Ship Swap Letter

[pameluke]

Dear Swapper, 

I’m really excited about this exchange, and hope you'll have fun writing a gift for me. Please feel free to cut and combine any and all info you find in the following letter. I’m writing this to inspire you, but I’m a firm believer of Optional Details are Optional.

I can be found on AO3 as Pameluke, and I generally fandom as janoda on tumblr. 

I love some porn with my plot and some plot with my porn. If you'd rather write gen or PWP, that's fine as well. I've divided all my prompts into narrative prompts and porn prompts, ideally you can think of it as a buffet, where you choose and pick those ingredients you like, and combine the perfect dish for you. 

I tend to be wordy, so if you’re not up to that, all important information should be in the AO3 assignment. However, if you’d like to know all the gritty ditty details per fandom, onwards it is.

Let us start with general DNWs and squicks so we can get those out of the way.

GENERAL DNW’S 

If it happens to characters in canon, I can deal with it happening to them in fic. The same goes for violence really, I can deal with everything as long as it at the same intensity level of canon. 

• Requested Characters Doing Non-Con/Dub-Con
• No Uncanonical Non-Con
• No Dub-Con on only one character I requested. Outside influences are great (sex-pollen, heats etc, I just prefer all characters to be under the influence together)
• No Underage
• No Violence Between Characters I’ve requested
• No Uncanonical Permanent Character Death, Canonical Character Death is okay, although I’d rather not.
• No Incest
• No Humiliation
• No Infantilisation
• No Scat

Otherwise, I’m game. The rating can be as high or low as you want, as long as it’s consensual I’m okay with any kink, and the fouler the language the better.   

GENERAL LIKES, TROPES, AND AUs 

I love canon fic, case-fic, slice of life fic, expansion on worldbuilding, adventures in nature, food and cooking related fic, loyalty kink, competence kink, hurt-comfort, found families, random domesticity. Cross-overs, fusions, AUs, tropetastic fic. 

I love fic in which a relationship is explored, and don’t mind if that’s the main plot. I love it when characters have a support network outside of their relationship, so that happening in the background is always a plus. I can deal with angst, but I’d like to have some kind of happy resolution at the end, even if it’s Happy For Now. 

I am always up for AUs, for all fandoms I’ve nominated. If any of these are your thing, feel free to run with it, or any combination of them. 

• Space Pirate AU, Space Cowboy AU, ALL SPACE AUs
• Regular Pirate AU, Age of Sail AU
• Steampunk AU, Cyberpunk AU, Biopunk AU
• Temeraire AU (aka Dragonriding during Napoleonic wars)
• Everybody Lives AU
• Magical Realism AU
• Superpowers / Mutant AU
• Shapeshifter/Were-animal AU, especially with Fantasy social constructs (not necessarily ABO variants)
• Time-Travel AU
• Cyborg Au, Robot AU,

 

For Alternate Canons, I’m very big on a lot of tropes. I love tropes. Seriously, give me all the fandom cliches, I gobble them up. I especially love inversions and subversions, or just played straight. Some of my favorites: 

• Soulbonds, in all forms, with marks or no marks, with relationships between the actual bonds or out of them, telepathic powers, or only bad side-effects.
• In general, I like all sorts of universes that have a Thing that forces two people to continually be together/work together, and fic about how they manage that. (Think Sentinel/Guide fic, or The Heroes series by Moira Moore, or this Ghost Hunting AU)
• Fake relationships that turn real. In all forms. For all reasons
• Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends, Friends to Lovers
• Living by the Nile, or “What feelings? Me? No Way, Good Sir, Never (I love you)”
• Elaborate Plans Gone Wrong
• Awkward Flirting
• Awkward Sex
• Competent People and the People who fall for them, all the Competence Kink, seriously
• N Times Characters Did A Thing
• Marriage/Relationship of convenience, turned REAL
• Found families,
• Interspecies Relationships

GENERAL PORN KINKS 

Kinks I’m into if you’re of the porn persuasion: 

