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Rare Male Slash 2019
Thank you for offering one of these! I like to leave a lot of info for those who want it, but please don’t feel boxed in by the prompts. You can twist them around, or do just a little bit of one, or even ignore them entirely to write your own idea with a general like or two thrown in. As long as you’re having fun, I’m sure I’ll love it!
Here are anchor links to the different sections:
Original Work, Dumas, Psmith, David Blaize Crossovers, MCU/Narnia Crossover
General Notes
• I'm just as--often more!--interested in watching characters deal with what comes after a prompted premise than I am in the premise itself. Feel free to skip the set-up and start in media res, after they’ve already become friends or are already setting out on the mission. What I'm most interested in is what happens next--the adventures they share, how they get from friends to more, etc. Basically, stories that end shortly after the introductions make me sad.
• Period-Typical Homophobia: While I don't want to pretend it didn't exist, I do want the main pairing to get away with their secret romance and have a happy/hopeful ending. However, background characters being caught or punished is fine, if you want. I'm open to all sorts of internal reactions on the parts of the main characters, especially if they have different ones. I also adore stories where no one’s particularly angsty and the social issues aren’t overtly discussed. They just… get away with it without the story having to explicitly talk about why they’re being secretive?
Things I Always Love
• Devoted Friends & Family: odd couples; enjoying one another's company; laughing at one another; fond exasperation; loyalty; self-sacrificial gestures
• Adventures & Journeys: vacations gone awry; fish out of water; exploring new territory; daring rescues or escapes; espionage
• Competence & Resourcefulness: complementary skill sets; badassery; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
• Friends to Lovers: I like many variations, including, a) friends with benefits or sex before feelings that becomes more; b) fics that start after the first kiss/declaration and focus on how they navigate the relationship transition in the days or weeks that follow, c) adventures that cause people to realize they have more than platonic feelings and decide to make a move.
• Sexy Times: I don't care who tops or bottoms. I have general porn likes HERE; for all ships, not just the ones listed there. There's a more egregiously detailed version HERE (but honestly, the other one is enough).
• Forced Proximity or Sex: captured or stranded together; forced to have sex (by the bad guys, for cultural or initiation rites, to cast a spell, as part of undercover roles, etc) but they eventually realize they’re into each other; marriage of convenience that leads to feelings (but only for a reason with stakes, like espionage or greencards)
• Just Add Magic: Magical realism, urban fantasy, or characters encountering mythological, fantasy, or eldritch horror elements in the otherwise canonical universe--with happy endings, please! I'm not crazy about werewolves or vampires, but other than that, anything goes.
— Crossovers: applying skills/knowledge from one world to another world's problems; contrasting or reconciling differences in how a concept manifests across canons (ex. immortality, magic, realm hopping, time shenanigans); magic in one canon originates from another; characters coming up with logical but incorrect theories before discovering the truth; assuming characters have a past together (ex. childhood neighbors, etc) and starting the story when they reunite in the present
Do Not Wants
— fusions, alternate setting AUs, unrequested crossovers, goofy crack
— non-canon romantic pairings other than the ones specifically requested (mentioning past-tense feelings or liaisons is okay, though); poly or threesomes; conflicting requested pairings (ex. no Frank/Bucky + Frank/Edmund in the same fic)
— fics where none of the main characters ever find out about the others' backgrounds or magic (the reveal doesn't have to happen 'on-screen', but please don't let it end with everyone still thinking everyone else is normal!)
— Things That Upset Me: permanent major character death; the afterlife; bleak endings; 'it was all a dream' endings
— Sex & Relationship-Related: D/s dynamics; soulmates; shovel talks; yentas and matchmakers; pregnancy; adultery; characters written as ace, aro, or demi; gender identity headcanons; hatesex, noncon, or dark dynamics within my requested ships
— Writing Things: 1st & 2nd person POV; phonetically spelled dialogue (my brain genuinely struggles to process it)
— Crossover-related: tragically unresolved lifespan incompatibilities; crossovers of more than two canons at a time (unless specifically requested); fourth wall breakage; letting real life release dates create age differences (please move timelines so requested characters are around the same age)
Original Work
Pairing: Unexpectedly Badass English Dandy/Well-Meaning French Aristocrat Fucked Over by Revolution
The 18th century is my favorite period for pretty much everything. The French Revolution, especially, drips with potential for melodramatic loyalty porn and carriages. That said, don't worry about historical accuracy. At the core, I just want these two handsome gents to unambiguously get together--with actual makeouts, or more--and have a happy ending. Beyond that, do whatever you like! As a side note, random exhortations in French--Mon Dieu!--always make me smile, translations neither needed nor desired.
While Percy Blakeney is the origin of my "badass dandy" obsession (see also: Psmith), I'm not looking for a Scarlet Pimpernel expy or rehash. "Badassery" can be expressed through a variety of attributes, such as lawyering or card sharking or sharp shooting, or I don't even know what. As long as there's no permanent physical damage and he gets lovely comfort, whump the Frenchman (or both of them!) as hard as you like. I specified "well-meaning" in the nomination because I want the Frenchman to be stoic and noble, not an oppressor deserving a comeuppance.
— Did they know one another before the revolution (summers spent in the same seaside town, or when the dandy visited Paris for opera and debauchery, etc)? Was one or both pining from way back when, or do they only develop feelings now? What is their reunion like? Have they changed? Does the dandy rush to France when he hears that his old friend is in trouble?
— Is the dandy's badassery 'unexpected' even to himself? Like, does he find untapped reserves of awesome during this adventure? Or is it a thing like the Scarlet Pimpernel where he purposefully lets people underestimate him? If so, why? Is he hiding vulnerability or trauma behind a veneer of superficiality? Or does he just genuinely love clothes and stuff?
