Chocolatebox 2017 Letter
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chokolattejediAs usual, I am going to liberally copy and paste much from past letters. :D
Things I love, in general: Aliens made us do it, amazing hair, angst, animal sidekicks/pets, antisocial geniuses, bi- or pansexuality, blood, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, chocolate, comedy, cooking, dark themes, death, dragons, drag queens, dress uniforms/suiting up, double agents, dub-con, evil cliffhanger endings, femslash, fluff, geekboys, geekery, geekgirls, gen, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs, happy endings, het, hijinks, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, kitties, meta, OT3s, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, shenanigans, shiny things, slash, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, spies, spunky chicks, squee, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters, unhappy endings, whump… and more, I'm sure.
Things I dislike, in general: Character bashing, glorified gay bashing (where the basher doesn't get comeuppance later), cheating on partners, dental practice AUs, non-con, pwp, graphic sex scenes, scatology, watersports.
In general, I'm not huge on PWPs. I like plot, developing relationships, fade to blacks, pre-relationships, old marrieds, and all kinds of other things. I like sex scenes too, but please don't feel like you have to include one, or make it all about that.
The above may or may not apply to any of my current requests, which I'll detail now.
o)(O)(o
Tortall – Tamora Pierce
Alianne Cooper & Dovasary Balitang
Alianne Cooper/Dovasary Balitang
Alianne Cooper & Kyprioth
Beka Cooper & Pounce
Request: Aly and Dove being all awesome as Queen and servant/confidant and/or shippy together? Kyprioth and Aly matching wits the way they do? Pounce! All of the Pounce! And Beka
More Details: I love the Trickster series best of all the Tortall Books, but Provost’s Dog is a close second. Anything based around these characters, either before, during, or after the books would be great! I also love the entire Tortall world for the amazingly strong, well detailed, and so very different from each other female characters!
I love Aly's love of life and the pleasure she gets from doing spy things. Her depth of knowledge and sneaky ways are very impressive. Her way of living with one finger stuck in everyone else's business while seeming to be nowhere near them is great as well. In Choice, the way she moves between the family, the conspirators, and her day job with the goats and crows and Kyprioth is fascinating. In Queen, the way she knows what everyone is doing, including her fellows, by way of the darkings is fabulous. The way she moves in the shadows for so long and then all of a sudden there is a huge result (a la Topabaw) is fascinating. And her personality in general I just adore.
I love how calculating Dove is; she thinks before she speaks and she always wants to learn more about everything. The loyalty/friendship/potentially love between her and Aly is fabulous to watch as it develops. I also love the differences between her and Sarai, and how the Raka have to get used to her. As a bookworm myself, her quieter personality, and the way various people interpret it, really hit home with me.
I would love anything set during or after the books. Any scenes from within the rebellion, Dove and Aly talking late at night, Dove being queen, Aly being spymaster, Kyprioth interfering in either of those two jobs, Kyprioth making another wager with/assignment for Aly… or whatever you can think of.
For Beka and Pounce, I’d love something set before the first book or between the first two books. Just a slice of life or a night on the job or perhaps when Pounce first decides to go to Beka.
o)(O)(o
Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & Tom Riddle (Rowling)
Harry Potter & Voldemort (Rowling)
Harry Potter/Tom Riddle (Rowling)
Harry Potter/Voldemort (Rowling)
Request: Harry &/ Tom &/ Voldy! I love them in domestic and fluffy things. I love them in dark things (either/both dark like torture/death/etc and dark like going to the dark side). I love light, grey, and dark Harry, and grey and dark Tom/Voldy.
More Details: Er, yes. So I love Voldie. I have a thing for villains (I blame Disney) and Voldie hits so many of my villain buttons. He and Harry are probably my top ship in HP, which is saying a lot because I ship half of this world. What about Dark!Harry inspecting his warriors? Or how they came to ally? Or after the alliance/romance, fluffy domestic fic. What if 16-year-old Horcrux!Tom is different than Voldie and it is him that Harry falls for? In general, I like angst, and hurt/comfort. I like turning characters dark (especially if there is a whole other dark faction run by Harry that is secretly also fighting in the war, in which case other Gryffs, DA members, or anyone from Draco's gang (including him) are welcome to join in on the ebilness. However, I know that not everyone likes dark!fic or dark!characters, and I do totally like other things. Humor and fluff can be fun, as can awkward first acknowledgements of attraction. Dragons are awesome, wheezes and pranks are awesome, and domestic, morning around the house kind of fic (and/or kid!fic) are awesome.
o)(O)(o
Dragonriders of Pern – Anne McCaffrey
Menolly & Robinton
Menolly & Sebell
Request: Harpers! I'd love something set right after Menolly's second book, when she's in the hall and finding her place.