• Enthusiastic consent, this is my biggest kink always
• Consentacles while we’re at it
• Knotting
• Fantasy Sex Anatomy, in general, the weirder the better
• Seriously Xeno sex is YAY, especially if it's kind of puzzling how to make it work between two different species
• Body Worship and Body Modification, aka Tattoos, Piercings, anything
• Size kink, of everything (toys, phalli, people, etc...)
• Controlled Strength, I don't have a thing for size difference necessarily, but I do for strength difference
• Wrestling for control, aka people being evenly matched (or not quite) who like to test that
• Pegging, Sex Toys of all kinds and shapes (invented alien ones are awesome)
• Switching, can be 90/10 or 50/50, or implied, I just like it when there's variation in who does what
• Panties, people feeling sexy and desirable
• Safewords and the use of them, thorough kink negotiation
• Light BDSM: Spanking, Bondage, Rough Sex and Manhandling (by both male and female characters)
• Rough sex, especially I'm so horny I'm desperate sex, hair pulling, bite and nail marks, bruising
• Cuddling, aftercare
• Joking/laughter in bed
• Trying something new for the first time, not necessarily successfully
• Sex in the outdoors, preferably in nature
• Sex-Pollen, Heats, outside dubcon influences, if an influence on ALL partners
• Possessiveness, especially if mutual, scent marks, visible marks, claiming marks, marks only they know
• Starchy People Getting Unstarched and Rumpled
• First Times, of anything, from positions to kinks, I like people trying out things

In general, I like narrative sex and a little plot with my porn. I love character introspection, character development, and relationship development through sex. For me, sex is both about the pleasure people can derive from each other and about the emotional connection that can be made. 

Everything is hotter when emotions are involved.

You can ignore everything that’s not to your liking or doesn’t inspire you. On to the fandom-specific stuff, YAY.

 

KING ARTHUR (2004)

Who I requested: Bors/Dagonet/Vanora

What I love about canon: I really love the whole Sarmatian Auxiliary to the Roman army angle of King Arthur. 15 years of fighting in a war that is not yours, in a country that isn’t yours, for a country that is not yours. I love the easy friendship between all the knights, but also how very different they look upon their time in Britain. So much drama and fucked-upness right there.

And the there’s this moment relatively early in the movie, when Vanora sings, and Bors and Dagonet share a look, and every time I get fucking emotional about it. 

And just, they just want to go home, but the Romans fuck them over, and then Dagonet sacrifices himself and I drown in tears.

I have a mighty need for the three of them to LIVE happily ever after. Fuck, they’d be hot, and awesome and glorious together.  I could see them having a V relationship with Vanora and Dagonet just being good friends, or a complete triad, I’m fine with either of those.

I love the obvious affection Bors feels for both Vanora and Dagonet, I love how Dagonet is this mountain of silent, but deep feelings, and I love how Vanora is possibly the only sensible person in that whole castle. 

Prompts:

I’d seriously love an Everybody Lives Canon Divergence, or a fic set before the movie. I’d rather avoid a fic set during the movie, because I’d rather not deal with Dagonet dying. DAGONET LIVES!!! 

• I have a theory that obviously Bors’ 12 children are at least 50% strays Dagonet picked up. I would love slice of life fic (in Britain or in Sarmatia) with the 3 of them dealing with the rearing of 12 children, seriously, kudos to you Vanora. 
• I’d really like to know more about Vanora in general. The possibilities are all so intriguing. What we know is that she’s kind and caring and raising 11 kids. Since she’s relatively young, I always assume a couple of those at least are adopted. She sings about Home and it’s implied she’s singing about Sarmatia, but since we don’t see any girls being displaced by the Romans, I think that she’s the daughter of a former Sarmatian knight with a British woman. Which I love because Culture Clash! And fuck it, a woman raising that many kids deserves two men to help her.
• There’s also Bors idea of settling in Britain, which I love, because again, culture clash, and also Bors is just such a soldier, the idea of him trying his hand at farming cracks me up. But I also imagine them all going back to Sarmatia, and like trying to settle in a life there that they lost a long time ago, because when you spent such a formative part of your youth away from your culture, it’s bound to feel alien. Speaking of Sarmatia, apparently they were known for having Warrior Women, so a fic where Vanora’s kind but bossy nature is what attracts them to her would be lovely. 
• I did love all the fighting scenes a lot, and angsty fic when someone gets wounded, and the other two comfort them, and each other would be delicious. I’d also love it if Vanora was the one being cared for. Basically fic where everyone takes care of everyone in a way that fits their personality would be awesome..
• This can all be established relationship, or them getting together, either with something already being there between two of them (Bors/Vanora, or Bors/Dagonet) and the third one balancing it all out. The Romancing and Seduction of one Silent Stoic Soldier called Dagonet, by means of Stray Children, Foul Language and Excellent Sex, a novel by Vanora, with annotations by Bors, would be excellent.
• A soulbond AU could be magnificent for these three, especially if the cultural differences between the three (with Bors and Dagonet from different Sarmatian tribes, and Vanora as a British woman) make for conflicts and misunderstandings. It’s be super cool if the Sarmatian tattoo practice could be incorporated in this.

