copacet ([personal profile] copacet) wrote2020-05-21 01:33 pm
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Just Married 2020

Dear author/artist,

Thanks for creating something for me! I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with. The first thing I’d like to say is, feel free to ignore everything in this letter except the DNWs. I've written out some general likes, and prompts for some of the freeforms,
 but please don't feel constrained -- I’d much rather read something you had fun writing. I didn't include prompts for every freeform to prevent this letter from getting ungodly long; for more self-explanatory freeforms which I didn't add notes to, you can assume that anything is fine. Also, any rating is fine, though I prefer some plot and/or character/relationship development along with my smut if you choose to write any.

Prompt/freeform mixing is welcome.

My AO3 is [archiveofourown.org profile] copacet


General likes:
Competence (physical/intellectual/superpower-related/etc.), plotty casefic, characters rescuing each other, characters rescuing themselves, time-travel/Groundhog Day plots, canon-divergence/for-want-of-a-nail AUs, canon-compliant fic, hurt/comfort, angst, action/adventure, outsider POV, AUs where the characters still have their powers/skills, dimension travel and/or meeting alternate versions of themselves, self-sacrifice, ethical dilemmas, character studies, unreliable narrators, involvement of the rest of a canon's ensemble.

Relationship likes:
Characters being intense about each other, ambiguous relationships, characters going into Determinator mode when the other is in danger, pining/UST, loyalty kink, complicated relationships, possessiveness/co-dependency/protectiveness, jealousy, us-against-the-world, casual physical affection, bedsharing, characters watching each other sleep, one or both characters trying to resist temptation, forbidden romance.

Smut & kink likes:
sex pollen, aliens/bad guys made them do it, characters in a secret/forbidden relationship being caught in compromising situations, oral, fingering, frottage, coming in clothes, semi-public sex, biting/marking.

Opt-ins (not necessarily requests, but things some people might DNW that are not a problem for me):
character death, unhappy/bittersweet endings, dubcon, infidelity, unrequited feelings, violence, darkfic, fusions with other canons, non-canonical genders & sexualities (trans, asexual, etc.), 2nd-person POV, canonical or noncanonical background pairings, D/s, self-harm/suicidal ideation/suicide, kidfic, canon-typical whatever.

General Art Likes:
vivid colors (if colors are used), characters being physically affectionate with one another (embracing, holding hands, kissing hair or hands, etc), symbolism, visual contrasts, dark/light motifs, elaborate outfits (if applicable to canon), characters fighting next to one another or back-to-back (if applicable to canon). For shippy art, I'd prefer you cap it at an M-rating for anything sexual (see my art DNWs for more detail); on the other end of the spectrum, don't worry too much about whether your art is "shippy enough" as long as the focus is on the requested characters.

DNWs (unless specifically requested):
one character deliberately non-conning another character within a requested relationship (mutually non-con scenarios like sex pollen or bad-guys-made-them-do-it are fine), m-preg, A/B/O, graphic descriptions of vomit, scat, the spelling "cum" (as opposed to "come").

Art-specific DNWs:
Explicit depiction of genitals (nudity above the waist is fine for all genders, the characters banging each other but with a conveniently placed sheet/houseplant/shadow is fine, sexual activity in general is fine, I just don't want to see their actual bits), vomit, come, graphic gore (PG-13 injuries are fine, the character being bruised and bloody is fine, I just don't want their intestines hanging out or whatever).
 

Table of Contents

X-Men
The Untamed/CQL
DC Comics

Requests:

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)

Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier

Requesting fic.

Freeforms:


  • Characters Keep "Forgetting" to Annul Accidental Marriage
  • Estranged secret spouses reunite
  • Everyone thought they were joking about getting married
  • Former Enemies Marry The Moment They're No Longer Enemies
  • Friends/Family/Fans/Foes React To Unexpected Or Contentious Marriage
  • Married Couple Trying to Matchmake Past Selves That Hate Each Other
  • Media Have Strong Reaction to Marriage
  • Nobody Believes They Married For Love
  • People Stuck in Time Loop Get Married and then Time Loop Ends Unexpectedly
  • Politically Inconvenient Marriage
  • Puzzling Out the Legality of Time-Travel Marriage
  • Secret Marriage Becomes Public
  • Secretly married to someone on the opposite side of the conflict
  • Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married
  • Working While on Your Honeymoon
To me this is a very bittersweet pairing. If the fic takes place when they're already married/in a relationship, I'd like it if there's still some tension and ideological differences; conversely, if it takes place when they're enemies, I want to see the strength of their emotions towards one another, even if their other responsibilities constrain them from demonstrating it. I'd love to see the reactions from other characters finding out that they're married - characters who had no idea that their relationship wasn't platonic, or even that they were emotionally close and not just enemies.

 Feel free to write in or create a canon divergence from any era/timeline, or to create a non-mundane AU; I've seen all of the movies and I think their relationship has interesting potential at any point, even though it's obviously going to be a slightly different dynamic XMFC-era vs post-Apocalypse vs the DoFP apocalyptic timeline etc.

Fandom specific DNW: mundane (i.e. non-powered) AUs.

The Untamed / CQL

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Requesting fic and art.

