Dear Author: Every Woman 2017
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burglebezzlemenI’m excited to be taking part in this exchange, and to see what you come up with!
I have longer sections for some fandoms, but that’s just because I had more ideas/requested more characters in those fandoms. I’m super-excited about getting a gift in any of these canons. Please don’t feel limited to my specific prompts — if there’s something else you’re excited to create for one of my requested characters/groups, I’m interested. And please feel free to use art prompts as fic starting points or vice versa.
GENERAL ART INFO
I'm not an artist myself, so please take whatever is useful and ignore the rest. I’ve tried to provide specific prompts for the characters, but please don’t assume those are the only things I’d be interested in!
In general, I tend to enjoy:
-Atmospheric art
-Characters taking selfies
-Characters experiencing weather
-Spooky or supernatural themes/influences
-Any level of color, from black & white through restricted palettes up to lots of bright, saturated colors
If you’re interested in style prompts, some specific suggestions in case any are of interest:
-Art Nouveau
-WPA-style
-Classic travel poster
-Vintage advertisement
-1970s Gothic novel cover illustration
My one art DNW is NSFW art/porn.
GENERAL FIC INFO
Some things I tend to enjoy in fic:
-A strong sense of place. Weather, including thunderstorms, snowstorms, etc. Character against nature. Stories about characters exploring or rebuilding an old or abandoned home. Secret or hidden places. Islands. Stories where characters are stranded in some remote or cut-off location (either in a Canadian Shack way, or in a “there’s a murderer/ghost/whatever coming after us or killing all of us off” way).
-Casefic and Monster of the Week fics of all varieties, which can include an excerpt from a longer job or a small or trivial case. Details of characters doing their jobs.
-Descriptions of food, including characters cooking together or for one another, whether they’re good or bad cooks. Characters crossing over into The Great British Bakeoff (original version) — I’m not into many other reality shows, but I pretty much always love GBBO crossovers of any length. Slice of life. Domestic themes, such as settling in a new home or exploring the hidden corners of an existing home.
-Epistolary fic, especially when based on the internet (e.g. email exchanges, message boards, etc.). This includes metafiction and fiction set in fandoms/fandom AUs. I also really enjoy outsider POV.
In terms of tone, I enjoy everything from fluff to angst, although I’m not generally a fan of extreme or gory horror for the sake of horror.
I’m usually more interested in canon-based fic and canon-departure AUs than I am in mundane AUs. That being said, if you have an AU you’d love to write — especially if it involves an unusual profession or allows for a get-together fic for an established canon couple — I’m interested.
I’m generally not interested in porn or kink — nothing against them, just not my thing. No PWP, please.
DNW: Major character death (although side character death in a casefic or temporary major character death are fine), noncon, dubcon, explicit sex or kink, or NSFW art.
GRAVITY FALLS
Grenda (Gravity Falls)
Grenda! I love everyone on this show, and I always want more fic and art for Grenda. Ship-wise, I adore Grenda/Marius, which we saw so little of in canon, but Candy/Grenda is also potentially intriguing. I love gen in this fandom, and I enjoy seeing her friendship with Mabel and/or Candy. I could also really enjoy a gen team-up where Grenda gets sucked into dealing with some supernatural threat with someone she doesn’t interact with much in canon, like Grunkle Stan or Soos or Melody or Wendy. Or just Grenda on her own!
Fic prompts
-Grenda visits Marius, and he goes missing at sea/gets locked in a wine cellar/whatever and for Reasons, Grenda ends up ruling his Duchy for a day.
-The gnome Grenda helped take down in the sting in The Last Mabelcorn gets out of prison, and Grenda is sucked into a dark world of vengeance and pixie dust.
-When a supernatural force threatens Marius’s Duchy, he calls on Grenda (and maybe Mabel and/or Candy?) to help.
-Grenda, Mabel, and Candy in Ducktective fandom.
