the_wavesinger | FemslashEx Letter

Dear FemslashEx Creator

I’m so excited for all the femslashy goodness! I hope you enjoy writing/drawing for me.

I’ve requested both fanart and fanfic for all my requests.

If you want to know more about me , I’m

the-wavesinger and The Wavesinger (Silmarillion Writers’ Guild) on my fannish haunts. You can also find me here on DW, and as

the_wavesinger on LJ, but I don’t frequent those places often. I If you want more on my fic preferences (however unlikely that is, after this very long letter!), my fic rec tag on Tumblr and my AO3 bookmarks may be of some use, and for art, my art and fan art tags on Tumblr may be of some use You may also want to poke through my previous exchange letters.

This letter has a list of DNWs and general likes, and also fandom-specific prompts. However, please don't feel obliged to stick to my prompts—as long as you don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I'll love whatever you like.

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DNWs
General Likes
Avatar: the Last Airbender
DCEU
Game of Thrones
Good Omens
Hamilton
Harry Potter
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Dragonfly Pool
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion

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DNWs:

Gore/guro/vore, necrophilia.
Torture of animals. (Humans/humanoids/other sapients being tortured is more than fine!)
Graphic descriptions of nausea/vomiting.
Reader inserts.
Unrequested depowered/non-powered AUs, unrequested modern AUs.
Non-femslash A/B/O; femslash for this trope is fine!
Crossovers/fusions between fandoms I haven't asked for. (Crossover within any fandom in my letter or previous exchange letters, along with mythology and folklore, are more than fine!)
Age regression, de-ageing, or AUs in which one character is suddenly older than a previously older-than-them character (ageswap?).
Girl!penis. (Trans characters are fine, just please no inexplicable g!p.)
For smut, bloodplay, scat, watersports, age play (including daddy/mommy kink), and any sort of permanent marking/scarring/body modification (scarring and permanent markings outside smut is perfectly fine) unless I've prompted these things for the specific pairing.
H/C fics centering on characters with depression and/or anxiety, and/or characters who self-harm or have eating disorders (all of these things are more than fine in non-H/C fic, but not as things which can be hugged/cuddled better, please.)
Unrequested relationships as a focus. (Canon relationships and background relationships are fine unless otherwise indicated.)
Unrequested parent/child incest.
Extreme underage (pre-pubertal children), unrequested smut for underage relationships
Anachronistic discussions of sexuality and/or characters lecturing other characters on SJ issues.

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General Likes:
Tropes, Genres, and (for fic) Story Elements

Angst. Drama. Politics. Tragedy.
Philosophical ponderings!
I love canon divergence AUs, and For Want Of A Nail and other what-if scenarios. I'd love both longer fic (for fic) and art/ficlets as snapshots of what could have been, all the things that could've happened, but didn't.
Soulmates! Not necessarily soulmate AUs (although that'd be more than fine), but soulmates as in 'I knew you the moment I saw you', or 'I felt you in my soul' or any other version of that—the electric connection is something I adore. Soulmate things I love include in every version of every reality, in another life, fated to be separated again and again.
Regency AUs.
Fake dating within the canon setting.
Arranged marriage within the canon setting.
Time travel and time loops, especially timefuckery where everything is fucked up!
(For femslash only) A/B/O
M/M mpreg! Especially (but not limited to) mpreg as body horror
In-world mythology.
Cultural differences and clashes that occur due to cultural differences.
Worldbuilding in general.
Battle couples!
Lovers to enemies.
Enemies to lovers.
Trope subversions.
I have A Thing for sister/sister, and focusing on the sister aspects of the relationship—how they're alike and how they're different, and just how they're sisters.
Competence porn!
I also adore people being messes and general failboats, because, uh, contradictions?
I have zero problems with fics dealing with misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism etc. I like realism, but not overly-depressing fics or fics centered on issues at the expense of characterization. (I define 'overly-depressing' as continuous angst focusing on Issues and Only Issues.)

Tone, Setting, and Miscellaneous Things

Characters dancing and spending time outdoors.
Characters in situations that shouldn't be funny, but are.
Characters who're comfortable around each other, and who tease and laugh with each other.
Slice-of-life fics and, for relationships, a look at all the quirks/annoyances of cohabitation.
Banter! I feel like I've repeated this a million times in this letter, but I adore banter!
Casual situations and everyday annoyances
Drama interspersed with humor.
Characters sleeping on each other, making out for hours, drinking from the same cup, and generally being cohabit-y.
Characters solving mysteries and going on journeys together!
Bittersweetness.
All the hard questions with no answers, characters trapped in unsolvable dilemmas, loss and grief and moving on.
Gallows humour, and humour in otherwise dark situations generally.
And just humour in general.
And if you want to go in the crack-y direction, I wouldn't mind that as well!
I adore OFCs and textual ghosts, for many, many reasons.
I'm more than fine with most side relationships, unless stated otherwise.
Transgender characters would be amazing, as would non-binary characters and just fucking with and/or ignoring traditional gender roles in general.

Character and Relationships Dynamics.

Characters who and relationships which fall just short of the mark, the almost-most-not-quite. I think the closest word to this would be hamartia in its original sense?
Hurt, and not necessarily comfort.
Fucked-up families and messy friendships which really, really aren't good for the characters, but they love each other very much anyway. I don't mind either characters finding ways to move past the fucked-upness and the relationships end up flourishing, or moving past fucked-up-ness and leaving what they don't want behind, but I also don't mind a constant cycle of messing up.
Found families!
Intense friendships which play a central role in the characters' lives.
For longer works, plotty fics are always welcome!
Stoic and/or emotionally incompetent characters
Characters finding ways to come to terms with themselves, with their pasts, and with their loved ones and/or finding their place in the world (think Circle of Life).
Characters who're broken, characters who're tired, characters who're lost, characters who refuse to be found, characters who're hurt over and over again, characters who never ever win, characters who've given up. And characters who love, characters who give, characters who're selfless and kind even after everything they've been through, characters who give their all and then some more to people they love, characters who never give up, characters who keep on hoping and keep on fighting even beyond the bitter end. And characters who're a mixture of both types.
I love characters with flaws and unpleasant qualities! Awesome ladies can be awesome and flawed :).
I like relationships that are fated to end in tragedy, but I also really don't mind a pinch of humor with my angst, if that's your thing.

Stylistic Things for Fic

I like all kinds of fic, so go wild—linear narrative, flashbacks, epistolary…whatever you think of is lovely, the more daring the better. I especially adore faux-historical documents and faux academia.
Relatedly, interactive fiction!
Characters teasing and bantering with each other.
I don’t mind any type of POV (including second person!). In fact, POV switches and outside POVs on relationships would be lovely.

Smut Likes

I will always want F/F or M/M smut, even if I haven't explicitly requested it! Femsub is preferred for F/M D/s smut, though I'm down for femdom if that's your thing, too.
I prefer a balance between sensuality, emotions, and physical sensations. Anything from playful to creepy is more than fine (although there are a few things I'd prefer not to see, as outlined in the kink DNWs).
Helplessness and humiliation. These are the two main things I love in kinky smut, and everything else derives from there.
Bantering and laughing during sex is lovely, as is gentleness.
And banter between the dom and the sub in D/s scenes (which can edge towards slightly cruel on the dom's part!).
Angry sex/hatesex, smut that gives off vibes of slightly creepy but in a way that can't be pinpointed
Dubcon and emotional manipulation!
Explorations of power dynamics. I especially like service submission, and power dynamics based on the characters' titles/positions! (I do confess to having a kink for honorifics and titles!)
Doms having control over the sub's everyday minutiae (although for short periods of time—24/7/365 high-protocol D/s is a turn-off)
Punishment play, especially unusual forms of discipline! (I don't like erotic spanking in and of itself, but spanking as punishment is great! And whatever interesting punishments you can come up with.)
Corner time, especially kneeling on rice/somehow having to display themselves/after a spanking.
In general, being put on display/having to put themselves on display.
Tickling! Both playful tickling and tickle torture (bondage + tickling = yessss).
Gags and other ways to prevent speech. And weirdly specific, but fingers of one character in the other's mouth.
Groping, especially pulling breasts out of tops (and sometimes letting them just hang there, if you're into humiliation).
Orgasm denial, especially chastity devices.
Fuck-or-die scenarios.
Creative bondage (including predicament bondage. No, strike that, especially predicament bondage, and especially if the predicament is partly psychological).
Similarly, ordering a partner to stay still/hold a certain pose.
Incest kink.
Hairpulling.
Directed masturbation (one character instructing the other how to masturbate).
Dirty talk (including long distance dirty talk).
Navels, inner things, ribs, and kinks for these body parts.
(Not really a like, but I'm afraid my AO3 bookmarks won't say much about my smut likes, because I have a separate account for smutty bookmarks. Sorry.)

Darker Likes

Dark places and enchantments which entrap people without their knowledge
Getting lost in creepy surroundings
Corruption and decay
Explorations of the darker side of magic (or its equivalent), especially magic that's considered 'good'.
Exploration of the supernatural aspects of the canons.
Nature being eerily alive and dangerous.
Child soldiers, trauma, and really ugly, messy wars.
Characters trapped in vicious cycles.
Characters who think they're 'not good enough' for their partner(s).
Situations where characters are blackmailed/coerced into doing things they don't want to do.
Fucked-up families and friendships and relationships; people codependent to the point of almost-insanity, and far beyond anything healthy.
Looking into messed-up characters' thought processes.
Terrible things being done in the name of good by characters who see themselves as good.
Perversion of the 'good' side of magic to do evil things.
Mindfucks and powerplay.
Torture for the sake of torture, and characters being stoic through torture.
Noncon. I like both works focused on sexy (for fic and art purposes) noncon as well as more seriously-dealt with noncon and noncon aftermath.
Pregnancy due to F/F or M/M noncon.
Badtouch that doesn't lead to noncon, it's just there and creepy. (Especially when coupled with emotional fuckery and mindgames.)
Relationships where one characters is in love, but the other isn't.
Partners doing terrible things to each other.
Characters who hate themselves and lash out at the world and do fucked-up things as a result.
Really, really dark stories which end in the 'everyone dying' sort of tragedy.
AUs where everything goes wrong.
For darkfic especially, I love outsider PoVs—it makes everything 100% more terrible for me.

