Dear Creator,

Hi! So happy you’re here! I’m absolutely thrilled with you choosing one of my requests to base a work on for this exchange. Anything based on a combination of the requested tags that abides by my DNWs would work for me, so you don’t need to read this letter, but if you’d enjoy more details as to what I like, I hope it will be helpful. Sections may vary in length but I assure you, I desperately want every one of the characters/ships I've requested with any of the tags in their requests. Many of the tags are self-explanatory, though some also come with more detail where it seemed potentially helpful.

Apologies for this only being ready a week after assignments went out; my laptop suffered a mishap and this was put together using what time I could get with a borrowed one, and mobile.


Likes:



Parallels and contrasts between characters and their journeys. Characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially women receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones. Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs.

More things I enjoy:

- fusions, CYOA, outside pov, story/fragments of story as told in-universe, IF/interactive fiction, illustrated fic, poetry, epistolary, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, 5+1 stories, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other

- enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments

- bittersweet endings, happy endings, open/ambiguous endings

- quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance, psychological horror, messy and complicated dynamics, blurring between obligation/need and love, fear/horror/anger mixed with desire/love

- politics, isolation, competitiveness, limited agency, legacy, manipulation, scheming

- Force bonds, Force shenanigans, Force Ghosts, Ahsoka’s fangs, connecting to the force together

- time travel, weird worlds/dimensions, time moves differently, time loops (including those which get reset with death, and where the person in the loop resets it purposefully by dying), time freezing

- undercover, undercover as a couple, mission fic, teaching games

- scars, suspense, compromised sense of self, interpersonal tension, duty versus desire, love/hate, possessiveness, insecurity, secret relationships, secrets

- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy

- casual displays of affection, shared beds, snuggling, sitting/lying in laps, jumping people, rough kissing, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, sexy baths, sexy showers, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, growling, blindfolding, chains

- stories where the woman/women are a significant part of the man/men’s characterization, stories where the woman/women are a significant part of each other’s characterization, characters gathering each other’s backstory a little at a time, investigating each other

- spying, sex and violence paired together, body heat sharing

- loneliness, mutual pining

- dreams, fix-it, parallel universes, parallel universe characters

- us against the world

- ghosts

- rule 63'ing male characters (where they were always a girl)

- learning new skills

- gothic romance



Smut Likes:



- character focus in smut, competitive smut, ulterior motives for sex, scars, possessiveness, love/hate, the divine as sex

- cunnilingus, choking, breathplay, bloodplay, biting, scratching, Ahsoka's fangs, growling, blindfolding, chains, rough sex, rough kissing, lap sex, sex on furniture, sex against walls, slow sex, quick sex, gentle sex, neck kissing, kissing tears, kissing hands (back of or palm), nuzzling, afterglow cuddles, underwater sex, sexy baths, sexy showers, desperate sex, bruises, marks, hair-pulling, face-touching, arms around shoulders/waists, eating her out while holding her hand, multiple orgasms, forehead kisses, forehead touching, tied up with own clothes/other's clothes/clothes in general, nuzzling, hand holding, learning new skills, kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle

- trust issues, implicit trust, emotional intimacy, casual displays of affection

- shared beds, snuggling, jumping people, sitting/lying in laps

- sex and violence paired together, fucking in the same room as your enemies' corpse

- body heat sharing

- dreams

- pining, mutual pining

- ghost sex

- feeling each others' sensations during sex

- Force/magic shenanigans, using the Force for sex, Vulcan Mind Meld during on-your-knees cunnilingus



AU Likes:



Canon divergence
Period AUs - Regency (played straight or fantasy/science-fiction, in our world or another), 1920s, Jazz Age, Medieval, Renaissance, Byzantine Empire, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greece
Genres - planetary romance, fairy tale, magical girl, steampunk, pirate, high fantasy, noir
Other Canons - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Star Trek, Jupiter Ascending, Silent Hill (2006), Clue, Annihilation (2018), Southern Reach trilogy, 30 Days of Night, The Mummy (1999-2001), Happy Death Day, Pacific Rim



IF Likes:



I use Windows 7 and Apple mobile devices. Most of my experience is with choice games--for example, like Alabaster, The Book of Guenevere, Affairs of the Court, visual novels like Oxenfree and Cinders, dating sims like Long Live the Queen and Magical Diary , and paper books where you turn to a page for every choice--but I’d be delighted with a parser game too. Puzzles, mazes, and timers aren’t a strength of mine, so I would enjoy a walkthrough if those are present.



