femslashex 2020

[kimaracretak]

(In progress; will be finished by Saturday night)

Hello friend, it is time for femslash and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

I love all these canons for the worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/canons, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and I don't need a lot of romance in my ships: sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.

Likes || Art Likes|| Dark Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || Battlestar Galactica (2003) || Bunny - Mona Awad || Clique || Hannibal (TV) || Overwatch || Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV 2018) || Tidelands || Scott & Bailey || Shetland || Tidelands || Y Gwyll

Likes

• Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #unavailable older women in positions of authority


• Femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background


• Nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters (especially when they would like to eat you because they love you), architectural horror


• Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic horrors


• Feelings about embodiment and iconography, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies)


• Epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons


• First- and second-person pov, unreliable narrators


• Politics, worldbuilding


• Philosophical, legal, and academic debates


• Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers


• Canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Aniara, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, Morrowind, and Star Wars Sith AUs


• Conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships


• Darkfic


• Arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality


• Relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care


• 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships


• 'Look what I can make you do to me' kinds of emotional manipulation in relationships


• 'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that


• Getting back together after messy breakups


• Reunions with former lovers in general, no matter what they look like - casual/platonic over coffee, ill-advised one-night stands, etc


• Desire, women who aren't afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods


• Porn as character work.

Art Likes

• Jewel tones, black and white


• Pieces that play with light/shadow


• Landscapes, forests, oceans


• Mist, moonlight, rain


• Tiny humans in otherwise-abandoned landscapes


• Characters covered in blood and/or plants


• Architecture, decaying buildings, abandoned buildings

Dark Likes

• Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis


• Arousal from killing, sex in the blood of their enemies


• Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium


• Body horror


• Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking


• Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time


• Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)


• Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places


• Folk horror


• Ghosts


• Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted


• Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person


• In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore


• Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship


• Memory loss


• Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature


• Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy


• Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams


• One character dressing another up to die


• Repeatedly killed and resurrected


• Ritual gone wrong


• There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls trope


• Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms


• Unintended consequences of having your future told

Smut Likes

• Hair braiding, hair pulling


• Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex


• Bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death


• Mirror sex, identity porn


• Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups)


• Jewellery and clothes kink


• Dressing or undressing each other


• Spanking, especially as a show of forgiveness or as penance for fucking up at work


• Consent play, somnophilia


• Painplay, manipulating broken bones, wound fingering


• Praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink


• Public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet


• Oral sex


• Overstimulation


• Biting, marking


• First time with each other


• Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)


• Inappropriate use of magic and weapons


• Mutual masturbation


• One person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.

Do Not Want

• Unrequested m/m or m/f ships, unless specified.


• Rape/noncon (dubcon is fine)


• Permanent death of female characters (ghosts fine unless otherwise specified, references to pre-canon dead female characters fine unless otherwise specified).


• Kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters


• Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas


• A/B/O, any type of biologically determined heats/'must fuck now' situations including sex pollen


• Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)


• 'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease, single-target sexuality where the characters have never been and will never be sexually/romantically attracted to anyone else


• Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)


• Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (exploration of ruins from dead civilisations is fine)


• Issuefic, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with canon-atypical or anachronistic romantic/sexual/gender identity terms


• 'It was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery


• 'I am too old to be loved' angst in age-gap ships


• Bodyswap fic, crackfic


• Sex involving under-16s.


• Mentions of/references to Brexit


• Safeword/colour checkins


• Characters magically conjuring themselves dicks/being given dicks/giving other people dicks (sex toys like strap-ons are fine)


• Fictional UK police forces having the same history/current issues/social norms as real-world American police forces.

Clique

General: Overall I liked series 1 a lot more than series 2, so I have a slight preference for fics set in that time period. Character death DNW waived for canon deaths. References to canon rapes fine but I would prefer no on-screen rape. Character death DNW waived for Fay.

Fay/Rachel/Phoebe/Louise: Fay survives the hospital roof, somehow. What does she promise Rachel? Is anything actually better? Alternatively, Fay haunts the other girls, and Phoebe and Louise confront Rachel about what she did. Feel free to pick a specific sexual/romantic two- or threesome to focus on, as long as the dynamics of all of them are affecting it, or to include any other femslash (e.g. Rachel/Holly).

