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gala_applesHi! Thanks for writing for me for holly_poly! My Things I Like lists tend to be pretty long but I hope they're not obnoxiously so. Rifle through and pluck out the bits that sound interesting :)
In general:
I'd rather have an in character conversation/world build than an unoffensive conversation/world build. This probably goes mostly for Deadly Class, but I mean it for any of the fandoms. Misogyny, racism, homophobia- if the characters would face it, write it. Feel free to age up canonically minor characters as necessary. Two of my six fandoms this year include drug use, and the other four could easily incorporate it. Having done a bunch of things in my late teens, and living in a country with legal weed, I have a huge squick for drug inaccuracies. Erowid.org is a great resource with trip reports and instructions if you need it.
I’m down with any rating, but if you do aim for a higher rating, I quite like nearly any kink. Some of my favourites are makeshift bondage (like ties or clothes pushed half off to restrict movement) public teasing into being turned on, making people blush, dirty talk, marks of ownership (not necessarily hardcore like collaring, though that's great, having a bracelet to wear or a string of hickies work too) drunk/high sex, BDSM, and overstimulation. But really, if you wanted to go for any kink I'd be happy. My only limit is no guro/vore.
Note: massages are a trigger of mine. It's really upsetting to read them. I'm okay with dub-con (whether due to manipulation or intoxication), but straight up non-con is not enjoyable. I also have phobias of fire/burning alive, stuff happening to eyeballs or teeth, and condiments.
More specifically:
It: I love a good Bev doesn’t move away teenage Losers fic. Post Chapter 2 nearly canon but Stan and Eddie don’t die fic is great too. I head canon OCD Stan, and PTSD everyone.
-Bill/Ben/Bev- I’ve just never understood why love triangles have to end in one or another. Bev can love both! Maybe Ben’s not totally crushed on the staircase about Bev hazily thinking she loved Bill! Or maybe if everyone at Derry high’s gonna call her a slut anyway, she might as well date both of them.
-Ben/Bev/Richie- while I mostly subscribe to gay!Richie, there’s just a queerplatonic love and similarity with Richie and Bev that makes me think they’d occasionally make out as friends. I can very easily see Ben/Bev consoling Richie if Eddie lived but remained straight post It 2, or in their teen years post It 1.
-Ben/Bev/Eddie/Richie- again, it hinges on how close I imagine Bev and Richie to be. I see this starting as two couples getting drunk and too snuggly, and then they don’t want to do it just once.
-Eddie/Richie/Stan- when I’m not imagining Bev as Richie’s best friend, I’m imagining Stan. Canon tells us about Richie’s crush on Eddie, but you can pry his crush on Stan out of my cold dead hands.
-Bill/Ben/Bev/Richie/Stan/Mike/Eddie- of course I ship Ot7, they’re the Losers Club, able to fight an interdimensional eldritch clown demon with the power of friendship. I’d love teenage them realising all they want is each other. Alternatively, adult them getting their memories back and realising all they’ve been missing, why everyone’s seemed so unfulfilling the last twenty something years. 100 percent here for codependency, and them all moving to live close to each other.
Stranger Things:
-Steve/Jonathan/Nancy- all three seasons have a very different vibe, but I love s1 Steve buying Jonathan the camera and all three sort of seducing each other, s2 breaking up/infidelity/needing more angstfic, and s3 Robin’s enlightened Steve, Jonathan doesn’t move away fic. These three are my traumatised babies who can’t let go of each other despite it maybe being healthier to.
-El/Will/Mike- I love how much of a caretaker Mike always is. Taking care of people who need him is such a crucial component of his psyche, I could see it taking a dom/sub tilt when they got older and sexualised. Like everyone else watching s3, I imploded mentally when Mike shouted it’s not my fault you don’t like girls, and Will’s destruction of Club Byers. I’d love any kind of dealing with your sexuality, figuring out who you are kind of thing (including Will thinking he’s gay and then slowly realising he likes El). Alternatively, an established pairing fic where there’s some kind of hurt/comfort, and domesticity is also lovely.
-Dustin/Lucas/Max- I can see Lucas and Max going through high school and college being constantly on again and off again. At some point he realises he’s bi, and Max is the kind of semi-girlfriend to encourage exploration. He naturally gravitates towards Dustin. Except Dustin isn’t the kind of guy to give relationship ultimatums, hasn’t been since the s1 convo with Mike about who’s best friends with whom.
-El/Mike/Max- I love the devotion to El they both have. In a world where Joyce doesn’t force them to move, I can see the three bonding over their post s3 losses. I also love how snarky Max is against Mike.
