Fic in a Box Letter

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WIP

Hello creator! Thank you for making something for me!

You can find my general letter here, if that is of use to you.

My sign-up was very last minute, but I have expanded upon things here. Please note that any time I opted into broad categories of mediums in my actual sign-up, that I really, really meant it. I have listed more specific options that I think would go well with my requests below, just in case you prefer having more direction, but that does not mean you need to abide by them!! If you had your heart set on something else that fits the broader opt-in, please stick with that! I can't wait to see what you make for me :)


Likes and DNWs

general likes

• hurt/comfort
▻ prefer physical + emotional combo, but I like it all
• darkfics (noncon, abusive relationships, torture, etc)
• angst
• trauma exploration
• nightmares
• internal spiraling
• pining
• complicated relationship dynamics
• canon relationship dynamics
• found family/friendship
• being terrible with feelings
• queering the canon
• reluctant allies to friends (to …?)
• non-linear/experimental structures
• hopeful/bittersweet/really any type of ending

art likes

• horror
• surrealism
• minimalism
• maximalism
• chaotically colorful
• monochromatic
• sketches
• vaporwave
• comics
• movie posters
• atmosphere/weather
• places, especially abandoned/empty
• adventurous AUs (eg pirates, space)
• "retro" 1920s-2000s interpretations
• queering the canon
• words incorporated into works
• symbols
• minimalist/symbolic representations of characters
• exploring themes or ideas symbolically
• the moment before something incredible or catastrophic happens
• quiet angst
• isolation

unusual opt-ins

(things people don't always like that I am a-okay with)
• noncon
▻ for smut or for trauma exploration (or both!); unless otherwise specified, bringing in any canon character (including incest, “good” characters, etc) or creating an OC is fine for this
• abuse
▻ but not between requested pairing, although violence between the requested pairing that isn't domestic violence/abuse is fine (eg enemies-to-lovers type)
• suicidal thoughts/self-harm
• infidelity
• bleak endings
• pre-relationship/ambiguous fic for "A/B" requests
• requested characters being in other relationships
▻ as in: they start out in other relationships and get together, or they're unhappy in other relationships and pine for one
• fic where the requested ship is incidental to a larger plot rather than the focus background ships as long as they aren't DNWed
• important platonic relationships for the requested characters outside of requested pairing
• doing whatever you want with unmentioned canon characters you bring into the story
▻ pair them with whomever, make them evil, deploy your hyper-specific head canons, etc
• temporary character death (including of requested characters)

DNWs

• 1st person POV
▻ outside of epistolary; waived for Taste of You
• mundane AUs
▻ eg turning a supernatural canon into a coffee shop AU; basically please just don’t swap to an AU that’s grounded in reality for canons that are not
• pure fluff/domestic bliss
• pregnancy
▻ this is essentially just saying please don’t make the requested characters pregnant, give them children, or focus on pregnancy; canon references, pre-fic miscarriages for any character, minor/OC characters pregnant in the background are all fine unless otherwise specified
• genderswap
• kid fic
▻ as in: they have kids or age regression; narratives that reference/have flashbacks to childhood are fine
• requested characters happily in endgame het relationships
▻ references to prior het relationships, characters starting in het relationships and leaving them and/or being unhappy/pining if it’s a Bad End fic, unrequested characters in het relationships are all fine
• focus on identity/sexuality realizations or coming out
▻ totally fine if it happens, just ideally not a fic centered wholly around that
• gay panic from requested characters
▻ homophobia from other characters is fine, panic over the specific relationship for reasons other than gay panic is fine
• terminal illness
▻ canonical mentions are fine unless otherwise specified
• pet death
▻ dead animals that aren’t pets/otherwise important to the characters are fine, especially for tone-setting eg horror
• mindbreak
• non-canon permanent major injury
▻ eg eye trauma, amputation; things like broken limbs, occasional pain from previous injuries, hand-waving away things that should cause permanent injury but don’t in your fic are all fine

smut likes

• overstimulation
• teasing
• touch-starved
• restraints
• cunnilingus
• multiple orgasms
• rough sex
• awkward and sweet
• descriptions of sounds and feelings
• there’s also a list of specific smut tags I like in my previous Smut4Smut signup if you’d like to browse

NSFW DNWs

• scat/watersports
• vomit kink
• feed kink
• explicit sexual content under age 15 in fic; prepubescent NSFW for art
▻ referenced and fade-to-black are fine
• age play
• pet play
• vore
• “it was a kink scene all along" dubcon/noncon reveal
▻ established consensual non-consent is fine
• omegaverse
• snuff (even temporary)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Requests:
Ruby Hale/Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson/Bobbi Morse
Solo: Daisy Johnson
Solo: Ruby Hale

Opt-Ins: 
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Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: Any

Additional Opt-Ins:
tba

Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death (outside of requested characters, unless canonical)
Rape/Non-con

Fandom-specific DNWs:
Romantic or sexual Daisy/May or Daisy/Coulson
Grant Ward redemption
heavy focus on canon Daisy/Lincoln romance (discussions of him related to her grief/guilt are totally fine, especially if your story is set at a time where that's driving her)


Barely Lethal

Requests:

Liz Larson/Megan Walsh
Liz Larson & Megan Walsh
Liz Larson/Megan Walsh & Heather
Solo: Heather
Solo: Victoria Knox
WB: Prescott Academy
WB: Any

Opt-Ins:
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Additional Opt-Ins:
tba

Archive Warning Opt-ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Rape/Non-con
Underage

Fandom-specific DNWs:
none

An obscure movie, but!! It's a goofy little thing about a teen assassin (Megan, played by Hailee Steinfeld) who fakes her death to get away from the organization that raised and trained her and go live a normal teen life like she's seen in movies and magazines. She ends up pretending to be an exchange student from Canada and moving in with a family who has no idea who she really is (including Liz, played by Dove Cameron). Of course, her past soon catches up with her in the form of a rival agent (Sophie Turner) coming in hot to steal her new boyfriend and the leader of her former organization (Samuel L. Jackson) figuring out she's still alive.

