Chocolate Box 2019 Letter

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Likes:
- hookups coming before feelings
- one-night stands and anonymous sex turned not-so-anonymous
- loving but deeply weird relationships
- pining, whether requited or unrequited
- ghosts, monsters, the supernatural
- loyalty kink, either big gestures or low-key loyal doting
- Pining and characters doing deeply strange things due to pining
- Complicated feelings -- characters who can't say or even think the truth about how they feel, tongue-tied lovers, pining, love/hate, enemies-to-lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers-again, etc.
- Film noir tropes and AUs (hardboiled narration, doom and double-crosses, femmes fatales, a gunsel or two…)
- any other kind of genre fusion -- campy 80s slasher horror? Summer camp romp? 90s YA novel? Gothic horror?
- Fucked-up courtships -- mind games, fighting as foreplay, surveillance and obsessions from afar, villains in love with heroes and vice versa. This can be silly (think Kate Beaton's Nemesis comics) or more serious.
- Noncon and dubcon -- power plays, trying to bargain for advantages or escape worse consequences using sex, trying to defuse a dangerous situation using sex, fights and captivity scenarios that take a bad turn, villain-on-hero noncon.
- shady pasts
- parental hangups
- secret meetings and trysts
- road trips (ROAD TRIPS!!!)
- partners in crime
- hurt/comfort and whump
- murder
- fuckups in love
- always-a-girl genderswap (especially when leading to butch characters and f/f pairings!)

I love fic with trans characters, especially if characters retain their canon genders as trans people, i.e. trans dude Michael Ginsberg, trans girl Etta Pryce. This and genderswap can be a total freebie on top of any other AU too. I'm down for crossovers/fusions, AUs of all kinds (especially high-concept/fanciful/historical AUs), and unusual formats, whatever that may mean to you. There's no specific art prompts in this letter because I've never figured out how to do that, but I'd love art treats if something sparks your imagination! (Any art style and any format, I'd love to see horror art or domestic snapshots if you're down for that, historical AUs/historical outfits will always delight me -- Regency! ancient Rome! 1940s! -- and any kind of genre pastiche mentioned above. I'm totally down with porny art.)

Kinks: size differences, age differences, partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex, oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural, breast worship, rough sex, characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.), hatesex, casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort and solace, funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex, historical sexual practices and meeting places, fancy clothes and dressing/undressing, one-night stands and one-night stands that turn into something more, and for more antagonistic ships, noncon/dubcon.

I'm not too hot on:

Teacher/student pairings, high school setting AUs, characters overhearing one another masturbating, omegaverse, urban fantasy werewolf tropes, RL crises and current events, apocalyptic/postapoc settings. I love sad stories, infidelity, and major character death, but I'd rather not read breakup stories for this exchange. On-again/off-again relationships and dramatic betrayal scenarios are fine, just not a couple reasonably agreeing to see other people.

DNWs:

Self-harm, eating disorders, child sexual abuse, unrequested incest. I'd rather not read explicit sex with characters under 16. General teen romance and allusions to teens boning down is fine.

In general, however, I'm comfortable receiving fic that includes or touches on other heavy topics -- corruption, abuse, misogyny, homophobia, etc. You don't have to strive to include them out of obligation but you're not required to avoid them either.



Alias Grace

Grace Marks/Mary Whitney

- AU where Mary's ghost is inhabiting Grace, either as a sometimes-dominant personality who pops in to take over the driver's seat from time to time or as a secondary personality who sometimes reassures and sometimes troubles her
- crossdressing road trip adventures (well… probably on foot, for the most part, like a much more depressing As You Like It)
- canon-divergence where Grace and Mary jointly wind up celebrated murderesses
- Mary haunts Grace; Grace makes her peace with it.
- depressing Child Ballad AU inspired by the Eliza Carthy version of "Sheath & Knife" (or any other folk song!)

(I have no specific smut prompts for this fandom but if you have a hankering, fly free!)

