Pine4Pine

Dear Pine4Pine writer,

Hi! I want you to have fun. If fun for you is reading this entire letter and making mental notes to follow, go ahead (and I'm sorry?). If it's picking a like or two and running with your own idea that avoids my DNWs, do that. Chances are high I'll like whatever you come up with.

Freeforms scare me a bit so I don't often do exchanges with them. But pining! I love pining. Always have, always will. The longing, the wanting, the choice between going for it or staying away because of unwanted repercussions, the worry about being found out, the joy of being found out and having the feelings reciprocated, the decision to go for it because the risk feels worth taking. All those are things I like. Basically, if it has pining in it, I'm happy. The freeforms I chose aren't the only things I like but they're things I'm certain to like. So if you happened to match on several, that's great, but if you only matched on one that's definitely enough.

DNW:
- noncon/rape between ship characters
- death of ship characters (temporary, presumed or faked for angsty plot reasons are great)
- bestiality
- A/B/O
- D/s
- daddy/mommy kink
- focus on pets, kids or pregnancy
- scat, emetophilia, watersports
- recreational drug use (getting drugged as an act of violence is good)
- AUs that drastically change the setting (coffeeshops, college, band, etc.)
- underage (teens with teens is fine, otherwise 15-ish and up)
- unrequested poly or trans fic
- ship characters as asexual or aromantic

LIKES:
- canon divergence AUs, roads not taken, what-ifs, fix-its, break-its (that get fixed), showing glimpses of parallel realities Sliding Doors style
- missing scenes, reinterpreted scenes, post-canon, pre-canon meet cutes
- getting together
- friends or enemies to lovers
- unexpected feelings and struggling with feelings (incl. internalized homophobia if it fits the era/character)
- sexual tension and pining that gets resolved
- consensual incest
- older characters pining for younger ones (no grooming!) or vice versa thinking they wouldn't have a chance
- hurt/comfort (any type and any level for either)
- angst as long as there's hope by the end
- humour and banter
- working cases together (office, stakeout, business trip etc.)
- working undercover (that faked death mentioned as a non-DNW would work well here), concealed identity
- missions gone wrong (shooting, hostage situation, shuttle crash, getting caught, lost communication, caved in, stranded etc.)
- road trips, camping
- wilderness survival
- having to share a bed/motel room/cottage/tent/etc.
- "I had nowhere else to go" esp. with enemyships
- all kinds of accidental/deliberate touching
- watching the other sleep (touching's fine but I'm not into full somnophilia)
- first time doing something together (kiss, sex, visiting the other's place, meeting loved ones, fight, break-up that then gets fixed etc.)
- all imaginable time travel tropes (loops and groundhog days, visits to past or future, fixing things, getting stuck in wrong time, distorted pass of time, correspondence between people separated by time, anything really)
- visits to/from alternate universes, parallel dimensions
- elements of horror, haunted places, possessed items, ghosts, folklore being real, secret societies and cults
- for smut, I don't usually have a strong preference for who tops/bottoms (and in rare cases where I state a preference the other isn't a DNW), and I like most sex acts (anal regardless of gender, vaginal, handjobs, blowjobs, intercrural, fingering, pegging, rimming, sex toys or pervertables, condoms or barebacking, partly or fully clothed as well as naked)

Any POV, any tense, any rating (either for sexual content or violence). With a low rating, I'd still prefer it to not be pre-slash or shippy-if-you-squint.


The fandom sections vary in length but that's no indication of what I want more. I want them all. I just have more thoughts about some than I do about others.

Under the cut, in alphabetical order:

The Alienist: Laszlo Kreizler/John Schuyler Moore (Laszlo, John or both pining)
Original Work: Ghost Haunting An Estate/The Descendant of Love Interest Who Moves In (M/M) (ghost pining)
Person of Interest: Harold Finch/John Reese (Reese or both pining)
Pride & Prejudice: Charles Bingley/Fitzwillian Darcy (Bingley, Darcy or both pining)
The Terror: Francis Crozier/Thomas Jopson (Jopson pining)

( Freeforms, thoughts, and various prompts. )

My AO3 for possible treaters: Mimm