Elizabeth/Holly: Fucked-up comfort sex when Holly moves back into the halls. Post-canon summer. Elizabeth ends up at Solasta instead of Holly.

Georgia/Holly: I'd love to see them pre-canon, becoming friends and dealing with the (more literal this time) ghost of the girl Holly killed. Or AUs of s2 where they stay in Edinburgh together and try - or don't try - to cope with what happened to them. Georgia suffering at Solasta and thinking it's worth it for Holly.

Jude/Holly: I would love something that picks up on Holly's 'I don't lose control, ever' - how much more might she tell Jude? How might Jude take advantage of that? Alll the fucked up mentorship and being-bad-at-affection please!

Rachel/Holly: Okay the bit of s2 that I hold extremely close to my heart is i'm home / which home? / ours. and, look, give the murder girlfriends their murder house by the sea somehow, they deserve it!

Hannibal (TV)

General: I love this gorgeous dark dreamy murder show and I love all the ladies. I have some freeforms in this year's Darkest Night letter that I'd love to see in any of these requests.

Note: Character death DNW waived for casefic OFCs and all canon characters except Alana, Bedelia, Freddie, and Beverly.

Abigail/Freddie: I think she genuinely cared about Abigail (her 'very smart girls who grow up' line hit me way harder than I was prepared for), and I would be delighted to read 10k of their mind games in really any context.

• Freddie follows Will and Abigail to Minnesota at the end of season 1, and they end up going into hiding together.


• Freddie and Abigail writing that book, but Abigail was the Minnesota Shrike either for all the kills or just Cassie+Marissa. (It took me til episode 12 to figure out that she didn't kill Cassie and Marissa. I am slow, friends). Freddie gets to enjoy being a serial killer's personal photographer/biographer, and also indulge her penchant for making things up so they don't get caught.


• Folk horror! Freddie stumbles into an Abigail-and-Marissa-led murder commune in Minnesota and gets much more than she bargained for.


• Canon-divergent post-s2 where Abigail survives

Alana/Bedelia: I mostly just want them being hot and terrifying and brilliant, in any way you like.

• Roleswap! I am 1000% here for all Ripper!Bedelia/FBI!Alana or Ripper!Alana/FBI!Bedelia AUs, whether they start out on those roles or one of them manipulates the other into killing.


• Any kind of therapy session(s) between the two, in one of those AUs or in canon.


• One of them seducing the other away from Hannibal.


• Post-Italy debriefs.


• Alana takes over as Abigail's guardian, and goes to Bedelia for help understanding her. Alana/Bedelia+Abigail murderfamily a bonus.

Alana/Freddie: Listen, I'm shallow: hot manipulative ladies who should manipulate each other, that's basically it, that's fundamentally all my prompts.

• You can never go wrong with Ripper!Alana/Investigator!Freddie AUs


• They get together in the middle of season 2 while Freddie's playing dead, and Alana's initially just trying to prove Hannibal's innocent but Freddie slowly convinces her of the truth


• Alana cheating on Margot with Freddie - either a one night stand or a longer con. Margot joining in (or even orchestrating it) excellent but not required.

Bedelia/Abigail: Failed mentorship possibilities!

• Alana becomes Abigail's guardian in s1, and enlists Bedelia's help in caring for her. Threesomes optional!


• Bedelia and Abigail in Italy, with or without Hannibal.


• Bedelia visiting Abigail in capitivity.

Beverly/Freddie: I think a lot about how Freddie has to live with knowing that Hannibal chose her to be the first one to see Beverly's body, and they just - there's so much understated almost about them in the show, and I'd like to see what happens when they're given the chance to be together for longer.

• Beverly as one of Freddie's sources. Sleeping together is supposed to be just about getting information for both of them, but the genuine affection surprises them both.


• Murder basement/2x04 AU. If they had teamed up Hannibal would not have stood a chance, I am just saying! Or, Hannibal is bad at killing Just For Business and leads Freddie to a Beverly who's only mostly dead.


