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Thank you so much for writing for me! Some of these sections are longer than others, but that's just about how many different prompts I could think of and how succinctly (or not-so-succinctly) I could write them--I love all these fandoms/characters, and any of them would make me happy. I'm just delighted to have 10k (!) to look forward to.

I'm scioscribe on AO3 and scioscribe on Tumblr. All requests this year are for fic.

Likes

hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, ensembles, enemies-to-lovers (or friends), friendships, friends-to-lovers, opposites attract, conflicting worldviews and priorities, emotional vulnerability, fix-its, casefic, canon-style adventures, crack played straight, moral complexity, nuanced bad guys/terrible people with moments of goodness or vulnerability, redemption, pining, obvious feelings that don’t quite get admitted to, unconventional gestures of affection, complicated relationships, partnerships, power dynamics, shippy gen and ambiguously intense relationships, intimacy, found family, first-time stories, established relationships, character death, amnesia, characters forced to cooperate, forced proximity, bedsharing, huddling/cuddling for warmth, 5 + 1 fics, slow-burns, fake/pretend relationships, arranged marriage/marriage of convenience, sex pollen, made them do it, noncon-related hurt/comfort, rape recovery, power couples, age gaps, worldbuilding, undercover work, loyalty, tenderness, acts of kindness, trying to do the right thing, identity porn, canon-divergence AUs, added supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi elements

Historical- and canon-typical language, violence, attitudes, and darkness-levels all okay to include.

General Sex Likes/Kinks

clothed sex, wall-sex, rough sex, dubcon/ambiguous consent, teasing, anal play/sex, oral sex, rimming, frottage, fingering, gags, dirty talk, hand and finger kink, hair-touching, nipple play, characters giving orders/instructions, roleplay, casual D/s, spanking (including breasts, thighs, and pussy), talking during sex, emotional sex, sleepy/lazy sex, humorous sex scenes, enthusiastic sex, tenderness, loss of virginity, bad/awkward sex (either charmingly funny or downbeat), coming untouched, coming in pants, voyeurism, exhibitionism, collaring, people getting mussed, orgasm delay/denial, overstimulation, edging, begging, historical period- or location-specific sex, sex toys, praise kink, possessiveness, marking/bruising/biting

DNW

ageplay, mommy/daddy kink, explicit sex for characters under sixteen, scat, bestiality, necrophilia

The Alienist
Laszlo Kreizler/Karen Stratton
Violet Hayward/John Schuyler Moore

This show is so tailored to my interests--the Gilded Age, grittiness but also high society, crime, complicated relationships, flawed and traumatized characters, developing understanding of psychology, hurt/comfort, character growth--and it has so many great performances and such empathy for everybody. I love it.

These are two very different relationships, but I'm rolling them together because they're two canon pairings that I'd really love to see get some more development. Karen and Laszlo have really magnetic chemistry and are all set up to have a deep and slightly unconventional relationship, while John and Violet spend a lot of time not understanding each other, at least initially, and are both more conventional. Effectively, most of these prompts will boil down to "give me more of their romance/relationship developing" because both ships hit tropes that I particularly like and I just want more, so absolutely anything along those lines would make me happy.

+ Laszlo and Karen's Kinky Sex Adventures in Vienna. I feel like there's no way these two aren't going to have a lot of terrific, tender, boundary-pushing sex while they're off in Vienna together, and I'd love to read about it. What has Karen done on her own? What would she be trying for the first time too? How does Laszlo react to having first-hand experience of things he's only known about academically? What works for them, and what winds up being a bust? What do they wind up having unusually strong or emotionally complex reactions to?

+ The late stages of John and Violet's engagement/early stages of their wedding! I feel like once John commits to staying with her, they have a fair shot at actually being happy in the long run--he's got plenty of traditional impulses that fit well with that kind of life. But he doesn't necessarily love her yet--or at least isn't in love with her--and I'd love to see that slowly blossom, especially through just the mundane realities of their daily lives together and domestic details like settling into living together, etc. Violet knows that she's not necessarily John's Grand Passionate Love and clearly feels insecure about it, so I'd also like to see her gradually getting a firmer place in his life, one where she feels comfortable and happy. I'm a sucker for "this sense of comfort and contentment and our lives working well together is actually a perfectly good kind of happiness, and I'm glad I'm with you."