Art-Specific Likes and Prompts

I adore all kinds of jewellery—the more elaborate the better!
And elaborate hairdos! And elaborate clothes! And elaborate makeup!
I do, however, also enjoy seeing characters in their workaday attire, doing everyday things.
Characters with visible height differences from each other!
Elaborate weapons
In-universe art. (Famous portraits, posters for events, propaganda/health-and-safety leaflets, handwritten notes, maps etc.)
In-universe statues and tapestries and architecture
Court settings with pomp and circumstance or everyday life are both things I enjoy seeing.
I also enjoy seeing outdoor settings. Lakes, mountains, spooky forests, bustling cities, rivers, tiny hamlets, cottages, forests...
Specific canon locations (like the Withywindle for Tolkien, the Spirit World for A:tLA etc.)
Studies in opposites
Limited palettes
Non-traditional art mediums would be welcome.
Characters doing things they love together (I know this sounds very pairing-specific, but I'd lovelovelove this for friends and/or parents and children and/or siblings, too).
Ceremonies and events (coronations, balls, feasts, weddings etc.)
Picnics, garden parties, outdoor events, riding, hunting etc.
Characters arguing or debating with each other.
Starlight and warm colors and pastels.
Colour palettes that fit the character (golds and greens for Goldberry in Tolkien, for example, or shades of red for Natasha Romanov in MCU)
Characters passionate with and about each other and about things they love
Seasonal settings (falling leaves or snowed-over land or flower-filled meadows or golden fields etc.)
Characters fighting and having each other's backs, and, for A:TLA, bending!
Bloodied and bruised characters leaning on each other on on the nearest available upright surface after a hard battle
Characters facing each other across the battlefield (especially friends-turned-enemies)
Gift-giving, both literal and metaphorical
Characters reading or writing
Characters in libraries/otherwise surrounded by books
Characters who've fallen asleep (in bed, on a pile of books, sprawled across the sofa, on the floor, on another character—anywhere, any place, any time)
Characters in meetings/teams seated around tables or in lounges
For modern-era canons, airports!
Characters who look messy and/or rumpled and tired and way too fucking busy why is this my life
Possessive touches (one character having their arm around another, hand at the small of back, cupping another character’s face etc)
Characters in a private moment.
Casually intimate gestures, like handholding or hands on shoulders or arms around waists/on shoulders, or just reaching out to adjust the other's clothing
Kneeling and hand-kissing for pairings where I specify loyalty kink, or for gen or shippy combinations which involve a superior and subordinate in a setting where kneeling would work
Forehead kissing!
Kissing and making out, especially making out in bed/in unusual places and/or a significant height difference between characters
Tickling and playful tussling
Day-to-day activities (eating, bathing, morning rituals etc.)
Characters being cheesy or tender or dorky or awkward with each other (or all or some of these!).
All the smutty things I've indicated in the smut section! For art especially, a visual focus on power difference (standing/kneeling, clothed/unclothed etc.), looking well-fucked and/or humiliated, straining against bondage, decorative bondage.

Other Stuff I like (i.e. a very skippable section)

Action/Adventure:fight scenes between individuals ◈ big battle scenes ◈ going on quests/missions ◈ fighting bad guys together ◈ period-typical/canon-typical weapons ◈ characters being very very good at fighting/tactics/strategy ◈ strategy and tactics in general ◈ movements of large armies ◈ end-of-the world scenarios ◈ high-stakes battles or missions ◈ covert operations ◈ supernatural elements being involved in the mix in canons with supernatural/magical elements ◈ fighting techniques ◈ plotty missionfic
Angst: musings on futility □ hopeless situations and things falling apart □ characters' flaws getting the better of them □ battles being lost □ stuck in situations without support □ forced to deceive loved ones □ unhappy endings □ everything that could go wrong going wrong □ (internalized or otherwise) homophobia □ struggles with religion/faith/belief □ ethical/moral dilemmas □ misunderstandings □ feeling unloved □ being forced to hurt loved ones and do other bad things □ having to compromise on their ideals □ Hobson's choice situations □ betrayals of trust □ star-crossed lovers or the platonic version of this □ the world changing and leaving the characters behind □ things being lost to the ravages of time
in spaaaace ◎ different canon format (eg: musicals –> TV scripts) ◎ tone changes (eg: drama to comedy, tragedy to romance) ◎ crackification ◎ adding magic/supernatural elements to canons ◎ focusing on a different aspect of a story than the canon does
Established Relationship: arguments and fights ○ vicious cycles ○ drama ○ compromising and learning to live together ○ date nights ○ banter and flirting ○ falling into bed together after a long day ○ characters organizing their lives around each other ○ unhealthy, obsessive relationships ○ smut ○ meeting the family ○ acquiring pets and/or kids and/or property
Getting Together: meet-cutes (including canon divergence AUs) ◌ angst about each others' feelings ◌ obstacles that have to be overcome ◌ A is convinced B doesn't like them ◌ characters who haven't met in canon meeting for the first time ◌ fake dating leads to real dating ◌ fucking for the greater good ◌ something makes them do it ◌ enemies to lovers ◌ friends to lovers ◌ soulmate AUs ◌ reincarnation AUs ◌ slow burn ◌ hey I just met you this is crazy ◌ one night stands to lovers ◌ angst over not being allowed to be together ◌ A has been hurt by other people in the past and has to slowly fall for B ◌ unrequited love turning requited ◌ A falls for B, who's been nursing a crush on A since forever
Hurt/Comfort: noncon aftermath ◘ torture aftermath ◘ recovering from an abusive relationship ◘ other kinds of post-abuse trauma ◘ injury aftermath ◘ characters stitching themselves together ◘ partner/other person hurting character and then comforting them ◘ PTSD (in a canon-appropriate way) ◘ contrast between current gentleness and past violence ◘ the comfort not helping with certain instinctual reactions (touch aversion, flinching, hyperawareness, hypersensitivity etc.) ◘ comforter feeling helpless in the face of comfortee's issues ◘ two hurt/fucked-up characters trying to comfort each other ◘ attempts to comfort/make things better backfiring ◘ comfortee refusing to accept comfort
miscommunication ◍ wanting different things in life ◍ wanting different things from each other ◍ betrayal ◍ lying to friends/partners ◍ arguments ◍ blow-ups that have been a long time coming ◍ deliberate miscontsructions ◍ deliberately hurting each other ◍ unintentionally hurting each other
Slice of Life: I love seeing glimpses into character's everyday lives in canon-appropriate ways. I love slice-of-life fics as insight into characters' backstories and histories, as well as as looks into their heads and as ways to figure out what's making them tick, or to make it clear that the characters' everyday lives are immensely atypical/fucked up. I also love these kinds of fic as worldbuilding vehicles.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

I love the mix of darkness and humor in A:TLA—it's one of my favourite things about it. Also how deeply fucked up it is. Give me all the fucked-up childhoods and child soldiers and dictators! Fucked-up childhoods especially are a Thing for me.
Spirits and the supernatural and all the otherwordly aspects of the A:TLA world! I especially love the spirits' inability to distinguish between different humans.
Worldbuilding—the past of the A:TLA world and the politics of said world are things I always love to see being explored.
I love the character arcs for basically all the characters, and I'd adore something set in the future, because I want to see what happens to them! Bridging the gap between A:TLA and LoK would be particularly lovely.
Speaking of LoK, LoK and A:TLA sometimes have wildly different interpretations of events (lion-turtles and the origin of the Avatar comes to mind), so something about that, maybe?

Azula/Katara

I very much adore how the two of them are placed in opposition to each other, and I'd love foeyay, hatesex, slowly falling for each other, or anything in between.

I love the aspect of opposites attracting, and how they're kind of each other's mirrors in a sense but also each other's foils, and how neatly that mirrors their bending (fire and water!). Anything playing with their differences and their different natures would be great, especially for art.

I'd love to see any situation where Katara tries to find good in Azula, somehow, or doesn't try to find good in her but shows her some sort of mercy or kindness that starts to slowly change Azula's perspective. (Post-canon, visiting Azula in prison?)

<>A situation where they fall for each other but hold on to their worldviews would also be great. It probably wouldn't end well and it would probably result in a lot of misery, but for everyone involved. But. Think of the hatesex. (Clandestine encounters in the middle of battle, anyone?) And think of Katara pleading for mercy for Azula after Azula's defeated, or having the power to grant Azula mercy and having to choose whether to exercise it.

Or noncon/dubcon! What if Katara is captured by Azula at some point? (After the eclipse?) Azula menacing Katara, maybe (leaning over her, all up in her face?), and threatening to torture her/actually torturing her with her flames? Interrogation sessions that lead to sex? Sex as an interrogation session? Using Katara as a hostage to capture Aang?

Azula/Mai/Ty Lee, Azula/Ty Lee

Dark ships of my heart! And by dark, I mean dark. Dubcon, powerplay, mindfucks—throw them all at me, and I'd love it! Loyalty, of course, and tests of loyalty, and tragedy and betrayal, and anger and passion and also auras, and I just want dark, dark fic and art. I love the loyalty and power aspects of Azula/Ty Lee(/Mai), and I love Ty Lee's and Mai's eventual betrayal and all the angst because of that, but I love that Ty Lee and Azula and Mai care for each other very much despite the betrayal.

How did the they become lovers? Was it a twisted test of obedience or did they really love each other, or both? What would happen to Ty Lee (and Mai if OT3), who betrayed Azula, if the Fire Nation emerged victorious after Sozin's Comet? Does Azula get visitors post-canon, and are those visitors Ty Lee and/or Mai? If you follow comics canon, I would also love anything exploring the events of the comics, too. Or, for smut, playing dangerously with fire, and smutty tests of loyalty. (This is a thing for me for these two pairings, hushhhh.)

Or maybe an AU where the Fire Nation wins and Azula becomes Fire Lord? Mai and Ty Lee kneeling to their Fire Lord? Or an AU where Azula doesn't go crazy and loses anyway? What would that mean for Mai and Ty Lee?

For art: Azula making Ty Lee (+ Mai) stand still while she runs flame (she controls the heat of) over them? Or post-canon, meeting each other again (side 'ships are fine) and fucked-up things in that direction? Or something showing their childhoods?

Hama/Kanna

This is a...very tenuous thing I've requested, based on the fact that Hama was once a waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe so Kanna probably knew her, and I'd love to see any fic or art on that!

The two of them before Hama was captured, maybe, falling for each other and spending time around each other and trading kisses and huddling up together, and maybe Hama waterbending to woo Kanna? Or maybe Kanna trying to rescue Hama after she's captured and having to be talked out of it, and/or grieving Hama?

Or, if you want to go extra-angsty, does Katara waterbending remind Kanna of Hama very much, and it becomes another thing in life she has to power through and force herself to survive? (For art, baby Katara waterbending while Kanna sees the ghost of Hama reaching out from behind her as if to touch Kanna?)