• Alive!Beverly and Freddie in hiding together mid-s2

Miriam/Freddie: I am SO into Freddie chasing stories, and the strong-yet-traumatised women that come along with them. If you feel like canon-divergence, maybe Freddie finds Miriam - or clues to her - much earlier, and seeks her/the Ripper out on her own. Alternatively, post-rescue - Freddie insinutating herself more and more into Miriam's life until they suddenly realise they don't know how to walk away from each other.

Overwatch

General: I am up to date with canon, but am happy for you to cherry-pick bits and pieces, or treat most of the specifics as a suggestion. I am equally happy with pre-Fall and post-Fall fics. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both, and I also don't have a preference for never-married-to-Gerard!AUs vs pining/infidelity/open marriage. If Mercy's relevant to your fic, I am happy to see dark!Mercy as well as Overwatch!Mercy. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. If you want to address the age gaps in Ana ships, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye) and how that contrasts with her mixed feelings about what she's done, so anything that highlights that would be lovely.

Ana/Amélie: Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it, aka the reason I fell into this game and this canon in the first place. I love the angst of their situationally-enforced separation and how they're women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me' gives me life.

• Marriagefic! Undercover as married, or married post-Fall because Ana is guilty and her eye and Gerard are both gone and Amélie is alone and and nothing's right but maybe they can make it better, and at least someone else is close by.


• Or the opposite: infidelity fic. Ana knows better but making Amelie feel better is worth it, she loves Ana so much that by the time she kills Gerard Amelie isn't sure if it's for their relationship or if it's for Talon, Talon!Amelie and Ana find Gerard alive.


• Post-Recall fics where Amélie's been rescued and Ana tries to help her adjust to leaving life-as-an-assassin behind while Amélie helps Ana come to terms with the fact that no matter what she says she was an assassin.


• Ana gets captured by Talon and Amélie helps her escape (and Ana either takes her along, or struggles with how Amélie couldn't escape with her).


• Semi-anonymous meetings while Ana's working as the Shrike - she knows exactly who Amélie is, but Amélie doesn't know who she is. Information exchanges, Ana trying to secretly help Amélie.


• If you're wanting to write smut, I am really into the idea of Ana agreeing to rough/extreme sex out of guilt for what she (thinks she) did to Amélie, and Amélie going with it because she's still not really connecting to her feelings, and just - everything about that gorgeously fraught bad-idea dynamic. Hatesex with Shrike!Ana that turns unexpectedly tender for tiny moments is also excellent.

Ana/Brigitte: This could go extremely dark or very fun, and I am happy with fic on either end of the spectrum! Messy loyalty, missionfic, whatever inspires you.

• I'd love something where Brigitte is Ana's squire/protege instead of Reinhardt's, and Ana's possessive side gets to come out.


• Brigitte has so many conflicted feelings about Overwatch and what the organisation did to her father and Ana's ... pretty much synonymous with Overwatch in a lot of ways, so I'd love to see them trying to work that out. Extremely rough/bad idea sex verging on dubcon with all sorts of mixed up ideas of punishment and atonement.


• Or something set a little into the future, where they get to build a post-war life together.


• Vampire AUs, or things incorporating Egyptian and/or Swedish mythology

Ana/Hana: There's the potential for so much emotional mentor/protege stuff here, and I want any and all of it. One of my favourite things about this pairing is just how many different directions it could go in, these are just some suggestions.

• There is a strong possibility for shenanigans given their 'youth is wasted on the young' / 'come on Ana, I bet you did all sorts of crazy stuff when you were my age' exchange. I would like to see those shenanigans, especially if they unexpectedly turn serious due to an omnic attack or something.


• Or you could do the exact opposite! Lean into the angst of Ana watching her lover having to fight another war because of Overwatch's old failures. Hana thinking that Overwatch would be a little more freeing than the Army, and Ana helping her cope when it's not.


• Meetings post-Shooting Star, and Ana helping Hana with the recovery.


• Something epistolary/video-epistolary - Hana leaving videos for her around the world, or doing streams with Ana. Anything that leans into Hana trying to juggle streaming with her army responsibilities in general.


• Or just give these two tired soldiers time to relax and enjoy each other's company - watching sunsets from various base rooftops around the world while Ana accompanies Hana on some world press tour.

Ana/Mei: Happy with either pre-Fall or post-Recall here! Temperature play is always fun, as is any sort of missionfic.

