Candy Hearts Exchange Letter
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slowpartsDear Candy Hearts writer,
This is my first time doing this exchange, but I was a faithful Chocolate Box adherent for several years and grieved its retirement—imagine my delight in discovering that something has come along to take up the torch. I'm so excited!! Thank you for writing for me, and Happy New Year! May 2025 be prosperous and righteous.
You're most likely to find me these days on Tumblr:![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
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I LOVE:
DNW: rape, incest, underage sex, abuse of any kind (if it's a canon part of a character's backstory, just don't be gratuitous), heavy or detailed gore.
marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), 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 stories that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever)
I LOVE (NSFW EDITION):
Final Fantasy XVI
This gaaaaame! I weep and I cry and I cry and I weep some more. I just loved it. I am always a sucker for hope in the dark, love daring radically to exist in dire circumstances, boys with fire powers, girls with rapiers, throwing some gods in there—it was made for me. Dominants, priming, all of it... so sexy, so psychologically and emotionally interesting—I longed to see the eikons personified beyond manifestations of power, to hear about what it is like to have this being residing within you, feeling and reacting, clawing to get free.
Some notions:
- Benedikta might have been my fave, after Joshua. So: Benedikta character study, Benedikta's relationship to Garuda, do they talk to each other? Benedikta switching sides at the last minute and joining the Hideaway as a reluctant ally. Benedikta and Jill talking. Benedikta surviving the game and her time at the Hideaway in the years after.
- Clive and Jill make me nuts. When they would get truly vulnerable with one another and not just glossily say the noblest possible thing they could imagine the other wanted to hear I would start jumping around like a happy chimp. I'd love more of that, the intervening years during the second timeskip, the memories each of them held on to while they were imprisoned.
- What does Shiva think of Clive?
- Joshua and Jote and their insane loyalty/devotion kink, more about their dynamic, traveling together, maybe he comes back to life with amnesia and Jote looks after him/helps him remember himself.
- Joshua protecting Jote, Jote cutting down heaven and earth to protect Joshua.
- JILL MY BELOVED. POST-CANON JILL. JILL AND JOTE PICKING UP THE PIECES. EPISTOLARY FIC OF JOTE WRITING TO JILL AS SHE TRAVELS ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO GRIEVE. THEY BOTH NEED A BEST FRIEND SO BAD. THEY CAN FALL IN LOVE IF YOU WANT.
- General broad prompt for a gentler world where Joshua and Clive both survive and get to have a life together and with Jote and Jill. But, you know, maybe it isn't all sunshine and roses and there's still so much trauma and so much to heal from.
PlanetES
These two are a mess! I love how unafraid this show is of portraying the self-destructive, hurtful, relationship-destroying beast of untreated PTSD. I know Hachirota is a controversial character but I connect very deeply with him and think he's one of the best-written characters in any anime I've seen.
I juuuust finished the episode where he finds out Tanabe kept Gigalt's cancer a secret from him, something I have been waiting for on the edge of my seat because I'm a sicko. The mess, the mess, I live for the mess!!!!!! There is a part of him that acknowledges he is in love with her, WANTS TO MARRY HER, but sees that love as an obstacle to finding true meaning in his life... that's so fucking real! And Tanabe knows there is a way through to him but she can't see past her black-and-white thinking of pure, direct love being a tool to fit all jobs! Girl you can't screw in a light bulb with a hammer!
Anything unpacking their messy but ultimately loving and loyal relationship would intrigue and delight me.
This is a long shot but I would love first time fic for them, lol. Ai deserves to have that mf go down on her. Also, zero-g hook-ups in those pods Technora provides to its employees. Or just zero-g make-outs. I'm not necessarily into anything post-series because there's so much richness during the active story. Go nuts.
Young Justice (Cartoon)
Lol. Lmao. Etc.
Fake dating for the mission/undercover as a couple, training exercise fall-out, sparring, after-mission patch-ups, any configuration of Wally/Artemis/Dick torturing themselves over each other, WALLY CHARACTER STUDY, ARTEMIS CHARACTER STUDY, SPEEDSTER STUDIES. Wally coming back from "the dead" and him and Artemis finding their way back to each other again. Hate Wally's canon death & choose to ignore it but if he was in the speed force and you want to bring him back different that's sexy. Wally finding solace in the oddest of places e.g. Bart after coming back from the speedforce and not knowing how to, like, function around normal people anymore.
Wally is my favorite comics character EVER so anything about him literally ANYTHING will make me so happy.
The Bear (TV 2022)
I love that Sydney has this grounding presence for Carmy but is still a blazingly ambitious person herself. I love that they drive each other to do better in a way that's not reliant on fear or intimidation (which Carmy in particular has been made by). I love the inherent romanticism of cooking... and the choice to do it for someone close to you when it's your 24/7 exhausting JOB to do it for strangers day in and day out.
Sydney character study slanted toward her relationship with Carmy, and how they work through the current shittiness. I would die for a post-canon fic about Sydney parting ways with Carmy for her own sanity, and it sucks and it hurts but it's what they both need, and the two of them reuniting again in better places a year or more later, maybe he comes to her restaurant for a meal. Catharsis. Kissing!!!!!!
This is my first time doing this exchange, but I was a faithful Chocolate Box adherent for several years and grieved its retirement—imagine my delight in discovering that something has come along to take up the torch. I'm so excited!! Thank you for writing for me, and Happy New Year! May 2025 be prosperous and righteous.
You're most likely to find me these days on Tumblr:
I LOVE:
- the pining-longing-yearning triptych
- character studies, ship studies, the studying of LOVE and BEING
- the 5 times + 1 time format
- epistolary fic
- girls and their burdens
- nonlinear narratives
- almost kisses
- confessions under the influence e.g. alcohol or injury
- angst with a happy ending
- emotional hurt/comfort
- fake/pretend relationships
- found families
- friends to lovers
- worldbuilding
- unresolved romantic/emotional tension
- WOMEN, WOMEN!
