Candy Hearts Exchange letter 2023
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candyheartsex is this year's substitute for Chocolate Box since the latter isn't running in 2023 -- check it out!)
General 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 selfless gestures or low-key attentiveness
- pet sociopaths — morally-dubious characters doing the dirty deeds their more morally upstanding lovers cannot, or needing to be restrained from doing so
- 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, gunsels)
- 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
- partners in crime
- hurt/comfort and whump
- murder: murdering your lover, murdering people on behalf of your lover, major character death
- 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 Pellaeon, trans woman Mara Jade. 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. All of the following prompts are totally optional and just there to get the gears turning; if none of them work for you, feel free to take off in a different direction.
For art, I'm down for anything from a vignette of the two characters interacting to a comic/illustration/fresco -- if it's a pairing who've met in canon, feel free to illustrate a passage you find particularly shippy or a missing scene! My prompts definitely lean more toward the narrative than the visual, but I really would be thrilled for anything visual with these pairings. 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 and would love to see it.
Art likes:
- B&W and grayscale art, soft/muted colors.
- Visual pastiches of other art styles -- Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, midcentury magazine illustrations, etc.
- Historical/setting AUs where the characters get to show off new clothes/settings/gear.
- Hairy chests, legs, and pits (on all genders). Men's legs and butts.
- Historical clothing and uniforms.
- Tarot motifs.
- Skulls! Skulls, skulls, skulls.
- For ship art, size differences and smaller characters taking a more dominant role (whether that's topping or in any other sense).
- Art of characters beaten up or scarred.
- Portraits/bust-style art.
Smut likes:
- size differences (both size/weight/physique and in the dick department)
- partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex
- oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural
- characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.)
- on that note, sadomasochism (especially when it doesn’t follow strict sadist-dom-top, masochist-bottom-sub lines — masochistic doms, versatility and switching, etc.)
- impotence/erectile dysfunction
- casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort, friends with benefits
- funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex
- historical sexual practices and meeting places, cruising, queer subcultures
- fancy clothes and dressing/undressing
- angsty whumpy noncon/dubcon, conflicted manipulative dubcon
- class issues in the bedroom
- younger characters as sexual initiators/sexual aggressors
DNWs:
I would prefer not to receive fic including the following elements:
- depictions of self-harm
- depictions of eating disorders
- unrequested child sexual abuse
- unrequested incest
- unrequested suicide (offscreen mentions ok)
- PIV sex with transmasculine characters bottoming
- sexual assault of trans characters
- noncanonical pregnancy
- racekink/raceplay
- omegaverse
- ongoing RL crises and current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic
I don't want to receive explicit fic involving characters under 16.
Dickensian (TV)
Compeyson/Arthur Havisham
- Compeyson weaponizes his supposed disgust for Arthur’s sexuality as a way of putting pressure on him, but he seems curiously at home with using his own sexuality to manipulate him — I’d love something between them where that cognitive dissonance around male-male desire makes things complicated, even ugly. Has Compeyson had relationships with men in the past?
- Listen… there’s great canefucking fic for this pairing but in general, both impact play (consensual or otherwise) and object insertion pair beautifully with these two. All kinds of weird degrading Victorian sex are very welcome, with the push and pull of attraction and humiliation in play.
- Arthur Havisham gets the upper hand on Compeyson and enjoys some petty revenge. Both the Havisham siblings suffer so prettily but Compeyson is sufficiently rotten that seeing him get roughed up and bested is its own treat.
- Episode Ten noncon and/or noncon aftermath — the beating Arthur receives is great for my whump needs, but I’d love something where that moment of upheaval is amplified and then afterward they’re still stuck with a certain degree of dependence on one another and having to live with that harm between them.
- Tiny apartment bed-sharing! And There Was Only One Bed: early Victorian edition. Really any scenes of the kind of forced intimacy those quarters and Compeyson’s wanton enthusiasm for coming and going at all hours can result in — clothes-sharing, weird domestic voyeurism, sharing a pipe, patching each other up after an altercation or a scheme gone wrong, shaving kink…
Bonus smut prompts: intercrural sex; breathplay; clothed and mostly-clothed sex; object insertion; voyeurism; sex work; comeplay; sexual crying; big dicks; switching and versatile roles; face-slapping; glove kink
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Pilgrimage (2017)
(fandom note: I ship Diarmuid/the Mute and am fine with bonus background Diarmute, but would prefer the focus to be on my requested pairing here)
Brother Diarmuid/Raymond De Merville
- Raymond makes Diarmuid his concubine and takes him back to England (or France) by force.