+ I'm really moved by Karen comforting Laszlo when he's in danger of losing the Institute, and I'd love to see more of them emotionally supporting each other, especially once they're involved and more intimate. (Comfort sex? Comfort sex is always welcome.) Maybe something goes wrong for Karen, and Laszlo has to look out for her and take care of her for a while? Family tragedy? Maybe--once they're back in America?--Laszlo's father dies, and it forces him to deal with a whole bunch of difficult memories that he has to talk to Karen about?

+ Violet knows that their marriage might not have happened if it weren't for her getting pregnant, so I want the emotional whump of her losing the baby and then feeling adrift in a life where she really doesn't know if she brings anything to her husband's life, especially if she's still waiting to find out whether she'll ever be able to have kids. (I could go either way on the kids, but I do want the eventual answer to "does she bring anything to John's life" to be "yes.") I'd love to see some dramatic circumstances that make it clear that he really does care for her--and maybe that's even the first tiem it really becomes clear to him, too.

+ I'm weak for the Karen/Laszlo romance reaching the point of a proposal and a wedding. They're not following the most traditional relationship course, but I do see them as eventually wanting to get married, and I'd love to see the eventual proposal and the ensuing wedding preparations/ceremony and wedding night. (Supporting cast extra-welcome in this, so feel free to throw in John and Sara putting together Laszlo's bachelor party or something.) I just want them to have something beautiful and personally significant!

+ More John/Violet "settling into being married" prompts: Violet somehow takes a stand against her father for John's sake, making it clear that they're a team, or otherwise gets invested in the version of John's career that he actually wants and cares about? John gradually befriends Violet's dog? The progress of their emotional intimacy followed--sometimes rockily--through their physical intimacy? (Honestly, if you want to combine this with the Laszlo/Karen prompts, I'm totally down for John/Violet slowly embracing more kinkiness in a way that makes them happy.)



The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson

I totally fell for these two with their bickering and their deep feelings and their heart-eyes for each other. I love Sam's blend of ideals and practicality and willingness to just keep trying, and I love Bucky's grumpiness and humor and loyalty and persistence. They hit the sweet spot of blending together well enough to be terrific partners but still having conflict and pining potential. Plus, they're destined to spend their whole lives getting into trouble.

+ Sam is now Captain America, putting him even more in the public eye. What's it like for him to suddenly be that much of a symbol, with all the accompanying pressures and criticisms and scrutiny? How can Bucky help him deal with it? If Sam's always bound to attract a lot of attention, does it feel like he and Bucky can't take things to the next level? Does Sam worry about the effects of being an openly queer Captain America? I'd love any takes on this, from angsty and full of pining to comedic and full of frustration as they're constantly trying to date/fuck but can't get enough time alone to "I'm going to make a big romantic declaration and to hell with what anyone else thinks about it" swoonworthy romance.

+ Sam accompanies Bucky on a particularly fraught attempt to find/provide closure for a Winter Soldier-era event. Maybe it's a complex situation that they have to figure out how to handle, maybe it involves a lot of emotional vulnerability that sparks some feelings, maybe it winds up rousing ire from someone who doesn't differentiate Bucky and the Winter Soldier and wants revenge… Either way, it can serve as a great road trip/isolated setting catalyst for a feelings realization or get-together.

+ Fantasy-elements AU where "Captain America" is more of a mystical, magical position that basically gives you a deep connection to the place you're representing and maybe some magical powers related to it. And Bucky is technically sworn to the shield/magically tied to it, but he doesn't want to be Walker's guy, so he wants to convince Sam to take up the mantle despite Sam's misgivings. (Does the mantle also involve sleeping with him? RITUAL SEX.) Feel free to go all in on the magic and worldbuilding.

+ Background deep-dive: They have to solve some kind of elaborate Southern Gothic problem in Sam's neck of the woods, dealing with people from his childhood, or have to take the Paul & Darlene out for some lengthy sea adventure? Sarah and the kids are endangered, and Sam and Bucky have to make sure they're safe? They all accidentally travel back in time to 1930s Brooklyn?

+ Due to magic or aliens, they wind up switching bodies temporarily, and a ton of complications come up as they try to work out how to fix it. Sam has to get used to supersoldier strength and a prosthetic arm, Bucky's dealing with suddenly being a Black guy in America and with not having supersoldier strength … and also it's hard to resist exploring each other's bodies, especially as things go on. Body appreciation, jerking off in someone else's body, having sex in the wrong bodies, etc.

