Dear Rarepair Exchange Creator

[lazyfish]

Hello, and thank you for creating for me! I like to begin all my letters by saying that I care about you having a good time writing more than anything else! I include extra prompts as a way of getting the creative juices flowing, not because I will be distraught if you don't follow one of them exactly. Also, if you see a prompt I've put for one ship but you'd like to write it for another, go right ahead! I put prompts by ship since there are some prompts I feel fit a certain dynamic better than others, but I'm not married to any of them. Mostly, just avoid my DNWs and we'll be golden. I've also written a lot (like a lot) of fics on AO3, so if you want to see what I gravitate towards, that might also give you an idea.

General Likes:

• 5+1 fic
• Accidental baby acquisition
• Alternate universes of any ilk
• Angst with a happy ending
• Characters getting therapy (though I prefer it be off-screen since I’m a mental health professional and will lowkey judge a bad therapy session/therapist)
• Exes to lovers
• Found family
• Non-traditional family structures (single parents, blended families, foster families, adopted families, families where there's no designated parental figure but they all consider each other family, etc.)
• Outsider POV
• Polyamory
• Pregnancy and kidfics (I’m also fine with mentions of miscarriage, abortion, pregnancy complications, etc.)
• Queer characters (especially non-binary characters)
• Romantic comedies
• Smut
• Worldbuilding

General Dislikes/DNWs:

• Body horror
• Epistolary fic
• Explicit queerphobia (referenced is fine)
• Mpreg (unless the character is a trans man seahorsing)
• Non-ethical non-monogamy (aka cheating, infidelity)
• "Shipper on Deck" trope, or basically the idea that side characters in the story ship the main characters (I'm fine with other characters commenting on how well two characters suit each other romantically and being supportive of the relationship, but what really gets my goat is if the side characters are willing to give up their own happiness/well being for the sake of the main ship getting together, or are otherwise scheming to get the main characters together)
  
• Ship bashing of canon ships for non-canon couples
  
• Soulmate AUs or anything adjacent to the notion of “one true love” or someone you are “meant to find” (I’m fine if this is subverted somehow, like a soulmate AU where the main relationship aren’t soulmates)
• Time loops
• Vomit

9-1-1 Lone Star

Grace Ryder/Judd Ryder: They are everything to me. Everything that we learn about them in canon makes me go HEART EYES MOTHERFUCKER and I just think we should get more of them. Judd loves and respects Grace so much and I love that their relationship went from her supporting him through his PTSD to him being the epitome of 'that's my wife!'. Everything about their dynamic (and their backstory, God!!!) just makes my brain go brr.

Grace Ryder/Judd Ryder/Tommy Vega: Basically every exchange I'm a part of I end up seeing one of the nominated relationship tags and thinking to myself 'well that sounds neat', and this is that ship for this exchange lol. I'm particularly interested in the 'getting together' aspect of their relationship: does it happen before Charles dies or after? Who initiates? How do they keep it a secret (if they do) or tell their friends and family (if they do that instead)? I just have a lot of questions I would love to see someone else's take on.

Marjan Marwani/Paul Strickland: Normally I'm not a huge fan of friends-to-lovers ships, but for them I would literally rip my heart out of my own chest. When Paul said "I just can't imagine anyone ever letting you go" and I yeeted myself into the sun. Basically every element of their canon relationship is perfect to me, and I would just like them to kiss.

Owen Strand/Kendra Harrington: Raise your hand if you're sick of Owen getting a new love interest every season! -raises hand- Mostly I want these two to work out because I don't want Owen to get yet another love interest, and it seemed like Kendra was a good fit for him (especially being able to call him out on his bullshit). I think there's some really interesting bits in their relationship about power, with her being more financially powerful than him and him being more physically powerful than her, but mostly I just want stability for Owen.

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Focus on 9/11 and Owen's experience with 9/11


Additional Prompts:

• For Grace/Judd: Grace finds out she's pregnant again. It is markedly less exciting than finding out she was pregnant with Charlie, but that's a good thing.
• For Marjan/Paul: Fairytale retelling of a fairytale of your choice. Bonus points if it's not a Western fairytale.
• For Grace/Judd/Tommy: Would love to see what the church biddies have to say about their relationship, especially if they don't figure out that the relationship is polyamorous and consensual. Outsider POV would be great for this.
  
• For Owen/Kendra: Owen finds out the truth about Kendra's first ex-husband. (Preferably she didn't actually murder him, but if you want to go that route, self-defense or something please?)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Lance Hunter/Skye | Daisy Johnson: I just think these two have so much potential. They're both outsiders to S.H.I.E.L.D. with a distrust of authority, they both occasionally make impulsive decisions in pursuit of saving the people they love, they both have daddy issues (implied or otherwise) and for the first few episodes of season 2 it really seemed like they might be a thing. I love the idea of them being two kindred spirits who found a home in each other and just the general vibe between them. Bonus points if you touch on how canon treated them very differently despite their core traits being the same.

Lance Hunter/Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie/Bobbi Morse: Bestie, beloved, and bastard (not necessarily in that order). I love all the complicated history that hasn't been explored between these three, the years of friendship and love and pain and everything in between. One of my biggest pet peeves with AOS canon is how post-Parting Shot, Bobbi and Hunter are basically not talked about, not even by Mack. The utter heartbreak on his face when they were leaving, then nothing? Give me a break. There's just so much to dig into here and at the foundation of it all is love and friendship and I am in love with them.

Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie/Bobbi Morse: The utter romance of someone knowing you better than you know yourself... I knew I was gone on them from the first time they were on screen together and finishing each other's sentences. There are several moments in late season 2/early season 3 where they are obviously flirting with each other ("you're one to talk, pretty boy" are actual words out of Bobbi's mouth, like, okay, just kiss him???) and I just want to see that actually followed through on.

