straightforwardly romantic and can definitely go to dark places (particularly those involving Norman, because, well, dude has issues). I don't mind incorporating aspects of the books/sequel movies but would prefer a focus on this specific movie, and I'm also fine with ignoring the books/sequels if you'd like to explore something different.

Prompts

- What was Norman's life like in that spooky house and that run-down motel with only Mother for company? What did the other townsfolk, including Sam, think of him? It's not unlikely that the knife that killed Marion came from Sam's hardware store...

- Mother's perspective on the events of the movie, or on living in the mental hospital after canon. How much is she aware of the things she's done and/or the things Norman blames her for? How much does she see herself as separate from or a part of Norman, and how does she express that understanding?

- Marion's ghost appears - haunting her killer, leading her sister and/or lover to the truth of what happened to her, just taking out her frustration on everything in sight, etc.

- Marion isn’t attacked in the shower, and later comes to live in Fairvale with Sam without telling him what she did. She and Norman now have the weird position of having shared some secrets with each other but kept plenty of others - what happens when she runs into him again? Does Lila or Sam ever suspect what happened? Are the police still after Marion, or do they ever get suspicious about Norman?

- Anything about Lila's grief, and Sam's, post-canon. Marion was one of the few people either of them had left and she died a couple of weeks before Christmas, poor guys. I'd also be interested in seeing Lila confront Norman/Mother, or making a desperate attempt to reach Marion beyond the grave.

It's that time of year again! Three Sentence Ficathon is open to fills for three prompt posts, and is open for new prompts on Post 3 until February 11th.

My fills below:

16th Century CE RPF (Tudors)

Tudor Era RPF: Anne Boleyn; being the Duke of York's bride is flattering, but Henry's infatuation with his elder brother's wife infuriates her

The king had often dryly said that if he himself were meant to be King Arthur, his brother Henry would try to be all of the other Knights of the Round Table all at once. And in some ways, Anne had to admit, her husband succeeded at that - he could be gallant as Gawain and brave as Percival and poetic as Tristan, when he felt like it.

But when she saw how he looked at the queen - when he asked her to dance at masques whenever Catherine put an affectionate hand on her husband's shoulders, when he jousted under the name of a lovelorn mystery knight and begged her favor - she could only think of Lancelot.

Dracula

Dracula, Lucy & the brides of Dracula, Lucy meets the brides

She comes to the castle as the newest addition to the count's collection, and she is expected to fall neatly into the same unlife that awaits all of Dracula's brides. For a while she goes along with it, feasts with them on children's blood, learns their names and histories and secret hungers while they teach her their centuries of wiles and their favorite tactics in the hunt.

But Lucy has a taste for freedom that they have long forgotten, and every night she whispers a reminder that there is a whole world for them outside of the castle walls, and that four sets of razor teeth far outnumber one.

M*A*S*H

mash ; bj/hawkeye/peggy ; motorcyle

"Spokes Hunnicut? I haven't heard that name for years," Peg said, giving her new motorcycle one last check while BJ and Hawkeye still fiddled with their own.

Hawkeye stopped working when he heard her, straightening up with one of his brightest grins and saying, "You mean he didn't make that name up?"

"Okay, okay, you two," BJ said, kicking his motorcycle's stand away, "come on and follow me," and they did, because after everything they'd all been through, they'd follow anywhere he'd go.

A Song of Ice and Fire

any, any, hair care (washing, brushing, braiding, go wild)

"I like your hair," he said on their wedding night as Cat helped this stranger take down her braids, his hands (clumsy and gentle as his words) slowly working the pins through her locks in the first touch they'd ever shared alone together.

"You have beautiful hair," he said after their first daughter's birth, carefully rinsing sweat and soap out of the strands, and the warmth of the water and the warmth of Ned all blended together into wonderful contentment as an exhausted Cat leaned back closer to him and smiled.

"I love your hair," he said, and Cat gave him a knowing grin and handed him her brush; the king's visit fast approached and there was so much work still to be done, but for now she could steal this moment for her and Ned to share, alone in her chamber as the sun set red as her hair over the castle wall.

ASOIAF, Arya Stark, palinoia (n.) - the obsessive repetition of an act until it is perfect or mastered

Raise, parry, beat, thrust. She repeats it like her list of future dead, finding any sword or sword-like object she can and following the motions over and over until every muscle is screaming - raise, parry, beat, thrust.

She ends her evening prayers sweaty and shaking and triumphant, lowering her weapon and whispering valar morghulis.

Star Wars

any, any, dirty mind reading

Half an hour before the Falcon is scheduled to leave, and apparently Luke has to pull her aside and go over some mental shielding techniques.

Leia loves her brother, but honestly - "really, Han and I are about to go on our kriffing honeymoon and you have to do this now," she demands, staring up at him with her hands on her hips and that strange connection they have - the part of her mind she's come to label as Luke, that bond that's only gotten stronger since they've know what and why it is - buzzing in her head.

His smile back at her is half-amused and half-pained as he says, "That's exactly why I'm telling you this now," and Leia is starting to get a bad feeling about this as Luke's ears go red and he continues, "because I know we're still figuring out the sibling-bond thing and I'm glad you and Han are happy together and all, but there are some things I will not need to know about your honeymoon."

any ; any ; wait, you knit (crochet, sew, etc.)?

"Who else is gonna patch up my clothes if I rip them?" Han pulled Leia's shoulder slightly back, lining up the seam of her sleeve; she could feel the warmth of his fingers through the fabric as he added, "Not all of us grew up with a palace full of servants, your Highness - just hold still."

The jibe didn't have its usual bite - maybe because she'd realized he might poke her with words but never with the needle, maybe because he might've been as aware of how close they were standing as she was. Still, she couldn't help saying, "So that's why you've got those bloodstripes sewn on every pair of pants you own, is it?"