- Conversely, Raymond makes Diarmuid his """"""personal chaplain"""" and takes him back to England (or France) by force. In either case I'd love to see Diarmuid thrust into civilian clothes for the first time in his life and dealing with the very different social mores of Anglo-Norman society.
- Something with the scene between the two of them in the woods going further in a rapey direction.
- Any kind of weird hostage situation where Raymond begins to feel grudging affection/protectiveness for Diarmuid and hates it. (Whether or not Diarmuid starts to feel a reciprocal obligation toward his captor, and especially if not.)
- Hurt-comfort with Raymond giving Diarmuid medical attention, or vice versa. (I love Diarmaid and Ciaran's interest in herbalism in canon, so feel free to draw that out.) With villain ships, I really enjoy the villain having a legit pang of conscience now and again, if not necessarily enough to turn Diarmuid loose.
Bonus smut prompts: Size kink; clothed/mostly-clothed sex; intercrural sex; handjobs; casual homosocial bed-sharing (or forbidden, taboo bed-sharing) as a prelude to sex; all kinds of medieval sodomy hangups; surprisingly rough sex; surprisingly gentle sex; kissing and embracing as plausible-deniability foreplay; language kink and verbal humiliation.
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The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
Fandom-specific DNWs: I’ve seen (and love) the film and I’m fine with fic that draws on it but I prefer Johnny Gordon’s cause of death to remain as in the novel.
Phil Burbank/Peter Gordon
- The anthrax gambit doesn't work and Peter has to come up with alternate murder methods while in a rapidly escalating intimate relationship with Phil. Does Phil ever suspect it? Is that something he can get past?
- Kink exploration -- Phil's delightfully fetishistic relationship with objects and materials is a really fun element of the canon (amplified in the film) and I'd love to see any kind of scene in which that element is present either under the surface or breaking through to a more visible position. Similarly, I'd love something like this with Peter and whatever kind of scenarios/imagery/objects carry that kind of horny power for him.
- Something filling out Peter's unvoiced thoughts about Phil as an object of desire — the film conveys a great deal through gazes and looks but in the book Peter is both more developed as a character and more closed-off from Phil’s understanding. What’s that boy thinking about?
- Phil and Peter spending time alone together in the wilderness -- camping in the mountains? Day trip to the Lewis & Clark place getting out of hand? Involuntary (or semi-involuntary) isolation due to weather, injury, or other external factors also seems like a recipe forhorny disaster some fun tension.
- Real talk, I want all kinds of consent issues scenarios for these two, especially situations that are mutual -- such as a scenario where Phil might not be up for it if he knew Peter's ulterior motives, but where Peter's own attraction is mingled with fear and plenty else -- but definitely extending to all other potential darkness and fuckery.
Bonus smut prompts: hand kink (!!!!); bondage; bed-sharing and co-sleeping; m/m intimacy under the veneer of plausible deniability; physical roughness and rough body play; fevers and sick sex.
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Star Wars
My Star Wars requests are for a couple different corners of canon, including old EU and new Disney canon; I’m fine with you incorporating details and events across versions of canon and reconciling those differences as needed! (My one caveat is that I love EU!Thrawn as a distinctly frostier character than his Disney canon counterpart — if the urge strikes you to have current Disney canon Thrawn fall into EU!Pellaeon’s lap, or Padme meet EU Thrawn, for instance, absolutely feel free, that kind of alternate-version crossover is a lot of fun for me.)
Fandom-specific art likes: CLOTHING PORN. I love the costuming in Star Wars and the things it’s used to communicate about each planet and culture as well as the situations each character finds themselves in, so please feel free to go wild if costumes and costume designs are your thing. Stylized vignettes; B&W art; poster-style art or art designed to look like in-universe propaganda or artwork.