Art prompts
-Grenda dropped into a Gothic universe, maybe as Marius’s bride or meeting Wolfman Bare Chest, or maybe just chilling in front of a spooky house, because unlike most Gothic novel cover heroines, Grenda doesn’t need to run away
-Undercover forest cop Grenda
-Grenda as an adult
HART OF DIXIE
Lemon Breeland, AnnaBeth Nass
Hart of Dixie, the small town feel-good canon of my heart! I love these two so much, both together and apart. I ship Lemon/Lavon, but I loved AnnaBeth/Lavon too. And while I initially assumed AnnaBeth/George would feel kind of pair-the-spares, the actors really brought their A game and I ended up shipping it. I also love gen in this canon.
Fic prompts
-Lemon and/or AnnaBeth and shenanigans, whether to help the town or for more nefarious purposes
-Bluebellians become convinced something supernatural is going on — that there’s a haunting in town, that the town’s run afoul of a curse laid by one of the town founders, etc. Lemon and/or AnnaBeth are on the case.
-Lemon and her sisters! Maybe Scarlett needs help. Or maybe Magnolia doesn’t think she needs Lemon’s help (but Lemon knows better).
-Basically any wacky Bluebell event or tradition, whether it’s one we know from canon or a new one you invent
-Lemon settling into Lavon’s house and making it HERS (because you know she so would)
-AnnaBeth tries to work with Magnolia to plan Lemon’s second bachelorette party. Things do not go as planned.
-We got so little in canon about AnnaBeth moving to Nashville to join George — how did that go? How’s she adapting to life in a city? They still visit Bluebell, right?
Art prompts
-I love, love, love the costuming in this canon, so anything involving all the wacky outfits (or actual costumes, like for Halloween?) would awesome.
-Lemon and/or AB preparing to perpetrate shenanigans or getting ready for some town event
-There’s not much fanart out there for Hart of Dixie, so really, just about anything would be amazing!
LUMBERJANES
April, Ripley, Jen, Rosie & Abigail (Lumberjanes)
I love April's enthusiasm, her creativity, her bottomless trunk of mysteries, and her fierce protectiveness for her friends. I love Jen’s perpetual exasperation and love for her campers, and the way she sometimes gives in and joins in their general mayhem. And Ripley — who couldn’t fall in love with Ripley, right?
Rosie & Abigail: I am fascinated by their history together. I love the glimpses we get of their time at camp together, their relationship, their backstory — there’s so much the comic suggests about their relationship, but doesn’t fill in.
I definitely ship Rosie/Abigail, although I’m happy with gen about them as well. I love gen about the rest of the characters. I do lowkey ship April/Barney, and background Mal/Molly is A-OK as well. I don’t always keep up with every issue as it comes up, but I’m up through the Gotham Academy crossover event and the issue about Barney moving into Zodiac Cabin.
I love fic set at Lumberjanes camp, in the forest etc. around the camp, and in Bear Woman’s weird land-of-the-lost world.
Fic prompts
-Basically anything where the Lumberjanes have to solve some sort of problem, whether that problem is supernatural or totally mundane
-April getting into her competitive badge-earning headspace and someone else pulling her out of it
-April, Ripley, or Jen bonding with Bubbles! I love Bubbles, and I love the fact that Bubbles is Molly’s raccoon but has a special bond with Ripley, too. And we don’t get to see April or Jen interact with Bubbles much, so that could be fun too!
-Five times Ripley got to hug a furry animal/dinosaur/cryptid
-The campers decide to give Jen a special day of relaxation and fun. Things do not go as they planned.
-A storm hits the Lumberjanes camp
-A camp-wide game (hide and seek? Assassins? Calvinball? Another game of Capture the Flag?) leads to unexpected discoveries
-Ripley meets Calvin & Hobbes, somehow (maybe Calvin’s time machine actually took him to the Land of the Lost rather than the actual Jurassic?)
-The Lumberjanes travel back in time and meet Rosie and Abigail when they were campers, or Rosie and Abigail travel forward in time and meet the Lumberjanes
-Some greater problem forces Rosie and Abigail to work together for the good of the forest/the Lumberjanes/whatever.
-Abigail’s house — like, what? Who has that many secret doorways and a Scrooge McDuck-style treasure room? How did she build it without Rosie noticing? (Or was she secretly hoping Rosie would notice?)
Art prompts
-Ripley hugging a supernatural creature
-Lumberjack April
-A page from April’s scrapbook/bestiary
-Jen getting a chance to relax, for a change!