"Well, uh, it gets boring on long-hauls," he replied, but after that their focus both turned to the steady motion of the needle and - for a few minutes - all words died away.

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.

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)
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 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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A Brother's Price

Requested tags: Eldie Porter, Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family

About the canon:

I'm interested in the world that's constructed here, particularly how women fit within the family structures and the highly stratified society. It doesn't show as much with our viewpoint characters, being a rare boy and a princess who’s become the Eldest, but it's interesting how much of an average woman's identity in this world is subsumed into being part of a collective group of sisters, including running any sort of businesses or other jobs together and receiving any punishment earned by an individual member of the family. It'd be cool to see both the kinds of women that fit within these tight-knit, insular conceptions of family and those who want to defy the norms to find an individual identity or choose a different family. I'd also love to see any explorations of the in-universe culture.

While the tag is for original characters, I'm good with the characters turning out to be unnamed background canon characters too.

This canon is a single book available through most online book retailers and in libraries, including in ebook formats.

Prompts

- (Eldie Porter) From the Eldest of a duchess's family to a younger sister of farmers/merchants, and with her life and those of her new sisters on the line if she ever slips up and exposes the truth - how does she adjust in the aftermath of the book? How do her new sisters feel and act around her, or her new sisters-in-law and cousins in the royal family? What would happen if someone else found out about who she really was?

- (Eldie Porter) In an AU where the Porters aren't quite so ambitious and survive as former in-laws and closely trusted advisors to the Queens, what kind of person does Eldie Porter become? How does she feel about the Porter family? Is she at all close to the royals? What happens if she finds out the truth of her parentage?

- (Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) The characters take part in the War of the False Eldest. Who did they fight for? What did they think about the dynastic situation that led to the war, or were they just concerned about the common people/their family who got trampled in the war's path? Did they know the Whistlers at all, and what was their impression of them if they did?

- (Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family) What kind of criminals are they - thieves, thugs, smugglers, pickpockets, counterfeiters? What kind of criminal does this middle sister want to be, if she wants to be a criminal at all? What's her relationship with her sisters like, particularly with her Eldest? Is she satisfied with her status or is she looking for more, and what would that "more" look like for her? If so, does she succeed in getting it?

- (Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) What happened to her family to make joining the army seem like the best option? Was she actually interested in joining the army, or did her sisters pressure her into it? How does she adjust to the drudgery and danger of army life - that line in the book that "the army eats families" has stuck with me here. Does she manage to make it out and rise higher, and if she does, what prices does she end up paying for it?

Harlots

Requested tags: Violet Cross/Amelia Scanwell, Nancy Birch/Margaret Wells, William North/Margaret Wells

About the canon:
I love so much about this canon - the fripperies and humor, the politicking and drama and the moments of sincerity that shine through. I love the setting, with its range from decadence to squalor. More than anything, I love how complex the women are and complicated relationships they have with each other. All of these stories are, in the end, about people on the fringes trying to carve a place in the world, and I love seeing their successes and failures as they go after what they want.

For any story, I'm good with Margaret/Nancy and Margaret/Will by themselves or occurring simultaneously as V-shaped polyamory with Margaret as the hinge.

Harlots is 3 seasons (although only 2 are necessary for my request) of approximately 1-hour episodes (with 8 episodes a season) available on Hulu.

Prompts

- (Amelia/Violet) Any small series of missing slice-of-life scenes during or after their time in canon would be great - Violet caring for Amelia after her stabbing, them going on a journey together, Amelia and Violet having reading lessons and "reading lessons"...

- (Amelia/Violet) With their plot so unresolved at the end of season 2, I'd love to see what happens next for them! Them getting to strengthen their relationship after the physical and emotional turmoil they dealt with all season, being able to escape and build a life together and avoid the unwanted marriage, maybe teaming up with the Wells and associates in their plots against the Spartans? (As far as Hunt goes...well, I'd prefer that he not be outright abusive or that Amelia and Violet kill him, but other ways of writing him out of the equation - him sticking to calling off the engagement at the end of S2, going on the run after the ruse with Margaret is discovered, being killed as the start of a casefic, turning out to be not-straight and working out an amicable mutual bearding situation with Amelia and Violet - will work for me).

- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) Any kind of backstory fic would be very welcome. What little moments led to Nancy and Margaret falling into trust while in Lydia's house? What was their personal and professional life like after leaving Lydia - did they ever try to go into business together, or help each other find a place in the world? How did Margaret first get to know Will - he wasn't a client, but was he connected to the world of sex work in other ways or did he join it for the sake of being with Margaret?

- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) The people who love Margaret come after her after she's transported. Do they work to bring her back or try to establish a new life in a new world?

Measure for Measure

Requested tags: Isabella

About the canon:

Isabella's headstrong and messy and that's what I enjoy about her. She has a idiosyncratic set of ideals that she can be ruthless about pursuing. She isn't completely uncompromising in her principles, but the places where she chooses to bend and the places where she won't bend at all (and how she justifies those things to herself and to others) are really fascinating. I love productions that lean into how angry she can be about the unfair world and unfair situation she lives in.

This canon is available through multiple public-domain sources.

Prompts

- Honestly, if you just want to do 10k of character study, I'm all for that. Does she have any stories or saints or scholars who particularly speak to her? Who does she admire and who does she deplore? Where does she see her actions line up with her faith, and where does she have to work to reconcile them together? If you happen to be interested in early modern Catholic religious history or theology, I'd enjoy seeing some of those details too.