Fandom-specific DNWs: Xeno and interplanetary politics are both a big plus for me but please don’t transpose real-life human racism 1:1 onto fictional species/cultures, import real-life human racism into the SW universe, or deliberately evoke RL racist tropes around things like dick size. (Simply featuring big dicks is just fine.)
Legends/EU Zahn Canon
Thrawn/Gilad Pellaeon
- I love Thrawn and Pellaeon as basically the bad-guy version of one of the great officer/right-hand-man loyalty kink ships from old-school SF fandom — throw them in any kind of SF tropey encounter, from being marooned together to post-combat whump to vacation episodes.
- How did these two first encounter each other? How did Thrawn gain Pellaeon’s regard, and vice-versa?
- I will absolutely never get enough of any kind of Thrawn-survives AU where he’s dealing with the fallout of the war he’s been waging and such an intimate defeat or near-defeat — what's their future look like together?
- How has service in the Imperial Navy shaped Pellaeon’s views on relationships and intimacy? How might this pairing complicate their professional lives, on any level from pining (requited or not) to being fully together as partners?
- For all the regard Pellaeon has for him (and it seems to be mutual) it’s clear Thrawn is still a bit of a puzzle to him — what kind of familiarity might grow between them and what kind of distance still remains there? Conversely, is there anything Thrawn still finds hard to understand about Gilad?
Thrawn/Rukh
- LOYALTY KINK LEVELS: OVER 9000. I would love anything where their cooperation and mutual knowledge of each other is tested, whether that’s in the context of the events that ultimately destroy Thrawn in the OG trilogy (is there any other way Rukh’s revenge for the sufferings of the Noghri could have gone?) or in an earlier encounter
- I apologize for just requesting so much sex pollen for Star Wars but uhhh: that, with a bonus side of loyalty kink, complicated consent issues, and mutual xeno. (I will also very much accept alien heat cycles, especially on Rukh’s side, because I think he would be really mad about it and because it’s a fun wrinkle in him being a bit of a catboy.)
- Any kind of study of their relationship — sparring, threat assessments, outside POV of their dynamic.
- Both of these two are so private and complicated that they seem like prime candidates for pining-while-fucking or otherwise enjoying a complicated relationship that others might not readily understand, and I’m all about any scenes of that.
Thrawn/Mara Jade
- I don’t know why so many of my pairings appear to be “Thrawn cockblocks a member of the Skywalker family” but I guess that’s what I’m into. I’d love any scenes of Thrawn assessing Mara Jade’s situation after the death of her master, or Mara Jade trying to understand what Thrawn’s relationship to Palpatine was really like.
- Similarly… we know they’ve met at least once before under fraught circumstances and that Thrawn remembers it well. I’d love anything from UST to Palpatine-made-them-do-it porn taking the shouldersculp encounter at Thrawn’s promotion ceremony as its springboard.
- Mara Jade’s involuntary loyalty to Palpatine even after his death gets transferred over to Thrawn because of reasons (Force user fuckery, curse, macguffin?) and they both feel weird about it.
- The bit about Mara being cast as Palpatine’s “favorite dancer” or one of his attractive female entertainers instead of a ruthless assassin really fascinates me and I’d love something where she serves in this capacity for Thrawn, whether reluctantly or for her own reasons. (Especially since Thrawn doesn’t seem to be much for that kind of companionship otherwise — something where people assume Mara Jade is his mistress, or where the two of them deliberately invoke that assumption?)
- …on that note I would also genuinely love Mara Jade as Thrawn’s murdery consort, whether it’s under her own steam and due to genuine attraction to him or a fucked-up enforced thing. (Which can absolutely end in murder if you so desire.)
Bonus smut prompts: sex and kink hinging on uniforms and the intimacy of dressing/undressing; xeno in the bedroom (including but not limited to alien genitalia — nonhuman physiology and culturally-specific forms of intimacy are great, as is anything kinking on Noghri/Chiss senses); post-whump sex; Palpatine-made-them-do-it sex
Disney Zahn canon:
Thrawn/Padme Amidala
- THRADME… I loved these two interacting and I loved seeing Padme getting to go out into the field and do the kind of bonkers investigative mission I love so much. Anything with these two together would make me really happy, but I’d especially love anything where Padme’s trying to get to the bottom of the cortosis conspiracy and the fate of Mokivj while Thrawn chooses — or is compelled — to stick around.
