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Thank you very much for making something for me. I'm sure I will love everything that you generously choose to make. Thank you so much for offering to write/draw something in one of these fandoms. I am equally glad to receive fic and art.

General DNW: abuse, gratuitous violence, body horror, lack of consent, any sexual situations for characters not of age (on or off-screen).
I am particularly fond of squids and octopi and hope to see them happy and triumphant should they appear (i.e. DNW abuse & gratuitous violence definitely applies to squids and octopi; please mention major squid/octopus character death only if it's a case fic revolving around cephalopod murder mystery investigation and/or revenge).

General Likes: competence kink, loyalty kink, uniform kink, friendship, found family, pining/mutual pining, subordination & chain of command vs personal relationships & affection, adventure, falling in love, technobabble, sensory detail (sounds, smells, tastes, textures), nature, atmospheric settings, minutiae and trivia of professional life, unresolved sexual/romantic tension, eventually and exuberantly resolved tension, secret identity stuff.

Preferences: I'd prefer no works focusing on detailed descriptions of pregnancy & children, or with the A/B/O trope. I strongly prefer art with lower ratings; as for fic, wherever the muse takes you.

Art Specific: I enjoy different art styles, from minimalist line art to complex and complicated mosaic compositions and unusual angles, muted earthy colours and impression of sunlight, landscapes, portraits, and allusions. I generally like interpretations of themes like quests, journeys, transition, and liminal spaces; flight, freedom, lightness; reflection, self-improvement, love, generosity, symbols; visual art and statues, micro and macro spaces, and tactile exploration. (In terms of very visually specific things, I also like: cavernous landscapes, bodies of water, light accents, mammoths and dinosaurs.)

The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne Read on Gutenberg

1. Bill Beverley & Antony Gillingham (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
2. Bill Beverley & Antony Gillingham & Original Male Character (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
3. Bill Beverley/Antony Gillingham (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
4. Mark Ablett & Antony Gillingham (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
5. Mark Ablett & Bill Beverley (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
6. Mark Ablett/Antony Gillingham (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)
7. Mark Ablett/Bill Beverley (The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne)

This detective fiction is light-hearted, funny, and slashy. I like the jazzy lackadaisical atmosphere of the story, and how many characters read as experiencing many kinds of emotional attachment and sexual attraction regardless of social status, gender, or their in-character quirks & prejudices. Things I would love:
- pre-canon gen or shippy relationship backstory between Bill and Mark, Bill and Tony, Tony and Mark, or all of them;
- a backstory episode for Bill, Mark or Tony, highlighting/contextualising/reframing some character trait or fact from canon;
- Mark lives fix-it;
- post-canon Bill & Tony investigation, casefic or comedy of errors - another murder mystery or just any other dire sitch Gillingham & Beverly might get into;
- a character vignette or an episode told in a style of a different author (Wodehose, Forster, Heyer, Christie, Sutcliff, etc.);
- run-in with famous persons of the era (Noël Coward? Ivor Novello? Bright Young Things?);
- more upstairs/downstairs, downstairs POV on any relationship among Mark, Bill and Tony or individual behaviour;
- post-canon, Bill & Tony run into a police officer who is competent for a change, and there's a frisson between Tony and him, and Bill is jealous;
- terrible/awesome puns and intertextual Milne jokes, an OC called Winnie or the mystery involves a tiger or a kangaroo roaming some English estate;
- horse races, fox hunts, financial management and income, domesticity, banter, exasperation, happy endings.

