Not Primetime 2014!
Dear NPT Writer,
Hello! I'm so excited about being matched on one of the three canons below - I honestly really love all of them, and can't wait to see what winds up in my inbox come reveals. :) I already know I'm going to be thrilled with whatever you write for me, Dear Author!
I've tried my best to provide you with a clear idea of why I like the things I've requested, and to give you a variety of prompts and suggestions to work with! If your plot bunnies run away with you a bit, it's all good with me - go with where the story wants to go, right? Just please don't include my Do Not Wants, and it's all going to be golden.
I'm going to try and keep this short - but I'm a rambler, so we'll see how that works out! No promises. :)
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Likes & Dislikes
When it comes to types of fic I enjoy, I tend to enjoy canon-set stories; AUs and crossovers aren't usually for me. I'll read angst, fluff, humour, romance, and smut fic - whatever you're comfortable with - and any rating, from G to E, is cool too. I've requested characters that can be shipped together, but they don't have to be! Gen or friendship fic is always completely welcome. Friendship dynamics and bonds are just as interesting to me as romantic ones.
I do have some strong dislikes: pro-ana talk, rape/non-con, mpreg, and scat/bloodplay. I also don't enjoy songfic or reading about characters crying. And character bashing is no bueno, if you ask me.
Feel free to poke around my Tumblr if you need a better idea of what types of things I like! Although I really only reblog a few things every week, so it may not be very helpful after all.
Now let's get a little fandom-specific!
***Just a note: the following sections have spoilers for each requested canon. Proceed with caution!***
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Captain America (Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes, Peggy Carter, Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers - Steve Rogers is my main squeeze - he's my favourite character in the MCU, and I love him and his movies to pieces. His relationships with the three characters I've listed here - Bucky, Peggy, and Sam - are all fantastic, and I really just want more of them. If you want to ship him with one of these people, ship to your heart's content! If you want to write about Steve and Sam's journey to find Bucky, go nuts! If you want to write something that bends time and allows more interaction beween Peggy and Steve, go for it! Basically anything containing Steve and any of these three characters will have me thrilled.
I love the Captain America movies so much, oh man. SO MUCH! I think Steve is a fantastic character - I love that he has a good heart and that he wants to do what's right, and that those character traits were in him before the serum changed his life. I adore him, and I adore the dynamic that he has with Bucky, Peggy, and Sam. The friendship he had with Bucky, and the fact that it's now almost vanished, and they're now two characters out of time and there's a disconnect between them... god, yes, all of that. I love Steve and Peggy, too - I still wail about how "THEY HAD A DAAAATE!", and their reunion scene in CA2 where she forgot and then remembered him again made me cry. Their chemistry rang so true for me. And I fell for Steve and Sam's dynamic right away - the fact that they can relate to each other, having gone through similar things, and Sam's loyalty to Steve and their fun banter just slays me. Seriously, wherever you want to go with any of these dynamics is awesome to me. Ship them, focus on friendship, include 'em all, leave some of them out... I'm not fussy. I'm up to date on all the MCU movies, as well as Agent Carter, so feel free to mention/reference other ones - but I haven't watched Agents of Shield, so including plots/characters from that isn't likely a good idea. But in general, have fun with it!
Prompts and Suggestions: What happens on Steve and Sam's journey to try and find Bucky? What happens as Bucky's memory slowly starts to creep back? What if Steve does try to date, but can't get his gal Peggy out of his mind? What if neither Bucky nor Steve "died" at the end of CA1, and somehow the both of them - and Peggy - wound up in the present anyway?
Go For It: Banter, humour, including other MCU characters/events (Natasha and Thor are favourites, but Tony and Loki are not. Just fyi!), time travel, angst, hurt/comfort, action.
Please Stay Away From: Excessive pop culture references (some Steve vs 21st Century stuff is okay, but please don't go overboard), dumb!Steve, character death.
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Chuck (TV)
Bryce Larkin, Chuck Bartowski - I love the dynamic between Chuck and Bryce - how they were college roommates, how they became antagonists, and how they had to work together again with the CIA. They had a really interesting story arc, and I'd love to see anything that either fills in missing pieces of their story or dovetails into a type of "what if" scenario. What if Chuck had found out about the CIA during college? What if Bryce hadn't sent Chuck the Intersect? Feel free to ship them or keep them as friends - whatever works for you. Just give me more of their relationship, at any point on their timeline, and I'll love it. More at my letter!