- Listen, I don’t know, something where Thrawn and Padme have to get married on Coruscant, Because Of Reasons (politics, Palpatine meddling, secret Jedi artifact soulbonds, whatever) — any kind of scene from that premise, from awkward wedding nights and culturally complicated ceremonial observances to an AU with them as a terrifying political power couple. (Feel free to write this as Anakin/Padme/Thrawn or as V-shaped polyamory too.)
- Conversely, accidental marriage/marriage-of-convenience between Padme and Thrawn on the Chiss Ascendancy’s terms — to achieve the Chiss’ own long-term goals? To protect Padme from retaliation?
- Complicated courtly love In Spaaace(tm) where Thrawn’s well aware that Padme’s in tight with Anakin but opts to serve her from a respectful distance while both of them are still simmering with loyalty-kink longing.
- Sex pollen! Whether they’re both equally whammied by it or one of them makes the decision to help the other through it — gnarly interplanetary political fallout and/or Anakin agonies optional.
Bonus smut prompts: size differences; infidelity; differing levels of sexual experience; clothed and mostly-clothed sex; oral sex; hair touching/washing/pulling; mutually-dubcon sex where outside forces Make Them Do It(tm) and weird feelings abound.
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Stranger Things
Fandom-specific DNW: Eddie as Kas the Betrayer
Eddie Munson/Jim Hopper
- Eddie and Hopper hook up at a local bar, cruising spot, etc. — for an added wrinkle, maybe it’s an ostensibly anonymous hookup where Hopper hasn’t connected Eddie with local small-time drug dealer Edward Munson but Eddie definitely knows who Hopper is… or vice versa. (For angst, consent issues, awkwardness, or all of the above.)
- S4 AU where Hopper never takes his trip to Russia but ends up falling off the wagon due to the events at Starcourt and goes to Eddie for his prescription and not-so-prescription drug hookup. Given Eddie’s lousy dad issues and his own criminal past (and present) I’d love anything where Hopper’s dual status as officer of the law and burly daddy co-mingle to make Eddie’s attraction to him super fraught and weird.
- post-S4 AU where Eddie survives and him and Hopper are thrown together in the context of wrangling the Party and combating the forces of evil. Eddie’s relatively new to the supernatural goings-on in Hawkins, let alone the secret Soviets and evil science labs, does Jim do a better job at breaking the news than the teens do?
- Eddie breaks into the ancestral Hopper cabin while on the run/homeless/making bad decisions/all of the above — and gets caught.
- Something where Eddie’s back from the dead or otherwise survives the Upside-Down —Came Back Wrong(tm)-style? With amnesia? Just lucky to be alive? — after s4 and Hopper’s the one to scoop him up.
Eddie Munson/Billy Hargrove
- Eddie and Billy hooking up in Eddie’s capacity as the local drug dealer — at parties! In parked cars! In the middle of the woods! — to get their rocks off with no strings attached. (Whether it works out that way or not is up to you, ofc.)
- Billy comes back from the dead (contrite but fucked-up about the whole mind control tentacle monster thing? Still possessed but conflicted about it?) and Eddie’s the first one who encounters him with no idea what supernatural nonsense spat him back out again. Or where they both get spat back out by the forces of the Upside-Down at the same time and have to work together.
- For a darker take on these two, something set circa s2 against the backdrop of Billy’s bullying alpha-jock phase and Eddie’s time as a freaky school outcast — hatesex, dubcon, outright noncon, angsty snatched moments of tenderness in secret, or all of the above
- AU where Eddie and Billy are both drifters of one sort or another— hitchhikers, runaways, hustlers doing survival sex work — and end up encountering one another on the road, becoming grudging allies (or rivals) in the process. Billy’s a piece of work in canon but feel free to give him the whole range of character development, for better or worse.