— In what ways is the aristocrat "fucked over"? Has he been dispossessed, and now he's broke and has nowhere to go? Or is he in prison awaiting the guillotine and in need of an elaborate rescue scheme? Or did he get captured or something while trying to heroically save someone else? Has he been framed for something? Was his father or elder brother eeeeevil and the people are taking out their vengeance on this poor sweetpea? Was he sorta forced to be some royal's lover (possibly breaking the dandy's heart), and now he's in trouble for it, even though it wasn't his choice?
— Or start with the Frenchman already safely escaped to England, and they meet there. Are people mean to him? Uncomfortably pitying? Something else? How does he get by? I'd be up for literally any tone or genre or setting, from glamorous meetings at balls, to Gothic horror, to melodrama where the poor, pretty aristocrat keeps his name a secret and resorts to whoring himself out to make ends meet.
— Is it a heist or mission in which one of them holds an important secret for the war/revolution, and they need to get the message to its destination? Or they're charged with rescuing someone? Has the English king sent the dandy to France as a spy for England (no one would suspect such a fop!)? Is the aristocrat the mark? Or have they been partnered by the English king or remaining French royalists on this mission? How does the adventure get them together? Do they have culture clashes before falling in love?
— Feel free to include any ridiculous Dumas trope you like (see the Musketeers request below)
Three Musketeers Series
Pairing: Raoul de Bragelonne/Comte de Guiche
I think this was my first slash ship, many years before I had words to articulate my feelings. The loyalty and perfect nobility of this relative odd couple in 'Twenty Years After' is wonderful. They work together so well! I want a canon divergence where they get over Louise and Henrietta and unambiguously get together, with actual makeouts--or more--to be endgame with each other! It would avert so much awfulness later on. I love everyone in this series, so anyone is welcome to appear in the background.
I’d like something set a few years after their first meeting so that Raoul is at least 18. In real life, de Guiche was apparently an irresistible and openly bisexual playboy. I’d love something where he gently initiates Raoul into sexual experiences and/or Raoul is the first of his flings that he's actually fallen in love with. What makes de Guiche realize his feelings, and what does he do once he figures it out? What makes Raoul realize that this is the real deal (more real than his crush on a little girl)? Does Raoul need to be gotten over period-typical attitudes, or is he already cool with things, either because Monsieur kind of made it okay or because Athos taught him to be open-minded?
All I know about de Guiche is from Dumas and Wikipedia, so don’t stress about historical accuracy. I will love any ridiculous Dumas-style trope you want to include. Here are a few to get you started: forced to share a bed in quaint country inns, aristocrats in haylofts, lonely country roads, back to back badasses, horse goes lame so we have to share, secret meetings under bridges along the Seine, scandalously rowdy or licentious taverns/brothels, battlefield tents, stoically trying to hide wound until dramatic fainting or pool of blood gives it away, tenderly wrapping wounds with ripped pieces of his shirt, OTT self-sacrificing gestures (ex. taking the bullet, taking the blame; ‘take me instead’; ‘I will only slow you down’, dying moment of awesome that he ends up not dying of)…
— Missions Together: What if, between ‘Twenty Years After’ and ‘Ten Years Later’, the Prince sent them on an espionage mission or some other kind of mission, just the two of them (and maybe their lackeys)? To England or Germany or Spain, or to identify conspirators within France, or to rescue a kidnapped heiress, or...? How do they work together and get together?
— Glittering Court Parties: I’d love for de Guiche to take Raoul to a wild party... maybe even a masked ball? IDK. Corrupt him, just a little bit? How does Raoul like it, or is he overwhelmed/not into it? Making out in candlelit corridors or secret passageways? Getting caught up in court conspiracies or dangers? Friends with benefits that becomes more? Does Raoul's secret mother totally approve?
— Just Add Magic: A Halloween-style spooky adventure (troop stationed in a haunted manor, or there’s something creepy in the fog, etc) or straight up magic added to the otherwise canonical universe. Does immortal Count Cagliostro from Dumas's Marie Antoinette series have ~plans~ for one or both of them? How does facing this adventure together lead to them getting together?
— Stranded Together: Do they get left behind on the battlefield, presumed dead… but they’re not! Or one of them refuses to leave the other behind. Having to make their way back to their regiment, alone in a hostile place… Desperation or hurt/comfort that turns passionate?
— Captured Together: Both of them captured by the enemy. I want allllll the whump and hurt/comfort. As long as no one ends up with permanent physical damage and there’s a happy ending, you can make their captivity as messed up as you like. Are they huddled together in a cell? How do they work together to escape, or get ransomed, or finish the mission? How does it help them get together?
Psmith - PG Wodehouse
Pairing: Psmith/Mike
I don't change up my prompts for this ship very often, but it's because I want ANYTHING! Just... literally anything where they're unquestionably, unambiguously together by the end. Ignore the prompts, or hit me up to generate endless more, it doesn't matter. I just love them. I love how they are such an odd couple, but understand one another so well. I love their loyalty and what generous, self-sacrificing heroes they both are, while also being total little shits. Who is the forward one here, or do they bumble equally in their own ways? Does either try to hide his nerves/inexperience? Or not? Or maybe one or both is actually experienced? Any take would be fascinating. DNW any hint that they will ever be with anyone else in the future; please set it before they met their wives and/or pretend they never did.
It would most likely have to be a secret relationship, per the time period. While a little longing and guilty hesitation are nice (and a touch of quietly understood, low-key forbiddenness does add a certain frisson), I’d prefer to avoid anguished coming outs or serious discussion of social issues. Other kinds of angst are fine, though (ex. pining, whump, boarding school bullies, backstory abuse, etc.) as long as it turns out okay by the end and retains a sense of humor. Can they just… get away with their romance without having to discuss at length why they’re being secretive?
