#i obviously can never write North of Dreams because writing Barbossa is something i have a deep-seated existential fear of. but.

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Fic title ask game:

How Do You Take Your Coffee?

North of Dreams

The Ghost Clinic

Thank you for the ask, kind friend!

How Do You Take Your Coffee? - hmm, a 5+1 type fic about the regular coffee orders of patrons of the Collinsport Inn, and what they usually talk to Maggie Evans about while they're nursing their morning joe - or bolting it. Maggie's known everyone for years, anyway. Have their orders changes through time, or before and after major events in their lives - her father, before and after her mother's death? Burke, before and after his prison sentence? Laura, before and after she went away?

North of Dreams - Elizabeth and Barbossa on the way to World's End in PotC:AWE: the trials of navigating to a place that you have to be completely lost to find in the first place. Barbossa understands the interplay of the mythical and the mundane through stories better than anyone else; Elizabeth is very convinced of the power of stories, but not, perhaps, as a navigational tool.

The Ghost Clinic - Mercy Street as a ghosthunting (or mythbusting, occasionally) show and not a Civil War medical drama: Jed & Samuel are the main personalities in front of the camera - they're still medical-adjacent (I'm not quite sure how. this is not a practically considered fic.)? which comes in handy considering the endless lists of allegedly haunted hospitals, sanitariums, asylums, etc. that they're called upon to investigate. Charlotte and Mary are behind the camera - Charlotte the director, maybe? Mary in charge of something in production, or background research? I think the fic would specifically follow the making of one specific episode - I'd probably make up an ACW-adjacent hospital or convalescent area, purely for the sake of keeping the show on-subject. (obviously, the place is haunted. possibly by Henry.)

Send me a made-up fic title (or 2 or 3) and I’ll tell you what I would write to go with it.