Battleship Exchange 2021

[lucymonster]

Dear creator,

Thanks so much for creating for me! I hope you'll find me an easy recipient: this letter includes a selection of my favourite things for inspiration, but I’m very open to anything you’d like to do.

I've requested fic and art for everything, and my requested freeform tags are identical across all fandoms. For this exchange, I haven't included any fandom- or ship-specific prompts. I've listed all my requested fandoms and ships for easy reference - I've had to split my signup across the main collection and the prompt meme, but I'm totally happy for any of these fandoms to fulfil my assignment. Most are things I've requested before, so feel free to draw from my past letters if you'd like more guidance, but truly, I'll be thrilled if you take anything at all from my likes or requested freeforms and run with it.

And seriously, feel free to go where inspiration takes you! I opt in to anything I haven't explicitly DNW'd, so please don't stress about whether your idea is too dark, too niche, not shippy enough, whatever. I'm fine with any past or background ships you want to include, and in cases where a canon ship 'conflicts' with a requested ship, handle it however you like - break them up, AU them out, have it be an open relationship, ignore the issue completely, whatever. If you're looking at my letter thinking 'hmm, she hasn't mentioned [thing], but it doesn't seem wildly out of line with her tastes' - your instincts are good, you should include the thing, I bet I'll love it. :D

I'm lucymonster on ao3.

Thanks again, and may the best team win!

⛔ Do Not Want ⛔

• underage: explicit <18 sex, any <16 sex or any <13 romance
• unrequested parent/child incest, mummy or daddy kink, ageplay
• scat, vore, emetophilia, bestiality
• 'no-no-yes' type noncon, bimbofication
• extreme gore, graphic organ damage, genital bleeding/cutting/tearing
• AUs other than canon divergence (incl. trope AUs: please no a/b/o, soulmates etc)
• poetry
• unrequested trans or ace headcanons
• deliberate infidelity (you don't need to go out of your way to establish that an open relationship is consensual, just please no explicit sneaking around behind a partner's back; noncon/dubcon scenarios are also fine)
• unwarned major character death (tag or author’s note appreciated!).

⭐ Story Likes ⭐

In general, my favourite stories are the ones where the characters feel like real, live, messy and imperfect people. I love fics that are thought-provoking or uncomfortable to read. I love to relax into well-earned (or not-so-well-earned) moments of happiness for my otherwise beleaguered faves. I love to laugh. Favourite themes include:

• anything with a strong character focus
• characters who are flawed and abrasive and challenging to love; difficult or dysfunctional relationships
• dark/gritty/moody aesthetics
• imperfect happiness, bittersweet undertones, unfulfilled yearning
• ensemble casts, background characters, outsider POV
• mundane details, little moments of human vulnerability
• politics, bureaucracy, propaganda
• banter, snark, gallows humour, quippiness
• guilty pleasures: denying them, suppressing them, and finally giving into temptation
• tropes: hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, fake relationships, bodyswap
• descriptions of food, characters eating or sharing food, food as comfort
• military kink: uniforms, weapons, ‘sir’
• harsh environments, brutal weather, survival/adventure stories
• redemption (or failed redemption)
• crack treated seriously
• non-standard formats: drabbles, non-linear, epistolary, social media, in-universe meta.

💀 Dark Likes 💀

Honestly, go as brutal and fucked-up as you like. There's no such thing as too dark. I love my horror both overt and covert - if you're not feeling the in-your-face disasterfest, by all means creep me out with subtle insinuations or dark twists to sweet-seeming premises. Some favourite themes:

• noncon/dubcon (see my 2019 nonconathon letter for a still-current laundry list of kinks I love)
• bad guys win, good guys go bad
• grey morality, antiheroes, villain-centred morality
• extremist politics, callous bureaucracies, the mundane horrors of life under the jackboot
• 'ugly' mental illness: violence, paranoia, self-destructiveness, warped thinking
• self-harm, suicide attempts or ideation
• psychological horror
• coercion, blackmail, abuse of power
• victim blaming
• self-harm, self-destructiveness, suicide attempts
• physical torture: flogging, beating, burrning, bone-breaking, electrocuting
• psychological/'enhanced interrogation' style torture: sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, extreme noise and temperature, deliberate humiliation.

