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Dear Fic In A Box Writer
Hi, thanks for writing for me! I hope this letter is useful. I've never done this exchange before, so I'm excited to see what you come up with!
Likes: Hurt/comfort (both emotional and physical), sickfic, humour, fluff, friendship, family relationships, romance, pre-relationship/preslash/UST, first time, established relationship, friends-to-lovers, happy endings, angst with a happy ending, gay/bi characters, friendships between gay/bi men and gay/bi women, reunions, mission/case fic, episode tags/missing scenes, worldbuilding, science, aliens, characters being smart and competent and/or showing off their skills, characters slowly learning to trust each other, characters who trust each other completely, loyalty, pining, mutual pining, fire-forged friendship, huddling for warmth, bed sharing (platonic or otherwise), trapped in a lift or other small space together, recovery from injury/trauma, vomiting, characters being comforted while/after vomiting, cuddling, kissing, forehead kisses, touching a character's forehead to check for a fever, handholding, hair brushing and stroking, characters lying with their head in the other's lap, characters cooking for each other and/or comforting each other with food, stargazing, shore leave, holiday fic, domestic fluff, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, time travel and alternate universes, travelling through alternate universes
Dislikes/DNWs: Non con, character bashing, permanent major character death, poly/open relationships/infidelity, unrequested non-canon pairings (OC/OC relationships okay), break up of requested pairings, requested characters being written as asexual/aromantic/nonbinary, focus on characters being asexual/aromantic/nonbinary, unrequested permanent injury, bleak/hopeless endings, graphic violence and gore, homophobic violence and slurs, real-world politics/current events, unrequested crossovers/non canon-divergent AUs, Rashomon-style/non-linear narratives, unrequested non-prose formats, drabbles, first POV (letters/captain's log-type stuff okay), second POV, explicit sex (M-rated is fine), sexual activity involving characters under 16, non-G-rated romance involving characters under 13.
Fandoms:
Chip's Challenge | Friends | St Clare's | The Simpsons | Star Trek Discovery | Star Trek Strange New Worlds | What's It Gonna Be | Wonder
Chip's Challenge (Chip, Chip&Melinda)
I've loved this game for pretty much as long as I can remember. The in-game story is pretty slim - Chip wants to join Melinda's club, the Bit Busters, but has to prove his worth by making his way through the levels of her laboratory, avoiding monsters, killer floors, and the threat of being crushed by giant blocks. You can download the game here, or buy it on Steam (albeit as a slightly different version) if you're interested in giving it a try.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by my own fic (or previous fic I've received), as well as purely original stuff.
Prompts:
Fandom specific note: While this is obviously a game in our world, I'd prefer it to be real to the characters - i.e. Chip is physically going through the maze and interacting with the objects and creatures within.
Fandom specific DNWs: Chip/Melinda.
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Friends (Emily)
I've loved Friends since I was a kid, but the way Emily was treated by the narrative has always left a bad taste in my mouth. They built up this sweet, genuine relationship between her and Ross leading up to the big London wedding episode, and then completely demonised and derailed her character so that they could write her out for more Ross/Rachel will-they-won't-they. (Seriously, Ross screws up the wedding and embarrasses her in front of everyone and she's the bad guy?) So I'd love a fic from her perspective that treats her more sympathetically.
Prompts:
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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:
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. I'd also prefer Alison and her love interest to be roughly the same age, but unrequited Alison->teacher on the way to Alison/OFC is fine.
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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.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by previous fic I've received, as well as purely original stuff.
Prompts:
Fandom specific DNWs: Lisa or Juliet judging the other for being "weird" or imaginative.
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Star Trek Discovery (Pike/Ash, Pike&Ash, Ash&MirrorGeorgiou, Post-Control Section 31)
For this fandom, I'd be happy with any kind of fic based on/inspired by my own fic (or previous fic I've received), as well as purely original stuff.