- After the play, does the shadow of what happened follow her even as she tries to escape to the convent? How do the other nuns react to her? Abbesses historically had quite a lot of influence in their local communities and had to interact with local authorities - what would happen if she eventually became Abbess? Alternatively, how would she fare as the Duchess? Could she find an expression of her faith and her needs that feels right to her? Noblewomen could historically wield a lot of soft power if they played their cards right - could Isabella harness that power (and for what purpose?) or is she not equipped to play that game?

- Do she and Claudio ever rebuild their relationship? Mariana has done an enormous morally ambiguous favor for Isabella, knows as well as Isabella does what it's like to suffer at a man's whims, and after marrying Angelo becomes far more prominent socially - how does Isabella relate to Mariana in the aftermath of the play, whether she marries the Duke or not? I'm good with her never interacting with Angelo again if you want, but if they do end up thrown together for some reason (maybe the Duke is doing some other convoluted scheme and they're either caught up in it or trying to pick up the pieces) how could those fraught circumstances unfold?

- Instead of a bed trick, Isabella opts for a straight-up prison break. Bonus points if she also dresses up as a friar in the course of the escape.

Stardew Valley

Requested tags: Krobus, Gunther, Marlon, Witch

About the canon:

I really enjoy the setting - it's so pretty and so charming, with a strong undercurrent of magic. For this exchange I'm especially interested in the strange and supernatural parts of the valley - there's a lot of lore but also a lot left unexplained and open to imagination.

This canon is available on Steam.

Prompts

- (Krobus) I love to see Krobus learning about the human world from the other characters and him teaching them about the world of the magical beings in return. What would happen if he struck up a friendship with a villager, especially someone who isn't the Farmer? Can he find a way to fit in the rhythm of life in the town?

- (Krobus) What, exactly, did Krobus do during the Elemental Wars that makes the dwarves want to send an assassin after him in particular? Any worldbuilding for both the Shadow People and the Dwarves (as well as other magical species) would be great too.

- (Gunther) So is Gunther the one who writes the descriptions for all of the artifacts and minerals that go into the museum? I'd love to see more of his scholarly archaeological work, including in-universe documents. And since he can leave the museum sometimes (he visits the Farmer to give them the Rusty Key), what if he goes on trips to find museum items? Anything from realistic archaeological practice to Gunther being a secret Indiana Jones figure would be really fun.

- (Gunther) Anything that goes into the Gunther-is-a-ghost theory. What was he like as a living villager? How did he die and end up haunting the museum? Did he know any of the other villagers when he was alive, or were they after his time?

- (Marlon) What's his history in the Adventurer's Guild? Are he and Gil the only members or is it an organization that goes throughout Ferngill (or even Gotoro)? What drew him to join or create the organization? What were his favorite or most harrowing adventures? How did he lose his eye and injure his leg, for example?

- (Marlon) Can Marlon use magic at all? If he doesn't, is it because he can't or because he refuses to (and if it's the latter, what actions led him to that decision)? If he can, how did he learn those skills, and what would happen if he had to put them to use to stop a large threat to the village and/or the valley?

- (Witch) How did she and the Wizard fall for each other? We only ever get the Wizard's side of how their marriage broke down - how does she see it? (I'm good with either or both as unreliable narrators). Did she create the shrines in her hut or did she build the hut around preexisting shrines? What goals does she have besides cursing random items in the town?

- (Witch) The Witch takes on an apprentice. Who does she pick? What are her goals in teaching them magic? How does the apprentice use their new powers?

- Any combination of my requested characters on an adventure of your choice - Gunther has to recruit Krobus' help to get a magical artifact for the museum! the Witch gives Marlon magical training! Marlon has to confront some unsavory Adventurer's Guild policies when he becomes friends with Krobus! the Witch conjures up ghostly Gunther to help with some scheme of hers! The valley is your oyster.

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.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3. Please also feel free to check out any of my past exchange letters for prompts and inspiration, if you want!

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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Carrie

Tags: Carrie White, Margaret White, Sue Snell

Additional Info and Prompts: Each of these characters have such raw pain guiding their lives and actions, and seeing how they express that hurt - for better or for worse - is so fascinating to me. The mundane setting tinged with the supernatural (or at least a kind of natural that includes things like telekinesis) also opens up a lot of fun worldbuilding possibilities that any of these characters can explore.

- Ship preferences: Carrie/Sue and/or canon pairings

- Any requested character having a moment of vulnerability, for whatever reason, in front of one or more other requested characters. They all have to put up such a strong front to other people; what happens when that front fails?

- I liked how much the book drew on in-universe documents to build its narrative, and I’d love to see other documents - Carrie’s schoolwork? religious pamphlets Margaret wrote? Sue’s book?

- Carrie doesn’t go to the prom and gets the chance to practice her power in smaller forms of vengeance/revenge in high school. How might she experiment with the power? How does she keep it secret or not? Is there ever a point where she crosses the line?

- Carrie's power is exposed earlier and she goes on the run from being captured and contained by the government/a company/various and sundry nefarious forces, either on her own or with Sue or Margaret.

- Anything on Margaret’s past and how she developed her twisted religious views - was there any specific incident that gave her such a horror of roadhouses, or did it slowly build up over time? This could also work with five-times structures (five lessons Margaret taught Carrie, etc.)

- Margaret herself has the carrier gene for TK - what would have happened if she had gotten the power? How would it have changed her religious views and the way she raised Carrie?

- Sue becomes a leading TK researcher and mentors another young TK-positive girl. Carrie’s ghost - figurative or real - may also make an appearance.

Chicago

Tags: Velma Kelly, Roxie Hart, Mary Sunshine, Mama Morton

Additional Info and Prompts: Four women in a deeply cynical world who are absolutely determined to get what they want. Even Mary Sunshine has a tenacity to her, while Velma and Roxie scheme with a mix of pettiness and audacity and Mama smiles and pulls the strings. In the show they all have times where one needs another to get ahead, even though they might hate it, and that interplay of how they all use each other - and sometimes grudgingly work together - really interests me.

