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Pinch Hit 24
Request 1 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
James Norrington/Elizabeth Swann (PotC)
Medium: Fanfiction
Historical Marriage Traditions, Pining for Spouse, Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation, Honeymoon Sexual Exploration For Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity For Sex Before Marriage, Marriage of Convenience So Single Woman Can Travel Without Scandal, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill, Marriage To Avoid Scandal, Marriage to get spouse out of or keep spouse out of jail, Marrying Pregnant Person So Child (Not Theirs) Will Be Born In Wedlock, Marriage is a requirement for promotion, Marriage Allows Spouses to Share Mutant or Magical Powers, Marriage Grants Superpowers, Marriage is a Requirement To Pilot Giant Robots
More prompts in my letter!
They were canonically engaged! I would super love anything that followed through with that. I like that Norrington is already head over heels in love with her, but that Elizabeth is more cautious and pragmatic – if not ruthless about her choices – while at the same time being hot headed and passionate. I love would pining/slow burn while she slowly catches feelings.
There are some great canon divergence tags that I could see leading to a marriage. CotBP and Elizabeth’s connection to pirates provide plenty of scandal fodder – and reason she might wind up in jail and in need of rescue.
But I also love magic powers and I love the faux-political considerations this would add to people getting married with these tags.
I’m open to receiving art for fandoms/requests where not specifically prompted. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid1
Request 2 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Game of Thrones (TV)
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else, Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation, Marriage in Order to Produce Heir, Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
Sansa is just one of my favourite characters and the sheer relief and joy in her reunion with Jon was amazing. Despite how things played out in seasons 7/8, I think he’s one of the few people she still trusts in a real way. And given her previous marriages, I imagine she’d be pretty wary about who she chose to marry.
I do love that she ends the series as Queen in the North, though I love a little less that she’s alone while she does so.
Whether her reasons for marriage are complete practical (a heir, a partner to share work with) or more sentimental (she really did want children), I’d like to see them working through it.
I’m fine with however the author would like to present the Jon/Sansa familial relationship in regards to having a / relationship – from having not been close as children and regarding each other as cousins after the revelation, to firmly believing they’re siblings and being okay with it, to firmly believing they’re siblings and not being that okay with it.
I’m totally okay with any timeline rearrangement required to set up the situations prompted. Sansa is Queen in the North but Jon Snow hasn’t been banished? Totally fine. Some characters (Cersei) are dead but others (Jaimee) aren’t (for example but not limited to)? Also fine. I’m also down for ‘the whole plot just never took place’ type divergences as well.
I’m open to receiving art for fandoms/requests where not specifically prompted. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid2
Request 3 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Crossover Fandom
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Diana of Themyscira (WW Movies DCEU)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Sansa Stark (GoT)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
James Norrington (PotC)/Elizabeth Bennet (P&P)
Medium: Fanart
Medium: Fanfiction
Courtship, Marrying In Haste, Marrying To Avoid Destitution, Worldbuilding through Marriage Ceremony, Marriage of Convenience
Pirate King Elizabeth Swann exploring the oceans and coming across lands with beautiful queens, or Themyscira itself? How do they meet? What do they talk about? How do they regard each other?
Or James Norrington (PotC)/Elizabeth Bennet (P&P):
How do their social circles overlap? How do they have the chance to meet? We all know that handsome officers are her type and strongly spoken women are his…
I like things that might provoke a bit of haste or necessity where they might otherwise take their time or consider for longer – does Norrington have to go back to sea? Are the Bennets in dire straits?
I’m totally okay with any timeline rearrangement or canon divergences required to set up the situations/pairings prompted. For Wonder Woman, I’m mostly familiar with the 2017 movie, but as long as things are clear will welcome any other source material.
(I would prefer Golden Age Chronicles of Narnia, while the Pevensie’s are Kings and Queens, but if you want to set it in other times/places, that’s fine!)
