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The Game and the Candle | Kingdom of Three | Sleep No More | The Shadow Campaigns

General likes:
– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one’s situational or ethical judgment with someone else’s, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.
– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.
– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).
– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized. Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.
– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.
– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.
– Minority/diaspora feelings and themes.

Smut Likes: clothing, uniforms, sexual tension, breasts, manual sex, cunnilingus, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity.

General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; infidelity; unrequested polyamory; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships; unrequested trans versions of characters; breakups; jealousy; focus on grief; unequal levels of investment in a relationship (including concerns about same that turn out to be unwarranted), or the idea of a character accepting something they're unhappy with as the most they're going to get; characters apologizing to their partner when they don't actually know what they did to upset them; characters who are written in a sexual context within the fic being ignorant about sex/anatomy (inexperienced is fine); the word "pussy"

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Fandom: The Game and the Candle
Character(s): John Allard, Feodor Stanief

I'm so excited for this new-to-me fandom and its ridiculous loyalty kink; lines like "It is my pride to have regained my independence, monseigneur; to be able to come to you, free, and offer to do your secretary's work, Vasili's, what you choose, but to do it as a service of love...You cannot refuse me that! You have taken my life and made it center around you, now you cannot bid me tear that core out and go on" and "Before the brother I loved, the woman I love, before any call, I would follow the Regent. He — I have no words for it. It is not that my loyalty to your Majesty is less, but that he claims me against the world" are insanely my jam as loyalty and possessiveness (and happiness at being possessed - His own! The long loneliness snatched the phrase greedily; worn out, Allard submitted to protection without resentment). I would love More of This Sort of Thing - just put them in more Situations where they simply must declare their undying loyalty to and possessiveness of each other. (Feel free to flesh out Situations that canonically happened that someone decided not to show us, Eleanor...) Where Allard has to kneel to Stanief for some reason, or kiss his hand, to show his actual fealty but it's full of love and meaning! Let one of them get scary and protective when the other one is threatened (by a person, not....a grenade...maybe another asshole courtier, or Dalmorov in a missing scene or continuing to lurk postcanon), or someone tries to shame Allard with his devotion/submission and he declares how proud he is of it.

I'd be happy to receive smut that leans into these dynamics - my general smut likes probably aren't incredibly helpful here beyond, obviously, the D/s vibes (yes!) but I think they are probably fairly switchy in terms of position, but not in terms of dom/sub dynamic where the out-of-the-bedroom power dynamic is part of what they're kinking on.

Also, while I'm not interested in period-typical homophobia as such being the focus of a fic, I do enjoy stories that engage with the reality of two people of the same gender being a stable couple who are semi-acknowledged by the people around them in times and places where that can't be a marriage or treated the exact same way as a straight couple. What's the public perception of the Regent/former Regent and his American secretary/pet/friend/favorite/boyfriend? Of "their" house? When's a situation (inviting people to a party/event/opera was my first thought, but could be anything) when it's just obvious that they're a unit and if you get one you get the other?

FWIW, at this point I have only a pretty thin knowledge of Ingram's other books and stories (and the ones I know better are not the more crossoverable ones with this one), so I will probably not get any crossovers or continuity you put in. I'm also not terribly interested in receiving a fic that focuses on their Sicilian sexcation exclusively - I think it's very important to the development of their relationship, obviously, and probably very hot, but the thing that I'm most interested in is the insane loyaltykink that relies on Allard knowing who Stanief is.

Fandom-Specific DNW Handling: please don't write Iria or Theo as romantically involved with Stanief or Allard; perhaps Iria and Stanief's marriage continues platonically, and either Theo just doesn't reenter the story or that is platonic as well. (You don't need to disclaim anything, just please don't explicitly write that Allard or Stanief have multiple romances going on.)

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Fandom: Kingdom of Three (Strike the Zither)
Character(s): Zephyr, Xin Ren

Okay, so WHAT IF the ending didn't happen that way and Zephyr were able to stay at Ren's side as her strategist? (Or, you know, if magical shenanigans happened and she could do so in her own body again.) What new circumstances arise where their trust in each other outweighs the risks or their lack of knowledge or the pressures of others? Where they're prompted to declare their loyalty through words or gestures in public or private shows of fealty, or do things for each other? It seems in canon like Ren doesn't necessarily know the depth of Zephyr's feelings - is it the reveal of what all went down in canon (if they get a canon divergence AU to talk about that all in) that reveals those to her, or something else?

