Dear Chocolatier 2019
Jan. 7th, 2019 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meretriculaHappy Chocolate Box and thank you in advance for writing for me! I really hope you'll have fun. This post has some prompts and general info about my preferences, but Optional Details Are Optional so if there's a story of your heart that you've been waiting to write about the characters I've requested, don't worry about sticking too close to my prompts: write the story you're into! So long as you respect my DNWs I'm sure I'll love it if you loved writing it. (Just FYI, fanart is totally cool for treats if you should be so motivated, but I would prefer to receive fic for my assigned gift.) I'm meretricula on the AO3 (and Tumblr), if you need to find me!
Yes, Please!
-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.
-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.
-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.
-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)
-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)
-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic
-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)
-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)
-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)
-food; competence; found families
No, Thanks!
-unhappy endings
-unrequited love
-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)
-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore
-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore
-first and second person POV
-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)
-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)
-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.
...And on to the fandoms!
Bombshells (Comics) - Tim Drake/Jason Todd
[SPOILERS FOR VOLUME TWO OF BOMBSHELLS UNITED WILL FOLLOW]
Look, I get why Jason dying was the right narrative choice and it was a better story because death is a part of life and we have to accept that and blah blah blah, but I was devastated and I would really strongly prefer to have an AU where either he got to stick around after being revived (let's get rid of the whole "the Lazarus Pits freeze you at the age you died forever" thing ok) or he didn't die in the war and instead went with Kate back to Gotham. Either way: Jason and Tim in Gotham! Jason and Tim coping with their respective traumas! Jason and Tim being caring and compassionate and Soft with each other because the bad things that have happened to them didn't make them hard! (Did someone say: bedsharing and snuggling and comforting after nightmares? Oh, it was me.) Jason and Tim falling in love in the background of various Batgirl shenanigans! Jason enlisting Tim into a plot to get his moms back together which backfires severely since the Batgirls' loyalty is with Maggie Sawyer! Or literally anything else where they get to be alive and happy and in the same place. I'd love cameos from Alysia and Harper and Cullen if you feel like throwing them in, and Kate and Renee (Jason has two moms and it is The Best) would be very welcome, too.
DCU (Comics) - Mia 'Maps' Mizoguchi/Olive Silverlock
I have kind of mixed feelings about Gotham Academy -- it had so much potential to make a statement about the way women who refuse to conform to the desires of powerful men are institutionalized and mistreated and killed, and then it just... didn't. (Calamity had some legitimate grievances, is what I'm saying.) But you know what is 100% unproblematic and adorable? Maps showing up to a school dance in a suit with a flower in her hair, looking like the cutest baby butch on the planet. I am absolutely dying for future fic about Olive and Maps getting together and solving mysteries and going to prom and worrying about college and maybe becoming vigilantes or maybe just being normal citizens of Gotham (as much as any citizen of Gotham is normal) while all kinds of Batfamily craziness unfold in the background. Cameos of Damian & Maps being bros and Kyle/Colton being sweet dummies in love are welcome so long as the focus remains on Maps and Olive and their unswerving devotion to each other!
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For Otaku (Manga) - Momose Narumi/Nifuji Hirotaka
Oh my god, these nerds are so dumb and I love them so much. I love their stupid slice of life adventures and I love their obsessive interests and I love how they support each other even when they're making fun of each other and I WANT TO KNOW WHEN NARUMI IS GOING TO CLUE IN. Hirotaka is Suffering and so am I. (But! I also love that he is not Nice Guy-ing her and genuinely just enjoys hanging out with her??? The DreamTM.) Please can we get some requited love up in here. I'd love get-together fic and I'd also love futurefic where they've already gotten their shit together and are experiencing other relationship milestones, in the nerdiest possible way of course. Can you imagine the epic Combining of the Household Goods that would happen when they move in together? The arguments over how their games should be organized and stored and whether Narumi's manga deserves an equal share of space. Would they hold an in-game wedding for their avatars as practice for the real thing? Would Hirotaka be nine billion times more stressed about everything being perfect for the in-game wedding than the real one???? WOULD THEY HAVE TO GO ON A QUEST TO GET THE WEDDING RINGS. I also adore the flashbacks to their childhood days together (Naoya almost spilling the beans about Hirotaka having a crush on Narumi cracks me up every time) and something tying together a story about their past and a story about their present would be adorable. I love all the characters in this show and would be delighted to have any and all of them show up -- the nerd quartet's adventures are hilarious and so true to life, and Naoya and Kou are SO CUTE, I'M DYING.