— Canon Divergence: What if either or both of their fathers had not gone bankrupt? What if they'd moved to Hollywood after university? What if they'd stayed with the bank? What if the plan for Mike to manage Psmith's estates had happened? What if...? What does a getting-together story look like in this divergence?
— Getting Together: How does it happen? Is it friends with benefits, or does one actually court the other? Does it happen at Sedleigh or when they're at the bank, or at Cambridge? Some other time? What's their first time like?
— Whump with a Happy Ending: Stoic woobies... yum. Maybe something traumatizing happens or has happened to Psmith, who hides his pain behind his effervescent mask... but Mike eventually figures it out and works to make it all better. Or something terrible happens to Mike, and Psmith goes above and beyond to get revenge and/or set things right.
— One (or both?) in a Groundhog Day loop? No need to explain how it starts or why it ends (handwave away!); I care about what I care about are the things people learn about themselves and each other, and how they deal with the situation
— Playing with that historical/literary theme of romantic boarding school attachments being a thing guys expect to grow out of. Except Psmith and Mike realize... it isn't happening? Could involve pining, doomed set-ups, erroneously assuming the other is over it, "it's a far far better thing I do..." angst, or whatever you want, before a happy ending.
— WWI: Fighting together, captured together, espionage missions, winning a key battle through impertinent ragging, Mike the accidental war hero, keeping one another warm in their trench, making out in a bombed out Belgian village, the desperation of war causing them to reveal long-secret pining, Psmith goes behind enemy lines to rescue Mike… Lots of whump and hurt/comfort welcome.
— Random Acquisition of Superpowers: I don’t actually care which of them gets it or how/why it happens, so feel free to skip that or leave it unexplained. How do they react, in a world where having superpowers is not supposed to be a thing? Is it fun and awesome, or awful? What uses do they find for the power? Do they accidentally hurt each other (hurt/comfort and angst) or improve their situation/world somehow? Any superpower would be great, from traditional ones to something super random and seemingly useless.
— Crossovers: Prompts with Narnia are HERE. Prompts with David Blaize are HERE. Prompts with Penny Dreadful or My Family & Other Animals are HERE)
— Slaves Together: All the whump, hurt/comfort, and loyalty, please! You could write this as a crossover with Narnia (like, some portal spits them out in the Lone Islands), or a GoT crossover (a portal takes them to Essos), or you could add slavery to the otherwise canonical early 20th century Wodehouse world. Does Psmith secretly take Mike's beatings and/or sex duties to spare him? Or vice versa? Are they forced to watch one another be abused? Forced to put on a show? What breaks them (if anything)? Does the trauma get them to finally act on their feelings? Or does Psmith arrange things so that life as slaves is actually pretty good, no rape or beatings, just lots of cricket? How do they escape? Or do they get revenge on their master(s)? Or do they organize a Socialist revolution? Some wholly other direction you want to take this? I'l love anything!! Lots of OCs are (obviously) welcome. No body modification, branding, or permanent damage please.
David Blaize Crossovers
Pairings:
• Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
• Frank/Bucky (MCU)
• Frank/Various
General Frank Notes
I know I should give up on these hopeless requests, but I need Frank to get a nice boyfriend so desperately, I'm having trouble letting go. He's such a fascinating and endearing blend of judgmental, whimsical, bossy, charismatic, and melancholic. While his anguished self-loathing is super compelling, I ultimately want him to get over it (and himself, a little), without anyone explicitly lecturing him. I want him to find happiness and self-acceptance with someone new—with actual kissing, or more! The chapter where he devises the plan to catch the cheaters was such fun; if it fits, something that also showcases his cleverness and snark and take-chargeness in action would be lovely.
Please let him completely get over his tragic crush on David and be entirely into the new person, without bashing David (whom I do like!). And please set it when Frank is anywhere between 18-26 (ie. canon divergence, or shortly post-canon), so he doesn't have to wait long to be happier. If you have never heard of this book, you can find it here. Prepare yourself for some amazingly iddy homoerotic Edwardian boarding school angst. The sequel, "David Blaize of Kings" is $1 on Amazon, but I'll be honest, I control-F for Frank's name and only read the parts of the sequel that he's in (he's away in Greece for much of it).
Bonus Crossover Pairing Options!:
There are a ton of people I would love to see Frank with but I get embarrassed about nominating all of them. I have prompts for Frank crossed over with Psmith if you scroll down a couple of paragraphs HERE. I have prompts crossing Frank with Penny Dreadful, My Family and Other Animals, Atlantis BBC, Lost, MCU, and Tirian from Narnia, HERE. Feel free to write any of these instead of the officially requested pairings.
Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
Frank coming up with well-reasoned but incorrect theories to explain Edmund’s weirdness before eventually figuring it out? What is post-Narnia life like for Edmund? Is he also frustrated (sexually or otherwise)? Carrying around knowledge or experience that he can’t use? Desperate because he remembers adult relationships but has (until now) been too young/lacked opportunity/hasn’t liked anyone enough/other? Or maybe he’s actually quite inexperienced. What draws them to each other and how do they get together?
My biggest asks are a) for Frank to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) to pretend the David Blaize books were set later so that they are around the same age. DNW train crash, end of Narnia, or Aslan's Country! Please make it clear they will live out their lives.
— School or University: Prefects together at Marchester? Edmund being really good at sneaking out/around? Have they always liked one another, or do they start as rivals but end up falling for one another? Wet and full of adrenaline after a sailing race or tennis match at Cambridge?
— Golden Age: Frank finds himself in Narnia (I don’t care how; feel free to skip over that part). What are his reactions to the place? How does Edmund, who probably doesn't have a ton of attractive humans around, react to having this nice, smart, handsome Brit in the castle? Can Frank help Ed and his siblings remember their lives from before? Is Frank here on a quest from Aslan? Or not?