Lance Hunter/Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie: Are you beginning to sense a theme here? I literally do not care in what formation Mack, Bobbi, and Hunter kiss each other. I am particularly interested in the Mack/Hunter relationship because it's the least fleshed out in canon - they're obviously still close but we don't know as much about how or why they stayed connected even after Hunter and Bobbi split, and I'm just. So eager for more of them.

Victoria Hand/Isabelle Hartley: If you're confused by this ship, it's basically an amalgamation of Vicizzy being comics canon and Izzy calling Vic "Vic" in AOS canon (even though she says to one of the other agents she doesn't like that name... sure, Jan). Basically I think it sucks that the show split up a comics-canon lesbian couple just so they could bury the gays without being called out for burying the gays. They've never interacted on-screen in AOS so I am fine with literally any direction you want to take this as long as they're together.

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Grant Ward as anything other than a villain, Deke Shaw in any role, romantic Fitzsimmons, romantic Skoulson

Additional Prompts:

• For Hunter/Daisy: Hunter goes with Daisy to The Retreat (the cabin she stays in after getting her Inhuman powers). What happens next can be smut, trauma bonding, a total AU of s2 onwards based on how Hunter being there changes things -- whatever calls to you.
  
• For Mack/Bobbi/Hunter: Mack keeping in touch with Bobbi and Hunter after they leave in Parting Shot. (Feel free to ignore my epistolary DNW if you go this route, but I am also interested in how they could organize in-person meetings while evading the Russian government.)
• For Mack/Bobbi: Academy AU! If I did my math correctly Bobbi and Mack would've joined the Academy in the same year, which has lived rent-free in my brain since discovering that. What sort of shenanigans did they get up to?
• For Mack/Hunter: "Wait, we're the ones going undercover as a couple for a mission? Why?" / "Are you two... not a couple???" (Bonus points for the fic taking place between season 1 and season 2, extra bonus points for outsider POV.)
• For Vic/Izzy: Victoria Lives AU! Bonus points if Izzy is the one to rescue her from Ward or nurse her back to health after her near-death experience.

Motherland: Fort Salem

M/Tally Craven:

Abigail Bellweather/Raelle Collar:

Abigail Bellweather/Raelle Collar/Tally Craven:

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Romantic Sarah Alder/Tally Craven


Additional Prompts:

• For M/Tally:
  
• For Abigail/Raelle: Academic rivals-to-lovers who don't realize they're so obsessed with each other in part because they're crushing hard on each other. If you've ever read I Kissed Shara Wheeler, those vibes are immaculate.
  
• For Abigail/Raelle/Tally:

Ted Lasso

Keeley Jones/Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt: I feel like Ted Lasso really missed the boat on this one because all of them have such love and affection for each other and it's just so!!!!! I love the way Roy opens up, Jamie grows up, and Keeley glows up. They bring out the best in each other and the triad helps mitigate some of the negative aspects of the individual relationships and really that's what love's about. Any part of their relationship, from getting together to going domestic, is fucking catnip to me.

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Michelle/Dr. Jacob explicitly/in the foreground (you don't want to hear my rant about how unethical Dr. Jacob's behavior is)

Additional Prompts:

• Canon divergence from the scene in the finale where Jamie and Roy show up at Keeley's house asking her to pick one of them. Instead of picking neither, she picks both. (Feel free to have the canon divergence earlier as well so Jamie and Roy don't actually physically fight over her and instead come to her with a proposition and not an ultimatum.)
  
• Five times the Richmond boys were confused about Roy, Keeley, and Jamie's relationship, and one time they weren't.
  
• If you're into smut, the three of them having sex in Jamie's childhood bedroom. Risking getting caught, gags/muffling each other's noises, coitus interruptus all very good.

The Orville

Kelly Grayson/Ed Mercer:Unfortunately I am overly invested in whether or not Ed and Kelly will get back together. Their trust in each other as Captain and XO is so beautiful to see, especially since the core conflict in the beginning of the show was Ed's resentment towards Kelly for breaking his trust. Their loyalty and devotion to each other also really gets me really emotional and I just want them to find their way back to each other.

Kelly Grayson/Pria: I am a simple enby, and the only thing better than one hot lady is two hot ladies. I know Pria was a one-episode guest star but I personally have not been able to stop thinking about how much more fun and interesting it would have been if Pria had tried to seduce Kelly instead of Ed. There's just a lot of potential for juicy dynamics when you add "they should kiss" into a relationship, you know?

Kelly Grayson/Talla Keyali: Honestly I just haven't been enthused with any of the attempted love interests for Talla but thinking about Talla and Kelly together makes my brain go wild. I love how Talla is one of the only people Kelly lets loose around and how they confide in each other about their private lives while trusting each other in their professional ones. Similar to above, I just think it would be neat to see how this dynamic changed if romance was added to the equation.

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Kelly's relationship with Darulio portrayed as cheating (I firmly believe he was in heat when they slept together for the first time and so the relationship was nonconsensual).

Additional Prompts:

• For Kelly/Ed: A Parent Trap AU. (Feel free to use OC children for this one, or find a way to work Anaya into the role. Not a big fan of the Orville crew being aged down into children to fit the plot.)
• For Kelly/Pria: An AU of 1x05 where instead of seducing Ed to steal the Orville, Pria attempts to seduce Kelly. (Bonus points if you can find a way to make Pria "come to the light", so to speak, and have her join the crew instead of stealing the ship.)
• For Kelly/Talla: Talla coming to Kelly for help with sex advice (either when she was having difficulty having sex with John in canon or another time). Whether or not this leads to the two of them having sex instead or something else is up to you. :)