Rare Male Slash Exchange 2022 Letter
Hello dear creator!
I'm jazzed about receiving a work for any of these fandoms, so my big hope is that you have fun with this exchange!
General likes:
H/c, found family, polyamory, happy endings, fluff, friendship.
AUs: Mundane, sports, workplace, pack (with or without werewolviness), magic, creature (especially incubi/succubi).
Anything about scents, whether that's ABO-style scent-marking, more general scents on peoples' clothes or when near their skin, or the scents of things in the standard environment, like nature or food or fabrics.
I'd love to read the thing you've been working on but haven't had an excuse to finish.
Opt-ins: Background relationships, infidelity, first or second person POVs, A/B/O that isn't just a sex scene, identity headcanons (especially asexuality and polyamory).
General prompts:
Characters going to the gym or exercising
Characters buying, creating, or exchanging gifts
Characters cooking or planning meals
Characters using recreational substances like weed or alcohol
Someone taking care of their partner after a long day, a battle, or another physically or mentally stressful event: getting their favorite food, a massage, renewing ice packs, changing bandages, putting on music or scents they like
Spending downtime together: a shared hobby, just laying around not getting out of bed, getting groceries
Non-sexual intimacy
Love languages
Misunderstandings
Previous relationships (platonic or otherwise) being relevant to the characters
Cultural exchange- languages, food, music, holidays, anything :)
Art likes:
I like it when art uses a color pallette and puts it on the side? I really like sky-like palettes, like blue-yellow-grays, or earth-like pallettes like red-brown-dark green.
I don't go for wallpapers but I don't have anything as a lockscreen at the moment so if you like doing that sort of thing I'm totally here for it.
I'd love to see a new style you're working on that maybe you haven't mastered yet, or just whatever kind of materials/style you have the most fun working with.
Any sort of words or symbols in art is cool with me- speech bubbles or floaty things or sound effects are all awesome.
Of the fandoms I've requested in this exchange, I'd only like AU art for hockey. In that fandom, any kind of AU is great! I especially like AUs of characters playing other sports.
DNWs:
Nothing related to suicide, from ideation to jokes.
Themes of mourning being front and center.
Head or eye trauma, except for concussions.
Apocalypses, dystopia, mob/mafia AUs.
Fandoms and ships are not listed in any order of preference.
[Men's Hockey RPF]Men's Hockey RPF
Sidney Crosby/Claude Giroux: I am a Pens fan but I find Giroux very entertaining. I'd love something set during the NHL season, the off-season, or international games. I'd also be very into future fic or non-hockey AUs, or one-plays-hockey AUs. I realize this is not narrowing anything down, I guess what I'm tring to say is that I really dig this ship so I'll like any setting. What I love here is the competitiveness, but also the eventual 'we're not so different, you and I.' Going in a romantic direction after that is great, or friends with benefits that still turns into hate sex sometimes. I'd also be extremely open to a fic set in, like, 2025 where they're on the same team (cap shenanigans, don't ask). For more specific prompts, I like Sports AUs, so maybe an AU where they play a different sport? Or maybe where one plays hockey and one plays a different sport, and they meet at the Olympics or when one team visits the other team's city. Or, anything to do with one of the hockey-specific AUs listed in my hockey likes below.
Carter Hart/Tristan Jarry: I've seen several different personality headcanons for each of these guys, and the only ones I don't buy are the quiet, easy-going, laid-back ones. Wound up tight as a spring Carter? Absolutely. Personally I headcanon Jarry as slightly evil and manipulative. It's the eyebrows. Really I'd like just about anything that shows personality. I love goalie shenanigans so anything with that would be great. I'd also love a fic where they ended up on the same team, and having to transition from friends who compete on the ice and make bets, to people who are actually competing for games, specially if thay were in a secret (or just known to the team) relationship at the same time.
Carter Hart/Ivan Provorov: Looking for any sort of goalie-defender shippiness here, especially anything rooted in a season, this or any other. I'm a big fan of that 'defensemen treat their goalies like their girlfriends' comment, so anything along those lines would be amazing. Goalie nesting is one of my favorite tropes, so that would be fantastic.