Or, what if Hama goes back to the Tribe after she escapes from the Fire Nation, dark and twisted as she is? Does Kanna try to stop her, or is she so glad of Hama's return that she doesn't see what's going on until it's too late? Does she have mixed feelings about bloodbending, because it sounds completely wrong but it's also waterbending? Any dubcon/noncon you want to write/draw, any twisted/creepy relationship would be great here. (Hama forcing Kanna by literally making her do things she doesn't want to, through bloodbending?)

Katara/Suki

Sisters-in-arms (except with a lot more romance ;))! Katara and Suki fighting together, living together, loving together. Kick-ass women kicking ass, action, adventure! And all the bittersweet fluffiness is also lovely.

Post-canon getting together would be wonderful—it can always be after Aang's death, just before LoK, if you don't want to break Katara and Aang up, or maybe after Tenzin's born? Or maybe an AU where it's Katara who flirts with and does all that stuff with Suki the first time they're on Kyoshi Island, and go from there?

I would love to see Katara fighting with/training with the Kyoshi Warriors, because the two of them hit all my battle couple kinks hard. Or maybe Katara and Suki sparring?

Or Katara and Suki navigating the politics of the post-A:tLA world (and maybe not being very good at it, especially Katara, because she's a warrior dammit not a diplomat? Although competence kink would be great too)?

And, of course, all the smut, because honestly I love the two of them for their prettiness and they are double the gorgeous together. Do they find creative uses for Katara's waterbending? Do they defile Suki's Kyoshi Warrior garb, or even Kyoshi's clothes themselves?

Katara/Yue

We know Katara has a special connection to the moon (and I resisted making a joke out of it! ~~So proud of myself~~), and it's not difficult to extrapolate from there! Yue visiting Katara in her dreams, maybe ~~and dreamsex~~? Or Katara visiting the Spirit Oasis post-canon, and communing with the moon? Or post-Hama, how does Katara thank Yue? Either way, I'd love something about the moon and about waterbending, please!

Or maybe an AU where Yue falls for Katara instead of Sokka? Would that end the same way as it did in canon? Would Katara's lover watch over her (more closely than in canon, even!) and protect her?

And for smut: incorporeal sex? (With Yue not having a proper body or Katara in the Spirit World) Or waterbending + sex, or the power that must be involved when the Moon Spirit orgasms!

We've seen from both A:tLA and LoK that the Spirit World can be both fluffy and terrifying, so explorations of the Spirit World from Yue's perspective, whether she's telling Katara about it or Katara is in the Spirit World with Yue accompanying her, would be great. For art especially, the Spirit World would be interesting to explore, especially since Yue is a spirit herself. Or maybe Yue gets caught in some sort of spirit-trap and Katara has to rescue her?

Suki/Ty Lee

For these two I'd love 'Ty Lee joins the Kyoshi Warriors'. Hurt/comfort would be lovely, as would a bittersweet tone, and mutual support and bonding. How does day-to-day life in the Kyoshi Warriors work? Are there any initiation rituals? What sort of sacred traditions and observances do the Warriors follow? Are they always training on Kyoshi Island, or do they travel and lend their services and practise diplomacy if it's not wartime?

Or an AU where they remain enemies? How would that work? Does Ty Lee take Suki (+ Sokka) prisoner, or is it the other way around? Or do they keep facing each other in battle and flirting until they somehow fall into bed together?

For art, them being dorky together and/or fighting together? The two/three of them teaching each other new fighting styles? On holiday post-canon, lazing around on a beach or going on wild adventures, but not of the save-the-world type enough of those have been had to last a lifetime thank you very much?

Ursa/Female Dragon

Okay, fine. Most of my A:TLA 'ships for this exchange are crackships ~~can you not hear me crying 'porn with plot' here~~. But hear me out! Ran and Sho (Shaw? The Wiki says 'Shaw', but it looks weird) may not be the only dragons alive—maybe one or two dragons survived on some far distant island? And maybe Ursa, once she's exiled, visits those far distant islands? (Comicsverse ignoring is great! Or you can make it comic-compliant, maybe something with the Blue Dragon? I'm not bothered either way.) And, um, oviposition and tails being involved in sex and biting and fire?

Or if you want to do something more serious and less smutty, I'd also love to see more about

For art, I'd love to see the dragon curled around Ursa! Or the dragon gently breathing fire over Ursa! Or Ursa flying on the dragon, or the two of them firebending together. Or, if you want to make it smutty, how does dragon-on-human work? Is there penetration by tail and oviposition? Or, the even-more-ODAO-than-the-other-optional-details request: Ursa pregnant with the dragon's eggs/children?

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DC Extended Universe

Antiope/Diana, Antiope/Hippolyta, Antiope/Hippolyta/Diana, Hippolyta/Diana

I don't mind whether you keep Antiope's death or fix it. On one hand, it was an emotional moment in the film and central to Diana's motivations and lovely and tragic, but on the other, Antipoe is dead. So I'd love to see Hippolyta and/or Diana grieving for Antiope, but I'd also love to see a fix-it where Antiope lives.

I love the idea of an all-female band of warriors created specifically to bring peace to the world, so I adore the Amazons (although the pasting-on of some vaguely Hellenic trappings to a basically Judeo-Christian origin story kind of made me LOL). Anything to do with the Amazons would be wonderful! For art I’d love to see them fighting and/or their armor.

Themyscira must be self-sustaining because it doesn't have any contact with the outside world, so it must have people other than warriors—farmers, weavers, potters etc. How does that work? Do the warriors do all of the above things, too? Or are there non-combatant Amazons? In which case, what are the attitudes from the warriors towards those non-combatants? And what role do Antiope and Hippolyta play in the organization of the everyday minutae of the island? Themyscira is really, really gorgeous in the film, and I’d love to see art of it as well as fic, all the hidden corners of the island.

Something about their origins, maybe? Maybe something about their first battle against Ares and how they fought that? Or maybe something about Antiope and/or Hippolyta being created by Zeus? Or maybe something about the creation of Themyscira and the early days on the island, and the transition from peace to war? Or, does anyone ever get bored of Themyscira or restless to explore the outside world?.

For any variation on Antiope/Hippolyta(/Diana), I love the loyalty and power differentials at play. For Antiope and Hippolyta especially, I love the Queen and commander trope, and I'd love to see how their respective roles come into play in their relationship. Hand-kissing and kneeling to pledge loyalty is amazing.

I love people having each others' backs in battle, and people in the aftermath of battles, bloodied and bruised and exhausted. And for romantic/sexual relationships, I love battle couples. (Also, I feel like the Amazons would be great for if you want to go in the army of lovers direction.)

I love what we see of their relationships in the movie, and I want more. I'd love to see Antiope training Diana and Diana hero-worshipping Antiope, or Hippolyta and Diana clashing more as Diana grows older but also getting to know each other as people instead of just in their roles as mother and daughter, and in general the three of them spending time with each other.

Also, the strong hints towards the Amazons having sex with each other a lot are wonderful, and I'd love to see more about these arts of pleasure. Do they try out different instruments, try to hold of orgasming for some time (perhaps using certain devices to prevent self-pleasure), experiment with both rough and gentle sex? Do they invent sex toys? (Is there a whole trade in sex toys?)

With regard to incest, maybe the Amazons don't have an incest taboo? Or I have a huge thing for incest kink and the dirtybadwrong feeling and the shame that comes with it, so maybe they do? Or maybe 'sisters' is more in the sisters-in-arm sense? Or maybe, for the best of all worlds, they had an incest taboo in the beginning, but as time passed and they grew more and more disconnected from the mortal world, the taboo faded?

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Game of Thrones (TV)

Dany/Jon isn’t my favorite relationship. Background Dany/Jon is fine, but please don’t let it be the focus of a fic. For that matter, I’d prefer no Jon-centric fic at all.
For GoT especially, I love worldbuilding. There’s such a wide world to explore, so much history and politics and cultural details that just don’t have room to exist on the show.
I prefer the Essos/Dany-centric storyline just because my favorite characters are mostly part of that storyline, but I have other faves too so whatever part of the show you want to focus on is great.
I’d love to see things going in both directions for this show: both happy fix-its and darker AU.
And I’d love to see crossovers with other fantasy canons of the ‘they all exist in one world, just on different continents’ sort.

Daenerys Targaryen/Missandei

Dany/Missandei is so much catnip to my id. The loyalty Missandei has to Dany! And the devotion Dany gives her in return! Missandei being one of the few people who Dany listens to! Dany quite literally burning the world down for Missandei, because Missandei asked her to! (Tbh while most of Season 8 wasn’t my favourite and I would have preferred that neither of them died, Dany burning down King’s Landing because of what happened to Missandei only makes me ship them harder.)

I would love to see a stolen moment at any point in canon. Anything with loyalty kink and/or playing with Missandei’s loyalty to Dany would be amazing. I’d love to see more about them getting to know each other and how their relationship grows and changes over time.

Or AUs! An AU where Missandei didn’t die—would Dany still have gone full-on Darth Dany? Or would Missandei not dying changed her actions? Or would she have still turned evil, but in a different way? Or maybe an AU branching out earlier, and Dany not going to Westeros. Or dub/noncon with Darth Dany or early days.

For art, I would love to see both Dany and Missandei flying on Drogon. Or Missandei kneeling to Dany. Or Missandei and Dany fighting back-to-back. Or Missandei brushing Dany’s hair. Or Dany and Missandei wreathed in flame. Or smutty art with them in bed, maybe a role reversal where Missandei doms Dany, or Dany domming Missandei.

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Good Omens (TV)

I love the…not exactly whimsy, but quirkiness of the show (and the book), especially the humor, if that’s something you want to play with.
But non-pastiche stuff is also amazing, and I’d love to see your take!
I love the throwing things out there worldbuilding, and anything playing with that would be great!
Just dry humor in general.
And also playing with the magic and religion and lore, of course!

Agnes Nutter/Anathema Device

I came away from the show wanting Agnes and Anathema to meet SO MUCH. I feel like they would either get along really well or clash very hard (or both) and they’re both such intense people and it’d be amazing to see them meeting somehow.

Time travel! Either Agnes travelling to the future or Anathema travelling to the past, or both of them travelling to some halfway point. How does it happen? Due to Heavenly/Hellish meddling gone wrong/right, or something else? What does Agnes thinking of her prophecies being fulfilled, and what do they learn from each other?

Or maybe Agnes contacts Anathema from the afterlife? Or maybe Agnes acquires immortality, somehow, or was secretly an immortal all along? ~~Agnes was God all along.~~

For art, something playing with their similarities/differences, maybe? Or a future/past mirror thing?