Art Likes:



General:
any art style, rough sketches and clean line art both, color and composition to set mood, comics, scenery, single and group character poses, cute or actiony or romantic or moody or creepy, character expressions, body language, art of characters as tarot cards, dreams, in-universe art, characters with their loved ones (whether or not they're having a good time), characters with their enemies, characters doing the kind of thing they are good at in canon, lineart, lineless art, black and white/grayscale, bright colors, deep colors, subdued colors, pastel colors, monochrome, color highlights, anything with my AU likes

Poses:
non-explicit poses like characters kissing (on the mouth, the temple, the top of the head, hands, the cheek, etc), holding hands, hugging, carrying each other (princess carry, fireman, piggyback, shoulder rides), and pressing their foreheads together, petting their faces/hair, arms around shoulders/waists

explicit poses involving anything in my smut likes



DNWs:



If you have questions about any of these as they apply to a request, I welcome contact through the mod!

- bleak/hopeless endings, permanently dead female characters (where she’s not even a ghost)

- mpreg

- detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, watersports, scat, emetophilia

- noncon (unless requested/prompted)—dubcon is fine, rape (except where otherwise specified), a/b/o,bestiality, oviposition, monster sex, tentacle sex, flowery terms for body parts (love cave, love tunnel), sex without attraction, anal tearing, ass to mouth

- body horror, explicit torture, permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating

- animal harm, animal death

- rule 63’ing female characters

- bashing of characters or ships

- unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head)

- focus on requested characters in unrequested/unprompted ships, non-canon unrequested ships, unrequested/unprompted poly/open relationships

- stories where nobody really cares about the woman/women in the ship

- AUs which don't use canon settings (unless prompted/requested/in list of likes)

- underage (17+ is fine, whether you change canon ages or set things when the characters would be 17+)

- ageplay/infantilization; unrequested/unprompted humiliation

- sexuality/gender headcanons

- coronavirus

- incest (unless prompted/requested), selfcest (unless prompted/requested)

- necrophilia

- vore

- insects, arachnids

- the concept of Anakin and Ahsoka as a father/daugher relationship, dead Ahsoka (unless it's older Force Ghost Ahsoka and/or Ahsoka and Anakin being Force Ghosts together), Jedi Order as evil/immoral (versus deeply flawed institution, which is good)



Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)



• Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: AoS)
• Spock/Spock Prime/Nyota Uhura (ST: AoS)
• Spock/Nyota Uhura & Spock Prime (ST: AoS)

• Art - Character
• Fic - Character

• Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon
• Alternate Universe - Planetary Romance
• Mirror Universe
• Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - 1920s
• Alternate Universe - Pern Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - Regency
• characters science their way into love
• Sharing Clothes - A feels surge of affection or attraction at seeing B wearing A's own clothes
• Intimate soft make outs with one character in the other's lap
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Character A Painting On Character B's Body As Part Of A Ritual
• Hurt/Comfort - feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being
• Femdom - Gently Overwhelming Him And Making Him Cry


I love the gentleness and intimacy I see in the Spock/Uhura relationship, and I love the bittersweet oddness of seeing your older/younger self (or your lover’s older self) from another life. It would be wonderful to see any of the ships in this request with these tags! Everyone is their Mirrorverse self, or they meet their Mirrorverse selves? Great! I love alternate selves and lives. Is the body-painting ritual a Vulcan thing, an Earth thing, or something from another planet? All of those things would be fun; I just love the intimacy of the act. I also love people feeling fond of each other in part because of their competence and intelligence, and sharing clothes and sitting on each other’s laps. And Uhura as a gentle dom! Or maybe she and one of the Spocks team up to dom the other!

Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon

I was thinking of it happening with them involved, or a scenario in which it’s the recent past for them, but if you’re interested in another idea, go for it!

Alternate Universe - Planetary Romance

This is basically adventures on a planet where the culture and geography are vivid and major to the story; I'd enjoy it if you went for "Star Trek episode that really leans into the planetside adventure" or if you went the whole AU route in which, say, Uhura is a lone explorer getting caught up in Vulcan intrigue. Maybe they have to go on a quest?

Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - 1920s


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "1920s in space" thing, I'd be into it. It would be fun to see them in the clothes, like Art Deco-inspired fashion generally, or flapper Uhura specifically. If you're into the 1920s, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Alternate Universe - Pern Fusion

These characters with dragons! I'd be into mixing the bonding and telepathy aspect with Vulcan telepathy and bonding. In this scenario, would Impression be a thing only humans could experience with dragons, a Vulcan thing, or is it something both species could do?

Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - Regency


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "Regency in space" thing, I'd be into it. Fashion, Regency romance—and it could be interesting to use this period to revisit the half-human angst Spock has in canon. If you're into the Regency period, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Star Trek: The Original Series



• Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)

• Art - Character
• Fic - Character

• Star Trek: Uhura sings while sitting on a piano that Spock is playing
• Star Trek: Uhura sings at a speakeasy (20s AU or something else if you prefer)
• Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon
• Alternate Universe - Jazz Age
• Alternate Universe - Jazz Age-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - 1920s
• Alternate Universe - Planetary Romance
• Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship’s realization of feelings for each other
• Case Fic
• Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - Regency
• Alternate Universe - Pern Fusion
• characters science their way into love
• Character is a Singer in a Jazz Club
• Characters Stranded Without Any Other People For Decades
• Intimate soft make outs with one character in the other's lap
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Character A Painting On Character B's Body As Part Of A Ritual
• Femdom - Gently Overwhelming Him And Making Him Cry

Their friendly, easy dynamic with a little flirting here and a little pining there in the background is delightful, and I'd love exploration of it, whether it's case fic or enjoying each other's company out of context with one of the other tags or in an extreme scenario like being trapped together for decades. How would the context of such an intense scenario as that last one affect them? Is the body-painting ritual a Vulcan thing, an Earth thing, or something from another planet? All of those things would be fun; I just love the intimacy of the act. I also love people feeling fond of each other in part because of their competence and intelligence, and sharing clothes and sitting on each other’s laps. And Uhura as a gentle dom!

Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon

I was thinking of it happening with them involved, or a scenario in which it’s the recent past for them, but if you’re interested in another idea, go for it!

Star Trek: Uhura sings while sitting on a piano that Spock is playing
Star Trek: Uhura sings at a speakeasy (20s AU or something else if you prefer)
Alternate Universe - Jazz Age
Alternate Universe - Jazz Age-Inspired Science Fiction
Character is a Singer in a Jazz Club


As these tags suggest, I'm super into Uhura and music, and Uhura and Spock performing together. It would be delightful to see them in the Jazz Age, whether the actual time period via time travel or fusion, fusion of the time period with some science fiction elements, or "Jazz Age but in space." I would also just be into them at a speakeasy, a jazz club without the AU element, or the singing and piano scenario tag happening in any place. If you're into the Jazz Age, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Alternate Universe - Planetary Romance

This is basically adventures on a planet where the culture and geography are vivid and major to the story; I'd enjoy it if you went for "Star Trek episode that really leans into the planetside adventure" or if you went the whole AU route in which, say, Uhura is a lone explorer getting caught up in Vulcan intrigue. Maybe they have to go on a quest?

Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - 1920s


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "1920s in space" thing, I'd be into it. It would be fun to see them in the clothes, like Art Deco-inspired fashion generally, or flapper Uhura specifically. If you're into the 1920s, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Alternate Universe - Pern Fusion

These characters with dragons! I'd be into mixing the bonding and telepathy aspect with Vulcan telepathy and bonding. In this scenario, would Impression be a thing only humans could experience with dragons, a Vulcan thing, or is it something both species could do?

Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - Regency


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "Regency in space" thing, I'd be into it. Fashion, Regency romance—and it could be interesting to use this period to revisit the half-human angst Spock has in canon. If you're into the Regency period, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Star Trek: The Original Series – Mirror Edition



• Mirror Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)
• Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)
• Mirror Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)
• Mirror Spock/Mirror Nyota Uhura & Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS)

• Fic - Character

• Star Wars: Sith AU
• Mind Games
• Not sure who's manipulating who
• Unexpected Mercy
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Dimension travel - meeting alternate versions of self/friends/antagonists
• Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
• Femdom - Gently Overwhelming Him And Making Him Cry

I love alternate universes and selves and the Mirror Universe is such a tantalizing canon look at that! How do things like the easy dynamic between Spock and Uhura, and Spock's half-human angst, look in this universe! How and what do the characters learn about themselves and each other? If they met in the same place and at the same time, instead of being wholly switched like in the episode, how would that shake out? I'd also be into an extended stay for the characters' in each other's universes, trying to get by and/or get back home. If it's solely the Mirror verse version of the ship—what if they have a tenuous alliance? Are they careful with each other always, or can there be any level of trust? I'd love to see gentle dom Uhura with any or both of the Spocks.

Star Wars: Sith AU

Given the Sith mentorship style of the student turning on the master, and the Mirrorverse style of killing your way up the ranks, and the—very differently presented—conflicts in both series between aspiring o serenity and calm and giving yourself over to passion, it'd be fun to combine the two universes and have the Mirror characters be Sith, whether any or both the Prime characters are also Jedi or not.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Star Trek: Discovery – Michael/Philippa



• Michael Burnham/Philippa Georgiou (ST: Disco)
• Michael Burnham & Philippa Georgiou (ST: Disco)

• Fic - Character

• Star Trek: Adventures on the Shenzhou pre-Battle of the Binary Stars or if that hadn’t happened
• Canon Typical Adventures
• Action & Romance
• Pre-Canon - What sort of adventures did the character(s) go on before canon?
• Formulaic hierarchical stuff like saluting or kneeling but FELT SO DEEPLY AND SINCERELY
• Intimate soft make outs with one character in the other's lap
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Gestures of loyalty performed in private

I love the glimpse we see of their relationship before the drastic events at the beginning of the show, and the little things we get afterward, like Philippa's gift of the telescope, and Michael being able to tell when she was trying to stay present during a tough situation. Philippa's faith in her, and Michael's devotion, are so good. It would be wonderful to see them handle the kind of thing they were doing in the pilot, or other episodic Star Trek things, whether before Philippa's death or in a scenario in which it didn't happen and they had more time together. I'd also enjoy a scenario in which Michael did leave to become captain of her own ship with Philippa still alive, and they encountered each other again.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Star Trek: Discovery – Michael/Mirror Philippa



• Michael Burnham/Mirror Philippa Georgiou (ST: Disco)
• Michael Burnham & Mirror Philippa Georgiou (ST: Disco)

• Fic - Character

• Star Trek: Michael meets more versions of Philippa than in canon
• Complicated relationships of love and loyalty and hurt and resentment
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Action & Romance
• Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion
• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Alternate Universe - Utena - Duelist & Rose Bride

I fell in love the moment Philippa showed up and the look on Michael's face! The thorny devotion that crosses universes, the tension between the baggage they carry from the other versions of each other they knew, the old relationships that are now ended, and the new one they built throughout their time together. The excellent team they make. I'd love anything that worked with that. Maybe something where they have a chance to build on what they realize and admit to each other when they find a solution to Philippa's condition in season three, or something where Michael keeps meeting different versions of Philippa on a quest to find this one again.

Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion

Time loops, like alternate dimensions, are a fun way to explore character and relationships. I love the element of Russian Doll where you have two people going through the loops, and through connection and helping each other they can break out of it and move forward in life after being stuck. It would be cool to apply to Michael and Philippa, who when they meet are stuck, to a certain degree, on who they were to each other in a life that has now ended, and who we see explode into new lives neither could have imagined.

Alternate Universe - Utena - Duelist & Rose Bride

I love Utena so much, and it would be so neat to see this concept with this ship! I imagine Michael as the idealistic duelist who wants to protect Philippa, not knowing exactly what she's getting herself into, with Philippa as the Rose Bride in a complicated world, with her own ideas of what her situation is.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Star Trek: Discovery – Michael/Her Vulcans



• Michael Burnham/Spock (ST: Disco)
• Michael Burnham/Sarek (ST: Disco)

• Fic - Character

• Star Trek: Michael looking for Spock except instead of season 2 it’s an Annihilation (book) fusion
• shaving someone else with a straight razor
• Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go"
• Incest Smarm
• Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion
• Choose Your Own Adventure

Note:
For Michael/Sarek, I am fine with infidelity on Sarek’s part.