-Will/Mike/El/Max/Lucas/Dustin- what can I say, I’ve always shipped core group fic in any fandom I’ve been in. I find all of their individual pairing dynamics so interesting, all wrapped up together is off the charts. They’d literally die for each other, something about that just warms my heart. As per Holly Poly rules, here I can also toss in, I’d also be fine with Steve being added in. Maybe not with all of them equally, but I do ship the rare ship of Dustin/Steve, and can see arguments being made for others in the party.
Macdonald Hall: I’ve read these books literally hundreds of times since I first found them at seven. Nothing will take away Bruno/Boots and Cathy/Diane from me, tiny baby queer me latched on hard. Bruno/Boots is as fact as the sky is blue or water is wet. That said, I do love the idea of an ot4. Bruno and Cathy understand each other’s thirst for power and control and the spotlight. Diane and Boots understand the thrill of being the sidekick; getting to complain about ideas and push the responsibility onto their counterpart while still getting to experience the wild idea of the week. If there’s anyone who wouldn’t give a shit about people’s expectations and would demand everything they want at once, it’s Bruno and Cathy. (And is anyone at MacDonald Hall or Scrimmage’s surprised when they find out? Really?)
Deadly Class: I ship the nommed chars in essentially any combination. I love Billy/Lex, Billy/Lex/Petra, Billy/Marcus, Billy/Lex/Marcus, and Billy/Lex/Petra/Marcus. (for that matter, I also would ship the four of them with Saya, Maria, and Willie for a nice ot7). From Marcus talking about giving handjobs to Lex attacking people with dildos to Billy getting his arm broken for saying he gets why boys would have a crush on him and his soft skin, the chaotic bisexual energy is strong with literally all of them. Their bleak backstories are fascinating, as is the desperation to which they cling to their found families. They murder for each other, and there's a part of me that finds that so weirdly romantic. I can see basically any kink working for any combination, if you'd like to write a pwp. Or it can be more of a day in the life at the school thing, set mid or post canon. It'd be interesting to see what happens to the school once Lin presumably dies. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THOUGH, PLEASE DON'T LET LEX DIE. I staunchly ignore those last thirty seconds, and ignore them HARD.
Gossip Girl 2021: I love everything about Aki/Audrey/Max. I weirdly relate to Audrey, the financial ruin thing (though mine went from middle class to poverty line, not super rich to rich), and the clinically depressed emotionally abusive mom. I grew up loving Brian Kinney from Queer As Folk, and Max is like his child; proudly sexual and hedonistic, drugs and sex and luxury goods a veneer over the inner pain, not that many care to look deeper. And then Aki, so gen and chill except for all the times his life is falling apart. His dad outing him (and mislabelling him too!) is brutal. I usually hate cheating storylines, the amount of times I’ve bitched ‘don’t cheat just be poly’ at a screen is staggering. And Gossip Girl is a show that actually goes there. They both go from ashamed of their cheating and Max being used, to finding comfort in each other. I love it so much, and my biggest fear is season 1b saying that it was a mistake.
Teen Wolf:
-Allison/Isaac/Scott- Maybe this is bad, but I love the PTSD. The histories of child abuse/gaslighting. The mental breakdowns. I’m not saying I want a super bleak fic, but I like how these three fractured people found other people to love them. I don’t ship any of them WITH Chris, but I like him being a present good father for Allison and a mentor for Isaac and Scott, so him being mentioned would be cool.
-Allison/Scott/Stiles- I still like some of the same angsty stuff, broken people finding each other, but also the backbone of certain friendship that is Scott/Stiles. No matter what happens, they’ve got each other’s backs. I’d love fluid sexualities and no labels and kink explorations and stoned sex. Also, no need to figure out an elaborate s3 fixit, Allison can just be alive.
-Isaac/Scott/Stiles- The way Stiles and Isaac seem to fight about who's more important to Scott is so close to arguing over who'd make the better girlfriend. Scott being Scott, there's no way he'd ever pick a side, so Stiles and Isaac would have to be bitingly pragmatic about it.
-Allison/Isaac/Scott/Kira- I like the canon couples, but Isaac and Scott have a wolfy bond, and I feel like Allison and Kira would bond over being total badasses with strict mothers. I can see some delightfully awkward conversations between them all when they realised their feelings for more than their partner.
-Allison/Lydia/Scott/Stiles- I loved these four against the aggressive murderous Hale pack in s2. Allison and Lydia's friendship is great, Scott and Stiles together is a universal law, Allison and Scott are Shakesperian, and Stiles and Lydia have their moments, when Stiles isn't being too Nice Guy at Lydia. This also works for my favourite 3a trope, Stiles will literally die if he stays a virgin.
-Scott/Stiles/Kira, -Scott/Stiles/Malia, -Scott/Stiles/Malia/Kira- I just deeply love all of these characters and ship them in any combo. Malia learning ethics from Stiles, who is chaotic neutral. Kira and Stiles bonding over nerdy fandom things. Malia having that Alpha relationship with Scott. Kira and Malia dancing at a club in 401 was enough to make me ship them. Could be set anywhere from s4 to post canon.
