aguntoaknifefight

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats (in any medium) are welcome. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. Fandoms and pairings are organized alphabetically.

DNW: setting change AUs*, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent; discussions of solo or paired sexual exploration prior to this age are fine), unrequested trans characters

*defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The colors teal and orange
• Art which is monochrome except for one specific detail in (a different) color
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses (I particularly enjoy long skirts)
• Gloves and masks and cloaks
• Fragmented images
• Mirrors
• Men with long hair

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging (both physical-only and physical-and-mental)
  • bodyswaps
• Feelings realization
• Getting together
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort (any hurt:comfort ratio)
• Grief/mourning (this includes for deceased characters but also for absent ones or more abstract griefs like for periods of life or a sense of selfhood that can no longer be returned to)
• Crack treated seriously
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
  • I also like when nonbinary characters have a specific gender beyond "nonbinary," even when the label isn't mentioned in text
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find relatively sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Characters being betrayed by their bodies
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues
• Characters who are isolated (socially/emotionally, though it can include physically as well)
• Cannibalism
• Incest smarm (ie: it's unclear whether these relations are having sex or just particularly close and the fic is luxuriating in that ambiguity, often from an outside POV. "Weirdcest" is a Supernatural-fandom specific variant of this)
• Shapeshifters & their relationships to their bodies

Smut likes

General themes I particularly like:

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Porn as character study
• Top or Dom POV
• Bottom or sub POV
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Kinking on inexperience (or pretended inexperience)
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Characters or societies which believe penetration = dominance = masculinity and all the ways that can be subverted or upheld
  • In this same vein, characters (especially men) getting off on their own passivity, particularly the mindset of being "acted upon"
• Sub tops with dom bottoms and/or submissive sadists with dominant masochists
• Same-generation incest
• Dubcon (defined here as "consent is ambiguous or not given, but no one feels assaulted afterwards")
• Characters with nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
  • Characters who like their nullified genitals
  • I particularly enjoy when characters are still able to achieve their desired level of arousal/orgasm
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic, vague, childish, and clinical language)
• Break the haughty
• Sex pollen (and other aphrodisiac-type things), especially for how it can emphasize or flip a power dynamic, lead to a realization or confession of feelings, and/or break a character’s facade
• Sex chicken (in the game sense)
• Erotic horror

Specific acts or kinks I particularly like:

• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-omegaverse settings), kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so, and the usage of chamber pots
• Proxy sex (examples for requested pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Condescending praise
• Manhandling
• Grinding, frotting, and/or tribadism (anywhere on the body but particularly thighs, stomachs, and boots)
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed or partially-clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification (particularly when combined with ageplay where the owner is a child or teen) and statue kink with an emphasis on being a cherished/precious object
• Honor bondage
• Sounding
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Public sex
• One character sitting in another's lap during (any form of) sex
• Collars
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Corsets
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Involuntary or uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)
  • I also enjoy the variant of this with piss
• Telepathic sex
• Eggpreg, particularly with a large number of small eggs, including:
  • Impregnation/oviposition
  • Expulsion
  • Caviar stripping
• Multiple orgasms
• "Just the tip" (whether it actually stays the tip or escalates to full penetration)
• Magic sex toy linked to another character's body

Opt-ins

• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Abortion or miscarriage; unwanted or horrifying pregnancy
• Period sex
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)
• Infidelity (not between nominated pairing)
• Mentions or discussions of past canonical relationships
• For requested omegaverse, I love alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics

The Elric Saga

Elric is welcome as any gender, trans or cis! Any genitals and gender presentation are welcome for Arioch.

Arioch/Elric

I love Arioch; he's so amoral and delightful. Please subject Elric to him, in whatever form that takes. I particularly like the tension over Elric's loyalty, where he is very dependent on Arioch but not enthusiastic in his loyalty, while Arioch finds him amusing to toy with. I will never be over the fact that Arioch canonically calls him "surely the sweetest of all my slaves" and Elric is constantly describing Arioch as beautiful even when he's otherwise all business. I am very into Arioch forcing Elric to admit who he belongs to or otherwise perform loyalty, particularly in a public setting or in front of Elric's allies.

Cymoril/Elric/Yyrkoon

Ah, this fucked up incestuous love triangle. Yyrkoon’s seething jealousy towards Elric for being the object of Cymoril’s affections feels like it could very easily overflow the bounds and wind up with him sexually fixated on both of them (and I think in a universe where Elric has at any point occupied the category of “female” in Yyrkoon’s mind, it has). Cymoril still seems to love her brother, despite her lack of sexual interest in him, up until the kidnapping, while Elric is in the middle between them (particularly post-getting Stormbringer when he begins to see Yyrkoon as a kindred spirit). I like the tension around where everyone’s romantic interests lie and would love to see that continued here as well.

I'm fine with this focusing more on one leg of the triangle so long as the other character is very present in thought!

The Game and the Candle

John Allard/Adrian Stanief/Feodor Stanief

The novel was published in 1909 and is therefore available on Project Gutenberg here. It’s a little less than 50k words.

These cousins have a wonderfully deranged dynamic. Stanief and Adrian both have “the habit of domination” and the whole book is Stanief doing his damnedest to yield and be genuinely loyal to Adrian despite the personal cost, while Adrian “is a kitten for whom we are all toy mice.” Add to that John, who is textually passed between them and loves them both. I really do not think you have to do all that much to add a romantic/sexual dynamic here, either with Stanief going against his natural inclination to dominate or Allard as their shared sub. Allard is regularly summoned to Adrian’s bed(side)! And meanwhile there’s also the tension with Adrian being so young and yet completely unable to trust the people around him to be genuine — post-canon, is that something they can move towards?

My “on-page sex under-16” DNW is waived for this canon, so long as Adrian’s age is not explicitly given a number. (It being implied is fine, either as mentions of his youth generally or how many months/years John has been at court.)

The Silmarillion

Tolkien-specific likes

• Ominous foreshadowing in otherwise light-hearted fics
• Politics, particularly relationships (sexual, romantic, queerplatonic, or platonic) as extensions of politics
• Messy and complicated family dynamics (incestuous or otherwise)
• The insane amount of time Elves are alive for and how that affects history for them and everyone else
• Grief and inevitability and memory
• Alien Maiar and Valar
• Setting-appropriate/plausible prejudice or baggage around gender, sexuality, disability, and race
  • Laws and Customs Among the Eldar being a set of social expectations and ideals
• Post-Years of the Trees Valinor and the complexities of being re-embodied
• Religion and cultural traditions
• Elvish hair kink

Celebrimbor/Sauron

This is my ultimate “The love was there. It didn't change anything. It didn't save anyone. But the love was there” pairing because the love being there makes things feel so much worse. I love interpretations where the relationship is (wildly unexpectedly for Sauron, who thinks feelings are for other people) genuine and affectionate, and then Sauron still goes through with choosing power anyway! I would love to see any era for them: pre-relationship, early relationship, very comfortable in the relationship, torture/death, or re-embodiment/post-death. I’m fine with this one being in the past only, particularly if they’re not interacting with each other in the present (either because one of them is dead or because they’re permanently separated), as well as Celebrimbor’s love towards Sauron being very, very complicated and involving some level of hatred post-identity reveal. (And honestly, I'm fine with the same from Sauron as well! Was he expecting Celebrimbor to be on his side even just a little bit? Was he prepared for feelings of betrayal?) I like when Sauron-as-Annatar is flawed in ways that come across very differently without the context the reader has about who he is and where this is headed. 

Please give me your headcanons for worldbuilding where necessary! I’m very open to anything regarding Celebrimbor in terms of where and when he was born, who his mother/other biological parent is, his level of complicity in the first kinslaying, and how much he knows or suspects about Sauron (though I'd prefer if he didn't suspect everything correctly in a canon-compliant fic). I would also be really, really interested in how LaCE and/or homophobia gets navigated for this pairing and how the relationship is publicly presented. (Are there Thingol and Melian comparisons? How much does Sauron resent them?)

Any genitals are welcome for Sauron, as is him being any gender of nonbinary or a man On Purpose, though YMMV on if the latter is (narratively or on a character level) transness or not.

Celegorm/Curufin

They are playing “I’m not touching you” with the line of what ‘counts’ as incest, I feel. What finally pushes them over the edge? I am intrigued by how they function as a tight-knit unit from essentially the beginning; we consistently hear them described together and as living on each other’s lands. They also both seem willing to own up to what they’re willing to do for the Oath much sooner than their other siblings (even the ones who will go on to commit the third one after C&C are dead). Is that loyalty ever tested? I’m interested in really any era for them (Years of the Trees, early First Age, Nargothrond, post-Nargothrond pre-Doriath, post-death Valinor) and any tone that feels appropriate.

Celegorm/Curufin/Dior Eluchíl

I am so intrigued by them! They’re all well-matched enough to kill each other (and there’s so much history and pre-existing sexual obsession between them and Dior’s parents, which I imagine Dior certainly feels heavily). I'd love something where sex is an extension of politics and the tension between the Noldor and the Sindar (and am therefore fine with this involving a significant degree of hatred between C&C and Dior, though I’d prefer that wasn’t the totality of the emotions). For this, I’d prefer Dior to be over the age of majority (though I’m fine with his relative youth/inexperience being played up as well as much being made of the fact that in another universe Celegorm could have been his father), but I really don’t have a preference towards consensual sex or dubcon. If it is consensual, my big question is: How? How did they get here? Did someone have the bright idea to attempt an arranged marriage to stabilize the political situation prior to the second kinslaying (which...worked, somehow)? Have they all been re-embodied in Valinor and are now working out their issues in a way the Valar probably didn't predict? Are they roleplaying their deaths? (Does this turn into a different kind of roleplay?) Are Celegorm and Curufin already together, or is Dior an acceptable proxy for desire?

Elrond Peredhil & Elros Tar-Minyatur & Maedhros & Maglor

I'm so intrigued by the tiny snippet of their life together we get in the Silmarillion. What does “love grew after between them” look like on a day-to-day basis? Where is Maedhros in the equation? I love undercurrents of unacknowledged trauma and the weird gray space Maedhros and Maglor exist in in relation to the twins. I’d really love to see the four of them once they’re fully settled into the new normal. Is there ever a point where Elrond or Elros resents that the love does exist and cannot be dismissed in a way which would allow for easy compartmentalization?

I’d love to see what the actual moment of letting the twins go join the army looked like. Did M&M go with them until they got to the camp? Was it planned for a long time or a spur of the moment thing on precisely when it would be? Who was reluctant and who was excited (or both)?

I’d also love to know if the dialogue we get in the Silmarillion itself between M&M comes from Elrond, because it seems like it very easily could. Does the writer of the in-universe Silmarillion sit him down for an interview/oral history? How consciously is Elrond shaping the narrative of what his captivity was? How much does he need to emphasize that he did love Maglor and Maglor loved them, and what is external pressure pushing him to believe? Is it easier once the war ends, because then M&M are no longer active threats to the rest of society and Elrond can work to rehabilitate their image? What is Elrond leaving out because it’s too complicated for public consumption? If Elros ever gives a similar type of interview — or even a private conversation with his family in Numenor — what does he say about the same stretch of time, and how does it differ from Elrond’s account, particularly after he has his own children?

(I’m okay with as many of the four of them being dead as the plot or timeline demands; Maedhros/Maglor is also welcome as part of this, as well as the Complicated Fucking Feelings that would probably come with either of the twins knowing about it.)

Elwing & Elrond Peredhil

I would particularly love to see their relationship after Elrond comes to Valinor following the Lord of the Rings. Are they able to figure out how to be mother and child when they had that relationship for probably six to eight years followed by so much separation and loss? Is Elwing able to find some measure of peace in talking about the loss of Elros with Elrond? What does Elrond actually remember about her?

Indis /or& Míriel Þerindë

I’m particularly interested in this post-Miriel’s death, whether it’s one-sided from Indis or after Miriel eventually decides she does want to be re-embodied. (I feel like the Valar would allow this, so long as Finwe is dead? They’ve just sort of swapped places, so no one alive is married to two people at once.) What do they like about each other, platonically or romantically? How do they deal with both of them living in the shadow of a Miriel who no longer exists? What do their children and grandchildren (etc.) think?

Indis & Nerdanel

I’m fascinated by the mention in Morgoth’s Ring that Nerdanel stayed with Indis during Feanor’s exile. What does their relationship look like, especially early in Feanor and Nerdanel’s marriage or after the Darkening, when there are so few Noldor still in Valinor?

Maedhros/Maglor

I think they’re playing a similar game as Celegorm and Curufin but it’s miserable and weirdly tied up with duty, at least once they're several kinslayings in. They have the potential to be gothic as fuck. They're the last two of Feanor's sons standing and I imagine that cannot have done great things for their relationship. I love the potential collapse of identity here, where it's hard to tell what they are to each other in part because the people who used to play other roles (father, companion, wife, mother, friend, etc.) are all dead. That said, I would also love to see a lighter version of them in Valinor! (Either before or after death.)

Maedhros & Míriel Þerindë

I am particularly interested in these two and their relationship to suicide. They have quite different motivations; Miriel’s death seems to be a response to Feanor’s birth specifically, though she never seems to regret it, while Maedhros textually expresses a desire for death twice at points that are chronologically far apart. I think it is possible and likely that Maedhros lives with at least periodic suicidal ideation from Angband onwards. How do either of them conceptualize their deaths? They only know of each other; Maedhros through stories and Miriel through tapestries. (I am fascinated by Miriel as someone who is literally writing the history of her family, but who is largely voiceless within it.) I would just really like to see them interact in this context, whether or not the subject of their deaths actually comes up.

The Time Master

Tarod/Yandros

Link to my promo post and where to find canon!

Their dynamic drives me completely insane; it’s so good. The supposed villain going “we’re two sides of the same coin, you’re more like me than you think, you’ll understand eventually,” and then he’s just actually right. (Not in every aspect, admittedly! But the personal ones.) The entire time I was reading this series, I was expecting a third act betrayal from Yandros, and I am so charmed that did not happen. Yandros ultimately chooses Tarod and defers to his decision, even though he doesn’t necessarily agree with it.

I'd love to see Yandros's perspective on any of the scenes where he's talking to Tarod and isn't managing to win him over; I imagine it must be very frustrating. He’s fairly restrained about how much he misses Tarod in canon, but it’s such a disturbing and relatively long-lasting separation, compared to what they've done before. I also think there's a lot of potential for interaction in the time between books one and two, where Tarod has trapped himself in a completely empty castle that he's wrenched out of time. They literally can't get the plot moving, so what else is there to do?

I very much enjoy watching Tarod wrestle with his morality, and I would take truly so many words of it. If Yandros ever does decide to try seduction (whether or not he’s told Tarod that they’re siblings), how does Tarod take it? I would love to see him muddling through confused feelings, particularly if dream sex or shapeshifting is involved.

Post- (or pre-)canon with them both as gods is welcome as well. What are they like when there’s no misunderstandings? (If you’re interested in writing smut, I think they have had the absolute weirdest sex, at least half of which is completely unintelligible to the human brain as such.) Any genitals are welcome for either of them.

I love outside POV and this is a canon I think it works very well for, as humans either don’t remember or understand much about Yandros and Tarod (either as people or as gods). I think we should toss (confirmed? rumored?) incest/displays of affection into the mix and see what happens.

I have read both the prequel and sequel trilogies as well, so feel free to pull in canon from there if it's helpful and don’t worry about it if it isn’t. (I particularly enjoyed Yandros and Tarod attending human parties incognito together at the beginning of Star Ascendant.)

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats are welcome, as are fics of any rating. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. Fandoms and characters are organized alphabetically. Length does not correlate to excitement level.

