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lah_mrh ([personal profile] lah_mrh) wrote2023-03-11 02:59 pm
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Dear Hurt/Comfort Exchange Writer

Hi, thanks for writing for me! I hope this letter is useful. I feel like most of the tags I've requested work as prompts in themselves, so I've organised them into groups based on potential scenarios.

Likes: Emotional hurt/comfort, physical hurt/comfort, sickfic, vomiting (for physical or emotional reasons), focus on comfort, humour, fluff, friendship, family relationships, romance, first time, established relationship, friends-to-lovers, preslash/pre-relationship/UST, intense friendships and friendships that border on romance, happy endings, angst with a happy ending, gay/bi characters/headcanons, friendships between gay/bi men and gay/bi women, reunions, mission/case fic, episode tags/missing scenes, worldbuilding, science, aliens, characters being smart and/or showing off their skills, characters learning to trust each other, characters who trust each other completely (and show it), loyalty, huddling for warmth/sharing body heat, bed sharing (platonic or otherwise), trapped in a lift or other small space together, falling in love through letters/messages without knowing each other's identity, recovery from injury/trauma, cuddling, kissing, kisses on the forehead or top of head, touching someone's forehead to check for a fever, handholding, hair brushing and stroking, characters lying with their head in the other's lap, sick/hurt characters falling asleep on their partner, one character steadying another who's unsteady due to illness/injury/emotion, characters cooking for each other and/or comforting each other with food, characters having fun together and enjoying each other's company, small and/or subtle gestures of affection, stargazing, shore leave, holiday fic, domestic fluff, post-canon fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, fic based on/inspired by my own fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, time travel and alternate universes, travelling through alternate universes

Dislikes/DNWs: Unrequested rape or sexual abuse, character death (mentions of OC death okay), hurt without comfort, poly/open relationships/infidelity, unrequested non-canon pairings (OC/OC relationships okay), break up of requested pairings, jealousy/possessiveness, requested characters being written as asexual/aromantic/trans/nonbinary, focus on characters being asexual/aromantic/trans/nonbinary, unrequested permanent injury, graphic descriptions of bodily fluids, burping, spoon feeding, graphic violence and gore, bleak/hopeless endings, homophobic violence or slurs, real-world politics/current events, unrequested crossovers/non-canon divergent AUs, 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.

Treats welcome!


Fandoms

The Simpsons | Star Trek Discovery | Star Trek Strange New Worlds


The Simpsons
Lisa/Juliet (hurt Lisa), Lisa/Juliet (hurt Juliet)

A&B’s date has to be canceled when A is sick/injured but B comforts and makes it romantic anyway, Awkward Comforter, Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Bullying, Character verbally defends someone who isn’t standing up for themself, Characters never expected to cross paths again but now hurt A needs B’s help, Comfort via food and cooking, A conceals illness/injury for a date with B they really want; B finds out, Defending Character from Derision/Belittling, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Music as Comfort, Natural disaster leads to survival situation, Old bullies attempt to bully character again but current friends stand up for them, Protectiveness - Character A verbally defends B when B doesn't stand up for themself, Reading to sick/injured character, relief and delight at positive first experience of queer love, Running away from home, Sharing a bed for comfort

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, whether during their friendship, in an AU where things ended better for them, or them meeting again in the future, maybe at a summer camp, or in high school or college. (I'd also take an AU where they meet differently or when they're older.)

I don't mind which of them is the hurt one (or if both are), I'd just like to see them sticking up for each other against jerks or bullies or trying to comfort each other over potential problems/illnesses/injuries. I'm also a fan of coming out stories if you want to do something with that - maybe Lisa's family is supportive (in their own way) and Juliet's isn't?

Some additional prompts/ideas that you can combine with the freeforms or not as you want:

  • Lisa's roommate/classmate at college turns out to be Juliet.

  • Lisa runs into Juliet at music camp.

  • They spend some time together before everything goes wrong.

  • Their attempt at running away goes differently.

  • Lisa takes Juliet riding.

  • Their (first?) date doesn't exactly go according to plan, but it's worth it to spend time together.

  • Some kind of Springfield weirdness happens and they have to work together to escape/survive/etc.

  • Something in the style of a Treehouse of Horror episode. (Bonus for Kang and Kodos!)