-Someone rides a moose
-Vintage picture of Rosie and Abigail as Lumberjanes
-Any of the Lumberjanes in a picture that feels like the cover of a classic Nancy Drew Mystery (opening an old clock, peering through a stone wall, etc.)
RIVERDALE
Cheryl Blossom
Cheryl, the Mean Girl Gothic cheerleader of my dreams! Love her OTT drama, her political maneuvering, and all the backstory around the Blossoms and their creepy, creepy house.
Ship-wise, I can roll with Cheryl/Polly, Cheryl/Veronica, Cheryl/Betty, Cheryl/Jughead, Cheryl/Archie, or Cheryl/Betty/Veronica. I’m also totally here for Cheryl/Jason if that’s how you roll. And I love gen in this fandom, too!
Fic prompts
-This is a great canon for magical realism, supernatural elements, and crack, and I am so here for that! I especially love when the magical realism/supernatural elements are tied to Riverdale’s history. The ghost of murdered Grandpappy Blossom? Jason coming back from the dead in a frozen river? Secret maple syrup feuds — whaaaat?
-The Blossom house/estate/cemetery, whether pre- or post-burning. I would love anything about Cheryl (with or without backup) exploring their property or the Blossom family history further.
-Cheryl and Nana Rose — Cheryl got her out before the fire, right? And what other secrets has Nana Rose been hiding from them all?
-Cheryl and Jughead, teen arsonists, end up in the same foster home when Penelope takes off for a tropical island.
-Cheryl and Betty team up to investigate another dark secret, or Cheryl and Veronica team up to take someone down, or Cheryl and Polly unexpectedly bond over something.
-Weird Riverdale traditions. They have to have some, right?
Art prompts
-That shot of Cheryl soaking wet on the rock after she reported Jason lost
-Supernatural creature Cheryl
-Cheryl on a trashy Gothic romance novel cover
THE GOOD PLACE
Eleanor, Tahani, Janet (The Good Place), Real Eleanor | Vicki
Oh man, this show! The first season blew me away and I can’t wait to see where they go next season. In terms of tone, I like the reveal from S1E13 but I also love it when that edge is softened by humor, which I feel they do really well in the show. Crackfic and cannonverse!AUs totally welcome.
Ship-wise, I like Eleanor/Tahani, Eleanor/Chidi, Chidi/Tahani, Eleanor/Chidi/Tahani, Real Eleanor | Vicki/Trevor, Real Eleanor | Vicky/Chris, and Jason/Janet. I’m also equally happy with gen.
Fic prompts
-Per S1E12, Janet engaged her ride-or-die protocol for Jason. Assuming the protocol survived her reboot, how could that play out in The Good Place 2.0?
-Backstory or worldbuilding for any of the characters. Eleanor being a terrible person? Tahani vs. Kamilah? Janet worldbuilding? Vicki prepping for the role of a lifetime? I am there for any of this.
-How did Michael steal Janet? Or did she maybe make the choice to come?
-Canon departure where Eleanor chooses to stay quiet during the final confrontation and let Bambadjan present whatever ridiculous argument Michael’s come up with for letting them all stay. They’re still in “The Good Place,” but Eleanor knows the truth. How could this play out? Would the others believe her?
-The Good Place gets rebooted in a different AU — how do things play out? How does Eleanor find Chidi (or does she find Tahani instead)? How does Janet keep from telling the humans what’s going on per Michael’s instructions while still pointing them in the correct direction? Who does Vicki end up playing in the new AU?
-Slice-of-afterlife for Eleanor/Tahani or Eleanor & Tahani. Hanging out and watching Tahani’s favorite BBC shows! Eleanor’s terrible fashion choices!
-Good Eleanor (aka Vicki)! What’s her unlife like when she’s not playing Chidi’s soulmate? Does she hang out with Trevor or Chris? (Or — my pet theory — is Chris actually another human who’s been added to The Good Place for the next run-through?)