Tags and prompts are a little slim here, mostly because combining canons is sort of a prompt on it’s own and I’d just like to see the character interaction that flows from that.
General Art Likes:
Outfit swaps. Crossover characters interacting with significant objects from opposing canons. Action poses. Humour/comedic set ups. Gen. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid3
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Pinch Hit 26
Request 1 by Sholio
Torchwood
Owen Harper/Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
Owen Harper/Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
Medium: Fanfiction
Aliens Make Them Get Married, Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About For Years, Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons, Magic Artifact Creates Marriage, Magic Ritual Requires Marriage, Marriage Causes Unexpected Magical Effects, Marriage Grants Superpowers, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Married Couple Trying to Matchmake Past Selves That Hate Each Other, Marrying the dead as resurrection, Marrying the dead keeps them alive, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Resurrection Spell Requires Ritual Marriage, Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married, Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings, Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining, Wedding is Attacked
It's fine to keep Jack/Ianto (or any other canon pairing) regardless of who else is paired up in the fic. This is a fandom where complicated poly arrangements are perfectly fine and dandy. If you do decide to break up canon couples, please do it amicably. Also, ignoring Exit Wounds and anything after it is encouraged (but not required, of course; you can set the fic earlier, or fix it via time travel/magically snatching the characters out of harm's way/etc). See below for one specific DNW related to that - I don't want alternate-universe versions of the dead characters who aren't "our" Owen, Tosh, or Ianto.
My favorite era in the show is the last half of season two (minus Exit Wounds), and any sort of hypothetical future following along from that. I love all the character development that goes along with Owen being dead, and the relative gentleness and softness that enters into his relationships with his teammates because of it. I would lovelovelove any variation on marriage, soulbonding, and/or life-sharing to bring him back to life after his canonical undeath - some kind of alien artifact or supernatural ritual, for example, that allows Owen to live as long as someone else is bonded to him. Or the inverse: he gets married to someone(s) who has to convince Owen they're not just settling for him, only to find out that the marriage grants unexpected powers/abilities that bring him to for-real life.
If that doesn't float your boat, that's fine! There are SO many ways these total dumbasses could fall in love and get married (or the other way around: get married and THEN fall in love), from alien ceremonies to fake-undercover-marriage because of Torchwood reasons to accidentally-for-real getting married in a ritual to save the world, and I would love alllll of them. I really enjoy the completely batshit nature of their work lives, and would love to see any of these pairings fall in love while working together on some canon-typical kind of Torchwood weirdness. Feel free to throw them into any kind of tropey scenario from undercover in suburbia to Aliens Made Them Do It to eldritch sex rituals.
DNW: Anyone being actually, for-real permanently dead (as opposed to Owen's undeath, which is fine); fixing canonical character deaths by bringing in alternate-universe versions with different backstories and relationships than the canon characters; Gwen-bashing (okay to leave her out if you don't want to write her); dark/downer endings; characters ending the fic hating each other or otherwise at odds. Specific to the Jack/Ianto/Owen pairing, I'd like the feelings to be spread around equally; I don't want any one leg of that relationship being portrayed as "less" than the other - specifically don't want Owen being a third wheel in a relationship that is mostly Jack/Ianto.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 2 by Sholio
Marvel - TV
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand & Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arranged Marriage - Spouses Stay Platonic, Undercover as Married, Accidentally married best friend's partner, Married To Save Each Other's Lives, Married to Inherit the Company, Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill, Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives, Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people, Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards, Marriage to cure sex pollen, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Character A Marries Character B's Ghost To Resurrect Them, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Characters Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding, Character A Thought Character B Was Dead/Gone Forever Until Arranged Marriage To B, Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret, Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual, Character A and Character B Must Pretend to Be Married For the Inheritance
The platonic version! (Though canon levels of Danny/Colleen are fine.) Feel free to go wild with all sorts of handwavy variants on arranged/forced marriage involving Danny and Ward as the heirs to the company - maybe Harold makes them do it, because Harold; maybe it's an alternate universe where arranged marriage is a thing and they were betrothed from childhood; maybe the terms of Harold's will require Ward to get married to fully inherit. Maybe it's Ward and Colleen in a forced marriage as some kind of Hand-related thing.
