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carmillaHi! Thank you for making something for me. That automatically means you're awesome :) I promise I am super easy to please. If you want to ignore the contents of this letter and just write whatever first sprang into your head, please do that. This also applies to the prompts in my sign up- they're there for if you find it helpful to have a jumping off point, but if you'd rather write a plot that has nothing to do with them I'll be equally delighted to read it. The following is a ramble on me and my tastes for if you like that kind of thing, but it's totally skippable.
Also want to note here that while I've only requested fic, I'm open to (and would be delighted by) treats in any medium.
AO3 name: Carmilla
General likes
Story/trope likes:
- fairy tales or mythology
- characters telling each other stories
- unreliable narrators
- plot change AUs branching from any point in canon
- setting change AUs: sci fi settings, fantasy settings, BDSMverse, omegaverse, etc.
- fusions: sedoretu, everyone now has a His Dark Materials daemon, etc.
- time travel
- Groundhog Day plots (a character is stuck in a period of time that repeats)
- Peggy Sue plots (a character goes back in time and changes things for the better)
- soul mates
- soul marks
- soul bonding
- people who really enjoy working together
- people who hate working together but grudgingly respect each other
- competence porn (characters being really damn good at just about anything)
- casefic
- identity porn (playing around with the interactions of a character's multiple personas)
- complicated friendships (complicated by jealousy, turbulent history, UST, or anything else)
- complicated rivalries (ditto)
- loyalty kink (one character's biggest drive is their loyalty to another)
- slow burn
- mutual pining
- May/December romances
- December/December romances
- friends to lovers
- enemies to friends to lovers
- arranged marriages
- discussions/negotiations over how a relationship works
- open relationships
- sexual tension, especially when it's resolved happily
- unconventional romantic gestures
- last minute out-of-the-left-field happy endings
- fannish cliches (huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple, One Bed What Do, etc....)
I like all kinds of stories. Just-like-canon plots, wild canon divergences, plotless relationship fluff, PWPs, missing scenes, casefics - they're all great! Lots of different writing styles work for me, from perfectly straightforward prose to just-like-the-source to the more experimental. I'm happy with things like first or second person POV, epistolatory stories, or unusual formats like interactive fiction if that's what you want to write.
I'm always open to canon divergence - 'How the whole universe would change if this one interaction went differently' is one of my favourite plots and I'll happily read a million variations on it. I'm also open to big, setting-changing AUs whether or not I've requested them, with the caveat that for AUs that change the canon setting, my preference is for things that make the world more rather than less 'genre', eg. I enjoy AUs that add magic to a non-magical universe or change a modern setting to a historical or sci fi one, but not the reverse. For soul mates(/marks/bonding), omegaverse and BDSM universe AUs, I enjoy them both played straight and with a twist (how two omegas make it work in bed, the epic love story of two definitely-not-soulmates, etc). I enjoy fusion-type stories like HDM/daemon AUs, sedoretu AUs or Pacific Rim AUs - if you want to do a fusion with a canon I might not have heard of that's absolutely fine too, provided I don't need to know anything about the canon to read your story.
Smut likes
- discussions/negotiations about sex and/or kink (before, during and/or after it happens)
- sex that is messy and/or awkward but also fun
- sensual details (how things feel, taste, smell etc)
- the opposite of slow burn; that thing where the characters are talking about/doing something totally unrelated and then there's a sudden moment of chemistry and boom! sex is happening right now
- xeno elements, particularly characters figuring out how to have mutually satisfying sex when their erogenous zones/general conception of what sex is are very different
- ritual sex/sex magic
- touch starvation
- phone sex/sexting (or fandom appropriate equivalents)
- partially clothed sex
- threesomes/moresomes
- service topping
- bondage
- temperature play
- nipple play
- spanking/impact play
- cock spanking
- orgasm control (not denial)
- roleplay
- dirty talk
- praise kink
- sex toys
- joyful, enthusiastic submission
- joyful, enthusiastic sadism
When it comes to smut, please don't feel penned in by my likes; I read fairly widely outside my own kinks and pretty much anything will do it for me if you convince me it turns the characters on. I tend to be more focused on the emotional impact - is it a beautiful display of trust? Brain meltingly cathartic? Maddeningly unhelpful in determining whether they're really in love or not? - than the specifics of what they do, even if that's on the rarer/more extreme side. If you get inspired to write me, say, consensual nonconsent, or pet play, or watersports, or heavy pain play, or consentacles, or anything else that doesn't fall under my DNWs, please go ahead and write me the fic of your heart.