I love fraught relationships!

I love that both Michael and Sarek share guilt for feeling they've failed each other, the reserve Michael tries to imitate, that she's more obviously vulnerable but that Sarek starts to allow more emotional reaching out too in the first season—even as it's part of trying to hide the new Klingon genocide plan when she's suspicious. The fact that they have a soulbond is excellent, with the sensing feelings, and their fight when Michael tried to get further into his mind was excellent, as well as the way it made things feel more equal for her.

I love that Michael and Spock share the trauma of being persecuted and almost killed, and then the isolation after Michael decides it's all on her, the pain of them trying to be better Vulcans separately. That despite that, and the related insecurities, they both look to take care of each other as adults in season two, with Michael's determined rescue of him and his finding empathy with her disorientation, and having his own lonely mission to save the universe that she won't let him do alone. And how even when they are arguing, there's still Michael disarming him with that jab about his beard! Last but not least, how he was going to give up his whole life to follow her into the future!

For either ship, I'd really love anything that emphasized their closeness, whether with the tension we often see or in a moment of peace. Shaving can be intimate and tense, and it would be fun to see that with them. It'd also be great to something like how canon forces one into a situation where they need help, only in this case they'd also have to admit to it and choose to go to the person they need help from, instead of the other person having to push the issue.

Star Trek: Michael looking for Spock except instead of season 2 it’s an Annihilation (book) fusion

For the Annihilation (book) fusion tag, I’d be happy whether you keep season one the same or do the fusion in a way that requires something different from it.

Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion

Time loops, like alternate dimensions, are a fun way to explore character and relationships. I love the element of Russian Doll where you have two people going through the loops, and through connection and helping each other they can break out of it and move forward in life after being stuck. When we first meet these characters, they've been stuck in old relationship patterns that don't leave them happy with each other; it would be neat to see them work through that via the shared experience of a time loop.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



NOS4A2 (TV 2019) - Character Request



• Solo: Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV)

• Fic - Character

• Time Loop - Self-inflicted death and resurrection time loop
• Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent
• Crossover: Character(s) from another fandom on an adventure in the Buffyverse
• Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore
• Alternate Universe - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Black Jewels Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Inception Fusion
• Emotionally constipated character realizes they are in love
• Emotionally Repressed Characters Have to Work Through Having Emotions
• Badly whumped woobie is treated kindly and learns to believe they deserve good things
• this fandom is tiny gimme whatever you think I'd like (other than DNWs) I trust you
• Time Loop
• Time Loop - Antagonist Is Also Looping
• Time Loop - Groundhog Day
• Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path
• Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Dimension travel - meeting alternate versions of self/friends/antagonists

Note: For this request, I am happy with the inclusion of any of Vic's canon partners and their relationships, and would also be happy with Maggie/Vic and Lou/Maggie/Vic.

I love this character and I want more of her going through her shit/the shit that gets thrown at her basically. She internalizes and suppresses a lot and that’s clear even early in season one, before the most dramatically awful part of her life has started to play out. So, her having to face things she’s suppressed, whether positive or negative or somewhere in-between, would be interesting. I’d also be interested in her learning that she can still want nice things no matter what her life circumstances or her mistakes. I’m fascinated by how she seems to feel stuck in her various traumas and her head, and I think that could work really well in a time travel story, since time travel and especially time loops are so often about being stuck and how to become unstuck. Alternate dimensions with alternate versions of yourself and the people you know can also be vehicles to see yourself differently, and I enjoy how much of the show is people (her parents, Maggie, Charlie) being foils and foreshadowing for her, not to mention her gradual disconnect from her own dreams and desires for herself, and her needing to find a connection to herself; those things could go well together.

Related to the theme of not handling her feelings, I’d be interested in fic about her coming to realize she’s in love with Craig, Lou, or Maggie, all connections she has on the show but feels distant from at different points during its run. Or hey, her being in love with her son, which she also has problems dealing with since she doesn’t feel she knows how to do it right.

More on her and Team McCarmody recovering post series finale, starting the work of moving on. Vic learning to live her life again.

Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent

I really like the concept of people having their memories replaced but reconnecting with who they were and getting those back—especially if these people had some kind of significance to each other in their old lives. How would it be to know your family, friends, lovers, enemies again, spending time around each other, before remembering what you were? I’d like all the characters requested for be afflicted in this way. I’d be fine whether or not they did something to cause it, and if they did, whether any of it was intentional or not.

Note: I nominated this based on the Dark Curse from the Once Upon a Time show, but you don’t need to have watched it at all; it’s specifically worded this way to tell you what I want from it. If you have watched it and want to know whether I’d also be open to other Dark Curse-related things being used in writing for this tag, the answer is yes, as long as what’s in the tag is there and my DNWs are respected. Feel free to ask questions through the mod; I’d be happy to answer them.

Crossover: Character(s) from another fandom on an adventure in the Buffyverse

She really gave me Buffy vibes, and I’d love for her to just encounter Buffyverse things. The possible Cleveland Hellmouth, the Sunnydale Hellmouth. For characters, Buffy herself, or Angel, or Tara, or Drusilla. Maybe Giles, on one of his trips to find Buffy that are referenced in “Anne.” Or Wishverse Buffy. Interactions platonic or shippy, as your heart guides you; I’d just be into any of this!

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



NOS4A2 (TV 2019) - Ship Request



• Charlie Manx/Vic McQueen (NOS4A2 TV)

• Fic - Character

• Time Loop - Self-inflicted death and resurrection time loop
• Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent
• villain realizes their self-justifications are empty and their self-image is wrong
• Alternate Universe - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Black Jewels Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Inception Fusion
• conflicted horny feelings towards an alternative version of your enemy
• Emotionally Repressed Characters Have to Work Through Having Emotions
• Enemies to Lovers - Accidental soulbond between enemies
• Soulbond - Unexpected and Unusual Soulbond Between Enemies
• Time Traveler Has Complicated Chemistry w/ Not-Yet-Evil Younger Version of Their Nemesis
• Time Traveler Has Complicated Chemistry w/ Younger Version of Their Nemesis
• Time Loop
• Time Loop - Antagonist Is Also Looping
• Time Loop - Groundhog Day
• Characters Stranded Without Any Other People For Decades
• Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path
• Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• arrogant man hates how much he loves femdom (but loves it even more)

For this request I’d like Vic to emerge from the end of the story more around as intact as she is at the end of the show.

So I was happy with how things went down in the show, but there’s just so much stuff going on in this dynamic that could be great story fodder for “what ifs.”

I love the funhouse mirror thing Charlie seems to be for Vic. I’m fascinated by how she seems to feel stuck in her various traumas and her head, and how he’s stuck even deeper through his self-justifications. Her feelings about having to be the one to stop him and being unable to escape him are justified in that he is a danger, but they are also tied up in her expectations of herself, having traded her dreams for the responsibility and put her sense of self into whether or not she can do that, feeling disconnected from her own life and fearing she’ll be unable to get back to it even when he’s gone. Meanwhile he’s already gone through that disconnection and embraced it, to tragic results, and unlike her he doesn’t see himself as unable to face responsibility for his life and his mistakes. He throws himself into feeding off kids and presents himself as the superhero who is saving them. He projects his flaws and actions onto Vic. And they both start the second season angry and needing to take control of their lives by taking each other out, in a manner that’s unhealthily obsessed and self-destructive, leaving their children feeling lost and abandoned.

I think that could work really well in a time travel story, since time travel and especially time loops are so often about being stuck and how to become unstuck. Alternate dimensions with alternate versions of yourself and the people you know can also be vehicles to see yourself differently, and I enjoy how much of the show is people (Vic’s parents, Maggie, Charlie) being foils and foreshadowing for her; her gradual disconnect from her own dreams and desires for herself, and her needing to find a connection to herself, her being self-aware of her flaws but also too sure they have doomed her, are echoed and contrasted in how Charlie is simultaneously disconnected from his more hopeful self while hiding from that in his insistence that his dedication to sustaining Christmasland is a wonderful thing connecting him to his treasured childhood dreams, and how he seems to experience varying degrees of awareness of how messed up he is even if he won’t hold himself responsible for it. They both started out dreaming of things that were hard to reach, trying to reach for them, and needing to feel supported in their attempts to escape into a better life. The show is dedicated to demonstrating both how they are naturally affected by their experiences and how they do still have choices that affect their fates, their loved ones, and who they become as people; time travel and alternate dimensions are a natural way to explore that further, to face suppressed issues and start to move on from them.

