Cannon Fodder Dear Author Letter!
Dear Author for Cannon Fodder CBJ Fic Exchange!
I'll put my prompts below after my general comments--if you'd rather tell another story entirely that's absolutely great, optional details are optional and all that, I just know some people prefer to have some ideas to build off.
In general, I like: friends to lovers, found families, teaaaaaaam, pining (preferably requited!), first times, humour, AUs (especially sf/fantasy type ones; x in SPACE!! is very much up my alley, for example, for the fandoms that aren't already there :D), competence porn, fake dating, had to get married for reasons (bonus points if said reason is tax related :D), friends with benefits that grows into feelings, epistolary fic, plotty things, porny things, classic tropes being used for good or evil; basically I'm happy to be sold on anything.
I love slice-of-life type vignettes and hockey-specific details are awesome too; if you want to set something in or around a game I'm also super on board with that. Something close to 'canon' is also great. I love seeing fictional takes that incorporate facts we may know about and put a new spin on them. I also love seeing the larger cast that is involved in hockey fandom; I really like it when other people get to show up and have their own lives and issues and other stuff going on as well as seeing the main pairing. Also, consensual non-monogamy is totally fine by me; as is people having history dating other people and that being OK and normal (and not a source of jealousy, preferably.) BDSM content is generally also cool with me; I just am not that into a/b/o AUs -- D/s dynamics outside of that are all good. Outsider POV is also really fun, and if anything more unusual is your jam then I'm down with that, too.
I don't like: non-con, torture, grimdark for the sake of grimdark, abuse or basically anything that would usually be warned for. I prefer happy endings, but if a wistful or bittersweet place is where your story goes, that's fine. I just don't like suffering for the sake of suffering.
My specific pairings:
Seth Jones/Brandon Saad:
I'm down for pretty much anything with this pairing; whether it's them bonding over being traded last season, or about living up to their new contracts, or about being seen as veterans on this team despite being under 25 themselves still.
I'm also super on board with anything that incorporates any of their international play, whether it's the pre-Sochi summer training camp, the World Cup of Hockey this year or forecasting forward to the next Olympics.
I like the way they're both sort of quiet-seeming guys who are super competent at their jobs and I feel like it could be really interesting to see how that plays out interpersonally, too.
Brandon Saad/Nick Leddy:
(cribbing shamelessly from every author letter I've written in like 5 years): I love literally everything about this pairing and am super easy for any look you want to take at them. First times, established relationship, long distance, struggling with that, AUs in space, AUs with magical realism, woke up married, pretty much any sort of popular trope and I'm on board.
I've actually been thinking about woke-up-married a bit more recently and I would love to see how that works given the whole different teams thing, especially if they weren't already in an established relationship (although if you want to take a spin on that trope with an established relationship I'm also on board for that.) I'm also particularly a sucker for first-time fics for these guys, I love getting to see all the different ways that people come up with to make that happen.
Caveat: If you can avoid setting the story around Blackhawks-related things I would appreciate that.
Hilary Knight/Brandon Saad
I'm shallow, they're both tall and competent and really fucking good at hockey, sign me the fuck up, basically. Olympics-related fic if you want to assume the NHLers get to go would be great, straight up PWP is also fine, basically I love the heck out of every fic with this pairing that already exists and always want to encourage more. I would also be really intrigued by AUs for this one, ngl.
Seth Jones/Zach Werenski
They're so great together on the ice, tell me more about how that works ~off the ice~. >:D I'm also keen for stories about Zach adjusting to the NHL, and to Columbus, and the pressure/expectations. This is another pairing that I'd be really into first time/how they got together type stories, or, heck, just give me goofy slice of slice scooter gang shenanigans. (ISTG, team. <3)
Seth Jones/Ryan Murray
See above re: play great together for this pairing, too. (And if you wanna mix Boone in too that's fine, I just ran out of nomination slots.) I really liked seeing them play together last season--and how much happier Ryan seemed after Seth got traded to Columbus, cough cough, nudge wink etc. Something about how this season is an adjustment in terms of both how it's going and who the personnel on the ice are now has changed would be neat, or basically, uh, anything.
In conclusion, I hope you have a great time writing and I'm sure I will love whatever you come up with. If you're concerned about something and want to anonymously check my opinion on it, Izzy (izzy on DW, izzybeth on LJ) or Kat (katrin on LJ) should always be able to get hold of me to ask.
[unrelated side note: I've been so bad at doing more than reading my feed in forever that I only have Oilers and LocalHockey icons left, heh. oops.]