— Greece: Does Edmund also become an archaeologist? Or does he study something else at Cambridge that allows them to travel to Greece together? Voyages on trains or ships (and possibly stranded when the vehicle breaks down)? Finding ancient magic here on earth? Partying with Bacchus, who's an old acquaintance of Ed's?
— Post-Canon Adventures: I'm obsessed with Edmund using the rings to go adventuring to places other than Narnia instead of dying. Maybe it's Frank's parents' house that Edmund burgles to get the rings, and that's how they meet and go off on adventures together to the Wood Between the Worlds or not-so-dead Charn? Westeros/Essos (I only know the TV show) is another option.
Frank/Bucky (MCU)
I would like a WWII getting together story. Please pretend the books were set later so that they are around the same age. They’d make such a great odd couple. The Brooklyn boy/posh Brit, classical education/street smarts, etc. How do they overcome Frank’s (possibly also Bucky’s?) internalized homophobia and find something good? Is Bucky actually more open-minded or experienced with men than Frank? Or has he always denied himself, and Frank initiates him?
Feel free to pretend Bucky didn’t fall off the train so they can have a happily ever after. Or maybe Frank rescues his brainwashed old flame from Hydra in, like, 1949 (ie. before there’s a major age difference), or Bucky travels back in time with Steve at the end of Endgame for a happily ever after. Or you can make it bittersweet, with Bucky still falling, but even though he grieves, their time together has left Frank in a healthier place to live and love again without such self-loathing (and WE know Bucky will eventually be okay, per canon).
Does Frank start out initially jealous of Bucky’s friendship with Steve, because he’s projecting his own experiences with David onto Steve&Bucky? Does Bucky scoff because he and Steve aren't like that at all, or is Frank actually correct in thinking Bucky has been unrequitedly pining? If Bucky had been crushing on Steve, I need him to get over it completely as he and Frank fall for one another, without bashing Steve. Or you could not bring up Steve/Bucky as a question or issue at all! Side Note: I have a pet peeve about Bucky (and Steve) saying "ain't"; can they please speak as properly as they do in canon (cursing is okay, though)?
— Soldiers Together: Maybe the 107th is camped alongside Frank’s unit before their capture? Sharing a foxhole together? Exploring or hiding in a bombed out village together? Left behind and forced to trek to safety together? Saving one another? Does the desperation of war get them over their issues enough to act on their feelings?
— Captives Together: Do they huddle together between torture/experimentation sessions, clinging to each other and their identities? Hurt/comfort and desperate “we’ll probably die tomorrow” hookups? Nazis humiliating them or forcing them to do it or confess feelings or watch each other be hurt? Or maybe they only get together after Steve’s rescued them, when they begin to realize something more permanent was done to them.
— Howling Commandoes: Frank as part of the gang? Getting together while using their combined smarts on a mission, either with the whole group, or a side project just for them? I’m thinking stakeouts, disguises, need for quick thinking, getting information at a party, stranded in a snowy cabin, down time at a pub… anything!
— Spies or Missions: Or maybe Frank isn’t a soldier, but rather some sort of archaeologist/explorer civilian who is asked to use his knowledge to help the war effort. Maybe Hitler’s after some Ancient Greek occult blah blah? The SSR partners Frank and Bucky for the mission.
MCU/Narnia Crossover
Pairing: Bucky/Edmund
I very desperately want them to love each other as much as I love them, and to have adventures, and be competent, and make out. What aspects of their angsty backgrounds can they pep talk each other through? How can their experiences and skill sets help each other or help solve an issue in either canon? I'd love to see them teaching each other fighting or survival or other skills. I would give a lot for Bucky with a sword. How do they figure out one another's backstories, and what do they think of the other's (they MUST find out!)?
I don't want any overage/underage romance, but Edmund being a kid and Bucky being a grown-up soldier during WWII is too situationally intrinsic to both characters for my usual "just fudge it" approach. However, time between realms seems so untethered and random that I could totally buy something like post-TWS Bucky traveling to the Golden Age. Or maybe Bucky goes back to the 50s/60s when he and Edmund would be around the same age, either as the main premise of the story, or as the happy ending epilogue. Basically, do whatever you need to make it work, and I'll roll with it.
Narnia DNW: death of the Friends of Narnia, end of Narnia, or Aslan's country/afterlife. Please let it be clear they will live out their lives!
— Bucky goes back in time at the end of Endgame, where he and Edmund meet and fall for one another while working on a project together. They both have secrets (i.e. Edmund was king of a country in a cupboard, and Bucky is from the future/has another brainwashed assassin version running around). How do they find out about each other, and how do they react (they MUST find out!)?
— Assume someone in MCU made a realm-transporter while trying to figure out time travel. Bucky uses the device to take Edmund back to Narnia during The Last Battle, no need for rings. What happens next?
— The story starts when Edmund returns from going on adventures with the rings (instead of dying!!). However, because of handwavey magic, he realizes the rings have dropped him off in the future, any time after TWS… Whoops! How do he and Bucky meet? Are they out of time together? Hurt/comfort? Is Hydra after both of them, but they are back to back badasses, saving each other? Do they escape by using the rings again? Something else? Anything!
— Golden Age Edmund blown the horn, summoning Bucky for help with a problem. Or Bucky finds himself there in some other way, I don't care. Fighting giants, espionage, outwitting Calormene spies, implementing educational policies, dealing with the Rabadash situation? Something else?
— Helping Golden Age Edmund remember his previous life? Is this the only time they meet, or do they reconnect later on (both adults again for the happy ending reunion, please)?
— Hydra sends Bucky to the Professor's childhood home to get the rings on the same day that Edmund goes, resulting in them going on adventures to other realms instead of Edmund dying. Exploring the Wood, or deserted Charn, or Westeros, or Asgard, or back to Narnia to help Tirian, or a world you make up? I'd prefer a focus on Edmund (plus Lucy, if you want), not the whole set of Friends.