Or if they're both eventually reincarnated in some future conflict (still in our past? in space?), and Zephyr's greatest desire and duty is still to serve Ren's goals? (It doesn't have to be full-on Three Kingdoms-style military/political drama, but if you go this route, I'd appreciate it if the stakes are higher than coffeeshop AU type things or than, say, that other canon about Zhuge Liang in the modern day, although that does also have a few surprisingly good loyalty moments.)

I ship them a lot, but canon-typical levels of Dramatic Loyalty Feelings are lovely too. If you write them romantically, what eventually pushes them to make their feelings explicit?

Fandom-Specific DNW Handling: You don't need to retcon anything that canonically takes place about Zephyr/Crow, but please don't refer to Zephyr's feelings for him in explicitly romantic terms or suggest any sort of love triangle or conflict (resolved or not) between her feelings for Ren and Crow. Also, please don't write any sex between Ren and a Zephyr who is possessing a male body.

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Fandom: Sleep No More
Character(s): J. Fulton OR Speakeasy Bartender - OR Bald Witch or Sexy Witch if writing a specific prompt detailed below

I love all the small magic and folk magic on the 4th floor of the McKittrick, the precise little rituals that reach out to or guard against the world of darkness and magic that is Outside their town but also underlying/intertwined with it. I'm especially interested in how magic and outsider-ness and queerness all interact in the world of SNM - stuff like:

• the occasional new cross-casting of Speakeasy Bartender! (side note: I'd read the character as a butch woman, learned afterwards that the performer I saw is nb and uses she/they pronouns, but either way, it's interesting to me that this Speaks is a gender non-conforming character in a way the usual one is very much not. I'm also pretty psyched that some of the show ephemera now refers to the character in a gender-neutral way. Please take it as read in this letter that if I refer to f!Speaks I'm referring  to the gender non-conforming version of this character.)
• the way that the Fulton/male!Speakeasy duet where they search each other for witch marks starts off like they're trying to pick each other up
• characters that I didn't select this go-round but that also play into this: everything about the Porter (especially his/her 1:1), the witches' everything

An assortment of possible prompts:

• the intense queerness of Fulton's trip to the speakeasy in versions where that is an extremely homoerotic encounter with a male Bartender that he may or may not have partly sought out. He's such a weird, messed-up little man that wants a lot of things he's afraid to want but sure does go for them anyway - at what point did that aspect of this visit become a thing for him? Did he go there thinking only that it would be to confront the forces of (sexy) evil and find that the sexual tension was much more than he expected? Or is Speakeasy someone who is already rumored/muttered in town to maybe not be straight? Is that part of the reputation of the bar itself, or just the guy who serves drinks and cleans up?
• but with cross-cast Speaks, that can instead be a confounding encounter where not only is he entering this underworld location to confront a creepy magic person, but there’s also the gender transgression aspect of f!Speaks (and on the other other hand, she’s not the way he might have envisioned a witch either!)
• more of Fulton's little charms and rituals! I think for Bargarran and the witches it's maybe a little easier to see or at least make up how their magic interacts with place and landscape and nature, but I'm curious about this for Fulton's magic too because so much folk magic works like that.
• Does Speaks's relationship with Hecate give them any powers that it’s not possible to represent in the physical performance of dance - like, can they go through walls instead of just unlocking all doors? (Not meant to be a leading question, “they can unlock all doors” works too, I’m into the fact that all the magic necessarily has to be represented by stuff the performers can do.)
• what actually is the difference between being a witch and being a human familiar? more about how Speaks and the witches interact?
• Fulton and Porter never interact in canon but what with everything I've been saying about Fulton's sad fearful gay curiosity, plus Porter's sad gay sadness, maybe they could make each other happier. How do they meet and find that out about each other? (I could see this equally as friends-to-coming-out-to-lovers or anonymous-hookup-to-lovers.) Or, for a prompt that could be either romantic or platonic, if you read Porter as a closeted trans woman, is there a story where she's able to escape Hecate/the hotel and transition, and if so, maybe the tailor can help?
• I love the d/s vibes of the Hecate/Speaks relationship, especially with f!Speaks as Hecate’s creature/enforcer/weapon. How/why did Hecate choose Speakeasy and what does she think of or do with their devotion and service? (THE VIAL OF TEARS SCENE asdsjhasjkhd, it killed me.)
• what's f!Speaks's story? Were her GNC presentation or sexuality a factor in her getting involved in the underground booze business and/or Hecate’s service, and how do they affect her dealings with people now? Did she do small magic before becoming Hecate’s familiar, or did that come after/as a result of it? How do she and Hecate think about each other - is Speakeasy in love with Hecate, is sex one of the ways Hecate controls her human pet?
• by structural design, the canon can't really engage with race and racism, but I'd be fascinated by a story that got into a character being a racial/ethnic minority in Paisley/McK in a non-race-blind-casting way (including Bald Witch or Sexy Witch, if you'd rather write this prompt for them than Fulton or Speaks)