You Could Make a Life - David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov, David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov/Emily Ross
I'm fond of the Between the Teeth arc, but it doesn't really get enjoyable for me until Kiro shows up -- and then it gets delightful really fast. It was always obvious that canon was never going to give me the ship, and I do love David and Kiro as friends, but look, if I can't ask for fanfiction where David ends up with the person I wanted him to for Yuletide, what even is the point. I love how sweet and protective and supportive Kiro is with David, and I love how hard David tries to reciprocate even though he doesn't really know what he's doing. I also really love how Kiro is always careful to communicate clearly, and I think that if he and David did ever slide from friends to something more, clear communication would be key! Especially if Emily is also involved -- I love Emily and would be delighted for her to be involved, to be clear, although obviously you should also feel free to handwave her existence or have an amicable break-up offscreen if you'd rather not. (If you do go with the poly triad, I'd be over the moon for Emily & David interactions, but please respect his canon orientation and don't have them be involved sexually.) Tell me about how they get together? I can imagine a number of places in canon where things could have diverged to a David/Kiro destination, but maybe the night of the NHL awards? It's the summer of Kiro! HE LOVES AND SUPPORTS DAVID SO MUCH. Alternatively, David and Kiro are great candidates for some cuddling & snuggling (Orange can come too!) and the evergreen hurt/comfort option -- since we get a lot of Kiro comforting David in canon, I would actually be especially interested in David failboating his way through comforting Kiro for something or sickfic where he has to nurse his unfortunate Russian back to health. And if you wanted to give a cameo to Dave or Oleg or Mary Anne as a supportive parental figure, that would be the cherry on the happy shipper sundae! Finally, if you're interested in going the meta route, I would also love to read the fanfic and ship manifestos that are being written about them in-universe (but please don't make David find out about them, I think his head would explode).
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong - Nate Harding/Charlie Nolan
My favorite scene in this entire book is when Charlie is hiding from his own party under his bed and Nate knows exactly where he'll be and comes to keep him company. The two of them hit my "I'm an asshole but I'm your asshole" button perfectly, and I'd love a story in that vein. Does Nate mellow out as he gets older? Does Charlie get more effective at calling him out when he's being a jerk? What are they like in senior year (do they actually run for Class President and VP together?) or in college? (Tangentially, I love Joanna but I thought that the narrative was leading up to Joanna/Holly and I felt very betrayed when we ended up with Charlie/Joanna instead: please feel free to include Joanna and Holly. Do they pretend their dates are meetings of the Charlie's Exes Club so that Nate won't crash them like a creeper? Does Nate try to join every time he and Charlie have a fight?) I'd love a wacky robots caper with Nate/Charlie happening in the background, and I would also love something sweet (well, as sweet as Nate can get) about them getting together or getting through something as a couple -- maybe their first holiday after telling their families they're together, or renting their first apartment, or some other important milestone. I do want Nate to be Nate (I don't think he's ever going to become a gentle or sensitive person) but I'd love to see him being protective of Charlie in his own abrasive way. I'd also love to see Charlie standing up for himself, or realizing that he has someone to support him if he needs it.
Yes, Please!
-Happiness. I want everybody to be happy or at least not overtly miserable at the end of the fic. They can suffer and be angsty in the beginning or middle but please please please let the ending be sunshine and rainbows or the promise of sunshine and rainbows on the not-too-distant horizon. I'm also happy to get a fic that's 100% fluffy sunshine and rainbows all the way through.
-Characters having lots of feelings about each other. I'm a big fan of tropes where characters have a lot of history between them -- friends to lovers, childhood sweethearts, best frenemies, sibling relationships, etc. I'm not a big fan of porn for porn's sake but if you want to write about people expressing their feelings via sex, that's great! If you don't want to write shipfic, something focusing on friendship or family bonds is great too.
-Gen, het, slash, femslash and poly (including poly relationships where A is romantically involved with both B and C but B and C are not romantically interested in each other) are all good with me.