DNW: Christmas or fictional equivalents, setting change AUs*, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent; discussions of solo or paired sexual exploration prior to this age are fine)

*defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The colors teal and orange
• Art which is monochrome except for one specific detail in (a different) color
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses (I particularly enjoy long skirts)
• Gloves and masks and cloaks
• Fragmented images
• Mirrors
• Men with long hair

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging (both physical-only and physical-and-mental)
  • bodyswaps
• Feelings realization
• Getting together
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort (any hurt:comfort ratio)
• Grief/mourning (for deceased characters but also for absent ones or more abstract griefs like for periods of life or a sense of selfhood that can no longer be returned to)
• Crack treated seriously
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
  • I also like when nonbinary characters have a specific gender beyond "nonbinary," even when the label isn't mentioned in text
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Characters being betrayed by their bodies
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues
• Characters who are isolated (socially/emotionally, though it can include physically as well)

Smut likes

General themes I particularly like:

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Porn as character study
• Top or Dom POV
• Bottom or sub POV
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Kinking on inexperience (or pretended inexperience)
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Characters or societies which believe penetration = dominance = masculinity and all the ways that can be subverted or upheld
  • In this same vein, characters (especially men) getting off on their own passivity, particularly the mindset of being "acted upon"
• Sub tops with dom bottoms and/or submissive sadists with dominant masochists
• Same-generation incest
• Dubcon (defined here as "consent is ambiguous or not given, but no one feels assaulted afterwards")
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic, vague, childish, and clinical language)
• Break the haughty
• Sex pollen (and other aphrodisiac-type things), especially for how it can emphasize or flip a power dynamic, lead to a realization or confession of feelings, and/or break a character’s facade
• Sex chicken

Specific acts or kinks I particularly like:

• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-omegaverse settings), kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so, and the usage of chamber pots
• Proxy sex (examples for requested pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Condescending praise
• Manhandling
• Grinding, frotting, and/or tribadism (anywhere on the body but particularly thighs, stomachs, and boots)
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed or partially-clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification (particularly when combined with ageplay where the owner is a child or teen) and statue kink with an emphasis on being a cherished/precious object
• Honor bondage
• Sounding
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Public sex
• One character sitting in another's lap during (any form of) sex
• Collars
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Corsets
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Involuntary or uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)
• Telepathic sex
• Eggpreg, particularly with a large number of small eggs (I enjoy both impregnation/oviposition & expulsion, as well as caviar stripping)
• Multiple orgasms

Opt-ins

• Requested character(s) in a pairing present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Abortion or miscarriage; unwanted or horrifying pregnancy
• Period sex
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)
• Infidelity (not between nominated pairing)
• Mentions or discussions of past canonical relationships
• For requested omegaverse, I love alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics

The Elric Saga

Requested characters: Arioch, Cymoril, Elric (only one must be featured)

Any recurring characters are also welcome, particularly Yyrkoon, Moonglum, and Rackhir. (Yyrkoon is welcome as an addition to any pairing in a shipfic.) Notes on shipping: I do ship Arioch/Elric and Cymoril/Elric, and I am very ready to be sold on Arioch/Cymoril (or Arioch/Cymoril/Elric). Gen is also very welcome! I'd love a canon-style adventure in Elric's miserable life.

What I love about these characters individually:

Arioch is such an excellent force of temptation and corruption. I adore the level of intimacy he has with Elric (much to Elric's dismay). Arioch calls Elric "the sweetest of [his] slaves" and that is a) wildly homoerotic and b) such a good evocation of how much power he has over Elric's life. He's able to give Elric a level of freedom from what seems to be an expensive and unpredictable medication regimen, but he only does that by replacing it with reliance on something much, much worse. I'd love to see his perspective on things, or him being a deeply weird being off-screen. I adore how bad he is at manipulation when it really counts (in Stormbringer, for example, Elric counters his arguments in the mildest way and Arioch cannot handle it) and I think there is a real potential for comedy here.

Cymoril is such a fascinating character to me in Elric of Melnibone. She’s in the damsel/faithful lover role, but at the same time she’s fundamentally a Melnibonean with orange-and-blue-morality. I would love to see a universe where she survives. Where are the points where friction finally emerges? I’d also love to see an AU where she ends up wielding Stormbringer instead of Elric.

Elric, on the other hand, is such a sad wet cat of a man.* In Elric of Melnibone, he's making a real solid attempt at having morals — even as he does reflect that he picks practicality when it comes to putting things in practice (until he makes the deeply insane choice of sparing Yyrkoon!) — which is then slowly devoured by Stormbringer over the course of the series. I would love you to put him in a jar and shake him real hard. I am also very interested in Elric as a disabled character.**

* I am open to genderbends (cis or trans) for all Elric saga characters, but particularly for Elric — what changes or what doesn’t when Elric is a trans man/trans woman/cis woman? Can women inherit?

** (Prefacing this with: I know these are pulp novels and realism cannot be expected from them. However.) So Elric only canonically has albinism, but nothing besides his skin/hair/eye color actually matches up with that. He should have at least some level of visual impairment — I don’t mind handwaving this as being temporarily fixed with Stormbringer/drugs/etc. but would love if it wasn’t permanently improved. But like, what else does he have going on? What condition is he actually managing with Stormbringer/drugs/etc.?

Fever House Duology

Requested character: Saint Michael (must be featured)

Saint Michael is one of the most fascinating characters to me in this book full of wild and fascinating characters. He’s an angel! He can’t process time! He’s dying! I’d love to know more about what he was used for pre-canon and what life is like from his perspective. (I would prefer gen for this request.)

The Time Master

Link to my promo post and where to find canon!

Requested characters: Cyllan, Tarod, Yandros (only one must be featured)

Notes on shipping: Tarod/Yandros is very welcome. I don't want to include exclusively shippy thoughts here, but I have requested them in a fair number of exchanges, and other letters can be found in this same journal or on the autoao3 app. I'd prefer if Cyllan/Tarod wasn't the focus of the fic, but keeping their canonical relationship is fine. Cyllan/Tarod/Yandros, either as a triad or a poly-v with Tarod as the hinge, is also welcome, as is gen.

I love all of these characters! (I also really like Keridil, so feel free to feature him as well if so desired.) For Tarod, I'm most drawn to how he is so similar with and without his memories, but in a way that really makes it clear how much perspective matters. I love his struggles with morality and how he is changed by the comparatively very short two decades and change he lives as a human in a way that translates into his godly self as well.

This is something I'd like to see Cyllan's perspective on as well; I'd really love something post-canon from her. How does death and/or apotheosis change her? How is it hard? How is it easy? Does her relationship with Tarod change at all? What about her relationship to Yandros? (I absolutely love their dynamic in the later books, where they are simultaneously two people who care about Tarod working together sort of behind his back and a worshiper and her capricious god. I'd love to see the timeline get stretched out a little bit longer and see how that develops while Tarod and Cyllan are still humans.)

For Yandros, I'm really interested in his perspective on the events of the series (or pre/post-canon when Tarod is interacting with humanity). He clearly feels real and deep affection for Tarod, even if Tarod is completely unable to comprehend or process that when he's human. (One of my absolute favorite moments in the series is when Tarod re-ascends to godhood, because Yandros has been pushing the "you'll understand and agree with me when you're back to normal" thing so hard and the reader is wondering to what extent Yandros might be lying — and then it's just true. He loves Yandros immediately, and while Tarod's perspective on what to do about Aeoris has genuinely been changed by living as a human, Yandros has been telling the truth this whole time.) Is there ever a point where Yandros feels like they might have made the wrong decision in sending Tarod? Is there ever a moment where Tarod can't save himself (and Cyllan isn't in a position to)? I'd also love to see Yandros's thoughts on watching Tarod grow up — he's clearly paying attention since he saves him from execution (and then gives him his name back!) early on. How weird is it to see your ageless immortal same-age sibling as an even more defenseless and squishy human than the ones you're used to interacting with?

Finally, with any of the characters, I'd love to see the effects of Equilibrium and how the general populace's religious practices do or don't change over the centuries. (Outsider POV very welcome!)

Thank you for considering making me a vid! I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. In this letter, I’ve included general preferences for style and then optional specifics for each fandom (listed alphabetically). Everything except the Finrod Rock Opera umbrella is a safety fandom. While I do include some notes about what I like about them in case that is helpful for you, these are all sources that I would like literally any vid about. Go whatever direction you’re pulled towards!

Vids: I enjoy a variety of vid styles, including character studies, ensemble vids, critiques, dance vids, and vids that show the development of a relationship (whether romantic or not). Themes I particularly like are foils/doubles/doppelgangers, crises of faith (not specifically religious), and connection, but don’t feel tied to any of these.

Music: Whatever kind of music you think will work with the source is good for me! I prefer lyric-guided vids, but don’t have a genre preference otherwise. If the song is not in English, I would appreciate a translation in the subtitles so I can understand it. I prefer added audio not to overlap with lyrics, and would prefer it to not be present in the majority of the vid (unless the entire song is instrumental, in which case it is completely fine). I do like dialogue as a “button” at the end/beginning of vids which sums up the theme(s). I would appreciate a heads-up in the author’s notes if pronouns or gendered words within the song do not match the gender of a nonbinary and/or trans character within the vid, but I have no issue with it otherwise.

Visuals: I would prefer a minimum of flashing lights (I find them overwhelming), but quick cuts are fine. I do not like text on screen outside of credits, but highly request subtitles (default Youtube style is preferred, but if they need to be hardcoded, that’s fine as long as they don’t move and are easy to read).

Рок-опера «Финрод» | Finrod The Rock Opera [UMBRELLA]

What is it: This is a Russian rock opera adapting part of Tolkien’s Lay of Lethian (partially recounted in both the Lord of the Rings and more fully in the Silmarillion). Beren and Luthien are star-crossed lovers who can only marry if Beren completes an impossible and suicidal task; he recruits the titular Elf king Finrod to help him do so.

Where can I find it: Many full productions are on youtube! In terms of visuals, my favorite is this 2022 one but a bunch can be found in this playlist. (Only the 2014 version and this one have an English subtitle track, but asterisq on ao3 has created an excellent line-by-line English translation of the lyrics for both the 2014 production and 2021-2023 ones which can be found here.)

Major content warnings: Death of a major character, mind control, orcs

What do I like about it?: The Silmarillion has fully eaten my brain recently, but on top of that, a rock opera is a really excellent medium to adapt the legendarium into. I love Luthien’s complete refusal to let the world become a place she doesn’t recognize, I love Finrod’s frankly kind of suicidal honor, and I love the messy family dynamics (between both the House of Finwe and Thingol, Melian, and Luthien) and Galadriel as narrator. And I love the way the battles of music can be both seen and heard! (I also wrote a promo post for this for Innumerable Stars, which I’m linking here in case it’s helpful, though it’s more aimed at a fic-writing audience.)

Jamie Marks is Dead (2014)

What is it: A supernatural horror drama film about a high schooler haunted by the ghost of his recently deceased classmate.

Where can I find it: Hoopla (free), Plex (free), Fandango at Home (free with ads), Apple TV

Major content warnings: Suicide (not shown)

What do I like about it?: I like horror movies that are sad, and this is one of them. I particularly like this movie’s take on what it means to be a ghost, as well as Jamie and Adam’s relationship. (Canonically, Jamie has a crush on Adam, while Adam is straight; I like relationships that occupy ambiguous spaces [such as requiring some thought as to whether it should be “&” or “/”] but I wouldn’t mind a more explicitly romantic vid.)

Next to Normal (Donmar Warehouse 2025)

What is it: Next to Normal is a musical about a woman with bipolar disorder and her family. The Donmar Warehouse production is a proshot from the recent West End performance.

Where can I find it: if you have PBS Passport, it’s here. Otherwise, it’s likely that it’ll pop up unofficially on Youtube.

Major content warnings: Grief, mental illness, suicide attempt, death of a child

What do I like about it?: This is one of my favorite musicals; I would love a vid about any of the family members. I love how real and messy it feels, and how every character is sympathetic even as they’re flawed.

The Prince - Abigail Thorn (Southwark Playhouse)

What is it: Background characters in Henry IV, Part I realize they are trapped in a Shakespeare play and attempt to escape into the real world, while also helping Hotspur realize that she is a woman.

Where can I find it: Nebula.

Major content warnings: One use of the f-slur by a gay character towards himself.

What do I like about it?: This play gave me a lot of trans feelings, particularly about how scary it can be to leave the closet. I would prefer a vid focused on Hotspur and her journey, but would be happy with any other character/duo/ensemble as well.

Tiger Stripes (2023) 

What is it: A body horror film about puberty. The outgoing Zaffan is one of the first girls in her class to get her period and it comes with a host of terrifying physical changes and social isolation.

Where can I find it: Shudder, Apple TV, Amazon

Major content warnings: Bullying, body horror (transformation into tiger)

What do I like about it?: I like how realistic the writing is for the characters; they really feel like they’re kids. I like how Zaffan is forced to reckon with the new expectations placed on her, and how she finds space outside of them.

Den Stygge Stesøsteren | The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

What is it: A satirical body horror black comedy retelling of Cinderella, focused on one of the Ugly Stepsisters.

Where can I find it: Shudder, Apple TV, Philo, Fandango at Home

Major content warnings: Surgery, tapeworm, vomiting

What do I like about it?: One of my favorite things about this is how the basic Cinderella story is not altered at all — Agnes is going through all of the recognizable parts and is genuinely sympathetic, even as we’ve broadened the canvas to include the stepsisters within that sympathy. I liked the sense of wealthy womanhood being a losing game that the film sets up, even as the sisters attempt to escape it at the end.

Le Vourdalak | The Vourdalak (2023)

What is it: A French drama-horror vampire movie. An 18th-century French diplomat seeks shelter with a man named Gorcha somewhere in Eastern Europe and is met by his odd family. Several hours later, Gorcha returns from — but all but one of his children claim he is now a vourdalak (a vampire that targets family members).

Where can I find it: Hoopla (free), Kanopy (free), Shudder, Philo, Amazon Video, Fandango at Home

Major content warnings: Death (including of a child and a transfem(?) character), abusive family dynamics, orientalism, beheaded Turkish characters

What do I like about it?: Marionette vampire! (I was not prepared for this going in, and I love how effectively just seeing it drives home the point that this is undoubtedly 100% no longer your living father.) I particularly like Sdenka and Piotr’s relationship as the outsiders of the family. Also, this movie is saying something about queerness, but hell if I know what. The visual style of the film is also very dream-like.

Where the Devil Roams (2023)

What is it: A horror movie focused on a family of sideshow performers in the 1930s. Also, the devil is there.

Where can I find it: Tubi (free), Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Amazon Video

Major content warnings: A character repeatedly cuts his fingertips off, murder

What do I like about it?: This is a weird low-budget movie where the in-universe family is played by an actual family. I like the grim desolation of the 1930s, I like how weird the family is, and I like the folklore elements

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! I'm happy with fics of any rating. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. Fandoms, pairings, and worldbuilding tags are organized alphabetically. Thoughts on mediums I’ve only requested in one fandom are with the prompts in that fandom; otherwise, they’re at the end.

