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Dear Little Black Dress Creator
Hello, and thank you so much for creating something for me!
First of all, a few basic premises: my DNWs for this exchange are quite different for each request and different from my usual ones. I want to assure you that this is not accidental and you can take each DNW list at face value. This is an exchange where I'm aiming to be surprised so I tried to keep the options as open as possible.
I'm also open to absolutely any ship that I didn't DNW: I'm a huge fan of nonsense combinations or characters that never met, but all the canon or common fanon ships that I wouldn't be happy to receive have been DNWed, so feel totally free. I'm not fussed about age gaps and I'm totally fine with any incest that I didn't DNW
Regarding explicit content, smut doesn't really do anything for me, so I prefer it not to be the focus of the fic or art, but I won't be squicked by a brief sex scene, or a graphic/kinky reference, especially if it's IC and fits the story.
General likes
Here is the stuff that REALLY drives me crazy and is 100% guaranteed to enhance my fic if included.
- Hurt /comfort, in any combination of physical and emotional as long as it's intense and touchy. I especially love mental breakdowns, exhaustion due to overwork, battle wounds, subdrop/domdrop
- Mental illness headcanons, especially in settings where the characters don't have the words to explain what is going on
- Banter, humor, ironic narration, dialogue-heavy fic
- Self discovery journeys
- Character studies, relationship studies, introspection, worldbuilding, backstory. I love to see how dynamics work and what people like about each other in relationships
- Getting together and especially getting BACK together
- Kidfic, both in the raising kids sense and in the characters as children sense
- Angst with an happy ending
- Dysfunctional yet loving relationships, especially with ships from which you really don't expect that
- Dysfunctional families and family dynamics in general
- Cute shenanigans, adventures, mysteries rescue missions
- Characters being overprotective of each other, whether as gen or ship
- Found family, characters recovering from past abuse and bad experiences with each other's help
- Physical affection, fluff, people having fun together and finding things they share
- Past relationships, exes, background ships, background characters: this was meant to be an opt in, but honestly I just really love to see a nicely fleshed out world if the plot of the fic allows it. For the same reason, I'm perfectly fine seeing more than one requested ship in the same gift, whether they're conflicting or not
- Revenge stories
Art Likes
- Bright, or anyway distinctive colors, pretty much any style, nice natural landscapes, especially the sea
- Small comics
- Illustrations of canon moments
- Affection/snuggling/kissing, soft and intimate poses
- Animals/babies/cute things
- Wearing each other's clothes, especially with crossdressing involved
Opt ins:
This is not to be interpreted as "tropes I'm meh about'" but rather commonly DNWd stuff I like and doesn't bother me if included in fic, but I'm not asking you to go out of your way to include (nor that you should go out of your way to include likes either, again totally fine with ODAO, but you get me). Feel free to also ask the mods for anything not included here
- Gender/sexuality headcanons. Honestly literally any headcanon you have
- Pretty much anything stylistically (person, tense, 5 +1 fix, song fic for all i know… Just feel free)
- Underage as long as it's over 13
- Torture and violence, though I prefer it not be excessively graphic, but you can trust your judgment, it's not something that will ruin my gift in any case
- Suicide/self harm
- Abuse, of any kind for this exchange honestly. I normally DWN noncon but for some combinations here it's unavoidable
- Character death, unhappy endings
- Canon divergence
A Song of Ice and Fire
LBD/M
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Theon Greyjoy (ASoIaF)
Loras Tyrell (ASOIAF)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNWs
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- explicit sex involving characters under 13
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- parent/child and sibling incest
- Theon/Ramsay
- Loras/Renly
The theme of this request is "I love these boys, would love to read shipfic for them someday". Theon is probably my Absolute favorite character in ASOIAF, in term of backstory, character development and themes (as well as the fact I just love assholes that are snarky and annoying instead of brooding, and that the Greyjoys have always been my favorite house). However I never really managed to ship him seriously with anyone - het is ofc hard when he's a sexist asshole and none of his relationships with other guys have really excited me. I'm open to really any point in canon for this to be set in - obviously I'd be thrilled for any sort of post-Ramsay happy ending, whether back on the Islands (I'd love for him to be King, or Asha's hand), on the Wall or in Stannis' army. Something in his brief time back home in ACOK/during his first raid would be great, with a lot of potential for his frustrations to come up in unexpected ways and, ah, possibly going to desperate measures to connect with his men. Admittedly there's not so much shipping fodder in that time but I really love unusual ships with minor characters.
