Chocolate Box Letter 2019
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thisbluespiritDear Chocolatier,
Thank you for making something for me! This letter is bound to be long, but tl;dr: I love all kinds of things, I love the fandoms and character combinations I've chosen, and as long as you don't write my few hard DNWs, I I'm bound to love whatever you come up with. Prompts are intended purely for inspiration, not to restrict your choices. Take what's useful and leave what isn't, and I hope you have fun.
That said, here is the long version...
General
Likes: Humour, missing adventures/scenes, hurt/comfort, rescuing each other, fantasy, history, mysteries, ghosts, casefic, time loops, crossovers, banter, tropes, trope subversion, sensible people dealing with ridiculous tropes, trapped together, fake marriages/marriage of conveniences, forced to work together, (five) times, epistolary, apocalypses, spies, found families, winning through hard times to happy endings, comedy of manners, aliens made them do it, not letting go, crack, other setting AUs. I prefer implied sex or lead-ins/sensuality to it over explicit/graphic scenes - & enjoy emotions, touch/sensation, first times, historical costumes & undressing, kissing, love conveyed by acts not words, balancing each other out.
DNWs: incest, non-canonical rape, porn without plot, over-eating/greed, non-canonical major character death, character bashing, genderswap, age regression, pregnancy, kidfic, issuefic, mundane AUs for fantastical canons, body horror/unexpected transformations (except vampires), a/b/o.
Fandoms
1. Arrowverse
Barry Allen & Kara Danvers
I've just started watching both The Flash and Supergirl & basically want more Barry & Kara, as anything where they're together as superhero bffs is the best bit.
missing scenes, hanging out, ridiculous missions/villains, multiple earths, crack, fluff, friendship, food, rescues, mutual support, tropes, days out on each other's Earth
(When I say i've just started - I will be up to the end of S4 of The Flash & S2 of Supergirl by time the exchange goes live (& maybe have watched some of Legends of Tomorrow, too, so setting things in earlier seasons is best, but references to stuff I haven't seen etc isn't a problem as long as it makes sense (& preferably avoids any really major plot/character spoilers).)
I like everybody else that I've met in both a lot, so don't worry about if you want to include other characters (or not).
2. Blake's 7
Vila Restal & Servalan
There's a moment in sorry Moloch where they aer accidentally forced to team up, and it is one of my favourite things in the entire series. Basically, make it happen again by whatever means works for you - AUs, Desperate straits, a heist, pre-canon, post-canon, via vidcasts, crack, locked up together, outwitting each other (or not). (I requested it as gen, but knowing Servalan that probably encompasses 'flirt to freak Vila out' anyway.)
It's B7, so it can be as cracky or as dark as you like. I love both characters (and indeed everyone else in this galaxy) so have fun.
3. Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Seventh Doctor & Bernice Summerfield
I've loved Benny & Seven since the NA days. Her diary entries are always great, and the more grown-up relationship they have between them with Benny always willing to take the Doctor to task if he gets too carried away in complicated plans to defeat Evil From Before The Dawn of Time. Again.
archaeology, crack, missing scenes, fluff, complicated plans gone wrong, diary entries, bickering but caring, evil from before the dawn of time, hurt/comfort.
Eighth Doctor & Charley Pollard, Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
I adore their dynamic. I don't mind if it's as canon with Charley loving the Doctor in an additional way, or shippy. I love Eight/Charley fluff, and I love the enduring love and friendship with a side-order of pain that they are in canon. (India Fisher once said that, for Charley, in her position, the Doctor is all the family she can have now, her best friend, and only possible lover and her feelings for him encompass all those things.) I love the fun and banter and the fluff and the sheer mixed up wrongness and rightness of them. I'd dearly love to see them meet again.
Missing scenes, reunion, surreal stuff/crack, fluff, dancing, hurt/comfort, angst, Charley rescues the Doctor
Eighth Doctor & Lucie Miller
They are so great together, and I would very much like more of them! I finally got to the end of their adventures and am missing them already, and there's never enough of them in fic.
crack, trope subversion, exploring the TARDIS/daily life on the TARDIS, tea, banter, going undercover with improbable and unconvincing fake identities/disguises, hurt/comfort, fake reality (& Lucie seeing through it), historical
4. Dracula (TV 1968)
Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston, Mina Harker/John Seward
This odd little b&w TV adaptation was my first introduction to Dracula and I fell in love with it. It contains some awesome things, some cheap and cracky things, and a whole bunch of old TV actors I like, shipping each other all the ways and dealing with vampires. So I love it in both a completely unironic way and also am muchly amused by it. I will be very happy with serious/creepy/bitey vampire and also crack/AUs where Dr Seward faints or shippy feels and hurt/comfort, or any combination of those things as works for you. I love the ways Lucy, Mina, and John have become connected.
