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Yuletide 2018 Letter

Dear writer,

Thank you for writing for me! All of my specific prompts are optional, and my likes also act as prompts. So if you want to write a story based off of one of my more specific likes or by mixing and matching my likes, I’ll love it, and if you get an idea that at least brushes any of my likes and doesn’t hit a DNW, go for it. Add some monsters to the canon. Have the apocalypse come around. Kill a character and have the other characters be sad about it. Expand on a canon moment, or diverge from canon in an important moment. Write the characters having a game night. Fill in some gaps. Write idfic. Whatever your idea may be, go wild.

Also, if you decide to go off of a prompt, you can follow the prompt completely or just use one part or two, or you can mix prompts…whatever inspires you about it, do that. A lot of them also kind of lean towards the darker and/or iddier side of things, but don’t worry if you want to go way lighter. 

Note that the length and detail of my do-not-wants is due to the fact that the DNWs I listed here are legitimately all of the ones I have for this exchange.

Edit, Jan. 4th, 2019: If you're a 2019 writer who's planning to write for me in some exchange or another, don't worry if the DNWs list you have is different from the one in this letter. Just go with the one in that letter and don't worry.


 

DNWs:

- Non-con, dub-con, and/or abuse between or perpetrated by named canon characters 

- Smut/PWP/explicit sexual content, as well as sexual or non-sexual kink

- Unrequested shipfic/unrequested ships/unrequested fic based around romance 

- Onscreen sexual assault/abuse/rape (fade to black, flashbacks, and characters giving explicit details in their dialogue or narrative are fine and great, just not long, explicit, unbroken scenes of rape or abuse)

- Character bashing, ship bashing, fandom bashing, any bashing at all

- Unrequested AUs (though canon divergence AUs are always fine)

- Genderswap/always-another-gender/suddenly-another-gender

- Gender headcanons and unrequested sexuality headcanons

- Autistic headcanons (canonically autistic characters are not included under this in any way, to be completely clear)

- Characters becoming permanently physically disabled

- Characters schooling anyone, especially each other, on social justice issues (as in 'character shames another character for not knowing details about X social justice issue')

- First person POV

- Onscreen animal abuse/torture

- Guro/extreme gore

- Bestiality (please do not even mention this in passing)

- Non-canon kids 

- Characters being pregnant during the fic, mpreg

- Chatroom fic

- Oviposition or anything growing inside or being inserted into someone

- Scat

- Human-animal hybrids (please do not even mention this in passing)

- Furries (please do not even mention this in passing)

- Crossovers

- Interactive fic

- Poetry

- Holiday or seasonal fic

Likes:

- Friendship

- Found family

- Caretaking 

- Caretaker fatigue and angst over it

- Hurt/comfort, especially when there’s equal focus on both hurt and comfort or the comfort is focused on more than the hurt, but still go as dark as you want on the hurt without hitting a DNW

- Mental breakdown/sanity slippage

- Mental health issues 

- Loyalty, protectiveness, friends standing by each other no matter what and supporting each other even when they’re not really sure what to do

- Characters knowing each other really well

- Grief/mourning

- Recovery from trauma (it doesn’t have to be a full recovery, I love reading about characters finding a new normal)

- Angsty/dark/hurt-comfort/all of those things fic for light-hearted canons

- Characters finding out secrets about each other and characters hiding things from other characters because they’re ashamed that they’ll be judged

- Suicidal ideation, suicide attempts

- Past abuse, past non-con, dealing with past trauma in general

- Characters having 'imperfect' reactions to difficult topics and situations (like another character being suicidal or self-harming or having had a traumatic experience) and/or not knowing what to do but trying their best

- Characters getting pets, any kind of pets (the pet getting Marley & Me'd/dying for maximum Sad is totally cool too)

- Characters bonding and developing friendships even when they don’t like each other in the beginning

- Angst with a happy or hopeful ending

- For coming out narratives: coming out as gay/bi when there’s some risk (institutional homophobia, possible bad reactions from loved ones) and consequences to coming out even if they’re just “people being awkward”, and eventual acceptance (plus some people who are supportive from the beginning); coworkers/friends/loved ones who struggle with the news but are still supportive, including being really devoted to showing that they are totally Down With The Gays in an awkward but endearing way

Chicago Med

Isidore Latham, Connor Rhodes

Vague s4 spoilers.

I have such a soft spot for Latham. I love him in general, and I think he’s one of the best autistic characters I’ve seen on TV, and of the regulars Connor is my favorite, and I love their friendship. I’d be super thrilled with friendship fic developing more of the connection that they have in the show. I like how supportive they are of each other, and especially Connor’s moments of protectiveness and understanding. They just really seem to like each other, including in season three when Latham doesn’t get as much screen time. I’d love to see some stuff post-s4 where Latham’s no longer Connor’s boss.

