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Fandom 5k 2019
Mar. 31st, 2019 13:26Hello, dear Fandom5k author!
I hope you're not too nervous. I'm a fairly easy recipient and tend to like most of the stuff I receive as long as my DNWs are avoided. If something looks confusing or you're just generally worried I might not like what you're writing, you can ask through a mod, but if I were you I wouldn't worry too much.
Most of the stuff I've put here is already in my sign-up. No surprise!DNWs or extra prompts here, just a few general notes about what kind of writing I like, so if you want to skip this you can.
ETA after sign-ups closed, before assignments went out: I'm also adding a few general notes about the genre tags, even when they're pretty self-explanatory and I'm not too hung up on using them in a single very specific way. Maybe they'll help?
DO NOT WANT:
noncon
character death
hopeless endings
porn without feelings
friends with benefits
hatesex
D/s dynamics
poly
daddy/mommy kink
age/size kink
humiliation
pregnancy
focus on kids or pets
AUs other than canon divergence
crossovers
in f/f hair braiding/brushing being a big thing
GENERAL LIKES AND PROMPTS:
Things I will always like, no matter the fandom
Canon-divergent AUs, forks in the road, what if X instead of Y, fix-its for unhappy endings
Angst and (mutual) pining
Hurt/comfort of any type and level, from minor wound tending to handling mind control situations, torture and PTSD
Internalized homophobia when it fits the canon (esp. if eventually learned/taught out of)
Having to share a space (anything from a single tiny sleeping bag to space shuttles to snowed-in cabins to whatever else you can think of - it's the 'I can't run away and ignore/hide my feelings oh no' that I adore)
Enemies/rivals having to work together and making a truce, temporary or otherwise
All the touching! From the tiniest of accidental (or "accidental") brushes to carrying someone wounded and having to unclothe them, helping out with difficult clothes/gear, dancing etc.
Undercover jobs from the sweetest "we have to fake being a couple" to the most painful "I must watch you get beaten up and can't do anything" (having to hurt the other doesn't work the same as having to watch, though I'd take both)
Time travel tropes of any kind in canons where it happens or is plausible: Groundhog day, traveling to the past/future and getting (temporarily) stuck there, time moving slower/faster than it does for others in a certain space, messages through time, altering history or future
First times (touches, dates, kisses, sex, arguments, anything first really)
Porn with feelings (friends: being able to express how they feel, enemies/rivals: realizing that oh no, it's more than simple lust)
PORN LIKES (M/M OR F/F): Anything vanilla is always ok, but also blindfolds, a bit of tying up or holding wrists, teasing and mild painplay (except genitalia, please). Everything from frottage to handjobs to penetration, or just coming before they even really begin. Not big on intercrural but I don't dislike it. Fine with rimming. Condoms optional. In m/m, lube or anything to replace it not optional. :D In f/f smut, tongue/fingers/sex toys/vaginal/anal are all delicious.
Unless specified I'm fine with either one being the top/bottom. I prefer touching and random interjections and pleads to long conversations during sex, and I'd like you to keep pet names like baby or honey to the absolute minimum (unless they're canonical).
OTHER FIC-RELATED INFO: I'm fine with any rating, from G to NC-17, and this goes for both sexual content and violence. I tend to prefer 3rd person POV, but 1st and 2nd person POVs aren't a problem if you feel the fic needs to be that way. Any tense goes. So basically, don't feel too restrained by stylistic choices. I'll read whatever you write. :) Well, I twitch at then/than, your/you're, there/their/they're, to/too mix-ups, the word villian, and misspelled character names. I can't help it.
GENRE TAGS:
Action/Adventure: Anyone going on adventures/road trips/missions/investigations/etc. is always loved. I see action here meaning that they do stuff instead of the fic being introspection, not that there should be fight scenes or car chases like it's an action movie.
Angst: Sadness, pining, wistfulness, however you want to interpret it. Maybe not all 5k words of it, but it can be a major part of it as long as the ending is hopeful (i.e. it doesn't include my DNW of hopeless endings).