Fandom specific DNWs: Lisa or Juliet judging the other for being "weird" or imaginative.



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

I really like this pairing, and always want more fic for it. 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. I'd love something set after Season 2 with Pike back on the Enterprise and Ash working on rebuilding Section 31, but almost anything about them would make me happy.

Feel free to combine this request with my Strange New Worlds one.

Hurt Ash
A accused of crimes; only B believes they're innocent, Big Damn Rescue (with comfort), Character with PTSD from medical-related trauma is hospitalised, Character's Sexual Trauma Revealed During Consensual Sex They Thought They Could Handle, Characters never expected to cross paths again but now hurt A needs B’s help, Comfort Food, Comforting/distracting character while they receive medical attention, Cooking food to comfort but it doesn’t go well, Hurt/sick character isn't used to receiving comfort, Loved one uses a seemingly harmless phrase that accidentally triggers character, The one person you trust to be weak in front of, Panic Attacks, Past Rape/Non-con, Past trauma triggered by nightmare, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, PTSD - Trauma triggered during sex, secret relationship revealed when one character is badly hurt, Touch-Starved

Ash has been through a lot, and I'd love to see Pike finding out and offering comfort, or rescuing him from some kind of mission gone wrong. (And Ash letting him, and maybe being shocked that Pike is being so kind because he thinks he doesn't deserve it.) Obviously there's the whole thing with the war and L'Rell, but I'd also be shocked if he didn't have some kind of medical-related trauma given that his onscreen experiences involving sickbay are basically 1) everything to do with Voq (including being mind controlled into murdering someone) and 2) nearly dying after being attacked by a murderous AI.


Hurt Pike
Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Character is hurt protecting/helping others, Comforter stunned by how much comfortee trusts them, Comforting a Hurt Character by Indulging Them in a Way That Reveals You Really Know Them, Inexperienced comforter does their awkward best, Injured/sick in the wilderness, Missions Gone Wrong, Seasickness, secret relationship revealed when one character is badly hurt, sick/hurt at formal social event, stranded in hostile environment with injury, Trapped Together While One Is Injured

Pike gets injured doing something brave (possibly while they're stranded and far from help), or gets sick/hurt on shore leave or in some other situation, Ash worries and tries to offer comfort.


aftermath of near death experience, Canon Event where character gets Hurt Instead Goes Better, Character A spontaneously saves Character B from their fate - Character B objects, Formerly active character learns to cope with new disability, Slow recovery from life changing injury, Soulbonding is the only way for A to save severely injured B's life

This one's my fix-it request. I'd love a fic where Pike recovers from his injuries somehow and ends up an instructor at the academy or retiring from Starfleet to work with horses or something instead of being stuck on Talos forever. AU where he recovers/his injuries aren't quite as bad/the Starfleet doctors are less useless (because surely 23rd century medicine should be better than that)? Section 31 stepping in to help? Secret mission to rescue him from Talos? Weird soulbonding ritual? Or if you want to just handwave the actual saving bit and focus on the aftermath that'd be fine too. I'd especially love a focus on his recovery (and Ash's role in it), and I'm more than fine with him still being injured/disabled/scarred, just as long as he can still move and communicate and have a relatively normal life.

I'd also love to see Pike grappling with no longer knowing his future - just because the vision ended with him injured doesn't mean that's where everything ends, and I imagine after spending so long thinking that his life ends there it'd be hard to adjust. I could also see a situation where Ash saves him somehow and Pike objects because [SNW reasons] but it actually works out okay.


Either hurt
A&B’s date has to be canceled when A is sick/injured but B comforts and makes it romantic anyway, Comforting character while/after they vomit, Common Cold, A conceals illness/injury for a date with B they really want; B finds out, Fever, Flu, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Food Poisoning, Lazy morning - A wakes up ill and is cared for/comforted by B, Making Homemade Soup for a Sick Person, Motion Sickness, Sickfic, stomach flu, Vomiting, waking up sick

They finally get some time together without work getting in the way, only for one of them to get ill/injured and have to adjust their plans. I'm fine with either of them being the hurt one, I just want to see one of them taking care of the other and trying to make them feel better.


