Dear Fandom 5K Creator

Hello, and thank you for creating for me! I still have yet to learn how to make Dreamwidth posts look pretty so apologies for any wonky formatting.

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. 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.

Without further ado!

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 & Tommy Vega: Their friendship means the world to me! Basically everything about their relationship is what I love in F&F friendships - they are so solidly there for each other no matter what happens, and they have just gone through so much of life together between Tommy's infertility struggles, Judd being a stubborn son of a bitch, everything that happens in canon including Charles's death... They just know each other so deeply and intimately and I am here for anything that shows how beautiful and powerful their friendship is. I'm cool with whatever background romantic relationships you may want to throw in for Tommy but please don't break up Grace and Judd! <3

Requested Tags: Canon-Style Plot, Slice of Life, Fluff

Additional Prompts:

• I would love to see more about how the deaths of the previous 126 affected Grace; I think we tend to see it as Judd's trauma but I'd be willing to bet that Grace knew them and loved them too, the same way she knows and loves the current 126. How you loop Tommy in here is totally up to you - maybe Tommy is the only one Grace feels comfortable talking to because so many people see it as Judd's trauma and she doesn't want to take support away from him?
  
• Anything set pre-canon! How did Grace and Tommy meet? How did they become friends? Are there other women in their group of friends (maybe their church friends?).
  
• This is kind of a random one, but I would love to see Grace and Tommy doing Painfully Texan(tm) things like barbecuing, mechanical bull riding, whatever Texas stereotypes you have in your head. I'm not Texan but I just think this would be funny.

Bones

Jack Hodgins & Seeley Booth: One of the funniest things to me in Bones is how Booth still calls Hodgins "bug boy" after over a decade of friendship. Hodgins' conspiracy-mindedness is so at odds with Booth's strict by-the-bookness but there's also always such a palpable respect between them. Also, with their wives being best friends I am sure they also have to spend time together doing whatever it is guys do together lol.

Jack Hodgins/Angela Montenegro: Ah, the beginning of my obsession with messy side ships. Hodgela were so unexpected for me but they also check all my boxes. I love that they broke up and then found their way back to each other, that they were honest with all their thoughts and feelings, that they got through so much hard shit together. I just want to see them happy, in love, and thriving.

Requested Tags: AU - Canon Divergence, Canon-Style Plot, Established Relationship, Fluff, Slice of Life

Additional Prompts:

• Booth is the conspiracy theorist and Hodgins is the straight man. What conspiracy could cause this role reversal?
• Any sort of case fic, especially one that relies on Hodgins and Angela's expertise rather than being solely in the bones
• Anything post-canon of everyone just hanging out, being happy, having a good time (with Hodgins as king of the lab

The Good Place

Chidi Anagonye/Eleanor Shellstrop: The Good Place's thesis that soulmates are the people you choose to love is honestly one of my favorite things and I love how it's exemplified through these two. It's not because of some cosmic thing or even because they're perfect for each other, just that every time they meet they're willing to do the work. Find Chidi remains the moment in this show that always makes me lose my goddamn mind and I just think it says so much about Chidi as a human that every time Eleanor seeks him out, he's ready to help her.

Chidi Anagonye/Simone Garrett/Eleanor Shellstrop: Chidi has two hands. Honestly I've never considered this ship before but I loved Simone and I also loved how Chidi loved her. I feel like this could have been canon if polyamory was more mainstream, just because both Simone and Eleanor are so good for Chidi in different ways and I think they could be good for each other, too.

Requested Tags: AU - Modern/Mundane, AU - Genre Shift, Getting Together

DNW Exception: Feel free to include time loops, since that's a canonical element (ish) and I don't mind how they were handled in canon.

Additional Prompts:

• Any of the loops we didn't get to see while Eleanor and Chidi were in The Bad Place. This can be a deep exploration of one loop, several loops explored in less depth, whatever makes you happy!
• Maybe some sort of academics!AU where Chidi, Eleanor, and Simone all work at the same university? I'm sure you're smarter than I am and can figure out how that would make sense while also tying it to themes of the original show.
• This might be a weird one, but maybe a fusion with Everything Everywhere All at Once? Instead of looping, the different versions of Eleanor and Chidi (and Simone if you include her) meet through verse hopping.

