exchange master letter

[qweermonkey]

dear exchange creator (or others),

welcome to my master letter! if you're here to make something for me, it's because you share my amazing taste, and i'll be so grateful to see what you make! treats of any medium are always very much welcome :3

this post contains my general likes and DNWs, alongside prompts and my gushing about all fandoms from any exchanges i've been in. canon-specific DNWs and details will always be in the letter linked in my AO3 request.

likes

• alternate universes
• — e.g. omegaverse, fantasy, western, canon divergence, modern.
• fluff
• hurt-comfort
• found family
• pining/yearning
• disabilities
• weight gain
• headcanons
• — e.g. race/ethnicity changes (except turning non-white characters white), queering.
• slice of life
• domesticity
• awkwardness
• character study
• mpreg/pregnancy
• — but no butt babies.
• friendships
• casual touch/intimacy
• queer themes
• kidfic
• banter
• friendship
• pets/animals
• soulmates
• stolen moments
• snapshots/vignettes
• sensory descriptions
• blood/gore
• age-regression
• caretaking
• messy dynamics
• emotional turmoil
• established relationships
• desperation
• myths/fables
• rich/symbolic imagery
• wordbuilding

smut likes

• tender/comfort sex
• sexual dysfunction
• kissing
• body worship
• flustered characters
• breeding kink
• belly kink
• barebacking
• handjobs/fingering
• switching
• creampie

DNWs

• genuine unrequited feelings
• permanent character death
• hopeless endings
• character bashing
• crossover
• — canon-fusion or au is okay, as long as they are fandoms i'm familiar with.
• polyamory
• incest
• de-aging
• — i.e. aging down characters, to, say, put them in a high school au. exploring a character's past or their childhood is perfectly okay, and so is aging them up.
• slavery
• genderbending
• — i.e. reimaging characters as cis of a different gender, not trans headcanon, specifically for the purpose of straightening ships.

smut DNWs

• porn without plot/feelings
• sexual age-play
• sexual mommy/daddy-play
• heavy humiliation
• voyeurism/exhibitionism
• rape/non-consensual acts
• — dubious consent/rape roleplay is okay.
• vomit/emeto
• scat
• internal watersports/pissing

sexual content is more than welcome unless otherwise specified, though i'd like it to not constitute the whole of a work. i love sex that contributes to the thematic elements of a story or characterization. i love examinations of characters as a sum of their lived experiences, and peeks into their inner worlds. i also love seeing glimpses of the worlds they live in and how they work. i enjoy any story length and any density of plot. feel free to use any pov, or non-standard formatting: epistolary, nonlinear — whatever strikes you. i may have listed some headcanons for each character under their canon, these are just ideas that i find fun.

please don't let anything i've written here limit you. mix prompts, use prompts from another fandom, take a unique spin on one of my likes, etc. i'll enjoy whatever it is you write! so please write something that you'll enjoy as well!

if you have any clarifying questions i'll gladly work things out with the mods of the exchange, and i have anonymous asks on on tumblr.

thank you for checking out my letter, and happy creating!

fandoms

this is a list of all canons/fandoms i've requested in previous and current exchanges! characters, relationships, and my gushing can be found under the proper drop-down. this list is alphabetically ordered, but if you'd like to find something quickly: press ctrl (cmd on ios) + f on your keyboard, then type in the name of the canon. there should be a similar function built into the options of any mobile browser.

next to each fandom i've put the length of story, in case you wanted to check out anything i've listed (all of which i highly reccomend!), and sometimes links to view the story. it's not always necessary to have seen all of a specific canon to create something for me, the first few installments are usually good enough. i've marked these with a little star (⟡)!

for literature and other written content, it's length in words. for television series, it is number of episode and their average runtimes. for videogames, it's total duration of story content, not including gameplay or completion time. for series of movies or books, it's runtime or wordcount of each installment, as separated by slashes (/).

breath of the wild + tears of the kingdom (videogames) — 4hr 18m ⟡

i played botw like six years late (and actually ended up perfectly timed with the release of totk) and i was so glad i did. these games are so fun and so beautiful. the setting is so rich with detail that could be spun into greater worldbuilding, if you so wished. i think it'd be fun to expand on the lives of those living in hyrule alongside any relationships!