Note that I like all of the main characters and would welcome any of them in small or large roles in any fic. I’m especially interested in Natalie’s friendship with Latham—how’d they meet? How and why did they bond? I’m also fond of Connor and Will having a grudging friendship. 

I am good with all of the canon ships, except I DNW Robin/Connor and Ava/Connor having a relationship during the fic. Their having had a relationship in the past is fine. I also DNW any unrequested non-canon ships. 

Also, I know this is an ongoing canon, and I will be keeping up! (And yeah, I'm not sure if Latham's even going to be back much in s4, but I still love him and I figure he's still up there in the OR.)

Here are some specific prompts if you want them, and yeah, Chicago Med’s one of my favorite fandoms for possible coming out stories, but if that's not your cup of tea I am not expecting anything:

• I’d love fic where Latham’s gay, and/or fic about him discovering/accepting that he’s gay. How would he feel about it? What would his potential Big Gay Panic be like? Would he be frustrated that it took him so long to figure it out? I can see him always having blamed not being able to find anyone on there being something ‘wrong with him’, but now that he actually knows he’s autistic and has had treatment, he’s starting to think that he’s actually just not all that attracted to women, best efforts notwithstanding. I would totally dig him confiding in Connor and Connor making a heroic, slightly weary effort to be supportive. 


• In conjunction with or separate from the above, Latham getting a boyfriend and coming out, in that order. Or the opposite order.


• Honestly, giving Connor a boyfriend who he’s in love with to the point where it’s likely they’ll spend the rest of their lives together and having him come out (even accidentally…like his boyfriend ends up in the hospital and Connor’s both the emergency contact and very obviously worried about him and very much in love with him) as bi would be amazing too. Awkward but supportive reactions galore! (Dr. Charles being great about it!) His sister! His dad! (I'd imagine that that may be...less supportive a reaction.)


• Latham getting taken advantage of (you can go as light or dark as you want with that) and Connor helping him out.


• I’ve always been interested in Connor taking after his mother and having a mental health crisis, up to and including a full breakdown and/or suicide attempt. Latham and/or the ensemble being involved would be really interesting.


• Y’know, I’m not a shipper, but I’d be down for Connor/Latham, preferably post-s3 so that there’s no 'someone's directly above the other one' relationship drama (though the attraction can definitely start in season two).

The Good Place

Jason Mendoza

Spoilers for season three! Also, I know this is an ongoing canon and you can be assured that I’m watching it as it comes out, so don’t worry about including things from episodes as they come out.

I love this show so much, and Jason was my favorite the second he opened his mouth, and I am forever and ever fascinated by him. I asked for just him because I really want Jason-centric fic for this fandom, but several of my prompts involve other characters and I would be thrilled with the inclusion of Team Cockroach/the Brainy Bunch/the Soul Squad. I love his friendships with the others, any of them or all of them. But!!! If you want to write fic just about him, literally no other canon character involved, I am happy with that, because, as I said, I love him.

I’d be really into something that digs a little deeper into his issues (everything about his past is so funny but so dark, and I one hundred percent support looking at that). Hurt/comfort would be awesome. Whump, also awesome. Any general scenario from my likes, awesome. Complete ODAO, go for it.

I am happy with fic that takes place anywhere, at any point in time, but I would especially love fic set in season two or season three, including some random reboot we don't see or only see for a second and especially that year long gap in season three. 

I’m fine with Simone/Chidi, Chidi/Eleanor, and/or Eleanor/Tahani as background pairings. I am totally cool with Jason/Janet shipfic too. 

• Jason having trauma from the way he almost died. I would read a million fics of this. Hurt/comfort is also greatly encouraged. Also, maybe he actually is claustrophobic. Obviously, he’s okay with going into the MRI…or is he? Was he at the beginning? 


• I’m still kind of stuck on Lynyrd Skynyrd High School tbh, and Jason’s comments about the teacher/s who got arrested for having sex with their students. (It seems like it was definitely implied Jason was one of them, and it seems like the entire school was literally just a horrible fraud.) Plus there’s definitely Florida Stories that went terribly, terribly wrong. I’d love to see how any of that could’ve affected him and possibly the others being vaguely or very uncomfortable with his cheerfully warped view of the world, but, like…do you explain that a bad thing happened to someone if he doesn’t know, or is that just mean? Or does he maybe know? Is he in denial? Is it actually better to explain? (This can obviously take place any time in canon.)