The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield: Okay, so my villain origin story is that my dad used to read The Hobbit to me as a child but left out the horrible ending where everyone gets slaughtered (which, you know, I was six years old so probably a good choice, but) so when I saw the Peter Jackson movie for the first time I was emotionally unprepared for... well, everything. My goal since then has always been to recapture the childlike innocence of believing everything will turn out okay and I feel like that's deeply tied to Bilbo and Thorin's love story. I want them to be okay, I want Thorin to be King Under the Mountain, I want good to triumph over evil and love to prevail.

Requested Tags: AU - Canon Divergence, Fix-it fic, Getting Together

Additional Prompts:

• I've seen a lot of fem!Bilbo fics but not a lot of fem!Thorin and I just think that would be neat. I honestly can't remember how dwarven succession works, but I'm sure Thorin's gender changing would change something about the way he was perceived, etc. etc.
  
• Similar vein: role reversal where Bilbo is the exiled king and Thorin is the scrappy outsider who starts out on the wrong foot.
• Thorin proposing to Bilbo in a traditional Dwarvish way and Bilbo not understanding because he, bless his heart, still has barely learned anything about dwarves
  

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Scott Lang & Steve Rogers: Scott is just so earnest and good and his obvious respect and admiration for Steve was just so !!! I would love to see some of that respect reciprocated -- Scott is so often the butt of the joke when the Avengers team up because of the whole Ant-Man thing but I think especially post-Infinity War Steve must respect him a lot. I would love to see their relationship expanded on.

Bruce Banner/Thor: Post-Ragnarok I had some serious feelings about these two. Bruce being stuck as the Hulk for as long as he was would've been seriously traumatic and obviously Thor losing his family and home is equally traumatic and I just think they could heal together. I also feel like there's something interesting there about their relative strengths and being the strongest Avengers and, yeah...

Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov: Ugh. Ugh. What can I even say about these two other than that they had so much potential that was again so wasted. I love the easy camaraderie between the two of them, especially during Winter Solider, and they are able to be so themselves around each other in ways I don't think they really get to be around others in their lives and it's just. So good.

Steve Rogers & Avengers Team: Steve is just one of my blorbos and I want him to be loved and supported by the people around him. That's really it. There was so much that he never got to process because of the pandemonium of being an Avenger and all of that, but I want more of the downtime and the developing friendships and all the other things we really only get from fanfic.

Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers: I just think about what they could've been... Steve respecting Peggy even though she was a woman, Peggy respecting Steve even when he was a scrawny little guy... it's just the mutual respect. I saw all of Agent Carter if you want to incorporate any elements of that canon. I prefer if you do Peggy/Steve that it doesn't incorporate Steve going back at the end of Infinity War, but rather a Steve-always-stayed AU or some other way he goes back or she comes forward.

Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov: The part of me that still lives in 2012 is still heartbroken that these two never got to be anything other than friends. "You know what it's like to be unmade?" / "You know I do." lives in my head rent-free. I would love to see anything and everything about what turned them into the people and agents they are today and how they got to be so close, and just... yeah. Bring me the 2012-era goodness.

Michelle Jones & Ned Leeds & Peter Parker: These kids just make me so happy. I love how the Spider-Man movies are so very grounded and how they have so many normal kid problems in addition to the Spider-Man adjacent ones. I also love that Ned is never the third wheel even after MJ and Peter start dating -- he's always valued and loved and just... I love them.

Yelena Belova & Natasha Romanov: Bro... bro. Just. The entirety of the Black Widow movie lives rent-free in my brain and then seeing Yelena grieve... I just can't even. I love the idea of family being created by love rather than blood and that even though Natasha didn't want to let someone in she did for Yelena.Yelena getting dusted and coming back to find her sister gone? Just stab me through the heart.

Requested Tags: Action/Adventure, Canon-Style Plot, Character Development, Fix-it fic, Worldbuilding

Fandom-Specific DNW: I would prefer Laura Barton not be mentioned/really exist at all. Her and the farmhouse and the kids' existence felt like such an ex machina to me and I just... yeah, not into it.

Additional Prompts:

• Role reversal of any kind. Switch who has what powers, switch who has what backstory, switch whatever! The only role reversal I wouldn't want is changing characters' sides on the Accords, if you choose to include those at all (and honestly, I'm fine if you don't)
• Anything set during the Snap that shows the reality of what it would be like to lose so many people so quickly - or directly after people come back, when people are coming back to loved ones who have had to live lives without them and might have moved on
• Time travel, but make it make sense! (I seriously don't understand the explanations of time travel in the MCU so just like... don't explain it and my little pea brain will be happy.) Any time travel welcome, especially if it involves fix-it.