Here are anchor links to the different sections:
Original Work, Dumas, Psmith, David Blaize Crossovers, MCU/Narnia Crossover
General Notes
• I'm just as--often more!--interested in watching characters deal with what comes after a prompted premise than I am in the premise itself. Feel free to skip the set-up and start in media res, after they’ve already become friends or are already setting out on the mission. What I'm most interested in is what happens next--the adventures they share, how they get from friends to more, etc. Basically, stories that end shortly after the introductions make me sad.
• Period-Typical Homophobia: While I don't want to pretend it didn't exist, I do want the main pairing to get away with their secret romance and have a happy/hopeful ending. However, background characters being caught or punished is fine, if you want. I'm open to all sorts of internal reactions on the parts of the main characters, especially if they have different ones. I also adore stories where no one’s particularly angsty and the social issues aren’t overtly discussed. They just… get away with it without the story having to explicitly talk about why they’re being secretive?
Things I Always Love
• Devoted Friends & Family: odd couples; enjoying one another's company; laughing at one another; fond exasperation; loyalty; self-sacrificial gestures
• Adventures & Journeys: vacations gone awry; fish out of water; exploring new territory; daring rescues or escapes; espionage
• Competence & Resourcefulness: complementary skill sets; badassery; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
• Friends to Lovers: I like many variations, including, a) friends with benefits or sex before feelings that becomes more; b) fics that start after the first kiss/declaration and focus on how they navigate the relationship transition in the days or weeks that follow, c) adventures that cause people to realize they have more than platonic feelings and decide to make a move.
• Sexy Times: I don't care who tops or bottoms. I have general porn likes HERE; for all ships, not just the ones listed there. There's a more egregiously detailed version HERE (but honestly, the other one is enough).
• Forced Proximity or Sex: captured or stranded together; forced to have sex (by the bad guys, for cultural or initiation rites, to cast a spell, as part of undercover roles, etc) but they eventually realize they’re into each other; marriage of convenience that leads to feelings (but only for a reason with stakes, like espionage or greencards)
• Just Add Magic: Magical realism, urban fantasy, or characters encountering mythological, fantasy, or eldritch horror elements in the otherwise canonical universe--with happy endings, please! I'm not crazy about werewolves or vampires, but other than that, anything goes.
— Crossovers: applying skills/knowledge from one world to another world's problems; contrasting or reconciling differences in how a concept manifests across canons (ex. immortality, magic, realm hopping, time shenanigans); magic in one canon originates from another; characters coming up with logical but incorrect theories before discovering the truth; assuming characters have a past together (ex. childhood neighbors, etc) and starting the story when they reunite in the present
Do Not Wants
— fusions, alternate setting AUs, unrequested crossovers, goofy crack
— non-canon romantic pairings other than the ones specifically requested (mentioning past-tense feelings or liaisons is okay, though); poly or threesomes; conflicting requested pairings (ex. no Frank/Bucky + Frank/Edmund in the same fic)
— fics where none of the main characters ever find out about the others' backgrounds or magic (the reveal doesn't have to happen 'on-screen', but please don't let it end with everyone still thinking everyone else is normal!)
— Things That Upset Me: permanent major character death; the afterlife; bleak endings; 'it was all a dream' endings
— Sex & Relationship-Related: D/s dynamics; soulmates; shovel talks; yentas and matchmakers; pregnancy; adultery; characters written as ace, aro, or demi; gender identity headcanons; hatesex, noncon, or dark dynamics within my requested ships
— Writing Things: 1st & 2nd person POV; phonetically spelled dialogue (my brain genuinely struggles to process it)
— Crossover-related: tragically unresolved lifespan incompatibilities; crossovers of more than two canons at a time (unless specifically requested); fourth wall breakage; letting real life release dates create age differences (please move timelines so requested characters are around the same age)
Original Work
Pairing: Unexpectedly Badass English Dandy/Well-Meaning French Aristocrat Fucked Over by Revolution
The 18th century is my favorite period for pretty much everything. The French Revolution, especially, drips with potential for melodramatic loyalty porn and carriages. That said, don't worry about historical accuracy. At the core, I just want these two handsome gents to unambiguously get together--with actual makeouts, or more--and have a happy ending. Beyond that, do whatever you like! As a side note, random exhortations in French--Mon Dieu!--always make me smile, translations neither needed nor desired.
While Percy Blakeney is the origin of my "badass dandy" obsession (see also: Psmith), I'm not looking for a Scarlet Pimpernel expy or rehash. "Badassery" can be expressed through a variety of attributes, such as lawyering or card sharking or sharp shooting, or I don't even know what. As long as there's no permanent physical damage and he gets lovely comfort, whump the Frenchman (or both of them!) as hard as you like. I specified "well-meaning" in the nomination because I want the Frenchman to be stoic and noble, not an oppressor deserving a comeuppance.
— Did they know one another before the revolution (summers spent in the same seaside town, or when the dandy visited Paris for opera and debauchery, etc)? Was one or both pining from way back when, or do they only develop feelings now? What is their reunion like? Have they changed? Does the dandy rush to France when he hears that his old friend is in trouble?
— Is the dandy's badassery 'unexpected' even to himself? Like, does he find untapped reserves of awesome during this adventure? Or is it a thing like the Scarlet Pimpernel where he purposefully lets people underestimate him? If so, why? Is he hiding vulnerability or trauma behind a veneer of superficiality? Or does he just genuinely love clothes and stuff?