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American Vandal

DeMarcus Tillman/Lou Carter

- DeMarcus and Lou as partners in crime -- whether it's puerile poop pranks after all or something more serious. (I'd love an AU where they really did do all the nightmarish poop pranks -- a series of fake documents/true crime podcast transcripts/etc. from the in-universe solemn follow-up series after their prank-oriented thrill pact comes to light? I love DeMarcus' hilariously blasé approach to everything canon throws at him and I feel like it would be great for this..)
- AU of canon DeMarcus and Lou are dating from the start -- does Lou take it as a chance to low-key boost his social status? Does DeMarcus opine about it to the documentarians? Do their promposals go viral?
- Something where they're on different schools' teams (I'd especially love it if they're attending different Catholic schools -- the show's depiction of Catholic school killed me) and they meet as rivals
- Something where the blackmail material on DeMarcus is related to him dating Lou, rather than him getting purely catfished -- I'd love it if the source of difficulty isn't (or isn't purely) the fear of being outed but rather a big old snarl of consequences for the team/school, their joint and separate social cachet, etc.

(I have no specific smut prompts for this fandom, not because I have any issues with it but because the Catholic school setting is a boner-killer for me -- if anything captures your fancy feel free!)

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Deadwax (TV)

Etta Pryce/Lana

- Lana solves a digital mystery with Etta running support for her
- noir AU where Lana is a private investigator (either in a historical AU or a digital context) and Etta is her lady gunsel frenemy
- 70s neo-noir AU (think Brian de Palma) where Etta's a scummy scruffy audiophile with a dark secret and Lana's a late-night radio DJ with a relaxing voice and a killer vinyl collection
- something dark and weird where Lana survives but Etta's close brush with the lacquers has left her altered somehow, always just a little spacier, a little far away… or where rather than being killed, Lana takes a level in weirdness
- Came Back Wrong fic where Etta does the impossible to bring Lana back, with grim sonic consequences
- something where they do end up having their wedding -- who picks the guest list? Do they end up having a full-blown traditional wedding or do they end up eloping on the run from sinister music thieves?

Bonus smut prompts: fingering, rope bondage, dressing and undressing, sex to music, recreational drug use before/during/after sex.

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Get Out (2017)

Note: this is the one fandom where I'd rather not get downer endings or deathfic.

Chris Washington/Rod Williams

- Chris and Rod spending a weekend together either pre-canon or post-canon. Being dog dads, getting breakfast, fucking around, drinking a couple beers, going to meet Rod's parents
- Chris and Rod vs. other heavily allegorical movie monsters -- vampires, pod people, shapeshifting alien fuckups, Lovecraftian cults
- Chris and Rod falling in love over a cross-country road trip to rescue other victims of the Coagula procedure.
- Angsty fic where Chris needs to unpack all the shit that happened to him and Rod is there for him.
- AU where Chris and Rod are true crime podcast hosts (in love) and no one tries to kidnap them and steal their bodies. Leverage Rod's obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer for the purposes of good!
- AU where the events of canon take place and they're still true crime podcast hosts in love, using the medium to get their message out and disseminate the truth about the Armitage family.
- Crossover with Deadwax

Bonus porn prompts: sleepy makeouts, desperate sex for comfort, lazy Sunday-morning fucking around, tipsy/stoned sex, long-distance sexting,

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Mad Men (TV)

Sal Romano/Michael Ginsberg

"They don't even meet!", you say. "They appear in completely non-overlapping seasons!", you say. "Ginsberg has massive hangups around the very concept of homosexuality that feed into his debilitating mental illness!", you say. Well… you're right, but fuck it.

- Something with Michael getting accidentally/accidentally-on-purpose cruised by Sal, or where they meet in a pickup situation and only later find out a) they actually like each other and/or have feelings for each other b) holy shit, they could have been coworkers in another life.
- Something where Sal comes back to SC&P in Don's absence and it sends Ginsberg's gay paranoia into overdrive
- Or on a happier note, Sal meeting Michael's father, or Michael self-actualizing his sexuality a little with Sal's help and vice versa -- Sal sort of gets the shaft in a narrative sense and he's in the closet out of necessity but he definitely seems to know himself and to like himself, in a way that might blow Ginsberg's mind.
- something in an AU where Michael, Sal, and Kitty become an inadvertent poly V

Bonus porn prompts: anonymous sex, Sal giving blowjobs, anything that kinks on Sal being a beefy handsome brick shithouse and Ginsberg looking like a haunted late-60s waif, Ginsberg being a big honking virgin.