AU - Canon Divergence: This is fairly broad to me. Episode tags, missing scenes, smaller changes in the canon (swapping two characters on missions, or a character choosing to take Road A instead of Road B, or X happens differently or not at all, etc.) that may have minor consequences or snowball into some major changes. If the canon is science fiction, I also view visits to mirror universes and alternate/parallel universes as a sort of canon divergence, as long as the other setting is similar and can be seen as "if X had happened, we'd have Y like they do here".
Canon-Style Plot - Freeform: If the style is good enough for the canon, it's good enough for me. Monsters of the week, ending up in peril again and again, solving a case and calling it a day, bleak and hopeless surroundings with glimpses of hope, whatever the canon is, sticking to a similar style is always good as long as it's not in my DNWs.
Character Development: Developing minor/less known characters, if they're been requested, is always welcome. Further developing already known characters, e.g. giving them more background, is also lovely.
Fix-it fic: If there's a death of my ship character, I'd like it to be fixed. If there's another bad/sad/miserable ending, I'd like it to be fixed. If a character chose something that means the ship never happened, I'd like it to be fixed so that it does. So very similar to canon divergence, really. If you see something broken there, I'd like a fix for it.
Getting Together: I'm always here for my ships getting together. I will never ever tire of it. It's often a part of what I love about books/movies/shows and it's what I'll always love about fics as well. It just makes me happy to see people find someone and get them.
Horror: I love it when my otherwise mundane shows do scary episodes where the characters wonder if they're hallucinating/going crazy/haunted/cursed even when the explanation usually isn't supernatural at all. I also love seeing horror elements in scifi or case-solving/mystery canons, so alien possessions in space, suddenly sentient objects, hauntings of people long passed, nightmares, telepathically forced horror scenes, Final Destination type "you shouldn't have survived so you're marked now" twists, etc. would be wonderful additions where I've tagged horror as a welcome tag. I don't want it everywhere but where I do I like it a lot.
(Just no "everyone dies the end" because that'd be my hopeless endings DNW and I'd be very unhappy. I'm also not into sexy tentacles, but tentacles can exist if they're someone's dinner.. or attached to a monster that just happens to have them but doesn't use them for anything sexual.)
Humor: Canon-typical humour is always wonderful. Banter and quips, snarky comments and well-meaning jabs, all that. But also upbeat stories and humorous prose and turns of phrase. If I've tagged it, then as long as it's not crack-level ridiculousness, I welcome it.
Hurt/Comfort: Fairly self-explanatory. I like all kinds of h/c, from physical to mental to emotional. So break their leg, torture them, leave them second-guessing their choices, make them witness the other being hurt, whatever hurt you choose it's good as long as there's also comfort.
Interpersonal Drama: If it has more than one person in it, and they interact and somehow need the other one to further the plot (so it's not both in isolation writing their diaries about themselves, never to even acknowledge the other exists), it's fine. It could be co-operation, it could be conflict, it could be anything.
Mystery/Procedural: Casefic is always lovely regardless of canon, and I love mysteries and solving them. I'm not into court drama, so maybe don't go into that part of the procedure a lot? Unless it's a weird alien court that makes absolutely no sense, but even then I'd rather not have 5k words of it.
scifi/fantasy: Fairly obvious. :D If it's scifi, I'll love more scifi in it. Same for fantasy. This is probably meant to be added to canons where it's not already canonical, but *shrug*. I added it anyway.
Smut: If it's not a mindless PWP, it's good. I don't require explicit smut with my ships but I do enjoy it a lot if the author likes to write it. So including this is fine if I've tagged it, but it doesn't mean I need it to be there. Fade to black or just ending the thing with a first kiss is equally cherished.