I am very happy to read kink without a sexual element, especially Dom/sub, painplay and/or impact play. I think this is lovely in a romantic context, and absolutely scorching hot in a context where the characters will eventually get together romantically but haven't yet realised that they want to.
This also seems like the place to note that while I absolutely adore sexual/kink negotiation (seriously, I will gleefully read a whole fic of just the negotiation without the sex afterwards), I like it as something fun and sexy, not something to be ticked off a checklist before the characters are allowed to get it on. I like negotiation to be appropriate to the setting (no Victorians talking about keeping things safe, sane and consensual, please!) and to what the characters are doing (a safeword is a specific safety tool, not a magic spell that makes kinky sex okay when it wasn't before). And if you feel like the characters wouldn't negotiate, by all means, write it that way! I am very happy to read spontaneous, un- or under-negotiated sex or kink provided the characters involved are having a good time.
General dislikes/DNW clarifications
If I've asked for no miserable endings, I am up for angst or unhappiness during a story, and I don't need things to end on an unambiguously positive note. It's very bleak endings that I usually don't like - some hope or bittersweetness makes even tragedy play better for me.
If I've DNW'd noncon I'm still happy with light, cliche-driven dubcon, like sex pollen, heats, or sex to maintain an undercover identity. The key for me is that the characters are really into everything that's happening - provided they are, I don't mind scenarios that would be questionable wrt their ability to consent in real life. A character having sex that they don't actually want is what crosses the line into DNW for me.
I have squicks around characters' former love interests or relationships being brought up if the sole reason is to portray them as not real love or inferior to their current love interest/relationship. I find heavy romantic jealousy or possessiveness a turn off ("I wish you looked at me the way you look at Character X who you hero worship" is fine; "I want to kill everyone else you've ever touched" makes me want to run screaming, unless it's being said by the bad guy). I also like open relationships, OT3s, etc. None of this means I'm unhappy to see characters in exclusive relationships - I love to read monogamous happily ever afters just as much as polyamorous ones.
I don't DNW racism, sexism and various other prejudices; however, I'd always prefer to see them driving a plot point/confrontation/etc. rather than thrown in as set dressing. Likewise I don't mind seeing internalised homophobia, misogyny and the like, but I'd prefer that to be something a character is coping with/improving about slowly over the course of the story rather than a static part of their personality.
Copy of sign up prompts:
The Persuaders! Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde
I just adore Brett and Danny and all that ambiguous 70s sexual energy the show is soaked in. I love that they flirt with each other and flirt with women together and separately and go on double dates. I like that they're occasionally competitive with each other but never really *jealous*. I can't get enough of the way they can't stop touching each other for two minutes together. I can absolutely see them as a true-love-and-happily-ever-after type pairing, but I'd also be excited to see something looser and more ambiguous - I just want them to be close and enjoy each other.