— In what ways is the aristocrat "fucked over"? Has he been dispossessed, and now he's broke and has nowhere to go? Or is he in prison awaiting the guillotine and in need of an elaborate rescue scheme? Or did he get captured or something while trying to heroically save someone else? Has he been framed for something? Was his father or elder brother eeeeevil and the people are taking out their vengeance on this poor sweetpea? Was he sorta forced to be some royal's lover (possibly breaking the dandy's heart), and now he's in trouble for it, even though it wasn't his choice?
— Or start with the Frenchman already safely escaped to England, and they meet there. Are people mean to him? Uncomfortably pitying? Something else? How does he get by? I'd be up for literally any tone or genre or setting, from glamorous meetings at balls, to Gothic horror, to melodrama where the poor, pretty aristocrat keeps his name a secret and resorts to whoring himself out to make ends meet.
— Is it a heist or mission in which one of them holds an important secret for the war/revolution, and they need to get the message to its destination? Or they're charged with rescuing someone? Has the English king sent the dandy to France as a spy for England (no one would suspect such a fop!)? Is the aristocrat the mark? Or have they been partnered by the English king or remaining French royalists on this mission? How does the adventure get them together? Do they have culture clashes before falling in love?
— Feel free to include any ridiculous Dumas trope you like (see the Musketeers request below)
Three Musketeers Series
Pairing: Raoul de Bragelonne/Comte de Guiche
I think this was my first slash ship, many years before I had words to articulate my feelings. The loyalty and perfect nobility of this relative odd couple in 'Twenty Years After' is wonderful. They work together so well! I want a canon divergence where they get over Louise and Henrietta and unambiguously get together, with actual makeouts--or more--to be endgame with each other! It would avert so much awfulness later on. I love everyone in this series, so anyone is welcome to appear in the background.
I’d like something set a few years after their first meeting so that Raoul is at least 18. In real life, de Guiche was apparently an irresistible and openly bisexual playboy. I’d love something where he gently initiates Raoul into sexual experiences and/or Raoul is the first of his flings that he's actually fallen in love with. What makes de Guiche realize his feelings, and what does he do once he figures it out? What makes Raoul realize that this is the real deal (more real than his crush on a little girl)? Does Raoul need to be gotten over period-typical attitudes, or is he already cool with things, either because Monsieur kind of made it okay or because Athos taught him to be open-minded?
All I know about de Guiche is from Dumas and Wikipedia, so don’t stress about historical accuracy. I will love any ridiculous Dumas-style trope you want to include. Here are a few to get you started: forced to share a bed in quaint country inns, aristocrats in haylofts, lonely country roads, back to back badasses, horse goes lame so we have to share, secret meetings under bridges along the Seine, scandalously rowdy or licentious taverns/brothels, battlefield tents, stoically trying to hide wound until dramatic fainting or pool of blood gives it away, tenderly wrapping wounds with ripped pieces of his shirt, OTT self-sacrificing gestures (ex. taking the bullet, taking the blame; ‘take me instead’; ‘I will only slow you down’, dying moment of awesome that he ends up not dying of)…
— Missions Together: What if, between ‘Twenty Years After’ and ‘Ten Years Later’, the Prince sent them on an espionage mission or some other kind of mission, just the two of them (and maybe their lackeys)? To England or Germany or Spain, or to identify conspirators within France, or to rescue a kidnapped heiress, or...? How do they work together and get together?
— Glittering Court Parties: I’d love for de Guiche to take Raoul to a wild party... maybe even a masked ball? IDK. Corrupt him, just a little bit? How does Raoul like it, or is he overwhelmed/not into it? Making out in candlelit corridors or secret passageways? Getting caught up in court conspiracies or dangers? Friends with benefits that becomes more? Does Raoul's secret mother totally approve?
— Just Add Magic: A Halloween-style spooky adventure (troop stationed in a haunted manor, or there’s something creepy in the fog, etc) or straight up magic added to the otherwise canonical universe. Does immortal Count Cagliostro from Dumas's Marie Antoinette series have ~plans~ for one or both of them? How does facing this adventure together lead to them getting together?
— Stranded Together: Do they get left behind on the battlefield, presumed dead… but they’re not! Or one of them refuses to leave the other behind. Having to make their way back to their regiment, alone in a hostile place… Desperation or hurt/comfort that turns passionate?
— Captured Together: Both of them captured by the enemy. I want allllll the whump and hurt/comfort. As long as no one ends up with permanent physical damage and there’s a happy ending, you can make their captivity as messed up as you like. Are they huddled together in a cell? How do they work together to escape, or get ransomed, or finish the mission? How does it help them get together?
Psmith - PG Wodehouse
Pairing: Psmith/Mike
I don't change up my prompts for this ship very often, but it's because I want ANYTHING! Just... literally anything where they're unquestionably, unambiguously together by the end. Ignore the prompts, or hit me up to generate endless more, it doesn't matter. I just love them. I love how they are such an odd couple, but understand one another so well. I love their loyalty and what generous, self-sacrificing heroes they both are, while also being total little shits. Who is the forward one here, or do they bumble equally in their own ways? Does either try to hide his nerves/inexperience? Or not? Or maybe one or both is actually experienced? Any take would be fascinating. DNW any hint that they will ever be with anyone else in the future; please set it before they met their wives and/or pretend they never did.
It would most likely have to be a secret relationship, per the time period. While a little longing and guilty hesitation are nice (and a touch of quietly understood, low-key forbiddenness does add a certain frisson), I’d prefer to avoid anguished coming outs or serious discussion of social issues. Other kinds of angst are fine, though (ex. pining, whump, boarding school bullies, backstory abuse, etc.) as long as it turns out okay by the end and retains a sense of humor. Can they just… get away with their romance without having to discuss at length why they’re being secretive?
— Canon Divergence: What if either or both of their fathers had not gone bankrupt? What if they'd moved to Hollywood after university? What if they'd stayed with the bank? What if the plan for Mike to manage Psmith's estates had happened? What if...? What does a getting-together story look like in this divergence?
