krauss, heartbreak and curry

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Fandom #1 Valentine (TV 2008): Tucker Blumsack, Vivi Langdon

Tucker & Vivi are my favorite soulmate pair from the show. They’re such different people from such different walks of life, and yet they both really respect each other so much. I just want to see where they go from the point we left them at. 

A few prompts:  - How do they deal with fame? Does Tucker go with her to red carpet events? Do her fans embrace him? What do they think about her new artistic relationship? Feel free to explore this because I’m really fascinated by artists’ relationships with their fans.  - Them just being artists in love, sitting around being creative together - Them negotiating the early stages of their relationship. What’s their first proper date like? What kinds of things do they do together? Does he take her back to his hometown? How does Vivi adjust to living in the real world again instead of party world? - What happens later in their lives? Does Tucker get famous too? Does he become a respected theatre director/actor? Does Vivi ever go back to movies?

Explicit sex is good, but no PWP please. I also ship Kate/Danny and Phoebe/Leo, so if you want to include any of those in any capacity that would be great as well!

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Fandom #2 Kushiel’s Legacy - Jacqueline Carey: Imriel de la Courcel, Sidonie de la Courcel

Sidonie. Is. EVERYTHING. I love her SO MUCH. She’s so cool & collected, but fiery underneath. So prickly and aloof, but she inspires such loyalty in those who know her well. She’s so, so cautious and yet so headstrong. I love every single thing about Imriel, too, but Sidonie is my favorite character. 

With Imri and Sidonie, the thing that fascinates me is all the layers to their relationship, all the ways it’s changed over the years, from children who disliked one another to lovesick teenagers to adults who would do anything for each other. I’d love any interaction between them set at any point in their timeline, especially one of the points when things started changing.

Another interesting thing is the contrast between the epic love stories in the books and the domestic life that follows. Joscelin once crossed a bridge dangling from knives to save Phedre, but in the second trilogy Imri mostly just sees them as parents. We know Ysandre and Drustan as fierce, idealistic young lovers, but in the second trilogy, Imri and Sidonie just see them as strict parents and duty-bound rulers. I was so fascinated by that transition and the change in perspectives, and it made me wonder how Imri and Sidonie might change as adults and how the next generation might view them and their epic love story. I’d also love a look at their relationship with Ysandre and Drustan post-Mercy, or Joscelin and Phedre getting to know Sidonie.

I also love Alais, her fierce sisterly relationship with Sidonie and her playful one with Imri. I’d love to see more of them all interacting, or all of them dealing with the aftermath of Mercy.

I haven’t read the Naamah Trilogy, so no spoilers for those books please! I also would prefer no explicit sex scenes for this fandom since we get enough of them in canon (the only fandom I can say that about, haha)!

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Fandom #3 Willow - Taylor Swift (Music Video): Witch

I’m just fascinated by the whole scene with the witches in the woods doing... something with magic. I love the whole atmosphere of that scene, the rhythm of their movements, the lights, everything. What are they doing? Who are they? Why is our witch not wearing a mask? Why did she come late to the party? Is this her first time?

You’re welcome to either focus entirely on the witch scene or include other scenes from the video, but I’d prefer the witch scene to take center stage. I’m open to a lot of interpretations for the connection between this scene and the others. Could they be scenes from past lives? Parallel universes? Maybe they’re not set on earth at all; this could be a magical fantasy world or another planet. Our witch could also be a time traveler. I would prefer if none of the scenes are a dream, though, please. 

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Fandom #4 Into You - Ariana Grande (Music Video): Famous Girl, Bodyguard

For this fandom, I want a fic focusing on the relationship between the celebrity girl and the bodyguard/security guard/her lover. Who is he to her exactly? 

Some prompts:  - What’s happening in the video when she disappears and he goes after her? Are they already together at that point? Why is she at this event with that other douchebag anyway? - Them hanging out at the motel. What are they doing? Did they run away together, or do they have these secret rendezvous regularly? They’re obviously from very different backgrounds; how do they navigate that? What do they do together?  - How did their relationship start? - Something about her daily life dealing with fame. Celebrity mode and Normal Person mode, the transition between the two, and the few people who get to see her in both modes.  - Explicit sex scenes are fine for this fandom, but no PWP please. - A “5 times” fic or another tropey fic structure would be great for this fandom!

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General Likes

Relationship dynamics. I love to see characters interacting in realistic, layered ways. How they work when they're together, how they affect each other, how they clash or get along or both at the same time. Romance (and gen between characters who might become romantic in the future) is my favorite kind of relationship to explore.

Character studies. I love characters who make flawed but very human decisions, and the mundane details of their lives that illuminate the bigger things. I like moments of honesty; I like the moment when walls that characters have built, or have come to believe exist, start to dissipate.

Stories told through social media, text messages, messages scribbled on walls, etc. Stories with a non-linear timeline. Stories told in disjointed glimpses.

For explicit sex scenes: frottage, cunnilingus, orgasm delay/control, light d/s, tentative exploration.

General Dislikes

Comedy or darkfic inconsistent with the tone of the canon.

I’d prefer no AUs for my fandoms this year.

Extreme gore/explicit violence. I find suggestion to be more powerful than a play-by-play.

Scat & watersports.

Rape, noncon and contrived dubcon tropes (aliens made them do it, fuck or die, they were under an aphrodisiac spell, etc.).

Genderswap, raceswap.

Mpreg.

A/B/O.