Fandom-Specific DNW Handling:

• if you write Hecate/f!Speakeasy, consider my DNW of unequal investment waived, as long as Speaks isn't under the impression that it is equal or upset by that. F!Speakeasy/Sexy Witch, Hecate/Agnes, Hecate/other witches are okay as concurrent background ships and would not violate my poly DNW, but please don't include/suggest any relationship negotiation or prioritization (trying to organize anyone's life around multiple relationships) or manipulation of Speakeasy's jealousy.
• If you write sex for Speaks/Hecate (I'd mostly care for this with f!Speaks), please don't write a scene where Hecate subs to "let go" or is "service dommed"; I'm only interested in a D/s dynamic for them if Hecate is the dom.
• You don't need to act as though any of the unrequested f/m ships for the requested characters (eg. male Speaks/Sexy Witch, Fulton/Agnes) aren't canon, but I'd rather they not be focused on, please. If you have other questions about which ships can be present, please drop me a line.

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Fandom: The Shadow Campaigns
Character(s): Winter Ihernglass

The loyalty kink and competence kink in this series is so tasty. Winter just keeps getting promoted and accomplishing things! I don’t have a lot of specific prompts, to be honest, because I kind of feel like anything I would say is “ *gestures at canon* MORE OF THAT.”

• More of Winter being good at the job that was initially just the furthest place she could hide but that became her real job and something she was good at and that was her life.
• The delightful and hilarious running gag of Marcus thinking that she is a male soldier who went undercover as a woman for a mission and only Marcus knows the truth.
• The loyalty and protectiveness she inspires from her subordinates, even when asking them for things that are risky or hard - I found her relationship with Bobby and Folsom and Graff in the first book VERY gratifying to my id, and then there’s her subordinates in the Girls’ Own, and on the mission to Elysium.
• BOBBY. I ship them a lot. (I liked it as a platonic loyalty kink thing even before the disguise reveal, and then!) Winter trusting Bobby! Bobby having her back in battle and against Davis et al! Cuddling for warmth/comfort! Bobby begging her commanding officer to take care of her herself if she was ever wounded instead of going to a surgeon. *___* More trust and competence and mutual protectiveness, Bobby being so instrumental to Winter’s plans, her right hand person that she can use and direct as readily as she can use her weapons… (Uh, feel free to go AU on this. You know why. Even though the way it actually panned out was insanely shippy! Maybe it just didn't end that way. Or Somehow Magic, later on.)
• I also LOVE the mentor-mentee relationship between Winter and Janus. (I know this will be difficult, but you have yet to disappoint me.) Janus manipulating Winter but also explaining to her that she has something he hasn’t, the ability to understand and relate to people. Jane’s accusation that Winter has fallen in love with him, not because it’s a romance-romance or because Winter, as a lesbian, would be capable of it in that sense, but because that’s a way to talk about someone’s platonic relationship to the leader they follow.  How determined she is not to fail him, and his trust that she won't. What other Janus things does he want her to learn or need her for? WHAT is going to happen with this after the end...?

Fandom-Specific DNW Handling: to avoid my infidelity/poly/breakup DNWs, if you write Winter/Bobby I’d prefer to assume that Bobby/Marsh and Winter/Cyte didn’t happen or were flings that didn’t become relationships; Winter/Jane breaking up as per canon is fine if it’s not a central focus of the fic, but if you write Winter/Bobby set during the Shadow Throne/Price of Valor period of canon, please write as though Winter and Jane simply never rekindled their relationship.

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Thank you!

Note: I've been trying out Dreamwidth for my letters because Tumblr keeps removing formatting possibilities. My letters from before Yuletide 2023 can be found on Tumblr.