If you enjoy puppy love/ill-advised pre-teen self discovery I'd love something set in his first years at Winterfell - it's a really interesting situation/clusterfuck psychologically and I'd love to see how he deals with puberty/first infatuations in the middle of it.
As for Loras, I do enjoy the idea of Loras/Renly (though I don't have much of an opinion on it - iI'm open to it being portrayed as less unambiguous high romance than Loras seems to think it is), but Loras doesn't really stand out to me as an interesting character until after Renly dies. He's so beautifully tragic, and him going on to King's Landing, to be involved with war and scheming and a fairly ugly situation for his whole family with this baggage of his tragic teenage romance turned into a fairytale by his attempts to romanticize everything is just breathtaking. I think his conversation with Sansa in ASOS, where she tries to talk to him about the tourney but he can't remember it, and his association with the guy he had unhorsed that day is now that he murdered him in blind rage after Renly died, is one of the richest thematic moments in ASOIAF.
Basically, I'd really enjoyed some kind of happy ending after this. I'm keeping up my hopes that he's going to survive the current book and it would be nice to see him fall in love again, either during his time in King's Landing or in an hypothetical future. I really enjoyed his interactions with Jaime and anything challenging his ego/position on knighthood like that would delight me. And I'd love any potential kidfic since how good he is with Tommen in ADWD is so adorable.
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
LBD/M
LBD/M/F
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Jaime Lannister (ASOIAF)
Catelyn Tully Stark (ASOIAF)
Sansa Stark (ASOIAF)
Asha Greyjoy (ASoIaF)
Ned Stark (ASoIaF)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- non-canon parent/child and sibling incest
- Sansa/Tywin, Sansa/Roose, Sansa/Stannis
Ok, to start I want to say, especially regarding Ned, Jaime and Cat but the girls as well, that this is a fandom where I really love arranged marriages between people who have never met, with the potential of having huge ripple effects (especially if they happen at the time of Robert's Rebellion or earlier) and bringing together people who don't really meet in the books or meet once but it's not explored much, but who have parallels or a role as thematic foils. Which doesn't mean the romance has to be with the arranged spouse, necessarily - I love the Westeros tradition of banging your inlaws! In general intrigue and backstory fic would be something I really love. I don't really have much to say about these three except that I love their character arcs as well as their amazing chemistry with literally everyone they meet as well as each other.
Asha, like her brother, is a write-me-their-grocery-list-and-I'll-be-happy fave to me. She's such a troll at heart but with some really compelling conflict and I love her. I'm really fond of her canon thing with Qarl, how it looks like a FWB arrangement but when you see her POV its surprisingly romantic and a much needed source of emotional support for her, but I was also dazzled by the show making her bi, even if I didn't always love the execution. Overall I'd like really anything for her -istinctively I'm drawn to a type of partners-in-crime/battle couple dynamic for her, but theres lots of options, especially if you imagine her being Queen of the Iron Islands (or lady, but honestly I'd really prefer for them to be independent) and needing to make alliances. Or something set during her teenage years! I think it always gets overlooked what a weird position she was in after the rebellion, having to suddenly make up for three brothers and being her family's only hope (apparently she was allowed to play with axes and so on even as a child but presumably it wasn't expected she's have to actually do anything with it) and also the only family member that get somewhat along with everyone, given what we see of the rest of the Greyjoys. Its a really interesting time to explore, and you can easily handwave her meeting pretty much anyone while out on a raid or something.
