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lizthelizzard Dear Author or Artist,
thank you for creating something for me! I like a wide variety of things, so please don't feel restricted by my prompts.
In general, I like fic (and art) set in canon, as well as canon-divergence and things that can be layered over canon like soulmates. Not much into setting-change AUs currently. When there are multiple versions of canon, you're free to pick and choose from any and all versions, mix and match in any way you see fit. The only exception here is Harry Potter's eye color - please stick with book green eyes, instead of movie eyes.
I like everything from fluff to smut to angst to case fic. Get-together, established or just smut are all great, as is pining.
I'm fine with character death (temporary and permanently), as well as violence and many other opt-in things. For things I don't want, check my DNWS on each individual fandom. I like fluff and happy endings just as much!
Mpreg is great, but please stick to ass-babies, c-section, magic or just don't mention the hows. I don't want male characters to have vaginas for any reason, please.
For smut, as long as you respect my DNWS, you can go wild with kinks or even stay completely vanilla. I've found that if the writer or artist has fun, I usually do too!
I'm fine with background pairings of all types, though I do have a slight preference for same-sex pairings over het pairings, but if you think a het pairing would fit the fic, don't hesitate!
One thing I'm always here for is characters making hilariously bad life choices. Dressing in spandex to save the world is FUNNY.
For art, I'm not much into big, veiny cocks, so if you draw smut, please stick to regular size cocks and only one vein per cock at most.
Fandom:A Brother's Price - Wen Spencer
Other: Worldbuilding
Original Poor Family That Joins the Army
Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic
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Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion
This is by far the shortest canon I'm requesting - it's a single book!
I only nominated original characters, but if you wanted to write about any of the non-POV canon characters, that would be fine too!
I'm not prompting for explicit fic/art here, but if you want to go that way, that's more than welcome too. F/f, m/f and m/m are all welcome for this fandom, though no pairings at all are more than okay too. Underage down to 15 can be explicit, anything younger should only be implied.
For this canon, I'm opting in to all the things mentioned or implied in canon, including infanticide and incest. This doesn't mean I'm expecting you to write/draw these things, just that it is fine if these things appear.
The worldbuilding for this canon contains so many things that are just barely hinted at or implied, and I'd like something that explores the worldbuilding some more.
If a sister commits a crime (especially treason), the whole family gets punished - so what do people do when they discover someone in their family is committing crimes or planning treason? Presumably if you report treason to the crown, you won't get executed for being related to a traitor, but... what happens?
Or if you're born into a family of thieves, is there any way out? Even if you run away, there aren't many (any?) options to make a honest living for a lone, sister-less girl... maybe the army? But even then, not having sisters will put you at a disadvantage. Sure, joining the military means you get access to the military cribs, so at least you have a chance to get pregnant and get some daughters, but army life is hard on kids, especially with only one mother.
What does a middle sister do when she cannot stand her Eldest, especially when most of her younger sisters hate the Eldest too? Families can split, but that requires resources, because you need two husbands... and for many, getting even one is hard. One thing I'd find interesting would be a story about a middle sister who finally asks her mothers if the family can be split so she's eldest for her younger sisters, and the mothers say sure, IF she can turn up a husband for her and her younger sisters. This works best for a crime family (hello kidnapping), but rescuing or "finding" a boy are options too.
For a poor family that loses whatever they had, when joining the army is the only good-ish choice left, what happens next? Unless a sister gets promoted to officer rank, the army tends to grind families down until there's nothing left. For additional complications, what if the sister who becomes an officer isn't the eldest? Imagine a youngest sister having to give orders to her Eldest! Now that's a family complication if ever there was one.
A poor family with no husband, all children fathered from cribs... and then someone gives birth to living, healthy twin boys. How does this sudden wealth affect the family? How do they plan for the future, now that there are options? With two boys, once they get old enough, one can be swapped for a husband and the other can be sold to buy a business or a farm. How to keep the boys safe and healthy in unstable conditions for so long?
Boys tends to be very rare in this world, but at 1 to 15 odds, there are still bound to be some sons born to women who don't have a big family to protect the valuable boy. What exactly does a woman who doesn't have any sisters, who either is in the army and got pregnant in a crib, or who saved up money from thieving or whoring to afford going to a crib, do when she surprisingly gives birth to a living boy? There's no way she can protect him on her own - does she sell the baby to a crib? To the army? To the state? Is there some sort of standard offer from the army, that any soldier who doesn't have the means to raise a boy can sell him at a standard rate (maybe not for cash money, but for an earlier retirement and a larger pension?).