+ Sam's had to step up and throw his whole life on the line for Bucky before, so now I crave Bucky having to dramatically risk everything for Sam. "Oh, you need me to participate in some really bad idea that could ruin my whole life? Got it. (I'd do anything for you.)"

+ All kinds of hurt/comfort scenarios, seriously. Stranded in the winter and growing hypothermic, needing to share body heat? Captured and tortured? Captured and nonconned? One having to watch the other one suffer without being able to intervene? One trying to rescue the other? Bad guys or aliens Made Them Do It when they weren't sure they wanted to go there yet? I love scenarios like this where they're trying to make it as good as possible, but the situation is so awkward and uncomfortable that it's still rough and each is still unsure of what the other one is feeling.

+ Absolutely any kind of marriage scenario, including in AU worlds where marriages are primarily about family/state alliances or social stability and only secondly about love. I'll go along with any worldbuilding here. As Captain America, Sam is expected to have some kind of "significant" marriage, so he keeps having to consider all these different candidates he's not really clicking with … but hey, could he justify marrying Bucky as "making a stronger team"? Or maybe Bucky needs to have some kind of official spousal sponsor for his pardon? They have to get married on an alien planet or as part of a magic ritual, and they think it'll just be pro forma, but it comes with a soulbond? Marriage is mandatory after sex pollen? Bucky has to compete for Sam's hand in marriage?

James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson & Helmut Zemo
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson/Helmut Zemo

I'm okay with whatever means you want to use to get this team-up happening: maybe Zemo's paroled to Sam and Bucky's custody with certain conditions or restrictions, maybe they just have to check him out from the Raft for various missions, etc. I just really love the idea of them as a team, slowly working out an actual (if weird) bond of mutual, snarky attachment, slowly growing trust, and loyalty. It's just all perfectly primed for my love of redemption arcs and/or relationships and priorities that change how one-time villains approach things. And they have such great, testy energy together.

I'm also fine with Sam/Bucky in a Sam & Bucky & Zemo scenario.

+ I'd love to see them going up against some really weird, non-Flag Smasher problems. Maybe undoing the Snap caused weird ripple effects throughout the universe, and all kinds of mini eldritch horrors are manifesting everywhere? Maybe they have to use their relatively grounded combined abilities against a villain with superpowers?

+ Anything that plunges them all into one of their backgrounds. They have to solve some kind of elaborate Southern Gothic problem in Sam's neck of the woods, dealing with people from his childhood, or have to take the Paul & Darlene out for some lengthy boat adventure? Sarah and the kids are endangered, and Sam, Bucky, and Zemo have to make sure they're safe? They all accidentally travel back in time to 1930s Brooklyn? Sokovia has been dissolved into other countries, but suddenly it's somehow a ghost territory full of phantom spirits and buildings destroyed in war, and they have to figure out what the hell's going on?

+ They're stranded in an inhospitable environment/taken captive together/lost on an alien planet/forcibly soulbonded/etc.--anything with a lot of potential for forced proximity and hurt/comfort, which are so great for getting over the enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends hurdle that Zemo brings with him.

+ It turns out someone is doing terrible experiments with or otherwise abusing the prisoners on the Raft (or just the one non-superpowered one), and Sam and Bucky have to break Zemo out again and try to shut everything down. I just love the idea of "this has to stop, but also in particular we have to get this one guy out; we're taking our villain and leaving for some trauma recovery. We'll work out some kind of arrangement later."

+ AU where the GRC is even worse and more controlling, making everything dystopian and/or chaotic. If they're going to try to do any good, they're going to have to go on the run and deal with being constantly hunted while they exist in the cracks of society and rotate between safehouses and possible sanctuaries. I'd love to see Sam's practical idealism and heroism under these conditions, in particular, because he'd have even more of an impact then and be even more necessary.

+ Additional random hurt/comfort prompts: Captured and tortured? Captured and nonconned? All of them together, or with one/two of them having to watch the other(s) get hurt? One of them is tortured for information about the others, and others recover him later? Forced to accept torture or rape for food/medical care for someone else? Rescue missions? Feel free to whump any or all of them and then let them comfort each other (with or without additional sex). Also, I will buy into basically any premise that allows for h/c, so FWIW, I am not a stickler for "is this a plausible real-world situation." I'm also a sucker for things like "characters draws negative attention onto themselves to protect someone else," characters having to hurt their friends/loved ones in some undercover situation, and temporary character death or "I thought you were dead."