In general:
I'd rather have an in character conversation/world build than an unoffensive conversation/world build. This probably goes mostly for Deadly Class, but I mean it for any of the fandoms. Misogyny, racism, homophobia- if the characters would face it, write it. Feel free to age up canonically minor characters as necessary. Two of my six fandoms this year include drug use, and the other four could easily incorporate it. Having done a bunch of things in my late teens, and living in a country with legal weed, I have a huge squick for drug inaccuracies. Erowid.org is a great resource with trip reports and instructions if you need it.
I’m down with any rating, but if you do aim for a higher rating, I quite like nearly any kink. Some of my favourites are makeshift bondage (like ties or clothes pushed half off to restrict movement) public teasing into being turned on, making people blush, dirty talk, marks of ownership (not necessarily hardcore like collaring, though that's great, having a bracelet to wear or a string of hickies work too) drunk/high sex, BDSM, and overstimulation. But really, if you wanted to go for any kink I'd be happy. My only limit is no guro/vore.
Note: massages are a trigger of mine. It's really upsetting to read them. I'm okay with dub-con (whether due to manipulation or intoxication), but straight up non-con is not enjoyable. I also have phobias of fire/burning alive, stuff happening to eyeballs or teeth, and condiments.
More specifically:
It: I love a good Bev doesn’t move away teenage Losers fic. Post Chapter 2 nearly canon but Stan and Eddie don’t die fic is great too. I head canon OCD Stan, and PTSD everyone.
-Bill/Ben/Bev- I’ve just never understood why love triangles have to end in one or another. Bev can love both! Maybe Ben’s not totally crushed on the staircase about Bev hazily thinking she loved Bill! Or maybe if everyone at Derry high’s gonna call her a slut anyway, she might as well date both of them.
-Ben/Bev/Richie- while I mostly subscribe to gay!Richie, there’s just a queerplatonic love and similarity with Richie and Bev that makes me think they’d occasionally make out as friends. I can very easily see Ben/Bev consoling Richie if Eddie lived but remained straight post It 2, or in their teen years post It 1.
-Ben/Bev/Eddie/Richie- again, it hinges on how close I imagine Bev and Richie to be. I see this starting as two couples getting drunk and too snuggly, and then they don’t want to do it just once.
-Eddie/Richie/Stan- when I’m not imagining Bev as Richie’s best friend, I’m imagining Stan. Canon tells us about Richie’s crush on Eddie, but you can pry his crush on Stan out of my cold dead hands.
-Bill/Ben/Bev/Richie/Stan/Mike/Eddie- of course I ship Ot7, they’re the Losers Club, able to fight an interdimensional eldritch clown demon with the power of friendship. I’d love teenage them realising all they want is each other. Alternatively, adult them getting their memories back and realising all they’ve been missing, why everyone’s seemed so unfulfilling the last twenty something years. 100 percent here for codependency, and them all moving to live close to each other.
Stranger Things:
-Steve/Jonathan/Nancy- all three seasons have a very different vibe, but I love s1 Steve buying Jonathan the camera and all three sort of seducing each other, s2 breaking up/infidelity/needing more angstfic, and s3 Robin’s enlightened Steve, Jonathan doesn’t move away fic. These three are my traumatised babies who can’t let go of each other despite it maybe being healthier to.
-El/Will/Mike- I love how much of a caretaker Mike always is. Taking care of people who need him is such a crucial component of his psyche, I could see it taking a dom/sub tilt when they got older and sexualised. Like everyone else watching s3, I imploded mentally when Mike shouted it’s not my fault you don’t like girls, and Will’s destruction of Club Byers. I’d love any kind of dealing with your sexuality, figuring out who you are kind of thing (including Will thinking he’s gay and then slowly realising he likes El). Alternatively, an established pairing fic where there’s some kind of hurt/comfort, and domesticity is also lovely.
-Dustin/Lucas/Max- I can see Lucas and Max going through high school and college being constantly on again and off again. At some point he realises he’s bi, and Max is the kind of semi-girlfriend to encourage exploration. He naturally gravitates towards Dustin. Except Dustin isn’t the kind of guy to give relationship ultimatums, hasn’t been since the s1 convo with Mike about who’s best friends with whom.
-El/Mike/Max- I love the devotion to El they both have. In a world where Joyce doesn’t force them to move, I can see the three bonding over their post s3 losses. I also love how snarky Max is against Mike.
-Will/Mike/El/Max/Lucas/Dustin- what can I say, I’ve always shipped core group fic in any fandom I’ve been in. I find all of their individual pairing dynamics so interesting, all wrapped up together is off the charts. They’d literally die for each other, something about that just warms my heart. As per Holly Poly rules, here I can also toss in, I’d also be fine with Steve being added in. Maybe not with all of them equally, but I do ship the rare ship of Dustin/Steve, and can see arguments being made for others in the party.