- Ship preferences: any combination of Velma/Roxie/Mama/Mary/other murderesses and/or canon pairings

- In-universe newspaper articles or book excerpts - I'd love to see Mary Sunshine's prim takes on other crimes, or a retrospective on Velma or Roxie or Mama a few years after the events of the film.

- Life on the road with Velma and Roxie's act post-canon - how successful or not are they, really? What kinds of gimmicks and deals do they come up with to bring in an audience? How many times do they have to stop themselves from killing each other?

- We saw how Roxie built up a persona for her trial - what was it like for Velma in the early days after her arrest? (Did she even have to change that much to come up with her "murderess" persona?)

- All of Roxie's pre-canon past brushes with notoriety, no matter how exaggerated they might be in her head - her dating that well-to-do ugly bootlegger for starters, but maybe also her reaction to a half-a-sentence review during her chorus girl days or to being at the club just before Velma Kelly's arrest.

- How did Mary Sunshine get to be a crime reporter? Did she obliviously fall into it through some black comedy of errors, or is she a bit slyer than she initially appears? What does she do to pursue a story?

- What kinds of deals did Mama have with the prisoners who weren't Velma or Roxie? With the people outside the prison system? Were there ever any genuine feelings or was it pure calculating business? How did she choose this life and pursue it in the first place?

Golden Girls

Tags: Sophia Petrillo, Blanche Devereaux, Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund

Additional Info and Prompts: This show never fails to make me laugh! I love the bond the women have, how even when their strong personalities cause hilarious friction they still come together in the end. They all also have such distinctive voices that I'd enjoy seeing anything about their perspective on the world around them, particularly any incidents in their colorful pasts.

- Ship preferences: any combination of Blanche/Dorothy/Rose and/or canon pairings

- Any canon-typical misadventures would be awesome: taking a class together, going on a trip together, hosting a party together, that sort of thing. I'd also love to see elaborations of any of the memories the girls talk about over the course of the show, like Rose's St. Olaf stories or Sophia's Sicily stories or Blanche's stories about her past beaus.

- Wilder adventures would also be fun: exorcising a ghost, pulling off a heist, suddenly acquiring superpowers...

- The girls are all interviewed for some reason - recalling an event, giving a police report - but they all have wildly different takes on what actually happened...

- Interactions with their extended families, especially their children and grandchildren. What traits do they and their families have in common, for better or for worse? A lot of the canon stories with their grandchildren involve them adjusting their relationships to fix mistakes they made with their children, and it could be incredibly interesting to see more of those kinds of stories.

Better late than never! I've collected my fills for the Three Sentence Ficathon, which was hosted this past January and February with the first post here and the second post here. I definitely recommend checking out the fills there - and filling some prompts of your own, if you feel inclined!

The Hunger Games

Original prompt: The Hunger Games, Haymitch, finally a potential victor

Haymitch doesn't pay much attention to new tributes, hasn't done in who knows how long. They're too easily lost, here one minute and gone the next, like a candle's light in a poisonous mine shaft.

This girl, though...with the deadly way she handles a bow and the anger sparking behind her cool eyes, here he might have a fire that won't go out.

A Little Princess

Original prompt: A Little Princess, any, retribution

Sara is a prisoner of the Bastille; she is Marie Antoinette in the shadow of the guillotine; she is anywhere but here. She tells herself that there is nothing so strong as rage held in, and so she gets through the drudgery of her days like a princess under a wicked curse, brave and gracious as she thinks a princess ought to be.

But sometimes - when Lavinia sticks out a dainty foot to trip her, when Miss Minchin gives her nothing but cold eyes and colder insults and no supper at all - she thinks of other sorts of princesses, the kind who tip poison into goblets and send their faithless lovers into the maws of tigers, with a hot swirl of joy and shame so fierce she almost shakes with unfulfilled retribution.

M*A*S*H

Original prompt: M*A*S*H, any, midnight coffee

You get a certain routine to misery - wait around so bored you forget to be scared, wince at the squealing brakes on the jeeps as they rush another toward you with another groaning soldier strapped down on its back, pray to any god that will listen that this guy's heart will keep beating long enough to stitch him together again, finish your sewing, take off the bloody gowns and shake out your blood-soaked boots, stumble into the mess tent and make a joke about what kind of beans they must use to make Army coffee...

The jeeps pull up. Take another swallow, start over again.

A Song of Ice and Fire

Original prompt: asoiaf, any, genderbend (male!Rhaella)

"Your brother’s gone mad," Joanna says bluntly, her voice flat and cold the way Rhaenor’s never heard before. Joanna tugs the end of her sleeve; it just barely covers a darkening bruise, and Rhaenor’s heart twists at the sight.

He hesitantly catches her hand, rubs her wrist the way they used to when they playing together as children and she had taken a bad fall. "Jo, I’m - "

"I have no need for your pity," Joanna snaps, but and her other hand comes to cup his cheek. She leans in closer and whispers into his ear, "I only need to know if you’ll be a better king than Aerys."


Original prompt: asoiaf, tyrion lannister, fem!Tyrion

Her lord father would like to forget that Tyria exists, and most of the Rock is content to follow his lead. She tries to think of it as an advantage - she can go about the castle mostly as she pleases, she fancies there is no one who knows the Rock and its people better than she does. And when that isn't enough, she weighs the sting of whispered insults and horrified looks against the loneliness of being gazed through like a pane of glass and tries to tip the scale in whatever way will keep her the closest to being satisfied.


Original prompt: any, any, withered flowers (Lyanna)

The thing Lyanna loves most in the world - after her brothers, her father, her horses, and her freedom - is her little plot in the glass garden, bursting with wildflowers rescued from the snows and seedlings Ned brought from the Vale as a gift for her and Lyanna’s very favorite, the winter roses.