Assassins (1995) Watch the "Who Can You Trust?" scene

1. Electra & Miguel Bain (Assassins (1995))
2. Electra & Robert Rath (Assassins (1995))
3. Miguel Bain & Electra & Robert Rath (Assassins (1995))
4. Miguel Bain & Nicolai Tashlinkov (Assassins (1995))
5. Miguel Bain/Robert Rath (Assassins (1995))
6. Robert Rath & Nicolai Tashlinkov (Assassins (1995))
7. Robert Rath/Nicolai Tashlinkov (Assassins (1995))

This action movie about rival hitmen with different temperaments, old wounds and new beginnings, agent mastermind with a grudge and BAMF McGyver conwoman with a cat is a wonderful, pleasant adventure. Things I would love:
- what exactly happened pre-canon and what was the relationship between Robert & Nicolai: their interpretations of each other's actions, attraction (one-sided or mutual), self-service & survival instinct vs. affections & ethics;
- how did Miguel compare to Robert in Nicolai's eyes, Nicolai using Miguel as Robert's surrogate;
- Miguel's hero-worship of Robert and how much Nicolai is responsible for that;
- what happens after and is Miguel really dead, did Robert not-kill him on purpose or by accident?
- post-canon 5 / 10 / 20 years later: who is back in business and how, and what other business can there be?
- does Electra eventually move on to a different, high-tech life of espionage given the rise of computer technologies?
- if Electra and Robert part ways, who gets Pearl the cat "in the divorce"? (and if it's many years post-canon and Pearl is dead of natural causes, do they have other cats named Pearl II, III, etc.?);
- more competence and heists; more chess and mind games; more sympathetic, tired, hypercompetent Robert; more sociopathic, validation-seeking, emotional Miguel; more green-minded tech-savvy cat lady recluse hacker Electra; backstories, possibly with a surprise twist (e.g. Nicolai is not Russian);
- wild AU that always tickled your fancy, prequel/sequel/sidequel about a particular character of your choice, crossover with some other Stallone or Banderas film.

Outcast - Rosemary Sutcliff Outcast Wiki | Text preview on GoogleBooks

1. Beric & Centurion headed to Dacia (Outcast)
2. Beric & Justinius & Justinius' Wife (Outcast)
3. Beric/Centurion headed to Dacia (Outcast)
4. Beric/Justinius/Justinius' Wife (Outcast)
5. Rhodope & Beric (Outcast)
6. Beric & Justinius (Outcast)
7. Beric/Jason (Outcast)

Perhaps the most ahistorical of Sutcliff's Roman novels with much hurt and little comfort, and hence I desire random historical (or vivid and life-like if pseudohistorical) trivia, much comfort, swashbuckling adventure, happiness, love, satisfaction and success for Beric. I am happy with all kinds of canon divergence AUs and playing fast and loose with the timeline; if Beric is romantically or sexually involved with someone, I want him to be of age. I am in general most curious about older, post-canon adult Beric, and the coming-of-age aspects I'm most interested in are possible mentor-protégé, master-apprentice dynamics (with Rhodope, Justinius, Justinius' wife or the Centurion who was headed to Dacia and didn't have money to buy Beric). Things I would love:
- post-canon/pre-canon lives & personalities of the Anonymous Centurion, Rhodope, Justinius, his wife, or Jason: what do they do, do they prosper or fail, what kind of hopes and dreams they have?
- Jason lives fix-it;
- canon-divergence AU where xenophobia and troubles in Dumnonia are eradicated, everyone there is misery-free and OOC and everything is fine: Beric's HEA in Dumnonia, meeting other characters in other circumstances and being BFFs, total utopia;
- the practical aspects of Justinius' marsh: what does Justinius do, his daily professional pursuits and economic concerns;
- canon-divergence AU where Beric grows up and, as a freedman, is successful, supports his patron Justinius in his professional endeavours, and has a consensual adult arrangement with Justinius and his wife: Beric's HEA with marsh drainage and menage a trois;
- bandits & robbers, Rhodope's outlaw shenanigans: canon-divergence AU where Rhodope takes Beric under her wing, Beric becomes a successful robber and helps slaves escape: Beric's HEA, Roman Robin Hood style (Justinius as his older helpful Maid Marian?);
- Dacia: anything about that young handsome centurion headed to Dacia who apologised for not being able to afford Beric - who is he, does he get to Dacia and is he okay?
- canon-divergence AU where the centurion does buy Beric after all, and they have an epic road trip, and there's bonding and eventual manumission: Beric's HEA as a freedman in Dacia;
- also: what is life like in Dacia, eventual Beric/Centurion, and maybe in this new life, Beric meets Jason anyway and Jason doesn't die.

Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff Frontier Wolf Wiki

Druim/Nuada

Two cool characters, there is a void there that can be filled in a myriad of ways. What is this fascinating undercover work Druim the Spymaster might be doing? What are his reconnaissance and intelligence gathering skills? Who is Nuada the wandering harper who brought the deadly marriage rumours from the hall of the Caledone king that Druim (apparently) dismissed? But Druim is the son of the chieftain of the Damnonii - is he secretly a deep undercover double agent of the tribes involved in plotting a revolt? (Or he isn't, but others think so?) Do Druim & Nuada know each other? Is there a backstory? A passionate tryst during the festivities? Is there an age difference (there must be a class difference since Druim is high-born), some sort of sensuous push & pull dynamic, torrid love affair? Is there a way to write a mysterious or swashbuckling fix-it to Nuada's assassination, please?

The Fugitives - Rosemary Sutcliff

1. The Fugitive & Lucian
2. The Centurion & Lucian
3. The Centurion & The Fugitive
4. Pilus Prior & Marcipor
5. The Centurion/The Fugitive
6. Pilus Prior/Marcipor
7. The Centurion/Pilus Prior

It's a tiny slice-of-life short story with limited POV of young disabled Lucian, son of the Pilus Prior, who unwittingly helps a deserter - and the deserter might be having a change of heart regarding the legions after all. I love it immensely. Such huge potential; the premise could be turned into so many different romance tales and the limited POV and ample opportunity for prequels and sequels allow pretty much any reframing and any extra spin or between-the-lines reading. I'm curious about all the variations:
- We do not know most of the characters' names or backstories; what are they? We do not even know where this takes place - Britain? Spain? Gaul?
- What's the backstory of the young and dashing Centurion?
- What's in the Fugitive's past, and what are the immediate consequences of his choice? Or does he change his mind and not follow through on surrender?
- Did the Fugitive have a more personal relationship with the Centurion looking for him?
- What about Pilus Prior and his body-slave Marcipor, do they live in each other's pockets like a married couple?
- What happens ten years (or more) later, when Lucian grows up: who does he become, what is his profession of choice, if any, and what is he like as a person? (Perhaps a reunion between Centurion & Lucian or Fugitive & Lucian or Centurion & Fugitive in the future, so that they see if/how one changed the life of the other, with added richness of character development and events.)
- What if the Fugitive returns to the auxilia and has an affair with the Centurion? Or he doesn't, but they still have an affair, with secret identity tropes?
- What if the Centurion, advancing his career, has close contact with the Pilus Prior (and is secretly in love and embarrassed, because it's so un-Roman to find an older man hot)?
- What if [insert plot device/trope/joke/etc.] of your choice? :)

Hornblower - C. S. Forester Hornblower Wiki

Horatio Hornblower/Hotspur

I am intrigued by the fantastical opportunities this pairing offers. Who or what is Hotspur? Is it anthropomorphic? Is it gendered? If so, is it a female-identifying ship HMS Hotspur because in English a ship is a she, or is it a male-identifying ship because of [insert deus ex machina]? Is it a ghost - of a captain or midshipman past who once sailed on it and now inhabits it as a guardian spirit? Is it a dragon - in a matryoshka doll of intertextuality and AUs of AUs: is it a Temeraire world and Hotspur is a dragon and Horatio his companion? Is it a sentient ship (kind of like an AI/space pilot trope, but with Age of Sail)? Are sentient ships normal? How do they love each other? How do they have sex, what is the difference, how each experiences it and how do both have a good time?