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Hamilton – Miranda

Art-specific prompts, because I have less art prompts for this section:
- Period costumes!
- Alternately, the characters in different settings than canon (this canon is particularly ripe for that sort of re-imagining).
- Moments from the album visualised, because again, this canon is particularly good for that.
- 'Between the scenes' moments.
- Unusual art styles, specifically for this canon because it fits.
- Anything that re-creates the atmosphere of the musical.
- Moments in the musical + just add nakedness.
This is my newest fandom (I know, I know, how did I not get into Hamilton at some poi t during the last two and a half years? It's a long story) and I am still in the everything has a shiny glow and I LOVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING stage, so you can't go wrong here. Seriously.
I'm still very very slowly going through fanworks so forgive me if my prompts are things that everyone has written/drawn at some point and is completely sick of by now.
I don't mind whatever level of historical accuracy you go with—history what history, kind of sort of accurate, as accurate as you can get within the confines of the show, whatever. (I'm basically finished with Chernow's Hamilton bio and moving on to the Washington one, so.) The only thing I ask is that you keep the things LMM changed.
Speaking of which, I really love the themes of how history will reflect you and how you're remembered is based on who tells your story that echo through the show.
For M/M and F/F (this is more fic-specific), I'd love to see period-typical homophobia and the sneaking around and near-discoveries etecetra that would result in.
For this show especially, I'm a fan of canon divergence AUs, alternate histories etc. Just all the what-if moments, please.
Also, genderswap! I'm very interested in what'd happen if any of the characters were of the opposite gender. Just please make sure that if you're switching genders for a M/M or F/F ship, you switch the genders of both characters unless I'm explicitly okay with it being otherwise.
Whatever cast you want to use (current Broadway/OBC/Chicago/West End etc.) to base art/descriptions off is fine! Just not actual historical figures' faces/appearances, please.

Angelica Schuyler/Eliza Schuyler

Angelica's love for Eliza and how it's all-encompassing and the most important thing in her life is one of my favourite parts of the show. (I love my sister more than anything in this life I will choose her happiness over mine every time! And the dismissiveness of 'I'm not here for you', and just everything about their relationship ♥.) Either completely required Angelica/Eliza or unrequited Angelica->Eliza would be great.

I'd love to see Angelica and Eliza as young unmarried women—going to balls and seeking out suitors (and coming home and discussing or, for shippy stuff, discussing them, or a scene with the two of them dancing together after the ball?), sneaking out of the house to go downtown, reading pamphlets and writings together and getting caught up in the ideas and ideals of the Revolution. I want to know more about the two of them before they meet Hamilton, more about what kind of people they were.

Or after their marriages and their separation from each other, maybe something about the letters they wrote to each other? Or supporting each other through war and childbirth, even when it's from afar? Or, during Take a Break, what did Angelica and Eliza get up to upstate while Hamilton wasn't there? (Boating, walks, playing with the children, letting go of their decorum and climbing trees/getting all muddy, trading kisses, holding hands and picnicking where there's no-one to see, in bed together?) Or Angelica comforting Eliza and picking up the pieces after The Reynolds Pamphlet, maybe, or Angelica trying to comfort Eliza after Philip's death and the subsequent events? Or Eliza relying on Angelica after Hamilton's death, the two of them grieving for him and building something from his death? (And maybe getting together post-canon?)

Angelica angst! She's given up so much for her sister, so I'd love to see more on everything she's sacrificed. All the things she's given up lying behind her, fading into the background, while she's looking at Eliza and only Eliza?) Also, if you're up for Angelica->Eliza, maybe angst about how she would treat her sister so much better (Eliza is the best thing in our lives!), and how she's never going to have her? Or for both requited and unrequited shippiness, if you want to play with the taboo aspect of incest (angst! Guilt! Repression! Kinking on it being taboo/their similarities!) that'd be great too.

Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler/Maria Reynolds

Okay, so they've never even met in the musical, but spurned mistress/betrayed wife definitely has lots and lots and lots of potential, especially for all the angst-y and/or fucked-up art and fic (though if you want to take it in a more fluffy direction, I definitely won't complain, as long as there's still some angst!).

Something that strikes me is that, in addition to her lower social status, Maria Reynolds is so much younger than either Eliza or Hamilton. I'd love anything that plays with their different stauses, and the difference in their age and experience.

Maybe Eliza taking out her frustrations and anger on Maria, and/or punishing Maria for 'seducing' her husband? Which is what she thinks, obviously, you and I know that Hamilton is at fault. Whatever level of consent you want on Maria's part is fine! If humiliation is your thing, I would love that, and maybe figging and/or spanking? Or, if you don't want to go in the smutty hatesex direction but still want to write/draw tense, post-Reynold Pamphlet anger and power dynamics and angst and violence that'd also be great!

One thing I find interesting is that Eliza's condemnation of Hamilton isn't just 'you brought this girl into our bed', it's 'you told the whole world how you brought this girl into our bed', and also that Maria gives Hamilton a look but is otherwise completely silent. Of course this is completely optional, but, if you want to, I'd love to see how the Reynolds Pamphlet affects Eliza and Maria in ways, socially, politically, and personally, that it doesn't Hamilton because they're women, and them bonding over that.

Alternately, Eliza and Maria slowly falling for each other after Hamilton's death or after Eliza finds out about Hamilton's cheating and telling the whole world that he cheated? In this case, a sweet moment between them—in bed kissing, out walking or reading together, sewing together, watching over Eliza's children.

Or an AU where Maria finds Eliza instead of Hamilton, and Eliza is the one who cheats? Or an AU where Eliza and Hamilton cheat on each other simultaneously with Maria? Eliza would have to have an extremely intense connection to Maria and have enough factors combining to make her cheat, I think, so it would be hugely a matter of fate. How would that change things, and how would it not change things?

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Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling

I haven't watched Fantastic Beasts or read The Cursed Child, and, while I don't mind spoilers for the former, I'd prefer not to read or see anything about the latter. I'm sorry, but it's just not my thing.
Magic! I adore magic, and all the wackiness of the magical world. I'd love to see explorations of both the dark, not-so-dark, and in-between magics, especially the inbetweens (how do you call something Dark Magic? Where do you draw the line? And how blurred is the aforesaid line?).
I'd love to see more about how the wizarding world works, particularly the Ministry of Magic. Are there any commercial centres other than in Diagon Alley? How does the wizarding world work in other countries? How does the Order work? Basically, the nitty-gritty details we didn't see in the books. We only got a general overview of how magical society functions (I imagine Hogwarts is very isolated from the rest of society), and that through Harry's limited PoV, and I'd love to know more.
Several of the characters are, ahem, magical beings, magical creatures (except obviously not, because they're people, and even that word is a perfect embodiment of prejudice against them). An exploration of the magic and mechanics of this would be lovely. How do other people see them? How do they see themselves? And, of course, dealing with prejudice and discrimination is more than fine
HP is rife with weird, wacky, and wonderful(ly spooky) settings and magical artefacts, and I'd love to see them incorporated into your story/artwork. Ghosts, Inferi, Dark Creatures—I'd love to see them all!
War, especially if you're writing the First War with Voldemort. It was a war run from the shadows, and I'd love to see something about that—perhaps Order missions and meetings? I'd love to see how the war fucks everything up, and people dying and suspicions cast on each other.

Amelia Bones/Griselda Marchbanks

Brought to you by my fascination with Griselda Marchbanks—I'd love to know more about her, and Amelia too. I'd love to see their professional lives, and them interacting with each other in that context (and perhaps they even met at work, too?), and I'd basically love anything to do with the two of them.

The two of them collaborating on some interdepartmental work, maybe (because O.W.L.s are affiliated with the Ministry, right?). Or maybe something about Amelia's work especially once she becomes the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement? I'd love to see them with their heads bent over some work, bouncing off ideas and/or arguing.

Or, something about the First War? What did Griselda do? Was she ever part of the Order, did she fight Voldemort some other way, or did she stay away? What were her opinions on her partner's work for the Order? (And what were her opinions on Amelia's work post-GoF? Did the two of them disagree about Voldemort? Or did she know about the Order and was actually more active in it than Amelia?

Amelia Bones/Minerva McGonagall

I'd love to see more of Professor McGonagall's personal life, and, from what we've heard about Amelia Bones, they seem like they'd fit together very well. Women who are very busy with their professional lives and have trouble making time for personal things is a narrative kink for me, so whatever you do with that would be lovely, as would all the angst (and oh the angst, especially post-OotP—Minerva grieving her, perhaps?) and origin stories. And perhaps the two of them working together in the First War?

I'd love to see the two of them working for the Order for either war, not just fighting but tactics and planning, or covert ops and intelligence-gathering missions. Maybe that's how they fall for each other? Or maybe falling for each other pre-First War, through a mutual admiration of each other's work?

Or maybe conflict because both of them are very busy and they have very little time for each other? Or arguments related to work, especially as to how Hogwarts functions as a semi-independent institution, and how much free rein it's allowed?

Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Narcissa Black Malfoy/Andromeda Black Tonks

Sistercest! I'd love something dark and fucked-up for this pairing, and it's not a 'ship that's likely to end well. Either when they're younger (and betrayal and angst on both sides, after Andromeda leaves?) or DH-era, and the fucked-up-ness that would entail. (In fic, any two of this constellation as endgame is fine, as long as OT3 is the predominant pairing.) I'd love to see the similarities and differences between them, especially with regard to Andromeda.

For art especially, visual similarities and differences—the description JKR gives are sparse enough that you can do almost anything with this (though I'd love to see a new interpretation rather than the film actresses, if that's okay with you). And for both fic and art, I'm pretty interested in how there are common threads between them, but they're radically different. (Bellatrix and Andromeda in particular being so different to each other with Narcissa having commonalities with both of them is pretty interesting.)

Or an AU where Voldemort doesn't exist—what would happen? Would Bellatrix in particular be who she is without Voldemort, would Andromeda have left with the extremism being at the level it was?

Fleur Delacour/Gabrielle Delacour

Sistercest again! Please no underage Gabrielle (unless it's Gabrielle having an unrequited crush on Fleur, with absolutely no reciprocation on Fleur's part, in which case, yes, please!), but other than that, I'd love anything ranging from dark to sweet and gentle.

For more specific prompts: unrequited crushes, again, or maybe Gabrielle comes to her sister for [reason] when they're older, after one of their parents has died? Or maybe it's a Veela thing, and Gabrielle and Fleur aren't immune to each other's charms? Maybe the two of them Veela sex pollen-ing each other accidentally and things go from there? (For art, I'd love to see them watching themselves in a mirror as they kiss/have sex.)

I'd love to see what older!Gabrielle looks like, and I'd love to see Fleur and Gabrielle being domestic together. Or the two of them dancing together, or at the beach! Or maybe they revisit Beauxbaton at some point?