Sansa is such a lovely character to play with, I love her social intelligence and her artistic mentality and her occasional lapses of WTF child logic. However she's another that I really love as a character but I don't find easy to ship - she's obviously everyone's fandom bycicle and she has so many great interactions so how can anyone possibly choose? My favorite of the vaguely canon supported options is definitely Sansan, and I'd love something similar, with a vibe of redemption and tenderness. I definitely lean fluffier than darker with her but thats mostly about the ship dynamic - the tone can be anything you like and I don't require sunshine and roses or an happy ending. It would be nice to see an AU where things go differently for her, but not necessarily better, and she goes about her journey of maturation and political awareness in a different context. The narrative offers so many turning points - AU where she's ransomed, AU where the Tyrell's plans pan out, AU where Stannis wins Blackwater... The possibilities are endless
If the love interest is much older I'd prefer nothing explicit to happen or the fic to be set in a future where she's older, but I'm perfectly fine with just Sansan-style romantic tension with anyone at her canon age.
Romeo and Juliet
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
LBD/M
LBD/M/F
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare)
Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- eating disorders/body insecurity
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- parent/child and sibling incest
This has always been my favorite play, but it took me a while to really appreciate Romeo as a character. He can come across as a dumbass but I love his earnestness and innocence, and the suddenly hardened and wiser version of him se see in act 5. I was always intrigued by his extremely melancholy and avoidance and I'd really enjoy some exploration of how he feels about the feud, as the Montague heir presumably of fighting age, and how it impacts the eventual romantic tension with his friends/enemies. All the boys in this play are such foils for each others, and you have my blessing ti go towards darkfic that takes more advantage of the pervasive atmosphere of death, vengeance and violence in this otherwise very fluffy fandom!
As for canon, while I get where the "Romeo and Juliet is not a love story" come from, it always seemed extremely tender and genuine to me, I love how on the same wavelenght they are (of course that would be better expressed by them having actual conversation in prose, lol, but thats indeed what fic is for.) Therefore I would prefer, if you do something else, that Romeo and Juliet just never met rather than the usual tongue in cheek jokes about 'lol, wouldn't it be funny if that was a real relationship'.
As for Benvolio, well, he's just such an easy woobie unfortunately, with the ending and all. What I said wrt feud dynamics is also valid for him - I find it very fascinating by how many people he gets accused of being hypocritical about his involvement and acting above violence when he's really not, though of course Mercutio might be kinda exagerrating. So belligerant sexual tension and battle couple vibes are both welcome. Post ending angst is also delicious!
Feel free to read my past letters if you'd like more specific fic prompts because I request this A Lot
Little Women
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
Josephine March
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- eating disorders/body insecurity
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs (working slightly around the time period for crossovers is more than fine, just not straight up 21th century AUs)
- parent/child incest
- Jo/Amy, Jo/Aunt March
Firstly, I really apologize for making this fairly outlandish request and then not finishing my letter in time. Sorry! Secondly, I just want Jo to be gay in peace. Your choice on whether to achieve that by giving her a fun romp with some minor character, a genderbent version of Laurie/Bahr/Brooke or whomever, incest (this book is a huge guilty pleasure of mine, esp after the 2019 movie's glorious Jo/Beth smarm) or, if you feel brave, some other lady from any 19th century novel. I'm totally open to have to do Canon review to read my own gift for this, honestly, but some of my favorite authors are Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoevskij and the Bronte sisters.
I stand by my opinion that, Baher's puritancal motivations aside, literary criticism is sexy and I'd be thrilled to have this set through Jo's wacky adventures with publishing, but I'm quite open to anything.