• Jason and Eleanor hanging out during season three, getting to know each other, having a weird amount of heart to hearts, Eleanor feeling a completely inexplicable need to protect Jason from himself/spiders, Jason giving weirdly good advice…


• I’d honestly like to see more Jason & Michael friendship. 


• Chidi tutoring Jason when he realizes that he has not exactly had the world’s most intensive education, and Chidi wants him to actually understand what’s going on in class, damn it, he leaves no man behind when it comes to moral philosophy. 


• Jason/Janet with any kind of Jason whump and protective Janet, powered or de-powered in season three. Maybe there’s even situations during reboots where Jason’s so goddamn miserable that it gets to be torture for Janet too for some reason…

• I would be so incredibly down with fic that explores illegal drug use and possibly addiction in Jason's life. So down. Especially if it included h/c and/or recovery.
  

Ghosted

Max Jennifer, Leroy Wright

Spoilers for the show here, by the way.

I love this show and Max and Leroy and their relationship so much. Sometimes I rewatch the scene where Max and Leroy go through all of the Rocky films that Leroy has on VHS just to cheer myself up. They’re such good partners. I just want to see them continue being good partners, and maybe hang out outside of work.

That said, I know that the show continuity is confusing and it sometimes seems like two shows, and I’d actually prefer you write the story in the pre-retool universe (when LaFrey is still in charge and there’s the monster of the week plot, including the last episode that they aired with the aliens). However, I will be happy with literally anything you write for this show, including something set firmly within the retool. I just love Max and Leroy. 

I DNW any ships here, though past relationships are fine. 

• Leroy having guilt issues about his former partner! He can’t get over his partner’s death and thinking that it was his fault, he’s never gonna let himself get over it, and he can be really overbearing towards his new partner because of it, but it keeps him up at night. Plus Max is more vulnerable than his old partner ever was (for example, he can’t shoot a fucking gun, and his mental health is only so-so), and that makes Leroy feel very tense. 


• I would love something exploring the idea that maybe things weren’t awesome between Max and his wife when she left because she was abusive. Maybe she threatened to leave a lot, up to and including packing a suitcase, which is why Max was so blasé about the fact that she was packing when she was abducted. I would love to see him expanding on their relationship to Leroy, oblivious to the fact that Leroy’s getting steadily more and more disturbed. 


• I’d be totally into seeing Max with mental health issues and how confusing it is to live in a world where sometimes the monsters are real and he’s being reasonable, and sometimes they’re not and he’s really not.

Trial & Error

Josh Segal, Dwayne Reed, Anne Flatch

I am deeply, deeply attached to this wonderful, hilarious show, and I will sing its praises until I am blue in the face. I love Josh, I love Dwayne, I love Anne, I love the dream team so much. I just want to see them together. I want to see them outside of work, maybe with Anne’s family because we know she has a husband and daughter and she and Josh and Dwayne are close enough that they definitely know Anne’s family. And they love each other so much, and know each other so well! Agh!

I also love Carol Anne, but I want the fic to be dream team focused and that’s why I didn’t choose her too. Even so, I am totally happy for her to be in the fic, and for Princess Anne to be in the fic (though I’d rather no fic that’s specifically about the baby). I do ship Josh/Carol Anne, so if you want to include that, go for it. If you want to include any season one specific characters, go for that too, and I love East Peck, so any Peckers are also welcome!

• Okay, but—the zombie apocalypse comes to East Peck. Do not tell me they wouldn’t absolutely slay (ha!) at getting through a zombie apocalypse. 


• From the moment I saw the inside of Josh’s house I knew…this is a man who definitely goes thrifting and antiquing. (Where does he find those tea sets? Tell me he collects them. Did he cross stitch the ‘home is where the Josh is’ pillow himself? These are important questions.) Dwayne and Anne tag along. Maybe they all try to figure out how to play Dominos with that set that Josh bought for decoration. (One of the clocks sits on top of it, I swear it’s there.)


• Give Dwayne a boyfriend and/or a coming out story, please…that would be so sweet and potentially angsty, whichever way you want. East Peck is probably not the best place in the world to grow up a future confirmed bachelor. (No wonder he decides he’s in love with Summer. It would be so easy to have a girlfriend he doesn’t even have to kiss! Or maybe he’s bi but just leans way more towards guys.) Josh and Anne would be so supportive. Awkward? Maybe. But supportive. Maybe there’s a Dwayne/OMC love story. Maybe it’s with one of the cameramen. 


• If you want to go darker, I am all for whump and h/c for any of these characters, especially with stuff from my general likes. Maybe Josh with a Stepford Smiler thing going on, and/or depression? And/or OCD?