Hi! Thank you for writing/drawing for me! I’m reconditarmonia here, on Tumblr and on AO3. If you have any questions for me...er, contact the mod email :)

Moby-Dick | Sleep No More | Spinning Silver

General likes:
– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one’s situational or ethical judgment with someone else’s, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.
– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.
– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).
– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized. Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.
– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.
– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.
– Minority/diaspora feelings and themes.

Smut Likes: clothing, uniforms, sexual tension, breasts, manual sex, cunnilingus, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity.

General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; infidelity; unrequested polyamory; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships; unrequested trans versions of characters; breakups; jealousy; focus on grief; unequal levels of investment in a relationship (including concerns about same that turn out to be unwarranted), or the idea of a character accepting something they're unhappy with as the most they're going to get; characters apologizing to their partner when they don't actually know what they did to upset them; characters who are written in a sexual context within the fic being ignorant about sex/anatomy (inexperienced is fine); the word "pussy"

A note: if we matched on an / ship, I generally don’t require you to include a kiss, sex, or overt romantic language if you feel that you’d have to shoehorn it in. I’ll trust that you wrote it with shippy intent.

About Rule 63 Exchange specifically: I have no strong preference for character names, with a slight preference for sticking with their canon names; it’s up to you whether you want to justify any resulting names that would be unusual for women or just gloss over it. As far as characters’ personalities and gender expression are concerned, I tend to want to see them as similar to their canon selves, just female. I’m probably fine with unrequested characters also being swapped to female, but feel free to check if you’re not sure. I don’t expect, nor particularly want, a big deal made over characters’ strong gender identity qua identity as female or whatnot.

I’ve requested General Audiences on everything, and additionally Explicit on Sleep No More. All my requests are for fic, but I welcome art treats.

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Fandom: Moby-Dick
Ship(s): F!Ishmael/F!Queequeg, F!Captain Ahab & F!Pequod Crew; F!Captain Ahab & None; F!Captain Ahab & F!Moby Dick

I’d love to know more about these female sailor(s) and what drives them. A female Ishmael might still decide to sign on to a ship whenever she gets the blues, but it’d be socially fairly different, mightn’t it? (Worldbuilding-wise, I’d be more interested in a world where sailing and whaling are still typically male things as in our world, even if you make them a little less exclusively male, than an egalitarian or matriarchal world; something that women might do, without necessarily disguising themselves as men, but a GNC thing to do.) Would her already diverging from the “expected” female path in this regard affect her reception of Queequeg as someone who’s an outsider to Nantucket society, and the intimacy she offers? What does she still find outlandish? As for Queequeg herself, is her life a typical female life for her home culture, or not?

As for Ahab - just imagine this fanatic, tragic, vengeful character as a woman - with the willpower not only to do all the things canonical male Ahab does but also in a society where women aren’t really supposed to sail or kill or lead! Is she the odd one out in an otherwise male crew, or are there more women in the crew by the time she’s captain? Was she already a whaler when she lost the leg or, in this AU, did this drive her to become one? WHAT IF THE WHALE IS ALSO FEMALE, how does this affect any of the Symbolism or Drama?

I love pastiche for this, if you’re interested.

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Fandom: Sleep No More
Ship(s): Mrs. Danvers | Catherine Campbell/F!Duncan, F!Speakeasy Bartender/Hecate, NB!Speakeasy Bartender/Hecate

• Mrs. Danvers | Catherine Campbell/F!Duncan - OBSESSED with this idea? Entirely new angle for the Rebecca parallels. The pining, the class difference, the attempts to make (F!)Duncan live again...wow. That said, I am not usually a big Danvers or Duncan follower, and some of the interpretations of those roles that might actually make it closer to Rebecca in terms of character dynamics (like the way some Duncans almost seem to be sexually harassing Danvers?) don't compel me. I loved seeing Gabrielle and Andrew R do these roles because they're similar ages and married IRL; their ballroom duet was stunningly beautiful and dreamy, and the duet that sometimes reads kind of unpleasantly to me was in this instance incredibly tragic because it seemed like Danvers had accepted that Duncan was dead and was regretting resurrecting him, rejecting something that she had once wanted because it wasn't the same. ANYWAY, add to all of that the intimacy of Danvers dealing with a f!Duncan's clothing/hair/toilette? Their dance together being something that couldn't happen at a proper ball because of class but also, here, gender? (I know and love the Malcolm and Boy Witch dance in ballroom, ignore or or mention it as seems right to you.) What is Danvers's issue with Lady Macduff, anyway? Does Duncan being female change Danvers's thoughts about or relationship with the Porter? (also sad, gay) Or with the witches? (in general I am very interested in the intersection of magic and outsider-ness and queerness in this show)