First of all, a few basic premises: my DNWs for this exchange are quite different for each request and different from my usual ones. I want to assure you that this is not accidental and you can take each DNW list at face value. This is an exchange where I'm aiming to be surprised so I tried to keep the options as open as possible.
I'm also open to absolutely any ship that I didn't DNW: I'm a huge fan of nonsense combinations or characters that never met, but all the canon or common fanon ships that I wouldn't be happy to receive have been DNWed, so feel totally free. I'm not fussed about age gaps and I'm totally fine with any incest that I didn't DNW
Regarding explicit content, smut doesn't really do anything for me, so I prefer it not to be the focus of the fic or art, but I won't be squicked by a brief sex scene, or a graphic/kinky reference, especially if it's IC and fits the story.
General likes
Here is the stuff that REALLY drives me crazy and is 100% guaranteed to enhance my fic if included.
- Hurt /comfort, in any combination of physical and emotional as long as it's intense and touchy. I especially love mental breakdowns, exhaustion due to overwork, battle wounds, subdrop/domdrop
- Mental illness headcanons, especially in settings where the characters don't have the words to explain what is going on
- Banter, humor, ironic narration, dialogue-heavy fic
- Self discovery journeys
- Character studies, relationship studies, introspection, worldbuilding, backstory. I love to see how dynamics work and what people like about each other in relationships
- Getting together and especially getting BACK together
- Kidfic, both in the raising kids sense and in the characters as children sense
- Angst with an happy ending
- Dysfunctional yet loving relationships, especially with ships from which you really don't expect that
- Dysfunctional families and family dynamics in general
- Cute shenanigans, adventures, mysteries rescue missions
- Characters being overprotective of each other, whether as gen or ship
- Found family, characters recovering from past abuse and bad experiences with each other's help
- Physical affection, fluff, people having fun together and finding things they share
- Past relationships, exes, background ships, background characters: this was meant to be an opt in, but honestly I just really love to see a nicely fleshed out world if the plot of the fic allows it. For the same reason, I'm perfectly fine seeing more than one requested ship in the same gift, whether they're conflicting or not
- Revenge stories
Art Likes
- Bright, or anyway distinctive colors, pretty much any style, nice natural landscapes, especially the sea
- Small comics
- Illustrations of canon moments
- Affection/snuggling/kissing, soft and intimate poses
- Animals/babies/cute things
- Wearing each other's clothes, especially with crossdressing involved
Opt ins:
This is not to be interpreted as "tropes I'm meh about'" but rather commonly DNWd stuff I like and doesn't bother me if included in fic, but I'm not asking you to go out of your way to include (nor that you should go out of your way to include likes either, again totally fine with ODAO, but you get me). Feel free to also ask the mods for anything not included here
- Gender/sexuality headcanons. Honestly literally any headcanon you have
- Pretty much anything stylistically (person, tense, 5 +1 fix, song fic for all i know… Just feel free)
- Underage as long as it's over 13
- Torture and violence, though I prefer it not be excessively graphic, but you can trust your judgment, it's not something that will ruin my gift in any case
- Suicide/self harm
- Abuse, of any kind for this exchange honestly. I normally DWN noncon but for some combinations here it's unavoidable
- Character death, unhappy endings
- Canon divergence
A Song of Ice and Fire
LBD/M
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Theon Greyjoy (ASoIaF)
Loras Tyrell (ASOIAF)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNWs
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- explicit sex involving characters under 13
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- parent/child and sibling incest
- Theon/Ramsay
- Loras/Renly
The theme of this request is "I love these boys, would love to read shipfic for them someday". Theon is probably my Absolute favorite character in ASOIAF, in term of backstory, character development and themes (as well as the fact I just love assholes that are snarky and annoying instead of brooding, and that the Greyjoys have always been my favorite house). However I never really managed to ship him seriously with anyone - het is ofc hard when he's a sexist asshole and none of his relationships with other guys have really excited me. I'm open to really any point in canon for this to be set in - obviously I'd be thrilled for any sort of post-Ramsay happy ending, whether back on the Islands (I'd love for him to be King, or Asha's hand), on the Wall or in Stannis' army. Something in his brief time back home in ACOK/during his first raid would be great, with a lot of potential for his frustrations to come up in unexpected ways and, ah, possibly going to desperate measures to connect with his men. Admittedly there's not so much shipping fodder in that time but I really love unusual ships with minor characters.
