#hello i miss one mjn Air family

[thekenobee]

DOUGLAS, FOR GOD SAKE LEAVE THE MOON IN PEACE

[miss-m-calling]

Chocolate Box Letter

Dear author,

Hello, and thank you for writing for me. I hope you have fun writing this fic, and my prompts give you inspiration.

Requests:

Cabin Pressure

MJN Air (Carolyn & Dougas & Arthur & Martin) OJS Air (Carolyn & Dougas & Arthur & Herc) Douglas Richardson & Herc Shipwright Martin Crieff & Douglas Richardson Martin Crieff & Douglas Richardson & Arthur Shappey

I just want more canon-y stories with their loopy humor and their weird yet loving family dynamics among the crew. Shenanigans in mid-flight or in the tedium which precedes and the tiredness which follows them. Someone smuggles (knowingly or not) an exotic animal on-board, legal, security, medical and/or slapstick chaos ensues. A mechanical, passenger- or smuggled-goods-caused problem arises and is solved during a journey.

I’d prefer canon-era fic for every character combo except OJS Air (post-canon would be logical) and Douglas & Herc (here I’d prefer something pre-canon, while Douglas was still a captain of repute -- a look at how one-upmanship works between two alpha males rather than Douglas’ dynamic with the decidedly non-alpha Martin?)

Justified

Boyd Crowder & Raylan Givens Rachel Brooks & Tim Gutterson

For Boyd and Raylan, a moment in canon or post-canon, during Boyd’s likely-lifelong incarceration, where they have to work together, with all the mixed feelings, accumulated resentments, admiration, maybe even affection, definitely banter that would entail. I would prefer not to receive pre-canon fic about these two.

For Tim and Rachel, friendship and/or case fic. Shooting the breeze on a stakeout. Unexpected moments of honesty and vulnerability late at night while guarding a witness or stopping at a diner after a long day or in the early morning during a prisoner transport (bonus points for telling me how they earned this punishment from Art). Using their specific gifts to resolve a tricky case. How their friendship endures when Rachel is boss during and maybe again post-canon. Banter is always a plus.

The Sandman

Dream of the Endless | Daniel & Lyta Hall Dream of the Endless/Thessaly The Corinthian/Dream of the Endless

For Daniel!Dream and Lyta, I’d love a post-canon encounter, whether planned or accidental/fated, during which they attempt and probably fail to find common ground and interact as a “normal“ mother and son and/or they try to grapple with how much their lives and roles in the universe have changed through canon events and their actions.

For Dream/Thessaly, a look at their relationship -- I love Thessaly for being always herself, as unlikable as she can be, and often wonder how she and Dream ever hooked up, made a go of an actual relationship, and/or what all contributed to their breakup (besides their both being difficult people used to getting their way and being alone).

For Corinthian/Dream, I’d love to see this from the Second Corinthian’s perspective -- requited or not (not seems more likely), tied up with all of the Corinthian’s identity issues and memories of his past self and his role in the Dreaming and the world, the maker/creation relationship he has with Morpheus. This can go as dark or erotic as you like, but please heed my DNWs.

For all these character combos, the central conflicts need not be resolved, in fact you can push those conflicts as far as you think they can go.

Likes:

I love pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and “missing scene from canon” stories. I love character-driven and plot-driven stories equally, and I love fics which mix humor and angst/serious business when appropriate for the canon.

I love character studies, characters at work and play, stories about group dynamics, family dynamics (including constructed families), professional partnerships, friendships, alliances, rivalries, intimate couples, UST-ridden couples who are not just UST-ridden but connected in other ways too, parents and children, siblings, etc. If we matched on one of the Sandman couples I requested, I don’t want PWP or a fic only about pining and lovey-doveyness -- show me what else is going on besides the feels and sex, if any.

I love irony, snark, 5+1 stories, bittersweet endings, hopeful endings, happy endings, canon-fitting crack, worldbuilding, characters who are their own worst enemies as well as those who learn to get over themselves, characters with conflicting values which may or may not be reconciled/resolved in a believable and IC way, characters who treat each other with respect and as equals even if they hate/annoy/can’t stand/love to dislike each other.

I especially love workplace stories (this can mean anything from an office/procedural setting to anything that revolves around the canon world in which the characters live) in which the characters are competent and dedicated to the job, and while they may not be exactly friends and they may well irritate one another, they still manage to rub along to get the job done and maybe even grow to care about one another (much to their surprise and sometimes reluctance/discomfort). Or, if they can’t get along, show me why not and what’s preventing them from finding common ground.

DNWs:

Kinks, MPREG, A/B/O, knotting, D/s, incest, underage, genderswap and genderbent characters, non-con, dub-con, torture and abuse, dwelling on bodily fluids (mentions of gore and come are fine where appropriate), toilet humor, character bashing, soulmates and soul marks, major character death (unless it’s canon), pregnancy and children as the lynchpin of the story (unless strictly canon appropriate), characters agonizing over/analyzing/dwelling on their or others’ sexuality as if it’s the sum total of their existence, secondary characters acting like shipping the main pair is their be all and end all, fluff and schmoop, PWP or porn-centric fic, issuefic, fic written in the first or second person, holiday or wedding setting or theme, AUs which have nothing to do with canon (cop characters working in a coffee shop, high-school janitor characters in space, etc.)