— Getting Together: How does it happen? Is it friends with benefits, or does one actually court the other? Does it happen at Sedleigh or when they're at the bank, or at Cambridge? Some other time? What's their first time like?
— Whump with a Happy Ending: Stoic woobies... yum. Maybe something traumatizing happens or has happened to Psmith, who hides his pain behind his effervescent mask... but Mike eventually figures it out and works to make it all better. Or something terrible happens to Mike, and Psmith goes above and beyond to get revenge and/or set things right.
— One (or both?) in a Groundhog Day loop? No need to explain how it starts or why it ends (handwave away!); I care about what I care about are the things people learn about themselves and each other, and how they deal with the situation
— Playing with that historical/literary theme of romantic boarding school attachments being a thing guys expect to grow out of. Except Psmith and Mike realize... it isn't happening? Could involve pining, doomed set-ups, erroneously assuming the other is over it, "it's a far far better thing I do..." angst, or whatever you want, before a happy ending.
— WWI: Fighting together, captured together, espionage missions, winning a key battle through impertinent ragging, Mike the accidental war hero, keeping one another warm in their trench, making out in a bombed out Belgian village, the desperation of war causing them to reveal long-secret pining, Psmith goes behind enemy lines to rescue Mike… Lots of whump and hurt/comfort welcome.
— Random Acquisition of Superpowers: I don’t actually care which of them gets it or how/why it happens, so feel free to skip that or leave it unexplained. How do they react, in a world where having superpowers is not supposed to be a thing? Is it fun and awesome, or awful? What uses do they find for the power? Do they accidentally hurt each other (hurt/comfort and angst) or improve their situation/world somehow? Any superpower would be great, from traditional ones to something super random and seemingly useless.
— Crossovers: Prompts with Narnia are HERE. Prompts with David Blaize are HERE. Prompts with Penny Dreadful or My Family & Other Animals are HERE)
— Slaves Together: All the whump, hurt/comfort, and loyalty, please! You could write this as a crossover with Narnia (like, some portal spits them out in the Lone Islands), or a GoT crossover (a portal takes them to Essos), or you could add slavery to the otherwise canonical early 20th century Wodehouse world. Does Psmith secretly take Mike's beatings and/or sex duties to spare him? Or vice versa? Are they forced to watch one another be abused? Forced to put on a show? What breaks them (if anything)? Does the trauma get them to finally act on their feelings? Or does Psmith arrange things so that life as slaves is actually pretty good, no rape or beatings, just lots of cricket? How do they escape? Or do they get revenge on their master(s)? Or do they organize a Socialist revolution? Some wholly other direction you want to take this? I'l love anything!! Lots of OCs are (obviously) welcome. No body modification, branding, or permanent damage please.
David Blaize Crossovers
Pairings:
• Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
• Frank/Bucky (MCU)
• Frank/Various
General Frank Notes
I know I should give up on these hopeless requests, but I need Frank to get a nice boyfriend so desperately, I'm having trouble letting go. He's such a fascinating and endearing blend of judgmental, whimsical, bossy, charismatic, and melancholic. While his anguished self-loathing is super compelling, I ultimately want him to get over it (and himself, a little), without anyone explicitly lecturing him. I want him to find happiness and self-acceptance with someone new—with actual kissing, or more! The chapter where he devises the plan to catch the cheaters was such fun; if it fits, something that also showcases his cleverness and snark and take-chargeness in action would be lovely.
Please let him completely get over his tragic crush on David and be entirely into the new person, without bashing David (whom I do like!). And please set it when Frank is anywhere between 18-26 (ie. canon divergence, or shortly post-canon), so he doesn't have to wait long to be happier. If you have never heard of this book, you can find it here. Prepare yourself for some amazingly iddy homoerotic Edwardian boarding school angst. The sequel, "David Blaize of Kings" is $1 on Amazon, but I'll be honest, I control-F for Frank's name and only read the parts of the sequel that he's in (he's away in Greece for much of it).
Bonus Crossover Pairing Options!:
There are a ton of people I would love to see Frank with but I get embarrassed about nominating all of them. I have prompts for Frank crossed over with Psmith if you scroll down a couple of paragraphs HERE. I have prompts crossing Frank with Penny Dreadful, My Family and Other Animals, Atlantis BBC, Lost, MCU, and Tirian from Narnia, HERE. Feel free to write any of these instead of the officially requested pairings.
Frank/Edmund (Narnia)
Frank coming up with well-reasoned but incorrect theories to explain Edmund’s weirdness before eventually figuring it out? What is post-Narnia life like for Edmund? Is he also frustrated (sexually or otherwise)? Carrying around knowledge or experience that he can’t use? Desperate because he remembers adult relationships but has (until now) been too young/lacked opportunity/hasn’t liked anyone enough/other? Or maybe he’s actually quite inexperienced. What draws them to each other and how do they get together?
My biggest asks are a) for Frank to find out about Narnia/Edmund’s secret and b) to pretend the David Blaize books were set later so that they are around the same age. DNW train crash, end of Narnia, or Aslan's Country! Please make it clear they will live out their lives.
— School or University: Prefects together at Marchester? Edmund being really good at sneaking out/around? Have they always liked one another, or do they start as rivals but end up falling for one another? Wet and full of adrenaline after a sailing race or tennis match at Cambridge?
— Golden Age: Frank finds himself in Narnia (I don’t care how; feel free to skip over that part). What are his reactions to the place? How does Edmund, who probably doesn't have a ton of attractive humans around, react to having this nice, smart, handsome Brit in the castle? Can Frank help Ed and his siblings remember their lives from before? Is Frank here on a quest from Aslan? Or not?