Art prompts
-Cheesy wedding portrait of Janet (with or without Jason)
-Tahani poses for a magazine cover or fashion editorial
-Tahani tries to dress Eleanor “properly,” with poor results for Eleanor
-Basically anything shippy for Eleanor/Tahani
-Real Eleanor | Vicki as a cartoon demon
I have longer sections for some fandoms, but that’s just because I had more ideas/requested more characters in those fandoms. I’m super-excited about getting a gift in any of these canons. Please don’t feel limited to my specific prompts — if there’s something else you’re excited to create for one of my requested characters/groups, I’m interested. And please feel free to use art prompts as fic starting points or vice versa.
GENERAL ART INFO
I'm not an artist myself, so please take whatever is useful and ignore the rest. I’ve tried to provide specific prompts for the characters, but please don’t assume those are the only things I’d be interested in!
In general, I tend to enjoy:
-Atmospheric art
-Characters taking selfies
-Characters experiencing weather
-Spooky or supernatural themes/influences
-Any level of color, from black & white through restricted palettes up to lots of bright, saturated colors
If you’re interested in style prompts, some specific suggestions in case any are of interest:
-Art Nouveau
-WPA-style
-Classic travel poster
-Vintage advertisement
-1970s Gothic novel cover illustration
My one art DNW is NSFW art/porn.
GENERAL FIC INFO
Some things I tend to enjoy in fic:
-A strong sense of place. Weather, including thunderstorms, snowstorms, etc. Character against nature. Stories about characters exploring or rebuilding an old or abandoned home. Secret or hidden places. Islands. Stories where characters are stranded in some remote or cut-off location (either in a Canadian Shack way, or in a “there’s a murderer/ghost/whatever coming after us or killing all of us off” way).
-Casefic and Monster of the Week fics of all varieties, which can include an excerpt from a longer job or a small or trivial case. Details of characters doing their jobs.
-Descriptions of food, including characters cooking together or for one another, whether they’re good or bad cooks. Characters crossing over into The Great British Bakeoff (original version) — I’m not into many other reality shows, but I pretty much always love GBBO crossovers of any length. Slice of life. Domestic themes, such as settling in a new home or exploring the hidden corners of an existing home.
-Epistolary fic, especially when based on the internet (e.g. email exchanges, message boards, etc.). This includes metafiction and fiction set in fandoms/fandom AUs. I also really enjoy outsider POV.
In terms of tone, I enjoy everything from fluff to angst, although I’m not generally a fan of extreme or gory horror for the sake of horror.
I’m usually more interested in canon-based fic and canon-departure AUs than I am in mundane AUs. That being said, if you have an AU you’d love to write — especially if it involves an unusual profession or allows for a get-together fic for an established canon couple — I’m interested.
I’m generally not interested in porn or kink — nothing against them, just not my thing. No PWP, please.
DNW: Major character death (although side character death in a casefic or temporary major character death are fine), noncon, dubcon, explicit sex or kink, or NSFW art.
GRAVITY FALLS
Grenda (Gravity Falls)
Grenda! I love everyone on this show, and I always want more fic and art for Grenda. Ship-wise, I adore Grenda/Marius, which we saw so little of in canon, but Candy/Grenda is also potentially intriguing. I love gen in this fandom, and I enjoy seeing her friendship with Mabel and/or Candy. I could also really enjoy a gen team-up where Grenda gets sucked into dealing with some supernatural threat with someone she doesn’t interact with much in canon, like Grunkle Stan or Soos or Melody or Wendy. Or just Grenda on her own!
Fic prompts
-Grenda visits Marius, and he goes missing at sea/gets locked in a wine cellar/whatever and for Reasons, Grenda ends up ruling his Duchy for a day.
-The gnome Grenda helped take down in the sting in The Last Mabelcorn gets out of prison, and Grenda is sucked into a dark world of vengeance and pixie dust.
-When a supernatural force threatens Marius’s Duchy, he calls on Grenda (and maybe Mabel and/or Candy?) to help.
-Grenda, Mabel, and Candy in Ducktective fandom.
Art prompts
-Grenda dropped into a Gothic universe, maybe as Marius’s bride or meeting Wolfman Bare Chest, or maybe just chilling in front of a spooky house, because unlike most Gothic novel cover heroines, Grenda doesn’t need to run away
-Undercover forest cop Grenda
-Grenda as an adult
HART OF DIXIE
Lemon Breeland, AnnaBeth Nass
Hart of Dixie, the small town feel-good canon of my heart! I love these two so much, both together and apart. I ship Lemon/Lavon, but I loved AnnaBeth/Lavon too. And while I initially assumed AnnaBeth/George would feel kind of pair-the-spares, the actors really brought their A game and I ended up shipping it. I also love gen in this canon.
