14. dear chocolatier 2022
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slowpartsHello, dearest Chocolatier! Thank you for your patience while I put my letter together—if the fates were kind, we matched on a fandom for which I managed to enter some prompts into my AO3 sign-up, but they weren't and you're currently prompt-less, or if you want info about my general likes/loves and DNWs, then this letter is now here!
I hope that you are well out there, wherever you are—that you are safe and healthy, first and foremost, and that you have been afforded every kindness that the universe can give right now. Knowing that you want to try to write something for me amidst all of the uncertainty in the world at this exact moment in time means more to me than I can possibly say. Thank you for giving me your effort. It is absolutely priceless.
Whatever the ravings herein may lead you to believe, ODAO! Please don't feel beholden to anything laid out below, other than my DNWs. No matter what you write for me, no matter what length or fandom, no matter what subject, I promise you that I will love and cherish it forever.
And, copying from last year's letter: hey, don't feel bad if you need to default. It's valid to do so any year, but this year especially. Be kind to yourself.
Also—fanart is more than welcome for treating!! <3
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I AM NOT INTO (DNWs): non-canonical character death, heavy or detailed gore (minor injuries and violence OK), incest, marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), non/dubcon, first person POV (unless it's epistolary), character bashing, angst with no happy ending, actually unrequited love (for any ships I request), high school/college/coffee shop/florist/tattooist AUs, modern AUs (for fandoms that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever), NSFW content of characters under 21
EXTREMELY OPTIONAL NSFW LIKES: pegging, praise kink, phone sex, friends with benefits and navigating the territory thereof, somebody's fingers being in somebody's mouth as like a trust thing but also as a sexy thing, femdom, cute endearing human clumsiness, face-sitting (and cunnilingus from any angle tbh), guided masturbation, a little blowjob between friends, distraction kink (is that a thing?), sex that leads to an impulsive and ill-timed "i love you," sex that is quite possibly more talking than actual sex
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Emporio Alniño & Kujo Jolyne, F. F. | Foo Fighters/Kujo Jolyne, Kujo Jolyne & Weather Report, Narancia Ghirga/Trish Una, Diego Brando/Hot Pants
Fanfiction
Emporio Alniño & Kujo Jolyne
Emporio is a very dear character to me and I was always deeply moved by his bond with Jolyne. He is just a KID and he is so BRAVE and the warmth of his hand COMFORTED JOLYNE and he’s her FAVORITE. I would honestly love any kind of gen about them—quiet moments in Burning Down the House, playing catch, Jolyne sharing stories about her life before Green Dolphin Street with Emporio because he's never been outside the prison and wants to hear about Disney World. I would also be thrilled with something taking place after Made in Heaven resets the universe, the things about Irene that are familiar and the things that are not, and what happens after she and Annakiss pick Emporio up from the side of the road. :')
F. F. | Foo Fighters/Kujo Jolyne
My little rarepair! I would love post-injury patch-ups in either direction, the intersection of love and loyalty and friendship, Jolyne teaching F.F. Little Human Things (like how to DANCE) and F.F. teaching Jolyne Little Nature Things (like SWAMP ECOSYSTEM FACTS!)
Kujo Jolyne & Weather Report
Absolute gentp of Stone Ocean... the Bucciarati and Trish equivalent, IMO. Just really deeply enjoy their bond, how quickly they came to trust each other, and how protective they are of each other. Please let their Stands hang out. Please tell me about all the times they almost-die for each other. Please give me Weather Report gap moe.
Narancia Ghirga/Trish Una
Never not thinking about Narancia having a montage envisioning his future and seeing protecting Trish for his whole life as a part of it, and never not thinking about Narancia's death being the only thing in canon that moves Trish to tears. Note that I find Narancia's death offensively stupid and would prefer that it receive the fix-it treatment. I would absolutely adore an interaction between Narancia and Spice Girl, or between Trish and Aerosmith. I am also always delighted by the usual fluff scenarios, e.g. shopping or dancing or painting each other's nails or Narancia attending one of Trish's concerts once she becomes her PHF Pop Star Self.