+ Amnesia: They're in a somewhat more settled relationship--friendship, established if wary allies, romance, It's Complicated--and then one or more (but not all three) of them loses the last few years of his memory and has no idea how they ended up like this, and there is much angst and confusion.

+ They know that one of them has been replaced by some kind of malicious doppelganger, maybe even one that has access to the original's memories, and they have to figure out which one of them isn't who he says he is and get the original version back.

+ Some illusion-creating device or magic puts Zemo in an idyllic fantasy world where Sokovia was never war-torn and he's just happy with his wife and son, but he has niggling almost-memories or dreams of all kinds of violence--and also these two guys who are in severe trouble and really need help. But getting to Sam and Bucky means having to break the fantasy world and lose his wife and son all over again.

+ Sam and Bucky need someone to turn them over to HYDRA/other bad guys as part of a ruse, but it's hard to find someone who plausibly seems like they might sell them out but who won't actually sell them out. Only one name comes to mind ... but it's still hard to put their lives in Zemo's hands and trust him to come through for them.



The Perfection
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wells/Charlotte Willmore

Lizzie and Charlotte have incredible chemistry, and I love how their relationship has such a weird blend of genuine loyalty and care… and for-your-own-good gaslighting and forced amputation and obsession and identity blurring. Charlotte feels like an escaped Brontë character, with this vibe of simultaneous fragility and danger, and Lizzie starts off seeming more normal only to wind up becoming stranger and more brutal. I'd love anything that digs into their fucked-up, promising complexity.

+ I'm so curious about what happens post-canon. Do Charlotte and Lizzie become dark, off-kilter vigilantes, seeking out rapists and abusers and brutally murdering them? Do they somehow manage to take over the school and start running it together, becoming the new faces of Bachoff? Does that just mean trying to deprogram some of the top students?

+ An alternate, darker version of them taking control of the school, with the two of them falling into their own kind of worship of the Perfection even in Anton's absence? Can they fully shake what they were taught, or do they find themselves repeating bits of that behavior even when they don't want to?

+ I'd love full-on supernatural horror, too. I spent a lot of time thinking there might turn out to actually be some kind of cosmic force they were worshipping (and sacrificing to) that embodied a kind of musical/artistic perfection, and I'd be very happy to see this as a literal Lovecraftian cult that Charlotte and Lizzie wind up inheriting. Do they know how to deal with the force they might have just offended? Does it require them to do anything? Do they give the bodies to it as an offering? What does any of this look like--how they serve it, how they move forward, how they potentially try to defeat or contain it, etc.?

+ What if that threatened virus/zombie outbreak from the beginning was real, and Charlotte's plans go awry because she and Lizzie are stuck in the middle of an apocalypse? Are they still in China, or do they have to take an uncomfortable, destined-to-explode refuge at Bachoff?

+ More Gothic horror, just because the house is so perfect for it. The lingering ghosts of Anton, Paloma, Theis, and Geoffrey? A murderous student who's already been indoctrinated into the previous way of doing things? (I always welcome creepy children.) Past students seeking revenge for Anton? Alternately, I'll take other kinds of horror, too--what if that threatened virus/zombie outbreak from the beginning turns out to be real?

+ I could also see some canon-divergences. What if Charlotte's mom hadn't gotten sick until after she'd had some time to get to know Lizzie, and she'd wound up running away and taking Lizzie with her? What if her mom had died sooner and she'd come back earlier on to wage a different kind of war on the school? Or a role-reversal, maybe, where Charlotte is the one who stayed with Anton and Paloma, and Lizzie wound up having to leave the school for some reason, only to come back years later--I'd love to see her starting off with the same motives (revenge, desire to save Charlotte, growing love) but playing them out in very different ways. Or I could also totally just go for a long-game road-trip through China, with the two of them deepening their relationship and Charlotte trying to change Lizzie's mind in more subtle ways.

+ Random assortment of mini-prompts: music metaphors/musical structures for stories, Lizzie and Charlotte's relationship to music, their duets, consensual stump insertion, sex games that edge into being deeply unhealthy therapy, joyous sex all about emotion and experience/inexperience and tenderness and maybe kink discovery, porn in general, becoming composers, Charlotte having trouble dealing with the world after spending years as a virtual shut-in.