Table of Contents
The Elric Saga
The Inheritance Cycle
Crossover: Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire
The Magnus Archives
The Silmarillion
The Time Master Series
Requested Medium Thoughts

DNW: setting change AUs*, unrequested trans headcanons for canonical characters, unrequested omegaverse, unrequested vertical/cross-generational incest, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent; discussions of solo or paired sexual exploration or CSA prior to this age are fine)

*defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The colors teal and orange
• Art which is monochrome except for one specific detail in (a different) color
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses (I particularly enjoy long skirts)
• Gloves and masks and cloaks
• Fragmented images
• Mirrors
• Men with long hair

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging (both physical-only and physical-and-mental)
  • bodyswaps
• Feelings realization
• Getting together
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• Crack treated seriously
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
  • I also like when nonbinary characters have a specific gender beyond "nonbinary," even when the label isn't mentioned in text
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Characters being betrayed by their bodies
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues

Smut likes

General themes I particularly like:

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Porn as character study
• Top or Dom POV
• Bottom or sub POV
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Kinking on inexperience (or pretended inexperience)
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Characters or worlds which believe penetration = dominance = masculinity and all the ways that can be subverted or upheld
  • In this same vein, characters (especially men) getting off on their own passivity, particularly the mindset of being "acted upon"
• Sub tops with dom bottoms and/or submissive sadists with dominant masochists
• Same-generation incest
• Dubcon (defined here as "consent is ambiguous or not given, but everyone enjoys themselves")
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic, vague, and clinical language)

Specific acts or kinks I particularly like:

• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-omegaverse settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for requested pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Condescending praise
• Manhandling
• Grinding and tribadism (anywhere on the body but particularly thighs, stomachs, and boots)
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification (particularly when combined with ageplay where the owner is a child or teen) and statue kink
• Honor bondage
• Sounding
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Public sex
• One character sitting in another's lap during (any form of) sex
• Collars
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Corsets
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Involuntary or uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)
• Telepathic sex
• Eggpreg, particularly with a large number of small eggs (I enjoy both impregnation & expulsion, as well as caviar stripping)

Opt-ins

• Requested character(s) in a pairing present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Abortion or miscarriage; unwanted or horrifying pregnancy
• Period sex
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)
• Infidelity (not between nominated pairing)
• Mentions or discussions of past canonical relationships
• For requested omegaverse, I love alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics

The Elric Saga

Arioch/Elric

I love Arioch; he's so amoral and delightful. Please subject Elric to him, in whatever form that takes. I particularly like the tension over Elric's loyalty, where he is very dependent on Arioch but not enthusiastic in his loyalty, while Arioch finds him amusing to toy with. I will never be over the fact that Arioch canonically calls him “surely the sweetest of all my slaves” and Elric is constantly describing Arioch as beautiful even when he's otherwise all business. I am very into Arioch forcing Elric to admit who he belongs to or otherwise perform loyalty, particularly in a public setting or in front of Elric's allies.

Regarding pin-up art, look at him. The official covers are halfway there already!

Any gender of Elric (cis or trans) is welcome, as are any genitals/gender presentation for Arioch.

Requested mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice of 3+ Different Nominated In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Medium Opt-In: Art - A Softer World style art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Papercraft - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Pin-up Poster of Character
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Logic Grid Puzzle
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: Drawn or CC-Licensed Map + Annotations Or Map Related Notes
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Dress-up Paper Doll
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author

The Inheritance Cycle

Transfem headcanons are welcome for either (or both) Eragon and Murtagh!

Eragon/Murtagh

There are so many flavors of relationship between these two over the course of the series, and all of them are good. Their initial roadtrip is the happiest point between them for a while, and then there are so many complicated feelings after Murtagh is captured/defects and they realize they’re related. I also adore how psyched Eragon is for Murtagh to come stay with him at the end of the book Murtagh.

I really enjoy how scared Murtagh is throughout much of the series and how mean it can make him, even as he’s still desperate for Eragon to recognize him as a brother. Likewise, I enjoy how Eragon is extremely adaptable to basically whatever the series throws at him. I’m open to any level of involvement for Saphira and Thorn short of actual sexual contact between humans and dragons; I really enjoy the psychic dragon bond and my favorite flavor of it is "platonic but extremely intense and weird to outsiders." (Background Saphira/Thorn is okay to include.)

I am also fascinated by an AU where they were both raised as Morzan's sons in Galbatorix's court (whether or not Eragon's actual parentage is any different). How does it alter their dynamic? Do either of them become Riders?

Eragon/Murtagh & Brom

All of the above applies here as well, but I’d love to see an AU where Brom didn’t die and ends up actually interacting with Murtagh. What is their dynamic like? What is Eragon like in a universe where he still has someone he can turn to for answers about being a Rider?

Requested mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Illustration of a Scene From the Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Ballad
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/AskHistorians Post (Post + Replies)
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/IAmA AMA (Post + Questions + Replies)
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic

Crossover: Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Chronicles

This type of crossover really appeals to me in the “character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships” sense. I’ve seen both seasons of the show and have read IWTV, TVL, QotD, and TVA, but am fine with you pulling from other parts of canon — if it helps make the fic stronger, don’t worry about spoilers. Additionally, discussions about or background depictions of non-requested ships, including Louis/Armand, Louis/Daniel, Lestat/Armand, Marius/Armand, and Claudia/Madeline, are completely fine! Nonbinary, transfem, or ambiguously “Some Type of Gender Happening Here” Armand is also welcome.

Fandom-specific DNW: IWTV Armand identifying as Catholic (or any Christian denomination). Both IWTV and VC Daniel as vampires in a fic where they appear (though both being human is completely fine!). I’d also prefer IWTV Daniel to not remember the entirety of his history with Armand at the beginning of the fic. If writing ageplay, the specific words ‘daddy’ or ‘dad’ as titles from IWTV Armand.

VC!Armand/IWTV!Armand/VC!Daniel/IWTV!Daniel

I think if you locked these four in the same room under the right conditions, you could get at least three of them to have an identity-related meltdown within a week.

I nominated this as a / ship, but I’m not opposed to that being fulfilled by attraction that exists but isn’t acted on (eg. pre-slash), depending on what you feel works best. I am here primarily for the drama. I also particularly like D/s dynamics between Armand and Daniel, whether or not they're acknowledging that's what it is (I prefer VC Daniel as a sub but have no preference for IWTV Daniel, and like both Armands as switches).

Some optional prompts:

• How much of Devil’s Minion actually occurred in the IWTV-verse? (And how much did Armand and Louis still being together change how it played out?) Some possibilities which are all equally intriguing to me: all of it, none of it besides s2e5’s “locked in Armand’s basement” equivalent, it got postponed until the 2020s/post-season 2, or only some of it (say, Armand actually did get distracted for a bit after the initial chase since his attention was split between Daniel and Louis).
• Daniel at twenty-something is recognizable to Daniel at seventy-something, but holy shit is he so much more embarrassing in person. Is Daniel at seventy-something recognizable to Daniel at twenty-something?
• Also, if one of the Daniels is a vampire, what does the other Daniel think about that? What does the other Armand think about that?
• IWTV Armand was turned ten years after VC Armand. How do they feel about that?
• Do the Armands recognize each other as the same person, or conceptualize each other as occupying the role of ‘Armand,’ as created from scratch by trauma (to use a word that covers a very broad category of things)? Does Armand find it threatening or reassuring for someone to know his secrets?
• If sex is involved: what are the reactions to IWTV vampires having functioning genitalia? (What is IWTV Armand’s reaction to VC vampires not, in light of Louis’s line during their fight about Armand ‘pretending he didn’t have a dick for 250 years’?)

IWTV Armand (/ or &) VC Armand

Essentially the same as above, but without the added factor of Daniel. Armand is someone who struggles with holding onto a concrete sense of self or identity, so what does being faced with a version of himself from another universe do?

(Watch Blade Runner together, potentially. Or try to kill each other. Or have really, really ill-advised sex.)

I’ve requested this as both a / and & relationship, so feel free to write whatever version of their dynamic you’d prefer. Any era for each Armand is welcome!

IWTV Claudia & VC Armand

These two are only three years apart, physically, and I find their struggles with being eternally-teenaged really interesting. I would love to see them interact, particularly given how their respective canon feelings range from uninterested to outright antagonistic! (They’re also both CSA survivors, though I don’t know that either of them considers themself such.)

Requested mediums

• Length Opt-In: One Poem Minimum of Any Nominated Style of Poetry
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Drawn - Comics
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Interview with the Vampire

Fandom-specific DNW: Claudia/Louis or Claudia/Lestat which the reader is meant to assume actually occurred (welcome as speculation or assumption by outside parties, including extensively in mediums which would lend themselves to rumor, such as true crime podcast transcripts)

Louis de Pointe du Lac & Original de Pointe du Lac Descendants

I would really, really love to see the reaction of any DPDL descendants to the publication of the in-universe Interview with the Vampire. Did the story of Louis being possessed(???)/seduced by the devil(???) get passed down? Is it just the name which rings a bell, and as the descendents look deeper into it they realize that parts of it are wholesale based off their dead great-great-etc. uncle? (Maybe because someone recognized Grace and Paul’s story in it?) Was one (or more) of the descendants a fan prior to this? Is somebody an undergrad or high schooler doing a family history project that googling for took a weird turn on? I would particularly love an exploration of the sick kind of feeling that comes with your family history being cherrypicked for a journalist’s breakdown/last gasp at relevance/bizarre swing into fiction and being in the dark about the book being published, whether or not they end up learning this isn’t what happened. (Also, I’m using DPDL descendent broadly here! They don’t have to know each other either.)

And then on the other side: Louis. Did Louis start keeping tabs on his family again as the Internet made it easier, the way he did with Daniel’s work? (Has Armand been keeping tabs on them?) Is there an impulse to reach out? To hide? Communicate via pseudonym? I’d just love to see how it develops, particularly if all the involved DPDLs are dealing with similar feelings of betrayal (if not from the same cause).

(Any combination of IWTV or VC canonical ships as well as Louis/Daniel are welcome for this request.)

Solo: Claudia

I am fascinated by Claudia’s eternal youth, particularly when she’s frozen in such an awkward transition stage between child and woman in this canon and the ways in which she records but does not become a narrator of the story we’re told. I’d just love to see Claudia throughout the decades and living her daily life (whether or not you handwave her death). Is she ever able to attain the privileges instead of just the costs of being an adult? I also love that brief look at the trio in the folklore of New Orleans/true crime circuit in the final episode of season two, and I’d love to see more of that — what is the reaction to Claudia after the book is released?

The opening of my Dear Festividder letter contains my preferences for fanvids, if that's helpful.

(The underage DNW applies specifically to Claudia’s chronological age here; she can have sex on-page while being physically fourteen.)

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The Magnus Archives

Fandom-specific DNW: Jon intentionally written as allosexual (though he can have sex with Elias and does not have to explicitly say [or know] that he's asexual).

Jon/Elias

This pairing is so appealing to me for the gothic vibes. Every season offers a slightly different dynamic, and I find the season three period particularly interesting, because it’s the point where Jon is aware that a struggle for power exists and begins to come into his own. I find the pairing appealing for the way it offers a view of a monstrous transformation which is not judged by the other person (and is in fact actively encouraged) — this seems like a wonderful avenue for stained glass. I like Jon as both a reluctant monster, who is doing his absolute best to find a non-existent moral solution for his food supply, and as someone who gives himself over into it and is perhaps able to find some peace in it.

Elias treats Jon like a lamb for slaughter, and I am fascinated by the real affection he has for Jon while at the same time he deliberately shapes him into something that will serve his own purposes. I love how delighted he is in MAG 102 when Jon unthinkingly uses his powers, and when Jon compels him in MAG 92. I like this as a point of tension in their relationship, particularly in season 3 and 4 where Jon is really struggling with maintaining his humanity. I’d love to see something where Jon is able to get the upper hand, or gets a moment of comfort from Elias (particularly in season four or five where it’s rough going with the other staff). ← I love how fucked up everybody’s interpersonal relationships get in the pressure cooker environment of the Archives/end of the world.

I can easily see either Jon or Elias having Reddit accounts, and I think there’s potential for a very fun You’ve Got Mail-esque plot there. Social media in general seems like it would be great for Beholding, and I would love to see anything you can come up with for in-universe posts.

Solo: Agnes

It is the ruling principle of TMA that your choices are what matters: how does this apply to Agnes, who was literally born as an avatar?

I’d love to see literally anything from her perspective, as she’s someone who is very much constructed by (very biased) others in canon. What does she think about things?

How does she relate to the Desolation, and how does she relate to other people? She killed people very early in life, and was very much raised in a cult — how does this affect her? What was her childhood at Hill Top Road actually like? (I would honestly take a whole middle grade book about Agnes’ time as a child in the ’60s.) Did she feel like a child, or did she always feel like something separate? Does she like what she’s doing — if not, was there ever a point where she did, or tried to? How does she feel about the other entities/avatars, and the jockeying for power with the rituals? How does she actually feel about her suicide? Is it truly solely love or solely doubt which caused it? How does she feel about being bound to Gertrude?

I imagine this could be quite grim, but I would also take something where she gets to be happy, even if just for a little bit!

I’m fine with either gen or shipfic (particularly Jude/Agnes, Gertrude/Agnes, Jon/Agnes, or Annabelle/Agnes)!

WB: The Magnus Institute Throughout History

What does it actually take to keep the Magnus Institute running for 200 years on a practical level? How and when do departments and hiring practices change? Does the outward-facing mission they give to the public/employees not in the know ever change? Is there a particular decade of struggle or triumph?

WB: The Magnus Institute’s Reputation in Academia 

Their reputation is poor, sure, but specifically in what way? What about before the statements were leaked in 1999? Does the Institute produce research? It has a wealth of historical documents; do any undergraduates (or professional academics) use it as the basis for their papers? (Can I see the papers?)

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The Silmarillion

Tolkien-specific likes

• Ominous foreshadowing in otherwise light-hearted fics
• Politics, particularly relationships (sexual, romantic, queerplatonic, or platonic) as extensions of politics
• Messy and complicated family dynamics (incestuous or otherwise)
• The insane amount of time Elves are alive for and how that affects history for them and everyone else
• Grief and inevitability and memory
• Alien Maiar and Valar
• Setting-appropriate/plausible prejudice or baggage around gender, sexuality, disability, and race
• Post-Years of the Trees Valinor and the complexities of being re-embodied
• Religion and cultural traditions

Trans headcanons I've opted into: trans man Curufin, transfem Maeglin (binary or nonbinary), Celegorm of any gender. Sauron being either any gender of nonbinary or a man On Purpose is also welcome, though YMMV on if the latter is (narratively or on a character level) transness or not. I am fine with Curufin being the parent who gave birth to Celebrimbor so long as that pregnancy isn’t occurring on page. (Also, they aren’t requested characters, but trans man Feanor and trans Galadriel (of any gender) are also extremely welcome.)

Fandom-specific DNW: Rings of Power (TV)-specific elements, contemporary real-world Anglophone labels for queerness within the text (labels are very much okay to include in tags or other metadata), divorce as a possibility for ending a relationship between Elves (permanent separation fine), miscarriage (abortion welcome)

Annatar/Celebrimbor

This is my ultimate “The love was there. It didn't change anything. It didn't save anyone. But the love was there” pairing because the love being there makes things feel so much worse. I love interpretations where the relationship is (wildly unexpectedly for Sauron, who thinks feelings are for other people) genuine and affectionate, and then Sauron still goes through with choosing power anyway!

Please give me your headcanons for worldbuilding where necessary! I’m very open to anything regarding Celebrimbor in terms of where and when he was born, who his mother/other biological parent is, his level of complicity in the first kinslaying, and how much he knows or suspects about Sauron. I would also be really, really interested in how LaCE gets navigated for this pairing and/or how the relationship is publicly presented. (Are there Thingol and Melian comparisons? How much does Sauron resent them?)

Various Aredhel relationships (Aredhel/Celegorm, Aredhel/Celegorm & Maeglin, Aredhel & Maeglin, Aredhel & Indis)

I love Aredhel as a woman who is simultaneously morally compromised (kinslaying) and sympathetic (everything else). I’d love to see some of her relationships!

I feel like Aredhel and Celegorm get each other on a level that other people don’t. Has she followed in Orome’s train in the past alongside Celegorm? How did they initially click with each other? How long did it take post-Helcaraxe for Aredhel to speak to him again?

