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[comm] dear fandomgrowthexchange author:
Dear FGE Author,
Thank you for writing something for me! This exchange is really exciting; heaven knows I often go searching in fanfiction tags for things that simply don't exist. I'm glad that this will us an opportunity to fix some of that. I've included my general likes, dislikes, and then some fandom specific prompts.
Likes: canon-typical violence, missing scenes, UST, emotional ambiguity, found families, developing or established relationships, time travel, pre-canon, post-canon, bedsharing, loyalty, worldbuilding, epistolary/journal/log fiction, monster-of-the-week / slice of ordinary life adventures, earned second chances, dealing with consequences, "what if" / canon divergent AUs, earned happy endings, holidays, casefic, groundhog day trope, mysteries, healing, survival (wilderness, zombie apocalypse, etc.), last stands, trying against impossible odds, succeeding against impossible odds, heartfelt goodbyes, unexpected reunions, foils
Dislikes: character bashing towards anybody, noncon, explicit gore, breathplay, serious or permanent injury related to sexuality, nihilism, hopeless endings (but sad is okay)
I'm comfortable with any rating of fic.
You can CTRL+F for what you're looking for; any redundancy is for people who are just looking for one specific prompt.
Fate/stay night
Relationships Requested: Gilgamesh/Matou Sakura; Emiya Shirou/Arturia Pendragon | Saber/Tohsaka Rin (Fate/stay night); Illyasviel von Einzbern/Matou Sakura
Gilgamesh/Matou Sakura
I am surprised there are not more fics with this pairing. The fact that there is an inescapable scene in which Gilgamesh confronts Sakura, even if he is suggesting she'd be better off dead than surviving whatever comes next, at the beginning of FSN's prologue is intriguing. Gilgamesh certainly has an odd way of expressing both interest and disinterest, and however much Sakura might seem to be the kind of person who might cower and give in to Gilgamesh's initial "advice," but she doesn't. No matter what she has been the victim of, she insistently finds a way to survive.
I wonder what might happen if Sakura and Gilgamesh interacted more. For example, if Gilgamesh becomes Shinji's Servant, I wonder if Sakura might find a way to quietly campaign for her own power. Since Shinji stole her Command Seals, perhaps she steals "his" Servant? Alternatively, rather than Gilgamesh meeting his death in Heaven's Feel, maybe he meets Sakura more where she is and creates a secondary path for her.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Emiya Shirou/Artoria Pendraon | Saber/Tohsaka Rin
This is one of my favorite polyamorous pairings across all of my fandoms. I love what each twosome has to offer on their own, but I almost feel like the first two routes and their various facets almost lend themselves better to an OT3 narrative than mutually exclusive Shirou/Saber and Shirou/Rin. Plus, Rin becoming Saber's Master in UBW was one of the most goosebump-inducing things I've ever seen. I like how Shirou and Artoria are similar and that both have things to learn from each other. I like how Shirou kind of isn't mentally healthy enough to not be a little bit of a sponge, taking on the shape of those he's around, but that Rin's influence is good for him in that way. (Where do we think Archer gets it?) And I like how, by merit of Artoria and Shirou being so similar, Rin and Artoria may have a similar dynamic but that they also have an almost courtly regard for each other as lady and knight that comes naturally to them.
I would like any kind of fic set after the UBW good end, or any fic set during the War. Clock Tower setting is also interesting. If you'd like to include something about Athurian mythos sort of being fulfilled in the modern day with Artoria at its center and the other two at her side, that would be great. Something that involves helping Shirou avoid the fate of becoming a Counter Guardian with these two women protecting him from himself would also be a nice angle. And finally, I would just love to see what Rin makes of herself as a magus and how having a boyfriend with an illegal Reality Marble as his best skill and a girlfriend who is... King Arthur impacts her personal quest. Any and all!
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Illyasviel von Einzbern/Matou Sakura
I've seen a lot of people refer to them as "the two Grails" and indicate how this impacts any hope of any dynamic they will ever have. However, I would like it if there were some scenario where the two of them were able to overcome their fate and their sort of natural enmity. I am interested in the parallels and contrasts between them. They were both little girls trapped in big, nice, but ultimately eerie and dark houses that weren't really homes. They were both taken from their parents whom they loved because of something that was "beyond their parents' control," but which wasn't, really. They were both casualties to what magi felt magi had to do.
Sakura has survived a lot of abuse while Illya has survived a lot of neglect. I think that would be a sort of foundation to build a dynamic between the two of them. For a fic about them, I would like it if some mechanism allowed both to survive the Holy Grail War and for Illya to age past her loli-stage. Irisviel, her mother, was a very young adult, but I just at least want them to find equal footing. Time lapse might be your friend, but obviously it's your story. Perhaps we find out what happens to both surviving girls when Rin and Shirou (and Artoria, if you want, as above) are off at the Clock Tower. I've heard it thrown out that maybe Sakura kind of takes on the Tohsaka heir duties in Japan if Rin decides to spend quite a lot of her life in London and elsewhere.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want. For this pairing, I do NOT want sexy scenes if Illya has not experienced aging up to a point where she is definitely post-pubescent. Even if she is over 18, I just... no. She ages slowly, not not-at-all, or I don't want it, please and thanks.