Macdonald Hall: I’ve read these books literally hundreds of times since I first found them at seven. Nothing will take away Bruno/Boots and Cathy/Diane from me, tiny baby queer me latched on hard. Bruno/Boots is as fact as the sky is blue or water is wet. That said, I do love the idea of an ot4. Bruno and Cathy understand each other’s thirst for power and control and the spotlight. Diane and Boots understand the thrill of being the sidekick; getting to complain about ideas and push the responsibility onto their counterpart while still getting to experience the wild idea of the week. If there’s anyone who wouldn’t give a shit about people’s expectations and would demand everything they want at once, it’s Bruno and Cathy. (And is anyone at MacDonald Hall or Scrimmage’s surprised when they find out? Really?)
Deadly Class: I ship the nommed chars in essentially any combination. I love Billy/Lex, Billy/Lex/Petra, Billy/Marcus, Billy/Lex/Marcus, and Billy/Lex/Petra/Marcus. (for that matter, I also would ship the four of them with Saya, Maria, and Willie for a nice ot7). From Marcus talking about giving handjobs to Lex attacking people with dildos to Billy getting his arm broken for saying he gets why boys would have a crush on him and his soft skin, the chaotic bisexual energy is strong with literally all of them. Their bleak backstories are fascinating, as is the desperation to which they cling to their found families. They murder for each other, and there's a part of me that finds that so weirdly romantic. I can see basically any kink working for any combination, if you'd like to write a pwp. Or it can be more of a day in the life at the school thing, set mid or post canon. It'd be interesting to see what happens to the school once Lin presumably dies. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THOUGH, PLEASE DON'T LET LEX DIE. I staunchly ignore those last thirty seconds, and ignore them HARD.
Gossip Girl 2021: I love everything about Aki/Audrey/Max. I weirdly relate to Audrey, the financial ruin thing (though mine went from middle class to poverty line, not super rich to rich), and the clinically depressed emotionally abusive mom. I grew up loving Brian Kinney from Queer As Folk, and Max is like his child; proudly sexual and hedonistic, drugs and sex and luxury goods a veneer over the inner pain, not that many care to look deeper. And then Aki, so gen and chill except for all the times his life is falling apart. His dad outing him (and mislabelling him too!) is brutal. I usually hate cheating storylines, the amount of times I’ve bitched ‘don’t cheat just be poly’ at a screen is staggering. And Gossip Girl is a show that actually goes there. They both go from ashamed of their cheating and Max being used, to finding comfort in each other. I love it so much, and my biggest fear is season 1b saying that it was a mistake.
Teen Wolf:
-Allison/Isaac/Scott- Maybe this is bad, but I love the PTSD. The histories of child abuse/gaslighting. The mental breakdowns. I’m not saying I want a super bleak fic, but I like how these three fractured people found other people to love them. I don’t ship any of them WITH Chris, but I like him being a present good father for Allison and a mentor for Isaac and Scott, so him being mentioned would be cool.
-Allison/Scott/Stiles- I still like some of the same angsty stuff, broken people finding each other, but also the backbone of certain friendship that is Scott/Stiles. No matter what happens, they’ve got each other’s backs. I’d love fluid sexualities and no labels and kink explorations and stoned sex. Also, no need to figure out an elaborate s3 fixit, Allison can just be alive.
-Isaac/Scott/Stiles- The way Stiles and Isaac seem to fight about who's more important to Scott is so close to arguing over who'd make the better girlfriend. Scott being Scott, there's no way he'd ever pick a side, so Stiles and Isaac would have to be bitingly pragmatic about it.
-Allison/Isaac/Scott/Kira- I like the canon couples, but Isaac and Scott have a wolfy bond, and I feel like Allison and Kira would bond over being total badasses with strict mothers. I can see some delightfully awkward conversations between them all when they realised their feelings for more than their partner.
-Allison/Lydia/Scott/Stiles- I loved these four against the aggressive murderous Hale pack in s2. Allison and Lydia's friendship is great, Scott and Stiles together is a universal law, Allison and Scott are Shakesperian, and Stiles and Lydia have their moments, when Stiles isn't being too Nice Guy at Lydia. This also works for my favourite 3a trope, Stiles will literally die if he stays a virgin.
-Scott/Stiles/Kira, -Scott/Stiles/Malia, -Scott/Stiles/Malia/Kira- I just deeply love all of these characters and ship them in any combo. Malia learning ethics from Stiles, who is chaotic neutral. Kira and Stiles bonding over nerdy fandom things. Malia having that Alpha relationship with Scott. Kira and Malia dancing at a club in 401 was enough to make me ship them. Could be set anywhere from s4 to post canon.