Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, ASMR Celebrity Personal Assistant Series | Valley Girl Series - Goodnight Moon, Barbie (Movie 2023), evermore - Taylor Swift (Album), The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
Request 1 by Linsky
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Characters: Any
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prompt:
Forever in love with this series. A few things that would be fun to see for it:
-Morphing-enabled sex shenanigans (like, really, if you could try having sex in a different body, who wouldn't??). Fine with explicit underage for this (or in general). Not interested in them having sex as non-human animals, though.
-An Animorphs regency AU. How do they navigate fighting aliens within the social strictures of the time? Or some other weird setting that feels fun to you.
-Any kind of mid-canon-esque adventure
-My personal headcanon is that Marco is in denial about being bi and about his crush on Jake. What if it turns out to be requited?? (I know Jake isn't in the tag set, so no worries if you don't want to do this one.)
No strong character preferences, though if you're including pairings I'd rather you didn't break up Rachel and Tobias. I'm okay with Jake and Marco in place of Jake and Cassie, or the three of them together. Ax/Marco is fine as well. Happy to have a story you're excited about that isn't something I explicitly suggested above!
General loves: pining that turns out to be requited; gay awakenings; banter; the addition of vaguely magical realism tropes like soulmates or soul bonds or HDM-style daemons; the conflict between being superheroes and normal teens; explicit sex (only if you feel like it, of course)
DNW: major character death; noncon; a focus on unrequited love; a focus on the events at the end of the series (i.e. books 45-54); bestiality
NB: if I've written a trope, I'm probably on board with it!
Letter: No letter
Request 2 by Linsky
Fandom: ASMR Celebrity Personal Assistant Series | Valley Girl Series - Goodnight Moon
Characters: Victoria | Celebrity (Valley Girl Series - Goodnight Moon), Kimberly | Celebrity Assistant (Valley Girl Series - Goodnight Moon)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
Prompt:
I'm pretty sure these two are in love and would love to see how they get together, or how either of them comes to recognize their feelings. (If it's the latter, it's fine if only one of them actually appears in the events of the story and the other is only referenced.) I suspect they would be slightly dysfunctional and very dramatic as a pairing, but I'd also love for them to be happy.
General loves: the out-there details of the celebrity's life and what the assistant is able to procure for her (e.g. wool from sheep that have been sung to every day by opera singers); pining that turns out to be requited; gay awakenings; banter; humor; explicit sex (only if you feel like it, of course)
DNW: major character death; noncon; a focus on unrequited love
NB: if I've written a trope, I'm probably on board with it!
Letter: No letter
Request 3 by Linsky
Fandom: Barbie (Movie 2023)
Characters: Ryan Gosling's Ken (Barbie 2023), Simu Liu's Ken (Barbie 2023)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form
Prompt:
Give me these two realizing their gay feelings for each other. Bonus: how do they navigate the smooth-swimsuit-area situation??
If that doesn't work for you, anything that leans into the weird doll-verse logic and physics of Barbieland would be fun! No need to focus on these two characters if you go that route.
General loves: gay awakenings; pining that turns out to be requited; Barbieland ridiculousness; humor; banter; explicit sex (only if you feel like it, of course)
DNW: major character death; noncon; a focus on unrequited love
NB: if I've written a trope, I'm probably on board with it!
Letter: No letter
Request 4 by Linsky
Fandom: evermore - Taylor Swift (Album)
Characters: Any
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prompt:
I would love to see a happy ending for the romance between the two characters in 'Tis the Damn Season and Gold Rush. (Also in Dorothea, but I thiiiink that song is from the POV of a platonic friend? Interpret as you will.) Those songs take place when they're not together anymore; is there a way they could find their way back to each other? There are clear obstacles there but also real feelings, and I'd love to see them eventually work things out.
If that doesn't work for you, feel free to pick something else from the album!
General loves: pining that turns out to be requited; gay awakenings; banter; explicit sex (only if you feel like it, of course)
DNW: major character death; noncon; a focus on unrequited love
NB: if I've written a trope, I'm probably on board with it!
Letter: No letter
Request 5 by Linsky
Fandom: The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
Characters: Any
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)
Prompt:
Confession: I haven't read this book, but I loved the movie. Apologies if any of this doesn't make sense for the book!
-Miss Justineau's situation at the end of the story doesn't seem super tenable long-term. What happens when something inevitably gives? Can she end up somewhere better? I'd love in particular to see how she and Melanie might end up in a place where they can touch again (platonically!!) given the poignancy of that moment in the classroom at the start of the movie (again, sorry if this isn't a book thing).
-I'm fascinated by the worldbuilding and would love to see more of it. How does the society of the children change as a result of the integration with the test subjects and Miss Justineau's teaching? Are they able to create a second generation, and what complications do they run into? Do the London kids have their own language, and does it survive? Do humans in other parts of the world discover a vaccine and end up encountering the new society of second-gen hungries?
-Far-future fic: what happens hundreds of years in the future when the things the kids learned by rote (e.g. the periodic table) start to be rediscovered by scientists in this new society, and they realize that reality echoes the probably-twisted-by-time chants they learned at their parents' knees? I imagine it would be like if we were to discover that, say, the secrets of general relativity are hidden in Ring Around the Rosy. Alternatively, anything far in the future of this new society would be fascinating.
DNW: graphic descriptions of gore; death of Melanie or Miss Justineau (unless we're talking far-future fic and they're dead because of the passage of time); Melanie/Miss Justineau; noncon; tragedy (I know that's broad! But canon ends on a dark but hopeful note, and I'd rather the story not end up with things getting drastically worse, for the world or for those characters)
Letter: No letter
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