Speaking of sex, yes to all the porn, seriously. Anything from my general porn likes would be amazing, but specifically for these three I’d love:

• OMG YOU/WE survived sex. With or without a touch of hurt/comfort. Can be quick and frantic and desperate, or slow with a touch of body worship (so many scars, so many battle wounds). Or both :D
• Pegging, because my answer to that will always be yes. I mean Bors is such an epicurist, I’m sure that once the fighting is open, they take their time to experiment a lot. 
• Sex in the outdoors! With all those kids running around, I can imagine them seeking privacy in the wilderness. Again, either in Britain or Sarmatia. 

All AUs would be awesome here, except for Modern AUs, I’m not generally a huge fan of those. Otherwise, anything goes really. 

 

Foreigner - CJ Cherryh

Who I requested: Algini/Tano 

What I love about the canon: Argh this series. I’ve loved it for a long time, because it’s so introspective and focuses so much on interspecies politics and social constructs and language. I love the politics, the machinations, EVERYTHING ABOUT THE ATEVI, the whole human/atevi interface, all the different kinds of human society.

But what does it most for me in these books is the evolution of Brens relationship with his Aishid. I cried when Tano hugged Bren when he left for Reunion. I cried so hard I had to stop reading when Algini first called Bren Aiji-ma (I was also seriously frustrated with Bren when he questioned Algini’s manchi in later books). Seriously, it’s all in little words and subtle gestures, and it gives me the biggest emotional punches ever. But that’s what’s on the page, the relationship between the atevi is very much left to the imagination and boy do I imagine. I ship these two like burning, ever since they became part of the aishid officially. I just can’t get enough. While I’d really like fic focused on these two, the Aishid as a whole is very much a thing I love, so if you feel like including Bren, Banichi and Jago, that’s very much okay.

Prompts: 

• I’m really interested in the general politics of Atevi relationships in general. Since there’s no children involved and they’re firmly in the same manchi, I’d love to read a take on how Atevi (same-sex) relationships work in that situation, and how that applies to Tano and Algini.
• I’d love to read their take on human relationships. Obviously they’ve got a somewhat skewed view on it, thanks to Bren and his lack of skill at human romantic relationships, but I’d love for them to compare their own relationship with what they understand how human relationships work.
• Any and all missing scenes from when the Aishid was split up. I'm especially interested in scenes about how Algini and Tano dealt with being so long apart from Bren during the Reunion plotline. Is this when they realized manchi had really formed, because it was strained with him being away? I imagine them seeking comfort with each other, and would find it utterly believable if this was when they started their Atevi equivalent of a romantic entanglement.
• Any and all scenes about their time before Bren. Scenes about their first meeting.  Did they fall in tune immediately or not? Training together, their first assignment together, or even apart. Algini first had (officially) manchii to Tano, I’d love a story that explores how that came to be.
• Algini is seriously such a mystery, anything about his youth, or rising in the Guilds ranking. How did Algini become who he was in the Guild? Guildmaster!Algini and the influence that has on his relationship with Tano. Can Guildmasters even have that kind of attachments?
• Likewise, Tano is the one of all Brens aishid, who still has a relationship with his family. I’d love a story that explores his history and how he came to be with the guild, and how two so different atevi, with such different personalities and background fit so well together. How does his family deal with Algini?