Ana/Mercy: I love magic AUs for them - witch!Mercy is brilliant and I lived in that skin before All-Stars 2019, don't @ me it's perfect. In any universe, I like how long their relationship spans, and how it remains steadily affectionate, if not uncomplicated, through stolen technology and faked deaths. Mercy has a not-insignificant amount of hero worship for Ana, and I like both the uneven power dynamics of early-Overwatch days, the more equal footing they find themselves on post-Recall, and everything in between.

• Rez is already lovingly bonkers video-game logic, so why not make it even more excellently eldritch: rez either requires or is equivalent to marriage, and Ana and Mercy find that out the hard way. With or without marriage: lean into the horror aspects of rez/magic healing in general.


• Dark Mercy (with dark!Ana or not). I love Moira, don't get me wrong, but her release softed a lot too many of canon Mercy's edges, and I love all our old ideas about Mercy being responsible for the worst of what happened to Gabriel. What might happen if she ends up, involuntarily or not, leaning into all that power, all that potential for transformation? Combine with Ana's weaponised biotic tech and the world is probably not ready for them either.


• Ana has a complicated relationship with death and Mercy has weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back, so I am super into edgeplay-to-the-edge-of-death with them - maybe it goes too far, resurrection and guilt and the somewhat-ambiguous sense of betrayal that seems to hang over them.


• Post-Recall reconciliations. The kind of weary bonding that comes from having seen So Much Shit on the frontlines, realising the depth of their feelings during a mission and just being - hey, this really is an important person in my life, not just an important colleague.


• Bastet AUs or post-story fics: one where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or one where Ana and Mercy started a relationship while Ana was the Shrike (up to you whether Mercy knew Ana's identity, in that case!). Something that explores how Ana went from 'not seeing Angela, nope' in Bastet to 'actually I could live in Angela's kitchen now' in Valkyrie.

Ana/Mina: I am very simple: I love these two and I want them together. I fell in love with Mina in Echo's intro video and I want infinitely more of her. As First Strike isn't canon anymore, I'd love Mina being one of the Overwatch founders, but you can have them meet later if that's what you'd rather.

• Any kind of bonding over their determination to make the world better, possibly combined with fighting over each other's methods for making the world better.


• Mina faked her death and she and Ana have a brief Hawaii vacation before returning to the fight. This being the Overwatch world, their vacation is nowhere near as simple as they'd like it to be.


• Mina doesn't die because she's a vampire, and there's thank-fuck-you're-alive sex and also a 'holy fuck there's vampires AND omnics' crisis.


• Some kind of masked/anonymous meetings while they each think the other's dead and then they have to deal with the discovery of who the other is. Sex loved as a part of this, but optional.


• Mina was captured rather than killed in the blast, and Ana and Echo team up to rescue her. For extra angst, Echo turning into Mina for part of the mission to make Ana feel better.

Ana/Sombra: Sombra's not loyal to Talon for reasons beyond self-preservation, and I'd love to see Ana trying to exploit that somehow. Whether it's reluctant allies turned real friends, forced to work together once, or anything in between, I'll be delighted.

• 5 times they didn't mean to end up in bed together + 1 time they definitely did it on purpose. I'm weak for them trying to seduce the other away from their respective organisations, okay.


• Secret meetings between Sombra and Shrike!Ana, where strictly business transactions give way to an unexpected friendship.


• Espionage, spy shenanigans, and odd teamups in unexpected places where they pretend not to know who the other is in general.


• Something that leans into their respective proficiences in biotic and cybernetic engineering.


• I love them OT3'd with Amelie! Talon resuce time? Sombra acting as messenger and slowly becoming an equal part of their relationship?


• AU where Ana ended up founding Talon instead of Gabriel. How does that affect Sombra's willingness to work with them?


• One or both is a vampire.

Hana/Sombra: Women who were forced to grow up far too fast with excellent tech/mechanic skills, yes please!

• I think there is the potential for incredibly messy emotional stuff here - I really like the angst of 'trying to help each other recover and realising too late that they're doing the opposite' ships.


• If you're not feeling angst, genuine SAME TRAUMA bonding/recovery opportunities.