• F!Speakeasy Bartender/Hecate, NB!Speakeasy Bartender/Hecate - I looooove the cross-casting of this role. The character’s easy confidence and utter mastery of their domain, combined with that animal devotion to Hecate, are very cool and sexy when the person in the waistcoat and the sleeve garters is a bald butch with tattoos, apparently. (side note: when I saw it performed this way, I'd read the character as a butch woman, learned afterwards that the performer is nb and uses she/they pronouns, but either way, it's interesting to me that this Speaks is a gender non-conforming character in a way the usual one is very much not. I'm also pretty psyched that some of the show ephemera now refers to the character in a gender-neutral way. My prompts are the same for both of these tags.)
  
  I love this Speaks as Hecate’s creature/enforcer/weapon. How/why did Hecate choose Speakeasy and what does she think of or do with their devotion and service? (THE VIAL OF TEARS SCENE asdsjhasjkhd, it killed me.) And what’s this Speaks’s story? Were her GNC presentation or sexuality a factor in her getting involved in the underground booze business and/or Hecate’s service, and how do they affect her dealings with people now - the witches, Fulton, anyone else? (Or, for that matter, the opposite! Did the gender nonconformity happen after the magic/service?) Did they do small magic before becoming Hecate’s familiar, or did that come after/as a result of it? How do she and Hecate think about each other - is Speakeasy in love with Hecate, is sex one of the ways Hecate controls her human pet? How does it work to be or to have a human familiar? (I have even more prompts in previous letters, if you need more inspiration.)
  
  If you are writing for the nb tag specifically, I prefer to see trans and nb characters in historical settings written/conceptualized in a way that makes sense with how people might have thought at the time. This doesn't mean defaulting to the most common, mainstream view at all times (I certainly get fed up with the "no one thought of gayness as something you were, only something you did" meme, no, plenty of people absolutely thought of themselves or others as innately gay) but it's important to me not to treat trans/nb-ness as a phenomenon that cannot exist outside of recent and culturally specific frameworks and language.


• other not-ship-specific things I like in this fandom: all of these characters' little charms and rituals, characters who are racial/ethnic minorities, the witches, the question of how people's powers actually work, magic/outsider places that are carved out from the "normal" world (like the apothecary shop)

Fandom-Specific DNWs/Exceptions:

• if you write Hecate/f!Speakeasy, consider my DNW of unequal investment waived, as long as Speaks isn't under the impression that it is equal or upset by that. F!Speakeasy/Sexy Witch, Hecate/Agnes, Hecate/other witches are okay as concurrent background ships and would not violate my poly DNW, but please don't include/suggest any relationship negotiation or prioritization (trying to organize anyone's life around multiple relationships) or manipulation of Speakeasy's jealousy.


• If you write sex for f!Speaks/Hecate, please don't write a scene where Hecate subs to "let go" or is "service dommed"; I'm only interested in a D/s dynamic for them if Hecate is the dom.

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Fandom: Spinning Silver
Ship(s): Miryem Mandelstam/F!Staryk Lord

I love Miryem, and I’m so interested in the ways that making the Staryk Lord a woman would change Miryem’s entry into the Staryk world and the romance that eventually develops between them. Maybe same-sex marriage is common among the Staryk, and that’s one of the customs that are new and unfamiliar to Miryem in this new world. Would this be a Miryem who had never imagined being attracted to a woman before but comes to fall for the Staryk Lady, or one who simply couldn’t have imagined being able to marry one and have that be a normal life? (For values of “normal” that include ice lands and gold magic!) How does the fact of the marriage being same-sex affect Miryem’s initial understanding of it as a business arrangement, or for that matter, affect her understanding of the offer of queenship as a marriage at all? What makes them fall for each other?

Canon Miryem wonders what her role as queen is, thinking that she’d know about managing a household and having children and sewing if she were married to a human lord - is it the same if she has a fairy wife instead of a fairy husband, more so because there’s not even the hope of a gendered complementarian aspect to fall back on, less so because the Staryk Lady is there as an example of what a female monarch in the Staryk lands does? Does Miryem try to be more like her, or to find her own accounting-powers-and-personal-bonds niche?