Captured/imprisoned together, Characters don't trust each other but have to work together to get out of bad situation, Must survive in captivity until people realize they're missing and locate them, Natural disaster leads to survival situation, Stranded on alien planet, Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive, trapped in an isolated place together

Something happens (could be while they're on Discovery, or later with Section 31 working with the Enterprise for some reason, or even a shore leave attempt gone horribly wrong) and they have to work together to survive and escape.


Some additional prompts/ideas that you can combine with the freeforms or not as you want:

  • Ash invites Pike to his house on the lake and/or to go sailing.

  • Pike invites Ash to his cabin and/or to go riding.

  • They meet up on the anniversary of Discovery's "destruction".

  • Section 31 (or just Ash) has to work with the SNW-era Enterprise (or just Pike) on an mission.

  • Ash visits the Enterprise on some kind of official business (or at least that's the cover story).

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

  • Shore leave doesn't go as planned (but it's worth it because they're together).

  • One of them (probably Pike tbh) tries to cancel their leave together because he's ill, but the other insists on staying and taking care of him.

  • 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 - the incident in the shuttle goes differently/worse and they have to work together to fix things.

Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future (brief mentions okay) unless you're writing a fix-it, the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist (canon-level species-based prejudice okay), Pike/Vina.


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Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Pike & Una (hurt Pike)

I really like the close supportive friendship they have in canon and how they work together so well. I'd love to see them joining forces to deal with some kind of mission gone wrong, working together to survive or escape, and/or Una offering awkward comfort to a hurt/ill Pike. I'd also love something where Una's Illyrian traits give her an advantage - endurance, resistance to illness, resistance to cold, etc.

Feel free to include any of the other crew in the background; I like them all, especially La'an. (I'm not a fan of the SNW version of James Kirk, though, so I'd prefer you not include him.) Also feel free to combine this request with my Discovery one.

Awkward Comforter, Bedsharing while one of the characters is injured, Big Damn Rescue (with comfort), Character is hurt protecting/helping others, Character prioritises everything else over their own wellbeing, Comfort after a mission gone sideways, Comforting a Hurt Character by Indulging Them in a Way That Reveals You Really Know Them, Comforting character while/after they vomit, Comforting/distracting character while they receive medical attention, Common Cold, Cooking food to comfort but it doesn’t go well, Fever, Flu, Food Poisoning, Increasingly risk-taking behaviour to avoid coping with trauma, Inexperienced comforter does their awkward best, Insisting That Exhausted Character Rest, Motion Sickness, Nausea, Platonic bed sharing due to exhaustion, Platonic Bedsharing for Comfort, Seasickness, sick/hurt at formal social event, Sickfic, stomach flu, Vomiting, waking up sick

I'd like to see Pike struggling with illness/injury/some other issue (possibly caused by being stupidly brave and throwing himself into danger to protect people) and Una doing her best to comfort and support him as best she can.


Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Captured/imprisoned together, In hiding while one of them is ill or badly injured, Injured/sick in the wilderness, Keeping Sick/Hurt Character Warm, Missions Gone Wrong, Must survive in captivity until people realize they're missing and locate them, Natural disaster leads to survival situation, stranded in hostile environment with injury, Stranded on alien planet, Stranded Together & Have To Rely On Each Other To Survive, trapped in an isolated place together, Trapped Together While One Is Injured

Pike gets injured/sick during a mission gone wrong and Una has to look after him while they work together to survive and escape.


Some additional prompts/ideas that you can combine with the freeforms or not as you want:

  • A shore leave gone wrong.

  • Pike is sick/injured but due to circumstances has to complete the mission anyway before he can rest.

  • A supposedly simple mission turns out to be anything but and they end up having to run for their lives.

  • Their shuttle crash lands and they have to stay alive until help finds them.

  • Pike gets sick from overworking himself and Una has to convince him to stop working and rest (maybe by threatening to revoke his access codes).

  • There's a bug going round on the Enterprise. Una is immune, but Pike isn't.

  • An alien meal/ritual/diplomatic event goes unexpectedly badly.

  • 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.

Fandom specific DNWs: Focus on Pike's future (brief mentions okay), the Star Trek future being sexist/homophobic/racist/ableist (canon-level species-based prejudice okay), Pike and Una having a sexual relationship or being sexually attracted to each other, Pike/Vina.


Thanks again!