Jan. 9th, 2021 07:59 pm
Heavy Artillery Rare Pair Exchange Letter
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thrillingdetectivetalesHello there Rare Pairer!
First things first, thank you for participating! This is one of my favorite challenges to run and I'm so excited that more folks are finding it worthwhile. To make your life a little easier, I’ve compiled a couple of general lists of my favorite tropes and my DNW’s for easy perusal, with fandom-specific requests underneath. (If all of this sounds familiar, it's because I've found it's most effective to recycle the letters I've written for other challenges rather than writing new ones every time I sign up for a thing.)
Alright! Now let’s get on the fandom specific requests, shall we? I’m pretty open to whatever at the end of the day, so long as enough legwork/worldbuilding/character development has been done to make me believe that a certain scenario would actually happen, so feel free to use the below as guidelines more than strict rules, with the caveat being that I really don't like modern AUs for any HBO War stuff. Period AUs including magic or other tropes are fine.
Since I'm moderating this exchange, I will know who you are and you will (obviously) know who I am so please feel free to reach out to me with questions if you need clarification. There's no mystery for the wicked, I suppose, but I'm really looking forward to it anyway. Also, if you'd like to peek at any of the previous letters I've written for this and other exchanges (which will be more of the same you've seen here), you can check out my "letters to nonny" tag.
Happy writing!
-Tec
First things first, thank you for participating! This is one of my favorite challenges to run and I'm so excited that more folks are finding it worthwhile. To make your life a little easier, I’ve compiled a couple of general lists of my favorite tropes and my DNW’s for easy perusal, with fandom-specific requests underneath. (If all of this sounds familiar, it's because I've found it's most effective to recycle the letters I've written for other challenges rather than writing new ones every time I sign up for a thing.)
YES-PLEASES
- friends-to-lovers
- getting together fic
- didn’t know they were dating
- fake/pretend relationships
- werewolves/shapeshifter AUs
- soulmate AUs
- person questioning/figuring out their sexuality (whether vanilla “I never thought I wasn’t straight until now” all the way to “turns out I’m really into being sexually submissive in a very kinky way, who knew?”)
- building queer communities
- experienced characters showing inexperienced characters the ropes (metaphorically, or literally if you want to go the bondage route ;) )
- character wrestling with their sexuality/religion
- praise kink
- d/s dynamics (not TPE)
DO-NOT-WANTS
- major focus on character death
- non-canon/unrequested character death in general
- graphic depictions of torture/injury
- A/B/O
- pregnancy/mpreg
- non-canon child characters/kidfic
- scat/watersports
- slave!fic
- infidelity
- treating female characters as villains/ malicious hindrances to queer male romance
- infantilazation (including daddy kink)
- pedophilia
- explicit non-con/rape*
- vore
- fat-shaming
- degrading dirty talk (i.e.: "You're a filthy little slut" etc.)
- somnophilia/paralysis
- necrophilia
- modern AUs of period media
- on-screen gay bashing (mention of past incidents/recovery from is fine)
- human furniture
- leather kink
Most other stuff is fair game. If you have a question about a particular trope/kink/topic, I’m always open to answering questions.
*Dub-con, of the flavor where a character is unsure but willing to go with it, or like, sex-pollen/drunk/etc. variety is fine, so long as there's not explicit focus on someone feeling taken advantage of.
Alright! Now let’s get on the fandom specific requests, shall we? I’m pretty open to whatever at the end of the day, so long as enough legwork/worldbuilding/character development has been done to make me believe that a certain scenario would actually happen, so feel free to use the below as guidelines more than strict rules, with the caveat being that I really don't like modern AUs for any HBO War stuff. Period AUs including magic or other tropes are fine.
Ralph Spina/Eugene Roe or Ralph Spina/Babe Heffron: Honestly, Spina just needs more love in general. Would love to see he and Roe developing a relationship over the course of their medic training and dealing with the horrors of war, or Babe and Spina running into each other back in Philly and getting together. Just more Spina!
Don Malarkey/Joe Toye: Super here for post-war recovery fic on this one, but I'll take whatever! Would super love them getting together after the war. Canonically, Don has mentioned that he got a little drunk at least once and called Joe, though it was some years after they'd returned. What if it had happened sooner? And more often? And oops, now we're long-distance dating and we should probably try to get to the same physical location so we can consummate this bitch. Or maybe Don sees Joe's sensitive character and beefy shoulders and is hot for him right from the beginning.
Robert Leckie/Bud "Runner" Conley: Pre-canon shenanigans when they're in training! (Lord knows Leckie got up to enough.) Or maybe after the war, Runner comes to where Leckie is to say hi and hang for a bit and he just...never leaves. Double points, in the latter instance, for supportive Vera.
DeEtta Almon/Lena Riggi: Maybe they meet during some kind of crossover event pre-canon and have a sexy fling! Maybe they both go career military after the war is over and find each other that way! Maybe they're both out of the military but meet elsewhere and wind up bonding! I'm open to anything, really.
Sid Phillips/Eugene Sledge/Mary Houston Phillips: I don't know, I just have a lot of feelings about Mary helping Sid find himself when he gets back from the war and the two of them seeing Sledge struggle through much of the same shit and taking it upon themselves to try and help him, too, only to slowly realize over the course of time that they're dating and have been for a WHILE.
Since I'm moderating this exchange, I will know who you are and you will (obviously) know who I am so please feel free to reach out to me with questions if you need clarification. There's no mystery for the wicked, I suppose, but I'm really looking forward to it anyway. Also, if you'd like to peek at any of the previous letters I've written for this and other exchanges (which will be more of the same you've seen here), you can check out my "letters to nonny" tag.
Happy writing!
-Tec