Motherland: Fort Salem

Raelle Collar/Abigail Bellweather: The love and loyalty between these two just gets me so hard. They obviously care a lot for each other despite all their bickering and they're also both so powerful in different ways! Abigail's "you're a shitbird but you're my shitbird" makes me absolutely feral and Raelle's hatred for the military but her love for Abigail is also just -clenches fist-. I feel like their development as friends definitely dropped off in season 3 after they both got their respective love interest and I would love to see that intimacy return in whatever way you see fit.

Requested Tags: AU - Canon Divergence, Canon-Style Plot, Getting Together, Worldbuilding

Additional Prompts:

• Honestly, please just rewrite season 3. There was so much about it I disliked (especially the weird thing where Abigail and Adil were planning to have a baby???) and I feel like it would've been so much better if it had been more... grounded and there weren't so many weird power jumps and power creep.
• Arranged marriage? I don't know how you would swing this but I think any sort of forced proximity where they're forced to confront that the bickering hides genuine affection and care is absolutely ace.
• Go wild with worldbuilding and use Abigail and Raelle as a framing device for whatever worldbuilding you would like to do! Of particular interest to me is magical history and how queer people fit into this world of magic, but if that's not your jam do what calls to you.

The Old Guard

Andy/Quynh: Oh my God, tragic sapphics. The fact that Andy still thinks about Quynh hundreds of years after they last saw each other… literally just stab me and twist the knife. I love the idea of undying love like that, but also what their love looked like before Quynh died (especially since I think it was implied that at some point Quynh and Lykon were an item?). Again, I am such a blank slate when it comes to these two, anything you create I will love.

Andy & Nile & Joe & Nicky (& Quynh):-chants- Team as family! Team as family! Honestly I just love the way this crew takes care of each other and how even though they've been together for hundreds of years they still love and care for and support each other. We should all be so lucky to have a family we can tolerate after hundreds of years, lol. Their simultaneous competence and world-weariness, how they have such different opinions and perceptions of the world and their purpose in it... I simply just love them.

Requested Tags: Action/Adventure, Canon-Style Plot, Character Development, Established Relationship, Slice of Life, Worldbuilding

Additional Prompts:

• Take a rom-com, any rom-com. Make it Andy and Quynh. That's it that's the prompt. Bonus points if their queerness is never really brought up in the romcom and the main conflict is something entirely unrelated to them both being women. (My favorite rom-com is 10 Things I Hate About You, if you need an idea of what kind of rom-coms I like.)
• I think it was implied at some point in the movie that the guard didn't always work for good -- I'd love to hear them talk with Nile about that, what changed their minds, etc. etc. Alternatively, dark!Guard would be a fun thing to explore too -- what makes them snap? What damage can four (or five) pissed off immortals do?
• Any sort of mission fic. Send them out on a rescue mission, a heist, a vacation that goes wrong... I just like to see them working together as a team having a good time (or an absolutely wretched time, if you would like).

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Character: Poe Dameron: We know so little about Poe and it drives me a little bonkers! How'd he learn to fly? How'd he join the resistance? Who are his friends/relationships outside of Leia? Who and what made him the person he is, and does he like that person? I know there wasn't a lot of time to do a deep dive into every character's psyche but Poe in particular is someone I wish we had gotten to see more of.
Poe(/Finn)(/Rey): I'm putting Poe/Finn, Poe/Rey, and Poe/Finn/Rey all in one section because most of what I have to say is the same: their relationships had so much potential and it was thrown away for the sake of plot twists and Kylo. There's such genuine affection and warmth between all three of them, which neither Rey nor Finn really got to experience before. I love Poe being the one to give them the love they deserve, and for them to love him in return (either separately or together). Requested Tags: AU - Modern/Mundane, AU - Canon Divergence, AU - Genre Shift, Canon-Style Plot, Getting Together, Worldbuilding

Additional Prompts:

• Take any scene or events from the movie that we don't see Poe's perspective on, and write his perspective.
• Finn-is-a-Jedi AU, please! I'm sure this would affect his relationships with everyone else and there would be ripples there. How does Poe feel knowing Finn and Rey share something he doesn't? (If you want to throw in Jedi!Poe too, be my guest.)
• Rey gets pregnant, either during the movies or afterwards (during could be fun for canon-divergent purposes but after could be fun for fluff purposes). It doesn't necessarily have to be Poe's baby (or Finn's for the OT3) but if it is Kylo's I would prefer that not be a voluntary thing.