Frederik Andersen/Jack Campbell: I don't know much about Freddie aside from 'has great thighs,' though tbh that's enough for me. Campbell is so endearing thoughm the way he's constantly jazzing up his teammates and is always smiley. Personally, and I may be projecting, but I've gotten major ADHD vibes off him as well as a strong gaydar hit, so any fic looking at those things would be cool. I'd really like to read something about the supporting each other as a tandem, especially if that included goalie nesting or something like that.
General things I like in hockey fics:
Magic or creature AUs
Hockey-specific AUs, like hockey gods, kneeling verse, goalie nesting
Works in the regular universe or an alternate universe that involve the team as an in-group of some sort. This can include team soulbonds, werewolves, anything with a strong focus on group hierarchy, basically anything that has team members looking to each other for socializing and support. Some of my favorite things about hockey fics are those that focus on the idea of bonds between teammates, how the specific set-up of a hockey careers can lead to both strong relationships with people, places, and organizations, and then sudden changes in circumstance.
When I prompt for hockey fics, I tend to pretend that RL romantic partners and children don't exist, but feel free to include them if that's how you're seeing things, I don't have a problem with that.
[Dimension 20]Dimension 20
Kingston Brown/Pete Conlan | Pete the Plug: I haven't finished the Unsleeping City yet, but I expect to by the time the exchange opens. So far I love Pete (though I love all of Ally's characters) and his eclectic, depressed vibe, and I can't wait to see how his powers change him over the course of the season. I also really love Kingston and his connection with New York City and its people. I lived there for a while, so any world-building or details around that would be awesome. I don't know if this does happen later on, but I'd really like something where Kingston takes Pete under his wing and helps him find his place in both cities. Maybe some magical mentoring and like, basic life skills, cause it seems like Pete needs that. Pete meeting Kingston's family would also be amazing. As far as shippiness goes, I'm cool with whatever your comfort level is with the age gap, but I think something on the sweeter side seems more in-character.
For art, anything happening during the series would be great. The scene where they're in the secret hospital room together and Kingston is treating Pete woud be great, or the part where their magic connects. Alternately, a generic point in time where they're cuddling or holding hands or fighting alongside each other or doing somethng sweet like feeding ducks would be aesome.
[Bartimaeus Trilogy]Bartimaeus Triology
Bartimaeus/Nathaniel (Bartimaeus): I didn't super love Nathaniel in the books, but you got the impression that, had he lived longer, he might have grown out of some stuff. It would be really interesting to see what that would look like, especially with the new government and a new understanding of magic after Kitty's experiences. I don't know how I would write a get-together fic for these two, so I'd love to see someone else's take on it in that timeframe. Nathaniel being jealous of Bartimaeus and Kitty's bond would be great, especially if it spurred him into some sort of action. I don't know how fluffy I could see this ship getting, but finding some kind of affection and sweetness would be nice, interspersed with all of their sarcasm and insults banter.
For art I'd like something funny if possible, either them arguing or fighting or in some mess. No context necessary. Something edging toward sweet would also be great.
Bartimaeus/Ptolemy (Bartimaeus): A very different style of 'if only he'd lived longer!' I'd love somethng set in Ptolemy's time or any timey wimey magic to plot Ptolemy in the present day. How would this relationship develop and deepend with more time for them? How would present-day magicians or commoners react to Bartimaeus' freedom and their relationship if it became known? How would other demons? Alternately, it would be interesting to see what Ptolemy would make of the present day without their relationship being public.
For art, anything of them just being sweet together, whether that's relaxing at a beach, playing with Bartimaeus in some funny form, going on a date, or reading together.
[Tortall]Tortall
George Cooper/Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak: I have never considered this ship before so I was delighted to find it in the tagset! I loved both of these characters, especially Raoul in Kel's series. They both have a sense of decency and honor that is typical of the protags in the series, but they're also familiar with a sort of ends justify the means mindset as well, to an extent.
I would definitely prefer a canon universe fic. I'd be fine with a fic that does or does not include Alanna, whether this is a triangle and the story is just focused on this side of it, or a V-shaped relationship around George, or a fic where George and Alanna didn't end up together or stay together. Something set during or around Kel's series would also be interesting, what with all the talk of Raoul as a confirmed bachelor. I'd like a plotty, fluffy, or romantic fic for this ship, with whatever rating you want.
For art, something of them on a date would be lovely, whatever that may mean for them! Or in a fight together.