AUs, post-canon John/Mina (either recovery or the reverse), Lucy comes back for both of them, saving Lucy, Dr Seward fainting, Lucy engineers an OT3, vampire seduction, further adventures
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker
Mina Harker/John Seward
I was intrigued by this possibility, mainly because of the scene where they meet and Mina listens to his recorded diary and then says something like, "You must never show your heart to anybody else like that." And then I immediately shipped it like a ton of bricks & hoped for fic, but there was no fic! And Lucy introduces him by saying she's found someone who would be the perfect man for Mina if she wasn't already engaged, it's true...
AUs, Mina meets Dr Seward first, Jonathan doesn't recover from his ordeal/dies/whatever, the heart/soul sharing via sound recordings is much more literal...
DNW them both as full vampires, though. (Vampires are obviously fine, also dealing with semi-transformations as in the book, I just want them as humans.)
6. Once Upon a Time
I loved OUaT to the end, faults, mind-boggling plots and all, so please don't 'fix' things unasked or bash any character or ship. I love everybody in this ridiculous yet sometimes awesome fairy tale metafictional crossover bar and it is one of my fannish happy places. (That said, I do see S7 as mostly an optional extra, so if the Wish-verse and the ending are too brain-breaking for writing purposes, don't panic, feel free to just go with the S6 ending, or the gap between for post-canon stuff & do what you will, or canon AU as necessary.) I love the meta/crossover nature of it - riff on any not yet done fairy tales or classic lit/films that you choose! Also day to day life in Storybrooke & the ridiculous inherent in it is great.
Storybrooke and travelling to any other realm/real world (or having its people come to Storybrooke) are also a big part of the appeal, so no other setting AUs for this fandom.
Regina/Emma, Regina & Emma
I both ship them and love their canon friendship, so whichever way you look at them is fine by me, as long as they interact, whether as enemies, getting together, reluctant allies, growing into friends & co-mothers of Henry.
Prompts - road trips, rescues, cultural differences, (S1) obsession/enemues, apples, monster-fighting, impractical clothing vs tragic fashion sense, magic lessions, getting together in canon AUs, fairy-tale mirroring/symmetry.
Regina & Snow
Messed up family/adoptive family dynamics. Snow & Regina is one of the relationships at the heart of the whole thing, and anything you want to look at with their messed up history from obsession to friendship is great & the tangled relationship of the two families that become one. Also anything where they're friends & how much that means, but Regina's still snarking at Snow's Disney-princess attitudes (as I hope she always will!) is adored.
Canon AUs, five times, sharing mayoral problems, Storybrooke life, shared missions, heart to hearts (er, metaphorical ones. probably).
Regina & Cora
And, talking of messed up family dynamics... I love Cora, so anything about her relationship with Regina at any point (and given my above request, if it helps, Regina & Snow & Cora dynamics are also more than welcome).
Fairy tales, Canon AUs, family history, stealing hearts (literal ones. probably).
Snow & Lucy
They are so alike, endlessly determined and hopeful, and it amuses me so much & so I just want to see Snow get to meet her great-granddaughter properly. I don't mind how you deal with post-canon (or, er, which post-canon), but I came away from S7 desperate to see them interact, so that's my prompt: let them meet/hang out/team up to do a thing.
7. Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire/Silver/Steel, Sapphire & Silver & Steel
Whatever way you look at them, I love them working together and flirting in the weird inhuman elemental way that you do, so either take is wonderful. A6 as well would suggest that they're the most effective team up the 'elements' (or whatever they are) have when they're all working together. I love the ship, the three of them, and all the component ships that it encompasses. I also adore pretty much all elements in any way, so anything you create here will be lovely.
time, other-than-sex intimacy, missing scenes, hurt/comfort, rescues from weird peril, Silver annoying Steel, ghosts, outsider POV on humans, elemental weirdness, elemental gossip, time loops
Fandom DNW: Evil Silver, or AUs where they're human.