• Sombra trying to give Hana a chance at a normal life (sneaking her away from a press tour one night?) but not really having a great idea of what 'normal' looks like.


• Talon!Hana, maybe in a Korea-falls AU, or Talon just thinks her stardom would be useful to have on their side. Sombra is her reluctant handler.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV 2018)

General: This show has a thesis of 'why be a girl when you could be an eldritch horror instead' because it loves me. I love the bonds and the backstabbing and the love-through-horror, I love the changeling girls and the amount of respect it gives stories of self-creation. I love the contrast between the suffocating boarding-school atmosphere and the equally terrifying 'I would like to let the sky eat me' of the Rock and how that's reflected in the characters' emotional relationships. Permadeath of any of the requested characters is fine for this fandom, as is ambiguous/show-consistent explanations of what happened at the Rock. The show does so much excellent work with forests that probably want to eat you/nature which tries to eat you/nature which wants to crawl inside you and never come out and I want to see infinitely more of it! I have previously requested some dark and smutty freeforms for this fandom, feel free to use them for any of these ships.

Greta/Marion: Secret relationship and mentorship problems, everything I love. Greta's so ambiguosly lost at the end, even more so than Marion and Miranda - does she ever find her way past the rock and into Marion's new world? What does that look like? Firsts - first meetings, first kisses, first times with various sex acts, first time a parent looks at those two teachers and wonders. Marion becoming a teacher at the Academy, either the mid-canon one or post-canon if Hester succeeded in building a new one, and what that might look like when Miranda and/or Irma are still lost, or perhaps she came back instead of Irma. Time loops where they try over and over to pass beyond the Rock together. One turning the other into a vampire. Sith AUs where they are going to find a way for Marion to be a Sith Lord that doesn't involve killing Greta ... right? (Or not, angsty betrayal also A++). One believing the other is dead, and attempting necromancy, especially if it involves sacrificing someone else.

Hester/Dianne: Hatesex and emotionally manipulative sensuality, yesss. There's an odd undercurrent of 'why aren't you better' that they both have towards each other (and themselves) and I'd love a story that lives in the lovely-awful tangled knots they tie each other into, and the ways in which they can't quite bring themselves to wish they were more like the other. I'd love to see an AU where Dianne accompanies Hester to the Rock or one where Hester and Dianne moved and built a new school out of the ruins of the first Academy. Any sort of post-canon fic where Hester haunts Dianne in her new position. Hester and Dianne as Dark and Light-aligned Sith (respectively?) disagree over the running of their school, Hester and Dianne as fellow (rival?) Gentry. Hester helps Dianne adjust to the Australian Masquerade, and how it differs from the one in France. Any kind of dreamsharing, any AU where it's more explicit that Dianne manipulated Hester into going to the Rock and jumping. Time loops of any sort, especially if they need to kill each other to reset it.

Hester/Greta: Greta owes Hester a lot, and while she never goes to the lengths Hester did to keep her secrets (largely because Hester didn't care) I feel like they're both very aware Greta is on a very thin line there, and I'd love to see some exploration of that. I'd love something that leans in the loyalty kink - sexual or not, consensual or not (more dubiously consensual loyalty kink forever and ever). The whole ... we both know what the other isn't saying and why and we're both responding to that sort of conversation/mutual existence is so good, and I'd love more of it.

Hester/Miranda: I love how Miranda spends the whole series deconstructing Hester so deftly no one's quite sure what she's done til the very end. Maybe Hester sees Miranda at the Rock, maybe Miranda taunts her about Sara, maybe one of Hester's attempts to dress her up nicely backfires somehow. An extension of the punishment scene, especially one including Hester bandaging her hands afterwards instead of Irma and Marion, and the glorious emotional whiplash that could provoke. Miranda's space pirate crew blackmailing Hester's, Hester turning Miranda in a vampire AU.

Miranda/Marion: What do they find beyond the rock? I'm especially thinking about the folk horror tag here, of an entire too good to be true world, especially if it ends up driving a wedge between them. Time loops where they keep coming close to freedom but never achieve it - can't, maybe, achieve it because they don't have Irma with them?