Fic prompts
-Lemon and/or AnnaBeth and shenanigans, whether to help the town or for more nefarious purposes
-Bluebellians become convinced something supernatural is going on — that there’s a haunting in town, that the town’s run afoul of a curse laid by one of the town founders, etc. Lemon and/or AnnaBeth are on the case.
-Lemon and her sisters! Maybe Scarlett needs help. Or maybe Magnolia doesn’t think she needs Lemon’s help (but Lemon knows better).
-Basically any wacky Bluebell event or tradition, whether it’s one we know from canon or a new one you invent
-Lemon settling into Lavon’s house and making it HERS (because you know she so would)
-AnnaBeth tries to work with Magnolia to plan Lemon’s second bachelorette party. Things do not go as planned.
-We got so little in canon about AnnaBeth moving to Nashville to join George — how did that go? How’s she adapting to life in a city? They still visit Bluebell, right?
Art prompts
-I love, love, love the costuming in this canon, so anything involving all the wacky outfits (or actual costumes, like for Halloween?) would awesome.
-Lemon and/or AB preparing to perpetrate shenanigans or getting ready for some town event
-There’s not much fanart out there for Hart of Dixie, so really, just about anything would be amazing!
LUMBERJANES
April, Ripley, Jen, Rosie & Abigail (Lumberjanes)
I love April's enthusiasm, her creativity, her bottomless trunk of mysteries, and her fierce protectiveness for her friends. I love Jen’s perpetual exasperation and love for her campers, and the way she sometimes gives in and joins in their general mayhem. And Ripley — who couldn’t fall in love with Ripley, right?
Rosie & Abigail: I am fascinated by their history together. I love the glimpses we get of their time at camp together, their relationship, their backstory — there’s so much the comic suggests about their relationship, but doesn’t fill in.
I definitely ship Rosie/Abigail, although I’m happy with gen about them as well. I love gen about the rest of the characters. I do lowkey ship April/Barney, and background Mal/Molly is A-OK as well. I don’t always keep up with every issue as it comes up, but I’m up through the Gotham Academy crossover event and the issue about Barney moving into Zodiac Cabin.
I love fic set at Lumberjanes camp, in the forest etc. around the camp, and in Bear Woman’s weird land-of-the-lost world.
Fic prompts
-Basically anything where the Lumberjanes have to solve some sort of problem, whether that problem is supernatural or totally mundane
-April getting into her competitive badge-earning headspace and someone else pulling her out of it
-April, Ripley, or Jen bonding with Bubbles! I love Bubbles, and I love the fact that Bubbles is Molly’s raccoon but has a special bond with Ripley, too. And we don’t get to see April or Jen interact with Bubbles much, so that could be fun too!
-Five times Ripley got to hug a furry animal/dinosaur/cryptid
-The campers decide to give Jen a special day of relaxation and fun. Things do not go as they planned.
-A storm hits the Lumberjanes camp
-A camp-wide game (hide and seek? Assassins? Calvinball? Another game of Capture the Flag?) leads to unexpected discoveries
-Ripley meets Calvin & Hobbes, somehow (maybe Calvin’s time machine actually took him to the Land of the Lost rather than the actual Jurassic?)
-The Lumberjanes travel back in time and meet Rosie and Abigail when they were campers, or Rosie and Abigail travel forward in time and meet the Lumberjanes
-Some greater problem forces Rosie and Abigail to work together for the good of the forest/the Lumberjanes/whatever.
-Abigail’s house — like, what? Who has that many secret doorways and a Scrooge McDuck-style treasure room? How did she build it without Rosie noticing? (Or was she secretly hoping Rosie would notice?)
Art prompts
-Ripley hugging a supernatural creature
-Lumberjack April
-A page from April’s scrapbook/bestiary
-Jen getting a chance to relax, for a change!