I am open to treats.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
case fic: - that time they saved the Houses of Parliament from being blown up
- that time one of them got arrested and the other one had to clear his name
- that time they had to go undercover as Hollywood film stars
- that time they were just going on holiday and had to interrupt it to save the world;
clothes shopping together;
a night on the town;
them trying to teach each other things they both think they're an expert on (drinks mixing, martial arts, manners, flirting....)
a prank war;
romantic comedy shenanigans: - one of them keeps trying to proposition the other, who keeps misunderstanding
- one of them asks the other for seduction advice, planning to use it on him
- a disastrous first date that nevertheless ends happily
- every time they try to confess and/or have sex they get interrupted by a terrorist plot
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairings breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- requested characters dying (other canon characters or original characters dying is fine)
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story (disabled characters, including AUs where requested characters became disabled before the story starts, are fine)
- hurt/no comfort
- miserable ending
- modern AUs
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
The Limehouse Golem, George Flood/John Kildare
I love this film so much, for its gothic, brooding atmosphere, the fun bits of period detail and appearances by real life figures, and perhaps more than anything because it gave me two gay leads seemingly just for the hell of it. I really enjoy the spiky, respectful and layered relationship that builds between them - how Flood looks up to Kildare and identifies with him, but at the same time really doesn't want to be where he is in twenty years, and how Kildare mentors Flood and expects the best out of him and *totally misses* all that respect and identification unless it's thrown in his face. I love Flood's solid practicality contrasted with Kildare, who seems both more sensitive and more cerebral. I'm fascinated by how Kildare is clearly so lonely and so badly in need of friends but instinctively pushes away Flood's overtures.
And oh goodness, how much do I love the pub scene? Flood just casually making a little bid for intimacy, and how what he thinks is a harmless joke is clearly deeply painful territory for Kildare. It speaks so much to their differing experiences: how Flood has evidently lived the kind of queer life where he feels safe referring to it provided he picks his audience, whereas Kildare very much Has Not. I'm into every level of "I'm on your side" as a coming out statement; including the level where Flood thinks him coming out ought to make them understand each other but for Kildare it's more complicated than that.
Any romantic story for them would be wonderful; I'd particularly love anything that picks up on that contrast between them and shows how they bridge the gap between Flood's openness and Kildare's guardedness and obvious fear of being seen as predatory. If it's your thing I'd also happily read Kildare/Flood/Flood's boyfriend from the end of the film.
I am open to treats.
Prompts:
first time;
Flood setting out to become a bigger part of Kildare's life;
is there anything that would get Kildare to make the first move on Flood, rather than vice versa?;
any get-the-procedural-partners-together trope (I don't know how you'd do, say, undercover as a couple in this setting but I'd love to see it!);
casefic - either another murder/serial killer case or how they work together on something more mundane and low stakes;
eldritch horror AU! their next grotesque case really doesn't have a logical explanation;
Kildare telling Flood what really happened with the Golem, or just opening up to him about anything;
what they were up to while Jack the Ripper was happening
DNW:
- explicit noncon (offscreen sexual violence as part of a case is okay)
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairings breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- requested characters dying (other canon characters or original characters dying is fine)
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story (disabled characters, including AUs where requested characters became disabled before the story starts, are fine)
- hurt/no comfort
- modern AUs
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- homophobia-free world AUs
- miserable ending
A note on period homophobia: I'd prefer homophobia not to be the focus of the story, but I'm fine with it being present. I'm not really interested in Kildare and Flood coming out to all and sundry and telling the homophobes to go fuck themselves, because that's too anachronistic for me, but plenty of gay people in this period managed to have fulfilling (if somewhat constrained) romantic lives, so I don't need them to face a constant stream of abuse in the cause of historical realism either. If you want to focus the story elsewhere and not bring homophobia up, that's cool; if you want to deal with it as part of the setting, that's cool too. The only thing I really don't want is them living in a world that's identical to Victorian England except that homophobia doesn't exist.
Matthew Mercer/Brennan Lee Mulligan
I love these two, their slightly manic theatre kid energy, the way they clearly have so much respect for each others' skills as both DMs and players, the way they love immersing themselves in and adding to each others' universes. Just the way they look at each other with glee in their eyes makes me so happy.