8. Sid Halley - Dick Francis
Sid Halley & Charles Roland
I love Sid & Charles's relationship - it's quite unusual and great, and I glommed onto it immediately, so anything focusing on them will be wonderful. (They are the best bit of the books (and the TV version) and there are TWO FEW pages, so any more words you can make for them will make me happy.)
hurt/comfort, home, Charles helps with a case, missing scenes, backstory, random supernatural stuff,* time loops
* I never not want random fantastical stuff in my mundane canons and having sensible people deal with the ridiculous in whatever way works for them.
9. Star Wars Prequel Triogy
Padme Amidala/Obi Wan-Kenobi
Honest confession here, for all their faults, I probably actually love the Prequels the best out of the Star Wars films - for the world-building and Palpatine's rise to power, and Obi-wan, and Padme who as politician, not a fighter or a Jedi, is a different kind of female SW character to most of the rest. Also, I ship it still.
AUs, Padme lives!, hurt/comfort, missing scenes, force ghosts, diplomatic missions, beautiful/ancient/strange worlds, Padme's fabulous outfits, teaching each other the strange ways of politicians and Jedi
I'd prefer Canon AUs, or Padme/Obi-Wan post-canon, or between PM & AotC, rather than active infidelity, & no Anakin-bashing (but things like Padme/Anakin being due to accidental force whammy are fine &, indeed, make a lot of sense).
10. Tenko
Bea Mason & Sister Ulrica
I watched Tenko a couple of years ago, and while I really liked it and pretty much everyone, Bea & Ulrica and their relationship was by far my favourite thing. Please tell me anything more you want about the best stroppy lesbian atheist doctor who can't save everyone and her fearsome devout Dutch Catholic Nun bff/soul mate.
missing scenes, awkwardness, just more as in canon, or post-canon, or AUs, or anything you want. Just more, please.
I ended up writing this letter with less time to spare than I planned, but rest assured, I really do want all the ships chosen, or I wouldn't have requested them, and if I have not included enough specific ficlet-y type prompts here, then have my favourite random generator. (Simply put in the required characters and get back tropey prompts. Obviously, I still don't want any tropes that are DNWs, but otherwise its prompts give me great joy, so if it also works for you, feel free to employ it at will.)
All requests are for fic, but art treats will be very much loved & appreciated.
NB. Probably not relevant, but in case anyone looking here is feeling confused: yes, until a few days ago I was lost_spook everywhere.
Thank you for making something for me! This letter is bound to be long, but tl;dr: I love all kinds of things, I love the fandoms and character combinations I've chosen, and as long as you don't write my few hard DNWs, I I'm bound to love whatever you come up with. Prompts are intended purely for inspiration, not to restrict your choices. Take what's useful and leave what isn't, and I hope you have fun.
That said, here is the long version...
General
Likes: Humour, missing adventures/scenes, hurt/comfort, rescuing each other, fantasy, history, mysteries, ghosts, casefic, time loops, crossovers, banter, tropes, trope subversion, sensible people dealing with ridiculous tropes, trapped together, fake marriages/marriage of conveniences, forced to work together, (five) times, epistolary, apocalypses, spies, found families, winning through hard times to happy endings, comedy of manners, aliens made them do it, not letting go, crack, other setting AUs. I prefer implied sex or lead-ins/sensuality to it over explicit/graphic scenes - & enjoy emotions, touch/sensation, first times, historical costumes & undressing, kissing, love conveyed by acts not words, balancing each other out.
DNWs: incest, non-canonical rape, porn without plot, over-eating/greed, non-canonical major character death, character bashing, genderswap, age regression, pregnancy, kidfic, issuefic, mundane AUs for fantastical canons, body horror/unexpected transformations (except vampires), a/b/o.
Fandoms
1. Arrowverse
Barry Allen & Kara Danvers
I've just started watching both The Flash and Supergirl & basically want more Barry & Kara, as anything where they're together as superhero bffs is the best bit.
missing scenes, hanging out, ridiculous missions/villains, multiple earths, crack, fluff, friendship, food, rescues, mutual support, tropes, days out on each other's Earth
(When I say i've just started - I will be up to the end of S4 of The Flash & S2 of Supergirl by time the exchange goes live (& maybe have watched some of Legends of Tomorrow, too, so setting things in earlier seasons is best, but references to stuff I haven't seen etc isn't a problem as long as it makes sense (& preferably avoids any really major plot/character spoilers).)
I like everybody else that I've met in both a lot, so don't worry about if you want to include other characters (or not).