relationship: mipha/zelda
headcanons: mipha — lesbian, trans (however this would manifest in a fish-person). zelda — lesbian, trans

okay, zelpha. they have maybe two scenes together, but i love them!! there's just a softness and familiarity to their interactions that i love, and they get to be pretty princesses together! i find mipha and zelda both to be especially tragic characters, so i think there's also angsty nonsense rife with them.

ideas:

• some kind of political intrigue — princesses involved in an elevated scheme spanning courts, all while falling in love? two houses, both alike in dignity?? or mipha and zelda are stifled by duty and expectation and carry out an illicit affair?
• the champions lived, and after the calamity has fallen again, mipha and zelda grow close again away from stress. cue the fluff!
• ruminations on life and love and loss, starring the lesbians, of course. maybe drawing parallels between their sacrifices.

high school musical (movies) — 1hr 38m / 1hr 44m / 1hr 52m ⟡

these movies are pure shameless fun. i don't think there are films that i love more or watch as often as i do, especially the second. the sunny, feel-good vibes are amazing, and even when there are down moments, you always know that the characters are coming back bigger and better than before. i can hardly express my joy about this series.

relationship: sharpay evans/gabriella montez
headcanons: sharpay — lesbian, trans. gabriella — bi, trans

gabriella and sharpay! a potentially perfect rivals turned into lovers, it's just an absolute shame they aren't more popular! i love these girls so much, gabriella is so sweet and so loveable, and sharpay is such a queen. the feud comes from an unfulfilled burning desire, actually. every scene feels like it cuts just two seconds before they start kissing.

ideas:

• a take on the story where sharpay's obession with gabriella and troy stems from an overbearing sense of comphet, and her coming to grips with that. then she embraces her newfound identity and tries to romance gabriella as her usual passionate self.
• a post-graduation story. years out past their wildcat days, what do their lives look like now? potentially they have become more solid as people, maybe they have a meet-cute and get to move past high school for good.
• au where gabriella and sharpay actually get the duet instead. forced-proximity and confusing feelings ensue!

interstellar (movie) — 2hr 49m

DNW(s): human au

i quite love this movie. it's so tightly written and you can feel so much for the characters. i'm not very big on the science of it, but the simple moral of love being the key just hits me right in the mushy part of my brain.

characters: joseph cooper, TARS, murphy cooper, tom cooper
headcanons: joseph — bi

they have such little time together, but i was drawn by cooper and TARS' dynamic right away. i love that TARS isn't just a stock sci-fi robot, he's got a goofy personality and is loyal. cooper was a treat to me beacuse i have a fixation on emotionally devastated middle-aged fathers. put them together and you've got a pair that won't quit quipping and is a personal addiction of mine.

i'd also love to see the home life of the coopers, in some universe where coop is on earth but TARS is also there, maybe alongside any of the rest of endurance crew.

ideas:

• how isolation brings TARS and cooper together. maybe cooper stayed out of the pods for longer, sent more videos down to his kids, and in that time he looks for a friendly voice to bounce off of.
• maybe TARS pines after cooper? over-analyzing their few interactions, simulating conversations. time might factor differently in a machine's mind, either too fast or too slow, and 23 years is a long time to run a program.
• au — coop is still a pilot, TARS belongs to NASA, and they meet somehow during their tenure. or, TARS is formally decommissioned, but coop is a good enough mechanic to patch him up and bring him to life.
• the coopers trying to be a happy family at the end of the world. the kind of quiet melancholy that might come from that. chance to explore the state of the world in canon.
• post-canon exploration of TARS and cooper's journey to edmund's planet. potential is rife for a forced-proximity bonding here. maybe they take wacky detours along the way. when (or if) they get there, what next? maybe parallel brand and CASE to cooper and TARS?.

teen beach movie (movies) — 1hr 35m / 1hr 44m

DNW(s): sexual content

honestly this and high school musical fight for my favorite dcoms of all time. a staple from my childhood, i can hardly explain why i'm so drawn to this movie. namely i think it's the characters. they're simple but i think they have a great capacity for depth. and it's also the feel-good goofy vibe, like it's all fun all the time and quintessentially summer, though i do think there is ample opportunity to examine internal struggles, within lela and tanner especially.