Lyanna is as jealous of this garden as she is of everything she loves, pelting her brothers with clods if they try to interfere with her nurturing her plants, coaxing leaves and blooms out of the flowers and spending hours dirt-streaked and joyous while winter winds howl outside.

When he’s the only Stark in Winterfell Benjen tries to care for the flowers, he really does, but no matter what he does the flowers wither and wilt - as if they miss her as much as he does, as if they too have something inside them missing now that she’s gone.


Original prompt: ASoIaF, Elia Martell, water gardens and desert pools

Elia's always loved the Water Gardens, loved the coolness of the pools and the children's laughter that always echoes against the alabaster walls. Even when she had been too sick to play herself, she had insisted that her brothers bring her out into the gardens, to let her dip her feet into the fountains and sneak blood oranges into her pockets to share with Ashara late at night.

There will be a new life for her before long, one far away from these oases of joy and innocence, but for now she'll sit by the pools and enjoy the best of Dorne.

Star Wars

Original prompt: Any, any platonic, intimacy (Luke & Leia)

She and Luke have always had a knack for knowing what comfort the other needs - hugs, a shoulder to rest a head on, a hand to hold.

Just Jedi magic, she had assumed at first; she kept thinking that all the way to Endor, when Luke had told her the truth with a kiss on the cheek and both his emotions and her own swirling inside her, and all she could think was of course, of course.

And so she knows now just when and how to catch Luke’s shoulders, squeezing his hand with a grin and her joy flowing to him, drawing her brother away from the ghosts and back to the celebration.


Original prompt: Star Wars, Luke Skywalker & Leia Organa, family history

They rarely talk about Anakin. It does happen - sometimes old wounds just reopen, and sometimes they reopen them themselves because letting it fester feels worse - but it always leaves them both wrung-out and exhausted, always ending either holding each other tight or barely able to look at each other for days.

What helps is (they found all these holos hidden in my father's old Senate rooms Aunt Beru said that Shmi taught her this recipe look isn't this one of Padme's gowns?) looking for the other missing pieces, building something a little bigger and brighter out of their family history.

Stardew Valley

Original prompt: Any, any, blackberries (Linus)

Linus will never admit it - he likes to think that all the seasons are lovely in their own way, none of them better than the others - but blackberry season is his favorite time in the valley.

He loves to gather up the ripe blackberries into his old wicker basket, and before he moves on to the next he always likes to thank the bush for all the hard work it's done this year, growing all that plump fruit full of sweet juice and tiny seeds.

The others in the village would probably think it a bit silly if they ever heard of it, but Linus knows better than any of them what wonderful things nature can give them, and whenever he sits by his tent and eats the blackberries - the leaves rustling and the autumn wind soft and cool against his face, the tartness bursting on his tongue - he can't think of anything in the world more deserving of his appreciation.

Hello, writer!

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.

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

General likes:
Worldbuilding (especially religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Canon divergence
Bickering, friendly and not-so-much
Introspection
Unreliable narrators
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 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
Humiliation during sex
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
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)
Please keep the level of violence at about what it is in canon.


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Dreamgirls

Requests: Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson

Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or Effie/Deena. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.

About the canon: See the promo post here!

The summary I gave in the promo post doesn't really do justice to the women and their relationships, which I love. I love how headstrong and indomitable Effie is, and how Deena builds her confidence and comes into her own, and how Lorrell has a snarky streak in her sunny personality. The whole show is about their dreams and their struggles and successes in making those dreams a reality, and it's so fun to watch them grow and change over the course of the show.

I'm also interested in the setting: the 1960s-1970s R&B and pop music industry as interpreted by 1980s Broadway. There's room for social commentary (among other things, the Black leads get one of their early songs covered and buried by a white group), drama (secret affairs and Curtis' payola operations), and Broadway glitz (look at the costumes! often with super-fast costume changes!).

I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.

Prompts:

- How did the girls first come together as a group? Were they all friends growing up (Effie talks about her and Deena once being each other's closest friends), or did they meet later on and bond over their shared desire to sing? I'd love to hear about their successes and failures pre-fame, and them sharing their big dreams with each other.

- How did Deena and Lorrell handle the interim time period between Act I and Act II, where they're going on international tours as the Dreams, adjusting to Michelle replacing Effie, and dealing with Deena's wedding to Curtis as well as Lorrell's continuing relationship with Jimmy?

- Effie mentions that she saw Deena at Deena's mother's funeral and wanted to talk to her, but there were "too many people in the way". What would have happened if they had had the chance to talk? What would that conversation have been like?

- When the show ends, they've reconciled but they're also on different paths. What would happen if they reunite again a few years later, while Effie's rising in the music business again and Deena's in her movie career and Lorrell's pursuing a life without Jimmy in it? Anything about them rebuilding their friendships and how them going after their own dreams is turning out. (I didn't request Michelle here, but you can also bring up what she's doing at this point).

- Curtis was supposed to love Effie. So was Deena. (Take that however you will).


Gypsy

Requests: Louise, June, Rose

Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen, canon pairings, and/or f/f pairing one of the requested characters with Tessie, Mazeppa, Electra, or OCs. I'm also happy to have any combination of requested characters, including leaving one or two of the requested characters offstage or in the background if it makes more sense to focus on only one or two requested characters.

About the canon: See the promo post here!

I love how wonderfully complex the women are, especially Rose. It's fun watching her smash her way through all obstacles through a mix of manipulation and just plain grandstanding, but her talent for deception also includes deceiving herself, to the detriment of her relationship with June and Louise. With June and Louise, I love them growing up and figuring out how to break free and find their own dreams, even if it's not what Rose had in mind for them. I love the complex mix of love and self-centered ambition that Rose has for her daughters, and the mix of love and frustration and hunger for approval that the girls feel for Rose. These women all do deeply care about each other, but man, sometimes they have a very dysfunctional way of showing it.

