Dear Chocolate Box Writer

[lah_mrh]

Hi, thanks for writing for me! I hope this letter is useful.

Likes: Hurt/comfort, sickfic (especially vomiting), fluff, humour, romance, friendship, family relationships, first time, established relationship, pre-relationship/pre-slash, friends-to-lovers, gay/bi characters, friendships between gay/bi men and gay/bi women, reunions, mission/case fic, episode tags/missing scenes, happy endings, angst with a happy ending, huddling for warmth, bed sharing, recovery from injury, cuddling, kissing, handholding, stargazing, holiday fic, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, time travel

Dislikes/DNWs: Non con, character bashing, major character death, asexual/aromantic/nonbinary headcanons, poly/open relationships/infidelity, homophobic violence and slurs, permanent paralysis, unrequested non-canon pairings, break up of requested pairings, bleak/hopeless endings, real-world politics/current events, crossovers, non canon-divergent AUs, Valentine's Day, first and second POV, explicit sex


Fandoms:

The Simpsons (Lisa/Juliet)

Juliet only appears in one episode (Lisa the Drama Queen), but I loved the relationship between her and Lisa. They seemed to connect so well, in a way that's pretty rare for Lisa, and I like how smart and imaginative they both are. I'd love to see more of that relationship, especially if it involves them meeting again in the future.

Prompts:

• Lisa ends up going to the same high school/college as Juliet and they reconnect.


• The last person Lisa expected to see at summer camp was Juliet.


• A moment between them before everything went wrong.


• AU - What if their attempt at running away together had been (more) successful? Where do they go? What do they do?


• AU - Getting their book published leads to reconciliation.


• AU- they meet for the first time at summer camp / in high school / in college (and things go a lot better than in canon).

Fandom specific DNWs: Romance above a G-rating (i.e. anything more than handholding, cheek kisses, etc) while they're at their canon ages (but aged up to teenagers is fine!), Lisa and/or Juliet being judged for being "weird" or imaginative, unless the person judging is meant to be wrong/unsympathetic.


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St Clare's Series (Alison/OFC)

Okay, so I reread these books a while back, and my main takeaway was that Alison is totally a lesbian. I don't know what Enid Blyton was going for, but her obsessions with other girls/female teachers did not strike me as 100% platonic and heterosexual. So I'd love to see a fic where she realises this, preferably by finding a nice girl/woman who appreciates her interest in fashion and doesn't think of her as an airhead.

Prompts:

• Alison meets a very interesting woman at her new job.


• Alison realises her previous obsessions were actually crushes and has to come to terms with it.


• The twins visit Alison and her "friend" and come to a realisation.


• Domestic fluff.


• Alison makes a career in fashion, OFC helps/supports her.


• A new girl arrives at St Clare's, leading to revelations.

Fandom specific note: References to canon-era homophobia are fine (e.g. having to be careful in public, pretending to be friends who live together rather than a couple), but I'd prefer they not be the focus.


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Star Trek Discovery (Pike/Ash, Pike&Ash)

I really like these characters and their relationship, and always want more fic for them. I love how Pike is such a genuinely good person, and how Ash is clearly damaged but still trying to do the right thing, even if he isn't always sure what that is. I also really love how the catalyst for them going from disliking and distrusting each other to basically friends is fighting a robotic squid from the future, and the potential bond formed by them being two of the only people left behind at the end. Anything along the friendship-preslash-first time-established relationship scale would be great, and I'd especially love something set after Season 2 with Pike back on the Enterprise and Ash working on rebuilding Section 31, but really almost anything about them would make me happy.

Prompts:

• Not all of the meetings between the head of Section 31 and the captain of the Enterprise are purely professional.


• Meeting up for a drink on the anniversary of Discovery's "destruction".


• One of them gets sick/injured on/before shore leave together, but they manage to make it work.


• Undercover on a mission together.


• Stranded on a planet together and trying to survive. (Especially if Pike gets hurt/ill and Ash has to take care of him.)


• Domestic fluff, either on shore leave or in the future.


• Ash takes Pike sailing / Pike takes Ash riding.


• Ash has a nightmare/flashback, Pike offers comfort.


• AU - Pike realises Ash isn't the spy after "If Memory Serves" and they team up to find out who is. (And maybe Airiam gets saved?)


• AU - Ash brings Voq and L'Rell's son with him to Discovery instead of leaving him on Boreth. Turns out Pike is good with kids, even Klingon ones.


• Ash uses his Section 31 powers to heal Pike or otherwise save him from his fate. (I'm fine with him still being injured or disabled in some ways, just as long as he can move and communicate and have a relatively normal life.)


• Ash teams up with Number One, Boyce, etc to rescue Pike from Talos post-The Menagerie.


• Any other kind of Pike-based fix-it, seriously I'm desperate.

Fandom specific note: While I've DNW'd noncon, mentions of Ash's canon trauma are fine.

Fandom specific DNWs: References to Pike's fate in TOS or his knowledge of same (unless you're writing a fix-it), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist, Pike/Vina.


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What's It Gonna Be - Shura (Music Video) (Shura/Sarah, Nick/Brad)

Video here

I really like this video, and if it was a full-length film I would see it in a heartbeat. I love how it starts out with the brother and sister pining after their het crushes and ends with them realising they'd rather have each other's crushes instead. If you want to try and write the full-length version of this I would be thrilled, but even a snippet would be great.

Prompts:

• Shura and Nick plan out their campaign.


• Shura realises she's actually into Sarah and not Brad and/or Nick realises he's actually into Brad and not Sarah.


• Shura and Nick confess their new crushes to each other and come up with a new plan.


• How does the rest of the school react to a nerdy girl dating a cheerleader, or a nerdy boy dating a jock?


• Double dates, or the four of them hanging out together.


• What do Brad and/or Sarah think of it all?

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Wonder (Auggie&Jack Will, Auggie&Summer, Auggie&Via)

I really loved this film. Auggie is sweet and funny, and I like how his condition doesn't define him - that it makes his life harder but he still gets to be a normal kid who has friends and loves science and is just like everyone else. I'd love anything exploring his life after the end of the film, especially his friendships with Jack Will, or Summer, or his relationship with his sister.

Prompts:

• How does sixth grade work out for Auggie?


• Does his family ever get another dog? Or a different pet?


• Do he and Jack create another kick-ass science fair project? And if so, what?


• What does he dress up as for next Halloween?


• Does he ever meet Julian again? Does Julian apologise?

Fandom specific note: I love gen, but I'm okay with Auggie/Jack or Auggie/OMC as long as it's kept very g-rated - he is only eleven, after all.


Thanks again!