Bonus smut prompts: school shower sex; sex while drunk, high, or both; hotel room hookups; kinking on differences of size and build; internalized homophobia and gender baggage; hair kink and pulling Eddie’s hair; exhausted miserable relieved-to-be-alive sex; dream sex (including Vecna-fueled nightmare sex); daddy/boy dynamics; historical cruising and sex work
candyheartsex is this year's substitute for Chocolate Box since the latter isn't running in 2023 -- check it out!)General 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 selfless gestures or low-key attentiveness
- pet sociopaths — morally-dubious characters doing the dirty deeds their more morally upstanding lovers cannot, or needing to be restrained from doing so
- 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, gunsels)
- 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
- partners in crime
- hurt/comfort and whump
- murder: murdering your lover, murdering people on behalf of your lover, major character death
- 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 Pellaeon, trans woman Mara Jade. 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. All of the following prompts are totally optional and just there to get the gears turning; if none of them work for you, feel free to take off in a different direction.
For art, I'm down for anything from a vignette of the two characters interacting to a comic/illustration/fresco -- if it's a pairing who've met in canon, feel free to illustrate a passage you find particularly shippy or a missing scene! My prompts definitely lean more toward the narrative than the visual, but I really would be thrilled for anything visual with these pairings. 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 and would love to see it.
Art likes:
- B&W and grayscale art, soft/muted colors.
- Visual pastiches of other art styles -- Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, midcentury magazine illustrations, etc.
- Historical/setting AUs where the characters get to show off new clothes/settings/gear.
- Hairy chests, legs, and pits (on all genders). Men's legs and butts.
- Historical clothing and uniforms.
- Tarot motifs.
- Skulls! Skulls, skulls, skulls.
- For ship art, size differences and smaller characters taking a more dominant role (whether that's topping or in any other sense).
- Art of characters beaten up or scarred.
- Portraits/bust-style art.
Smut likes:
- size differences (both size/weight/physique and in the dick department)
- partially-clothed or mostly-clothed sex
- oral sex, handjobs, frottage, intercrural
- characters who kink on violence (gunplay, face-slapping, beating the hell out of each other or getting beaten up, etc.)
- on that note, sadomasochism (especially when it doesn’t follow strict sadist-dom-top, masochist-bottom-sub lines — masochistic doms, versatility and switching, etc.)
- impotence/erectile dysfunction
- casual fuckbuddies, sex for comfort, friends with benefits
- funny goofy fail!sex, dramatic dysfunctional fail!sex
- historical sexual practices and meeting places, cruising, queer subcultures
- fancy clothes and dressing/undressing
- angsty whumpy noncon/dubcon, conflicted manipulative dubcon
- class issues in the bedroom
- younger characters as sexual initiators/sexual aggressors
DNWs:
I would prefer not to receive fic including the following elements:
- depictions of self-harm
- depictions of eating disorders
- unrequested child sexual abuse
- unrequested incest
- unrequested suicide (offscreen mentions ok)
- PIV sex with transmasculine characters bottoming
- sexual assault of trans characters
- noncanonical pregnancy
- racekink/raceplay
- omegaverse
- ongoing RL crises and current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic
I don't want to receive explicit fic involving characters under 16.
Dickensian (TV)
Compeyson/Arthur Havisham
- Compeyson weaponizes his supposed disgust for Arthur’s sexuality as a way of putting pressure on him, but he seems curiously at home with using his own sexuality to manipulate him — I’d love something between them where that cognitive dissonance around male-male desire makes things complicated, even ugly. Has Compeyson had relationships with men in the past?
- Listen… there’s great canefucking fic for this pairing but in general, both impact play (consensual or otherwise) and object insertion pair beautifully with these two. All kinds of weird degrading Victorian sex are very welcome, with the push and pull of attraction and humiliation in play.
- Arthur Havisham gets the upper hand on Compeyson and enjoys some petty revenge. Both the Havisham siblings suffer so prettily but Compeyson is sufficiently rotten that seeing him get roughed up and bested is its own treat.
- Episode Ten noncon and/or noncon aftermath — the beating Arthur receives is great for my whump needs, but I’d love something where that moment of upheaval is amplified and then afterward they’re still stuck with a certain degree of dependence on one another and having to live with that harm between them.