I LOVE CHUCK. Both the show and the character himself! The show has an awesome balance of humour, action, and sincerity, and Chuck himself is sweet and funny and tries to do the right thing, which is kind of my kryptonite. Throughout the show, I found myself incredibly interested in the relationship and dynamic between Chuck and Bryce Larkin. I thought the backstory they set up for the two of them was really effective, and I loved how Bryce sleeping with Chuck's girlfriend and getting him kicked out of Stanford wound up being explained and leading to so much more. I'd love to read anything more about these two - their first meeting, their time at college when they were roommates, conflict over either Jill or Sarah, or the two of them having to work together again once they were both in the CIA. Or if you'd rather change the timeline, or write future fic and keep Bryce alive, go for it! If you want to ship them, I'd be totally down with that - roommates/spies sneaking around and secretly hooking up? Yes please! - but if you'd rather just keep them as friends and explore their up and down history together, I'm more than happy there too. I just feel like there's so much about their relationship that we didn't get to see, especially during college, and I'd love to see more of it. Plus, I love Sarah, Casey, Morgan, Ellie, and Awesome, so feel free to incorporate any of them however you'd like!
Prompts and Suggestions: What if Chuck cheated on Jill with Bryce, instead of the other way around? What if Chuck accidentally found out about the CIA while he was at Stanford? What if Chuck and Bryce had a more romantic history than they originally let on when the two were reunited through the CIA? What if Bryce didn't send Chuck the Intersect - he sent himself, instead?
Go For It: Friends to lovers, deception, humour, love triangles, including other characters, action, infidelity, flashbacks, time jumps, angst.
Please Stay Away From: Excessive Jeff & Lester (some is fine, but they can be pretty grating), breaking up Ellie & Awesome, depressing endings.
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Orphan Black (TV)
Alison Hendrix, Felix Dawkins, Sarah Manning - Sarah and Alison are my favourite clones, and Felix is absolutely amazing. I love each element of the dynamic that these three have, both as duos and all three of them together. I love how well Felix and Sarah know each other, I love the way Sarah and Alison view the world differently and are still able to relate, and I love how Felix and Alison have grown close and the ways she leans on him. I'd love to see something that's Season 2 compliant - something with one of them getting into a scrape and the other two helping them out, maybe. Or just any type of small, missing-scene interaction between them. I just love the way these three relate and interact with each other, so whichever dynamic you choose to pursue, I'm going to think it's awesome. More at my letter!
I think Orphan Black is SUCH a cool show. I love the different clones, and I love that it's a show about characters and mysteries with a sci-fi element to it, instead of the other way around. Alison, Sarah, and Felix are my three favourite characters on the show - although I like Art, Cosima, Mrs S, and Kira as well, so feel free to include them! As I'm writing this right now, only two episodes of Season 2 have aired, so apologies if my requests wind up totally Jossed by the time stories go live! Basically, I love the Alison & Felix, Felix & Sarah, and Alison & Sarah dynamics, and I'd love to read about any one of them. Or the three of them together, if you'd like! I like the way these characters need each other, and how that need manifests in each of them. I like watching them get closer to each other and try to stay alive together. I like how they look out for each other, but that they each have their own individual interests in mind as well. You can really go anywhere with this - a missing scene from an episode in either season, something from when Felix and Sarah were younger, something with Felix comforting Alison during one of her meltdowns, all of them solving a part of a mystery together... you give me any of these three characters, and I'm thrilled! If you did want to ship something, I'm fine with any permutation of the three - but if you're going to include Felix, I'd prefer it to be in terms of him having a laissez-faire attitude to his sexuality, similar to how he handles his sex life on the show, rather than him making any declarations about a change in his orientation. But Alison/Felix, Sarah/Felix and Alison/Sarah are all on the table! But if you want to keep things gen, like on the show, I'm more than happy with that.
Prompts and Suggestions: What if Felix asks Alison to join him and Sarah when they plan to run away with Kira? What if Alison gets herself into a scrape and she needs Sarah and Felix to take care of her? What if one has to impersonate the other and accompany Felix somewhere to solve a mystery or get answers? What if two (or three!) of them are hanging out, and there's wine in the mix... and they have to face the repercussions the next day?
Go For It: Mysteries and intrigue (like on the show), characters with dubious motivations, hijinks, hurt/comfort, angst, humour, mentions of Toronto locations.
Please Stay Away From: Declaring Felix straight, setting the show somewhere that isn't Toronto (unless the characters travel!), character death.
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And I think that's all I have to say! Apologies for the large amount of text - I can't turn off my brain when it comes to talking about things I love, apparently. I sincerely hope you don't find this letter too confusing or restrictive - I wanted to give you as much to work with as possible without being a pain. Hopefully I've done that. As I mentioned at the beginning, have fun with the prompts and enjoy seeing where they take you! I'm dying for fic in any of these three fandoms, so in my eyes, you're already awesome.
Thank you so much in advance, NPT Writer! I'm really excited. Happy writing!
♥, kissoffools
(And I'm kissoffools on AO3 as well!)