— Greece: Does Edmund also become an archaeologist? Or does he study something else at Cambridge that allows them to travel to Greece together? Voyages on trains or ships (and possibly stranded when the vehicle breaks down)? Finding ancient magic here on earth? Partying with Bacchus, who's an old acquaintance of Ed's?
— Post-Canon Adventures: I'm obsessed with Edmund using the rings to go adventuring to places other than Narnia instead of dying. Maybe it's Frank's parents' house that Edmund burgles to get the rings, and that's how they meet and go off on adventures together to the Wood Between the Worlds or not-so-dead Charn? Westeros/Essos (I only know the TV show) is another option.
Frank/Bucky (MCU)
I would like a WWII getting together story. Please pretend the books were set later so that they are around the same age. They’d make such a great odd couple. The Brooklyn boy/posh Brit, classical education/street smarts, etc. How do they overcome Frank’s (possibly also Bucky’s?) internalized homophobia and find something good? Is Bucky actually more open-minded or experienced with men than Frank? Or has he always denied himself, and Frank initiates him?
Feel free to pretend Bucky didn’t fall off the train so they can have a happily ever after. Or maybe Frank rescues his brainwashed old flame from Hydra in, like, 1949 (ie. before there’s a major age difference), or Bucky travels back in time with Steve at the end of Endgame for a happily ever after. Or you can make it bittersweet, with Bucky still falling, but even though he grieves, their time together has left Frank in a healthier place to live and love again without such self-loathing (and WE know Bucky will eventually be okay, per canon).
Does Frank start out initially jealous of Bucky’s friendship with Steve, because he’s projecting his own experiences with David onto Steve&Bucky? Does Bucky scoff because he and Steve aren't like that at all, or is Frank actually correct in thinking Bucky has been unrequitedly pining? If Bucky had been crushing on Steve, I need him to get over it completely as he and Frank fall for one another, without bashing Steve. Or you could not bring up Steve/Bucky as a question or issue at all! Side Note: I have a pet peeve about Bucky (and Steve) saying "ain't"; can they please speak as properly as they do in canon (cursing is okay, though)?
— Soldiers Together: Maybe the 107th is camped alongside Frank’s unit before their capture? Sharing a foxhole together? Exploring or hiding in a bombed out village together? Left behind and forced to trek to safety together? Saving one another? Does the desperation of war get them over their issues enough to act on their feelings?
— Captives Together: Do they huddle together between torture/experimentation sessions, clinging to each other and their identities? Hurt/comfort and desperate “we’ll probably die tomorrow” hookups? Nazis humiliating them or forcing them to do it or confess feelings or watch each other be hurt? Or maybe they only get together after Steve’s rescued them, when they begin to realize something more permanent was done to them.
— Howling Commandoes: Frank as part of the gang? Getting together while using their combined smarts on a mission, either with the whole group, or a side project just for them? I’m thinking stakeouts, disguises, need for quick thinking, getting information at a party, stranded in a snowy cabin, down time at a pub… anything!
— Spies or Missions: Or maybe Frank isn’t a soldier, but rather some sort of archaeologist/explorer civilian who is asked to use his knowledge to help the war effort. Maybe Hitler’s after some Ancient Greek occult blah blah? The SSR partners Frank and Bucky for the mission.
MCU/Narnia Crossover
Pairing: Bucky/Edmund
I very desperately want them to love each other as much as I love them, and to have adventures, and be competent, and make out. What aspects of their angsty backgrounds can they pep talk each other through? How can their experiences and skill sets help each other or help solve an issue in either canon? I'd love to see them teaching each other fighting or survival or other skills. I would give a lot for Bucky with a sword. How do they figure out one another's backstories, and what do they think of the other's (they MUST find out!)?
I don't want any overage/underage romance, but Edmund being a kid and Bucky being a grown-up soldier during WWII is too situationally intrinsic to both characters for my usual "just fudge it" approach. However, time between realms seems so untethered and random that I could totally buy something like post-TWS Bucky traveling to the Golden Age. Or maybe Bucky goes back to the 50s/60s when he and Edmund would be around the same age, either as the main premise of the story, or as the happy ending epilogue. Basically, do whatever you need to make it work, and I'll roll with it.
Narnia DNW: death of the Friends of Narnia, end of Narnia, or Aslan's country/afterlife. Please let it be clear they will live out their lives!
— Bucky goes back in time at the end of Endgame, where he and Edmund meet and fall for one another while working on a project together. They both have secrets (i.e. Edmund was king of a country in a cupboard, and Bucky is from the future/has another brainwashed assassin version running around). How do they find out about each other, and how do they react (they MUST find out!)?
— Assume someone in MCU made a realm-transporter while trying to figure out time travel. Bucky uses the device to take Edmund back to Narnia during The Last Battle, no need for rings. What happens next?
— The story starts when Edmund returns from going on adventures with the rings (instead of dying!!). However, because of handwavey magic, he realizes the rings have dropped him off in the future, any time after TWS… Whoops! How do he and Bucky meet? Are they out of time together? Hurt/comfort? Is Hydra after both of them, but they are back to back badasses, saving each other? Do they escape by using the rings again? Something else? Anything!
— Golden Age Edmund blown the horn, summoning Bucky for help with a problem. Or Bucky finds himself there in some other way, I don't care. Fighting giants, espionage, outwitting Calormene spies, implementing educational policies, dealing with the Rabadash situation? Something else?
— Helping Golden Age Edmund remember his previous life? Is this the only time they meet, or do they reconnect later on (both adults again for the happy ending reunion, please)?
— Hydra sends Bucky to the Professor's childhood home to get the rings on the same day that Edmund goes, resulting in them going on adventures to other realms instead of Edmund dying. Exploring the Wood, or deserted Charn, or Westeros, or Asgard, or back to Narnia to help Tirian, or a world you make up? I'd prefer a focus on Edmund (plus Lucy, if you want), not the whole set of Friends.