If you enjoy puppy love/ill-advised pre-teen self discovery I'd love something set in his first years at Winterfell - it's a really interesting situation/clusterfuck psychologically and I'd love to see how he deals with puberty/first infatuations in the middle of it.
As for Loras, I do enjoy the idea of Loras/Renly (though I don't have much of an opinion on it - iI'm open to it being portrayed as less unambiguous high romance than Loras seems to think it is), but Loras doesn't really stand out to me as an interesting character until after Renly dies. He's so beautifully tragic, and him going on to King's Landing, to be involved with war and scheming and a fairly ugly situation for his whole family with this baggage of his tragic teenage romance turned into a fairytale by his attempts to romanticize everything is just breathtaking. I think his conversation with Sansa in ASOS, where she tries to talk to him about the tourney but he can't remember it, and his association with the guy he had unhorsed that day is now that he murdered him in blind rage after Renly died, is one of the richest thematic moments in ASOIAF.
Basically, I'd really enjoyed some kind of happy ending after this. I'm keeping up my hopes that he's going to survive the current book and it would be nice to see him fall in love again, either during his time in King's Landing or in an hypothetical future. I really enjoyed his interactions with Jaime and anything challenging his ego/position on knighthood like that would delight me. And I'd love any potential kidfic since how good he is with Tommen in ADWD is so adorable.
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
LBD/M
LBD/M/F
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Jaime Lannister (ASOIAF)
Catelyn Tully Stark (ASOIAF)
Sansa Stark (ASOIAF)
Asha Greyjoy (ASoIaF)
Ned Stark (ASoIaF)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- non-canon parent/child and sibling incest
- Sansa/Tywin, Sansa/Roose, Sansa/Stannis
Ok, to start I want to say, especially regarding Ned, Jaime and Cat but the girls as well, that this is a fandom where I really love arranged marriages between people who have never met, with the potential of having huge ripple effects (especially if they happen at the time of Robert's Rebellion or earlier) and bringing together people who don't really meet in the books or meet once but it's not explored much, but who have parallels or a role as thematic foils. Which doesn't mean the romance has to be with the arranged spouse, necessarily - I love the Westeros tradition of banging your inlaws! In general intrigue and backstory fic would be something I really love. I don't really have much to say about these three except that I love their character arcs as well as their amazing chemistry with literally everyone they meet as well as each other.
Asha, like her brother, is a write-me-their-grocery-list-and-I'll-be-happy fave to me. She's such a troll at heart but with some really compelling conflict and I love her. I'm really fond of her canon thing with Qarl, how it looks like a FWB arrangement but when you see her POV its surprisingly romantic and a much needed source of emotional support for her, but I was also dazzled by the show making her bi, even if I didn't always love the execution. Overall I'd like really anything for her -istinctively I'm drawn to a type of partners-in-crime/battle couple dynamic for her, but theres lots of options, especially if you imagine her being Queen of the Iron Islands (or lady, but honestly I'd really prefer for them to be independent) and needing to make alliances. Or something set during her teenage years! I think it always gets overlooked what a weird position she was in after the rebellion, having to suddenly make up for three brothers and being her family's only hope (apparently she was allowed to play with axes and so on even as a child but presumably it wasn't expected she's have to actually do anything with it) and also the only family member that get somewhat along with everyone, given what we see of the rest of the Greyjoys. Its a really interesting time to explore, and you can easily handwave her meeting pretty much anyone while out on a raid or something.