For Maeglin’s involvement, the most obvious option here feels like a fic set either post-fleeing Eol (perhaps someone recognizes this is a situation that is going to get dangerous and decides Eol doesn’t get marital rights, actually?) or in fourth-age Valinor post-reembodiment. How does Celegorm view Maeglin? How does the incest impact Maeglin, if he’s aware of it? What are Aredhel and Celegorm like with each other?

For Aredhel and Maeglin without Celegorm, I’d be really intrigued to know how Aredhel interacts with Maeglin after they’re re-embodied. Maeglin is violent towards Aredhel’s niece in a similar way that Aredhel has experienced — do they deal with this at all? Does him being her son and someone she has protected for years override that? Alternatively, what did that protection during his childhood look like? Which stories did she tell him, and how much Quenya did he actually learn (enough to integrate quickly into Gondolin)?

For Indis, I’d honestly just love to see them interact! What’s their relationship like? Do Indis’s children and grandchildren live in the palace in Tirion? Did Indis teach her how to draw?

Celegorm/Curufin & Celebrimbor

I want so badly to see what their relationship was like prior to Celebrimbor leaving the family entirely. I tend towards thinking that Curufin was a decent father except when it came to the Silmarils, and it’s Celebrimbor seeing that they’re willing to get (more) family killed which causes him to go, because he doesn’t after the first kinslaying. Do Celegorm and Curufin make any effort to hide the incest from him? (I feel like it’s something that makes its way into the rumor mill and eventually ballad form and no one necessarily believes, but…) What are the good times like? Where are the points of conflict that explode, and what doesn’t get brought up until after it’s already too late? Huan can also be involved in this dynamic as much as you’d like!

Celegorm/Curufin/Finrod

I’d love to see the powder keg of Nargothrond before it gets lit up! This is one that intrigues me because all three of the duos within it have such intriguing dynamics happening. How open is this relationship and who stands to lose the most if it’s exposed? How accurate is the narrator of the Silmarillion about what’s happening politically in Nargothrond prior to the quest? Was Finrod close with and/or in a relationship with either of them prior to C&C fleeing to Nargothrond?

Celegorm/Curufin/Dior

I am so intrigued by them! They’re all well-matched enough to kill each other (and there’s so much history and pre-existing sexual obsession between them and Dior’s parents, which I imagine Dior certainly feels heavily). I'd love something where sex is an extension of politics and the tension between the Noldor and the Sindar (and am therefore fine with this involving a significant degree of hatred between C&C and Dior, though I’d prefer that wasn’t the totality of the emotions). For this, I’d prefer Dior to be over the age of majority (though I’m fine with his relative youth/inexperience being played up as well as much being made of the fact that in another universe Celegorm could have been his father), but I really don’t have a preference towards consensual sex or dubcon. If it is consensual, my big question is: How? How did they get here? Did someone have the bright idea to attempt an arranged marriage to stabilize the political situation prior to the second kinslaying (which...worked, somehow)? Have they all been re-embodied in Valinor and are now working out their issues in a way the Valar probably didn't predict? Are they roleplaying their deaths? (Does this turn into a different kind of roleplay?) Are Celegorm and Curufin already together, or is Dior an acceptable proxy for desire?

Curufin/Dior

All of the above applies here as well, but I have managed to talk myself into really shipping these two as a duo as well. Really the only thing we know about Dior is that he’s proud and I’d love to see how that runs up against Curufin’s personality. (While the Book of Lost Tales is not canon to the Silmarillion, I would love to see a version of the scene from it where Curufin goes in person to try to convince Dior to give up the Silmaril.)

Elrond Peredhil & Elros Tar-Minyatur & Maedhros & Maglor

I'm so intrigued by the tiny snippet of their life together we get in the Silmarillion. What does "love grew after between them" look like on a day-to-day basis? Where is Maedhros in the equation? I love undercurrents of unacknowledged trauma and the weird gray space Maedhros and Maglor exist in in relation to the twins. I’d really love to see the four of them once they’re fully settled into the new normal. Is there ever a point where Elrond or Elros resents that the love does exist and cannot be dismissed in a way which would allow for easy compartmentalization?

Elves can’t get sick, but can E&E? Is there ever a moment where they’re seriously concerned one or both of them is going to die? What do they do?

If you’d like to write something sad, I’d love to see what the actual moment of letting the twins go join the army looked like. Did M&M go with them until they got to the camp? Was it planned for a long time or a spur of the moment thing on precisely when it would be? Who was reluctant and who was excited (or both)?

I’d also love to know if the dialogue we get in the Silmarillion itself between M&M comes from Elrond, because it seems like it very easily could. Does the writer of the in-universe Silmarillion sit him down for an interview/oral history? How consciously is Elrond shaping the narrative of what his captivity was? How much does he need to emphasize that he did love Maglor and Maglor loved them, and what is external pressure pushing him to believe? Is it easier once the war ends, because then M&M are no longer active threats to the rest of society and Elrond can work to rehabilitate their image? What is Elrond leaving out because it’s too complicated for public consumption? If Elros ever gives a similar type of interview — or even a private conversation with his family in Numenor — what does he say about the same stretch of time, and how does it differ from Elrond’s account, particularly after he has his own children?

(I’m okay with as many of the four of them being dead as the plot or timeline demands; Maedhros/Maglor is also welcome as part of this, as well as the Complicated Fucking Feelings that would probably come with either of the twins knowing about it.)

Elwing & Elrond Peredhil

I would particularly love to see their relationship after Elrond comes to Valinor following the Lord of the Rings. Are they able to figure out how to be mother and child when they had that relationship for probably six to eight years followed by so much separation and loss? Is Elwing able to find some measure of peace in talking about the loss of Elros with Elrond? What does Elrond actually remember about her?

Indis / or & Míriel Þerindë

I’m particularly interested in this post-Miriel’s death, whether the relationship is one-sided from Indis or after Miriel eventually decides she does want to be re-embodied. (I feel like the Valar would allow this, so long as Finwe is dead? Miriel and Finwe have just sort of swapped places, so no one alive is married to two people at once.) What do they like about each other? How do they deal with both of them living in the shadow of a Miriel who no longer exists? What do their children and grandchildren (etc.) think? Do either of them sketch?

Míriel Þerindë & Any Member of the House of Finwë

I am fascinated by Miriel as someone who is literally writing the history of her family, but who is largely voiceless within it. Are there particular descendants she gets parasocially attached to? Are there some she visits in the Halls of Mandos? If she decides she wants to be alive again, who seeks her out? (I really am happy with this being anyone, but if you’d like suggestions, I’m always intrigued by if whether or not Miriel’s death is publicly or privately understood as suicide, and what impact, if any, that has on her family members who also struggle with suicidal ideation and/or kill themselves.)

Sauron & Tar-Míriel

I’d really love to see Tar-Míriel’s thoughts about Sauron in Numenor; is she as much of a Cassandra figure as history remembers her as? Is she jockeying for power as much as she’s allowed? What is daily life in end-times Numenor like?

WB: Cross-Species Pregnancy

I’m interested in both canonical and non-canonical children. AFAIK, all of the cross-species children we see are the result of a “more powerful” woman and “less powerful” man. Why? Is this a gap in the record or a biological rule? How does that translate to other species? I'm interested in both the biological process of pregnancy and cultural traditions surrounding it.

WB: Disability in Elvish Societies

While Elves highly value beauty and symmetry, they are hardy, long-lived, and involved in quite a few conflicts across the Ages. Presumably a high number of Elves are going to survive injuries that would kill a human. Where, then, are the disabled Elves? (I'm interested in both congenital and acquired disabilities, as well as both physical and mental disabilities.)

WB: Elvish Funerary Customs

What do they do with the bodies? (Cremation, burial, something else?) How does this change in Cuivienen/Valinor/Beleriand? What gets carried forward through the Ages and what doesn't? What do mourning traditions look like? How does this differ for the various groups of Elves?

WB: Queerness in Elvish Societies

I am really, really interested in this, particularly as something that does not 1:1 mirror current understandings of gender and sexuality. What cultural stories/methods of being exist for various queer people? How does that shape queer identities, particularly the boundaries or lack thereof between ones we might consider completely different? Having children is textually such a big part of marriage that it feels implausible to me that same-sex marriage would exist, but is there a lot of homosociality that may or may not shade into romance and sex, even if it’s not understood as that? (Also, for Elves who are in relationships with Maiar, is there a belief that Maiar reflect the gender of their Vala/r? Is this true?)

How does the belief that the body reflects the soul and not the other way around impact trans people? Will their bodies start to spontaneously transition? Is medical or magical transition seen as an affront to Eru’s work? If so, is social transition acceptable? How does this impact nonbinary people? How does transness impact people’s ability to inherit (since women don’t seem to be in the running for kingship)? Can they marry only if they’ll be able to produce children with their spouse? Do any specific nonbinary identities exist?

Finally, LaCE (which you do not have to interpret any of this through) implies Elves are by default demisexual. How does this impact any of the above, particularly characters who are aromantic, who are gay, or who continue to not feel sexual attraction after marriage? Also, what behavior counts as sex, in a world where LaCE applies? (More questions about aspec characters and/or LaCE can be found in my Innumerable Stars 2025 letter directly below this one in my journal, if you’d like.)

WB: Vairë’s Tapestries

I’d really love to see the creation of some of these tapestries, as well as how any characters who would have a reason to be in the Halls of Mandos interact with them after they’re created. How accurate are they, particularly for scenes or people they don’t have a first-hand witness for? Is there a specific type of stylization they use? (If you can worldbuild the tapestries for me through the medium of an actual tapestry, I will give you my firstborn.)

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The Time Master Series

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Any gender of trans Cyllan is welcome, as are any genitals for Tarod and Yandros as gods.

Cyllan/Tarod/Yandros

Honestly, I’m just intrigued by how this could play out. I envision this mainly as a poly-V centered on Tarod — neither Cyllan nor Yandros seems like they would be willing to give up their relationship with him. However, I am really intrigued by what a Cyllan/Yandros axis would look like, particularly once she’s no longer in the comfortable ‘worshipper’ box. It seems like he doesn’t mind Tarod having casual sex with humans, but is that different when she’s no longer one? Is the transition away from humanity an easy one for her? (See below for my Tarod/Yandros thoughts.)

Tarod/Yandros

This is a dynamic that drives me completely insane. The supposed villain going “we’re two sides of the same coin, you’re more like me than you think, you’ll understand eventually,” and then he’s just actually right. (Not in every aspect, admittedly! But the personal ones.) The entire time I was reading this series, I was expecting a third act betrayal from Yandros, and I am so charmed that did not happen. Yandros ultimately chooses Tarod and defers to his decision, even though he doesn’t necessarily agree with it.

I'd love to see Yandros's perspective on any of the scenes where he's talking to Tarod and isn't managing to win him over; I imagine it must be very frustrating. He’s fairly restrained about how much he misses Tarod in canon, but it’s such a disturbing and relatively long-lasting separation, compared to what they've done before. I also think there's a lot of potential for interaction in the time between books one and two, where Tarod has trapped himself in a completely empty castle that he's wrenched out of time. They literally can't get the plot moving, so what else is there to do?

I very much enjoy watching Tarod wrestle with his morality, and I would take truly so many words of it. If Yandros ever does decide to try seduction (whether or not he’s told Tarod that they’re siblings), how does Tarod take it? I would love to see him muddling through confused feelings, particularly if dream sex or shapeshifting is involved.

Post- (or pre-)canon with them both as gods is welcome as well. What are they like when there’s no misunderstandings? (If you’re interested in writing smut, I think they have had the absolute weirdest sex, at least half of which is completely unintelligible to the human brain as such.)

I love outside POV and this is a canon I think it works very well for, as humans either don’t remember or understand much about Yandros and Tarod (either as people or as gods). I think we should toss (confirmed? rumored?) incest/displays of affection into the mix and see what happens.

I have read both the prequel and sequel trilogies as well, so feel free to pull in canon from there if it's helpful and don’t worry about it if it isn’t. (I particularly enjoyed Yandros and Tarod attending human parties incognito together at the beginning of Star Ascendant.)

WB: Laypeople’s Religious Practices After Equilibrium

We see a lot of institutional worship over the course of the series, but what does it look like for your average person? How would it change going forward into Equilibrium? What does the average person actually know about the gods, either of Chaos or of Order? What do any texts produced look like?

For the fan music medium, I’d love to hear anything! What does religious music sound like in this universe? What does popular music sound like? Are there any ballads about Tarod, Cyllan, and/or Yandros which are set to music?

WB: Any

Go nuts! One thing I’m particularly curious about is how naming works for the lords of Chaos and Order — the followers of Order only know Aeoris’s (and IIRC the reverse is true in the prequel trilogy, where the followers of Chaos only really refer to Yandros unless they’ve met Tarod). While Tarod and Yandros obviously have names (and Tarod really is his name as a god, as he’s named something different originally by his mother), they never refer to any of their other brothers individually.

Requested mediums

• Medium Opt-In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff Nominated Canon-Possible In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Medium Opt-In: Art - A Softer World style art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Illustration of a Scene From the Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Papercraft - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Original Fan Music
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Religious Text
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Dress-up Paper Doll
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Religious Text
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Textbook
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe r/AskHistorians Post (Post + Replies)

Requested Medium Thoughts

Annotated Map: This seems like such a cool way to tell a story! For TMA, I think the tunnels beneath the Institute or the Institute itself would lend itself well to being mapped like this, while Elric is constantly traveling and having weird adventures.

CYOA (all): I love when characters make choices! I love when those choices open up new possibilities! I love seeing the butterfly effect, I love when characters die but I don’t have to be sad at the end of a fic because in another branch they don’t die, I love trying things again and again.

Dress-Up Doll (online or paper): For IWTV, this very much feels like a literalization of what Claudia’s childhood was; I love how careful the costume department was to tell the story of her age through her clothing. For the Elric saga and Time Master, both central characters feel like — or are, in Elric’s case — the playthings of beings far more powerful than they are. (However, I also just really like the chance to put characters in pretty outfits; the thematic reason is really just a bonus.)

Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic or Fancomic of Recipient's Fic: I’ve tried to select fandoms where I’ve written fics with strong imagery. My ao3 is linked at the top of the page, but for ease of finding things: the Elric saga, the Inheritance Cycle, the Silmarillion, and Time Master.

Fanmix with Liner Notes: I really enjoyed 8tracks in its heyday, and I’d love a similar feeling here! Any style of music works for me, but the lyrics tend to be my central focus. I love when they’re accidentally super relevant in a specific way or when they describe a central preoccupation of the character. And I love when you tell me about the connections you see, in any form! Why this song, and why place it here?

Logic Grid Puzzles: I like doing puzzles and these feel like canons that would easily lend themselves to that format!

Medieval Illumination-Style Art & Medieval Illumination-Style Illustration of a Scene From the Recipient's Fic: I love when art looks like it could have come from the canon that it’s depicted!

Papercraft: These are fandoms where characters are nonhuman and their designs are very striking! (Or can be, in the case of the Silmarillion.) I admire the delicacy of papercraft immensely. I also love patterned paper for non-skin elements.

Reddit Posts: For canons where the Internet does not exist, I prefer the existence of Reddit to go completely unexplained. I really enjoy these as a way to see how characters will tell a story, and how they (intentionally or otherwise) bias it. I also enjoy when they say deeply deranged things and expect the reader to gloss over them because it’s not the point of the post.

Scripts/Screenplays: These are all fandoms with a strong emphasis on dialogue and excellent character voices that I’d love to hear more of!

A Softer World (art or panels): What I really love about the Softer World style is the tone and the way the format allows for the often-grim punchlines. I’ve requested art for canons where canon images don’t really exist and panels for ones that either are a visual medium or have a huge number of covers available.