Diego Brando/Hot Pants
I'm obsessed with them. They're both so jagged at the edges, so distrusting, so delicate and tragic underneath it all; two distinct mutations of survivor's guilt, HAHA. And yet they bring out such interesting facets of each other, even though their interactions are so brief and their alliance so wary. As with Vento Aureo, I found these deaths a little meaningless, so I love fix-it. I'd just love to read about them traveling together across the Old West after the race. Starlit nights sleeping on opposite sides of the campfire but still swapping all their darkest secrets and maybe hooking up for warmth, that kind of thing. Alternatively, reconnecting years later, maybe for another race or at a horse show or at a presidential party (as stars of the great Steel Ball Run Race and all). Missing scenes are also super welcome!
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Ugh, them!!! She made a whole order of knights for him!!! They made a promise to swim in the ocean together!!! This hole is mine, it was made for me!!!!
Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor | Mobile Police Patlabor
Izumi Noa/Shinohara Asuma
Fanfiction
God, if you're here and you want to write me Patlabor I am going to need to know your name and address so that I can come to your house and propose marriage, assuming that's not weird. I love how everyone in this show is so adult and real, and so mundane in the most gorgeous of ways. I love the tentative ways in which they connect with each other, over their work just as much as their pasts. I love the extremely realistic bureaucracy of the Labor Divisions and how Labors function in society.
As for Noa and Asuma... GOD I LOVE THEM. They are so perfectly silent and chill about their devotion to each other and it makes me nuts. I would love to read about how they navigate their relationship, I would love to read about pining and Noa being oblivious and Shinohara thinking the absolute world of her, which is canon and quite frankly exquisite. Noa is just such a wonderfully human character, and I would be thrilled to read anything about her; I'm fascinated by how she handled that whole ordeal with the Griffon, which seemed to affect her deeply in a way we hadn't seen anything quite affect her before. Shinohara, too, has a lot of hidden depths that I find compelling both for personal reasons and just because of the way they're revealed to us—when he brought Noa to his brother's grave it knocked me right on my ass.
Basically, anything about these two becoming closer would make my year. That can be emotional talks, coming to terms with their feelings for each other, a series of will-they-or-won't-they misunderstandings with their coworkers, close calls in the line of duty, late nights drinking beer at each other's apartments, straight-up kissing, clumsy friends-to-lovers sex, Goto meddling to drive Asuma into a corner that makes him confess his feelings, I don't care!
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Persona 5
Sakamoto Ryuji/Takamaki Ann, Suzui Shiho/Takamaki Ann, Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji
Fanfiction
Oh how I yearn to see the Phantom Thieves as maladjusted golden-hearted twenty-somethings.
Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji: Meeting up to run at 5 AM even after they go to different universities, Akira making Ryuji coffee in the middle of the night, the inherent romanticism of hands, Akira meeting Ryuji's mom, casual physical touches, the inherent romanticism of international travel (maybe they're going to visit Ann in like, Amsterdam), driving lessons (this is so specific but I just think it would be sweet, and potentially Fraught)
Suzui Shiho/Takamaki Ann: Epistolary post-canon fic, Ann going to visit Shiho, going to college together, Ann styling Shiho or vice-versa, Ann telling Shiho about her days as a Phantom Thief, 5 times over the years that one of them almost confessed and 1 time one of them did
Sakamoto Ryuji/Takamaki Ann: This is maybe my second-favorite P5 ship not so much for anything that happens in canon but all of the things that COULD have happened in canon if I was writing the game. Confronting and healing from the Kamoshida abuse (without gratuitous depictions thereof), summer nights when it's too rainy to ride the train so they stay over at the other's place, injury patch-ups (can you tell I love these), fake dating, friends with benefits who accidentally catch feelings, long-distance pining (does Ryuji stay in Tokyo? does Ann go to do modeling/fashion writing in Europe?), When Harry Met Sally-style saga about all the people that they date over the years and how they just seem to keep coming back to each other
Shadow & Bone (TV)
Alina Starkov/Malyen Oretsev
Fanfiction
I start screaming and wailing and smashing things and I don't stop until I pass out!!!!!!!!!
I'm certain that this dynamic was crafted, written, and acted with the express intent of stabbing me in the gut and that's just so splendid.
I know that their relationship is quite different in the books, which I have not read. I would be happy for you to stick with TV canon—as if the rest of the story hasn't even happened yet!