More Details:
I love love love Dragonsinger, and that time period in the Harper Hall. I love Menolly's group with Sebell, Talmor, and Domick. I love the saga of getting the fire lizard eggs to hatch. I love the mentorship relationship with Menolly and Robinton, and also the kind of mentorship/sibling relationship between Menolly and Sebell. I'd love anything set in that era for either set!
I just don't even think I can express how much I love Harpers, and this period of Pern History, and the Harper Hall, and oh, Peimur and Silvina and anyone else are welcome to come to the party too! Background Menolly/Sebell or Menolly/Peimur are fine too.
o)(O)(o
Request Fandom 2: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Fun Ghoul & Jet Star & Kobra Kid & Party Poison
Fun Ghoul & Jet Star & Kobra Kid & Motorbaby & Party Poison
Motorbaby | Grace (Danger Days) & Party Poison
Korse/Party Poison
Request: God how I love this album! I'd love some world-building here. Flesh out the Killjoy universe for me a bit. I'd love a take on the Korse/Poison backstory (not necessarily shippy, but not necessarily not shippy) ;), or how any of the gang came to be in the zones. How did the gang end up with Motorbaby? Hijinks. What about that moment, between Motorbaby and Poison when he’s rescuing her, and he makes that face? Anything with Grace/Motorbaby, really. Basically just go wild and have fun with it. :D
**I do love and adore the world of Ask Poison and it has been largely incorporated into my headcanon, so you can play with that too if you'd like. (But by no means do I consider it necessary for you to do so).**
More Details: On this one I feel that my request pretty much sums it up. You can check out some of the things I've written for DD on AO3 too. So yes, world-building! Backstory! Hijinks! Character exploration! Fluff! Crack! Angst! Go wild! :D
o)(O)(o
Things I love, in general: Aliens made us do it, amazing hair, angst, animal sidekicks/pets, antisocial geniuses, bi- or pansexuality, blood, boys in eyeliner, chaotic neutral or similar characters, chocolate, comedy, cooking, dark themes, death, dragons, drag queens, dress uniforms/suiting up, double agents, dub-con, evil cliffhanger endings, femslash, fluff, geekboys, geekery, geekgirls, gen, glasses (and/or glasses!kink), goddesses/gods, goth or punk AUs, happy endings, het, hijinks, hurt/comfort, illness, insanity, kitties, meta, OT3s, ploty things, random little life/death snippets, shenanigans, shiny things, slash, snark, sneaking, sparkly things, spies, spunky chicks, squee, tomboys, tough-on-the-outside bishies, tricks and tricksters, unhappy endings, whump… and more, I'm sure.
Things I dislike, in general: Character bashing, glorified gay bashing (where the basher doesn't get comeuppance later), cheating on partners, dental practice AUs, non-con, pwp, graphic sex scenes, scatology, watersports.
In general, I'm not huge on PWPs. I like plot, developing relationships, fade to blacks, pre-relationships, old marrieds, and all kinds of other things. I like sex scenes too, but please don't feel like you have to include one, or make it all about that.
The above may or may not apply to any of my current requests, which I'll detail now.
Tortall – Tamora Pierce
Alianne Cooper & Dovasary Balitang
Alianne Cooper/Dovasary Balitang
Alianne Cooper & Kyprioth
Beka Cooper & Pounce
Request: Aly and Dove being all awesome as Queen and servant/confidant and/or shippy together? Kyprioth and Aly matching wits the way they do? Pounce! All of the Pounce! And Beka
More Details: I love the Trickster series best of all the Tortall Books, but Provost’s Dog is a close second. Anything based around these characters, either before, during, or after the books would be great! I also love the entire Tortall world for the amazingly strong, well detailed, and so very different from each other female characters!