Or perhaps it's all part of a magic ritual to bring one of them back to life, or to save the world, or to otherwise resolve one of the completely bonkers situations they keep finding themselves in.
I absolutely love forced cohabiting and forced intimacy, so feel free to go wild with characters learning about each other's trauma due to the nightmares they can no longer hide, arguing over dishes, platonically cuddling, etc. I also adore hurt/comfort, either emotional or physical, but if that's not your thing, no worries there; I'm fine without it too.
As you can see from the ship request, I'm fine with shippy variants, so don't worry about it if you aim for platonic and it goes over the line to ship. It's just a somewhat different set of tags.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 3 by Sholio
Marvel - TV
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum/Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand/Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arranged Marriage - magic picks partners and is legally binding, Character A Thought Character B Was Dead/Gone Forever Until Arranged Marriage To B, Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage Assumed to be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond, Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings, Married to Inherit the Company, Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage, Marriage Essentially Platonic but Must Be Consummated First, Forced to Consummate Marriage by Third Party, married as cover but unexpectedly have to consummate it in ritual, Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings, Character A and Character B Must Pretend to Be Married For the Inheritance, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret, Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, betrothed as children, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill
The ship version! Details are very much like the gen version; free to go wild with all sorts of handwavy variants on arranged/forced marriage involving Danny and Ward as the heirs to the company - maybe Harold makes them do it, because Harold; maybe it's an alternate universe where arranged marriage is a thing and they were betrothed from childhood; maybe the terms of Harold's will require Ward to get married to fully inherit. Maybe it's Ward and Colleen in a forced marriage as some kind of Hand-related situation.
Or perhaps it's all part of a magic ritual to bring one of them back to life, or to save the world, or to otherwise resolve one of the completely bonkers situations they keep finding themselves in.
I absolutely love forced cohabiting and forced intimacy, so feel free to go wild with characters learning about each other's trauma due to the nightmares they can no longer hide, arguing over dishes, cuddling and awkwardly falling in love, etc. I also adore hurt/comfort, either emotional or physical, but if that's not your thing, no worries there; I'm fine without it too.
For pairings other than Ward/Danny/Colleen, you can handle Danny/Colleen in any way you like as long as it results in an amicable relationship afterwards - maybe they're permanently broken up after season two, or never got together; or maybe they stay together as a poly "V" kind of thing.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings. For this request only, no explicit sex, please, though kissing and cuddling and the implication they're going to have sex later/have already had sex are fine.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 4 by Sholio
Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)
Medium: Fanfiction
Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Undercover as Married, Best Friend Marriage to Escape Unsupportive Parents, Resurrection Spell Requires Ritual Marriage, Character A Marries Character B's Ghost To Resurrect Them, betrothed as children, Arranged marriage with both in love with third party, Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people, Arranged Royal Marriage, Marriage by Winning Ritual Combat Against Potential Spouse's Current Spouse, Ritual Marriage Gone Wrong, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Forced to Marry Due to Soulbond, Marriage so Supernatural Partner Can Have a Soul, Marriage to Stay Undercover Unexpectedly Results in Soul Bond
For pairings outside this relationship, if any, feel free to have any combination of the Steve/Nancy/Jonathan triad, or Robin/any female character (or OC).