-tropes and cliches (if you want to write "snowed in at the hotel and there's ONLY ONE BED", sedoretu, unexpected baby acquisition, genderswap, somebody inexplicably has wings, etc., but are worried that it wasn't specifically prompted, please know that I love that kind of stuff and follow where your muse leads you -- only exceptions are I'm not too keen on soulmarks and A/B/O when they're done straight)
-subverted/inverted tropes and cliches (including soulmarks and A/B/O if they strike your fancy)
-lots of dialogue; limited third person POV; epistolary/mixed media/documentation fic
-canon settings (feel free to throw in some worldbuilding!)
-canon divergences (i.e. fork in the road AUs)
-alternate universes (the wackier the better; personal faves include Regency settings, Star Trek or similar space settings, magic, and "bring your fandom to work" AUs)
-food; competence; found families
No, Thanks!
-unhappy endings
-unrequited love
-major character death (as in, this character is gone and not coming back; death followed by resurrection or altered form of existence is fine so long as the character is still around)
-humiliation; intense angst; graphic violence and gore
-noncon and dubcon; kink involving bathroom functions or vore
-first and second person POV
-fics that center around dealing with discrimination or identity issues (it's fine if these things are addressed in the course of the narrative but I don't want it to be the point of the story)
-AUs that change the nature of characters' backstory together (e.g. if two people have known each other since childhood I'd rather not have an AU where they meet for the first time as adults, and if they've been best friends their whole lives I'd rather not read an AU where they're enemies instead)
-I seriously doubt that this will be an issue for these fandoms, but just as a note, I spent many years of my life studying Latin, so please don't throw random Google-translated Latin into the fic or use it for a title.
...And on to the fandoms!
Bombshells (Comics) - Tim Drake/Jason Todd
[SPOILERS FOR VOLUME TWO OF BOMBSHELLS UNITED WILL FOLLOW]
Look, I get why Jason dying was the right narrative choice and it was a better story because death is a part of life and we have to accept that and blah blah blah, but I was devastated and I would really strongly prefer to have an AU where either he got to stick around after being revived (let's get rid of the whole "the Lazarus Pits freeze you at the age you died forever" thing ok) or he didn't die in the war and instead went with Kate back to Gotham. Either way: Jason and Tim in Gotham! Jason and Tim coping with their respective traumas! Jason and Tim being caring and compassionate and Soft with each other because the bad things that have happened to them didn't make them hard! (Did someone say: bedsharing and snuggling and comforting after nightmares? Oh, it was me.) Jason and Tim falling in love in the background of various Batgirl shenanigans! Jason enlisting Tim into a plot to get his moms back together which backfires severely since the Batgirls' loyalty is with Maggie Sawyer! Or literally anything else where they get to be alive and happy and in the same place. I'd love cameos from Alysia and Harper and Cullen if you feel like throwing them in, and Kate and Renee (Jason has two moms and it is The Best) would be very welcome, too.
DCU (Comics) - Mia 'Maps' Mizoguchi/Olive Silverlock
I have kind of mixed feelings about Gotham Academy -- it had so much potential to make a statement about the way women who refuse to conform to the desires of powerful men are institutionalized and mistreated and killed, and then it just... didn't. (Calamity had some legitimate grievances, is what I'm saying.) But you know what is 100% unproblematic and adorable? Maps showing up to a school dance in a suit with a flower in her hair, looking like the cutest baby butch on the planet. I am absolutely dying for future fic about Olive and Maps getting together and solving mysteries and going to prom and worrying about college and maybe becoming vigilantes or maybe just being normal citizens of Gotham (as much as any citizen of Gotham is normal) while all kinds of Batfamily craziness unfold in the background. Cameos of Damian & Maps being bros and Kyle/Colton being sweet dummies in love are welcome so long as the focus remains on Maps and Olive and their unswerving devotion to each other!