They are just miraculous—a rare emotional constipation/emotional constipation relationship that works. Despite the walls that they put up they are still so tender with each other and trust each other fully, even when their bond is tested and beaten-up. I love how deeply they want to protect each other, how Alina struggles to balance her identity as the Sun Summoner with her identity as Alina, of which Mal is such a vital part—I love how clearly they love each other but think of their friendship as so sacred and dear that they can't risk harming it, especially when so many other forces are trying. Ugh! Anyway... travelogues are wonderful, hurt/comfort is wonderful, interweaving childhood flashbacks is wonderful, casual intimate acts like hair-washing is wonderful, huddling for warmth is wonderful, tentative and unexpected first kisses that we maybe regret but also really don't are wonderful, INTERACTIONS WITH THE CROWS ARE WONDERFUL.
I hope that you are well out there, wherever you are—that you are safe and healthy, first and foremost, and that you have been afforded every kindness that the universe can give right now. Knowing that you want to try to write something for me amidst all of the uncertainty in the world at this exact moment in time means more to me than I can possibly say. Thank you for giving me your effort. It is absolutely priceless.
Whatever the ravings herein may lead you to believe, ODAO! Please don't feel beholden to anything laid out below, other than my DNWs. No matter what you write for me, no matter what length or fandom, no matter what subject, I promise you that I will love and cherish it forever.
And, copying from last year's letter: hey, don't feel bad if you need to default. It's valid to do so any year, but this year especially. Be kind to yourself.
Also—fanart is more than welcome for treating!! <3
—
I AM INTO (ODAO): "What Comes After" as a concept (basically anything post-canon), healing from grief and trauma, the pining-longing-yearning triptych, ship studies that function as character studies, nonlinear narratives, almost kisses, developing romance, hurt/comfort, fake/pretend dating leads to feelings, snark and banter, found families, FRIENDSHIPS (especially unlikely ones), friends to lovers, seemingly unrequited pining, nature imagery
I AM NOT INTO (DNWs): non-canonical character death, heavy or detailed gore (minor injuries and violence OK), incest, marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), non/dubcon, first person POV (unless it's epistolary), character bashing, angst with no happy ending, actually unrequited love (for any ships I request), high school/college/coffee shop/florist/tattooist AUs, modern AUs (for fandoms that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever), NSFW content of characters under 21
EXTREMELY OPTIONAL NSFW LIKES: pegging, praise kink, phone sex, friends with benefits and navigating the territory thereof, somebody's fingers being in somebody's mouth as like a trust thing but also as a sexy thing, femdom, cute endearing human clumsiness, face-sitting (and cunnilingus from any angle tbh), guided masturbation, a little blowjob between friends, distraction kink (is that a thing?), sex that leads to an impulsive and ill-timed "i love you," sex that is quite possibly more talking than actual sex
—
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Emporio Alniño & Kujo Jolyne, F. F. | Foo Fighters/Kujo Jolyne, Kujo Jolyne & Weather Report, Narancia Ghirga/Trish Una, Diego Brando/Hot Pants
Fanfiction
Emporio Alniño & Kujo Jolyne
Emporio is a very dear character to me and I was always deeply moved by his bond with Jolyne. He is just a KID and he is so BRAVE and the warmth of his hand COMFORTED JOLYNE and he’s her FAVORITE. I would honestly love any kind of gen about them—quiet moments in Burning Down the House, playing catch, Jolyne sharing stories about her life before Green Dolphin Street with Emporio because he's never been outside the prison and wants to hear about Disney World. I would also be thrilled with something taking place after Made in Heaven resets the universe, the things about Irene that are familiar and the things that are not, and what happens after she and Annakiss pick Emporio up from the side of the road. :')
F. F. | Foo Fighters/Kujo Jolyne
My little rarepair! I would love post-injury patch-ups in either direction, the intersection of love and loyalty and friendship, Jolyne teaching F.F. Little Human Things (like how to DANCE) and F.F. teaching Jolyne Little Nature Things (like SWAMP ECOSYSTEM FACTS!)
Kujo Jolyne & Weather Report
Absolute gentp of Stone Ocean... the Bucciarati and Trish equivalent, IMO. Just really deeply enjoy their bond, how quickly they came to trust each other, and how protective they are of each other. Please let their Stands hang out. Please tell me about all the times they almost-die for each other. Please give me Weather Report gap moe.