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:
Ash&MirrorGeorgiou, Post-Control Section 31
Since it seems like we're not getting the Section 31 show any time soon, I'd love to see how Ash deals with being the head of Section 31, and how he goes about rebuilding after Control's massacre, with or without Georgiou's help (or hindrance). I feel like the two of them play off each other very well, and I love the idea of her just waltzing back in after her return from the future and causing Ash no end of grief under the guise of "helping". Feel free to make up whatever OCs you want to fill out the cast, I'm just interested in seeing what kind of spy shenanigans they get up to.
Prompts:
Fandom specific note: While I've DNW'd noncon, mentions of Ash's canon trauma are fine. Also, feel free to cross over these requests with my Strange New Worlds one!
Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future that isn't part of a fix-it (brief mentions okay), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist, Pike/Vina
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds (Pike&Una)
I really like their friendship in canon, how much they trust each other, and I love the idea of them having a really close, supportive, but totally platonic relationship. (Totally fine with it being way more intense than a "normal" friendship, though! Or with other characters speculating they're together and being wrong.) I'd love to see them working together and being a badass captain/first officer team. I also really love all of the characters in this series (they were the best part for me) so if you want to include any of them, please feel free! Background Una&La'an (or even Una/La'an) would be especially great (the scenes of them playing Enterprise Bingo were some of my favourites).
ETA 1 Oct: I didn't officially sign up for fic based on/inspired by my own fic for this fandom, but if you happen to be inspired by anything in my works consider this me opting in.
Prompts:
Fandom specific note: I'm not a fan of SNW's version of James Kirk, so I'd prefer you not include him. Sam Kirk is fine, though! Also, feel free to cross over this request with my Discovery ones if you want!
Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future that isn't part of a fix-it (brief mentions okay), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist, Pike and Una having a sexual relationship or being sexually attracted to each other, 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 snippets would be great.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by previous fic I've received, as well as purely original stuff.
Prompts:
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Wonder (2017) (Auggie, 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:
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. Background Via/Miranda is also fine.
Thanks again!
Likes: Hurt/comfort (both emotional and physical), sickfic, humour, fluff, friendship, family relationships, romance, pre-relationship/preslash/UST, first time, established relationship, friends-to-lovers, happy endings, angst with a happy ending, gay/bi characters, friendships between gay/bi men and gay/bi women, reunions, mission/case fic, episode tags/missing scenes, worldbuilding, science, aliens, characters being smart and competent and/or showing off their skills, characters slowly learning to trust each other, characters who trust each other completely, loyalty, pining, mutual pining, fire-forged friendship, huddling for warmth, bed sharing (platonic or otherwise), trapped in a lift or other small space together, recovery from injury/trauma, vomiting, characters being comforted while/after vomiting, cuddling, kissing, forehead kisses, touching a character's forehead to check for a fever, handholding, hair brushing and stroking, characters lying with their head in the other's lap, characters cooking for each other and/or comforting each other with food, stargazing, shore leave, holiday fic, domestic fluff, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, time travel and alternate universes, travelling through alternate universes
Dislikes/DNWs: Non con, character bashing, permanent major character death, poly/open relationships/infidelity, unrequested non-canon pairings (OC/OC relationships okay), break up of requested pairings, requested characters being written as asexual/aromantic/nonbinary, focus on characters being asexual/aromantic/nonbinary, unrequested permanent injury, bleak/hopeless endings, graphic violence and gore, homophobic violence and slurs, real-world politics/current events, unrequested crossovers/non canon-divergent AUs, Rashomon-style/non-linear narratives, unrequested non-prose formats, drabbles, first POV (letters/captain's log-type stuff okay), second POV, explicit sex (M-rated is fine), sexual activity involving characters under 16, non-G-rated romance involving characters under 13.