Tarot Card: I don’t know much about tarot, but I really like the symbolism and the stylization they offer!

Finally, for all of the in-universe mediums, I love seeing what they reveal about their authors and their subjects. I’ve requested the ones which feel most fitting for each canon, but honestly I’d just like to see what you can do with them!

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats in any medium are welcome. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. Fandoms and pairings are organized alphabetically.

Sex pollen is used as a fairly broad category here; I am not married to pollen as the specific method of transmission so much as "some external substance which necessitates an orgasm/some level of physical contact with someone else." Feel free to take as much leeway with that as you'd like! Unless otherwise specified, I would enjoy pretty much any tone for these.

DNW: setting change AUs*, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent), unrequested trans headcanons, unrequested omegaverse, Rings of Power (TV)-specific elements for Silmarillion requests

(*setting change AU defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!)

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The color teal
• Art which is monochrome except for one specific detail in (a different) color
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging (both physical-only and physical-and-mental)
  • bodyswaps
• Feelings realization
• Getting together
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• Crack treated seriously
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Characters being betrayed by their bodies
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues

Smut likes

General themes I particularly like:

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Porn as character study
• Top or Dom POV
• Bottom or sub POV
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Kinking on inexperience (or pretended inexperience)
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Characters or worlds which believe penetration = dominance = masculinity and all the ways that can be subverted
• Sub tops with dom bottoms and/or submissive sadists with dominant masochists
• Same-generation incest
• Dubcon (defined here as "consent is ambiguous or not given, but everyone enjoys themselves")
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic, vague, and clinical language)

Specific acts or kinks I particularly like:

• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-omegaverse settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for requested pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• One character being in another's lap
• Condescending praise
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Sounding
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Public sex
• Collars
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Corsets
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Involuntary or uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)
• Telepathic sex
• Eggpreg, particularly with a large number of small eggs (I enjoy both impregnation & expulsion, as well as caviar stripping)

Opt-ins

• Abortion or miscarriage in pregnancy requests
• Period sex
• For omegaverse, I love alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)
• Infidelity (not between nominated pairing)
• Mentions or discussions of past canonical relationships

The Elric Saga

Arioch/Elric (either affected)

I love Arioch; he's so amoral and delightful. Please subject Elric to him, in whatever form that takes. I particularly like the tension over Elric's loyalty, where he is very dependent on Arioch but not enthusiastic in his loyalty, while Arioch finds him amusing to toy with. I will never be over the fact that Arioch canonically calls him "surely the sweetest of all my slaves" and Elric is constantly describing Arioch as beautiful even when he's otherwise all business. I am very into Arioch forcing Elric to admit who he belongs to or otherwise perform loyalty, particularly in a public setting or in front of Elric's allies.

But also, I would love to see the tables get turned on Arioch, so he’s vulnerable to Elric for once. Does he deliberately seek out Elric after learning he’d been affected? Was it a situation where he showed up to help Elric (for once) and then something happened?

Omegaverse and trans characters of any gender are welcome for this pairing!

Requested freeforms

• Any: A Non-Consensually Doses B
• Any: Affected character is humiliated by their behavior
• Any: Affected Character Produces Excessive Fluids/Semen/Cum
• Any: Desperately Needs to Be Fucked and Filled
• Heat (Non-omegaverse)
• Heat (omegaverse)
• Internal Biocompulsion
• Rut (Non-omegaverse)
• Rut (Omegaverse)
• Sex Pollen: Affected Character Believes They Can Resist Fuck Compulsion (They're Wrong)
• Sex Pollen: affected character gains a vagina they need to be fucked in
• Sex Pollen: Dose Administered as Punishment
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks
• Sex Pollen: Used In Sex Ritual

The Inheritance Cycle

Eragon/Murtagh (either or both affected)

There are so many flavors of relationship between these two over the course of the series, and all of them are good. Their initial roadtrip is the happiest point between them for a while, and then there are so many complicated feelings after Murtagh is captured/defects and they realize they’re related. I also adore how psyched Eragon is for Murtagh to come stay with him at the end of the book Murtagh.

I really enjoy how scared Murtagh is throughout much of the series and how mean it can make him, even as he’s still desperate for Eragon to recognize him as a brother. Likewise, I enjoy how Eragon is extremely adaptable to basically whatever the series throws at him. I’m open to any level of involvement for Saphira and Thorn short of actual sexual contact between humans and dragons; I really enjoy the psychic dragon bond and my favorite flavor of it is "platonic but extremely intense and weird to outsiders." (Background Saphira/Thorn is okay to include.)

I am also fascinated by an AU where they were both raised as Morzan's sons in Galbatorix's court (whether or not Eragon's actual parentage is any different). How does it alter their dynamic? Do either of them become Riders?

Transfem headcanons are welcome for either or both of them!

Requested freeforms

• Any: Affected A and B get off on denying each other to see who will break first
• Any: unaffected character doesn't want to take advantage; affected character sees this as rejection
• Metaphysical: Dragons mating compels bonded riders to fuck each other
• Sex Pollen: Character has involuntary orgasms while trying to resist
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Makes characters realize their feelings
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks

The Silmarillion

Celebrimbor/Sauron (Sauron affected)

This is my ultimate “The love was there. It didn't change anything. It didn't save anyone. But the love was there” pairing because the love being there makes everything that happens feel so much worse. I love interpretations where the feelings are accidentally very sincere on Sauron's part, regardless of how badly managed they are.

I would really love to see Sauron’s composure break. Is he aware of his feelings for Celebrimbor? Is this something he thought he would be able to control and quickly realize he couldn’t? Under what circumstances are he and Celebrimbor being asked to choose between truth serum and an aphrodisiac? I’d love Celebrimbor to either add to that humiliation (which Sauron finds unfairly hot) or to try to make things easy on him and be nice (which Sauron also finds unfairly hot).

Trans man Celebrimbor is welcome for this request, as is a Sauron who is man-shaped but either not terribly invested in gender or who doesn’t necessarily always have a penis.

Requested freeforms

• Any: Affected Character Produces Excessive Fluids/Semen/Cum
• Any: character intentionally doses self for attention from character/s they're pining for
• Any: Character without genitalia must orgasm or die
• Any: characters forced to choose between truth serum and fuck compulsion make different choices to each other
• Any: unaffected character doesn't want to take advantage; affected character sees this as rejection
• Sex Pollen: Affected Character Believes They Can Resist Fuck Compulsion (They're Wrong)
• Sex Pollen: affected character gains a vagina they need to be fucked in
• Sex Pollen: Character has involuntary orgasms while trying to resist
• Sex Pollen: Desperately Needs to Be Fucked and Filled
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Makes characters realize their feelings
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks

Elrond/Elros/Maedhros/Maglor (Elrond and Elros affected)

This is very much a pairing where I enjoy the aphrodisiac to be handled as if it’s an illness, albeit a weird and humiliating one, particularly if it’s very platonic and clinical on M&M’s side but not E&E’s side. I like emphasis on the wrongness of the situation, particularly the distress that any/all of them may be feeling, and the ways they are(n’t) trying to reassure each other. Hurt/comfort vibes, basically, except that the hurt is unfixably mixed with the comfort and the sex. Does either of the kids have a crush on one of them? For the incompatible sexualities tag, is either Elros or Elrond straight? Is someone asexual? Is Maedhros sex-repulsed? Are Maedhros and Maglor doing the bare minimum to satisfy the compulsion (eg. everyone’s clothes stay on and there’s simply a lot of grinding) or trying to end it as quickly as possible (eg. creampie and playing into kinks everyone will pretend not to know the other ones have afterwards)?

Please note that for this pairing, the under-16 DNW does not apply. As long as Elros and Elrond aren’t pre-pubescent, they can be under (the equivalent of) sixteen.

Requested freeforms

• Any: Affected character is humiliated by their behavior
• Any: affected character must both penetrate and be penetrated
• Any: someone inflicts a fuck compulsion on the characters as a morality test
• Any: unaffected character is very pragmatic about helping out
• Science: Useful Medication Taken in High Doses Functions As Sex Pollen
• Sex Pollen: Affected Character(s) is Overstimulated and Only Wants Non-Penetrative Sex
• Sex Pollen: Character has involuntary orgasms while trying to resist
• Sex Pollen: Incompatible Sexualities
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Non-Affected Character(s) Watches Affected Character(s) Masturbate
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks

Aredhel/Celegorm (all affected)
Aredhel/Celegorm/Orome (Aredhel and Celegorm affected)
Celegorm/Oromë (Celegorm affected)

I love that Aredhel is a female character who is both morally compromised (kinslaying) and sympathetic (everything else). I also enjoy how Celegorm sees which way the wind is blowing (and acknowledges it) much earlier than most of the rest of his brothers, and how that leads to a more visible awfulness. I’d love to see any of these either during the Years of the Trees or post-reembodiment; I’d also love seeing Aredhel and Celegorm in Beleriand.

Do some hunts involve followers of Orome being chosen to be sex pollened and either fucked post-hunt or become the object of the hunt? I do like when Aredhel is also a devotee of Orome (perhaps not as strongly as Celegorm, but more than the rest of their families). For “sex pollen as punishment,” I think it’d be interesting if the Valar decided Celegorm wasn’t making progress in Mandos and gave him (and possibly Aredhel also? Unless she's already been released) to Orome to work on.

Requested freeforms

• Any: Affected A and B get off on denying each other to see who will break first
• Sex Pollen: affected character gains a penis they need to fuck someone with
• Sex Pollen: affected character gains a vagina they need to be fucked in
• Sex Pollen: Desperately Needs to Be Fucked and Filled
• Sex Pollen: Dose Administered as Punishment
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Used In Sex Ritual

Celegorm/Curufin (all affected)
Celegorm/Curufin/Dior (all affected)
Curufin/Finrod (Curufin affected)

This is one where I would love everyone involved (except possibly Dior) to be very pragmatic about the aphrodisiac — though that doesn't necessarily cut down on the humiliated emotional reaction of losing control or the hate sex (for relevant pairings).

Celegorm/Curufin: I'd be interested in any era for these two (Years of the Trees, early First Age, Nargothrond, post-Nargothrond pre-Doriath, post-death Valinor) and any tone that feels appropriate. I'm very interested in how they work as a pair from the beginning in a way that doesn't happen for anyone except the Ambarussa until a lot more trauma has happened; they seem conscious of what they'll do for the Oath a lot sooner than their other brothers. Is the loyalty between them ever tested? 

Celegorm/Curufin/Dior: I am so intrigued by them! They’re all well-matched enough to kill each other (and there’s so much history and pre-existing sexual obsession between them and Dior’s parents, which I imagine Dior certainly feels heavily). I'd love something where sex is an extension of politics and the tension between the Noldor and the Sindar. For this, I’d prefer Dior to be over the age of majority (though I’m fine with his relative youth/inexperience being played up). In what circumstance are they all managing to get exposed to sex pollen(etc.) at the same time?

Curufin/Finrod: Why did Curufin pick Finrod to go to? Are they in Nargothrond, or is this earlier? (Or later?) I love political undertones and the claustrophobia of the Nargothrond, as well as familial tension and grudges being (un)addressed in the worst way possible.

Requested freeforms

• Any: Affected A and B get off on denying each other to see who will break first
• Any: affected character must both penetrate and be penetrated
• Any: Affected Character Produces Excessive Fluids/Semen/Cum
• Any: affected only trusts family member(s) to help
• Any: unaffected character is very pragmatic about helping out
• Sex Pollen
• Sex Pollen: A is only person willing to overlook consent issues to save affected B
• Sex Pollen: affected character gains a vagina they need to be fucked in
• Sex Pollen: affected character needs to swallow come
• Sex Pollen: Character has involuntary orgasms while trying to resist
• Sex Pollen: Desperately Needs to Be Fucked and Filled
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Non-Affected Character(s) Watches Affected Character(s) Masturbate
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks

The Time Master Series

Tarod/Yandros (either or both affected)

Link to my Candy Hearts promo post for this series and where to find the books.

This is a dynamic that drives me completely insane. The supposed villain going “we’re two sides of the same coin, you’re more like me than you think, you’ll understand eventually,” and then he’s just actually right. (Not in every aspect, admittedly! But the personal ones.) The entire time I was reading this series, I was expecting a third act betrayal from Yandros, and I am so charmed that did not happen. Yandros ultimately chooses Tarod and defers to his decision, even though he doesn’t necessarily agree with it.

I would love literally any combination of tags+who is affected. If it’s pre- or post-canon, why do they need to be compelled into having sex with each other? (I think they have had the absolute weirdest sex, at least half of which is completely unintelligible to the human brain as such.) If during canon, I can easily see an AU where a very sleep deprived Tarod accidentally poisons himself with sex pollen instead of Spindrift. I very much enjoy watching Tarod wrestle with his morality, and I would take truly so many words of it. Also I am just extremely 👀 about the cruelty pollen; they both know each other so well that it seems like it would be very effective. Any genitals are welcome for Tarod and Yandros as gods; I’d prefer if human Tarod had a penis and no vulva.

Requested freeforms

• Any: affected character must both penetrate and be penetrated
• Sex Pollen
• Sex Pollen: Affected Character Believes They Can Resist Fuck Compulsion (They're Wrong)
• Sex Pollen: Bad Guys deliberately drug captive with both truth serum and sex pollen
• Sex Pollen: Cruelty Pollen (Doused Party Acts Crueler)
• Sex Pollen: Desperately Needs to Be Fucked and Filled
• Sex Pollen: makes affected character grind desperately against inanimate objects and other character(s)
• Sex Pollen: Reveals Character(s)' Secret Kinks

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats in any medium are welcome. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. I'm happy with works of any rating! Fandoms and pairings are organized alphabetically.

DNW: setting change AUs, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent), unrequested noncon (dubcon very welcome!), unrequested trans headcanons, unrequested omegaverse, Rings of Power TV elements for Silmarillion requests

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The color teal
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging (both physical-only and physical-and-mental)
  • bodyswaps
• Feelings realization
• Getting together
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Characters being betrayed by their bodies
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues

Smut likes

General themes I particularly like:

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Porn as character study
• Top or dom POV & bottom or sub POV
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Kinking on inexperience (or pretended inexperience)
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Sub tops with dom bottoms and/or submissive sadists with dominant masochists
• Same-generation incest
• Dubcon
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic, vague, and clinical language)

Specific acts or kinks I particularly like:

• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-omegaverse settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for requested pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Condescending praise
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Sounding
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Public sex
• Collars
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Corsets
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)

Opt-ins

• Some requested characters in a pairing present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Abortion or miscarriage in pregnancy requests
• Period sex
• For omegaverse, I love alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)
• Infidelity (not between nominated pairing)
• Mentions or discussions of past canonical relationships

The Elric Saga

Arioch/Elric

I love Arioch; he's so amoral and delightful. Please subject Elric to him, in whatever form that takes. I particularly like the tension over Elric's loyalty, where he is very dependent on Arioch but not enthusiastic in his loyalty, while Arioch finds him amusing to toy with. I will never be over the fact that Arioch canonically calls him "surely the sweetest of all my slaves" and Elric is constantly describing Arioch as beautiful even when he's otherwise all business. I am very into Arioch forcing Elric to admit who he belongs to or otherwise perform loyalty, particularly in a public setting or in front of Elric's allies.

Noncon, omegaverse, and trans characters are more than welcome in this request!

Guardian (TV)

Shen Wei/Ye Zun/Zhao Yunlan

Ye Zun is so intense about Shen Wei and Shen Wei is so intense about both of them; I would love to see those dynamics combine. Ye Zun flirts with Zhao Yunlan as Shen Wei — what would he do if Zhao Yunlan kept flirting back? I'd love a canon divergent "things ended fine actually" AU as a jumping off point. What's the catalyst? How are Shen Wei and Ye Zun learning to reconnect? How does Zhao Yunlan react to it?