Fleur Delacour/Ginny Weasley

Ginny noticing all the little things which annoy her about Fleur, and going on and on about these things, sounds suspiciously like the beginnings of a crush to me! I don't mind either unrequited love or an AU, but whichever it is, I'd love snark and banter and Fleur's accent. I'd adore Ginny being annoyed and infatuated at the same time, and Fleur's obliviousness would be an added bonus! Hatesex, maybe?

Fleur I imagine as being a lot taller than Ginny, so Ginny reaching up to kiss Fleur, maybe? Or dubcon because of Fleur's Veela powers and Ginny coming under her enchantment? (Or a prenegotiated Veela sex pollen scene, I'd love that too!)

If you go AU, I'd love to see them fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts together! Or maybe they get together post-Battle of Hogwarts, maybe even much later in life when Ginny's playing for the Harpies (and I'd love to see what Fleur's job is in this 'verse)?

Fleur Delacour/Nymphadora Tonks

I confess, I adore this ship mostly for its visual potential, and yes, this is a more art-heavy prompt than fic-heavy. For once! I love Tonks' Metamorphmagus abilities, and something playing with that would be wonderful. I just want to see them laughing together! And something playing up their differences, perhaps? (And maybe Tonks pining not for Remus, but for Fleur in HBP? And them getting together at the end?)

Again, if you go with the AU situation, I'd love to see them fighting together at the Battle of Hogwarts (although hopefully not with a tragic ending). Or maybe the two of them are the ones at Shell Cottage? Or even f!preg (or Fleur/Tonks/Remus/Bill, if you're so inclined). Or maybe Fleur and Tonks get together after DH because of [reason]?

Tonks using her Metamorphmagus abilities for sex! Roleplay, perhaps (maybe fake kidnapping and/or interrogation, or maaaaybe selfcest roleplay), or some sort of guessing game? (Or tentacles! Tentacles are always good.)

Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes

I'd love to see them in school, or during the First War. War stories always have my love, and I'd love something about the Lost Generation and how they've all lost their childhoods and youth. Something about fighting together in the Order, perhaps, and also angst about war and loss and betrayal? And this is one of those stories that won't get a happily-ever-after; a focus on that, maybe?

How did they fall in love? During their school years, or afterwards? Did they ever hold hands by the lake, or kiss in the common room after lights out? Or did they have their first kiss during a mission, or after a mission? Or were they not in love at all, was it more of a friends-with-benefits thing?

Or I'd love to see them interacting as a couple with the rest of the Order—who knew, and who didn't? Who did they spend the most time with? Did they live together or share a flat with friends? What were their day jobs, or did they work for the Order full time?

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

There's such a vast world to play in in the MCU, and so much of the characters' lives we don't know about because of the way time works in the movies! There's a lot of room for exploration and worldbuilding.
I'm very interested in politics for this fandom, because so much of the storyline is influenced by in-world politics which we don't get to see. For example, HYDRA's ideology, the politics behind the US supersoldier program, Project Insight being authorized, the Accords—there's so much to explore.
CW brought up some interesting questions about the fact that the majority of the problems the Avengers deal with are things they've caused, albeit sometimes necessarily, so maybe something about that.
For this fandom especially I'd love to see outsider POVs, whether that be people who are working closely with the characters or people who only see the characters on TV.
I love the sheer scale of the events of the movies, so maybe something about that?
There's a common thread of the end not justifying the means across the Cap movies, so something about that, maybe?
With so many supervillains floating around, there's plenty of room for lots of H/C (or H without C) with characters being captured and tortured and injured.
I love fun and asskicking and just superheroes being superheroes too.
I adore the fact that the characters have very individual senses of humour!
Other things I'm not fond of include AoS in general, the way AoS handled SHIELD in particular, all the Avengers living at the Avengers tower (especially post-Avengers but pre-TWS; I don't really mind pre-AoU since there's some element of canon to it).

Carol Danvers/Mar-Vell

Carol/Mar-Vell hits all the things I love in mentor/mentee ships, so I started shipping them the moment I walked out of the cinema. I love Mar-Vell giving Carol her chance, and the fact that the Supreme Intelligence manifests as Mar-Vell is just great.

I’d love to see mentor/mentee when Carol knew Mar-Vell as Wendy Lawson. Maybe Wendy Lawson taking Carol under her wing, or Carol slowly growing to fall for her (and requited or unrequited pining is both great for this). Or something dubconny and mindfucky involving the Supreme Intelligence.

Or maybe an AU where Mar-Vell lives? This could go in so many different directions—the crash happened but Mar-Vell lives (and they escaped, or even them being captured by the Kree and not knowing of each other’s existence), or the crash doesn’t happen, or Mar-Vell doesn’t disguise herself as Wendy Lawson and they meet some other way etc.

For art, maybe a happy moment pre-canon, the two of them talking or Wendy Lawson mentoring Carol? Or, I love the colours of the uniform Carol wore when she thought she was one of the Kree, so anything playing with those colours would be amazing.

Dottie Underwood/Natasha Romanov

Honestly, for me, a lot of this relationship is that I like the types of characters both of them are, I think their actresses are extremely gorgeous, and I'd love to see them together in any way or form.

Dottie and Natasha seem, to me, to be very similar in some ways, not just in their past, but also in their mannerisms. I love that both of them are very adept at wearing masks, at reading situations and doing what needs to be done in those situations, at manipulating people, at killing and disabling people, and just at spying in general. I love the idea of child soldiers who know of nothing except being weapons slowly finding their personhood as grown adults. I love their similar backstories, and how, in canon, Dottie never really manages to get away (and is a lot more morally grey than Nat) but Natasha does.

Maybe Dottie is Natasha's mentor in the Red Room? Or maybe she's the one who helps Natasha to get out, eventually? Or maybe she and Natasha work for opposing organizations on a contract basis? Or maybe an AU (or kind of partly using Nat's comic backstory), Natasha was also trained by Leviathan, only a few years after Dottie? Whether you want older woman/younger woman, or an AU where they're the same age, is fine with me, and I'd love mentor/mentee, rivals having sex or enemies to lovers, finding comfort in each other, or whatever else you choose. (I definitely wouldn't mind side Peggy/Natasha and/or Peggy/Dottie for this relationship.)

Dottie Underwood/Peggy Carter

I love both Peggy and Dottie a ridiculous amount, and as with Angie/Peggy, their actresses are both gorgeous, and they both have a ridiculous amount of chemistry. (And also the fact that they kissed in canon; or rather, Dottie noncon kissed Peggy. There's also that :D)

For this relationship, I'd love alllll the noncon or dubcon. Or just noncon kissing or badtouch, or one character tied up (or helpless in some other way) and at the other character's mercy. (Or both of them tied up, or both of them being non-con'd, or...)

I love the dynamic between Peggy and Dottie. I love that Peggy is the one person who really gets Dottie, when Dottie usually just manipulates everyone else, and I love the push/pull relationship they have going, where Dottie fights Peggy and wants to be Peggy at the same time, and where Peggy sees Dottie as her foe but also feels responsible for her, and they both respect each other as equals and rivals in a way their male colleagues don't. I love the cat-and-mouse (well, cat-and-cat, really) vibe they have going, and the fact that they end up opposite sides but team up anyway. I loved their interactions in both Season One (the flirting and the weird almost-love triangle between Angie, Peggy, and Dottie! The fight and 'I can be anything I want'! The kiss!) and, well, Season Two was pure gold for Dottie/Peggy (Peggy breaking Dottie out and finding her predictable! Dottie not betraying Peggy until she's forced to talk by Whitney Frost! Peggy coming for Dottie!).

Anything set at any point would be lovely; there's plenty of time for hatesex hookups between scenes. Or maybe post-canon, they find each other again, perhaps still rivals? Or maybe Dottie decides to go straight and Peggy helps her (and maybe that decision doesn't last)? Or an AU where they're somehow both on the same side from the beginning?

Jane Foster/Sif

Super-intelligent scientist/warrior is my jam, and I love this pairing a ridiculous amount, and I would love anything for it, honestly. Whatever you choose to play with in the MCU sandbox is fine by me.

Maybe an AU where Jane meets Thor instead of Sif, somehow, and it all spirals from there? What would change in the MCU universe, what wouldn't? (Or if you want to go with the Jane!Thor route as in the comics that'd also be good, tbh.)

Or maybe Sif comforts Jane after Thor and Jane break up, and that turns into something more? Or Sif rescues Jane from something, or vice versa? Any excuse for H/C is great! Or, Jane and Sif working as a team against a supernatural threat, and in general having each other's backs and being there for each other.

Or maybe Sif teaches Jane how to fight? Or Sif whisks Jane away on a romantic tour of the Nine Realms? Or Jane takes Sif to work with her one day, to the astonishment of her colleagues? Or they explore the wonders of Midgard and/or Asgard? Or just lazing together in bed making out would also be pretty great.

Nakia/Okoye

I have a Thing for soldier/spy, and Nakia and Okoye's interactions in the movie are wonderful (the car chase! The argument! The hug!), so I ship them like burning (and also because they're attractive I have simple needs okay).

They fight so well together and they seem to be so in sync with each other and know where the other is moving in their fight scenes—do they train a lot together? Do they help each other out during training (because they both have different areas of expertise)? Do training sessions devolve into something else? (Is there torture resistance training? Endurance training?) Or the two of them on a mission together, maybe, post-canon or pre-canon, the War Dogs and Dora Milaje working with each other for Reasons?

Or maybe Nakia training to be one of the Dora Milaje until she eventually decides to follow another path? (Would Okoye see this as a betrayal perhaps? Angst would be lovely either way.)

I love that they're so different from each other, and that they have clear ideological differences but still respect and care for each other. (The scene in the throne room was just damn. Speaking of which, what would happen in an AU where Killmonger's plans took longer to be set in motion and Nakia et al hid out with the Jabari and formed a resistance? Would Okoye remain loyal to N'Jadaka, and angst because of that, or would Okoye eventually defect, maybe along with some of the other Dora Milaje?)

Or post-canon (or pre-canon), the two of them clashing because of Okoye's more isolationist stance, while Nakia is more of a bleeding heart? The two of them learning to reconcile their ideological differences?

Natasha Romanov/Peggy Carter

Spies and spying and spy shenanigans! Just everything to do with intelligence agencies and intragency policies and politics and foeyay and/or mentor/mentee, please.

Maybe Peggy supervises Natasha's defection to SHIELD? Natasha defects because of Peggy, maybe? Or maybe they have a foeyay thing going and Peggy manages to convince Natasha? Or Peggy seduces Natasha over to SHIELD?

Or Natasha visits Peggy in her nursing home, maybe? Advice dispensing, banter, gentle kissing, angst?