Yes to all the sex, obviously :p

• Any kind of Xeno porn, seriously. Knotting, Tentacles, Double Penetration. We know nothing about Atevi anatomy, so feel absolutely free to go absolutely wild.
• 'Fuck yeah, you're alive porn'. Hard and heavy and angsty, or more celebratory horny, or both. Can be combined with Hurt/comfort, either one being hurt in action, the partner taking care of them, and making them feel good through sex.
• First Time sex, as an outburst of manchii, or after a fraught violent confrontation that they both survived, or simply because they were bored the year in space and had a sort of friends with benefits situation. Who seduced who? How does Atevi seduction even work?
• Outdoors sex, because fuck it, the nature in these books is fucking great and wild, and deserves to be admired when bullets aren't flying around ones head.
• Making sex work in the space station, Atevi vs. cramped human spaces in space, the porn edition.
• Atevi Sex Toys and their creative use by two Guildsmen. In the same vein, all those belts and pockets on those Guild uniforms must have some other uses as well no?

 

Silverado

Who I requested: Emmett/Paden

Why I love the canon: If people mention Western or the Wild West, this is the movie I think of. I grew up on this movie, I must have watched it at least 50 times, probably more. Me and my brothers can still sing half of the score by head. I’ve recently fallen back in love with it, and it has been amazing to experience it as an adult. Mostly because I still loved it, but for various reasons. Except the hot men on horses doing awesome things, that factor hasn’t changed a bit. Although my favorite character is probably Stella, the Emmett/Paden relationship is what gets my fannish feelings flowing these days. It’s all in the subtle smiles and nods, there’s this immediate easiness between them that I love, and so much understanding of what drives them. And at least 90% of it is in body-language. Plus their awkward way of giving each other the green light to flirt with Hannah will always remain hilarious to me. 

I love all characters in this movie, so feel free to include anyone you want!

 

Prompts:

• The movie has such an open ending. Emmett drives off into the sunset, and Paden is Sheriff of Silverado, how do their paths cross again? Is it still easy between them, or is it somewhat strained because they still aren’t that great at actual dealing with their feelings?
• Speaking of not dealing with feelings, I wouldn’t mind fic about them having secret thrysts during Silverado, and just not dealing with the emotional part of any of it, until they’re actually parted. 
• Emmett, professional wanderer, traveling in and out of Paden’s bed through the years could also be amazing. Especially because it wouldn’t be easy to put down roots together in any case, period homophobia and everything. 
• I would honestly love a Pat Garrett/Billy The Kid type of situation, where Paden is hired to deal with Emmett, who has inadvertently pissed of the wrong people once more. I’m fine with Paden crossing over to Emmetts side, and leaving together in a dust cloud, preferable after dramatic yet understated declarations of love, or, and this is my ONE Character Death exception, with them both dieing together, still loving each other, still understanding each other, just accidentally at a different side of the conflict. The mutual respect and love and understanding is important with this one though, to compensate for them dieing.
• Basically I’d read anything that brings these two together again.

 As always, I’m definitely interested in some Cowboy Smut as well.

• Sneaking around for quickies here and there, always with the tension of being caught. In contrast leisurely, relaxed, taking-your time sex while they’re in the middle of nowhere would also be lovely.
• Seriously, sex in the outdoors is one of my biggest kinks, and the New Mexican vastness is pretty appealing to me.
• If they weren’t boning during the movie, I’m pretty sure that at some point in their friendship there’s just a combustion of Unresolved Sexual Tension. Since they’re both pretty quiet and calm people, I find that very intriguing, especially of how they would deal with the aftermath.
• Body Worship, especially of the scars I’m sure they’ve both amassed by now.

 

Iron Seas - Meljean Brook

Who I requested: Mina Wentworth/Rhys Trahaearn (Iron Seas)

Why I love the canon: Oh man. The Iron Seas is probably my favorite romance novel series out there. Just, the worldbuilding is so fucking amazing, I’ll never get over it. It’s the most interesting Alternate History I know, because it’s not only steampunk, it’s a complete rewrite of the world map, and all the politics that entails. And then there’s these two, falling in love (and saving EVERYONE), and doing the right thing, and fuck, my heart soars. I’ve read everything in this series, every short story and novella, every book, but I keep coming back to Mina and Rhys. I just really love the both of them right. Rhys with his terrible, terrible childhood, and his dedication to never be in that position again. I love his ruthlessness in that, because he translates it into ruthlessly caring for everyone he’s responsible for, and that’s just such so fucking awesome. I probably love Mina even more, with her ambition and drive and taking no-nonsense attitude. Her complex relationship with her family, even though she loves them like crazy. Her struggling with being so hated, and yet still, always being a good person. Mina is a queen.