The Inheritance Cycle

Eragon/Murtagh

There are so many flavors of relationship between these two over the course of the series, and all of them are good. Their initial roadtrip is the happiest point between them for a while, and then there are so many complicated feelings after Murtagh is captured/defects and they realize they’re related. I also adore how psyched Eragon is for Murtagh to come stay with him at the end of the book Murtagh.

I really enjoy how scared Murtagh is throughout much of the series and how mean it can make him, even as he’s still desperate for Eragon to recognize him as a brother. Likewise, I enjoy how Eragon is extremely adaptable to basically whatever the series throws at him. I’m open to any level of involvement for Saphira and Thorn short of actual sexual contact between humans and dragons; I really enjoy the psychic dragon bond and my favorite flavor of it is "platonic but extremely intense and weird to outsiders." (Background Saphira/Thorn is okay to include.)

I am also fascinated by an AU where they were both raised as Morzan's sons in Galbatorix's court (whether or not Eragon's actual parentage is any different). How does it alter their dynamic? Do either of them become Riders?

Omegaverse is welcome for this pairing.

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua

I love every arm of this triangle! I’m definitely open to a proxy sex dynamic where technically only two of them are involved at the point when the fic is set, but the third one is definitely Present in their thoughts. I’m open to any tone for this, from zany case solving to stumbling into kink which may or may not involve sex to serious angst. I just really like how they interact with each other, both as pairs and as a trio, and I’d love to see more of it.

The Silmarillion

Celegorm/Curufin

I'd be interested in any era for these two (Years of the Trees, early First Age, Nargothrond, post-Nargothrond pre-Doriath, post-death Valinor) and any tone that feels appropriate. I'm very interested in how they work as a pair from the beginning in a way that doesn't happen for anyone except the Ambarussa until a lot more trauma has happened; they seem conscious of what they'll do for the Oath a lot sooner than their other brothers. Is the loyalty between them ever tested?

I’d also be really intrigued by an incestuous but nonsexual kink relationship. What’s their journey towards kink discovery?

Celegorm/Dior(/Curufin)

I am so intrigued by them! They’re all well-matched enough to kill each other (and there’s so much history and pre-existing sexual obsession between them and Dior’s parents, which I imagine Dior certainly feels heavily). I'd love something where sex is an extension of politics and the tension between the Noldor and the Sindar. For this, I’d prefer Dior to be over the age of majority (though I’m fine with his relative youth/inexperience being played up), though I really don’t have a preference towards consensual sex or dubcon.

If it is consensual, my big question is: How? How did they get here? Did someone have the bright idea to attempt an arranged marriage to stabilize the political situation prior to the second kinslaying (which...worked, somehow)? Have they all been re-embodied in Valinor and are now working out their issues in a way the Valar probably didn't predict?

Celegorm/Curufin/Finrod

Ah, the Nargothrond Bad Idea Polycule. Are Celegorm and Curufin already together, or is Finrod the catalyst? I love political undertones and the claustrophobia of the city, as well as familial tension and grudges being (un)addressed in the worst way possible. If LACE applies here, can Finrod and Celegorm have sex with each other, or does Curufin have to act as intermediary (since he's already married)? I’m also happy with a Years of the Trees or Fourth Age Valinor setting!

Feanor/Fingolfin

I would really love this to lean into the complicated mess of family dynamics happening here, and particularly if things were left in a (largely) unresolved, unfixed place. I'm very into "sex as politics" for the Silmarillion generally, and that's particularly true here. I'm primarily interested in the Years of the Trees before they leave Valinor (either when tensions are rising or before). Certainly they both have reasons to (not) act on their desires: what happens that allows it?

Do they both have kids at this point? Is Fingolfin around the same age as Maedhros, or is he closer in age to Feanor? (I'm very happy with either or a secret third thing as an answer; Feanor's nearly an adult when Fingolfin is born, but also Maedhros and Fingon are implied to be relatively close in age.) I find it intriguing that Fingolfin is the sibling Feanor fixates on, when he isn't Finwe and Indis's firstborn. Is it because he's their first boy? Is it because of Fingolfin's personality?

Maedhros/Maglor

They're the last two of Feanor's sons standing, and I imagine that cannot have done great things for their relationship. What prompts them getting together? How does the rest of the family feel about it (if there is a 'rest of the family' at that point)? This is also a pairing I'm particularly open to "looking back and reflecting while separated by death" for. I would be equally happy with fluffy sex/romance (particularly during the Years of the Trees) and grim, "we’ve already done so much worse so how big of a deal is incest really?"-flavored sex/romance.

The Time Master Series

Tarod/Yandros

Link to my Candy Hearts promo post for this series and where to find the books.

This is a dynamic that drives me completely insane. The supposed villain going “we’re two sides of the same coin, you’re more like me than you think, you’ll understand eventually,” and then he’s just actually right. (Not in every aspect, admittedly! But the personal ones.) The entire time I was reading this series, I was expecting a third act betrayal from Yandros, and I am so charmed that did not happen. Yandros ultimately chooses Tarod and defers to his decision, even though he doesn’t necessarily agree with it.

I'd love to see Yandros's perspective on any of the scenes where he's talking to Tarod and isn't managing to win him over; I imagine it must be very frustrating. He’s fairly restrained about how much he misses Tarod in canon, but it’s such a disturbing and relatively long-lasting separation, compared to what they've done before. I also think there's a lot of potential for interaction in the time between books one and two, where Tarod has trapped himself in a completely empty castle that he's wrenched out of time. They literally can't get the plot moving, so what else is there to do?

I very much enjoy watching Tarod wrestle with his morality, and I would take truly so many words of it. If Yandros ever does decide to try seduction (whether or not he’s told Tarod that they’re siblings), how does Tarod take it? I would love to see him muddling through confused feelings, particularly if dream sex or shapeshifting is involved.

Post- (or pre-)canon with them both as gods is welcome as well. What are they like when there’s no misunderstandings? (If you’re interested in writing smut, I think they have had the absolute weirdest sex, at least half of which is completely unintelligible to the human brain as such.)

I love outside POV and this is a canon I think it works very well for, as humans either don’t remember or understand much about Yandros and Tarod (either as people or as gods). I think we should toss (confirmed? rumored?) incest/displays of affection into the mix and see what happens.

Finally, I think this is a setting that would be really interesting to have externalized souls in (whether through daemons or soulmarks or something else), considering that Tarod's soul is already in his ring. Would he have an additional one as a human? If not, how does that affect his immersion into the Order, when there's something much more concrete to point to as 'something is wrong with this guy' aside from being vaguely unsettling and weirdly powerful?

I have read both the prequel and sequel trilogies as well, so feel free to pull in canon from there if it's helpful and don’t worry about it if it isn’t. (I particularly enjoyed Yandros and Tarod attending human parties incognito together at the beginning of Star Ascendant.)

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats in any medium are welcome. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3. I'm happy with any tone for these that you feel inclined to write!

DNW: scat, unrequested trans headcanons for non-OW works, any of the requested characters being younger than sixteen (or species equivalent), setting change AUs*

(*setting change AU defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, canon divergence AUs, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!)

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon or in-universe forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The color teal
• Characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
  • de-aging
• Feelings realization
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• For trans characters, attention to how gender functions and is conceptualized in their society, what types of transition is or isn't available, how transition impacts ability to inherit (in relevant canons)
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Being betrayed by your body
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues

Smut likes

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-A/B/O settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Porn as character study
• Top or dom POV & bottom or sub POV
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Public sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Intercrural sex
• Oral sex
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Feminization, including for female characters
• Condescending praise
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Submissive sadists with dominant masochists and/or sub tops with dom bottoms
• Dubcon
• Same-generation incest
• Corsets
• Latex or cloth gloves
• Collars
• Sounding
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic and clinical language)
• Uncontrollable orgasms (with or without trigger words)

Opt-ins

• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Period sex
• Omegaverse (I prefer alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics)
• Sex with sapient animals, or with a shapeshifter in animal form
• Permanent injuries as the result of noncon
• Vomiting (sexual or non-sexual)

The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock

Trans headcanons of any gender are welcome for Elric! The castration freeform can also involve a penectomy, if desired.

Arioch noncons Elric

Fundamentally, Elric cannot say no in a way that matters. I’d love to see Arioch take advantage of that. Is this particular instance Elric being opposed to a specific act (e.g. chastity/feminization/castration) or circumstance (e.g. in front of allies or enemies/while Arioch looks like Cymoril/using the trigger words when it’s really inconvenient), or is he opposed to any sexual relationship between them? I'd love to see the "rape as reward" freeform in the sense of "Elric's rape intended as reward for Elric."

Feel free to make this as absolutely weird as you feel inclined to.

Yyrkoon noncons Elric
Yyrkoon noncons Elric & Cymroil

I just think Yyrkoon should get to be as sexually obsessed with Elric as he is with Cymoril. Does he view raping Elric as an extension of conquering/winning Cymoril, or is he interested in Elric despite himself? I’d be really interested to see this pre-Sadric’s death with jockeying for the eventual kingship, or in an AU where Yyrkoon does become king and finds a better use for Elric than killing him (at least for right now). Yyrkoon does seem like he would prefer if he didn’t have to force Cymoril into sleeping with him; is Elric an outlet so he preserves the belief that she’ll come around eventually? Or is it a typical part of Melnibonean ascendance to adulthood, as the “rape as a rite of passage” freeform might imply (and is that to be raped or to rape someone else)? I’d also be really interested to see Cymoril’s perspective, since she has more of a typical Melnibonean set of morals than Elric does — how does that impact their respective reactions to what Yyrkoon is forcing them into?

Requested freeforms

• Altered States - Captor Using Victim's Addiction to Force Them to Comply
• Attitude - Resigned Victim
• Betrayal - Victim Would Have Consented If Asked
• Body Mods - Castration
• Chastity Devices - Victim Locked in Chastity Orgasms from Anal
• Conditioning - Trigger Word(s) For Arousal and/or Orgasm
• Escalation - "Innocent" Groping
• Escalation - Bullying turns into Rape
• Escalation - Initially Nonsexual Demands Gradually Become More Sexual
• Gender/Sexuality - Forced Feminisation
• Loyalty - Submission To Rape as Part of Duty/Job
• Motive - Rape as Powerplay
• Motive - Rape as Reward
• Multiple Victims - Victim 1 Confesses Fantasies About Victim 2 and Performs Them With Rapist
• Obsession - Rapist is Jealous of Victim
• Public - Put on Display
• Public - Ritual Public Sex
• Shapeshifting - Rapist Takes Form of Victim's Loved One(s)
• Society - Rape as Rite of Passage
• Watersports - Rapist Pisses Inside Victim
• Xeno - Tiny Squirming Tendrils

The Inheritance Cycle

Any makes Eragon noncon Murtagh
Any makes Murtagh noncon Eragon

For the force that makes one brother rape the other, I really do mean any! Galbatorix, magic, Elves, the Varden, specific members of the Varden, dragon mating cycles, sex pollen — it’s all welcome! (Transfem headcanons are welcome for either or both of them.)

I’d love to see this at any point of their relationship from book one onwards, or an AU where they were raised together as Morzan’s sons (whether or not Eragon’s actual parentage is any different). How does it change their dynamic?

For the animal submission behaviors, I was thinking that Riders would take on dragon traits over time. I’d love submissive pissing in particular, but really anything is welcome, especially if it’s surprising to both of them. (Animal dominance behaviors are also welcome, I just ran out of space for them.) The incest reveal during rape would be a way for Murtagh to really grind Eragon into being disgusted by him at the end of the second book.

For sex pollen, I would particularly love a feral-ish Eragon raping a non- or less-affected Murtagh. I don't have a preference for which of them has the magic portal.

If Galbatroix (or Morzan, in an AU where he’s still around) is the one forcing Eragon and Murtagh into this as a show of loyalty, I’d love if they were aware of at least one brother’s incestuous feelings and used that against them during the rape or immediate aftermath. How does it stress their already quite stressed dynamic?

Requested freeforms

• Animal Submission Behaviours
• Escalation - Initially Nonsexual Demands Gradually Become More Sexual
• Fuck Or Die
• Humiliation - Watched by Mocking Enemy
• Identity Issues - Accidental Incest
• Identity Issues - Incest Reveal During Rape
• Incest - Non-related Rapist Exploits Victim's Incestuous Feelings
• Inexperience - Virginal Victim's Knowledge of Sex is Rudimentary or Metaphorical
• Magic - Healing Magic Causes Pleasure
• Magic - Portal to victim's genitals or ass
• Multiple Victims - Character Forced to Commit Rape Tries to Be Gentle
• Multiple Victims - Forced to Fuck to Damage Their Relationship
• Multiple Victims - Forced to Rape Them or Let Them Be Raped by the Aggressor
• Multiple Victims - Mutual Noncon
• Multiple Victims - Victim 1 Confesses Fantasies About Victim 2 and Performs Them With Rapist
• Penetration - Forced to Penetrate
• Resistance - Victim Is Not As Affected By Their Rape As Rapist Wanted
• Scenario - Forced to Live Out Darkest Fantasy
• Sex Pollen

The Silmarillion

Trans headcanons of any gender are welcome for Celegorm (though I’d prefer if he didn’t have a natal vagina if being raped by Dior), and any genitals are welcome for Sauron.

Celegorm noncons Dior
Celegorm & Curufin noncon Dior
Dior noncons Celegorm

I’m intrigued by the way they can all match each other — Dior canonically holds his own against Celegorm and does manage to kill him.

If Dior is captured by one or both of them, I’d love to see how his imprisonment differs from Luthien’s. Are C&C quicker to act this time? Is there an attempt at seduction? Do the brothers use a good cop/bad cop dynamic? (Is there branding?) I’d also love to see an arranged marriage go sideways after it’s too late to fix, since they can't get divorced. Osanwe would also be fun to play with here — what are Celegorm’s shameful kinks? (...CNC?) What are Dior’s shameful kinks?

Regarding the “multiple rapists” freeforms, I’d be equally happy with C&C being in an established relationship or still holding out against outright incest while being very happy to use Dior as an intermediary. How does their dynamic impact what Celegorm is doing to Dior?

For Dior as the aggressor, I’m mainly imagining that happening during the second kinslaying (although a different scenario, such as after re-embodiment, is also very good!). I’d love to see Dior rationalize raping Celegorm as a way of righting a wrong against his family; he wouldn’t ever rape anyone else, but Celegorm deserves it, so it doesn’t count (and/or Dior isn't the one doing the penetrating, so it doesn't count). Celegorm can be alive, dying, or dead during this. For the other necrophilia tag, I’m happy with the corpse being any adult, including Caranthir, Curufin, and Nimloth.

If you’re interested in doing so, I’d love to see LACE played with. Does Dior think he’ll die if he’s raped? Does rape create the same soulbond as consensual sex?