Scott & Bailey

General: Listen I'll fight Sally Wainwright in the Tesco's car park for many reasons, but this messy show about messy people is so close to my heart, and I'd love anything about these women and their relationships. Feel free to combine them - like, a Rachel/Janet fic that's Also about Rachel/Gill would be super interesting - and bring in any elements of book canon that you like, I've read all three.

Fandom-specific DNW: Season 5 canon, happy/endgame Rachel/any man (references to past canon relationships fine.

Rachel/Janet: I live for their friendship, and would love to see them in a friends-and-lovers situation. Maybe Rachel's bad-idea affair is with Janet instead of Kevin? On the more emotionally fraught side, I am super interested in the potentially disasterous intersection between 'Rachel's entire authority THING' and 'that point in s3 where Janet is absolutely her superior officer'.

Rachel/Julie: I feel like even when Gill isn't really between them she's still - sort of between them, and I'd love something that plays with that: the idea that they're ... not settling, but also this isn't a permanent/what they want thing. Julie attempting to be some kind of grounding influence, and that failing in ways neither of them were prepared for.

Rachel/Gill: Rachel would throw herself off a building just to get Gill Murray to look at her in Just the way she wants and I'm extremely into it (their canon dynamic is basically the foundation of my #unavailable older women in positions of authority like). They're on such a thin fine line between kindness and witholding, what happens when reckless devotion meets restrained care. I would love a post-s4 fic for them that explores their relationship once Gill's retired, or 5k of porn exploring their power dynamics, or an AU where Rachel gets to take her Sergeant's exam the first time and what that changes, or just some casefic.

Shetland

General: I'm entirely up to date on canon, but any divergences you want are fine. I like selkie!Rhona AUs, fics that explore the challenges of Shetland life vs mainland life, and Scottish mythology. Explicit Remain-won AUs not necessary as long as I can pretend Remain won and there's no Brexit. Fic in Scottish Gaelic super welcome if you speak it.

Phyllis Brennan/Rhona Kelly: Honestly? I want anything. If you want to write about their reconciliation, absolutely go for it (and feel free to break my heart in the process), but if you want to write about their life before - getting together, travels around Scotland, negotiating Rhona's move, the first time Phyllis visited, meeting Phyllis' family - I would love that as well! Casefic would also be fun, whether that's adding them to book mysteries or coming up with something else.

Rhona Kelly/Original Female Character: I don't have a preference for this being pre-Phyllis or post-Phyllis - go where your heart takes you! Pre-canon uni girlfriend? Excellent. First time dating someone she works with? Also excellent! A friend-with-benefits after Phyllis is gone forever? Also excellent!

Tidelands

General: This is an eight-episode Netflix show about Australian half-mermaids who smuggle drugs and are contemplating ending the world and are just ridiculously pretty. There's small-town weirdness, cult weirdness, WITCH MERMAIDS, prophecies, and murder. And I love it. You should watch it, it delights me and I want so much more of them. Combining any of these women into F/F/F threesomes welcome.

Adrielle/Cal: Adrielle looked at Cal and went 'this woman is gonna murder me, I better seduce and/or attempt to murder her first' and you know what? Valid, delightful, I'm in love, I want 10k of murder attempts and mind games and hatefucking, in any combination.

• Somnophilia, either in a PWP or as part of a longer fic. Look, this screencap came for my whole entire life.


• Adrielle recovers, remains queen, and keeps Cal in Geneveva's old cell. Does Cal try endlessly to escape? Does Adrielle really try to end the world?


• Adrielle recovers, but loses the queenship to Cal. How do they move forward? Does Adrielle plot to get her leadership back?


• Roleswap. Augie went to jail, Cal picked up drug running and sleeping with Adrielle. Now she's trying to balance her relationship with Adrielle - which is deeper than Augie's canon one with her - with her brother's return.

Adrielle/Geneveva: Ohh I WISH we'd gotten more of their war-for-the-queendom, but I suppose that is what fic is for.

• Far pre-canon fic. How did they meet? Did Geneveva mentor Adrielle? What was their final confrontation like? Did Geneveva think she was going to die (did she want to?), or did she acquiesce to the cage because she didn't realise what Adrielle would turn into?