Re-Animator
Daniel Cain/Herbert West

Re-Animator is such a goofy, gory delight, and it hit me with so many unexpected feelings, especially in the first movie. It's so funny and frequently, delightfully over-the-top while still taking its characters' emotions seriously, and I love the intensity and weirdness of the Herbert-Dan relationship and would be happy with anything that gave me more of that. I really like them being mutually emotionally tied up with each other and having this bizarre loyalty kink and sense of teamwork.

+ More horror is enthusiastically welcome. They awaken or otherwise attract the attention of some kind of eldritch entity? They're snowbound in a haunted hotel? Quietly tragic horror where Dan slowly realizes that he's Herbert's most successful resurrection because Herbert couldn't stand to let him go even though he's come back slightly wrong? Herbert dies at the end of the first movie but sporadically makes ghostly appearances in Dan's life to protect him, bug him about working on the reagent, and just generally be in love with him? Chased and hurt by monsters and/or zombies or trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse?

+ Straight-up stolen from the Jump Scare tag-set: "24-hour convenience store in a really weird neighborhood AU." Dan keeps going to get cheap coffee and snacks at a convenience store across from the hospital, and both it and the Herbert West guy who works there are really weird. So sort of like a coffee shop AU, but grimy and with flickering lights and eldritch happenings and possibly zombies lurching out of the closet and knocking over Slurpee machines.

+ I love the idea that Herbert succumbs to Hill's hypnosis with particular ease, which of course would disconcert him. Maybe he asks Dan to hypnotize him a few times so he can get become more adept at breaking free of that kind of control, and they wind up getting really into it was a kind of unconventional (and deeply ill-advised) D/s and/or consensual somnophilia-adjacent thing? I just really like the idea of Herbert finding that he inexplicably likes being temporarily under Dan's control and trying to justify this in very scientific terms while Dan is also grappling with it from his side, liking the protectiveness but sort of being afraid of all the power? Relatedly, I am also 100% down for this as a kind of weird trauma recovery with Hill having previously nonconned a hypnotized Herbert. I am in general very fond of non-Dan dudes sexually menacing Herbert West.

+ Mpreg! The first movie mentions that it's possible Dan could get expelled for violating university morals if anyone knew he was sleeping with Megan. AU where they're still students and Dan--possibly in the aftermath of some break-up with Megan--has a one-night stand and gets pregnant. He knows an unwed pregnancy would get him booted out of school, but he still wants to keep it--and him leaving is totally unacceptable to Herbert, who therefore will simply have to marry him for propriety's sake so they can keep up the work. Feelings, of course, gradually emerge.

+ Sex pollen-like reagent fumes: a natural hazard of scientific work. I am so here for these two hooking up under a chemical influence and then having to decide what to do about it, possibly with the twist that this really does happen pretty regularly and, say, Dan catches himself being disappointed that it happened once while he was gone and Herbert just wound up jerking off the whole time.

+ Any and all hurt/comfort, blended with any of the above prompts or on their own. I love whumped Herbert, and I also love his sporadic attempts to take care of Dan--swooping in with a trauma blanket and, in a deleted scene from the first movie, making him a picture-perfect sandwich to get him to eat something!--so both variations are perfect. Maybe one of them gets hypnotized/mind-controlled into hurting the other, resulting in a heaping helping of angst with the h/c? Maybe one of them has to perform emergency surgery on the other without any anesthesia? Herbert gets shaky and exhausted from reagent withdrawal, or, alternately, he has to take a lot more of it than usual to, say, try to fight their way out of a zombie apocalypse situation, and then he crashes? One of them hurt protecting the other?

+ Co-sleeping: I have a lot of feelings about the deleted scene from the first movie where Herbert has been shooting up small doses of the reagent in order to go without sleep, and Dan is alarmed by it but has to wind up administering it to him anyway because Herbert's shaking too badly to do it himself. I'd love to see them developing weird co-sleeping habits because Dan just wants to get him to go to bed and being in it with him is as good a way as any. Sex can definitely ensue, but I'm also happy with just weirdly intense, boundary-blurring bed-sharing. This can also totally be blended with weirdly sensual and morally dubious reagent injection or tender sedative administration.