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Tagset
I'm jazzed about receiving a work for any of these fandoms, so my big hope is that you have fun with this exchange!
General likes:
H/c, found family, polyamory, happy endings, fluff, friendship.
AUs: Mundane, sports, workplace, pack (with or without werewolviness), magic, creature (especially incubi/succubi).
Anything about scents, whether that's ABO-style scent-marking, more general scents on peoples' clothes or when near their skin, or the scents of things in the standard environment, like nature or food or fabrics.
I'd love to read the thing you've been working on but haven't had an excuse to finish.
Opt-ins: Background relationships, infidelity, first or second person POVs, A/B/O that isn't just a sex scene, identity headcanons (especially asexuality and polyamory).
General prompts:
Characters going to the gym or exercising
Characters buying, creating, or exchanging gifts
Characters cooking or planning meals
Characters using recreational substances like weed or alcohol
Someone taking care of their partner after a long day, a battle, or another physically or mentally stressful event: getting their favorite food, a massage, renewing ice packs, changing bandages, putting on music or scents they like
Spending downtime together: a shared hobby, just laying around not getting out of bed, getting groceries
Non-sexual intimacy
Love languages
Misunderstandings
Previous relationships (platonic or otherwise) being relevant to the characters
Cultural exchange- languages, food, music, holidays, anything :)
Art likes:
I like it when art uses a color pallette and puts it on the side? I really like sky-like palettes, like blue-yellow-grays, or earth-like pallettes like red-brown-dark green.
I don't go for wallpapers but I don't have anything as a lockscreen at the moment so if you like doing that sort of thing I'm totally here for it.
I'd love to see a new style you're working on that maybe you haven't mastered yet, or just whatever kind of materials/style you have the most fun working with.
Any sort of words or symbols in art is cool with me- speech bubbles or floaty things or sound effects are all awesome.
Of the fandoms I've requested in this exchange, I'd only like AU art for hockey. In that fandom, any kind of AU is great! I especially like AUs of characters playing other sports.
DNWs:
Nothing related to suicide, from ideation to jokes.
Themes of mourning being front and center.
Head or eye trauma, except for concussions.
Apocalypses, dystopia, mob/mafia AUs.
Fandoms and ships are not listed in any order of preference.
[Men's Hockey RPF]Men's Hockey RPF
Sidney Crosby/Claude Giroux: I am a Pens fan but I find Giroux very entertaining. I'd love something set during the NHL season, the off-season, or international games. I'd also be very into future fic or non-hockey AUs, or one-plays-hockey AUs. I realize this is not narrowing anything down, I guess what I'm tring to say is that I really dig this ship so I'll like any setting. What I love here is the competitiveness, but also the eventual 'we're not so different, you and I.' Going in a romantic direction after that is great, or friends with benefits that still turns into hate sex sometimes. I'd also be extremely open to a fic set in, like, 2025 where they're on the same team (cap shenanigans, don't ask). For more specific prompts, I like Sports AUs, so maybe an AU where they play a different sport? Or maybe where one plays hockey and one plays a different sport, and they meet at the Olympics or when one team visits the other team's city. Or, anything to do with one of the hockey-specific AUs listed in my hockey likes below.
Carter Hart/Tristan Jarry: I've seen several different personality headcanons for each of these guys, and the only ones I don't buy are the quiet, easy-going, laid-back ones. Wound up tight as a spring Carter? Absolutely. Personally I headcanon Jarry as slightly evil and manipulative. It's the eyebrows. Really I'd like just about anything that shows personality. I love goalie shenanigans so anything with that would be great. I'd also love a fic where they ended up on the same team, and having to transition from friends who compete on the ice and make bets, to people who are actually competing for games, specially if thay were in a secret (or just known to the team) relationship at the same time.
Carter Hart/Ivan Provorov: Looking for any sort of goalie-defender shippiness here, especially anything rooted in a season, this or any other. I'm a big fan of that 'defensemen treat their goalies like their girlfriends' comment, so anything along those lines would be amazing. Goalie nesting is one of my favorite tropes, so that would be fantastic.