characters: brady, tanner, lela, mack
headcanons: brady — bi, trans. tanner — autistic, gay. lela — autistic, lesbian. mack 

tanner. what can i say? he's just so dumb and gay, i love him. lela too. brady is a class-clown, live in the moment type, that i think has hidden fear of change. i think there's an unfortunate deficit of content focused on brady/tanner, but i absolutely adore the dynamics of the group as a whole and would love seeing that explored. if you write slash, i encourage mack/lela as well, just if they're as/or less central as brady/tanner.

ideas:

• how do lela and tanner handle interactions with modern/real world things? lots of 'born yesterday' antics to be had there. maybe address their battles with realization and personhood if you take a more serious tone
• brady was a huge wet side story fan, and now his favorite characters are his best friends. is there friction there? personally, i like to imagine brady isn't over his childhood crush on tanner and has to deal with that
• au's: college, either the group went through high school together or they only just meet in school. or, brady and mack exist in the world of wetside story, who's a biker and who's a surfer? how does the story play out with them at the center? or, what if mack caught lela and tanner caught brady?
• days in the life of mack and brady as they try to acclimate lela and tanner to living, cartoon-ish hijinx ensue
• maybe the movie's not about a feud between bikers and surfers, but vampires and werewolves, or cowboys and bandits, or capulets and montagues! go wild with it!

the nice guys (movie) — 1hr 56m

the unseriousness of this film really gets me, like there's murder and there's pornstars but it's all treated with this lightness that's almost reminiscent of a daytime made-for-tv movie. i find it so funny. i'm also a sucker for depictions of america in past times, i've always been so curious about the minutiae of life before me, like the price of gas used to be or what was on airing on the television. the fashion is to die for, too.

relationship(s): holland march & holly march, holland march/jackson healy
headcanons: holland march — jewish, bi. holly march — jewish

march is a mess and i love that. i love that he gets punked on by his preteen daughter and drinks destructively to get over his ex-wife. i'm a glutton for found family and snarky characters so i was kept fed. healy is so lovable to me, and i love the idea that he straightens out march against reason because he's got a big heart.

ideas:

• a case fic would be more than lovely, though god knows we're not all little agatha christies. something dramatic and death-defying or something classic, maybe even silly
• or maybe the opposite! maybe the nice guys are going through a dry spot. how do march and healy exist around each other without the pretense of a work partnership? maybe they haven't hung out much before but find themselves yearning for that easy companionship?
• march and healy trying to navigate a growing relationship under societal (maybe internal) pressures while also trying to consider holly's feelings
• holly pov as she rationalizes her dad's new 'friend,' with teen angst? how does she relate this to her dead mom?? maybe even holly queer awakening???
• established older march/healy, maybe the nice guys are retired, what then? how's holly doing all grown up?

twilight (series) — 2hr / 2hr 10m / 2hr / 2hr 57m / 2hr 55m — 119k / 138.5k / 154.7k / 189k ⟡

character(s): bella swan, alice cullen, jacob black, edward cullen, charlie swan

this series is such a hot mess, but damn do i love it... the characters are where it's at for me (bella is best girl forever!), they're kind of the only thing that make half of it work at all. i will say that i do love the lowkey and small-scale vibes of twilight and the beginning to new moon — you know, before it all starting going downhill. the platonic and familial bonds here are also just lovely.

relationship(s): alice cullen/bella swan
headcanon(s): alice — lesbian, trans non-binary. bella — lesbian, trans

bellice!!! fumbling, bookish girl who loves an airy, whimsical girl who loves her back! there's an earnestness to them both, and they bring out the better parts of each other. i would rather see explorations of this pair outside of the main plot of twilight, or at least not super attached the larger aspects of it. i think they shine when they get to have a relationship not bogged down by 100 vampires always trying to kill them.

ideas:

• small moments of bella working up the courage to ask alice out, or other awkward attempts to romance her, or her continued flustering at alice's affections.
• human au — single parent bella meet-cutes alice through reneesme. or alice sets her sights on cute cashier bella and shenanigans ensue. blind date gone right? neighborly mishaps? so many routes to go down!
• alice and bella contending with mortality and bella's obsession with otherness and her perceived plainness. they're in love and maybe they want different things for each other.