Fandoms:
Chip's Challenge | Friends | St Clare's | The Simpsons | Star Trek Discovery | Star Trek Strange New Worlds | What's It Gonna Be | Wonder
Chip's Challenge (Chip, Chip&Melinda)
I've loved this game for pretty much as long as I can remember. The in-game story is pretty slim - Chip wants to join Melinda's club, the Bit Busters, but has to prove his worth by making his way through the levels of her laboratory, avoiding monsters, killer floors, and the threat of being crushed by giant blocks. You can download the game here, or buy it on Steam (albeit as a slightly different version) if you're interested in giving it a try.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by my own fic (or previous fic I've received), as well as purely original stuff.
Prompts:
- Chip's thoughts/experiences as he goes through the game - what's his reaction to the monsters and other things he encounters? How does he experience the game mechanics - what happens when he "dies", for example? Does it bother him having to carry around keys and computer chips that are as big as he is? What about repeating a level over and over - does it feel like some kind of time loop to him?
- Melinda's thoughts as she monitors Chip's progress - does she make everyone who joins her club go through this madness? And why? Is it some kind of experiment?
- Chip finds out he's not the first person to go through the maze and compares notes/commiserates with previous victims. (Or offers advice to future ones.)
- Chip confronts Melinda about everything she's put him through.
Fandom specific note: While this is obviously a game in our world, I'd prefer it to be real to the characters - i.e. Chip is physically going through the maze and interacting with the objects and creatures within.
Fandom specific DNWs: Chip/Melinda.
Friends (Emily)
I've loved Friends since I was a kid, but the way Emily was treated by the narrative has always left a bad taste in my mouth. They built up this sweet, genuine relationship between her and Ross leading up to the big London wedding episode, and then completely demonised and derailed her character so that they could write her out for more Ross/Rachel will-they-won't-they. (Seriously, Ross screws up the wedding and embarrasses her in front of everyone and she's the bad guy?) So I'd love a fic from her perspective that treats her more sympathetically.
Prompts:
- The wedding goes as planned and she and Ross actually end up happy together.
- Emily tries to pull her life back together after everything that happens with the help of her friends/family.
- Emily's friends/family convince her she's better off without Ross.
- Something dealing with the fact that Emily's uncle is Rachel's boss. The show never mentions it, but surely that had to cause some awkwardness?
- Emily finds out she's pregnant and has to figure out what to do.
- Or, if you want to go totally AU, femslash where it's Rachel who accompanies her to the opera like she was meant to (and still ends up in a bed and breakfast in Vermont?).
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.
- Alison starts up a penpal relationship and finds herself falling in love.
- Letters between Alison and her love interest.
- One (or more!) of the teachers are lesbians too and they offer Alison some advice.
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. I'd also prefer Alison and her love interest to be roughly the same age, but unrequited Alison->teacher on the way to Alison/OFC is fine.
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.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by previous fic I've received, as well as purely original stuff.
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.
- Lisa begins writing letters back and forth with another girl, bonding and slowly falling in love, without realising (until they meet?) that the girl is Juliet.
- 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: Lisa or Juliet judging the other for being "weird" or imaginative.
Star Trek Discovery (Pike/Ash, Pike&Ash, Ash&MirrorGeorgiou, Post-Control Section 31)
For this fandom, I'd be happy with any kind of fic based on/inspired by my own fic (or previous fic I've received), as well as purely original stuff.
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".
- Letters/messages between them while Pike is on the Enterprise and Ash is heading up Section 31.
- They start exchanging letters/messages anonymously, bonding and becoming closer (and maybe sharing stuff they wouldn't share with anyone else?) without realising who the other is (until they meet?)
- 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 protect/take care of him.)
- Domestic fluff, either on shore leave or in the future.
- Ash takes Pike sailing and/or 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 after his accident. (I'm more than 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 Una/Boyce/various SNW characters to rescue Pike from Talos and help him recover.
