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I look forward to seeing whatever you create. While I've included prompts for my requests, please don't feel beholden to them if you're inspired by something else I've mentioned, whether in my likes list or elsewhere! The prompts are just there to help in case you need some more specific ideas.
Please note that length of prompts does not relate to my enthusiasm for a particular character or ships, but more likely the length of the time I have been requesting them, or how many ideas I have for their dynamic!
Also: I'm a huge multishipper at heart: as long as the work focuses on my requested character(s), feel free to include whatever background relationships you like, whether that be in subplots, past relationships, or unrequited pining for an unrequested character. (Any exceptions will be noted.)
Treats are always welcomed. 💖
General Likes
Moods: angst (happy, sad, or bittersweet endings welcome), brief moments of hope, confinement, guilt, honesty, humiliation, internalised prejudices and repressed feelings, nonlinear growth, pining (requited or not), rebuilding, submission, vulnerability.
Themes: breakups (including within requested pairings), character studies, characters' feelings on parenthood, feelings on what makes 'family' in general, fitting in with society (or not), grief, honor/duty/filial piety, pregnancy.
Settings: Alternate Universes - canon divergences & setting changes (e.g., modern, apocalypse, pirates, space opera, medieval, mundane, magical, soulmates etc.)
Tropes: body horror, fake dating, first times, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, on the run from the law, time-travel (loops or otherwise)
Formats: first/second person POV, outsider POV, mixed media, interactive fiction, five times fic, drabble sequences.
Smut Likes
bad bdsm etiquette, boot worship, breast worship, desk sex, doggy style, dubcon (esp. due to altered states, miscommunication & power imbalances), facials, femdom, flogging, gangbangs, horny subs with indifferent doms, human furniture, immobilisation, keeping glasses and socks on, light bondage (inc. honour), magically induced total power exchange, makeshift gags, mirror sex, object insertion (esp. gun or bottle), orgasm delay/denial, pegging, period sex, punishment, sex pollen/accidental aphrodisiacs, rough sex, smutty character studies, tied up & forgotten, watersports (esp. as humiliation or act of trust, inc. drinking, marking and/or desperation).
DNWs
age play, animal play, bestiality, emetophilia, explicit underage (under 16), mpreg (unless in omegaverse or other setting where it is commonplace), raceplay, scat, toesucking, unrequested asexuality headcanons, unrequested gender headcanons, unrequested parent/child incest.
My Fair Lady
Requested characters: Eliza Dooltitle, Henry Higgins
I would love anything focused on their relationship after the events of the movie, in either a platonic or romantic fashion! (For romantic, one-siding or unrequited pining and the like are more than welcome, too.)
Regardless of how one views them, I think Henry and Eliza have had a irrevocable effect on each other's lives, and there'll always be something bringing them back together even if they try and stay apart.
Unrequested background ships are more than welcome, so long as the focus of the narrative is on the relationship between Henry and Eliza.
Prompt ideas to use or discard at your leisure:
• The outbreak of WWI and its impact on Henry and Eliza
• Eliza makes good on her promise to teach phonetics and Henry has Strong Feelings about it
• Eliza marries Freddy and Higgins has strong feelings about that, too.
• Henry is despondent after Eliza leaves his life and someone else (Pickering? Mrs. Higgins? Mrs. Pearce?) shakes some sense into him and encourages him to repair his relationship with his former protégé.
Selfie
Requested characters: Eliza Dooley, Henry Higgs
Another TV show taken from us too soon! I could have watched many more seasons of these two together; they have such amazing chemistry, and I'm heartbroken there was no real on-screen resolution to all that simmering tension!
Prompt ideas to use or discard at your leisure:
• Henry decides to make something of the skater kids' advice (NO FEAR)
• Henry or Eliza meeting (more) of the other's families
• One of them is convinced that a relationship between them wouldn't work out — does the other accept this or fight for them?
The Testaments
Aunt Lydia Clements
I find Aunt Lydia a deeply layered and complex character — I've always been drawn to stories of women working within the limits of system and its foundational institutions, and Aunt Lydia's is no exception. I'm impressed by just how long she survived as an Aunt in Gillead: how much of her integrity has she had to compromise in order to achieve her goals? How does she manage her cognitive dissonance? What are her regrets; what are her hopes and dreams for the future?
I don't have any specific prompts for this one; I'm happy for any other characters to appear as you see fit, so long as Aunt Lydia is the focus! I'm also familiar with The Handmaid's Tale TV show, should you wish to use any background information that only appears in there to supplement Aunt Lydia's characterisation or backstory, or the setting itself. (Or feel free to ignore it entirely!)