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For Otaku (Manga) - Momose Narumi/Nifuji Hirotaka
Oh my god, these nerds are so dumb and I love them so much. I love their stupid slice of life adventures and I love their obsessive interests and I love how they support each other even when they're making fun of each other and I WANT TO KNOW WHEN NARUMI IS GOING TO CLUE IN. Hirotaka is Suffering and so am I. (But! I also love that he is not Nice Guy-ing her and genuinely just enjoys hanging out with her??? The DreamTM.) Please can we get some requited love up in here. I'd love get-together fic and I'd also love futurefic where they've already gotten their shit together and are experiencing other relationship milestones, in the nerdiest possible way of course. Can you imagine the epic Combining of the Household Goods that would happen when they move in together? The arguments over how their games should be organized and stored and whether Narumi's manga deserves an equal share of space. Would they hold an in-game wedding for their avatars as practice for the real thing? Would Hirotaka be nine billion times more stressed about everything being perfect for the in-game wedding than the real one???? WOULD THEY HAVE TO GO ON A QUEST TO GET THE WEDDING RINGS. I also adore the flashbacks to their childhood days together (Naoya almost spilling the beans about Hirotaka having a crush on Narumi cracks me up every time) and something tying together a story about their past and a story about their present would be adorable. I love all the characters in this show and would be delighted to have any and all of them show up -- the nerd quartet's adventures are hilarious and so true to life, and Naoya and Kou are SO CUTE, I'M DYING.
You Could Make a Life - David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov, David Chapman/Kirill 'Kiro' Volkov/Emily Ross
I'm fond of the Between the Teeth arc, but it doesn't really get enjoyable for me until Kiro shows up -- and then it gets delightful really fast. It was always obvious that canon was never going to give me the ship, and I do love David and Kiro as friends, but look, if I can't ask for fanfiction where David ends up with the person I wanted him to for Yuletide, what even is the point. I love how sweet and protective and supportive Kiro is with David, and I love how hard David tries to reciprocate even though he doesn't really know what he's doing. I also really love how Kiro is always careful to communicate clearly, and I think that if he and David did ever slide from friends to something more, clear communication would be key! Especially if Emily is also involved -- I love Emily and would be delighted for her to be involved, to be clear, although obviously you should also feel free to handwave her existence or have an amicable break-up offscreen if you'd rather not. (If you do go with the poly triad, I'd be over the moon for Emily & David interactions, but please respect his canon orientation and don't have them be involved sexually.) Tell me about how they get together? I can imagine a number of places in canon where things could have diverged to a David/Kiro destination, but maybe the night of the NHL awards? It's the summer of Kiro! HE LOVES AND SUPPORTS DAVID SO MUCH. Alternatively, David and Kiro are great candidates for some cuddling & snuggling (Orange can come too!) and the evergreen hurt/comfort option -- since we get a lot of Kiro comforting David in canon, I would actually be especially interested in David failboating his way through comforting Kiro for something or sickfic where he has to nurse his unfortunate Russian back to health. And if you wanted to give a cameo to Dave or Oleg or Mary Anne as a supportive parental figure, that would be the cherry on the happy shipper sundae! Finally, if you're interested in going the meta route, I would also love to read the fanfic and ship manifestos that are being written about them in-universe (but please don't make David find out about them, I think his head would explode).
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong - Nate Harding/Charlie Nolan
My favorite scene in this entire book is when Charlie is hiding from his own party under his bed and Nate knows exactly where he'll be and comes to keep him company. The two of them hit my "I'm an asshole but I'm your asshole" button perfectly, and I'd love a story in that vein. Does Nate mellow out as he gets older? Does Charlie get more effective at calling him out when he's being a jerk? What are they like in senior year (do they actually run for Class President and VP together?) or in college? (Tangentially, I love Joanna but I thought that the narrative was leading up to Joanna/Holly and I felt very betrayed when we ended up with Charlie/Joanna instead: please feel free to include Joanna and Holly. Do they pretend their dates are meetings of the Charlie's Exes Club so that Nate won't crash them like a creeper? Does Nate try to join every time he and Charlie have a fight?) I'd love a wacky robots caper with Nate/Charlie happening in the background, and I would also love something sweet (well, as sweet as Nate can get) about them getting together or getting through something as a couple -- maybe their first holiday after telling their families they're together, or renting their first apartment, or some other important milestone. I do want Nate to be Nate (I don't think he's ever going to become a gentle or sensitive person) but I'd love to see him being protective of Charlie in his own abrasive way. I'd also love to see Charlie standing up for himself, or realizing that he has someone to support him if he needs it.