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) Lady Barbara is engaged

William Bush & Barbara Wellesley (Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951))
William Bush/Horatio Hornblower/Barbara Wellesley (Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951))

Things I would love: overwhelming sensory detail, vastness of the sea, minutiae and trivia of sea-faring, close quarters, heavy breathing, fleeting touches, sexual tension vs manners and propriety. Bush and Lady Barbara developing a rapport of mutual respect and attraction; eager, frustrated but restrained Hornblower pining for both of them in different ways; hurt & comfort; keeping up appearances and a mutually beneficial and satisfying menage a trois; descriptions of period clothing & uniforms coming on and off; allusions to 18th century libertinism in the motivations of the characters, being comfortable in their sexuality and preferred acts, etc.

Hornblower (TV) The Frogs and the Lobsters

1. Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy (Hornblower (TV))
2. Horatio Hornblower/Edward Pellew (Hornblower (TV))
3. William Bush/Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower (TV))
4. William Bush/Archie Kennedy (Hornblower (TV))

Whichever it is, either or all of the pairings, I just want everyone at least moderately happy, not actively miserable/disgraced, or about to die. Canon divergences, fix-its and wild AUs of all sorts are also appreciated (add merpeople, dragons, sentient ships, wings, atavistic tails or underwater utopia if necessary). Things I would enjoy: descriptions of everyday service, life at sea, flora & fauna, hopes & dreams, ambition & obstacles; hurt/comfort, mutual but repressed passion, loyalty, friendship, finding the odd or conventionally unattractive/funny aspects of another's physique endearing or attractive; common interests and common pastimes as surrogate for intimacy, and when both parties are emotionally tender with each other and both enjoy vigorous, strenuous, physically exerting sexual behaviours; swashbuckling cloak-and-dagger intrigue on land; support & love all around.

Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian Compendium

Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin (Aubrey-Maturin Series - O'Brian)

The sentiment between these two characters is always so genuine that no matter how surreal, supernatural or strange the circumstances, they fit and their affection shines through. Things I would enjoy: descriptions of life at sea, maritime adventures, ocean flora and fauna; classic fantastical conventions like time travel, bodyswap, magical amnesia, magical helpers, supernatural elements and beings, arranged marriage, huddling for warmth in a cave etc.; vignettes in the style of a different author - Jack & Stephen in a Heyer story, a Jane Austen story, or a typical 18th century erotic novel; or Jack & Stephen as seen by an OC who could've been conceived by Heyer/Austen/Lovecraft/author of your choice; canonical vignettes or canon divergence retellings & AUs: feel free to abandon realism in favour of full throttle Jules Verne, parallel realities, wings, man-eating lemur monsters, or atavistic tails, I will love it.

Original Work

Swashbuckling Adventure - Marine Romance

1690s Caribbean Buccaneer/1790s Hindostan Pirate

Either of them can be man or woman, younger or older; the time-travel mechanism can be detailed and the focus of the story, or handwaved. whoever gets displaced, I'm sure they bond over their hatred for the British Navy. How do they communicate if the buccaneer speaks French and the pirate Urdu or Tamil or any of the other languages of the Indian sub-continent? What are their respective backstories, what skills do they share, what do they admire about each other, and what swashbuckling adventure do they end up in? I want intense swashbuckling atmosphere, something like this Bollywood pirate film Thugs of Hindostan.