Hello! I'm so excited about being matched on one of the three canons below - I honestly really love all of them, and can't wait to see what winds up in my inbox come reveals. :) I already know I'm going to be thrilled with whatever you write for me, Dear Author!
I've tried my best to provide you with a clear idea of why I like the things I've requested, and to give you a variety of prompts and suggestions to work with! If your plot bunnies run away with you a bit, it's all good with me - go with where the story wants to go, right? Just please don't include my Do Not Wants, and it's all going to be golden.
I'm going to try and keep this short - but I'm a rambler, so we'll see how that works out! No promises. :)
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Likes & Dislikes
When it comes to types of fic I enjoy, I tend to enjoy canon-set stories; AUs and crossovers aren't usually for me. I'll read angst, fluff, humour, romance, and smut fic - whatever you're comfortable with - and any rating, from G to E, is cool too. I've requested characters that can be shipped together, but they don't have to be! Gen or friendship fic is always completely welcome. Friendship dynamics and bonds are just as interesting to me as romantic ones.
I do have some strong dislikes: pro-ana talk, rape/non-con, mpreg, and scat/bloodplay. I also don't enjoy songfic or reading about characters crying. And character bashing is no bueno, if you ask me.
Feel free to poke around my Tumblr if you need a better idea of what types of things I like! Although I really only reblog a few things every week, so it may not be very helpful after all.
Now let's get a little fandom-specific!
***Just a note: the following sections have spoilers for each requested canon. Proceed with caution!***
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Captain America (Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes, Peggy Carter, Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers - Steve Rogers is my main squeeze - he's my favourite character in the MCU, and I love him and his movies to pieces. His relationships with the three characters I've listed here - Bucky, Peggy, and Sam - are all fantastic, and I really just want more of them. If you want to ship him with one of these people, ship to your heart's content! If you want to write about Steve and Sam's journey to find Bucky, go nuts! If you want to write something that bends time and allows more interaction beween Peggy and Steve, go for it! Basically anything containing Steve and any of these three characters will have me thrilled.
I love the Captain America movies so much, oh man. SO MUCH! I think Steve is a fantastic character - I love that he has a good heart and that he wants to do what's right, and that those character traits were in him before the serum changed his life. I adore him, and I adore the dynamic that he has with Bucky, Peggy, and Sam. The friendship he had with Bucky, and the fact that it's now almost vanished, and they're now two characters out of time and there's a disconnect between them... god, yes, all of that. I love Steve and Peggy, too - I still wail about how "THEY HAD A DAAAATE!", and their reunion scene in CA2 where she forgot and then remembered him again made me cry. Their chemistry rang so true for me. And I fell for Steve and Sam's dynamic right away - the fact that they can relate to each other, having gone through similar things, and Sam's loyalty to Steve and their fun banter just slays me. Seriously, wherever you want to go with any of these dynamics is awesome to me. Ship them, focus on friendship, include 'em all, leave some of them out... I'm not fussy. I'm up to date on all the MCU movies, as well as Agent Carter, so feel free to mention/reference other ones - but I haven't watched Agents of Shield, so including plots/characters from that isn't likely a good idea. But in general, have fun with it!
Prompts and Suggestions: What happens on Steve and Sam's journey to try and find Bucky? What happens as Bucky's memory slowly starts to creep back? What if Steve does try to date, but can't get his gal Peggy out of his mind? What if neither Bucky nor Steve "died" at the end of CA1, and somehow the both of them - and Peggy - wound up in the present anyway?
Go For It: Banter, humour, including other MCU characters/events (Natasha and Thor are favourites, but Tony and Loki are not. Just fyi!), time travel, angst, hurt/comfort, action.
Please Stay Away From: Excessive pop culture references (some Steve vs 21st Century stuff is okay, but please don't go overboard), dumb!Steve, character death.
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Chuck (TV)
Bryce Larkin, Chuck Bartowski - I love the dynamic between Chuck and Bryce - how they were college roommates, how they became antagonists, and how they had to work together again with the CIA. They had a really interesting story arc, and I'd love to see anything that either fills in missing pieces of their story or dovetails into a type of "what if" scenario. What if Chuck had found out about the CIA during college? What if Bryce hadn't sent Chuck the Intersect? Feel free to ship them or keep them as friends - whatever works for you. Just give me more of their relationship, at any point on their timeline, and I'll love it. More at my letter!