It's Hawkins, so go as OTT as you like. An eldritch horror made them get married? Sure! Robin has to marry Steve's ghost to bring him back to life? Why the heck not! AUs in which arranged marriages are a thing in 1980s suburbia? Go for it! Or maybe it's actually more real-worldish, with Robin and Steve providing each other an alibi marriage for anything from insurance reasons to giving the other one a place to stay to get them out of a toxic home situation.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings; Robin being romantically or sexually interested in guys.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 5 by Sholio
Agent Carter (TV)
Peggy Carter/Jack Thompson (Agent Carter)
Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa/Jack Thompson (Agent Carter)
Medium: Fanfiction
Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage, Arranged marriage to end conflict, Arranged Royal Marriage, betrothed as children, Betrothed/Spouse Has a Secret Identity, Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
There's a fairly specific thing I'd love to have for this: an arranged marriage between Peggy and Jack, with or without Daniel as an additional element in the relationship. Peggy and Jack can actually even stay platonic; that part is totally up to you. It can be a total AU in which they're royalty, or a slight AU of our world in which arranged marriages are a thing. Spy shenanigans on the side are welcome, e.g. of the Scarlet Pimpernel variety - i.e. secret from spouse as well - or all of them working for the SSR or a similar organization as in canon. Arguing and fighting and gradually coming around to a mutual understanding and love (of whatever form) is excellent. As noted in other requests, I love forced cohabitation/space-sharing and all that goes along with it - arguing over dishes or laundry, forced to share a bed, forced discovery of each other's trauma/nightmares because it can no longer be hidden.
If the details of this request are too restrictive, of course, I would be entirely happy with a different take on the requested pairings/tags. I would rather have you write the fic of your heart than be stuck trying to follow a very specific request of mine!
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
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These pinch hits are due August 1, 11:59 pm UTC, six days after the regular assignment deadline (countdown).
Pinch Hit 24
Request 1 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
James Norrington/Elizabeth Swann (PotC)
Medium: Fanfiction
Historical Marriage Traditions, Pining for Spouse, Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation, Honeymoon Sexual Exploration For Couple Who Had Little/No Opportunity For Sex Before Marriage, Marriage of Convenience So Single Woman Can Travel Without Scandal, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill, Marriage To Avoid Scandal, Marriage to get spouse out of or keep spouse out of jail, Marrying Pregnant Person So Child (Not Theirs) Will Be Born In Wedlock, Marriage is a requirement for promotion, Marriage Allows Spouses to Share Mutant or Magical Powers, Marriage Grants Superpowers, Marriage is a Requirement To Pilot Giant Robots
More prompts in my letter!
They were canonically engaged! I would super love anything that followed through with that. I like that Norrington is already head over heels in love with her, but that Elizabeth is more cautious and pragmatic – if not ruthless about her choices – while at the same time being hot headed and passionate. I love would pining/slow burn while she slowly catches feelings.
There are some great canon divergence tags that I could see leading to a marriage. CotBP and Elizabeth’s connection to pirates provide plenty of scandal fodder – and reason she might wind up in jail and in need of rescue.
But I also love magic powers and I love the faux-political considerations this would add to people getting married with these tags.
I’m open to receiving art for fandoms/requests where not specifically prompted. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid1
Request 2 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Game of Thrones (TV)
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark (GoT)
Medium: Fanfiction
Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else, Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation, Marriage in Order to Produce Heir, Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
Sansa is just one of my favourite characters and the sheer relief and joy in her reunion with Jon was amazing. Despite how things played out in seasons 7/8, I think he’s one of the few people she still trusts in a real way. And given her previous marriages, I imagine she’d be pretty wary about who she chose to marry.
I do love that she ends the series as Queen in the North, though I love a little less that she’s alone while she does so.
Whether her reasons for marriage are complete practical (a heir, a partner to share work with) or more sentimental (she really did want children), I’d like to see them working through it.
I’m fine with however the author would like to present the Jon/Sansa familial relationship in regards to having a / relationship – from having not been close as children and regarding each other as cousins after the revelation, to firmly believing they’re siblings and being okay with it, to firmly believing they’re siblings and not being that okay with it.
I’m totally okay with any timeline rearrangement required to set up the situations prompted. Sansa is Queen in the North but Jon Snow hasn’t been banished? Totally fine. Some characters (Cersei) are dead but others (Jaimee) aren’t (for example but not limited to)? Also fine. I’m also down for ‘the whole plot just never took place’ type divergences as well.