Robotics;Notes
If we matched on this fandom, I hope we can keep in contact after de-anoning. This is such a tiny, tiny fandom in the English-speaking world. I'm not really sure how much better it did in Japan except that I saw some amazing cosplay once. I made a post about this fandom in the promote your fandom post on the FGE comm, if you are reading this but don't know anything about it. But if you're here, great!
Senomiya Akiho/Yashio Kaito
I was the nominator here, so again if we match on this I am just so excited that you want to write for something for which I've written one of the only English fics in existence. Aki and Kai are a weird one in that they took a while to grow on me but once they did, I couldn't get their relationship out of my head. In pretty much all ways, they are small-town, close-friends, neighbors, etc., turned (presumptive) lovers by the end and it's such a cliche. But I just couldn't help but feel like their bonding with the other characters created enough distance for them to miss each other. Then, when they finally got back around to noticing each other and what they had missed, their chemistry just felt surprisingly powerful?
For them, I'd like any slice of life after they have entered a relationship as they're entering their early adulthood. Definitely would like an at least mildly sexy fic (but PG to E, all is fair) if you're game. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Chuck
Chuck Bartowski/Bryce Larkin/Sarah Walker
My best friend recommended Chuck to me years ago. She was such a fan that she followed the Subway promotion when it was happening, but I was a late-adopter. I started watching the show when I had my first job and was adjusting to that as opposed to being a student. It was just really nice, to see how the workplace environment was portrayed in a humorous way. However, I also love the FBI/CIA tension and backdrops the show uses.
CIA recruiting seems mysterious and strange to me, and every time it came up on the show I was curious. The fact that Bryce seemed so determined to protect Chuck from the life he was taking on seemed strange to me. The fact that he was so protective and concerned while taking it on himself seems to be something that was addressed but never adequately. It just seems rife for Bryce having feelings. Then, of course, we know that there is the fact that Bryce and Sarah were a bit too close as partners and that Chuck has Issues about feeling Bryce gets in the way of his ability to do much in life. Instead of having a dumb, boring jealousy-angle, though, why can't we have all of this come together in a way that lets everyone live and learn that they all care about each other? Whether you go the undercover angle and have it mostly like a mundane-life fic or go the other direction and bring Chuck closer in to the CIA establishment, Intersect or not, is up to you.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Thank you for writing something for me! This exchange is really exciting; heaven knows I often go searching in fanfiction tags for things that simply don't exist. I'm glad that this will us an opportunity to fix some of that. I've included my general likes, dislikes, and then some fandom specific prompts.
Likes: canon-typical violence, missing scenes, UST, emotional ambiguity, found families, developing or established relationships, time travel, pre-canon, post-canon, bedsharing, loyalty, worldbuilding, epistolary/journal/log fiction, monster-of-the-week / slice of ordinary life adventures, earned second chances, dealing with consequences, "what if" / canon divergent AUs, earned happy endings, holidays, casefic, groundhog day trope, mysteries, healing, survival (wilderness, zombie apocalypse, etc.), last stands, trying against impossible odds, succeeding against impossible odds, heartfelt goodbyes, unexpected reunions, foils
Dislikes: character bashing towards anybody, noncon, explicit gore, breathplay, serious or permanent injury related to sexuality, nihilism, hopeless endings (but sad is okay)
I'm comfortable with any rating of fic.
You can CTRL+F for what you're looking for; any redundancy is for people who are just looking for one specific prompt.
Fate/stay night
Relationships Requested: Gilgamesh/Matou Sakura; Emiya Shirou/Arturia Pendragon | Saber/Tohsaka Rin (Fate/stay night); Illyasviel von Einzbern/Matou Sakura
Gilgamesh/Matou Sakura
I am surprised there are not more fics with this pairing. The fact that there is an inescapable scene in which Gilgamesh confronts Sakura, even if he is suggesting she'd be better off dead than surviving whatever comes next, at the beginning of FSN's prologue is intriguing. Gilgamesh certainly has an odd way of expressing both interest and disinterest, and however much Sakura might seem to be the kind of person who might cower and give in to Gilgamesh's initial "advice," but she doesn't. No matter what she has been the victim of, she insistently finds a way to survive.
I wonder what might happen if Sakura and Gilgamesh interacted more. For example, if Gilgamesh becomes Shinji's Servant, I wonder if Sakura might find a way to quietly campaign for her own power. Since Shinji stole her Command Seals, perhaps she steals "his" Servant? Alternatively, rather than Gilgamesh meeting his death in Heaven's Feel, maybe he meets Sakura more where she is and creates a secondary path for her.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Emiya Shirou/Artoria Pendraon | Saber/Tohsaka Rin
This is one of my favorite polyamorous pairings across all of my fandoms. I love what each twosome has to offer on their own, but I almost feel like the first two routes and their various facets almost lend themselves better to an OT3 narrative than mutually exclusive Shirou/Saber and Shirou/Rin. Plus, Rin becoming Saber's Master in UBW was one of the most goosebump-inducing things I've ever seen. I like how Shirou and Artoria are similar and that both have things to learn from each other. I like how Shirou kind of isn't mentally healthy enough to not be a little bit of a sponge, taking on the shape of those he's around, but that Rin's influence is good for him in that way. (Where do we think Archer gets it?) And I like how, by merit of Artoria and Shirou being so similar, Rin and Artoria may have a similar dynamic but that they also have an almost courtly regard for each other as lady and knight that comes naturally to them.