Critical Role and Dropout are generally fun escapist fandoms for me, so I'd prefer nothing too heavy or angsty here. When it comes to their real life partners, I don't mind whether you write them as being in open relationships, go for a no-partners AU, or just don't mention them one way or the other. I don't want cheating though.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
sexy shenanigans in the Bathroom of Practicing Voices;
them roleplaying as their various hot villains for each other;
a romantic gesture conveyed at the tabletop;
fantasy AU! maybe Matt is a knight and Brennan is his squire, or Brennan is a lord and Matt is his wizardly advisor;
isekai AU! they get sucked into one of their own games and have to work together to escape.
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairing breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- character death
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story
- hurt/no comfort
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- miserable ending
British Comedy RPF, Steve Pemberton/Reece Shearsmith
I've fallen head over heels for this pairing in the last couple of months, so really anything at all about them would make me happy. I love their incredibly enduring friendship and creative partnership (more than thirty years!). I'm obsessed with the way they repeatedly say they never think about performing their material while they're writing it; how *do* they feel, when it's time to perform it and suddenly they're making out/slapping each other/pretending to have sex/playing an incestuous mother and son? I love how totally comfortable they are together as performers, how it seems like there's no such thing as going too far for them. And I adore their off-screen dynamic, how Reece needles Steve and Steve bosses Reece around but under it there's obviously an endless well of love for each other and respect for each others' work.
As with my other RPF request I don't mind whether you write them as being in open relationships, go for a no-partners AU, or just don't mention their real life partners at all. I'd rather not see cheating, and I'd prefer their partners not to be 'on screen' as they're not themselves public figures.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
character bleed - getting together as their characters, being attracted to each other when one or both of them is in costume;
using their writing or performing to flirt, work out a real life issue they're having or bring up a new kink they want to try;
sharing a hotel room while on tour accidentally or on purpose;
flirting or getting together while they were students at Bretton Hall;
historical AU! maybe they're both Victorian ghost hunters? or I'd love them in basically any historical setting;
supernatural AU! Reece using his interest in magic to cover up actually practicing witchcraft? Or maybe Reece is a vampire, Steve is a werewolf?
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairing breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- character death
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story
- hurt/no comfort
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- miserable ending
Also want to note here that while I've only requested fic, I'm open to (and would be delighted by) treats in any medium.
AO3 name: Carmilla
General likes
Story/trope likes:
- fairy tales or mythology
- characters telling each other stories
- unreliable narrators
- plot change AUs branching from any point in canon
- setting change AUs: sci fi settings, fantasy settings, BDSMverse, omegaverse, etc.
- fusions: sedoretu, everyone now has a His Dark Materials daemon, etc.
- time travel
- Groundhog Day plots (a character is stuck in a period of time that repeats)
- Peggy Sue plots (a character goes back in time and changes things for the better)
- soul mates
- soul marks
- soul bonding
- people who really enjoy working together
- people who hate working together but grudgingly respect each other
- competence porn (characters being really damn good at just about anything)
- casefic
- identity porn (playing around with the interactions of a character's multiple personas)
- complicated friendships (complicated by jealousy, turbulent history, UST, or anything else)
- complicated rivalries (ditto)
- loyalty kink (one character's biggest drive is their loyalty to another)
- slow burn
- mutual pining
- May/December romances
- December/December romances
- friends to lovers
- enemies to friends to lovers
- arranged marriages
- discussions/negotiations over how a relationship works
- open relationships
- sexual tension, especially when it's resolved happily
- unconventional romantic gestures
- last minute out-of-the-left-field happy endings
- fannish cliches (huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple, One Bed What Do, etc....)
I like all kinds of stories. Just-like-canon plots, wild canon divergences, plotless relationship fluff, PWPs, missing scenes, casefics - they're all great! Lots of different writing styles work for me, from perfectly straightforward prose to just-like-the-source to the more experimental. I'm happy with things like first or second person POV, epistolatory stories, or unusual formats like interactive fiction if that's what you want to write.