Narancia Ghirga/Trish Una
Never not thinking about Narancia having a montage envisioning his future and seeing protecting Trish for his whole life as a part of it, and never not thinking about Narancia's death being the only thing in canon that moves Trish to tears. Note that I find Narancia's death offensively stupid and would prefer that it receive the fix-it treatment. I would absolutely adore an interaction between Narancia and Spice Girl, or between Trish and Aerosmith. I am also always delighted by the usual fluff scenarios, e.g. shopping or dancing or painting each other's nails or Narancia attending one of Trish's concerts once she becomes her PHF Pop Star Self.
Diego Brando/Hot Pants
I'm obsessed with them. They're both so jagged at the edges, so distrusting, so delicate and tragic underneath it all; two distinct mutations of survivor's guilt, HAHA. And yet they bring out such interesting facets of each other, even though their interactions are so brief and their alliance so wary. As with Vento Aureo, I found these deaths a little meaningless, so I love fix-it. I'd just love to read about them traveling together across the Old West after the race. Starlit nights sleeping on opposite sides of the campfire but still swapping all their darkest secrets and maybe hooking up for warmth, that kind of thing. Alternatively, reconnecting years later, maybe for another race or at a horse show or at a presidential party (as stars of the great Steel Ball Run Race and all). Missing scenes are also super welcome!
—
Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Cyril/Lysithea von Ordelia, Ashe Ubert | Ashe Duran/Petra Macneary
Cyril/Lysithea von Ordelia
I find their ending absurd, considering Lysithea gets to live in several of her other ones. She's absolutely smart enough to figure out a way to extend her lifespan, and on the off-chance she somehow needs fucking Hanneman to do it I'm sure he'd be happy to provide in a way that doesn't involve marrying her. So please, no fic about Lysithea dying, if that's all right—and I would prefer for "angst" about Lysithea's condition to be kept to a minimum. Other than that, I really adore their genuine ways of interacting with each other, the sense of tragedy they both carry and how they each other to set down that weight, and their similarities as people who want to be Taken Seriously.
Cyril/Lysithea von Ordelia, Ashe Ubert | Ashe Duran/Petra Macneary
Cyril/Lysithea von Ordelia
I find their ending absurd, considering Lysithea gets to live in several of her other ones. She's absolutely smart enough to figure out a way to extend her lifespan, and on the off-chance she somehow needs fucking Hanneman to do it I'm sure he'd be happy to provide in a way that doesn't involve marrying her. So please, no fic about Lysithea dying, if that's all right—and I would prefer for "angst" about Lysithea's condition to be kept to a minimum. Other than that, I really adore their genuine ways of interacting with each other, the sense of tragedy they both carry and how they each other to set down that weight, and their similarities as people who want to be Taken Seriously.
- I've prompted dancing for so many of my requested ships so far but: dancing! Whether it's at the winter ball or just for fun, whether it's at a peacetime celebration or a quiet moment during the war with no music to follow but the beating of their own hearts (and maybe Cyril singing since he canonically likes to).
- Lysithea getting Cyril's help with one extremely minor home improvement project after the war and then coming up with increasingly nonsensical repairs just to get him to keep coming back. Until he maybe just builds her a house. Wait god that's too romantic.
- Cyril brushing or otherwise styling Lysithea's hair; maybe helping her cut it? This is so specific but I just think he'd be good at that kind of thing
- Cyril tries to take up baking to make Lysithea something sweet but is sadly very bad at it. Comically useless input from the Golden Deer (his best house, RIP to the Blue Lions) more than welcome.
- Anything taking place post-timeskip when they're reunited again... wandering around the ruins of their old school... and the ruins of each other... picking wildflowers... you know what I mean
- Cyril showing Lysithea Almyra... I LOVE worldbuilding for Almyra and just personally think it would rule so hard for them to explore it together
Ugh, them!!! She made a whole order of knights for him!!! They made a promise to swim in the ocean together!!! This hole is mine, it was made for me!!!!
- Oh, please tell me they danced together at the winter ball and then wandered around the monastery together long after all the stars had come out because Ashe just couldn't stop asking Petra about Brigid, and she just couldn't stop answering because he was the first person who had thought to ask.
- Assuming Ashe's time as Petra's guardian knight starts out as Strictly Platonic, please share some glimpses with me into the total yearning agony of that becoming romantic.
- Please let Ashe take Petra swimming in a Faerghus river, where she loses her mind because it is SO cold.
- I weirdly would be mushy over proposal fic for this ship. Which is so out of character for me but there you have it.