Ash&MirrorGeorgiou, Post-Control Section 31
Since it seems like we're not getting the Section 31 show any time soon, I'd love to see how Ash deals with being the head of Section 31, and how he goes about rebuilding after Control's massacre, with or without Georgiou's help (or hindrance). I feel like the two of them play off each other very well, and I love the idea of her just waltzing back in after her return from the future and causing Ash no end of grief under the guise of "helping". Feel free to make up whatever OCs you want to fill out the cast, I'm just interested in seeing what kind of spy shenanigans they get up to.
Prompts:
- Ash decides to make Section 31 less morally grey, and starts rebuilding it to that end.
- Ash tries to deal with the mess left by Control. (Potentially made harder by the fact that most of it is classified.)
- Something exploring the interesting gadgets or skills they have. (I mean, they have combadges decades before the rest of Starfleet, there must be other stuff they've developed that isn't available to regular people, right?)
- Georgiou returns from the future and convinces Ash to let her rejoin Section 31.
- How do they explain Georgiou's disappearance and reappearance this time?
- A mission gone wrong. (Or right.)
- Ash and Georgiou need to work together to make a mission work/rescue someone/etc.
- A list of things Georgiou is not allowed to do as part of Section 31. (I just think it could be funny.)
- Crossover - Section 31 teams up with the SNW-era Enterprise crew for a mission.
Fandom specific note: While I've DNW'd noncon, mentions of Ash's canon trauma are fine. Also, feel free to cross over these requests with my Strange New Worlds one!
Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future that isn't part of a fix-it (brief mentions okay), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist, Pike/Vina
Star Trek Strange New Worlds (Pike&Una)
I really like their friendship in canon, how much they trust each other, and I love the idea of them having a really close, supportive, but totally platonic relationship. (Totally fine with it being way more intense than a "normal" friendship, though! Or with other characters speculating they're together and being wrong.) I'd love to see them working together and being a badass captain/first officer team. I also really love all of the characters in this series (they were the best part for me) so if you want to include any of them, please feel free! Background Una&La'an (or even Una/La'an) would be especially great (the scenes of them playing Enterprise Bingo were some of my favourites).
ETA 1 Oct: I didn't officially sign up for fic based on/inspired by my own fic for this fandom, but if you happen to be inspired by anything in my works consider this me opting in.
Prompts:
- They're captured together on a mission and have to figure out how to survive and escape.
- One of them gets sick/injured, and the other helps.
- Undercover on a mission together.
- Stranded on a planet together and trying to survive. (Especially if Pike gets hurt/ill and Una has to protect/take care of him.)
- Celebrating a holiday or meaningful date together.
- Temporarily taking charge of a baby or small child together. (Mission gone wrong? Mission gone right? Babysitting? IDK I just think it'd be cute.)
- Pike takes Una riding. (Possibly despite her objections, but she ends up enjoying it.)
- Pike teaches Una to cook and/or she teaches/shows him how to do something she enjoys.
- Pike finds a way to save Una from the charges against her.
- Any kind of worldbuilding about Illyrian society/Una's background/etc.
- On that note, it occurs to me that a) Pike is fated to be injured in a way that Federation medicine/technology (supposedly) can't fix, and b) Una comes from a culture that's outcast for using decidedly un-Federation medicine/technology, and I feel that these two facts are kind of begging to be combined. (Would especially love if Spock taking him to Talos was one step in a bigger plan rather than a supposed happy ending.)
Fandom specific note: I'm not a fan of SNW's version of James Kirk, so I'd prefer you not include him. Sam Kirk is fine, though! Also, feel free to cross over this request with my Discovery ones if you want!
Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future that isn't part of a fix-it (brief mentions okay), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist, Pike and Una having a sexual relationship or being sexually attracted to each other, Pike/Vina
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 snippets would be great.
For this fandom, I'd be happy with fic based on/inspired by previous fic I've received, as well as purely original stuff.
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?
Wonder (2017) (Auggie, 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. Background Via/Miranda is also fine.
Thanks again!