I think I explained all the tags I've used, but if I've left out some, sorry. If something needs further explanation or sounds like it's in conflict with a stated DNW, you can always ask through a mod. If you feel like you have a slightly different view on the tag or an idea that I haven't mentioned here, it's ok to use your own judgment. Do you think it fits the tag? Then it's probably fine. :)
FANDOMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
The Alienist [Laszlo Kreizler/John Moore]
Dark Matter (TV) [One | Derrick Moss/Three | Marcus Boone]
The Exorcist [Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne]
The Orville [Ed Mercer/Gordon Malloy, Kelly Grayson/Pria Lavesque]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien, Julian Bashir/Jake Sisko, Vic Fontaine/Nog, Jadzia Dax/Lenara Kahn]
Star Trek: Discovery [Hugh Culber/Ash Tyler, Christopher Pike/Ash Tyler, Christopher Pike/Spock]
The Terror [Thomas Jopson/Francis Crozier]
Making a note here that since some of these shows are similar (Deep Space 9, Discovery, Orville), feel free to poke around and see if one of them has something that inspires you in another fandom. I've also requested some of these before so there are more prompts in previous letters. My tastes haven't changed a lot, so as long as you keep to the current DNWs they should be mostly ok as well.
( Fandom-specific thoughts and prompts )
I hope you're not too nervous. I'm a fairly easy recipient and tend to like most of the stuff I receive as long as my DNWs are avoided. If something looks confusing or you're just generally worried I might not like what you're writing, you can ask through a mod, but if I were you I wouldn't worry too much.
Most of the stuff I've put here is already in my sign-up. No surprise!DNWs or extra prompts here, just a few general notes about what kind of writing I like, so if you want to skip this you can.
ETA after sign-ups closed, before assignments went out: I'm also adding a few general notes about the genre tags, even when they're pretty self-explanatory and I'm not too hung up on using them in a single very specific way. Maybe they'll help?
DO NOT WANT:
GENERAL LIKES AND PROMPTS:
Things I will always like, no matter the fandom
PORN LIKES (M/M OR F/F): Anything vanilla is always ok, but also blindfolds, a bit of tying up or holding wrists, teasing and mild painplay (except genitalia, please). Everything from frottage to handjobs to penetration, or just coming before they even really begin. Not big on intercrural but I don't dislike it. Fine with rimming. Condoms optional. In m/m, lube or anything to replace it not optional. :D In f/f smut, tongue/fingers/sex toys/vaginal/anal are all delicious.
Unless specified I'm fine with either one being the top/bottom. I prefer touching and random interjections and pleads to long conversations during sex, and I'd like you to keep pet names like baby or honey to the absolute minimum (unless they're canonical).
OTHER FIC-RELATED INFO: I'm fine with any rating, from G to NC-17, and this goes for both sexual content and violence. I tend to prefer 3rd person POV, but 1st and 2nd person POVs aren't a problem if you feel the fic needs to be that way. Any tense goes. So basically, don't feel too restrained by stylistic choices. I'll read whatever you write. :) Well, I twitch at then/than, your/you're, there/their/they're, to/too mix-ups, the word villian, and misspelled character names. I can't help it.
GENRE TAGS:
Action/Adventure: Anyone going on adventures/road trips/missions/investigations/etc. is always loved. I see action here meaning that they do stuff instead of the fic being introspection, not that there should be fight scenes or car chases like it's an action movie.
Angst: Sadness, pining, wistfulness, however you want to interpret it. Maybe not all 5k words of it, but it can be a major part of it as long as the ending is hopeful (i.e. it doesn't include my DNW of hopeless endings).
AU - Canon Divergence: This is fairly broad to me. Episode tags, missing scenes, smaller changes in the canon (swapping two characters on missions, or a character choosing to take Road A instead of Road B, or X happens differently or not at all, etc.) that may have minor consequences or snowball into some major changes. If the canon is science fiction, I also view visits to mirror universes and alternate/parallel universes as a sort of canon divergence, as long as the other setting is similar and can be seen as "if X had happened, we'd have Y like they do here".
Canon-Style Plot - Freeform: If the style is good enough for the canon, it's good enough for me. Monsters of the week, ending up in peril again and again, solving a case and calling it a day, bleak and hopeless surroundings with glimpses of hope, whatever the canon is, sticking to a similar style is always good as long as it's not in my DNWs.
Character Development: Developing minor/less known characters, if they're been requested, is always welcome. Further developing already known characters, e.g. giving them more background, is also lovely.