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Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor | Mobile Police Patlabor
Izumi Noa/Shinohara Asuma
Fanfiction
God, if you're here and you want to write me Patlabor I am going to need to know your name and address so that I can come to your house and propose marriage, assuming that's not weird. I love how everyone in this show is so adult and real, and so mundane in the most gorgeous of ways. I love the tentative ways in which they connect with each other, over their work just as much as their pasts. I love the extremely realistic bureaucracy of the Labor Divisions and how Labors function in society.
As for Noa and Asuma... GOD I LOVE THEM. They are so perfectly silent and chill about their devotion to each other and it makes me nuts. I would love to read about how they navigate their relationship, I would love to read about pining and Noa being oblivious and Shinohara thinking the absolute world of her, which is canon and quite frankly exquisite. Noa is just such a wonderfully human character, and I would be thrilled to read anything about her; I'm fascinated by how she handled that whole ordeal with the Griffon, which seemed to affect her deeply in a way we hadn't seen anything quite affect her before. Shinohara, too, has a lot of hidden depths that I find compelling both for personal reasons and just because of the way they're revealed to us—when he brought Noa to his brother's grave it knocked me right on my ass.
Basically, anything about these two becoming closer would make my year. That can be emotional talks, coming to terms with their feelings for each other, a series of will-they-or-won't-they misunderstandings with their coworkers, close calls in the line of duty, late nights drinking beer at each other's apartments, straight-up kissing, clumsy friends-to-lovers sex, Goto meddling to drive Asuma into a corner that makes him confess his feelings, I don't care!
—
Persona 5
Sakamoto Ryuji/Takamaki Ann, Suzui Shiho/Takamaki Ann, Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji
Fanfiction
Oh how I yearn to see the Phantom Thieves as maladjusted golden-hearted twenty-somethings.
Persona 5 Protagonist/Sakamoto Ryuji: Meeting up to run at 5 AM even after they go to different universities, Akira making Ryuji coffee in the middle of the night, the inherent romanticism of hands, Akira meeting Ryuji's mom, casual physical touches, the inherent romanticism of international travel (maybe they're going to visit Ann in like, Amsterdam), driving lessons (this is so specific but I just think it would be sweet, and potentially Fraught)
Suzui Shiho/Takamaki Ann: Epistolary post-canon fic, Ann going to visit Shiho, going to college together, Ann styling Shiho or vice-versa, Ann telling Shiho about her days as a Phantom Thief, 5 times over the years that one of them almost confessed and 1 time one of them did
Sakamoto Ryuji/Takamaki Ann: This is maybe my second-favorite P5 ship not so much for anything that happens in canon but all of the things that COULD have happened in canon if I was writing the game. Confronting and healing from the Kamoshida abuse (without gratuitous depictions thereof), summer nights when it's too rainy to ride the train so they stay over at the other's place, injury patch-ups (can you tell I love these), fake dating, friends with benefits who accidentally catch feelings, long-distance pining (does Ryuji stay in Tokyo? does Ann go to do modeling/fashion writing in Europe?), When Harry Met Sally-style saga about all the people that they date over the years and how they just seem to keep coming back to each other
—
Shadow & Bone (TV)
Alina Starkov/Malyen Oretsev
Fanfiction
I start screaming and wailing and smashing things and I don't stop until I pass out!!!!!!!!!
I'm certain that this dynamic was crafted, written, and acted with the express intent of stabbing me in the gut and that's just so splendid.
I know that their relationship is quite different in the books, which I have not read. I would be happy for you to stick with TV canon—as if the rest of the story hasn't even happened yet!
They are just miraculous—a rare emotional constipation/emotional constipation relationship that works. Despite the walls that they put up they are still so tender with each other and trust each other fully, even when their bond is tested and beaten-up. I love how deeply they want to protect each other, how Alina struggles to balance her identity as the Sun Summoner with her identity as Alina, of which Mal is such a vital part—I love how clearly they love each other but think of their friendship as so sacred and dear that they can't risk harming it, especially when so many other forces are trying. Ugh! Anyway... travelogues are wonderful, hurt/comfort is wonderful, interweaving childhood flashbacks is wonderful, casual intimate acts like hair-washing is wonderful, huddling for warmth is wonderful, tentative and unexpected first kisses that we maybe regret but also really don't are wonderful, INTERACTIONS WITH THE CROWS ARE WONDERFUL.