It’s so important to canon Miryem to have a Jewish wedding with the Staryk Lord - what would that look like here? What happens when she comes back to the human world not only the queen of a magic country, but married to a woman (and in love with her, depending on when you set it)?

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Thank you!

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Hi! Thank you for writing/drawing for me! I’m reconditarmonia here and on AO3. I have anon messaging off, but mods can contact me if you have any questions.

The Shadow Campaigns | The Hazards of Love | Sleep No More

General likes:
– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one’s situational or ethical judgment with someone else’s, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.
– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.
– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).
– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized. Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.
– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.
– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.
– Minority/diaspora feelings and themes.

Smut Likes: clothing, uniforms, sexual tension, breasts, manual sex, cunnilingus, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity.

General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; infidelity; unrequested polyamory; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships; unrequested trans versions of characters; breakups; jealousy; focus on grief; unequal levels of investment in a relationship (including concerns about same that turn out to be unwarranted), or the idea of a character accepting something they're unhappy with as the most they're going to get; characters who are written in a sexual context within the fic being ignorant about sex/anatomy (inexperienced is fine); the word "pussy"

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Fandom: The Shadow Campaigns
Character(s): Winter Ihernglass

The loyalty kink and competence kink in this series is so tasty. Winter just keeps getting promoted and accomplishing things! I don’t have a lot of specific prompts, to be honest, because I kind of feel like anything I would say is “ *gestures at canon* MORE OF THAT.”

• More of Winter being good at the job that was initially just the furthest place she could hide but that became her real job and something she was good at and that was her life.
• The delightful and hilarious running gag of Marcus thinking that she is a male soldier who went undercover as a woman for a mission and only Marcus knows the truth.
• The loyalty and protectiveness she inspires from her subordinates, even when asking them for things that are risky or hard - I found her relationship with Bobby and Folsom and Graff in the first book VERY gratifying to my id, and then there’s her subordinates in the Girls’ Own, and on the mission to Elysium.
• BOBBY. I ship them a lot. (I liked it as a platonic loyalty kink thing even before the disguise reveal, and then!) Winter trusting Bobby! Bobby having her back in battle and against Davis et al! Cuddling for warmth/comfort! Bobby begging her commanding officer to take care of her herself if she was ever wounded instead of going to a surgeon. *___* More trust and competence and mutual protectiveness, Bobby being so instrumental to Winter’s plans, her right hand person that she can use and direct as readily as she can use her weapons… (Uh, feel free to go AU on this. You know why. Even though the way it actually panned out was insanely shippy! Maybe it just didn't end that way.)
• I also LOVE the mentor-mentee relationship between Winter and Janus. (I know this will be difficult, but you have yet to disappoint me.) Janus manipulating Winter but also explaining to her that she has something he hasn’t, the ability to understand and relate to people. Jane’s accusation that Winter has fallen in love with him, not because it’s a romance-romance or because Winter, as a lesbian, would be capable of it in that sense, but because that’s a way to talk about someone’s platonic relationship to the leader they follow.  How determined she is not to fail him, and his trust that she won't. What other Janus things does he want her to learn or need her for?

(As of writing this letter I’ve read through The Guns of Empire but have not yet read The Infernal Battalion, so I don't have any Infernal Battalion-inspired prompts. Don’t feel that you can’t spoil me or have to reinvent the wheel for anything that canonically happens in it, I’ll catch up!)

Fandom-Specific DNW Info: to avoid my infidelity/poly/breakup DNWs, if you write Winter/Bobby I’d prefer to assume that Bobby/Marsh and Winter/Cyte didn’t happen or were flings that didn’t become relationships; Winter/Jane breaking up as per canon is fine if it’s not a central focus of the fic, but if you write Winter/Bobby set during the Shadow Throne/Price of Valor period of canon, please write as though Winter and Jane simply never rekindled their relationship.

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Fandom: The Hazards of Love
Character(s): Amparo Uribe | Fawn

My favorite things about this comic are Fawn's relationship with El  Ciervo and essentially the way that Fawn gets thrown into this horrible world and THRIVES there. Like, a lot of bad things happen to them and they get very fucked up. BUT ALSO, they turn out to be good at the things that it takes to survive(??) there? They're good with their pointy teeth and magic hands and scary eyes and intrigue!