Captive Male Admiral of Enemy Country/Man in Charge of His Captivity

Some cape-and-sword historical-ish AU setting with any flavour, simmering with pent-up emotions of Duty, Dignity, and Desperate UST. The supercompetent admiral torn between futility of war, incompetence of command, and his position; as well as the general epic cock-up that led to him being captive, what a disgrace. (Maybe it was an exchange of hostages, a ransom for a high ranking noble or a deus ex machina, hand-wave or world-build at will). Someone is in charge of his captivity. What is their relationship on the surface and deep down? Is it all cold and polite and befitting the captive's high status? Is it pretend antagonism for the sake of keeping up appearances, or genuine friendliness between equals? Is the man a diplomat, a military person, a nobleman, or someone else who oversees the admiral's presence in enemy territory? Do they fancy him terribly? secretly or openly? Do they despise him for getting captured or admire him for his illustrious career (or for his integrity)? The admiral thinks about his life, what awaits him if he is ever sent back home, and if he isn't. The man in charge of his captivity is all torn between Cunning and Candour as he does his job but also has feelings and the world is trying to tell him something in the midst of an existential crisis filled with UST. The two of them playing mind-games and table games with each other, both having fallen for each other's character and principles but they cannot consummate because of how unsavoury the situation is, the power imbalance and the politics. One-sided pining, mutual pining, service vs. ethics, and everyone being very noble, stoic and polite.

Swashbuckling Adventure - Urban Intrigue

Recently Widowed Young Duke/Impulsive Male Trade Union Leader

Some Ruritanian setting, cultural & class differences with a dash of Renaissance, Early Modern Era or Age of Enlightenment, industrialisation & labour rights thrown in, with HEA love peace and understanding. Historical, pseudohistorical, or reality-diverging fantasy combining elements from different cultures or historical periods (they all ride deer instead of horses; nobility has to study at universities and get degrees in Playing Backgammon and Organic Chemistry; they look like snakes - and IN SPACE; but everything is still kind of courtly and cape-and-sword-y). Pent-up emotions, competence, UST, mésalliance, overcoming differences, working towards a common goal. Perhaps the duke is very smitten and the trade union leader is older than him, and there is duty, dignity and bridging the gap.

Aging Male Operetta Singer/Recently Widowed Young Duke
Aging Male Operetta Singer/Male Light Designer Who Makes Him Look Divine

Historical, handwavy pseudohistorical Belle Époque or fantastical setting with a cheerfully flamboyant atmosphere. The aging operetta singer is bemoaning the passage of time, beauty being past the first blush of youth and voice not quite on the star level. But he has knowledge, savoir-faire, experience, and a sense of everyday wisdom, and can be very much loved, even though he has a reputation for being *[choose as you see fit: vapid, cunning, easy, malicious, etc: this can all be true or false]. I'm happy with either of the two operetta-related ships, or both; motifs of love, masks, allusions to real or imaginary operettas ("L'amour masqué"?). The widower duke is getting on with life, juggling responsibilities beyond his skillset but trying to improve - and also being smitten by an older man and succumbing to Mischief and Mésalliance. Maybe the duke needs a scandalous official lover/spouse for a reason and the singer obliges, but then feelings. Or the light designer is very fond of the tempestuous aging second-rate diva singer and uses all his skills to highlight their assets (or it's the singer that teaches the inept designer the best light techniques and they bond?).

Swashbuckling Adventure - Cape & Sword

King Looking for Loophole to Get Rid of Head of Council/Cunning Male Head of Royal Council

Historical, Ruritanian or vaguely fantasy setting with a focus on court politics & oddities, duels, secret missives and palace corridors, intrigue, factions and nobility squabbles. I'd be thrilled with any variation of the dynamic and law systems & political philosophies adopted in the country in question - existing or imaginary. Maybe the King is middle-aged and was hoping to push his agenda now that the extremely elderly old head of council is dead - but no, he is replaced by a new young and cunning, politically radical Head of Council who is an even bigger pain. Maybe the fairly young King is under the influence of his lackadaisical clique of feckless young nobility and older Head of Council thwarts his idiocy... or is the King faking dimness as part of a master plan? Is the King actually a foreign prince, recently invited to take over on the grounds of blood relations because the local dynasty suddenly died of some plague and the local nobles couldn't decide what to do? Does this King of foreign origin suspect the Head of Council of treason or poisoning, or of excess loyalty to the dead dynasty and personal hatred for the new King? Are the King and Head of Council distant cousins? Is the Head of Council's family next in line to the throne and the King worries he'll send him to an early grave? Is there really treason? Does Head of Council control some sort of secret service? Is the King secretly financing the opposition he publicly denounces, all in hopes to topple the Head of Council? Will the King marry the Head of Council to force him to resign, and if so, will it work? (Will the Head of Council refuse the King to keep his power, and break the royal heart?) Something bright, reflecting the character's layers and the atmosphere, if only in broad strokes, shall delight me.