It’s also interesting, in light of how season one introduces a doomed suitor aspect to their dynamic, how season two’s first flashback for him has him called less of a man for being “obedient,” which is the same thing for which he disparaged Lou; it makes me think that a different version of him would be the kind of person Vic could’ve liked. He went from potentially being a little like Lou, a genuine nice guy, to his niceness being more a lie of self-presentation that he barely makes an effort to sustain with her in their one meeting before he decides to kill her. And yet if he hadn’t become the cold, bitter man who hurt her, he wouldn’t have lived to meet her at all.

Given how stuck they are with each other in the figurative sense even when the other is not currently a threat, what if they really were stuck together more literally? A soulbond they can’t escape, or just stuck with no other company? My poor lady D:

arrogant man hates how much he loves femdom (but loves it even more)

When I saw the episode with Cassie telling him how part of his problem was always wanting to see himself as leading even when he wasn’t, and her tossing him away, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the femdom potential. And I like the irony of how his pushing Cassie away in their marriage led to locking her away in his mind, followed up by the woman who released her—through killing him—pushing her own way into his mind with Cassie’s support and belief. The fact that Vic kills him twice, the eye contact the first time, and the way that when it comes to physical violence, she gets to beat on him more, combined with the above, makes me really want to see how the femdom scenario in this tag could happen.

Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent

I really like the concept of people having their memories replaced but reconnecting with who they were and getting those back—especially if these people had some kind of significance to each other in their old lives. How would it be to know your family, friends, lovers, enemies again, spending time around each other, before remembering what you were? I’d like all the characters requested for be afflicted in this way. I’d be fine whether or not they did something to cause it, and if they did, whether any of it was intentional or not.

Note: I nominated this based on the Dark Curse from the Once Upon a Time show, but you don’t need to have watched it at all; it’s specifically worded this way to tell you what I want from it. If you have watched it and want to know whether I’d also be open to other Dark Curse-related things being used in writing for this tag, the answer is yes, as long as what’s in the tag is there and my DNWs are respected. Feel free to ask questions through the mod; I’d be happy to answer them.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!

Alternate Universe - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fusion
Alternate Universe - Black Jewels Fusion
Alternate Universe - Inception Fusion
Alternate Universe - Russian Doll Fusion


Fusions!

I'd be into something where Vic is an actual Slayer of monsters, or them living in the matriarchal world of Black Jewels, and there'd be something neat about fusing NOS4A2 with Inception, a canon with its own rules around going into people's heads and what you can do there.

Time loops, like alternate dimensions, are a fun way to explore character and relationships. I love the element of Russian Doll where you have two people going through the loops, and through connection and helping each other they can break out of it and move forward in life after being stuck. Putting these two in a Russian Doll type of situation...ouch. I can imagine how stressful that would be. Feel free to define "help" as something other than cooperation and reaching out; maybe they come to their own realizations separately but at the same time?



Crossover Fandom – Star Trek with BTVS/Star Wars



• Spock (ST: Disco-ST: TOS)/Buffy Summers (BTVS TV)
• Spock (ST: Disco-ST: TOS)/Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)

• Fic - Character

• Hurt/Comfort - feeling your feelings in a quiet moment with a much older/immortal being
• Crossover: Character(s) from another fandom on an adventure in the Buffyverse
• Fusion of One Half of Crossover Into Other's Canon
• Crossover: Shared Universe AU
• Crossover: Characters turn out to be highly compatible
• Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent
• BTVS: Buffy is immortal post-Chosen
• Canon Typical Adventures
• Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon
• Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path
• Choose Your Own Adventure

Notes:

For the ships crossing the Spock from Discovery and The Original Series with Buffy and Star Wars, I am happy with that timeline’s Spock being from any of his onscreen appearances, including the older Spock from the reboot movies.

For Ahsoka, I am also happy with her being from any of her onscreen appearances.