I’m open to receiving art for fandoms/requests where not specifically prompted. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid2
Request 3 by Silver_Queen_DoS
Crossover Fandom
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Daenerys Targaryen (GoT)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Diana of Themyscira (WW Movies DCEU)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Sansa Stark (GoT)
Elizabeth Swann (PotC)/Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
James Norrington (PotC)/Elizabeth Bennet (P&P)
Medium: Fanart
Medium: Fanfiction
Courtship, Marrying In Haste, Marrying To Avoid Destitution, Worldbuilding through Marriage Ceremony, Marriage of Convenience
Pirate King Elizabeth Swann exploring the oceans and coming across lands with beautiful queens, or Themyscira itself? How do they meet? What do they talk about? How do they regard each other?
Or James Norrington (PotC)/Elizabeth Bennet (P&P):
How do their social circles overlap? How do they have the chance to meet? We all know that handsome officers are her type and strongly spoken women are his…
I like things that might provoke a bit of haste or necessity where they might otherwise take their time or consider for longer – does Norrington have to go back to sea? Are the Bennets in dire straits?
I’m totally okay with any timeline rearrangement or canon divergences required to set up the situations/pairings prompted. For Wonder Woman, I’m mostly familiar with the 2017 movie, but as long as things are clear will welcome any other source material.
(I would prefer Golden Age Chronicles of Narnia, while the Pevensie’s are Kings and Queens, but if you want to set it in other times/places, that’s fine!)
Tags and prompts are a little slim here, mostly because combining canons is sort of a prompt on it’s own and I’d just like to see the character interaction that flows from that.
General Art Likes:
Outfit swaps. Crossover characters interacting with significant objects from opposing canons. Action poses. Humour/comedic set ups. Gen. I’d prefer sfw/non-explicit art!
DNW: Non-con between requested pairings, unhappy endings, humiliation/embarrassment squick,
Letter: http://sqexchangeletters.dreamwidth.org/937.html#cutid3
Pinch Hit 26
Request 1 by Sholio
Torchwood
Owen Harper/Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
Owen Harper/Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
Medium: Fanfiction
Aliens Make Them Get Married, Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About For Years, Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons, Magic Artifact Creates Marriage, Magic Ritual Requires Marriage, Marriage Causes Unexpected Magical Effects, Marriage Grants Superpowers, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Married Couple Trying to Matchmake Past Selves That Hate Each Other, Marrying the dead as resurrection, Marrying the dead keeps them alive, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Resurrection Spell Requires Ritual Marriage, Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married, Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings, Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining, Wedding is Attacked
It's fine to keep Jack/Ianto (or any other canon pairing) regardless of who else is paired up in the fic. This is a fandom where complicated poly arrangements are perfectly fine and dandy. If you do decide to break up canon couples, please do it amicably. Also, ignoring Exit Wounds and anything after it is encouraged (but not required, of course; you can set the fic earlier, or fix it via time travel/magically snatching the characters out of harm's way/etc). See below for one specific DNW related to that - I don't want alternate-universe versions of the dead characters who aren't "our" Owen, Tosh, or Ianto.
My favorite era in the show is the last half of season two (minus Exit Wounds), and any sort of hypothetical future following along from that. I love all the character development that goes along with Owen being dead, and the relative gentleness and softness that enters into his relationships with his teammates because of it. I would lovelovelove any variation on marriage, soulbonding, and/or life-sharing to bring him back to life after his canonical undeath - some kind of alien artifact or supernatural ritual, for example, that allows Owen to live as long as someone else is bonded to him. Or the inverse: he gets married to someone(s) who has to convince Owen they're not just settling for him, only to find out that the marriage grants unexpected powers/abilities that bring him to for-real life.