Prompts: 

• I loved their time on the ship together. It felt really private and outside the world, like a bubble in time, and I loved that. So any moments set back then, or later trips when for whatever reason they take to the seas again. Rhys as a Captain vs. Rhys as the man has always been a very interesting juxtapunction to me, especially because I think he’s still learning to turn the Duke/Captain off in his relationship with Mina.
• The Accidental Baby Acquisition is basically canon, and I just want more of it. They’d be really unconvential parents, but they both love so strongly, I’m super into it.
• Rhys’ comment about being a Duke being just the same as being a Captain really struck me, and I’d love to read more about his piraty tendencies causing havock in Parliament, preferably with Mina both encouraging him and translating English life to him.
• More unexpected culture clashes. While I’m convinced Mina and Rhys can weather anything coming their way by now, I still think they’d have trouble with the occasional culture clash. Their frame of reference is just so vastly different, it’s bound to come up. I’d love to read about them having conflicts caused by this, and how they deal with it.

Definitely yes to alllllll the porn.

• Steampunk Sex Toys are canon, and they’re both the kind of people who like to make the other feel good, so they would so be open to try things out. Preferably not with toys made by Mina’s mother though. 
• They both have several sexual trauma’s, which doesn’t heal with some magical great sex. I’d love to see it come up again, and how they cope with that. 
• To combine the two somewhat, Pegging is so very much my thing, and I’m really into the fact that Rhys would probably love it, but also hate that it occasionally brings up really bad memories, and therefor has a complicated relationship with Pegging. But he wants it so much that he still asks Mina for it. Would be extra hot and awesome if it included safewording out at one point.

 

Star Wars

Who I requested: Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey THREESOMES IN SPACE

Why I love them: It was more or less love at first sight? I have no idea how I got attached so hard so quickly, but here we are, no regrets, just emotions. I love these three so much. All three of them are just so good and kind and nice and kind. I honestly think kindness is an underappreciated trait, and how often does it happen that 3 main characters are so obviously and openly kind? I HAVE FEELINGS. I love Finn and his drive to be safe, his drive to not be evil, and despite all his fears and being totally out of his depth being so incredibly brave, especially when it’s about people he cares about. Also the handholding. I love Rey for her little face of “Why would you care/ask?” every time that anyone is worried about her or shows even a sign of taking her wellbeing into account. I love her moral code, and how fast she’s willing to fight for those she considers hers. I love Poe’s dedication, and his obvious and genuine affection, and his willingness to go to bat for someone he has never met, simply because someone he likes asks him to. They’re all so much about doing the right thing, I can’t deal with them. And while I love Finn/Rey and Finn/Poe in their seperate ways, I honestly ship the three of them together a billion times more.

(I've read Before The Awakening, and the Shattered Empire Comics, so feel free to take any inspiration / info from that as well)

Prompts:

• What I love most about the Star Wars Movies in general, is that like half of the time they get totally sidetracked on random not war related shenanigans. Sandpeople here, kidnappings there, lets kill some Mafia crime-bosses and later almost get eaten by fuzzy teddybears. It’s also so randomly whimsicall, I love it. So any kind of random shenanigans while trying to save the Galaxy would be awesome. The more elaborate and complicated and so not related with the First Order problem at hand, the better.
• Any kind of Non-human culture type thing that makes them face their emotions and relationship. Especially if it involves Pretend Relationships, Aliens Made Us Do It (AND WE LOVED IT), or any of the other general tropes I listed at the top.
• While I like all the Poe - Relationship Guru fic out there, I also have a huuuuuuge soft spot for Poe - Disaster at Romantic Relationships, especially if Finn and Rey, while having less experience, having way less hang-ups and expectations, totally kick his ass at figuring things out and dealing with things. 
• I have a huge thing for two people seducing someone together.
• My biggest thing plotwise in Star Wars fic is definitely Stormtrooper Rebellion fic, so the three of them together being involved in the Stormtrooper Resistance would be glorious. 
• Accidental Baby Acquisition (especiialy when it's freed Stormtrooper in training kids), is something I also seriously enjoy and can't get enough of. 