- Tiny apartment bed-sharing! And There Was Only One Bed: early Victorian edition. Really any scenes of the kind of forced intimacy those quarters and Compeyson’s wanton enthusiasm for coming and going at all hours can result in — clothes-sharing, weird domestic voyeurism, sharing a pipe, patching each other up after an altercation or a scheme gone wrong, shaving kink…
Bonus smut prompts: intercrural sex; breathplay; clothed and mostly-clothed sex; object insertion; voyeurism; sex work; comeplay; sexual crying; big dicks; switching and versatile roles; face-slapping; glove kink
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Pilgrimage (2017)
(fandom note: I ship Diarmuid/the Mute and am fine with bonus background Diarmute, but would prefer the focus to be on my requested pairing here)
Brother Diarmuid/Raymond De Merville
- Raymond makes Diarmuid his concubine and takes him back to England (or France) by force.
- Conversely, Raymond makes Diarmuid his """"""personal chaplain"""" and takes him back to England (or France) by force. In either case I'd love to see Diarmuid thrust into civilian clothes for the first time in his life and dealing with the very different social mores of Anglo-Norman society.
- Something with the scene between the two of them in the woods going further in a rapey direction.
- Any kind of weird hostage situation where Raymond begins to feel grudging affection/protectiveness for Diarmuid and hates it. (Whether or not Diarmuid starts to feel a reciprocal obligation toward his captor, and especially if not.)
- Hurt-comfort with Raymond giving Diarmuid medical attention, or vice versa. (I love Diarmaid and Ciaran's interest in herbalism in canon, so feel free to draw that out.) With villain ships, I really enjoy the villain having a legit pang of conscience now and again, if not necessarily enough to turn Diarmuid loose.
Bonus smut prompts: Size kink; clothed/mostly-clothed sex; intercrural sex; handjobs; casual homosocial bed-sharing (or forbidden, taboo bed-sharing) as a prelude to sex; all kinds of medieval sodomy hangups; surprisingly rough sex; surprisingly gentle sex; kissing and embracing as plausible-deniability foreplay; language kink and verbal humiliation.
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The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
Fandom-specific DNWs: I’ve seen (and love) the film and I’m fine with fic that draws on it but I prefer Johnny Gordon’s cause of death to remain as in the novel.
Phil Burbank/Peter Gordon
- The anthrax gambit doesn't work and Peter has to come up with alternate murder methods while in a rapidly escalating intimate relationship with Phil. Does Phil ever suspect it? Is that something he can get past?
- Kink exploration -- Phil's delightfully fetishistic relationship with objects and materials is a really fun element of the canon (amplified in the film) and I'd love to see any kind of scene in which that element is present either under the surface or breaking through to a more visible position. Similarly, I'd love something like this with Peter and whatever kind of scenarios/imagery/objects carry that kind of horny power for him.
- Something filling out Peter's unvoiced thoughts about Phil as an object of desire — the film conveys a great deal through gazes and looks but in the book Peter is both more developed as a character and more closed-off from Phil’s understanding. What’s that boy thinking about?
- Phil and Peter spending time alone together in the wilderness -- camping in the mountains? Day trip to the Lewis & Clark place getting out of hand? Involuntary (or semi-involuntary) isolation due to weather, injury, or other external factors also seems like a recipe for
- Real talk, I want all kinds of consent issues scenarios for these two, especially situations that are mutual -- such as a scenario where Phil might not be up for it if he knew Peter's ulterior motives, but where Peter's own attraction is mingled with fear and plenty else -- but definitely extending to all other potential darkness and fuckery.
Bonus smut prompts: hand kink (!!!!); bondage; bed-sharing and co-sleeping; m/m intimacy under the veneer of plausible deniability; physical roughness and rough body play; fevers and sick sex.
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Star Wars
My Star Wars requests are for a couple different corners of canon, including old EU and new Disney canon; I’m fine with you incorporating details and events across versions of canon and reconciling those differences as needed! (My one caveat is that I love EU!Thrawn as a distinctly frostier character than his Disney canon counterpart — if the urge strikes you to have current Disney canon Thrawn fall into EU!Pellaeon’s lap, or Padme meet EU Thrawn, for instance, absolutely feel free, that kind of alternate-version crossover is a lot of fun for me.)
Fandom-specific art likes: CLOTHING PORN. I love the costuming in Star Wars and the things it’s used to communicate about each planet and culture as well as the situations each character finds themselves in, so please feel free to go wild if costumes and costume designs are your thing. Stylized vignettes; B&W art; poster-style art or art designed to look like in-universe propaganda or artwork.