I love all these canons and characters, and it would be fun to have them meet! All of them have died and come back at least once, they all experience strange things, they're capable of much compassion and empathy, and they know what it's like to have an important and defining duty. An older Spock could be kind of a safe place for Buffy, a little like Angel, or Buffy herself could be immortal and in a place to offer understanding. Or they could both be older together! Vulcan philosophy and Jedi philosophy have some things in common but they're not exactly the same, and both Ahsoka and Spock have experienced conflicts with their place in their respective cultures.

I'd be happy with the kind of crossover where both things exist in the same canon, or with trying to take some elements from one to fuse into the other, so you could have Vulcans in Star Wars or Jedi in Star Trek, Slayers in Star Trek or Vulcans in Sunnydale.

Crossover: Character(s) from another fandom on an adventure in the Buffyverse

Characters encountering the Hellmouth and/or other Buffy things would be fun! I would definitely be open to this tag applying to either ship, despite the obvious application to the one with Buffy in it; BTVS is just a neat setting and it would be cool to see you play with it.

Star Trek: Vulcans make first contact with Earth earlier than they did in canon

I was thinking of it happening with them involved, or a scenario in which it’s the recent past for them, but if you’re interested in another idea, go for it!

Characters' old memories & lives replaced with new ones - effect isn't permanent

I really like the concept of people having their memories replaced but reconnecting with who they were and getting those back—especially if these people had some kind of significance to each other in their old lives. How would it be to know your family, friends, lovers, enemies again, spending time around each other, before remembering what you were? I’d like all the characters requested for be afflicted in this way. I’d be fine whether or not they did something to cause it, and if they did, whether any of it was intentional or not.

Note: I nominated this based on the Dark Curse from the Once Upon a Time show, but you don’t need to have watched it at all; it’s specifically worded this way to tell you what I want from it. If you have watched it and want to know whether I’d also be open to other Dark Curse-related things being used in writing for this tag, the answer is yes, as long as what’s in the tag is there and my DNWs are respected. Feel free to ask questions through the mod; I’d be happy to answer them!

Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path

This could involve so much, and I'd be here for all of it. From having to leave their actual whole lives and universe behind to changing up a career/calling/duty for a new life in the same universe, or the thing being something more strictly metaphorical but still huge, like a concept or a burden or an identity.

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!



Crossover Fandom – Star Trek TOS/AOS



• Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: TOS) & Spock/Nyota Uhura (ST: AOS)

• Fic - Character

• Dimension travel - meeting alternate versions of self/friends/antagonists
• Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - 1920s
• Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
• Alternate Universe - Regency


Note: For this request, I am happy with pulling the TOS characters from any point in the timeline, including Spock Prime as we see him in the AOS movies.

I'm so into both ships—the gentle intimacy of the AOS ship and the flirting and background pining of the TOS ship—and I love the part of AOS that has both Spocks meeting, so both ships meeting would be a dream! I'd be happy however you managed it that didn't violate a DNW—the only thing I can think of would be acknowledging that TOS Uhura would be dead by the time TOS Spock made it into the AOS universe, in which case I can say I would be fine with that, and if there's anything else I welcome questions through the mod. There's potential for fun, shenanigans, and sweetness (that may or may not also be a little bitter.) Meeting different versions of yourself and your loved ones is something I love.

Alternate Universe - 1920s-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - 1920s


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "1920s in space" thing, I'd be into it. It would be fun to see them in the clothes, like Art Deco-inspired fashion generally, or flapper Uhura specifically. If you're into the 1920s, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Alternate Universe - Regency-Inspired Science Fiction
Alternate Universe - Regency


I'd love to see them in this time period, whether it's a fusion or if you want to do a canon divergence where they end up there through time travel. Whether it's mundane, has elements of science fiction, or is pretty much a "Regency in space" thing, I'd be into it. Fashion, Regency romance—and it could be interesting to use this period to revisit the half-human angst Spock has in canon. If you're into the Regency period, feel free to include as much as you want about it in the fic/art--I'd be so into it! (As long as it avoided my DNWs.) If you're concerned or have questions, I welcome contact through the mod!

Choose Your Own Adventure

I love characters making choices and I love the idea of exploring different paths, so if you'd be into doing this, it would be amazing!


Thank you so much in advance, and I look forward to seeing what you'll create! Wishing you a happy exchange experience!
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