 

I love how Megan's overenthusiastic-but-clueless attempts to be a "normal" teenager clash with Liz's antisocial determination to hate everything about high school. And everything in the movie feels so very comp-het with shades of queer underneath, there's so much room to play.

 

I adore interpretations that go darker-than-canon and really dive into the more dangerous aspects at play here, but please don’t feel obligated to go that route. If you go with the ship version, I am more into pre-relationship or getting together fic vs established relationship between them, but again, whatever you like is great!

D.E.B.S.

Requests:
Amy Bradshaw/Lucy Diamond
Solo: Lucy Diamond
WB: Any Length

Opt-Ins:
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Additional Opt-Ins:
tba

Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death

Fandom-specific DNWs:
none

Descendants

Requests:
Evie/Mal 
Evie/Mal & Carlos de Vil & Jay
Solo: Mal
Solo: Evie
WB: The Isle of the Lost

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Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death (outside of requested characters)
Rape/Non-con
Underage

Fandom-specific DNWs:
positive parent-child relationships for requested characters

Descendants is a franchise that takes place in a world where Disney heroes exiled all the Disney villains to an island without magic. And the villains had kids. The three films are considered the primary canon, and start with four of the Villain Kids (Mal the daughter of Maleficent, Evie the daughter of the Evil Queen, Jay the son of Jafar, and Carlos the son of Cruella de Vil) being sent to Auradon to attend school with the hero children to see if they can be integrated into polite society.

 

I love Darker Than Disney interpretations of this franchise, that really dig into the idea of "oh my god, these kids were trapped with the evilest villains that exist in this world their whole lives, on an island with basically no resources or rules." I really enjoy fan fic that delves into explorations of that — what it looked like at the time, how it affects their attempts to adjust to Auradon, what kinds of bonds all four of them have with one another.

 

Mal/Evie is one of my OTPs. It's very clear they'll do anything for another, and it's a bond that probably wouldn't have happened had they grown up anywhere else. But as different as they are, they know each other so well, you cannot convince me they are not ultimately each the most important person in the other's orbit. I'm fine with background shipping of Jay and Carlos with each other, or with anyone else you'd like (if you so choose).

 

I appreciate explorations of morality in this world — Auradon isn't as wonderful as it's held up to be and neither are its people, even the kids on the Isle of the Lost have codes they live by, etc. Mal and the others "choosing good" at the end of the first movie is a little goofy to me. I don't mind if that happens and they stay there, of course, but more complexity once they get into the weeds of it is just more interesting to me.

In terms of art, I can't stress enough that I adore art of places!!! Would particularly love anything related to the Isle of the Lost here.

Fear Street Trilogy

Requests:
WB: Previous Shadyside Murder Sprees
WB: Chatrooms Discussing The Curse
WB: Any

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Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death
Rape/Non-con

Fandom-specific DNWs:
smut

Harley Quinn (Cartoon 2019)

Requests:
Pamela Isley/Harley Quinn
Solo: Pamela Isley
WB: Any

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Additional Opt-Ins:
tba

Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death (not of requested characters)
Rape/Non-con

Fandom-specific DNWs:
none
 

The Magicians

Requests:
Marina Andrieski/Julia Wicker 
Fen/Margo Hanson
Marina Andrieski/Margo Hanson
Alice Quinn/Kady Orloff-Diaz
Solo: Margo Hanson
Solo: Marina Andrieski 

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Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death (only canonical, please)
Rape/Non-con

Fandom-specific DNWs:

Pitch Perfect

Requests:
Chloe Beale/Beca Mitchell
WB: Underground Riff-Offs
WB: Any

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Fandom-specific DNWs:

 

Schmigadoon!

Requests:
Betsy McDonough/Emma Tate
Solo: Betsy McDonough
Solo: Bobbie Flanagan
Solo: Emcee
Solo: Emma Tate
Solo: Jenny Banks
WB: Other Musical Lands
WB: Life In Schmigadoon/Schmicago When No Visitors Are There
WB: Any

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Additional Opt-Ins:
tba

Archive Warning Opt-Ins:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death*
Rape/Non-con
Underage

*for Schmigadoon! purposes, feel free to kill of any characters at all if you reboot the world and they're alive in the new one/wherever your fic ends; also feel free to kill off any characters other than Jenny (s2), Betsy (s1), Emma (s1) (or their equivalents if you do a new Schmiga-world) permanently

Fandom-specific DNWs:
none

Titans (TV 2018)

Requests:
Dawn Granger/Donna Troy
Donna Troy/Slade Wilson*
Dick Grayson & Donna Troy
Raven & Donna Troy
Solo: Donna Troy

*I had meant to specify in my sign-up that this was intended for non-con, but I forgot to do so, so technically you can do whatever you'd like!

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