-Someone rides a moose
-Vintage picture of Rosie and Abigail as Lumberjanes
-Any of the Lumberjanes in a picture that feels like the cover of a classic Nancy Drew Mystery (opening an old clock, peering through a stone wall, etc.)
RIVERDALE
Cheryl Blossom
Cheryl, the Mean Girl Gothic cheerleader of my dreams! Love her OTT drama, her political maneuvering, and all the backstory around the Blossoms and their creepy, creepy house.
Ship-wise, I can roll with Cheryl/Polly, Cheryl/Veronica, Cheryl/Betty, Cheryl/Jughead, Cheryl/Archie, or Cheryl/Betty/Veronica. I’m also totally here for Cheryl/Jason if that’s how you roll. And I love gen in this fandom, too!
Fic prompts
-This is a great canon for magical realism, supernatural elements, and crack, and I am so here for that! I especially love when the magical realism/supernatural elements are tied to Riverdale’s history. The ghost of murdered Grandpappy Blossom? Jason coming back from the dead in a frozen river? Secret maple syrup feuds — whaaaat?
-The Blossom house/estate/cemetery, whether pre- or post-burning. I would love anything about Cheryl (with or without backup) exploring their property or the Blossom family history further.
-Cheryl and Nana Rose — Cheryl got her out before the fire, right? And what other secrets has Nana Rose been hiding from them all?
-Cheryl and Jughead, teen arsonists, end up in the same foster home when Penelope takes off for a tropical island.
-Cheryl and Betty team up to investigate another dark secret, or Cheryl and Veronica team up to take someone down, or Cheryl and Polly unexpectedly bond over something.
-Weird Riverdale traditions. They have to have some, right?
Art prompts
-That shot of Cheryl soaking wet on the rock after she reported Jason lost
-Supernatural creature Cheryl
-Cheryl on a trashy Gothic romance novel cover
THE GOOD PLACE
Eleanor, Tahani, Janet (The Good Place), Real Eleanor | Vicki
Oh man, this show! The first season blew me away and I can’t wait to see where they go next season. In terms of tone, I like the reveal from S1E13 but I also love it when that edge is softened by humor, which I feel they do really well in the show. Crackfic and cannonverse!AUs totally welcome.
Ship-wise, I like Eleanor/Tahani, Eleanor/Chidi, Chidi/Tahani, Eleanor/Chidi/Tahani, Real Eleanor | Vicki/Trevor, Real Eleanor | Vicky/Chris, and Jason/Janet. I’m also equally happy with gen.
Fic prompts
-Per S1E12, Janet engaged her ride-or-die protocol for Jason. Assuming the protocol survived her reboot, how could that play out in The Good Place 2.0?
-Backstory or worldbuilding for any of the characters. Eleanor being a terrible person? Tahani vs. Kamilah? Janet worldbuilding? Vicki prepping for the role of a lifetime? I am there for any of this.
-How did Michael steal Janet? Or did she maybe make the choice to come?
-Canon departure where Eleanor chooses to stay quiet during the final confrontation and let Bambadjan present whatever ridiculous argument Michael’s come up with for letting them all stay. They’re still in “The Good Place,” but Eleanor knows the truth. How could this play out? Would the others believe her?
-The Good Place gets rebooted in a different AU — how do things play out? How does Eleanor find Chidi (or does she find Tahani instead)? How does Janet keep from telling the humans what’s going on per Michael’s instructions while still pointing them in the correct direction? Who does Vicki end up playing in the new AU?
-Slice-of-afterlife for Eleanor/Tahani or Eleanor & Tahani. Hanging out and watching Tahani’s favorite BBC shows! Eleanor’s terrible fashion choices!
-Good Eleanor (aka Vicki)! What’s her unlife like when she’s not playing Chidi’s soulmate? Does she hang out with Trevor or Chris? (Or — my pet theory — is Chris actually another human who’s been added to The Good Place for the next run-through?)
Art prompts
-Cheesy wedding portrait of Janet (with or without Jason)
-Tahani poses for a magazine cover or fashion editorial
-Tahani tries to dress Eleanor “properly,” with poor results for Eleanor
-Basically anything shippy for Eleanor/Tahani
-Real Eleanor | Vicki as a cartoon demon