Or, if you're okay with background Peggy/Dottie, Peggy watches Natasha from afar and thinks of how similar she is to Dottie, maybe? Or Peggy's relationship with Natasha starts as Natasha being some kind of substitute for Dottie? (And either it remains fucked up or Peggy falls for Nat as Nat eventually.)

Or maybe an AU where they're closer in age to each other? (But with some kind of age gap still, please, the larger the better.) Maybe Cold War era rivalry with spy shenanigans? Thwarting each other's plans, fighting each other, kissing each other as a distraction technique, accidentally(-on-purpose) falling into bed together.

Or any kind of foeyay, really, I don't mind.

Natasha Romanov/Sharon Carter

For this pairing my logic is 'I love these characters and I think the actresses are gorgeous and they'd work well together. (And Nat and Sharon are just great characters, and I wish we'd seen more of Sharon especially, and Nat too in CA:CW.)

They both work for super-secret government agencies (the same super-secret government agency, even, at one point!) but they have very different pasts and very different skillsets and I'd love to see anything to do with that. Sharon being the Director and founder of SHIELD's granddaughter vs. Natasha being a Russian assassin and a lot more of an outsider is a very interesting contrast, in my opinion.

I also think that they probably have very different worldviews, given how they were brought into SHIELD and their roles at SHIELD, and I'd love to see anything about that. Or, post-TWS, they probably both have mixed feelings about the fall of SHIELD (that thing in AoU didn't happen shut up), but different kinds of mixed feelings, and I'd love to see more about that. Or, during Civil War, the two of them are probably the most sane people around, except maybe T'Chaka, (but, again, they do what they do for completely different reasons), and by the end of CW, Nat is on the run while Sharon isn't. (Though I can't see that lasting for long if Sharon's role in the whole fiasco is discovered.)

So maybe post-TWS or post-AoU, the two of them on some mission together? Or maybe they stumble upon each other by accident in some mundane place? Or maybe pre-TWS, they're on a SHIELD mission together, or maybe Sharon's the one who brings Nat into SHIELD (and she's on Steve-duty because Nat asked her to)? Or post-CW, them on the run together, possibly Nat rescuing Sharon after she's been discovered and arrested? Or Sharon still holding her position and helping Nat & co secretly?

Natasha Romanov/Wanda Maximoff

My reasons for shipping them are basically, again, that I love the characters, think the actresses are beautiful, and think that they'd work well together.

I'm kind of disappointed that we didn't get to see Natasha and Wanda interact much, as the only two female Avengers at that point. Wanda in particular has significant relationships with both Steve and Clint, who relate to her in one way or another and they've had experiences similar to hers in one way or another. So the lack of interaction with Natasha is kind of disappointing, since I think Natasha would understand Wanda's determination to make up for her past very much, and also understand how she came to work with Ultron.

But, at the same time, post-CW I think Wanda would be wary of Natasha, because Natasha was Team Iron Man for some time, and I think Wanda would see them as a huge part of the reason that she was in the Raft, where she was basically tortured (I mean, Team IM didn't have any part in the Raft in canon, not even Tony really, but Wanda doesn't know that, I think).

And I love both Nat and Wanda as Avengers, so I'd love to see how they and their relationship fit with the rest of the group, either post-AoU or post-CW.

So, maybe the two of them on the run together post-CW, maybe along with the rest of the Avengers? Maybe Nat helps Steve break into the Raft? Or maybe an AU where Natasha is the one who breaks Wanda out of house arrest? Or maybe the two of them on an Avengers mission pre-CW? I'd just love to see the two of them together, art or fic, in any way or form.

Peggy Carter/Sharon Carter

I loved Sharon in CW and TWS both (although I'm disappointed she didn't have a bigger role) and I adore Peggy a heap, and I'd love to see anywhere you go with this, whether fucked up or fluffy or both (*insert bothisgood.gif*). I'd rather they didn't become involved until Sharon is an adult, if that's okay with you.

Sharon's statements at Peggy's funeral about her surname—what was it like living in Peggy's shadow, even just within Peggy's family? What is it like in the outside world? Does she resent Peggy for it? Get annoyed by it? (Hatesex, anyone?) Does she get frustrated by the work she has to do to make herself heard for her own talents and strengths?

Or maybe Peggy mentoring Sharon, or Sharon discussing a workday with Peggy? Or maybe more on that phonecall with Peggy we see in TWS? Or Peggy teaching Sharon how to dance, or dancing with her at a function of sorts? Or the two of them in Peggy's office? Or fic/artwork exploring their similarities and differences? Or either one of them being captured (and tortured) and the other riding to her rescue?

Or maybe something more twisted, if that's your thing? When Peggy starts to detiorate, does she start thinking Sharon is Steve/use Sharon as a substitute for Steve? Or fucked up family issues?

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The Dragonfly Pool – Eva Ibbotson

Delderton and Bergania are both my favourite things, and I love the atmosphere of both places. I love Delderton for its quirkiness and its unusualness, and I love the grand, sweeping majesty of Bergania. And I love how much hope there is in both places, if that makes sense? Partly, of course, because we see things through Tally's eyes a lot and Tally is very much a hopeful person, but the descriptions of Delderton and Bergania are a lot more rich and vivid than, for example, of London (and I love the contrast).

AU ideas: maybe Matteo manages to unravel the assassination plot before it occurs, or the shot goes wild and misses Johannes (maybe Stilton is less competent than in canon), and the children get to meet the King? Maybe grown-up Tally and Julia visit Bergania after the war when its people are voting for their first President, and meet the former King? Maybe the German army invades Bergania, and Johannes has to flee with the aid of the children and of his people? Maybe Johannes sets up a government-in-exile in London, and when he goes down to Delderton to visit Karil and Matteo, Tally talks to him (and drags Julia along)?

group: Julia Grantley/Talitha “Tally” Hamilton

I love all the hurt/comfort between these two in canon and I'd love to see more. Maybe Tally becomes homesick and Julia comforts her, or maybe Julia loses an audition for a role? Or anything heavier would be fine, too. I'd just love all the H/C, please.

Tally doesn't like Golria Grantley at all (although she doesn't say this out loud for Julia's sake); what does she think of the fact that Golria is kind of sort of reaching out towards her daughter at the end of the book? (She's a very good judge of character; how does that factor into it?)

Maybe something about Julia's career as an actress? She probably didn't get roles fresh out of acting school and was probably rejected at auditions—how does she face these rejections, and does Tally's support help? Does she move to a place with a robust film industry? And does Tally follow her, or do they correspond from a distance? Does she go for stage acting, or does she become a movie star like her mother? And I love the play in the book, and the scene where Julia recites a poem in memory of Johannes, so I'd love to see more of that.

And what does Tally do with her Classics degree? Does she go on do postgraduate work and perhaps become a professor? Does she decide to teach, perhaps come back to Delderton? If you go for the femslash option, does the fact that she and Julia are far away from each other and in pursuit of their own careers become an issue?

The years Julia is at acting school and Tally is at Oxford! Do they write letters to each other? (And if so, I'd love to see those letters.) Do they get together with each other, and with the other Delderton students, in the holidays?

Tally was in London during the school holidays at Delderton, helping to clean up after the bombings during the Blitz—was Julia there, too? Were they involved in the rescue efforts? Had they ever been caught outside in an air raid?

I love friends to lovers, and I'd love to see the growth of Tally's and Julia's relationship into something romantic. Do they grow together slowly? Is there a sudden moment of realization? Do they get together when they're still in school, or afterwards (perhaps during the visit to Bergania)?

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The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

There aren't enough fics and art based on the Myths Transformed version of Middle-earth, and if that's something you'd like to explore, I'd love that, especially a more scientifically accurate (and sometimes, to my mind, a more tragic-and-dark-but-beautiful) vision of Middle-earth. (Other versions would also be wonderful, of course! This is just a specific thing I don't see much of.)
I love the fact that Tolkien's canon is a patchwork of different stories and mythologies, both in the Doylist and Watsonian sense, and fic exploring that would be wonderful.
Linked with the points above, I'm interested in lived vs. written stories, and Those Pesky Historians, and how unseen forces affect history.
Nature that comes alive.
The mortals and Elves/free will and destiny debate and the role of the Valar would be a wonderful thing to read about—I'd love exploration of any of the philosophical questions of Tolkien's world, really, but especially this, as detailed in the Athrabeth and writings about the role of the Valar.
All things Darkness and Light, really—I'm very fascinated by how these polar opposites work in Tolkien's world (and you can go back right to the beginning, to the Music, if you like), and how Arda is both grim and uplifting at the same time.
I love the way magic and power operate in Tolkien's world—the work he's done to make it believable is wonderful. Writing a green sun, indeed! Anything you can write about this would be welcome and much-adored.
I especially love the Ñoldor and Númenor, although every Age of Middle-earth holds my heart.
For interspecies relationships, I'd love to see an emphasis on otherness and trying to understand each other.

Éowyn/Galadriel

Éowyn and Galadriel meeting! I love these two characters and want to see them together, and however you engineer and/or depict that will be wonderful!

How do they meet? Is it after the War of the Ring? Or maybe an AU where Éowyn wanders into Lórien somehow, and she finds Galadriel that way? Or Galadriel venturing out of Lórien and into Rohan for some reason?

Éowyn seems to be kind of like younger Galadriel in that she's headstrong and knows her own mind, but at the same time she's a lot more desperate (although possibly not as reckless?). Anything playing with that would be great!

Or maybe Éowyn looking into Galadriel's mirror and the aftermath of that? Or Galadriel showing Éowyn the wonders of Lórien, or Éowyn hosting Galadriel in Meduseld? Anything that gets the two of them to spend time together is great, in my book!

And for art especially, but fic too, they're both golden-haired and beautiful, but the resemblance ends there. Éowyn's more muscled rider's body when compared with Galadriel's Vanyar and Telerin heritage, please? I'd love anything about visual differences, and also height differences.

Female Half-Orc/Woman of Gondor. Female Orc/Female Human Noble, Female Orc/Female Orc

I'm very curious about Orcs and their culture, and what happens between Orcs and between human and Orcs.

Orc culture in general seems to be very vicious and cat-eat-mouse, and very, very violent, and I'd love to see both Orcs who conform to that and Orcs who try (and fail?) to be different, or are different from birth and considered 'defective'. Or just anything else about Orcs and fighting a war under the banner of a Dark Lord. I'm especially interested in what seems to be various classes of Orcs, ones with superior strength and intelligence vs. ones with specific skills vs. cannon fodder.