I look forward to seeing whatever you create. While I've included prompts for my requests, please don't feel beholden to them if you're inspired by something else I've mentioned, whether in my likes list or elsewhere! The prompts are just there to help in case you need some more specific ideas.
Please note that length of prompts does not relate to my enthusiasm for a particular character or ships, but more likely the length of the time I have been requesting them, or how many ideas I have for their dynamic!
Also: I'm a huge multishipper at heart: as long as the work focuses on my requested character(s), feel free to include whatever background relationships you like, whether that be in subplots, past relationships, or unrequited pining for an unrequested character. (Any exceptions will be noted.)
Treats are always welcomed. 💖
General Likes
Moods: angst (happy, sad, or bittersweet endings welcome), brief moments of hope, confinement, guilt, honesty, humiliation, internalised prejudices and repressed feelings, nonlinear growth, pining (requited or not), rebuilding, submission, vulnerability.
Themes: breakups (including within requested pairings), character studies, characters' feelings on parenthood, feelings on what makes 'family' in general, fitting in with society (or not), grief, honor/duty/filial piety, pregnancy.
Settings: Alternate Universes - canon divergences & setting changes (e.g., modern, apocalypse, pirates, space opera, medieval, mundane, magical, soulmates etc.)
Tropes: body horror, fake dating, first times, forced proximity, huddling for warmth, on the run from the law, time-travel (loops or otherwise)
Formats: first/second person POV, outsider POV, mixed media, interactive fiction, five times fic, drabble sequences.
Smut Likes
bad bdsm etiquette, boot worship, breast worship, desk sex, doggy style, dubcon (esp. due to altered states, miscommunication & power imbalances), facials, femdom, flogging, gangbangs, horny subs with indifferent doms, human furniture, immobilisation, keeping glasses and socks on, light bondage (inc. honour), magically induced total power exchange, makeshift gags, mirror sex, object insertion (esp. gun or bottle), orgasm delay/denial, pegging, period sex, punishment, sex pollen/accidental aphrodisiacs, rough sex, smutty character studies, tied up & forgotten, watersports (esp. as humiliation or act of trust, inc. drinking, marking and/or desperation).
DNWs
age play, animal play, bestiality, emetophilia, explicit underage (under 16), mpreg (unless in omegaverse or other setting where it is commonplace), raceplay, scat, toesucking, unrequested asexuality headcanons, unrequested gender headcanons, unrequested parent/child incest.
My Fair Lady
Requested characters: Eliza Dooltitle, Henry Higgins
I would love anything focused on their relationship after the events of the movie, in either a platonic or romantic fashion! (For romantic, one-siding or unrequited pining and the like are more than welcome, too.)
Regardless of how one views them, I think Henry and Eliza have had a irrevocable effect on each other's lives, and there'll always be something bringing them back together even if they try and stay apart.
Unrequested background ships are more than welcome, so long as the focus of the narrative is on the relationship between Henry and Eliza.
Prompt ideas to use or discard at your leisure:
• The outbreak of WWI and its impact on Henry and Eliza
• Eliza makes good on her promise to teach phonetics and Henry has Strong Feelings about it
• Eliza marries Freddy and Higgins has strong feelings about that, too.
• Henry is despondent after Eliza leaves his life and someone else (Pickering? Mrs. Higgins? Mrs. Pearce?) shakes some sense into him and encourages him to repair his relationship with his former protégé.
Selfie
Requested characters: Eliza Dooley, Henry Higgs
Another TV show taken from us too soon! I could have watched many more seasons of these two together; they have such amazing chemistry, and I'm heartbroken there was no real on-screen resolution to all that simmering tension!
Prompt ideas to use or discard at your leisure:
• Henry decides to make something of the skater kids' advice (NO FEAR)
• Henry or Eliza meeting (more) of the other's families
• One of them is convinced that a relationship between them wouldn't work out — does the other accept this or fight for them?
The Testaments
Aunt Lydia Clements
I find Aunt Lydia a deeply layered and complex character — I've always been drawn to stories of women working within the limits of system and its foundational institutions, and Aunt Lydia's is no exception. I'm impressed by just how long she survived as an Aunt in Gillead: how much of her integrity has she had to compromise in order to achieve her goals? How does she manage her cognitive dissonance? What are her regrets; what are her hopes and dreams for the future?
I don't have any specific prompts for this one; I'm happy for any other characters to appear as you see fit, so long as Aunt Lydia is the focus! I'm also familiar with The Handmaid's Tale TV show, should you wish to use any background information that only appears in there to supplement Aunt Lydia's characterisation or backstory, or the setting itself. (Or feel free to ignore it entirely!)