2. Blake's 7
Vila Restal & Servalan
There's a moment in sorry Moloch where they aer accidentally forced to team up, and it is one of my favourite things in the entire series. Basically, make it happen again by whatever means works for you - AUs, Desperate straits, a heist, pre-canon, post-canon, via vidcasts, crack, locked up together, outwitting each other (or not). (I requested it as gen, but knowing Servalan that probably encompasses 'flirt to freak Vila out' anyway.)
It's B7, so it can be as cracky or as dark as you like. I love both characters (and indeed everyone else in this galaxy) so have fun.
3. Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Seventh Doctor & Bernice Summerfield
I've loved Benny & Seven since the NA days. Her diary entries are always great, and the more grown-up relationship they have between them with Benny always willing to take the Doctor to task if he gets too carried away in complicated plans to defeat Evil From Before The Dawn of Time. Again.
archaeology, crack, missing scenes, fluff, complicated plans gone wrong, diary entries, bickering but caring, evil from before the dawn of time, hurt/comfort.
Eighth Doctor & Charley Pollard, Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
I adore their dynamic. I don't mind if it's as canon with Charley loving the Doctor in an additional way, or shippy. I love Eight/Charley fluff, and I love the enduring love and friendship with a side-order of pain that they are in canon. (India Fisher once said that, for Charley, in her position, the Doctor is all the family she can have now, her best friend, and only possible lover and her feelings for him encompass all those things.) I love the fun and banter and the fluff and the sheer mixed up wrongness and rightness of them. I'd dearly love to see them meet again.
Missing scenes, reunion, surreal stuff/crack, fluff, dancing, hurt/comfort, angst, Charley rescues the Doctor
Eighth Doctor & Lucie Miller
They are so great together, and I would very much like more of them! I finally got to the end of their adventures and am missing them already, and there's never enough of them in fic.
crack, trope subversion, exploring the TARDIS/daily life on the TARDIS, tea, banter, going undercover with improbable and unconvincing fake identities/disguises, hurt/comfort, fake reality (& Lucie seeing through it), historical
4. Dracula (TV 1968)
Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston, Mina Harker/John Seward
This odd little b&w TV adaptation was my first introduction to Dracula and I fell in love with it. It contains some awesome things, some cheap and cracky things, and a whole bunch of old TV actors I like, shipping each other all the ways and dealing with vampires. So I love it in both a completely unironic way and also am muchly amused by it. I will be very happy with serious/creepy/bitey vampire and also crack/AUs where Dr Seward faints or shippy feels and hurt/comfort, or any combination of those things as works for you. I love the ways Lucy, Mina, and John have become connected.
AUs, post-canon John/Mina (either recovery or the reverse), Lucy comes back for both of them, saving Lucy, Dr Seward fainting, Lucy engineers an OT3, vampire seduction, further adventures
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker
Mina Harker/John Seward
I was intrigued by this possibility, mainly because of the scene where they meet and Mina listens to his recorded diary and then says something like, "You must never show your heart to anybody else like that." And then I immediately shipped it like a ton of bricks & hoped for fic, but there was no fic! And Lucy introduces him by saying she's found someone who would be the perfect man for Mina if she wasn't already engaged, it's true...
AUs, Mina meets Dr Seward first, Jonathan doesn't recover from his ordeal/dies/whatever, the heart/soul sharing via sound recordings is much more literal...
DNW them both as full vampires, though. (Vampires are obviously fine, also dealing with semi-transformations as in the book, I just want them as humans.)
6. Once Upon a Time
I loved OUaT to the end, faults, mind-boggling plots and all, so please don't 'fix' things unasked or bash any character or ship. I love everybody in this ridiculous yet sometimes awesome fairy tale metafictional crossover bar and it is one of my fannish happy places. (That said, I do see S7 as mostly an optional extra, so if the Wish-verse and the ending are too brain-breaking for writing purposes, don't panic, feel free to just go with the S6 ending, or the gap between for post-canon stuff & do what you will, or canon AU as necessary.) I love the meta/crossover nature of it - riff on any not yet done fairy tales or classic lit/films that you choose! Also day to day life in Storybrooke & the ridiculous inherent in it is great.
Storybrooke and travelling to any other realm/real world (or having its people come to Storybrooke) are also a big part of the appeal, so no other setting AUs for this fandom.
Regina/Emma, Regina & Emma
I both ship them and love their canon friendship, so whichever way you look at them is fine by me, as long as they interact, whether as enemies, getting together, reluctant allies, growing into friends & co-mothers of Henry.