Frederik Andersen/Jack Campbell: I don't know much about Freddie aside from 'has great thighs,' though tbh that's enough for me. Campbell is so endearing thoughm the way he's constantly jazzing up his teammates and is always smiley. Personally, and I may be projecting, but I've gotten major ADHD vibes off him as well as a strong gaydar hit, so any fic looking at those things would be cool. I'd really like to read something about the supporting each other as a tandem, especially if that included goalie nesting or something like that.
General things I like in hockey fics:
Magic or creature AUs
Hockey-specific AUs, like hockey gods, kneeling verse, goalie nesting
Works in the regular universe or an alternate universe that involve the team as an in-group of some sort. This can include team soulbonds, werewolves, anything with a strong focus on group hierarchy, basically anything that has team members looking to each other for socializing and support. Some of my favorite things about hockey fics are those that focus on the idea of bonds between teammates, how the specific set-up of a hockey careers can lead to both strong relationships with people, places, and organizations, and then sudden changes in circumstance.
When I prompt for hockey fics, I tend to pretend that RL romantic partners and children don't exist, but feel free to include them if that's how you're seeing things, I don't have a problem with that.
[Dimension 20]Dimension 20
Kingston Brown/Pete Conlan | Pete the Plug: I haven't finished the Unsleeping City yet, but I expect to by the time the exchange opens. So far I love Pete (though I love all of Ally's characters) and his eclectic, depressed vibe, and I can't wait to see how his powers change him over the course of the season. I also really love Kingston and his connection with New York City and its people. I lived there for a while, so any world-building or details around that would be awesome. I don't know if this does happen later on, but I'd really like something where Kingston takes Pete under his wing and helps him find his place in both cities. Maybe some magical mentoring and like, basic life skills, cause it seems like Pete needs that. Pete meeting Kingston's family would also be amazing. As far as shippiness goes, I'm cool with whatever your comfort level is with the age gap, but I think something on the sweeter side seems more in-character.
For art, anything happening during the series would be great. The scene where they're in the secret hospital room together and Kingston is treating Pete woud be great, or the part where their magic connects. Alternately, a generic point in time where they're cuddling or holding hands or fighting alongside each other or doing somethng sweet like feeding ducks would be aesome.
[Bartimaeus Trilogy]Bartimaeus Triology
Bartimaeus/Nathaniel (Bartimaeus): I didn't super love Nathaniel in the books, but you got the impression that, had he lived longer, he might have grown out of some stuff. It would be really interesting to see what that would look like, especially with the new government and a new understanding of magic after Kitty's experiences. I don't know how I would write a get-together fic for these two, so I'd love to see someone else's take on it in that timeframe. Nathaniel being jealous of Bartimaeus and Kitty's bond would be great, especially if it spurred him into some sort of action. I don't know how fluffy I could see this ship getting, but finding some kind of affection and sweetness would be nice, interspersed with all of their sarcasm and insults banter.
For art I'd like something funny if possible, either them arguing or fighting or in some mess. No context necessary. Something edging toward sweet would also be great.
Bartimaeus/Ptolemy (Bartimaeus): A very different style of 'if only he'd lived longer!' I'd love somethng set in Ptolemy's time or any timey wimey magic to plot Ptolemy in the present day. How would this relationship develop and deepend with more time for them? How would present-day magicians or commoners react to Bartimaeus' freedom and their relationship if it became known? How would other demons? Alternately, it would be interesting to see what Ptolemy would make of the present day without their relationship being public.
For art, anything of them just being sweet together, whether that's relaxing at a beach, playing with Bartimaeus in some funny form, going on a date, or reading together.
[Tortall]Tortall
George Cooper/Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak: I have never considered this ship before so I was delighted to find it in the tagset! I loved both of these characters, especially Raoul in Kel's series. They both have a sense of decency and honor that is typical of the protags in the series, but they're also familiar with a sort of ends justify the means mindset as well, to an extent.
I would definitely prefer a canon universe fic. I'd be fine with a fic that does or does not include Alanna, whether this is a triangle and the story is just focused on this side of it, or a V-shaped relationship around George, or a fic where George and Alanna didn't end up together or stay together. Something set during or around Kel's series would also be interesting, what with all the talk of Raoul as a confirmed bachelor. I'd like a plotty, fluffy, or romantic fic for this ship, with whatever rating you want.
For art, something of them on a date would be lovely, whatever that may mean for them! Or in a fight together.
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