thisaintbc | BL Exchange Letter (Reply)

Hi! Thank you for making me something for the exchange!

Yes please:

I'm a huge fan of both fluff and angst; things that are really soft or really funny or really sad all tend to work well for me!
I love family/found family dynamics (which can include kid!fic), baking/cooking, domesticity, outsider POV, secret reveals (it can be any kind of secret! including relationship reveal!), mysteries, historical AUs, magical realism, fairytales and folklore, and crossovers. Road trips can be super fun, and I’m also fond of character studies.
I like happy endings but I also can enjoy sad endings! Feel free to delve into the delicious angsty possibilities of canonical deaths or killing characters off if you want to and it makes sense for the circumstances.
I also love curtain!fic/art/vids/etc, so if you just want to keep things sweet and simple that would also be awesome!
Last but absolutely not least, I am an absolute sucker for courtly romance, chivalry, the whole nine yards, whether or not that's actually dressed up in pennants and shining armor or is just people in jeans and t shirts behaving in those ways.

On the fence: All of these are things that I do occasionally read from time to time, but that are pretty hit-or-miss for me.

As a general rule of thumb, I don't tend to love celebrity AUs, sex worker AUs (in particular, I dislike stories about a romantic relationship developing between a sex worker and their client; no Pretty Woman AUs here please!), or reincarnation stories.
I don't like things like soulmate AUs or Hanahaki disease very much in concept, but I do like the way they lend themselves to tropes like mutual pining (and for Hanahaki in particular, I really like plants and flowers cropping up in fic or fanart, so that can go a long ways toward making me more open to that trope).
I'm not a huge fan of break ups--and I especially don't like breaking up and making up. (An exception to this would be something along the lines of something like a Persuasion AU, where the break up happened offscreen long before the action of the story starts.)
Sometimes I like threesomes/moresomes, but I can be a bit picky about them.

No thanks: I would rather not receive something that contains:

non-con
incest
infidelity (things like open relationships or a couple who are separated but still legally married seeing other people are fine, just please no cheating-and-lying-about-it)
detailed or lengthy medical horror/gore scenes (specifically medical; other kinds of horror are fine)
cis-to-cis genderbending (exploring the possibilities of someone being trans or nonbinary is fine, please just no rewriting a cis man as a cis woman or vice versa)
RPS
robots (unless it's something that already exists in real life, such as Siri or a roomba, or if you're writing a crossover with something that has canonical robots, like Doctor Who) or robot sex

Requests

Pae and Thurs! I love these two - I love Thurs as a character, the way he's such a devoted friend and such a con artist and such an interesting blend of genuine and crafty, and I love the energy he has with Actual Golden Retriever Pae/Pao. I don't really have a specific prompt in mind, here, I'd just like to see more of their relationship!
Nuan is my absolute favorite character from Something In My Room, and she is, in my opinion, very clearly flirting with Chris at points. I'd love to see that blossom into a real relationship, whether it's happening offscreen during the course of the show or in an AU.
I've given you lots of options here for characters/ships! For the three tropes I mentioned in my request - case!fic, fairytale or magical realism AU, and historical AU - I can see lots of different directions you could potentially take them in. Case!fic could be anything from a Leverage AU to the mystery of the missing candy bar to a full hardboiled noir AU. Fairytale/magical realism could be a Ladyhawke AU, a merfolk AU, a canon-compliant fic that plays with supernatural elements like ghosts or luck, etc. Historical AU could be at any point in history (although I'd prefer something set before ~1995), and really you can pair it with any other tropes you like: is a case!fic? Is it an Austen AU? Is it epistolary fic centered around the Titanic or a world war or something out of a Jules Verne novel? Up to you! For all of these, feel free to take them in any direction you like; and, if none of them really inspire you, feel free to go with one of the other things I've mentioned in this letter! I would also be delighted to receive podfic if that's what you're interested in making! Obviously I can't give you permission to podfic anyone else's work, but if there's a fic of mine that you'd be interested in podficcing, I would be very excited about that as well.

Links: If you want to thumb through some of the things I've loved in the past, here are my AO3 bookmarks and my fic recs tag on tumblr.