Obviously I’m very much into smut here as well.

• Body Worship, seriously both Rey and Finn are both so touch-starved, they deserve all the body-worship. 
• I have a thing for Poe’s belly, especially in comparison with Finn and Rey, who are both really, really fit. So Poe being slightly insecure, and the others being fascinated by the difference and loving it.
• I’m not really into any of them being a virgin, but I’m super into First Times trying things, especially with the occasional awkwardness that involves. So figuring out how to have sex with three people, new sex-toys from all over the Galaxy, and other shenanigans.
• Not to repeat myself, but Pegging is definitely a thing I’d devour a billion fics of. Also, Rey would be awesome at it.
• Cultural clashes when it comes to sex, be it in expectations, experience, desires would also be really cool.

 

The OC.

Who I requested: Ryan/Taylor

Why I love the canon: The moment I saw these two were nominated I rewatched all their scenes together from the last season. Just, Taylor Townsend and her healing powers still get to me, all this time later. I always loved that they were very different and very differently broken people, who still managed to find common ground, and just started the healing process together. They made each other better people I think, which is all I want from my fictional relationships. Also, their whole relationship was genuinely funny, and A)we’re talking about Ryan here, and B)I think the OC needed that after all the Marissa drama. (Who for the record, I don’t dislike). They made me warm and fuzzy and hopeful. 

Prompts:

• Their time as students, long distance or just the occasional run-in. I don’t think they were together the entire time, especially with Taylor being in Paris, but I totally think they just can’t resist every time they meet again (and are both uninvolved).
• I'd also totally be okay with the Alternate Universe where they did go to Berkeley together, and how they dealt with that. 
• Them getting back together. I think it could have either gone really smooth and easy and organically, from a sort of friends with benefits situation, with neither of them really willing to risk taking it further, since this time it’s probably now or never. Or totally the opposite with long and savored UST that just explodes at some point, and fuck it the feelings are still there. And this time, they’re both in the right place at the right time together.
• I’d also be super into reading about their life together, and how they work together. First time living together, weird hang-ups that clash, and how they mesh their expectations with reality.
• In a similar vein, their first vacation together, especially if it’s Paris, could be a glorious thing.
• They’re both so bad at communicating, that I’d be super into reading about the ways they find to show their care and love and commitment together, that no one else really understands. 
• I love Taylor’s wild and quirky plans and hobbies, and while I think she’ll become calmer and more sure of herself by becoming older, I think she’ll keep getting interested and into a wide variety of things. I’d love to read about Ryan going along with her newest hobbies. Basically, at one point Taylor becomes an underwear designer for a hobby, and Ryan is her model. Ryan dealing with being a, while anonymous, still recognizable to him inspiration for many a Romantic Hero Taylor writes on the side. Other mad plans with surprising results.
• I love the whole paying it forward scenario at the ending of the series, and would love to read about Taylor dealing with having a second Ryan in the house, but also with the kid dealing with Taylor, and most of all I think bringing a kid like that home would have a huge impact on Ryan as well.

These two were always combustable together, and I like to think that continues until late in life.

• I love how in lust they were with one another, and I always thought it was why they worked despite all the misunderstandings, because they connected really well there. So give me all the make-up sex after stupid fights, christening their first place together sex, we graduated sex, let's celebrate all important moments in life sex, but also the i'm actually too tired but still horny sex, and lazy Sunday sex.
• I especially love that Taylor is the adventurous one of them and always up to try new things. I think once she's confident in her relationship with Ryan she'll get over the worry that Ryan thinks here too adventurous, and then they're on. I love trying new things smut, and I think they would laugh a lot together.
• I’m pretty much repeating myself but yes to all the Pegging, you know you want to, Taylor so totally does.