For the female Orc(and half-Orc)/human pairings, is it noncon or dubcon or true love? Does the Orc stumble into the human woman's land, or is it the other way around? Is the woman the Orc's captive? Anything Stockholm Syndrome-y, perhaps (the Orc feeding the woman, the woman and the Orc alone in the room etc.)? Or maybe the woman convinces the Orc to set her free, or the Orc finds kindness in her heart and sets the woman free? Or the Orc noncons and/or tortures the human woman? (Forced facesitting, object insertion, fingering, slapping around would all be great if you want to go in the kinky smut direction.) If the human woman is a noblewoman, is she ransomed or rescued?

For the half-Orc specifically, what is it like being a half-Orc? Does she try to fit into the world of humans or the world of Orcs, or does she try both and fit into neither? Or is she an unquestioningly obedient soldier (and perhaps meeting a human woman beings the stirrings of rebellion—or cements her loyalty further)?

And for the Orc/Orc pairings, either redemption by love or the full viciousness of Orcs would be great. Anything about Sauron's war, maybe? Or are they Orcs of the North, much more loosely tied to Mordor and its master?

Finduilas of Dol Amroth/Uinen

Maybe Finduilas used to go down to the sea and talk to it when she lived in Dol Amroth? Or maybe, after she dies, the sea claims her? Anything from fitting in canon to wildly AU would be lovely for this.

I'd love something vaguely supernatural, please, if you can do that, and maybe something to do with swans? Or maybe Uinen rising up out of the water to embrace Finduilas, or Finduilas walking in to the water?

I love the sinister edges of Tolkien's world and how the magic of Middle-earth is very wild and untamed and incomprehensible, and I love that there's both the sinister kind of incomprehensible brought on by the Marring of Arda and the kind of incomprehensibleness that just is. And for the purposes of this exchange I would love what happens to Finduilas, her fading away, falling into either category. And I also love what happens to human beings when they try to approach/understand things beyond their comprehension, whether that's just disappearing, losing their memory, or awful, unnameable tortures, if you want to go the dark fic/art way.

Maybe Finduilas was fading away because parts of her were slowly being taken to the other world, possible due to an ancient Dúnedain artefact/her Silvan blood/both, and Uinen is either the perpetrator or her rescuer? Or maybe Finduilas wasting away in Gondor was because someone was fucking with her mind and keeping her on edge and jittery (and, again, Uinen could be her rescuer or tormentor)? Or maybe a Thomas the Rhymer-style thing where Uinen whisks Finduilas away only for her to return in the Fourth Age?

Fíriel of Gondor/Malbeth, Malbeth/Original Female Character(s)

I know that Malbeth's gender isn't stated in canon, but I usually prefer female Malbeth (and, as far as I know, Malbeth being a woman is much more likely in linguistic terms, and also because the women of the Dúnedain were more likely to be Seers (does that have anything to do with Melian?)), so that's what I'm going with here. If you have an idea for male Malbeth, though, I'll also love that!

Foresight and its mixed blessings! I imagine that Malbeth would have led a dark, if not completely unhappy life, being blessed/cursed as she was with foresight so deep into the future and the knowledge of the downfall of the Dúnedain and the rise of Sauron (and his eventual defeat, but that wouldn't have been much of a comfort against the horror). I found the bits about the mixed blessings and curses of foresight in the Appendices interesting, so more on that, maybe?

Or maybe, court politics and the role of seers in Dúnedain society? Is foresight revered, or feared, or ridiculed, or a mixture of all three? Malbeth's predictions were eerily specific, in a way a lot of the foresight in Tolkien's work isn't; more on that, maybe? Was that because the Ainur blood in Malbeth ran particularly strong/she was very attuned to the Music?

If Malbeth has a (female) lover, who was she? Was her lover a noble? Or was she an ordinary Dúnedan? Or was she not a Dúnedan at all—perhaps an Elf (who maybe understood Malbeth more than her fellow mortals, but there's also the divide between mortality and immortality)?

Whoever Malbeth's lover was, unless she was a fellow Seer ~~which would be wonderful, for 'when shall we three meet again' shenanigans~~, there must have been some sort of conflict or tension between them because of Malbeth's (probably eerie) visions. Or was Malbeth not-quite-believed by anyone except her lover?

Or maybe something eerie to do with Malbeth's visions? Or maybe Malbeth encountering the Witch-King (perhaps in her visions), or seeing the rise of Sauron in the future? Or Malbeth's spirit refusing to leave Middle-earth?

In addition to the above prompts for Malbeth pairings, for Malbeth and Fíriel specifically: did Malbeth get to know Fíriel after she came to Arnor? (Was Malbeth perhaps part of Fíriel's household? Or did she have a position in court?) Maybe Malbeth welcoming Fíriel to Arnor? Or maybe something about Malbeth's foresight? Or maybe something about the later days of their lives?

Goldberry/Lady of the Blue Brooch

There are so many lovely fics for this pairing, but I still want more! For those of you who don't know, the Lady of the Blue Brooch was a woman, presumably a noble of Cardolan, and her brooch found its way into the tomb of the last prince of Cardolan. And, of course, Goldberry (and Tom) knew her.

From there, I'd love whatever your take on this would be! Was she fleeing from something when she met Goldberry? Wandered away from a travelling party and got lost? How did she die? In her life, who was she? A princess? A lady? A warrior? Someone else entirely?

And since she's probably a noble from Cardolan, maybe something about the last days of Cardolan, or something about the politics and the wars of Arnor?

I'd love to see Goldberry's meeting with her, maybe by the Withywindle, or did Goldberry wander into her somewhere in Arnor? Or maybe something about the two of them in Goldberry's house? Or something bittersweet or angsty about how she leaves? (And how did her brooch find its way to that barrow?)

Or something creepier, maybe, with her being a barrow-wight, or Goldberry trying to bring her back from death, or Goldberry casting an enchantment over her to make her stay?

Goldberry/River-woman

Okay, so this is one of my few exceptions to the parent/child incest DNW, because, uh, damn do I ship this. I only started shipping it while thinking of what to nominate, but I really, really ship it now.

I love Goldberry's mysterious nature and how we basically know nothing about her, and we know even less about the River-woman. You can choose to explore who and what they are and where they come from, if you want, or you can choose to keep their origins shrouded in mystery—it's up to you.

This is really a 'nature which tries to eat you' pairing, if that's your thing, for me. Either deliberate (nature which tries to eat you because it's malevolent and evil) or not (they're dangerous because they just are, it's nothing deliberate) would be great!

Either fluff (the River-woman wrapping herself around Goldberry? Growing lilies for her? Taking her sailing through the Withywindle? Protecting her from some darkness?) or angst or creepy twistedness/dark fucked-upness (the darkness of the Huorns infecting Goldberry and/or the River-woman? Sauron's influence on the Old Forest? A creepy twist on their origin story? The River-woman trying to drown/strangle Goldberry/draw her into her to keep forever?).

Shieldmaiden of Rohan/Shieldmaiden of Roham

I'm using 'shieldmaiden' very loosely, here, and 'Rohan' even more loosely, but. You can interpret LotR as saying that women of Rohan have fought alongside men on several occasions. There's kind of a reference to the people of Gondor seeing women of Rohan being warriors, or at least both men and women being called 'valiant', and the Appendices talk about fair and valiant' women alongside 'lords and warriors' in songs the Rohirrim had about the North and about their people before Eorl (this is where 'Rohan' being a very loose descriptor comes in). Also, HoME mentions that, in the time of Brego, women of Rohan did ride out. Also, the fact that Éowyn uses the word 'shieldmaiden' multiple times, as do other people, implies the existence in itself of women who must have been 'shieldmaiden' for the mere fact that the concept must exist for the word to exist.

So, tell me more about these shieldmaidens of Rohan. Did they only ride out in desperate times, or were there some women who took up being a warrior as a lifetime's pursuit? If they only rode out in desperate times, what were those desperate times like? What horrors necessitated women riding out? Or, if there were some women who were warriors their entire life, what was their lifestyle like? Were they lone warriors, or did they march with an army or a group of others? Did they take orders from the King of the Mark, or were they perhaps under the Queen's purview? Or were they outlaws who nevertheless wandered the borders of the Mark and protected its people?

It sounds like female warriors were most common before Eorl rode out from the North and in the early days of Rohan, and I'd love to know more about these time periods—whatever worldbuilding you choose to do would be very, very interesting to me. And, how exactly does one become one of these warriors? Is there formal training or an apprenticeship, or do you have to learn yourself? I imagine that it must have been a lot more difficult for women than for men—something on that, maybe?

What stories and songs were there about these shieldmaidens lovers? (If you've ever wanted to try your hand at alliterative verse, here's your chance—maybe a bit of an epic about a love story between two of the 'fair and valiant' women of old?)

For art, I love the descriptions of the Rohirrim and Rohan in Two Towers and RotK, and anything based on those would be lovely. Or maybe something incorporating 'where now are the horse and the rider'? I'd love to see the shieldmaidens riding out in full armour, or a shieldmaiden after a battle, bloodied and bruised. Or perhaps one of these warriors training, or in a fight? Or maybe two warriors sharing a tent and huddling up next to each other, maybe trading kisses?

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The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien

There aren't enough fics based on the Myths Transformed version of Middle-earth, and if that's something you'd like to explore, I'd love that, especially a more scientifically accurate (and sometimes, to my mind, a more tragic-and-dark-but-beautiful) vision of Middle-earth. (Other versions would also be wonderful, of course! This is just a specific thing I don't see much of.)
I love the fact that Tolkien's canon is a patchwork of different stories and mythologies, both in the Doylist and Watsonian sense, and fic exploring that would be wonderful.
Linked with the points above, I'm interested in lived vs. written stories, and Those Pesky Historians, and how unseen forces affect history.
Nature that comes alive.
The mortals and Elves/free will and destiny debate and the role of the Valar would be a wonderful thing to read about—I'd love exploration of any of the philosophical questions of Tolkien's world, really, but especially this, as detailed in the Athrabeth and writings about the role of the Valar.
All things Darkness and Light, really—I'm very fascinated by how these polar opposites work in Tolkien's world (and you can go back right to the beginning, to the Music, if you like), and how Arda is both grim and uplifting at the same time.
I love the way magic and power operate in Tolkien's world—the work he's done to make it believable is wonderful. Writing a green sun, indeed! Anything you can write about this would be welcome and much-adored.
I especially love the Noldor and Númenor, although every Age of Middle-earth holds my heart.
For interspecies relationships, I'd love to see an emphasis on otherness and trying to understand each other.

Almarian/Erendis

Okay, so Erendis/her mother in law the Queen again has lots of implications for power dynamics and fucked-up family relationships, but also fluffiness if you want to go in that direction. So do whatever you want with this.

