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Chocolate Box 2021 Letter
Please know that I am invested in all the requested fandoms and ships equally. Please don’t read anything into the length of the passages, the order of the fandoms or ships, the nature of the prompts – if there are differences, it is coincidental and has nothing to do with how much I want the fandom or the ships.
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GENERAL LIKES:
Feel free to pick and choose. These are all things I reliably love, so I’ll be thrilled to receive a work that includes any one or two things from the list below. In general, please don’t feel like you need to fit as many likes or prompts as possible into your work if it doesn’t happen organically. I also enjoy a ton of other stuff, so don’t worry about including other tropes not listed in this letter as long as they don’t show up in my DNWs. Many of these likes also apply to art, so obviously if you are an artist, anything here is also meant as inspiration for you, but there are more art-specific likes further below.
Plot/Character-related:
- Dialogue/banter
- Any kind of hurt/comfort or angst with a happy/hopeful ending
- Canon divergence (AUs in the regular canon setting that diverge from canon in small but significant ways)
- Crack treated seriously
- Sidekick/underappreciated characters being appreciated
- Competent people who are good at what they do without being super-human
- Recreational alcohol, tobacco, drug consumption
Ship/Friendship-related:
- Getting together/first times
- Friends-to-lovers and enemies-to-lovers
- Friendships of all kinds (with a soft spot for male/female friendship and for supportive friendships between siblings)
- Pining, jealousy, misunderstandings (as long as they get resolved in the end!)
- People taking care of each other
- People working well together as a team
Sex/Porn-related:
- Sex scenes of all ratings are lovely, but most definitely not a requirement to make me happy – allusions to potential future sex, fade-to-black, or whatnot are all equally welcome!
- Spontaneous sex (I love sex happening spontaneously in the moment, including but not limited to: out of desperation, after a declaration of feelings, due to intoxication, in a somewhat unusual location …)
- Passionate/rough sex
- Messy/sloppy sex
- Porn with Feelings
- Size difference/size kink
- Loyalty kink and praise kink
- Kissing, lots of kissing (on the mouth or any other body parts)
- Bodily fluids I like in sexual contexts: Sweat, saliva, blood, come.
FANART LIKES:
- Style: I generally like all art styles – impressionist, expressionist, realist, romanticist, neo-[whatever], manga- or comics-style, actual comic panels, it’s all good, as long as it generally falls into the category of figurative art.
- Technique/Material: Same here – pencil, crayon, watercolor, digital, they are all lovely.
- Rating: Any rating is fine.
- Hugs and kisses: I love seeing characters hug/cuddle/kiss/lie on top of each other/put their heads in each other’s laps ….
- Hair: Curls, wavy hair, wind-swept hair, one character putting their hands in the other’s hair (but also stubble and beards, chest hair, other body hair …)
- Tattoos and scars: Or really any kind of marking of skin, from make-up to body paint to bite marks ...
- Domestic scenes: I have a soft spot for domestic moments in fanart. Reading on the couch, cooking, knitting, clutching coffee mugs, working on laptops, petting cats.
- Blood: In contrast, I also love darker scenes – characters covered in blood, cuts, and bruises; being restrained; in a moment of despair; having life-affirming sex in the blood of their enemies (if you want to go there).
- Symbolic imagery: If you associate specific symbols, animals, seasons, or whatever with the characters and want to include that in your art, that’s wonderful.
GENERAL DNWs:
- Devastating endings or hopelessly unrequited love (unless requested otherwise in specific prompts)
- Permanent character death for requested characters (Death of other characters is fine; being in heaven/in hell/a demon/ghost etc. in Supernatural does not count as PCD)
- A/B/O-verse, Dom/Sub-verse, Soulmate verse
- Mundane AUs (coffeeshop, highschool/college AUs, and similar scenarios)
- Genderswap, bodyswap, mpreg
- Non-canonical trans or ace headcanons for requested canon characters
- Infantilism kink, Mommy/Daddy kink
- Explicit sex with or between characters under 13 (older teens having sex is always a-okay; brief mentions of CSA are fine; sweet puppy love for younger characters is also perfectly fine).
- Use of formalized safewords (I prefer the characters to say simply “stop” or “no” if needed), or explicit extended kink and consent negotiation (But casually checking in with each other along the lines of “Is this okay?” – “Yes!” etc. is great)
- Eating disorders, cutting as ritualized self-harm
- “Shovel talks” (so, please no “They’ll never find your body if you hurt my friend/kid” conversations)
FANDOMS/SHIPS:
Prompts and Tropes are always optional and just meant to give you an idea of the kind of things I would enjoy. If you have a different idea that doesn’t collide with my DNWs, please go for it!
Attack the Block (Fic or Art)
Moses/Pest
Tropes/Kinks: Friends-to-lovers, teenage angst, pining, loyalty kink, crack/humor, aliens, crime, moving in together, backstory/pre-canon, catching feelings, brojobs, sharing clothes
- Making out in a police van
- Dealing with the aftermath of their friends’ deaths’
- Moses’ uncle disappears, Pest keeps bringing him pizza
- Getting high together
- Relationship development from jerking off together to going steady
- Parkour chases in the council estate
Firefly (Fic or Art; feel free to keep Wash alive in post-canon works if you would like)
Mal/Simon
Tropes/Kinks: Mutual pining, misunderstandings, fake relationship, hurt/comfort, injuries, fighting and making up, class differences, denial of feelings, jealousy, protectiveness, heist fic
Prompts:
- Medical care (Simon stitching up Mal, Mal having to do first aid on Simon)
- Getting captured/trapped together
- Settling down post-canon
- Simon doesn’t want River to know. Mal doesn’t want Inara to know. They find out anyway.