I'm always open to canon divergence - 'How the whole universe would change if this one interaction went differently' is one of my favourite plots and I'll happily read a million variations on it. I'm also open to big, setting-changing AUs whether or not I've requested them, with the caveat that for AUs that change the canon setting, my preference is for things that make the world more rather than less 'genre', eg. I enjoy AUs that add magic to a non-magical universe or change a modern setting to a historical or sci fi one, but not the reverse. For soul mates(/marks/bonding), omegaverse and BDSM universe AUs, I enjoy them both played straight and with a twist (how two omegas make it work in bed, the epic love story of two definitely-not-soulmates, etc). I enjoy fusion-type stories like HDM/daemon AUs, sedoretu AUs or Pacific Rim AUs - if you want to do a fusion with a canon I might not have heard of that's absolutely fine too, provided I don't need to know anything about the canon to read your story.
Smut likes
- discussions/negotiations about sex and/or kink (before, during and/or after it happens)
- sex that is messy and/or awkward but also fun
- sensual details (how things feel, taste, smell etc)
- the opposite of slow burn; that thing where the characters are talking about/doing something totally unrelated and then there's a sudden moment of chemistry and boom! sex is happening right now
- xeno elements, particularly characters figuring out how to have mutually satisfying sex when their erogenous zones/general conception of what sex is are very different
- ritual sex/sex magic
- touch starvation
- phone sex/sexting (or fandom appropriate equivalents)
- partially clothed sex
- threesomes/moresomes
- service topping
- bondage
- temperature play
- nipple play
- spanking/impact play
- cock spanking
- orgasm control (not denial)
- roleplay
- dirty talk
- praise kink
- sex toys
- joyful, enthusiastic submission
- joyful, enthusiastic sadism
When it comes to smut, please don't feel penned in by my likes; I read fairly widely outside my own kinks and pretty much anything will do it for me if you convince me it turns the characters on. I tend to be more focused on the emotional impact - is it a beautiful display of trust? Brain meltingly cathartic? Maddeningly unhelpful in determining whether they're really in love or not? - than the specifics of what they do, even if that's on the rarer/more extreme side. If you get inspired to write me, say, consensual nonconsent, or pet play, or watersports, or heavy pain play, or consentacles, or anything else that doesn't fall under my DNWs, please go ahead and write me the fic of your heart.
I am very happy to read kink without a sexual element, especially Dom/sub, painplay and/or impact play. I think this is lovely in a romantic context, and absolutely scorching hot in a context where the characters will eventually get together romantically but haven't yet realised that they want to.
This also seems like the place to note that while I absolutely adore sexual/kink negotiation (seriously, I will gleefully read a whole fic of just the negotiation without the sex afterwards), I like it as something fun and sexy, not something to be ticked off a checklist before the characters are allowed to get it on. I like negotiation to be appropriate to the setting (no Victorians talking about keeping things safe, sane and consensual, please!) and to what the characters are doing (a safeword is a specific safety tool, not a magic spell that makes kinky sex okay when it wasn't before). And if you feel like the characters wouldn't negotiate, by all means, write it that way! I am very happy to read spontaneous, un- or under-negotiated sex or kink provided the characters involved are having a good time.
General dislikes/DNW clarifications
If I've asked for no miserable endings, I am up for angst or unhappiness during a story, and I don't need things to end on an unambiguously positive note. It's very bleak endings that I usually don't like - some hope or bittersweetness makes even tragedy play better for me.
If I've DNW'd noncon I'm still happy with light, cliche-driven dubcon, like sex pollen, heats, or sex to maintain an undercover identity. The key for me is that the characters are really into everything that's happening - provided they are, I don't mind scenarios that would be questionable wrt their ability to consent in real life. A character having sex that they don't actually want is what crosses the line into DNW for me.
I have squicks around characters' former love interests or relationships being brought up if the sole reason is to portray them as not real love or inferior to their current love interest/relationship. I find heavy romantic jealousy or possessiveness a turn off ("I wish you looked at me the way you look at Character X who you hero worship" is fine; "I want to kill everyone else you've ever touched" makes me want to run screaming, unless it's being said by the bad guy). I also like open relationships, OT3s, etc. None of this means I'm unhappy to see characters in exclusive relationships - I love to read monogamous happily ever afters just as much as polyamorous ones.