I'm good with basing the fic off of any production you want. In addition, while I requested the stage show for this, the movie(s) sticks very closely to the stage version and I would be fine with more movie-influenced fic as well, if you're having trouble finding/watching the stage musical.

Prompts:

- Any missing scenes of the family, Herbie, and the boys on the road - practicing the routines together, conning their way out of jams, exploring the new cities they perform in.

- Any part of Rose's backstory before the events of the play. So much of Rose's issues in her parenting seem related to the fact that her own mother walked out on her, after all. I'd also love to see Rose as unreliable narrator!

- Rose teaching her daughters the things she thinks they need to learn, and the lessons that they learned from her without her meaning to. (I also like the moments where June and especially Louise are taking a page from Rose's books to get what they want, and where they're more alike than they might want to acknowledge).

- How did June deal with being on her own with Tulsa once she escaped the troupe? For better or for worse it'd be the first time in her life she'd ever been away from Mama and Louise - that has to turn up some intense emotions.

- I'd also be interested in seeing the women reunite and reflect on how their lives have gone at some point after canon, particularly a reunion for the sisters or for Rose and June. (I tend to see the musical characters as separate from the real-life figures, so you can take as much or as little as you want from the real peoples' history here, including inventing something new).


Forever Amber

Requests: Amber St. Clare

Ship and group notes: I'm good with gen or with any pairing that conforms to my DNWs. I feel like if Amber thought she could get something out of a relationship/sex with somebody, she totally Would, so that gives you a wide range to choose from.

About the canon: See the promo post here!

I love Amber. She's breathtakingly self-centered, short-sighted, petty, and not terribly bright, but she knows what she wants and she's going to go for it, dammit. The narrative voice is slightly distant from Amber, and it strikes a good balance of knowing exactly what Amber is but also retaining empathy for her, so that even Amber's worst ideas come across with wry amusement at what trouble Amber's getting herself into now and interest in how she'll get out of it. Amber's overwhelming selfishness also makes the rare moments where she does help someone besides herself that much more endearing. It all adds up for a character I really enjoyed following for 900+ pages.

Kathleen Winsor also did a fantastic job of researching life in London under the rule of Charles II, which comes through in both explorations of places, events, and everyday life in the city as well as characterization for historical figures like Nell Gwynn, Barbara Palmer, and Charles himself.

Prompts:

- In general, I'd be thrilled with any type of missing moments or canon-typical plots. The book richly describes 17th-century England from the pastoral villages to the homes of God-fearing merchants to the London slums to the dazzling court of Charles II, and all of those places have plenty of opportunity for Amber to get herself in and out of trouble. Maybe Amber schemes to acquire a priceless jewel or dethrone a rival in business or affection? Given that it's Amber, those plans may or may not succeed.

- As much as Amber is generally characterized as a selfish-but-determined Scarlett O'Hara type, she does get a few softer moments that stand out in their rarity (paying for a blanket for the Quaker woman in prison, befriending Nan). Seeing more of those types of moments - maybe interactions with her children? - could be lovely.

- I'd love to read more about Amber's life as an actress specifically - I find the history of theatre super-fascinating, with all the drama both onstage and off. Anything would be great, from the mundane aspects of running a show to Amber manipulating a performance to achieve her own ends to offstage fights (and possibly hatesex?) with rival Beck Marshall.

- Super-AU: what if Amber's birth family had found out about her and claimed her? If it's early enough, could she have met Bruce in a different way and subsequently had an entirely different relationship with him (they wouldn't be social equals, but they'd be much closer than they were in canon)? If it happens much later, how would that change Amber's standing in court? The Earl of Radclyffe would definitely get more aggressive in pursuing Amber if he found out - how would she have dealt with him?

- Post-canon (or in an AU where Amber realizes that the message from Bruce is fake before she leaves England), Amber is furious about being tricked and returns to court to wreak VENGEANCE!

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.

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, 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

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.)
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 15+ 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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A Brother's Price

Requested tags: Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Original Poor Family That Joins the Army, Other: Worldbuilding

About the canon:

I'm interested in the world that's constructed here, particularly how women fit within the family structures and the highly stratified society. It doesn't show as much with our viewpoint characters, being a rare boy and an Eldest princess, but it's interesting how much of an average woman's identity in this world is subsumed into being part of a collective group of sisters, including running any sort of businesses or other jobs together and receiving any punishment earned by an individual member of the family. It'd be cool to see both the kinds of women that fit within these tight-knit, insular conceptions of family and those who want to defy the norms to find an individual identity or choose a different family. I'd also love to see any explorations of the in-universe culture.

While the tag is for original characters, I'm good with the characters turning out to be unnamed background canon characters too. For the Poor Family, I'm also good with making an exception to my character death DNW and killing off one or more of the family members, although I'd prefer the family not to be totally wiped out.

This canon is a single book available through most online book retailers and in libraries, including in ebook formats.

Prompts

- (Any) The characters take part in the War of the False Eldest. Who did they fight for? What did they think about the dynastic situation that led to the war, or were they just concerned about the common people/their family who got trampled in the war's path? Did they know the Whistlers at all, and what was their impression of them if they did?

- (Any character or Worldbuilding) In-universe documents of any sort - religious or mythological texts, in-universe librettos for the opera (possibly with revision or performance notes), military reports, etc.

- (Worldbuilding) There's some mention of religious laws and strictures, particularly around prohibiting adoptions, but not much else - what does religious practice look like in this world? Were the Prophets cannons named for actual prophets, and how might these figures play into Queensland religion?