Sansa is such a lovely character to play with, I love her social intelligence and her artistic mentality and her occasional lapses of WTF child logic. However she's another that I really love as a character but I don't find easy to ship - she's obviously everyone's fandom bycicle and she has so many great interactions so how can anyone possibly choose? My favorite of the vaguely canon supported options is definitely Sansan, and I'd love something similar, with a vibe of redemption and tenderness. I definitely lean fluffier than darker with her but thats mostly about the ship dynamic - the tone can be anything you like and I don't require sunshine and roses or an happy ending. It would be nice to see an AU where things go differently for her, but not necessarily better, and she goes about her journey of maturation and political awareness in a different context. The narrative offers so many turning points - AU where she's ransomed, AU where the Tyrell's plans pan out, AU where Stannis wins Blackwater... The possibilities are endless
If the love interest is much older I'd prefer nothing explicit to happen or the fic to be set in a future where she's older, but I'm perfectly fine with just Sansan-style romantic tension with anyone at her canon age.
Romeo and Juliet
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
LBD/M
LBD/M/F
LBD/M/M
LBD/Many
Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare)
Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare)
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- eating disorders/body insecurity
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs
- parent/child and sibling incest
This has always been my favorite play, but it took me a while to really appreciate Romeo as a character. He can come across as a dumbass but I love his earnestness and innocence, and the suddenly hardened and wiser version of him se see in act 5. I was always intrigued by his extremely melancholy and avoidance and I'd really enjoy some exploration of how he feels about the feud, as the Montague heir presumably of fighting age, and how it impacts the eventual romantic tension with his friends/enemies. All the boys in this play are such foils for each others, and you have my blessing ti go towards darkfic that takes more advantage of the pervasive atmosphere of death, vengeance and violence in this otherwise very fluffy fandom!
As for canon, while I get where the "Romeo and Juliet is not a love story" come from, it always seemed extremely tender and genuine to me, I love how on the same wavelenght they are (of course that would be better expressed by them having actual conversation in prose, lol, but thats indeed what fic is for.) Therefore I would prefer, if you do something else, that Romeo and Juliet just never met rather than the usual tongue in cheek jokes about 'lol, wouldn't it be funny if that was a real relationship'.
As for Benvolio, well, he's just such an easy woobie unfortunately, with the ending and all. What I said wrt feud dynamics is also valid for him - I find it very fascinating by how many people he gets accused of being hypocritical about his involvement and acting above violence when he's really not, though of course Mercutio might be kinda exagerrating. So belligerant sexual tension and battle couple vibes are both welcome. Post ending angst is also delicious!
Feel free to read my past letters if you'd like more specific fic prompts because I request this A Lot
Little Women
LBD/F
LBD/F/F
Josephine March
Medium: Fanart - Freeform
Medium: Fanfiction - Freeform
DNW
-a/b/o
-mpreg
- sex involving characters under 13
- eating disorders/body insecurity
- pwp
- soulmates
- Modern AUs (working slightly around the time period for crossovers is more than fine, just not straight up 21th century AUs)
- parent/child incest
- Jo/Amy, Jo/Aunt March
Firstly, I really apologize for making this fairly outlandish request and then not finishing my letter in time. Sorry! Secondly, I just want Jo to be gay in peace. Your choice on whether to achieve that by giving her a fun romp with some minor character, a genderbent version of Laurie/Bahr/Brooke or whomever, incest (this book is a huge guilty pleasure of mine, esp after the 2019 movie's glorious Jo/Beth smarm) or, if you feel brave, some other lady from any 19th century novel. I'm totally open to have to do Canon review to read my own gift for this, honestly, but some of my favorite authors are Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoevskij and the Bronte sisters.
I stand by my opinion that, Baher's puritancal motivations aside, literary criticism is sexy and I'd be thrilled to have this set through Jo's wacky adventures with publishing, but I'm quite open to anything.