I don't DNW racism, sexism and various other prejudices; however, I'd always prefer to see them driving a plot point/confrontation/etc. rather than thrown in as set dressing. Likewise I don't mind seeing internalised homophobia, misogyny and the like, but I'd prefer that to be something a character is coping with/improving about slowly over the course of the story rather than a static part of their personality.
Copy of sign up prompts:
The Persuaders! Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde
I just adore Brett and Danny and all that ambiguous 70s sexual energy the show is soaked in. I love that they flirt with each other and flirt with women together and separately and go on double dates. I like that they're occasionally competitive with each other but never really *jealous*. I can't get enough of the way they can't stop touching each other for two minutes together. I can absolutely see them as a true-love-and-happily-ever-after type pairing, but I'd also be excited to see something looser and more ambiguous - I just want them to be close and enjoy each other.
I am open to treats.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
case fic: - that time they saved the Houses of Parliament from being blown up
- that time one of them got arrested and the other one had to clear his name
- that time they had to go undercover as Hollywood film stars
- that time they were just going on holiday and had to interrupt it to save the world;
clothes shopping together;
a night on the town;
them trying to teach each other things they both think they're an expert on (drinks mixing, martial arts, manners, flirting....)
a prank war;
romantic comedy shenanigans: - one of them keeps trying to proposition the other, who keeps misunderstanding
- one of them asks the other for seduction advice, planning to use it on him
- a disastrous first date that nevertheless ends happily
- every time they try to confess and/or have sex they get interrupted by a terrorist plot
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairings breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- requested characters dying (other canon characters or original characters dying is fine)
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story (disabled characters, including AUs where requested characters became disabled before the story starts, are fine)
- hurt/no comfort
- miserable ending
- modern AUs
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
The Limehouse Golem, George Flood/John Kildare
I love this film so much, for its gothic, brooding atmosphere, the fun bits of period detail and appearances by real life figures, and perhaps more than anything because it gave me two gay leads seemingly just for the hell of it. I really enjoy the spiky, respectful and layered relationship that builds between them - how Flood looks up to Kildare and identifies with him, but at the same time really doesn't want to be where he is in twenty years, and how Kildare mentors Flood and expects the best out of him and *totally misses* all that respect and identification unless it's thrown in his face. I love Flood's solid practicality contrasted with Kildare, who seems both more sensitive and more cerebral. I'm fascinated by how Kildare is clearly so lonely and so badly in need of friends but instinctively pushes away Flood's overtures.
And oh goodness, how much do I love the pub scene? Flood just casually making a little bid for intimacy, and how what he thinks is a harmless joke is clearly deeply painful territory for Kildare. It speaks so much to their differing experiences: how Flood has evidently lived the kind of queer life where he feels safe referring to it provided he picks his audience, whereas Kildare very much Has Not. I'm into every level of "I'm on your side" as a coming out statement; including the level where Flood thinks him coming out ought to make them understand each other but for Kildare it's more complicated than that.
Any romantic story for them would be wonderful; I'd particularly love anything that picks up on that contrast between them and shows how they bridge the gap between Flood's openness and Kildare's guardedness and obvious fear of being seen as predatory. If it's your thing I'd also happily read Kildare/Flood/Flood's boyfriend from the end of the film.
I am open to treats.