- Companion!Simon (undercover-as-companion or canon divergence, your choice)
Jayne/Simon
Tropes/Kinks: Enemies-to-lovers, spite-sex, rough sex, misunderstandings, crack/humor, hurt/comfort, awkward courtship, fuck-or-die, size difference, denial of feelings, catching feelings
- Meeting the family (either Jayne's or Simon's, up to you)
- Jayne likes to mess Simon up a little from time to time
- Jayne accidentally consumes a performance enhancing drug. Simon’s “medical expertise” is needed
- Encounter with Reavers (and the aftermath?)
- Jayne gives Simon shooting lessons
Supernatural (Fic or Art; any season/era is good)
Sam/Dean
(To clarify: I'm good with death scenes for either Sam or Dean being featured, as long as the story doesn't end on that and they come back in one way or another)
Tropes/Kinks: Mutual (resolved) pining, codependency, possessiveness, protectiveness, hurt/comfort, fuck-or-die, ritual sex, curses/spells, domesticity, outsider POV, permanent injuries, (semi) public sex
- Post-canon: Hijinks in Heaven (or: Sam and Dean fuck and also break Heaven, somehow)
- Canon divergence (finale): Dean has unfinished business and is haunting Sam.
- Marriage proposal/wedding, Winchester style
- Someone they care about finds out
- Demon Dean and Boyking Sam (or any variation on this theme)
Rowena/Sam
(To clarify: I'm good with Rowena's death scene being featured - since I know she'll come back, I don't consider this permenant character death, even if that part doesn't feature in the fic)
Tropes/Kinks: Frenemies-to-lovers, ritual sex, size kink/size difference, magic/witchcraft, fake relationship, hair washing/brushing/braiding, restraints
Prompts:
- Episode 15.03: The spell to close the rupture requires not only blood but also sex (this could be angsty/dark; or a fix-it, up to you)
- Episode 15.08: Sam feels guilty for killing Rowena. The Queen of Hell has ideas for how he can make it up to her.
- Demons are acting weird around Sam, turns out they think Sam and Rowena are Hell’s new power couple
- Rowena seduces Sam to distract him from what she’s up to. Only one problem: That’s exactly what he’s doing as well.
- The things you can do with magic in the bedroom
Jody/Sam
Tropes/Kinks: Friends-to-lovers, Friends with benefits, comfort sex, secret relationship, cooking for each other, massages and footrubs, coping with trauma, (co)parenting
Prompts:
- “You do know that the neighbors think you are fucking my mom.” – “You call Jody mom?” – “This is the part you are focusing on?”
- Episode 9.08: Dean unexpectedly strikes out with Suzie; meanwhile, Sam is losing his newfound virginity again in a motel room …
- Sneaking around during a case in close quarters (up to you if they are found out or not)
- Jody thinks she’s really too old to have this kind of schoolgirl crush.
Crowley/Sam
Tropes/Kinks: Enemies-to-lovers, post-battle sex, dubcon, fuck-or-die, mindfuck, demon deals, bloodplay, restraints, inconvenient feelings
- “Stilettos and a leather bustier, putting the S-A-M into S&M”
- Demon Dean really wishes Crowley would stop asking him questions about his brother
- Blood drinking (your choice which one of them is drinking the other’s blood … or maybe it’s mutual)
- Post-Season 8: That’s Sam’s blood flowing in Crowley’s veins now, and it does something to him.
- There was a time when Crowley had fantasies of making Sam his demon consort. Or being the demon consort to Sam’s King of Hell. He's not picky, really.
Jack/Sam
(To clarify: You can ignore my age-related DNWs for this ship, since I don’t think Jack’s age/maturity can be defined in human terms)
Tropes/Kinks: First time/experimentation, pining, secret relationship, angel powers, angst with happy ending, hurt/comfort, awkward courtship, size difference/size kink, wingfic, mindfuck/mindmeld
Prompts:
- Jack asks Castiel and/or Dean for advice on how to seduce Sam. Awkwardness ensues.
- What’s it like to be the one who deflowered God?
- Sam isn’t used to being treated like he’s precious. Especially not by someone who looks like jailbait.
- Canon divergence (finale): Jack said he was going to be a hands-off God. He may have lied.
Crossover Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural (Fic or Art; any season/era for either show is good)
Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer/Parker (Leverage) & Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
(To clarify:
Tropes/Kinks: Heist fic, team fic, ghosts, mistaken identity, jealousy, friendship, crack/humor, protectiveness, kicking ass and taking names
- Hardison and Sam met on a hacker forum online; when the Leverage team runs into something they can’t explain, he reaches out for help.
- The guy Dean used to hunt with during Sam’s Stanford days was not Christian Kane’s character from 15.07 “Last Call” but Eliot Spencer. They run into each other again down the road.
- Texas. Cowboys and Rangers. Go wild.
- They cross paths during a case, and both teams think the other team is up to something sinister at first.
- Finally there’s someone who understands what it’s like to be in a relationship that defies categorization.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Fic or Art)
- Being in love with each other for ages but each thinking the other one doesn’t love them back like that
- They are used to Reggie taking care of Shy. Reggie struggles with Shy having to take care of him for once.
- Shy loves Reggie’s voice and does everything he can to get him to sing
- Dealing with the emotional fallout of the Season 3 finale
- The development of their relationship from childhood days to adulthood