Dear Rare Male Slash Writer
Hi, thanks for writing for me! I hope this letter is helpful.
Likes: Hurt/comfort, humour, fluff, friendship, family relationships, romance, first time, established relationship, friends-to-lovers, gay/bi characters, coming out stories, meeting their partner's family, bed sharing, cuddling, huddling for warmth, episode tags/missing scenes, mission fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, happy endings
Dislikes/DNWs: Noncon, breakup of requested pairings, character bashing, major character death, possessiveness/jealousy, open relationships/poly, infidelity, RPF, homophobic violence or slurs, non-canon divergent AUs, gen/preslash, asexual/aromantic/nonbinary characters, first and second POV, explicit sex
Fandoms:
Football Song - Matt Fishel (Song) (Narrator/Johnny)
I've liked this song since the first time I heard it, and I'd love to see an exploration of the relationship between the narrator and Johnny, especially if it involves Johnny deciding he likes the narrator enough to come out and deal with the fallout. I'd also enjoy something about how they started fooling around in the first place - did they start off as friends? Who made the first move? (You can call the narrator Matt or pick another name, I don't mind.)
Fandom specific notes: This is a British song, so please use our definition of football and not the American one! Also, I read a theory that the relationship between them is just the narrator's fantasy, but I'm not a fan of that reading so for the purposes of this I'd like it to be real.
Star Trek AOS (Original Vulcan Character/OMC)
I've always been curious how Vulcans view/approach same-sex relationships, and I'd love to see how AOS's treatment of Vulcans as an endangered species affects that. The OMC can be Vulcan or not, though I imagine the latter would add an extra strain on the relationship. Vulcan society can be homophobic or not, your choice, the idea of a gay (or bi) Vulcan trying to navigate between his duty to his people and his personal feelings is just really interesting to me, and I'd love to see that explored.
Fandom specific DNWs: Vulcans having a lower body temperature than humans, homophobia among humans/Starfleet.
Star Trek Discovery (Pike/Ash)
I really like this pairing, and always want more fic for it. I love how Pike is such a genuinely good person, and how Ash is clearly damaged but still trying to do the right thing, even if he isn't always sure what that is. I also really love how the catalyst for them going from disliking and distrusting each other to basically friends is fighting a robotic squid from the future, and the potential bond formed by them being two of the only people left behind at the end.
I'd love something set after season 2, with Pike back on the Enterprise and Ash working on rebuilding Section 31. Maybe they have to work together for a mission, or crash land somewhere and have to survive until rescue comes? Or something about them meeting up on shore leave? Either first time or established relationship is fine, I just really like the trust and history between them, so anything that touches on that would make me happy.
(While I've DNW'd noncon, mentions of Ash's canon trauma are fine.)
Fandom specific DNWs: Any references to Pike's fate in TOS or his knowledge of same (unless you're writing a fix-it AU), homophobia of any kind.
What's It Gonna Be - Shura (Music Video) (Nick/Brad)
Video here.
True story, I found this by googling "gay music videos" and wow, did it deliver. I love how it starts with the brother and sister pining over their het crushes and ends with them realising they actually want each other's crushes instead, and if this was a full-length movie I would watch the hell out of it. I'd love to read the story of how Nick (the brother) and Brad (the jock) get together, how they go from acquaintances to friends to boyfriends, and how people around them react to it.
I also really like the relationship between Nick and Shura, so if you want to include her and her cheerleader girlfriend, please go ahead.
Thanks again!
Likes: Hurt/comfort, humour, fluff, friendship, family relationships, romance, first time, established relationship, friends-to-lovers, gay/bi characters, coming out stories, meeting their partner's family, bed sharing, cuddling, huddling for warmth, episode tags/missing scenes, mission fic, canon-divergent AUs and fix-it fic, telepathy/empathy, cultural differences, happy endings
Dislikes/DNWs: Noncon, breakup of requested pairings, character bashing, major character death, possessiveness/jealousy, open relationships/poly, infidelity, RPF, homophobic violence or slurs, non-canon divergent AUs, gen/preslash, asexual/aromantic/nonbinary characters, first and second POV, explicit sex
Fandoms:
Football Song - Matt Fishel (Song) (Narrator/Johnny)
I've liked this song since the first time I heard it, and I'd love to see an exploration of the relationship between the narrator and Johnny, especially if it involves Johnny deciding he likes the narrator enough to come out and deal with the fallout. I'd also enjoy something about how they started fooling around in the first place - did they start off as friends? Who made the first move? (You can call the narrator Matt or pick another name, I don't mind.)
Fandom specific notes: This is a British song, so please use our definition of football and not the American one! Also, I read a theory that the relationship between them is just the narrator's fantasy, but I'm not a fan of that reading so for the purposes of this I'd like it to be real.
Star Trek AOS (Original Vulcan Character/OMC)
I've always been curious how Vulcans view/approach same-sex relationships, and I'd love to see how AOS's treatment of Vulcans as an endangered species affects that. The OMC can be Vulcan or not, though I imagine the latter would add an extra strain on the relationship. Vulcan society can be homophobic or not, your choice, the idea of a gay (or bi) Vulcan trying to navigate between his duty to his people and his personal feelings is just really interesting to me, and I'd love to see that explored.
Fandom specific DNWs: Vulcans having a lower body temperature than humans, homophobia among humans/Starfleet.
Star Trek Discovery (Pike/Ash)
I really like this pairing, and always want more fic for it. I love how Pike is such a genuinely good person, and how Ash is clearly damaged but still trying to do the right thing, even if he isn't always sure what that is. I also really love how the catalyst for them going from disliking and distrusting each other to basically friends is fighting a robotic squid from the future, and the potential bond formed by them being two of the only people left behind at the end.
I'd love something set after season 2, with Pike back on the Enterprise and Ash working on rebuilding Section 31. Maybe they have to work together for a mission, or crash land somewhere and have to survive until rescue comes? Or something about them meeting up on shore leave? Either first time or established relationship is fine, I just really like the trust and history between them, so anything that touches on that would make me happy.
(While I've DNW'd noncon, mentions of Ash's canon trauma are fine.)
Fandom specific DNWs: Any references to Pike's fate in TOS or his knowledge of same (unless you're writing a fix-it AU), homophobia of any kind.
What's It Gonna Be - Shura (Music Video) (Nick/Brad)
Video here.
True story, I found this by googling "gay music videos" and wow, did it deliver. I love how it starts with the brother and sister pining over their het crushes and ends with them realising they actually want each other's crushes instead, and if this was a full-length movie I would watch the hell out of it. I'd love to read the story of how Nick (the brother) and Brad (the jock) get together, how they go from acquaintances to friends to boyfriends, and how people around them react to it.
I also really like the relationship between Nick and Shura, so if you want to include her and her cheerleader girlfriend, please go ahead.
Thanks again!