On that note, why the hell is impregnation via turkey baster not a thing? That way there's no risk of infecting the man with any disease. You'd think this world, if any, would have come up with ways to transfer seed without risk to the man!
There seems to be a very big taboo against adoption - how exactly did that come about?
There are some interesting laws around husband raids - if someone rescues or finds a kidnapped man, they get to keep him. With a young husband or brother, the finders probably do opt to keep him more often than not, but what about middle aged or elderly husbands? What if the finders already have enough husbands and brothers? Do they sometimes choose to return the rescued man to his family, for a finder's fee or some other reward? Are there laws around kidnapping back your husband who was kidnapped and rescued/kept by strangers?
Poorer families lucky enough to have a brother usually swap him for a husband - how exactly does that work? Do they search for another family with a brother of the same age? Since boys get married at 16, more than a few months difference would make a swap complicated, wouldn't it? What if an eldest falls in love with a boy who is two years younger or older than her brother - how exactly could a match work? Do both marriage contracts get signed when the older boy turns 16, but the families don't hand over the brothers until the younger boy is old enough too? Does the older boy get handed over at 16 and his sisters just have to live with the risk that something might happen before they can marry the other family's brother in two years? What if one of the boys dies in the interim, whose problem is it before the law?
Raven mentioned that she's not married and that she returns home whenever she feels lonely. In Raven's family, everyone seems to be fathered from the military cribs, but what about other families where one or more sisters aren't interested in getting married, even though the family can afford a husband? Is it awkward to have one or more sisters in a family who are just not married to the family husband? How does it work when she retires some day? And what do her sisters' children call her? She's not one of the mothers, but aunt usually means one of a set of sisters living elsewhere with a different husband.
Speaking of Raven and her family - her older sister Hawk was Captain of the Guard for Ren's Eldest sister and died in the same explosion. This implies that Raven's family routinely supplied trusted officers to the royal family. How does that work? Do the sisters who go into service always stay unmarried and childfree like Raven or is that just a personal thing for her? Did some or most of her mothers serve the queens when they were younger? Are some of Raven's mothers still serving the queens? Are Raven's sisters already training up daughters to work for Ren's future children?
On another note, how do people make friends in this world? Sure, most people have many sisters to be friends with, but other than that? Ren is sort of friends with Raven, but only because Raven has been working for her for years. She's sort of friends with Ki, but only because Ki is evil and manipulative and used their "shared" grief to get closer to the new eldest princess. No other friendships are even mentioned in the whole book!
And beyond friends, how does one even find a potential girlfriend? Halley used to have a girlfriend, who was a soldier and the daughter of a sex-worker, but again, that seems to have been a manipulative girl, since she dumped Princess Halley as soon as Halley got scars in the explosion.
DNWS: 1st & 2nd Person POV, scat/watersports/emeto (but vomit in a non-sexual, hurt/comfort etc. situation is okay), vaginas on male characters
Fandom:The Branion Realm - Fiona Patton
Other: Worldbuilding
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic
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Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion
The magic system/religion are utterly fascinating.
I enjoy how the main country in this is very decidedly non-sexist and non-homophobic (even if some of the other countries around it are), because this makes it so much easier to tell other stories about same-sex couples and women in general. Everyone rich or influential has a same-sex courtesan/spy/assassin, and that's considered completely normal.
I enjoy the magic and the politics in these books a lot.
The royal line are kind of messed up, and I'd be interested in a work that highlights how much of that is regular stress from ruling a realm, how much is from the living flame, and how much might be just upbringing/the personality of some rulers.
I don't usually request crossovers, but for this I have a kind of cracky crossover idea... both Branion and Valdemar have capital C Companions. Both tend to be attached to important people and run the country in secret (or not so secret). It would be really, really funny if some sort of magical mishap switched the two types of Companions around, or people from one canon ended up in the other, or anything really... as long as there's some confusion related to Companions. (I don't want any explicit bestiality for this, but anything else is go!)
DNWS: 1st & 2nd Person POV, scat/watersports/emeto (but vomit in a non-sexual, hurt/comfort etc. situation is okay), vaginas on male characters (A/B/O where male omegas don't have vaginas is fine), non-linear narratives (especially telling a past and a present story parallel to each other)
Fandom:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Group: Harry Potter/Viktor Krum
Group: Oliver Wood/Percy Weasley
Group: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Group: Draco Malfoy/Charlie Weasley
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Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion
Any and all kinds of background relationships are welcome! I have a mild preference for same-sex ships over het, but het pairings are still welcome!
From fluff to angst to smut, I'm into pretty much anything for this fandom. Creatures, magic mirrors, soul bonds, mpreg, love potions, adventure, worldbuilding that only keeps the vaguest connection to canon... or even 100% canon compliant fic! The only thing I'm not into are setting change AUs, like coffee shop or high school or medieval.