Requested freeforms

• Body Mods - Branded with Rapist's Name/Initial(s)
• Captivity - Abduction as Seduction
• Inexperience - Virginal Victim's Knowledge of Sex is Rudimentary or Metaphorical
• Marriage - Forced Consummation
• Marriage - Public Consummation
• Mind Reading Rapist Takes Advantage of Victim's Shameful Kinks
• Motive - Rape as Powerplay
• Motive - Rape to Attain Emotional Catharsis
• Multiple Rapists - Incestuous Couple Rape Together
• Multiple Rapists - Victim Used as Proxy by Rapists Who Want to Fuck Each Other
• Necrophilia - Dead Man Tops
• Necrophilia - Rape Beside a Corpse
• Orgasm - Victim Orgasms and Is Ashamed
• Penetration - Double Penetration in One Hole
• Praise - Condescending Praise
• Resistance - Rapist Aroused by Victim Fighting Back
• Resistance - Victim Mouths off at Rapist(s) and Makes it Worse for Themselves
• Ruler Raped On Their Own Throne
• Soulbond - Rape Creates Soulbond Between Victim and Rapist
• Watersports - Victim Forced to Pee

Sauron noncons Celebrimbor

Most of these freeforms probably best fit the period when Celebrimbor is being tortured by Sauron — did Sauron try a “gentler” approach first? That said, I’m happy with any time period that calls to you. I’m also equally happy with assuming a previous romantic relationship between them or a flirtation/attraction that never pushed beyond friendship.

I could see a wide range of attitudes from Sauron as a rapist here — gloating, resentful that he has to force Celebrimbor into things Celebrimbor has already done with him so why isn't he just cooperating, not as unaffected as he’s pretending to be, or glad that he’s finally able to drop the mask and take what he wants. For shapeshifting, I’d really love if Sauron used that both to appear as Annatar and as, say, Finrod or Galadriel (i.e. it’s more about getting under Celebrimbor’s skin than any particular difference in sexual stimulation, though the latter is also welcome.)

I would also love to see Celebrimbor in an atticwifing situation, where he’s survived but might not be very happy about the result. I’m very intrigued with how Sauron might perform (and deny) care.

(If you’re looking through my other letters, you’ll notice that “noncon while Celebrimbor thinks Sauron is Annatar” is generally a DNW; rest assured that is waived for this exchange.)

Requested freeforms

• Arousal - Rapist Makes Effort to Arouse Victim
• Bargaining - Captive Victim Agrees to Rape in Exchange for Freedom/Luxuries/Other’s Safety
• Bondage - Chained to Foot of Throne
• Identity Issues - Rapist has Double Identity as Savior/Friend/Lover
• Identity Issues - Uninformed Consent
• Intimacy - Bathed By Rapist
• Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
• Intimacy - Victim Treated Like Lover
• Magic - Shapeshifting Rapist Rapes Victim In More Than One Shape
• Motive - Rape as a Method of Torturing Information Out of the Victim
• Motive - Rape to Attain Emotional Catharsis
• Motive - Rape to Prove Victim Means Nothing to Them
• Necrophilia - Dead Man Tops
• Non-Penetrative - Handjob Performed on Victim
• Punishment - For Betrayal / Assumed Betrayal
• Relationship History - Rapist Uses Knowledge From Past Consensual Sex
• Soulbond - Rape Creates Soulbond Between Victim and Rapist
• Wanted It but Not Like This - Rapist(s) Wanted It
• Wanted It but Not Like This - Victim(s) Wanted It
• Xeno

Ar-Pharazôn noncons Sauron

Is this early in Sauron’s captivity? Is it late, when Pharazon is already being consumed by old age and Sauron is an established priest, who should be past having to prove his loyalty this way? I would love if Sauron is much more affected by being assaulted than he thinks he should be (though maybe not as much a Pharazon wants), even if he’s outwardly managing to project pure boredom and indulgence. I also like when Sauron is just a fucking awful person, even when he's suffering.

Requested freeforms

• Anal Penetration as Act of Dominance
• Arousal - Rapist Can't Get/Stay Erect
• Body Mods - Branded with Rapist's Name/Initial(s)
• Bondage - Chains
• Captivity - Bathe Them and Bring Them To Me
• Guro - Rapist Takes Advantage of Victim's Immortality to Inflict Normally Deadly Injuries
• Humiliation - Break the Haughty
• Humiliation - Victim's Arousal Is Mocked By Rapist
• Mind Reading Victim Feels Rapist's Enjoyment
• Resistance - Victim Is Not As Affected By Their Rape As Rapist Wanted
• Society - Racist Raped By Member of Race They Consider Inferior
• Xeno

Original Works

Alien Whose Sexual Biology Is Unrecognisable noncons Completely Oblivious Human (Any/Any)

Honestly, I’m just fascinated by this! Is the human aware that they’re interacting with the alien at all? Are there other aliens around who are choosing not to intervene? What does the rape look like?

Requested freeforms

• Arousal - Rapist Ejaculates Prematurely
• Clothing - Clothed Sex
• Dehumanization - Rapist Doesn't Consider Victim a Person
• Misunderstandings - Cultural Misunderstanding Leads to Rape
• Orgasm - Multiple Orgasms
• Oviposition
• Public - Raped Surreptitiously
• Xeno
• Xeno - Tiny Squirming Tendrils

Doctor noncons Hysteria Patient (M/Any)

I’d really love a Victorian or Edwardian setting for this. Is the doctor skeevy, or is he condescending and truly believes this is the best course of action? I’d also be open to the hysteria patient being used as a demonstration of the condition for medical students.

Requested freeforms

• Aftermath - Everyone Believes Rapist is Innocent
• Arousal - Aroused Victim
• Conditioning - Trigger Word(s) For Arousal and/or Orgasm
• Dirty Talk - Misogynistic Dirty Talk
• Humiliation - Victim's Arousal Is Mocked By Rapist
• Hysteria - Victim Forced To Undergo Regular Treatments
• Hysteria - Victim Is Forcibly Treated For Hysteria
• Inexperience - Victim Has Never Had an Orgasm
• Masturbation - Victim Forced to Masturbate
• Medical
• Medical - Exam
• Medical - Rape by Doctor
• Penetration - Drawn Out Finger Fucking
• Praise - Condescending Praise
• Praise - Victim Wants Rapist’s Praise/Approval
• Watersports - Victim Forced to Pee
• Xeno – Unbirthing – Creature Settles Inside Character's Womb as Pseudopregnancy

Hypocritical Gentleman noncons Sheltered Ward (M/Any)

I’d really love a Victorian or Edwardian setting for this. Escalation would be very fun to see, such as the gentleman going from voyeurism to groping to penetration to fucking his ward in the corner at a party. I'm open to them being related by blood.

Requested freeforms

• Aftermath - Victim Ashamed of Losing Virginity
• Aftermath - Victim Forced to Live With Rapist
• Arousal - Rapist Ejaculates Prematurely
• Dirty Talk - Misogynistic Dirty Talk
• Escalation - "Innocent" Groping
• Inexperience - Victim Has Never Had an Orgasm
• Inexperience - Virginal Victim's Knowledge of Sex is Rudimentary or Metaphorical
• Masturbation - Victim Forced to Masturbate
• Penetration - "Just the Tip" Leads to Penetration
• Penetration - Wrong Hole
• Praise - Victim Wants Rapist’s Praise/Approval
• Public - Raped Surreptitiously
• Society - Rape as Rite of Passage
• Virginity - Virginity Test
• Watersports - Victim Forced to Pee

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me! Treats are always welcome. I'm aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) on ao3.

Prompts are organized alphabetically. I'd love to receive anything for any of them but have included prompts in case you find them useful. I've requested all of these fandoms before, so feel free to poke through previous letters if they're helpful.

DNW: setting change AU*, unrequested trans headcanons, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent)

(*setting change AU defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, canon divergence AUs, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!)

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The color teal

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Hard conversations
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Characters who are trying to hold it together but fraying at the edges
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)
• Coughing up blood
• Passing out dramatically in another character's arms
• Hiding (and failing to hide) medical issues

Smut likes

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside someone anally or vaginally, submissive wetting (including in non-A/B/O settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Porn as character study
• Top or dom POV & bottom or sub POV
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Public sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Condescending praise
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Submissive sadists with dominant masochists and/or sub tops with dom bottoms
• Dubcon
• Same-generation incest
• Corsets & characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses
• Collars
• Slapping the inside of a character's thigh to make them open their legs
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic and clinical language)

Opt-ins

• Requested characters present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Descriptive vomiting (whether sexual or not)
• Abortion or miscarriage in pregnancy requests
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Period sex
• Omegaverse (I prefer alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics)

Noncon-specific likes

• “I know better than you about what you need” attitude from aggressor
• A freeze response and/or the victim trying to be “good”
• A focus on coercion over physical violence
• Rape as punishment
• Horror elements

The Magnus Archives

(Hurt Jon, whether solo or Jon/Elias — Angst, Graphic Torture, Graphic Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Rape, Sickfic, Whump)

I like to softly croon ‘oh nooooo’ while Jon suffers, especially when he doesn’t tell anyone about it. Re: sickfic, I’d love to see statement withdrawal as part of it! A couple of ideas: Jon is kidnapped/injured/raped by another avatar, he accidentally (or on purpose) is starving himself with statements, and an exploration of his alienated relationship with humanity and monstrous transformation (physical transformation welcome also! Give that man new and impossible appendages/eyes/flesh/wounds!). I’m also happy to see the fallout of any of these!

For the Jon/Elias pairing specifically, all of the above applies, but I also really love the part of seasons three/four where all the archives employees are falling apart and their relationships are fraying, and Jon is left to rely on Elias. (Who, I am sure, only has his Archive’s best interests in mind.)

Fandom-specific DNW: Jon written as allosexual (though I’m fine with him having sex of any consent level and you don't have to specifically mention that he's asexual), a focus on consensual or requited Jon/Martin (though I like most other Jon pairings, so feel free to include literally anyone else, particularly if they’re dysfunctional!), rape between Jon/Elias (dubcon fine)

The Silmarillion

(Sauron/hurt Celebrimbor, solo Maedhros, solo Sauron — all eight freeforms requested)

Celebrimbor/Sauron: I would really love to see the period post-reveal but pre-death, where Celebrimbor is being forced to grapple with quite a lot of things all at once, while he is also being tortured to death by someone he loves. I do like interpretations where Sauron’s feelings are genuine (because it makes what he does worse). Sickfic or hurt/comfort (with ominous foreshadowing to taste) pre-reveal is also very welcome.

Maedhros: This man is built to suffer. I’m up for any time period! The general whump tag can be parentification, too; it does seem like something that might’ve happened to him. I’d also love anything during Angband or something about bad mental spirals or long-term effects of torture, especially when he’s not in a place where he can relax. I really like the sunk-cost fallacy in regards to the Oath, so anything about that would be wonderful as well. I'd also be interested in seeing something where Maedhros survives his suicide attempt and is really angry about it (and quite possibly dealing with a bunch of new disabilities on top of it).

Sauron: He’s awful and I want to see him suffer! I would love it to be as a result of his own actions or as part of a ruse, but nevertheless genuine suffering. I’d particularly love to see the early part of his captivity in Numenor, where he has to sit there and take it to make his imprisonment seem real. I would also love angst at any point, or Sauron being punished for his failures with Melkor. (Celebrimbor/Sauron is welcome for this request as well.)

Fandom-specific DNW: rape or other violence between Celebrimbor/Sauron while Celebrimbor thinks Sauron is Annatar; Celebrimbor as aggressor.

Time Master

(Tarod/Yandros, either or both of them hurt — Angst, Character Death, Graphic Torture, Graphic Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Sickfic, Whump)

Link to my Candy Hearts promo post for this series.

God, Tarod is so whumpable. I dearly want to see him go through hell and then let Yandros save him. I am so feral for the way Tarod’s perspective and feelings on Yandros do a complete 180 based on which memories he has; every time I get to book three I wonder if I’m imagining their dynamic, and then I get to the last fifty pages and nope. (Due to being physically more vulnerable as a human for a lot of the series, Tarod is the one I have a lot of ideas for here, but rest assured that I would love to see Yandros hit with the suffering stick, too!)

A couple of ideas: Tarod is once again imprisoned and tormented with as much detail as you’d like to write while Yandros is starting to wonder if he’s going to manage to find a way out. Something goes very wrong with the plan and Tarod dies for real as a human; Yandros mourns him. The Order figures out a way to summon and imprison/lock Yandros’s powers away for *handwave* reasons, and this time it’s up to Tarod to rescue him (if he even knows who he is!). Also, anything with amnesia would be wonderful; I can never get enough of it in the series.

Fandom-specific DNW: either brother being the cause of the graphic violence/torture for the other.

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me!

Prompts are organized alphabetically; I'd love to receive anything for any of these combinations, but have included prompts in case you find them useful. I've requested fic and art for all requests.

DNW: semen or vaginal fluids in head hair, setting change AU*, unrequested noncon (dubcon welcome!), unrequested trans headcanons, on-page sex with a character under 16 (or species equivalent)

(*setting change AU defined here as changing the location and/or time period of canon; pre-canon, future fic, or adding tropes to the setting are all fine!)

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

In art, I particularly like:

• Symbolism
• Art nouveau
• Art styles that mimic canon forms of art (including ones like textiles)
• Moments that parallel each other through time
• Color contrasts
• The color teal

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic
• Characters doing their best in tough situations, especially when "their best" is quite bad
• In-universe politics (for non-real world settings)

Smut likes

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • Particularly pissing inside, submissive wetting (including in non-A/B/O settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
• Proxy sex (examples for pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Porn as character study
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Public sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Condescending praise
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Psychological aspects of kink
• Submissive sadists with dominant masochists and/or sub tops with dom bottoms
• Dubcon
• Same-generation incest
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Corsets & characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses
• Collars
• Xeno genitals of any kind
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic and clinical language)

Opt-ins

• For fic: Requested characters present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Abortion or miscarriage in pregnancy requests
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Period sex
• Omegaverse; I prefer alpha/alpha and omega/omega pairings, and particularly enjoy when only one of multiple sapient species in a setting has dynamics

Hair-specific likes

• Hard conversations while doing someone else's hair/someone is doing your hair
• Cultural aspects of hair (particularly around mourning or stages of life)
• Intimacy through hair care
• Braiding
• Long hair, particularly when it's usually kept up (so that taking it down is a sign of intimacy)

Biggles Series

Erich von Stalhein/Biggles

I love the slow development of their relationship across decades and Biggles's continuous attempts to win Erich over, including when he is being held prisoner. Any period of their relationship is welcome, including post-Hatchet! These two lend themselves to the intimacy of hurt/comfort very well.

Please note that adding supernatural/magical elements to canon (particularly where required by the allopreening or werewolf freeforms) does not violate my setting change DNW and is something I enjoy reading! Regarding the feminization freeform: I'd prefer if it wasn't something humiliating, but part of undercover work or kink (or both).

Requested freeforms

• Body Hair: Removal to Feminize/Emasculate
• Braiding for Sick/Injured Character
• First Time Being Close Enough to Someone to Feel Their Hair Against Your Skin
• First Time Being Close Enough to Someone to Notice the Scent of Their Hair
• Hair Care As Bonding
• Hair Care: Allopreening Each Other's (Bird-Like) Hair/Feathers
• Hair Care: Dealing with Tangled Hair
• Hair Care: Gently Caring for Upset Character
• Hair Care: In Context of Undercover Work
• Hair Care: Watching Someone Else Do Their Own Hair
• Haircuts: Character Scared of Having Long Hair Asks/Begs for Haircut
• Messy Hair: Blood in Hair
• Playing with Hair: A Plays with B's Hair Assuming They're Asleep (They're Not)
• Playing With Hair: Playing with a Werewolf's Fur
• Playing With Hair: Unconsciously Playing With Someone Else's
• Shaving: For Someone Who Can't Shave Themselves
• Shaving: Trust and Intimacy
• Washing Hair: Blood in Hair

The Silmarillion (platonic set)

For all parent-child relationships, I'm happy with the child(ren) being any age, from young child to teenager to fellow adult. For all of these, I'd be happy to receive tones ranging between "mired in grief" and "fluff" (with optional foreshadowing). For art, I'd prefer if appearances didn't pull exclusively from the Rings of Power. I'd be very happy with any of these characters being people of color.