Female Aristocrat/Her Right-Hand Woman

Pseudohistorical fantasy setting of any flavour, comedic or serious, with secret letters, bird post, cloaks & daggers, courtly intrigue and really petty but grand nobility squabbles (e.g. a long feud between courtiers over whose eulogy won the poetic competition at the wake of the queen's niece; losing one's own economically prosperous province over someone else's bankrupt but historically prestigious estate; trying to advantageously marry off younger relatives while upstaging neighbours while stealing the best potential spouses from other neighbours; competing over who builds the best sewage or aqueduct system in their province, etc.). The female aristocrat having a Reputation for something, deserved or otherwise (Machiavelli cunning, or holier than thou, or handsome but dim - some sort of public persona). The right-hand woman being a trickster character or a brooding silent type, or someone with a secret Zorro persona (either harrying the aristocrat's enemies or herself - minion by day, prankster by night).

Partnerships & Workplace Relationships

Older Level-Headed Male Airplane Pilot/Younger Risk-Taking Male Airplane Co-Pilot

Contemporary, futuristic, retro-futuristic or generally handwavy setting with appropriate details and trivia: love is in the air, monsters are in the air, timeloops, wormholes, spilled coffee, life-long learning, perpetual pining, etc. What are their respective backstories, what skills do they share, what do they admire about each other? Is the younger pilot being smitten by the older pilot's competence and technical nuance, or the older pilot intrigued by the skills and instincts of the younger one? Flying together, performing a task together, overcoming differences and some mundane obstacles (airport gossip, inability to have sex in the pilot cabin because everything is recorded, etc.).

Female Cop Skeptical About Androids/Female-Identifying Android Who's Been Assigned as Her Partner

Sci-fi, solarpunk, retrofuturistic, space opera or alternate history handwave, or some parallel universe with different natural laws. Fish out of water situations (the human cop transferred to an android-only department?), initial mutual antagonism, bond over their profession, commitment, and work together on some task (minor crisis or major life threatening situation), with extra UST, attraction, overcoming arrogance and adjusting to different approaches and figuring out best practices. Vivid world-building details (slang, slurs androids have for humans, odd types of crime, eco-environment and occupational safety); different ways androids experience pleasure/sex vs humans and how both can show each other a good time.

Superheroes & Supervillains

Notorious Supervillain/Rookie Male Superhero They Go Easy On
Male Superhero Turned Supervillain/Male Supervillain Turned Superhero
Supervillain/His Supervillain Rival/The Exasperated Superhero They're Fighting Over (M/M/M)
Civilian Secretly a Supervillain (Male)/Superhero (Male)

Some sort of vivid setting in broad strokes (Ancient Egypt, but it's the future with aliens, solarpunk and also mermaids, cyberfuture, space opera, etc.) where superheroes/villains/quasimythological demigod figures with technomagical functions of performing feats of endurance are normalised. Maybe the nature of who is a hero and who is a villain is ambiguous (e.g. the supervillains steal and distribute vaccines against a Scary Plague of the Future and superheroes are law enforcement of the Big Pharma Empire controlling access to vaccines; superheroes are generated by a program that also develops ways to bring back dinosaurs en masse everywhere, supervillains think dino-infestation is Not A Good Idea, etc.). Wiliness, quirkiness, dashiness and swashbuckliness; seeing eye to eye but being on different sides, ideology vs affection, ethics over affiliation, etc.; secret identity, sexual tension, clothed caresses, etc.

Mood theme of the day: THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - MIRACLE ALIGNER