• Any kind of visions/dreamsharing/dreamwalking, explicitly sexual or not. What other visions/prophecies did Geneveva have? Did she try to train Adrielle - was Adrielle furious she could never quite manage prophesy on her own?


• What if Adrielle and Geneveva were lovers before Adrielle's coup? What does their first re-meeting look like?


• Time loop? Geneveva feels like she could be powerful enough to trap Adrielle in one.


• AU where Geneveva doesn't die on the beach. What's everyone's reaction when they find out who she is - do they find out? Adrielle and Geneveva as reluctant co-rulers while the sirens attempt to return - or after the sirens return, if Adrielle succeeds in summoning one or more on the beach before Geneveva dies.

Adrielle/Leandra: Oh I am weak for the queen-and-her-too-fierce-protector dynamic and I'm so sad we lost Leandra so abruptly.

• Adrielle resurrects Leandra. Tidelander lifesaving magic seems tied to blood manipulation and like maybe it only works if someone's only mostly dead, but: maybe Leandra is only mostly dead, maybe being Queen means she has a more necromatic slant to her powers if she wants.


• First meetings, or first times. How old was Adrielle when Leandra came to L'Attente? When did they start sleeping together? When did Adrielle decide Leandra would be her unofficial guard captain?


• They get a murder roadtrip. They get an antiquing road trip. They get a combination murder and antiquing road trip.


• I am reeeally into the idea of Tidelanders-in-history fic. What did L'Attente look like a hundred years ago? Two hundred? How does their relationship change over the decades?

Adrielle/Laura: So much potential! I'm happy with AUs where Laura was the one in the drug ring who got in over her head with Adrielle, or Adrielle seducing her away from Zack to control the men more (developing genuine feelings for Laura in the process optional), or secret Tidelander!Laura AUs.

Adrielle/Violca: Attempted murder, and other surefire ways to make me ship things.

• Violca comes back, thinking enough time has passed that Adrielle's been deposed. She's wrong.


• *Looks at Madeleine Madden* Not to be even more niche, but, Picnic at Hanging Rock crossover/fusion? I enjoy the idea of present-day L'Attente being what's past the rock, and Adrielle and Violca dealing with Marion and Miranda.


• AU where Adrielle manages to keep Violca loyal, with some combination of threats/promises/sex/privileges. All the dubconny emotional manipulation please!


• Adrielle is sleeping with Violca to keep her close, but Violca betrays her anyway.

Cal/Violca: Uneasy sorta-allies that should have had more time together!

• Post-canon. Cal is Queen, and Violca her right hand.


• Canon divergence. Cal and Violca manage to flee together (murder road boat trip, anyone?)


• Cal befriends/starts sleeping with Violca when she first gets back. She doesn't know what Violca is, but Violca knows exactly what possibilities this opens up.

Y Gwyll

General: I watched the Welsh version of this on S4C, and fic in/incorporating Welsh is welcomed if you speak it! Mentioned/background of any of the canon m/f ships is fine. Character death DNW waived for casefic OFCs & canon casefic victims, including Helen.

Jenny James/Catrin John: Their relationship is the backbone of the whole show, and I would love to see more of it from their perspectives. Epistolary fic during the time between Pontarfynach and Helen's murder, or AUs where Catrin survives.

Mared/Siân: They were the two who immediately caught me from the moment Sian tried to slink in late to the team's first briefing. I'm obsessed with how, despite the very real tensions between them, they're still quite close - the same Siân who makes it obvious repeatedly that she would rather be in Cardiff also chose repeatedly to stay and work specifically with Mared, and looks out for her during the investigation in s3. Despite everything they work well together and are concerned with protecting each other. Things I would love include:

• Casefic, especially of the semi-low stakes cases that have almost more to do with the interpersonal dynamics of Aberystwyth communities than anything specifically criminal.


• Things dealing with Welsh mythology! Whether you want to go full-on mythology AU, or they're just discussing their favourite stories, mythology of any sort will delight me.


• Anything about the small town/city dynamic, especially if they end up in Cardiff for reasons - Sian showing Mared her favourite places/things, Mared dealing with her feelings of being displaced/overwhelmed.


• Pre-canon fic and first meetings, first case worked together, first times, etc


• post-canon fic where they deal with the fallout from the s3 finale.