Fandom-specific DNWs: Xeno and interplanetary politics are both a big plus for me but please don’t transpose real-life human racism 1:1 onto fictional species/cultures, import real-life human racism into the SW universe, or deliberately evoke RL racist tropes around things like dick size. (Simply featuring big dicks is just fine.)
Legends/EU Zahn Canon
Thrawn/Gilad Pellaeon
- I love Thrawn and Pellaeon as basically the bad-guy version of one of the great officer/right-hand-man loyalty kink ships from old-school SF fandom — throw them in any kind of SF tropey encounter, from being marooned together to post-combat whump to vacation episodes.
- How did these two first encounter each other? How did Thrawn gain Pellaeon’s regard, and vice-versa?
- I will absolutely never get enough of any kind of Thrawn-survives AU where he’s dealing with the fallout of the war he’s been waging and such an intimate defeat or near-defeat — what's their future look like together?
- How has service in the Imperial Navy shaped Pellaeon’s views on relationships and intimacy? How might this pairing complicate their professional lives, on any level from pining (requited or not) to being fully together as partners?
- For all the regard Pellaeon has for him (and it seems to be mutual) it’s clear Thrawn is still a bit of a puzzle to him — what kind of familiarity might grow between them and what kind of distance still remains there? Conversely, is there anything Thrawn still finds hard to understand about Gilad?
Thrawn/Rukh
- LOYALTY KINK LEVELS: OVER 9000. I would love anything where their cooperation and mutual knowledge of each other is tested, whether that’s in the context of the events that ultimately destroy Thrawn in the OG trilogy (is there any other way Rukh’s revenge for the sufferings of the Noghri could have gone?) or in an earlier encounter
- I apologize for just requesting so much sex pollen for Star Wars but uhhh: that, with a bonus side of loyalty kink, complicated consent issues, and mutual xeno. (I will also very much accept alien heat cycles, especially on Rukh’s side, because I think he would be really mad about it and because it’s a fun wrinkle in him being a bit of a catboy.)
- Any kind of study of their relationship — sparring, threat assessments, outside POV of their dynamic.
- Both of these two are so private and complicated that they seem like prime candidates for pining-while-fucking or otherwise enjoying a complicated relationship that others might not readily understand, and I’m all about any scenes of that.
Thrawn/Mara Jade
- I don’t know why so many of my pairings appear to be “Thrawn cockblocks a member of the Skywalker family” but I guess that’s what I’m into. I’d love any scenes of Thrawn assessing Mara Jade’s situation after the death of her master, or Mara Jade trying to understand what Thrawn’s relationship to Palpatine was really like.
- Similarly… we know they’ve met at least once before under fraught circumstances and that Thrawn remembers it well. I’d love anything from UST to Palpatine-made-them-do-it porn taking the shouldersculp encounter at Thrawn’s promotion ceremony as its springboard.
- Mara Jade’s involuntary loyalty to Palpatine even after his death gets transferred over to Thrawn because of reasons (Force user fuckery, curse, macguffin?) and they both feel weird about it.
- The bit about Mara being cast as Palpatine’s “favorite dancer” or one of his attractive female entertainers instead of a ruthless assassin really fascinates me and I’d love something where she serves in this capacity for Thrawn, whether reluctantly or for her own reasons. (Especially since Thrawn doesn’t seem to be much for that kind of companionship otherwise — something where people assume Mara Jade is his mistress, or where the two of them deliberately invoke that assumption?)
- …on that note I would also genuinely love Mara Jade as Thrawn’s murdery consort, whether it’s under her own steam and due to genuine attraction to him or a fucked-up enforced thing. (Which can absolutely end in murder if you so desire.)
Bonus smut prompts: sex and kink hinging on uniforms and the intimacy of dressing/undressing; xeno in the bedroom (including but not limited to alien genitalia — nonhuman physiology and culturally-specific forms of intimacy are great, as is anything kinking on Noghri/Chiss senses); post-whump sex; Palpatine-made-them-do-it sex
Disney Zahn canon:
Thrawn/Padme Amidala
- THRADME… I loved these two interacting and I loved seeing Padme getting to go out into the field and do the kind of bonkers investigative mission I love so much. Anything with these two together would make me really happy, but I’d especially love anything where Padme’s trying to get to the bottom of the cortosis conspiracy and the fate of Mokivj while Thrawn chooses — or is compelled — to stick around.
