☆ cricketdust ☆

Hello creator!

Thank you for agreeing to write something for me!

As a reminder, these were my general DNWs on the sign-up page:

• 1st/2nd person POV
• AUs (canon divergent or full canon fuckery is great, just not different worlds/settings/time periods)
• coming out fic (queer realizations are fine, incidentally coming out to someone is fine; just not interested in something centered around the struggle of trying to come out)
• domestic fluff
• kidfic (outside of canon)
• major character death (temporary is always fine; fandoms may have specific exceptions)
• massive time jumps outside the scope of the canon
• non-canon religion/religious themes
• omegaverse
• pregnancy
• unrequested gender headcanons

Here are some other things I'm not that fond of but that aren't my official sign-up DNWs:

• unrequested polyamorous endgame
• consensual incest (noncon/dubcon is fine)
• major illness (eg cancer, COVID // general sickfic is fine)
• acquiring a non-canon disability
• amnesia fic

And here are my general likes:

• f/f pairings (duhh)
• f/f and m/f close friendships
• third person POV
• past or present tense
• hurt/comfort
• angst
• internal spiraling
• trauma exploration
• toxic friendships
• found family
• canon relationship dynamics

For this particular exchange, pointing out that I'm okay with:

• bittersweet endings
• pining/one-sided (prefer unaddressed or lying-to-herself rejection as opposed to genuine flat-out rejection/disinterest from one party, unless otherwise specified for the fandom, but not a deal-breaker!)
• het smut (ideally it would somehow serve the queer plot)
• darkfic. have i mentioned darkfic? really always good with darkfic. (i do like shippy cute or angsty stuff too, just generally OPTING IN here)

Unless otherwise specified, I'm generally fine with any type of dynamic between the two characters (eg fully in love, one-sided pining, completely toxic, etc). Ideally based on canon characterization, but that doesn't mean identical--if you can walk me through how they got there from canon, I'm on board! (Minor exception spelled out below for OTH.) If you go darkfic, I also don't care if the darker content is between the ship or involves a third party or whatever (again, except OTH pls, my only actual OTP on this list lol).

I'm feeling a little lazy about typing out my smut likes/dislikes if you go in that direction, but my recent Consent Issues creator letter and tag likes cover a lot of it (consensual and otherwise, so TW if you need it before you go diving in).

Please consider everything I write about the specific fandoms as very, very loose guidelines unless I explicitly DNW a thing (and obviously you're still technically free to ignore it if it wasn't in my official DNWs). I would always rather read something somebody was excited to write than something they tried to shoehorn into my specific requests :)


Bring It On
-Missy/Torrance

I think I would probably prefer something where they aren't already together in a committed relationship at the start for this, but ultimately game for whatever! Retelling without whats-his-name, one of the girls pining while Swimfan guy is dating Torrance, messy hookups, cheerleading competition with incidental shippy stuff, etc.


Jennifer's Body
-Jennifer/Needy

I'm not really interested in the idea of a classically "redeemed" Jennifer. I like that she kills boys. I like that she's so hot and cold with Needy; I don't think it would make a ton of sense if she was suddenly super sweet and nice to her all of the time. If your heart tells you differently, go with it! But the existing toxic dynamics (them acknowledging that they're sexual/romantic or not) or Jennifer corrupting Needy (or both) make more sense to me. Also good with something where the relationship (whatever it is) is just background to the plot of the story.

Canon deaths are fine here, but I'm also fine with pretending they didn't happen.

Fandom DNWs: good!Jennifer, Needy reflecting back after Jennifer's death, centered around Jennifer's death scene (unless Needy doesn't kill her), Needy pining for Chip, Chip living but Jennifer dying


Halt and Catch Fire
-Cameron/Donna

I honestly don't know where to start here. I've never read fic for them! But I love them so much in canon--when they hate each other, when they're besties, when they're just talking right past each other. It's all good. My heart is saying something hurt/comfort-y here, but I think I would like just about anything, so tossing this one back up to my list of general likes! Also, it's fine if the fic includes Donna's kids, although I would prefer it be when they're teens and not babies, and ideally not center around them.


The Boys
-Maeve/Starlight

I like the parallels between Starlight joining/learning to deal with The Seven and when Maeve went through it. I would prefer sticking to canon tone (eg violence and fucked up shit) for this one, but obviously feel free to use your discretion as to what that means. 




Fandom DNWs: Maeve cheating on Elena, either of them actually being in love with Homelander, referring to Maeve as "Maggie" in smut scenes, major Gen V crossover (haven't watched it yet)


One Tree Hill
-Brooke/Peyton

I love h/c stuff for Brooke and Peyton (preferred emphasis on Brooke, but love them both). Psycho Derek and everything starting from Brooke getting attacked in her store are my favorite parts of the show, although both need endless fix-it fic IMHO. This is the only ship where I ~would prefer a happy ending, but I don't ~need a happy ending--I would just ask that if you make them toxic and cruel to one another without a reckoning, that it stays about in line with how those things played out in canon.





Fandom DNWs: anything with Brooke trying to adopt/have kids, too Lucas-centric (unless he's pulling a villain role here), school shooting-centric


MCU
-Laura/Natasha

Open to just about anything here, although I would prefer Natasha to live or for it to be set earlier in canon. I don't have any preference as to whether Clint is involved. I like the friendship between him and Nat a lot, but this is also kind of a weird setup to have Laura/Nat, so if you wanna OT3 it, that's fine by me. Or leave him out, or he and Laura have an open relationship, w/e. Your call! And it's fine if Clint and Laura's kids are mentioned/somewhat included in the fic, although I would prefer they not be a focus.



Fandom DNWs: grief/mourning-centric


Pretty Little Liars
-Spencer/Mona, Spencer/Hanna, Melissa/Spencer, Alison/Spencer, Alex/Spencer

Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you here. I got stoned and annoyed at antis complaining about things and like, added the incest ships here to my sign-up at the nth hour and absolutely forgot about them. Whoops. For those I WOULD definitely prefer darker shit with whomever being awful to Spencer, but also, this was my bad, so if you were assigned to me based on that and your heart is all for genuine incest feelings and HEAs here, go nuts, I support you and I look forward to reading what you come up with! If you do write dark fic in any of those three pairings and need someone to come swoop in and save the day/be another love interest, it's dealer's choice.

Spencer/Mona and Spencer/Hanna were not stoned additions lol and all my usual likes/dislikes apply. Lots of great canon jumping off points for h/c or angst or hate sex or whatever you're interested in with either combo. I love every single time one of them canonically spiraled, which was...a lot. I love the complications of Mona in the mix, I love the friendships with all the liars, I love how Spencer and Hanna tend to go hot and cold but everyone's always there when i really counts. FYI, I'm also totally fine for OT3ing it with them if that's the vibe you're feeling.

Fandom DNWs: too much Ezria positivity, transphobia