- the tender miracle of human connection in whatever form it may take
- nature imagery
- "What Comes After" as a concept (basically anything post-canon)
DNW: rape, incest, underage sex, abuse of any kind (if it's a canon part of a character's backstory, just don't be gratuitous), heavy or detailed gore.
marriage/pregnancy fic, established relationship fic (with certain exceptions), 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 stories that take place in the past/a fantasy world/whatever)
I LOVE (NSFW EDITION):
- pegging
- femdom
- power imbalance
- devotion kink, body worship
- praise kink
- phone sex, telepathic sex, psychic sex
- friends with benefits
- sensory overload
- consensual mind control
- somebody's fingers being in somebody's mouth
- endearing human clumsiness
- crying
- face-sitting (and cunnilingus from any angle tbh)
- guided masturbation
- distraction—like, someone's trying to concentrate on doing something else, and their partner is trying to distract them
Final Fantasy XVI
This gaaaaame! I weep and I cry and I cry and I weep some more. I just loved it. I am always a sucker for hope in the dark, love daring radically to exist in dire circumstances, boys with fire powers, girls with rapiers, throwing some gods in there—it was made for me. Dominants, priming, all of it... so sexy, so psychologically and emotionally interesting—I longed to see the eikons personified beyond manifestations of power, to hear about what it is like to have this being residing within you, feeling and reacting, clawing to get free.
Some notions:
- Benedikta might have been my fave, after Joshua. So: Benedikta character study, Benedikta's relationship to Garuda, do they talk to each other? Benedikta switching sides at the last minute and joining the Hideaway as a reluctant ally. Benedikta and Jill talking. Benedikta surviving the game and her time at the Hideaway in the years after.
- Clive and Jill make me nuts. When they would get truly vulnerable with one another and not just glossily say the noblest possible thing they could imagine the other wanted to hear I would start jumping around like a happy chimp. I'd love more of that, the intervening years during the second timeskip, the memories each of them held on to while they were imprisoned.
- What does Shiva think of Clive?
- Joshua and Jote and their insane loyalty/devotion kink, more about their dynamic, traveling together, maybe he comes back to life with amnesia and Jote looks after him/helps him remember himself.
- Joshua protecting Jote, Jote cutting down heaven and earth to protect Joshua.
- JILL MY BELOVED. POST-CANON JILL. JILL AND JOTE PICKING UP THE PIECES. EPISTOLARY FIC OF JOTE WRITING TO JILL AS SHE TRAVELS ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO GRIEVE. THEY BOTH NEED A BEST FRIEND SO BAD. THEY CAN FALL IN LOVE IF YOU WANT.
- General broad prompt for a gentler world where Joshua and Clive both survive and get to have a life together and with Jote and Jill. But, you know, maybe it isn't all sunshine and roses and there's still so much trauma and so much to heal from.
PlanetES
These two are a mess! I love how unafraid this show is of portraying the self-destructive, hurtful, relationship-destroying beast of untreated PTSD. I know Hachirota is a controversial character but I connect very deeply with him and think he's one of the best-written characters in any anime I've seen.
I juuuust finished the episode where he finds out Tanabe kept Gigalt's cancer a secret from him, something I have been waiting for on the edge of my seat because I'm a sicko. The mess, the mess, I live for the mess!!!!!! There is a part of him that acknowledges he is in love with her, WANTS TO MARRY HER, but sees that love as an obstacle to finding true meaning in his life... that's so fucking real! And Tanabe knows there is a way through to him but she can't see past her black-and-white thinking of pure, direct love being a tool to fit all jobs! Girl you can't screw in a light bulb with a hammer!
Anything unpacking their messy but ultimately loving and loyal relationship would intrigue and delight me.
This is a long shot but I would love first time fic for them, lol. Ai deserves to have that mf go down on her. Also, zero-g hook-ups in those pods Technora provides to its employees. Or just zero-g make-outs. I'm not necessarily into anything post-series because there's so much richness during the active story. Go nuts.
Young Justice (Cartoon)
Lol. Lmao. Etc.
Fake dating for the mission/undercover as a couple, training exercise fall-out, sparring, after-mission patch-ups, any configuration of Wally/Artemis/Dick torturing themselves over each other, WALLY CHARACTER STUDY, ARTEMIS CHARACTER STUDY, SPEEDSTER STUDIES. Wally coming back from "the dead" and him and Artemis finding their way back to each other again. Hate Wally's canon death & choose to ignore it but if he was in the speed force and you want to bring him back different that's sexy. Wally finding solace in the oddest of places e.g. Bart after coming back from the speedforce and not knowing how to, like, function around normal people anymore.
Wally is my favorite comics character EVER so anything about him literally ANYTHING will make me so happy.
The Bear (TV 2022)
I love that Sydney has this grounding presence for Carmy but is still a blazingly ambitious person herself. I love that they drive each other to do better in a way that's not reliant on fear or intimidation (which Carmy in particular has been made by). I love the inherent romanticism of cooking... and the choice to do it for someone close to you when it's your 24/7 exhausting JOB to do it for strangers day in and day out.
Sydney character study slanted toward her relationship with Carmy, and how they work through the current shittiness. I would die for a post-canon fic about Sydney parting ways with Carmy for her own sanity, and it sucks and it hurts but it's what they both need, and the two of them reuniting again in better places a year or more later, maybe he comes to her restaurant for a meal. Catharsis. Kissing!!!!!!
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Date: 2025-01-17 05:26 pm (UTC)