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I'll put my prompts below after my general comments--if you'd rather tell another story entirely that's absolutely great, optional details are optional and all that, I just know some people prefer to have some ideas to build off.
In general, I like: friends to lovers, found families, teaaaaaaam, pining (preferably requited!), first times, humour, AUs (especially sf/fantasy type ones; x in SPACE!! is very much up my alley, for example, for the fandoms that aren't already there :D), competence porn, fake dating, had to get married for reasons (bonus points if said reason is tax related :D), friends with benefits that grows into feelings, epistolary fic, plotty things, porny things, classic tropes being used for good or evil; basically I'm happy to be sold on anything.
I love slice-of-life type vignettes and hockey-specific details are awesome too; if you want to set something in or around a game I'm also super on board with that. Something close to 'canon' is also great. I love seeing fictional takes that incorporate facts we may know about and put a new spin on them. I also love seeing the larger cast that is involved in hockey fandom; I really like it when other people get to show up and have their own lives and issues and other stuff going on as well as seeing the main pairing. Also, consensual non-monogamy is totally fine by me; as is people having history dating other people and that being OK and normal (and not a source of jealousy, preferably.) BDSM content is generally also cool with me; I just am not that into a/b/o AUs -- D/s dynamics outside of that are all good. Outsider POV is also really fun, and if anything more unusual is your jam then I'm down with that, too.
I don't like: non-con, torture, grimdark for the sake of grimdark, abuse or basically anything that would usually be warned for. I prefer happy endings, but if a wistful or bittersweet place is where your story goes, that's fine. I just don't like suffering for the sake of suffering.
My specific pairings:
Seth Jones/Brandon Saad:
I'm down for pretty much anything with this pairing; whether it's them bonding over being traded last season, or about living up to their new contracts, or about being seen as veterans on this team despite being under 25 themselves still.
I'm also super on board with anything that incorporates any of their international play, whether it's the pre-Sochi summer training camp, the World Cup of Hockey this year or forecasting forward to the next Olympics.
I like the way they're both sort of quiet-seeming guys who are super competent at their jobs and I feel like it could be really interesting to see how that plays out interpersonally, too.
Brandon Saad/Nick Leddy:
(cribbing shamelessly from every author letter I've written in like 5 years): I love literally everything about this pairing and am super easy for any look you want to take at them. First times, established relationship, long distance, struggling with that, AUs in space, AUs with magical realism, woke up married, pretty much any sort of popular trope and I'm on board.
I've actually been thinking about woke-up-married a bit more recently and I would love to see how that works given the whole different teams thing, especially if they weren't already in an established relationship (although if you want to take a spin on that trope with an established relationship I'm also on board for that.) I'm also particularly a sucker for first-time fics for these guys, I love getting to see all the different ways that people come up with to make that happen.
Caveat: If you can avoid setting the story around Blackhawks-related things I would appreciate that.
Hilary Knight/Brandon Saad
I'm shallow, they're both tall and competent and really fucking good at hockey, sign me the fuck up, basically. Olympics-related fic if you want to assume the NHLers get to go would be great, straight up PWP is also fine, basically I love the heck out of every fic with this pairing that already exists and always want to encourage more. I would also be really intrigued by AUs for this one, ngl.
Seth Jones/Zach Werenski
They're so great together on the ice, tell me more about how that works ~off the ice~. >:D I'm also keen for stories about Zach adjusting to the NHL, and to Columbus, and the pressure/expectations. This is another pairing that I'd be really into first time/how they got together type stories, or, heck, just give me goofy slice of slice scooter gang shenanigans. (ISTG, team. <3)
Seth Jones/Ryan Murray
See above re: play great together for this pairing, too. (And if you wanna mix Boone in too that's fine, I just ran out of nomination slots.) I really liked seeing them play together last season--and how much happier Ryan seemed after Seth got traded to Columbus, cough cough, nudge wink etc. Something about how this season is an adjustment in terms of both how it's going and who the personnel on the ice are now has changed would be neat, or basically, uh, anything.
In conclusion, I hope you have a great time writing and I'm sure I will love whatever you come up with. If you're concerned about something and want to anonymously check my opinion on it, Izzy (izzy on DW, izzybeth on LJ) or Kat (katrin on LJ) should always be able to get hold of me to ask.
[unrelated side note: I've been so bad at doing more than reading my feed in forever that I only have Oilers and LocalHockey icons left, heh. oops.]
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