Maybe Erendis seduces Almarian to piss off Aldarion? Does Aldarion and/or Almarian find out, and find out why, and are they pissed off? Do they slowly fall for each other or does it remain fucked up?

Or maybe some H/C? Maybe Almarian visits Erendis in Emerië? Or maybe Almarian decides that Aldarion doesn't deserve Erendis, and romances Erendis herself? Or maybe Almarian convinces Erendis to let Ancalimë go to the city? Or Erendis takes comfort in her mother-in-law while Aldarion is gone?

Or, for a smut idea, Erendis is spanked by Almarian for [Reason]. Or the bride of the King's Heir has to remain a chaste until the wedding night/while her husband is gone out of Númenor, and Almarian holds the key to Erendis' chastity device. Or, Almarian decides to tie Erendis up, again for [Reason]. Or, traditionally, Númenorean brides have to submit to their mother-in-laws for 'inspection'.

Andreth/Galadriel

AU where Galadriel takes Aegnor's place, maybe? Or Galadriel visiting Andreth, with or without Finrod. I just want philosophical and political discussions, duty vs. love dilemmas, and maybe an unhappy ending (because I'm evil like that).

I love the philosophical debates of the Athrabeth, so maybe more on that? Maybe Galadriel and Andreth getting into debates with each other? (And maybe the debates turning heated occasionally and then moving to bed?)

Or maybe Galadriel dealing with the fact that Andreth was her dead brother's lover, and the complications of that? (And maybe Andreth also dealing with her grief for Aegnor through Galadriel?) Or maybe angst as Andreth grows older?

Or maybe an AU where Andreth meets Galadriel instead of Aegnor—what would change, what wouldn't?

For art, maybe that scene near Tarn Aeluin, with a star caught in Andreth's hair (only with Galadriel instead of Aegnor)? Or Galadriel and Andreth wandering in the woods together? Or the two of them lying on the grass, staring up at the stars?

Aredhel/Galadriel

Incest kink! Aredhel and Galadriel were the only second-generation Finwions who were female, and I'd love an exploration of that. Did they like each other or despise each other ~~and have hatesex~~? Maybe they hunted together, and those hunting trips turned into more? Or the two of them on the Ice, finding comfort in each other? Or maybe Aredhel was aiming to go to Doriath, not to visit Celegorm? So many possibilities!

Or maybe Aredhel and Galadriel's mutual indifference to each other, and annoyance at being pushed together at family gatherings because they're girls, and of course they have a lot of things in common. This usually Ends Very Badly, possibly, or maybe just Aredhel and Galadriel being snarky at each other and the world in general, with bonus kissing and casual sex.

Or maybe huddling for warmth during the crossing of the Ice? (And just sex, or the two of them falling for each other there). And maybe something about leading their people across the Ice, and the two of them being leaders in general (or leaders and generals, that would very much work too!)?

Galadriel/Varda

Something mystical and magical and dangerous for these two, maybe? I'm interested in how this'd work—was it a passionate romance during the Years of the Trees, or did it happen after Galadriel came back at the end of the Third Age?

If pre-Darkening, maybe the two of them meeting, and things proceeding from there. Explorations of power dynamics, maybe, because Varda is obviously so much more powerful than Galadriel, and/or mentorship? And post-Darkening, there must have been feelings of betrayal on both sides, so something about that, maybe?

And how do they react on meeting each other again, after Galadriel has atoned and gone through her test? Or maybe Galadriel finding comfort in Varda after the loss of everything she knows, and after the loss of her husband too (well, estrangement, but Celeborn doesn't look to be crossing the Sea any time soon).

Or, what does it feel like for an Elf to be in bed with a Valië? Does Varda use her powers on Galadriel? Or does Varda submit to Galadriel for this one thing?

I'd love art about stars and skies, please! Or maybe Varda and Galadriel on Taniquetil together, or Varda watching over Galadriel from far away?

Haleth/female spider of Nan Dungortheb

This is a ‘basically an excuse to request’ smut pairing. (Which isn’t to say that plotty fic or non-smut art wouldn’t be appreciated! I would love that too.)

Maybe Haleth securing passage through Nan Dungortheb for her people by fucking a spider? Alternately, noncon. Or creepy possessive dubcon where the spider wants to keep Haleth with it forever? (And Stockholm Syndrome-ish stuff?)

Or something dark and fey, maybe, emphasizing how ancient the spider is and how much it’s a thing of the dark and an old, old creature? Or, alternately, fluffy crack where the spider and Haleth are adorably in love!

Extra things you could add if you’re writing/drawing smut, but are not at all requirements or things that'd be necessary for me to love your fic/art: oviposition, multiple spiders, her people watching (or maybe just her warriors, voyeurism is great either way), spider legs inside Haleth's holes, spiderwebs, spider fluid, the spider being surprisingly gentle (although this doesn't help at all), gags/Haleth screaming herself hoarse/trying to talk to the spiders but none of them understand what is being said.

Ilmarë/Thuringwethil

This ship interests me for the light vs. dark dichotomy. An origin story, perhaps, on the fall of Thuringwethil? Or maybe what happened to Thuringwethil after the War of Wrath? I'd love to see the contrast between the two of them, and maybe something to do with the Ainur and their role in the Music?

And this 'ship is ripe for all the angst and tragedy. Maybe something about Thuringwethil's fall? (And how it came about, and its causes, and maybe late redemption if you want to go in that direction if you're writing fic, or dark/tragedic angst if you don't?) Or maybe if you choose to go with something about Thuringwethil and Ilmarë after the War of Wrath, there must be a lot of betrayal and anger lying in both of them—something about that?

Was Thuringwethil a Maia of Varda or Estë before she fell, perhaps? Or was she one of those seduced by Melkor in the beginning, with the Music, and she and Ilmarë always has a foeyay thing going on? Or was she an embodiment of necessary darkness created to stand against Melkor but corrupted by him? Or was she a Maia of Sauron who went over to Melkor when he did?

I would also very much not mind this going in the fucked-up dubcon or noncon direction, whether that be because one of them is the other's prisoner, or because one of them manipulates the other emotionally (for her own good, of course, or so the manipulator things), or because of any other scenario.

Indis/Nerdanel

Indis and Nerdanel in the house of Indis after Fëanor's Exile, or later, after the Darkening and the Doom, helping each other to cope, please? I just want all the angst and Doom.

I'd love to see Indis and Nerdanel, something passionate and intense—kissing, maybe, or even just talking to each other. Or I'd love to see Indis as the Queen of the Noldor (whether as Finwë's wife or in her own right in an AU)—loyalty kink, anyone? Or maybe something less smutty, dealing with the politics of the situation, maybe.

I am fascinated by the Noldor who remained in Aman after Fëanor and Fingolfin left. How did they attempt to bridge ties with the other Elves (especially the Teleri)? What were Indis' and Nerdanel's reactions to the Kinslaying? What were other people's reactions to the fact that their relations (and especially children) are Kinslayers? Or, what sort of role did they play in the reorganization of Tirion and in all the work that must have been necessary post-Darkening?

Lalaith/Niënor Níniel

Sistercest! This would, out of necessity, have to be an AU where Lalaith doesn't die. Maybe Lalaith and Niënor sustaining each other through difficult times? Maybe instead of Túrin, Lalaith is the one who's cursed? Codependent fucked-up siblings, please! And for art (and fic), something focusing on how they're the antithesis of each other?

What would happen if Túrin died, not Lalaith? I'd imagine a lot of the events would go the same, but would Húrin not having a male heir affect canon events much? Would Lalaith stay with her mother and sister, or would she be smuggled out like Túrin was? And would Doriath and the outlaws happen just the same, and would Lalaith still be the Blacksword, or would something different happen? Would Lalaith's and Niënor's meeting go the same? And what effect would Niënor not being pregnant have on the final events? Would they go the same, or differently? (And would she even want to be called Lalaith after her brother's death?)

Or an AU where Lalaith doesn't die and Túrin also lives—again, would Lalaith go to Doriath or stay with Morwen? Would Niënor and her become codependent because of the situation they're in if she stayed, or would they fight all the time? If Lalaith goes to Doriath with her brother, would Niënor stumble upon Lalaith instead of Túrin?

Tar-Anárion's daughters/Tar-Ancalimë

We know that Tar-Anárion's daughters both refused the queenship, most likely because they were pressured to, but there's not much to go on beyond that, so I would like it very much if political backstabbing was involved. Did they try to betray their father/aunt and were caught? Or was it the people around them who were doing the backstabbing, because of [insert reason you want here]? Just all the Númenorean politics, please! (Which we know are not very nice at all, even if they have a polite veneer.)

I'm very interested in Tar-Ancalimë's relationship with her granddaughters, since it's implied that she's the reason they gave up the throne. Did she regret not really caring about Tar-Anárion, and go too far in the other direction? Is she just extremely protective to the point of being unhealthily controlling for different reasons? Or maybe she sees them as her heirs, and is very possessive because of that? Or if you want to go really dark, Tar-Ancalimë marrying both of them off to husband she knows won't let them become queen, and manipulating both the husband and her granddaughters?

Or maybe the reason Tar-Anárion's daughters gave up the throne is because, while they're heirs, their bodies belong to the throne, and thus to Tar-Ancalimë/the Council? Maybe the way they dress, how and what they eat, even how they perform their ablutions are all controlled by external forces? Maybe they're forced to undergo gruelling 'training' or be experimented upon? Or maybe they're forced to provide sex?

Tar-Míriel/Uinen

There's an obvious connection between the Line of Elros and the Sea, and as the Lady of the Waves, Uinen is part of that connection too. Anything, fic or art, angsty or fluffy, playing with that would be lovely.

Do the Faithful have any rituals to worship Uinen? Are they elaborate and long (and perhaps sexual)? Does Míriel encounter Uinen through one of the rituals? (Is she literally sacrificed to the sea, in a temporary non-fatal sacrifice?) Or maybe Uinen discovers the existence of these rituals after she and Míriel meet—perhaps Míriel introduces her to them?

Or maybe Míriel takes comfort in Uinen after she's taken as Ar-Pharazôn's wife. Perhaps she sneaks down to the sea, or perhaps Uinen comes to her somehow?

Or maybe Míriel is rescued by Uinen from the Downfall! Does Uinen carry Míriel away into her underwater bower? Does Míriel gain immortality, or does she have to die eventually still? Or maybe it's more creepy, with Uinen keeping Míriel captive against her will or using her powers to make her fall for her?

Or if you want to go in the smutty direction, underwater sex! And whatever powers Maiar have being used by Uinen for sex! Or creepysex with Uinen devouring Míriel, or drawing her under a spell to make her want to have sex with her, or any other type of creepyness.

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