Aredhel & Maeglin

I can’t imagine Eol was very involved with Maeglin’s hair care as a child or adult. Is Maeglin still wearing the hairstyles Aredhel taught him later in Gondolin? If there are particular gendered hairstyles, does Aredhel know how to do the male ones? I would also be happy with AU where Aredhel doesn't die, or where they end up in Celegorm & Curufin's lands instead of Gondolin. Or Fourth Age Valinor!

(Trans headcanons of any gender are welcome for Maeglin.)

(Beren &) Luthien & Dior

There's so much focus on Luthien's hair, and Dior has clearly inherited a lot from her. I'd love to see bonding moments, either between mother and son or the family as a unit.

Curufin & Celebrimbor

I’d love to see anything for this, particularly if it highlights the very complicated relationship between them. If there is a specific style of hair for mourning, does Celebrimbor wear it, or consider doing so, after he hears of his father’s death? I’m very open to Celebrimbor being born anytime between the Years of the Trees and arrival in Nargothrond, so he can be as old as you need him to be. (Though I'd prefer he was a full [if young] adult by the time Curufin and Celegorm leave Nargothrond, I'm not gonna check your math.)

Elwing (& Elrond [& Elros])

For Elwing solo: I would love to see her daily routine in Sirion or Alqualonde, or some moments of her very early childhood. How birdlike does she remain?

Daily life in Sirion overlaps with Elros & Elrond as well; how old were they during the third kinslaying? How much do they remember of Elwing? I'm also happy with anything set in Fourth Age Valinor between Elrond & Elwing.

Galadriel (& Celebrían)

Galadriel has so much going on with her hair; what is any of that like from her perspective? (I’m particularly thinking about Feanor’s request for her hair.)

What’s Galadriel like as a mother? What is her relationship with Celebrían like? While I would be happy with a younger Celebrían, I'd love to see them both as adult women as well.

For art, I do particularly love the Galadriel cast in the 2014 Finrod rock opera (the flowers! the jewelry!), but am also fine with a different visual interpretation.

Maedhros & Maglor

What was their hair like during the Years of the Trees? Are there elaborate styles that fall out of favor afterwards? Is Maedhros’s hair damaged by Angband? Is the king expected to wear different hair styles? For mourning, I would love to see what Maglor does when he's the only one left, or what they do when burying their siblings particularly after the second kinslaying.

I’ve also requested the slash version of this in the other set of Silm requests. Feel free to pull prompts from either set for these two, regardless of whether the fic/art ends up & or /.

Variations on Maedhros & Maglor & Elros & Elrond

I'm so intrigued by the tiny snippet of their life together we get in the Silm. What does "love grew after between them" look like on a day-to-day basis? Where is Maedhros in the equation? I'm equally happy with fluff and angst or something in between, though I do love undercurrents of unacknowledged trauma in either. Do Elros and Elrond have a different type of hair from Maedhros and Maglor? Is this a functional task that becomes bonding? Is it emotionally painful for the twins? Is it emotionally painful for the adults?

Elrond is singled out in these requests because I would also be very interested in something set in Fourth Age Valinor.

Requested freeforms

• Accessories: For Mourning
• As Culture: Styles And/Or Ornaments Have Meaning
• As Culture: Worldbuilding
• Braiding for Sick/Injured Character
• Braiding: For Traumatized Child
• Brushing Someone Else's Hair
• Hair Care As Bonding
• Hair Care: Dealing with Tangled Hair
• Hair Care: For a Child
• Hair Care: Gently Caring for Upset Character
• Hair Care: Learning How to Care for Child's Hair
• Washing Hair: Blood in Hair
• Hair Care Associated with Traumatic/Bittersweet Memories

The Silmarillion (romantic/sexual set)

For art, I'd prefer if appearances didn't pull exclusively from the Rings of Power. I'd be very happy with any of these characters being people of color. Any rating is welcome for these!

Galadriel/Melian

I would love something with Galadriel in Doriath, either as Melian’s friend or her student. Sweetness is welcome, as is eldritch Maia Melian. If Galadriel and Melian are in an established relationship, I'd prefer Thingol (and Celeborn, if relevant) to be fine with it, though that doesn't have to be mentioned. (It does not have to come up at all, but I do prefer an interpretation where Galadriel was complicit in the kinslaying, even if not extensively.)

For art, I do particularly love the look of Galadriel in the 2014 Finrod rock opera (the flowers! the jewelry!), but am also fine with a different visual interpretation.

Indis/Míriel

What is their relationship like prior to Miriel’s death? Are they friends? If Miriel’s not-corpse needs tending, does Indis take care of her hair when she visits? I would also love something where Miriel comes back to live in Tirion after Feanor’s death (or Finwe’s) and they navigate being dowager queens of the Noldor together.

(Implied present or future Indis/Miriel/Finwe is welcome.)

Lúthien/Thuringwethil

I would love something horny or horny-inflected for this; romance is not at all necessary. I really don’t have a mental image of what Thuringwethil looks like (even on a level of, like, how many limbs she has), so feel free to go nuts with this!

Maedhros solo

I'm happy with any M/M pairing being included in this (except for cross-generational incest), including non-consensual Sauron/Maedhros. What does Maedhros feel about his hair, particularly throughout time? Is it damaged in Angband? Does it grow back the same?

Maedhros/Maglor

I would be equally happy with fluffy sex/romance (particularly during the Years of the Trees) and grim, "we’ve already done so much worse so how big of a deal is incest really?"-flavored sex/romance.

I've also requested the platonic version of this in the other set of Silm requests. Feel free to pull from those freeforms as well, regardless of whether the fic/art ends up / or &.

Maedhros/Fingon

I would love something sweet between these two, a little moment of escape (whether from the din of their respective families or war). I would also be happy with something grief-flavored post-Fingon’s death. For art, I would really love something set around Maedhros’s rescue or Fingon's coronation.

Sauron(/Celebrimbor)

I would love to see hair as an element of disguise/seduction. Sauron is very concerned with his fana appearing attractive, but does it feel like part of him? I would also really love it if Maia hair is prehensile/otherwise less like hair than other species because his fana is all made out of the same material. Sauron’s hair being strange-to-the-point-of-body-horror is welcome, as long as his partner is into it. Sauron/Melkor or (non-romantic) Sauron/Ar-Pharazon is welcome in the solo request.

For Sauron/Celebrimbor, all the same applies. I would love to see Sauron assuming he’s above any Elvish beliefs/feelings about hair only to discover he’s really not. I’d prefer something loving for this; I particularly like when Sauron’s feelings are accidentally sincere. However, that can be by Sauron’s definition of “loving;” post-torture pre-death (or post-death) upsettingly-gentle haircare is welcome.

Requested tags

• Accessories: For Mourning
• As Culture: Styles And/Or Ornaments Have Meaning
• As Culture: Worldbuilding
• Braiding for Sick/Injured Character
• Braiding Hair as Foreplay
• Brushing Someone Else's Hair
• Brushing Hair Leads to Neck Kisses
• Hair Care Associated with Traumatic/Bittersweet Memories
• Hair Care is Arousing
• Hair Care: As Sublimation of Sexual Attraction
• Hair Care: Gently Caring for Upset Character
• Hair Care: The Intimacy of Hair Care Allows for Emotional Intimacy
• Hair Fanning Out While Fucking
• Hair Pulling: Coming from Pulling Alone
• Messy Hair: Blood in Hair
• Playing with Hair is Flirtatious
• Playing with Hair: A Plays with B's Hair Assuming They're Asleep (They're Not)
• prehensile hair
• Touching Hair Gives Sexual Pleasure
• Washing Hair: Blood in Hair

Time Master

Tarod/Yandros

There is such focus on their hair in canon and I think they should be allowed to describe touching it in detail. I would really love an emphasis on the sensory aspects for this. I’m happy with something set during any period of time! Some freeforms might fit human or god eras better than others, but I'm fine with however you decide to use them. I’d really love it if Yandros doing his hair was something human Tarod expected to be a (literal) nightmare, and then it just…wasn’t.

Mentions of Cyllan/Tarod and Sashka/Tarod are both fine.

Requested tags

• Braiding for Sick/Injured Character
• Hair Care: A Styles B for Event
• Hair Care: Dealing with Tangled Hair
• Hair Care: For Character Unused to Gentle Treatment
• Hair Care: The Intimacy of Hair Care Allows for Emotional Intimacy
• Hair Care: The Intimacy of Hair Care for Someone Else
• Hair Fanning Out While Fucking
• Playing with Hair As Character Falls Asleep And/Or Wakes Up
• Playing with Hair is Flirtatious
• Playing With Hair: Unconsciously Playing With Someone Else's
• Touching Hair Gives Non-sexual Pleasure
• Touching Hair Gives Sexual Pleasure
• prehensile hair

Hello, and thank you for considering writing something for me!

Any rating and tone is welcome! Questions are there for each prompt in case you find them useful, but I would be delighted with literally anything for any of these freeforms. Everything is ordered alphabetically.

Treats in any medium are welcome.

DNW: setting change AUs

General likes

Stylistically, I particularly enjoy:

• Outsider POV
• Second and third person POV
• Pre- & post-canon fics
• 5 + 1 things
• Character studies
• Unreliable narrators
• In-universe documents of any kind
• Happy endings, ambiguous endings, & bittersweet endings, as well as endings that the narrator/character thinks are happy but the reader doesn’t

Thematically, I particularly enjoy:

• Situations where a character is forced to reckon with perceptions of themselves or their relationships, including but certainly not limited to:
  • time travel
  • time loops
  • amnesia
  • dimension travel
  • truth serum
• Forced proximity
• Hurt/comfort
• Complicated relationships & complicated emotions
• Dramatic irony & the calm before the storm
• Identity porn
• Period-typical and/or internalized homophobia
• Asexual and/or aromantic characters of any kind
• When applicable to canon, queerphobia existing as a social structure, even if it doesn't come up interpersonally
• Disabled characters (whether canonically or as a result of injuries/trauma that were fine in canon)
• Non-sexual kink, if it fits the canonical relationship dynamic
• Romance as horror & horror as romance
• Cracking a stoic character open like a clam (emotionally, though it can certainly be done through physical means)
• Emotionally significant names and titles (and thee/thou as a marker for intimacy where canon-appropriate)
• Relationships that are hard to classify or ping other characters as weird
• Characters who are torn between loyalty to an individual and their ideals
• Unresolvable moral conflicts between two characters/groups the reader is meant to find sympathetic

Smut likes

• Un(der)negotiated kink & kink discovery (as long as it’s not DNW’d, it doesn’t matter which specific kink it is)
• Voyeurism of any type
• Watersports
  • I am interested in the vast majority of things under this kink label, but particularly pissing inside, submissive wetting (including in non-A/B/O settings), and kinking on the sensation of pissing or watching someone else do so
  • I'm less interested in consensual piss drinking as the sole focus of the fic, but it is okay to include
• Proxy sex (examples for pairing A/B, where C is either a canonical character or an OC):
  • A has sex with C while thinking about B
  • an A/B/C threesome has C in the middle as an excuse to legitimize the sex A/B are(n’t) having
  • A or C is monitoring and/or directing the couple having sex, including physically maneuvering them
• Non-penetrative sex & penetrative sex
• Public sex
• Mutual masturbation & guided masturbation
• Manhandling
• Thigh grinding
• Somnophilia
• Consensual non-consent
• Coming in pants & clothed sex
• (Non-literal) dollification
• Honor bondage
• Manhandling
• Condescending praise
• Monsterfucking & shapeshifting
• Biting & blood-drinking (especially in a supernatural context)
• Unresolved emotional tension & pining while fucking
• Repression & attempts to control the uncontrollable
• “Oh god why do I find this hot”-flavored sex of any consent level
• Characters being told how wet they are, regardless of genitals/gender
• Kinking on shame (whether external or internal) and/or violating cultural taboos
• Psychological aspects of kink & porn as character study
• Submissive sadists with dominant masochists and/or sub tops with dom bottoms
• Dubcon
• Same-generation incest
• Characters justifying why the sex* they’re actively having doesn’t count as sex* & other intricate rituals-type things
  • *or kink or incestuous relationship
• Sex that does not read as sex to characters outside the relationship
• Corsets & characters (of any gender) being put into Very Pretty Dresses
• Collars
• Words used for genitalia that feel appropriate to the POV character (including archaic and clinical language)
• Characters who have (and like their) nullified genitals (whether natal/surgical/magical)

Opt-ins

• Abortion or miscarriage in pregnancy requests
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Requested characters present in thought only (including because they are dead, if they also died in canon)
• Period sex

The Inheritance Cycle
(Any or No Characters, OCs)

Marriage Practices in Alagaësia

We get a glimpse at the marriage practices of Carvahall, but what about other human cultures, or Dwarves?

Shur'tugal educational system prior to fall

How is it different to what Eragon encounters? How old were students, and how long did they stay within it? Who was expected to teach, and how long were they expected to stay in that role?

The Magnus Archives

Functioning of the Magnus Institute throughout history
(Jonah Magnus)

What does it actually take to keep the Magnus Institute running for 200 years on a practical level? How and when do departments and hiring practices change? Is there a particular decade of struggle or triumph?

The Magnus Institute's reputation in academia
(Any or No Characters, OCs)

Their reputation is poor, sure, but specifically in what way? What about before the statements were leaked in 1999? Does the Institute produce research? It has a wealth of historical documents; do any undergraduates (or professional academics) use it as the basis for their papers? (Can I see the papers?)

The Silmarillion
(Any or No Characters, OCs)

Cross-species pregnancy

IIRC, all of the multiracial children we see have a mother from a more powerful species and a father from a less powerful species, with zero exceptions. Why does this happen? Is it a gap in the record or a biological rule? How does that translate to other species? I'm interested in both the biological process of pregnancy and cultural traditions surrounding it.

Disability in Elvish societies

While Elves highly value beauty and symmetry, they are hardy, long-lived, and involved in quite a few conflicts across the Ages. Presumably a high number of Elves are going to survive injuries that would kill a human. Where, then, are the disabled Elves? (I'm interested in both congenital and acquired disabilities.)

Elven funerary customs

What do they do with the bodies? (Cremation, burial, something else?) How does this change in Cuivienen/Valinor/Beleriand? What gets carried forward through the Ages and what doesn't? What do mourning traditions look like? How does this differ for the various groups of Elves?

Heteronormativity in Elvish societies

I'd love to see the big and little ways this shows up in people's lives. I am not particular about which queer identities are focused on. I am intrigued by the structure LaCE establishes, especially given that in-universe it isn't written by an Elvish author. That said, there's so many ways to explore this, and if you're drawn in a different direction, I would love to see it!

Religious practices in Beleriand

(These questions are aimed at the Noldor because they're who I have pre-existing thoughts on, but if you'd prefer to focus on a different group of Elves, humans, Dwarves, or orcs, go for it!)

So you've cast off the authority of the Valar and sailed across the sea. Now what?

What are religious practices like for the initial generation of adults, particularly those who were on intimate personal terms with the Valar (eg. Celegorm and Orome)? Are people who don't remember Valinor more or less religious than people who do? Independent of opinions on the Valar, what traditions change and what don't? What gets treated as secular because they don't want to let go of it? Do they adopt any traditions from the Sindar?

The Time Master Series
(Tarod, Yandros, OCs, Any or No Characters)

Changes to laypeople's religious practices after Equilibrium

So we see how the Castle and Initiates change in the Chaos Gate trilogy, but what does it look like for ordinary people? Is there a melding in how people conceptualize Aeoris and Yandros (and/or the rest of the gods), or is a strict mental division between Order and Chaos maintained even when worship is shared? Is Tarod worshiped individually, or merely seen as an extension of Chaos? What traditions change and what stay the same? Since the choice is (in theory) individual, what does this look like within family units and within communities?