Book or movie canon are both fine, with the exception that I prefer Harry with green eyes.
One thing I'm always into for this fandom is time travel or time loops. People getting stuck in a time loop until they get their shit together and get together, or solve a mystery. Can be funny too, up to and including Harry accidentally being his own grandfather because he banged his grandma while traveling to the past.
Oh, and Dumbledore is a time-traveling Ron is a super fun concept too.
Draco/Harry: School years or after, canon-divergence or even AU, all's great! I don't think I'll ever get tired of enemies-to-lovers fic for those two, though established relationship fics are super fun too.
Draco/Charlie Weasley: Charlie works with dragons, and "draco" means dragon. Clearly they're meant to be!
Charlie and Draco have been dating for a while and are living together in Romania or somewhere, but they're hiding their relationship. One time when Charlie was talking to his mom through the fireplace, Draco accidentally knocked something over in another room, and Charlie's excuse was that he'd got a new pet, a tiny dragon. For Christmas, his mom sends him a collar for his pet. Draco wears it.
Harry/Krum: Harry rarely pays much attention to things that aren't in some way related to Voldemort, but he sure noticed Krum a lot. I'd be interested to see how a friendship and then more could develop between these two... and how jealous Ron would be. (No Ron-bashing, please!)
Quidditch players tend to have strong legs from riding their brooms, so thigh fucking!
Oliver Wood/Percy Weasley: Something set during their school time would be fun! Percy really doesn't like breaking rules, but there are plenty of things that aren't technically against the rules... students aren't supposed to wander the castle at night, but there isn't any rule against two students spending the night in the same bed.
There probably are more boys in their year, we just never heard about them because Harry doesn't pay attention to anything that isn't plot relevant - or a handsome guy, apparently. So all we know about potential Gryffindor boys in Percy's and Oliver's year is that they aren't as handsome as Cedric Diggory. Oh, and they probably aren't evil, since Harry tends to notice dark arts things going on.
DNWS: 1st & 2nd Person POV, scat/watersports/emeto (but vomit in a non-sexual, hurt/comfort etc. situation is okay), vaginas on male characters (A/B/O where male omegas don't have vaginas is fine)
Fandom:Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Original Velgarth character from a land far away from Valdemar
Other: Worldbuilding
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Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
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I love how the worldbuilding is hilariously warped because everything (including planning ahead) has to give way to maximum angst potential and woobyness. I'd like something where an original character is very, very concerned/amused/horrified by all the things that the people of Valdemar find totally normal, from horses deciding who can be king or queen upward.
I'm more into the fun "OC was flirting with a Herald only to be told that her horse doesn't approve of fun, and btw, the horse thinks anyone who is into bondage must be evil, so now OC is backing away slooooowly" type of story, rather than a treatise on how Mercedes Lackey is problematic and should have been cancelled decades ago.
Original characters, canon characters, any book or time are fine!
Some things that a character could find strange include:
Talamir! Even other Heralds found him creepy and spooky after he was quite literally dragged back from death because clearly Selenay's need for an experienced advisor was more important than not chaining a half-dead soul into a body. Generally speaking, you don't find many stories where the heroes casually turn one of their own into a zombie and no one seems concerned.
Soul bonds! Especially the fact that the companion bond isn't consensual. None of the people involved are asked if they want to enter into a nearly unbreakable soulbond with a magic horse. Only Alberich was even told that the bond can be broken, but was warned that it would leave him damaged. Actually the whole thing how Alberich got recruited was... fascinating, because unlike most others, Alberich was actually allowed to go "uhmmm, this seems kinda wrong". I laughed out loud when Kantor's answer was basically "well yeah, but if I hadn't manipulated things to turn your people against you now, they would have turned against you at some later point, when I might not have been around to rescue you". Dear Horse, please at least try to keep up some plausible deniability! Lucky for Kantor, he'd succeeded at speed-Stockholming Alberich by that point (mostly while Alberich was unconscious and drugged after nearly getting burned to death), so Alberich stayed anyway.
The soul bonds between lovers aren't exactly voluntary either, but at least there both parties get bonded without choice, as opposed to companions sneak-attack bonding teenagers.
And deliberate or not, it really seems that soul bonding of any kind isn't allowed to be voluntary, because the only person shown to deliberately search for his soulmate gets punished rather horribly - Firesong's pretty, pretty face gets all burned up so he has to go stay with people who didn't know him when he was pretty.
