scribblemyname | Rare Pair Fest Letter (Reply)

Dear Author,

Thank you for whatever you happen to write. No, really. These aren't exactly popular pairings and I will be thrilled to receive any of them. The letter is long, because I tend to max out on requests, but you can skip all the parts you do not need.

General squicks, triggers, and loves by category.

General:

I love deep platonic love, family fic, complicated relationships, backstory and history and established relationships. There's something about something with history and weight and depth that just does it for me. That said, I like developing trust and slow build fics, making friends, falling in love when it's not too-romance-movie-cliche. I love everything from gen to asexual romance to rated M or E romance, as long as everyone's in character. I like deep characterization and backstory, worldbuilding, chosen family, digging into a character's mental/emotional space, character studies, identity exploration, character competence, fluff, angst, and situational humor.

Please don't write embarrassment, graphic violence or gore, body-related humor, betrayal/infidelity, tragedy/deathfic, horror, character or ideology bashing, PWP (with plot, more than fine), first person fic, on-screen uncensored profanity. I also have no problem with assassination but do have a problem with murder. I know. Fine line.

Tropes:

I like soulmates, soulmarks (not names), soulbonds, secret relationship, sharing a bed, domestic fic, holiday fic, arranged marriage, fake marriage, friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, AIs, accidental relationships, time travel with consequences, animal transformations/shapeshifter, brainwashing, amnesia. I like well thought out crossovers and the occasional fusion, canon-divergent AUs more than total AUs.

I tolerate coffee shop AU, school AU, reincarnation, historical AU.

Please don't write alternate gender norms, mind control, zombie, supernatural, daemons, post-apocalyptic, instalove.

Kinks:

I like bondage, breathplay, sensory deprivation, bloodplay, weapons play, delayed orgasm, some D/s, situational power dynamics type dub-con.

I tolerate pain play, dirty talk, oral, and cock rings/cages. Include if you must; omit if you can.

Please don't write scat, water sports, bodily fluids other than blood, lifestyle D/s, ageplay, mpreg, consent play, incest, underage, a/b/o, straight up dub-con.

THE FANDOMS

Crossovers - Fandom

Colin Craven (The Secret Garden)/Sara Crewe (A Little Princess)

Colin Craven (The Secret Garden)/Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Kaylee Frye (Firefly)/Seamus Harper (Andromeda)

James "Bucky" Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)/Jemma Simmons (Agents of SHIELD)

Clint Barton (Marvel Cinematic Universe)/Bobbi Morse (Agents of SHIELD)

Tess Harding (Roswell)/Lincoln (Agents of SHIELD)

PROMPTS:

Colin/Sara or Colin/Susan have such strong common background material with their exposure to "magic" and I just feel would understand each other at a level most don't. I would love to see Mary bringing home her friend Sara or Colin meeting either elsewhere, watching them realize each other knows things about magic.

Canon-Specific Issues: I prefer the 1993 Secret Garden movie or the book to other versions. I love the Narnia books but am not overly fond of the modern movies and ignore them. I liked the BBC adaptation growing up.

Honestly, I love Susan, I love the idea of the books trying to show the difference between loving social things and making the "game" your primary focus, and I'd love to see the fallout of post-books and what's going on under the surface without bashing Aslan please. I think with Susan there was an attempt to put not wanting to grow up and mature into simple language (for kids) and I've seen a lot of Susan fics that make it all about she did grow up and that was the problem, but that's not what the books say. It said she tried not to, which makes a lot of sense as a coping mechanism against being forced to.

Kaylee and Harper both have a thing for engines and space ships and are canonically turned on by them. They adore their ships, they adorable, and once a prompter put this pairing in my head, I wanted to see them. AU with them being mechanics and/or engineers in other kinds of worlds environments just fine. I'd love to see them working together, Harper admiring her genius, awkward first meetings that turn into fast friendships, etc. Canon-Specific Issues: Please no Reavers or Magog, other than Rev Bem.

Bucky or "James" and Jemma are an unlikely pairing perhaps, but hiddencait got me started on them and I've never looked back. Her gentleness and understanding of where she's been with Fitz vs. his needing gentleness in his life and where he is with Steve and finding himself is just ripe for more. I love the idea of her helping him as he puts his identity back together or together anew, or helping him with the physical recovery, and I love the idea of him supporting her through the trauma she's gone through and losing people and being betrayed and becoming so much stronger and an even better spy. Someone pointed out once she doesn't actually get a lot of support other than from Fitz because she's always hurt but not as bad as whoever's priority one. It would be great to see her get support. I love developing or established relationship and would be happy whether you go angsty, fluffy, or drama with this.

Clint/Bobbi is, I admit, the entire reason I signed up for this fest (not that I don't adore and won't be highly pleased with any of my requested pairings). I love their characters separately and together and I love their comics history and the little easter egg in Agents of SHIELD about a mission together where Scarlotti almost killed him. I'd love to see these two together with their MCU characterization in a relationship or marriage just being awesome spies and/or agents together. Canon-Specific Issues: Please no infidelity or cheating. I'd rather Lance and Laura be out of the picture, though I don't mind Lance as an ex.

Tess and Lincoln interest me because of their shared background in things not human, though one is Antaran hybrid and the other is Inhuman. Honestly, fuse, crossover, or handwave altogether, and I will be a happy camper. I love Lincoln's patience with helping others accept their inhumanness, and I love Tess's way of embracing her alien nature and who's she's supposed to be and yet that intense desire for a family and belonging. There were those hints Gordon dropped about what lengths Jiaying had to go through to save Lincoln. From? I'd love to see Tess go in after him or her being a descendant or Antarans and Kree coexisting in a universe bigger than earthlings realize. Canon-Specific Issues: Please no bashing, graphic violence, or cheating.