Prompts - road trips, rescues, cultural differences, (S1) obsession/enemues, apples, monster-fighting, impractical clothing vs tragic fashion sense, magic lessions, getting together in canon AUs, fairy-tale mirroring/symmetry.
Regina & Snow
Messed up family/adoptive family dynamics. Snow & Regina is one of the relationships at the heart of the whole thing, and anything you want to look at with their messed up history from obsession to friendship is great & the tangled relationship of the two families that become one. Also anything where they're friends & how much that means, but Regina's still snarking at Snow's Disney-princess attitudes (as I hope she always will!) is adored.
Canon AUs, five times, sharing mayoral problems, Storybrooke life, shared missions, heart to hearts (er, metaphorical ones. probably).
Regina & Cora
And, talking of messed up family dynamics... I love Cora, so anything about her relationship with Regina at any point (and given my above request, if it helps, Regina & Snow & Cora dynamics are also more than welcome).
Fairy tales, Canon AUs, family history, stealing hearts (literal ones. probably).
Snow & Lucy
They are so alike, endlessly determined and hopeful, and it amuses me so much & so I just want to see Snow get to meet her great-granddaughter properly. I don't mind how you deal with post-canon (or, er, which post-canon), but I came away from S7 desperate to see them interact, so that's my prompt: let them meet/hang out/team up to do a thing.
7. Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire/Silver/Steel, Sapphire & Silver & Steel
Whatever way you look at them, I love them working together and flirting in the weird inhuman elemental way that you do, so either take is wonderful. A6 as well would suggest that they're the most effective team up the 'elements' (or whatever they are) have when they're all working together. I love the ship, the three of them, and all the component ships that it encompasses. I also adore pretty much all elements in any way, so anything you create here will be lovely.
time, other-than-sex intimacy, missing scenes, hurt/comfort, rescues from weird peril, Silver annoying Steel, ghosts, outsider POV on humans, elemental weirdness, elemental gossip, time loops
Fandom DNW: Evil Silver, or AUs where they're human.
8. Sid Halley - Dick Francis
Sid Halley & Charles Roland
I love Sid & Charles's relationship - it's quite unusual and great, and I glommed onto it immediately, so anything focusing on them will be wonderful. (They are the best bit of the books (and the TV version) and there are TWO FEW pages, so any more words you can make for them will make me happy.)
hurt/comfort, home, Charles helps with a case, missing scenes, backstory, random supernatural stuff,* time loops
* I never not want random fantastical stuff in my mundane canons and having sensible people deal with the ridiculous in whatever way works for them.
9. Star Wars Prequel Triogy
Padme Amidala/Obi Wan-Kenobi
Honest confession here, for all their faults, I probably actually love the Prequels the best out of the Star Wars films - for the world-building and Palpatine's rise to power, and Obi-wan, and Padme who as politician, not a fighter or a Jedi, is a different kind of female SW character to most of the rest. Also, I ship it still.
AUs, Padme lives!, hurt/comfort, missing scenes, force ghosts, diplomatic missions, beautiful/ancient/strange worlds, Padme's fabulous outfits, teaching each other the strange ways of politicians and Jedi
I'd prefer Canon AUs, or Padme/Obi-Wan post-canon, or between PM & AotC, rather than active infidelity, & no Anakin-bashing (but things like Padme/Anakin being due to accidental force whammy are fine &, indeed, make a lot of sense).
10. Tenko
Bea Mason & Sister Ulrica
I watched Tenko a couple of years ago, and while I really liked it and pretty much everyone, Bea & Ulrica and their relationship was by far my favourite thing. Please tell me anything more you want about the best stroppy lesbian atheist doctor who can't save everyone and her fearsome devout Dutch Catholic Nun bff/soul mate.
missing scenes, awkwardness, just more as in canon, or post-canon, or AUs, or anything you want. Just more, please.
I ended up writing this letter with less time to spare than I planned, but rest assured, I really do want all the ships chosen, or I wouldn't have requested them, and if I have not included enough specific ficlet-y type prompts here, then have my favourite random generator. (Simply put in the required characters and get back tropey prompts. Obviously, I still don't want any tropes that are DNWs, but otherwise its prompts give me great joy, so if it also works for you, feel free to employ it at will.)
All requests are for fic, but art treats will be very much loved & appreciated.
NB. Probably not relevant, but in case anyone looking here is feeling confused: yes, until a few days ago I was lost_spook everywhere.