Prompts:
first time;
Flood setting out to become a bigger part of Kildare's life;
is there anything that would get Kildare to make the first move on Flood, rather than vice versa?;
any get-the-procedural-partners-together trope (I don't know how you'd do, say, undercover as a couple in this setting but I'd love to see it!);
casefic - either another murder/serial killer case or how they work together on something more mundane and low stakes;
eldritch horror AU! their next grotesque case really doesn't have a logical explanation;
Kildare telling Flood what really happened with the Golem, or just opening up to him about anything;
what they were up to while Jack the Ripper was happening
DNW:
- explicit noncon (offscreen sexual violence as part of a case is okay)
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairings breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- requested characters dying (other canon characters or original characters dying is fine)
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story (disabled characters, including AUs where requested characters became disabled before the story starts, are fine)
- hurt/no comfort
- modern AUs
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- homophobia-free world AUs
- miserable ending
A note on period homophobia: I'd prefer homophobia not to be the focus of the story, but I'm fine with it being present. I'm not really interested in Kildare and Flood coming out to all and sundry and telling the homophobes to go fuck themselves, because that's too anachronistic for me, but plenty of gay people in this period managed to have fulfilling (if somewhat constrained) romantic lives, so I don't need them to face a constant stream of abuse in the cause of historical realism either. If you want to focus the story elsewhere and not bring homophobia up, that's cool; if you want to deal with it as part of the setting, that's cool too. The only thing I really don't want is them living in a world that's identical to Victorian England except that homophobia doesn't exist.
Matthew Mercer/Brennan Lee Mulligan
I love these two, their slightly manic theatre kid energy, the way they clearly have so much respect for each others' skills as both DMs and players, the way they love immersing themselves in and adding to each others' universes. Just the way they look at each other with glee in their eyes makes me so happy.
Critical Role and Dropout are generally fun escapist fandoms for me, so I'd prefer nothing too heavy or angsty here. When it comes to their real life partners, I don't mind whether you write them as being in open relationships, go for a no-partners AU, or just don't mention them one way or the other. I don't want cheating though.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
sexy shenanigans in the Bathroom of Practicing Voices;
them roleplaying as their various hot villains for each other;
a romantic gesture conveyed at the tabletop;
fantasy AU! maybe Matt is a knight and Brennan is his squire, or Brennan is a lord and Matt is his wizardly advisor;
isekai AU! they get sucked into one of their own games and have to work together to escape.
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairing breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- character death
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story
- hurt/no comfort
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- miserable ending
British Comedy RPF, Steve Pemberton/Reece Shearsmith
I've fallen head over heels for this pairing in the last couple of months, so really anything at all about them would make me happy. I love their incredibly enduring friendship and creative partnership (more than thirty years!). I'm obsessed with the way they repeatedly say they never think about performing their material while they're writing it; how *do* they feel, when it's time to perform it and suddenly they're making out/slapping each other/pretending to have sex/playing an incestuous mother and son? I love how totally comfortable they are together as performers, how it seems like there's no such thing as going too far for them. And I adore their off-screen dynamic, how Reece needles Steve and Steve bosses Reece around but under it there's obviously an endless well of love for each other and respect for each others' work.
As with my other RPF request I don't mind whether you write them as being in open relationships, go for a no-partners AU, or just don't mention their real life partners at all. I'd rather not see cheating, and I'd prefer their partners not to be 'on screen' as they're not themselves public figures.
Prompts:
any first time or PWP;
character bleed - getting together as their characters, being attracted to each other when one or both of them is in costume;
using their writing or performing to flirt, work out a real life issue they're having or bring up a new kink they want to try;
sharing a hotel room while on tour accidentally or on purpose;
flirting or getting together while they were students at Bretton Hall;
historical AU! maybe they're both Victorian ghost hunters? or I'd love them in basically any historical setting;
supernatural AU! Reece using his interest in magic to cover up actually practicing witchcraft? Or maybe Reece is a vampire, Steve is a werewolf?
DNW:
- noncon
- scat
- vomit in a sexual context
- underage sex involving characters younger than 15
- embarrassment based comedy
- characters being mocked, humiliated or massively screwing up socially (social awkwardness is fine; consensual humiliation kink is fine)
- requested pairing breaking up or being unhappy together in the long term (having relationship problems is fine)
- infidelity (consensual nonmonogamy is fine)
- high levels of jealousy or possessiveness portrayed positively
- character's previous relationships being treated as not real love or as a problem for their current partner
- character death
- permanent injury or disabling illness in the course of the story
- hurt/no comfort
- Rule 63/always another gender AUs
- miserable ending