Fix-it fic: If there's a death of my ship character, I'd like it to be fixed. If there's another bad/sad/miserable ending, I'd like it to be fixed. If a character chose something that means the ship never happened, I'd like it to be fixed so that it does. So very similar to canon divergence, really. If you see something broken there, I'd like a fix for it.
Getting Together: I'm always here for my ships getting together. I will never ever tire of it. It's often a part of what I love about books/movies/shows and it's what I'll always love about fics as well. It just makes me happy to see people find someone and get them.
Horror: I love it when my otherwise mundane shows do scary episodes where the characters wonder if they're hallucinating/going crazy/haunted/cursed even when the explanation usually isn't supernatural at all. I also love seeing horror elements in scifi or case-solving/mystery canons, so alien possessions in space, suddenly sentient objects, hauntings of people long passed, nightmares, telepathically forced horror scenes, Final Destination type "you shouldn't have survived so you're marked now" twists, etc. would be wonderful additions where I've tagged horror as a welcome tag. I don't want it everywhere but where I do I like it a lot.
(Just no "everyone dies the end" because that'd be my hopeless endings DNW and I'd be very unhappy. I'm also not into sexy tentacles, but tentacles can exist if they're someone's dinner.. or attached to a monster that just happens to have them but doesn't use them for anything sexual.)
Humor: Canon-typical humour is always wonderful. Banter and quips, snarky comments and well-meaning jabs, all that. But also upbeat stories and humorous prose and turns of phrase. If I've tagged it, then as long as it's not crack-level ridiculousness, I welcome it.
Hurt/Comfort: Fairly self-explanatory. I like all kinds of h/c, from physical to mental to emotional. So break their leg, torture them, leave them second-guessing their choices, make them witness the other being hurt, whatever hurt you choose it's good as long as there's also comfort.
Interpersonal Drama: If it has more than one person in it, and they interact and somehow need the other one to further the plot (so it's not both in isolation writing their diaries about themselves, never to even acknowledge the other exists), it's fine. It could be co-operation, it could be conflict, it could be anything.
Mystery/Procedural: Casefic is always lovely regardless of canon, and I love mysteries and solving them. I'm not into court drama, so maybe don't go into that part of the procedure a lot? Unless it's a weird alien court that makes absolutely no sense, but even then I'd rather not have 5k words of it.
scifi/fantasy: Fairly obvious. :D If it's scifi, I'll love more scifi in it. Same for fantasy. This is probably meant to be added to canons where it's not already canonical, but *shrug*. I added it anyway.
Smut: If it's not a mindless PWP, it's good. I don't require explicit smut with my ships but I do enjoy it a lot if the author likes to write it. So including this is fine if I've tagged it, but it doesn't mean I need it to be there. Fade to black or just ending the thing with a first kiss is equally cherished.
I think I explained all the tags I've used, but if I've left out some, sorry. If something needs further explanation or sounds like it's in conflict with a stated DNW, you can always ask through a mod. If you feel like you have a slightly different view on the tag or an idea that I haven't mentioned here, it's ok to use your own judgment. Do you think it fits the tag? Then it's probably fine. :)
FANDOMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
The Alienist [Laszlo Kreizler/John Moore]
Dark Matter (TV) [One | Derrick Moss/Three | Marcus Boone]
The Exorcist [Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne]
The Orville [Ed Mercer/Gordon Malloy, Kelly Grayson/Pria Lavesque]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien, Julian Bashir/Jake Sisko, Vic Fontaine/Nog, Jadzia Dax/Lenara Kahn]
Star Trek: Discovery [Hugh Culber/Ash Tyler, Christopher Pike/Ash Tyler, Christopher Pike/Spock]
The Terror [Thomas Jopson/Francis Crozier]
Making a note here that since some of these shows are similar (Deep Space 9, Discovery, Orville), feel free to poke around and see if one of them has something that inspires you in another fandom. I've also requested some of these before so there are more prompts in previous letters. My tastes haven't changed a lot, so as long as you keep to the current DNWs they should be mostly ok as well.
( Fandom-specific thoughts and prompts )