DNWS: 1st & 2nd Person POV, scat/watersports/emeto (but vomit in a non-sexual, hurt/comfort etc. situation is okay), vaginas on male characters (A/B/O where male omegas don't have vaginas is fine)
Fandom:DCU (Comics)
Group: Tim Drake/Dick Grayson/Jason Todd
Group: Tim Drake/Jason Todd
Group: Dick Grayson/Jason Todd
Fanart: 1 x 10-Page Comic
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Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic
Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion
Any and all background pairings are welcome, except for those listed in my DNWs.
I really like undercover fic for this fandom. Undercover in prison, infiltrating a gang, undercover in a strip club, undercover as a couple... the options are endless.
I prefer it if Dick has been comfortably bisexual for years already, but either Tim or Jason can be newly figuring out their sexuality (or not, everyone can be comfortably bi or gay too). I just really love the idea of Dick sleeping with every redhead he's ever worked with (and probably a number of non-redheads too).
Get together and established relationships are equally awesome.
Smut is very, very welcome, but not absolutely necessary. Wall sex, fight sex, rimming and felching, bondage (especially with Dick getting out of increasingly complicated bondage), rough sex, tender sex, knife play, face fucking. These are some of my favourite smut things, but really, if I listed all the kinks I like, we'd be here until next year.
For underage: 15+ can be explicitly described, anything younger should only be mentioned.
One thing I really love for this fandom is fighting, especially Dick fighting 10+ enemies and kicking ass. Yes, even in Tim/Jason fic, it would be nice if Dick got a chance to fight some criminals, even if that's his only appearance!
Tim/Dick/Jason: Tim wonders why Dick and Jason seem weirdly frustrated even though they've been getting along better recently (where getting along better means they shove each other against a wall and make out like crazy), so he does what any worried brother would do - he stalks them just a little to get enough data to figure out the problem. Turns out the issue is that they both prefer to get penetrated during sex and 90% of their fighting is each of them trying to get the other riled up enough to fuck them. Clearly the only solution here is a threesome! Now Tim just needs to figure out how to set that up... without letting on that he stalked his brothers to figure out their sexual preferences. (Maybe he should talk to someone about his stalking habit, but all the therapists he knows are psychotic super villains...)
When Bruce first offered to adopt Tim, Tim refused - because he had a crush on Dick and obviously he wouldn't have a chance if he became Dick's brother. Except Dick treated him like a brother anyway, so Tim gave up on that. Then when Jason stopped being quite so murderous, he hoped he might have a chance with Jason, except Jason started in on the brother thing too, even if he was a bit sarcastic about calling Tim "bro", even when Tim pointed out that they technically weren't brothers.
Tim cursed his bad luck and gave up on his sexy, sexy older brothers. Until he accidentally (or "accidentally") spied on Dick and Jason and saw them making out. Of course he continued to watch, because what. Turns out Dick and Jason are reaaaaaaally into the incest thing, leaning into the whole brother thing. They call each other brother a lot while they fuck, and talk about how daddy can't know.
Tim facepalms hard, because he now realizes that Jason and Dick were flirting with him and were checking if he'd be into the incest thing. Now that he knows... well. Now he knows how to get both of them in bed.
Tim/Jason: undercover as a couple! For a case, someone needs to go undercover as a couple, and well, Tim and Jason are the best suited for this particular case. Mutual pining ensues! Jason isn't all that good with feelings, and sharing a bed with someone he tried to murder in the past, and who he has a crush on now... well, that's not easy.
Jason's way to suppress his growing attraction to Tim is to remind Tim (and himself) that they're technically related, calling him "bro" a lot.
Tim and Jason bond over awkward, unrequited crushes on Dick, and then fall in love with each other. Maybe the topic comes up because Damian is getting to that teenage stage where hormones make it really, really awkward to be in the presence of Dick Grayson's general hotness, especially because Dick is flexible as hell and has no shame... Dick in his underwear, bending over to touch his toes, then bending over backwards to touch his heels is distracting as hell and Damian is clearly suffering (Tim is amused and a little bit sympathetic).
Tim gets attacked by a teenager with black hair and blue eyes who tries to kill him. Later, the bats are discussing this mysterious stranger, and Jason goes "it's obvious! teenage male, dark hair, light eyes, tried to murder Tim - precedent suggests he's a past or future Robin!"
Turns out he's right - the boy is Tim/Jason's mpreg baby and a future Robin from a future where Tim has gone evil. Tim isn't even surprised that he has to deal with yet another evil future version of himself (though maybe he's a little concerned at how often that happens). The kid was trying to save the world by going back to kill his dad before Tim could go evil.