If that doesn't float your boat, that's fine! There are SO many ways these total dumbasses could fall in love and get married (or the other way around: get married and THEN fall in love), from alien ceremonies to fake-undercover-marriage because of Torchwood reasons to accidentally-for-real getting married in a ritual to save the world, and I would love alllll of them. I really enjoy the completely batshit nature of their work lives, and would love to see any of these pairings fall in love while working together on some canon-typical kind of Torchwood weirdness. Feel free to throw them into any kind of tropey scenario from undercover in suburbia to Aliens Made Them Do It to eldritch sex rituals.
DNW: Anyone being actually, for-real permanently dead (as opposed to Owen's undeath, which is fine); fixing canonical character deaths by bringing in alternate-universe versions with different backstories and relationships than the canon characters; Gwen-bashing (okay to leave her out if you don't want to write her); dark/downer endings; characters ending the fic hating each other or otherwise at odds. Specific to the Jack/Ianto/Owen pairing, I'd like the feelings to be spread around equally; I don't want any one leg of that relationship being portrayed as "less" than the other - specifically don't want Owen being a third wheel in a relationship that is mostly Jack/Ianto.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 2 by Sholio
Marvel - TV
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum & Danny Rand & Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arranged Marriage - Spouses Stay Platonic, Undercover as Married, Accidentally married best friend's partner, Married To Save Each Other's Lives, Married to Inherit the Company, Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill, Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives, Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people, Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards, Marriage to cure sex pollen, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Character A Marries Character B's Ghost To Resurrect Them, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Characters Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding, Character A Thought Character B Was Dead/Gone Forever Until Arranged Marriage To B, Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret, Engaged Couple Must Prove Devotion by Undergoing Painful Ritual, Character A and Character B Must Pretend to Be Married For the Inheritance
The platonic version! (Though canon levels of Danny/Colleen are fine.) Feel free to go wild with all sorts of handwavy variants on arranged/forced marriage involving Danny and Ward as the heirs to the company - maybe Harold makes them do it, because Harold; maybe it's an alternate universe where arranged marriage is a thing and they were betrothed from childhood; maybe the terms of Harold's will require Ward to get married to fully inherit. Maybe it's Ward and Colleen in a forced marriage as some kind of Hand-related thing.
Or perhaps it's all part of a magic ritual to bring one of them back to life, or to save the world, or to otherwise resolve one of the completely bonkers situations they keep finding themselves in.
I absolutely love forced cohabiting and forced intimacy, so feel free to go wild with characters learning about each other's trauma due to the nightmares they can no longer hide, arguing over dishes, platonically cuddling, etc. I also adore hurt/comfort, either emotional or physical, but if that's not your thing, no worries there; I'm fine without it too.
As you can see from the ship request, I'm fine with shippy variants, so don't worry about it if you aim for platonic and it goes over the line to ship. It's just a somewhat different set of tags.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
Request 3 by Sholio
Marvel - TV
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum/Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Ward Meachum/Danny Rand/Colleen Wing (Marvel TV)
Medium: Fanfiction
Arranged Marriage - magic picks partners and is legally binding, Character A Thought Character B Was Dead/Gone Forever Until Arranged Marriage To B, Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage Assumed to be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond, Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings, Married to Inherit the Company, Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage, Marriage Essentially Platonic but Must Be Consummated First, Forced to Consummate Marriage by Third Party, married as cover but unexpectedly have to consummate it in ritual, Fake Marriage Results in Surprise Real Feelings, Character A and Character B Must Pretend to Be Married For the Inheritance, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret, Sex Pollen - Marriage Mandatory Afterwards, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, betrothed as children, Marriage of Convenience - one partner is falsely believed to be fatally ill
The ship version! Details are very much like the gen version; free to go wild with all sorts of handwavy variants on arranged/forced marriage involving Danny and Ward as the heirs to the company - maybe Harold makes them do it, because Harold; maybe it's an alternate universe where arranged marriage is a thing and they were betrothed from childhood; maybe the terms of Harold's will require Ward to get married to fully inherit. Maybe it's Ward and Colleen in a forced marriage as some kind of Hand-related situation.