- (Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family) What kind of criminals are they - thieves, thugs, smugglers, pickpockets, counterfeiters? What kind of criminal does this middle sister want to be, if she wants to be a criminal at all? What's her relationship with her sisters like, particularly with her Eldest? Is she satisfied with her status or is she looking for more, and what would that "more" look like for her? If so, does she succeed in getting it?

- (Original Poor Family that Joins the Army) How many sisters are there in this family, and what are they all like? What happened to them to feel that joining the army was the best option? How do they adjust to the drudgery and danger of army life - that line in the book that "the army eats families" has stuck with me here. Do one or more of them manage to make it out and rise higher, and if they do, what prices do they end up paying for it?

Castle Waiting

Requested tags: Rackham Adjutant, Sir Chess, Lady Jain, Sister Peace, Nessie & Sister Peace

About the canon:

I really enjoyed this canon's take on the fractured fairy tale; the setting felt like a full world even if we only get to see glimpses of it here and there, full of references to different fantasy stories and tropes that feel like a natural part of living in this world rather than a namedrop. There are a lot of heavy themes happening in the background and backstory - death, loss, domestic abuse - but they're handled with a light touch and a sense of hope and healing throughout. I also loved the humor!

This canon consists of two volumes of a graphic novel, available through most online book retailers and in libraries. (The Amazon page will give you a brief preview if you want to check out the art style). My requests mostly concern information from the first volume and you can definitely fulfill the requests having only read that, but I'm happy for you to incorporate any information or characters from the second volume as well!

Canon-specific DNWs: canon-typical treatment of Romani characters. I don't mind mentions of Abbess Clarice's backstory where applicable but feel free to ignore the entirety of the Bahtalo Drom chapter.

Prompts

- (Any) There is a LOT of backstory that only comes through obliquely in canon, and I'd love to see any elaborations on that. How did Rackham come to get Camilla the gold-egg-laying chicken during his "wayward youth"? Why was Chess at Jain's wedding, and why does he know her as Lisunka and Lesni Pany? What is the story behind Jain's relationship with Pindar's father? What were some of Peace's travels like after she left the convent?

- (Any) So it turns out that the dragon in the well actually wasn't just a made-up story about Castle Waiting. How do the character(s) handle an actual dragon hanging around? The dragon can be characterized however you like.

- (Rackham Adjutant, Sir Chess) I loved the section of the book where they go into town to get supplies, and I'd enjoy seeing more of either of their interactions, alone or together, with the townsfolk - maybe Rackham has to sort out terms with the moneylender, or Sir Chess teams up with Sally Port from the tavern to clear the bandits out of the area?

- (Jain) I'd love to see more of Jain's work in the castle library! What kinds of books does she find in there? What requests for books do the other characters make from her - for books on cooking, card counting, magic tricks, magic itself? Does she ever run into the library ghost?

- (Peace) How was her life in the convent after Nessie married Rob? It's said towards the end of the story that she was in line to be the next abbess, but turned it down in favor of Skeeter. How did she manage that decision - did she have any conflicts over it, or about leaving the convent to see the world? I'd also be happy to see her and the other Solicitines in their daily life in the convent, making nog log and scaring off terrible husbands. (Also, any sort of religious worldbuilding would be fun for this universe, considering Peace is kind of friends with a demon - and how did that happen, anyway?)

- (Nessie & Peace) Nessie comes to Castle Waiting looking for Peace, and looking for help. The nature of her difficulty is up to you - someone's making a move against the convent or the mill? she's feeling a loss of purpose after her husband dies? - but Peace tries to incorporate her into the community at Castle Waiting and they're all fascinated to see that the woman from Peace's stories actually exists. What does Peace do to help solve her problem, with her perceptiveness and her roster of tricks?

Graceling Realm

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

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.

The Graceling Realm series consists of four novels, with my requests centering on characters from the second novel, Fire. (The character Fire also briefly shows up in Bitterblue, the third book, but my requests can be fulfilled having only read Fire).

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 how 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) 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

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.

M*A*S*H is 11 seasons of 30-minute episodes (with around 24 episodes a season) available on Hulu.

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!

- (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.

Hello, writer!
This is my first time participating in this exchange, and I'm excited to see how it turns out. Generally I'm pretty easy to please, and I hope that no matter what you end up making, you have a blast doing it. I'm sure I'll do the same!

I'm opting into Battle of the Bands, but have no particular preferences on any songs. I'm always happy to learn something new!

If you have any questions about anything in this letter, please contact me through the mods.

General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially religious, cultural, and magical worldbuilding)
Encounters with the supernatural, particularly ghosts
Characters using or attempting to use magic or other supernatural forces
Maybe-magic-maybe-mundane events
Canon divergence
Solving mysteries
Friendly bickering
Slap-slap-kiss dynamics
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Loyalty
Close friends/lovers charging into danger to save each other
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, arranged marriage, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
Repressed characters learning to let go
Pining
Mind control/possession
Resisting mind control/possession

As someone who's not an artist, I'm impressed by most any art and have no preferences on colors and styles. General art likes:
Characters with swords! Or any object they're using like a sword.
Fashion/costume designs

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.)
One or both sides of a requested pairing cheating on the other*
Formalized dom/sub relationships
ABO/omegaverse
Mpreg
Watersports
Scat
Body horror
Explicit 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 15+ 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
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
In art - graphic depictions of violence above what you'd see in a PG-13 movie. For fic, just keep the depictions of violence at about the same level it is in canon.
*Edit: my Macbeth request is an exception, although I didn't catch it at my initial signup. I apologize for any confusion.

FANDOMS

If I don't include a "requested pairings" note, assume I'm open to whatever pairing you like among the canon characters (except those that fall under the DNWs). Gen, m/f, m/m, f/f, polyamory - it's all good to me! In addition, prompts are here if you want them, but I'd be happy with most anything that respects my likes and DNWs.