I LOVE CHUCK. Both the show and the character himself! The show has an awesome balance of humour, action, and sincerity, and Chuck himself is sweet and funny and tries to do the right thing, which is kind of my kryptonite. Throughout the show, I found myself incredibly interested in the relationship and dynamic between Chuck and Bryce Larkin. I thought the backstory they set up for the two of them was really effective, and I loved how Bryce sleeping with Chuck's girlfriend and getting him kicked out of Stanford wound up being explained and leading to so much more. I'd love to read anything more about these two - their first meeting, their time at college when they were roommates, conflict over either Jill or Sarah, or the two of them having to work together again once they were both in the CIA. Or if you'd rather change the timeline, or write future fic and keep Bryce alive, go for it! If you want to ship them, I'd be totally down with that - roommates/spies sneaking around and secretly hooking up? Yes please! - but if you'd rather just keep them as friends and explore their up and down history together, I'm more than happy there too. I just feel like there's so much about their relationship that we didn't get to see, especially during college, and I'd love to see more of it. Plus, I love Sarah, Casey, Morgan, Ellie, and Awesome, so feel free to incorporate any of them however you'd like!
Prompts and Suggestions: What if Chuck cheated on Jill with Bryce, instead of the other way around? What if Chuck accidentally found out about the CIA while he was at Stanford? What if Chuck and Bryce had a more romantic history than they originally let on when the two were reunited through the CIA? What if Bryce didn't send Chuck the Intersect - he sent himself, instead?
Go For It: Friends to lovers, deception, humour, love triangles, including other characters, action, infidelity, flashbacks, time jumps, angst.
Please Stay Away From: Excessive Jeff & Lester (some is fine, but they can be pretty grating), breaking up Ellie & Awesome, depressing endings.
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Orphan Black (TV)
Alison Hendrix, Felix Dawkins, Sarah Manning - Sarah and Alison are my favourite clones, and Felix is absolutely amazing. I love each element of the dynamic that these three have, both as duos and all three of them together. I love how well Felix and Sarah know each other, I love the way Sarah and Alison view the world differently and are still able to relate, and I love how Felix and Alison have grown close and the ways she leans on him. I'd love to see something that's Season 2 compliant - something with one of them getting into a scrape and the other two helping them out, maybe. Or just any type of small, missing-scene interaction between them. I just love the way these three relate and interact with each other, so whichever dynamic you choose to pursue, I'm going to think it's awesome. More at my letter!
I think Orphan Black is SUCH a cool show. I love the different clones, and I love that it's a show about characters and mysteries with a sci-fi element to it, instead of the other way around. Alison, Sarah, and Felix are my three favourite characters on the show - although I like Art, Cosima, Mrs S, and Kira as well, so feel free to include them! As I'm writing this right now, only two episodes of Season 2 have aired, so apologies if my requests wind up totally Jossed by the time stories go live! Basically, I love the Alison & Felix, Felix & Sarah, and Alison & Sarah dynamics, and I'd love to read about any one of them. Or the three of them together, if you'd like! I like the way these characters need each other, and how that need manifests in each of them. I like watching them get closer to each other and try to stay alive together. I like how they look out for each other, but that they each have their own individual interests in mind as well. You can really go anywhere with this - a missing scene from an episode in either season, something from when Felix and Sarah were younger, something with Felix comforting Alison during one of her meltdowns, all of them solving a part of a mystery together... you give me any of these three characters, and I'm thrilled! If you did want to ship something, I'm fine with any permutation of the three - but if you're going to include Felix, I'd prefer it to be in terms of him having a laissez-faire attitude to his sexuality, similar to how he handles his sex life on the show, rather than him making any declarations about a change in his orientation. But Alison/Felix, Sarah/Felix and Alison/Sarah are all on the table! But if you want to keep things gen, like on the show, I'm more than happy with that.
Prompts and Suggestions: What if Felix asks Alison to join him and Sarah when they plan to run away with Kira? What if Alison gets herself into a scrape and she needs Sarah and Felix to take care of her? What if one has to impersonate the other and accompany Felix somewhere to solve a mystery or get answers? What if two (or three!) of them are hanging out, and there's wine in the mix... and they have to face the repercussions the next day?
Go For It: Mysteries and intrigue (like on the show), characters with dubious motivations, hijinks, hurt/comfort, angst, humour, mentions of Toronto locations.
Please Stay Away From: Declaring Felix straight, setting the show somewhere that isn't Toronto (unless the characters travel!), character death.
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And I think that's all I have to say! Apologies for the large amount of text - I can't turn off my brain when it comes to talking about things I love, apparently. I sincerely hope you don't find this letter too confusing or restrictive - I wanted to give you as much to work with as possible without being a pain. Hopefully I've done that. As I mentioned at the beginning, have fun with the prompts and enjoy seeing where they take you! I'm dying for fic in any of these three fandoms, so in my eyes, you're already awesome.
Thank you so much in advance, NPT Writer! I'm really excited. Happy writing!
♥, kissoffools
(And I'm kissoffools on AO3 as well!)