Or perhaps it's all part of a magic ritual to bring one of them back to life, or to save the world, or to otherwise resolve one of the completely bonkers situations they keep finding themselves in.
I absolutely love forced cohabiting and forced intimacy, so feel free to go wild with characters learning about each other's trauma due to the nightmares they can no longer hide, arguing over dishes, cuddling and awkwardly falling in love, etc. I also adore hurt/comfort, either emotional or physical, but if that's not your thing, no worries there; I'm fine without it too.
For pairings other than Ward/Danny/Colleen, you can handle Danny/Colleen in any way you like as long as it results in an amicable relationship afterwards - maybe they're permanently broken up after season two, or never got together; or maybe they stay together as a poly "V" kind of thing.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings. For this request only, no explicit sex, please, though kissing and cuddling and the implication they're going to have sex later/have already had sex are fine.
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Request 4 by Sholio
Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)
Medium: Fanfiction
Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Marriage Is the Only Cure for Fatal Soul Bond, Marriage Where One Partner Has Platonic Soulmate, Undercover as Married, Best Friend Marriage to Escape Unsupportive Parents, Resurrection Spell Requires Ritual Marriage, Character A Marries Character B's Ghost To Resurrect Them, betrothed as children, Arranged marriage with both in love with third party, Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people, Arranged Royal Marriage, Marriage by Winning Ritual Combat Against Potential Spouse's Current Spouse, Ritual Marriage Gone Wrong, Resurrection Sex Spell Gone Wrong Results in Unbreakable Magical Marriage Bond, Forced to Marry Due to Soulbond, Marriage so Supernatural Partner Can Have a Soul, Marriage to Stay Undercover Unexpectedly Results in Soul Bond
For pairings outside this relationship, if any, feel free to have any combination of the Steve/Nancy/Jonathan triad, or Robin/any female character (or OC).
It's Hawkins, so go as OTT as you like. An eldritch horror made them get married? Sure! Robin has to marry Steve's ghost to bring him back to life? Why the heck not! AUs in which arranged marriages are a thing in 1980s suburbia? Go for it! Or maybe it's actually more real-worldish, with Robin and Steve providing each other an alibi marriage for anything from insurance reasons to giving the other one a place to stay to get them out of a toxic home situation.
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings; Robin being romantically or sexually interested in guys.
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Request 5 by Sholio
Agent Carter (TV)
Peggy Carter/Jack Thompson (Agent Carter)
Peggy Carter/Daniel Sousa/Jack Thompson (Agent Carter)
Medium: Fanfiction
Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage, Arranged marriage to end conflict, Arranged Royal Marriage, betrothed as children, Betrothed/Spouse Has a Secret Identity, Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
There's a fairly specific thing I'd love to have for this: an arranged marriage between Peggy and Jack, with or without Daniel as an additional element in the relationship. Peggy and Jack can actually even stay platonic; that part is totally up to you. It can be a total AU in which they're royalty, or a slight AU of our world in which arranged marriages are a thing. Spy shenanigans on the side are welcome, e.g. of the Scarlet Pimpernel variety - i.e. secret from spouse as well - or all of them working for the SSR or a similar organization as in canon. Arguing and fighting and gradually coming around to a mutual understanding and love (of whatever form) is excellent. As noted in other requests, I love forced cohabitation/space-sharing and all that goes along with it - arguing over dishes or laundry, forced to share a bed, forced discovery of each other's trauma/nightmares because it can no longer be hidden.
If the details of this request are too restrictive, of course, I would be entirely happy with a different take on the requested pairings/tags. I would rather have you write the fic of your heart than be stuck trying to follow a very specific request of mine!
DNW: Permanent character death or terminal illness; references to real-world plague (similar symptoms from something else are fine); dark/downer endings.
Letter: http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1327702.html