Freeforms:


  • Always Married to Same Person When You Dream
  • Asking Family Member(s) of Partner(s) Blessing Before Proposal or Wedding
  • Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
  • Children Important to Those Getting Married Are Involved in Wedding Ceremony
  • Couple Getting Married Is Scandalous to Polite Society
  • Emergency Same-Sex Marriage Exception to Avert Imminent War
  • Families Of Already-Eloped Couple Arrange Elaborate Ceremony To Save Face
  • Friends/Family/Fans/Foes React To Unexpected Or Contentious Marriage
  • Marriage Allows Character to Keep Spouse Alive
  • Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
  • Marriage as an act of rebellion
  • Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
  • Married in every way except legally
  • Media Have Strong Reaction to Marriage
  • Nobody Believes They Married For Love
  • Seeing Estranged Family For First Time In Years With Long-Term Spouse Since Then
  • Working While on Your Honeymoon
For any of these tags, I'm happy with a canon divergence at any point in canon, or something post-canon. Seriously - Cloud Recesses-era, during the Sunshot Campaign, while WWX is living with the Wen remnants at the Burial Mounds, post-resurrection; there's a lot of fun and drama and varying degrees of scandal for them to cause by marrying at any point. Also, while I'm requesting the drama version of the characters, I have read the novel, so you can include worldbuilding etc. from that if you want.

Several of my requests here involve other people reacting to a LWJ/WWX marriage. That's one of my favorite things about the canon: how it plays with public perception vs. reality (most obviously with WWX's reputation, but also little things like seeing little kids playing as different figures from the Sunshot campaign and so on.). Anyway, I'd love to see that kind of thing in the context of these two getting married. What do people think about someone as famously morally upright as LWJ marrying the Yiling Laozu (or even just shameless, arrogant Wei Wuxian, if it's earlier in canon) - LWJ's family, JC, the juniors, other sect leaders, the general public? For the sake of this canon, you can interpret the "media reaction" tag as referring to the general gossip-mill.

My mpreg request here is an exception to my general mpreg DNW. I don't know that LWJ would care that much about having a biological heir, but if anyone would be both willing and able to invent magical mpreg...it would definitely be WWX.

"Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives" - I have no-one in particular in mind for the 3rd party. Maybe NHS or JGY decide it would useful for their machinations post-resurrection, or maybe a power-tripping Wen Ruohan (or even
 Wen Chao) decides that mandating a scandalous same-sex marriage would be a fun way to mess with both of their sects. Or maybe LXC finally gets fed up with the pining and decides to matchmake...

Art prompts: a wedding ceremony with the other characters watching/reacting, them privately enacting an unofficial/symbolic wedding ceremony with no witnesses, them dancing at their wedding, mpregnant WWX. Those are the ones that I can imagine being drawn in a single image, but if you can figure out how to make one of the more complicated freeforms I requested into art, I will be happily surprised.

DC Comics

Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne

Requesting fic and art.

Freeforms:
  • 2 people who weren't romantically involved get together after meeting the AU married couple version
  • A lies in a TV interview about how they proposed B and B accepted to marry them
  • Character Acts Like Engagement Was Accidental But Knew Exactly What They Were Doing
  • Characters Keep "Forgetting" to Annul Accidental Marriage
  • Children Important to Those Getting Married Are Involved in Wedding Ceremony
  • Couple Getting Married Is Scandalous to Polite Society
  • Fake Marriage Made Real by Helpful Third Party
  • fake wedding to bait criminals and/or enemies
  • Friends/Family/Fans/Foes React To Unexpected Or Contentious Marriage
  • Getting Married So You Can't Testify Against Each Other in Court
  • Magic wedding ceremony marries the wrong people
  • Marriage Assumed to be Meaningless Formality Actually Induces Soulbond
  • Marriage creates tension with children from previous relationship(s)
  • Marriage Required to Carry Out Secret Mission
  • Media Have Strong Reaction to Marriage
  • Mistaken For Married
  • Person's Hand In Marriage Auctioned Off To Highest Bidder
  • Pretending to be married while undercover
  • Working While on Your Honeymoon
Most of my favorite comics for these guys are pre-Flashpoint, but there are a few more recent ones that I did enjoy (like the new 52 Grayson comics, and Rebirth Nightwing before the Ric storyline), so...set it in whatever continuity you prefer, or some sort of nebulous mishmash. 

Anyway, they have such a complex, fraught relationship, and I'd love to see something that delves into that - there's the intensity and how well they know each other, but also the years of arguments and miscommunications, and the fact that Bruce did raise Dick since he was eight/twelve/whatever, which is objectively awkward in a romantic context. 

If it's a public marriage, I'd love to see the reactions from other members of the superhero community, and/or from the rest of the Batfam - who saw it coming and who's genuinely blindsided that their relationship is something other than familial? Alternately, if it's just within the context of a case - how do they move past the compartmentalization of what they're doing For The Mission to acknowledge what they actually want?

Fandom-specific DNW: Anything sexual while Dick is under 18.

Art prompts: a wedding ceremony with other DC characters watching/reacting, in disguise as a married couple, meeting the AU married versions of themselves, a magazine cover about their wedding. Those are the ones that I can imagine being drawn in a single image, but if you can figure out how to make one of the more complicated freeforms I requested into art, I will be happily surprised.