I love Aly's love of life and the pleasure she gets from doing spy things. Her depth of knowledge and sneaky ways are very impressive. Her way of living with one finger stuck in everyone else's business while seeming to be nowhere near them is great as well. In Choice, the way she moves between the family, the conspirators, and her day job with the goats and crows and Kyprioth is fascinating. In Queen, the way she knows what everyone is doing, including her fellows, by way of the darkings is fabulous. The way she moves in the shadows for so long and then all of a sudden there is a huge result (a la Topabaw) is fascinating. And her personality in general I just adore.
I love how calculating Dove is; she thinks before she speaks and she always wants to learn more about everything. The loyalty/friendship/potentially love between her and Aly is fabulous to watch as it develops. I also love the differences between her and Sarai, and how the Raka have to get used to her. As a bookworm myself, her quieter personality, and the way various people interpret it, really hit home with me.
I would love anything set during or after the books. Any scenes from within the rebellion, Dove and Aly talking late at night, Dove being queen, Aly being spymaster, Kyprioth interfering in either of those two jobs, Kyprioth making another wager with/assignment for Aly… or whatever you can think of.
For Beka and Pounce, I’d love something set before the first book or between the first two books. Just a slice of life or a night on the job or perhaps when Pounce first decides to go to Beka.
Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter & Tom Riddle (Rowling)
Harry Potter & Voldemort (Rowling)
Harry Potter/Tom Riddle (Rowling)
Harry Potter/Voldemort (Rowling)
Request: Harry &/ Tom &/ Voldy! I love them in domestic and fluffy things. I love them in dark things (either/both dark like torture/death/etc and dark like going to the dark side). I love light, grey, and dark Harry, and grey and dark Tom/Voldy.
More Details: Er, yes. So I love Voldie. I have a thing for villains (I blame Disney) and Voldie hits so many of my villain buttons. He and Harry are probably my top ship in HP, which is saying a lot because I ship half of this world. What about Dark!Harry inspecting his warriors? Or how they came to ally? Or after the alliance/romance, fluffy domestic fic. What if 16-year-old Horcrux!Tom is different than Voldie and it is him that Harry falls for? In general, I like angst, and hurt/comfort. I like turning characters dark (especially if there is a whole other dark faction run by Harry that is secretly also fighting in the war, in which case other Gryffs, DA members, or anyone from Draco's gang (including him) are welcome to join in on the ebilness. However, I know that not everyone likes dark!fic or dark!characters, and I do totally like other things. Humor and fluff can be fun, as can awkward first acknowledgements of attraction. Dragons are awesome, wheezes and pranks are awesome, and domestic, morning around the house kind of fic (and/or kid!fic) are awesome.
Dragonriders of Pern – Anne McCaffrey
Menolly & Robinton
Menolly & Sebell
Request: Harpers! I'd love something set right after Menolly's second book, when she's in the hall and finding her place.
More Details:
I love love love Dragonsinger, and that time period in the Harper Hall. I love Menolly's group with Sebell, Talmor, and Domick. I love the saga of getting the fire lizard eggs to hatch. I love the mentorship relationship with Menolly and Robinton, and also the kind of mentorship/sibling relationship between Menolly and Sebell. I'd love anything set in that era for either set!
I just don't even think I can express how much I love Harpers, and this period of Pern History, and the Harper Hall, and oh, Peimur and Silvina and anyone else are welcome to come to the party too! Background Menolly/Sebell or Menolly/Peimur are fine too.
Request Fandom 2: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Fun Ghoul & Jet Star & Kobra Kid & Party Poison
Fun Ghoul & Jet Star & Kobra Kid & Motorbaby & Party Poison
Motorbaby | Grace (Danger Days) & Party Poison
Korse/Party Poison
Request: God how I love this album! I'd love some world-building here. Flesh out the Killjoy universe for me a bit. I'd love a take on the Korse/Poison backstory (not necessarily shippy, but not necessarily not shippy) ;), or how any of the gang came to be in the zones. How did the gang end up with Motorbaby? Hijinks. What about that moment, between Motorbaby and Poison when he’s rescuing her, and he makes that face? Anything with Grace/Motorbaby, really. Basically just go wild and have fun with it. :D
**I do love and adore the world of Ask Poison and it has been largely incorporated into my headcanon, so you can play with that too if you'd like. (But by no means do I consider it necessary for you to do so).**
More Details: On this one I feel that my request pretty much sums it up. You can check out some of the things I've written for DD on AO3 too. So yes, world-building! Backstory! Hijinks! Character exploration! Fluff! Crack! Angst! Go wild! :D
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