🍑 Smut Likes 🍑

Character-driven smut is my jam. I love sex that says something about the people involved, offbeat sex scenes, sex that's awkward and imperfect and humanising, unusual erogenous zones and intimate details about the characters' bodies. Favourite kinks include:

• orgasm delay/denial, sexual frustration, begging
• coming too quickly, loss of control, getting overwhelmed
• crying after sex
• rough sex, hate sex, power imbalances
• on the other hand: tender, adoring, needy sex with lavish attention to each other's pleasure
• humiliation, verbal insults, gendered slurs
• frottage, dry humping, clothed sex
• sex pollen, fuck-or-die
• different erogenous zones, being sensitive in non-genital places
• anal sex (het or slash), double or multiple penetration
• sounding, watersports, forced wetting
• public use, gangbangs
• loss of virginity, inexperience, clumsy sex
• praise kink
• scar worship
• uncomfortable, consensual-but-unpleasant type sex
• under-negotiated kinks
• any level of complex, problematic or questionable consent.

🎨 Art Likes 🎨

Any of my fic likes that can translate visually are just as relevant to my taste in art. For any of my ficcier prompts or favourite tropes, I'd be over the moon to receive an illustration from the hypothetical fic that fills them. I love dark, shadowy colour palettes and goth/metal/industrial styles and an overall moody gloom. I love symbolism and meaningful visual motifs, and I'm open to oblique, metaphorical depictions of ships just as much as pictures of people kissing. (But I am also, to be clear, still very keen on pictures of people kissing.)

On a different note, fluffy art is also amazing. I love chibis, cuddle piles and all manner of sugary cuteness. Polka dots or rainbows in the background just because? You son of a bitch, I'm in. My ship holds hands in the background while their new pet hamster frolics across most of the canvas? Just make sure that little guy's cheeks are as chubby as they come! Throw my grumpy black-clad faves into a scene of lollipops and sparkles? I'll squeal so much that even my ship's new pet hamster will think I'm shrill. I also adore that trend of tiny chibi characters with food items larger than they are.

Requested Tags

• 5+1 Things
• Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
• Angst
• Competence Kink
• Dubious Consent
• First Time
• Huddling For Warmth
• Hurt/Comfort
• Kink Discovery
• Loss of Virginity
• Pining
• Power Imbalance
• Praise Kink
• Sex Pollen
• Sharing a Bed
• Time Travel
• Touch-Starved
• Trauma
• Under-negotiated Kink
• Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

Requested Fandoms

❤️ Bleach

Solo characters:

• Kuchiki Byakuya

Ships:

• Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Byakuya
• Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Byakuya/Kurosaki Ichigo
• Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Byakuya/Zaraki Kenpachi
• Kuchiki Byakuya/Kuchiki Rukia
• Kuchiki Byakuya/Kurosaki Ichigo
• Kuchiki Byakuya/Zaraki Kenpachi

🧡 Buffyverse

Ships:

• Drusilla/Faith Lehane
• Drusilla/Willow Rosenberg

💛 Chronicles of Narnia Movies

Canon note: I've requested movieverse solely because I prefer my Caspian Ben Barnes-shaped and an adult. But I also love the books, so feel free to mix and match the canons as you please.

Re. my underage DNW - the Pevensies make the age thing super weird, and while I still don't want any explicit sex featuring underage bodies, I'm all for leaning right into the weirdness if you involve them: how frustrating must it be to go from a mature adult body into a childish one that suddenly makes you too young for the guy you're attracted to? You're also welcome to use 'real time vs Narnia time' weirdness to age them back up over 18 for smut purposes.

Ships:

• Caspian/Edmund
• Caspian/Lucy
• Caspian/Peter
• Caspian/Prunaprismia
• Caspian/Susan

💚 Descendants

Ships:

• Evie/Mal/Uma
• Evie/Uma
• Mal/Uma
• Evie/Mal

💙 Grishaverse

Canon note: I've requested slightly different characters/ships for bookverse and tv-verse, and for tv-only requests, I'd prefer the characters to keep their on-screen appearances.

