Dear Chocolatier 2020
Warning that this is MOSTLY a placeholder, it has no details yet! I am doing my signup at work because I'm bad! The content under the cut is uh, identical to last year's.
Dear Chocolatier, thank you very much for taking on any of these prompts and making them yours and even giving me a gift out of the deal!
Mostly, I want you to have fun, so I'm not specifying a lot here -- the only thing I really request is followed to the letter is the DNWs. I have no specific prompts exactly, so much as likes-and-don't-likes: here they are.
Things I Really Like
- Road trips or other ADVENTURES
- Casefic
- Enemies-to-friends, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, enemies-to-platonic-partners-in-crime
- Short vignettes that are only a little picture of a bigger picture that is only hinted at
- Relationships that most people would describe as 'twisted' or 'fucked up' but truly loving deep down (either friendships or romance)
- For fanfic, trans headcanons, especially those that match the character's canonically presented gender
- And for that matter, always-a-girl genderswaps
- Magitech
- Comedy with a serious backdrop (aka funny-but-not-crack)
- Human weapons (warning for TV Tropes, but I've had people misunderstand what I meant, so I included the link for context)
Do Not Wants
- Infidelity.
- Eye or dental trauma.
- Explicit noncon; dubcon is OK.
- Issuefic
- PWP. I have nothing against the existence of PWP or anything, but explicit sex doesn't do much for me and I tend to skim it so if that's the whole piece it isn't going far!
- Character death, specifically for this exchange.
- Angst-centric pieces, specifically for this exchange.
- Explicit M/M or M/F; sorry! This is a body-squick issue, please feel free to write romance and UST and FTB in all equations.
- Unrequested crossovers
Meh
These are more like things I'm not very big on in general (though every rule has an exception and I've read them for all of these!), but if they are crucial to the piece of your heart, please go ahead.
- Canon-divergence AUs, with any exceptions noted in the individual requests. I just don't want to be thrown into them!
- Medieval or traditional high fantasy settings. It took me a while to be sure I had spelled medieval correctly; it's not something that brings me any joy or excitement as a backdrop/setting for itself but I'm willing to read it. Which means for the original works that sound like they should be in this setting, that's fine but I would also love to see something that isn't!
- Roleswaps.
- Setting change AUs with two caveats:
- "[anything] IN SPACE" is always fine, and
- modern setting AUs for things that are not in modern setting are also very interesting to me.
Requests
All of my requests this year are unpopular fandoms. I probably should have put in a safe fourth bet, but i didn't ...
The Emperor's Edge - Lindsay Buroker
Forgotten Ages and EE are one fandom this year, so I cannot be super specific, I just. I love all of these. I am most interested in post-canon for the EE cast, but mid-canon for Rias and Tikaya (who are my favoritest favorites) - I want to see their adventures between Decrypted and Emperor's Edge!
However, I would be happy with ANYTHING not including my DNWs in this fandom, really. :) And any character appearing.
A Girl and Her Fed
I really just want fanfic for any and all of these guys to exist, but if specific prompts are wanted, I have, er, one and a half:
I want to see more Intermission time for Hope and Pat. Preferentially these would be Hope Blackwell novel compliant, but they don't HAVE to be. What's the couple doing during those five years?
I'd also love to see Rachel/Becca stuff during the comic's second act, though Becca wasn't an option in the tagset. :) If you feel like writing some f/f, go for it.
Spotless - Camilla Monk
Oh my goodness, PLEASE just make there be Spotless fanfic. Canon levels of dark are fine, but no darker. Fix-it fic where Dries doesn't die or where Anies doesn't die, even, so long as it's both of them ... absolutely fine (un-killing characters is my exception to the DNW).
I love the flashback tag options (I don't think all of them were me!) and all the potential there; I want to see Island and Stiles' friendship rebuilt in the post-canon world because I actually love it; I will be happy with anything Spotless!