Bonus points if the method of time-travel the kid uses only allows the user to travel to a time when he already exists, meaning Jason is already pregnant (and didn't know it yet... and maybe didn't even know he could get pregnant! Could be a side-effect of the pit, or something else.)
Dick/Jason: For some reason (alcohol, concussion, pollen, toxins) Jason admits that he's been in love with Dick since before his death and resurrection... and then Jason promptly runs away and works a bunch of cases in other countries, because talking about things is not an option.
Dick gets kidnapped in his civilian identity, where he can't exactly fight back, and Red Hood rescues him.
Nightwing/Red Hood fighting across several rooftops, then loud sex on a roof... and maybe someone takes a picture, and they have to explain how that ended up in all the gossip magazines. There probably aren't any good ways to tell The Batman that you're fucking your adopted brother, but him finding out from a gossip magazine is less than ideal, and Dick at least prefers family meetings to involve less yelling. (Jason is probably glad, because hey, this time he didn't need to shoot anyone in the head to get kicked out of the city!)
Undercover! Jason is doing some undercover work and just happens to run into Dick, who is on the same case. They fight, they bicker, sexual tension happens. At some points Dick has to fight someone much bigger than him (and of course kicks ass).
If you need a side plot besides whatever is going on with the main pairing, here are a few things I like about this fandom in general.
I absolutely love how many different versions of canon there are, and fic that mixes different continuities together is always fun.
All the questionable life choices these people make are probably my favourite thing about super hero comics. The fact that there's decades of comics where Robin fights crime in what amounts to green panties will never not be be funny.
The friendships and rivalries between heroes (and between heroes and some villains) are a lot of fun too. It's so funny how much Batman and Green Arrow dislike each other, and how petty they can be about it. The funniest was probably in DCeased, where Bruce and 99% of humanity are dead... and there's still time to get one last dig at Green Arrow in. Yes, Ollie is pouting about it.
Another hilarious thing is that no less than three bats have a best friend kryptonian who is their main ship in fandom. Bruce/Clark, Tim/Kon and Damian/Jon are all cute and fun, but put together that's just... really, really funny. If all three pairings are background ships in a Dick/Jason fic, that would make family dinners hilariously awkward. Jason can jokingly complain that he doesn't have a personal superman, so Dick puts on superman underwear for him.
And then there's Damian and his lack of suitable role models. After being raised by assassins, he doesn't exactly know how to be nice... and Bruce doesn't exactly help in that regard, because grunting isn't particularly friendly. So it would be really funny if Damian wanted to get along with Tim (this could be & or /), but had no idea how to start and tried to get advice from magazines, books, TV, shoujo manga, etc.
So he reads something or other and step one is "to be nicer than you've been". Well, Damian tried to murder Tim at their first meeting, and he hasn't tried to kill or even maim him in a long time, so he has already been nicer. Done! ... well, maybe not. Even Damian recognizes that "no recent murder attempts" is probably not enough to get most people to like you. But it's not like he can just emulate what other people in his life do, because again, his mom regularly kills people, his dad grunts, and the only really nice person he knows is Dick, but... Damian is NOT going to smile at Tim and hug him and all those things Dick does, because no. Just no. So really, what's left? And then he realizes - everyone likes Alfred. Damian could probably stomach acting a liiiittle more like Alfred... (it does NOT work out the way he hoped).
Well, being nicer is step one. Step two is waiting to see if the other person likes you more now, because they'll do nice things for you. That one's tricky too, because Tim is the type who will fight a thousand ninja assassins to protect someone he hates. Damian knows, because he was there. Tim did that for him. Well, tried. So it's not exactly easy to see if Tim likes him more now, because uh, Tim will fight a thousand ninja assassins for someone he hates. So how exactly is Damian supposed to judge if Tim likes him more now? Unless Tim gets an opportunity to fight two thousand ninja assassins for him, maybe...
One last thing for art - I like how extremely RED Kate's hair is, as opposed to the orange hair most other redheads seem to have. In fact, Kate's hair is SO RED that it bends reality. I have seen at least two times in canon where other red things turned pink or orange while in the presence of Kate's hair. So just... let Kate appear in the background, and let her reality-bending hair suck the RED out of everything else. I don't want this to be an actual plot, or for the characters to notice, just as a background thing. Where Kate's hair is all "there can only be one!" And in any panel Kate is in, other red things stop being red and are temporarily pink or orange or purplish instead.
DNWS: 1st & 2nd Person POV, scat/watersports/emeto (but vomit in a non-sexual, hurt/comfort etc. situation is okay), vaginas on male characters (A/B/O where male omegas don't have vaginas is fine), any implication of Bruce/Robins or Alfred/Robins