Re. my underage DNW - if you want to create an explicit work, I'm equally okay with jumping ahead in the timeline or ageing the <18 character/s up.

The Grisha Trilogy

Solo characters and gen:

• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
• Baghra & The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova

Ships:

• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Mal Oretsev
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Mal Oretsev/Alina Starkov
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Nikolai Lantsov
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Zoya Nazyalensky

Shadow and Bone

Solo characters:

• Inej Ghafa
• The Darkling

Darkling ships:

• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov/ Zoya Nazyalensky /li>
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Inej Ghafa/Alina Starkov
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Luda
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Mal Oretsev
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Mal Oretsev/Alina Starkov
• The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Zoya Nazyalensky
• The Darkling/Inej Ghafa

Femslash ships:

• Inej Ghafa/Alina Starkov
• Inej Ghafa/Alina Starkov
• Inej Ghafa/Genya Safin
• Inej Ghafa/Zoya Nazyalensky
• Zoya Nazyalensky/Alina Starkov
• Zoya Nazyalensky/Genya Safin

💜 Harry Potter

Gen:

• Dudley Dursley & Harry Potter
• Hogwarts Staff & Severus Snape

Femslash ships:

• Cho Chang/Fleur Delacour
• Fleur Delacour/Nymphadora Tonks
• Gabrielle Delacour/Ginny Weasley
• Madam Rosmerta/Aurora Sinistra

Het ships:

• James Potter/Lily Evans Potter
• Petunia Evans Dursley/Severus Snape
• Sirius Black/James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

Slash ships:

• Sirius Black/James Potter
• Sirius Black/Severus Snape

🖤 Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie

Solo characters and gen:

• Athoek Station
• Mercy of Kalr Kalr Five | Ettan
• Zeiat
• Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq & Zeiat
• Athoek Station & Celar
• Dlique & Zeiat
• Gem of Sphene & Zeiat

Ships:

• Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq/Mercy of Kalr
• Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq/Mercy of Kalr/Seivarden Vendaai
• Mercy of Kalr Kalr Five | Ettan/Seivarden Vendaai

💗 Marvel Cinematic Universe

Solo characters:

• Minn-Erva

Femslash ships:

• Carol Danvers/Minn-Erva
• Carol Danvers/Minn-Erva/Maria Rambeau
• Gamora/Minn-Erva
• Gamora/Minn-Erva/Nebula
• Minn-Erva/Maria Rambeau
• Minn-Erva/Nebula
• Minn-Erva/Valkyrie

Het ships:

• Minn-Erva/Yon-Rogg
• Loki/Minn-Erva

🤎 Pirates of the Caribbean

Solo characters:

• James Norrington

Ships:

• James Norrington/Elizabeth Swann/Will Turner
• James Norrington/Jack Sparrow
• James Norrington/Jack Sparrow/Elizabeth Swann
• James Norrington/Jack Sparrow/Will Turner
• James Norrington/Will Turner

🤍 Star Wars

The Mandalorian

Ships:

• Cara Dune/Bo-Katan Kryze
• Cara Dune/Fennec Shand
• Din Djarin/Bo-Katan Kryze

Star Wars - All Media Types

Gen:

• Grogu & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Ships:

• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Jacen Syndulla
• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Terex
• Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Jacen Syndulla
• Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Terex
• Ransolm Casterfo/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Solo characters and gen:

• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Armitage Hux & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Femslash ships:

• Phasma/Rose Tico
• Zorii Bliss/Rose Tico

Het ships:

• Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Poe Dameron & Finn & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• BB-8 & Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rose Tico
• Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Phasma/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Zorii Bliss/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Slash ships:

• Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Poe Dameron/Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
• Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Star Wars: Rebels

Ships:

• Alexsandr Kallus/Hera Syndulla

Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren

Gen:

• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren & Hennix & Tai & Voe

Ships::

• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Tai
• Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Voe

💖 The Untamed

Gen:

• Wei Wuxian & Wen Qing & Wen Ning

Ships:

• Wei Wuxian/Xue Yang

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