I would like any kind of fic set after the UBW good end, or any fic set during the War. Clock Tower setting is also interesting. If you'd like to include something about Athurian mythos sort of being fulfilled in the modern day with Artoria at its center and the other two at her side, that would be great. Something that involves helping Shirou avoid the fate of becoming a Counter Guardian with these two women protecting him from himself would also be a nice angle. And finally, I would just love to see what Rin makes of herself as a magus and how having a boyfriend with an illegal Reality Marble as his best skill and a girlfriend who is... King Arthur impacts her personal quest. Any and all!
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Illyasviel von Einzbern/Matou Sakura
I've seen a lot of people refer to them as "the two Grails" and indicate how this impacts any hope of any dynamic they will ever have. However, I would like it if there were some scenario where the two of them were able to overcome their fate and their sort of natural enmity. I am interested in the parallels and contrasts between them. They were both little girls trapped in big, nice, but ultimately eerie and dark houses that weren't really homes. They were both taken from their parents whom they loved because of something that was "beyond their parents' control," but which wasn't, really. They were both casualties to what magi felt magi had to do.
Sakura has survived a lot of abuse while Illya has survived a lot of neglect. I think that would be a sort of foundation to build a dynamic between the two of them. For a fic about them, I would like it if some mechanism allowed both to survive the Holy Grail War and for Illya to age past her loli-stage. Irisviel, her mother, was a very young adult, but I just at least want them to find equal footing. Time lapse might be your friend, but obviously it's your story. Perhaps we find out what happens to both surviving girls when Rin and Shirou (and Artoria, if you want, as above) are off at the Clock Tower. I've heard it thrown out that maybe Sakura kind of takes on the Tohsaka heir duties in Japan if Rin decides to spend quite a lot of her life in London and elsewhere.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want. For this pairing, I do NOT want sexy scenes if Illya has not experienced aging up to a point where she is definitely post-pubescent. Even if she is over 18, I just... no. She ages slowly, not not-at-all, or I don't want it, please and thanks.
Robotics;Notes
If we matched on this fandom, I hope we can keep in contact after de-anoning. This is such a tiny, tiny fandom in the English-speaking world. I'm not really sure how much better it did in Japan except that I saw some amazing cosplay once. I made a post about this fandom in the promote your fandom post on the FGE comm, if you are reading this but don't know anything about it. But if you're here, great!
Senomiya Akiho/Yashio Kaito
I was the nominator here, so again if we match on this I am just so excited that you want to write for something for which I've written one of the only English fics in existence. Aki and Kai are a weird one in that they took a while to grow on me but once they did, I couldn't get their relationship out of my head. In pretty much all ways, they are small-town, close-friends, neighbors, etc., turned (presumptive) lovers by the end and it's such a cliche. But I just couldn't help but feel like their bonding with the other characters created enough distance for them to miss each other. Then, when they finally got back around to noticing each other and what they had missed, their chemistry just felt surprisingly powerful?
For them, I'd like any slice of life after they have entered a relationship as they're entering their early adulthood. Definitely would like an at least mildly sexy fic (but PG to E, all is fair) if you're game. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.
Chuck
Chuck Bartowski/Bryce Larkin/Sarah Walker
My best friend recommended Chuck to me years ago. She was such a fan that she followed the Subway promotion when it was happening, but I was a late-adopter. I started watching the show when I had my first job and was adjusting to that as opposed to being a student. It was just really nice, to see how the workplace environment was portrayed in a humorous way. However, I also love the FBI/CIA tension and backdrops the show uses.
CIA recruiting seems mysterious and strange to me, and every time it came up on the show I was curious. The fact that Bryce seemed so determined to protect Chuck from the life he was taking on seemed strange to me. The fact that he was so protective and concerned while taking it on himself seems to be something that was addressed but never adequately. It just seems rife for Bryce having feelings. Then, of course, we know that there is the fact that Bryce and Sarah were a bit too close as partners and that Chuck has Issues about feeling Bryce gets in the way of his ability to do much in life. Instead of having a dumb, boring jealousy-angle, though, why can't we have all of this come together in a way that lets everyone live and learn that they all care about each other? Whether you go the undercover angle and have it mostly like a mundane-life fic or go the other direction and bring Chuck closer in to the CIA establishment, Intersect or not, is up to you.
Note: Sexy scenes are welcome if you want to focus on that kind of interlude, too, but at least you have some framing either way. If you write sexy things, I prefer to let the characters dictate their kinks - just refer to my dislikes list for things I don't want.