Julian Kestrel
Requested character: Julian Kestrel

Prompts:
-Anything that goes into Julian's backstory would be wonderful. We get hints throughout the series, especially in The Devil in Music, but there's still plenty of room for fic writers to work their magic. In particular, Julian has a lot of connections to the theatre, and it'd be interesting to see him interact with that world.
-As befits a mystery series, I'd always enjoy a good mystery. Maybe Julian has to bring his analytical mind to a case that where even he can't find a mundane explanation for, with plenty of Gothic tropes in the background.
-Masquerade balls are always fun!

Macbeth
Requested characters: Lady Macbeth, Three Witches
Requested pairings: Lady Macbeth/Macbeth, Lady Macbeth/Witch(es), Lady Macbeth/Macbeth/Witch(es)

Prompts:
-The witches are more a force of fate in the play than anything else - who are they, and what drives them? How do they learn and practice their magic, and how do they relate to their powers and the world of the supernatural that they inhabit? The witches can be as human or inhuman as you like.
-Let's be real, Lady Macbeth would have been AT LEAST interested in getting magic powers. What happens when she's the one who goes to the witches for more prophecies, and not Macbeth (or if she and Macbeth go together)? What would they want from her in return? Are there lines that even she will not cross? (If you have Lady Macbeth/Witch(es) here, this is the exception to my infidelity DNW).

A Song of Ice and Fire
Requested characters: Elia Martell, Oberyn Martell, Doran Martell, Ellaria Sand, Catelyn Stark, Ned Stark, Lyanna Stark, Cersei Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister
Requested pairings: I'm very open to most any pairings here, although my favorites are Catelyn/Ned, Oberyn/Ellaria, and Jaime/Lyanna. The only exceptions are those that would fall under my DNWs and Rhaegar/Lyanna or Robert/Lyanna portrayed as idealized romance. I also like fic exploring sibling relationships among these characters (usually gen, although I'm fine with sibling incest and well, Lannisters gonna Lannister).

I really love canon-divergence AUs for this canon, including rule 63/always-a-different-sex/gender AUs. My favorite fics tend to be set in the years prior to the start of canon, particularly the Rebellion era, but I'd enjoy reading fic for any time period here. Finally, I haven't seen Game of Thrones and have no intention to, so I'd prefer book-canon only.

Prompts:
-Worldbuilding is a great option here. In particular, each of the Seven has a holy day, and Stranger's Day seems like a great Halloween analogue. How do these characters celebrate it? Are there maskings and revels and pranks, or is it more of a solemn religious event? Do followers of the old gods have similar traditions (to the point that Stranger's Day may have outright appropriated them)? Or any of the Essosi faiths? You could take it a lot of ways here - how Catelyn keeps the holiday living in the North, for example, or Cersei and Jaime taking advantage of the costume tradition to switch places for a night right under their father's nose at an important feast. Another worldbuilding option, if you want to go more seasonal - harvest feasts. We see one in canon, but how do they differ in different regions?
-Character(s) of your choice can communicate with ghosts - how does that change their actions? I can also see people who have suffered one or more horrible losses (like Oberyn) trying all kinds of methods and rituals to try to make contact with their lost loved ones.

Star Wars-Original Trilogy
Requested characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo
Requested pairings: My favorite Star Wars ship is Han/Leia, but I'm up for any combination of these three characters, romantically or platonically, as well as Han/Lando.

I'm familiar with all the movies, but I'm not as up to date about EU content, either Legends or Disney. For anything I don't know, though, there's always Wookiepedia - feel free to draw on whatever canon you want! I'd also prefer that any fic or art here is set before or around the time of the OT, and at very latest be set before Ben falls.

Prompts:
-As with ASOIAF, worldbuilding is great here. With so many planets, it's easy for these three to enounter (and run afoul of) unusual local traditions on a mission or a smuggling run. Alternatively, you could look at traditions from Alderaan, Tatooine, or Corellia that the characters might keep themselves, especially ones that honor the dead. Leia trying to reconstruct Alderaanian celebrations and memorialize her planet would be especially poignant.
-Canon divergence is also great in this canon, particularly when the characters all still meet but in incredibly different circumstances. I especially never get tired of twin-switch AUs and one-or-both-twins-raised-by-Vader AUs.
-Sith artifacts and other places/objects strong in the Dark Side can have a big impact on Force-sensitive people. Coming under the influence or control of one of these people, places, or objects could be great for psychological horror.
-Interacting with Force ghosts. Bonus points if the ghosts are interacting with Han. Not only does the Force exist, it seems, but now it's picking on him in particular.
-Anything with Jedi!Leia or Leia learning to use her powers in general.

Stardew Valley
Requested characters: Abigail, Maru, Emily, Penny, Haley, Leah, Krobus, Wizard, the Juminos

I'd prefer that the player character not be a major role in the fic.

Prompts:
-I love all the girls here, and would love to see any of them interacting. Emily organizing a camping trip to the Secret Woods and competing with Abigail to see who can tell the scariest campfire story? Maru and Penny both getting lost in the maze at the Spirit's Eve festival and trying to make it back out together? Haley and Leah bonding over art at the beach? Really, any combination would be great.
-I'd also love any of the girls learning how to use magic. Maybe the Wizard takes one of them as an apprentice, or maybe they find out how to perform magic on their own or with the help of the Juminos. There can be anything from humorous but harmless magical backfires to spells that accidentally (or purposefully) unleash a horde of monsters on the town.
-What, exactly, did Krobus do during the 1000 year war that makes the dwarves want to send an assassin after him in particular? I also love Krobus going out in disguise, and I'd love to see his reactions to any of the town festivals.