Don Draper/Roger Sterling

- I'd love fic about these two and their drunk misadventures of any kind, from lolzy to melancholy. Maybe some time where they're mistaken for a couple like Don and Lane were?
- Don helping Roger get things straightened out after some disastrous mishap that even Joan can't or won't field
- I'd love to read fic about an encounter or a fling between these two early in Don's career as an ad man -- maybe something where Roger assumes Don is angling for sugar-baby status and Don is totally game? Or later on, furtive taxicab handjobs, fucked-up wartime reminisces when swapping blowies, office quickies, discovering to their horror that they have serious and genuine feelings for each other?
- the two of them ending up in a threesome (or foursome?) together where they get way into each other and the women they're with are either totally feelin' it, or totally weirded out.

Bonus porn prompts: mutual masturbation, anything incorporating massive amounts of self-loathing and internalized homophobia, denial, Don's kinks coming out to play (face-slapping! so much face-slapping!), Roger's kinks coming out to play, LSD-influenced or otherwise high sex.

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Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe/Terry Lennox

- Casefic with a romantic angle that creeps in despite Marlowe's best efforts, a romantic interlude that has fuck-all to do with any case or any mystery at all
- an alternate take where Terry Lennox really is murderously bad news despite being a very polite war hero and Marlowe loves him anyway
- Lennox continuing to haunt Marlowe a little after the timeframe of canon or a fic where their last meeting goes differently
- something where they're reunited or correspond with each other after parting ways, or even just something to do with the experience of falling for someone as you try to put together exactly who the hell they are and what their racket is.
- (Hell, I would also take absolutely any hardboiled/noirish tropes you want to party up with this pairing, up to and including wholesale AUs.)

Bonus porn prompts: drunk propositions leading to contrite, hung-over banging; eventual consummation after a lot of circuitous pussyfooting around; expectations of situational homosexuality held over from the war blossom into something more™.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

James Norrington/Elizabeth Swann

- Elizabeth dresses as a boy bc reasons, Norrington is flustered and wry and super duper turned on.
- AU where Elizabeth picks/sides with Norrington at one of the many points in canon where she has to make a decision between multiple options (maybe after she's turned him down in the first film?) and they get together after that, with that weirdness between them
- rope bondage with lots of fun knots
- loyalty kink out the wazoo with Elizabeth as pirate king
- any other form of gender play between these two feat. Elizabeth's penchant for men's clothing (by Georgian standards anyway)
- Norrington and Elizabeth's Excellent Adventure where they go on a road trip (boat trip???) to achieve the objective of your choice and fuck around a lot on the way
- AU where Norrington and Elizabeth are stepsiblings and stepcest ensues

James Norrington/Cutler Beckett

- Beckett finds out Norrington has been a participant in sins non nominandum (either past dalliances in the Royal Navy or sad bedraggled sex work in Tortuga) and has fun needling him about it
- conversely, Norrington intuits some of Beckett's complicated history with Jack Sparrow and needles him about it
- messed up dubcon loyalty kink where Norrington is desperate for approval and purpose and Beckett is contemptuous but not totally uninterested
- DMC-era fic where people assume Norrington is Beckett's kept boy so often that Norrington's just like "fuck it, I might as well roll with that"
- things get kinky and weird with Norrington's sword

Cutler Beckett/Elizabeth Swann

- AU where Beckett and Elizabeth are in a marriage of convenience; Beckett fully expects to grudgingly tolerate his new wife and she him, only to find himself engaged with her in a volley of weird Georgian mind games, super into Elizabeth's stubbornness and mad about it
- weird intimacy at pistol-point, because oh boy does that guy seem not entirely unhappy to have a gun held to his head when it's Elizabeth doing it
- super tropey early-00s-bad-guy Bathe Her And Bring Her To Me attempts spoiled by Elizabeth being fully aware that Beckett is too frosty and weird to seal the deal (does she turn the tables on him? goad him into something mutually beneficial but mutually weird under the guise of being a defenseless hostage? does he put her in yet another fabulous dress?)
- role reversal with Elizabeth as pirate queen and Beckett as her annoyed/turned-on hostage

Bonus porn prompts: partially-clothed/fully-clothed boning down, blades and gunplay, characters refusing to shut up during sex, body worship, rope bondage, characters making each other laugh during sex, fun/goofy fail!sex, Norrington being a power bottom, Beckett being a pissed-off eunuch. I'd rather not read noncon against Elizabeth in this fandom but dubcon is fine and dandy, as is Elizabeth nonconning people.