Rarely Written Letter

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Dear Author,

First of all, thank you for writing fic for me! I know I'll love it, wherever our fandom interests happen to intersect.

General Likes: character, character, character. I like stories that are focused on the characters and what's going on inside them. I love digging into their backstories and current emotions or mindscapes. I love amnesia, brainwashing, identity fics (though preferably not current mind control/mental rape). I adore found family, family, deep friendships, asexual romance, romance, and established relationships. Love fluff, angst, worldbuilding, character studies, and situational humor.

General Dislikes: current non-con/dub-con, alternate gender norms, embarrassment, body-related humor, graphic violence or gore, any bashing at all of character or ideology or anything else, PWP (with plot, fine), dirty talk, instalove, betrayal/infidelity, tragedy, deathfic, on-screen uncensored profanity.

Tropes: I adore most mental tropes (not mind control), soulbonds/soulmarks/soulmates, domestic fic, holiday fic, arranged marriage, fake marriage, secret relationship, sharing a bed, friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, AIs, accidental relationships, earned happy endings. I like well thought out crossovers and the occasional fusion, canon-divergent AUs more than total AUs, and I like time travel but only time travel with consequences.




Agents of SHIELD

Bobbi Morse: I love the biochemist/field agent/spy thing she has going in the comics and I mean, come on, this woman had an entire secret spy agency on the side in the comics. I want to see her backstory with Fury, who she seemed close to, her relationship with Mac where he loves her like a sister and she loves him dearly and platonically but not like a sister and he's seen her on the rollercoaster over and over. I'd love to see her relationship with Hartley figuring in there and how they managed to still be close after Hunter went off with Hartley. I want to know about their secret project and would adore if it's related to Project Gladiator and Fury had her work on that after Steve's DNA became available again.

Alternatively, her time in there as HYDRA, I wouldn't mind seeing some of the things she did and how she felt about it, being a spy's spy in there, the intel she gathered, maybe confronting/discovering a lot about the brainwashing process. If they tried to brainwash her and couldn't or she had to brainwash someone else and maybe built in a failsafe/anti-trigger for them. I'd love to see her being this super-strong, amazing, competent agent who isn't HYDRA or a traitor but has her secrets and has this whole world going on underneath the surface.

Agent 33: My heart broke for her in that last episode before the winter break. She's this incredibly strong agent that took sooo long to break and then she's left adrift when her brainwashing is left without the triggers. It makes me think of what happened with Natasha. Deprogramming or else shifting that mission mindset really intrigues me.

Ward wasn't brainwashed in the SF sense, but he was also brainwashed, and the way he promised her seemed like she would have been his new mission where he channeled that adriftness of his own. I'd love to see them interacting, saving each other, or else her getting separated and getting mixed up with another SHIELD/ex-SHIELD agent.

I really want to see her going through the whole terrible aftermath of what happened to her mentally and see the unconditioning/reconditioning, and I'd love to see her getting her face back, however painfully, and the identity issues wrapped up in that as well.

Raina: With Raina, what I'm really hoping to see is about her time with Skye's father, when he told her she was special and how that imprinted on her, and how she sought after more knowledge and filtered in and out of his life. She clearly knew she'd never fill Skye's place and so she wasn't allowed to belong to him, but she did keep going back to him. It seemed like her entire identity was wrapped up in what he told her she'd become. I want to know more about that and what shaped her and how she dealt with never having someone, only anticipation of her own change.

Please Do Not Writes: gore, graphic violence, on-screen uncensored profanity, bashing. I know the show goes there and I don't mind violence, but no actual graphic on-screen torture or bloody visuals please.

Jane the Virgin

The story I really want is about Xo. Seriously, she got a lot of flak when they found out she'd been hiding the Rogelio connection, but he told her to get an abortion. Can't this ever come up? She didn't hide him because he wasn't good father material; she hid him because he didn't want Jane and told Xo to get rid of the baby just like Alba did.

Xo made a huge decision to keep a baby in the face of opposition on all sides, even the woman you'd least expect it from, Alba. I'd love to see something exploring that and her relationships at the time and that she was right to keep Rogelio from Jane and vice versa.

Alternatively, just the three of the women interacting, taking care of each other, being that adorable, tight-knit family we see on screen. Xo being a great mom, Jane momming her mom, and Alba taking care of the little problems in the background.

Please Do Not Writes: There is sooo much I love about this show. Rafael is not one of them. Sorry. I liked him better when he was dealing with Petra and they acted as each other's foils than when he got with Jane, so please no Rafael/Jane, unless it's minimal, background, or in passing.



Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Jane Carter is the most seriously underused character ever in fanfic. She's amazing and lovely and strong and she hit the first guy she liked and she just lost another and she went toe to toe with an assassin and won and I love her. I just want more that's about her and not about someone else. That could be her coming up as a field agent, previous missions, becoming team lead after Hannaway before they gave Hunt lead, working with the team after the movie and being a total BAMF, getting her own team after that. I'm wide open. Crossover potential: MCU as related to Peggy Carter.

Please Do Not Writes: I don't mind shipping her with Brandt or Hunt or, previously, Hannaway, but please no side slash pairing. I just don't ship any of these guys together.



The People - Zenna Henderson

Karen and Melodye: These two met at school, I believe, when they were studying to be teachers and Karen wanted to meet someone who suited her. I'd love school shenanigans, friendship, discovering Karen's peopleness, growing trust, and/or the whole Karen wants to find a suitable guy plot.

Twyla: I'd love to know more about what happened for Twyla during or after "Captivity." Did Francher ever go back for her? Did she go track him down? Did she ever bump into others of the People? What was life for her like growing up and eventually discovering Francher and his music?

Dita: I'd love to know more about Dita and her ancestral stone wall and finding out what she could do or her parents' and family's reaction and so forth.

Alternatively, I'd love to see more of how Dita fits into the Group, belonging but not belonging and able to put People in their place when they get too uppity about her earthling status. I love her sharp sense of humor and her general competence and hey, there goes another schoolteacher that's theirs. A time of need ("there's need") or teaching in the Canyon or just Dita and Low being Dita and Low would be lovely.

Razor Sharp

Canon: Free online on Vimeo and embedded in my journal here

I really have a hankering for chosen family fic with Isis settling into the family dynamic. I'd love to keep the humor and banged up nature of their operation and see more of the worldbuilding between the chinks of the short movie. Tech love, hacker shenanigans, mission fic, and Veronica backstory/continuing story all super, super welcome.

I'd love to know more about Tokyo, see Veronica loving shopping ("Your Macy's card" cracks me up every time), the relationship she had with her father, or even her mental relationship with him now and the ghost presence he leaves in her working relationships because of his moral brand. I'd love to see her and Isis bonding, her becoming big sister/mom, dealing with Isis' personal trauma and the aftermath of that. Hurt/comfort, jumpiness, and even PTSD in the midst of child genius would be awesome. Isis bonding with Bruce or them going at each other/bantering over his equipment and her trying to fix it and him not appreciating it.

I'd love anything here, so long as it's gen.

Awesome dialogue would be my number one wish. I don't write it half as well as the writer of Razor Sharp and I just LOVED the style of humor in here. Wouldn't mind a crossover with Leverage if that makes it easier to write, as it's a world of grifters, so yeah, but if that's not helpful, no problem.

Please Do Not Writes: non-con, romantic relationships, crack, body-related humor, embarrassment, bashing.

The Unusuals

Allison Beaumont: I adore Beaumont. I find it interesting that in the promo and in that one mention when she and Walsh were making up after their fight about her dream (and his non-apology for what dream-self did), she's supposed to be called "Uncle" because of how she works, yet we don't really get to see that. Is that because she's still paying off the suit for where that led her? Can I just see more of tough girl Allison?

I love her relationship with Cole and their gentle ribbing and their down-to-earth working together. I'd love to see them becoming or being partners.

And I would truly adore more about her and Walsh. I love her whole "why isn't he looking?" line and that she seems to initiate a lot in their relationship, but she also likes/loves it when he takes the lead. How did they get started on their games, like the numbers game? Can I see their first date at the opera and him pretending to like it so he can get laid, but she already had those plans?

Bridget Demopolis or Monica Crumb: I'd love to just see more of them, get in their heads a little. Bridget is adorable and she laughs in her sleep and she's super-smart. I'd love to see her by herself or with Leo. And Monica got blackmailed and yet her biggest concern is that Eric wouldn't get help. I want to know more about what makes her tick and whether she got fired because she confessed or got found out.

Casey Shraeger: I love her and Walsh being partners. I love her and Davis so, so, so much. I'd love to see her being super-competent on the job and/or in her personal life and just being Casey.

Casey and Nicole are such an unlikely friendship, and they don't really become friends, but they do start talking to each other, looking out for each other a bit by the end of that season, and I'd love to see more about them learning to live together and even do that looking out for each other.

Please Do Not Writes: Casey/Walsh. Really, I love the canonical pairings and I don't want to read break-up fic or wild divergence please. Also, please no embarrassment or body-related humor. I squick easy.