I love the weird (non-romantic/sexual but very intimate) intimacy of Fawn's apprenticeship with El Ciervo - learning dissection and stuff, E.C. telling them that anyone who disrespects them disrespects him and they should eviscerate them, but also him cutting their hair! putting them in a nice suit! body-modding them! bathing them! More of them being his henchperson would be very fun (whether or not they're simultaneously plotting against him), but I'd also be happy to read something where he doesn't appear on screen and it's more about Fawn using what they've learned and gained and becoming more of a Bright World critter.

(I have read the first print volume, the next couple of chapters of what's online, and happened to also read the most recent updates where El Ciervo is bathing an injured Fawn and they're having their weird heart to heart. Don't worry about spoiling me for anything I missed, I'll catch up.)

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Fandom: Sleep No More
Character(s): J. Fulton, Speakeasy Bartender, Porter (any)

You can probably tell from my character picks that I'm the sort of guest who sees any part of the actual Macbeth plot happening and wanders away to look at something else. Proud 4th floor stan here - I love all the small magic and folk magic up there, the precise little rituals that reach out to or guard against the world of darkness and magic that is Outside their town but also underlying/intertwined with it - but I also hung out with the Porter a lot last time and I love him now. I'm really interested as well in how magic and outsider-ness and queerness all interact in the world of SNM - stuff like:

• the occasional new cross-casting of Speakeasy Bartender! (side note: I'd read the character as a butch woman, learned afterwards that the performer is nb and uses she/they pronouns, but either way, it's interesting to me that this Speaks is a gender non-conforming character in a way the usual one is very much not. I'm also pretty psyched that some of the show ephemera now refers to the character in a gender-neutral way. Please take it as read in this letter that if I refer to f!Speaks I'm referring  to the gender non-conforming version of this character.)
• the way that the Fulton/male!Speakeasy duet where they search each other for witch marks starts off like they're trying to pick each other up
• everything about the Porter, but especially his (her?) 1:1
• I didn't select Bald Witch because I've received good witch fic in the past, but the witches' everything is also very queer

An assortment of possible prompts:

• the intense queerness of Fulton's trip to the speakeasy, whether that's about having an extremely homoerotic encounter with a male Bartender that he may or may not have partly sought out, or a confounding one where not only is he entering this underworld location to confront a creepy magic person, but there’s also the gender transgression aspect of f!Speaks (and on the other other hand, she’s not the way he might have envisioned a witch either!)
• more of Fulton's little charms and rituals. more of Porter's little charms and rituals!
• what actually is the difference between being a witch and being a human familiar? more about how Speaks and the witches interact?
• ...Fulton/Porter?! (in a story where Porter is a man rather than a closeted trans woman)
• I love the d/s vibes of the Hecate/Speaks relationship, especially with f!Speaks as Hecate’s creature/enforcer/weapon. How/why did Hecate choose Speakeasy and what does she think of or do with their devotion and service? (THE VIAL OF TEARS SCENE asdsjhasjkhd, it killed me.)
• fic/art about Porter getting to eventually escape and also transition, if that's how you read that 1:1, would be sweet
• what's f!Speaks's story? Were her GNC presentation or sexuality a factor in her getting involved in the underground booze business and/or Hecate’s service, and how do they affect her dealings with people now? Did she do small magic before becoming Hecate’s familiar, or did that come after/as a result of it?
• by structural design, the canon can't really engage with race and racism, but I'd be fascinated by a story that got into a character being a racial/ethnic minority in Paisley/McK in a non-race-blind-casting way (including one of the witches - feel free to ignore my three selected characters and write about this for Bald Witch or Sexy Witch)
• I've tried not to make this section TOO long, especially since I've had previous exchange requests for f!Speaks (and witches), so you can look at my "dear author letters" tag for additional previous prompts and thoughts for f!Speaks and Bald Witch as well if you'd like!

Fandom-Specific DNW Exception: if you write Hecate/f!Speakeasy, consider my DNW of unequal investment waived, as long as Speaks isn't under the impression that it is equal or upset by that. You don't need to act as though any of the unrequested f/m ships for the requested characters (eg. male Speaks/Sexy Witch, Fulton/Agnes) aren't canon, but I'd rather they not be focused on, please. I'm also not interested in the Porter/Boy Witch romance being the focus of a story (because I haven't spent much time with Boy - go into Porter's queerness as much as you like). If you have other questions about which ships can be present, please drop me a line.  As well, please don't use singular "they" or neopronouns for Speaks even if you are envisioning them as nonbinary - they can be nonbinary even in a world where that hasn't entered the language.

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Thank you!