- Listen, I don’t know, something where Thrawn and Padme have to get married on Coruscant, Because Of Reasons (politics, Palpatine meddling, secret Jedi artifact soulbonds, whatever) — any kind of scene from that premise, from awkward wedding nights and culturally complicated ceremonial observances to an AU with them as a terrifying political power couple. (Feel free to write this as Anakin/Padme/Thrawn or as V-shaped polyamory too.)
- Conversely, accidental marriage/marriage-of-convenience between Padme and Thrawn on the Chiss Ascendancy’s terms — to achieve the Chiss’ own long-term goals? To protect Padme from retaliation?
- Complicated courtly love In Spaaace(tm) where Thrawn’s well aware that Padme’s in tight with Anakin but opts to serve her from a respectful distance while both of them are still simmering with loyalty-kink longing.
- Sex pollen! Whether they’re both equally whammied by it or one of them makes the decision to help the other through it — gnarly interplanetary political fallout and/or Anakin agonies optional.
Bonus smut prompts: size differences; infidelity; differing levels of sexual experience; clothed and mostly-clothed sex; oral sex; hair touching/washing/pulling; mutually-dubcon sex where outside forces Make Them Do It(tm) and weird feelings abound.
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Stranger Things
Fandom-specific DNW: Eddie as Kas the Betrayer
Eddie Munson/Jim Hopper
- Eddie and Hopper hook up at a local bar, cruising spot, etc. — for an added wrinkle, maybe it’s an ostensibly anonymous hookup where Hopper hasn’t connected Eddie with local small-time drug dealer Edward Munson but Eddie definitely knows who Hopper is… or vice versa. (For angst, consent issues, awkwardness, or all of the above.)
- S4 AU where Hopper never takes his trip to Russia but ends up falling off the wagon due to the events at Starcourt and goes to Eddie for his prescription and not-so-prescription drug hookup. Given Eddie’s lousy dad issues and his own criminal past (and present) I’d love anything where Hopper’s dual status as officer of the law and burly daddy co-mingle to make Eddie’s attraction to him super fraught and weird.
- post-S4 AU where Eddie survives and him and Hopper are thrown together in the context of wrangling the Party and combating the forces of evil. Eddie’s relatively new to the supernatural goings-on in Hawkins, let alone the secret Soviets and evil science labs, does Jim do a better job at breaking the news than the teens do?
- Eddie breaks into the ancestral Hopper cabin while on the run/homeless/making bad decisions/all of the above — and gets caught.
- Something where Eddie’s back from the dead or otherwise survives the Upside-Down —Came Back Wrong(tm)-style? With amnesia? Just lucky to be alive? — after s4 and Hopper’s the one to scoop him up.
Eddie Munson/Billy Hargrove
- Eddie and Billy hooking up in Eddie’s capacity as the local drug dealer — at parties! In parked cars! In the middle of the woods! — to get their rocks off with no strings attached. (Whether it works out that way or not is up to you, ofc.)
- Billy comes back from the dead (contrite but fucked-up about the whole mind control tentacle monster thing? Still possessed but conflicted about it?) and Eddie’s the first one who encounters him with no idea what supernatural nonsense spat him back out again. Or where they both get spat back out by the forces of the Upside-Down at the same time and have to work together.
- For a darker take on these two, something set circa s2 against the backdrop of Billy’s bullying alpha-jock phase and Eddie’s time as a freaky school outcast — hatesex, dubcon, outright noncon, angsty snatched moments of tenderness in secret, or all of the above
- AU where Eddie and Billy are both drifters of one sort or another— hitchhikers, runaways, hustlers doing survival sex work — and end up encountering one another on the road, becoming grudging allies (or rivals) in the process. Billy’s a piece of work in canon but feel free to give him the whole range of character development, for better or worse.
Bonus smut prompts: school shower sex; sex while drunk, high, or both; hotel room hookups; kinking on differences of size and build; internalized homophobia and gender baggage; hair kink and pulling Eddie’s hair; exhausted miserable relieved-to-be-alive sex; dream sex (including Vecna-fueled nightmare sex); daddy/boy dynamics; historical cruising and sex work